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TRUCKS
Na«h T iucks are equipped with elec
tric lights and starters. The electric
lights enable them to perforin satis
factorily at night as well as by day
and the starter saves fuel because
the driver can shut off bis power
when the truck is left standing and
start again with no effort on his part.
M orrli & Company, The Standard
Oil Company, The Palmolive Com
pany and The A m e r i c a n S t e e l
Foundriea are among the nationally
known firms
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Tracks
ALL HE BROUGHT
Mo Utilities Co.
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“ I want to get back to the good
old fifty-fifty dava,” remarked the
reminiscent person.
“ What do vou mean bv ‘ fifty -fifty
ring.”
“ And h\
candidates
way o f compensation, the
themselves are on the
rack.”
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The Post has a larger circu
lation in South Polk Coun
ty than all other Polk coun
ty papers combined.
by Craven, who went with the
party, returned last Tuesday.
J. S Cooper, Riley Cooper,
“ Pat” McArthur and Dr. E. 0.
Mann, sportsmen from Portland,
went on a fishing trip to the Si-
days?”
“ T h e days when there was twice leiz for several days returning
50 cents’ worth in every dollar.”
last Wednesday. It goes with
out saying that J. S. directed
C H A N G IN G PLACES.
the other members of the party
“ The candidates’ hats are in the to “ big game.”
T R U C K S
I A iflll A i •
CITY AND COUNTRY
Did you see the mixing howls
in the Willard E. Craven Hdw.
Mr, and Mrs. Louis Rose, Jr.
window?
arrived last Tuesday from Eng
land and are guests at the home
Miss Louise Bauman has re of Major and Mrs. Rose at the
A desk now owned by Mrs. E. C.
turned fron a visit with her par Wigrich ranche. Mr. Rose was
('aril of 16 East Chestnut street,
Augusta, Me., first saw the light of
married June 17 to Miss Ruth;
ents at Hoskins.
day on the bay of Oampeaehy, in
Kendall. Three days later the-
Mexico, hundreds o f years ago, and
Ed Reynolds, Verd Schruijk, couple sailed for America. Ma
was first owned by Daniel Gookin in
Harold Reynolds and W. E. Cra jor and Mrs. Rose were so eager
1620. On the writing slab o f this
ven Forded to Portland Satur to meet their daughter-in-law
desk a letter was one day written by
M A N Y S C U L P T O R S ID L E .
whom they had seen and also to
day.
this ancestor of this Augusta lady
see their son, they went to
in which Daniel Gookin negotiated
According to American A rt News,
Donald Barton and family of Portland last Saturday to wel
with Ferdinando Gorges for pur the sculptors complain that there is
chase of Gorges’ claim to the prov little work at present in their line Buxton are new residents of In- come them to Oregon and the
Mr. Barton will be West. Mr. Rose is a qualified
ince of Maine. Thus it rend: o f endeavor, and even the leading aependence.
“ Though a stranger to von, you may men are “ waiting.” The commem employed at the Wind Mill shop. engineer and at the time Major
and Mrs. Rose came over their
have heard my name, because my orative war statues and patriotic
father, who bore the same name, groups that were to decorate cities,
Mrs. Martha Rusk, a former son had three years more of
was intimately acquainted with towns and cemeteries, have not thus resident of Independence who study in his work, five years be
your father, Sir Ferdinando Gor- far materialized. The unsettled con now lives at Sherwood, was a ing required to complete the
j ges.” In 1687 the affair was set ditions o f the country, they conteud, guest at the Frank Smith home course. Then came the out
tled, the Gorges claim purchased which are holding up building, are
break of the war and detained
this week.
j for £1,250.
accountable for the present “ dol
him longer. Young Rose want
The Gookins originally came from drums.”
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown of ed to join the navy but he was
| England. Captain Gookin, his fam-
near Corvallis spent Sunday at doing naval construction work
C O I N C I D E N C E IN D A T E 8 .
l ily and Reverend Thompson went to
the home of his mother, Mrs. S. such as making submarines, etc.
| Maryland to live, acquiring land
T h e dates o f Monday and Tues- J.
Ward. They were accom and could not obtain his release.
near Annapolis.
But the captain
day. the 18th and 20th of January. panied heme by Mrs. Josie Leh Mr. Rose and his bride are
I wanted to live among the Puritans,
_____ ,n ________
___ for hi8 1 when placed side by side, give us the
charmed with the beauties of
so, leaving servants to care
man.
plantation, lie sailed for Boston, date of the present year, 1920. The
Oregon and the Willamette val
This was Hfter 1639. Six days aft- last time such a sequence gave the
as over a hundred | Guests at the S. H. McElmur- ley and anticipate making their
er arriving in Boston, ('apt. Daniel | date o f the year ws
namely
in 1819. In w h at; ry home this week are Prof, and home some where in the great
Gookin, tall, grave, robust, dignified years ago
occur again ? N ot he- Mrs. Charles South of Portland West.
gentleman o f thirty-one years, was year will it
Prof, and Mrs. South have just
admitted to the First Church of fore 2021.
You can now get Bale Ties o f
returned from a three week’s
Boston.
O T H E R DAYS.
Willard E. Craven Hdw.
camping trip to the coast.
On It Waa W ritten Letter W hich N e
gotiated fo r the Purpose of
Province of Maine.
M OTOR
ground that such an expression was
justified by the extent to which gas
fuel is employed in the fundamental
pwesses o f our basic industries. It
is interesting to note, in view of this
estimate, figures on our gas industry
which have just been compiled.
From these it appears that 1,166 ar
tificial gas companies in the United
States are now supplying more than
?00,000,000,000 cubic feet of gas ot
one sort or another to 8,500,000 cus
tomers.— Scientific American.
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While, in the C ivil war, 78 per
cent o f the soldier» were under thir
ty-one years o f age, in the recent
war 92 per rent were under thirty-
Shc had iuvited thè violinisi to
dinner.
“ You didn't bring venir violili,”
one.
•he evolaimcd when he arriviti.
P O S T A L S A Y IN G S .
“ No. A ll I hrought was my ap
parite.”
Pretal savings increas >1 $34.000,•
000 during the war. Just before the
T H E AQ E OF OAS.
armistice was signed they amounted
Our civilization, Sivretary lane to $150,6 <0,8 JO.
recently remarked, is a product ot
power plus steel. l i e went on to
eh ara itviz* the age in which we are
W hen you want the beet call for
g m the age of gae, on the j liberty breed. Baked by electricity.
Mrs. K. C. Eldridge and De
los returned this morning from
a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Nev
ille Eldridge who are delight
fully situated in their new bung
alow in Medford. In driving to
Independence from Medford,
Lawrence Eldridge made the
trip of 240 miles in ten hours
actual driving time. This was
record speed. The return trip
consumed a little longer time.
The party was delighted with
the scenic wonders of the trip,
especially Cow Creek canyon
which is marvelous in natural
beauty. Roberts aiountain, too,
is full o f scenic grandear. Bob
Pro Patria
(Continued from Page 1.)
For the seven sons are
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sleeping
On the battlefields of
France;
And their daddv grows
tobacco
A n d traffics still in skins
A n d the little wrinkled
mammy
Has another pair of twins.
Raeine Extra Tested Tires
Country Road Tread with Extra
Mileage at Willard E. Craven.
Hdw.
Miss Elma Rehwalt of
Portland was the guest of
her
sister, Mrs.
Frank
Smith, this week.
Miss
left today for Newport to
spend the remainder of the
summer.
Farm your hills with a
Fordson.
Don't bo a
broad.
»lacker; oat Liberty