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ONE H UN DRED P E R C E N T IN D EPEN D EN CE
VOLUME
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SOCIAL EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, AUGUST 27, 1
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T H E P IL L . B O X
H ERE'S A FELLOW WHO
WOULD PICK CHEAP IF —
We know a fellow who
would pick hops at Hub
bards for 25 cents a box if
Uiey would let him eat in the
house with the white folks.
C. O. Sloper admits that
in “ A SON OF A GUN.’
wt ikSvcs issoRt. e t a TVV va e c a
he cannot keen birthdays
m The tale of a W esterner who whooped it up. Plen- 9
from approaching.
He al
so admits that he does not
| tv of action in this picture and lots of good fun.
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SAM EVIDENTLY HAS A
..now when his wife is plan
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VERY POPULAR GIRL
ning a surprise on him. Last
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Sam
's girl is tall and slen
Friday was C. O.’s birthday
der,
my
girl is fat and low,
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(29th we think) and Mrs.
Sam 's girl wears silks and
W ED N ESD A Y AND TH U RSDA Y, S E P T . 1 2
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Sloper perpetrated a com
satin s, my girl wears calico.
plete surprise celebration.
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Sam 's girl is fast and speedy,
The eveninir as a whole was
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my girl is pure and good. Do
a musical treat. Leo Jen n i
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you think I ’d swap my girl
son. baritone soloist from Sa
in “ GOD’S O UTLAW .”
II
for
Sam ’s? You know darned
lem. rendered several most
well I would!
B. R.
The story of a man who, thru the loss of the girl he fi
eniovable mmibers.
His
voice was hi trill v pleasing
loved and the death of his mother whom he adored,
HE STUCK TO TH E RIGHT
Mi ■ss Myrtle Knowland also
believes that the hand of God is against him. He
TO TH E LAST
of the Capital City was the
forswears his religion, and leaves the home of his
"Here lies the body of W il
accompanist.
L ittle Mar-
liam Ja y , who died m aintain
childhood to forget his unhappiness. He goes to a
>orie Plant, a local favorite
ing his right of way. He was
remote village w here he begins life anew’, he is loved
rendered some pretty dances
right, dead right, as he sped
and sontrs.
Mrs. Sloper
by all, but is known as God’s outlaw’. I t is a play of
aiong,
but he is ju st as dead
served a delicious three
intense and gripping moments lightened by romance
as if he'd been wrong.”
course luncheon. Besides the
entertainers those enjoying
Rolin Comedy and Pathe News
the delightful evening were
BETTER CURE THAN COUNTING
Mr. and Mrs. Jam es Robbie
and their guests, Mrs. S. O
“Th in k of tho To p of Your Head,” Says
Carr and Thelma W estley
Friend of Hum anity, and
F R ID A Y , S E P T . 3.
of Lyons. Nebr.. Mr. am
Boat Insomnia.
Mrs. W. H. Cockle. Mr. anc
Delos Eldridge went
Mrs. A. G. Williams ant Portland yesterday.
“ It was when mv spirit had be
their guests, Mr. and Mrs
come
worn through my body like
Wm. Fhdiips of Spring
“ B ill” and Clavton Dick
elbows
through the sleeves of an old
Brook, Saskatchawan. Can son have been in Independ
in “ TH E L A ST OF H IS P E O P L E ”
I coat that I heard of this remarkable
ence this week.
ada.
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1 recipe for insomnia,” writes Robert
A rugged romance of the Great North Woods. The
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fi Cortes Holliday in “ Peeps at Peo
The Methodist Ladies Aic
Mrs. P. H. D rexler is in
story of a strong man’s love for a weak woman. See
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for treatment.
passed the day Thursday Portland
the thrilling hand-to-hand struggle between Lone I ple.” “ ‘Think of the top of your
uuilting and in other pleas Her many friends are hop
head.* T h at is what I was told to
ant diversions.
Those on ing she mav be greatly ben- I Wolf, the last of his tribe, and a social sybarite on I do. ‘Think of the top of your head/
the birthday list were Mrs efitted.
I the crest of a mountain peak.
1 said to myself with some disdain
J . A. Reynolds, Mrs. J . W
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in
the awful grip of the n ight; ‘now,
Comedy
and
International
News
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Kelley and Mrs. C. T. Cook
I t is the expectation of §
how
in thunder do you think of the
Everything was arrangec J . F. Ulrich to raise 4000
top
of
your head ?’
for their pleasure and an pounds of alsike seed on his I
“ ‘Do you think of your h air?’ !
exquisite
m i d-day farm near Airlie. savs the
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meal prepared. In the af Farm Bureau News.
9 asked, turning my eyeballs upward
SA TU R D A Y , S E P T . 4.
ternoon additional guests
I iu their sockets. ‘Do you think of
Mr. and Mrs. S. Tavlor
called and another delight
that lightly hidden baldness?’ striv
I ing to put mv mind, so to say, or
ful luncheon was served to Jones had as their over
g
over thirty guests.
These wreek end guests. Mr. and
the top of my head. ‘How the Dick
g ens— can —you— think— of— / but a
ladies never do anything bv Mrs. R. E , McCormick and
halves, but in a most children of Portland.
in “ TH E A D O RA BLE SA VA GE. »9
g drowsy numbuess pained my sense
thorough and substantia
a
as though of hemlock I had drunk,
The struggle of the races in the soul of a half caste
wav.
The historv of the
Miss Emma Henkle ar
or
emptied some dull opiate to the
South Sea Island girl who has been reared in an I
quilts being quilted bv their rived Wednesday from a
dains
one minute past, and lx.*the-
deft fingers makes an in month’s visit in Roseburg.
American school and discovers, on returning home, I
wards had sunk. And 1 dreamed
teresting chapter. One call Friday Miss Henkle went to
that her veins are tainted with native blood.
that quite plainly, as though it were
ed
“ Queen
V ictoria’s Astoria where she will be
■ some other fellow’s, I saw the top of
Crown” was pieced over joined bv Miss Gladys I r
Ford W eekly and 2-reel Christy comedy
sixtv vears ago. The work vine and the two voung
my head.”
is so perfect we were im ladies will go to Seaside for
pressed that the one who l few davs.
RECLAIMING THE WAR ZONES
made it should receive the
SUNDAY, S E P T . 5.
crown.
The quilt belongs
Thursday B. F. Swope
In
W ork
Being
Steodlly
Pushed
France, Though the Taek la a
to Mrs. Harper, a sister of purchased two lots from J .
Tremendous One.
Mrs.
Chas. Irvine and G. McIntosh. The proper-
daughter of Mrs. Seelev.
is on the I. M. railroad
A recent examination of the work
The finished product will track and comprises one-
going steadily forward to reclaim
be sent to Washington. fourth of a block.
Mr.
in “ IN W RONG.”
the French farnrlauds reports that
Another one was pieced bv Swope already owned the
Miss Adah Ketchum when other three-fourths and will
over
1,000,000 acres have been
A story of a typical country boy who is always in
she wees onlv five vears old. use the block for a chicken
cleared
and about 500,000 acres
wrong until chance makes him a hero. I t is a pict-
This seemed to have no ranch.
planted, or made ready for planting
of the rag doll days, the old swimmin’ hole and
name but had the appear
How small a part this is of the total
school day loves, with their joys and sorrows, ju st
ance of a difficult geometri
Mrs. F . G. Teiuan and
appears when one knows the extent
cal figure. When complet daughter. Miss Elizabeth,
as you lived them yourself.
of what is called the “ first «m e,”
ed the quilt will be for of Sabula. Iowa, who have
where the heaviest fighting went on
Monkey Comedy and Outing Chester
warded
to
Califor )een visiting relatives here
for
four years, and forests vanished,
nia.
“ Auntie K u rre” had the past week left Thurs
villages were swept away, and the
a more simple looking quilt day for a trip thru W ash ■
•oil is so filled with metal that it
in the col Action and ama ington
before returning
now defies plowing. Here 2,297,500
teur.> were» allowed to help iiome.
Mrs. Teinan is a
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IN D B P E N D E IN C B
= acres of cultivated laud were de
with it. The writer is proud cousin of I. W. and John = 1 ^
(? ) of her two . stitches. ' Dickinson.
stroyed. and “how much of it will bt
Roses and choice lilies used
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on the tables made the set
DOCTOR FOOLED BY TWINS
Sunday
being
an
ideal
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ting a cheerful one and the
A CaU For “Doe” Black
dav as a whole was most de dav. called out many picnic
. A party of picnicers en Candidate* for Merchant Marine So
parties to the near-bv cool
Much Alike One of Them le e x
ioved a days outing at S il
lightful.
retreats. A most congenial Editor Post:
amined Tw ice.
ver
Falls
last Sunday.
° t o u p including Mr. and
H E D G E H O G Q U IL L S U 8 E F U L .
Doc Black says he’ll buy your There were five machines
Members of the # Crab Mrs. Grover Mattison. M r." cow, he’ll huy your sh oat; Doc
Club and a few additional and Mrs. Perl Hedges. Mr. ought to come around and buy my full of people and eats.
Several years ago the mole sprang
Those going were Mr. and
guests were most delight and Mrs. Rice Cook. Miss ftoat.
BUENA VISTA POET.
into importance because its skin be
Mrs.
Je
te
r
Virgin
and
their
fully entertained at the G ’’lorence Burton. Chester
Mighty glad you up and guest. Miss H attie Virgin came fashionable for women’s coats.
W. Conkev home last Wed Henkle and Guv W alker
wrote,
we’ll send “ Doc” of Missouri. Mrs. F . G. It is the turn now of another lowly
nesday evening. T h e pleas- nassed the dav at Rocky
down
to
buy vour goat. If,T e in a n and daughter. Miss animal, the common hedgehog, to
aiTt event was in celebra i*omt. Thev indulged # in
its
fat
and
healthy with a 1 Elizabeth, of Sabula. Iowa, i»me into prominence. Some one
tion of the^23rd wedding codaking and devouring
good
thick
coat,
“ Doc” will M. Moody of Michigan, not long ago discovered that hedge
nnniversarv of the host and wo picnic feasts before re-
take it. cash or note. When George Dickinson and fam- hogs’ quills make excellent needles
hostess. However. the host urning home.
he comes vou want to gloat ilv. Mr. and Mrs. John Dick for phonographs— in fact they bring
was thoroughly unawares
and
on the billy greatly inson. H. N. Dickinson and out the sound more effectively than
of the idans until things
dote:
then mavbe he will family. 1). H. Dickinson.
chased.
Out
of
town
guesfs
had developed so far that
conclude
vote that i t ’s Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Fuller metal needles. The walls of a hedge
guests began, arriving.
A were Mr. and Mrs. Messner worth the to price
of any and family, Mr. and Mrs. hog quill arc of a hard, homy sub
most. c’PUiis’tc dinner of and Miss Opal McDevitt of shoat.
W. C. Wood. Mrs. Wm. Nye stance, and the partly hollow in
During the even
perfect appointments and Dallas.
and daughter, M arjorie, of terior contains a pith.
artistic table decorations ing Miss McDevitt render
Here’s A Good Nam«, Dalles
The hedgehog prowls at night,
Canada. The cats included
ed
some
ehanning
vocal
was thoroughly enioved.
and
runs with more agility than one
all
the
good
things
that
numbers.
Mr. and Mrs. Conkev re
I
f
Dallas
wants
to
change
make
a
picnic
dinner
com
would
imagine its short legs and
ceived many good wishes
The Baptist Ladies Aid its name, why not ju st spell plete.
uum pj body would permit. It has
besides valuable gifts from
backwards, thus preserv
a stomach of strong digestive power,
admiring friends. An add leld a very interesting ses- it
ing
all of the old title.
ion
at
the
church
Thurs-
Mr. and Mrs. George eating the bark of trees, earthworms,
ed interest to the occasion
is that the Conkevs are lust av afternoon. The several Advantages of a Large Circulation Sloper and daughter. Miss ■lugs, snails, frogs, dead birds and
Leona, have returned from
getting well settled in their idies present sewed, talk
Talk to all the people a motor trip to Seattle and
comfortable and spacious ed and enioved light re
Tell The Post.
thru The Polk County Post. Pullman. Wash.
home which thev lately pur- freshments.
FRANCIS BUSHMAN and BEVERLY BAYNE
MITCHELL LEWIS
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EDITH ROBERTS
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JACK PICKFORD
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1 WEEK’S NEWS I
short r m s
, Dorain Dickinson is here
trom Portland this week.
Miss Madaline Kreamer
returned # Friday from a
months visit with Portland
friends.
A. D. Kealiher left Mon
day to ioin his wife and
babies.
He will get The
Post every week.
Mr. and Mrs. E . W. An
derson of Suver are the
proud parents of a daugh
ter born Thursday.
Glen Sm ith spent two
weeks in the wilds of Mar
ion county with “ B o b ”
Robb of Salem. They fish
ed for fish and caught some.
J . W. Hill and family will
arrive in a few, days from
Holly. Colo., to make Inde
pendence their home. Mr.
Hill is a brother of Mrs. E .
A. Morgan.
Ira Mix is gone this week
and there are many rumors
as to what he will do while
awayv A certain bungalow
m West Independence is
ready.
Mrs. S. O. Carr and Mia«
Thelma W estlev. who have
been visiring at the Jam es
Robbie home, have gone to
Newberg to visit before re
turning to their home in
Lyons. Nebr.
Mr. and Mrs. Chetlet and
family returned from New
port Wednesday. Thursday
LormnK accompanied bv
ID. G. Reeves and family
thev
returned
to their
homes iu Portland.
Vernon Wolfe and Mi»«
Venice Kuhnlev of P o rt
land are quests at the B. R.
Wolfe home.
The Wolfes
are also expecting their
daughter, Mrs. Faye Feld
man. who has been in San
Francisco several months
taking a special course in
music.
Mr. and Mrs. J . G. M cIn
tosh and Mrs. A. D. David
son returned Monday from
B a r View where they pass
ed three weeks at Fern
Cliff, the Davidson cottage.
Mrs. Jam es M artin and
Jan ies Alien. J r ., who were
with the part\\ returned to
their home in Portland.
There is much improve
ment in the conduct of A.
G. W illiams since Tuesday
as his “ p a” and “ m a” ar
rived from Hope. N. D„ on
that Ja y . Thev will remain
here this winter. Mrs. V.
R. Kelly of Marmouth, N.
D., a sister of Mrs. W il
liams and C. W . Sparks, is
here also.
Mr. and Mrs. Joh n Bo
hannon returned Wednes
day from Cascadia where
thev spent a fortnight.
Joh n says he has been to all
the Oregon coast resorts,
but he prefers the moun
tains and that Cascadia is
hard to beat.
He save he
was
surrounded
with
preachers while there and
can quote several psalms
he wasn’t fam iliar with be
fore going.
Co. K will sta rt drilling
again Friday night. Sept. 3.
The vacation which the
bovs of the company have
had < should _ give the zest
and interest in the w inter’s
work that is needed to
make K company the best
in the state.
I t is hoped
that a greater interest is
taken in the company and
that the young men of the
town who do not belong will
enlist at once and do their
bit for both Uncle Sam and
Independence.