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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1920)
\ Oregon Historical Society * Auditorium THE POLK COUNTY POST O N E H U N D R E D P E R C E N T IN D E P E N D E N C E i.. __rj---- V O LU M E I I L INDEPENDENCE, ORCUON, rn w SOCIAL SLASON OPENS [/Uul Hdiunvj MUSÍ a USPICI ü USLY fisarmya Emerging from tbe long quietude oi tbe ¡Summer, tbe Autowins gathered at tbe attractive it. B. Eietcb- er home last Thursday even ing tor the iirst meeting oi the season. An evening with the Fletchers is a cov eted pleasure and this oc casion was most enjoyable. Players enjoyed auction oOO at four tables. In addition to tbe regular eiub mem bers Hisses Katharine Ar- buthnot and Iv y Stanley and Messrs. Norris and D. Eidridge were present. Dur ing tbe luncheon hour when a delectable repast was served, cabinet music also added pleasure. Standing out most prom inently on tbe social calen dar is tbe wedding of a most popular couple, Miss Florence Dur ton and Mr. Chester lienkle. The ser vice will be read at tbe Dur- ton home at noon, Tuesday Oct. lb. it w ill not be a large affair but will be ceie- orated among relatives and close friends of tbe partici pants. Tbe announcement did not come as a surprise as close friends have known since Miss Burton’s return from Canada and tbe East tbattlie romance would soon lead to Hymen’s altar, h ol lowing their wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Henkle w ill be at home at tbe isirklam! home on C street. 15, 1920. NUM BER ' ^ ■ U lB ll t « l i » l l» li * li l ll l « I W l l '» l® l » l l» l ■ 111 ■ T a !|l* i « l i a >liW IB IiB lllB IM II« l’ ¡ I W E D N E S D A Y A N D T H U R S D A Y , OCT. 20-21 “Broken Commandments” ¿ y MARY Club activities and social gaieties have been resumed tlie past week with an mi- pelus wincb insures plenty oi festivities tor tbe winter* montlis. OCTOBER NE V ER-OLD FAIRIES. W itty Witch was giving ii party and o f course nit the fairies were Invited The I rnunles were asked ton, thr Bogey and Olnf fatally, the elves irtKinii s, goblins and old Mr (limit. Tie y all arrived on time and Witty Witch made a low how as each one can. ■ to her hnt and said. “ Greetings! I atu Joyous to se* yo u !” Over in a corner o f a hut sat man) fairies in very dark pnlors. They wore hiiods which « e r e dark too, and car ried Inn crooked sticks. They had old and wrinkled faces but under the wrinkle - mie could see they were siail- tnff. And their eyes looked young, vry young and jolly and twinkling. “ Are they witches?” asked «the brownies, for they had never im't those fairies. “ No,” said W itty Witch, “ they are not witch s, but they are fairies.” ‘T a llie s !” exclaimed the brownies. “ How dot s It happen that v. e have nev er met tlie'ii? Wo thought we knew all the fairh s.” “ Perhaps you will know these,” said ri| S W itty Witch, “ when they put on their party cloth s. They thought it would be fun to show you their old clothes for awhile.” Now the Fairy Queen knew all about them, but she didn’t say a word. And the othey fairies knew, fo r they often saw these fairies in their work and iu tlielr play. Whenever the brownies or gnomes had seen them th'ey had al ways been dressed In their best. “ Get ready! Change! Be beauti fu l!” called out,one o f the fairies in the Mack capo and hood, in the lovell- An amazing story of a woman’s gamble, starring G L A D Y S BROCK.\\ ELL. Alone in her cabin home in a wild country, she put her trust in an es caped convict, llow was her trust repaid i An amazing story, packed with thrills, in which a g irl’s fate twice hung upon the cast of dice. It tangles human lives and loves, then snaps them asunder with the cruelty and the kindness that is Life. R o iin Com edy and Pathe News F R ID A Y , OCT. 22 claba kimball young in “ M A G D A .” A stage classic with a big compelling theme, im mortalized in films. A gripping drama of the home in which a young g ir l’s youth and dreams are sac rificed to the arrogance of an unreasonable parent. Daughter pitted against father in a tremendous struggle of wills. See the lesson that “ Magda” points to mothers and fathers who arbitrarily at tempt to rule 1 the lives of their children. Comedy and International News S A T U R D A Y , OCT. 23 HARRY CAREY in “ S U N D O W N S L IM .” ►1 ■ Human Harry Cary says: “ The hobo signs on the water tanks are secret stuff to the bulls but some times they’ve sent a poor fellow to your backdoor to be fed. Th at’s real ‘ bread on the waters.’ ” “ Some days life ’s road is awful hot and dusty but if you’ll only keep hiking you’re sure to find a niee, cool spring where you can rest.” Don’t miss “ Sun down Slim.” Ford W eekly and 2-reel Christy comedy I Suddenly Changed Into Lovely Fairies. |i ■ I ■ i I ft T H E A T R E U ll CULLED III HIU MIMCE CASE OD ROADS | | “The Muiisny 1 j Gf the Elsinore.” I CHANCE FOR A N EPIDEMIC IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN “If matrimony ever breaks out in the Isis theatre," said \V. B. this morning, "it will Like every single person con nected wiJi the place in any capacity.” So many Independence people have been in attend ance as witnesses at the H ill livorce trial ¡it Albany this •\ eek that a good many dol M AYBE THE ROOSTERS e's in mileage could have W IL L BUT W E ’LL BET :>een saved by holding the TH AT THEY DON T Rtire proceedings in the In The Pill Box has received a bushel of comments on so lependeiice city hall. Then, ciety hens— you know, society •iguin it was very inconveni hens are hens that don'» lay ent for business men to be eggs. The worst one is from iway three days of the week C. H. who says that in his including Saturday.' The neighborhood they are all so ciety hens and he hopes to Dost was tied up in conse see the day when the roosters quence. will quit looking for hawks Both the plaintiff and de and go to laying eggs. fendant have been on the (and and were vigorously YES! YES! BUT W H E N DID YOU LE AR N TO TALK ross examined. Among MINNESOTA? hose testifying have been Minneapolis, Oct. 15—Mess. Mrs. Stillwell, Dr. F. G. Pill Box and Post—Arrived Hewett, James Helmick, here fine and dandy. Nice Mrs. James Helmick, Char weather and lots of fun eat les Smith, Mrs. Charles ing nt my sister’s place here. E. E. T. Smith, Mrs. Bush, James Morgan, Mrs. Morgan, Dr. L. L. Hewitt of Portland, Dr. O. I). Butler, C. McBeth, G. G. W alker, C. D. Cal- breath, O. A. Kreamer, Mrs. F. C. Eddy, Alpha Bascue, Dr. H. C. Dunsmore, Mrs. Jeter Virgin, Mrs. Ben Johnson and Mrs. Clyde Hill. Further consideration of t he case has been postponed until Thursday morning, Oct. 21. Among those sub ROAD BUILDING LARGE TASK poenaed who may yet be placed on the witness stand President of National Highway» are Mrs. Frank Smith, Mrs. elation Tells How a Great Sya- M. C. Williams, Mrs. O. A. tem Can Be Built. Kreamer, Mrs. E. E. Tripp, Tlinnks to th<* pushful, pcrvnslv» Homer Hill, Mrs. Homer nntor enr, American rontl building haa Hill, Wendell Denlinger, J. ‘got n move on" nt lust. There Is ev- ‘!\\‘where the cry fo r rends. The draw- S. Bohannon, George D ick nick hns been that, us yet, there ha« inson, Clyde Ecker, George been no co-ordination of these multi* Ruef, Mrs. George Ruef, ludtnpus enterprises. The president ■ .if the National Highways association. Clyde Hill, Miss Vera John | Charles Henry Davis, In a recent pnper son, Fred Oberson and J. W dated that we spent last year $249,- or more than two-thirds the Osborne. d ia l o f money expended so far on the Independence spectators •(instruction o f the l ’nnnmn canal— arc as numerous as wit or mad Improvements throughout the nesses. country. Mr. Davis' contention is that est voice. It sounded so young and a like n wonderful burst of music. S U N D A Y , OCT 24— (Afternoon and Evening.) And ns W itty Witch’s guests looked i the fairies who lmd seelned so old sud l denly changed into lovely fairies who As a prenuptial compli looked young and beautiful. Their were o f gold and on tlielr ment to Miss Florence Bur- costumes heads they wore crowns of golden, ton, Mrs. A. E. Thomas pre where the black hoods hud been. Instead o f looking old and wrinkled sides over an elaborate their faces were lovely and young look luncheon at her pretty home ing. Their skin was smooth and pink on Third street Saturday. and their hair like gold with the sun Tbe members of tbe Tatting shining through. They were very, very beautiful and Club will be guests of Mrs. they laughed, oh how they laughed to Thomas and will join with see the surprise o f the guests. ■ “ You see,” said the fairy who had Bf the hostess in wishing one given tbe magic word o f command, “ we ■ Danger and high adventure with one strong man of their most popular mem are' n lly very, very old. W e’re almost against two score in a fight to preserve a woman’s bers unlimited happiness the oldest fairies there nre. And yet i honor. A drama grimly played beyond sight of land L we look like this when we want to. i That's because o f one great thing we’ve Monday an informal re nev( r forgotten. And that great thing ii on the face of the fathomless deep. ception is scheduled when is the understanding o f children. Monkey Comedy and Outing Chester “ We understand them. We know 2( tbe members of tbe Civic what they like and what they want club are hostesses to new and so we always keep young. Anyone comers and friends of tbe who always understands children keeps club. The club expects a young, you know. They may not be 1 1 1 ^ INDEPENDENCE i able to wear our glittering costumes season of much constructive but their voices, their eyes and their Kl l i l i l í id ; l i - 1 1 11 1 1 11 1 Bi'i.i □ M i a 11 11 r i ¡ I : ways are young. And children don't I ■ I ■ I ■ i E i ! activity. feel they’re old. “ Put the ones who don’t like chiIdrer. The Library Hoard, too, —tb “ Clean and W ide A w a k e ’ A Line of Tvue Or Two v frow old right awny. Oh. has launched a period of they’re so old because they haVe miss (Portland Examiner.) . (By B. L. T.) boosting. If the stormy ed limb -ta ilin g tbe nice little people “ They're the ones who sn.v, ’Oh dear, weather does not abate it is what It must be a inure relief The Polk Countv Post, a noise children do make.’ And, probable that the “ Booster 'Ho nervous It does make me to hear to Hiram Johnson to be| published in Independence, talking again. His steam Oregon, and edited bv day” period will be contin children piny!’ “ And they also say, forgetting en gauge registered a danger Civile Ecker. has the honor ued thru next Saturday. of being the first “ ex tlrelv that they were ever, ever young ous nressure. themselves, when they see some child The .girls might relieve change” to reach the E x The P. T. association is horn they have not seen for a year the eve strain bv wearing aminer’s editorial depart also planning an interesting perhaps. ment. It is one of the clean “ Ttenr : i . how you’ve grow n!’ Ye> green stockings. wide awake year. “ Sees New Elizabethan est anil tin y'r the ones who sny too. appearing newspapers we “ ’le t 's throw away all those old A ge.” — Dailvnooz. W ell, The High School has toys. Tie re's nothing hut trash here aren’t we still in the Lizzie have seen, and reflects cred it upon its editor and pub opened with many social They don’t know how fond children an | A g e i of the old toys, and how they hate to lisher. “ Brown Beetle Attacking functions already in embryo 1 be told all the tint- how they’ ve grow n while the “ Frosh” have al And they can’t help making a noise f'om Observes Expert.” — Births Free Press. ready been sighted to upper when they play, because they ran t < 'arbondale But as the expert appeared -hout with Joy. Born on Tuesday to Mr. class men tricks at a “ get- “ And because we've always under inoffensive, tbe beetle re and Mrs. John Becker, a acquainted” meet last Fri stood they call ns the I'alries-who-nev sumed its attack on the daughter. She has been er-grow-old. and we're given the mag: day night. ! com. christened Claire Jean. power of « hanging Into these wondroU* Remindful of tho* testi costumes, because we’re ever your. On Tuesday a son arrived On account of the ex- and always love the little people an 1 monial: “ M v mother-in-law at the home of M r. and Mrs. their rames. thetr merry makings, their was lving for a long tirin’ at remely stormy weather happy ways.” D.'irl Pollan. death’s door, and one bottle “ Isn't It a fine reward?” asked Witty Saturday, the Library Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Fred of vour wonderful medicine toard thought best to con- Witch as “he set ont the htg table for nulled her through.” rickson are the parents of a the games tlc y were all going to play. daughter bom last Thurs 1 inue the Library Booster And everyone agreed it waa and that Tell The P?*t. day. ►eriod thru next Saturday. the fa lrfe» deserved I t ® J a c k L o n d o n ’s THE PILE BOX 29. :ood roads, ronds that run for thou- ands of miles through state after tale, are, properly, not the responst- dllty o f the stnte, but of the nation. He would have the federal government •ulld a system of national roads Join* the West with the East, the North ind the South, connecting every part >f the country, as Is the case with the intiiinul highways o f Europe, and, us history shows, such as was the essen* dal equipment of every first class ¡lower o f ihe past, according to the lioston Evening Transcript. Mow would such an enonnoua con traction he paid for and kept tip? “ Suppose," asks this eminent engi neer, “ the government built 100,000 miles o f properly planned roads, and nt the same time purchased, sny, 300 M A R R IA G E S Sidney Newton and Miss Lily Pettit of Salem were married Ihe flrst of the week in Salem. “ B uck” is one of the numerous sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. N ew ton anti a young man of in dustrious habits. The bride is a very popular young lady possessing all the vir tues that a good wife should have. They will reside s o u t h of 1 ndependence. The marriage of Miss E l sie Schrunk and W ill D a vies took place in Dallas one day last week. They will live in Albany. Eldon J. Price of Inde pendence and Miss Iona Knapp of Monmouth were married Thursday evening by Justice Baker. They have gone to Seattle for a brief visit after which they will return to Independ ence to reside. most Prayer Meeting Gpod Road N eed«!. feet ot Inml on either «Id**? Thin land would so continually Increase In value and in demand for lcn.«!ng on lontt rental, that the coat o f the rond and ;!i, I jiik J p a r c h a 1 v oiild -..on be paid. A rental rate o f fii.flS per nere would pu y the Interest ou 'lie <■■ t o f con MUTUvUoU. B u t such would rent nt vust. A cottage prayer meeting will be held Thursday even ing at 7s30 at the EL L. Churchill home ¡it the com er of Sixth and F streets. A ll are invited. ly higher rates in cities and towns, high enough to give tiie nation an income equal to its total annual ex penditures, from these national highways uloue!"
