The Polk County post., November 12, 1920, Image 1

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Auditorium
T he P olk C ounty P ost
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT INDEPENDENCE
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VOLUME 1U.
INDEPENDENCE, OREUON, NOVEMBER 12, 192a
CORN SHOW
ü f PULK COUNTY
COMING
NUMBER 33.
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The principal event in 1 I
Independence next week
aside from the usual
Thanksgiving festival, is
the Corn Show which
takes place on Tuesday
and
Wednesday.
It
promises to be an event
of merit as all those in­
terested in the display
have worked energeti­
cally to arouse the inter­
est of corn growers and
otherwise
contributed
their best efforts to |
make it a success.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY, NOV. 22 23
AUCE BRADY
T H E P IL L B O X
RAISING
■
THE BLINDS OF
THE PAST
It has finally got around to
t|ie Pill Box that when Inde­
pendence had t\yo preuchors
by the same name one was
called Dip and the other
Sprink.
Tiie Post, ''a s visited by
in “ SINNERS.
a result lit oi \\ est ¡Salem
“ There is so much bad in the best of us and so much
oue clay last week who pro-
good in the worst of u s . " Does Opportunity make
poses a division oi 1'ollv
"sinners" or is it man’s designi Three days in At­
WE’VE OFTEN WONDERED
eouuiy, catting oil tile south
lantic
City!
Was
it
.worth
the
price
( She wanted to
WHAT EXCUSE A SALEM
pari anti creating a new
STREET CAR HAD FOR
dance and was willing to pay the piper.
county 10 ue called Willam­
RUNNING
Comedyart—3 Reels
ette.
(A Reader in Salem Journal.)
When it comes to ouch a
ite would make the divis­
point
th at married men will
i o n as ioilows:
Stalling at
see a miss to her home after
WEDNESDAY
AND
THURSDAY,
NOV.
24-25
|
me rivet and going west
durk so far as the street car
st liking tiie ¡Saiem-JJailas
goes and then, because he
Uiinks no one is on who
loan uuout .Log JJump and
knows him, to kiss her good
Cm . 1 imung west to a point
Wells-Snyder
night,
it is high time
dig
a mile west oi Monmouth.
at the root of why soma girls
Orville Wells, son of Mr.
i loin mis corner straight
in “ HEART STRINGS.”
8 are led astray.
►souiii to tiie Eonion county and Mrs. G. E. Wells, and si
. . . .
i
A DEVILISH TOWN
line. U e nav e not "meas­ Al iss Clara Snyder, who i He was a humble violinist! His art was his life! He ■
(Arkansas Thomas Cat,)
ured up io ascertain if tiie has made her home with i saw his chance to emerge from obscurity and to wip ■
Tuesday evening at a meet-
tin1 girl he loved! But he willingly sacrificed his fu- i
new county, as lie proposes Mr. and Mrs. George Mc­
ing
of the Snajstown Educa­
it, would be large enough Laughlin, were married in ^ lure Tor his sister’s sake. A story of honor’s fearful j tional Society, Miss Mao Slim-
Portland Saturday. They ? vengeance. The drama of a musical genius whom ^ batt read an article on “Per­
to comply with tne law.
will
live in tiie pretty little i villainy could not crush! Thrills and unending sus- P sonal Devils." Seventeen were
"should Monmouth not
bungalow,
south of Inde­ § pense. The great Farnuni at his best.
" present.
wisn to go into the new
pendence,
built
by
Gordon
county,
ne said, "a jog
I
Comedy and International News
count be made in the line Bowman. Independence and
A Happy Mother
and leave it in I'olk county.” Buena Vista friends of Mr.
ne thought that Monmouth and Mrs. Wells extend con­
Mrs. Martha Richardson
FRIDAY, NOV. 26
'would lie better served by gratulations. Both young
has been a happy mother
going into the new-county people possess all the quali­
this week.. Her son, Frank,
and ne mult the court house fications that are required
arrived and spent several
to enjoy a happy and pros­
between the two towns.
days. Then after he left,
in “ THE PINCH HITTER.”
son John appeared and was
A di\ ision oi Polk coun­ perous married life.
here Sunday. She took John
ty, he added, "would put
The greatest base ball play ever written. “ A pict­
Chapman - Wilson
to church Sunday night and
an end to sectionalism and
ure every redblooded American will enjoy,” says
otherwise straightened him
; .. people oi all parts
Isaac Chapman and Miss
John K. Teller, former president of the National
up.
v\’» ini ve;i 11 tiie benefit. The Ruth Wilson of Independ­
League. “ The Pinch Hitter” will appeal to every
1 1 \ al cities oi Dallas and lu- ence were married in Dal­
man or boy possessing a drop of sporting blood, and
ELKINS
dCj/endence would no long- las last Saturday. They
it w ill reach out to the sympathies of the women be­
ei be rivals. Each county hear many well wishes on
cause of its intense human qualities.
The Bov Scouts of Elkins
wi.jlil do its own road int- every hand.
hg,ve
been makine cider for
Rolin Comedy and Pathe News
proviug thus eliminating
different parties at fiftv
tne great bone oi contention
cents a gallon. This money
Olson-Miller
goes into the scout fund.
that makes the life of every
SATURDAY, NOV. 27
Hilmar Olson and Miss
The Elkins high school
i'olk county judge a night
nlaved her first basket ball
Nettie Miller were married
mare.”
game of the season at Airlie
lie is keenly interested in in Salem Monday and on
Friday
night, defeating Air-
a division because as a resi­ their return from Portland,
lie 12 to 6. Splendid work
de, t oi West Salem he w here they went for a few
of the center and guards of
in “ HONOR BOUND ”
Elkins kept Airlie from
hopes and proposes that a days, will begin house keep­
scoring anv field goals, but
Peculiar things happen to men who stray from civil­
sin ion of West Salem be ing near Stiver, Mr. Olson
getting everything from the
ization. The strangest triangle ever thought of is
given to Marion county in being engaged in farming.
foul
line.
that of a man who is moral, a man who is immoral
exchange for a strip on the Mrs. Olson is a daughter of
and a woman who is simply unmoral.
east side of the river from Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Miller
Missionaries Teach Boys
somewhere about East In­ and a sister of Frank and
Ford Weekly and 2-reel Christy comedy
“On the road to Mandalay, where
dependence south to the for several months lias been
the old flotilla lay," steam launches
an assistant in the Inde­
Linn county line.
hullt hy the Rurmese hoys of a Baptist
"1 propose this division pendence postoffice. Their
Mission school are now making fre­
SUNDAY,
NOV.
28—(Afternoon
and
Evening.)
seriously,” he said, “ in the friends are quite sure that
quent trips and the profits from thetr
hope that the people of Polk their married life will be a
sale to the natives a re helping In the
establishm ent of practical Industrial
county, who are now grop­ very happy one.
education In th a t country.
ing in the dark, will see the
The Rev. Dr. C. A. Nichols la the
Berrys To Leave . . . .
light and lie delivered from
in “ NURSE MARJORIE.-’
man th at Is directly responsible for
this Industrial development. In far-
factional and sectionalism.” The Auto Utilities Co.,
Monkey
Comedy
and
Outing
Chester
otf Burma, on the actual soil of old
. ijuesiion of county divis­
England, even though as Kipling says,
which has maintained es­
ion must be submitted to
"there ain’t no buses runnln' from the
tablishments
at
Independ­
bank to Mandalay,” he secured a saw ­
tiie voters of all districts
ence
and
Dallas,
will
oper­
mill.
MONDAY
AND
TUESDAY,
NOV.
29
30
effected.
It was In Basseln, one of the towns
ate
but
one
place
in
Polk
¡'lie Post certainly agrees
grouped about the numerous mouths
county
after
December
1,
of the trawaddy, thet the enterprise
with the West Salem man
and
that
will
be
at
Dallas.
was begun. The Irawaddy Is the very
that a division of Polk coun­
river upon which Mandalay Is built
ty would be a good thing in lT. O. Berry, who has h°d
and up which “the old flotilla” made
Starring
RUTH
ROLAND.
Its way from Rangoon. Rev. Dr. Nich­
every way, including finan­ charge of the Independence
ols went to work as a Baptist mission­
end,
will
move
to
Dallas.
The
first
episode
of
the
galloping
western
serial
sen­
ce i y, t r the people of all
ary among the Sgaw Karens, one of
It is greatly regretted
sation in fifteen thrill tingling chapters! A romance
the forty races In cosmopolitan Burma,
its sections.
that Mr. and Mrs. Berry are
conducting a missionary school along
of the plains! A tale of adventure in the heart of the
the stan d ard lines.
Independence.
>s. Louise Harmon Passes to leave
Rockies! She lights like a bearcat and rides like a
One day a British commissioner vis­
They have a host of friends
cyclone! More thrills than can be found in the most
iting the school asked why the boys
Mrs. Louise Harmon, well here.
were not taught a trade. Dr. Nichols
daring circus act! First episode, “ The Mysterious
made the time-honored missionary ex­
own woman of Buena
T runk”, Monday and Tuesday nights; then every
cuse, lack of funds to purchase equip­
Back From Alaska
sta, and the mother of
ment
■ Monday and Tuesday night thereafter until com­
ii- daughters and two
The commissioner, however, w ss so
pleted.
This
in
addition
to
the
regular
show
on
these
well Impressed with the progress that
is, died at her home Tues- Layton Smith arrived last
nights. No extra admission price.
tha boys were making In th eir studies
»- morning at the age of night from Cordova, Alaka, i
th at he undertook to put a dozen of
and
will
remain
here
perma­
!
them In the government railway shops
years. She had been in
i
■
study as machinists. Here the boys
>r health for some time, nently. Mrs. Smith and
■ to
spent five years learning their trade
Walter
Smith
and
his
wife
neral services were held
1
' 1 ^
IN D E P E N D E IN C E
a and during th at apprenticeship retain
ed their mem bership In the mission
tiie home Wednesday and J have been here for several
! ■ ! ■ I f l l R ' ! R I B I R 111 ■ I ■ I B 11 i l I R I B I f lllW I 'B lI R lI iW M I lH I 'B I lB I I B M l< church.
This was the first step !n
erment was made in the weeks.
the development of the Industrial edu
The
Smiths
lived
in
Alas­
xisville cemetery,
cation Idea. The next was tha pur
chase of the sawmill.
AIRLIE
Calkins.
ili-s. Harmon lived a very ka for about four years, but
Incidentally the Northern Baptist
concludedthe
old
home
best.
M
iss
Gertrude
Holmes
of
ill 1: e and had a world
Convention has grasped the slgnlfl
New
Haven,
Conn.,
and
Mrs
I
The new log chute at F.
s d c c of Dr Nichols' Idea, and In Its
friends.
i
Fires!
L. Tubandt’s camp is nearly W. W. Belcher of Portland c New
World Movement program In
are
visiting
at
the
home
of
finished.
j
eludes n project “to establish a trade
Uifus M. Smith Dead
The farm home of Ed Lu­ Davis and Weber expect Mr. and Mrs'. ,Jercv Hadlev. j school at Moultneln and Introduce edu
cation In the Industrial arts, for Indus
cas
near Buena 1 ista burn­ to resume sawmill opera­
afus M. Smith, age 78.
Dallas Observer: Miss trial Independence will m ake for the
tions the first of the year.
! war veteran, died at ed Monday.
Leona Sloper of Independ­ strength of Christian society In India
unoiith Nov. 12. He A hop liouse belonging to j A. L. Titus moved to Sa­ ence was the house guest of as in America.”
, 1 r’ue plains in 1853 Vance Butler went up in lem Monday. He left his Mrs. Amelia Gooch over the
A or! at Monmouth
River on a rampage.
garage in care of Marvin last of tue week.
1 smoke Thursday night.
his death.
I f
j WILLIAM FARNUM |
CHARLES RAY
FRANK MAYO
MARY MILES MINTER
Beginning
“Ruth of the Rockies”
ii
II
| 5 ^ I 5^ T H E A T R E
' K U l l O
1 XX
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I
M l ) . OPERA HOUSE!
HELLO. M W !
1'he Independence opera
house is being remodeled
and converted into an arm
ory and assembly hall fov
Co.. K. Partitions will ali
be removed and the entire
upstairs will be one room
excepting a corner apart
rnent which will he used as
ti company office. Dr. O. D.
Butler, who has been locat
ed on this floor, has moved
to rooms over the Independ
ence National Bank.
In the remodeling On­
stage and theatrical fixtures
will all be removed and In ­
dependence bids farewell to
this -lofty elevation from
where many a graduate has
heralded to the world a cur
for all its evils, where many
an ambition youth and dam
sel has debuted fully resolv
ed to become as famous an
Joe Jefferson or Lillian
Russell, where Florence
Nightingales and Carusos
in the making have struck
the high notes, with grea
eclat, where “ child won­
ders” have touched the
keys of the piano before
fond papas and mammas,
where famous lecturers
propounded wisdom and
knowledge, where road
shows, from kicking girls to
phenologists, have made us
laugh and weep, where
democratic orators have
torn the republican party to
shreds, where republican
orators didn’t leave the
democratic party a leg to
stand on. The place is go­
ing. Soon to be only a
memory, but sacred to those
who passed thru the boy­
hood and girlhood age here.
Yesterday it was the op­
era house. Tomorrow it wil
be the armory. Several
days will pass before tin,
transformation is complete,
but the old has passed away
and the new is being born.
So, goodby, opera house l
Hello, armory!
Yeon Succeeds Benson
John B. Yeon of Portland
has accepted an appoint
ment as a member of the
state highway commission
to succeed S. Benson, re­
signed.
Benson said he couldn’t
harmonize with the others.
Prunes
A few days ago that
good old scout, James K.
Folk Harris presented
The Post with ten
pounds of choice prunes
since which time we
have become very much
acquainted with the
famous Oregon fruit. We
have had stewed prunes,
baked prunes, pnme pre­
serves,
prune salad,
prune pie and as a spec­
ial treat Virginia makes
such delicious
prune
cake. By serving prune
cake to callers, she has
had the house full of
women ever since Mr.
H arris’ prunes arrived.
We are mighty glad to
have “ met up” with the
Oregon prune so exten­
sively and our associ­
ations with it have been
very pleasant.