T he P olk C ounty P ost
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT INDEPENDENCE
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INDEPENDENCE, OBEUON, DECEMBER 10, 1020.
VOLUME HL
NUMBER 17.
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Christmas Seals Sold
FARMERS CASH STORE’S
The sale of
After an illness extending over
C h r i s t m a s a period of several months, Mrs.
Seals
under Madaiint Muhlman, wife of Sam
the auspices Muklman, and a sister of Mrs.
of the Civic
Club officially William Quartier, died at the
opened Mon home of her daughter, Esther,
day afternoon in Salem Thursday. Funeral ser
about three vices were held from the home
o'clock. By noon Tuesday the of a daughter, Mrs. Arch Justin,
news, "sold out,*" was forward in Independence Friday and in
ed to headquarters in the Selling term ent was made in the I O.
bldg. This is a record time. 0. F. cemetery.
Besides her
The committee in charge includ husband three sons, Sam jr.,
ed Mrs J. S. Robbie, Mrs. Guy Fred and Ben, and three daugh
Walker. Mrs- C. 0 . Sloper and ters, Ella, Alice and Esther, sur
Mrs. Claire Irvine. Volunteers vive.
from the club who assisted in the
Mrs. Muhlman was born in
sale were Mrs. J. E. Hubbard, France in 1866 and has been a
Mrs. Walter Plant and Mrs. Gir resident of Independence and
ard. Mrs. Hubbard has the dis vicinity for many years during
tinction of selling the largest which time she made a 1 .rge
amount. There were many other number of friends who are great
volunteers but the campaign was ly grieved because of her death.
so brief the committee did not
call them out.
Post Makes Change £ * ]
Pre-Inventory Sale
December | 2 ,
to
January
/
|
•
For 12 days we will give the people of Inde
pendence a feast of bargains never before
hfeard of. Come and join the crowd.
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H ere A re a Few o f o u r S p e c ia l B a rg a in s
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g
1 1 lb s . S u g a r
$1.00
$ 1 .5 0 U n d e rw e a r
69c
3 0 e . S p e c ia l B le n d
C o ffe e
19c
49c
R o y a l C lu b c o ffe e
42c
MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK
R ese rvation T ook It* N am e From the
C olor of Its M a n y C e d a r and
R lnyon Trees.
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H
$ 1 ,5 0 an d $ 2 .0 0
W o rk S h irts
M
M
’
98c,
$ 4 .0 0 and $ 5 .0 0 *
L a d ie s ’ H a ts
2 0 b a r s b e s t W h ite
L au n d ry S oap
$1.00
1 0 an d 1 5 c . L ace
In s e rtio n s
2 2 b a rs Savon
L au n d ry S oap
$1.00
$ 6 .0 0 an d $ 7 .0 0
M e n ’s P a n t s
2c
A m e r ic a n C lu b C o ffe e
ì price
$ 4 .0 0 and $ 5 .0 0
U m b r e lla s
$3.11
7 5 c. B ro o m s
44c
$ 2 5 0 and $ 3 .0 0
U m b r e lla s
$1.98
29c
$ 1 p lu g H o r s e s h o e ,
S t a r a n d C lim a x I o b .
4 0 c . X m as C andy
H a lf P o u n d
14c
5 5 c . S ilv e r K in g
C o f f e e , 3 9 c . 3 lb s
$1.00
4 5 c . P in e a p p le
B e st H a rd W h eat
F lo u r
$2.45
1 5 c . a n d 2 5 c . L a d ie s
H a n k e rc h ie fs
P e r f e c t io n F lo u r
$2.15
2 5 c. Sugar P eas
7 C ans
n y in
OH-b
Cn
0b
3 5 c . R . C. C a ts u p
T w o p in t b o ttle s
48c.
$1.00
A rm and H am m er
Soda
5c
It Pays To Trade at the
I
mers Cash Store
Independence, Ore.
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All right, ’b y .”
W ith a b e a t i n g h e a r t sh e p l a n n e d r
d a i n t y su p p e r , r e m e m b e r i n g t h e old
s a y i n g t h a t th e q u ic k e s t w a y to a,
m a n ’s h e a r t w a s th r o u g h his s t o m a e h . !
P r o m p t ly a t seven Ben k n o c k ed a t
By G R A C E O W E A T H E R B Y .
t h e door, a n d his g r a y e y es g le a m e d '
a t t h e sight of I. ■ ' y in h e r f r e s h blue
d re ss, h e r c h e c k s ( Im b ed like a girl's.
E). 1920. b y M c C l u r - N . w . p a p . r S y n d i c . t p )
M u te ly he offcrc;! his roses, w h ite ones,
T h e l a t e nflernr! in sun s t r e a m e d in to p e r f e c t in th e i r p a le b e a u t y . W ith a
t h e sjHitless lit t le k i tc h e n o f R e b e c c a little c r y of glnilne s Becky h u r le d h e r
Hollis, n sp i n s t e r , b a t h i n g t h e figure In fa c e In th e f r a g r a n t m a s s, a n d he r
t h e r o c k in g c h a i r in a w a r m lig ht. e y es filled w ith q u ic k tenrs, f o r d i d n ’t
Reeky, a s «he w a s m o r e o f t e n called, w h ite rose s m ea n p u r e love?
rocked vigo ro u sly back a n d f o r th , th e
"C o m e on to s u p p e r , Ben.” s h e said,
a n c i e n t c h a i r s e n d i n g out Its p r o t e s t In b r i s k l y enough.
n e rv e re c k i n g s q u e a k %
Rut B e c k y 's ’
D u r i n g t h e c h ic k e n s a l a d a n d hot
thoughts w ere f a r away.
S h e w a s t r y b i s c u it s Ren w a s very quiet, a n s w e r
ing to d e c id e J u s t w h a t a c t i o n to tn k e ing h e r only In m o n o sy lla b les , h u t his
with Ben Abbott.
Ben w a s th e vil g r a y e y es sp o k e volum es.
T he a ir
lage p o s t m a s te r , a n d a s nice a m a n s e e m e d full o f s u p p r e s e s d e x c ite m e n t.
a s any* w o m a n co u ld w is h for. Becky A f t e r s u p p e r Ren w iped th e d ishe s,
- n e w h e th o u g h t a g r e a t ileal of her. w ith slow d e li b e r a t io n w hich w-as so
a s h e w a s a f r e q u e n t visitor, a n d al- unllk'p
B e c k y 's
qu ick
m o v e m e n ts
v a y s b r o u g h t a gift of so m e kind with S c a r c e ly a w ord w a s spoken.
Then
h im — h u t Ben w a s b a s h f u l . Night a f t e r w llh h e r h e a r t h e a t i n g fast. B e cky l<*d
r ight h e w ould sit t h e r e , « u n i t , n e r v t h e w a y to t h e f irep lac e In th e cozy sif
ously tw i s t in g his fingers, t r y i n g to tin g room.
A f t e r a m o m e n t ’s silence.
find s o m e th i n g to say.
B e c k y 's p a B e n s a i d : “B e ck y , you h a d s o m e ''
-
tie n c e w a s «orely tried.
special to say to m e tonight, did n 't
“I d e c l a r e Ben t v ' ■ 'm e t i r e d : he y o u ? "
The
rich
c olor
flooded B e c k y ’s
h a s n ’t e n o u g h g c
• r. to kill n fl( a.
le t a lo n e m a k e l o r e to a w o m a n . H o w c h ee k s, hut Ben did not n o tic e It.
“ W hy, yes. Ben. I did. I w a n t e d to
e v e r can 1 m a k e Uitn pi ,.k?"
sh e c oughed
S u d d e n l y t h e a •. lent h d r c a m e to a sk you If you . . . "
nn a b r u p t « m n d s t ll l . a n d its o c c u p a n t ’s a n d fell silent. T h e le a p y e a r p r o
posa l w a s n ’t e as y . Ben rose a n d took
hack s t r a i g h t e n e d
“T h e ve ry t h i n g ' " ‘•ho e j a c u l a t e d . a c h a i r n e a r e r .
“I su p p o s e It Is d o w n r i g h t Im p o r
" I t never, d a w n e d on me t h a t th * w a s
t a n t . o r yon w o u 'd n 't h a v e a s k e d me
iea p y e a r ! I’ll a s k h 'm m y s e l f ! "
S h e w e n t to t h e t e ’e p h o n e a n d c alled np h e r e to n ig h t, h u t I w ns coming, a n y
Ben. ’’C o m e o v e r to *npp r to n ig h t . how, fo r I’v e s o m e th i n g I w a n t e d t o
Ben.
I w a n t t o a s k yon a b o u t som e s p e a k to you a b o u t m yse lf."
Now , t h is w a s ve ry u n lik e Ben, a n d
thing.
Tes, a t se v e n w ill do. . . . ‘
REBECCA PROPOSES
I Mrs. Sam Mahleman Dead
Becky f a ir ly h e 'd h e r b r e a t h .
w e n t fo r his h a t a n d coat, a n d as s h e
“ P e r h a p s I’d b e t t e r h a v e mv say n n n d e d t h e m to him t h e m an flung
f irst," Ben w e n t on m anlike, “ ntul then t h e m a s i d e w i t h a n e x c l a m a ti o n a n d
you can fell we w h a t ’s t r o u b li n g you." c a u g h t B e cky in his a rm s .
B e c k y nodded. “ You know , Becky, my
“ D o n 't look so, B e c k y ; you know
t e r m ns p o s t m a s t e r r u n s out n e x t t h a t h o u s e Is f o r you a n d me— w e ’ll he
m o n th , a n d I’m gtdng to q u i t t h e Job. h a p p y t h e r e , w o n ’t w e ? D o n 't yon like
I’ve b o u g h t a fa rm o u t on the W eston t h e i d e a ? ”
road, a nice little pla c e It !s, too and
Suc h w a s Ben A b b o t t ’s p r oposa l, b u t
I’m going to t e a r do w n t h e shuck t h a t 's th e w o m a n In Ids a r m s fo u n d It highly
on t h e p lac e no w a n d build o n e of s a t i s f a c t o r y .
It w a s a f t e r ten when
t h e m b u n g a lo w s — you know, a long, B e cky a g a i n h a n d e d Ben his h a t a n d
low. r a m b l i n ’ kin d of a house."
He c o at. As he d e s c e n d e d t h e porch ste p a
p a u s e d a n d glanc e I a t lie c k y '* a v e r t e d he s to p p e d s u d d e n l y a n d c a m e ba ck.
face. “ W ell, a n d so I went- dow n to , “B e ck y , w h a t w a s it you w e r e going
.fob P a t t e r s o n 's a n d It" s a y s le- can t o a s k m e a b o u t t o n ig h t ? ”
build rig h t a w a y , a n d I’m lookin g m i r
“Oh. n o t h i n g m uch. Ben ; I w a s Just
thp p ia n o with him tom orrow
o't go in g to p r o p o s e to you.
I t ’s lea p
know, d e c id in g w h e r e to' put tile p a r y e a r , you k now . B u t — you sa v e d m e
lor, a n d how big to m a k e 'tie k itc he n, t h e t r o u b le . ”
a n d I w a s w o n d e r n ' If y o u ’d r p r o to go
W H A T ’S IN A N A M E ?
a lo n g a n d sort o f h e lp m e out. W om en
h a v e p r e t t y good Ideas on th is su b
“ Is that dog of yours vicious?”
ject. W a n t to go?”
Becky fa ce d him, h**r b r o w n eves asked the timorous person.
very n e a r t e n r s of v e x a tio n , l i e h a d n 't
“Oh, no,” replied the owner of a
p ropose d, a f t e r all ’
ferocious looking brute that wavde-
" W e l l ? " snld Ben, with a s p e ri t y .
ing his best to break the leash, at
“ \V
do you an y ? ”
tached
to his collar. “Why, this dog
••
y. of c ourse, Ben,” «he sta na
was named after a friend of mine,
me-
” 1— I’d love to go."
”, \ l l r 'g h f then. I’ll call f o r you a t one of the g^itlest men who ever
to m o r r o w ."
lived,”
T h e n a silen c e fell.
T h e clock
“That doesn’t mean anything to
• tr u e ! n in e w ith t a n t a l i z i n g delil ' r a
me.
Nearly every day George Wash
tion.
Re- '-.r w a n t e d fn throw n.-rs ;f
dow n on ’he hr-d anil hat'* a '/end cry. ington is haled to court charged
" W h a t w ns yon w a n t i n g to a s k me with violating the prohibition law,
a b o u t B e c k y ? " sk e d th*' man.
petty larceny or some other offense.
" O h - - I — n o th 'll* notch. Ben. I w o n ’t
Just looking at your pet, I don’t be
b o t h e r roil *v ; |i :t telilgli:."
A n o t h e r s!b*i»ei
Ben a r o s e
“ Well. lieve he lives up to his name, either.”
— Birmingham Age-Herald.
I m n s t he g e tt i n g a long."
Becky, a s pe r he r usua l eusftim.
Mesa Verde National park, Colo
rado, is fifteen miles long and eight
miles wide, rising from the valley on
the north side, its top sloping south
ward to the cliff bordering the Val
ley of Mancos on the south. The
Mesa Verde or Green Mesa, is so
called from the cedar and pinyon
trees which impart to it a green
color.
A large human population lived
in the cliff dwellings in prehistoric
times. They obtained their liveli
hood by agriculture on the tops of
the mesa. Game w a s scarce and wa
ter was, at that time, rare and found
only in sequestered places near The
heads of canyons, but ^he inhabi
tants cultivated their farms and
raised their corn, which they ground
on stones called metates, and baked
their bread on a flat stone griddle.
The population of the cliff dwell
ings, due to increase in numbers,
emerged from their caves and built
their homes in the open on top of
the mesa in the form of pueblos or
community houses. These later fell
into disuse and were for yeare indi
cated by mounds of stone and earth.
ground that such an expression was
justified by the extent to which gas
fuel is employed in the fundamental
processes of 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
300,000,000,000 cubic feet of gas ot
one sort or another to 8,500,000 cus
tomers.—Scientific American.
MANY
8 C U L P T O R 8 ID L E .
According to American Art News,
the sculptors complain that there is
little work at present in their line
of endeavor, and even the leading
men are “waiting.” The commem
orative war statues and patriotic
groups that were to decorate cities,
towns and cemeteries, have not thus
I far materialized. The unsettled con-
* ditions of the country, they contend,
which are holding up building, are
accountable for the present “dol
drums.”
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C O I N C I D E N C E IN D A T E S .
The dates of Monday and Tuea-
dav, the 19th and 20th of January,
whep placed side by side, giye us the
date of the present year, 1020. The
last time such a sequence gave the
date of the year was over a hundred
vears ago, namely in 1819. In what
year will it occur again? Not be
fore 2e21._______________
O T H E R DAYS.
The Post made a very desir-
oble "swap" this week. We
have been handicapped for some
time by a defective type setting
machine and when the opportun
ity was presented to dispose of it
and get a more proficient mach
ine, said opportunity was instant
ly embraced, tho it means some
inconvenience for the next two
or three weeks until the new
machine can be installed some
time in January. We can assure
our readers that after the new
machine is on the job that things
will get. to going "lovely" again
and that the Post will appear
every Friday, bigger and batter
than ever.
Alienation Suit Begun
j
Mrs. Armine Young has com -;
menced action in the circuit court
against Mr. and Mrs. E. M.
Young, parents of her husband,
in which she alleges that they
alienated the affections of her
husband and asks for five thous
and dollars iamages.
Births
. t
Cards have been received by
friends of Mrs. Eva Huston Hall
announcing the birth of twin
'iris who were born in Napa,
California, a few days ago.
A son was born recently to Mr.
and Mra. Leon McClintoek, ne«
Genevieve Gillespie, at Rose-
burr. The young man has been
christened Richard Gillespie.
LUCKY AND UNLUCKY OMENS
S u p e rstitio n s Connected W ith Brid a l
F lo w e rs A re Com m on In A ll
P a r ts of the W orld.
Superstitions with respect to flow
ers are world-wide. The bride car*
ries a bouquet of white roses, all un
conscious of the fact that somewhere
on the earth are people possessed of
the notion that to smell white rosu»
is “bad for the brain.” Nor reck*
she, as she sees the same bottq' II
tom apart by her girl friends in I *
grand scramble for it, that to pull •
flower to pieces—as is inevitable un
der the circumstances— is a surf
sign that you will die of consum e
tion. Had she worn no veil it woull
have been bad luck to show any flowv
erst at all in the hair. Tuberoses thf
bride must not wear, as they portenl
mourning; in Scotland bluebells a rt
barred, as bringing on insanity.
Again, happy is the bride who se ^
white flowers first on her wedding
tnorn ; if they be red, look out fot
sorrow and care.
A lucky marriage may, however
be guaranteed hy putting some flow
ers on the bee hives and “telling th«
bees.”
«1 want to get back to the good
old fifty-fifty days,” remarked the
reminiscent person.
Mrs. Jan o tte
“What do you mean by ‘fifty-fifty*
o f Springfield is
days?”
‘T h e days when there was twice her daughter,
50 cents’ worth in every doll*».”
Kream er.
Richardson
the guest of
Mrs. O. A.
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