FOLK COUNTY PO ST! oesk is ;NTERE3TING reuc
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r*d every Friday at Independence, Oregon.
second clans matter March 26, 1918, at the postoliice at
nenrience, Oregon, under the Act oí March 3, 1879.
A desk now owned by Mrs. E. C.
('aril of 16 East Chestnut street,
FHKER
Editor and Publisher.
Augusta, Me., first saw the light of
day on the bay of Campeachy, in
J Mexico, hundreds of years ago, and
■u R a t e s t
was first owned by Daniel Gookin in
50c.
1620. On the writing slab of this
$ 1.00
desk a letter was one day written by
$ 2.00
this ancestor of this Augusta lady
. ■ ,%« provided for, sub.-criptions will be stopped at expiration in which Daniel Gookin negotiated
with Ferdinando Gorges for pur
chase of Gorges’ claim to the prov
Man v are the words of praise bestowed upon ince of Maine. Thus it read:
a stranger to you, you may
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have heard my name, because my
gpouitments. In fact, his whole administrât on father, who bore the same name,
intimately acquainted with
. u such as to win much applause. 1 he was
your father, Sir Ferdinando Gor
governor is scheduled for another term.
ges.” In 1687 the affair was set
tled, the Gorges claim purchased
for £1,250.
Capital punishment was restored in this state
The Gookins originally came from
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hope that it would lessen the number oi Fingland. Captain Gookin, his fam
and Reverend Thompson went to
ii m n s but men go right ahead killing their ily
Maryland to live, acquiring land
• r pat d less.
near Annapolis. But the captain
wmited to live among the Puritans,
so, leaving servants to care for his
N i many men could plantation, he sailed for Boston.'
.ime, tho it may turn out that This was after 1639. Six days aft
er arriving in Boston, Capt. Daniel
• ù him as a “—
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goat.
Gookin, tall, grave, robust, dignified
gentleman of thirty-one years, wa*.
admitted to the First Church of
Boston.
let’s pack up and go to
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V'irht warm sunshine greets you; where the delightful
■i. ti the sweet scented flowers and the lure of the
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the Tourist" will be mailed F R E E on request
inquire of local agent for fares, routes, sleeping car reservations
and train service or write
"CUTHERN P A C I F I C LINES
JO H B M SCOTT. G an eral Passenger A gent
P ortlan d, Oregon
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s, U. S. Wheat Director Says:
“ tA T MORE
BREAD
: ret luce the high cost of living.”
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HOLSUM
BREAD
IS THE CHEAPEST AS W ELL AS
THE MOST WHOLESOME ON
THE MARKET TODAY.
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BUY THAT
EXTRA LOAF
Your Grocer Has It.
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H E N R Y YUNG
INDEPENDENCE, ORE.
3 miles south—first house
east of I. O. O. F. cemetery
VALLEY & STLETZ
TIME TABLE
ON
twenty-eight offices,
and all my associ
ates in these offices
have been tau g h t
how to p r a c t ic e
p a in le s s dentistry
as well as 1 can do
it myself. We have
fixed up the teeth
of over a million
people, and call our
way of practicing
“the E. R. P a r k e r System.”
If your teeth are bothering
you, and you want them put
in good shape without hurt
ing and w ith o u t pay
ing a fancy price, come
to our n e a r e s t office,
w h ic h you w ill find
located at
living
a hundred miles
or more away
come to my offices
to have their teeth
fixed up. I make it
a rule that those
from a d is ta n c e
sh a ll be w a ited
upon immediately
and their work be
completed first, so
they cun go b a ck hom e as
soon as possible.
Years ago.I discovered how
to extract and fix teeth with
out hurting, and was so
s u c c e s s fu l that people
ca lle d me “P a in le s s ”
Parker. My practice has
grown until 1 now havo
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S rn te
«S í C o m m e r c i a l S t s « , , S n ! j m
“Perhaps You Don’t Know”
says th e Good Judge
Effective Oct. 24, 1920, trains
will run as follows:
Train arrives Independence
11:05 A. M.
Train departs Independence
1:00 P. M.
Daily except Sunday.
L. E. WATSON, Supt.
The modern women is making her
way into the d e c corporations
known as the London city com pa-’
nies. A few days ago a woiua.
proved her right to admission in i’
the Spectacle Makeis company, on
of the few city companies that re
quire their members to have passed
an examination.
Some of the 12 great companies
nd the 63 minor companies were
founded by men and women inter
ested in the industries they repre
sent and some received their char
ters from queens, but nowadays it
is the exception for them to admit
women to membership. The Com
pany of Turners, whose craft dates
back to Roman times, has enrolled
one woman, a master turner who did
important work in munition fac
tories.
TOUGH
Painless Parker
The Famous Dentist
P
eople
W O M E N A D V A N C IN G .
How long a little of
the R eal T o b acco
Chew will last.
Nor how much gen
uine chewing satisfac
tion the full, rich real
tobacco taste will give.
Ask any man who uses
the Real Tobacco Chew,
He will tell you that
this class of tobacco
will give more satisfac
tion—and at less cost—
than the ordinary kind.
DO YOUR
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P u t up in two styles
WITH
W -B C U T is a long fine-cut tobacco
R IG H T C U T is a short-cut tobacco
W e y m a n -B ru to n .C o rrtp a n ÿ , t IO r B ro a d w a y . N e w Y o rk C ity
TROJAN
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POWDER
W HAT IS u £ I T £ f i
Safe to use
No headaches.
BARBERS.
for a Sunday dinner than a
fresh dressed, «lean, well fed
chicken? It is a delicacy to
the average household, but
many refine to buy dressed
poultry
unless they know
cleanliness is observed in the
dressing. You can buy our
dressed poultry with safety.
ITe was dirty, tousled of hair and
generally unkempt, being of the
type quite familiar in the days when
Salem, Albany,
“tighthood” was in flower, and he
Corvallis,
Eugene
glanced about uneasily as he sidled
up to the owner of a drug store, an 1 I
Local Dealer
remarked in a studied attempt to be
L.
E.
HASELTON, Rt l
quite
casual
and
unaffected:
Independence, Ore.
“Gimme a quart of bay rum.”
“We are not selling bay rum, and
if we were I am pretty sure 1 would
not sell any to you,” said the pro
ÜBH BÜ HilJil!<
S 'liBll Hilfl.l B I.B? HiliB
prietor.
“Well, I don’t know what us bar
bers is goin’ to do,” resignedly re
A. G. Williams, Prop.
plied the unshaven one, as he shuf
fled toward the door.
All kind of barbering
Hauser Bros.
M eat Market
MILLER A SMITH
m WIND MILL SHOP
S T IM U L A T IN G TRADE.
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done and satisfaction
guaranteed. L a d i e s ’
shampooing and mas- I
saging given special at- 1
tention. ¡Shine in con- ■
nection.
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An exchange of exhibition trains
for showing in one country the
products of ¡mother is a recent trade-
extension project that is attracting
attention in Canada. The Canadian
~BJtB;iB I B,l ■ l,B'l:B B l B I B 1 B I Sfili
National railways have arranged for
the transportation of exhibits of
French goods through Canada, and
Canadian manufacturers will lie
TO REA LIZE THE
able to secure a similar exhibition
of their goods on a train that will be
MOST MONEY
takeu through the principal cities of
France.
A B A R G A IN .
Tt was evidently another caw of
the family trying to find a house to
rent or buy that caused a «mail child
in a picture show to pass the follow
ing remark as otic of the homes of
the “400" flashed on the screen:
"Gee. daddy, if you could get that
for $300 you’d get a bargain,
wouldn't you’ ’’
For Sale.—Sharpless tubulai
littiia H a H ia ta iia M H .B im iM ia iw w a n a iiw ia iiB t suetion feed cream separator
Practically new. Can be seen a
Sloper Bros & Cockle’s.
The Post has a larger circu
lation in South Polk Coun
ty than all other Polk coun- .
ty papers combined.
PRUNE TREES
On It Waa W r itt e n L etter Which Ne
gotiated for the Purpose of
Province of Maine.
TARMS AND ACREAGE WANTED
The Independence National Bank
Established .1889
AN ACCOUNT in a commercial bank is the most
convenient aid to modern business. It systema
tizes payments, is a check on all expenditures and
shows you just where you stand each month.
Open one with us today. It will pay you to dc so.
MEMBER
^FEDERAL RESERVE^
.SYSTEM,
Officers and Directors
H. Hirschberg, Pres. C. A. McLaughlin, V. P.
Ira D. Mix, Cashier
W. H. Walker
D. W. Sears
O. D. Butler
We buy everything you
want to sell and sell
everything you want to
buy. Cash or trade.
Bring in everything you
want to sell and 1 will
sell it for you on a
commission.
BIG SUBSCRIPTION O FFER
MAX GOLDMAN
SWOPE Si SWOPE
LA W YERS
Ofllee ever Craven A Walker’s Mere
For real service and results list
your property with us. We have Independence,
Oregon
six salesmen with machines. We
inspect and photograph your prop
erty and advertise extensively, and Advantages of a Large Circulation
have a demand for property at all
Talk to all the people
times. Fred W. German Co., 732 thru The Polk County P o st
Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Port
land, Oregon.
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