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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1921)
LOCAL P.-T.S SHORT S T O B OF TOWH HID COUNTRY ENTERTAIN B U E N A V IS T A Mrs. Gates o f PerHand is vis iting her sister, Mrs. Miss Vera Johnson was home Independence Organization Host Miss Helen Butler is teaching to Hopville Tuesday at Hopville, substituting for Mrs gram spent Violin week end with the Vitamina Really le. Musical Pro ¡Hotel, who has been leading a on the form er’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. FLEES THE TABLE D’HOTES George Con key who has been ill G. A. Wells. for several days. Alfred and Gilbert Loy o f O. Sclsntlsts Concentrate on Separating It Freni Viand», but Without Suc A. C. spent the week end at the cess— Differ ae to What a Moss Walker of the Beaver parental home. SUPT. WILLS GAVE TU K Splendid SCIENCE SEEKS . FOR VITAMINES Elusive Substance Gives Zest Alma Wells and friend. Miss and Real Value to the Spring o f Willamette college, , Food We Eat. from Falls City Sunday. A Simons, this wnek. vltamine are known to e x is t: The wnter-aoluble variety, fouDd In milk, yeast, and other substances; the fat- soluble ones, which are present In but ter and egg yolks; aDd a third class, designated us ‘‘antiscorbutic.” which Is found in a numher o f fresh vegetables and fruits and ulao In the outside husk o f rice. Lack o f these necessary food constituents results in various Ills— scurvy, berl-berl, and other dis eases. In fact, the Importance o f the anti scorbutic factor was discovered purely accidentally, as a result o f an epideui lc o f bert-berl among the rice-eating Eastern nations after modern milling methods obtained in these countries and the surface layer of the rice was removed. When an extract of this husk was eventually supplied, the dis ease was prevented. Lack of both the other types o f vita mine result in a gradual wasting away. This, in the case o f the fat solutde vltamine. Is accompanied by tdludness and often by lung trouble, but the wasting process Is more grad ual, as the system subsists for a while on Its reserve store of fat. N. C. Anderson and w ife were New York.— Food values are of es secluded life for some time, was Sunday afternoon callers at the pecial interest these days o f high hack on the streets last Tuesday. E. E. Cole home at Monmouth. prices. and Piano Rendered Une dines at, say, a restaurant iu York city’s "Latin Quarter,” famed for its atmosphere but uncer lin o f Salem spent Sunday with tain as te cooking. The food la men tioned casually on the menu in sev Orville Wells and wife. eral languages— but the chicken is G. E. Harman called at the tasteless, the potatoes boring and the salad disappointing. However, one Is Conger home at Suver Saturday hungry and eats largely. An hour luter, the pangs of hunger again make N. C. Anderson bought three themselves felt. One Anally resorts to Jersey cows from Pearl Hedges the home Icebox and partakes o f some humble bread and butter and milk, o f Independence Saturday. and that Indefinable lack is satisfied. The reason for this stale of affairs Mark Graves and son o f Inde is not far to seek. Vitatnlnes! At pendence were Buena callers such places the food is deficient in these intangible and microscopic sub Sunday. stances, which scientists have proved Mr9. M. V. Prather and grand are essential to nutrition and which are to be found in a large number of daughter. Mary McCann, visited properly prepared foods but are de Robert Hornbuckle and w ife at stroyed by excessive heat, drying or other methods of preservation often Salem last week. employed for ecouomy or convenience. The mystery o f the vltamine is, there I. M Prather and w ife and fore, of vital interest, as its name im plies, to the world at large. grandchildren o f Corvallis visited What Is a Vltamine? Mrs. Prather’ s mother, Mrs. Just what is a vltamine? This ques tion is still perplexing chemists, ac McClain the week end. cording to u recent article by I). Jud Kays, who was a resident Atherton Seidell o f the public health service, in the current number of the o f this place for a number of Joumul of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. These elusive substances years, is very sick in a hospital have been found necessary not only as dietary factors but even for the pro in Salem. longutlon of life. Their exact nature, however, still remains a mystery, though much has been discovered con WHY FRANKLIN WORE NO WIQ cerning their effect on the human sys tem and die general benefits conferred According to Thie Story, Quaker Sim by them. For instance, experiments have proved that animals can live In plicity Had Nothing to Oo With definitely on a diet of milk alone. But the Matter. supply all the constituents of milk separately — proteins, carbohydrates, Benjamin FraukliD was about to fats and salts, in fact, all the known be presented to the French king on food elements— and the animat wastes the occasion of his first visit to away and finally dies Several theories are held in regard France in the capacity of representa to this problem. Some scientists In tive from the new America. The eline to classify vitamlnes as struc court custom of the time demand *d i lira! compounds of living tissues, that one going to an audience with which function along the same lines the king must wear a wig of the as the other tissues. Others relegate proper fashion. A count, who hu* them to the “ catalysts.” those strange substances which have been aptly de Franklin in tow, sent a wigniaker fined as “ chemical parsons,” as the\ the day before to take Franklin’s accomplish the chemical union of measure and fit him out for the au various substances without being dience. The wigmaker arrived at themselves affected. Many think that Franklin’s Lodgings, measured the they are derived originally from plants, and one well-known scientist poll of the great American fore and states that they are always present sft and round, and about, and took In natural foodstuffs Instinctively con his departure. An h*ur before the 1 sumed by men and animals. audience the wigniaker returned Three Typee of Vitamine. At the present time, three typ“ - <■» with the wig. But when Franklin ! attempted to put it on it would not A t ; he couldn’t begin to get it on his Mr. and Mrs. G. W. McLaugh New Miss The Independence Parent- the Hopville P.-T.s Childs has re signed her position in the Salem Teachers' Association entertain ed Gladys schools and expects to further at the continue her studies. Training school Tuesday after- j noon. A splendid musical pro gram consisting of Miss violin and piano numbers was rendered and ness matters. Supt. Wills gave a very instruc tive talk. The meeting Genevieve Cooper being accompanied from Salem largely attended and a splendid by luncheon was served. her brother-in-law, Moreland, ¡¡ dependence Rebekahs went She drove back to Portland in the family Buick, was Independence Rebekahs at District Convention was here Friday attending to busi who was Will returning from California. C. S. Douglas of the Public Service Commission spent the week end with his family here. to Dallas en masse last Tuesday afternoon and evening to attend the district convention. P. The In H. Drexler has b<en at dependence lodge was given the Conkey & Walker's while G. W. honor o f doing the door and in Con key has been at home on ac itiatory work and made a very count o f illness. creditable showing. Rebekahs spared The Dallas nothing to The awning on the Odd Fel make the event a memorable one lows’ in fraternal circles. building is about com pleted. Keep the Old Shoes On Don’t throw the old shoes aw ay until we look at 'hem. Perhaps we can fix them so they w ill be useful for many more weeks. ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP o n C S tr e e t IN D EPEN DEN CE, ORE. “A stitch in time saves nine CURRENCY The paper currency of 30 princi pal countries of the world at the be ginning of the war aggregated a lit tle over $7,000,000,000. At the end of the war, November, 1918, it was $40,000,000,000, and in December, 1919, it totaled $51,000,000,000, these figures being in round terms and exclusive of the currency issues o f the bolshevik government, which alone are estimated at $34,000,000,- 000. FUTURE INDIAN BELLE ! I j ¡ 7 f \ 's* 4 - f .. Hub— Do you think it saves you anything to have a running account at the department store? W ife— I know it does. You can’t imagine the amount of time it saves me. Why, 1 never have to stop and ask the price of anything I want to purchase 0 ' ■*- We has h a v e been been m ade n o t if ie d t h a t in th e p r ic e a 20 per of cent c u t P e n n s y lv a n ia C Street Meat Market Best Meats; first-class Service Give us a trial and you will be a steady customer. F u Line of Fresh and Cured rj Phone M 1311 Annual May Sale , F rid ay M ay 6th Owing to unseasonable weather and because of the late arrival ot many lots of this season's models in Coats, Suits and Dresses, we have resolved to inaugurate beginning today the most phenomenal value giving campaign yet attempted in Salem for immediate unloading of our surplus stock. W atch our ads and see our window display. V a c u u m C u p a n d F i s k R e d T o p t ir e s . 30x3^ Pennsylvania Vacuum Cup $ 10.50 IA ton-tested tube given free with each casing) $22.00 30x34 Fisk Red top ‘• N O W IS T H E T IM E TO R E T I R E " Portland Cloak and Suit Co. (Old White Corner) S a l e rn , () r e g o n Salem’s Greatest Women’s Apparel Store Stewart Motor Co. INDEPCNDCNOC V i i w l *4 I'repuring .or ihe days wheu she will undoubtedly he the belle of the valley, this maid of India Is undergolug first stages of oruumeutution. Note the odd palm leaf roll stuck through the lobe o f the ear ami the metal oruameuts on the nose. As the girl grows older larger rolls arc substituted, gradually •»niururluir rh*> hnlh in tbp lohf* Begins 20°o Reduction Pennsylvania and Fisk Tires \ i • ' head. “ Sir,” said Franklin to the wigmaker, “your w ig is unfortunate ly too small for mv head.” “ Pardonnez moi, monsieur,” re plied the wigmaker, “ your head is vastly too large and quite beyond the fashion of the court.” Franklin appeared, therefore, at court with his bald t>ate and shaggv gray hair. INFLATION. ¿r J