T H E P O L K C O U N T Y P O S T Baptist Young People
Published every Friday at Independence, Oregon.
Plan a Haystack Ride
utered u Mcoud class matter March 26, 1918, at the postotlice u(
Independence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 187».
On Friday evening of next
week the Young Peoples Society
of the Baptist Church will meet
at the church at 7:00 o’clock and
all climb into a hayrack filled
with straw and take a long jour
ney into the country. Plans
have been completed for the en
1 idle«« otherwise provided for, s u b s c rip tio n s will he stopped at expiration tire
program and the young peo
ple are looking forward to it
with a great deal of interest.
When they reach their destina
tion a large bonfire will be built
and
games played and refresh
A Q uartet T h a t Couple* G enuine E n tertain m en t W ith
ments
served. Come out next
Splendid Singing in T w o C oncerts on th e F o u rth D ay
Sunday night at 7:00 p. m. and
hear more about it. You are
welcome. This is free.
CLYDE T. ECKER
Editor and Publisher.
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Chautauqua Presents the Valda Four
Missionary Society To
Meet Friday, June 3
The Woman’s Foreign Mis
sionary Society will hold its us
ual monthly meeting in the M.
E. Church the first Friday in
June, at 2:30 p. m.
This society has but recently
been organized. An interesting
and instructive meeting was
held this month with a goodly
attendance for the first meeting,
but it being the only organiza
tion of its kind in our city, a
larger attendance is desired. All
The Valda Four, a noted mule quartet of the Middle West, under the who are interested in the con
leadership of August II. Dletze, well-known vocal teacher and composer. Is dition and welfare of their sis
scheduled for two concerts at C hautauqua on the fourth day. It Is a splendid
Singing organization. As a quartet their ensemble Is notable for robust vol- I ters in foreign lands are cor-
tune, perfect blending of voices and wide resource In artistic Interpretation
They sing with the rem arkable ease of men to whom singing Is second natifre pially invited to attend.
(Contributed)
and entertainm ent of first thought. T heir repertoire la extensive, ranging from
one, indicating the source from
TO REALIZE THE
A lpine
Guide
Froze to
Deatn
in the half-shell, they would carry a
sort of guarantee with them.
Crevasse W h ile F rie n d t Sang
MOST MONEY
W ords He Loved.
The owners of the patent sued a
rival concern which ventured to tag
With the strains of his favorite its own oysters. Infringement was We buy everything you
folk song ringing in his ears Jean claimed. But the patent office de
Weber, an Alpine guide, froze to cided that the complaint was with want to sell and sell
death in a crevasse of the famous out merit, inasmuch as a tagged everything you want to
Glamisch stock glacier.
oyster was not a manufactured buy. Cash or trade.
Weber w^s traversing the glacier product, nor an invention in any
with a group of companions. H< ! proper sense. It declared that ex Bring in everything you
slipped and plunged down 40 feci clusive rights in a tagged spriug want to sell and J will
into a gaping crevasse. Although chicken might as reasonably be sell it for you on. a
he was not injured, he was wedged j claimed : and, accordingly, the pat commission.
between the walls of ice so that he i ent was pronounced void.—Phila
could not move.
delphia Ledger.
MAX GOLDMAN
No ropes were long enough to
reach him, so the stoutest of the V A L U E IN W O R T H L E S S R O O T.
party made the hazardous descent to
the little town of Linthal for aid. The scrub palmetto root, for years
TIME CARD
Others remained behind to cheer the regarded as probably the most
incased guide. They sang one after worthless product of the soil of the Valley & Siletz Railroad
another of the songs that Weber had tiulf states, is worth something
known and loved since childhood. after all.
Motor Leaves independence Daily
10:50 a. in.
As he felt death was drawing Extensive experiments’ to utilize
near, Weber cried to them to “sing the fiber of the root for the manu Motor Leaves Independence Daily
Sunday 4:10 p. m.
one more song.” They sang his fa facture of brushes have been suc Motor E xcept
A
rrives
Independence, Daily
vorite. He listened with his face cessful.
9:50
a.
iu.
upturned appealingly toward his Of the 359 brush factories now
A rrives Independence, Daily
companions. Before the last verse operating in the United States, Motor E xcept
Sunday 3:50 p. rti.
of the song had been completed nearly all are utilizing fiber import I F reight service
daily except Sunday,
ed from Mexico and Braz.il.
Weber died.
Leave Independence 7‘30 a. m.
The rescue party traveled all Several brush manufacturers who
L. E. WATSON, Supt
night carrying ropes and axes to have investigated the palmetto fiber
free the victim, but arrived too late. declare it to be equal if not superior Talk to all the people
The next day they returned to Lin- to anv imported.
thru The Polk County Post.
thal bearing his body.
DIED HEARING FAVORITE SONG which they came. When served on
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ALLOWED
TO
TAG OYSTERS
United States P atent Office Hands
Down Decision in Case of In-
frin gem en t Claim .
The United States patent office,
only tiie other day, decided a dis
pute concerning the validity of a |
patent which had been granted for | i
an oyster tag.
The idea involved was that of I |
identifying oysters by fastening a
metal tag to the under shell of each
MATTER FOR GRANTED
L a w y e r H asty In Assuming T h a t th *
C ourt W as Listening to A rg u
ments of A ttorney.
ngerent way ana saia: "Mr. »muri,
it is a great piece of impertinence
on your part to assume that the
court is listening to him.”
...jilt
' - ft L iK K L ’f ,
One Hundred Cents
“It wouldn’t be too had.”.
“What wouldn’t?”
tor a Dollar
“If rug beating could be done
with a golf swing. A fellow might
When we examine a man’s
be willing to practice his stroke that —
eyes,
fit him to glasses, or
way.”
simply renair the glasses he
FOR A CHANGE
There wus an amusing ending of
a civil case tried in a Wyoming
court, it was an appeal case and on
one side was a testy lawyer and on
has been wearing, we see to
N O T B IT IN G .
the othar a number of inexperienced
it
that—
attorneys. The argumenta on both
“
Been
fishing
yet?”
He
gets a hundred cents' worth of
sides had been heard and the case
satisfaction
and ten dimes’ worth
“Yes.”
closet! for judgment.
of
service
for every dollar he
“Any
hick?”
Suddenly one of the inexperienced
pays us.
“No.
TCven
the
fish
refuse
to
get
lawyers got up and addressed the
back to their pre-war habits.”
—Nor do we consider any
court once more. The testy lawyer
transaction closed, or our ser
stood it for a moment, but losing
THE LAST THING
vices complete until that man
patience, he also rose and addressed
is certain the glasses are satis
the court in this wise:
“Your honor, 1 would beg with
factory in every respect.
a!! respect to point out to the court
—The most modern facilities
that my learned friend opposite' is
for
proper examination and
entirely out of order in addressing Mr. Query—Don’t you ever get
for
the
grinding of lenses are
the court, and if I may be permit tired of doing nothing?
a
part
of
our equipment.
ted to say so, the court has no right Tired Tim—Oh, yes.
to be listening to him.”
Mr. Query—Then what do you
— Nearly twenty years’ ex
The court, who at that time was do?
perience.
writing, put his head out iu a bel- Tired Tim Take a rest.
MORRIS
Optical Co.
Commencement Time
Dcing the next month many oi out young men and
women will hauh thru school wotli and lake their places in
the world of bm.nesi
Probably some boy or girl you know now is reaching
this interesting milestone.
•J Attest your friendship os this occasion by some little gilt.
It will be as escouragement and an incentive
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p INDEPENDENCE.
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EM. ORE GON
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G A S O L IN E
It tak es tw o parties to make a trade. One must w ri.l to sell,
and the other m ust w ant to buy. The buyer c a n 't buy unless lie knows
the seller wants to sell. He ean only find out through advertising,
The Independence R ealty Co. is now carrying ads in the E astern papers,
as well as the local papers. We will do our part, you do yours. Come
and list with us; we will do the rest.
IN BEAVER HOTEL B U IL D IN G
Oflice Phone 1811 O. L. FOSTER, Mgr.
the popular ballads to the great classics.
TOOK
SAY, LISTEN!
“THE SIGN OF PAINT SUCCESS”
Sold by,
Spaulding Logging Company,
INDEPENDENCE. OREGON
R E S P E C T A B IL IT Y .
Oigmanic society on the edge of
the Sahara supports a magnificent
garage. In towns, sprung up many
hundred miles apart, in the wilder
ness of British Columbia, isolated
except for the two steel rails of the
transcontinental railroad, the well-
to-do import automobiles for driv
ing up and down the half-dozen
miles which comprise Main street.
Motoring is evidently an event of
importance, even when a complete
circuit of all the available roadway
takes less than a half hour. Then
there is always the pleasure and -at-
isfaotion to he found in repetition.
Index'd, enthusiasm for motoring in
several of these towns has led to the
formation of automobile clubs,
thriving organizations which differ
little from their prototypes in other
places except in showing a shade
more interest in varnish, let us sax.
and a shade le— in gasoline.—
Christian Science Monitor
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