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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1921)
t j approached the brook: dipping Ini.. I the water with a cup made of birch THE BHOOK Shoes Maxine Shoes for Women In dainty Pumps and Oxfords— the Season’s Latest. White footwear for Summer in many Styles. Children's Shoes , Oxfords an d Pumps BUSTER BROWN SHOE STORE SALEM, OREGON MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED SHORT STORIES OF Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Richardson o f O. A. C spent their vacation here with their grandmother, Mrs. Martha Richardson. Mrs. J N. Jones went to Cor Ask Mr. Foster. vallis Sunday to hear the Bacca Big reduction on all trimmed laureate sermon o f Corvallis Hi and also the Glee Club of which hats at Alpha Bascue’ s. her daughter, Miss Helen, is a member. Miss home Gladys from Reynolds Albany was last week Box Social. There will be a end. box social at Hopville June 10, Mrs. Verd Hill and small daughter, Verda. o f A lb a n y were guests o f relatives and friends here last week. the closing There gram. day of the school. will also be a good pro Everybody come. We want you. N ext Sunday evening, at the All the trimmed hats must be | Methodist church. Dr. Duns- sold by July 1st, at Alpha Bas i more w ill deliver the Baccalaure- cue’s millinery parlors. i ate Sermon to the graduating ; class o f the Independence High i School. Mrs. Simpson o f Airlie was a i guest o f the Hugh Hannas at their suburban home last week. i Attendance at Baptist Church Increases In spite o f the good weather Regular service at Calvary which lures people to picnics Presbyterian church next Sun and outings, toe attendance at day morning at 11 o'clock, with the Baptist church is growing. sermon by the meets. At 11 Young People’s Society meets at f w \ GLASSES FITTED ’ * 7 p.* m. the LENSES DUPLICATED Mrs. H. Radmacher is leader. Independence Really Co. IN BEAVER HOTEL BUILDING Office Phone 1811 O. L. F O S T E R , M g r. What W ay W ill You Remember the Sweet Girl Graduate? Williams Drug Co. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON "H om e of the Grafonola” PE R F E C T SE RVIC E PU R E DRUGS LET ME Doll up your old Automobile with new paint; Decorate your residence walls; Paint new sip s at your place cf business. W. Sperling Off ire a l Schaffer Hotel Phone M 5721 INDEPENDENCE, OREGON Dr. C. B. O ’Neill OPTOMETRIST-OPT CIAN In which to take advantage of Low Prices. I f you Bu*h Bank BMg. have an invitation to come and worship with us. piays. Special Our orchestra music. Hamilton’s Readjustment Sale Come bring a frieri I. Salem, Oregon tem Phone the news to 7022. Of Furniture, Rugs, and Other Home Furnishings. W hat's the Use of trying to make a good meal without a good roast, a good steak chops or whatever the particular meal calls for W e have all kinds of meats for all kinds of meals. Hamilton’s, Salem s BigFurnitureStore City Meat Market GUS MILLER Few i lays Lett Still Main Street <1 I This is the way to remember her in a won derful manner. Give her a GRAFONOLA. It will bring constant pleasure—not merely for a day. She w ill be thrilled at your thoughtfulness and de lighted with your choice of a remembrance. Let us demonstrate our instruments. A t 8 p. m. Rev. Proppe preaches again. do not a tend any where else, you Phone 611 U takes two parties to make a trade. One must want to sell, and the other must want to buy. 'The buyer can't buy unless he knowa the seller wants to sell. He can only find out through advertising- The Independence Kealtv Go. ia new carrying ads in the Eastern papers’ as well as the local papers. We will do our part, you do yours. Come and list with us; we will do the reft Portland, A ~ SAY, LISTEN! t. m I ac Rev. Proppe preaches on "F ou r) companied by his father, mother Impossible Things in an A ge of I and sister, visited at the J. W. Possibilities.” This is a message you will want to hear. Our Kirkland home Sunday. of ° ~ — Mr. Archie Justin is the superintendent. W ing and Post yourself so you wouldn’t bother borrowing his cony. eried aloud: ‘Oh. Great Spirit of the W irt mb 4 mjr tow to my bnv v Hnd i bring him safely back to me. By IRENE BLUE “May was all ready to call out. when the maiden and the lents slowly faded I from view, and In their place was the I • c,. 1S20 by M e * ' l u r e N s w s p a p e r 3vn<Menit* i house of an early settler. ‘Well, that During the early part of an after s e e m s queer.’ May thought, 'and jusi noon I was altting on the veranda of as I was going to speak to her. Now a pretty little collage well sltnaied in ! wonder .......... couples that old-fash a town of rentrut New Hampshire. lonel little house, and where they Mrs. Dawson, my hostess, ou com came from. I thought that I knew all mg out, remarked: "Here are George the people that live near litre. I ant ami May coming;” and looking up I sure that I ,lo not know this girl who la coining now. although tier clothes noticed a young couple. "What Is tlie special Interest?" I look like some that are In our attic asked. "Well. If it Isn't Just like me at home.' This was going through her to forget that you do not know them mind as another girl came toward her "She. too, came on. and as Mat and probably have not heard their story. In u town like this all news •ooUed ut her she srulled a welcome Is meat and drink to us. and I will tell The girl was thinking deeply, so deep you the story .about George and May. it that she never noticed May and liet smile. Dipping a pett ier mug Into tie If you care to listen. "Now.” said she. "! mentioned that brook, she lifted it to her lips ami George and May were coming, a s It is cried aloud: ‘Maker of the Universe only lately that they have been seen | solid my love to my man and tiring him •ogether» This was not always so." here to me.' "May could stand their Indifference she continued. "Since their early days they had lived side by side on farms no longer Kvcn this last girl, tvho about three miles nut from the vll- now «¡is accompanied at the brook j Inge, and as a necessity for the com side by the Indian maid and her brave panionship of playmates they were together tilth the colonial maid and her love-, a I s o ' clad In the garb of an more rnther than less together. "Hack from the house about a mile early settler, did not notice ber. "Onlj ibis lust girl, the one who or so there Is between the farms equal ly divided ns to ownership, a piece of looked like her. was alone, and she be made to speak and tell who woodland that was the playground of must all were and why she alone had George and May until the time came they her wish in answered. when the village school and academy "As Mat called out. she heard an were unable to tench them more. unrestrained Inugh, and opening her “George, graduating first, was to eyes she lost sight of the lovers, and leave for college; and while his en there In ilieir place stood George laugh thusiasm ran high In his preparation iug ami calling to her. for new scenes, fear clutched at the ‘‘The brook Imd resumed Its normal heart of May that George, «dole he sue. and as May stood up George was away, might learn to care more leaped mas tlie brook, and us In an for the university city and Its young stver to her wish, he came near and people, and forget the home folk. •laspeil her In his arms.” “Two years of waiting and loneli George and May are ugaln coming ness. waiting for George, hnd passed. toward : the house, hut this time from "One of May’s favorite walks was the opposite direction. Rettveen their down through the woodland to the coming and their going. If Indications meadow where ran the little brook count for anythng. these two will be that, an old Indian basket weaver had together for life. told her. was called by Ills peoplg the ‘Wishing’ brook. He told her the In dian legend, and he said that anyone MATTEH8 of - t a s t e . who drank of the water and breathed - . a wish at the same time, would have j Vachell Lindsay, the Hoosier the wish granted. "And here on this afternoon, tired poet, is thrilling fashionable Ix>n- from her exertions in the work of the don with his lectures. morning, raking a hook, she sought for Mr. Lindsay mystifies London the last time, she snid to herself, the quite as much as he thrills it. At Wishing brook and its charm. Finally reaching the hank, she stooped over a dinner in Belgrave Square ho the stream, and cupping her hands, said: “ This pheasant is high, very high. brought the water to the level of her lips and unconsciously said aloud: I t is a queer taste to like high 'Dear brook, let me have my wish. pheasant. The Piute Indians are Send my love to George, and lei it very fon<| of the material which bring him home to me safe.' “It was just as well for her peace composes printing rollers.” of mind that she had not seen two fine- Mr. Lindsay ate a little pheas looking young men who, when they ant. Then he went on calm ly: saw her approaching, stepped behind “ I remember a Piute brave who trees where, watching her. they could used to come into Parson City and remain unseen. "She was eiyisclnns only of a deli hang round the olfice of the Appeal cious sense of re st: and as she sat to eat the rollers. When nobody there to seemed strange that on the was looking he would sneak up and other side of the brook, which seemed wider than usual, iltere were several take a bite out of the roller on the Indian tents that she had never no press. These Piutes used to like the ticed before. And the young people rollers best in summer when tin- —ami the children—surely she knew composition was soft. They would them, hut only In an Indefinite way. It j chew and eat them like caramels.’ ’ was strange, also. Hint none of them Mr. Lindsay looked round tin apparently noticed the brook—perhaps the children had been told to keep table placidly. away from it. Hut. see ! Here comes an “ I am sure,” he ended, “ the Ne Indian maiden. ‘Certainly.’ said May. vada Piutes would like high pheas ‘I know her: perhaps she will eome and taJk with me.' The Indian maid ant.” pastor. Dr. H. A t 10 a. m. our Sunday schoo' Chas. Dunsmore. Ben , hark, she iooi<e.i to the .. . 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