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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1921)
r ■■■■'“i — T H E P O L K C O U N T Y P O S T Odd Fellows Picnic Published every Friday at Independence, Oregon. largely Attended Another Carload of Fords jitered aa second clan* mattar March 26, 1818, at the poeto ilice at Independence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLYDE T. ECKER Editor and Publisher. Subscription Rates: THREE MONTHS SIX MONTHS ONE YEAR 50c. $ 1.00 $ 2.00 ijuleea otherwise provided for, subscriptions will be stopped at expiration SHORT STORIES OF TOWN AND COUNTRY For Sale— Modern 9 room house at a bargain; easy payments. For information phone 4821. Mrs. 0 . A. Kreamer and Miss Madeleine Kreamer visited Salem friends the first o f the week. Ask Mr. Foster. Big reduction on all trimmed bats at Alpha Bascue’ s. Miss Opal Hewett is employed at the Williams Drug Co. Head Worth Si Gray's an nouncement o f closing out sale o f furniture at Salem. Mrs. H. A. Childs and daugh ter, Miss Gladys, left this week E. F. Black is confined to his for an extended visit at the old home with sciatic rheumatism. home in Iowa and other points. Mrs. F. A. Douty and Mrs. Helen Kirkland were here from Portland last week end. A card has been received from the J. E. Hubbards who are Dallas—The annual picnic of the Odd Fellows lodge held at Rickrcall last Saturday, where about 1500 people from all parts o f the county gathered for the all day session. a car at an exceptionally low cost. Stewart Motor Co. FORDS Relativity -A aeedle measured by an ordinary ruler may be correct ly measured. By a vernier it may be correctly measured to a thousandth o f an inch. -Accuracy therefore is a rela tive quality depending on the measure employed. -The mechanical equipment of this establishment ia the fin- est and most complete to be found. Our standard of ac curacy is correspondingly high. Optical Co. Eyesight Specialists Iff:/ .' & is 2 0 4 to 2 1 1 Bank of Commerce Bldg. f > $ . / S A L E M , The Best Beloved PORDSONS and' It’ s a question of faith, like the said he hoped you’d take that one.— Chamber of Commerce Rldg., Port Boston Transcript. land, Oregon. 4-3 story, you know. “ Smith called on Brown one day. He knew Brown was at home, but Brown’ s servant told him he wasn’t, NOW IS THE TIME TO GET OUT YOUR so Smith went away. “ The next day Brown called on ; Smith. Smith, who felt pretty sore i over the way he had been treated j the day before, yelled out of the window: And let us go over them so they w ill be in shape “ ‘ I ain’t at hom e!’ to kill th« bugs at the right time. Brown was aghast. “ ‘ Not at home?’ he said. ‘ Coine. come, you don’ t expect me to be OUR SERVICE TO YOU INCLUDES lieve that!’ “ ‘Yes, l do, to o / said Smith. ‘ Yesterday your servant told me you weren’t at home, and I believed him. Surely, then, when l tell you my self I’m not at home, you ought to believe m e/ ” The Oil that Is different HOP SPRAYERS Expert Machine Work of all Kinds Auto, Truck and Tractor Overhauling Sunoco Motor Oil A T T H E SAME TIME. M ORRIS S s ä g ä s ? ' : i ® .V. >í'ú \ . W h y wait any longer? 9 1 mmmH - on all type*. The present low price* on Ford cars and equipment make it possible to own and operate The picnic was given under the auspices o f the Odd Fellows’ Visiting association of Polk county. % t . In the morning an address was given by J. K. Weatherford Buy That Ford Car Plow o f Albany, which was very pleasing and much enjoyed by all. A ladies quartet and the training department school or chestra of Monmouth gave sev eral selections. The large band composed o f ladies and knewn as Oregon Independence, the Rebekah band o f Portland furnished a pleasing program and commanded the attention of SPEEDING T H E PARTING. : FARMS AND ACREAGE WANTED M A TT E R OF FAITH. all present. For real service and results list Host— So sorry you have to be Washington Vanderlip, the pro In the afternoon Mrs. H. P. your property with ua. W e have going. Gosper of Dallas, state secretary moter, was talking in New York Guest— Indeed I am, too. By the six salesmen with machines. , W e about Germany’s disarmament. inspect and photograph your prop o f Rebekah assembly, made an way, I’ m not sure about my train. “ Germany declares she is disarm erty and advertise extensively, and address, and other enjoyable in g /’ he said. “ But France declares It’ s nine something, but— have a demand for property at all Host’s Little Son— It’s 9 :32. Pa times. Fred W. German Co., 732 features o f the program were she isn’t. Who is to be believed ? touring California, stating they solos by Mrs. C. W. Irvine o f In are having a continuous round dependence and a male trio of Fir, oak and maple wood. of pleasure, going day and night- Monmouth. The sports consisted o f a bail game between the north Dickson & Wood. l-4t side and the south side o f the The Ladies o f the Christian county which resulted in a vic Mrs. O’ R o u rk e and Mrs. J. L church will give a cooked food tory for the south side with a Williams passed the day with sale at Calbreath & Jones Satur score o f 7-4. A pie-eating con day, June 18th. Salem friends Tuesday. test and several races consti tuted a day’ s amusement. Mrs. F. G. Hewett, worthy Hats, tailored and fan cy—hats matron o f Adah Chapter 0 . E. S. for practical wear ard hats for Oak wood $8 delivered, Dick- was unable to attend the session son & Wood. dress occasions. Hats to suit l*4t of the Grand Chapter in Port- the most fastidious tastes at the Portland Cloak and Suit Co., 1 md this week and tendered her credentials to Mrs. Helen Kirk Salem. land who is a member o f Adah Chapter and past matron of the D. E. Fletcher, 0 . D. Byers 0 . E. S. and M. H. Pengra were in Salem Wednesday looking after matters Mrs. L. G. Reeves went to pertaining to school affairs. Portland Friday to meet her daughter, Mrs. H. S. Bulloch o f The S. Taylor Jones are beau San Francisco. On arriving in tify in g their residence with a Portland Mrs. Reeves was sur new coat o f paint. The Houses prised to find her son, Willard, on 7th street are also adding a and also her son-in-law, Mr. new coat o f paint to their house. Bulloch, a grand-son and a naval companion o f the young Bulloch. Mrs. Reeves returned home Mrs. Douglas and small son Tuesday night accompanied by le ft Wednesday for Olympic, the party o f relatives. Wash., to join Mr. Douglas, who has been with the public service Tell The Post About It! commission. Has arrived and we can make immediate delivery Sound Tires Sound all around Police Commissioner Enright said at a banquet in New York the other d a y: “ Oh, yes, crime is rampant, I know. At the same time— ” Mr. Enright shrugged. ‘ ‘Well, a holdup man held up a citizen the other day, relieved him of his roll, a matter o f $800, and then handed him back $15 for sun dries.’’ Mr. Enright shrugged again. “ There in a nut shell,” he said “ you have the difference between the holdup man and the profiteer.” Michelin Famous ring-shaped red inner Tubes T o w i n g — D a y o r IN Ig h t Yours for Service H a lla d a y & J u s tin Motor Car Repairing INDEPENDENCE, OREGON The Independence National Bank PEARLS IN M E D I T E R R A N E A N . Established . 1889 The Suez canal has resulted in an unexpected increase in the potential wealth of Italy and France. It was discovered last month that the Mediterranean waters are filled with pearls of the highest quality, some of extraordinary size, as a result of a strange ovater malady which is be ing carried westward by the Suez currents. 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