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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1921)
Ojf,‘«tt« Hi 1 S l0 r'< *l T he P olk county LA R G E S T CIR CU LATIO N PIOIM PREACHER DIES SHIS HOKE NO. 8 A Trio of Couples WORDS OF WISE MEN The worst solitude is to huve no true friendship. He Is most powerful who has himself in his own power. Rev. J. W. Osborne, one of the beet known pioneers o f this section and widely known over the state as a religious promoter, passed away at his country home three miles south of this city Monday, July 17, at the age of 83 years. The funeral services under the direction of A. L. Keeney were held from the resi dence at 10:30 Wednesday morn ing. Rev. Boyce o f McMinn ville officiated. The body was laid to rest in the Scio cemetery. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cynthia Osborne, two daughters, Mrs. Adolph Ever- ding of Portland and Mrs. Wm. Schnyder of Independence and one grandson, Lionel Berry o f Leisure cannot- he fully en joyed unless It Is won hy e f fort. The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on his own stock. Tact Is more Important thun talent—ulwuys remember that people are more easily Igd thun driven. Abraham L. Chute of Suver Is Dead Abraham L. Chute, age 57. of Suver, passed away Tuesday, July 19. T.’;e surviving relatives are the widow, Mrs. Annie Chute, two sons, Ray W. of Dal las, and ll. L. o f Monmouth, three daughters, Mesdames Blanche Couture o f Centralia, Wash., Homer A ltig o f Caldwell. Idaho, ann J. E. Lamb of Suver. Funeral services were held in Monmouth today with interment in the Monmouth cemetery. this city. Rev. John W. Osborne, young est son of Rev, J. W. Osborne Sr. was born in Wisconsin in 1838, educated at Central Uni versity, Pella, Iowa; converted in 1860 and united with the Bap i Fall Victim s to Cupid Announcements have been re ceived here bearing the glad message o f the marriage of Miss Elline Butler and Mr. Harry Castleman Miller. The happy event took place at Spokane, Tuesday, July 12. Mrs. Miller is the niece and ward o f Mrs. Alex Powers o f Lebanon and was a student at O. A. C. and a mem ber o f the Alpha Rho sorority. Mr. Miller is the son ot Mrs. F. 0. Parker of this city and recently graduated from the pharmaceu A large circle o f friends here will be interested ir. the mar riage of Mr. Wliliam LaGrande Dickson and Miss Edith Sumner o f Toledo. The wedding was celebrated in Newport July 10. Mr. Dickson is a former Inde pendence boy and a brother of our townsman Frank Dickson. He has many friends here who join in the heartiest felicitations. Mrs. Dickson was connected with the Corvallis schools last year and has visited here many times and is most kindly re membered by all who met her. Mr. and Mrs. Dickson will make their home in Washington where Mr. Dickson is superintendent of bridge construction. tical department O. A.C. He is an overseas veteran and served thre.- years in Fran.e in the medical corps. The young couple were very popular in the college town and were the re cipients of many social atten Homer Mills of this city was tions. They will make their married in Vancouver Saturday home in Spokane where the to Mrs. Janie Newton o f Salem. groom is connected with a drug Mr. and Mrs. Mills have re firm. turned here to make their home WHAT IS AN OPTIMIST? BOOKS AND PRINTING tist church; licensed to preach in Forty-two daily newspapers are pub An optimist Is a man who will buy 1862; ordained March 29, 1864 lished in London. hair restorer front a hahl-headed Imr- by the Concord Baptist church ber— Rutgers Nielson. The oldest existing Irish newspaper o f Iowa. He preached in vari is tlie Belfast News-Letter, established An optimist Is a nmn who expect» lu 17.57. ous places in Iowa and Nebraska to raise vegetables like those pictured In the seed catalogues.— New York until 1866 when he came to A papyrus on geometry, dated 110<> World. B. C., has been recovered from Egyp Oregon. He preached mostly tian mins. C. L. Stidd of Portland was An optimist is a marine who “busts” for churches i n the Central and here Thursday. Mr. Stidd is liberty for eight days and expects to The manufacture of paper from Corvallis associations He was get off with a warning.—The Leather wood pulp involves twenty-eight sep I now field manager for the Union neck. the first missionary o f the old arate operations. Savings and Loan Association, State convention and for a time An optimist is a “Johnny" who In point of number of volumes the j He is preaching thrift every day promises to buy a chorus girl a motor largest library in the world Is the missionary of Central associa i i the week and is having won car and expects her to pick out a Bliiiiotheque National«, in Baris. tion. On account of sickness he Ford.— Vaudeville News. derful success in his theory o f The Urst almanac printed In Europe, went to Eastern Oregon in 1878 An optimist is a man who, every- which covered the years 1475. 1494 saving. Mr. Stidd is delighted and spent a couple of years ttme he sees a nieui served In the with Portland but retains a warm movies, picks his teeth and tips the and 1513. was published in Budapest. preaching in that locality, when Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania spot in his heart for Independ usher a quarter.— Flint Fun. % he returned and has since lived Gazette printed the first cartoon in ence. He must be an optimist who can an American newspaper on May 9, in the Willamette valley, where Continue to sing "Home, Sweet Home” 1754. he has done a vast amount o f posted on Baptist faith and prac after the rent has been raised six I It Is snld that $1.700,000 hns been missionary work, organized a tice. He dwells much on vital times.— leather Reporter. expended during the last 100 years number of cliurcdes, helped or religion thus reaching the heart in tlie translation of the Bible into STARS AND STRIPES Chinese. ganize the General association as well as the judgment of his It la estimated that 25,000,000 cop Dignity dwells not In dress or man aad Western association. The audience. He is an ultra land ies of Dickens' works have been ner, but In conduct. Baptist Annals has the following marker but commands earnest printed since they first appenred, a A little carelessness Is all one needs little more than seventy years ago. to say: “ He is an earnest, self- attention and has good congre io Invite great disasters. denying, influential mi ister and gations and contends for the In forty years, 378,506 hooks have G. 1. Stidd Is Field Manager Inion Savings j is successful both as a pastor or ‘ faith once evangelist. delivered to the He is well saints.’ ” Men’s and Boys’ Shoes 1 ■ all said what we pleased, we would not all hear what we pleased. been published in the I’ nlted Stutes; 43,285 of this number are works of fiction. The man who is in constant fear o f ■ The art* of printing and writing death belittles the very life he hates were Introduced in Japan from Chlirn to lose. in the year 284. In 073 the emperor, Teinmu, directed the publication of If the movie makers are wise they j tlie first Japanese hooks, "KoJJIltl” or will see tlmt their posters always have j Ancient Legends. a picture of at least one curly haired man and they will never lack for a packed house o f women spectator».— Florida Tlmes-Union. NATURAL HISTORY LESSON The grasshopiier times Its length. can Jump 200 SOME SHIPPING FACTS T h e tastes of Men and the needs of Boys are widely different but our stock ot shoes is varied enough to suit both to perfec tion. W e have the latest styles in shoes for dress, the most durable for service, and the toughest leather for boys who are especially hard on shoes. The microscope will show the mos quito has 22 teeth. The first steamboat, the Comet, i plied on the Clyde in 1812. Three i The caterpillar’* range of vision (a years later the first steam vessel was 1 only two-fiftha of an Inch. seen on the Thames, while in 1818, tin Atlantic wa* crossed by r Cana The codfish, the gout of th<‘ »**, dian steamer for the first time. apparently will est anything. An Ice-breaking vessel was first eni ployed in 1870, daily weather chart* The gorilla, the largest of the apes, b.lng issued for the first time two oflon reaches the height of 8 feet. years later. Twin screws were first used In 1883, nnd the first turbine The whale, nature's submarine. Is steamer was lutinrlied In 1894. known to descend 3.<S»t feet h.'low the surface o f the set.. Scientific computation has estab lished that 10,000 threads of the web of u full-grown spider are not larger than a single hair of a man's heard. _ Y ou rs truly, O. A. Kreamer INDEPENDENCE, OREGON W e Fit— Your feet, your taste, your puise. *err ÏN SOUTH POLK COUNTY INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, JULY 2 2 , 1 9 2 1 VOLUME IV . as an P ost ''ffj The starfish makes excellent fertll leer. An analysis show* that thla fish contains nearly 5 |s*r «-ent nitro gen and a small percentage of phoa phorle arid. MiCKIE SAYS COOMTVN *AERCUtkVm COSMN.S»Vt TU NT TU NooTO vi UMOUV4& ! T R N O t MMRN FROM TU' COOIRTRN ■àVOat, F fcW O tT T W T H A X TU C \ s a ia v . c a o voua , b a u s a f o u r s ) *T O TU' STORE TUCH RE JE3T ' tUVIlTEO TUROOÖU TU' OCXVJkMMS O F T U ' WOtsSS PAFfcR NOSItU- flS tW G 'N O A S O U M l VOUA. ROM N C A R \*4 AVON OtRECTtOV* '. sora*'«.\ Easterners Looking for Homes Here Says Realtor “ Just at present there ate not so many buyers; but there’s a host of writers, a big number of just plain lookers, a few mighty good lookers and we’ re going to get ’ em later on ,” said O. L. Foster of the Independence Realty Co., when talking on the land situation. "Prospects are coming and writing from ««»tern and especially middle western states. Some are seeking large farms while ott ers have their eyes on small : creage tracts where they can settle and build comfortable homes. O f course, some want to get into the city but most of our prospects want small acreage where they can do a little farming and fruit grow ing. By their farming they do pot expect to fall heir to a for tune over night. The one great thing they are interested in is the climate which is the climax of iregon’s lure. Another an ticipation is the supreme delight o f living in the open when every breath brings new life and re newed! vigor. Still another grea miracle is the trees and Ihe rnoun ains which convey their lessons of beauty and spiritual ity. Why it fairly knocks their eyes out after living in the sage brush and the sand, the prairie dog towns and the rocks, to say nothing of the raging cyclones. The middle westerners also long JOHN H. MORAN DIEDJESTERDAY The people of this vicinity were saddened yesterday even ing when they learned of the death of John H. Moran at his home in MonmOuth following a lingering illness. The funeral will be under the direction o f A. L. Keeney from the Baptiat church in Monmouth at 2 p. m. Sunday. Rev. Pace o f Monmouth will officiate. The body will rest in the Odd Fellows ceme tery. John H. Moran was born in Ne York Dec. 24, 1849. He came to Polk county in 1862. He i was a member o f Lyon Lodge No. 29 A. F. & A. M.. also mem ber of No. 26 Royal Arch Ma son. He was raised to sublime deg-ee of Master Mason at the age o f 21. He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Mary Stine and Mrs. Ellen Thorpe o f Mon mouth and Mrs. Kate Boatman o f Spokane, also a brother, H. C- Moran of Brownsville. New Homes for Old Is Lady Luck’s Gift Do you believe in luck? We seldom see a person who wins success by wholly trusting to luck. 'F o r it isn’ t one o f the foundations o f working good, but in this case it’ s going to result in a good foundation for a perfect ly good bungalow. Mr. and Mr9. Willard Craven, after run ning the gamut o f words, de cided to tear down their heuse. They did—almost—and now they are having their homo “ bunga- lowed” and modernized in every way. That’s just what we call good luck. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hubbard after a few words also tore the roof trom their house and are having it “ re-shi gled” . and orchards tLat nave set new standards the world over. They are going to buy the trees, the mountains, the fruit, the cli mate and the ocean and they are going to come here in flocks. The alluring trout streams, too, will help land their share o f the people who have passed the weather-fighting age and are looking for some weather where a man can live without carrying a fan and a fur overcoat at the same time, \f the present out look hclds out this year will see for a dip i . the surf and a sun bath on the strand where the w a.es break into foam. They know that where the plow has touched the fertile sod,grow crops a big immigration.” The Reason W hy You can patronize the Independence Realty Co. with confidence, pleasure and profit: Every Customer is an advertiser. A man of forty with the Ideala oi twenty and the Judgment of sixty, to make life worth living INDEPENDENCE REALTY CO. A billiard hall, frequently kissed, carefully nursed when necessary, and not out of iiocket even when In a hoie. — Boston Transcript. 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