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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1921)
V T H E PO LK C O U N TY POST Watch this Low Prices Reign Supreme P aper for FRIDAY and SATURDAY Big N e w s Next Week ConsumersT rading House Published every Friday at Independence, Oregon. a la n d aa aacond claaa matter March 26, 1918, at the poatolhce at laJapandanca, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Editor and Publisher. CLYDE T. ECKER Subscription Rates: THREE MONTHS S IX MONTHS ONE YEAR 50c. $1.00 $2.00 —A T— ‘ lie s * otherwise provided for, subscriptions w ill be stopped at expiration SHORT STORIES Of TOWN AND COUNTRY Mrs. O liver Smith went BELIEFS ABOUT PLANTS A rutting of a stolen pinot will sure ly grow. Ureek» helleve that have Immortal »oui». to Seattle W ednesday to visit w ith m en us. made a A chllfilesx woman 1» , believed by the IriHli to have the strongest power over herb», especially those used for maladies of children. busi ness trip to Portland the middle o f the week. Buren and Joe Smiley, K elly, Earl and left on W ednesday In Mexico there is an herb that Is popularly called Uie ‘‘r a t t l e w e e d I f horses eat of It, It 1» believed that they will go mad. Gerald Leslie Clemo m orning It Is believed In ('<oruwull, England, that household plants will wither and die soon after there has been a death In the house, unless a piece o f black cloth Is tied to them. for an outing, including a hike to Sr. M a ry ’s Peak. The Saylps Motor C ar Co. made sale8 to the Plants having "lady” attached to their names, were formerly dedicated to the ancient goddesses; hut Christi anity clulmed these tlowers for the Virgin Mary. They are of good medi cinal virtues. has follow ing: lira. Dorothy Turner, a D odge; Ira M ix a five passenger L e x in g I f a little fresh dirt taken from the grave of a child which has been baptized within a twelvemonth. Is sprinkled on potted plants, it will make tin in flourish and have large, haudson tlowers. ton. Valiton’s Style Shop in Salem is offering values some * for w onderful Chautauqua July 25 to 31. week, ( die frocks reduced 331 per cent. blouses and j Faculty to Conduct Normal Until President Is Named Three m em bers of the tbe school, ler, Oregon faculty state including A rth u r normal J. B. V. But Beattie and a committee beeu appointed as to couuuct the in stitution pending the election ot a president Ackerm an. to succeed J. H. This announcement w as made yesterday by the e x ecutive committee of the board o f regents. ordinarily a perxormeu hy the president ol the normal. A m eeting ol the board ol re gents ol the uormui will be nelu some time during the month ol when successor Mr. w ill be A ck erm an ’s elected, ih e lo u r men moat prominently men tioned in D. connection with superintendent public E. K. Carletou, oi ^the Eugene schools; J. A . Churchill, state superintenueiito! public in struction, and county Men’s nion Suits Men’s Work Shirts Always sold for $2.50, now at Regular $1 .5 0 value to go at 98c 78c Misses’ $5.00 Shoes Galvanized Buckets To sell at Worth 5 0 c to go at $1.98 29c Children’s Koveralis Boys’ Overcoats Regular $ 1 .0 0 for Values to $ 3 0 .0 0 to sell at $ 4 .9 8 48c Consumers 9 Trading House Opposite Miller’s 3 7 3 377 Court Street - SALEM, OREGON q mammmmmmmr * a — m -w-mr RKMHMKvrauniHrvmaKi« To express kilometers in miles, mul tiply by six nnd divide hy ten. The cricket “ chirps” by rubbing Its wing coverings against each other. W . C. thirty-two. The “ safety” bicycle (with two wheels of equal size), made Its first appearance In 1880. Nearly all savages have sound teeth. Imperfect teeth are a product, there fore, of civilization. The horse mackerel gets Its nntne from Its great size, some specimens having been taken that were ten feet long and weighed l,.r>00 pounds. have it understood,” re- marked the boas, “that my will i* *T11 law.” getting on difficult “You re ground,1 ’ rejoined Senator Sor- ghum. “Whenever a man says that he may as well expert considerable trouble with the enforcement fa- cilitioa.’ MICKIE SAYS uma.««aci“> o\o \ue«xa <x MOICE WOLVJERWV Vfctt U*L 1 *AtC**\*T atVSEbhftSR, rO L K * .' faa a tx C N < « x a o v T o p l a c C im tovmvx a p u « . A o e en JOevMOfkV. WAORT A VAN T\*Afc- Û*»' \F VIA TOO 9 U t 8 , l'u < t M O / tu ' W e know a woman who, when she needs to purchase necessary things for the home or the family, puts on her shopping costume, dabs a bit of powder on her nose and sallies forth. street She shops here and there up one chases and and down D IF F IC U LT Y IN SIGHT. e>o««\ Alderson, superintendent T w o K in d s o f W o m e n The ox has the same number of the Dressier oi O regon A gricu l college; $2.48 A pound o f the finest spider web would reach around the world. presidency o l the normal are E. tural 11c Arab superstition provides the slork with a human heart. w ill meet daily to discharge tne A u gu st Regular $ 5 .5 0 to go at Kilo, from the Greek khlllot, slgul- fles 1.000 It w as said that this committee duties to go at Mias teeth ns In the moulhs of humans, Jessica Todd, the latter dean ol women, have 25c v ilue Kilometer, properly defined, means 1,000 meters. shoes all reduced. of 7 R e g u la r Men’s Leather Work Shoes TERSELY TOLD organ- 1 Adorable Coats, suits, skirts, plant» I f the dirt front your plants fa ll» lo the floor, you will aoou see a new- ly made grave. . W . B. H u ggin s some _ We are still on the job with low prices. Every article ii0 the s t o r e has been reduced - to sell at a gait. Compare our p r i ces w i t h others and be con- vinced Men’s Good Cotton Sox of schools tor Multnomah county. — I another hunting and h u n-t-i-n-g. When a she gets home she is j z y and j-a d-e d. She feels z all mussed up mentally and physically W e know another who has learned the art of read ing the advertisements before she starts. She finds out what she wants and where to get it. Then goes straight down town and right to the store that has IT. In this way she saves time money and effor and come? home fresh as a daisy and ready to get friend husband a good dinner instead of taking him to the cafeteria. Salem ¿talesm an. M FUNNY AMBITIONS Tli* qnestloo: “ What would you Bk* to b«T” has brought out many rtavwr and amusing answers. Here are a few of them : The sun, bees use It Is alwuy» sure o f a rise. tevovAW ivi M at . o i l « The letter “ f,” for 1 should always be In the mhlst of comfort. OMCf A »h<M»bl««k, h*vnu«e I should be roatlnually shining liefore my fellows. A prom ot«r of baby «how«. hccau«* I want to make a howling aacroM of something bifore I dio. a Som ething Unheard of Coming next Week. hicli one are you? W ITCH 10 II NEXT WEEK’S ISSUE Cl otti i n g, Shoes, Fur- n i s h i n g s, Crockery and Cooking Uten sils at unpre cedented cut prices. X visit to our Store is all we ask of you. Come and be pre pared to buy all you need.