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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1921)
\ L'.|E- Fletcher wae in Portland i \r t f I last week end. Good Bye, | Everybody i | Irvin Baun made a business Library after a vacation, Mrs. Spurr acted as librarian during Mrs. Skinner’s absence. I f y o u ’ re sta rtin g on vou r vacation it make one w ith the taken o u t o f c a m p in g “ ro u g h ” Mesdamee C. 0 . Sloper, James to u rin g Robbie, and Esther Herring o f and Iowa City, Iowa, a house guest by p ro p e rly p rep a rin g v o u r-e lf. at the S. Taylor Jones Let up h elp you w ith ou r equ ip - home, and Ruasel Jones were visiting in Salem Monday. uieuta. H. Mattison and C. W. Irvine, accompanied by their wives, were in Neskowin last Sunday visiting the Chas. Irvines who are Sojourning there. Mr. ! WILLARD L CRAVEN IN D IPIN D E N C1 , and Mrs. P. H. have returned from Drexlerj Portland Inquire at this ‘I'ampa. Fla. Mr. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Robinson, 6-3t Lee Robinson and Mias Pearl Smith picniced in Falls City office. nrd Mr». 0. L. Foster Possibility That Discovery In Florid^ yyill Revolutionise (o n q itig n f home fpr a week end visit. in «'■•'*»»» fffit - _____ / j Mr. and Mrs. W alter Plant and J An ever-bearing orange tree, which Forget your troubles! Forget i cltrun fruit growers believe Is destined children. Gordon ¿nd Marjory,; your worries! Have a good time to revolutionize the orange industry of returned Tuesday from a pleas the atute, If not of the e t^ re country, at the W. 0. W. dance in Dallas ( has been discovered tty horticulturists ant sojodip at Newport- next Thursday night. It was all I Ip a small greye at Avon Park, aear Sunday could ha eipepted end guests at the L. Damon home were Dr, Locke o f motored to Sheridan Sunday. Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Qllvpr Oauthorn and Locke and Mrs. Grace Hussey of W. I. Morrison Salem. Mrs- Donald Stuart and Mr, and Henry J. Venness was here from Portland last week. Mr, and Mrs. spent the week end at the Tilla adopted son o f Prineville. The mook beaches. Stuarts have just purchased a large farm at Prineville and are Mias L’auline Perry visited Mrs. John Nelson in Dallas last week. Lee Wood, Robinson, Mrs. Romer making their home in the East and Mis« Pearl Smith ern Oregon fity. j motored to Portland Sunday. Miss Dorothy Wood, who has j Miss Dorothy, L e t ii“ get all T o do «h is buy vou r m eat* at »he C ity just returning from an extended M< at M a rk et where service is a plea ure. visit at his old home in Michigan. Mr. GUS MILLER Main Street Gilbert “ mind says it readers, requires clairvoyants, skilled clerks and plain ‘ hoss sense* operators to handle the mail that comes to the Salem post office misdirected or insuf ficiently directed to secure its prompt delivery- . QettheMost When you’re buying groceries, like other purchases, you like satisfaction both in quality and price. We can please you in both ways. J. G. McIntosh Grocery HOME OF GOOD GROCERIES C o u rte o u s aid Intelligent Service m D E rn fo s N O , o u c o n ♦ • # ♦ - * «. * . : » Iudepc ad enco, ri I I U •’ Oregon TO REALIZE THE MOST MON1Y W e b u y e v e ry th in g you w an t to sell a n d sell e v e ry th in g y o u w a n t to buy o r trade. B r in g in ev e ry th in g y o u to sell an d 1 w ill it fo r y o u on a commission. want sell MAX GOLDMAN MRS. IRENE SCO IT Phone 1690 SALEM 125 N. High St. la u ¡ Decl i ne in Paint I i BUNGALOW l $ To protect the specimen, heavy wire feuce 20 feet In height and stationed guards day and night. The tree has been in bearing con tinuously eight years,, but tiptyl re cently Its existence was kpftwu uuly to the owner and several neighbors who. according to citrus experts, did not realize Us value, but regarded It mere ly as a freak of nature. Several of south Florida's largest citrus growers have organized a syndicate, purchased the tree, leased the ground upon which it stands, and already are taking steps to develop Us possibilities hy propa gating It through bttdwuwd. with the expectation of having 250,1X10 trees ready for setting out in groves by 1922. The tree Is about fifteen years old, its origin |s a mystery, Its owner» believe It will bring forth stock true to the parent tree and be worth mil lions (0 (hr men who had the fore sight Id grasp its possibilities, 2 . 5 6 « M a x O. B u re n * 179 N. Commercial Street, Salem m in«MmMMiM»iMmanmMwmaMiimiiai«mimiiaiiiaiini i in i \ wi m a low surrounded by high wpoded banka unaffected by winds and without any streunts running in or out of it, or Mr. Gilbert o f Salem was an 1 any circulation In IL The water la | •* * | interesting gqe t at the home of tiara and brackish, ycj when logs are put in the east end of tills lake, if his sj*ter, Mrs- F. O ’ Rourke, left unfastened will, of their own ac cord, float to the west end within a north o f town last week end. few hours. Tha mystery is, do the ! Mr. Gilbert is superintendent of log. move or does the earth move tl • ’< -- in Us dally rotation from west mails in the Capital City and is te east! po»*il»Je, Phone 011 •! » The Independence National Bank Eatabliaked .1888 If 11f A N A C C O U N T in a com m ercial bank is th e meet convenient aid to modern business. It systema tises payments, is a check on all expenditures an d shows you just where you stand each month. Open one with us today, it will pay you to do so. East Kootenay (British Columbia) dis- , the e n jo y m e u l City Meat Market ■ O aw ovw C ra w A Walkac'a M m HAIR GOODS SWITCHES MADE FROM COMBINGS north side of Kootenay river and with f-4 WUÜ-- LAWYERS Marlnello Cosmetic Shop front and never loses an oppor an altitude o f slightly over 3,000 feet above sea level, In a small, deep hol tunity to give them preference. AS WE 60 THROUGH LIFE airplanes, Manicuring, Shampooing, Electro lysis, Hair Dressing, Permanent Wave, Scalp Treatment, Wrinkle Treatment. Electolytie Masaage, Bleaching and Tinting. Special Acne Treatment, Marinello Preparations and Hair Goods. have be away about one month, Mr. i trict- A small lake or pond whiih where Bishop is always qn the alert to has beep used for saute time by a Playground, fo r to 8 bv 60 feet. Mrs. J. E. Hubbard returned returned from Newport logging company for a mill-pond, la sit the last o f the week from a visit they were domiciled §t the QI(J keep Oregon made goods at the uated on the high bench land on the with Portland relatives. plywood SWOPE ft SWOPE A IR P L A N E S . j parallel rows o f stitches an inch and a quarter apart. T h e sheets so ! made, from one-eighth to five- eighths inch in thickness, are sup- j plied in any shape, in any size up C. P. Bishop, o f the Salem MCauley o f Port been visiting in the City return Woolen Mills Store, is in the land was the guest o f her niece. ed with the party, Past in the interest pf having Mystery In »maM Lake. Mrs. Clara Graves, and other Oregon Virgin Wool fabrics What seems to be a natural phenom relatives here last week. Mr, and Mrs. George Ruef and made into suits. He expects to { enon is observed in the Port Steel» ; Miss Alice daughter, new FOR claimed to be the strongest mate rial o f its weight yet devised, is strengthened and given rigid ity and resilience by sewing its parts to gether. T h e layers are first united last Us purchaser has placed around It a Thursday nigh'. Week A W OO D The Kee- j EVER-BEARING ORANGE TREE ! fhp Frank Keelans.- OXXGO* that Piano for sale. A prehistoric young man fell I d love with the beautiful daughter of a g r o a t chieftain. But at he wae bashful, and her fu- th e** stone ax was not bashful, he feared to tell bis love. So he procured a brick— that be ing the fashion la stationery Just then— and carved there- an his message of devotion. Ae the geuile Ichthyosaurus croaked the witching hour of midnight, be stole stealthily unto the chieftain’s cave. Then with oue mighty heave be cast his weighty remarks Into the inner blackness, trusting that hls lady-love would find them on tha morrow. And it came to pass that when ha awoka next morning lha blushing dam sel was seated On bis doorstep. “ Reggie of the Knotted Knee," she cried, “ I am thine! The forcible na ture o f your proposal removed the only obstacle. The brick caught poor papa a lovely whack on the cranium, and he was so struck with your remarks that he’s past objecting to anything now 1" where they have been visiting Ian* accompanied the Drexler’ s SHORT STORIES OF TOWN AND COUNTRY OUT OF THE RUNNING NEW Bathful Lover'» Weighty ‘-Remarks* H iS Straightened Out tha Courea w ith waterproof cement,- and tha of Tr i o Love. I ; m aterial is then reinforced with Mrs. Alice Skinner is again at «pent on the Luckiamute. Scrap Book PAPA trip to the coast last week end. ; the The JAFETY fir s t . First Profiteer — I ’m almost ashamed of how much we’ ve made during the last year. Second Profiteer— My dear boy. it’s the only safe way ; we’ve gut to make so much money that the gov- ertiment wun’t dars touch us.— New York Sun. m Morris Optical Company Oregon’s Largest Optical Institution Baak of Commarca Bldg. saum , omieoa New Paneling Valuable. The new wood metal sheet or pan eling. consisting o f thin boards be tween two layers o f metal, has given aslunlsbing results. The material, adapted for a multitude of uses, can , be made In sections of any size. Is un affected by moisture, resists abrasion and warping, and q>jpUUaes strength with llghtne«!, V1 tests made a panel 1W? «h i»ch thick proved five (’ •; as .(rang us a solid wood panel | af eouul thickness, and *0 times as <"h!. a* a sheet steel panel of equal Wright. P.scztonal “ Trips.” An ex-, .iporul of the TwentJ- elghlh Canadian battalion toll« of fl«hlng trips hls company used to make J on the Arras from In 1913. Each period in the trenches was known as , a "trip.” In April, 1918, the company j i '( j I iiiii aader was ('apt. Salmon and tb- Lieutenant was named Wales; hls hsrmari was also named Wales. Every day the countersign was the name of n fl“ h such as Haddock. Herring, etc. Therefore these periods became known fo the company as the fishy trip Officers an d D ire c to rs H. Hirschberg, P re s . C. A. M c L a u g h lin , V . P . I r a D . M i x , C a sh ie r W. H. Walker D. W. Sears O. D. Butter YELLOWSTONE » NA T ION ALP ARK The World's Greatest Playground • V and Miueum of f ■ *.J q i i h i w / ui’ill ' t, Natural Wonder» Magnificent hotel* and commodious camps; 300 milaa of improvad highways; all in the midst of matchless seanary. Its hate Is ate marvelous establishments. Its camps are pretty little tent vil lages, models o f cleanliness, sanitation, order, comfort|end simple, informal living. An ideal place fer vacation pleasure», lend fer our beautifully illustrated booklet telling all about its wonders in word end picture. THROUGH SLEEPING CAR Portland and West Ycllowtton^ Oneratnd DAI LY during the season between by the UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM L E A V IN G PO R T LA N D 5 P.M Remarkable Recovery of tight. Blind, for ten years a Northfleld. Mask, man awoke one Sunday morn ing fa find that he had regained hls sight during the night and could see * » « e ll as whan a boy. There was na explanation as to how It happened. Celerful. A love of colors must have led a Miss White of Hauls county. Nova Scotia, to marry a Mr. White. For after his death she married s Mr Brawn She Is bow engaged te marry a Mr Oreen. Let our representative* explain the various tours whicn enable visitors to see the Yel lowstone so comfortably and at minimum coat; also quote fares, prepare your itinerary and make vour reservations. J H. O 'N E IL L , Traveling Passenger Agent, with headquarters at 701 Walls Fargo Build ing, Portland, will he glad to call personally on anyone wishing to visit Yeltowatooe, and arrange all details. Dror him s card or address W m . M c M u r r at , General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon V