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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1921)
= -f - SHORT STORIES 0F TOWN AND COUNTRY Mrs M. J. Bulloch was in Portland this week. Dr. W. R. Allin was here on business this week. Anno.imcing E. C. Bradner visited in Seattle last week end. Miss Madeleine Kreamer made a mid-week visit to Portland. Mrs. George Conkey has re turned from Portland. The Savles Motor Car Co. Has added Miss Dorothy Fitchard was the guest of Portland and Salem The Hugh Hanna family is so friends this week. The Lexington Minute-Man Six journing at Cascadia. ' * The very latest and classiest in light six cylinder cars Mrs. Dole Pomeroy of Eugene The Baptist Ladies Aid will is the guest of her sister, Mrs. hold a cooked food sale at Cal- Grover Mattison. breath ft Jones’ store Saturday. August 13. Everything good. . General Repairing Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Demick of Portland were guests of the Mr. and Mrs. Allen Patterson Frank Smiths last Monday. lB, And all Motor Car Needs W ill be Looked After Promptly and Efficiently. All W ork Guaranteed. from Prosser, Wash., were guests this week of the F. A. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bohannon Pattersons. and son, Jack, of Salem were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Miss Helen Butler has return A. L. Keeney. ed .from a visit with Corvallis Sayles Motor Car Co. relatives. E. F. Black has just purchased a carload of fíne young Here , Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dickson fords hich will be shipped here and young son, Ray Clark, are for local consumption. W. B. HUGGINS, Prop. INDEPENDENCE, ORE. home from Toledo. Mr. Henshaw, general freight Mr. and Mrs. John Russel are agent, and Mr. Olson, traveling rejoicing over the arrival of a freight agent, for the Southern Pacific were guests of the S. daughter. Taylor Jones this week. The BY NO MEANS A BAD IDEA MOTORISTS IN DEATH VALLEY Scrap Bo oli i P o s s ib ly M a n y of U s W o u ld F in d P le a su re in E n te rta in in g C h ild ish U n fo rtu n ates. Section W h ic h fo r So Lo n g Ha* Been K n o w n as a T r a c k le s s Desert N o w S cenic Spot. H 15 Tlie other day little Mary Ellen ^ was five years old and her mother i let her have a little party, at whieh j the guests were five little girls from the town orphanage. A t first Mary Ellen didn't like the idea o f hav- ng strange children fo r her guests' hut after the party was over she was much in love with the children and the idea o f entertaining the little ones who didn’t have parties and homes of their own. But still it was a surprise to her tyother when a few days before her grandfather's birthday the little girl began to make preparation for the return of her little guests, and some more like them— one. in fact, for every year o f grandfather’ s age. But grandfather was equal to the occasion, and entertained the en tire orphanage. Anti now other members o f the fam ily are wonder ing whether she will demand that they do the same. — Indianapolis News. BRAIN MATERIAL TO SPARE Mrs. E. E. Paddock and Mrs. Brenner of Iowa City, a daughter, Miss Dorothy, have house guest of the S. Taylor returned from Sherwood. Jones, and Russel Jones spent ALPHONSE WAS ON HIS WAY the week at Newport. A, L. Kuliander and wife and U n d e r the C ircu m sta n ce s H e N a tu ra lly Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Duganne F e lt the C a ll to D u ty W as Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sherard, Im perative. are rusticating on the Yachats. and daughters, Dorothy and “ Alphonse,” said the heiress, "I v Cleo, and Mrs. Lynn Slack of have been seriously thinking.” Mrs. D. Stilwell sustained a '‘Thinking o f me, Ashland, Oregon, are guests of ’ . At I HUM 111 t>reelons?’ asked fractured ankle from a fall last Mr. and Mrs. R. W. White. Jfifc ■ ll Alphonse. week. She was taken to Salem ‘•Indirectly, yes. Mesdames Sherard and Slack I have been think for treatment and is in a satis ing that if you will also visit in Portland. factory condition. w.. , married me, every- Reminders Wm. Quartier went to Port land Sunday and remained for Buyers’ Week. I f you're pleasure bent get a Dodge or Lexington at the Sayles Motor Car. Co. and see The 0. L. Fosters and F. S. the country. Stewarts were among the Inde 0. A. Kreamer will dress you pendence people who attended up in a new fall suit. See his the picnic at Falls City last Sun samples- They’ re correct in day. style and fabric. I f you let McIntosh feed you, Sbreeves&Son of Dallas are you’ ll eat well and pay the right expecting a car of new Over prices. lands. Ernest Tise, their News conies from the campers demonstrator, will be glad to ac- that they’ re having a “ jazzy” cemodate you. time because they bought their equipments from Willard E. The J. G. Mclntoshes, the A. Craven Hardware. O’ Donnell’s tire surgery is a D. Davidsons and the Harry Pattersons of Corvallis will leave sure cure. Sunday for Bar View where Why waste your money paying they will occupy the Davidson rent? Let the Independence cottage, Fern Cliff, a couple of Realty Company sell you a home. weeks. What’s better than a chicken dinner? Nothing. from Rev. Victor Morris of Eugene your chicken will speak at the Christian Meat Market. Then buy the City Don’ t get pinched. Buy will not ing. The public cordially in Michelin tubes that pinch of Haiiaday & Justin. vited. church beth morning and even The g/xBBKaa body would say / you only did so in * order to get my money and control o f tuy property.” "W hat do I care for the unthinking world?” “ Hut, Alphonse, 1 will marry you.” "M y own dar— ” “ And I will not have people sn.v un kind things about you. so I have ar ranged to give my fortune to the mis sionaries. Why, Alphonse, where are you going?” Alphonse paused long enough on his way to the door to look back and mut ter: ‘T m going to be a missionary." A p p a re n tly N a tu re H as Provided M an- k in d W ith M ore T h in k in g M a te ria l T h a n Is Required. The World war gave unprecedented opportunities for the study of Injuries to the brain. There were Instanees In which indi vidual lighting men lost as much ns a lea cupful o f brain substance without Impairment of their mental faculties. Extraordinary! The reason Is not easy o f explana tion. But apparently nature provides us with more brain material than we need to think with, and we can spare quite a bit o f It without serious conse quences, unless some essential struc ture he entirely destroyed. • One thing the brum will not endure Is compression. In childhood the skull may be squeezed all out o f shape with out harmful result. The Flathead In dians do that, and so do aboriginal peoples in other parts of the world. But even a clot of blood, due to cere bral hemorrhage. Is liable to cause paralysis, and local pressure of a bone may render a person Insane.— I’liila- delphla Ledger. S unspots in 1920. The last maximum o f sunspots was in 1917. During 1920 spottedness con tinued to decline, the mean dally spot-area for the year being about TOO millionths of the sun’s ’ visible hemi sphere, or half of that o f 1917. On a few- occasions, especially during Au gust, the solar disk was practically free from spots, while on some days in January and March the total spotted area was more than J.fOO millionths. —Scientific American. Q ueer F re a k of Nature. Near Bakewell. Derbyshire. England. h tree known as the ‘'Duck” tree, lias been cut down. On being cut Into boards It was found to have the niark- I lug o f a duck, the heart, liver and j other organs showing n much darker shade. It Is said that several years ago a duck was shot on the wing and J th a t It fell Into the tree nnd was never ' fetind. The hoards are on exhibition in the loenl museum. N a tu re L a v is h to H im . A Vermont youngster was horn with six toes on each foot, and when his teeth appeared he had two rows «>p his lower Jaw. Notice ¡8 hereby given that the partnership between B. P. Saylea and W. B. Huggins doing business under the firm name of Sayles Motor Car Co. is hereby dissolved. W. B. Hug gins has purchased the entire interest of B. P. Sayles and will conduct the business in the future. Ail accounts due the firm of Sayles Motor Car Co. are payable to W. B. Huggins and all ndebtedness against the firm of Sayles Motor Car Co. will be paid by W. B. ' Huggins. B. P. SA Y LE S. W. B. H UGGINS. Death valley, the terror o f the des ert und the country many believe that God not only forgot but never heard of, lias been tamed and made safe for motorists as a scenic spot which seriously rivals Yellowstone National park for beauty. Death valley, scintillating in the sun, will lure motorists o f today as it lured weary prospectors o f old, but its sting has been removed. No longer will the parched traveler seek in vuin for the water hole he cannot find or for the trail he has lost In the mesqulte. ■ A message which turns upside down j tiie popular und nation-wide opinion Card of held o f this fabled valley, which In cubated the fame of "Borax” Smith We wish to thank our friends and "Death Valley” Scotty, Is being for the kindness and sympathy I sent to the world by the touring bureau 1 o f America’s largest motoring or- bestowed upon us during our j ganization, the Automobile Club o f i Southern California, for the purpose recent sorrow over the death of of removing the curse o f the niallg- our son and brother. I nnnt rumors, which It says are un- Mrs. Fay L. Brown j founded. Already the first steps have been and Children. | taken. The Southern California Auto mobile club has erected 1,220 metal road signs to make Death valley fool Tall Vha Post About Iti proof to the motoring visitor. This la the largest number o f road signs ever erected for a similar purpose. Radiophon« Music. Contrary to what might be expected, It appears very much as though this does not remove the romance o f the desert, hut the story brought out i we are on the verge o f a new era in of Denth valley by members of the [ radio communication, namely, radio crew who erected the signalposts puts phone music for the home. The Idea, an available romance into the spot In brief, says the Scientific American, which can he plumbed h.v every auto is to have radiophone stations at cen mobile owner in the United States.— tral points sending out concert music as well as speeches and lectures via From Motors. radio, and compact and simple radio Another Dinosaur Discovered. receiving sets In various hn&es, clubs Another dinosaur has been discov and so on to Intercept the waves. A l ered In Alberta. This later ’’find” Is ready there are several radiophone o f an entirely new species, ajid, ac stations in operation, and at ¡east one cording to Dr. W. A. Parkes, profes wireless company has developed a re- sor o f geology at the University of I reiving set made in the form o f a cab Toronto, it Is the only one o f Its kind inet phonograph, incorporating a con ever discovered. The bones of this cealed loud-speaking telephone unit, new dinosaur, extinct many thousands so that the music, speech, lecture or o f years ago, were discovered by a other radiophone transmission can be party which explored Alberta under heard throughout a room. It Is be Prof. Parkes’ instructions. lieved by radio uien that leading man- ufacturers o f radio equipment will Registered His Own Birth. see fit to maintain radiophone concert To register his own birth after be and lecture service for their patrons. coming of age was the unique experi ence of a young man in Quebec. A H u n te r’ s L u c k y Shot. render says that when the young man A hare was shot while up a tree by applied for a birth certificate he j g Manitoba hunter. The animal had learned that his parents had never reg been caught by a huge hawk and aa It istered him. was rising with its prey the banter ! got both on the one shot. Consumers’ Trading of Notice of. Dissolution of Partnership. House S a le m j Is Going: to Reveal Some Startling News. W atch for their announcement tellling about the big event. ... * This Papir Will Keep Y ob Posted.