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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1921)
« 4» _____ C. ______ T H E P O LK C O U N TY Published every Friday at Independence, Oregon. m e red as second class matter March 26, 1918, at the postotflce at Independence, Oregon, under the Act ol March 3, 1879. Editor and Publisher. CLYDE T. ECKER Subscription Rates: THREE MONTHS SIX MONTHS ONE YEAR öüc. $ 1.00 5 0 good cigarettes $ 2.00 for 10c from one sack of L 'iiene otherwise provided (or, subscriptions will be stopped at expiration SHORT STORIES OF West Salem Officer TOWN AND COUNTRY! Should 'Get the Gate’ i Wi i e riding (ialena Kurre is visiting rela at the rate o f 20 miles an hour thru West Salem one day this tives in Portland. week with one of the most cau tious and careful drivers in Polk Jack Fear, formerly ot this place, is here for the busy sea- county, he was stopped by a motor cop who s id that we sor.. were going 30 miles an hour. From the time we entered West Evelyn Kurre returned Tues Salem until we got out o f it, at day from a two weeks’ visit in no time did he drive beyond 20 1 ortland. miles an hour, as I was watch ing the speedometer and know Miss Emma Henkle was called whereof I speak. back to Rosburg Tuesday morn No wonder there is general ing by a message announcing complaint about the tyranny of the death o f the child of Mr. this West Salem officer! ih e and Mrs. T. 0 . Dixon. Miss average tourist strikes a. fifteen Henkle had just returned from a or twenty mile gait and many of E d it o r visit at the Dixon home. Fay Dunsmore arrived home today after a two years’ ab sence. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy and has been with the submarine R-8 U. S. S. He re ceived his discharge last Wednes day and wnile he enjoyed being in the service of Uncle Sam. he is happy to be among old friendB Dr. Eugene Rosamond of Mem T o s e a l in t h e phis read a paper before the South d e lic io u s B u r le y ern Medical association with the t o b a c o o f la v o r . following conclusions: (1 ) Habit ual crying in breast-fed babies at a particular time each day— usually late afternoon and at night— is a symptom of hunger. (2 ) The pre- ternaturally smart, wide-awake baby is huugry. (3 ) Three-mouths colic is primarily hunger. Starvation, indigestion and milk imbalance, due ON LIFE’S PILGRIMAGE to the mothers worry, may cause true colic to supervene, but these A sign lias been discovered In an right themselves if the baby’s cries old tnilor shop In Pompeii reading: are hushed. (4 ) Supplemental and “ Creases ironed In your toyas while complemental feeding is the remedy. you w a it” (5 ) Complemental feeding should If you want to rise In your busi he given only with a cup and spoon. BULL'' DURHAM WOULD REVIVE OLD CUSTOM New England Newspaper Points Out Good Home Influence In Practice of Family Singing. “ Why,” asks a contemporary writer, “ do so few parents nowadays sing either to or with their chil AU STRALIA'S GREEN HEART. dren?” She goes on to urge a re vival of this fine old custom. Central Australia has been popu- Perhaps, as she suggests, the i larlv supposed to he a desert of un phonograph, with its music-making dulating sand, but this impression facilities, or the automobile and the is vanishing. Eight times Capt. S. movie forever dragging people from A. White, the South Australian ex- their homes, or jazz with its exotic plortr, has traversed one of the lone and difficult cadence, have driven liest lands on earth. He has seen the old sweet airs and the habit of it blossoming like a vast garden un family singing from the American der the touch of rainfall and he has homes. ' marched through it in days when them have been held up and Old hymus of noble verso and drought might well have made all a fined, giving Polk county a nobler music,'beautiful old ballads wilderness. Yet even in the latter black eye, to say nothing of the in settings of simple but perfect lavs he has seen abundant growth melody, are a valuable part of the • d' trees along the dry water courses injustice of it. equipment of any life and memory. and further back dense mulga scrubs The writer believes that traf Every little while new music of real . have flourished. On many of his long trips Captain fic regulations should be vigor White has been accompanied by his ously enforced without favor but. wife, Mrf. 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But the American peo ple, greatly given to short cuts, have whittled the word down to it* sim plest form, “ auto” — a curtailment severely frowned u[*on in the high est circles of language. Cigarette SM ART BABIES HUNGRY. GENUINE ik 4. NAMED THE AUTOMOBILE. merit is produced which should tie added to the collection as pearls are added to a string. Homes in which such songs are sung, homes in which fathers and mothers sing such songs first to and then with their children, are among the greatest influences of civiliza tion. More important than the songs or the singing is the habit in stilled in early life of finding pleas ure in simple family association within the walls o f home itself.— Concord Monitor. 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