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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1921)
\. \ Food fo r the Family ¡» au every >\ay affair for the house keeper. It is iot always an easy matter to decide what the day’s menu shall be. It is our pleasure to serve you with our experience and give suggestions for your benefit as \vell as ours J. G. McIntosh Grocery HOME OF GOOD GROCERIES Courteous and Intelligent Service SHORT STORIES OF TOWN AND COUNTRY Mrs. F. R. Arrell is contem plating a visit to her old home in Minnesota. 1 - MiBS Opal McDevitt is visiting her sister, Mrs. George Conkey. ____ i Ready for Fair week? Dress | yourself up in new clothes from Kafoury Bros., Salem, and ieok i your best. Elmer Paddock arrived last week from Seattle to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Paddock. Mesdagies Clyde Williams, Willard Craven, Sherman Hays and Florence Whiteaker were visiting in Salem iMonday. Our motto is 4 Quality 9 Food products is th a t com m odity in which Q u a lity i its one re c o m m em iati j i i . Dressed Meats We cou’d sell an inferior quality—but we won’t We would sell a superior quality—but we can’t City Meat Market GUS MILLER Main Street Camp CookingWillBeComplete | Pleasure if You Buy Your 1 Utensils from Us and camp eating will have just the right flavor if you buy your knives, forks and other tabla necessities here. Spoons, too, must not be lorgotten. W’e have them s WILLARD E. CRAVEN HOW.! I ■ l i l l à A..A..L Rug Specials Miss Genevieve Cooper is vis iting at the Cartright home in Salem. Mrs. J. S. Cooper is visiting her daughter, Mrs, John Krause in Aurora. Our showing of high grade, medium and inexpensive Rugs was never more com plete than it is today. The forethought of our carpet buyer has made it possible for you to get really High Grade Mer chandise at the vei y lowest prices. J. L. Busick & Sons have stores at Salem, Albany and Woouburn. Right prices are coupled with eorrect and intelli gent service. Read their ad in this paper. 9x12 WiltoH Rugs, priced from Pretty soon we will be able to lick Mt. Hood with our tongues. Pictures of the famous mountain will adorn one issue of two cent stamps to advertise the world’s fair in 1925. Crater Lake will adorn one-centers.—Benton Co. Courier. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON $ 4 7 . 5 0 and up 9x12 Axminster Rugs, priced from ............ 3 2 . 5 0 and “p 9x12 Tapestry Rugs, priced from 2 0 . 0 0 and up 9x12 Wool Fiber Rugs, priced from ___ 1 3 . 5 0 and up 9x12 Grass Rugs, priced from. Miss Norma Calbreath k-ft Friday for La Grande where she —— Miss Helen Butler is home will teach in the city schools. from an extended visit with her Qo you offer your banker an sister in Corvallis. apology when you make a de posit in the bank? Do you feel Miss Mollie Schwabbauer is conspicuous when you go into here on her vacation. She has your local store to make a pur just returned from a visit in chase? Do you have an inclina 1’ortland and Estacada. tion to shrink from the notoriety of driving your car through the Mrs. O’Donnell is here from streets? If not, then please hold Briggs, Idaho, visiting her the same feelings about giving brothers, O. D. and Word Butler, an item of news concerning your self or your friends to your local and sister, Mrs. Layton Smith. paper.— Newberg Graphic. 9 ____ An attractive floor adds more to the appearance of the room Mrs. 0. A. Kreamer and than any other one thing. In -: daughters, Misses Gretchen and vest in a new rug. Read the rug Madeleine and their guest, Miss news in the ad of C. S. Hamil Frances Hodge, motored to Al ton, Salem. bany last week end. Phone 611 Misses Ruth Dickinson and Betty Stilwell were in Salem Monday. _____ INDEPENDENCE, OREGON Miss Nellie Bergman of Seattle was a recent guest of Mrs. Frank Dicksen. ------ ■ ---------- 7 . 6 5 and °p We have most patterns in all sizes, from 27x54 up to over room sizes. Trade in Your Old Furniture as Part Paym ent on New C. S. Hamilton 340 Court Street Good Furniture SALEM MAKE REAL SILK PURSE OUT OF EAR OF A SOW rvw w vw l ----..M L "" ' Chemists Upset Ancient Maxim by Spying on the Work of the Industrious Silkworm. ▲ »Ilk p unte m ade (ruin sow s' ears, M ch em istry ’s an sw er to the old say- ln f th a t It couldn’t be done, w as shown a t th e chem istry exposition In New York recently. In announcing th e successful result of experim ents, A rth u r D. I.lttle, Inc., chem ists and engineers of Cam bridge, Mass., said th e silk w as not very stro n g and th a t th e re was no present In d u strial value In the process In volved. It w as m ore o r less th e prod uct of chem istry a t play, but a con trib u tio n also to philosophy In prov ing th e fallacy of th e old proverb. In reciting the fa c to rs th a t en tered Into th e tra n sitio n of sow s' e a rs from Chicago sto ck y ard s to a silk purse such as a woman m ight curry, the chem ists ex plained th a t the Urst step w as to analyze the' silkw orm ’s m ethod of m aking silk. T h is done, Its c a te r p illar chem latry w as copied In the laboratory. It was found th a t man bad to pro vide a su b stitu te for a process by w hich th e silkw orm exudes from two fine ducts to Its head m inute th read s of a viscous liquid, coated w ith un- o th er secretion, which* ure cem ented Into a double stra n d . T ills becomes a tlrin flinmeiit of silk when It cougu- lutes on reaching th e air. A nalysis of th is viscous liquid show ed It to be like glue and wltn som ew hat sim ilar chem ical properties. T he sow ’s e a r being chiefly g ristle and skin, also h as th e n a tu ra l elem ents of glue. l'Id a w as o b tain ed from the e a rs and It w as p u t through several processes of p rep aratio n , Altered under p re ssu re su d placed In spinning ap p a ra tu s of a special doslgn. T he -solution of glue and chem icals I Restore the Usefulness cam e out us sixteen very tine color less streum s, Joined into one com posite über, treated to give It stren g th and color and processed yet again to ob tain the -desired soft silk feel. The w eaving followed on u sm all hand loom, the fabric w as form ed and the purse made. To worn, injured and sick casings and tubes Expert Tire Surgery Our “ cure” Is always a perfect one. M. J . O’DONNELL “What’s wrong with that story T submitted ?” asked the Author. “You made a big mistake in the first paragraph,” said the magazine editor, “and I couldn’t use it.” “What kind of mistake?” “You stated that when the hero returned from France he was given his old job back with increased pay. That sort of thing isn’t being done, you know.”—Birmingham Age- Herald. , Oregon'* Higher Institution of Also New Tires for Sale CONTRARY TO FACT. OAC V Shop In building for merly occupied by Williams barber shop TECHNOLOGY tight Schools; Seventy Department* F A LL TF.RM OPENS SEPT. 19. 1921 For information write to the Registrar Oregon Agricultural College C O RVALL I S T o ll x h a P o s t A b o n l It! >ininiiM ii«iiBnniiniiaii«itniiBiM iinti« H air C urlers Drew Lightning. Steel h a ir cu rle rs are believed to have attra c te d the bolt of lightning th a t killed Mrs. F ran ces M oller of A! ton, L. 1 She w as a bride of 11 tn i >nt he. Marinello Cosmetic Shop M anicuring. Sham pooing. E lectro- ysis, H air D ressing, P e rm a n e n t Wuve, Scalp T re a tm e n t, W rinkle T re a tm e n t. E lectolytic M assage, B leaching and T in tin g . Special A cne T re a tm e n t, M arinello P re p a ra tio n s and H air Goods. HAIR 601 OS SWITCHES MADE FROM COMBINGS ■ i Your Distant and Near Vision i Are Equally Clear MRS. IRENE SCOTT Phone 1690 SA LE M ■ ß ■ 125 N. H igh St. The Independence National H ink p p You never have to Try K ryptok glaanHH. search for lost glasses when you have your eyea fitted w ith th is w onderful inviaible bifocal lens. Established .1889 AH ACCOUNT in a commercial bank ia • moat convenient aid to modern business. It ay-'ema- tizes payments, is a check on ail expenditures and shows you just where you stand each b ith. Open one with us today. It will pay you to do to. Come in and have your eye« exam ined by ex pert«. We fit and m ake our own glasses All lensea g round in o u r own laboratory. THE BOW OPTICAL CO. Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg, Prea. C. A. McLaughlin, V. P. Lra D. Mix, Cashier W. H. Walker D. W. Sears O. D. Puller | i 1 i Opposite Ladd 6 Bush Bank 325 State Street Salem, Oregon Dr.L R.Burdette Optometrists—Dr. Carl Wonner 1 I i>*naiM Briau«tii»iiaiii«titaKi laHiàwvnàa