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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1921)
V Oregon Historical Society x Auditorium ihe P olk C ounty post LARGEST CIRCULATION IN SOUTH POLK COUNTY VOLUME IV. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 3 , 1921 It’s not often that anybody an- I swers their own «d but that’s Just what happened this week. Foster & : Hubbard of the Independence Realty I Co. inserted an ad in last week’s ft>st offering a house for sale. Vues- i day It looked so good to them that A delightful social function of the they bought it. The property men week was the one o ’clock luncheon tioned is the five-room bungalow on Sixth and F streets, owned by Louis over which Mrs. K. C. Eldridge gra I Alpers of San Francisco. ciously presided last Wednesday. The event was given for Mrs. Qeorge DeWitt (Eva Robertson) of Port land, a recent bride. The table ap pointments were beautiful and artis tic and dainty place cards marked covers for six close friends of the Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Taber and chil honoree. Many clever toasts were given to the bride who also cleverly dren of Reynolds, N. D., have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. responded. Thom this week. Mr. Taber is a prosperous druggist of the North ! Dakota town and Mrs. Taber is a | sister of Mr. Thom. The Taber party j made the trip of over 2100 miles in j a Ford sedan and used only 104 gal- j Ions of gag. The pleasure of the ' trip was not marred in any way by The Independence ferry broke car trouble and the Tabers thor loose from the cable Tuesday after oughly agree with their brother, Mr. noon and drifted down the river a Thom, that a Ford will keep rambling half mile before it could be guided when others fall. Mr. Thom says to the bank. An automobile and that his father drives a Liberty Six the Orville jitney, well loaded with and a brother a Buick Six, but he’s passengers, were aboard the ferry sure they will some time decide to own Fords. and took the trip down stream. LITERATURE AND THE CHILD LEAVE PEACH STAINS ALONE Good Idea to Let the Small Person Mike Early Acquaintance of Good Books. Colored Maid Confides to Employer the Only Way to Get Rid of the Blemishes. No boy or girl has had a realty fair chance unless he or she has been allowed to roam at will in a good library, getting acquainted early in life with some of the great people that work the ways o f the world— that great world of the imagination which is so much more real, after all, than the world of actuality, to those who have the seeing eye and the dreaming heart— for hearts do dream, you know, says the Phila delphia Bulletin. Unless they did, dreams would never come true. It is in books, somehow, we come to know real values. There is so much that the author gets in be tween the lines if he is a real au thor, and there is so much that i« absorbed that is worth while and beautiful and restful. Teach vour children to read. hVad to them when the long winter evenings come to us, or, better still, let them curl up with a book and read for themselves; let them draw irtto their veins the great truths of life, so that when the hour strikes they may be ready for the battle. Mrs. Newlywed is learning all sorts of things from Gussie, her col ored maid of all work. Soft of voice, comfortable, slow and ad dicted to strange muttering» and self-corn muniags is Gussie, observes the New York Sun. This time it was peach stain* VIrs. Newlywed looked with ^¡stress at her lovely napkins, marred in iheir first using by large, assertive and, it seemed, evergrowing peach stains. Gussie regarded the beautiful blemished linen wisely. “ What can 1 do about it, Gus sie?” asked Mrs. Newlywed. “ Huv- can 1 take the peach stains out?” Gussie shook her head. “ Ma’am,” she finally admonished •‘you can’t get peach stains out, not now, you can’ t; got to wait ma’am, twell the peach season’s over. When they ain’t no more peaches them stains’ ll go ’ way all be theirselves you don’ have to do nothin’ . When the peach season is over the stains disappear jes as quick!” “ Thai's very strange, Gussie,” commented Mrs. Xewlvwed. “ I can’t understand that, quite.” ” Yes. ma'am,” insisted Gussie. “ yes. ma’am, you wouldn't thin*: them peach stains got so much sen-e. hut they has.” UECENT BRIDE ENTER IAINEO Long Trip in a Ford 104 Gals. Gas Used Furry Runs Away Passengers Go Along A SECRET Fergusons to California Manage Horst Ranch Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ferguson have gone to California where Mr. Ferguson will manage one of the Horst hop ranches in. the Sacramento valley. The Fergusons have many friends who regret their departure. Mrs. Ferguson was an active and ca pable member of the Oak Point club and also a splendid and dependable member of the Independence Womans Club. Next Tuesday evening, Sept. 27, Adah Chapter O. E. S., will hold the first meeting of the season following the summer’s suspension. A pleas ant evening is anticipated and it is hoped the members will join in the fraternal gathering. In England the scandal of the cruelty inflicted on performing ani mals has become so notorious that the government has introduced a bill tending to eliminate, or radical ly modify, animal acta in the Brit ish theaters. Witnesses before a committee of the house of commons told tales of WHY N O T t brutal treatment of trained animals, “ These seed catalogues do very especially o f that in an act in which well, as far a* they go,” remarked a performer made a cage with a the suburbanite. canary disappear up his sleeve and “ Well r iu so doing each time crushed the J‘"But the reading matter is rather canarv to death. prosy. It seems to me they’d he more interesfing if a few journey C O N CENTRA TING W E A L T H . men poets were employed to sine “ Every profiteer ought to be in the merits of the giant turnip an^ the earl} squash.” — Birmingham the penitentiary!” exclaimed the violent citizen. Age- Herald. “ What are you trying to d o?” in_ FAM O U S GOLD MINE. quired the landlord, “ boost the peni tentiaries and min the hotels?” The Hollinger gold mine in northern Ontario is rapidly over M A TC H S TIC K S FROM GRAS8. taking the best mines in South *\ process ha» been patented in Africa as a gold producer. At pres ent it is producing over $15,000 England for the manufacture of daily, or at the rate of oonsideraMv artificial wood for match sticks from straw or dried grass. more than $10,000,00(1 yearly. N e w F a l l S t y le s O. A. Kreamer INDEPENDENCE, OREGON Trdp For Fitchanf Family To Winter in California Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Fitchard and daughter. Miss Dorothy, will leave about Oct. 1 for their old home iu Utica, N. Y., Where they will visit friends and relatives until after the holidays. They will then go to Cali fornia to remain during the winter. Miss Dorothy will enter the Califor nia Art School at West Lake Park, where she hopes to further develop her remarkable talent. S C O T L A N D T U R N S T O OIL F U E L . Oil fuel is being substituted :n Galashiels mills for coal. Despite the scarcity and high price o f coal in consequence of tho miners’ strike, the woolen mills of Galashiels have been kept running pretty constant ly, and most of them have been kept going for more than half time. An installation of burners for the use o f oil in connection with the boilers at Gala dye works has been com pleted, and the large boilers, which in normal times consume something like ten tons of coal a day, are now being kept going with oil fuel. A similar installation is also being completed at Tweed mill and V ic toria dye works and it is understood thai othei firms in the town have their plans completed for the instal* lation of an oil fuel plant.— Edin burgh Scotsman. I Editor Probably Knew What He Meant to Say, but Readers May Have Gasped. 4 {w Hinky— What’re mollycoddles? Dinky— G’wan; yer wife calls ya everything.. SPOKE FOR A U D IE N C E S . Kenneth Andrews in his iliscus- sion of current plays in the Book man relates this incident: “ A playwright of our acquaint ance told us never to forget that people always bring their holiday minds to the theater. They do not come to see a play; they come to see a show. He estimated the average mental age of the average theater audience at about eleven years, and to prove it pointed out that if ‘Ha zel Kirk’ or ‘ A Trip to Chinatown’ or almost any of the big American stage successes of the past had been written out a* novels the publish ers would have classified them uu- der juvenile fiction. This play wright said that a remark he once overheard after a highbrow play had done him more good than all the dramatic criticism he had ever read. The man behind him said, ‘ I don’t see any sense in paying two-fifty just to ait and think.’ ” H A T WAS POISONED? Our type of suits for the young man is so tailored as to give a chesty ef fect. No Dempsey figuie, but just a good snappy front. And our new patterns for fall are right in “ the primrose path” of youth. You’ ll acknowledge the showing is a little unusual and perhaps a-trifle ultra, but good taste reigns. Prices range from $25 to $75. Lots of goods to select from. The rains of the week were satis factory to most all concerned. It will help the farmers in their tall plowing greatly. Damage is report ed from the prune orchards. Some of the. ripe fruit cracked. GOT HIS METAPHORS MIXED C URB FOR A N IM A L T R A IN E R 8 . “ When 1 was tetelling iu an low*» town.” says an eastern man, “ I user every week to read a little countrv paper published there, whose edi tor’s metaphors were an unfailing joy to me. Once, I remember, this editor wrote o f a contemporary: 'Thus the black lie issuing from his base throat becomes a boomerang 'n his hand, anti, hoisting him by Ids own ¡retard, leaves him a marked man for life.’ “ lie said, in an article on home life: ‘The faithful watchdog or his good wife, standing ul the door, welcomes the master home with an honest hark.’ In an obituary of a farmer he wrote: ‘The race was run at last. Like a tired steed, he crossed the harbor bar and, casting aside whip and spur, lay down upon that bourne from which no traveler ever returns.’ ” L E A R N IN G C A P T. K ID D IN N EW YORK. Captain 1\idd, the world favorite pirate, was not nearly so had as he has been painted. At one time he was a citizen of New York city and lived in Pearl street, the crookedest in the city. Albert Bushnell Hart, the historian, writing on “ The Real Captain Kidd,” in the Mentor Mag azine, thus corrects the popular conception of the small boy’s idol. A page ‘c f the evidence that hanged the redoubtable captain is repro duced— an inventory of some of the loot he buried on Gardiner’s island. This was the only treasure supposed to have been buried by the cele brated pirate that has ever been di»> covered. M AYBE T W A S TO M MIX. EN GLISH. When little Mitzi Hajos first starred in mttsical comedy “ on this side,” she could speak but a few words of English, but she was a willing student. One night, in a dancing number; Tom McNaughton. the story goes, happened to tramp on Mitzi's toe», and the fiery littie singer went up into the air like a skyrocket. When the curtain fell Mitzi pitched into McNaughton with an avalanche of American slang thaf ama/ed the comedian. Finally, Mc- N’aughton replied: “ Well, I must say, Mitzi, you are getting on in four English. Whcre’d you learn all o f that stuff?” With a show of pride Mitzi re torted: “ I pick him opp from ze stage bauds.” — Youngstown Tele gram. Danger may Jurk in a German hat. A Bonn hatter was sued for selling a customer a poisoned one. After wearing the hat a short time the man felt his forehead throbbing and shooting pains in the head. Not being accustomed to such maladies, he had his hat examined and found that the band wa» made B LIN D MAN W IN S SUCCESS. of artificial leather, which contained a sullied nt quantity of sulphuric A striking example of persever acid to account for his pains. The court awarded the buyer ance against the physical diaahili*\ damages and told the hatter that it c f blindness is furnished by James was his business to discover whether H Hawiinsnn. ex-Canadian soldier, his goods were injurious to custom- j who has just left Ottawa on the first er* before selling them.— Lmdun part of his journey to Ixmdon, Eng land, where he is to assume the du Times. ties of derk-stenographer in the T O BOBB OR N O T T O BCBB. London office o f the department of immigration and colonization Rsw- “ Grayoe seems troubled about linson was trained at St Dunstan’z something.” sriiool. in England, and for some “ She iz facing the roost serious time has been working at the To problem she has ever yet encoyn ronto office of the ile|Mirttrieiit. tered in her young life.” Oerald Hewett. a recent graduate “ Dear m e! W h s® » it ?’’ “ Just when the style wa« waning of In’dependence High, has entered Graver's favorite art re» ~ bobbed I ev O. A. C. •Gerald will specialize in He it an unusually hair. Must she or must she not fol pharmacy. low s e t ? ” — Birmingham Age-Her bright boy and Is always at the bead In whatever he undertakes ald. NO. 17 “ The leading man will have to make a lot of gun-play in our pro ductions,” explained the movie di rector. “ Then what you want is a shoot ing ptar,” commented the applicant, | who nnght^iave been Bill Hart, hut wann dt.— Boston Transcript. A T T H E RESOR T. Mis« Gushins— How perfectly de- ticious these woodland breezes are. Mr. Townley (very matter-of- fa ct)— Yes : sometimes they seem almost as'sati.sfHctorv as an electric fan.— Buffalo Transcript. ] SOK OL WILL OPEN NEXT MONDAY The school bells will ring next Monday for the first' time since the instructors and students disbanded last June for their well-earned vaca tion. As announced last week both the Training and High schools will begin the year's work Monday. The teachers for each grade and each department are well chosen and it is expected the entire year will be one of profit and congenial association. Several Families Move Cosy Homes Provided Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Thom moved this week into the Rose-Plant bun galow on South Main street which has just been vacated by the A. L. Keeneys. Mr. and Mrs. Keeney are at home at their very cosy little bungalow which has Just been com pleted on Monmouth street. The F. R. Arrells are occupying their newly acquired Fourth street residence which they recently bought from O. L. Foster. The Fosters are located at the!i' modernized Second street residence Just purchased from M. C. Williams. Miss Orel J. Powell is a new ad dition to the force of the indepen dence National Bank. Miss Powell is familiarizing herself with Dr. *H. C. Dunsmore’s duties and the doctor expects to leave for Canada about Oct. 1. OREGON Theatre SALBM GOOD MUSIC ALW AYS Fri. Sat., Sept. 2 3 -2 4 W anda Hawley IN "A Kiss in Time” Sun. M on. Tuea. Wed. Sept 2 5 , 2 6 , 2 7 , 2 8 C e cil B. D e M ille a A ll Star Production "The Affairs of Anat.I” With Wallace Reid. Gloria Swanson, Theodore Roberts,^Elliot Dex ter, Bebe Daniels, Wanda Hawley. SPECIAL MUSIC F o r S ale One of the finest 0-room bungaldws in town; fine location: fine fire place; plastered throughout. Price $5,200; t^rms reasonable. If you want a fine home here it is. FOR S A L E —Just like rent; a nice 5-room modern bungalow in good neighborhood. W hy pay rent when you can buy a house as easy as pay ing rent? INDEPENDENCE REALTY Phone M 18 11