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rHE POLK COUNTY POST
cufity. and you may have i t You
will get the mark back when you re­
P u b l i s h e d e v e r y Friday a t I n d e p e n d e n c e , O r e g o n .
turn the pen to the window.”
The transaction m accomplished;
d u s mallei March 2ft, 1918, at the postofflce at
when the unsuspecting borrower re­
Independence, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879.
turns the pen to the official it is
looked on coldly and declined: “ No
Editor and Publisher.
CLYDE T. EOKEK
such pen was taken from this win­
dow
It doesn’t belong lie re.” And
Subscription Bates:
The enterprising trickster has de­
TH R E E MONTHS
50s.
parted to duplicate the trick in An­
SIX MONTHS
$1.00
other post office branch, it’ s a small
way to make money, but he makes
ONE Y E A B
.
$2.00
100 per cent on his investment
L ileee otherwise provided for, «uhecriptlone will he «lopped at expiration
Growing
Boys and Girls
«
The unconscious grace 6f child­
hood
depends
upon normal,
healthful
activities— requiring
THE REAL ONE
MAY
BAR
FOREIGN
CLOTHES
TMHdati Assembly Considering Strenu-
eua Measures for Encouragement
of Home Factories.
A bill compelling members of
parliament, civil servants, ti“a'-here
and town councillors to wear only
clothing manufactured in Turkey
is being hotly debated bv the Turk-
iah national aaaemtdy at Angora, ac­
cording to the Ixmdon Mail’s Con­
stantinople correspondent.
One provision is that every per­
son now possessing & shirt, necktie
or any other articles of clothing
manufactured abroad shall register
each article, in which case he will
Le allowed to wear it out.
During the debate one deputy,
who urged that the bill should be­
come law, so as to gbt rid of fash­
ion's tyranny, was heckled with the
question, "Why wear ties?”
Immediately he took off and tore
up hi» tie, whereupon the assembly
cheered him and cried, “ l» n g live
native manufacturers!”
Despite Turkey’s quite rudiinen
taiy factories, parliament is tending
to pass the bill.
ing the customs, languages and
characteristics Of the Eskimo race.
They were found in the region
north of the Mackenzie river. Doc­
tor CamerOn estimates that upward
of three years will be required to
complete the study of the skeleton«
and make the thousands of meas­
urements necessary.
G rz
sound, healthy feet. The condi­
tion of the feet depends upon the
merits of the shoes worn.
NLW WAY OF MAKING MONEY
Inventive Berlin Trickster Makes Big
Profits In Dealing« W ith “ Post
Office Pen».’’
One wav of making money: Pen­
holders Hre no longer to be found
on post office tables in Berlin, but
may be obtained from a window­
framed official, on the deposit of *
mark. One cnterpriaiag German
buys himself a number of penhold­
ers at 50 pfennig apiece and sets to
work writing at the desk of some
busy branch post office, the Kansas
City Times states. When he shows
symptoms of being through with his
pen some eager person is sure to
ask him whether he will pass it on.
“ Yes,” is the answer, “ just give me
the mark which i laid out for ie-
Buster Brown Shoes
She— So you saw Scrawler’s new
play Iasi night? Who was the hero?
He— I was. I sat through the
whole thing.
give the correct shape to growing feet to keep them
sound, healthy, shapely, grapeful—because they are
made upon the Buster Brown Shaping La ts, which
faithfully follow the natural lines ot the perfect foot.
Miner Qot $600 for Month'« Work.
Miners In the I.ogan County (\V Va.)
coal field say that Joseph Sitrance.
working eight hours a day. loaded '¿'18
mine cars during 14 working days In
June, reeelvlng $267.06 for his labor.
His total for the month was over $600,
Wise Parents Refuse to Accept Substitutes
U. 8. Get« $157,000,000 for W a r Goods
Surplus army materials which cost
$468,140,432, were sold for $157,186,.
291 during the fiscal year ended June
30, according to an announcement of
the War department.
BUSTER BROWN
SHOE STORE
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RACE.
a
fclHim skeletons to the number
of 90 have arrived in Halifax from
the Far North for examination and-
measurement on behalf of the C a ­
nadian government by Dr. John
Cameron, professor of anatomy at
Dalhouse university. The skeletons
have been brought from the land of
snows by the Canadian arctic ex­
ploration party which has spent fve m
year* in Canada’s frigid zone study­ ■
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