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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1921)
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High St. M l Tha Post About It I No longer do the curtains flap in the emtom- Old Water Wheel With Interesting eria face, blow into the aoup or got History Is Used in a Recent soiled. Ten feet away they look Film Production. like the real thing and a swish with A water wheel, undoubtedly the a clean cloth makes them look like largest of its kind ever built, it is they had just come from the laun said, which provided corn hour for dry—New York Sun. the hardy pioneers who went from E X P E N S IV E R A T ’S N E S T. Virginia into Kentucky with Daniel Boone, is seen in a new film pro Charles S. Schalfer of Irwin, Pa., duction. The story calls for an old- found a $10 bill missing from a time mill, and it was decided that cachp of $315 he hid under his par only in the Virginia mountains lor carpet, after he sold an automo could this relic of bygone days be bile. The entire family hunted for found. This wheel is said to be 52 the missing money, but failed to feet high. find it. Then a suspicious uoise Tradition has it that early in the was heard in the cellar. Armed, Nineteenth century, iu order to fur Mr. Schaeffer descended the cellar nish food for the soldiers who were stairs to investigate and heard a watching over the Indians, the state scratching sound overhead. He M t of Virginia caused the wheel to be along a rafter with his fingers. erected. The state also adopted this They came in contact with eight means of getting the Indians to till soft baby rats. The $10 bill fornmd the soil and thereby lay aside their part of the nest. warlike proclivities. The state ground the corn the Indians raised T H I R T Y T H O U S A N D S E A L SKINS. and also paid them a bounty on Instructions have been issued to each bushel they brought to the mill the United States bureau of fish to be ground into flour. The mill was last used in fur eries representatives on the P ribilof nishing flour for the Confederate islands authorizing the taking of army operating in western Virginia. 30,000 fur seal skins on both islands While the mill itself is crumbling, during the calendar year 1921. Ten the wheel is still in good condition. tative divisions by classes fop the killings on the two islands are as LAUGHS AT LAUNDRY BILLS follows: St. Paul, 22,100 three- year-olds, 3,000, four-year-olds and Up-to-Date Brooklyn Bualneaa Man 600 five-year-olds, and St. George, Has Attractive Curtains Painted 2,750 three-year-olds, 450 four-year- on Hie Windows. olds and 100 five-year-olds.—Fish Science has been coining to the eries Service Bulletin. aid of the housekeeper during the V E R Y C L O U D Y C LO UD . last half a century. Inventors have been keeping awake nights figuring William Lyon Phelps of the Eng out how they could lessen work for lish chair at Yale has added a new the woman in the home. They have mixed metaphor to his large and reached a stage where cooking, amusing collection. This addition sweeping and scrubbing are largely is from one of the novels of W. L. a matter of turning on the electric George: “The cloud that tried to switch. stab their happiness was only a false But it is a mere mau who has de rumor whose bitter taste could not veloped the latest wrinkle in house splinter the radiance nor dim the hold furnishings by providing arti effervescence of their joy.”—De ficial curtains. These new style troit Free Press. window hangings are on a spick- and-span lunch wagon near the ON LIFE’S PILGRIMAGE Long Island station in Brooklyn. The curtains are painted on the A sign has been discovered In an windows. The brush-wielder has old ta ilo r Rhop In Pom peii re a d in g : produced all the effects of - the "C reases Ironed In y o u r togas w nlle yon wait." The Independence National B ink ■ S Established .1889 AN ACCOUNT in a commercial bank is • ’ most convenient aid to modern business. It schema tizes payments, is a check on all expenditures »nd shows you just where you stand each b ith. Open one with us today. It will pay you to d<< so. 1 * * 1 . W H U r l N .w a p .? . r L 'slv a.) She w as a sm all c re a tu re w ith wide appealing eyes of blue. And whut the men found to ao adm ire In her w as m ore than other women could see. Among them selves they discussed her a s a vampish person to he righteously avoided. C ertain It w as th a t from ine m om ent Meda Brown becam e a m em ber of the Directors H uated house p arty , sw ains old and young left th eir form erly udored to follow In her train. And, Meda B ro w n ; w hat a plalu name. N evertheless, the je m u re one tr i um phed easily—everyw here. T he stra n g e thing w as th at she did not try for the trium phs, or seem to eare. U sually she had to be h unted out In som e secluded corner, or fo restalled ou one of her oustom ary w alks down the rouil. Gwen P erson's fiance w as continually seen In the unw elcom e CO N TA IN S: M eda’a company, and of late M arion The College of Literature, The Graduate School. G rovenor's h ereto fo re faith fu l a tte n d Science and the Art* The School of Journalism. a n t w as usually to he found th ere too. The School of Architecture The School of Law. T he women's cool a ttitu d e tow ard and Allied A rts. The School of Medicine. th e Interloper show ed th e ir displeas The School of Business The School of Music. ure. W hat right had Ju lie H uated to Administration. The School of Physical t bring tills unknow n relativ e of h er The School of Education. Education. h u sb an d ’s am ong them ? The Extension Division. The SchAil of Sociology. W hen Tom Lucy m et her, Meda w as plcnlclng w ith her H usted cousins on , the bunk of a stream . She talked to { A High s ta n d a rd of c u ltu ra l and p ro fessio n al sch o la rsh ip h as becom e T om , ns he happened along, w hile her o n e ol the o u ts ta n d in g m arks of the S tate U n iv e rsity . F or a catalogue cousins llshed. And though Tom Lucy folders on th s v ario u s schools, o r for any inform ation, w rite T H E REGISTRAR. UNIVERSITY O F O R E G O N . Eugene. Ore. believed him self to be In love w ith M arion G rovenor, he lingered tuid th o u g h t the little Meda B row n person very entertaining, Indeed. It w as ulw ays th a t way. As days passed he planned and schem ed for them eagerly. Meda w as so delightfully surprising. She could be gravely, w isely sym pa th e tic or Infectiously gay and m erry. "I suppose," M arlon contem ptuous ly rem ark ed to Tom, "You believe th a t flatterin g in terest In yourself and your engrossing business Is genuine. She I* . .. ‘ f ... . t «.,* . p u ts It on for everyone like a cap. And then laughs a t you fo r your pains. living.” W hy you all hum or h er in her self esteem is more th an I can see. .S he’s ju s t a little cat w ithout a thougnt be yond her own am usem ent. And If you care fo r me------’’ Tom knew th e rest. H e had h eard It before. If he cared for Murlou his friendliness w ith th e pleasing Meda m ust cease. The trouble w as th a t he did not know this could be done. Meda w as so different from flirtatious m aids he had known. H is frien d sh ip fo r her was a real and vltai thing. O r w as the deep feeling m erely frien d ship? Then Tom Lacy knew —It w as love. He told her frankly, as they | so t together, th a t he had Intended to : m arry M arlon, and th a t he had thought he cared for h er until Meda came, i And. he recalled as he spoke, th a m any ♦ b itte r things M arlon had said of the Your Grocer Has I t girl, who now lis te n e d ; the unkind tale of her unscrupulous • conquests, her h eartless trium phs, and he fe lt th at the revelation of M arlon’s n atu re, w ith her unreasoning jealousies, hud killed, m 1 1 14 .li. ' at its beginning, any love th a t might have been. Tom. In h is eloquence, w as not aw are of all th a t he said. He l■lll■lll■l1■lll■fll■lll■lll■lll■lll■!ll■lll■lll■ll■lll■lll■lll■ll.'■ltl■lt1■^0'l 'i n n i B i i i M n i ’ Im pressed upon Meda Brow n his own belief In her, R espite M arlon und all f = others. A nd. when he hud finished, § w aiting b reath lessly his fate, Meda, ■ her soft eyes suddenly aglow, threw j | hack her head and laughed. Tom j stured, grow ing very w hite. "You, too," laughed Meda, "so you B had to love me. Though before we ■ met you Intended to m arry M iss ¿rove- g nor." Still sm iling, Meda looked hack a t B him. “Go a n d m arry her, my d ear friend." she said, “for I have finished." Tom sal, u fte r she had gone, trying in u n d erstan d . H e had not known that love could so m ake one suffer. Love, how little l*e h ad 'realized its m eaning. So they w ere right, Marlon and the rest of th e w om en; It w as un- Officers and H. Hirschberg, Pres. C. A. McLaughlin, V. P. Ira D. Mix, Cashier W. H. Walker D. W. Sears O. D. Butler U niversity of O regon Fall Term Opens September 26 Mr. Barnes, U. S. Wheat Director Saya: “EAT MORE BREAD And reduce the high cost of H0LSUM BREAD IS THE CHEAPEST AS WELL AS THE MOST WHOLESOME ON THE MARKET TODAY. BUY THAT EXTRA LOAF C h e r r y C it y B a k in g C o . Autos Trucks Tires and Accessories Gas Pump Safe and Office Furniture Auto Utilities Co. Dallas, Ore. it lallevable. Tom Lacy stood undecidedly : did nut w ant tn go hack to the house. A little co ttag e stood at the end of I Ihe cou n try lane. He and Meda had i stopped th e re som etim es to visit it j so litary old woman. Meda liked to play fo r th e lonely one on her old j piano. H is step s led him th ere now, unconsciously. A bsently, he dropped mi the wooden bench outside the cot- i tage window. T he tinkling tones of the p iano cam e to him . M eda's voice w as singing a sw eet little song, Its each verse beginning with “Somebody." lie listened, w ondering vaguely a t the trem ulous catch tn th e still loved voice: “Ann som ebody's dream . If , dream s can com e true, Is only a dream of gladness fo r y o u ; ray d ream Is for you." T hen all a t once Tom Locy under- vtood. T he despised girl would wil lingly efface h e rse lf and her love, th at she m ight give to him w hat she be lieved to he his own dream of g lad ness. T o him, and to M arlon, w ho so m isjudged her. So she had acted for M arion’s sake, th e p a rt M arlon gave io her. And through all she cared His h eart sang a t th e thought. F o r a m om ent he stood thin k in g of the tw o women— M arlon, whose selfish e x actions had m arred th e ir happiest hours, and th is o th er girl, w ith her dream of gladness but fo r him. Tom Locy w ent boldly Into the room Meda’« eyes w elcomed him. He took her Into bis arm s. Enterprise. “You p rin t th e la te st happening*T” "Yes,” said th e New York publisher, und we even try to an tic ip a te a few." I u jlav llle C ourier Jo u rn al ¡ Your Distant and Near Vision I • i *.i.: Are Equally Clear g ~ Try K ryptok glatten. You never have to search for lost glasses when you have your eye« fitted £ with thin w onderful in visib le bifocal lenr. 8 C om e in and have your eyea exam in ed by ex - pert«*. We fit and make our own glaases All len ses | ground in our own laboratory. 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