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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1921)
ihe Urcgon Historical Society P olk county P ost LARGEST CIRCULATION IN SOUTH POLK COUNTY Auditori um VOLUME IV. Mr. and Mrs. John Scott and daughter Mildred if Monmouth Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Stap'eton and | fam ily Mr. and Mrs. L H. McElmurry and serTHenry Mr. and Mrs. Oren McElmurry C. B. Forbes [L e tte r received by Co. Clerk M oore.] Mr. and Mrs. John Compton and son Camp Bucksnort, Oct. 8, 1921. Isaac Dear Sir: Excuse me. please. Mrs Grant Standard o f Silveiton I am a Trapper and Mountain Mr. and Mrs. Homer Linsley and daughter Rose Marie Guide and this summer became Mrs Jack Stapieson and son Dean acquainted with a gentleman by Mrs. Rose Ev ns the name of Jack Sibley, who Miss Erea Smith o f Portland informed me of your address, Dt>n Dickinson "LEGACY” IN WAITING FOR GEORGE CARBRAY and he said that you woulo be sure to know of the address of one George Cabray or Carbray. The here in mentioned persoh has fallen into a "L egacy” and 1 hold the credentials for the delivery of the same, if you have not the time to hunt up this person, see Sheriff Orr. perhaps he can locate him. I am still busy guiding persons to the various health resorts throughout Northern California, and it was only day before yes terday that 1 stubbed my toe against a four-pound gold nug get on the hillside. This whole hillside was covered with the shining particles resembling gold that for a time 1 was flaber- gasted with astonishment. H ank P NO. 21 INDEPENDENCE, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1921 eterson . P. S. Leave it to Uncle Jim Sweeney. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Married Thirty-five Years Wedding bells rang again for Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Alexander on Sunday wh n a wedding din ner was served at the home of their son and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Gail Alexander. Ic was in cele bration of thirty-five years o f married life. A reception was held duridg the day at their own home across the street where relatives gathered to talk over old times and to join in singing the old songs. A t one o’ clock they flocked to the well laden tables of good things, made pret ty with the Fall flowers. During the dinner the children present ed their parents with a clock. Those in attendance were: Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Gail Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Dell Alexander Mr. Pearl Alexander and fam ily Mrs. JoseDh Anderson and fam ily iff Dram Mr. and Mrs Wm. Scott and son Paul Mrs. Irvine Entertains For Mis. Goopei and Daughter Mrs Chas. Irvine entertained a few friends Wednesday even ing complimenting Miss Gene vieve Cooper and »Mrs. C. W. Henkle, who are on the verge of departure. Miss Cooper will pass the winter in Porsland and Mr?. Henkle will go to California about Nov. 1st to spend the winter. Mrs. Irvine provided ample di version and served a dainty re past to close a delightful evening. Grandson Killed Today Message To Mrs. Govro Mrs. i. Govro received a gram today informing her her grandson, Lisle Govro, been killed in a California ging camp. tele that had log "Merry Mixer" Scheduled For Wednesday Night Plans are being made for the “ merry mixer” for the teachers to be given at the Methooisl church next Wednesday even ing. It is hoped that every one will respond to the invitation to be present. Mrs. Kreamei’s Mollier Dies In Eugene The 9. A. Kreamers went to Eugene yesterday in response to a message that Mrs. Richard son, Mrs. Kreamer’s mother, had passed away Wednesday. FROM HEAD TO FOOT T h is store can c lo th e you s ty lis h ly , d u ra b ly and a t a v e ry cheap price in co m p a riso n to o th e r. You sh o u ld see o u r S u its priced fro m $18 to $32.50. Look a t o u r Laps, M a c k in a w s and B a th Robes. You w ill w a n t th e m . O u r special w o rk s h ir ts a t 75c are dandies. Yours truly, O. A. Kreamer INDEPENDENCE, O R E G O N [¡CHATS UF FOSTERED CZECH A! FDSSIAPEDDLERS iO p iD IT O rin il *7 (5 * I U Modern Machinery Does Away Picturesque Custom Once Haughty Offloers of Old Sokol Societies Kept Alive Pa triotism in Czecho-Slovakia. Regime Are Now Penniless in Turkish Capital. S e n -D rie d Shrim p» W ere “ Chucked" to Mucic of Banjo Plunked in W eird M in o r Key. i New Orleans.— Due to the inroads modern machinery, the “ shrimp i dance,” one of the picturesque hits of | routine that for years has marked the work on the shrimp-drying platforms along the Louisiana south coast, this year goes ln,o the lumber room of memories to Join other quaint customs o f bygone years. Machinery hereafter will “ chuck” the sun-dried shrimps. T o the tourists who have ventured down Into the wilderness of low-lying marshes, where the shrimp platforms gather In the cargoes of the trawlers, the “ shrimp dance” has ever been a Colorful memory. Boiled In suit water In great copper vats, dried In the sunshine to rubbery resiliency, the shrimps have been swept up Into huge circles in the past years. Then,, while guitar or banjo or accor dion wailed anil plunked a dancing strain In a weird minor key, the husky plutforui workers, hands on hips, have shuffled over 'lie circular piles of shrimp. Beneath their tread the brit tle shells crackled Into fragments. Following the dance the pinkish shrimp meat was shoveled through great screens, the brittle shell frag ments falling through, while the plies o f dried fish were packed In barrels. The shrimp Industry in Louisiana has grown to greater porportlons than Is generally known. During the season of 1020, 20,716 persons were supported hy the industry, more than $1,000,000 were Invested In shrimp fleets, and the catch was listed by government offloluls at 28.050,000 pounds. IS suivie IN CONCEPTION | o f ONE TRAGEDY OF GREAT WAR Every Street in Constantinople Is Crowded With Refugees From Rus sia— Wives and Daughters in Menial Occupations. Constantinople.— When Russia w m a mighty nation under tier czars It was the Slav dream to march into Constan tinople. Well, the Russians In their thou sands have reached this city, but their presence means not a triumph, hut one o f the great tragedies of the aftermath of the war. The allies, and especially France, hacked and financed a number of at tempts on the part of Russian« to break down the Bolshevist government and substitute one that would do busi ness with western Europe. The last of these mercenary' armies was the one led by General Wrangel, who at one time was master o f the Crimea. But just as soon as the Bolsheviks secured peace with Poland, they smashed Wrangel to smithereens. The Crimea witnessed one of the greatest scrambles in history. Soldiers and their leaders, civilians and their wives and families, clamored for ships to take them away before the avenging Bolsheviks came in. The vessels which were finally sup plied for the refugees were Jammed beyond human endurance. F ille d W ith Refugees. Thousands o f the survivors o f this page o f recent history were brought to Constantinople. Every street in Constantinople is crowded with them. Near this city you may see broad-faced Mongolians and Kalmuck Tartars, who were once in W rangel’s army, working on the railway tracks. In the city itself the Russians have largely turned to peddling. Their wives and sisters and daugh ters have taken to waiting in little res taurants or washing dishes or scrub bing floors or doing fam ily washing. Many have been forced by sheer want into immorality. And there are thousands who have no visible means of support. They sell nothing. They do not work. They sim ply walk the streets aimlessly. Many of them have shirts, hut no coats I f you see them with coats but toned up to the neck, you may know that they have neither shirt nor un dershirt underneath. In this blaring hot oriental weather many o f them go about with great, long, heavy cossack coats whose collars and sleeves are trimmed with thick astrachan. S h ift fo r Themselves. Men who were once officers in the czar’s army and later In Wrangel’s forces still go about with their epau lets on shoulders. Often one has a wicked-looking Russian officer's dagger at his side. ® It would seem, that with this great Influx o f one-time soldiers o f adven ture, made desperate by want, there would be a grSat Increase o f petty crimes. But the 2,500 Turkish police have held crime in check. For a considerable period the French authorities undertook to feed the 100,- 000 Russian refugees, the only stipula tion being that they should seek work to make themselves self-supporting. Rut work was the very thing that the | great majority of them did nol want. They -accrued to think the allies were tl»der some sort o f obligation to main tain them in idleness. The result was that the French felt compelled to with draw all assistance and allow them to shift for themselves.— Milton Bronner, In Chicago Post. PUBLIC KISSING ON People Asia Change of M in o r WANE Age- Old Custom of Showing Affec- ■ tton, Esteem or Reverence. Angora.— The age old custom of men publicly kissing other men as a mark o f affection, esteem or rever ence. is (Kissing in Asia Minor. As In the French army, high officers or generals o f the Turk nationalist army kiss men whom they decorate or wish to commend Gen. Ismet Paaha. In reviewing infantry, often walks up to some stalwart soldier, siaps him on the shoulder and kisses him on both cheeks as a mark of puhlir ap proval. The correspondent has seen a high officer kneel and kiss the hands of Gen. Mouhfdlnne Bey, the former teacher of the younger officer. Rut In general, aa a euatoru of the people, of friends meeting and em bracing after long separation, klaa Ing Is aching o f the past. In s titu te d U nder a Hostile Govern m ent to Footer Phyelcal and M oral Forces W hich M ake fo r Manliness, Sim ultaneously It Forged the N a tio n al Forces W hich M ake for F re e dom— Now W orks to Strengthen Bonds W hich U n ite N ew Czech S tate. The recent visit of a delegation of Sokol Gymnastic societies from Czecho-Slovakia to the United States had a deeper Interest than that at taching to an International athletic event. Europe’s new-born republic sent to the far older republic o f the new world a representation from an organization which had much to do with keeping alive a national spirit agaiust the day when she seized her opportunity for Independence, says a bulletin of the National Geographic society explaining the historical sig nificance of the Sokol societies. The delegation o f Sokols _ from Czecho-Slovakia were repaying the visit made by many American Sokols who went to Prague last yeur, each o f them hearing food drafts so thnt their presence in Prague would not be more o f an embarrassment than a help. A group of American Sokols met at the castle-crowned hill where the March and the Danube unite and there draped Old Glory over a millen nial monument, which was erected by the Magyars to commemorate the es tablishment of the Hungarian state bv T H IR T Y T H O U S A N D Stephen the First In 997. R eveille to N atio n al S p irit. The founding o f the Sokol organl zntlon In Bohemia was the sounding of the reveille to a slumbering nation. Czech nationality In 1862 wus somno lent. Even friends of the Hussite peo ple ilety ^‘ reri of Its regaining Its sense o f free,ton.. The enemies o f the race which produced Comenlus openly sneered at the low estate to which the once proud nation had fallen. Then came Miroslav Tyrs and Jln- drlch Fugner, who conceived as a means o f awakening their race the es tablishment o f an organization which would escape the antagonism o f the Hapshnrg oppressors while cementing the people Into a unit by training them In discipline and organization. The SokoJs, or falcons, derive their name from a Slnv legend In which that bird typifies a spirited and courageous youth. The organization Is Slavic In conception and It has so far aided In energizing successive Slavic groups. It was the Czech Sokol spirit which united the thousands o f Bohemian war prisoners In Russia and, when the permission from Kerensky came, forged them Intd the army which formed the spearpolnt o f the "K eren sky offensive” In the summer o f 1917. It was the Sokol spirit which actuated thousands o f men In w estern1 Russia, who could almost see their native hills, to set out on the moat marvel mis anabasis that World war has known, an adventure which cultnl nated In the capture of huge tracts of Siberia, and the return of the vet erans In American transports from Vladivostok to Trieste. The Sokolovna, or Sokol hall, Is not only the gymnasium for the men and women o f Czecho-Slovakia, but Is also the social and cultural center of the city or village. It has been through more than half a century of awaken ing nationalism the hearthstone to which the Czech lares and pennies have linen gathered. RE). HERflB PROPRE RE-ELECTED PASTOR ENOS "SHRIMP DANCE” Rev. Hut-old Proppe has been asked by the Baptist church of Independence to remain as pas tor and he has accepted. During: his pastorship here, Mr. Proppe, ably assisted by Mrs. Proppe, has accomplished much good for the church and community. The local Baptist church has u large enthusiastic membership ! and is especially noted for hav ing so many young people active ly co-operating and assisting in advancing the principles of the Master. Mrs. F. Slack Entertains Women of Buena Vista Mrs. E. F. Black was a very charming hostess to the Buena Vista Ladies Rural Club at her home on Third Street yesterday aft< rnnon. A paper to have been presented by Mrs. J. E. Hubbard was deferred until later. The president, Mrs. Perry Wells, pre sided over the session. The ladies responded to roll call with interesting quotations. The host ess, assisted by her daughter, Mrs. Fisher, served dainty re freshments. S E A L S K IN S . Tall I list ructions have been issued to the United States bureau of fish eries representatives on the Pribilof islands authorizing the taking of 30,000 fur seal skins on both islands during the calendar year 1921. Ten tative divisions by classes for the killings on the two islands are as follows: St. Paul, 22,100 three- year-olds, 3,000, four-year-olds and 600 five-vcar-olds, and St. George, 2,750 three-year-olds, 450 four-year- olds and 100 five-year-olds.— Fish eries Service Bulletin. t>o«t About Iti OREGON T h e a t re S A L E M Fri. and Sat., Oct. 21-22 Elsie Ferguson at her best V E R Y C LO U D Y CLOUD. W illiam Lyon Phelps o f the F.ng- lish chair at Yale has added a new mixed metaphor to his large and amusing collection. This addition is from one o f the novels of W. L. G eorge: “ The cloud that tried to ■stab their happiness was only a false rumor whose bitter taste could not splinter the radiance nor dim the effervescence o f their joy.” — De troit Free Press. N ine-Foot Man M arrie s 5-Foot W oman. Mrs. Jan Van Albert of Port A r thur. Ont., who became a bride re cently. will always look up to her husband. He Is nine feet five Inches tall, and she la five feet four Inches Italia n s Use Gold D o lla r a t Standard The ministry of commerce o f Rome Italy, has announced thnt hereafter the gold dollar will replace the pound sterling as the standard upon which 1 itie Italian lira Is baaed. IN “ FOOT LIGHTS” Sun., Mon., Tues. Oct. 23-24-25 Rupert Hughes’ “ THE OLD NEST” We have never seen a better picture. Wed.-Thurs., Oct. 20 27 Constance Binnsy IN ‘ROOM and BOARD’ Wurlitzer Concerts W ednesday, at 8 P. M. BY L. CARLOS MEIER Becomes N a tio n al Featival. Last year the seventh Sokol fes tlval was held In Prague. Coming at a time when the new nations o f En rope were still dazed with selfgovem ment, It did more than any other thing to unite the people o f one country and to reveal to them the spectacle o f a nation’s people co-operating In a tribute to the very nationality which their co-operation was strengthening Sokols were brought from most re mote districts. Children who had long heard o f their capital but whe had never seen Golden Prague spent a week In visiting the plai’ea rich In | historical and national Interest. Thf railways were given such a teat at war Itself would not Impose upon them. Hundreds o f thousands o f new ly enfranchised citizens hnd the prlvl lege of paying personal tribute to 'helt ' newly eleeted chief. President Masa ryk The organization which was Insti tuted under a h oat Be government tr foster the physical and aplrltmil force» that make for manllneaa. almnltaneona ly forged the national forees which make for freedom. Freedom having heen secured, the same organization operates In strengthening the hoods that unite the new Caech »fate. The Best Time To Buy Is when the best bargains are offered. THE INDEPENDENBE REALTY GO. Has some splendid bargains In MODERN HOMES, SMALL TRACTS, RANCHES See Us Today Beaver Hotel Building Phone M 1811
