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
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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.
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