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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1921)
Lottie Hedges McIntosh Teacher of Piano and V oice liB h B liB liB IIB IIB IlB IIB IIB iiB llB U B IIB IH B IIB IIB IIIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB H lliV iiiV iiiv ih H M iii^ iim p H ip t[p in p n n n n ! i i MORE LIGHT ON STONEHENGE Colored M aid Confides to Em ployer the O nly W ay to Get Rid of the Blemishes. "R estoratio n" la Revealing M any the Secret* of Famoue S tru c tu re * on Saliabury P lain. Mrs. Newlywed is learning all sorts o f things from tiussie, her cul t-red maid o f all work. Soft of Announces the re-opening o f her residence studio Sept. 26. A limited voice, comfortable, slow and ad -number of pupils accepted. Phone now for class reservations. High dicted to strange mutteriugs * and school credits given. • * stlf-coiuniunings is Gussie, observe* the New York Sun. Studio Monmouth and 7th Sts. Phone 4821 This time it was peach stain* Mrs. Newlywed looked with distress at her lovely napkins, marred in ilieir first using by large, assertive, and, it seemed, evergrowing pencil “ Appeal to O’ IN el 11” stains. Gussie regarded the beautiful Eyes Tested and Fitted. Lenses Duplicated. blemished linen wisely. “ What can I do about it, G ih - sie?” asked Mrs. Newlywed. “ TIov, can 1 take the peach stains out?” Gussie shook her head. O p to m e tris t-O p iic lu n “ Ma’am,” she finally admonished “ you can’t get peach stains out, not BUSH BANK BLDG. SALEM, ORE. now, you can’ t ; got to wait ma’am, PHONE 8 2 5 twell the peach season’s over. When they ain’t no more peaches them -tains’ll go ’w jy all be theirselves • you don’ have to do nothin’ . When illB I!B H B IH M B IIB I!B I!B liB IIB IlB llB llB IIB !IB IiB llB IIB I!B llB tlB IIB IIB H I the peach season is over the stains disappear jes as quick!” “ Th at’s very strange. Gussie,” ? commented Mrs. Newlywed. “I i í can’t understand that, "quite.” i “ Yes. ma’am,” insisted Gussie, i •‘yes, ma’am, you wouldn’ t think Ï them peach stains got so much sen-e, but they has.” I (Affiliated i LEAVE PEACH STAINS ALONE with Northwestern Conservatory, Chicago) Dr. C. B. O’Neill j Hot Stove Sale I The Stove Sale at this store is still i hot. 1 he approach of winter has § § s caused many to th in k of hot i stoves and their comforts and 9 i § they are coming ’round to learn I § about our hot bargains in stoves. I H There is still room in the store I I for many more prospective pur chasers. WILLARD E. CRAVEN HDW. INDEPENDENCE, OREGON I I I B IIB IIB IIB IlB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IlB lìB f IB IIB IIB IIB IlB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB J » GOT HIS METAPHORS MIXED E d ito r Probably Knew W hat H<* M eant to Say, but R eader* M ay H ave Gasped. “ When I was teaching in an Iowa town,” says an eastern man, *‘ I used every week to read a little country [taper published there, whose edi tors 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 in bis hand, and, hoisting him by hi« own petard, leaves him a marked man for life.’ “ He said, in an article on home life : ‘The faithful watchdog or his good wife, standing at the door, welcomes the master home with an honest bark.’ In an obituary o f a farmer he wrote: ‘The race was run 1 at last. Like a tired steed, he . 6 * « «! crossed the harbor tear and, casting * aside whip and spur, lay down upon that bourne from which no traveler ever returns.’ ” Ì L E A R N IN G When little Mitzi Hajoa first starred in musical comedy “ on this side,” she could speak but a few I words of English, but she was a | willing student. One night, in a dancing number; Tom MeNaughton. the story goes, happened to tramp on M itzi’s toes, and the fiery little singer went up 1 into the air like a skyrocket. When the curtain fell Mitzi j pitched into MeNaughton with an avalanche o f American slang that amazed the comedian. Finally, Mc- \ a lighten replied : “ Well, I must say, Mitzi, you are getting on in your English. Where’d | you learn all o f that stuff?” With a show o f pride Mitzi re torted : “ I pick him opp from ze stage hands.” —-Youngstown Tele gram. SEE YOURSELF IN AN UP TO DATE HAT Hats for rain Hats for shine Hats for sport B L IN D Hats for all times Moderately priced and up to the minute in style. Mrs. L. G. Curtis Masonic Building 125 N. High St. W hen in need of Job Printing E N G L IS H . Salem M A N W IN S SUC CESS. j of The first stage in the “ restora tion” of Stonehenge la now com pleted, ami the lonely landmark on Salisbury plain is now free from scatfolding and cranes. A report on the work has been published by the Society o f Antiquaries, whose experts have been in charge o f the excavations,* and the report states that many relies at the base of the monoliths, including roughly worked Hint instruments, and frag ments of pottery o f the bronze age and the Romano-British period, were discovered. A t the base of the slaughter stone they found a bottle of port, left there apparently by a previous investigator, Mr. Cunning ham, who examined the stone in 1901. The latest discoveries ap pear to bear out the theory that Stonehenge was built in the latter part of the Stone age, between 1600 and 1800 B. C. This theory o f the date was advanced by Professor Gowland, who was in charge o f the restoration of Stonehenge in 1901. He based his assumption on the fact that a largo number of crude flint tools were found at the base o f the stones, as if left there* by workmen. No bronze implements were discovered at the time. The absence of any tools other than those of flint is again noted by the later investigators.— Brooklyn Eagle. WATER POWER SAVES ITALY In the Absence of Coal, It Is Being Used for A ll Kinds of Indus tria l W o rk. Italian water-power stations soon will be developing 1,500,000 horse power. One-half o f these stations have been erected during the last five years, while present plans an ticipate the construction of 57 more stations which will generate 359,- 000 horsepower. Before the war Italy had 328 wa ter-power plants which produced 835,000 horsepower. During the war 58 stations were constructed and these were able to develop 217,- 000 horsepower. This immense amount of power has been used in all kinds of industrial work. Some is used for the electric power need ed on the electrified railroads. The biggest plant now in course of construction is situated in Sar dinia. A colossal water basin with a capacity o f 400,000,000 cubic me ters w ill serve to supply the station with power. “EAT MORE BREAD And reduce the high cost of living. ” H0LSUM BREAD IS TH E C H E A PE S T AS W E L L AS T H E MOST W HOLESOM E ON TH E M A R K E T TO D AY. . BUY THAT EXTRA LOAF Your Grocer Has It. Cherry City Baking Co a illB IIB IIM IIIB IIB IIB IIB liB IIB IIE IH g lllB IIB IIB IIB J Ik illB IIB IIB IIB lIB IIB IIB III C STREET MEAT MARKET LOM M ASSON & OTT, Props. Itdependeu** 173 C Street Phone 9211 liaillP'HBIIBIIBIII llllB U B IIB IM IIIB IIB U B IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB IIB t ia The Independence National Hank Established .1889 A N A C C O U N T in a commercial bank is most • •moment aid to modern business. It s.\-‘ ema- 'zes payments, is a check on all expenditures and i-'ws you just where you stand each n nth. I on one with us today. It will pay you to do -to. Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg, Pres. C. A. McLaughlin, V. P. Ira D. Mix, Cashier W. H. Walker D. W. Sears O. D. Hutler 1 SHE WAS NO T JA N ET. One day while shopping I chanced to run across a gentleman and two ladies who had been our neighbors for many years but whom I had lost track of. A fter our greetings were over she introduced me to her fiance, and. warmly enthusiastic, I ex claimed: “ You haven’t changed a bit in all these five years! You cer tainly look as young as when I last saw you, Janet!” - H er gratified «mile suddenly evaporated, and, staring coldly at me, she stiffly re marked : “ Thank you, hut I don’t happen to be Janet; I ’m ‘little sister May.’ Janet is the mother o f four children now.” — Exchange. TOO M U C H TO ASK. “ In the old days a campaignei would invite everybody to have re freshments.” “ Polities have changed,” replied Miss Cayenne. “ Yon couldn’t ex pect a candidate to have enough funds to treat the crowd to ice cream soda.” A striking example of persever ance against the physical disability I o f blindness is furnished by James H. Rawlinson. ex-Canadian soldier. ! who he« just left Ottawa on the first [»art o f bis journey to FiOndon, Eng land. where he is to assume the du ties o f clerk-stenographer in the DANGERS OF T H E DEEP. [xmdon office o f the department of immigration and‘ colonization. Raw “ Does it require courage to swirr linson was trained at St. Dunstan’s beyond the breakers?” school, in England, and for «ome “ It does. The chance of drown i time has been working at the T o mg is not great. But the quarrel ronto office of the department. you’ re liable to have with the husky lifeguard involves considerable F R A N C E G E T S V A L U A B L E T R E E . peril.” F A S C IN A T IN G SP O R T. The trees producing the sap from which lacquer, a «penal varnish, ir “ What is your favorite game?” m ad1, were introduoed into France “ Tennis,” answered Miss Cay front the Orient during the war, enne. “ It always enables a girl to aupptementing to *ome extent the l»e photographed in an effective markets of India, China and Japan. iAcqur-r has been found to be o f ex pose, whether she’s a good player or treme value in airplane manufac not.” ture, combining, aa i t doe*, durabil V A C A T IO N FO R H IM ity and toughness with the char acteristic of bending without crack “ Going to get any vacation this ing. It takes a high polish, arid is vear, old man ?” used especially fo i coating propeller “ Well, my wife is going away for blades.— Popular Mechanic* Maga a couple of weeka.” — Louisville C ourier-Journal. We will do it right sine. Mr. Barnes, U. S. Wheat Director Says: G Stands for Groceries It also stands for Good Goods in which this store specializes. This is a money saving store also and if you trade here long enough you’ ll know it without telling. J. G. McIntosh Grocery HOME OF GOOD GROCERIES Courteous and Intelligent Service INDEPENDENCE, OREGON ^ ■ n B U B U B IIB liV 'W B IIB iiV lia iB llia ilB IIB Iia iia illB IIB IIB IIB Iia r w«i¡wimiHi«iiiB!iaiiBiiaiiaiiaiiBiiaHiBtiBiBir Reliable Dentistry! ■ At i Fair Prices i CR OW N A N D BRIDGE W O R K A SPECIALTY Dr. Alt Swennes ! DENTIST ag>TW SALEM, ORE. fR i « i b i - b i ■ i ■ i a i v i aiBiiBuBiiiBiiBiBiiaiBiaiiaiiaiiaiiiBtaMBiar GET THOSE LETTERHEADS N O W w