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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1921)
BUENOS AIRES UP TO DATE ìjjOCAb’' Talking Machines R e sid e n ts of G ay So u th A m e ric a n C a p ita l R ig h t ly P ro u d of T h e ir B e a u tifu l C ity. BREVITIES Mr. and Mrs. J . G. McIntosh, Mrs. A. D. Davidson and M.s. O. A. Kreamer »ere in Salem Mon day. Mrs. H. W. Withrow entertain- eo the members of the B. Y. P. U. at a Hallowe’en party Friday night. * —■ mmmmt A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Fredrickson Tuesday morning. The young hopeful has been named Charles Freeman. L. Dauman left Tuesday for Prineville and other Easter Ore gon points where he will visit relatives about a couple of weeks. Buenos Aires believes strongly in public utilities coin|ietition. It lias '(fr. 1H21. W e i t e m N . w a p n p . r C a l o a . ) four telephone companies, with re She w as u sm all c re a tu re w ith wide sultant cut rates to subscribers. Au uppauliug ayes ot blue. Ami w hat the tomatic telephones are being i n - 1 uibu found to so ad m ire tu h er w as stalled, and it is said the South m ore thau o th er women could see. American metropolis is likely to Among them selves they discussed her beat New York to the use of these us u vnmpinh person to be righteously avoided. per capita. C ertain It wus tliut from the m om ent In many wavs Buenos Aires is as Meda B row n becam e h m em ber of the up-to-date as any city in the world. llu s te d house purty, sw ains old anil It has all electric street car lines and ¿onus' left th e ir form erly adored to And, Meda also an honest-to-goodness subway, follow In h e r train . B ro w n ; w hat a p lain nam e. where the passengers have to hang N evertheless, the dem ure one tr i to straps and are packed in like sar um phed easily —everyw here. The dines in a box. It maintains a com stra n g e tiling w as that she did not plete communication system witli try for th e triu m p h s, or seem to care. all agricultural, industrial and com Usuully sh e hud to be h u n ted out In some secluded c o rn e r ,1 or fo restalled mercial centers through South on one of h e r cu sto m ary w alks down America and handles a large pro the road. O wen P e rso n 's tiunce w as portion of all the exporting and im co ntinually seen In the unw elcom e porting trade south of the equator. Medu’s com pany, and of late M arlon rovenor’s h ereto fo re fa ith fu l a tte n d It supports grand opera, and its O an t w as usually to he found th ere too. women are as smartly and expen- I T he w om en's cool a ttitu d e tow ard sivelv dressed as any who can get the In terlo p er showed th e ir d isp leas ure. W hat rig h t had Ju lie llu s te d to the fashion news from Paris. But the horse has not been super bring th is unknow n re lativ e of h er hu sb an d ’s am ong them ? seded by the automobile. There are i When Tom Lacy m et her, Meda w as four times as manv horses and car picnicing w ith h er llu s te d cousins on Read C. S. Hamilton’s ad on “Raleigh's Gift to the Queen.” The story is pleasing and the ria g e s on th e s tre e t as p riv a te m o- furniture will be even more pleas * U m a rs , seven tim e s as m a n v horse- ing. j d ra w n cabs as taxis a n d th ir ty - e ig h t I ,. 1 tim e s as m any wagon« * , a* auto- A number went from Inde I tru c k s. pendence Monday night to set “ Robin Hood” at the Grand i he INDIAN MARINE CAME FIRST ater in Salem. They were more H o n o r T h a t H a s Seem ed to Be long to than delighted with the produc A o st ra lia n N a v y M u s t Be Surren dere d. tion. the bank of a streuui. She talk ed to Tom, us he happened along, while tier ^ n s Ushed. A nd though Tom Lacy believed h im self to be in love w ith I Marlon G rovenor, he lingered and th ought th e little Meda Brow n person ' very e n te rta in in g , indeed. It w as alw ay s th a t way. A s days passed lie plunued and schem ed for them eagerly. Meda wus so delig h tfully surprising. She could be gravely, w isely sym pa th e tic o r infectiously gay and m erry. “I suppose," M arion co ntem ptuous ly rem arked to Tom, “You believe th a t flatterin g In te re st In y o u rself and your engrossing bu sin ess Is genuine. She p u ts It on fo r everyone like a cap. And then laughs a t you fo r your pains. Why you all hum or h er in h er self esteem is m ore th a n I can see. She’s Ju st a little c a t w ithout a thought be yond h er 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 fo r M arlon his frien d lin ess w ith th e pleasing Meda m ust cease. T he tro u ble w as th a t he did not know th is could be done. Meda w as so differen t from flirtatio u s m aids he had know n. H is friendship fo r h er w as a real and vital thing. O r w as th e deep feeling m erely frie n d ship? T hen Tom Lacy knew — it w as love. H e told h er frankly, as they s a t together, th a t he had Intended to m arry M arlon, and th a t he had thought he cared fo r h e r until Meda came. And, he recnlled a s he spoke, th e m any b itte r th in g s M arlon had said of the girl, w ho uow liste n e d ; th e unkind tale The belief that the Australian navy was the first branch of the BLOOM KNOWN TO CONFUCIUS royal navy thrown out by Britain in the outer waters appears to rest G reat C h in e se P h ilo s o p h e r W ro te of th e C h ry sa n th e m u m F iv e H u n upon a misunderstanding. The d re d Y e a rs B e fo re C hrist. honor belongs to the Indian marine, which was originally founded at The florist would doubtless he Surat in 1613. It was once main puzzled if a customer asked for a tained at tlie cost of the East In dozen L.-Ri, yet that is what Con dian company. It protected the fucius called the chrysanthemum company's merchantmen from the when he wrote about it in China depredations of pirates, of whom some 500 years before Christ was Joasini, Cutch and other hold free born. And that’s how old, at least, booters gave th • navy the most trou the chrysanthemum it»—something ble. When I lie naval tide of war like 2,600 years. swept into the Indian ocean, the In The beauties of the bloom have dian marine was as much a part of been bettered rather than decreased the British navy as the Roval Aus with age. The Jap« have known it tralian navy was in the great war. for at least 2,000 years. But in But if the Australian navy cannot earlier centuries it was not the im- I claim the distinction of priority, it posing mammoth head hundreds of may, none the less, take he»rt. In years of cultivation has brought it these days, with disarmament in to be. It came to Europe from , the air, it may claim, the world will | of her unscrupulous conquests, her Japan and China some time in the hope, the distinction of being the h e a rtle ss triu m p h s, and he fe lt th a t Seventeenth century, and the* florist« last of the British auxiliaries needed th e revelation of M arlon’s n atu re, w ith of those days began its intensive h e r u n reaso n in g Jealousies, had killed, to win a definite place on the sea.— a t lts beginning, any love th a t m ight cultivation and developed the large Christian Science Monitor. have been. Tom , In his eloquence, flowers from which have come down w as not a w a re of all th a t he said. He H O W S H E A R R IV E D the chrysanthemums of this day. Im pressed upon Meda Brow n his own The name itself is from the Greek b elief In her, d esp ite M arlon and all j and really means “golden flower,” j Winifred was at her grandmoth others. And when he .had finished, I which is not far from a good de- | er’s one day having a good time w aitin g b re a th le ssly his fate, Meda. e r soft eyes suddenly aglow , th rew seription in the light of the great playing all by herself. Her uncle, h hack h er head and laughed. Tom going out to the back yard, found lemon-and-orange colored blooms stu red , grow ing very w hite. which have been developed in recent her up on a high workbench, where “You, too,” laughed Meda, “so you it seemed impossible for her to get hud to love me. T hough before we j years. without help. m et you Intended to m arry Miss Grove A U T O M O B IL E S M E N A C E . “Why, Winifred!” he exclaimed, nor." Still sm iling, Meda looked hack at “how did you get up there?” him, “Go an d m arry her, my d ear A New York magistrate b efo re “ I got up here on my determina whom many speeders are brought tion,” was the quick and spirited re frien d .” she said, “fo r 1 have finished.” Tom sat. a fte r she hud gone, try in g for trial, recently pointed out the p ly .— Kxchamre. to u n d e rsta n d . H e had not know n j serious growth of the automobile as th a t love could so m ake one suffer. H E A T FR O M STO N ES. an instrument of death, says a w riter Love, how little he had realized Its m eaning. So they w ere rig h t, M arlon in the T hrift Magazine. He alluded At a school in Canada advantage an d th e rest of th e women ; It w as un to the fact that during the 19 months of American participation was taken of the heat-retaining believable. Tom Lacy stood undecidedly. He in the war, 48,000 of our aoldiers property of stone. The large space did not w ant to go back to the house. at the hack of a boiler, connected were killed or died of their wounds A little c o tta g e stood a t the end of in France During that same period with the steam-heating system, was th e country lane. He and Meda had 91,000 persons, mostly children, filled with stones, and it was found stoppeil th e re som etim es to visit a | w ere killed on the streets and h ig h that when the stones were once so litary old w om an. Meda liked to play fo r th e lonely one on her old ways of this country by automo thoroughly heated the fire could be piano. Ills ste p s led him th ere now, allowed to go out, and the stones unconselously. Absently, he dropped biles. We have learned through the oen- would keep up steam for a consid on th e wooden bench outside the c o t ttir«« to regard Man« as the symbol erable time. Tests were made with tag e window. T he tinkling tones of two boilers, one a new one and the th e p ian o cam e to hint. M eda's voloe o f ruthless cruelty and death. To other old, and it was found that the w as singing a sw eet little sintg. Its d a y we must consign the old w ar each verse beginning w ith “Somebody." god to a quiet and comfortable seat new boiler kept up steam for 20 He listened, w ondering vaguely at the in a rocking chair while M ercury hours after the other boiler had trem ulous catc h In th e still loved j assumes the role of the bloody ceased to give out heat.— Popular voice: “And som ebody's dream , if dream s can com e true, Is only a dream Mechanics Magazine. butcher. This Is the Place Let us supply vour table requirements from our large line of meats—tender and juicy steaks, roasts, pot roasts, veal, tresli and cured pork and fish. City Phone 611 Meat GUS MILLER Market Main Street » o f gladntvtn fo r y o u ; my d ream 1« for you." T hen all a t once Tom U e y under stood. T h e despised girl would wll- ; llngly efTae* h e rse lf aiul her love, that she m ight give to him w hat she be lieved to be his own dream of g lad ness. To him. and to M arlon, who so m isjudged her. So she had acted for M arlon's sake, th e p art Marlon gave to her. And through all she cared. Ills h e a rt sang a t the thought. For a mom ent he stood thinking of the tw o women M arlon, whose 'elfish ex HCthms had m arred th e ir happiest hours, and th is o th er girl, w ith her dream of gladness hut fur him. Tom Lacy w ent boldly Into the room M eda's eyes welcomed hint. He took her Into h it arm s. E n terp rise. •'You p rin t th e Intent happening*T" "Y es." srtUl th e New York pttbMaher, m ill we even try to a n tic ip a te n few .” Louisville C ourier Jo u rn al. ALL, KIINDS A L L P R ICES ISEW and U S ED E Z T E R M S Salem, Ore. DO YOU REALIZE That we have the best equipped repair shop in this territory? That our schedule prices on Ford repair work are at the pre war level? That by using the Schedule Price System we can tell you in advance what the labor charge will be—you do not pay for “padded” time? That the schedule price on each job is based on the time re quired to do that job by the best Ford mechanics in the country? Taat we guarantee our work? THINK IT OVER Stewart Motor Co. Fords P o rd so n s and c a ra t.fe w - The Sale OF the Season LADIES’ COATS, SUITS, DRESSES, WAISTS, SKIRTS . X '; # ■ fC y * . h in fact you will find th is store just full of the t h i n g s you h a v e been w a n t i n g all Fall, a n d all reduced to m i g h t y a ttrac tiv e prices. COATS a big assortment to choose from New Fall coat of soft blown Marvel!» cl th, $55.00, reduced t o .... $40.00 Beautiful navy blue coat, fur fab collar, very handsome and striking, $85.00, reduced to........................ .................................................................... $60.00 A big assortment of coals, group to soil at $9.00, $14.00, $24.00 $34.00 IN’ew Pal! Suit3 Priced to Move v Woolt**x sir* of navy velour, fur trimmed, an “xceller.t style, regular price $98.50, reduced to ... ................ ................................ $67 50 Misses suit of soft Moessyiie, laborandy fur trimmed, a wonderful suit, size 16 .regular price $98.50, reduced to ...... .............. $50 00 Last yeai s suits, all good sty !e and wonderful materials, reduced to rid oulou*' \ low prices, ...... $9.00, $14.00, $24.00 and $34.00 This Sale starts MONDAY, NOV. 7th. and you will be more than repaid by visiting our store. We do not attempt to list all articles thst aro on sale; you will appreciate the values more when you see them. 415 State Street Salem, Ore. (Next to Woolworth’s) 114 N. Liberty