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LA R G EST CIRCULATION IN SOUTH PO LK COUNTY
V O LU M E
IV.
■ « RAIN
CAUSE MUCH DAMAGE
IN D E P E N D E N C E , O R E G O N , N O V EM B E R 25, 1921.
when the automobile whicn he J
was driving r< fused to go any
farther leaving him stalled in a
sea of water. Near Sidney at
one place the Willamette was 10
miles wide, Monday afternoon
A wind and rain storm begin­
a goat was seen riding a log
ning Saturday and ending Mon­
down the center of the swift
day swept down on the state of
moving river going on ultimately
Oregon and as a result the Will­
to a watery grave. He made it
amette and tributary streams
all right as far as Salem where
went on a rampage, railroad and
the leg bumped into the railroad
road bridges were torn away,
bridge and the goat depaited
thousands of acres of bottom
from this sphere of uncertainity
land are under water causing
and mystery.
considerable damage to orchards
All roads leading south from
and crops, a large number of
Independence are covered up in
horses, cattle, hogs and sheep
the vicinity of the Luckiamute
were drowned and many fami
r ver. The east side road from
lies were isolated in their homes.
Orville to Salem is under wate>
The Willamette beat all records
¡n spots. There is not a ferry
for thirteen years as did the
Luckiamute and Santiam. Tl e runni, g from Portland to Er-
Oregon Electric abandoned train gene. The machinery of the In­
service from Salem south and dependence Sa d and Gravel Co.
after a bridge near Jefferson on was removed from the plant
the main line of the Southern Monday, such institutions all
along the river being far from
Pacific went out. all passenger
trains detoured from Salem shore.
In a number of instances fami
via Gerlinger, Independence and
Corvallis to Albany. So since lies were seperated temporarily,
Sunday night, the Shasta Limit­ when father, mother, sister or
brother was absent when the
ed, San Francisco Express, Cali
flood came and could not return
fornia Limited, Coos Bay Limit
to their accustomed seat around
ed and other steam trains have
the
home fire. One young man
been passing through Indepen
dence with their long string of went to see his sweetheart on
coaches including Pullman and Saturday night and could not
tourist cars. Fortunately, the get away until Tuesday after­
west side line “stuck” and neith­ noon. The sweethearts became i?;
er passenger nor freight service so well acquainted that it may
be the means of breaking up the
was interrupted.
engagement.
Practically all the hop yards
In Portland the loss was severe
in the vicinity of Independence
and light and telephone service
are under water but being con­
much impaired. A silver thaw
structed for just such an emer­
was very harmful to trees of all
gency, the damage will not
kinds. East Oregon is covered
Send Exhibits to A. C. MOORE, Chairman,
be great. Other farms are also
up with snow, stalling trains and
Independence, or to Farm Bureau Office,
covered and a number report the
all other mean- of transporta­
loss of stock, a cow, a pig or
Imperial Hotel Building, Dallas, Oregon.
tion. Much stock on the ranges
two or a few head of sheep.
Sam Irvin lost a team of horses. was lost. The Newport section
A number of row boats were a- is isolated.
Today, all is calm and peaceful,
vailable and in this way traffic
the
waters are going down, wet
between farm houses is carried
wood
is dried out sufficiently so
on and food supplies transported
that is cracking merrily in the
in this way.
Families driven stoves and fire places, and the
O. L. Foster the first of the
The bread baking contest from
out of their homes found refuge best spot on all the world is
at a neighbors. Harry Crd took again the best spot and the week disposed of his interests in Fisli&r’s Blend flour by P. R.
the Independence Realty Co. to Alexander, grocer, was certainly
a swim of two hunored yards world moves on.
his former partner, J. E. Hub- a great success. A fter the first
bard. A? far as we know, Mr. announcement appeared in the
Hubbard will conduct the busi- Post, the best bread b kers in
ness alone in the future. While this section got busy and pre-
Mr. F’oster has not yet made any sented their best for the approv-
detinite plans for the future, it al of the judges, Mrs. Frank
is almost sure that he will leave Smith, Mrs. J. B. Violette and
Independence. This will be sin- Miss Yexley, who had to choose
cerely regretted for Mr. Foster from a selection of very excel-
is a valued asset to any town, lent bread. Mrs. O. T. Solie had
He is progressive and up and i the honor of receiving first prize,
coming and is never found want- i a hundred pounds of the flour
ing where it comes to promoting from which she made such a
the welfare of the community in loaf of wonderful bread. Mrs
L- Saunders won second and Mrs
which he lives.
J. W. Morgan third, and each
received a 49 pound sack of the
same flour.
Come to this store and get prepared for the
NO ENTRY FEE
FREE A D M ISS E
INDEPENDENCE
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
D ec.2=3
Independence GARAGE Display Room
INOEPENDENGE
$400
IN CASH AND
MERCHANDISE PREMIUMS
Foster Sells Himself Out
Quite a Number Compete
Will Probably Move Away
In Bread Baking Contest
Don’t Let Storm Or
Rain bother you
wort kind of weather.
We can put rubber
on you from head to foot. Then when you
go out in the storm, there is no danger of
getting w et Dress right in rainy weather
and you’ll save doctor bills.
O. A. Kreamer
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON
Attempt Made To Break
Into Williams Orug Co.
CUT STEEL ROD
Evidently somebody wished to
get into the Williams Drug Co.
Monday night but a bolted door
kept thorn out. FIntrance was
made into the office of the
Polk County Post through one ot
the front doors which was not
locked that night.
Then a
door from the Post’s east door
leading into the drug store was
pulled open and the intruder
walked into a closet and tbu'
was as far as he got. The dooi
leading to the rta r room of the
drug store was bolted and it was
impossible to get through w:th
out an ax and a great deal of
noise.
It Impaled a Workman but Surgeon*
Will Save Him.
Im paled by a steel b u r a w orkm an
a t W lcksw orth. Eng., had a rem ark ­
able escape from death , dne largely
to the prom pt p erfo rm an ce of an ex
tfk o rd ln ary surgical operation
A ram rod used In llxlng the charge
of « p lo s iv e In a llinestnue q u arry had
been Mown through a qnarrym an'»
neck, and th e doctors, w orking on a
ledge of rock In the tierce heat of the
•nn. cut through the steel b a r on both
sides of th e neck w ith an engineer'«
hacksaw no th a t the desperately It»
lured w orkm an .-otild be removed.
T he man, .larnes Elm . # • « conacioaa
E ventually It was possible to remove
him to h ospital and the rem aining por
tlon of tha steel w as tak en from hla
neck. It had mlaaed the a rteries, the
larynx and spinal colum n, and lha pa­
ttern h as a chance of recovery
N U M B E R 26.
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CORN SHOW 10 OE
« ON EVENT
$400 in cash and merchandise
has been hung up as prizes for
th ’ annual Corn Show which
takes place in Independence next
Friday and Saturday.
This
ought to secure a choice display
of the grain that “ can’t be rais­
ed in the Willamette Valley.”
It will be superior or equal to
the grain that can be raised in
the Mississippi valley.
They
sure do raise good corn in the
Mississippi valley, no mistake
about that and when the Willam­
ette valley gets tq raising her
own corn, in walks prosperity.
There will be prizes for all corn
VET FINDS MAN HE SHOT
products such as bread. Johnny
Union Soldlar Trace« Hla Bullet cake, hominy, etc,, barring two
Fired In Battle of Vlckaburg
—moonshiue and "Missouri me-
Fifty-Eight Year* Ago.
erschum” pipes.
Kelso. W ash.—P. J. K napp, a Civil
Everybody will be welcome to
w ar veteran, a fte r 58 yeura has traced
the course of a b u llet he tired a t the
come
early, often and stay late.
siege of V icksburg.
Some tim e ago Mr. K napp read a There’ll be no admission fee nor
new s d isp atch saying th a t W. B.
war tax.
Meadows, a C o nfederate v eteran of
L anott, Ala., had coughed up a b u l­
let w hich w as shot into his eye a t
V icksburg. Mr. M eadows, the acconnt
said, w as u m em ber of th e T h irty -
seventh A labam a regim ent, and Mr.
K napp recalled an Incident a t the
siege, w hen he and th ree o th er mem
hers of th e F ifth Iowa v o lu n teeri si­
lenced a C o nfederate sh arp sh o o ter
who w as firing through a sm all hole
In a sheet of boiler plate.
W hen Mr. K napp w rote to Mr.
Meadows, the la tte r said th a t he w as
th e man behind th e holler plate, and
th a t th e bullet en tered his right eya.
MINING TOWN’S BRIEF LIFE
Ehrsnberg, In Arizona, Flouriahed for
Four Year*, and Then Ita Popu­
lation Scattered.
A few unevenly crumpled adobe
walls, long since having lost the su­
perstructures that bridged them
over and made them habitable
homes, are all that today remains of
Ehrenberg, the historical old settle­
ment opposite Blythe, Calif., on the
Arizona side of the Colorado river.
Ehrenberg 50 years ago was a
“wild and woolly” mining town,
and in its day contributed more
than $17,000,000 from its L b Paz
mine alone to the gold supply of
the nation
Its population of more than 5,000
is scattered thmugh the West, many
of them residents of Blythe, Yuma,
Ariz., and other southwestern cen­
ters. Its only visitors are occasion­
al tourists, who inquisitively browse
among its deserted ruins, sprawled
over barren, sagebrush country.
Ehrenberg, founded in 1870,
ended its active and colorful day*
of mining and gambling in 1882,
when the Indian settlement* along
the banks of the Colorado became
restless. In that year there were
Indian wars, and after e number of
Ehrenbergers were killed the citi­
zens began an exodus.
The White dancing academy
on C Street promises to be a
very popular place. Many aspir­
ants to the art are enrolling
while others are doing review
stepping. Mr. White is a master
in the art and formerly conduct­
ed an academy in Vancouver.
OREGON
Theatre
-2-----S A L B M
UNTIL SATURDAY
NOV. 2 6
James S. Oliver
Curwood’s
“God’s Country
ond The Law”
COMING SUNDAY
Runs 4 Days
George Melford’s
“The Sheik”
With
Agnes Ayer»
and
Rudolph Talevino
GOOD MUSIC
Investigate
Then Invest
We have small tracts, large tracts, small
houses, large houses.
Let us show you
the property you are looking for. If you
want to ■sell list your holdings with us.
Independence Realty Co.
Beaver Hotel Building
Phone M 1 8 1 1