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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1921)
T H E POLK COUNTY POST Restore the Usefulness Published every F rid a y at Independence, Oregon. jiterad aa second cUaa matte/ March 26, 1918, at the postotflee at Independence, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLYDE T. ECKEi E ditor and Publisher. To worn, injured*and sick casin.s and tubes Glasses Fitted. E xpert T ire S u rge ry Lgnses accurately duplicated 50c. Our “ cure” Is always a perfect one. Optical repairs carefully and promptly insde HARTM AN Subscription Rates: TH R EE M ONTHS S IX M O N T H S ONE Y E A R Eyes Tested BROS. Shop In building formerly occupied by Williams barber shop $ 2.00 Hemstitching Stamping, Braiding, Hand Embroidery, Buttons M. J . O’DONNELL SALEM. ORE. $ 1.00 ' A ls o N e w T ire s fo r Sale Dr. W . C. Lehman, Optom etrist Mrs. F. E. Mull Salem , Ore. Phone 117 Room 10, over Miller’s Store < 'ilesa otherwise provided for, subscriptions w ill be stopped at expiration WANTED-A MOTHER SOWING TURNIPS TO FOLLOW VEGETABLES By E D IT H M. COUCH. 1921, by M cC lu re N e w a p u p e r •> m tlcate. t Stopping The Stop “ Wanted— A Mother. Young, wound ed soldier, lonely, would like to be No Better Crop to Utilize Vacant adopted by motherly lady. A ll replies confidential. ” Spaces in Gardens. W lipii you r autom obile stops*, y o u v ’ e got to have Harriett Ogers let the livening Ga zette full to the floor unheeded, while som ebody atop the stopping. “ F ren ch y ” lie g im b a l The Polk County Corn Show she gazed out through thè open win T h e y A re U s e f u l fo r the Table, and will be held*at Independence on dow, lost In memories which this is a■; good a stop fixer as you can find anyw here. to a L im ite d E x t e n t Will S u p p ly strange advertisement had brought to Dec. 2 and 3. P la ce of P o ta to e s— R e a so n a H e never loafs on the job and guarantees his work to mind. b ly R ic h S o il Needed. None o f the neighbors In the small be satisfactory. H is services can be secured at $1.25 Kale and Krout for sale. C. country town would have suspected (Prepared by the United States Depart such an appeal could stir the lonely W. Anderson, 162 N. Ninth St. ment of Agriculture.)' per hour. heart of one who was to them just a As a crop to utilize garden space “ cut and dried old maid.” And yet, early vegetables have been har At least fifty from this vicini after who of you who have known the joy WITH vested, nothing 1* better than turnlpa ty attended the O. A. C.-U. O. Turnips should he planted In most and blessing of motherhood, can rea lize that the longing for the touch of foot ball game in Eugene Satur parts of the country about July 25, but baby Ungers and the sound of baby in the extreme South as late as the day. Neither side scored. prattle, which, though never known lust of August and can be left lu tha still is felt perhaps by these same ground until after several light frosts “ cut and dried old maids." One of The Bootery at Salem is offer or all winter in the South. They are these was Harriett Ogers. useful as a table vegetable, and to a ing many special cut prices on Away lm<-k In the past, buried so limited extent, will supply the place fall and winter shoes. Head the of potatoes. It Is the general opinion deeply In her heart that none knew or even suspected, Harriett still carried of specialists of the United States De prices quoted in this issue. IN D E P E N D E N C E , L *.E . the memory of her one romance, a to - vmrtment of Agriculture that the mance as sweet and as beautiful as American public could consume many D e a le r in D odge and Lexington C ars The 1925 Exposition special more turnips than It does, a fact of the wisteria whose fragrance floated through the open window to her, hut particular Interest this year when tax levy carried in Portland by a ending In a petty quarrel and the de there seems every Indication of a cur overwhelming majority. parture of her John to the city. A few tailed laituto crop. rumors had drifted back to the home For Held sowing, turnips are usually town of his success In the business broadcasted. The particular require The W. W. Moore Music Co ¡U H world and then o f a brilliant marriage, of Salem is starting a Christmas ment is a reasonably rich soli hnely and after that— silence. raked am. leveled off to avoid water The world forgot, but to Harriett club. One dollar will start you '•ollecting In pools. The seed should there was and always would be but on the road to ownership of a 3 c sowed sparingly. One homely rule the one In her heart. a to tuke the quantity which seems Victrola, Sonora or piano. Read “ Wanted— A mother.” sufficient and divide It In half. After the ad on this page. O f course, It was ridiculous, and the seeds have been scattered on the how the neighbors would rcdk, and surface o f the ground, they should be yet, why not? Here she was with a raked In. This in jy be done by drag A furnace has been installed comfortable Income, a home, good ging a piece of brush over the ground. at the Baptist church. health ; hut an ever-increasing loneli The surface should be well smoothed. ness which caused har at times to It is a good plan to sow turnips just shrink from the years to come. She Candies in attractive Christ after a rain, giving them opportunity pictured herself with a stalwart, to sprout before a crust forms. After mas packages at the Ace. Mason sowing, they will need little attention manly arm to lenti on, and jumping up she hastened to pen her answer before ic Temple Salem. until harvest. she should change her mind. In the Interval between the day "Frenchy” Regimbal is a busy CANDLE AND GRADE ALL EGGS Harriett hail made her momentous de man. A good workmqp is al D e p a rtm e n t of A g ric u lt u r e E n d e a v o r, cision and the arrival of the letter, stutlng the day and train her boy ways in demand. in g to T e a c h W o m e n B e st W a y s would arrive on, Harriett lived in u of M a rk e tin g . •tate of nervous excitement. But, at last, the great day came. That morn Farm women frequently have en ing she felt perhaps Iter flrst real bit tire charge of the marketing of eggs, of regret as she stood before the mir butter and poultry. In some states ror and marked with pitiless scrutiny they form what are called “egg cir each line and each gray hair, and she cles" for marketing their eggs In large wondered If, after ull, she would or (M a d e i n in d e p e n d e n c e ); quantities. The eggs are collected Could look the part of a loving moth 0 regularly by one of the members or er to the lonely boy, even though her heart craved the part. When you eat G O LD EN K K U IT you by some one hired by the circle. E f forts are being made by marketing Harriett was ul the station several not only eat a* good u bread asg agents o f the United States Depart minutes before the train drew Into the baked anywhere bui patronize ment o f Agriculture to teach these little station and allowed the handful farm women the value of properly of passengers to alight. There was a home industry. candling and grading the eggs so that Brown, the grocer, and Umilia Bee- only the best are marketed. man's little nephew, who had come to GET THE H ABIT spend the summer, and two dapper GOOD AND POOR PRODUCERS young salesmen from the neighboring city and a distinguished looking gen tleman whom site did not know, but no O w n e r of S m a ll F lo c k C a n D e term ine one who answered rhe description of S vHTH fi SON, Props. by O b se rv a tio n W h ic h of His a “ young, wounded sohHer." H e n * A re L a y e r*. The thought of such a calamity bad never entered ber trusting heart, and In any flock some hens will he found to he much better producers than oth as she came to realize that she may, after all, have been made the butt of ers. Often then» are a few hens that are such poor layers that It doesn’t someone's joke the tears of mortifica tion tilled her eyes, and she made her pay to keep them Where the flock groping way to the buggy, failing to I* small the owner can determine by notice that the stranger was making observation which hens are merely hoarder»; and these are the ones to directly toward her. A courteous voice asking "A re you eat. Miss Harriett Ogers?" retailed her to earth, and she turned to timi a hand ANALYSIS MADE OF MANURES extended toward her and a pair of twinkling eyes gazing Into her aston D r y M a t e ri*! C o n t a in * L a r g * A m o u n t ished ones. of N ltrogon , P h o sp h o ru s and Something dearly familiar caused Potasalu m . Harriett's heart almost to stop beat ing ns site gate a trembling hand to Tin* average of analysis of manure* iter own John. from cattle, horses and mixed, show* Later, when things had resumed that a ton of dry manure contains 88 somewhat their natural coorse, John pounds of nitrogen, 7.6 phosphorus explained that h^ only hoy tiring of and HO.4 pounds of potassium. A ton the relgu of a tyrannical housekeeper, of fresh farm manure consists of had Inserted the advertisement for « about three fourths water but It con mother. Ills own mother he had lost tain* ten pounds of nitrogen, two when he was too young to remember, pounds of phosphorus and , eight but pgrhaps back In Ills memory lin gered an emptiness that only a mother pounds of potassium. lOUld till. When a reply rame signed Harriett Ogers .1 otiti could hardly be V S8 T P O C K ET BOW W O W S lieve his eyes, and had made a bargain with his son to answer in his place. "And, Harriett," said John, draw In England there is a widely prev- alont fad for tint dn£x. the smaller ing his chair closer in tin- gathering twilight of the veranda that evening, the better These tiny canines are "don't you think you could be a moth affected by women and are taken ev er to two boys. Instead of one? I will erywhere ffiat their mistresses go. see 1‘arson Somers In the mornlug. anil They are so small that they slip into then we will wire the hoy to come and meet his new mother." a cost pocket or the handbag when SW OPE & SW OPE it Is well that none of the inquisi being taken from one point to an tive neighbors was looking as the “ cut other LAW YERS and dried olii maid" hurled her flushed lace on John's shoulder. 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