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
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Mrs. F. E. Mull
Salem , Ore.
Phone 117
Room 10, over Miller’s Store
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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.
In the art of making and ustnc pa □Wee ovar Craven A Walker's Store
SA V E D THAT.
per we are not In line with the Chi Independence,
Oregon
nese anti other Asiatics, who not only
" A n y luck on your fishing trip ? ”
make the finest paper in the world, but
" D id n ’t even get a bite."
apply It to all sorts o f uses, making
“ Then vou don’ t have to lie about
window panes, umbrellas, fans, 'nud
T alk to all the Dentile
th* sue o f the om> that got away.”
ai* and *>en clocks and garment* o f IL
hru The P o lk County Post
Sayles Motor Car Co.
W. B. HUGGINS, Prop.
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Christmas Club
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on the Road to
Golden Krust Bread
Ownership
of one o f these qualit}
instruments.
It’ s
an easy road to travel.
Small regular oay-
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Instruments
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415 Court Street
SALEM, OR
P h o n e 983