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BREVITIES
J. L. Linn wag here from Port
land Monday on business.
Smlt each Tuesday and Fri
day at Dickson's Market.
Wanted, to buy stump puller-
mus t be in good cond ition. Phone
Farm 6122, Bert Hilke.
John Mason of Kelso, Wash.,
visited relatives and friends here
this week.
James Sperry of Brownsville,
visited his nephew, H. S. Wood,
for a few days this week.
Get your suit made to order at
K reamer's.
There will be a Senior Carni
va! at the High School gymnaa
ium Saturday night
Mini France Eaton, a popular
0. A. C itudent, win visiting ret
alivos and friend in Independence
Sunday.
Fur Sale Defiance Wheat
Seed. Home 1 1111.
Ed Owen returned from Cali
fornia yesterday where he has
been for several weeks trying
his luck as a miner.
Ellis Ireland was in the city
for a few hours this week. lie
is in class one in the draft and
expects to be in the service soon.
Jack Dixon and family arrived
in Independence on Wwlnesday
where they will visit a few days
before going to their ranch in
Montana.
Having temporally retired
from the hop business, 1 have
four good horses to sell. You
may pick out of nine head. At
Fitchard & Wolfe's hop yard.
II. a Wolfe. 25
Wanted Man and wife to work
on (arm. Must have experience.
Ciixxl wnKM to the right persons.
K. M. Kttaup, 495 East 21st Street
North. 1-orUaiul. 28
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Ford, for
mer Independence people, row
lirin-z in Portland, are the proud
parents of a nine-pound girl,
who a as been christened Eloise.
Mrs. J. IVirnsife left Indepen
deuce Monday nljrht for I .us An
I'.'les where she wil remain with
i l;..-.l.,iml for soNeral weeks.
Mi t' iu-i(o, who has been in poor
health for several months, is at the
ft'ttUona) Soldier's Howe.
Large team for sale cheap
Inquire at this office. 17tf
Dress shoes, $3.50 to $7.50, at
0. A. Kreamer's.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Jarvi.s wont
to l'orllanil Sutiicluy where they
will rent u house and reside in
Portland for a few months at
least. Their daughter, Mrs. For
est Finch, is already living there.
G.'G. Walker is in Portland
this week receiving medical
treatment. Whenever any dis
ease germs pick on Guy, they al
ways go to his ears.
Nice, warm JerBey knit gloves
for driving, 35c at Kreamer's,
Dr. R. B. Duganne, dentist,
National Bank Building.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Brown
moved to Salem this week and
are located at 1304 North Liberty
street. Claud Drown will suc
ceed his father on the farm.
Another Independence boy has
gone over. Corporal Oren Mc
Elmurry left with his company
nearly two weeks ago, and it is
surmised that the other side was
their destination.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hilke are
visiting with their daughter in
Portlaud. Mr. Hilke, having re
tired from farming, is now ex
pecting to live in Portland where
he is building a home for him
self.
A flood pair of reading
glasses for $1.0O at O. A.
Kreamer's.
The Williams Drug Co.' is now
located at the corner of Main and
C. streets and from appearances
even at this time when the stock
and fixtures have not all been ar
ranged, there is no doubt but
what it will be the "swellest"
drugstore in the state.
A dandy comedy, "Nearly
Married," starring Madge Ken
nedy, appear at the Isis for two
nights next week. It is not of
the slapstick variety but a very
clever production of the class of
"Baby Mine" and "Twin Beds."
Mrs. Clyde l ker departed last
Saturday niht for lallas, Texas,
where- she will bask in the south
ern sunshine, for a few weeks. She
is due to arrie at her old home
tonight. Before retuniint? it is her
intention to visit at Nan Antonio.
Houston, Shreveport and IVnver
We are stnv to he favored with
some tales of a traveler which;
will prove anything hut dry road
iiitf Ihii'iui; her nhseme kind
hearted ncililHirs have verygetier
ousl) promised to hok after t lie
widower and orphan.
7. That we should produce all we
ran in 1918 and encourage every-
hody else to do so.
8. That we should not suspect
our neighbors too easily of disloy
alty but that we should encourage
every one to the fullest measure of
loyalty. Ninety-eighty per cent of
the people of I'olk County will do
their duty when they know what it
is in this matter, the remaining 2
per cent will probably need Home
slight assistance.
9. That we should live FULLY
up to what our government expects
of us so that others will have jio
cause for suspicion.
10. That any purposeful and per
sistent violation of the govern
ment's requests in these matters
should he reported to me and that
the individual cases will be investi
gated. Believing that the people of Polk
County can be relied upon to sup
IMjrt the Food Administration fully
and ungrudgingly in its efforts to
provide enough of the right sort of
f.Kid for all with no injury to any
one, I urn, faithfully,
M. S. PITTMAN,
County Chairman for Polk.
This I: Cur Vinter
cf Teit
" ERV1NO food la a lo
cal problem for each
JJ coiiniiunit.i . Price
definite rules for
every one cannot Imj
formulated. It
la a duty for
en'-h one to
eat only ao
much as la
necessary to
maintain the
human body
oealthy and strong. This winter
of 1918 la the period when la to
he tested here In America wheth
er our people are capable of vol
untary Individual aacrlflce to
aave the world. That la the pur
pose of the organization of the
L'nlted States Food Administra
tion by voluntary effort to pro
vide the food that the world
needs.
V. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION
niiilAfciia,ALlii.a,Lllt
USING UP REDWOOD
8upply in the United States Will Ba
Gone In a Century.
Conntantly tncreasinK production of
redwood lumber In Humboldt county,
California, means that In less than a
century the only commercial redwood
forest In the world will be stripped
bare, according to compilations made
by Oenrne A. Kellogg, secretary of the
Humboldt chamber of commerce. In
J8JI5 It was estimated thnt the stand
ing redwood timber In the county
would be sufflilent for 200 years, but
since that time the capacity of the
mills has been more than doubled,
w-lth prowpecu for a continuous In
crease In the future. t
Out of r38,WK acres of redwood tim
ber standing untouched before lum
bering operations were begun In the
country, DS.WO acres have been cut
owr. This cut represents some of the
best timber of the county, for the bot
tom lauds atonic the rivers where th
best timber stands have been harvest
ed first.
Redwood lumber thus far produced
from the forests of the country ha
represented a value of $180,317,237 and
has totaled 9.3n0.8fl5,K26 board feet
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
HELPS PAY FOR BREAD
There baa been much uilsunder
atandlng about the bread program In
England. It Is true that the English
man buys a loaf of bread for less than
an American can, but it Is poorer
bread, and the British government Is
paying fl!00,0oO,000 a year toward the
cost of It
All the grain grown In Great Hrlt
ala la taken over by the government
at an arbitrary price and the Imported
wheat purchased on the markets at
the prevailing market price. This Is
turned over to the mills by the govern
ment at a price that allows the adul
terated war bread loaf of four pounds
to sell at 18 cents, the two pound loaf
at 9 cents and the one pound loaf at 5
cents.
In France, under conditions some
what simitar, but with a larger ex
traction, the four pound loaf sells for
18 cents.
Owns Historic Flag.
Capt. Thomas H.,hnlrd. Savannah
barbor master. Is flying froru the bal
cony of his residence a beautiful
American flag which was rescued by
hla son. Gilbert, from the City of
Memphis, on which the latter was first
officer, when the ship was torpedoed
and sunk by a German submarine last
March. On account of the unusual
connection of the flag, Cnptaln Laird
flies the ting onlv Sundays.
FACE the FACTS
LET us face the facts. The war situation is critical.
Unless the Allies fight as they never yet have
foujrht, defeat threatens. Hungry men cannot fight
at their best; nor hungry nations. France, England,
and Italy are going hungry unless we feed them.
Wheat Savings They must have wheat It is the
best food to fight on. It is the easiest to ship. We
alone can spare it to them. By saving just a little
less than a quarter of what we ate last year we can
support those who are fighting our battles. And we
can do it without stinting ourselves. We have only
to substitute another food just as good.
The Corn of Plenty Corn Is that food. There's a
surplus of it. Providence has been generous in the
hour of our need. It has given us corn in such bounty
as was never known before. Tons of corn. Train
loads of corn. Five hundred million bushels over and
above our regular needs. All we have to do is to
learn to appreciate it. Was ever patriotic duty made
so easy? And so clear?
America's Own Food Comt It is the true American
food. The Indians, hardiest of races, lived on it.
Our forefathers adopted the diet and conquered a
continent. For a great section of our country it
has blong een the staff of life. How well the South
fought on it, history tells. Now it can help America
win a world war.
Learn Something Corn! It isn't one food. It's a
dozen. It's a cereal. It's a vegetable. It's a bread.
It's a dessert. It's nutritious; more food value in it,
dollar for dollar, than meat or eggs or most other
vegetables. It's good to eat; how good you don't
know until you've had corn-bread properly cooked.
Best of all, it's plentiful and it's patriotic.
Corn's Infinite Variety How much do you know about
corn? About how good it is? About the many
delicious ways of cooking it? And what you miss
by not knowing more about it? Here are a few
of itusea:
There are at least fifty ways to use corn meal to
make good dishes for dinner, supper, lunch or break
fast. Here are some suggestions:
DESSERTS
Corn-meal molasses cake.
Apple corn bread.
Dumplings,
tlinvrerbroad.
Fruit gems.
HOT BREADS
Boston brown bread.
Hoecake.
Muttins.
Biscuits.
Griddle cakes.
Waffles.
HEARTY DISHES
Corn-meal croquettes. Corn-meal fish balls.
Meat and corn-meal dumplings.
Italian polenta. Tamales.
The recipes are in Farmers' Bulletin 5G5, "Corn
Meal as a Food and Ways of Using It," tree from the
Department of Agriculture.
ANNOUNCEMENT
On account of requiring: larger
quarters to take care of our
rapidly increasing business we
have removed our stock of goods
to the Cooper Building in the
room formerly occupied by
Calbreath & Jones.
Our specialty will be prescriptions,
We will have In stock everything usually
found in a well equipped Drug Store including
Stationery, Kexall Remedies, An cu Cameras,
Ivory Goods, Etc.
Developing and Printing done. Mail and
Telephone orders promptly attended to.
LADIES' REST ROOM YOU ARE WELCOME
Williams Drug Co.
GIANT WIRELESS SYSTEM
Will LINK CONTINENTS
Lines to Be Established;
Houses May Talk to
Customers.
Big
A plan to link the Americas from
Alaska to Cape Horn la a system of
wireless communication, which will en
able commercial houses ushore to talk
dully to their clients iu another con
tinent and with the masters of com
mercial vessels engaged in trade be
tween North and South American con
tinents, has been formed by the Mar
coni Wireless Telegraph company of
America.
Work on a chain of stations to give
the United States direct communica
tion with Argentina will be started
early In 1018.
As soon as concessions are obtained
In other South American countries the
company and its subsidiaries will take
up plans for a series of stations on the
continent.
It was Bald by officers of the Marconi
company that the new work would be
taken up soon under the direction of
the Pan-Amerlcun Wireless Telegraph
and Telephone company, a iiewly or
gaulzed Delaware corporation.
If the plans of the new company are
not hampered by lack of labor, steel
and other supplies needed for the con
struction of the new high-power sta
tions, the United States will be In di
rect communication with the southern
continent within a year.
No sites for the stations to be built
In the system have been decided upon
yet, but officials of the company said
today that the North American sta
tions doubtless would be at some point
where land lines radiate to ull parts
of the country. Stations will be bjiilt
In Central America and Mexico.
Treasurer John Hottoinley said that
the certain development of wireless
telephony had been considered, and he
predicted that It would not be long be
fore new Inventions would make It jos
slble for commerce to use that ineawt
of communication.
CARD OF THANKS.
We desire to thank all those
who so kindly assisted us in the
death and burial of our mother.
O. B. Travis and family.
Wm. C. Travis and family.
Fred Howard and family.
Mrs. Ida Philiips.
HAS SAVED F
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'! LIVES
fn Ta!:e an
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Win V l W ' ' - '
Eau. ' Ncmb" f " ""'
With a i-ecuril f ):U:x -:aiil 11
lives, Clifton Kiel:' " of Siinlusl:y, ..
has enlisted and ioMeil at Cuinn
Sherman, Cliiiliee: iie. i). IK- hopes to
get "over there" sunn and try to pick
off an equal lumber of fhTtimns.
In the 1!K1 flood at Tillin. ().. Illck
ley lassoed a rowb eit and used It to
rescue ten old persons, caught In the
torrent. A yepr rpi he saw four boys
break through the lee of Sandusky bay.
He saved wo and the other two
drowned. Last autumn, at u pleasure
resort near Clevehmd. (., he saved a
man and a girl whose boat hHd cai-gjied.
HEIRLC0M IS LOST
Dog Came Back, but He Did Not Have
the Necklace.
Caroline Ruben, the little daughter
of I. U. Itubeii of Minneapolis, was
sitting In her father's automobile on
Nicollet avenue. Her pet fox terrier.
Trot, was with her.
The little girl was wearing; a neck
lace that had belonged to her great
grandmother. Just for fun she took
It off and put It around Trot's neck.
Just by chance Trot saw a dog he
didn't like mid Jumped out of the car
and chased it. Trot came back In a
few minutes, but the necklace did not.
Farm Labor Coes Up.
Farm laborers are divii'inding $1oo
a month and I.ecp in Long Island. For
this reason fanners view with appre
hensiou the i i: ,'. ok for next year's
crops. With normal conditions, plenty
of labor was cvviahl.' at $:!! n titod'h
and keep, r.lth uu''i ::iy farmers p:1;l
H t'',h !1S .sl',11 els -- !,. !!.
The Oregon Normal School
WILL GIVE ITS
Annual Concert
on February 5th, 1918.
The Orchestra and Glee Clubs and a
Portland Soloist will perform.
Thi? is the big event of the year in the
music department.
"KING RENE'S DAUGHTER' Is the chor&l
offering.
All are invited to come.
Tickets 25 and 35c at Morlans.
It will be held at 8 o'clock in the new
chapel. Ccme.