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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1912)
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON] COLLEGE EDUCATION, Ent red as Second Clane Mail Matter at Lenta. Oregon, August 26, 1911 Published Every Thursday at Lents, Ore., by the M t . S cott PvausHtxe C o . H. A. DARNAI.L, F. uitob and M anaus *. D. M. SIMONSEN. L ocal E ditor and B uknkss R kpreskntativk Office Phone: Home 1111. Residence: Tabor 2sl3 Who is Your Choice? < I The Herald is particularly anxious to secure a representa-! ! I tive vote from its readers as to their choice for President and ! ! I Vice President. While the result shows only local sentiment, ! ! ! it creates an interest, and gives some indication of the direction ' ¡! from which the political wind is blowing. In each issue will be * ¡ ¡ found a blank ballot. Fill it out and mail it to The Herald. ♦ o Do it Now and help create an interesting contest. I ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Whether a man lias a college •dueattou ur not matters very lit tle Information Is the impor- taut thing Indeed, the essential thing. He may acquire It at college or he may acquire It somewhere else, if the college professors are good Instructors college life ought to ■horten tile processor acquiring Information; but, in my judgment, a teacher, like a poet, la born, not made. 1 value highly the benefits which I derived from certaiu of my college professors. Some of them were moot excel leu t teach ers and trainers of youth, some of them misfits. One of the very beat and most serviceable of all my instructors was a drunken, strolling Englishman, but he was a boru twacber. There is a great deal of time wasted at college by studying things which cau be of very little service to the av erage citizen. The average col lege curriculum in the United States needs overhauling. A youth who has uot the advan tages of a college education, whatever they may be. and they are many, can pursue his studies with great success If he has an acquaintance who can direct him what to study. The college pro fessor who does not arouse in his pupil a love of learning is not worth bis salt.—Champ Clark. Potato growing in the Kinmath ba sin has received a big Impetus. Forest Grove claim* one of the best ! I high school orchestras In Oregon. Unlpn county will teach scientific I I agricultural Instruction to children. At Hood River Warren Miller »old | a 3-yaarold hog that tipped the scale i at 503 pounds. l.u Grande's commercial club will | construct a $100.000 office building [ and club home thia summer on th» unit plan. A farmers' cooperative store la to be started at Roy. a station on the I*. It A N. railroad, five miles north ol : Forest Grove A congress of governors and a ron vention of states are added features | i proposed for the Rose Festival In Portland June 10-15. John Murchison, who for several years has resided in Grant countf. ! committed suicide near Dayville, by taking carbolic acid. hu» the Douglas county this y*ar j honor of being the first county < in tlie state to come forward with huir Iti share of the state tnxes The old City Hall that h'is served the city of Grants Pass for a number of years was struck off to the highest bidder for the sum of 110,000. Governor West has Issued a requls ition upon the governor of California for the return to Portland of T. J. Uhl man. charged with larceny by bailee. Extradition papers have been Is- sued by Governor West for F. A. Sternberg, alias Stein, w to la under arrest In Portland and is wanted in, San Francisco. For the first time in many years Douglas county is tree from debt and on a cash basis. After all outstand Ing warrants are paid. $32.058 will re main In the treasury. From the latest movements In rail road circles Indications now point to the resumption of work on the Klatn- sth-N.atron cutoff immediately follow ing the first of May. A deal for the sale of the Eugene General hospital to the Sisters of Mer cy of the Catholic church has been completed and they will take charge of the institution May 1. Charles H. Kelley, formerly travel ing auditor for the Pacific Power & Light company, with headquarters in Portland, died at Astoria from tuber culosis after a long illness. As a result of the "booster day" held by the Dallas commercial club, over 100 new names were added to the membership roll, bringing the to tal u? to over 200 active members. All candidate* whose names will be placed on the primary ballots must have their completed petitions on file cot later than next Friday. That Is the last day petitions can be received. A favorable report was made to the senate on several Chamberlain bills to pay claims on small Indian tribes Scattered about Oregon. The pay ments are based upon treaties made in the '50s. T N looking over the files of the JT appears from an article in the Wednesday Oregonian, -*■ Herald we observed the fol lowing. which in general is as that Mr. Albert, of Salem, one of applicable today as it was before the highway commission advo the last state election. If it cates of the $2,000,000 road bond were written again it might be issue, is very much disappointed made a little more specific. For with the prospect of a new set of instance as to salary. Mr. Rob bills such as are about to be pro HUMILITY. inson has been drawing $2500 a I posed by the * ‘Harmony Commit Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and be who goes the low year, the highest salaried Coun ty tee.” Prospects seem good for est builds the safest.—Bailey. Superintendent in the state. In the advocates of the state bond addition to that he has a stenog ing plan to get into a lengthy To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an Infamous history.— rapher at $75 per month, that linguistic warfare now, that will Sir Thomas Browne. does practically all his work, ex result in their accomplishing cept place his signature to cer nothing. That will leave the And be the Spartan's epitaph on me— tificates and other documents. measures that are now proposed 8parta bath mauy a wort liier Examinations are practically all by the State Grange, a free field son than be. handled by the county examining and no opposition, except those —Byron. board, at additional expense to who are opposed to bonding al God hath sworn to lift on high the county. As to his attention together. Mr. Albert is one of Who sinks himself by true bu- to office duties it is a well known the leading bankers of the state. mility. — Keble.' fact among school officers of the A million dollar bond issue at county that he can rarely be four and one-half per cent, does Humility 1« to make a right found in his office. He has been not look as good as a two million estimate of oneself. It is no hu mility for a man to think less of conducting a magazine, and has issue at five per cent. And in himself than he ought, though it been engaged in real estate deals I neither case does the burdening might rather puzzle him to do in the southern part of the state of the state with an indetermin that.—Spurgeon. to a very considerable extent. ate bond issue look good to the Of late years he has made some mass of the people. effort to cover his inattention by SECRET OF LONG LIFE. rounding up the school boards of So far as 1 feel at liberty to at HE action of Messrs. Carter the county along in the spring tribute my length of days to any and Davis in withdrawing thing-that I fan pretend to have and giving them an all day from their candidacy for the done. I may say that I was for course of instruction at the coun tunate rather than wise enough District Atty, office deserves the ty expense. In fact expense highest degree of commendation. to retire from active business be fore 1 was fifty years of nge. has never been an object of con It is rare indeed when men will Since then I have endeavored to sideration with Robinson. sacrifice their own ambitions to lead as Industrious a life as ever, T Mr. Robinson han l»een an instructor, but in doing things which were county superintendent of Polk county, a another’s desire or for the public agreeable to me and avoiding principal in the Portland city schools, good. The very action of these everything likely to give me and county superintendent of Multnomah men commends them as being anxiety or care 1 have always county for this the third term. He has entirely worthy of the position l»eeu careful about what went Into my mouth—more careful not done an original thing while in office. they sought. Mr. Evans will than about what came out of It. He has been a close follower of Super Since I was fifty I haven't intendent Ackerman in plans and now have an undivided sup done any breadwinning. When I theories. He has. we venture to say. port of all those people who are was forty I began to give up more opponents among tbe teachers of interested in good administration Since then 1 haven’t let anything the county, outside of the Portland of the office, and they will be worry me I'm very industrious. schools where he has little influence, After a man Is forty hl- [lowers extremely disappointed if he than any other man that ever held the begin to decline A young man job. He is respected neither for his does not come up to their expec- ought to foresee that and set honor or ability, but for hi* official posi tions. aside something each week in a bank that he can't open. Never tion. He is superintendent of one of mind how little he gets- let him the smallest counties of the state and put away something. Then he HE high cost of living is very gets the highest salary. Within the last can turn some day from earning five years about half of his superintend- largly explained in an arti a living and be useful. I have ency baa been absorbed by tlie city of cle on page 625 of McClures’ complete independence and liber Portland, and yet his salary has not ty now becanse I did that. I April Magazine, in an article en been effected. True, he has the largest have done work for nothing with titled, “ Matrimony — Our Most number of teachers in his county of any out thinking about money for a Every long time. John Bigelow. in the state, but outside of the 10 or 50 Neglected Profession.” country schools, his work of superin- mother who has the responsibili tendency is practically limited to certi ty of bringing up one or more fication and be has the assistance of the daughters should be interested county lioard and a clerk paid by the WOMEN AND INDUSTRY. county. During the time he has held in this article. It makes it very The uncertainty about Amer ica's future adds fascination to the office lie lias been dabbling in about plain that most girls begin mar the interest whi< h many women everything that passed. He was educa ried life with no knowledge are manifesting iu many phases tional director of the Lewis & Clark whatever of their responsibilities of public affairs. We do not Fair, a work that took him out- of his of as the “purchasing partner” in know wlmt is going to ha|>|>ei> to fice from June toOctoher. During tlie Se us. but we are resolved to lie a the home. Better give the girls attle Fair he spent some months in |K>tent factor In the determina charge of tlie Oregon educational exhibit a chance to do the home buying tion of our future. Women have He was a lobbyist at the state legislature on an allowance for a month and vivid imagination and idealism, of 19OH-9, supposedly for the notorious see how they come out. and the present state of our civ special appropriation for the < »regon ex ilization. with all Its possibilities, holds so much of allurement that hibit at the Alaska-Yukon Fair, and it it is difficult nowadays to find has been supposed that his efficient ser RESENT registration would a woman so concerned with her vice iiere secured tbe appointment a* indicate that less than a home that she takes no interest educational director of tbe Oregon ex third of the people of the Mt. in public affairs On the other hibit at Seattle. His work on outside hand, though, there are l».(MM).OtM> matters takes him away from official Scott district have registered. women engaged in Industries out duties a big part of his time. As school If we are to have our weight in side the home. Marriage, the supervisor his attention has been limited determining who are to be the rearing of children and develop to a few weeks in the late spring when officers of the county and state meat of homes are still very pop he usually makes his visits to the coun ular and vitally lm[<ortant occu now is the time to get busy. pations. Our young women, try school. He has rarely made more than The while more sophisticated on the one visit a year and sometimes misses Don’t delay another day. surface, are still as susceptible a school altogether. Instead of assisting registration office will be open to the advances of the "little the teacher early in the term, or at fre all day and evening until five winged god" as were the hero quent intervals during the year, when a o’clock Tuesday. ines of Jane Austen's days, who new teacher so much needs supervision hnd no more important object in and advice. Mr. Robinson is rarely life than to secure a husband. Bad breath, bitter taste, dizziness and known to visit his teachen liefore the Then. too. those who study the last month of the term, frequently the a general “no account” feeling is a sure question carefully believe that women will not permanently re HEKBINE is last day of the last week and sometimes sign of a torpid liver, main in industry. Now ft has the medicine needed. It msk«-s the not at all. all the glamour of newness, but liver active, vitalizes the blood, regu already the tide la beginning to lates the bowels and restores a fine feel set backward toward tbe old ing of energy and cheerfulness. Price home life.- Mrs. John Hays Ham 50e. Sold by Lents Pharmacy. mond. Another Register today! The Herald job rooms are prepared to turn out first class printing on short notice. JONSRUD BROS. 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