THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVER, TUESDAY. JANUARY 4, 1916 HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE MONMOUTH TRAINING SCHOOL BREAKS RECORD. History of Institution Since Revival in 1910 One of Increasing Yearly Attendance. After a four weeks ' session in Jan nary, during which time 40 students will be graduated, ithe Oregon Normal school, now on record with an enroll ment unparalleled in its history, will complete four 4V2 iterms of school work since its revival in 1911. Dur ing this period equipment valued at $1.10,000 has been added. In 1012 a $60,000 girls' dormitory was erected to meet an imperative demand. A central heating plant, costing $4000, was built. A three-acre tract of land, lying between the main normal build ing and the Monmouth high school, was purchased for $5000. The old gymnasium, in use for more than a quarter century, became in adequate, and a new structure, mod em in all its details, rose on the cam pus. Its coat was $10,000. The grow ing size of the senior classes, which demanded teaching practice, and the inadequacy of the old training schoo! structure, led to an appropriation of $90,000 (asp year tor a separate struc tnnre. The new building" will be com pleted in one month. The attendance of the winter ses sions since the opening has more than quadrupled. The term of 1911-12 had a closing attendance of 143, with 26 graduates, while that of 1914-15 had an attendance of 327, with 123 grad uate. The correspondence of the ad ministration office indicates that the senior class will be swelled to large 'proportions each successive year, as many students plan to enter who have had teaching experience. "Demands for teachers are grow ing. Annually scores of letters from . school boards in country and city dis trict pour in to the Normal office asking for teachers who can lead in the community. The increasing calls from country districts and the plac ing of almost one-half of the 1915 senior class in those positions show that the tide has turned to the rural schools," said President Ackerman. INDIAN FIGHTER PASSES. Henry Tillery Was Veteran of the Mexican War. Henry Tillery, whose death at Ball- ston last week was briefly recorded in Friday's Observer, was a veteran of the Mexican war of '46-'48. He was a native of Clay county, Mis souri, having been born at that place September 21, 1828. At the age of Seventeen he enlisted in the First Missouri Mounted Volunteers and was mustered into service at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and with that regiment made a march of more than 5000 miles, passing through Santa Fc. El Paso, Buena Vista and Monterey, and finally back ' to New Orleans, where they were mustered out. Thu soldiers did not receive a cent of pay until their service was completed. He was in the battles of Brazeto and Sacramento Pass. At the latter place bis regiment of only 800 men was afc tacked by 3500 Mexicans, whom they defeated in three hours, with a Iojs of only two men. Mr. Tillery had been resident of Polk county since 1864, having crossed the plains with an ox team from Missouri, local ins near McCoy. Prior to that he spent, several years in California, most of the time in the gold fields. In 1012 he purchased property in Ballston. where he had since resided. EVAN KEMP KILLS HIMSELF. Former Dallas Prisoner Fonnd Dead in Portland Suburb. Evan B. Kemp, alleged perpetrator of a fiendish crime against a Portland young woman last week, and who is known in Dallas where his crimintl habits landed him in jail, was found dead in Portland on Friday. He said that he would kill himself rather than bear the blame for the crime he was alleged to have commit ted A bullet from the same revolver with which he shot Mrs. Mabel Myers put an end (to Kemp s evil lite. In a letter to his mother Kemp confessed the crime with which he was charged and said "I die in the oien, where my ghost will run free." , t Falls City Celebrates With Dance. A manlier of Dallas young eople .Mended the New Year's eve dance at Falls City on Friday night. The even ing trains carried most of the merry makers, bit in addition there were many automobile parties who braved the road conditions to make the trip. Other owns of Hie county, including Independence and Monmouth, wen well represented at the affair which was probably the most successful of the many that have been held at Falls Citv within the year. is believed to have been the cause. Mrs. Pout's home was at Casseltmi, N. D., bull she had been in Salem for two months visiting her daughters, Mrs. Fred Bailey and Miss Caroline Port. WANTS A BEAUTIFUL BRIDGE. Salemite Would Have Inter-County Structure of Costly Design. Mr B. Hofer of Salem wanjts a bridge across the Willamette river at Salem that will be a beauty and a joy for ever. In a communication to The Journal of that city Mr. Hofer hn the followine to say on the suo ject, all of which has merit, but the question naturally arises, wuere is whs mnnfiv to come from : "The procedure for adopting plans for a new bridge across the Willam ette makes it possible to get a fine permanent structure, that will be a credit to the Capital city. The great est asset of our city is its Deautinu locait ion on the river and its magnifi cent streets and public buildings and grounds. The new bridge can and should be made a beautiM structure, adding to the charms ot our city. We should not, for the sake of cheapness, duplicate the present unsightly Midge. The new bridge should be the full widith of our streets, have wide walks, with cluster lights and room for two street car tracks. ' ' Such a bridge would be a great as set. It would draw tourist travel and stimulate the growith of a fine city where West Salem now stands. It would add ten times its cost to the assessed rolls of the two counties in a few years. I attended the dedica tion of a new bridge in California across the Yuba river, recently, and it is a beautiful structure. It is full width of the state highway, of low concrete arches, with a lift to let boats through. The concrete is fin ished in white so it never need be painted. There is no wooden floor to rot. It has beautiful electric cluster lights and is named the White Way a thing of beauty by day and by night. Why can't we do something like that? A word from our concrete industry. Oregon is developing Portland cement plants at Gold Hill and Oswego. Is not this material entitled to consider ation in erecting such a bridge at the state capital? Washington and Cali fornia have large cement plants and are building permanent budges on a larce scale. Why not encourage this Pacific coast industry f "At Dallas 50 men are at wonc building a railroad to the limestone beds for the Oswego cement plant. Mr. Burch and his associates have in vested a quarter of a million in this industry in Jackson county. Why not make friends of 'these counties and use Oreeron material on our new bridge at Salem? If we want capital in Oregon to invest in industries, is anyone to blame but ourselves if we do not encourage use of the Oregon product when we have the opportuni ty t Are we not in honor bound to give recognition to Pacific coast in dustries if our own state cannot sup ply usf If public money, the tax payers' money, cannot be used to en courage home industries we would like to hear a good reason why not." Some Athlete, This. A merchant's daughter of Indeien dence has a most unique way of teaching young men to conform to her idea of etiquette. The other evening, according to the Enterprise, she kick ed a young man's hat off his head because he appeared in her parlor with the head-piece on his nob. This authority says with some degree of gusto that "she used her foot, too." Prominent Jurist Dead. Joseph Rucker Lamar, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, died at his home in Washington, D. C, Sunday, after an illness of several months. He was 58 years old and had been on the su preme bench live years. THROW OUT THE LINE. - - - , TTTT- - AMONG FARMERS A ivin rr Mai-mot 'a Herd. W. 0. Morrow, Jersey breeder or near Independence, has six daughters of his bull Golden Cicero that have either finished a year test or quaii kj ,n. voo-iuter rf merit already, lieu ni l.a I rcn p 'a Savior as a two-year-oia produced 441 pounds of butter in ten anil a nan monms. again as a three-year-old and will make a good record. Cicero's Oxford vt.-., -a n fnnr-vear-old produced 554 pounds; Cicero's Dorothy 788 pounds as a four-year-old. La Creole s St. Savior Degan ai iwu jto eleven months and produced 50o pounds in ten and a half moni lis. La Creole's Flossy will finish in March. Disposes of rnze btock. i Thinner the cattle show lat Ban Francisco, F. E. Lynn of Perrydale sold the baby bull calf of his grand champion cow, Nashville Susie, Ito Knnlin Bros., of Gaston. The Messrs. Koplin in addition to the calf have purchased from Mr. Lynn two regis ter of merit cows and two fine young heifers. The bull calf is St. Mawes Golden Poppy, Mr. Lynn's herd bull, ni nf V.A Cnrv's sreat cow, St. Mawes Poppy, that has a record of 942 pounds ot butter in a year. Golden Cicero Accepted. W. 0. Morrow received word from the American Jersey Cattle club not long since of Golden Cicero being ac cepted as a register of merit bull. And it was Mr. Morrow's cows, with creditable records, that made him so, none of the bull's other daughters having been tested. Mr. Morrow will have about half a dozen cows in next spring's Polk County Jersey Breed ers' sale. They will be high class register of merit cows and heifers Rural Spirit. Makes Good Showing. Fawn of Amity, one of M. H. Jones' Jersey cows, recently completed a year's official test at the Jones farm neair Peirvdale, 'producing ibfetwieen 500 and 600 pounds of butter. The official report has not 'as yet been made public. OREGON CHAMBER FORMED. Dallas Club Interested in Reorganiza tion of League. Organization of an Oregon Chamber of Commerce was commenced in Port land on Friday by representatives of commercial organizations from vari ous parts of the state. The purpose is to stimulate the organization of strong commercial bodies, one in each principal community, which shall be members of the state Chamber of Commerce, also of seven section or ganizations. The seven sections are to be divided consistent with the ito-1 pography and development problems'! of the state. Four are to be on the isest side of the Cascade mountains, three on ithe east side of? the Cascades. The Oregon Chamber of Commerce will take the place of the Oregon De velopment league, will he closely link ed with the Portland Chamler of Commerce and will probably affiliate with the United States Chamber ot Commerce. Memberships by individ uals as well as by organizations will probably be permitted. George E. Hardy, executive secretary of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, pre sented the advantages of such an or ganization in forwarding the interests of agricultural, industrial and com mercial development. Statements sup porting the idea were made bv O. C. Young of Culver, H. W. Card of Ma dras. O. Laurgaard and "Fanner" C. L. Smith of Portland. The session was called to order in the parlors of the Imperial hotel by C. C. Chapman, chairman of the Oregon development htireau of the Chamber of Commerce. H. H. DeArmond of Bend was elect ed chairman of the gathering. Bank Employes Do Not Rest The bank employes were among the few for whom New Years day was not one of rest. The first day is the busi est of the month in the banks and be- " cause the New Year is observed with general holiday is not an excuse for the bank to set aside their work. The banking houses were closed thmugh- ' out he day. but pens and machines were busy during the regular hour. Visitor Dies Suddenly. While attending service at the Christian Science church at KaletK last Sunday. Mrs. Mary Port died suddenly in her pew. Heart disease Give Them Help and Many Dallas People Will Be Happier. "Throw Out the Life Line" AVeak kidneys need help. They're often overworked they don't get the poison filtered out of the blood. Will you help themf Donn's Kidnev Pills have brought benefit to thousands of kidney suffer ers. Dallas testimony proves their worth. Mrs. J. N. Dull, 815 Lcvens stieet, Dallas, says: "For a long time one of my family complained of a lame and sore bark and pains darted through the kidneys. Nothing remov ed the trouble until Dean's Kidney Pills were used. They brought help from the first and soon the patient's back was strong and free from pain and lameness." Price 50e at all dealers. Don 't sim ply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mrs. Dull recommends. Foster-Mil-burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. SPECIAL NOTICE TO DALLAS FOLKS We wish to announce we are exclu sive Dallas agents for the simple mix ture of buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., known as Adler-i-ka. This rem edy, used successfully for appendi citis, is the most THOROUGH bowel cleanser we ever sold. It is so pow erful that ONE SPOONFUL relieves almost ANY CASE of constipation, sour or gassy stomach. Adler-i-ka never gripes, is safe to nse and the INSTANT action is surprising. Con rad Stafnn, druggist. 1-Tues. A New Year's ban was held at the Lineola ball. Stimulates Interest in Schools. Henry Hirsehberg is responsible for increasing the interest in scholar ship among the pupils of the Indepen dence schools. By offering a prize of one dollar, awarded monthly, fo the pupil receiving the hnrhest genernl average he is stimulating interest in the schools, and at he same time mak ing himself decidedly opular with young America. At Christmas time Mr. Ilirsehherg supplied the scholars with fruits and confections. STOMACH MISERY QUICKLY VANISHES Your money back if you want it is the wav in which Conrad Stafrin, the popular druggist is selling Mi-o-na, ; the gretat dyspepsia remedy. This is an unusual plan, hut Mi-o-na has so much merit and is so al most invariably successful in reliev ing all forms of indigestion that he runs, but little risk in selling nnder a guarantee of this kind. Do not be miserable or make your friends miserable with your dyspep sia. Mi-o-na will help you. If it doesn't, tell Conrad Stafrin that yon want your money back and he will cheerfully refund it. A change for Ihe better will he seen from the first few doses of Mi-o-na and its continued nse will soon start yon on the road to perfect digestion and erjoyment of food. Mi-o-na has been so uniformly suc cessful that every box is sold Bnder s positive guarantee to refund the money if it does not relieve. What fairer proposition could he madef Conrad Stafrin gives his perianal guarantee of "money back if you want it" with every box of Mi-o-na that be sell A guarantee like this speaks volumes for the merit of the Ford Now? (IMMEDIATE DELIVERY) You Are Judged By the Appearance of Your Stationery IF your Stationery is up to the minute, with the type the proper size and neatly displayed, your com munication will command attention. -That is the kind of Stationery that The Observer Job Rooms turns out. 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