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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1908)
The Herald W. T. FOGLE, Editor. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY, BY The Acorn Press, Publishers Monmouth, Oregon. Subscription Rates One year Six months - $1 50 cts FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 1908 The Oregonian lets out an other howl in its Sunday edition, against the primary law and this time it seems it has struck the keynote when it says in effect that the primacy law is tut a sfepping stone to the abolish ment of party politics and in making tins purely a govern ment of the people. So long as we elect delegates and they elect other delegates to represent, or misrepresent us, as the ease may be, just so long will we be but tools in the hands designing politicians. The Oregonian does not want the old system des troyed for it is bread and butter for it; always for sale to the highest bidder it is now making a light against the primary law evidently at the behest of the deposed ring politicians. It is too bad that a paper otherwise reliable should be so radically opposed to the welfare of the people, especially when it has such a large circulation, but that it is so is not new to those who have been familiar with the methods of the paper during the past fifteen or twenty years. We know of but one time when that paper took up the fight of the people against the grafters and that was from purely personal reasons on the part of the editor because of the fact that the only successful opponent it has yet had in the newspaper held was championing the other side. ,Ve dare say that the Oregonian has done more harm to the republi can party than any other element that has ever assailed it. The Iniative and Referendum, the Direct Primary Law, Statement No. 1 and the popular election of United States senator are with out doubt republican measures in this state for the Oregonian says that the state is nominally 47,000 republican and yet these measures are an eyesore to said paper. If Harvey eve? was gifted with any of the milk of human kindnes it turned to clab ber when he was young and his naturally warm disposition cur dled it and he has been getting rid of the whey ever since com ing to the head of the Oregonian. in. Had the matter been in the news colums there would have been allowance made for dis- jcrepaneies, but editorials of that kind should get down to lacts. Oro Fino is tributary to the North Fork of the Clearwater river while Elk City, fifty miles distant, is tributary to Middle Fork and South Fork of the same rivejr, but Florence is trib utary to Salmon river and nearly 100 miles from Oro Fino. It will be a matter of news to some of our readers who have been in that section during the early days to know that a great deal of development work is being done in all of those old "dig- by statements from the Colorado, Washington and Oregon Agri cultural Colleges are that it is not a new variety; that it is not milling wheat and is not a very heavy yielder. On the farm of Mr. Adams, of Idaho, who was said to have obtained fabulousy large yields, the actual crop this year from 32 acres was t. bushels, or 2o bushels per acre, which is quite a reduction from the alleged yield of 222 bushels per acre. m it ft' "(5 rs Those sidewalks that are used considerably should be gone over now and a few nails driven into the loose boards and in some places a new one put in. There is a half block on Main street that is about as rickety as it is possible for a sidewalk to get and be at all passable. This matter should be called to the owners attention and if he doesn't! fix it up at once, the city should do so and charge it t the prop erty. Of course those that are not used a great deal can go awhile linger and when the rains come they will swell up and be good enough for anotker winter, next summer we won't, have time to fix them, same as the Arkansaw Traveler's house. Patronize your home merch ant to the exclusion of the mail order house. The home mer chant can sell you the same ar ticle, on the same conditions as the mail order house for less money than it will cost you to get it from Chicago. Take your catalogue with you and let him figure with you on anything you contemplate buying from the mail order people. Its a simple way of proving the matter. If your home merchant will not furnish you the same article cheaper then there is something wrong, for his expenses are nothing compared to those of the mail order people. The Mustard Jar. Oratory is merely talk with a frock coat on. It's a poor fool that can't be worked both ways. If at first you don't succeed, do it over; but don't overdo it. The fellow that falls in love at first sight deserves another look. Putting up a sign "Post No Bills" won't keep them from coming through the mails. What is the good of a cook book when it doesn't tell us how to keep a cook. The choir may sing "Peace on -bartn, but that doesn t mean peace in the choir. Some men were born great, some shrink, and others never find out how small they really are. In an editorial Sunday's Ore gonian speaking of the Oro Fino gold fields displays about as much knowledge of that minkig section as it does in many other cases where the interests of others are involved. From read ing it one would naturally infer that Oro Fino, Florence and Elk City were in the same township, when the facts are that each is a separate and distinct mining district and many miles apart, with an entirely different grade of gold. There are yet in this country men who have mined in all of these districts and no doubt some of them live in Port land, it is therefore a matter of gross carlessness, or worse, when such misleading editorials creep Reverend Clarence True Wil son throws some hot shot into the Portland council in last Sundays sermon. He says he will invoke the recall on at least four of them if some of the or ganizations in the city do not before he gets back from the annual conference at Salem. It is Co be hoped that he will make good his threat for the city would profit wonderfully by such a course, here's too much par tisan politics in the city council for the good of the people. Chicken lice, like weeds, flour ish in warm weather. For this reason the poultry, especially that kept in confinement, should be provided with boxes contain ing dust, sulphur and wood ashes, while the henhouse, nests and roosts should be given fre quent applications of whitewash and coal oil and be frequently disenfected with sulphur fumes. Sickly and ailing chicks as well as dumpy and unprofitable flocks of hens are often the direct re sult of these louse and mite pests. During the present sea son we have noted localities where hundreds of chicks were killed off by them as if it were by a pestilence. Perkins Pharmacy Under Management of Graduate Pharmacist Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Prices Right. q0 in and investigate our Up-to-date line of Brushes, Station and Toilet Articles. Full Line of Paints, Oil and Glass. We carry the sole agency for the well known Sherr Williams Paints. Pure Drugs, Reasonable Prices HATS Latest Fall Styles Monmouth Miss Mclnnes has bought out the Davidson Sister and is now ready for business with an entirely n and stylish line of Fall Goods. Also a fine showim of Fall and Winter Hats for Street Wear. Monmouth Livery and Feed Barn Graham & Son, Proprietors. General Transfer and Delivery Business. Horses Boarded by the Day, Week or Month. The value of a thoroughly es tablisked good reputation is hard to over estimate. In all parts of the country now when a locality wants to claim the highest posible'Suality for the apples it produces, ft declares them equal to Hood River apples There are some growers at Hood River who get mad every time they read one of th and yet every time such a claim is published it gives Hood River apples ",v advertise- ment of the best possible kind. Oregon Agriculturist. Real Estate For Sale. 330 acres on C. E. R. R. 1 miles from station and school house. Good small house and two barns, and other out build ings and a good young orchard. Good stock and dairy ranch at a bargain. '2i big lots lying on Ma ain street in Monmouth, will sell cheap. 2 lots with a good 5 room, basement cottage, with a rood pantry and closet. Apples, pears, cnerries, plums and other small fruit. A bargain. Inquire of A.eN. Hallkck, 9 Monmouth, Oregon. The facts about the so-called Alaska wheat, as clearly shown Job Printing . The HERALD office is equipped for nrint- ing Sale Bills, Posters, Dodgers and all form of Commercial work. Prices as low as pos sible consistent with good work. Hotel Hampton D. M. Hampton, Proprietor 15 years in Moiimouth Under Same Old Management Everything strictly firstclass The Davidson Studio Successor to C. C. Lewis Artistic Photography Firtfclass Equipment in Every Department Guaranteed Work at Right Prices College Street monmoutn Polk County Bank Established 1889 Paid Capital Surplus and Undivided Profits Transacts a General Banking Business $30,000 $7,000 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS J- H. Hawley, President p t u L,. Campbell, Vice President, Ira C. Powell, Cashier P. S. Powell, J- B. Stump, J. B. V. Butler, I. M. Simpson. Subscribe for ,he Monmouth Herald. $, per Year