The Herald
W. T. FOGLE, Editor.
Entered as amndlM Mtter September I. 1W.
t the peat onVe at Moomouls. Oresm. under the
Act at Murk t, im
IS8UKD KVKRY FRIDAY, BY
The Acorn Press, Publishers
Monmouth, Oregon.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1908
Monmouth should have a
Board of Trade or some kind of
commercial organization that
would look after the develop
ment of the city and country
immediately surrounding it.
Other towns in the valley with
no better advantages than we
have are rapidly growing in pop
ulation and wealth as the result
of well organized commercial
bodies. We have many advan
tages over a number of them,
chiefly that of cheap land and
cheap rent. We venture the
assertion that no where in this
country is there cheaper rent
and in very few places is it so
cheap. Our school advantages
are second to none and the hor
ticultural possibilities are the
best. We should reach out after
some of the great immigration
that is coming westward and
divert it to our part of the state.
Many orchard tracts are being
exploited by Portland operators
and sold at from 1250 to 1400
per acre where transportation
facilities are nowhere near as
good as ours and where there is
no advantage in soil or climate
Here land can be had adjoining
town, where we have rail and
river transportation, for 1100
per acre and out a few miles it
can be had as low as 120. All
this is good farming or dairying
land and with our creamery,
fruit evaporator and cannery
ready for any and all the pro
ducts of the soil it would seein
that we have an ideal place for
the thrifty eastern farmer to lo
cate. Let's get together and do
something in the way of organ
ization. The Southern Pacific has
never given Monmouth justice
in the matter of freight ship
ments. Whether the local les
sees are to blame in this matter
we are unable to say, but be tha.t
as it may the fact remains that
we are unjustly discriminated
against in more ways than one.
In the first place there is no
warehouse here for storing
freight and if a man wants to
send freight away he will have
to haul it here in a wagon and
then run the risk of being able
to get it into a car. The cars
that come here loaded with wood
are sidetracked along side the
grain warehouse where the only
way to get at them is across all
the tracks and switches in the
yard and where the mud is hub
deep in the winter. In order to
unload cars, many times the
draymen must place themselves
in such a position that if an ac
cident should occur, they could
get nothing out of the railroad,
for they are violating orders.
Yet the railroad forces them to
get into these places in order to
get the freight away. It seems
to be a case of "you're damned
if you do and you're damned if
you don't" However the rail
road company cannot compel
anyone to pay demurrage here
on account of not getting cars
unloaded on time. The otlicials
cannot plead ignorance for they
have Wen here twice this fall.
Keep this fact in view. We
do not claim to 1 the biggest
and best paper in the county,
but we claim, and can prove our
claim, that the Herald comes
nearer Wing a model country
newspaper than the large ma
jority of papers published on
the coast. In the first place we
do not use a "patent inside:" in
the second place there are no
nauseating patent medicine ads
in the paper. The Wst news
paper critics in the world long
ago condemned the ads on the
front page and no modern paper
allows them to appear there.
Some people claim that self
praise is half scandal, but this
does not apply to a meritorious
article you have for sale. We
believe the Herald is meritorious
and have it for sale in weekly
installments at one dollar for 2
of them. Try it once and you
will always keep it in the house.
Read the ads in the Herald.
They are paid for with reason
able supposition that they will
be read. After you have read
them tell the merchant that you
read their ad in the Herald. It
will help us ami will do you no
harm. '
Twain' Emancipation.
An honorary degree waa once con
ferred on Murk Twain by a humble In
stitution In a Missouri town that bad
known him when he waa playing Tom
Sawyer there In real life.
It happened that the degree confer
ring cermonles took place one lazy day
In June when newspaper generally
were suffering from total collapse ot
erery thing In the way of new.
One New York new editor raked
the land with a figurative fine tooth
comb and got a dry haul for hla pains?
Then, recalling that Mark Twain waa
getting his honorary degree' that very
day. It occurred to blm that a message
direct from the famous author might
relieve the situation In the news. Aft
er moch scratching of the editorial
Idea factory ' he' evolved this query
which was transmitted to Mark Twain
by wire:
How docs It feel to be ft doctor of laws?
Please wire answer at our expense. -.
After a wait of several hour thli
characteristic response came hot ovei
the wire from Missouri:
It feels like emancipation from Ignorance
and vice. MARK TWAIN.
Riding a Camel In the Desert
Dr. Nacbtlgal. the celebrated African
explorer, was the guest of a rich Ham
burg merchant. The merchant's son. a
young man of a somewhat sentimental
temperament, said among other things
that his dearest wish was to ride across
the desert on the back of a camel. He
thought such a ride must be very poet
ical Indeed. '
"My dear young friend." replied the
explorer, "I can tell you how yon can
get a partial idea of what riding a
camel on the deserts of Africa Is like.
Take an office stool, screw It up a
high a possible and put it In a wagon
without any springs. Then seat your
self on the stool and have It driven
over rocky and nneven ground during
the hottest weather of July or August
and after you have not bad anything
to eat or drink for twenty-four hours,
and then you will get a faint Idea of
how delightfully poetic it is to ride on
a camel In the wilds of Africa."
H Gsv Her a Present,
When I was a young man Lady Jer
sey was one of the leaders of fashion,
and her house was the resort of poli
ticians and other, with her lived her
daughter, Lady Clementine Viillers, a
handsome and clever girl. The custom
had been established that all friends
should give the latter a present on her
birthday, and these presents were set
out in an antechamber. Among these
friends was Lord Brougham, then an
old man. He called on a birthday, but
bad forgotten what the occasion was,
and bat brought no present Seeing a
mass of presents laid out, he seized one
of them and took It In as his present,
rightly counting that the young lady
would not remember that It was on
that already bad been given to her
And very proud be waa of bis pres
ence of mind. But, then, he was an
ex-lord chancellor. London Truth.
EXTRA
The White
Saturday's Big Bargains
15 per cent off on all
t
V. O. Boots
FIRE LIFE AND CASUALTY
INSURANCE
LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID
A- N. Poole
Contractor and
Builder.
General Carpenter Work
Phone 187
Real Estate For Sale.
330 acres on C. E. R. R. li
miles from station and school
house. Good email house and
two barns, and other out build
ings and a good young orchard.
Good stock and dairy ranch at
a bargain.
80 acres, 00 under cultivation;
good house, barn and other out
buildings; 2J miles from rail
road station. Will sell for cash,
or half cash, balance one years
time. 5 springs and running
water on place.
2b big lots lying on Main
street in Monmouth, will sell
cheap.
2i lots with a good 5 room,
basement cottage, with a good
pantry and closet. Apples, pears,
cherries, plums and other small
fruit. A bargain. Inquire of
A. N. Halleck,
Monmouth, Oregon.
Students Contest Ballot
Five Votes
For.
EXTRA
Front Furniture Store
Wall Fapes:
Perkins Pharmacy
Under Management of Graduate Pharmacist
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Prices Right. Come
in and investigate our Up-to-date line of Brushes, Stationery,
and Toilet Articles.
Full Line of Paints, Oil and Glass.
We carry the sole agency for the well known Sherwin
Williams Paints.
Pure Drugs, Reasonable Prices
Hotel Hampton
,D. M. Hampton, Proprietor
15 years in Monmouth
Under Same Old Management
Everything atrictly fintclau
Go to P. E. Chase, for
Pure Home Made
Candies
Sold under positive guarantee
Why eat sweat shop, factory made stuff,
when you can get a clean, healthful article
made at home?
Monmouth Livery and Feed
Barn
Graham & Son, Proprietor.
General Transfer and Delivery Business.
Horses Boarded by the Day, Week or Month.
EXTRA
grades of
BOGERT & SON