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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1908)
Additional Local. Get Westfall to do your paper hanging. W. M. Fishback was a caller at this office Saturday. Bring us your produce we pay top prices. T. A. Riggs. Miss Freda Grant, of Dallas, was visiting relatives here Sat urday. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Robertson were visiting on the Luckiamute last week. The Herald and Pacific Monthly $1.55 for three days. Read the Thanksgiving offer. cast down by a defeat If we are not cut down by the scythe of the reaper, Time, four years from now will find us advocating the cause of the people. Itemizer. A Sura Ttrt. The nchool master put to bis class th question: "Two Jars of gas, one con taining nitrogen and one carbon di oxide, are given. How may the gases be discriminated?" One eager little pupil said: "Get a man. and let him take a deep breath of both. When he gets the carbon di oxide hell die. That's the way to tell.- His Status. "Is that ex-New Yorker -who likes London so well a naturalized English man?" "No," answered Miss Cayenne, "merely a denatured American." Nine new subscribers last week, We are averaging over two new subscribers every day. Dr. R. E. Duganne, dentist Office over Independence National Bank, Independence. B. F. Phillips, the calender printer, was over from Indepen dence Friday evening transact ing business with the Herald. We have a buyer for a sheep ranch of from 150 to 200 acres. Must be good land, but can have considerable brush on it Polk County Realty Co. Mr. Bingman and family are late arrivals from the Boise valley Idaho and have rented the J. H. Moran house near the depot for the winter. He is looking for a brother to arrive in a week or ten days. Four lots inside the city limits of Monmouth, 63 and one-half by 165, or nearly an acre, all in young orchard. Priee $200. We have other good buys. Polk County Realty Co., office at Her aid office. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Boots have returned from a protracted stay at Hot Lake and both are much improved in health. Mr. Boots is very enthusiastic over the curative properties of the water of the lake. , Nice cottage of five rooms and pantry with good woodshed. Wei on porch. Prunes, apples, pears and small fruits together with one and eighty-seven one-hund redths acres of good land in Mon mouth for $1000. For sale by Polk County Realty Co., at Her aid office. Following along the lines laid down by Standard Oil and other monopolistic corporations, the I & M. Railway has doubled the fare on its line between here and Independence. This will have a tendency to cause some who have been in the habit of going to Independence regularly, to trade at home, thus making it more profitable to Monmouth than otherwise. Taft carried Oregon by 25,000 and for that reason the Oregon ian advocates the Statement No. 1 legislators should violate their pledge to the people. However it makes no mention of the fact that the bill providing that mem bers of the legislature shall vote for the person receiving the high est number of votes in the June election, received a majority of 48,506, or nearly double the ma jority of Taft His Only Chancs. Mother (crossly) Tommy, haven't I told you you must not talk when I am talklnt? Tommy But, mamma, you won't let me stay up titer you go to bed! Sketch. Mutual Dislike. Brahms and Tschaikowsky, the famous musicians, met but twice. On the lust occasion Brahms was sufficiently interested in Tschai kowsky s fifth symphony to travel expressly to Hamburg in order to make its acquaintance. After the performance the distinguished com posers dined together, and the con scientious Brahms frankly admit ted that he did not like the work at all, whereupon the usually meek Russian plucked up sufficient cour- e to inform his host that the dis like of each other's music was mu tual. They parted on excellent terms nevertheless. An Introduction. "Long introductions when a man has a speech to make are a bore," said former Senator John C. Spoon- er. "I have had all kinds, but the most satisfactory one in my career was that of a German mayor of a small town in my state, Wisconsin. was to make a political address, and the opera house was crowded. wnen it came time to Degin tne mayor got up. 'Mine friends,' he said, 1 haf asked been to introduce Senator Spooner, who is to make a speech, yes. Veil, I haf dit ok und tie vill now do so.' " . Horsemen Attention. We are prepared to print horse cards for less money than you can get the same quality of work done anywhere in. the state. We print cards 14x21 for less than others print 12x18 and we print on good quality bristol board and not on cheap poster paper. If you want a cut made from photo of your horse we- will have it done for less than you can get the work dpne. Get our prices. For Sale. Four dozen fine Plymouth Rock nullets. Inquire of J. W. Mor rison, or at Lindsay & Co. Needed No Tonic. Wednesday morning we found on our desk a large bottle of some colored substance, labelled Elec tion Tonic, no doubt left by some our republican friends. We have not taken any yet the color was all ricrht but the smell did not suit us. In fact we did not need a tonic, much as they may think so. We have ran democratic papers too long to be particularly Church Directory. Evangelical Church L. C. Hoover, Pastor Morning service at 11:00 o clock Eveniner service at 7:00 o clock Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. Y. P. A. Meeting at 6.30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. W. A. Wood, Pastor. Morning Service at 11. a. m. Evening Service at 7:00 p. m. Sunday School 9:45 a. m, Y. P. S. C. E. 6:30 p. m Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m. Baptist Church. Sunday School 10 a. m. Preachintr 2:30 P. m. We are opening iOOOS Every day Com aM Bee LINDSAY & CO. Noted for Bargains - For Sale Farm Lands, Houses and Lots Five, Ten and Twenty acre Trads J. H. Moran Monmouth and Independence Monmouth Laundry We want to make our good reputation better still by giving universal satisfaction to our pa trons. If dissatisfied, tell us why. Bring in your Suits and have them Cleaned and Pres.-ed, at the Monmouth Electric Laundry Acorn Store Wm. Evans, Prop. Books, Periodicals, Ice Cream, Soda and Soft Drinks. Watch Our New Brick GROW The Monmouth Bakery Radek & Smith, Props J. W. HOWELL Contractor and Builder Carpenter shop and General Repair Work. Moulding and Finishing v Material t Cor. Knox and Jackson Sts TWO DOLLARS' WORTH of up-to-date Kitchen Furnishings will gtrt you much more reel comfort and aatlafaciion than twenty dollars spent in your parlor. THE SAVORY SEAMLESS tii'ei i ITriyT"ww roe raised Oval Bottom makes It positlTely self .basting. Results always satisfactory. Easiest to clean. Family size, $1 , SHAKER SIFTER. The OnHand SUtet. Coats 25 c. and rflvea mora atlafactloa (ban halt a doEeu cheap tea-cant alit.ra at Smalt Sum of Montf Jnf Hmrm WM Olv You an Vp'to-Datm Get your Roasters for Thanksgiving of R. M. Wade & Co. W. E. Craven, Mgr. Independence. Oregon Polk County Bank Established 1889 Monmouth, Oregon. Paid Capital Surplus and Undivided Profits $30,000 $7,000 Transacts a General Banking Business OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS J. H. Hawley, President J. B. V. Butler, Vice resident, Ira C. Powell, Cashier F. S. Powell, J. B. Stump, J. B. V. Butler, I. M. Simpson. Sudsribe for the Herald. $1