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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1909)
TTTxTTTTTTItTTtTTTtttTTTT 1 A FAREWELL TO THE 1 ELOPEMENT CLUB. woman can except tOD their ton cues 7 ro I be off like thla with any man her bnaband.' " ! that the only way out of U7 he rained. I i i "Well clrls. I landed him. We were (Orlslnal.) The Elopement club was In session, and the president said: "Girls, since our lust meeting one of our number baa accomplished what we all pledge ourselves to accomplish and is present to take leave of us. The secretary will read that part of our constitution bearing on the case." The secretary then read: ARTICLE II. Recognizing the wrong committed by men (who by nature have an advantage over women In active fields) in selfishly supporting themselves alone and depriv ing; women of the home and children, we each agree to capture some man (or a husband and carry htm off by persuasion or force, by hook or by crook, to the matrimonial altar. ARTICLE III. When a member has been successful In this praiseworthy object she shall be fore retiring from the club narrate the methods she has used. The president then called on the suc cessful member to comply with the requirements of the last named article. She arose and said: "Girls, 1 must say that I have found my object more easily accomplished than I supposed not that the man I have captured had in the beginning any especial fancy for nie; Indeed, he was rather inclined to avoid me. He created In me an antagonism which spurred me on In my work, thus help ing me amazingly. What do you sup pose he had the brutality to say? Why. he said. 'A man Is n fool to marry un til he la too old to have any fun.' "I didn't scold him a bit for that 1 just said: 'I think so too. Let's have a lot of fun.' " 'How?' he asked. " 'We'll spin around together till we get tired of each other go to theaters, drive, and all that. My uncle gave me a check last Christmas, and I'm dying to spend It' "He assented to all except my spend ing any money, proposing to do that himself. I lot him do It and put my check aside for a troussenu. He took me out to drive the next day and when we were In a lonely place put his arm around m.v waist. I didn't object In the least; Indeed, I encouraged him. Then we went to the theater together, and he held my hand under a fold of my dress most of the time during the performance. Then we went boating, and, pulling the boat In under over hanging trees, he sat down at my' feet and held m.v hand some more. On this occaslou he offered to kiss me, but one must have a limit, and I drew the line there. "I had been fishing for him a month when I got a bad scare. Another girl set her cap for him. If I had thought she could get him I wouldn't have stood In her way, but she was a stupid creature didn't know men at all. I had a sharp nool at tne end of my line, and I don't believe she had any thing but bait. She would only divert him from me. So I made up my mind that I must put the steel through his gills and land him. "I laid a desperate plan. I got a time table of trains to and from Eged lake and studied it. Then I asked the man who had said 'A man Is a fool to marry till he's too old to have any fun' to take me out to the lake on a Satur day afternoon. He did. We got out there just In time for dinner and dined on the hotel porch overlooking the lake. It was growing dark when we finished, and he proposed a boat ride. I told him I feared it was too late. He Insisted, and I yielded with pretended reluctance. In the boat I offered to bet him a kiss against a pound of candy that he couldn't pull across the lake in a given time. "Here comes in the beauty of not going too far with u man. If I'd given him kisses he would have been tired of them by this time. As It was, he was crazy to get one. I asked for his watch to keep the time and when he wasn't looking turned the bands back nearly an hour. "He won the bet "I had noticed by the time table that the last train left at 11; no other train till Monday morning. When It got too dark to stay on the water longer we landed and went up to the hotel. I saw several people 1 knew and took pains to pass directly under their noses that they should see that I was there. I had my watch In my belt and when my flsh was not looking took note of the time. At a quarter past 11 I aug gested that we go to the station. He looked at his own timepiece and said It was only half past 10. I told him he must be wrong and Insisted on going. When we got to the station, the train bad been gone half an hour. "I fell over In his arms In a faint "When I came to myself again I looked up at him with all the reproach I could summon. "'My reputationP I gasped. 'It's gone forever. I'll be cut by everybody. " 'I'll drive you home.' "'Drive home fifty miles and at night! We couldn't get there till morn ing. Oh, heavens! What shall I do 7 " 'I'll stand by you," he said. 'I'll kill any man who says you're not pure aa an angel.' " 'Man? I retorted. "Men have noth ing to do with spreading scandals. It's the women. Do you think you could married and telegraphed a notice to the city papers, and and." blushing. "we're very, very hnppy." The retiring member was compli mented for her skill by the president and a resolution was Inscribed on the minutes of the meeting referring to her method as a stroke of genius. ROSALIE WHITING. A Snap 160 acre farm, 50 under cultiva tion, 70 pasture, 40 timber, 7 in hops, all under good fence, 6 springs on place, 7 room dwelling, 4 room tenant house, good hop house, two good barns, fine for fruit or dairy, three miles to railroad, one half mile to school. Price $30 per acre. Polk County Realty Co., at Herald office, Mo -mouth, Oregon. Live Fox Exhibit Probably the most unique farm in the world is located on Hound Island, Alaska, where Harry Pride, a well known Alaskan, is engaged in the cultivation of foxes. Mr. Pride has establish ed his fox farm on scientific lines and breeds only the kind of fox that produces the most valuable fur. Most of the stock on his farm now is of the silver tip and silver grey varieties. "A fox skin depends largely upon its shade and coloring," says Mr. Pride, "and by scientific breeding I expect to produce only the very best furs. An ordi nary fox skin is frequently worth no more than fifty cents while the silver grey variety frequent ly sells for six to eight hundred dollars per skin and have been known to bring as high as one thousand dollars. "The fox is a very intelligent animal and is easily tamed. They can be even taught to perform, but this takes considerable time and patience Some of the animals on Hound Island have become so tame that they will eat out of a plate held in the hand. "It is very rarely that hunters and trappers have taken any large number of foxes alive and I propose to have a fine exhibit from my farm at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. I be lieve that it will be the first exhibit of live foxes of the silver tip and silver grey species ever shown. "As my experiments advance I am more than ever convinced that fox breeding will become one of the most valuable indus tries of the North. The animals breed very rapidly and with proper care a fox farm should pay large returns." The Missing Missive. Something like 2,000,000 letters annually fail of delivery in the United States owing to insuffi cient postage or incorrect ad dresses. The dead letter office at Washington employs a large force of clerks to handle these. The packages received at the dead letter office have contained false teeth, glass eyes, brass keys and thousands of other things that one would never expect to find in the mails. It would be interesting to know how many engagements have been broken how many friends have been estranged, how many fond hearts have not been reunit ed, how many deals have fallen through, how much money has been lost and how many quarrels have been prevented by letters that never came. A pretty romance was reveal ed at the dead letter office the other day when a young woman Big Sale of on For Another Week 20 pes: cent oh on all $1.25 Tea kettles for 87 Granite for the price of tin At This Sale LINDSAY & CO. Church Directory. Evangelical Church L. C. Hoover, Pastor Morning service at 11:00 o'clock Evening 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. Preaching 2:30 p. m. called there to see if a wrong fully addressed letter had been received. It had, and she was greatly relieved. "I heard that Jack was untrue," she said, "and wrote him breaking our engage ment The day after I wrote I found out that I was wrong. My heart was almost broken, but Jack kept right on coming to see me and never mentioned the letter. I began to think I must have misdirected it and find that I did. It must have been fate. Now he will never know." St. Paul Pioneer Press. Lake Abert, in Lake county, is said to be about 5000 feet lower than Lakeview, and in conse quence it is much warmer. The old established rancher there and in Crooked creek, raise all sorts of fruit. Bridgeport correspondent of Dallas Observer: The road boss in this district is winding up the work for the current year, after a season of exceptional activity. Several thousand dollars have been spent in road construction in this vicinity and some fine highways have been built Polk County Bank Established 1889 Monmouth, Oregon. Paid Capital Surplus and Undivided Profits $30,000 $7,000 Transacts a General Dunking Business OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS J. H. Hawley, President J. B. V. Butler, Vice President, Ira C. Powell, Cashier F. S. Powell, J- B. V. Butler, J. B. Stump, I. M. bimpson. Grove A. PETERSON Monmouth Normal Book Store We keep Stationery, Fountain Pens, Confectipnery, Fruit, Nuts, Bibles, Albums, Knives and everything needed by stu dents of either the Public school or Normal. ALSO Sporting Goods, Ice Cream, Soda, Cigars and all kinds of tobacconist's goods. For Sale. One of the nicest residences in Monmouth, 12 rooms, hot and cold water, bath and pantry. Furnace heat. Four Ipts, some fruit trees and shrubbery to gether with almost entire furnish ings for $2500. Terms can be given on a part of this. Enquire of the Polk County Realty Co., at the Herald office. This price is far below real value and will only stand for a short time. J. W. HOWELL Contractor and Builder Carpenter shop and General Repair Work. Moulding and Finishing Material Cor. Knox and Jackson Sts.
