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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1909)
The Herald W. T. FOGLE, Editor. Entered ms second-clans matter September 8, 1908, at the poet office at Monmouth, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ISSUKD EVERY FRIDAY, BY The Acorn Press, Publishers Monmouth, Oregon. Subscription Rates One year Six months . $1 50 cts FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1909. as any town on the coast. In vestigation will convince anyone that such a system would be the best investment the town could make. Surely our people would be patriotic enough to take as much light from a municipal plant as they do from a foreign corporation. In its Sunday issue the Ore- gonian takes up the cudgel in defense of Willamette University as against Principal Smith of the Brownsville High School. After unloading a lot of mush wash it says: "The simple truth An effort is being made by var- is that there is not today a re- ious sectarian schools through- spectable training school for out the state to make capital of teachers in Oregon and never the misfortunes of the State Nor- has been one. Nor is there like- mal schools and are advertising ly to be one for some time." normal departments in their This is just another of the Ore schools. In the first place they gonians' gross misstatements, are not equipped for teaching unworthy of notice except for normal methods as well as a the fact that many people com- school that is equipped for that ing to the state will see it and purpose alone and in the second not knowing the true state of af- plaee they have no training de- fairs it will do harm to the edu- partments. This is the main cational interests of this coun feature of a normal school and try. People coming from the without which there can be no east inquire after educationa good results. The Monmouth facilities among the very first Normal is the best equipped in things and if they believe what this respect of any in the state the Oregonian says they will un- and has devoted more time to doubted ly go to some state that the practical training of teachers does have respectably trainee than all the schools in the state teachers. Without going into combined. The Training De- details we will say that the Nor partinent is kept up at the ex- mal school at this place is as pense of the school district, by good a training school as there 1 1 AT" 1 X 1 1 . i 1 1 a special tax. l ne in ormai is anywhere ana its resnectaou school has been kept running itv is entirely too hirh to be without state aid for the past measured by Harvey Scott's stan two years and it is expected to dard run for the next two years on the same terms. Returning to the sectarian schools, we will say that it is our linn belief that all sectarian schools should be pro hibited from operating a Norma department, or in any way use iinr limit 1 it (1 iii-Mwui in mnnlil flm the thoughts of the teachers of , ... the common schools of this, or any other state. No church should be allowed to influence matters of state and this is what would happen if the sectarian Get all the enterprises we can to locate here. The flouring mill is only a beginning ant will be followed bv a number of others. It would be a goot thing to get a planer and box factory located here and bv so two with an electric light plan and a water system, thus cheap ening the expense of operating, Crowley. Mrs. Ora Crowley and children schools had their way. e have are training hops for Mr. Yocum 1 X 1 i 1 1 I m objections to sectarian senoois Misses Alice Riggs and Edna teaching teachers in their own Morrison of this nl a nttpndpd peculiar beliefs, provided these a base ball game in Monmouth teachers are intended for their last Saturday. own schools, but we do object to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crowley, o them teaching public school Falls City, visited relatives here teachers. No public school Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fawk and teacher has a right to teach any daughter, Grace, of Salem, spen peculiar form of religion in the Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. K com inon schools. That is a right Crowley, of Oak Grove, that belongs alone to the family Mr. A. J. Harris and family S.-ircle and to the church and left last Friday for southern Call Sunday school. It would be un- fornia. Mr. Harris has been ir and unjust for a teacher in a... .-.c i.. ii i : .i ... -i. .. (lillO Ul Mil! MUlllier UlMllClS 10 llpach Methodist doctrines to haptist children, or Presbyterian doctrines to Adventist children It should be unlawful for state or county authorities to grant cer titieates to any one on thediplo' ma of a sectarian school. SEE US FOR CARBOUNEUBl AW WfflH Hygemc and Kalsomme The best thing ever. Works over wall paper as well as any other surface. Absolutely Guaranteed Picture Framing a Specialty BOGERT & SON Monmouth Oregon Phone 331 Yon will be satisfied with the products of Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" Shall we mail you our New Complete Catalog ? W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Burpee Building, Philadelphia. V. O. Boots FIRE LIFE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID A. N. Poole Contractor and Builder. Blue prints made to scale from original drawings. General Carpenter Work Phone 187 m very bad health the past few months. Warren Allen sold several fine dairy cows last Friday. Mr. Allen is one of the most success ful dairymen in the county. J. W. Allen is having a roller made. He intends sowing 25 acres of clover this spring. C. J. Fewtherer is cutting wood for S. L Fawk. Webb Lewis sowed 45 acres of It has been asserted that this town would never vote bonds for a good water and light sys- clover last week' torn for the reason that it would The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. ,i- tvf.s s,imn, l, hi.rW t Charley Whalley died at their 11 D! .1 tl IT'- J ,.. .iw .,f ti... ir.,,.,u "uuie ui nicK-reaii lasi weunes Hv? iiiv uuui i'v i v vuv avium , day evening with 1 favor TVio nA eilr , . , , I V. All till IVA llCtlA Kf. Vli . 1... .i lll .l.. -" " gow water aim ..gut Mr.uumu j . . now, with an inferior service of Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Whal both. Our little dinky mean- ney have the sympathy of their descent street lights are nothing many friends. . more or less man a larcr, inn c A. PPtorsnn tVio c.-ctnm na mit.Hnpd lftstl mm oi cvi -i T i. week, we could have not less than i ovary ruoiiv a dozen large rc lights, as good MOnmOUth OregCL Real Estate For Sale. 330 acres on C. E. R. R. H miles from station and school house. Good small house and two barns, and other out build ings and a good young orchard. flood stock and dairy ranch at a bargain. 80 acres, GO under cultivation; good house, barn and other out buildings; 24 miles from rail road station. Will sell for cash, or half cash, balance one years time. 5 springs and water on place. Dwelling of ten rooms with largo grounds, fruit, berries and shrubbery $1350. Fine large dwelling with acre of land 12500. Business chances. 24 lots with a good 5 room, basement cottage, with a good gantry and closet. Apples, pears cherries, plums and other small fruit A bargain. Inquire i! Polk County Realty Co. Perkins Pharmacy Is Selling Pure Pamfc AT $1.50 per Gallon Spring is Here You need a new Watch Come In and let us sell you a SOUTH BEND A Watch that Is Guaranteed in every respect P. E. CHASE
