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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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week, we could have not less than i ovary ruoiiv
a dozen large rc lights, as good MOnmOUth OregCL
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