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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1909)
Clothes to Exact Measurements. YOU cannot possibly se cure clothes that are just right unless you have them made to your ex act measurements. No two individuals are built exactly the same. It takes good tail ors to make good clothes, that being the principle on which the great organization of Strauss Brothers' National Tailoring Service is based. Recruiting the best designing and tailoring talent from every part of the United States and giving them the most modem working facili ties enables Strauss Brothers through our agency to bring right home to you the oppor tunity of securing the highest standard clothes made to your order at prices easily within your reach. YouH be quickly convinced of this by calling at our store to see the semi-life size fashion platesandthegreatassortment of five hundred high grade Spring and Summer fabrics. V. F. DANIEL. Local and Personal. L. C. Hoover made a business trip to Dallas Tuesday. Mrs. Metzler, of Talmage, left Saturday for a few days stay in Airlie. Miss Velma Heffley was quite ill the first part of the week with lagrippe. W. W. Newman is having an addition put onto his blacksmith shop this week. The editor has the promise of a trip on Dr. Parrish's new boat in the near future. F. Y, Mulkey is taking Mrs. Schreuders place in the Daniels store, as she is on the sick list. Wm. Evans and family have moved to Barlow, Oregon, where they will make their future home. Mrs. H. D. Whitman, of St. John, was up last week visiting her daughter, Mrs. M. Wheelock, of west Monmouth. B. L. Multay, of Hood River, formerly of this place, was visit ing relatives and friends Friday and Saturday of last week. The post office building looks much better since it has received its second coat of paint at the hands of Newman and Mason. The State Grange convenes May 11 at McMinnville. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Staats are the delegates from Mono Grange. Mrs. J. L. Murphy, who went to Portland last Thursday, return ed Wednesday evening. She re ports the musical concert a grand success, This office has just turned out 2500 nice booklets for the summer school at the Normal, which will be under the supervision of Mr. Traver. The southern Pacific has been putting in a lot of posts at the de pot the past week and it begins to look like a railway station on the main line. Mrs. Sarah Davis and sisters returned the latter part of last week from Eugene where they went to attend their brother-in-law, who was seriously ill. Wm. Riddell Jr. is now in Vic toria, B. C., where he went for the purpose of receiving some thoroughbred sheep which he is importing from New Zealand. Some little girls remembered We and Mrs. We with a couple of baskets of beautiful May flowers on the eve of May day. They were highly appreciated. Dr. II. R. Nehrbas and wife are up from Oregon City, visit ing with friends and the Dr. is looking after business connected with the Pilot Knob Mining company. Carl Gardner came up from Portland the latter part of last week for short vacation and will be found at his old place of bus iness behind the block at the butcher shop. Frank T. Angell, who has been employed in Riggs grocery for the past six months, has accept ed a position with the Pacific Tel ephone Company in Portland and removed his family to the city Monday. A bunch of Mennonites were here the fore part of the week, looking up a location for a num ber of families of their faith. These people are desirable citi zens and we hope they will locate near Monmouth. A couple of itinerant painters were doing the sign painting act in town the fore part of the week and as a consequence we have taken on metropolitan airs, as a number of windows are now adorned with the latest effects of the sign writers art. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Davis were Dallas visitors Tuesday. Mrs. J. E. Winegar's sister is up from McMinnville visiting her this week. Miss Ollie Pettit has been very ill for a week, but is slowly im proving now. Miss Josephine Morse, who has been ill since Sunday evening, is improving nicely. J. H. Moran now sports a bran new Buick auto, one of the nicest machines in the country. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gwinn were in from the country Saturday looking after their property. Mr. and Mrs. Clay Taylor, of Crowley, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Pettit, of this place Tuesday. The Herald office finished up a lot of fine folders the first of the week for the Monmouth Real Estate Co. Mrs. Tom Reed and two child ren, of Kings Valley, spent a few days with her mother, Mrs. Fred Moseman, of Talmage. J. M. Staats has been install ing a number of phones in town this week. The Independent phone system is getting quite popular. Mr. and Mrs. W. G Heffley and daughter Joe accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Byers, spent Sunday with friends in South Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Metzler, Mr. J. R. Phillipi and Mrs. Wm. Riddell were entertained Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. DeArmond, of Indepen dence. Mrs. W. L. Bridgeford, wife of Dr. Bridgeford, of Olympia, Wash. , is here on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Chamberlin. Mrs. L. C. Hoover spent the first part of the week at Tigard ville, as a delegate of Monmouth, to the missionary convention held at that place. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Jones, of near Monmouth, attended the Sunday school convention at Salem last week, which they en joyed immensely. A bunch of Rebekahs from Agate Lodge went over to Inde pendence Tuesday evening to visit with the local Lodge there and report a very pleasant time. The editor made a business trip to Dallas Friday and noted many new buildings going up, but we will bet our old hat that neither of the papers will say anything about our being there. Dr. Parrish and wife were Port land visitors last week, going from here to Salem in Strong's auto and from there on the elec tric line to the city. They report a very enjoyable trip. Last week Dr. Crowley sold his residence property to B. F. Baker and has removed to Portland to reside. Mr. Baker will now be come a regular citizen instead of living in Independence and at tending to business here. Work was begun the" first of the week making a cut on the hill near the summit. It is said that a cut of six feet will be made. Pres. Hirschberg of the I. & M. has been acting as section boss and he is having a good piece of work done. Miss Jennie Elkins, of Falls City, who is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Burse Estes, of Talmage, was very pleasantly surprised by a number of young folks Friday evening. After spending the evening in games and other amusements, they departed for their homes, all reporting a plea-' sant evening. The Herald ordered a lot of fine Commencement Programs from Chicago Monday, by telegraph, for the Perrydale school. There was not sufficient time to write and get the stock here and print ed for the school to use them for the exercises, but the Herald spares neither time nor expense to please its patrons. Mrs. M. J. Wolverton cele brated her 84th birthday last Saturday. Only a few of the relatives were . present among them being" Mrs. Vera Tuf ford and Clarice Wolvef ton, of Port land. Mrs. Wolverton is one of the pioneers of Polk county and is enjoying very good health for one of her years. The City Council at its meeting last week voted to erect a new engine house on the east side of the postoffice block, where the chemical engine will be housed when it arrives. There will also be some ladders provided, as well as other aparatus for the firemen. It was ordered that the tele phone companies paint the poles as provided in ordinance. The Marshal's report was received and the council was unanimous in favor of sustaining him in the enforcement of the ordinances. Defective flues will be the next thing looked after. j Obituary. Lillie Lanktree was born at Wheatland in Yamhill county, Feb. 3, 1875 and was married to T. H. Halleck Dec. 9, 1894. They resided at Monmouth for several years going to Newport some two years ago, where they resided until her death April 24. She was a member of the Evangelical church of this city and the funeral was preached by Rev. L. C. Hoover, who went to Newport for that purpose. Mrs. Halleck was also a member of the Fraternal Union of Mon mouth and of the Rebekah Lodge at Newport She is sur vived by a husband, one son, mother, two brothers and one sister. W. W. Newman General Blacksmithing and Wagon Repairing. Horse Sheaing a Specialty AH work done with neatness and dispatch. Cornwall's Old Stand Normal Lodge, No. 204 Meets every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. P. E. Chase, N. G. W. Graham, Sec. w. o. w. Monmouth Camp No. 49 Meets everv Wednesday night. ' o Visiting Neighbors cordially welcomed. Allen Johnson, C. C. ' O. A. Wolverton, Clerk J. W. HOWELL Contractor and Builder Carpenter shop and General Repair Work. Moulding and Finishing Material Cor. Knox and Jackson Sts. "si A. B. WESTFALL Painter and Paper Hanger Monmouth Oregon We have a buyer for a farm who has property in east Port land worth $2,000 that he wants to trade in as part payment Polk County Realty Co. MONMOUTH BAKERY C. C. MULKEY, Prop. Bread and Fancy Pastry, Confectionery, Stationery, Soda and Ice Cream. Cigars and Tobacco. Agency for Victor and Columbia Phono graphs and Records. Ice Cream delivered to any part of the town. Monmouth Livery and Feed Barn Graham & Son, Proprietors. General Transfer and Delivery Business. Horses Boarded by the Day, Week or month.
