The Herald
W. T. FOGLE, Editor.
Entered u Mrond-clam matter September 8. l5n8,
at the poet office at Monmouth, Oregon, under the
Act of March S, 1879.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1909.
There seems to be a great
deal of energy expended almost
daily by the Portland press in
telling of the great gains made
in population in that city. We
will not gainsay this, but is the
progress being made by that
city in the matter of new factor
ies and enterprises employing
labor, keeping pace with the in
flux of immigrants? It is all
very well to get population but
it is also imperative that provis
ion be made for the employment
of those who have not the means
to buy land or to engage in some
profitable business. If the man
ufacturing industries are pushed
forward so that thev are abreast
of the growing population all
well and good, the more the bet
ter for the remainder of the
state, but we fear that the city
is not boosting enough for such
enterprises as are desirable. We
would like to see Portland's pop
ulation double in the next few
years, but we want it to do so in
a conservative manner, so that
the whole state may grow with
it and this can be done by aid
ing manufactories to locate
there and help to maintain the
great multitude of people who
depend on their daily labor for
their daily bread. The pros
perity of Portland means largely
the prosperity of the whole state
and especially is this true of the
western part of the state. We
hope to see more about the lo
cating of large enterprises and
the encouragement of smaller
ones, in the Portland papers in
the near future.
Indications point to the fact
that it will be a matter of but a
short time until we will have
electric connection with Port
land. In such an event it will
mean the doubling of the popu
lation of every little town in this
valley along the line of the road.
It will mean the cutting up of
many of the large real estate
tracts into small acreage prop
erty and the locating in this val
ley of many prosperous and pro
gressive eastern families. No
where in this state is there sveh
great opportunities offered the
intending settler as there are
near Monmouth. Here we have
the soil for the production of
perfect beiries, such as have
gained a National reputation for
Hood River. All that is neces
sary is for the right men to take
hold of the matter and they will
soon make this section of the
state as famed for its fine berries
as elsewhere. If we could ship,
even one carload of strawberries
a week, during the season, it
would mean many thousands of
dollars distributed here during
the season. Then why not do
it? The soil and climate are
here and the berries have been
raised in quantities that put the
matter beyond the experimental
stage. Again the smaller ones
that are unfit to ship, could be
canned, if not at a good profit,
at least without loss.
The action of the Board of
Directors in lowering the recent
levy voted at the spring school
meeting, is commendable. They
did not lower it to such an ex
tent as to impair the reputation
of the district, in that it is high
enough to enable them to hire a
teacher competent to head the
high school. As the .matter
stands with regard to educational
conditions here at the present
time we must have the best
teachers that we can procure or
have the rating of the .school
lowered. On account of the
higher grades of high school
work bavins: been done in the
Freshman year of the Normal
school, it will be necessary for
us to maintain a" higher stand
ard than any other school in the
county. It may look to some
that a smaller town should not
pay more for its principal than
a larger one, but when it is con
sidered that the quality of work
done is of a higher grade it is
unnecessary to siiy more to those
who desire our young people
educated.
Forest Grove has voted bonds
in the sum of $70,000 for a new
gravity water system in that city.
It is a town less than three times
as large as Monmouth and with
no better resources back of it,
yet on top of this bond issue we
find that there have been many
thousands of dollars expended
in new buildings this year and
the prospect is for a much great
er growth during the coining
year. This is the regular story
wherever the spirit of progress
gains a foothold. Let Monmouth
profit by the example set by her
sisters in the valley and we will
witness a splendid growth here
as well. Instead of voting to
change the charter so as to allow
us to vote on a bond issue of
$20,000, it should be $30,000, so
as to enable us to put in a water
and light plant and also to pave
streets when it becomes nec-
essarv.
An Astounded Paraon.
Of a certain bishop, famous as
being the plainest man in England,
the following pleasing tale is told:
One day, ns this homely parson
sat in an omnibus, he was amazed
by the persistent staring of a fel
low passenger, who presently unbur
dened himself as follows:
"You're a parson, ain't you ?"
"Well, yes, that is so."
"Iook 'ere, parson, would you
mind comin' 'ome with me to see
my wife ?"
Imagining the wife was sick and
needing assistance, the clergyman,
at great inconvenience to himself,
went with the man. On arriving at
the house the man shouted to his
wife to come downstairs, and when
she did so he pointed to the aston
ished parson and said, with a crin
of delight :
"Look 'e 'ere, Sairry. Yer said
this mornin' as I wus'the hugliest
chap in England. Now, just look at
this bloke!" London Illustrated
Bits.
The Signet Ring.
"The seal or signet ring," said a
jeweler, "once had a very practical
use. In the middle ages, when no
body but the priests could write,
men stamped documents with their
signet rings, as the illiterate now
make their marks.
"The signet rings of noblemen
bore the owner's crest or arms. The
rings of merchants bore intricate
monograms, trademarks or the like.
There are certain old European
firms that preserve in cabinets the
seal rings worn by their, founders,
rings whose seals are inscribed with
the trademarks still in use."
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