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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1909)
w iiih aj yn mm W f A fair Exehaage. j Original. fie was a southern beauty Just nineteen, be West Point cadet two years her senior. She bad been graduated at a young ludies' finishing ichool; be was about to be graduated Into the United States cavalry. She bad learned to write an essay. She didn't need to learn to write a love letter. Sbe was burn tbnt way. Just as a poet la born, not made. lie bad learned analytical geometry, conic sec tions and all that. lie didn't need to learn to talk soft to a girl; be breathed the spirit of "spoon" In with the West Point air. The atmosphere there has been so long ludon with It that It's Im pregnatedthat Is. In June, when the roses bloom. They were dawdling in ' flirtation walk. "What an odd necklace." he remark- ed. glancing at a circlet of finger rings ! fastened together by gold links she wore about her neck "each ring dlf- ferent!" j , ."The donors were all different too." j "What do you mean by the donors?" ; "Each ring was given me by" "An accepted suitor?" "Well"- "Don't deny it Rather tell me about . them." u "The rings or the suitors?" "Both." . "Well, this turquoise cluster was , given me by a flaxen haired, blue eyed ' boy when I was fifteen. He said be was desperately In love with me, and . he was for a month. This marquise j solitaire I got from a young planter In ," Georgia, lie tried to ride over a precl iplce later on, but bis horse balked. This gypsy set pearl was from a pro fessor, lie was an old fellow, thirty one at least. lie taught Scandinavian or Egyptian literature or something of the sort. He'd never been anywhere, but he could talk so beautifully about the places be hadn't seen that he'd make you wish to go there. A doctor 'gave me this sapphire. He had been all over the world, but you'd never know It He couldn't say boo to a goose. I used to say to him. My friend the professor could go through China town nnd make you lielleve he'd been at Tekln when the allied forces en tered; you would make a marionette squabble out of the battle of Gettys burg.' " , "I'll bet the doctor knew a lot more than the professor." "Not for women." "Well, go on with this atrlng of bleeding hearts." "The man who gave me this ruby was splen M.'t-trYotmg like us. He was so fierce. Are you nu angler?" ' "Xo. What's that got to do with It?" "Then you won't understand. My ruby lover splashed about, darting this way and that way, one day treating me with sovercigu cou'.einpt the next with eng.-r. till I thought I'd never land him." "And did you?" ."There's Uie ring to show." ' ' "How about the fellow who gave you the opal':" "Oh, that furuI;Ue;l iu with a dead easy thing la the breaking. I was afraid he'd Interfere r lth the diamond between rnpi :M:v?. nnl I had to cut him short I told bl:a he'd broken my heart, for 1 never could marry a man who'd given nie an opal nothing but nnhappluess could possibly result from such a union. ISut now tell me about your boots of beauty. Your chum Btole it for me .wsterday out of your room." "The rascal!" "I've brought It with tue to return It to you. There's Xo. 1. this black haired, black eyed girl. She'd be pretty If she hadu't such a homely mouth and n pug nose. How long were you engaged to her?" . . . . i "Oh, there girls aren't girls I've been engaged to.. They're girls who have refused me. I only thought I loved them. I never really knew what love was till now." "When did It strike you?" "Just after guard mount yesterday morulng. I was marching off the old guard, and I raw. a group of girls amo'.ig tl'.e lookers ou. One face among them made me tremble. 1 recognised uiy 'belle dame sans mere!. " "You talk Just like the professor. What does 'liclle dame sans merci' mean?" He stopped nnd gazed at her with all the fervor of bis handsome eyes, hot with au expression of despair In them. "IJcautlful one without merry." he re plied. She turned and looked down through an opening lu the trees on the Hud son, evidently to conceal a deep emo tion. "Oh, If I could only trust you.1" she said In broken tones. "You, the only one of all My punishment la more than I can bear." "I awear" , , r ' . f . ' "It "has come at last, but to mock me! Let go my haud!". , - Her blddlttg was obeyed suddenly, so suddenly that she was surprised. At the same time the wooer exclaimed, somewhat Irrelevantly, "Great Scott!" "What's the mutter?" "Officer and we're off limits!" An officer with several ladles passed. The cadet faced,drew biuitelf.upstlff as a raSirod and brought his' for finger to bisfap like a dummy worked i by wires. Tlyit night when the pair parted a ring set with twin diamonds a amlly belrloxm passed Into the necklace, and her photograph passed into his book of beauty. Five years later they met again, both married. There was a delayed recognition. Then began a skirmish very different from the one In which they had eng;med at West Tolnt Nei ther could remember the other's name EMMALIXE C BUItKE. Independence. Lee Robinson is home for a short time. Maurice Butler has returned from Portland. Mrs Charley Williams is visit ing in Salem this week. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison attend ed the Cherry Fair at Salem. Miss Eva Huston, of Portland, has been visiting friends in this city. Charley Sperling and wife at tended the Cherry Fair in Salem last week. Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Taylor have gone to their Corvallis hop ranch for a few days. Tom Fennel, of Ma-ion county, is delivering some fine cherries in town this week. Little Gerald Richardson has been quite sick with a fever but is much better at present . Lucile Messner, of : McMinn ville, who 1 as been visiting here, has returned to her home. ' Harold Fitchard has returned from Marshfield with his automo bile, and reports a fine time. ! Rev. Sherwood, of Willamette 1 University, occupied the pulpit of the M. E. church last Sunday, j Mrs. Charley Allen arrived i Saturday from Eastern Oregon, 'and is visiting Mrs. W. H. Walk er. Mr. Fitchard left Tuesday morning for Portland and Los ; Angeles where he will visit his son Thomas. ! Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Cooper have gone to Seattle to visit the fair. They will stop in Tacoma to visit their daughter Pearl. , ! Miss Fugate, who has been ; teaching the second grade here ; has resigned. It is not , learned who will take her place. ' Mrs. Shrunk, . who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Jas. Reynolds, south of town, returned to her home in Salem the last of , the week. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moore j left Monday for Slab Creek with 1 a load of merchandise. Their son will have charge of the store during their absence. Deputy District Grand Master F. L. Hooper and Mr. Ferguson went to Falls City Saturday night to install the new officars of I. 0. 0. F. lodge, No. 148. They re port a good time. Prof. Kirk has resigned his po sition as principal here, and has accepted a position in Corvallis at a greatly increased salary. Corvallis is to be congratulated while we mourn our loss. J. W. Richardson Jr. has re turned from Siletz, where he has been for several weeks. . He will go to Corvallis next week where he will help build "a fine bunga low for Dr. J. R. N. Bell. Geo. Murphy, principal of the Clatskanie public school, spent several days here visiting. Mr. Murphy left here for Falls City, and then to Clatskanie, where he will remain for another year. Among those attending' the Cherry Fair last week were: Mrs. D. A. Hodge, Mrs. 0. A. Kramer, Mrs. L. Damon, Mrs. Hooper, and Miss Shank.?. The Cherry Fair was well attended and the exhib its were fine.' Stiver. Johnnie Olltough is helping Mr. Neal with his hay. - - 0. M. Allen and wife visited J. E. James Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Loy have moved into the old Loy place. Miss Alma Ruef is staying with Mrs. Arthur Steele at present-Mrs. J. H. James called on Mrs. Thurston last Friday after noon. , Misses Nina Jones and Edyth Bagley are home from Portland on a visit . The rains did not do the hay much good but the gardens and grass look better. Will Steele is hauling lumber for the new house which he in tends building soon. Mrs. King, of Seattle, is visit ing at the home of her brother, Mr. Kreutz, this week. Mr. McCready and daughter Nina, , went , '.to Jefferson after Miss Lillie McCready, last Friday. Mrs. Anna Brown and children, Mabel and Earl, are improving after a long spell of the measles and typhoid fever. -' The ball game between Wells dale and Suver was quite well at tended last Sunday, the game ending 7 to 19 in favor of Suver. Monmouth Heights. John Walker was a county seat visitor Saturday. Wiliiam Herren made a busi ness trip to Falls City Friday. Born, Tuesday July 6, to llr. and Mrs. Clarence McCaleba son. D. Harrington and wife spent Sunday in Monmouth visiting friends. John Sumpter, of nar Falls City, was a visits o.; ale Heigh ts the past week. - Miss Fay Shipley, Of Corvallis, is visiting relatives end friends here this week. , Ed Smith and Flossie Grooms, of Bridgeport, were over the Heights Sunday. Miss Katie Barnes, of Corvallis is a guest of her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Allen Towns. Arthur Grooms and wife, of Cochrane, were seen in this vi cinity the first of the week. John White and son Orville, of Lewisville, are erecting Page wire fencing for Mr. Chaney. Several families of the Luck iamute valley purchased cherries of John Stump the past week. William Fishback, who is car pentering for Peter Cook, at Rickreall, spent Sunday with his parents. Mrs. Henry Lewis and Mrs. William Phillips, of Lewisville, were in this locality Monday gathering cherries. Rutheford Crosier, of Amity, passed over the Heigths enroute to the Luckiamute valley Sunday to see his best girl. Mrs. Newt Grooms and daugh ter, Flossie, of Bridgeport were' pleasant callers at .the home of Mrs. E. Clark Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. George Sullivan and daughter . Bessie, of Mon mouth, Sundayed with her mother Mrs. E. Clark and family. Miss Blanche McKinney,' of Dallas, and her friend Silva Hageman, of Nebraska, visited two days of the past week with Ina and Lettie Fishback. Jay Butler, Jr. and W. J. Mul key, Jr. were visitors at the Her ald office yesterday s and were very much interested in the ac tion of the big jobber. No doubt they will become famous machin- Summer Rates East During the Season 1909 if, via Southern from Monmouth r To OMAHA and Return - - . $62.10 j To KANSAS CITY and return - $62.10 To ST. LOUIS and Return - - $69.60 To CHICAGO and Return- - - $74.60 . ', and to other principal cities in the East Middle west and South Correspondingly low fares. . ' On Sale June 2, 3; July 2, 3; August 11,12 To DENVER and Return - - - $59.10. ; On Sale July 1, August 11 Going transit limit 10 days from date of sale, final return, limit October 31st ' ; These tickets present some very attractive features in way of stopover privilege, and choice of routes; thereby enabling passengers to make side trips to many interesting points enroute. : , "Routing on the return trip through California may be had at a slight advance over the rates quoted. " , - ' ' l' ' " ... Full particulars, sleeping car reservations and tickets will be furnished by any Southern Pacific local agent, or WM. McMURRAY, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon. Polk County Realty Company Transacts a general Real Estate business and attends to collecting rent for out of town owners. We have buyers If you have any land for sale list it with us. Monmouth Hotel Hampton D. M. Hampton, Proprietor 15 years in Monmouth Under Same Old Management Everything strictly firstclass 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. L L Hewitt, M. D. Independence, Oregon Office in Cooper Building . Office hours: 9 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. m. Both Phones. ists some time. That it pays to advertise in the Herald is manifest from the fact that 0. C. Zook received a letter this week from 0. C. Zook, who is a banker in a Michigan city, he having seen our Mr. Zook's ad in the Herald. Whether they are relatives or not has not yet developed. Wood for Sale 60 cords of oak top wood for sale on the N. W. Heffley farm in Pleasant Valley. $1 a cord on farm. 47-2tp the Pacific Co. t t Oregon 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. W. C. T. U. . Local Union meets every sec ond and fourth Friday in the E vangelical church at 2:30 p. m. CITY MEAT MARKET ' H. C. Chamberlin, Prop. ' Dealer in All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats. Fish and Game in Season Lard a Specialty Cash Paid for Poultry Oysters . A.well located lot 50x100. quire at the Herald office. In-
