Image provided by: Monmouth Public Library; Monmouth, OR
About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1909)
e Vol I Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, August 6 1909 No. 50 INDEPENDENCE NEWS BUDGET From Our Regular Corres pondent DAILY HAPPENINGS IN OUR SISTER CITY. Scan ThU Column For Newt of Importance From the Riverside. Fegles, the city marshal, is on the sick list this week. Merl Scovell, of Eugene, is vis iting relatives here this week. George Murdock passed thro Independence the last of the week Glen Ireland, of Portland, was in this city the last of the week. Mart Graves and wife returned the last of the week from New port. Miss Maud Iliff, of Portland, is visiting relatives here this week. M. Mervin and wife returned Monday from an outing at the coast. Chas. Rice and wife, of Port land, are visiting relatives here this week. Lynn Davidson, of Portland, visited the last of the week with his mother. Dr. Starbuck, of Dallas, made ar ai-tohilp trip to our city the last of the week. Dr. Mark Hayter and wife, of Dallas, spent Sunday at the home of W. W. Percival. W. S. Linville, of Corvallis, was in our city Sunday; He was formerly of this city.' W. B. Lee, a dentist of Junc tion City, was the guest of Dr Duganne the last of the week. Miss Geneva Wilcox left the last of the week to spend the summer at Long Beach, Wash. Harry Wagoner and wife, of Portland, are visiting relatives this week both here and Dallas. Oren Byers, who has been teaching at Rickreall, came Sat urday to remain for the summer. Edd Wallace left Wednesday for a fishing trip, one of the Cor vallis professors accompanied him. F. Y. Mulkey, of Monmouth, passed through here the last of the week on his way from New port. Mrs Susan Jones, Mrs. F. E. Chambers, Minnie Chambers and Ford Parker left Sunday for New port Miss Garlin Hill returned the last of the week from Washing ton," where she has been teaching school. Miss Jess Mattison and her sister Topsy, left Tuesday for a several weeks visit in Albany and Lebanon. Mrs. Dee Davidson and Mrs. Lottie Dorris left Tuesday for several days visit in Albany with relatives. C. G. Long and family left the list of the. week for the Belknap Springs. They expect to be away several weeks. Miss Mary Schlecht of Mon-1 roe, South Dakota, is the guest of Miss Gertie Dickinson for sev eral weeks. Dean Walker and Clint Moore returned the first of the wee! from Slab Creek and report very pleasant trip. Mrs. Corwin Townsend, of Se attle, who has been visiting rel atives here for several weeks, returned to her home Sunday. Several of the Independence young people attended the dance at Monmauth, Saturday evening and report a very enjoyable time, Grant McLaughlin and Claude Johnson returned the first of the week from a weeks outing where they were hunting and fishing, Miss Bessie Copeland, of Los Angeles, is spending this week with her brother Harvey Cope land, at the home of W. W. Perci val. Mrs. ..Clint Moore and her mother Mrs. Clodfelter, returned Thursday from Seaside, where fhey have been spending severa weeks, r G. W. Wilcox and wife spent Sunday at Newport. They were accompanied by Miss Olive Owen who is their guest from North Dakota. Cleve Robinson, of McMinn ville spent Sunday with his par ents Mr. and Mrs. Asa Robinson ne has accepted a position in Portland. Mrs. Frank Coquillette, who lias been very ill at the Salem hospital for several weeks, was brought home Saturday evening, She is improving slowly. Dr. cutler, oi this city, ana his brother J. B. V. Butler, of Mo mouth, left Friday for a trip over the Cascades and will be away about ten days. Mrs. L. A. Kitchen, of Cen- tralia, Washington, left the last of the, week for her home after several weeks visit with her par ents Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Taylor. Johnie Quiry, a little boy four teen years of age, hurt his finger, Thursday afternoon while work ing with a woodsaw. He was im mediately taken to Dr. Hewitt who dressed the larcerated finger and the results are good. Frank Ellis Killed. , While a party consisting of Frank Ellis, formerly of Dallas, his wife and four others were ex ploring the big caves in Jose phine county last Sunday, Ellis' revolver fell to the floor of the cave and was discharged, the ball entering his left eye and penetrating the brain, causing death. He lingered for four hours but never regained con sciousness. His wne stayed with him until he died and then crawled through the darkness of the cave finding her way out and to a neighboring camp, where the news was telephoned to Grants Pass. The other mem bers of the party fled at the re port of the gun and could not be induced to return to the cave. They carried the torches with them and Mrs. Ellis was left in the darkness of the cave with her dying husband. M. D. Ellis went to Grants Pass and returned with the body to Dallas. The young wife is almost crazed with grief. They had been married but a short time. MANY CONVENTIONS HELD Portland to be Center of At traction. AGRICULTURISTS WILL PREDOMINATE Delegates Will Visit Points of Interest in Willamette Valley Portland, Or., Aug. 2 Con ventions of more than usual in terest to the whole northwest will be held here the middle of August The American Asso ciation of Farmers Institute Workers will gather here for the 14th annual meeting on August 16 and 17. The Association for the Promotion of Agricultura Science will meet here August 17 and the Association of Ameri can Agricultural Colleges wil hold the 23rd annual convention here on August 18, 19 and 20, The convention , will deal with scientific agriculture and improv ed farming methods will be dis cussed fully. Able authorities on these subjects will speak. Many will be in attendance from al parts of the United States. The meetings will be held in the convention hall of the Com mercial Club. Following the fina session on t rid ay, the visitors will be taken by special train on a trip through the Willamette Valley as guests of the Commer cial Club. The hop, prune, wal nut and other leading crops of the district will be seen. Cor vallis will entertain the delegates over night. On the following day a similiar trip will be made to Hood River, where the extensive apple orchards will be inspected The price of hops is soaring and the advance means money in the pockets of the northwest grow- ers. A repetition ot the strnng days of 1904 in the hop trade is promised. Brewers of the world are said to be facing a serious shortage of hops. The market in Portland has been lifted in i few weeks from 10 to 20 cents Even old hops command good prices, utters oi 16 cents have been made for the 1908 crop, that a few weeks ago went begging r 5 cents. Short crops in Eng and and Germany are reported to be boosting the price. Oregon lumbermen will partic ipate quite generally in the semi annual meeting of the Western ine Manufacturers' Association at Spokane on August 9. The program is an interesting one and many will go from this state. Among the speakers will be Gif- ford Pinchot, United States For ester. Conservation and refor estation are subjects that will be discussed and are of general in terest to lumbermen. Hogs continue to make new records in the Portland market What is said to have been the highest price ever paid in any market in the United States was realized here during the past week when $9.50 was paid for a bunch of fine ' porkers. Many other sales at better than $9 per 00 pounds were made in the ocal stockyards. These attract ive figures ought to encourage farmers to raise more hogs. Jacob Kamm, pioneer steam boat man, who built the first stern wheel steamer on the Will amette River, is making plans to put a line of steamers on the Up- per UMumDia and bnake rivers. tie expects to put the steamer Norma in commission above Ce- lilo and the Undine on the lower end of the route. It is thought large quantities of wheat will be secured on the run up to Lewis ton. Monmouth Heights. Allie Griffith was a Rickreal visitor Friday. Robert r ishback was a county seat visitor Saturday. O. M. Lehman made a business trip to Falls City Friday. Jay Clark sold his horse to H.' T. Cartmell. of Monmouth. Grant Heffley, of Talmage, was out to his place here one day last week. Will Morrison sold his eighty acre place to Mr. Emerson, late arrival. A. J. Shipley and daughter, Linnie are visiting relatives near Monroe. Clarence Bruce sold some fine hogs to J. H. Mulkey, of Coch rane, Thursday. Dave Olin was a business vis itor at Independence the latter part of last week. Levi Lehman is assisting Ar thur Grounds, of Cochrane, with his work this week. J. H. Mulkey, an industrious farmer, of Cochrane, was over the Heights Wednesday. Will Burns, of Bridgeport, pass ed through this vicinity Friday enroute to the Herald city. Clem Fishback has been car centering on a new house for Archie Parker, of Monmouth. Linnie Shipley, who has been visiting with Mrs. Sliger, of Rickreall, returned home Friday. Geo. Sullivan, of the Herald city and James Goodman are on an outing trip to the Siletz Basin. Frank Obenchain has gone to Howe's Prairie, in Marion county to work with Shaw and Bennetts thresh'ng machine. Mrs. Hattie Whitman, of Port land, was the pleasant guest of her daughter, Mrs. Maurice Wheelock Saturday. Susie Bennett, of Perrydale, who has been attending the sum mer Normal, at Monmouth, vis ited friends here Friday. Mrs. Belle Sullivan and daugh ter tfessie, ot Monmouth, were guests of her mother Mrs. E. Clark several days of the present week. S. W. Atkinson, Proprietor of the Springhill Farm, Newberg, Ore., was a recent caller in our office. Mr. Atkinson has had a splendid business the past year and renews his advertisement or the coming year. He recent- y made another nice sale of Jer seys to W. O. Morrow, of Inde pendence, Oregon, consisting of three two year old and one three year old heifers. Oregon Agriculturist PUBLIC AND KICH SCHOOL Are Excellently Equipped for Coming Year WE HAVE USE OF NORMAL BUILDING Principal and Corps of Assistants High Grade and Well Paid So far as is necessary for the use of the public school of this district, there will be no bats in the garret of the Normal School building at this place, for it has been turned over to the school board to care for with the priv ilege of using as many rooms as are necessary for their work. The Board of Normal Regents deserve the thanks of this dis trict for their liberality as they have done all in their power to aid the school. For the ensuing term there Will be eleven grades taught and as soon as there is need for it the twelfth will be added. There will be five teachers employed each of whom will take charge of two grades and one will care for three. The number of stu dents has not as yet been deter mined, but it will run close to two hundred. In point of equipment the Mon mouth High School will be better supplied with apparatus than perhaps any other high school in the state as the district has se cured the use of the Normal ap paratus. This will make our school a desirable place to send students from outside points. As to the excellence of the instruct ors we will leave that to the dis cerning people who appreciate the qualifications of such and will simply state that we have the highest paid principal of any school of its size in the state, high er than many much larger schools The Board of Regents has al so allowed the district the use of the gymnasium and department of sloyd work, so that there will be ample equipment for manual training and athletic exercise. With the proper encourage ment there is no doubt but one of the best schools in the west can be built up here, A school with a much larger attendance than the Normal has had for years and at less expense to the people of this town. We have a fine location, best climatic condi tions, a building with ample room or a business college, normal de partment and high school com bined and this building should and of right does belong to this town, in-as-much as the state's title is clouded. We should all work to the end that our high school will be the best in the state. The largest train of logs that has passed here since the log trains began . running in the spring, went through here Wed nesday evening and consisted of fourteen cars. There were from three to five logs on most of the cars. This ought to be a good advertisment to send east to show what kind of timber lies close to Monmouth.
