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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1909)
The Herald W. T. FOGLE, Editor. Entered as econil-c!as mailer September 8. ICS. at the post offlre at Monmouth. Orevron, under the Act of March S. 1S79. ISSI KD KVKKY . FRIDAY, 15 Y The Acorn Press, Publishers Monmouth, Oregon. n Subscription Rates One year Six months - $1 50 eta FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1909. With the recent improve ment in the many crafts for aerial navigation, the wonderful achievements of wireless tele graphy ami telephony, comes the thought, where will it all end? If we recall the conditions in these lines fifty years ago they seem like ancient history. How long has it been since the first telephone came into use? The writer doesn't know exact ly, but it was during hi boy hood days and he' remembers making and using one that was constructed of twine strings stretched along fence stakes for pedes and the receivers and transmitters were made of tin cans, with out' end covered with half tanned squirrel skins, drawn tight while wet ami allowed to dry. A small stick was the an chor on the inside of the skin and there you were. They were fully as serviceable as the mod ern ones, up to the limit of dis tance used, which was from 10 yards to half a mile. More elab orate ones were made to order .ui.l tin- wires C!) were indeed copper ones. Prom this begin ning has come the modern tele phone system that is but just beginning to foreshadow the great perfection that will yet be attained. The phonograph with its multitudinous ramifications the myriad forms of electrical aparatus and machinery, i he im provements in machinery of va rious kinds and developments and discoveries in plant ami animal life, all attest that this is becoming the age of science. How many years ago would it have been safe for any one to have predicted any one of the things mentioned, that are now common, us being about to" be invented? liven in the lifetime of men who are net yet called old, we dare say that hud one bad the temerity to make public announcement that tie would manufacture in a short time a machine that would re-produce tho human voice and repeat messages talked into it, he would have been incarcerated as a dangerous person, or put todcath as being in league with the devil, iit-oviib d he undertook to make good his assertions. How dif ferent is it today. We take for granted almost any assertion that is made and pass it up as being the proper province of the party making it to show us; in other words we "are from Mis- vouri-' and that is all there is to . .i.i. it. It lias licen aserieu wiai lidison, the great electrical wiz ard, has remarked that it is pos sible to establish, through mag netieal and electrical apparatus, communication with the mvi HAMMOCKS ' 1 1 ' province to say whether can lie thuic or not. bi: forcca-l- ing the next fifty years from the fj& happenings of the past fifty, or j , , even ten, we hesitate to question j HAMMOCKS i be the greatest the world would I ever see, vet there has been al ! most as great development dur ing the first nine Years of the i Twentieth century as during the whole of the past 100 years and we are frank to confess that present indications point to still greater in the very near future. When Jules Verne's book "A round the World in 80 Days" made its appearance, very few if any took it seriously and no doubt the idea would have been ridiculed all over the world had anyone stated seriously that ' he could do it, yet it has been done in much less time. So it is with other things and it may safely be said that "what i fiction to day may be facts tomorrow." , 1.' From $2.50 up Have we a railway station on the Southern Pacific V any other system ? This question is asked in the light of the fact that people coming here from outside points have to pay an extra ten cents on ' trunks from Independence, notwithstanding their tickets read to Monmouth. This we has n the word of one of our reliable eili.ens. We would like an explanation from cither the S. P. or the I. & M. ollicials. Another thing that is passing strange is that we have no accommodations here for the transient traveler who wishes to stop over night and who has a trunk. At all regular stations of any railroad system that we are familiar with when one ar rives his trunk is taken care of and if not called for within 21 hours storage is charged. Here it is said that trunks will not be allowed placed inside the depot building, even over night,, pay or no pay. This must certainly be orders from Headquarters and , i : i.: .... as tne agent uere is immimu, under Southern Pacific orders we must attribute this condition of affairs to that system. Judg ing from our past experience with the head ollicials of the freight and passenger depart ments of that system we cannot believe that this matter is known bv the head ollicials, but it must emanante from the depart ment of some subaltern who must needs keep busy or lose his job and thinking that Mon niyuth is away off in an out-of-the-wav place he gets busy with a lot of rules that are extremely hurtful to the growth of the town. There are ether discrim inations that exist against this i li1 .... ..... i place that we neueve are not known by the head ollieeals, but iin due time thev will be made public and care will be taken that tho.-e whose dutv it is to attend to such matters shall know and we shall demand a reason for such treavinent. Mon mouth is growing and it would i i. row faster if we had decent i treatment from the railroads ! im.l tint onlv wav to tret it is to go after it. BOGERT & SON Monmouth Oregon Phone 331 for Our Offer V. O. Boots FIRli LIKK AND CASUALTY INSURANCE LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID A. N. Poole Contractor and Builder. Blue prints made to scale from original drawings. , General Carpenter Work Phone 187 Nice cottage of five rooms and pantry with good wtodshed. Well Perkins Pharmacy Is Selling Pure P AT atot allon A. B. WESTFALL Painter and Paper Hanger Monmouth Oregon :i.i.. .h. niK.un nr ii soiin call 'on muvh. Prunes, anules. pears it the spirit world, but that it and small fruits together with it, me sj ii u , one and eighty-seven one-hund- having no commercial value lu : redths acres of ROod jan(j jn Mon ies not devoted his energies in 'mouth for $1100. For sale by that direction. It is not in our , Polk County Realty Co. J. W. HOWELL Contractor and Builder Carpenter shop and General Repair Work. Moulding and Finishing Material Cor. Knox and Jackson Sts, , ; ;Too v Busy Selling Candy and Soft Drinks to Write an Ad P. E. CHASE
