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.
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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."
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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