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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1910)
e Local and Personal. Groceries that will merit your approbation at Riggs'. Mrs. Sarah Dabis had occasion to give Dallas a business call Tuesday. Mesdames Mary Stine and A. L. Clark attended church at Inde pendence last Sunday. There is considerable complaint from severe cold sufferers, many persons being affected with it The Misses Maggie and Allie Butler leave Saturday for a visit to their brother, A. D. Butler at Napa City, California. J. R. Ballard and A. Hamann of the Heights were doing busi ness in Monmouth Wednesday. E. L. Rowland and J. C. Clear water, of Salem were in town Wednesday. They were here for the purpose of buying horses. Ownership to land is changing very frequeutly in Polk County, and the coming summer is ex pected to increase the sale very materially. J. L. Murdock closed a deal Wednesday, of this week, through the W. A. Tucker Real Estate Office for a 25 acre track of the Joe Craven farm. Jesse Simpson who owns and conducts the Palace of Sweets, at Eugene, came up last Friday and visited his parents, return ing home the next day. Mrs. Lora Smale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. II. Stone, came down from Portland Monday, to attend her mother, who is very ill. Mrs. Stone's many friends will be glad to learn she is im proving. The creamery company has in serted an advertisement this is sue to which we call attention. They are reaching out for mere business, and if good prices, fair dealing and prompt payment will secure it, they will have it. The High School Basket Ball team left this morning for Cor vallis where they will play with the High School team of that city tonight. The boys are in good trim and if they do not win, they will at least, put up a strong game. The team of L. A. Chute pot frightened at escaping steam at the creamery, Wednesday, and came down town at rather a live ly gait. Mr. Chute had taken cream there and gone inside; just as he started out the operator turned the steam on the testing machine; the escape pipe is on the side of the building where the team was standing. The pair got out of there in a hurry, and before Mr. Chute could reach them. They were caught at the street crossing, near the livery stable. The damage was not very much except that an over coat that was in the wagon was ruined. "Do hogs pay?" asks one of our editorial brethren, whose work is to solve agricultural and such problems. Not to any great extent, dear brother. They at tend church for months, but when asked to help support the preach er, don't pay. That is, hogs don't. They take a paper and read it until at least three pair of spectacles are worn out, yet don't pay. The production of work is quite profitable to those engaged therein, but hogs don't pay. Jefferson Review. Basket Ball The McMinnville High School Basket Ball team and that of the high school here will play Satur day night January 29, in the Normal Gymnasium. This will probably be the last big game here during the season. llllUUin Owned and Managed by pnriurnw Farmer and Dairymen. Hith unLnlllLni et market price paid for Butter COMPANY Fat. We pay exprenaage. Square Dealing. Monmouth, Oregon Will Cheer the Boy. to Victory Probably the last game of High School Basket Ball will be played on the home court Saturday night between McMinnville High School and Monmouth High School. McMinnville team comes as a fast High School team and a fast game will be played. There has been a change made in the home team which will make them the fastest seen on the floor this year. The home team has met only two defeats this season, not by the superiority of the Albany and Newberg teams but through the illness of our own players. The home team plays Corvallis High School Friday night return ing Saturday afternoon for Satur day nights game. Everybody is going Saturday evening to help the home team deafeat the large team from Mc Minnville. With the team that is now playing we can go to either or both places and win back our lost laurels. A Subscriber. A Lien Gate. A lli'h pile la a shed, generally of onk, over the t'lilrtince of a church yard, beneath which the lienrers paus ed when bringing h body for Inter ment. Here the clergyman met tbe body mid rend the Introductory part of the liurinl service as he preceded the funeral tralii Into the church. Ex amples of old llch gates are mill to be seen In many country churchyards. In Wales they are more modem and are usually built of stone. Some of the old llch gates are formed with one wide dour turning on a central pivot and self closing by means of a rude pulley wheel In the roof and a stone weight Inclosed in an iron frame, a primitive but effective piece of ma chinery. In Herefordshire they are also called "wnllnge" or "scallenge" Kates. "I.lch sate" Is derived from the Anglo-Saxon iu-h, a corpse; hence the north country "lyke wake." Lon don Answers. Hypnotio Power In Animals. An Interest Inn; instance of the hyp notic power possessed by a good many animals Is given by a correspondent of the (Jlasgow Herald, One morning outside Klgiu a blackbird was ob served to be standing by the road side, paying no becd to the footsteps of the passerby. It was gazing fixed ly at four young weasels under the hedge which were approaching In a semicircle, apparently to surround It. Just then a warning cry was heard from behind, uttered presumably by the parent weasel, and the young ones disappeared In the hedge. The bird still remained powerless and Immova ble, and only after repeated urging did It fly to a tree near by. when It gate forth a weak, frightened sound, as though still under the Influence of the terror which had arrested Its faculties. A Mild Hint. T) guests came tu spend the even ing and didn't know when to depart. The host and hostess were patient with them, very patient, but when 11, 12 and finally 1 o'clock struck the husband realized that something must be done. He was nn original chap, and In his droll way he looked over at his wife and said mildly: "My dear, hadn't we better get up to IhhI? Our friends tuny want to be going." The Separation. "I understand that she Is separated from her husband." "Yes " "Oh. tell me all about It What did she do?" "Nothing. Ue died." It Was Hard. Hamfatter Hamlet (the acton That hard boiled egg gave me a headache. His Friend Yon shouldn't eat bard boiled eggs. Hauifatter-1 didu't PHt it. A fellow bit me with It bebiud tbe ear. rtule of the Corset If Cleopatra wore corsets she may rank as a royal champion of them with Catherine de' Medici, who Is credited with having Introduced the busked cor set in France from Italy. Male mon archs have been less friendly. Joseph II. of Austria tried to discourage tbe corset by making It part of the cos tume of a convicted woman of bad character. Napoleon, shaking his head over the tight lacing of bis day, told Dr. Corvlsart that he saw in It a sign of frivolous tastes and a menace of coming decadence. The restoration kings. Louis XVIII and Charles X., were equally hostile Formerly, said the latter. France had been full of Venuses. Dianas and Niobes, but now there were only wasps. The revolu tion alone temporarily put down the ent that has triumphantly defied London Spectator A BIG CUT Pacific Monthly Magazine AND Monmouth Herald S. C. Rhode Island Reds (5 ! THE ! PACIFIC I I MONTHLY I ? ? 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Eggs for Hatching from StOCk the equal of any in the Willamette Valley. EGGS-from Pen No. 1 (Trap Nested, five of these pullets layed nine doz. eggs in Dec), $1.50 per 13. -Pen No . 2 $1 00 per 13. -Pen No. 3, 50cts per 13. -EGGS FROM ALL THREE PENS, $1.00 per 13. -$6.00 per hundred. If you want Eggs, BOOK YOUR ORDERS EARLY L. C. HOOVER Monmouth, Oregon Agent for Cycle Hatchers and Brooder-Hatchers. The simplest, safest, cheapest and best incubator for the Farmer or Fancier, (the kind I use.) -PRICE, Incubator, $5.50. Brooder-Hatcher, Incubator and Brooder' com bined, $8.00. Now is the Time To Get a Home 540 Acres, Known as the Craven farm adjoining Monmouth is on the market, and you can buy 5, 10, or 20 acres or more of this valuable farm' at $100 per acre. For full particulars write or inquire of the W. A. 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