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Monmouth Vol. II Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, May 6, 1910 No. 37 Herald si REGULAR PORTLAND LETTER Tempting Donations to Port land Excursionists ROSE FESTIVAL UNIVESALLY RECOGNIZED Central Oregon Will Hold a Series of Development Meetings Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 3rd, The Poi tland business men returned from theif visit to thirty Oregon points intensely en thused. Aside from the splen did welcome extended to them everywhere, some of the more homely features appealed to them specially for instance the lucious asparagus, toothsome new pota toes and strawberries which were sent to the excursion diner by different communities. The aes thetic side was not overlooked, either, and at several points the excursionsists found upon return ing to their train that it had been converted into a bower of rose or other blossoms. Business had little attention in Portland Friday and Saturday of last week, for the census was the engrossing subject. Large busi ness interests volunteered their best men as special enumerators to assist in, the , work . without compensation, and every effort was made to get a fair count, the whole to be carefully checked over for accuracy. Never was the Rose Festival so universally recognized as this year. Various railroads have is sued wonderfully attractive book lets and are devoting all their advertising to the advent. Roses promise just as heavy a crop as the more substantial, products such as fruit and grain. Development meetings are scheduled this week at' Bend and Prineville, the following Monday at Barns. Each meeting will be held by the commercial organi zation and draw attendance from miles around. : Oregon advertising in metrop olitan eastern papers has brought a flood of inquiry which all but swamped the head office of the Oregon Development League. Probably the, record-breaking freeze throughout the Middle West and East, which occured at the time this , advertising ap peared, had a great effect upon the number of enquiries. The Pacific Coast Ad Men's League will meet in San Francis co from June 22nd to 24th, and the Portland Ad Club will enter tain several delegations of ad vertising men from Washington cities, enroute to this convention, including a specially large repre - sentation from Spokane. Presi dent Whitmore and Secretary Campbell of the Portland Ad Club will go South with their brothers for the convention. Harold Davis, of Monmouth, has been in Brownsville this week circulating a petition for a vote on the question of re-establishing the state normal at Monmouth. Mr. Davis resided here when quite small, being a son of W. W. Davis, at one time pastor of the local Baptist church. -Brwns-ville Times. L W. Hill Offers Land in the Northwest to St. Louis Philanthropist. Louis W. Hill,- president of the Great Northern Ry, in a telegram spirit of humor last night sent a to George T. Jackson of St. Louis, who is working on the enterprise of providing free lands to be set tled by the poor, announcing that 64,000,000 acres of free govern ment land lie in the Northwest territory tributary to St. Paul, ready for any people who will settle and develop them.. Mr. Jackson has announced that he will give 4,000 acres of Arkansas farm land to the unem ployed of St. Louis and vicinity. Since making his announcement he has received nearly 1,000 let ters from other wealthy philan thropists offering in all about 50,000 acres from Manitoba to Texas for this enterprise. This land is to be divided in small farms to be worked on the com munity plan. The enterprise is being conducted by the St. Louis Welfare association, organized by James Eads Howe. Mr. Hill's telegram to Mr. Jackson reads as follows: "We have always been inter ested in getting people upon farms. We are much interested in the newspaper report that you have been able to find 50,000 acres of free land available for this purpose extending from Manitoba to Texas. We have for many years been locating persons on the free government lands of the West and herewith submit you 64,000,000 acres of free government land available for your purpose. For tables as to counties and classification, see government report,- department of the interior, on the unappro priated lands of the United States, last issue, showing Minnesoto, one one-half million acres; . Mon tana, forty million; North Dako ta, one and one-half million; Or egon, eighteen million; Washing ton state, three million." St. Paul Pioneer Press, April 19. New advs. and changes watch for bargains. vv imam Muikey gave baiem a business call yesterday and in his absence A. B. Morlan had charge of the bakery store. Miss Ethel McDonald of Mc- Minnville has been elected to fin ish out the unfinished term of Miss Mary Scollard who recently resigned her position. Miss Mc Donald is a strong teacher and is doing good work. She is a nor mal graduate and comes with good recommendations as. a ; techer. Enterprise. J. R. N. Bell returned yester day from Independence, He was more than surprised at the great changes being wrought in the northern town. A fine new depot has just been completed, sewers are being put in, the streets are being macadamized, first-class sidewalks are being laid, and many are the new buildings. A $20,000 high school is to be put up at once. Dr. Bell says Inde pendence looks "good" and is b o o mi n g. Corvallis-Gazette-Times. NEWS FROM COUNTY SEAT Court House Notes. MARRIAGE LICENSE Cora B Snell and hd to Sanford Snyder, lots in Independence, Leroy K Irving and Dessie M Miller; Fred Hornshuh and Beulah Fern Calkins. . PROBATE Estate of Thomas H Denny, deceased objections to costs overruled. Estate of Hannah Eames, de-ceased-R J Taylor, F S Wilson and C McBeth appointed apprais ers. Estate of Anna Grow, deceased bond filed and approved. HOP CONTRACTS. W L Murphy to T A Riggs, at 15 15,000 pounds lyiU crop, cents. REAL ESTATE Paul Wessinger et al to J A Kaeppler, 667.70 acres, 1 9 and 10 s, r 6 w, $3500. Emerson E Black et ux to George O Harshman, 13 acres, t 7 and 8 s, r 5 w, $4000. Horace M Reeves to Emily Bas cue, lots in Independence, $1. State of Oregon to Heirs of Frank L Brown, 680 acres, t 9 s, r6w, $7700,. ' M Merwin et ux to Homer Laliberty, 14 acres, t 8 s, r 4 w, and lots in Independence, $650. G W Johnson et ux to F W Waters, lots in West Salem, $1. F W Waters et ux to A B Wood et ux, lots in West balem, $(W. D C Hamilton and hd to Spauld- ing Logging Co, 80 acres, t 8 s, r 6 w, $10. Joseph II Moser et ux to E B McFarland, 146 acres, t 8 s, r 5 w, $4380. J W Benson et ux to E Van Zandt, one-half int 163 acres, t 8 s, r 6 w, $10. Sophronia Gibson to George D Gibson et al, land in 1 7 s, r 4 w, $1. John R Robbins et ux to J II Keller, 270.64 acres, t 7 s, r 6 w, Aaron Maybee to Cora Maybee land in Dallas, $1. Frank Fuchs to S L Burk, 21.45 acres, t 8 s, r 5 w, $2450. Peter Springer et ux to W H Smith and William Townsend, 205.95 acres, t 9 s, r 6 w, $8000. J L Hanna et ux to Charles E Hicks, land in Independence, $1. J F Smith et ux to George Niggli, 28.36 acres, t 8 s, r 5 w, $2000., Moses Manston et al to 1 red erick Gerlinger, land in Dallas, $1700. WLSkeelstoS R Skeels, 1 acre, 1 8 s. r 6 w, $1. Valentine Fisher et ux to Z M Knight, lots in Dallas, $1. J. W. Wardrip left Indepen dence Wednesnay with his family for Winnipeg, Canada. He is interested in a large track of land near that place and will spend some time in looking after busi ness matters connected with it. Mr. Wardrip does not know where he will make'his future home but tn fVw. COnt h will rPidp at. . . " ' ' Winmpeg. Independence losesa a good citizen in Mr. Wardrip. Enterprise. A. G. Jones of Dallas was in town Saturday. J. O. Smith of Luckiamute was in town Monday. Superintendent Seymour visit ed the public school here Mon day. W. P. McGee and Thos. Krin chin of A'rlie had business in town Saturday. E. C. Van Meer of Seattle, a former resident of this section was here Monday on his way to visit California. Something of more than ordin ary interest drew D. J. Bolton and Ralph L. Davidson to Mon mouth Saturday evening, The Oregon Conference of the Evangelical Church convened yesterday with a large attend ance of the ministry and dele gates. There was church service Tuesday and Wednesday even ings preceeding conference with good attendance. Services will continue over Sunday. A fire in the engine room of the McKeen motor car, owned and operated by the Dallas, Salem & Falls City Railway Company dam aged the car to the extent of probably $200 a few minutes af ter midnight yesterday morning. The loss is fully covered by insur ance, and the car will probably not pe tied up more than two or tuttfe'Cuys Sot rcpdrs. Tho ori gin of the fire is unknown. Ob server. Report of Schools Report of the schools of Tolk County for the school month end ing April 23, 1910. Number of schools reporting correctly and on time-,,, - Names of schools and teachers failing to re port on time Cochran. Number of pupils remaining at last report.. 61 2203 Number of pupils registered new during month Number of pupils registered secondary dur ing month - Number of pupils readmitted during month 26 36 203 Total number pupils on register during month. 2467 Number of pupils dropped during month 892 Number of pupils remaining at time of re port 2076 Number of days taught during month 17 Whole number of days attendance 87451 Whole number of days absence 2671 Whole number of times late 426 Number of pupils neither absent nor tardy.. 1066 Average number of pupils belonging 2560 Average daily attendance.., 2203 Per cent of attendance 93 Number of visits by parents 75 Number of visits by members of the school board 16 The following schools are placed on the roll of honor for the county for having made a percent of attendance of 95 or more; Smithfield, Red Prairie, Monmouth, Airlie, Oak Point, El- kins, Brush College, Buell (100), Spring Valley, Harmony, Lincoln, North Dallas, Etna (100), Mc Timmonds Valley, Concord, Falls City, Pioneer, Highland. The following schools are placed on the roll of honor for the county for not having any tardies during the month Sena, Red Prairie, Parkers, Fairview, Butler, Oak Point, Elkins, Buell, Spring Valley, Pop Corn, Lin coln, Suver, McTimmonds Val ley, Greenwood, Sunny Slope, Concord, Oakdale, McCoy, Lib erty, Blach Rock, Highland and Mistletoe. The attendance this month was one per cent better than last month and as we only have two more months ot this scnool year we must all do our best to keep the attendance up to the 90 per cent m order to win for the en- tire year Yours Respectfully 1 H. C. Seymour. INDEPENDENCE NEWS BUDGET From Our Regular Corres pondent. DAILY HAPPENINGS IN OUR SISTER CITY Scan This Column For News on Importance From the Riverside. Guy Walker visited Salem last week. Mr. Orvit was a Portland visit or last week. Rev. Webber visited in Tort- land this week. Mrs. Kate Walker spent the week in Portland. Ed. Owen spent Sunday with his family of this city. Charles Irvin and wife of Sum mit visited relatives here last week. Eph Yound has returned from Carson Springs much improved in health. Mrs. Lemons of Eugene is vis iting her daughter, Mrs. Barnett of this city. Pearl Lock and wife of Port land visited friends and relatives in this city Sunday. Miss Hazel Bohannon has fin ished her term of school at Polk Miss Mabel Ellis has completed her term of school at Parker and returned home for the summer. Prof. Mcintosh returned Sun day evening from visiting his wife in Portland and reports her much improved. Floyd Williams has given up the purpose of returning to the army and has bought Frank Cox' confectionery. On May 1st the City Meat Market changed hands, Newton Brothers having sold to Spurling and Heck who will run the busi ness from now on. The W. O. W. and Circle held their joint meeting Faiday even ing in the W. O. W. Hall. After the playing of games, ice cream and cake were served and it was a late hour when all left for their homes. The steam laundry caught fire last week. The roof was ablaze when first discovered, and it was only the prompt action of the fire company that saved the building. There was no damage except that of the roof. The Medford Tribune says: "The highest price ever paid in the Rogue River valley for un planted orchard land was paid Thursday, when the John Cox place, a mile southwest of the city, was sold for $428 an acre, or $12,000 for the track, which consists of 280 acres. The place is considered one of the best in the valley which has not yet been planted to orchard, and the new owners plan to start work soon getting the land in condition for planting orchard." The new carpet in the Evan gelical church gives a pleaiang appearance. Mrs. C. V. Clodfelter of Jeffer son, of whom mention was made last week, is improving rapidly.