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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1910)
1 pDCM. MlolfflE NEWsl Zook, the paper hanger will do your painting. Mis3 Coad of Dallas visited the Misses .Wolver ton, Monday. L. D. Brown, Attorney-at-law, Notary Public, Abstractor, Dal las, Oregon. tf ' The grain harvest is on in this section and threshing will begin about next week. P. II. Burt and wife returned home Saturday from a visit to friends in Rosebur. Miss Ella Roy of Portland vis ited Mrs. George Muscott the latter part of last week. Wendle Crowley of Portland arrived here Monday and visited . old friends for a few days. Douglas county is the only one in Oregon that shows a decreas in its school population this year. Miss Toris Zook returned home Saturday from visiting friends a few miles north of Independence. Chester Strong went to Port land Saturday to be with his folks, who are visiting there. Al Baker of Strong's mill was in town several days last week being laid up with a sore foot. Allen Johnson and wife are the proud possessors of a baby girl which joined the family circle Tuesday morning. Mrs. Shore returned from a visit at Spokane lant Sunday night. Mrs. Shore is quite ill since returning home. Mrs. F. R. Bowersox and Miss Ethel Rigdon attended the mov ing picture show at Indepen dence, Saturday night. Miss Ethel Rigdon and her nephew, Master Winfield Clark, of Salem visited Dr. and Mrs. Bowersox over Sunday. I. II. Van Winkle of Salem, deputy attorney general of the state, was in Monmouth, Mon day. Mr. Van Winkle is a candi date for circuit judge, as Judge Burnett is retiring. Dr. Robert Burnett, county recorder of Jackson county, vis ited Dr. Bowersox and family Monday and Tuesday of " last week. Mr. Burnett was born and raised in this section of the state. V. 0. Boots left for Washing ton, some seventy five miles out from Seattle, Monday morning, having received a telegram that his father, W. Boots had become very ill at that place. G. T. Boothby of Portland was here Sunday night and Monday forenoon, looking after his prop erty interests and shaking hands with old friends. Mr. Boothby and associates are doing a good business in Portland, but he looks forward to a time when he and Mrs. Boothby will quit Portland j ond return to old associations, j Mr. Boothby paid for the Herald j for another year and remarked that to receive its visits each ' week was like receiving a letter from home. j Dr. F. R. Bowersox and B. F. Baker went to Salmon River Fri-! day on a camping trip returning home Sunday evening. They brought back alxut a hundred and seventy five fish with them, some of which weighed about three pounds. The Doctor , was in quite a quandary as to how to ascertain the weight of the fish ' until he happened to think that iish carried scales with them there was no guess-work after that. They brought a young coon home with them which Mr. Bak er will ehaperone, but we have rot yet learned as to whether . they will go into the show busi ness or not. "Coon shows are generally up-to-date. J. L. Murdock and family re turned home Monday from a so journ on the beach. The family had gone over last week and Mr. Murdock joined them on Satur day. P. H. Johnson has purchased the J. R. Belshe residence prop erty and will take possession on the first of September. Mr. Bel- she and family contemplate going to Mexico. , Messrs. Winegar & Lorence have built a shed on the North side of their hardware establish ment 24x100 feet to accommodate their large and growing business with storage room. C. P. Cornwell is at Stayton at work at present having gone there to repair a separator thresh ing machine, he went to work in a blacksmith shop after complet ing his work on the thresher. P. B. Burt assumed, his duties again as station agent here Tues day morning and A. S. Markee, who looked after the station here during lr. Burt's absence, left to take a position as operator at Forest Grove. Mr. Markee was somewhat loath to quit Mon mouth as he had taken quite a fancy to the place during his stay here. The Monmouth Canning Corn has had the dryer put in first class order and are ready to dry prunes when the season comes on. President J. II. Hawley went to Portland yesterday in the in terest of the cannery, and if suit able arrangements can be made for the product, the cannery will also be put in operation. The prospect of its running this fall seems to be fair. There was some trouble at the Creamry here, Saturday, which delayed work somewhat for the time. In reparing the pumping apparatus of the well which sup plies the creamery with fresh water, a pipe was let slip into the well, necessitating the services of an expert to remove it, and get thing-in running order. The Creamery was in operation again by the first of the week. E." Bogert disposed of his farm last Saturday to Henry Fawks of j Salem. Mr. . Bogert purchased the farm thirteen months ago ", and this spring planted 45 acres of it to prunes. Mr. Fawks who ; is a fruit man, concluded that he wanted the land and hep&H an acre for the farm there belr.g ; 95 acres of it Mr. Faa-kes in- tends planting the balanrre of the I place to fruit, but we understand he will plant it in apple trf-e.?. t Mrs. Clark Cochran of Juliette, Idaho, was in .Monmouth the lat ter part of last week visiting her sis'vr, Mrs. Eleanor Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran visited friends and relatives elsewhere and also spent a couple of weeks at the seashore at Newport, afier which Mr. Cochran returned home while his wife came here to visit her si.ster. FYom here Mrs. Cochran went to Dallas and would also visit at Amity and Portland be fore returning home. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Bosley, who live two miles West of Mon mouth, dropped into the Herald office, Saturday morning, and presented us with a sample of fine large Early Crawford peach es that grew o 1 his trees, which the Herald force relished very much as they were of good flavor and very jucy. Mr. Bosley has lived there for four years and his trees have not failed to bear during that period. He has but a small crop as His trees were old and needed attention when he moved there, but he has about fifty young teres coming on and expects to have plenty of peaches in the near future. Mark-Staats of Airlie was in town yesterday. Miss Lena Daniel was a Dal las a visit, Monday. A. J. Eagan of Salem was a Monmouth visitor Tuesday. Mrs. E. W. Black of Linn Co., visited Mrs. Sarah Davis Wednes day. Mrs. L. Worth has gone down in the Valley for a two week's visit with her daughter. For full blood Berkshire pigs aply to George Niggli, three miles west of Monmouth. R. 0. Bradley, I. T. Nicholls and D. E. Yoran, business men of Eugene, were in town Wednes day on their way to Sheridan. DrT. D. Bancroft of Kansas gave a very interesting lecture here Tuesday evening on the as sassination of Abraham Lincoln. C. C. Mulkey will operate the baking department of the bakery here, during the hop-picking sea son, in connection with his Dal las establishment. 0. C. Zook and Mr. Wheeler finished painting, this week, on the M. E. Church at Indepen dence and haye been at work painting in town since. Misses Meldora and Leona Jack son left Thursday for Cor vallis where they will be joined by some friends, and will then go to Newport to spend a few weeks. C. M.' Reynolds and wife of Klamath, in company of Richard Kreamer, a Portland real estate roan, and an assistant, were in this place Wednesday. They had been to Yoncalla looking around. Col. E. Hofer and wife and son of Salem passed through Mon mouth yesterday on the way to Corvallis. Colonel Hofer was out campaigning, and has de sire to be Oregon's next chief executive officer. From words we hear fall now and then, he will have considerable support from this locality. a Will Buy Wool. I will pay the highest market price for wool. Get my prices efore you sell. jne 3 Allen Clark. For Sale A gentle family driving horse of Hambletonian stock. Enquire ofW. D. Edwards, at Butler place, one mile, south and one mile west of Monmouth. Professional Cards Laura Price, M. D. Office over Postoffice Bell Phone Office 193 Res. 194 L. L. Hewitt, M. D. Independence, Oregon Ofliee in Cooper Building Otfiee hours: 9 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 0 p. m. Both Phones. Dr. J. O. Nfatthis Physician and Surgeon Office in Postoffice Building Calls answered promptly both day and night. Both Phones. V. O. Boots FIRE LIFE AND CASUALTY INSURANCE LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID Grove A. Peterson NOTARY PUBLIC Monmouth Oregon Announcement. Heretofore Those Lr ourcust- mers who were not satisfied with anything less than perfect fitting garments have chosen their cloth ing from the sample books of M. Born & Co., of Chicago. . For years we have been rendering satisfactory service to our customers in this way; yet we found that many had difficulty in judging of the appearance of the finished suit be cause of the small size of the ' sample shown. For all such we have good news in that we will shortly be able to show them in v ' addition to the usual samples", a goodly assortment of patterns in one and one- -half yard lengths. These large swatches draped on the customer show the effect of the pattern as will the finished suit, and one may make their selelection of cloth with the assurance that the suit will please them when it arrives. Come in soon and see the New Fall Styles. V. F. Daniel Monmouth, Oregon City Meat Market - Highest Cash Price Paid for Veal, Pork and Mutton. Once a cus tomer, always a customer. Sat isfaction guaranteed. HIGHEST CASH PRICE Paid for All Kinds of HIDES A. D. ELDER, Proprietor Monmouth, - - Oregon W. W. Newman l General Blacksmith and Horse shoer Cold Process tire setting a specialty Wood work and Wagon Repiaring 51 i