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Local and Personal Miss Nell Li nek of Airlie spent Saturday with Mrs. Fred Huber. Mrs. R. L. Patterson of Suver was shopping in town yesterday. ! Miss Marie Morlan has been visiting her uncle west of town. E. G. Eulerof Oshkosh, Wis-cnsi-, was in Monmouth Satur day. J. H. Chapin and family of Airlie had business in town this week. Lola Prown of McMinnville, passed through Monmouth, Wednesday. Miss Clara Ireland who has been visiting here left for The Dalles Sunday. Robert Steel and grand-son, Harold Withrow, have gone to the beach. J. E. Winegar has moved into thi house he purchased on Broad Street. Mr. and Mrs, George Carmi chael returned from Bellingham, Washington, Tuesday. Clem and Bernice McKinney visited in the country last week at the home of their uncle. Mrs. H. E. Guterie has gone to visit at Corvallis and will go to Newport before returning. George Remington of Teat's spent Sunday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Remington. G. H. Stone is building a ware house 26x40 feet and 20 feet high p.t the south end of his mill building. E. E. Arant, who has been at tending the Summer Normal School at Corvallis returned home the latter part of last week. A. Johnson, the lumber dealer, is filling a large number of orders for lumbor, which is a good indi cation that there is improvement going on. Alva McDonald was in Mon mouth and vicinity for the last two days in the interest of the Oregon Agriculturist of Port land. Wm. Bogynska and son have bought a new hay bailer and are at work bailing a two hundred and fifty ton lot for Riddell Brothers. W. E. Smith returned from his trip to Newport, Saturday, and it is needless to say while there he cultivated a good, ruddy com plexion. Mrs. Sylvester Goodnight and two daughters from Vancouver, Washington, are visiting Mrs. Goodnight's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Smith of this place. Mr. Chaney and family accom panied by Miss Ijoette Shore re turned from the coast Monday. They reported a fine lime, plenty of dust and good coats of tan. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Tetherow of Luckiamute station .and Miss Ethel Lucas were Sunday visitors at Mr. W. I. Morrison's at Bridge port Mrs. II. E. Ilinmon of Dallas returned home Wednesday from t'ns place where she has been at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Boots. Mr. Boots is reported some better. C. II. Edgell had the misfor tune to get one of his feet caught in a hay-bailer last week and injured considerably. He is get ting along very well, but it was a close call. Dr. Matthis and family will ! start for the beach, at the mouth ; of Salmon River, in a day or two j on a vacation. He will be ac- j eompanied by Dr. Wood, Sr., and l.-iv,i!v r,f Amitv Hk nintW will be cared for by the physi cians remaining in town. j A pleasant surprise party was j i given Miss Emma Parker Satur- day evening it being her birth- day. Light refreshments were served by the Misses Bessie and ; Leota roster and a very enjoy able time was spent. Miss Em ma received several nice pres ents. Those present were Oak Wood, Ivan Wood, Cella Foster, Jennings and Ruby Lorence, Em ma and Grace Parker, Clares Powell, Elva Lucas and Belle Rogers. A SAD SERENADE BY EUGENE THORP "Sighing, dying, lying, fry ng In the furnace of love's fire; Weeping, creeping, leaping, sleeping, Yet my love will ne'er expire." This the song the lover sang As he tuned his light guitar; These the words the still night rang, Echoing out their wild notes far. "Moping, groping, hoping, sloping From the fates that lure nie on; Cheering, neaiing, hearing, fearing, Love's last hope is dead and gone.-" Then he touched the tinkling chords; Low and tender was the strain, Hushed his voice, but music's words Bore the maid this sweet refrain. "Airy, fairy, tarry; marry One that loves and loves you most. Scary! dare I! Hari-Kari! I'll suicide and yield the ghost." Thus was heard the mournful word Floating on the quiet air; But another, too, was stirred, Beside the maiden young and fair. Flashing, slashing, smashing, crashing Came the old man's heavy tread; Dashing, mashing lashing, hashing With his cane the young man's head. Hushed the love song and the music Broken banjo banged-up head; That young man is feeling so sick, Now he courts the softest bed. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned has been duly appointed ad ministrator of the estate of Elizabeth Fishback, deceased, by the County Court of the State of Oregon, for Polk County, and has qualified. All persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified to present the same duly verified, togeth er with the prosper vouchers therefor, to the undersigned at his residence near Monmouth, in said County, within six months from the date of this notice. Dated and first published July 15th, 1910. Varoeman Albert Fishback, Administrator of the estate of Eliza beth Fishback, deceased, Oscar Hayter, Attorney. ft CHRISTMAS CARD, Cy F. TOWNSE.ND SMITH. fCofyrlght, 1909. by American Press Asao ciution.J Peter Young and Frederick Ayres Tvtn-e playmates In childhood.- attended the turnip tichool and left the same col lege In the spring of 18(11 to enlist 111 the name regiment In the Union army. Thty campaigned together aud after earli fight Immediately nought each ot In i' to learn of their mutual safety. On one orciinioii Voting shot Con federate whii was about to ruu a bay onet Into his friend' breast. Ou au other A.vivs tarried Yoiiuk, who had been wounded, for miles on a retreat, savins him from a southern prlsou and perhaps death. Their devotion to eucb other was well known lu the army lu which they served, and they were referred to as furnishing un ex ample of a typical friendship. Id the fourth and last year of their service they quarreled. .Both had be come subaltern officers aud were tetit nnites. Hue day Young entered their teut and. looking tinder his cot. missed a chip he kept there as a rest for bis soap. "What's become of my soap dish?" he asked his friend. "What soap dish?" "That chip I had here." "Oh. that dirty toiug! I threw it out." "What did you do that for?" augrlly. "Because I propose to have the tent I live lu respectable." "And 1 promise to have something to put my soap on. aud I won't allow any man to Interfere with It." It Is not essentiu! to give the steps by which these two besom frietids be came more and more siurrr and fluallv alienated. The contemptible cause ws a ohlp which Its owner considered a soap dish aud his friend as uot suf ficiently aesthetic to grace their can vas habitation. They did not sMak to each other during that campalgu and before another Ayres had Leen trans ferred to the staff and assigned to duty with a different corps. Id 1SC5 Young and Ayres were both again in civil life. On Christmas moruing of the next year on going to the postofflce for bis mall Ayres was banded an envelope addressed to him in the familiar handwriting of his friend. Opeuiug It he drew forth a card on which was a picture of a dove with an olive branch in its mouth. Nothing was written on the card, nor did any letter accompany it but the recipieut knew that his friend had remembered his birthday and seut a peace offering, tie was not a de monstrative man nor was Young, for that matter so he put the card in bis pocket, saying nothing to any one about it. but thiuking on it a great deal. The next Christmas morning Young's wife, whom he bad just married, hand ed him an envelope the superscription on which was in Ayres' handwriting. It coutaiued the Christmas card be had sent Ayres on his twenty-third birthday. Mrs. Young asked ber bus band what it all meant. lie prevari cated. He was ashamed to tell ber the story firstly, on account of tiie insignificant cause that bad separated bim from his friend; secondly, because he blushed at this missive passing be tweeu them, worlhy rather of two schoolgirls than two veterans of a great war. For forty years the card continued to pass at Christmas time between the two friend-enemies. Picture processes improved, and the little dove of 18(55 was a sorry looking bird beside the dove of the twentieth century. Be sides, the card was worn and soiled. Possibly Imd the two friends been near each other tbey would have re turned to a closer relationship. But in all these years they uever met. Ayres never married, and Mrs. Young, who meanwhile had come into posses sion of the story of their quarrel, said facetiously that she believed he loved her husband too well to marry a wo man. A Christmas came round when Peter Young was in no mood to remember to send the card with the dove and olive branch. A crisis had come in his af fairs, and what he had been for years building fell with a crash. The crown of his and his wife's sorrow was that his health broke down uuder the strain. Had he d.; after these many years come to tread in a rut he would have written to learn the cause of his not receiving his token. But he had never written a line or spoken a word to the man with whom lie had quarreled in his youth, and It seemed too lute for him to begin. The result was that he refrained from writing and worried. One day it was shortly before Christmas Mrs. Young, rummaging in her husband's desk, found the old card. It occurred to her at once that In her husband's preoccupation and distress he had for the first time for gotten it. She bad saved a paragraph taken from a newspaper mentioning her husband's failure in business and another stating that he was suffering from nervous prostration. Placing these items with the card in an en velope, she sent it to Ayres. Christmas morning brought a letter from Ayres inclosing his check for $10,000 and a note stating that it was seut in the hope that it would place his friend agaiu on his feet. . The Christmas card he would thereafter keep In his possession. That was the eud of the partial estrangement. Mrs. Young telegraph ed Ayres urging him to join them that evening nt a Christmas dinner. Ayres took the first train and reached the house of his old friend to find him and his wife waiting for him. And there and then they laughed over the soap dish Incident. A Little Absentminded. The other day Dixon came out of his house, walked to the edge of the pavement, threw his right leg into the air with a vaulting move ment and fell to the ground. A friend who came along in time to witness the singular perform ance said to him: "Why, Dixon, whatever do you mean by such a performance?" Dixon got up, brushed the dirt from his garments and, rubbing his bruises, said : "1 thought I was getting on my bicycle. I forgot that I didn't have ft with tne." London Scraps. Where He Failed. "Offenbach.'' said a musician of wide experience, "once had an un nsually good valet. The man could shave, cook, tailor, market, doctor horses do, in a word, a thousand things. Offenbach nevertheless dis charged him, " 'Why,' his friends said, 'did you dismiss u servafft so apt?' " 'Oh, because, said Offenbach pettishly, "in beating my clothes outside my door he would never keep in time." - Our Clubbing Rates. Monmouth Herald per year Evening Telegram, Daily per year j: Herald and Telegram, i Evening Telegram, Sat. Ed. and Herald, both The Fruit Grower, monthly Herald and Fruit Grower . Grove A. 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