The Herald D. E. STITT, Editor. Entered as second-class matter September 8, 1908, at the poet office at Monmouth, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1H79. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year Six months $1 50 cts Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 1910. The Herald wishes its patrons ami readers a Merry Christinas and happy New Year. BETTER PUILIC SERVICE Grafting in Denmark comes high. A former minister of J nstice Alberti who had ruined a good many persons in his grafting operations was given a line of four million dollars and a. prision sentence of eighty years. If grafters in this coun try received sentences some what in proportion to the one mentioned perhaps the business would soon become unpopular. Old Father Time is again nearing the mile post on his swing around the sycle and the season of the year for inaki ng resolutions is now at hand while the period during which they are mostly broken follows quick ly after. Don't resolve unless you intend to keep your pledge, for resolutions broken only serve to weaken your will power and cause you to have less regards for your promises although made to yourself. Kx-presideut Roosevelt has come back again not withstand ing his New York candidate was defeated. The Colonel still in sists upon his belief in govern ment of the people, by the" peo ple and for the people. Mr. Roosevelt is not isolated in that stand as the majority of the citi zens of these United States be lieve likewise, but the minority party are seemingly in posses sion of the oil that rims the governing machinery and Roose velt's two administrations failed to check their anvance. The Western Union Telegraph Company announced today an other innovation in telegraph service called the "Special Ocean Mail Service," designed to save time in foreign correspondence. A letter from San Francisco to London requires as much time crossing the Continent as it does crossing the Ocean. A New York merchant writing to Yoko hama must post his letter prac tically a week before the mail steamer sails from San Francisco or Vancouver. The Western Union has ar ranged for the use of its night letter and other telegraphic serv ice in connection with outgoing ocean mails so that this week of transcontinental time may be saved. Its New York office will receive telegrams from any part of the country destined to Eu ropean addresses and will forward them in a sealed specially ad dressed envelope by the first out going Atlantic steamship mail. The same plan will be followed in San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver for trans-pacific mails. This will enable correspondence to be dispatched from any part of the United States for an ocean mail within a few hours of sail ing time. The only charge in addition to the usual telegraph tolls to the ocean mail port will be five ents for postage. Tele grams should bear the full mail address of the foreign correspond ent for whom they are intended and marked "Care Ocean Mail New York" or San Francisco, Seattle or Vancouver, as the case may be. No charge will be made for the address. 3E Now comes the cry for a more stringent Pure Pood Law, some thing so drastic in its nature that the adulter of food stuffs will not dare to disobey its man dates. Well, perhaps, such or dinance would do a great amount of good but there are seme queer people to (feal with. Some do about right because of fear of the jail or costs, some must have the torture of hell dinned into their ears continually ami others take all the chances. What is most needed is a better humani ty; people who will do right be cause it is right and they love to do right. Special Offer For New Subscribers to Monmouth Herald From this day and until De cember 31, at 6 o'clock, P. M., we will give 1000 votes for each new subscriber to the Herald for one year. Remember these must be new subscriptions. For renewals of old subscrip tions for one year, 500 votes will be given. All subscriptions must be han ded to us at our store not later than December 31, 6 o'clock P. M. CHASE BROS. One of the things demon strated at the nominating con vention, on Wednesday evening of last week, was the necessity of a town hall sufficiently large to accommodate the public when there is business to transact in the interest of the town or that of the community. There is no hall in the town sutlicient lv large to accommodate the public except the normal chapel and that cannot be had on all occasions when such place to gather is needed. , A good town hall would serve for all business calculated to serve the interests of the place. HENTY AS AN INVENTOR. The Author's Reversible Boat That Was a Halfway Success. George Ilenty, the author of boys' stories, is described in "Sixty Yenrs In the Wilderness." by Henry W. Lucy, as the warmest hearted, shortest tem pered man In the world. "before lie found his true vocation In writing boys' books Ilenty tried various methods of supplementing his salary on the Standard. One was the recovery of tin from broken or disused utensils. For some months .his study was tilled with n bad smell nnd scraps of broken tin. The smell was engen dered by efforts to melt off the tin from the baser metal with the assist ance of a chemical compound Invent ed by the operator. ( "The next tiling that attracted Hen- ty's attention aud tilled him with hope of fortune was the building of a re versible boat, bound to right Itself aU' tomattcally. He took rooms up the river and, with some assistance from a village mechanic, built ids boat. To a certain extent It proved an unquali fled success. At the slightest well dl reeled touch, sometimes without it. It would turu over, keel uppermost, with Ilenty in the river. lJighting itself was, as the French say. 'another pair of sleeves.' "Through some anxious weeks he was frequently Ignomiuiously rescued by a passing boat and walked home, oozing water from inx-kets and boots. In the end his landlady gave him no tice ttiat she could not 'be always mop ping up after him.' I fancy he gladly seized this opportunity of retiriug from the boat building business. " FEME OBnBBHiHBnBiaBBBaBBSl O.YS AT 1 w Jail IV ISM 0OS Noted or Bargains onmouth, Oregon M Abstracts promptly furnished at reasonable rates, by L. D. Down, Dallas, Oregon. tf Church Directory. Evangelical Church L. C. Hoover, Pastor Morning service at 11:00 o'clock Evening service at 7:00 o'clock Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. Y. P. A. Meeting at 6.30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. W. A. Wood, Pastor. Morning Service at 11. a. m. Evening Service at 7:30 p. m. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. Y. P. S. C. E. 6:30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m. BAPTIST CHURCH. W. W. Davis, Pastor. Preaching Service, 11:00 a. m. 7:30 p. m. Sunday School, 10:00 a. m. W. C. T. U. Local Union meets everv sec ond and fourth Friday in the E- vangehcal church at 2:80 p. m. Dr. J. O. Matthis Physician and Surgeon Office in Postoffice Building 'Calls answered promptly both day and night. Poth Phones. Laura Price, M. D. Office in B. F. Baker's Residence " " - s Both Telephones. B."F. SWOPE, Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Home Phone: Office, No. 13'20, Residence, No. 3712. Office in Cooper building, Polk County Bank Established 1889 Monmouth, - ' - Oregon Paid Capital, - . - $30,000.00 Surplus & Undivided Profits, $11,000.00 Transacts a General Banking Busi ness Under State Supervision i Officers and Directors J. H. HAWLEY, President; J. B. V. BUTLER, Vice President; IRA C. POWELL, Cashier: J. B. STUMP, F. S. POWELL, I. M. SIMPSON. Interest paid on time deposits. HOTEL MONMOUTH F. P. PYLES, Prop., (Successor to D. M. Hampton.) The Best Accommodations at Reasonable Rates. It is Our Aim to Please. 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