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.
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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.
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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.
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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. "
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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
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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
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ness Under State Supervision
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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.
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