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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1911)
192785 HEATER Stoves Stoves Stoves RANGE Come in '"'llfi'lHMltWJfl Kin iilainii.,; i 1 1 in ,i;-lyji.:ii!..i;j i!.,'..-. " u . - -r J.l - See our fine line of Stoves Now is the time to make Your Purchase- Prices Right AT JV LO Call and Examine our Large Stock of Stoves, Ranges, Heaters, Buggies and Wagons, and other lines of Hardware I Our Stock is Up-to-date, Our Prices are Right. Monmouth, - - . - - - . Oregon Local and Personal Fred Stump of Simpson's sta tion received a berkshire hog this week which he purchased of A. D. Hudson, of Tangent. Mr. Tellsoule of Gaston, Ore gon, was the guest of Rev. L. C. Hoover Tuesday having come to secure some of his Rhode Island Reds for his poultry yard. Ira C. Powell, representative for Polk County, went tq Port land, Wednesday, where he will spend the week, going from there to Salem next Monday on which date the state legislature con venes. D. M. Calbraith and wife from Monmouth Heights was trading in town Tuesday. Mr. Calbraith brought in with him a lot of five chickens of the Blue Andalusian breed which he shipped to a party at Orenco, Oregon. Horrace Chaney has purchrsed the interest of C. C. Mulkey, in the Bakery business in Monmouth and is learning the baker's pro fession under Mr. Mulkey at Eallas. He expects to start up the ovens here in the course of six weeks or such matter. In the mean time his sister, Mrs. Lloyd B. Waller, will have charge of the business here receiving the supply from Dallas until such time as the ovens are operated here. We visited L. C. Hoover's poultry yard last week and took a look at his prize winning stock and while our knowledge of poultry is far too limited to be a judge of fine fowls, yet we were pleased with the fine appearance of his birds. Mr. Hoover has made a study of his business and has acquired a knowledge which only those who are highly inter ested in the business are likely to attain. We found him very in teresting in chicken lore. Mrs! J. W. Richardson. Jr.. of Independence was a Monmouth visitor Tuesday and gave the Herald office a call. An eleven pound son was borned to Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Newman Monday morning Janu ary 2nd. Mother and child are doing well. Mrs. M. Cornelius - visites Sa lem last week with her little daughter who underwent an operation for the removal of the tonsils and adenoid growth. The child is doing very well. Off To The Live Stock Show Quite a bunch of stock was shipped out of Monmouth to the Live Stock Show at Portland this week. . Riddell Brothers sent out some twenty five head of goats and sheep and J, B. Stump sent out. a car load to -the show. The sheep were of the Cotswold and Lin coln breeds. ' ' Polk county iviU be well repre sented at the show as other stock men have contributed and us ually a ..goodly share of the prizes are brought back with the m. Lost His Pulets J. W. Howell is around with a measuring rule these days sizing up feet or rather shoes of a cer tain make. You see it is this way: There were four large pul lets left their sleeping quarters last Saturday night some time be tween dark and feeding time next morning. John went out as usual to feed his flock but miss ing some of his live stock he be gan to look for them. They were not to be found but there were certain fresh tracks of a peculiar make of shoes; he took the measure and is on the look out He laid his rule on our sole but it was a quarter inch short, besides we had a clean case of alibi, and the tracks led off in the wrong direction.. However J. W. said he was" a student once him self but added that it pas not customary for more than one fowl to turn up missing at the same time. However, he pur poses to sleep with one ear to the ground and one eye open in the future; so look out! Monmouth Heights. Ed Rogers was trading in Monmouth Thursday. Mr. Bluhm, of Monmouth was in our vicinity Sunday. Robert Wheeler of Dallas was a guest of Elbert Peterson last week. A. J. Shipley has purchased a cow of Windfield Egleston of Monmouth. Clarence Bruce and Robert Raike of Oakdale were seen on the Heights Saturday. Chas. Osborn nd family of Black Rock have moved on to his place here last week. - Mr. ' and Mrs. Elmer Raike spent Sunday with his brother. Robert Raike of Oakdale. . Miss Belle Rogers attended a watch party at the home of Wright Smith of Lewisville. There will be a ciphering and spelling match at the Antioch school house Saturday evening. Misses Kutch and Beula Smith of Rickreall spent several days with their sister, Mrs. Paul Riley last week. . Dick Ogle of near Independ ence visited with Mrs. Ogle's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lafe John son Sunday and Monday. Thomas Strain our jubliant supervisor and son, Walter, of Monmouth were here Thursday using the drags on the roads. Is the place to visit. 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