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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1912)
FT 1001 inrn MM 5TITF NPWJt; ikaoi 3ooi locrJ Travel is livening: up. Allen Clark has disposed of his pet dog:. J. B. Stump pave Portland a visit yesterday. Mayor Powell is preparing to put in concrete sidewalk. H. H. Parsons, of Dallas, was a Monmouth visitor Wednesday. For Sale 800 fence posts at 10 cents a piece, on my farm. N. W. Heffiey. The Monmouth Hotel will pive a big oyster supper this evening from 6 to 9:30 o'clock. This is the month to take Rex all and A. D. S. Blood Purifiers. Perkins Pharmacy V. Moore, of South Bend, Indiana, registered at the Mon mouth Hotel Wednesday. for sale A good second hand cook stove. Enquire at this Of fice. Vernon Brown is doctoring his hors"e for a rope burn on one of its feet, just above the hoof. Virgil Meador won the prize offered by Perkins Pharmacy for the greatest collection of Rexall Ads. The boys around town are busy this week getting a team to gether to go to Independence Sunday for a baseball game. Mrs. George Shearer visited her daughter, Ruby, here several days returning home to Portland today. S. R. Walker and helpers fin ished plastering the addition to the hotel on the inside yesterday and will commence on C. G. Griffa's house next Monday. The Monmouth Concert Band will give an open air concert Saturday at 8 o'clock p. m. This will be the first appearance of the band in uniform. D. M. Hampton was displaying the remains of a blister on the palm of his hand yesterday and now his frieritis are wondering how he got it The Mercantile company is having another counter put in the back part of the dry goods department and rearranging for convenience. Mr. and Mrs. C, G. Griffa gave their daughter, Mrs. Gardner and family, at Salem, a visit Wednesday, having gone to see their grand daughter who is in failing health. Dr. Bowersox was out yester day with a straw canopy, the front of which . was decorated with a mammoth green painting. The Dr. was exhuberant over his new May headgear. R. E. Nicolls is here from Omaha, Nebraska, on a visit to his wife's parents, Mrs. Nicolls having come several weeks ago. Mr. Nicolls is very much in love with this section and says that it is the prettiest place he has ever seen. He and his wife will start for their home at Omaha next Sunday. J. W. Howell is puzzled over that garden cultivator; it has not showed up yet, and John says he is afraid that the fellow who borrowed it wants to keep it. Now John is an ardent admirer of the "Golden Rule" and he thinks the other fellow ought to come through with the cultivator before it gets too late to lend it again for this season. Grange Meet Saturday May 11, 1912. Regular Grange meeting at 10 A, M, An open meeting to which all interested and especially those engaged in farming are cordially invited. Will begin at 2 o'clock P.M. .The main topics are: 1. Choice and qualifications of School Officers, Attitude toward Education, Its Value, Relation of Parents. 2. Condtruction of Buildings. Eggs For Hatching R I Reds and While Leghorns; full bloods; 15 for $1.00 Phone 55. J. M. MacDonald, Monmouth, Ore. DR. L. W. HORN, Veterinary Surgeon Crowley Bros. Livery Barn, Independence, Oregon. FOR SALE 5 acres 3 miles west of Mon mouth; 4 acres in orchard, 2 acres in bearing; 2 rows Mamouth blackberries 46 rods each, a good well. Inquire of V. A. Fishback. M31 Mrs. W. II. Mack was in Mon mouth Saturday disposing of a lot of garden products. Mrs. Mack is an enthusiastic booster for Oregon and especially for this part of the state and informed our reporter that she had been helping supply the market for the past three weeks with lettuce, onions and raddishes grown out of doors, without the aid of any protection, and pointed out a fine lot of vegetables just brought in. FAMOUSIyaFhORSE, Captain May's Black Tom Said ta Ha - Mads Prodigious Lsaps. "Only less celebrated than Old Rough and Ready's favorite white charger." -writes General James Grant Wilson in the Bulletin of the Society for the Prevention of Cruel ty to Animals, "was Captain Charles Augustus May's'Black Tom, a mag nificent coal black gelding. Captain May was the beau sabreur of Tay lor's army in Mexico, enjoying the same reputation for dash that Cus ter won in the Army of the Poto mac nearly two decades later. "At the head of his squadron of the Second United State dragoons Captain May led a gallant charge against a Mexican battery in the battle of Resuca de la Palma. May 9, 1846, and. leaping Tom over one of the guns, captured General La Vega and the entire battery of six pieces. "May possessed an unsurpassed military record for leaping with Tom and. it is possible, one that has never been equaled in the hunt ing field, or even on the race course. My friend, the late Hon. Francis C. Lawley, perhaps the highest British authority on the subject, gives thirty-four feet as the greatest distance ever covered by an English horse in a steeplechase or elsewhere. "Black Tom jumped thirty-five feet on a wager duringtbe Mexican war, and three years' later May made another bet that, with, a fly ing start of fifty yards, he could leap Tom across a canal thirty-six feet in width. They came thundering along at a terrific speed, the jet black steed nearly seventeen hands high and May over six feet, sitting like a centaur. Tom gave a mighty jump, but fell short, and of course man and horse had a very sudden and cold bath, for the attempt was made in midwinter. "For a Charlie O'Malley leap over a cart loaded with a cord of wood standing in front of the city hall the colonel was fined in a Baltimore court. On another occasion the dashing cavalryman rode Tom up the steps of the leading hotel of that city, cavorted around and through' several of the principal apartments and then coolly rode out again, as if it was an ordinary, everyday occurrence. "Thoroughbred. Tom was a spir ited and rather difficult horse "for any one but his master to ride or control. A Maryland friend, wish ing to make a fine appearance be fore a Baltimore belle, borrowed May's steed, but. bearing too hard on the bit when near the lady's res idence in Cathedral street, Tom be gan bucking, finally tossing the un fortunate lover into the street and galloping back to his stable. "Tom passed many tranquil years 0Mt journal PATTERNS journal PATTERNS 10 Days DELIVERY Beginning Monday, April 29th, and during the balance of the Bpring season we are prepared to ship all orders in 10 DAYS or less. This we Guarantee AMERICAN LADIES TAILORING CO. V. F. Daniel Store MONMOUTH, OREGON HOC Craven Grocery A. H. CRAVEN Prop. The Only Exclusive Grocery in the town Royal Club has no equal The Best is always the Cheapest. Postof fice Block. Bell Phone No 384. Monmouth, Fruit and vegetables in Season. Once a Customer Always One. Oregon on a 'Mnfyianu' farm, wliere lie was buried with military honors. Be fore this was done his four hoofs were cut off. with a view to making drinking cups of them, as memo rials of one of the two most famous American horses of the Mexican war. In some way the project was postponed. The colonel, as he came to be called in later days, having been promoted for gallantry, passed away in 1804 without it being car ried out." Kodaks and supplies. Perkins Pharmacy. To Find tha North. Of course you know that iron will sink in water, because it is so much heavier, but if it is very small and highly polished, as in the forn of a new needle, you can lay it gently on the surface of a basin of water and it will float. If you will rub the needle with a toy magnet before placing it on the water the needle will not only float, but will gradual ly work its way round until it lies due north and south. The north to which it points is the magnetic north, of course, and not the north pole. Dr. J. O. Matthis Physician and Surgeon Office in Postoffice Building Calls answered promptly , both day and night. Both Phones. P. E. CHASE Notary Public Will do all kinds of notarial work Monmouth, Oregon