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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1912)
Hop-PickiegTime is Coming Full line of supplies for hop-pickers and harvest-hands Canvas Gloves, Hop-baskets and Good Sun Hats We can give you Canvas Gloves at 4 pairs for 25c up to 30c a pair, any style that's made. Sun Hats from 10c up. Don't forget these. You can save money. We can also save you all kinds of money on your Hop-picking shoes. You'll sport a good pair anyway, so why not let us fit you out for the occasion? Just think of it! Men's Oxfords for $1.15 and Ladies' Oxfords for 98c and $1.85. Just One Week More of These Prices Threshing Outfits We can save you money on GROCERIES. Give us a trial. Special Prices on Case Lot. Monmouth, Local and Personal Miss Teressa Churchman, of Corvallis, came Tuesday for a visit with her friend, Miss Mable Johnson. Mrs. G. D. Quisenberry, in company with her son, Russel. visited friends in Salem Sunday, returning. Alva Craven will take a lay-off next week and hie away to Nestucca Bay to enjoy a couple of weeks vacation. Miss Luella Daniel went to Newberg Wednesday where she will spend two weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. Arant. Ernie Force has taken a lay-off from the barber's trade and will be active through the threshing season in the grain fields. Velma Johnson returned home Sunday from Salem having vis ited for a month with Mr. and Mrs. E. Boger and family. Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Sickafoose 'went to Bellevue Monday. Mr. Sickafoose returned Tuesday and Mrs. Sickafoose remained for a short time. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Herren and Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Halleck returned home Tuesday from their outing at the seashore hav ing had a pleasant trip and a liberal supply of fish and clams. During the past week the carts to carry the fire hose, arrived and the hose having arrived some days earlier, all is in readiness for protection against fire as soon as the water is available in the reservoir. Elbie Ebbert is still somewhat incapacitated from the injury received some time ago to his foot, but is getting better. He had one of his toes amputated last Sunday and thinks that he will be able to work at barbering the latter part of this week. Jackson Street Blooming Out j upstairs and down, and the stairs also, is done in burnt work and Residents on Jackson street : shows off to advantage, making have been coming to the front j not only a beautiful effect, but, rank in improving within the I also, a rare work for this section, last year and still the good work j Next we visited the new resi on. deuce to be of Dr. Bowersox. It Our reporter, in company with j is not a residence yet but it gives a friend, one day this week, j promise of being one in the near strolled to that part of the city to see what was being done, and in discussing the situation at - tention was called to the claim that Jackson street presented more enterprise in the way of! good and substantial buildings, j pleasantly situated and construct- part. A. N. Poole has been in ed than any other street in the 'charge of the carpentering and city and that improvements werejS. R. Walker will do the plaster still in progress. j ing act. While this last residence In looking over th ground we j is not exactly on Jackson street, found David Korb getting ready to put in the last lap of concrete side walk for Joseph Craven which finishes the walks around his premises and adds to the beauty and value of his lot. Along- side this, C. G. Griffa has ar- ranged for the construction ofv..i1i,.h u,hfin mn0tA will nis siae waiK on tne nortn siae of his property and Mr. Korb will put that in and finish the whole string this week. The walk will then extend the whole length of the block and will be one of the best in the city. Next we were shown through Mr. Griffa's house, he having built on an addition and also finished up the part bu'lt former ly so that now he has his resi dence nicely and comfortably finished up and is in the enjoy ment of a pleasant home. Next we ventured to the new residence of Mrs. Mary Halvor sen, which is now receiving the finishing touches and will be ready in a week to receive its occupant. Fred Thompson is the builder of this new home and certainly is making a handsome finish of it. The inside finish, T. M. FRENCH, Prop. ; futUre and the doctor will be ; pleasantly situated when the ! work is done. At this place we i found Messrs. Leask and Miller ; at work building the chimney and flue, and getting things ready so that the plasterers can do their j yet it is so closely associated that it adds to this section, Besides this Mayor Powell is preparing to front his block with a concrete walk, the city will do the same for its property and there are other walks ordered in Jackson street more good walks than any other in the city ex cepting Main street, which is also moving on the side walk question. Bitterly Disappointed. "Did you have a pood time at Mrs. Onddaway's laat night?" "Not very. I wad disappointed." "How?" ' "Well, several people wanted Mrs. Miekleworth to p-intr." "And she refused?" "No: after holding out for quite awhile nhe consented." Chicago T?ecord-IIerald. Mayb He Mont Welt. "How shall I have mv graph taken?" photo- "1 wovld caution von by all means o keep your fp"t out of the foreground, mv dear." NTo wonder they no longer speak. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. ' HAL Monmouth Heights Miss Lettie Fishbnck was in Independence Tuesday. Roy Clark and wife, of Iewis ville, visited relatives here Sun day. Riddel! Pro's, started thresh ing Monday and Rogers the latter part of the week. Mrs. Emma Heck and Bertha Layson were trading in Inde pendence Monday. Mrs. Elmer Allen and Jennie Swearingen spent Monday visit ing near Rickreall. Miss Edna Leavengood, ' of Portland, was a guest of Mrs. W. II. Mack last week. Mr. M'cCaleb, of Monmouth, visited with his son, Clarence, and family the past week. Mrs. Layson, of near Amity, visited at the home of Geo. Heck and family first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Pern Lewis and son, Norman, of Lewisville, spent Sunday at the Fishback home. Miss Bessie Sullivan, of Mon mouth, spent Saturday and Sun day with her grand-mother, Mrs. E. Clark. Mrs. Clark is having a new house erected in Monmouth and when it is completed will move in the same. A. J. Shipley returned from Monroe Friday after spending several days at the bedside of his sister, Mrs. Dolph Farley. Incorrectly Reported. "Miss Funny, I a -n sorrv to learn that vou think I am irascible." "Who says I think so?" "Mrs. Looper." "Did flhe tell you that?" "She did, Miss Fanny." "Well, either you misunderstood her or she misunderstood me. I didn't say you were ir"HWe, Mr. if eathertop. I said vn were im possible." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Oregon THE WAY TO BUILD UP MON mouth is to Patronize MONMOUTH. You may surely help do this by Buying the Monmouth Bakery P.rea l. Six Big Loaves for 25 Cents, Fresh every morning. Phone your orders. CRAVEN'S GROCERY. AUCTIONEER J. S. SMITH, Alrlle, Oregon. Farm Sales and Live Stock. Give me a trial. Satisfaction guaranteed THE Weekly Oregonian The best Weekly Journal of the Northwest. Gives all the News of the World. Price per year $1.50 Herald one year.. 1.00 Booth papers for 2. 00 A. B. 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