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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1912)
DON'T WASTE APPLES Don't feed your apples to the hogs. They're mighty poor hog-feed anyway and the hogs aren't worth it. ' . . Make them up into cider or vinegar. We can fix you up on Barrels and Kegs. All Brand New All Clean 15 Gallon Kegs - $1.65 50 Gallon Barrels 30 Gallon Barrels - $2.40 $2.00 Think of all the Vinegar that will be needed next year THE T. M. FRENCH, Proprietor. Monmouth, Oregon A FIT OF PESSIMISM By W1LLARD BLAKEMAN Myru Coolldge watt the daughter of my employer and was my fiancee. I bad been with John Coolldge from boy hood and at the time of my engage ment was expecting soon to become a Junior partner. Indeed. 1 bad done a great deal to build up tbe business, and since Mr. Coolldge wan getting old I was gradually assuming more and more responsibility In its management As the day of my nuptials with Miss Coolldge approached I began to dread some misfortune that would mar our happiness. Expecting to step Into a partnership in a fine business and be married at tbe same time to a girl I loved devotedly, I naturally considered myself on tbe pinnacle of happiness. 1 could go no higher and at any change must go lower. . One afternoou when we closed tbe office we bad quite a large sum of mon ey in the safe. I went to bed that night thinking in this wise: Suppose the safe should be robbed and that money taken. Mr. Coolldge would be ruined. I would be thrown out of employment and my splendid business prospects blighted My wed ding would likely be deferred and pos sibly never take place. I would lose heart and commence a descent which would probably land me in the poor house. This is the opposite of "counting one's chickens before they are hatch ed." Lying awake in a dark room one Is apt to be stricken with pessimism, and I wrought myself up to such a pitch of foreboding that I became im pressed with the feellug that the safe would surely be robbed that night. 1 could not be satisfied till 1 bad got out of bed. dressed myself and started for the office. ' .When 1 arrived I opened the door with a key 1 always carried, entered, turned on a light and saw that all was tbe same as I had left It In tbe afternoon. I had nothing to do with the finance of tbe concern and did not know the combination or I1 would have opened It to see that the money was still there. It was a rare piece of luck that I did not. There was a lounge In tbe office, and I felt so un easy that, disliking to go hack to bed, I turned out the light, threw myself dowu and won fell asleep. I was awakened by n familiar sound-the turning of the combina tion knob to open the sate! (treat heavens! Mv forelmdlmrs bad cmne to pass. I 'was not armed and dare not confront the robber. I lay er fectly still, wondering what I had better do when the person manipulat ing the safe lock flashed an electric I hand lamp on the k n-t and heiran I again to turn It. Surelv a rubber would not lie npenlnu the snfi by the combination. Some mie who knew It was there. Who criilld It be. nnd what could he Inclining there at that time of night? His Identity was soon established by bis turning tbe light Umiii bis own fai-e. He was Smith son, the cashier My first Impulse was to say: "Hello. Smllhson!' Wlmt are you doing?" Biit I repressed 'it. I would see for myself what he ws doing But un fortunately at the moment I was seiz ed with a desire to sneere and sncer.e 1 did Smlthson Imtnwdiatelv switch ed on the electric light. "What are you lining here';" he ex claimed oil seeing me "What are you doing here?" "1 got worried aiioot the large amount of money we hae here and couldn't sleep. I hud to gel up and come here to see that It was all right." ".Inst my case I preferred not to go home and laid down here to sleep till morning. I haven't the combination, so I was obliged to content myself with seeing llial the safe hadn't been blown open Singular. Isn t It. that we should both have been aftected the same way., and got up In the middle of the night to satisfy a feeling?" "Very! Are you going to remain?" "No; we will walk along together." He opened the safe We satisfied ourselves that the inouej was there and left the olHi-e together The next day 1 said nothing about the events of the evening Smithson went about looking worried. It occur red to me he might feel fearful that I would misinterpret Ins opening the safe In the night. I coindii t very well reassure linn, for thar would be ac knowledging that be was open to sus picion In the evening I told Myra about our strange meeting To my surprise she gasped : "Oh. heavens!"' "What Is It?" "It was not such a coincidence as you think It was He was there to rob the safe." , - . "Why do you think that?" I asked, astonished. "While you two were at the office I dreamed that you and be bad a quar- Monmouth Time Table The following U the schedule time for the arrival and departure of trains at Monmouth. No. 64. No. 61. No. 62. No. 65. No. 68. No. 69. No. 66. No. 125. No. 73. No. 72. No. 70. No. 126. No. 71. Independence to Dallas and Portland, Independence to Airlie, Airlie to Independence and Salem, Dallas to Independence and Corvallis, Independence to Dallas, Dallas to Independence and Portland, Independence to Dallas, Independence to Monmouth and return to Independence and Sajtm, Dallas to Airlie, Airlie to Independence, Independence to Dallas, Independence to Monmouth . . and return to Independence, Dallas to Independence, 6:35 A. 6:40 A. 8:00 A. 8:55 A. 11:05 A. 1:25 P. 2:40 P. 3:55 P. M. 3:55 P. M. 5:35 P. M. 6:40 P. M. 7:25 P. 7:45 P. rel. and I couldn't separate you. I awoke from a nightmare " "I hi you mean to condemn the man on such evidence as that? He was Intending to borrow from funds In the safe with the expectation of ret timing the amount taken at some future time." Nevertheless, I could get no retrnc tlon from her The next morning Pmlthson did not appear at the office nnd has never been heard from since. He had been play ing the stock market and lost. What strange reasons women give for what they know! And bow did Myra know It? Pleoue Stones. Here and there in Great Britain may be seen the remains of old stone crosses that are known as "plague stones." In the olden time, when epidemics raged, the market people would place near the stone their wares and retire to a distance, while those from the afflicted towns would come out and put on the stone money to the value of what they wished to take. Sometimes this money Was dropped into the cavity in the stone that the rain water generally lying there might clean it. On returning, the market folk took the money that was left for them; hence the name of these old monuments "plague stones." The Way He Said It. "T don't think my hiiRband loves me any more." "Why not?" "The other day f said to him, John, if I should die would you get married again?' and he said he wouldn't." "Isn't that all right?" "Yes, hut I wish you could have heard the positive way he aid it." Newark News. NOTICE OF SALE OF BONDS. Notice is hereby given that at a reg ular meeting of the common council of the city of Monmouth, Oregon, to be held at the council chambers of said eitv, on tho 2tith day of November, 1912. at the hour of 8, P. M. thereof, tho said city will sell 10 negotiable cou pon bonds of said city of the principal amount of $5,000.00, in tho aggregate, as authorized by ordinance No. 142 of said city, entitled "A Bill for an Ordi nance No. 142, An ordinance authoriz ing the issuance, disposal and sale of bonds of the city of Monmouth, Ore gon, for the purpose of raining funds for the construction of water works within and without said city for the benellt and use of said city under and by virtue of the authority vested in Raid city of Monmouth by an amendment to the charter of said city and known therein as Article II, which said amend ment was duly adopted by a majority of the votes cast thereon at a special city election held in said city on the 5th day of June, 1011, for such purpose, and by proclamation of the mayor dated June 7tn, 1911, declured to be in full force and effect as an amendment to said city charter as Article II thereof; declaring an immediate emergency to exist and excepting this ordinance from tbe effect of the rferendum," passed by the common council of said city on the 25th day of July, 1911; approved by the mayor of said city on the 26th day of July, 1911. - Saicf bonds are in denominations of $500.00 each, payable twenty-five years from the 1st day of September, 1911, (with the privilege optional with the common council ol said city, of paying said bonds or any of them at any time after the 1st day of September, 1921), and bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum until paid, payable semi annually from September 1st, 1911; prin cipal and interest payable at the Fiscal Agency of the State of Oregon, in the City of New York, State of New York, in Gold Coin, without costs, charge or expense to the purchaser or holder of said bonds. Said bonds will be sold to the highest bidder or bidders therefor, but that said bonds will not be sold for less than their face value. But no proposal will be considered unless accompanied by a certified check of 5 per cent of the amount bid, said check to be drawn upon some solvent bank, subject to forfeiture to the city if said bid be ac cepted, and the bidder shall fail to com ply with the termB of his bid. The said common council reserves the right to accept bids for any part of said issue less than the whole thereof, if bids for a part only of such bonds are received, and 'also reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Common Council. . D. E. STITT, Recorder of the City . of Monmouth, Oregon. Date of first publication, October 25, 1912.