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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1913)
ABLE WORK APPRECIATED List Monday President Acker man and the Normal Faculty en tertained as welcome guests more than one-half of all .the County Superintendents in Oregon. Su perintendent Willard Austen, of Grant County, was among the number. As that pottion of East ern Oregon is made up of alter nating valleys and mountains. Mr. Austen has. during the past four years, made his long trips from school to school on horse back. This earnest and genial gentleman brought a tale worth the telling about a young man who is well known to most of our citizens. Just a few years ago Prof. T. A. Boche was an earnest student m the Normal. After winning his diploma, he became principal of a two-room school at Monu ment, in Grant County. Although he was then but little more than a boy the energy and enthusiasm shown by this young man soon won the confidence and co-operation of the entire community. Be fore the close of his second year in Monument he was called to the principalship at John Day. Here he had a four-room build'ng and a small high school. Two years more of good vigorous woi k brought him a call to Prairie City, where he has a six-room build'ng occupied by the grade children of the community. Here he has a union High School. This school is supported by five separate dis trict schools that have united for only high school purposes. At the close' of Prof. Boche's first year at Prairie City, the Board offered him a three-year contract. Under the new terms Principal Boche received for his first year's salary thirteen hun dred dollars. This second year he has a salary of thirteen hun dred and fifty dollars, and next year he will be paid fourteen hundred. In his corps of teach ers there are three that are Nor mal graduates. One of these, Miss Ella Lawrence, is a graduate of the Oregon State Normal, arid has made a good record as high school assistant in Prairie City. Prof. Boche is especially inter ested in industrial work. He has organized and equipped a good Manual Training department where he gives the high school boys five lessons a week in man ual training. A German mechanic with special skill in the art of handling tools whenever neces sary, serves as an assistant with the boys of the upper grammar grades. Prof. Boche has, during the past two years, secured large additions to the school library, to the manual training equipment, and to the supply of scientific apparatus. He is planning to put in a commercial department next year, and has already se cured a first-class typewriter and an adding machine. Prof. Boche has aroused a deep interest in school work not only in Prairie City, but also in the surrounding country, and a new $35,000 build ing is being planned. Superintendent Austen reports that Principal Boche exerts a re markable influence upon his boys and girls and has great tact and skill in enlisting the interest and co-operation of all the patrons. Last October Principal Boche with his assistant, organized and successfully managed the first local school Fair held in Grant County. Just now the entire school is preparing a Public En tertainment for the purpose of purchasing additional manual training equipment. The Oregon State Normal School, the city of Monmouth, and his home people have very Prince of Wales, Heir to the Ln,lish Throne, Quite a Golfer Photo by Amerlrao Preaa Association. Tllk I'rince ut VVHles. Heir to the k'oihiiK He bus hwnuie fnlrly n (iikHii rtHvntly hh he whs rhid"it studies Mt Oxford the ID 8ort of tins kind nd In travel It tu Id WIS for a tour of the couutry good reason to be proud of this young man's success. His ex cellent record as a teacher should encourage a larger number of: young men to enter the Normal school, for Oregon needs scores of young men of his type and character and training to enter her graded schools and her high schools and serve them as teacher and principal. Today most of the best positions in the high schools and in the public schools of our state are held by imported pro ducts. There are in Oregon hun dreds of first-class high school graduates that could, in a couple or three years, fit themselves for a legal certificate that will give them opportunity t6 earn a good salary and do the state true ser vice. No one that has ever visited the home in which Mr. Boche lived with his mother and grand father, can doubt that the blos soming flower, the song of birds, the well-stocked library, and the interest in books have all helped prepare this young man for the highest form of civic service. Shall not other mothers and other homes of Monmouth send to the Normal young men of like ster ling character to be there trained for all that makes for manhood and strong teaching? There is an open field in Oregon for all that come prepared in ability, character, education and training for work in the public schools of this state and good pay and ap preciation will be the reward for such.' Belov the fale. A man who looked like a tramp went into a Walnut street bookstore and started out aain aim st im mediately. A rlerk railed al'ler him, "What did you want ?" . "I fame in here lookin' for work" responded the seedy wayfarer, "lint I see there vou've rot a fifrn, 'Dickons Works Here All This Week For fi.' I'd rather starve than work for them wages." Phdadelphia Public Ledger. F3 7''" thronp of England, bni eone In tt prullctent tu IL This plcturv of him uiHkiutt n drive After he Iimm roll heir u I H reii t will spend Miiuif tunc likely that be will tome to Auiericn When the Worm Turned By M. QUAD . Copyright. IH12, by Aisoclali-d Lit em ry I'l'PKS. In this iiiMiinie the worm was Stimu Ann Perkins of the village of Smith vilie. Nature and her father and a lot of oilier iiersiMis und thliiKH were to Illume for it. and the turuiiiK of that worm made u heap of trouble for a hundred ieople or more. Siiruh Aun wax boru homely. Just how homely he wiim us a lialiy need not be told here. She was homely us u .small jcirl. and everybody knows how the homely business goes wbeu It once tteU started. At the ai?e of twenty Saniu Auu was a peach. She attract ed leu times the attention of any hand some clrl. Siirali Ann's father wan to blame in this way. He whs an easy mark dur ing bis life, and when he came to his dyinj: bed he made a will leaving ev erytbiiiK to his daughter. it p't noised around that Sarah Ann hud been left a bit; legacy, and wid owers and bachelors appeared and fell in love with her. Then they Investi gated the legacy matter and fell out again. When .Miss Perkins had reach ed the age of forty, which she did In due time, the live or six women in Smitliville that were keeping book ac counts against her figured up that she had been Jilted tweuty-two different times. Trust the nmrried women of a village to keep tabs on an old maid. There was great Jeering when the last Jilt came. Sarah Ann wept and was not comforted. She realized that her last chance bad slipped away. Even an optimistic woman can't fall to realize that there must be an end to the courting game. For a long, long day our heroine was thinking, and when the stars of evening twinkled again her mind was made up. The village of Smlthvllle hadn't given her a fair show. The vform would turn and make It hot for Smithvllle. There was no one around to hear the click of the spinster's teeth as her mind was made up with the rock of Gibraltar for a foundation. If there had been there would have been shivers a-plenty.. Two weeks from that night Sarah Ann Perkins disappeared oft the face of the earth-that Is, the face of the earth around Smithvllle. She had been living alone with her cat in a little cot tage. A window was found broken In and a door broken open. Chairs were upset and furniture broken, and there were splashes of blood here and there. There was great excitement at once. Miss Perkins had been murdered while the vlilajje slept. The body ,cquld not be found. More than n Tiunured people turned out ami spent the day looking for It. but not the allghlest (race was had. The sheriff and the coroner over hauled the missing woman's papers, and the first document was a solar plexus blow. It charged thirty differ ent villagers with conspiracy to do away with the writer by violence. The list Included a minister, an elder ami two deacons, and the others were all prominent. About half were women. The cluirce was boldly made that on certain dales certain men or women had called at the old maid's house or met her on the street and warned her that she must leave the town or have her throat cut. The production of this document fill ed the village with consternation. The sheriff decided that he must make ar rests as charged, and he went about It. Meanwhile the search for the body continued, and strangers came from twenty miles away to participate. Newspaper sent their representative, and private detectives wore on hand by the dozen. There might not have been a hundred different theories, but there surely were llfty. The number of pcrs"tis arrested was in:i: the number of strangers visiting Smithvllle In the first Tour weeks was estimated at ID.Tmi: the number of newspaper minimis written was KM); the tiiiuilier of times Sarah Ann's pic ture was used was SI; the damage to the business of the town was $'JO,0K. (if the tn:i persons arrested all but two proved alibis for the night of the murder. Of the other two one was a merchant and the other a deacon. They had played checkers and drunk hard elder In a back room of the store that nl, 'lit mil II they had slid out of their chill's and slept under the table. Time consumed In the trial, live weeks: cost to county and Individuals. $H. Vhi. No one was convicted. of course It was Sarah Ann Perkins who broke open her door and smashed In the window. The blisal came from a clil.-keu killed that afternoon. She left her cottage at about 8 o'clock ami had the luck to get out of the village unseen. Then she tisik to the high way and traveled nil nU'lit ami made fifty miles next day by the cars. Then she halted and hired out at a village Inn and was within sixty-five miles of Smithvllle all the time the affair was on. Three thousand dollars was the reward out for her. but no one got It. One day a year later Sarah Ann re appeared In Snill hvllle. She was ac companied by her husband, lie was the Innkeeper she had worked for. She had tlnalTy told b I m her story, and when It had been concluded he had nuked: "lint what was the matter you couldn't get married?" "Too homely." she replied. "Why. durn my cuts, but yon are one of the best hsiklng women I ever saw! What In thunder could have ailed those twenty twu fellera'; rtlained handsome woman and a heroine to boot! Let's go and gt Harried as soon as we can!" "Hail Columbia'" Firit Rendition. "Hail t'oluuiliia" wa written in 17!)H by .lusfph Hopkinson when congress, in session at Philadelphia, was ilehaliti what attitude to as sume in tlu-strtigglo between France and Kngbind. Parly feeling ran high, and the air was Bin-charged with patriotic enthusiasm. A young actor in the city who was about to have a bettclit came to llopkinson in despair ami said that twenty boxes remained unsold, and it look ed as if the proposed benefit would prove a failure. If llopkinson would wrile him a patriotic Bong adapted to I lie tune of "The Presi dent's March.' then popular, it would save the day. The following afternoon the song was ready. It was duly mlvertised, the. house was packed, and in wild enthusiasm the song was encored and re-encored. Bismarck and Old Ale. Bismarck, though he could take three-ojiiat'ters of a pint of cham pagne at a draft and keep his head, was not proof against the effects of Knglish ale. When in London in the seventies he paid a visit to a great brewery in Sotith wark street, famous for its "old English ales" as well as for its as sociation with Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrnle. After being shown how the ale was made he was re quested to sample the quality of some "ten-year-old." He did so and was surprised on leaving the brew ery to find that the road rose up to meet him. London Chronicle. Try a want ad for quick results High School Notes School started again Monday after a two weeks vacation. Tlu students expressed regret by the expression of their face as well ' as by the voice to have to start I . i i.i p, i wiin studies again nucr mien an t'lijoyablt' recreation. County Superintendent II. ('. Seymour, in company with sever al other superintendents of Ore Igon, visited the Training and I High School here Monday, i The school regrets the absence J of Uohort M. Strong whohasdis I continued his high school work for u time. Principal Livingston has spt nt several days in and near Port lain! boosting for the M. II. S. and vigorous elVorts were put forth j to secure altruistic persons to aid ; this and other schools in Polk I County by giing talks to the ! students and furnishing material for programs. I Two beautiful pictures, show- in r th" Niagara Falls, have been hung on the wall on the high school floor, The principal is the donor. Monday, Viola O'Connor, of Custer City, South Dakt ta, en tered school as a member of the Freshman class. The basket ball team oft ho Astronomy class of t(v high school defeated the Oregon Nor mal School five at l:'i) o'clock. Tut sday evening in the Normal gymnasium. In winning, the high school boys did not have the hard struggle that was antici pated and in spite of the practice the normal team had, the 0. N. S. flag went down to half mast before the game had proceeded a fourth of the way. The M. II. S. fellows were down to business and showed that they knew how to pass the ball, an advantage over their opponents who failed to "get into the game" before the game was finished. The score was turned for the high school throughout the game, standing at the close of the first half, 15 to 1. As to the total number of points for the high school if the sum of two digits of a number is 4, the first ex ceeds the second by 2; and if th' digits be reversed, the number represents the score received by the normal team. The high school line-up with baskets thrown R. 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