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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1913)
i LOCAL Si STATE NEWS ji L!ioi iooc iocU ! will hangi Zook the Painter, your paper for you. H. K. Sickafoose pave Salem a visit last Tuesday. Allen Clark was a business visitor to Salem Monday. Charles Holman was doing business in Monmouth Tuesday. Miss Lela Erickson is home from McMinnville to spend the holidays. brown & bibley. attorneys and abstractors. 610 Mill Street, Dal las, Oregon. Miss Tena Brown, of Indepen dence, was a Monmouth visitor Sunday night. Wednesday morning showed up with about an inch of snow for this section. Walter Brown of this place vis ited his brother Vernon at Inde pendence Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Stone went to Portland Wednesday to spend Christmas with friends. Prof, and Mrs. 0. H. Carson, of Salem, are the guests of Rev. and Mrs. Carson this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sturkin went to Salem yesterday to take dinner with their daughter. Misses Bessie Graham and Florence Haan came home from Alsea to spend the holidays. Miss Clarice Oaks and brother, Lysle, went to Portland Monday to spend Christmas with rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Sickafoose left Tuesday morning for Central Point to spend Christmas with friends. Edgar Sacre is home from Pendleton, where he has been for a year past, an a visit to his parents. ' 0. C. Zook has been confined to his bed this week, suffering from la grippe. He is slightly improved. Arthur Burkhead and Thomas Ostien are home from attending the 0. A. C. atCorvallis, to spend their vacation. We thank you for your business during 1913 and wish you a happy and prosperous New Year 1914. Perkins Pharmacy. Piev. E. C. Wigmore was in Monmouth Monday having been called to Independence to preach the funeral of Miss Opal Hall. H. P. Boerert and wife, of Falls City, and E. Bogert and family, of Salem, were the guests of P. H. Johnson and family Christ mas. Mrs. J. W. Richardson and son, Cyril, were transacting busi ness in town Tuesday. Mrs. Richardson gave the Herald force a pleasant call. C. P. Cornwell has been adding to the comfort and convenience of his residence this week by building a large porch on the north side of his house. Rev. Bruce Wolverton, of Port land, brother to Monmouth's obliging postmaster, spent sever al days here during the past week. He was looking after the prohibition interests. Frank Murdock, of the Mon mouth Creamery Company, ac companied by his wife and child left Wednesday for his father's farm at Yamhill to spend Christ mas under the parental roof. $275.00 Improved Residence lot for sale. On it are 11 selected fruit trees, a strawberry patch, raspberries, logan berries, 16 of the choicest rose, bushes and a 14x20 wood house. City water and cesspool. Best buy in town. On College street. See Herald office. Hair Switches made from combings. Enquire at this oflice. The training school orchestra j went to Salem Tuesday under the care of H. K. Sickafoose, and played before the State Teachers' Association. The children are reported to have done splendidly. E. W. Shepherd, the evange-; list who preached in the Evan-! gelical church last week, took a severe cold the latter part of last j week and became too ill to finish ; the series of sermons he purposed Ui nrtwdiif 1 li luff 1'iet Muml'ii' I - ..V .V . t for his home at Portland. Hopyard Changes Ownership John Middleton and sons of Uickreall were over to Dallas last Friday completing the purchase of a 115 acre tract of tine hp land at Rickreall formerly owned by Samuel Orr. of Portland. Twenty-five acres of this land is already in hops and the remainder is all well suited to the same kind of crops. Mr. Orr and wife were down from Portland and the necessary papers in the transac tion were made out by Sibley & Eakin. Dallas Observer. Lithography. Alois Seiii'loUler, the discoverer of lithography, was a poor musician driven to many straits to find ma terial on which to engrave his com positions. One morning, when busy at work, his mother asked him to j make out the hill for the washing, : am! in Ins hurry he wrote out the j bill upon a piece of his smoothed ' Kelheim stone. The stone was laid aside, and when he saw it again the . ink was so firmly set that the possi bility occurred to him of an acid which should eat awav the stcne when not protected by the ink, leav ing the writing in relief. From that idea was born the art of lithography. New York American. The Intelligent Bird. Two negroes in Washington were overheard discussing the intelli gence of birds in general. "Tiirds is shore sensible," observ ed one to the other. "Vo' kin learn fchum anything. I uster work for a lady that had one in a clock, un' when it was time to tell de time it uster come out an' say cuckoo jest as many times as de time was!" "Yo" doan say so?" asked the other negro incredulously. "Shore thing!" responded the first negro. "lint de mos' wonder ful part was dat it was only a wood en bird too!" I journal PATTtRNS "OMl MUKNAt PATTERNS FREE HIP BONE The season's most notable inno vation is the perfection of llie "Free Hip-Bone idea in the new BON TON and ROYAL WORCESTER corsets. This clever, new idea or feat ure, as expressed in these models, is absolutely practical. Ii assures supreme comfort, makes the corset fit snug and smooth, yet gives ample freedom to the wearer's hip hones whether seated, standing or walking. The V. F. Daniel Store KtonD Notice of Meeting Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the sharehold ers of the First National Bank of Monmouth, for the purpose of electing a board of directors and the transaction of other business that may lawfully come before the meeting, will be held at the bankinghouse in Monmouth, Ore gon, at one o'clock P. M. on January 13, 1914. ! Ira C. Powell, Cashier, i 14t5 ! FOR SALE One half dozen full blood An cona Cockerels. Enquire of W. J. Miller, Monmouth, Oregon. 14t4 V. O. BOOTS Fire, Life and Casualty INSURANCE Losses Promptly Paid Clark's Grocery Successor to A. H. Craven The most up-to-date Grocery this side of Portland. Just step inside and view our display of Canned Goods, Lard Compound, Cottolene and Syrups. Two full sets of 2 Pattern Dishes. Glass ware and Crockery in full stock. Flour, Feed and Chicken Sup plies. Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. "Cleanliness Our Motto." Postoffice Block. Bell 3504 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 1.50 Both papers for... 2.50 W. F. SCOTT Contractor and Builder All kinds of Carpentering and Repair Work done in a workman-like milliner. Let me figure with you on that new building you are won intending to erect. Himes Engineering Co. 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