ThB nmouth Herald VoL VIII Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, September 10, 1915 No. 1 WEEKLY INOML REVIEW New Payrolls, improvement and factories and Enterprises thai Will Give Labor Employment, and Matters Affecting Indus tries and investments. Salem, Oregon. Sept 6.-Ione-Eight Mile is planning i new school house. Pilot Rock-Cattle industry booming-one grower shipped 23 cars. Scio milk condensery closed down. Prices of canned milk so low there is no profit in manu facturing. This cuts off employ ing labor and this market for the farmer's milk. Sometimes things are too cheap. Wendling sawmill started with force of 200 men Monday. Horth Bend raising $2000 to celebrate completion of the S. P. bridge across Coos Bay. Coos County has $250,000 un paid warrants drawing interest. Banks -New Brick industry starts with 200,000 kiln. Siuslaw jetty contractors are having three large barges built at shipyard on Coos Bay. Oregon Wood Products Co. on Coos Bay is to add a shingle mill. Klamath Falls Algona mills constructed 2800 foot double track lift over 800 foot-mountain that handled 155,000 feet of logs in one day. Portland commission regulates construction of automatic eleva tors. Portland Moose will erect a six-story lodge building. St Johns Water & Light Co. would sell its plant to Portland for $130,000. Eugene-Fairmont Brick Co. has added a tile plant at Monroe. The company will make hollow structural tile next year. A $6000 residence, and a $4, 000 home to go up at Eugene. The Burlington railroad has asked for bids from northwest mills on 20,000,000 feet of car timber. The Southern Pacific and the government will boost the Crater Lake district A $12,000,000 steamship com pany has been organized to oper ate between Boston and Pacific Coast ports. Eugene's new chair factory is doing a big business. Tillamook-Coates Lumber Co. ill spend $40,000 on logging road. Portland-Fight of musicians unin to dictate number to be employed lost Columbia Steel Co. gave em ployes 5 per cent bonus on an Dual wages. Portland is starting work on tode crossings to cost $750,000, Jjostly paid for by O.-W. R. & N.Co. Marshfield -Crow n-Columbia japer Mills Co. may operate the Smith plant Baker-East Eagle Mining u- will erecta5-stamp mill. Mutual telephone lines in many of the state are endanger travel by poles breaking down in- and lines across roads. No provision for upkeep is made. Paisley invites private capital to establish a water system. S. P. Co. is to electrify line be tween Albany and Corvallis. Medford-S. S. Bullis an nounces extension of his electric line to big timber and a new saw mill to be built Eugene-J. H. Smith and J. N. Wray will establish a chair factory here. Albany-D. E. Nebergall & Co. will erect a 3-story concrete meat packing house. Newberg cannery will handle 497,855 lbs. fruit of all kinds in 1915. The O.-W. R. & N. Co. has let contracts for roundhouses at The Dalles and Pilot Rock. Ashland capitalists have corporated to build a smelter, The County Fair Dallas, Or., Sept 3, 1915. Mr. L P. Gilmore, Monmouth, Ore. Dear Gilmore: I will be at the Mon mouth School next Saturday, September 11th, at 10:30 A. M. for the purpose of meeting with the people and children of the district to discuss school fair work for the coming fair. I am very much in hopes that you will give this as much pub licity as possible in order to get as many out'as you can so that we can explain this work to them and answer any questions that they may have to ask. Knowing that we will have a good exhibit from Monmouth this year, I am, Yours very truly, H. C. Seymour. S. N. Guilliams Passes Away Samuel Newton Guilliams was born in Indiana in 1842. He came with his parents to Iowa when a boy. He enlisted as volunteer in the Northern Border Brigade of Iowa Cavalry at the time of the Indian massacre at Blue Earth, Minn. He married Lydia F. Brassfield at Goldfield, Wright County, Iowa, in 1864, who died at Klamath Falls in 1893. Ten children were born to them of whom six survive. Roscoe, living in Washington; W of Keno, isevaaa; Monmouth People and Relatives Had a Narrow Escape From Injury in Eugene Mr. and Mrs. George T. Booth by, accompanied by their daugh ters, Mrs. R. E. Derby, of Mc Minnville, and Mrs. D. M. Mc Cready, of Corvallis, paid a visit to Mrs. w. r. Bradley, a sister of Mr. Boothby, and other rela tives at Eugene the latter part of last week returning home Tues day. While taking in the sights of Eugene they, together with Mrs TV II 11 craaiey, naa a narrow escape from a severe collision with a street car. iney were going I down an incline toward a street crossing when they discovered the approach of a street car. Mr. Boothby found that at the rate each were going that they would meet upon the track, and being on the down grade he dis covered his inability to stop in time to avoid a collision, so he took the only chance left and turned his car the direction in which the street car was going so that both were going the same way when the collision occurred. The street car struck rather a glancing blow well forward on the fender of the Ford and while it bent one axel, some rods and the fender it did not turn the machine over and none of the party were injured although their nerves were somewhat shaken by the incident. The impact carried the auto forward some twelve to twenty feet It ran to the garage on its own power ana ouisiue oi uie necessary paint only cost fifty cents for repairs. tscape was due to turning the auto the way the car was going. MONMOUTH SCHOOL TO OPEN High School Will Commence Se mester September 20th Monmouth High School will open Monday, September 20, at 9 o'clock. The morning of the opening day will be given to registration and selection of studies; the afternoon to assign ment of lessons. Students should plan to register on the first day and arrange study cards. An early registration may enable the student to make a more satisfac tory schedule. The teachers of the high school will be in the building on Satur day afternoon, September 18, from 2 to 4, and will be glad to meet any prospective students, especially new students and those who graduated from the Eighth Grade last June. A brief outline of courses and other information be given in the Herald next week. Monmouth Man Surprised By Notice From Clerk Warren B., at . i n . i nfo-v nf Nevada eene Davis Creek, California; Mrs. h. W Wallace, of Portland, Oregon, and Mrs Nettie Boche, of Mon mouth, Oregon. Also six grand children and one great grand SMr. Guilliams had not been in good health for several months but the end came unexpected y Sept. 3, 1915. He was aid to rest Tuesday afternoon in theK. of P. cemetery south of town by l side of his son Howard, wh died eight years ago. daughter, Mrs. Lotta Allen. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the friends .nd I neighbors who so kindly me t our assistance when our father Samuel Guilliams, died, Ind for the beautiful flowers. 3 MRS. NETTIE BOCHE, Warren Guilliams, Mrs. Bee Wallace, Philip F. A. Boche. The Flax Industry The Oregon legislature appro priated $50,000 to enable the state officials to test the flax in dustry. About 500 tons of flax in the straw have been grown by farm ers and pulled by hand with con vict labor. This flax straw with the seed on has assembled in one of the large buildings of the state pris on. Machinery is being installed to save the seed and reduce the flax straw into commercial hbre for manufacture of twixe. By pulling the flax up by the rts about one-fourth longer fibre is obtained, but this is ex pensive work. In the past, flax could only be grown successfully in countries having cheap labor for pulling the flax. The European war has pros trated the industry in some of the l flax-Droducmg coun IHWIP". trips. It is believed that this is a favorable time to introduce and establish the industry m uregon, Social Hour Club Meeting The Womens Social Hour Club will hold its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. H. C. Ostien, September 15. Mr. Riddell, owner of a large ranch near Monmouth, and who is one of Polk county's most en terprising and prosperous farm ers, says the Observer, after hav ing held various offices of trust within the gift of the voters of this bailiwick, finds that he is not a citizen of the United States, and will hasten the necessary proceeding to become a subject of your Uncle Samuel. Mr. Rid dell was in Dallas last Saturday, coming hither after having re ceived word from County Clerk Robinson that under the recently enacted amendment to the con stitution, which denies the right to vote on first naturalization papers, his registration has been cancelled. This notice reminded Mr. Riddell that he had never completed his naturalization, the matter having been neglected through all these years from the fact that he had been permitted to vote under those alrealy taken out. On his visit here last Satur day, Mr. Riddell took the ncees sary steps to complete what he undertook in 1882, when he se cured his first papers, and in due course of time he will become a fall citizen of the United States, having made application. William Riddell is a native of Scotland. He came to America in 1868, and shortly after took up his permanent residence in Polk county, where he has be come one of its foremost citizens, and where Re has filled county offices, , including that of court commissioner. SPECIFIC RESULTS RECEIVED Several Oregon Concerns Are Receiving Extraordinary Ad vertising at Exposition Oregon Building, Panama-Pacific Exposition," Sept 7.-Several Oregon concerns are receiving extraordinary advertising here. The Dayton Evaporating & Pack ing Company has a display of evaporated garden and orchard products at both the Oregon Building and Talace of Horti culture that attracts very great attention. A chemist from the department of agriculture at Washington, whose business it is to look after matters of this sort, saw the exhibits the other day, and said that he had seen no other anywhere that would com pare with the Dayton product. Ie was so impressed that he left here with the determination of going to the Oregon town to in vestigate thoroughly. The Pendleton Woolen Mills have a magnificent display at the Oregon building and besides get ting the advertising, hundreds of orders are being taken. The Oregon City Woolen Mills have a loom in operation at the Palace of Varied Industries, with the Mitchells in charge, and they have been successful in securing large orders from scores of large eastern firms, besides selling tremendous quantities of goods here. The Oregon Fruit Juice Com-' pany at Salem is giving away a great quantity of the loganberry juice here every week and has a demonstrator in a city depart ment store. Thousands of orders are being taken. The Eugene Fruit Growers Association, the Northwest Fruit Products Com pany of Salem, have bottled goods and literature here. Scotch Hop Ale, made at Med ford, a non-alcoholic drink, is making a great hit at the Oregon building. Tillamook cheese is being demonstrated at a booth adjoining and the combination is a wonderful refresher for the tired ones. This specific endeavor, with other of its kind noted heretofore, means the increase of prosperity and enlargement of industry for Oregon concerns and will add to the sum total of good derived from Oregon's effort at the Exposition. Gardening Within Artie Circle That crop production may be practiced north of the Artie Circle is one of the interesting facts brought out by a report on a reconnoissance soil survey in Alaska soon to be issued. This embodies the results of a study of the soils of a vast area in Alaska by experts of the Bureau of Soils, made for the purpose of determining the possibilities of agricultural development. It was found that gardening is carried on and grass thrives in Alaska, up to and north of the Arctic Circle. In addition it is shown that the climate and soils of Finland are very similar to those of Alaska, the latitude of the two regions being practically identical. In Finland a number of crops are grown at a consider able distance north of the Arctic Circle. Barley, for example, is generally grown as far north as 08 degrees 30 minutes, or 2 de grees north of the circle. Almost 7,000,000 acres in Finland were under cultivation and in improved meadow in 1901. That country has a population of 3,140,100 (re ported in 1911.) and about 85 per cent of this number live outside the cities. Crop production, stock raising, and dairying are im portant industries. This comparison with Finland and another with parts of Siberia are given to demonstrate the pos sibility of agricultural develop ment in Alaska.