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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
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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
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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
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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.