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Vol. VIII
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, June 9, 1916
Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Union
Closing Scene
Next Week
Commencement Doings at
Normal Occupy Attention
The program for commence
ment week is as follows:
Saturday, June 10th
President's breakfast for Sen
ior class, Normal hall, ten o'clock.
Junior Prom, gymnasium, eight
o'clock.
Sunday, June 11th
Baccalaureate services, Nor
mal chapel, ten-thirty o'clock.
Monday, June 12th
Last chapel and Class Day,
nine-forty o'clock.
Faculty reception, Normal hall,
seven-thirty to nine-thirty o'clock,
for Seniors and Alumni.
Tuesday, June 13th
Junior breakfast, Normal cam
pus, seven-thirty o'clock.
Freshman-Sophomore break
fast, Normal campus, seven-
thirty o'clock.
Alumni picnic, Cupid's Knoll,
ten to one o'clock.
Alumni business meeting, Nor
mal building, two o'clock.
Senior class play "The Queen's
Masque," Normal campus, three
o'clock.
Alumni program, Normal chap
el, seven-thirty o'clock.
Alumni banquet, Normal hall,
nine o'clock.
Wednesday, June 14th
Commencement, Normal chap
el, ten o'clock.
President Campbell of the Uni
versity of Oregon will deliver the
Commencement address and Pres
ident Doney of Willamette Uni
versity the Baccalaureate sermon.
Admission will be charged to
the Senior class play "The
Queen's Masque," which will be
given on the Normal campus at
three o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
The prices are as follows: Gen
eral admission 35c; Children of
Elementary grades 25c; Reserved
seats 50c. The seat board will
be open to the townspeople at 4
p. m. Friday at Morlan's store.
125 of the best seats on the ten
nis court have been reserved for
the townspeople till 8 p. m. Sat
urday. The class is working
hard upon this play and it prom
ises to be one of the best attrac
tions that has been offered dur
ing the year. The proceeds are
to go for paying for the expenses
of the play. '
The faculty is quite busy dur
ing these days in giving com
mencement addresses. Last Fri
day night President Ackerman
was at Falls City, Mr. Gentle at
Dallas and Mr. Pittman at New
herg. Last Tuesday evening Mr.
Gentle was at South Salem and
this Friday evening the Presi
dent is to be at Eugene and Mr.
Gentle at Alsea.
The President wishes to thank
the house-holders who so kindly
reported to him when their homes
were filled with students, and it
would be of great assistance to
him, as well as the students, if
every house-holder would, think
to notify him when she has' as
many students as she can take.
It will readily be seen that this
will save sending students to
I A I
nomes inauannot take them.
Miss Parrott made a business
trip to Portland on Tuesday.
The members of the February
and June, 1916, classes meet in
chapel on Monday, June 12. at
1:30 o'clock for marching prac
tice. Every member of the class
is urged to be present and be on
time.
Every one is pleased to know
that Mrs. Evenden has sufficient
ly recovered her health to return
to her home.
Miss Taylor and Miss Butler
attended the pageant given by
the women of the 0. A. C. last
Friday, and reported a very
pleasant and profitable day.
The Board of Regents for Nor
mal School will hold its annual
meeting at Monmouth at 10:30 a.
m., June 21.
The Senior class has recently
been represented in chapel by
Miss Olive Valck and Miss Hazel
Workman. Miss Valck gave a
very clear and interesting paper
on "The School Store Method of
Teaching" and Miss Workman
gave a most timely talk on "The
Teacher's Vacation."
Mr. and Mrs. Forshaw of Pen
dleton were guests of Miss Myra
Butler on Monday and Tuesday.
Monday evening Miss Butler
asked a number of the faculty in
to meet her guests. Mrs. For
shaw sang several delightful
numbers. She was also kind
enough to sing for the students
at assembly Tuesday morning.
Mistletoe Picnic
The Mistletoe school district
wound up its school year last
Saturday with an all day picnic,
with a program both forenoon
and afternoon and a basket din
ner to fill in between. Ex-Supt.
Seymour was present and made
an address to the crowd of three
hundred who attended. Inspec
tor Parsons was also present and
spoke. There was a complete
program of sports in the after
noon but the event of the day
was a play put on by local talent,
a four-act drama entitled "Uncle
Rube" with the following cast
of characters:
Uncle Rube, Justice of the
Peace and Horse .Trader -L. I.
Bursell.
Deacon Smoiley, a Smooth Old
Villain-W. Ellis.
Mark, his son, and a rascal -Vern
Alsip.
Gordon Gray, an artist-T. Du
Laney.
Upsen Asterbilt, New York
dude-H. Bogynska.
Ike, the hired 'man-R. Alsip.
Bub Green, a young rustic-J.
Bogynska.
Bill Tappam, constable-H. Al
sip. Millicent Lee, school mam
Mrs. Du Laney.
Maria Bunn, charming widow
Bessie Nelson.
Taggs, a New York waif-Miss
Sayre.
Miss Stacia Hendron is visit
ing with her sister, Mrs. W. R.
Graham.
Last Meeting
Of The Year
Parent-Teachers Plan Me
morial for Training School
The last meeting of the Parent-
Teachers' association was held in
the assembly room of the high
school building last Tuesday even
ing with a fair attendance. Mrs.
Gentle, president of the associa
tion, called the meeting to order
and the minutes of the preced
ing meeting were read by the
secretary. Miss Arbuthnot
Miss Hoham lead the singing
with a round of familiar favorites,
winding up with Auld Lang Syne.
Dr. Price presented a paper on
the Physician in the Home in
which the subject was handled
in a most interesting manner.
She spoke of the rules of health
and sanitation, how to detect and
avoid infection, explained the
difference between contirgious
and non-contagious diseases and
gave some excellent advice con
cerning means by which to keep
children and grown people health
ful. The Herald editor next pre
sented some opinions on the
Newspaper in the home, a paper
that will be inflicted on readers
of this paper in the near future.
By way of discussion of this
topic Miss Mcintosh related some
of her practical experience in
teaching children to read news
papers, advocated selection to be
sure the paper was well adapted
to the understanding and wel
fare of the youthful reader.
Prof. Keezel made his farewell
talk to the association, expressed
his pleasure in serving the peo
ple of the district and regret in
leaving and made a number of
recommendations as to the future
course of the school as well as
comment on the fact that in the
small school it was the custom to
hurry through and slight the
benefits to be derived from schol
arship, aiming too frequently at
credits and the prestige to be de
rived from a diploma rather than
from the value of the education
itself. Prof. Keezel brought out
many interesting facts and held
the close attention of all through
out his talk.
Miss Green sang a solo so
nicely that she was asked to sing
another.
President Powell of the board
of directors gave a general re
nort on school matteri commend.
ing Prof. Glass to thevatrons of
the district, at the same time
giving Mr. Keezel credit for the
work he has done for the school.
Miss Arbuthnot gave a charac
teristic reading, keeping the au
dience in a roar of laughter the
while. She said she had been
reading minutes for a year and
now she was going to read some
more, the same being the minutes
of a ladies' aid as reported by a
girl. The girl reported the meet
ing, including all the small talk,
and none of it lost anything in
Miss Arbuthnot's presentation.
Officers for the ensuing year
were elected as follows: Presi
dent, R. B. Swenson; Vice-Presi
dent, Mrs. Ostrom; Secretary and
Treasurer, Miss Arbuthnot.
In conclusion Prof. Gentle spoke
of a project which he has been
considering for some time-the
presentation by the association
of a worthy painting or statue to
be placed in the hall way at the
entrance to the training school
where it would be the first thing
a child would see when entering
the building and the last he
would observe on leaving. To
defray the expense Mr. Gentle
proposes to deliver an illustrated
lecture during the latter part of
the summer school. A strong
effort will be made to sell tickets
to this event and the sum realized
is to be applied to the purchase
of the gift Thus the meeting
adjourned.
A Safe Foundation
Baccalaureate Orator Holds
Bible Unequaled as Such
That the only safe foundation,
on which to build a character was
the Bible was the conclusion of
the remarks of Rev. F. M. Fisher
to the graduates of the Mon
mouth high school last Sunday
morning, the occasion being the
baccalaureate sermon to the class.
He showed how the tendency was
to lay less and less stress on the
differences of creed and more on
the essentials of doctrine and
guidance as laid down in holy
writ. He pointed to strong men
and quoted from them to show
how unanimous was the opinion
that the influence of the Bible
had been a power for good with
them.
An assemblage that filled every
corner of the church and over
flowed into the church parlor
listened to the discourse. The
program of the services is given
on page six.
Post Office Promoted
The Monmouth post office has
now been raised to the station of
third class as was announced in
a letter received this week from
the department by Postmaster
Parker. Incidentally the salary
of the postmaster has been raised
to $1700, this being the second
raise since Mr. Parker took the
office two years ago. Probably
the post office feels the effect of
the increase in attendance at the
Normal more quickly than any
other business establishment of
the city.
Will Talk Temperance
Frank Willard Emerson, a pro
hibition orator, will speak at the
Christian church Tuesday even
ing, June 13th, on the issues of
the day. His subject is "Five
Million Voters Enrollment Move
ment" Mr. Emerson is the
former field secretary of the
"Flying Squadron of America,"
Ex-Governor Hanley's organiza
tion. Mr. Emerson was formerly
pastor of the First Christian
church of San Francisco. He is
in the state under the auspices
of the Oregon State Prohibition
committee and he was the choict
of the Oregon Prohibitionists for
vice-president
26 Graduates
in 8th Grade
To Receive Diplomas at the
Rickreal Picnic Saturday
The prospects are that there
will be a large delegation from
Monmouth at the Rickreal picnic
next Saturday. A quartette from
the ranks of Normal girls will
have a part in the program as
will also the training school or
chestra of 20 pieces.
Twenty six also is the number
of graduates from the eighth
grade of the training school who
will receive certificates on that
day. Here is the list Five wire
exempt from finals in all subjects
and several of the others were
required to take examinations in
but one subject. Three will finish
the cource in the Summer School
of methods;
Hugh Bell, Lucy Bowman.
Dorothy Brewster, Frances
Brewster, Earl Conkey, Bessie
Clarke, Wilna Dobell, Eileen
Hewitt, Vera Herman, John
Hinkle, Robert Hinkle, James
Higginbottom, Elmer Hudson,
Rebert Holloway, Clay Moreland,
Beth Ostrom, Bruce Rogers, Al
ice Scott, Elizabeth Scott, Fan
nie Steinberge, Ruth Stone, Bes
sie Sullivan, Wendell VanLoan,
Jessie Webber, Earl Williams,
and Claire Winegar.
Hunting Burglars
A rack of doubletrees and
singletrees in the Winegar & Lor
ence hardware store had gradu
ally become overbalanced but did
not get quite ready to fall over
until shortly after ten o'clock
Wednesday night When the
rack tumbled it did not go all at
once with a mighty uproar either.
First there was a gentle thud as
the rack settled, ending with a
bang, just as if a man had
stubbed his toe against a keg of
nails in the dark and landed on a
wheelbarrow, which had gone
over with him.
At least that is what it sound
ed like to the two girls in charge
of the telephone office in the
building adjoining and they pro
ceeded to give the alarm. Among
the first to respond was Arthur
Miller. He had heard something
himself and tiptoeing to the win
dow of Ed Griffa's room, he at
tracted Ed's attention by tapping
on the window and in a sepul
chral voice asked for the loan of
a gun. This aroused Ed's curi
osity and he joined the hunt So
did a number of others The
premises were gone over. No
further racket coming from the
store interior ' the lights were
turned on and then it was dis
covered what had caused all the
commotion.
Louis Murdock and family left
Wednesday for Wasco, Oregon,
where they will spend the sum
mer. There were quite a r.umder of
town people in attendance at the
Mistletoe Picnic Saturday. Ev
ery one reported a cood time,
and the program was fine.