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RICHARD B. SWENSON
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Monmouth, Oregon.
FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1916.
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The fair time hut passed and
the Thanksgiving turkey has al
ready begun to roost high.
Dahlias and gladioluses ere
admired more for their beauty
than for the way they are
spelled.
The automobiles found it bard
to give up the right of way on
Main street but most of them are
dodging it just at present. .
The pumpkin pie appears at
this point as one of the compen
sations for the passing of summer.
Whon the street paving is
hafely laid it will be hard to find
anyone who will admit that he
ever opposed the idea.
Come now, let's put our heads
together and see if we can't find
another crossing of the railroad
track north of Main street.
The political aspirant is be
coming more in evidence which
reminds us that there is really
an election drawing near.
The season for putting up
fruit is about over but the sea
son of putting up for sugar
promises is to remain with us
for a while vet.
A. N. Halleck says if the Chi
nook should express his indiffer
ence he would not say "I should
worry" nor yet "Ishka bibble"
but "Wak-ik ti-kopa-nika."
The almanack has a certain
arbitrary date for the beginning
and end of the seasons but it is
Nature who draws the summer
to an end and she usually does
it with the first frost.
peared ou the surface the special
election of Tuesday appeared to
create a very considerable in
terest. When you touch a man s
(or a woman's) pocketbook you
get his interest.
Thos. Boulden says the men
who are doing our Main street
plowing may have had agricul
tural experience but they surely
neglect the admonition ham
mered into the head .of every
boy plowman to be sure to "cut
and cover."
provementand encouragement,
throngs would resort to it for
rest and recreation.
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soon
Miss Puller says there is a
woman superintendent of schools
in Malheur county and if a
woman can get around there
over the immense spaces and
through the snow of that ele
vated region she thinks she can
get around little old Polk with
out any trouble.
Employers who seek help say
they find it a scarce commodity
in this section. Our surplus has
moved away during the past few
trying years and now when busi
ness promises to open up in full
blast on the old stand there will
have to be some wholesale im
portations of labor or there will
be a shortage.
The average political rally is
not for tho purpose of making
converts, but to enthuse people
who are already converted. Party
afliliations are like church ties
and not subject to easy changes.
The man who can not tolerate
other views in religion and pol
itics than he himself holds
should seek to broaden his mind.
Reading the program of the
teacher's institute at Dallas next
week brings up the conclusion
that proximity to the Normal
leads to more attractive institute
programs. The welfare of the
Normal is of close interest to
all friends of education in the
county and they should do all
they can to further its development.
The editor who fills his col
umns with the political dope
furnished free by the partisan
organizations is handed one
means of neutralizing the in
creased cost of print paper. The
editor of the Myrtle Point En
terprise has struck a happy
scheme and prints Republican
columns and Democratic col
umns alongside one another and
lets his readers tuke their choice.
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critical
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Are you interested in indus
trial development of the youth?
If so it would be a good idea to
attend the meeting of the Parent-Teacher's
association next
Friday evening.
Miss Hoham believes in start
ing in time and is teaching
fourth and fifth graders to play
the violin. We may expect to
hear something from that direc
tion one of these days.
' The pessimists who said Main
street would never be paved,
that the project would end in
talk as it always had ended, will
now have to seek some other
foundation for cheerful prophe
cies. Although very little of it ap-
The remarks of Dr. Hizz of
medicine show fame, were not
all frivolous. He said Monmouth
had a better reputation abroad
than it has at home, which in
fers that many of its citizens do
not think as well of Monmouth
as many of its neighbors. A
man who lacks faith in himself
is not apt to get very far. Bet
ter find a quiet, secluded spot,
bury your hammer with due
ritual, and then forget about it
Joking aside, we. believe the
rear lots of the Riggs place could
be turned into an elegant park.
The trees could be trimmed up
with excellent landscape effect
and with graveled walks winding
out and in among the walnuts,
with perhaps a lagoon and a few
(lower beds, could be made most
a'sthetic and charming. It would
be exceptionally convenient also.
The public takes kindly to it
anyway and with a little ira-
The baseball season will
be over and the chainpion?b
series will be the center of inter
est. The temptation placed
fore ball players, in criti
places, at this stage of ttie ga
isirreat. It is not money
the thing is arranged so that a
money influence is minimized.
But jealousies and prejudices are
to be contended with. This could
well be an important factor in
such a contest as is now staged
in the National league. The two
positive contenders.Philadelphia
and Brooklyn, are alternately in
first place. Lesser teams, hav
ing no hopes themselves, are
bound to have prejudices for one
team or the other. Players in
critical places may not inten
tionally throw games but their
interest will affect their playing
in some degree or another.
A certain editor one time
seized on a shovel, procured a
barrow, and went upon the street
to relieve the contractors of a
portion of a certain arduous task
they had contracted to perform
As he smote the shovel in
among the pebbles the ribald
throng that passed by waxed
merry at the sight "Ho," shout
ed one, "Dost work out thy fine
or bast been sentenced to the
rock pile?" "Stay," said an
other, "Dost seek gold or dia
monds in that filth?" "Go easy,"
cautioned a third, "My uncle's
wife's third cousin on her step
mother's side perished by just
such violent exercise as that"
Verily, if he had retained a note
book and had jotted down the
gems of wit which the occur
rence brought out he had ob
tained sullicii'iicy to fill such
columns as these many times
overllowing. Verily, the world
is filled with jesters.
This is the season of the year
when prominent political con
verts occupy a more or less im
portant position in the public
print. Thos. A. Edisou, who
has not been Democratic since
the days of Cleveland, announces
himself for Wilson and Henry
Ford, the man who took several
kinks out of the profits of the
automobile business for his com
petitors and who financed the
famous peace voyage to Norway,
is also experiencing a change o(
heart Notwithstanding Mr.
Ford was a Republican candi
date for president and carried
Michigan in the primaries he
takes pains now to express his
preference for Wilsou. On the
other hand Colonel George Har
vey, editor of the North Ameri
can Review, in a merciless aud
scathing analysis of Wilson's
character and achievements d.
clares this week for Hughes.
Harvey is the man who put Wil
son ou the, political map, who
picked him out from the nresi-
deucy of Princeton as the one
man who could eliminate Bryan,
secured his nomination as gov
ernor of New Jersey and nursed
his presidential boom uuiil it
reached theproperdevelopme.it.
Mr. Harvey U especially dis
pleased with Wilson's foreign
policy and with the Adarason
law, which he declares the great
est humiliation the nation has
suffered since Suinpter was fired
on.
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" 6:15. " " 7:00, " 7:20, " 7:30
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