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FRIDAY, DEC. 29, 1916.
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Monmouth
Meditations
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Just enough snow to give us the
letter of the customary tradition
and the holiday season does not feel
that it has been slighted in any way.
One of the things that it did not
require Santa Claus to pass around
is the measles and the recipients do
not appear to be particularly grateful.
Books are very convenient for
gifts at Christmas time and for this
reason there is considerable reading
in progress during the evenings of
this week around the firesides of
Monmouth.
The vacation week sends out the
students to their homes and they
are missed on our streets. But com
pensation brings back those people
who are stationed away from home
and now return for the holiday
period.
The name of I. L. Lenroot of Wis
consin was brought out this past
week as a candidate for speaker of
the next house. More may develop
of this for Lenroot, while never an
offensive partisan, was one of the
original progressives and is the di
rect opposite of Jas. R. Mann, at
present the minority leader in the
house. Lenroot was speaker of the
Wisconsin legislature when elected
to congress and this was the first
legislature that Wisconsin ever
elected that met with the approval
of R. M. LaFollette, who was then
governor of the state.
A movement is on in this state to
cheapen some of the processes of
law and our county clerk, Mr. Rob
inson, in an interview in a Portland
paper advocated the discontinuance
of the publication of delinquent tax
es and instead the notification of
delinquents by registered letter
which would be cheaper. But will
it be as effective? What the county
and state are after is the collection
of taxes. A personal notice to a
delinquent will let him know of his
delinquency. But he already knows
this. It is letting his neighbor know
that is effective. Publicity, of that
kind, attack's a man's pride. How
ever, a saving in cost could be made
by letting the publication by bids.
All county printing and publishing
should be let by bids. There is
nothing sacred in the county seat
that makes it necessary to have all
the county printing and publishing
done there. Official publications
add prestige to a newspaper and
many would bid low to get " this
prestige and the consequent gain in
circulation. If the county officers
are really anxious to save money,
here is the opportunity to do it.
To our point of view the pros
pects for peace in Europe steadily
grow stronger. President Wilson's
note to the warring powers appears
to have created quite a hubbub and
the usual conflict of . opinion has
found expression, many criticising
and a few commending. It appears
evident that the idea of a peace ap
peals more highly to the Germans
than to their united opponents.
There was nothing in the presi
dent's note to warrant the bitter
comment it has aroused in England
and France. He asked merely that
the warring sides should state each
the basis on which it would make
peace. In other words, that each
side to the controversy should state
just what it was fighting for. A
most reasonable and sane request.
The one criticism that may attach
to the note is its time of utterance.
Following the appeal of Germany it
may be taken as a re-enforcement
of that appeal. Really, when you
come to think about it, there is no
reason why the president's not
should not have been written at the
time of the beginning of the trouble
two and a half years ago
While Monmouth will begin the
new year with Main street torn up,
the paving project is the one dis
tinct gain for 1916. The growth of
the Normal has been steady, the
past year being the best in point of
attendance the state school had yet
had. Harvest in the neighborhood
has been good and crops have sold
at good prices. There has been
plenty of work, especially through
the latter part of the year, and no
one is suffering in our midst from
want. The year passed witnesses
the turning of the creamery from a
limited stock company arrangement
to a co-operative concern and the
company is prospering and promises
well for the future. It is one of the
few co-operative creameries in this
section and draws patronage from
a wide range of territory. The prune
crop was good and sold at good
prices. Fruit of all kinds was
abundant jduring the year and helped
in many ways to cut down the cost
of living. A feature of the year
past has been the high cost of food
products due to the demand to sup
ply the immense number of soldiers
of Europe with food which has
shortened our own supply. This in
crease has been in many cases ex
traordinary. But for all this, Mon
mouth has enjoyed good business, a
steady growth and the opening week
sees it facing good prospects for
1917.
It is hard for this generation to
realize just what Thos. A. Edison
has done for it. It might not be too
much to say that no single man who
ever lived has done as much for the
development of civilization as has
Edison. Many inventors have
equalled him in a single feat but for
the wide field of his activities, for
the many accomplishments, in the
way of ingenius and useful inven
tions, Edison stands supreme. The
printing press, the steam engine,
the cotton gin, the sewing machine,
vulcanized rubber, are all great in
ventions that have each done, pos
sibly, more for humanity than any
of Edison's inventions, but each was
the single achievement of one man.
Edison has invented several things
that rank with them. The incan
descent light, the phonograph, the
quadruplex telegraph, the improved
storage battery, the moving picture
machine appliance, are some of his
achievements. He has the knack of
being practical and while he did not
invent the principle of the telephone
or the electric motor, it was his
practical mind that has given both
of these ideas their present practical
application. In his lifetime Edison
has made and spent a great deal of
money. His inventions have made
him rich, yet in following out an
idea he has never counted the cost.
He conceived the idea of extracting
iron from the sands that border the
Atlantic. He spent two million
dollars and seven years on this idea
and carried it to a successful termi
nation, producing iron that could be
sold for $6 per ton. Just at this
time the iron deposits in Northern
Minnesota were discovered and the
ore there was so easy to get at that
it could be sold for $3.50 per ton.
This made the expenditure of time
and money by Edison in his own ore
development in vain. But he prompt
ly set himself to work to devise ar
rangements and succeeded in turn
ing his ore mill into a cement mill
as which it is now operating, the
fifth largest in the United States. A
man of great talents, with a phy
sique capable of sustained activity,
Mr. Edison has given to America a
service that far outweighs that of
the majority of its presidents.
UT of a very lib
eral collection
of suitable New
Year's resolu
tions our sport
ing editor has
culled the fol
lowing which
h e passes o n
with the stamp
of his approval.
While some of
those stories you
have been tell
ing are artistic and entertaining, it
is nevertheless lamentable that they
do not at all times bristle with
veracity. Just a few less lies for
the year 1917. Cut out the bunk
and the capital I and let the hard
and solemn facts be a little more
conspicuous. This will make a good
piece of material out of which to
carve resolution number one.
For number two you might re
solve to be a little more industrious.
Cultivate the novel sensation of
fatigue by some other sort of exer
cise than that acquired at the dining
table. Mingle a little perspiration
with your devotionals. It will re
fresh and invigorate you.
Thirdly, it would be a good plan
to turn a new leaf in the matter of
paying your debts. Possibly you
may have been squeezing the god
dess of liberty on the five cent piece
out of sheer exuberance of affection
for her, but she is heartless and you
might as well hug a wooden Indian.
Pay your debts andlet your neigh
bor get a chance to pay his.
While the bench suffers because
many of us are not occupying prom
inent positions on it, nevertheless,
if the truth must be known, we are
a little more lenient in our judg
ments on ourselves than we are on
our neighbors. We all realize that
the model from which we ourselves
were patterned was a crackerjack,
yet New Year's would be a good
time to resolve to be a little more
tolerant to the frailties of others.
While all must recognize the
lemon has its uses, the uses for the
human variety are few and far be
tween. Of course this does not
mean either of us but then even a
lemon, with a little sugar, may be
palatable. At any rate it is well to
resol"e to sweeten ,up a little.
You might resolve also to revise
your talent in the musical line. You
doubtless have been pleased at the
noise that can be made with a ham
mer in the anvil chorus, but just re
solve to change off this year and
play the bass drum in the booster
band.
And now after the ushers have
passed the peanuts let us all arise
and sing the doxology.
Miss Laura Kennon of the
Normal faculty was registered
at Hotel Portland in Portland
Christmas day.
Surveying and Subdividing
Prompt service, work guaran
teed. Himes Engineering Com
pany, Dallas, Ore., Phone 502.
6 percent !;arfmLT80n
r first class
farms. H. E. Morton, Dallas,
Oregon.
DR. FOSTER
CHIROPRACTIC
has opened a treating room
at the Monmouth Hotel
where all who desire treat
ment will find him on Mon
day, Wednesday and Fri
day of each week. All day.
Electricity in all forms is
used in his practice. Elec
tric blankets and general
treatments. For deafness
he seldom fails. Lady at
tendant. '" ' -"
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The Roof Over Your Head
will be a good one if it is made of our shingles.
Made of the best materials, well seasoned, if prop
erly put on they will last for years. Same way with
our lumber. It is the best and for that reason, the
cheapest to use.
Willamette Valley Lumber Co.
Phone Main 202. Monmouth, Oregon
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CITY MEAT MARKET
GEORGE SULLIVAN, Manager
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Always on Hand: Fresh and Smoked Meats, Bologna, Minced
Hams, Boiled Hams, Ham and Bacon
Fresh Fish on Fridays
The highest cash price paid for poultry, veal
' and all kinds of hides.
Free Delivery.
Monmouth,
Phone Main 2302
Oregon
Monmouth Transfer and
Feed Stable
All Kinds of Transferring Done Promptly
and on Short Notice
GORDON BOWMAN, Proprietor.
Monmouth, Oregon
Independence Electric Co.
Lighting Fixtures and Supplies
Electric Wiring and Repairing
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished Free. All work
guaranteed lo atand City Impaction. Wo do contract work.
in with Rowe's Jewelry Store. H. J. Rowe, Mgr.
Phone trouble and repair wo k, Main 621 1. We will come
yE wish to express to our
patrons and friends an
appreciation for business giv- !
us during the past year and
trusting for a continuance in
1917, we are,
with best wishes for a Happy
and Prosperous New Year,
MORLAN & SON
Monmouth's largest and most complete Confectionery and Book Store
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