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Herald Vol IX Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, March 9, 1917 No. 27 Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Union. a PLAN FOR NEW WORK Regents will Start Normal Work in the Early Summer The faculty was represented at chapel time last Friday by Miss Laura Kennon, who took for her subject, "The Bible as Litera ture," which subject was handled in a very masterful manner. Miss Kennon showed that she had a conception of the different divi sions of the Bible, and rendered her conception in a convincing and logical manner. Her hand ling of the subject has caused many who heard her to look on the Bible from an entirely differ ent view-point The chairman of the Board of Regents, Governor Withycombe, has appointed the following mem bers of the Board for a building committee for, the construction, of the addition to the main build ing: Supt J. A. Churchill, Chairman, Miss Cornelia Marvin, Mr. C. L. Starr, Mr. H. G. Starkweather and Mr. W. ' C, Bryant. This committee is to meet next Monday for the pur pose of selecting an architect and discussing plans for said addi-1 tion. It is planned to have the plans and specifications prepared I and contracts ready to sign on the day in May on which the bill will become a law. Miss Hoham, Head of the Music Department, attended grand opera last Monday and Tuesday and reports a very pleasant time. More than one hundred stu dents of the Oregon Normal School chartered a special train to go to.Corvallis tonight to at tend the Oratorical contest. Miss Radabaugh is to represent the Normal, and everybody is hoping and has faith in her winning first place. Bill and Doc Entertain " One of those pleasant incidents which occur' occasionally and anon if not more frequently to spice the monotony of the ordi nary society functions was a bachelor..dinner given at "The Hermitage" last Sunday. Messrs Stanley Evans, Carl Bowman and Archibald Connell were the guests and the genial hermits, otherwise ye hosts, were "Bill" Hoppes, and "Doc" Gilbreath, so called because Doc acted as surgeon in the carving of the roasted rooster and Bill footed the bill. The "Hermitage" which is lo cated with Mrs. Grimes, was tastefully decorated. Pansiei were displayed upon the table and the place cards were hand painted pansies. The menu is said to hav been an inspiration of superlative excellence. Chas. V. Thornton of" Bandon was here yesterday looking up the prospects with a view to moving to Monmouth to allow his daughters to attend the Normal. Mr. Thornton reports business prospects in Bandon as steadily improving. Bids Courts Get Busy a writ ot mandamus was signed by Chief Justice McBride Wednesday against the Marion and Polk county courts. It gives the courts thirty days in which to agree upon the type of bridge to be built. If no agreement is reached by that time they are di rected to build the bridge accord ing to plans reported by the State Highway Commission Jan uary 18. If no action is taken by March 27 the courts are com' manded to appear before the jus tices and explain why. The wri was issued on petition by D. A. White, and Pinkney Bros., land' owners on the Polk county side. Y. W. C. A. Cab inet Conference The Y. W. C. A. Cabinet Con ference held in Monmouth March 2nd, 3rd and 4th began its first session Friday evening in the Normal building with Dean Fox of the University as speaker. She took for her subject-"What Men Live By." After an inspir ing address a reception was held in Normal Hall where Dean Todd made the visitors feel at home with a short address of welcome Saturday morning sessions be gan at 9 o'clock with devotional singing and Bible study led by Miss Dinsdale. Miss Burton then gave a short talk on Y. W. C. A, work. , v The remainder of the morning was taken up with councils led by Dean Fox, Miss Hopkins and Miss Dinsdale. Following these 'Miss Taylor gave a short talk on Eight Weeks Club work. At noon occurred the luncheon in Normal hall at which about one hundred guests were seated. The tables were made beautiful with daffodils and fern. Miss Ar- buthnot acted as toastmistresa Saturday afternoon, immedi ately followed tho luncheon Dean Farnam of Pacific University ad dressed the girls taking for her subject "The Heights of Privi lege". She impressed her listen' ers with the tho't that opportun ities which come to them are privileges and the greater the op portunity the greater the privi' lege. Saturday evening in the chapel n i a & i . i. . rresiaeni ACKerman talKed on the "Mission of Religion". In closing he gave the tests of Christian. In no one are these tests more highly exemplified than in our president . The program of the day ended with the Vesper service in Nor mal hall. This was a beautiful day and the girls are all grate ful to Miss Parrott for the lovely thought expressed on the cards she gave them. Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, the conference met in the Christ ian Endeavor room of the Christ ian church and discussed the purpose of the Y. W. C. A. Seats were reserved for members of the conference and after the meeting they joined the towns people in worship in the audito rium. Thelma Leffel Miss Hilda Olson is back in j school after a long illness. MR. MICKLE EXPLAINS IT Tells Parent Teachers why there is a Food Commission Commissioner John D. Mickle of the State Dairy and Food Commission paid a hearty tribute to State Senator C. L Hawley in his address to the Parent-Teacher Association last Tuesday night The meeting was largely attend ed and was held in the training school auditorium. Mr. Mickle asserted that Mr. Hawley was one of the few men of the senate alive to the general interests of the public as well as the special interests of his own district The lecture was preceeded by a program givenjointly by high school and training school. In the absence of Miss Hoham, Miss Randall led in the singing. A farce followed, by three high school boys. George Walker im personated an itinerant pill peddler who orated on the value of his wares, guaranteed to cure sick people and keep well people in good health. Jay Butler and Ellis Fisher were singled out as victims by the pill man and al though they djd not seem to be specially interested the doctor in sisted on extolling the merits of his pills and relating details of their various triumphs. The drills by the training school children were long but held the interest of all throughout. The 3rd and 4th grade 'girls did very nicely in a singing game. The blacksmith drill was given by 3rd and 4th grade boys. In working caps and aprons they made a fine appearance and with two wooden dumb bells each, one for a hammer and the other for the anvil, they pounded like veterans being equally adept with the right and left hands. A Virginia reel was given by 5th and 6th grade boys and girls, with black ened faces and dressed as ne groes. None of the figures were missed and each time there was an opportunity to swing a part ner it was accomplished with skill and enthusiasm. The minuet by boys and girls of the 5th and 6th grades was done with precision and correct ness and the costumes were very pretty. The Highland Fling by the girls of the 8th grade, ar rayed in plaids and bonnets, was very gracefully done and .was a fine exhibition and the four boys of the 8th grade who gave the flag drill did it exceedingly well. A violin duet by the Misses Gertrude Rogers and Helen Cor nelius was warmly applauded. In his lecture on the "Work of the Dairy Commissioner," Mr. Mickle explained that in order to preserve the department it was necessary to fight for it in the legislature, and then went on to ;ell of the usefulness of the work. He defined adulterations of food product and said this might in clude the taking away of an in gredient as well as the adding of a cheaper substance and might also mean a chemical change which might alter the value of the product , He gave various instances of how food products are adulter ated, stated that the words "guaranteed under the pure food law" did not always mean what it purported to but said that un der the law a label must show the exact nature of the food con tained in the package and a study of the small type would always give one a knowledge of the character of the goods. Mr. Mickle also detailed at length his experiences in the en forcement of sanitation in places which made a business of hand ling food for the public. All of these details were intensely in teresting. He related several in stances where the department had insisted on improved condi tions in a meat market, a bakery, etc., and where the changes had not only resulted in the improved quality of the food put upon the market but had increased the revenue of the business that was improved. He told of the difficulties that often arise in tho. prosecution of the law. On oncoccasion a man had sold meat from a diseased cow was arrested and convicted in the justice court In the ap peaj, a copy of the complaint had contained an error in typewriting so as to charge the man with selling meat from a "deceased" instead of a "diseased" cow and on the technicality the case was lost He told of the struggle in progress to obtain a legal ban on bleached flour and on coco-cola which he sai.d had a "kick" in it, how these matters had been in the courts for years and had not yet been decided by the high est tribunal. Mr. Mickle was listened to with close interest and his ad dress made a very favorable im pression on the people present. It was a Surprise Miss Bessie Sullivan was the guest of the Freshman clas3 of the high school at a party given in her honor in the high school building. It was Miss Bessie's 16th anniversary and the party was given as a surprise. Miss Lucile Bowman acted as decoy and got the guest of the evening to the high school under pretense of teeking a text book. Mr. Hed rick accommodated them by let ting them in and with Miss Bessie in the lead they entered the room where the company was as sembled, the room being in dark ness. When the lights were turned on the surprise was com plete. There were something like thirty of the class present as well as the faculty and they promptly set to work to have a good time. Refreshments, con sisting of cake, sandwiches and oranges were served in one of the class rooms below. Specially decorated napkins were supplied and the blackboard was used for appropriate chalk work suitable to an occasion where the guest is "sweet sixteen." The evening was a very enjoyable one. de clared1 by many the most pleasant they had spent in a long time. Attractions at the Norm Friday and Saturday, Mar. 9 & 10 "Ben Blair" SECOND PRIZE FOR BUTTER Monmouth Fares Well in a Contest with Nine States In competition with the pro duct of fifty-seven creamprips from nine states in the North west, butter from the Monmouth creamery was awarded second prize in a contest in Portland last week. This was at the con vention of the Western Dairy Instructors. Albany won first prize with 195.5 out of a possible 200 points. Monmouth was sec ond with 194 and McMinnville creamery third with 193. All of these were higher than the score of any butter submitted by Wash ington creameries. The exhibit from Albany, which won for its maker a gold medal, was made from specially selected cream and given special attention in the making. The Monmouth butter, which brought to Guy Scheible the silver medal, was made from the run of the churn and was an average product of the creamery. Manager P. 0. Powell, who was present at the convention, is very much elated over the show ing made by his company and believes it will be of large value in pushing the sales of the cream ery product. The co-operative creamery has not been in opera tion as such quite a year yet, but is making a steady growth in business and commercial stand ing. Hungarian Orchestra The Schildkret Hungarian or- chestra is probably more widely known today than any other Hungarian orchestra in this country. This orchestra, now on trans-continental tour, will be heard in concert March 12. at Normal chapel. The program is varied, ranging from classical to popular, so that every taste is satisfied. Wherever this orches tra, under the personal direction of Samuel Schildkret has ao- peared it has won immediate pop ular favor. Especially interest ing features are original rhapso dies on the native Hungarian cymbolum, flute solos and en semble playing of familiar airs. Tickets for this interesting and enjoyable performance may be had at Morlan's book store from Friday until Monday. The tick ets are fifty cents. The Senior class was repre sented this week by Mr. Carl Bowman, whose paper was en titled "How to Entertain the People of a Rural Community." Miss Marion Richmond, the sec ond Senior to appear this week, spoke on "What a Teacher Can Accomplish in the Life of a Com munity." Both these papers gave unique ways m which teachers could be of active benefit to their communities. Tues., Mar. 13-"Iron Claw" Thurg., Mar. -"Diplomacy. Sat, Mar. 17-"For the Defense" by Fanny Ward O