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' at the meeting Tuesday night was , to be in the forefront in any matter
very graceful and very pretty, as mat oeais wun quauuua ui f
,ic thA mini.f the flair drill, rxlicy and hil iron nerve and un-
the blacksmith drill and the singing compromising disposition make him
game and the Virginia reel was a , peculiarly qualified as a leader m an
show in itself. The children are I unpopular cause. It was the fortune
fortunate to be given the services of the writer M spend one day wjth
Laroliette, oneottne critical uays
in his career, the day that practical-
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MONMOUTH. OREGON
FRIDAY, MAR. 9. 1917.
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of a teacher as capable as Miss
Taylor, and their physical instruc
tion is an important part of their
education.
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The signs of spring increase; the
rugs are beginning to decorate the
clothes line and the wall paper
hanger becomes a personage of im
portance. There are numerous newcomers
along Monmouth's Main street' and
it is about time we got together for
a get-acquainted meeting. (A hunch
for the Commercial club.)
As a dairy section, Oregon is nat
urally interested in the cow beat,
and the profits of the sugar industry
interest all in the sugar beat and all
require application and hard . work,
but the kind of beat that flourishes
without cultivation is the dead beat.
The famous lost bridge biH has
been found and has been mailed to
the speaker of the house and presi
dent of the' senate for their signa
tures. This will give the lawyers
an additional chance to try their
hands at it They were anxious to
test its constitutionality anyway
and here is another weighty matter
for the spare time of the supreme
court Is it constitutional for a bill
to get lost? And still the old world
wags on.
Don't be too ready to believe all
you hear. Stories never lose any
thing in the telling and many times
great yarns are built on very small
foundations. One day last week
the report was current in Monmouth
that the summer school session of
the Normal was to be held in Port-
and and it created quite a little stir
until it developed that the students
of the Normal were to spend one
day there during the session of the
educational convention.
C. C. Chapman of the Oregon
Voter appears about the most ardent
good roads advocate in Oregon.
Chapman is working early and late
and i3 putting in some telling
strokes for the bond issue that is to
be voted on shortly.
'About the time that George Walk
cr becomes a star in the vaudeville
circuit as a monologue artist or
slap stick team leader we expect to
note a distinct revival of interest in
that particular form of amusement.
It is all very well to denounce
Senator Lane, to demand his recall,
and to hurl various epithets at him,
but to call him a "coward" is over
doing it a little. It appears to us
that it took real cburage in the face
pf the popular clamor to line up
with"' the dauntless twelve.
The Forcf seems to be a popular
car with the .auto thief, who can
not be accused of not knowing a
good thing wVien he sees it. Seven
times in the jast few weeks Marshal
Moreland has received postal card
notices of stolen autos, all Fords,
and all trout the Portland sheriff.
Recently we came across a book
dealing with "Modern Inventions'
and published in 1900. Scarcely any
of the inventions described are
modern, this being especially true
in the case of the experiments of
Prof. Langley with flying and de
scriptions of the submarine. The
'modern" phonograph, illustrated,
looks about as rriodern as the large
sleeves worn by the ladies of those
years. Which goes to show that in
the invention line the word "mod
em" is only a temporary affair.
The president's latest note is ad
dressed to the people at large and
he says the coming session of the
senate must positively pass cloture
rules that will make impossible the
thwarting of the will of the majority
by a minority. Whi'e they are about
it they might abolish the senate and
house entirely. It has become the
custom fbr the executive branch of
the government to draft bills and
insist that they be passed without
the change of a single word. With
the minority gagged in the senate,
with the majority dominated by
patronage and party expediency, we
might as well have a kaiser and be
done with it.
If Monmouth's butter maker can
win Second prize in an exhibit with
the, dairyman of ten states, without
siecial exertion, what could he do
if he really got down to business,
Again, if the general run of butter
from the Monmouth creamery is
good enough to win prizes for ex
cellence it ought to be sure of a
welcome in any market.
It is reported that Dallas is so
"miffed" at Marion county on the
bridge proposition that it would
iigree to a separate county bridge
nt Independence and allow Marion
to build whatever it likes at Salem.
Which isn't a half bad idea either.
There is a good crossing at Inde
pendence and , such a bridge has
many features to recommend it.
Courage, character, intelligence
and common sense are requisites to
the successful execution of the
duties of the office of state dairy
and food commissioner and Mr.
Mickle seems to possess them all.
It takes courage to combat the ex
igencies of business when they are
furthered at the expense of the
careless public. The man, or group
of men, who are prosecuted will re
member but the average public is
indifferent and forgetful. Important
auxiliaries are the men and women
who are public spirited, who realize
the necessity for sanitation and reg
ulation and who act together to
make regulation possible. We are
not content with conditions such as
our fathers contended with. New
occasions teach new duties. Much
of the unsatisfactory conditions with
which officers of public sanitation
have to deal is due to rapid expan
sion in the development of the
United States. As new sections have
been settled we have been glad to
get any kind of service whatever,
ly decided that he was to be ad-;
vanced from the governorship to
the U. S. senate. Beginning at 6 ;
o'clock in the morning and contin
uing until 11 o'clock at night, it was
a day brimming with action. Sub
sisting on crusts of toast and milk,
his private secretary, John Hannon,
handled him very much as a trainer
would handle a prize fighter. His
name at that time in that section
would attract a crowd at any cross
roads hamlet and such was his abil
ity as a stump speaker that he
urned literally hundreds and
thousands who were opposed to him
into his friends. LaFollette's
strength laid in the fact that the
big newspapers hated him so thor
oughly that they never gave him a
fair show. The man's arrogance,
his very narrowness on questions
that affected his career would have
been a handicap hard to overcome
had the newspapers not played into
his hands. They were so manifestly
unfair to him that all LaFollette
had to do was to take his story to
the people in person and the reac
tion always won for him.
A letter from German Minister of
foreign An airs Zimmerman nas
been the sensation of the past week.
The letter written to his nations
representative in Mexico stated that
Germany was about to enlarge her
submarine operations, which might
cause war with the United States,
and in event of this the minister
was asked to urge Mexico to attack
the United States and to ask the as
sistance of Japan, Mexico to receive
the states of Texas. New Mexico
and Arizona as a reward. For cool
effrontery the letter was a master
piece, the more so as President Wil
son was. at the very time it was
written, engaged In securing a hear
ing for the German peace terms
with her enemies. It shows the
present German government up in
ery repugnant light and has en
couraged the element clamoring for
war so that it has seemed impossi
ble to avert hostilities.
The climax 'was reached when
twelve senators, numbering among
them some of the ablest men in the
upper house, successfully killed by
filibuster the president's armed
neutrality act. In all probability
they could not have done this had
the president not insisted that the
bill must pass exactly as he had pre'
oared it. Two objectionable fea
tures that had weight with the op
ponents of the bill were that it did
not provide that ships carrying mu
nitions to a nation at war with an
other, should not be given armed
protection by us when we were at
peace with both nations. Also, that
the government should not engage
to financially insure cargoes owned
by people who are getting large
profits from the business. It the
president would have agreed to these
exceptions it is quite likely the bill
would have passed. As it was the
incident created a greater stir of in
terest than anything that has hap
pened in many years.
The Roof Over Your Head
Expanding needs have monopolized
The rural mail carriers, if they our attention in directing new
niinht, in convention assembled, be erowth and the requirements of
consulted, doubtless might express health and the niceties of culture
a few opinions on the subject of have come trailing along in the
j;ood roads. ' One would suppose rear. Now their turn, too, has come
that as the summer draws near they in the course of events and these
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.
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Phone trouble and repair wo k, Main 6211. We will come
would welcome it, but there are
some at least who assert that they
prefer the wet and mud of winter to
the heat and dust of summer.
The dancing of the Highland
questions of sanitation and pure
fj)od are bound to receive more at
tention from the general public ,
Senator LaFollette is very much
in the limelight just now for the
Fling by the girls of the 8th grade, ! reason that is LaFollette's nature
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned Henry S. Portwood and Mary
Mable Staats have been duly appointed
by the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Polk County administrator
and administratrix, respectively, of the
astate of Joseph Ansel Haines, deceas
ed, and have qualified.
All persons having claims against the
said estate are hereby required to pre
sent them, duly verified, with the prop- j
er vouchers, within she month of the j
date of this notice, to the said adminis-1
trator and administratrix at Monmouth j
in said County of Polk.
Dated and first published February
9, 1917.
Henry S, Portwood 1
. Mary Mabel Staats
Administrator and Administratrix of the
estate of Joseph Ansel Haines, deceased
Osar Hayter, Attorney. 23-5t
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