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The Herald RICHARD B. SWKNSON Editor & Publisher Enteral u aarond-clui nutter September 8. lam, th pwt uAic at Monmouth. Orxon. under th Art of March X 1K7. ISSIKt) KVKKV FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year . . $1.50 Six months . 75 rt Three month . 60 cts MONMOUTH. OREGON FRIDAY, JUNE 8. 1917. Monmouth Meditations The baggage carrier and the ticket seller are preparing to speed up next week. The rose that failed to bloom for Decoration day will be with us in full glory for commencement. It takes only a cursory glance at the returns of Monday's elec tion to see that the voters of Oregon swatted everything that looked like more taxes. Independence appears to have voted on the theory that it is sat isfied with its present and past achievements in road building, and does not care for anything better. Such samples of weather as June has already displayed war rant the hope that the complete stock will be up to the usual reg ulations and requirements. If the grange of Oregon ex pects to continue to occupy the high place in favor and influence it lias in the past it will have to send one C. S. Spence back to that neglected farm of his. Looking at the returns from Marion county Tuesday we more than half suspect that some of the mean things that were said about the county by Polk county citizens last winter, were true. Tax proposals in Congress change so frequently that we no more than get comfortably set tled into acceptance of one kind of a tax before the thing changes and it is proposed to tap the dear public in a fresh place. While the talk of the people not affected by the registra tion has waged warmly for and against, it was to be noticed that when the time came for action the real persons affected per formed their duty quietly. Independence, in voting against road bonds, appears to have overlooked the fact that when it gets that sugar factory, it will want good roads on which to haul the beets in from the fields, especially if they are to come from any distance. ing everything that looks like progress and doing injury to itself rather than do anything that looks as if it might benefit a neighbor. By their deeds you shall know them. Our idea of a zero in citi zenship is the man who advocates war. when he cannot possibly go to war; conscription, when he he has nobody to conscript; and when given a chance to support the Red Cross or the Y. M. C. A. war activities refuses to assist on one pretext or another. A'n investment in Liberty bfmds means confidence in the future of our country, approval of our nation's attitude in stand ing up for our self respect, a payment for an insurance policy that will tend toward future peace and prosperity and a loan j to the government that will re-' turn interest on the obligation. The sky over Marion county must have been a yellowish green Monday. For bilious, jaundiced, J dyspeptic coloring commend us to the returns from that baili-! wick. They soaked it to every thing upon .the ballot except the project to hold all elections on one day and had it been possible to include fraternal society and cemetery board elections, doubt less would have done so. The proposition to build a new peni tentiary at Salem they downed three to one. Ch?er up neighbor, it isn't half so bad as you think it is. on m on Building Materials A History of Monmouth High School By George Walker Up to the year 1909 there was no high school In Monmouth and the advanced grades were gi"eii as a Training Department at the Oregon Normal School. At this i White, Loette Shore arid Stella Ilaan. E. L. Keezel was principal in 1913-14. He came to Monmouth from the University of Oregon time the Norma! was closed by i Miss Florence Reese, of the the Hoard of Regents and the same place, and Miss Doughty, composed the remainder of the faculty. This year was noted for many new systems and ad vancements. The following were graduated: Robert Thomp- state authorities for the lack of sufficient funds. In the following year, 1909-10, Prof. A. P. Clark was elected as principal and school was con ducted in the old Normal build-j son, Gladys Thompson, Jen ing. This higher means of edu-1 nings Lorence, Dorothy Port cation was turned over to a pub- - wood and Lucian P. Arant. lie school and at the first com- In 1914-15 the same faculty mencement exercises, one grad- was kept. The graduates were: uate, Miss Lydia Powell, receiv- John Webber.Maud Moore, Reta ed a sheepskin diploma, which Marks, Gladys Ileffley, Grace cost. $5.00. This was the most expensive diploma ever present ed to a graduate. Prof. J. Pi. V. Butler was prin cipal the next year, 1910-11. He conducted the same quarters. Williams, Marie Morlan White, Oak Wood, Perry N. Powell, Clares Powell, Stanley Evans, and Ida Strong. Last year, Miss Vida L. Fat- school in the ' land was chosen to succeed Miss The graduates' Reese, and Miss Ilawley was that year were: Glen Work, j added to the force, over the Hazel Work Tolman, Agnes Commercial Department. Miss Clark Hoyser, Bessie Graham, Lester Lindsay, Olea Shore Thompson and Ella Port wood.! from O. A. C. A very During the term of school this j class received diplomas: Fatland came from Reed Col lege, Portland, and Miss Ilawley large J. B year, the present high school Knapp, Douglas B. Parkes, Edna building was 'constructed at a Parks McAllister, Harold Haley, moderate cost of $25,500, with Alton McClellan, Belle McAllis an up to date heating and ventil-i ter, Charles Strong, Grace Park- A lot of this disapproval as voiced in the Oregon election Tuesday is disapproval of the ref erendum habit itself. If our leg islators can not legislate without referring so many things back to the people we should get a new set of legislators. Independence people are be ginning to see visions of a pros-J perous future and the city has! the possibilities to make the claim ' good. But it will never reach its goal if it insists on buck- ating system. The brick for structure was shipped from Wil lamina and "Dad" Skkafoose was installed as janitor. Miss Nellie McNeil took a turn at the principalship the next year. Miss Meldora Jackson, of Corvallis, was the assistant. er, Marion McDonald, Theodore McKenzie, W. J. Mulkey, Jr.(i Robert Ilcndrcn, Ruth Wilson. Barbara Steinberg, Laurel Can ning, Raymond Steinback, Irene Ilagenbush, Erica Moore and Daphne Ostrom. 1916-17, E. H. Iledrick, of the This year the number of pupils ;U. of O., was elected principal, grew so rapidly that it was nec essary to add another teacher to the force, and in November Miss Armilda Doughty, a grad uate of Monmouth and San Jose Normals, and a Junior at Stan ford, was added. At this time school was conducted in the garret and classes were heard on the lawn, behind the ventila tor, and upon the roof. At the termination of this year, the fol lowing persons were turned out into the educational world: Leta Wolverton, Florence Hefflely, Ruby Fream Baker, Braxton Powell and Minnie Wonder. In the Fall of 1911-12 Profes sor John Livingston, of Forest Grove, was chosen principal and with the aid of Miss Maigaret McCoskey.of McMinnville, and a graduate of McMinnville Bap tist College, and Miss Doughty, the following people were pilot ed through high school: Velma lletlley, Mabel Johnson. Esther and Ethel Harris. Neta Waller, Marie Smith, Howard Morlan, Bell Rogers Beckley, Dwight and Russell Quisenberry, Ivan Wood. Ranie and Arthur Burk head, Ruby Lorence, Byron and R. W. Tavenner, of Berke ley and U. of O., was the new teacher. This year there were 103 on the rolls. Eight men re ceived letters for athletics. The names of the graduates are: J. B. V. Butler, Jr., Ger trude C. Coote, Violet Denney, Gladys Jane Evans, Alice Mary Hamm, Thelina C. Marks, Earl D. McNeill, Harold F. Olson, Donald II. Portwood, Lu N. Ruggles, Guy E. Sacre, Helen L. Scott, Thelma Gaynelle Shore, Silas E. Starr, Birchard Ambrose Van Loan, Clarence D. Walker. 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