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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1917)
The Herald RICHARD B. SWENSON Editor &. Publisher Entered as second-claa matter September 1 1S, the post ofnee at Monmouth. Oregon, under the Act of Mirth I lt. you how common such were a few years ajjo. things EflS nnquestionaUly greatly shorten ed tne ien?tn oi its endurance, the limit of threescore years and ten Cnf V it) a reo I mi . Jnn.in.i., n. I A small attendance at summer ffianV(?arg 'tlmt are 0UJ due school does not sound as prosper- Students of loneeyitT have estab- ISSIKD EVKKV r'KlDAV Subscription Rates One year $1.50 Six months - 75 ct Three months - 50 eta MONMOUTH. OREGON FRIDAY, JUNE 29. 1917. 1 loczznl Monmouth Meditations I' 'PC ) ous as a large attendance but it has its advantages for both stud ents and faculty. The latter are not required to spread their ex ertions over quite so large a mass and the former get more in pro portion. While the school with its present number seems small when compared with last year's banner attendance, it is large ".hen compared with the attend ance of few years ago, deemed big at the time. Some of Hindenberg's men are probably wishing that potatoes were as plentiful as iron crosses. Uncle Sam is buying shoes by the million and the task guar antees him the understanding sympathy of the father of two or three robust boys. Germany announces there are no traces of new devices for ov ercoming U-boats. It is just pos sible that the netv devices leave no traces. Notwithstanding various prophecies, optimistic and pes simistic, the war will end about the time the submarine is put out of business, and this, if it comes at all, will be within the next six months. The gentle breeze that ambled in of! the ocean last Saturday re minded many of our traveled fel low citizens of Eastern Oregon which is not exactly a testimon ial for that section. The Oregonian sees the call for iron smelters in Oregon but says that coal and the ore must be im ported. If we remember aright Curry and southern Coos coun ties lay claim to all the requisites for smelting iron, not only the raw ore, but the necessary coal and limestone. Speak up, Curry, Oregon is looking in your direction. We never miss the water until the pump gets out of order. The experience of Sunday forenoon has started an agitation for more water-in the reservoir. A new well must be dug in the near fu ture if Monmouth continues to grow and the demand on its wa ter system keeps on increasing. At present the demand just about keeps pace with the supply and when a shut down is necessary a shortage appears. There appar ently is more water in the well than one pump can take out but it too has limitations and a sec ond well is necessary if the city plant is to provide water to all who seek the service. Many a sigh of reret will oc cur at the taking out of the large trees directly west of the Nor mal and to many it will seem like parting with old friends; but they go to give place to the en larged chapel which would be compensation for the slaughter of a whole forest. Once in a while you come across a young man and his best girl in a buggy that has been painstakingly washed. And the horse, when it passes an auto, walks on its hind feet and tries to sit down on the cross bar in its agony. This just to remind Scene- the picnic grounds at Rickreall. The sky is overcast and occasional fine drops of rain come down. The seats in front of the speakers stand hold the usu al harvest of relatives and mourn ers. More energetic persons stand up in front where they rest them selves by standing first on one foot and then on the other while they obstruct the view of the be fore mentioned relatives and mourners. A graceful moss clad maple that grows close to the stand in ""the center aisle and whose trunk has an angle of for ty five degrees i3 seized upon by three lusty youths who clamber up where they can be both seen and heard. Just as a couple of dogs start a vociferous skirmish on the edge of the crowd, Supt. Crow ley comes forward, gazes intent ly in the direction of several points of the compass, smiles and says something about a can ning demonstration. At this a lady sitting three seat3 ahead of you is laborously assisted to her feet by her hushand and stands on the seat where you can get a fine view of the black silk she is wearing. However, by moving you manage to see a pleasant faced lady step to the front of the platform, smile and start a competition with a talkative in dividual in the refreshment stand at the left who is expatiating on the merits of certain wieners which he wishes to dispose of. The lady says, "A nation wide movement is in progress" but is interrupted by the opposition with "Wieners, wieners, they're hot, they're juicy, they're five cents". The lady got a brief res pite and said "some means to cope with this waste". Then the lady in the black silk determined to retire, and the exit and ensu ing conversation drowned' every thing else for a full minute. But, returning to the platform; the la dy speaker, still smiling said "No doubt you all want to know how" but was here interrupted by a strident voice from one of the concessions "Here you are, gents. A bow legged, blue eyed, red haired baby for ten cents. On-ly ten cents". The canning demonstration la dy did not give up but continued to smile and continued to talk but it had begun to rain again. Sev- Mrs. C. R. Butler eral umbrellas were put up aheadt Mrs. M. S. Fittman and the remarks from the plat form were drowned by remarks addressed at the umbrellas by people whose lane of vision had been eclipsed. Also at this time a re-union was taking place two seats ahead and the exclamations over various things of mutual in terest to the group drowned out all else from the hearing. HEALTH AND LONG LIFE. On B Way to Attain Tham It to Ifedarata In All Things. Sickness and death have always existed in the world and always will so long as man's physical constitu tion remains what it is. Tiny body is evidently intended to last only a certain time, although man Jiimself health and Companion. longevity. Youth's Th Tarantula. The stinjj of the tarantula (a name derived from Taranto, a town in Italy), the most venomous of spi ders, was popularly supposed to pro duce a disease called tarantism, which could bo cured only by music or dancing, and the dance which cured it was called turantcllnv You can see the peasants dance the ta rantella now, but without waiting for spicier bites. A Bird Mystery. After years of study devoted to the topic Professor Alfred Newton of Cambridge stated that without doubt bird migration is the greatest mystery in the entire animal king dom, "a mystery." be added, "that can be no more explained by the modern man of science than by the simple minded savage of antiquity." Roll of the Red Cross Jessica Todd Corenne Pennington Catherine Schuneson Helen Schuneson Jean Strachen Marion Richmond Olianna Olson Anna Kleinwachter Mrs. Paul Riley Miss Alma Riley Mrs.CA.Nott J. Carl Bowman Mrs. J. S. Miller Mrs. C. Lorence Ruby Ann Lorence Mrs. E. S. Evenden Cassie Stump Mary Campbell Mary A. Criteser Armilda Doughty Paradine Doughty Anna Thompson Mrs. A. J. Haley T. H. Gentle Dorothy Cox Bertha Kleinwachter Grace Ziegler Mrs. N. S. Stewart Mrs Harriet Richards Mrs. Fannie Stewart Peter Ingermansen Mrs. P. H. Johnson Mrs. Fannie Guthrie Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Swenson Mrs. L. W. Waller Mrs. E. J. Perkins Mrs. F. S. Powell Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Sickafoose Mabel Lorence H. K. Sickafoose lished the rite that the animal body, including man's, should en-; dure, barring accident, five times' as long as it takes to reach full ma- J jority, as marked by the complete, ossification of the bones. In man ' that period is about twenty years, jUJ anu a man snouid therefore live to round out a century. That he usu ally lives only half or three-quarters as long is his fault and the fault of big ancestors. A French writer once asserted that a man is as old as his arteries, meaning that the degenerative changes of old age were dependent upon or measurable by the degree of hardening of the arteries. That is undoubtedly true to a certain ex tent, but epigrams do not solve problems of even explain facts. It affords slight comfort to know that we are as old as our arteries if we do not know how to prevent them from aging prematurely. Fortunately we do know many of the causes of the presenile degen eration that cuts us otT before our time. Heredity counts for much. Some families are long lived. In others most or all of the members die young. That sounds hopeless, yet we can do much by hygienic liv ing to lengthen our days even, if we come of a short lived family. More than that, we can transmit to our descendants a still higher de gree of stamina. The other causes of parly aging may be summed up in the one word excess overwork, mental or physical, worry, overeat ing and even oversleeping. Modera tion (not insufficiency) in all things eating, drinking, working, play- iiil', Hiecpinz is tne secret of HOC 5D Building Materials From Roof To Cellar Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. - - Monmouth, Oregon DC on Read your own Herald $1.50 per year Monmouth Transfer and Feed Stable All kinds of transferring done promptly and on short notice FRANK SKEEN, Proprietor. Monmouth, Oregon MONMOUTH DAIRY J. M. 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