The Monmouth herald., July 13, 1917, Image 1

Rfionmouth
Vol. IX
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, July 13, 1917
No. 45
Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Union.
The
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FACULTY ON
THE PROGRAM
Appear this Week at N.E.A.
Band Concert Friday Night
The N. E. A. held at Portland
this week has been an inspira
tion to thousands of teachers and
thousands of schools in the Uni
ted States will be better taught
because of this great conference.
The key-words of the meeting:
Preparedness, Nationalism and
Patriotism, were evidenced in
every program and in every ad
dress. The responsibility of the
school to keep alive the ideals of
democracy was forcibly empha
sized, and rightfully so, for what
we want in our nation tomorrow
we must have in our schools to
day. President Ackerman's address
"The Normal as an Agency for
Teaching Patriotism" was timely
for as he emphasized, teachers
cannot lead the way unless they
have already trod the path.
Teachers must be imbued with
patriotism before they can instill
it into the youfh of the land.
President Ackerman gave many
helpful suggestions to the vast
audience assembled to hear him,
which were well received.
M. S. Pittman spoke Wednes
day in the Department of Child
Hygiene on "Sanitation of the
Rural School House in Oregon".
This is a subject with which Mr.
Pittman is very familiar and his
talk gave many practical hints to
those interested in better rural
schools.
The Campus Story-Telling
Hour, inaugurated last Friday
evening, was both informational
and enjoyable. Miss Parrott told
Maeterlinck's "Blue Bird"
which it is hoped will be retold in
many school rooms during the
comingyear. Van Dyke's "Other
Wise Man" (illustrated) will be
the next story.
E. R. Peterson, a member of
the class of '13, supervisor of
Jackson county, was a Normal
visitor last week. Mr. Peterson
goes to the Chico Normal at
Chico, California, this fall to take
charge of their model rural
school. Chico Normal is to be
congratulated upon securing Mr.
Peterson.
G. W. Hugg, superintendent of
MeMinnville schools, wa3 a visit
or at the Normal last week.
The second concert of the
Independence-Monmouth Band
will be held on the Normal
Campus at eight o'clock on Fri
day evening.
The first Annual of the Oregon
Normal is in the hand3 of the
students. It reflects great credit
upon both the editors and the
business management.
Mr. Farrell, assistant to Mr.
Benson of the U. S. department
of agricultural education, accom
panied by H. C. Seymour will
put on a canning demonstration
in the Normal chapel Monday at
3 p. m. Interested citizens are
invited to attend.
The commercial club and rep
resentatives of the telephone
company held a conference in the
Norm theater yesterday, seeking
to improve the service. Switch
ing service at home and with In
dependence and Dallas was gone
into.
District agent Cooter is the at
traction at the Grange meeting
Saturday.
Independence Men
to Build Walks
Mayor Ostieh is spending the
week in attendance at the N. E.
A. in Portland and as a conse
quence the recorder had to pre
side over the regular meeting of
the city council last Tuesday
night. The meeting had as its
first matter of business the con
sideration of side walk construc
tion bids held over from the pre
vious week. Two bids were sub
mitted: one from Bramberg.
Johnson and Coquillette of Inde
pendence and the second from
A. L. Tallmon. Lacking two of
the property projects the bid of
the Independence " firm was
$1159.89 and that of Mr. Tallmon
was $1247.01 a difference of
$84.12. On every project bid
Bramberg, Johnson and Coquil
lette were lowest in their bids,
the difference ranging in sums
from 51 cents to $18.52. The
council therefore decided to ask
the district attorney to draw up
a suitable contract with the Inde
pendence people.
The matter of sewer drainage
on West Main street was also
taken up and the city attorney
will be consulted with as to the
next action in the matter.
The Jinx
in
The Green Cap
Monmouth went down in de
feat before the hosts of Perry
dale in nine installments of ago
ny tripped before a large and
cultured audience at Dallas Sun
day afternoon. Trouble for the
locals started before the game
did. During the practice prelim
inaries, Geo. Walker who was
seated in an auto in the neigh
borhood of left field talking with
a colored girl from Buena Vista,
managed to catch afoul hit which
came in his direction. He used a
green cap to catch the ball, a cap
of the kind they wear at the state
university and as a jinx the feat
proved unsurmountable. Von
Hindenberg Behm officiated as
twirler for Perrydale and his
slants were given the glad hand
by Von Mackenson Rosenthall,
and they were considerably more
successful than their patronym
ics would indicate. Riddell and
C. Walker handled the points
well for Monmouth but do what
they could the fates opposed. C.
Powell, C. and G. Walker each
scored a run while Perrydale
ambled off with nine. Playing
might have been speeded up a
trifle had the scenario been able
to. announce the harvest of the
large and luxuriant crop of hay
that grew upon the ball ground.
COMMISSION
IN COUNTY
Highway Board Looks Over
Strip Marked For Work
The three members of the State
Highways Commission who pass
ed through Polk county Wednes
day, paid a brief visit to Mon
mouth. The commission is Mr.
Benson of Portland, Mr. Thomp
son of Fendleton and Mr. Adams
of Eugene. They were accompa
nied by Mrs. Winnie Bradenof the
Polk county Better Roads Asso
ciation and Mr. Benson Jr. and
were here in response to the ap
plication of the Polk County
Court to have the road from Dal
las to Independence through
Monmouth, paved this year.
They were passing hurriedly ov
er the road and made only a brief
atop in Monmouth. While, here
the desire of our citizens to have
the stretch of road from the
Dormitory to the north city lim
its included in the state work
was made known to them and
they took the proposal under ad
visement. The county court of Polk
county has been active in push
ing this improvement and has
considerable of the grading done
between Dallas and Monmouth.
The cut off near Cochran has al
so been arranged for. If the
state board acts favorably on the
proposal it is likely that actual
work will be started on this much
desired project in the very near
future.
There is some controversy over
the location of the
route from
i Independence to Corvallis and
from Dallas to McMinnville and
the commission had as a part of
its duty in the county the settle
ment of these matters.
A number of changes have
been made in the time tables of
the local railroads and the same
will appear in the Herald's sched
ule next week.
Entertainment by
Honor Guard
The Girls' National Honor
Guard of Monmouth will give an
entertainment in the Normal
chapel on the evening of July 24.
The entertainment is for the
purpose or securing money to
help in the purchase of a Red
Cross Ambulance for our govern
ment, something which is need
ed badly. The Honor Guard
throughout the country are help
ing in this worthy cause and we
wish to do our share. The enter
tainment of the evening will be
furnished by Mr. David Camp
bell, Miss Lorence and Miss
Arbuthnot. Mr. Campbell, son of
the former president of the Nor
mal, is a well known musician.
Miss Lorence is a splendid sing
er and we all enjoy Miss Arbuth
not's clever readings.
The Honor Guard girls will
canvass the town with tickets so
that every one will have an op
portunity to buy.
Mildred L Hawes,
Reporter of the Honor Guard.
Miss Arbuthnot is spending her
spare time looking for living
quarters in Independence to
which place she must move now
that she has accepted the princi
palship of the grades in the
school system of that city. Miss
Arbuthnot will be missed in Mon
mouth. She is one of the some
what rare type of school teachers
who identify themselves with
the social life of the community
wherein they work. She will have
to resign at least three honorary
positions when she leaves our
midst. She is secretary of the
Parent-Teacher association, vice
president of the local Red Cross
auxiliary and a member of the
executive board of the Y. W. C.
A.
G. T. Boothby's two city lots
present an actual demonstra
tion of the capacity of the soil of
this section to grow stuff. He has
corn three feet high, many kinds
of garden stuff in an advanced
state of growth, loganberries in
profusion, just turning color, a
fine crop of the famous Water
house cherries, in fact there is
not a foot of available soil on his
place that is not engaged in pat
riotic work.
Darrel Stump has spent his
spare time during the past two
weeks, trying out a new Rio auto
purchased by him through L. I.
Bursell.
Seeking Still for
More Water
Monmouth's entire set of city
officials traveled on a water hunt
ing trip to the Mistletoe district
Sunday morning, going by auto
with Mayor Ostien and Council
man Stump furnishing the trans
portation. The object of interest
was a large spring on the Alsip
farm, said to be one of the orig
inal springs of this section and
one of the first known sources of
water supply for a considerable
section of the country. It is sup
posed to be above the top of Cu
pid's knoll where the city reser
voir is located and, this being
the case a pipe leading from the
spring would naturally empty in
to the reservoir by force of grav
ity.
It developed, however, that
while the spring runs a consider
able stream, it does not show
any where near enough to war
rant the expense of laying the
pipe to the reservoir. It is pos
sible that if it was cleaned out
and some little work done, a larg'
er flow might be developed, but
three or four times the present
volume of water would be neces
sary to warrant the acceptance
of the spring as a water supply,
The spring is well loaded, com
ing out at the foot of a hill where
there would be no trpuble in shel
tering and protecting it from sur
face water and it is possible that
some preliminary work will be
done to ascertain if a proper vol
ume of water can be developed
from it At present, however,
the idea of another well is at
tracting favor and available
sites will be investigated as a
preliminary in the effort to in
crease the city water supply.
OPERETTA BY
GLEE CLUB
Summer School Musical
Feature Given July 20
On Friday night of July 20th
the Oregon Normal Summer
School Glee Club will present a
two act operetta, "Sylvia" by
Rhys-Herbert. This operetta of
unusual interest has been given
with splendid success by several
State Normal Schools. The set
ting of this unique production is
laid in a hay field. Betty an hon
est farmers' daughter, wishes to
become a lady of fashion. The
charming Sylvia overhears Bet
ty's sighs and agrees to change
garments and places with her
for the day. The Poet, who is
very much in love with Sylvia,
meets Betty, and thinking her
Sylvia, sings his songs and son
nets to her. Betty is entranced
and decides to forget her buriy,
honest William forever. William
finds Sylvia, as Betty, raking hay
and after commanding her tofol-
,ow him to the potato patch to
dig potatoes, and being refused
and having his ears boxed, de
cides that Betty is "moonstruck"
that "she looked too long at the
moon last night". After a stren
uous day the girls meet and each
is glad to resume her identity.
Prince Tobbytum with Arabella
and Araminta appear and try to
expose the doings of Sylvia and
Betty. Each lad protects his lady
and Tobbytum is foiled in his re
venge. The chorus of one hund
red fifteen voices adds to make
this operetta a splendid success.
The songs are catchy, light and
full of vigor.
The Glee Club promises to give
to the public and student body
one of the finest productions
they ever heard. The operetta
will be supported by orchestral
accompaniment.
Cast of Characters:
Sir Bertram De Lacy (tenor) -Ernest
A. Morgan Court Poet
Prince Tobbytum (baritone)
Oscar Williamson A Man of
Consequence
William (base) Carl J. Bow
manAn Honest Farmer
Robin - Harry Steinmetz -A
Country Lad
Sylvia (soprano) -Grace Board
man Betrothed to De Lacy
Betty (alto) -Jessie Chestnut
Betrothed to William
Arabella (mezzo-soprano)
Mrs. Mayme Hagar Lady in
Waiting at Court
Araminta (mezzo-soprano) -Dove
McGee- Her Sister
Farmers' Daughters. Friends
of Betty -
Polly-Ruth Schmuckli
Molly-Clem McKinney
Dolly-Elizabeth Griffin
Seatsale begins Tuesday the
17th, at Morlans. Price 25 cents.
The Odd Fellows of Monmouth
tendered a farewell to Rev. W.
A. Elkins at their meeting last
Monday night. Mr. Elkins gave
a very interesting talk detailing
many of his Philippine experienc
es and there were a number of
responses with expressions of
good will by members. Refresh
ments concluded the program.
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