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The Herald RICHARD B. SWENSON Editor & Publisher Bntrd u Hoand-elaH miiMr 8pWinW 1 1908. lh pot offic it MonmouUi. Oregon, under tht ct of kUrch 1 187. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAV . Subscription Rates 'One year J1.50 Six monthi 75 eta Three months - 50 cU MONMOUTH, OREGON FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 191 out ft V3F ; Monmouth Meditations IC30ED All roads lead week. to Dallas this This is season. the auctioneer's busy The gardens are growing as if to make up for lost time. ' After war has worked a certain amount'of havoc it is difficult to ipicture such a thing as the status 'Quo-ante. the hop picking season was 'short this year but some of the 'participants are said to have made good wages in the work. Although considerably altered and a little disjointed, the Nor mal will resume business on the old stand next Monday. Stand from under. The price of sauer kraut is dropping. Cab bages sold a year ago at thirty five dollars a ton and are quoted this year at seven dollars a ton. It is a happy thought that some of the men who are so expert at throwing bricks in the pathway of progress would succeed nicely at bomb throwing in the French trenches. It didn't take quite a year to perform the actual work of pav ing Main street. The first dirt was moved during the first week of October last year and the fin ishing touches were applied this week. America has evinced a willing ness to furnish the supplies if Russia will furnish the backbone; but the evidence of ability on this score is not promising enough to warrant the dumping into that chaos of either men or dollars. Our idea of zero in appropriate cognomens is that of a farmer who resides between Monmouth and Portland. This particular grangers name as it appears on his mail box is A. Tack. His tal ent is wasted in agriculture. He should be employed in an uphol stery hop. An exchange insinuates that a great many women are knitting woolen socks for the soldiers who never knit any for their own husbands. the wall of the building on the lower floor, using it in part as a partition. But the foundation was found to be insecure and the whole of the wall had to be torn out But because, the plans al lowed for the old wall, and be cause the change to supports un derneath would have disarranged the plans and led to extra ex pense, the space occupied by the wall is to be lost and where the wall stood is to be a vacant space between the partitions of the lower rooms. With a hundred million bushels surplus of potatoes this year it does not look as though there will be a great deal of starvation in the U. S. this winter. Milk is to be 15 cents a quart in Milwaukee by October 1st, but as long as Pabst best product is in supply to meet the demand, many of the best families of the city will never know it Sometimes they make an un known contributor to the Kea Cross fund out of the govern ment. Roseburg is to supply din ner to 7,000 in the transfer of troups and the government is to pay 60 cents for each dinner. Of the proceeds, 10 cents each is to be donated to the Red Cross und. The Normal faculty should be in fine trim for work next week for a large percentage of them have been on the medical dry docks for repairs during the past year. By their deeds you shall know them, and the man who has an automobile and gives an occasion al joy ride to his neighbor who has no car, is entitled to consid eration as a public spirited citi zen. Next to the welcome given the returning soldier is the welcome that greets the young man who returns from the wheat fields where he has made $3 to $3.50 a day and board this particular past summer. People who have puzzled this summer as the work took shape. as to ,how the interior of the Normal addition iskto appear, are now having their suspicions con' firmed or condemned as the case may be. The government is pretty thor oughly organized but it still lacks an official fool killer as is evi denced by some of the agricult ural moves which it undertakes As a psychological move the offer of the German government to its soldiers of a large reward to the soldier who first brought in an American, dead or alive, fell flat. The Loyal Legion met the offer with another, a gradua- ;ed offer; so much for the kaiser, so much for one of his generals, and smaller sums for officers, down to a substantial offer for the taking of the first German soldier. Talking about hot weather, we quote the following from a letter rom a friend in Riverside, Calif "We have been good and warm this summer. , Expect you have heard of our three days of heat in June. Temperature from 118 to 123. Lost ninety per cent of the naval oranges and burned the walnut trees. We had the best crop hanging that ever was known. Much the hottest seas on we nave seen since coming here. 100 degrees in the shade nearly every day now." There are a few things to be said in favor of the idea of a highway made to meet the needs of the country through which it passes as contrasted to the high way that is designed to be a di rect route between certain im portant centers. The latter has been the theory on which rail roads have been built by private capital. If railroads had been built for the purpose of develop ing the country, eastern Oregon would have been supplied when the rest of the state was. As to highways, if anyone is in a hurry to get to Portland he can take the east side highway by cros sing the river at Salem, and as for the west side, if its highwuy is built to meet the needs of its people it will not be located far wrong. It is impossible for an archi tect to foresee everything. When the Normal addition plans were and some of the advice ladled 'made it was designed to leave TEere'tave been no fires other than those started by lightning In the Cas cade national forest this summer, is the assertion of Clyde B. Seltx, super Tisor of the forest Lena Hayes, 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hayes, of Walter- vllle, was drowned when she fell Into the Eugene municipal sower plant canal, nar that place. Nearly $40,000 is the amount appor tioned to the state of Oregon by the federal government to be used in the construction of trails and forest roads during the coming year. A field geologist of the United States geological survey will be sent to Oregon to look over the prospects for oil and natural gas, at the solici tation of Representative McArthur. The biggest automobile show ever held in conjunction with the Oregon state fair is to he staged on the state fair grounds north of Salem from Sep tember 24 to 29, Inclusive, this year. . The Ashland city council has pur chased S20 acres of timber land in the Ashland creek canyon as a matter ot protection to the watershed of Ash land creek, which Is the city' water supply. Baker county has petitioned the state highway commission for the sur vey of two roads from Baker, one to Cornucopia and one to Unity. The county will appropriate $10,000 to ward the construction of the Cornu copia road and $4,000 toward the con struction of the Unity road. The 80 correspondence courses of the University of Oregon in high school and college subjects have been opened to soldiers who are citizens of Oregon stationed in any part of the world as the result of a ruling by Attorney General Brown that the extension courses may be offered to citizens be yond the borders ot the state. According to a report of the secre tary of the Interior, furnished to Rep resentative Slnuott, the total amount to be j)ald to land-grant counties ot Oregon by way of back taxes, penal ties, costs and accrued Interest is $1, 584,906, ot which amount $1,346,192 represents accrued taxes to June 9, 1916. Believing that a federal grain in spector should be stationed at Pen dleton, farmers ot the district have petitioned the Oregon public service commission to that end. Tbey con tend that since such a large amount ot grain is grown in the district it should be Inspected before consign vent to the terminal markets. A petition numerously signed was presented to the Lincoln county court asking that a special election be held for the purpose of voting on a propo sition to bond the county tor $200, 000 to build roads. ; The chiet of engineers Instructed the district engineer at Portland to proceed at once with the work of deepening the locks at Oregon City, for which work congress recently ap propriated $80,000. , That the fire which has been just halted in the Fort Rock section after burning over 20,000 acres of yellow pine, was undoubtedly of incendiary origin, Is the decision ot C. J. Buck, assistant chief forester. At 8 o'clock Tuesday 7400 acres of land known as the Benham Falls segregation and located In the Bend, Alfalfa and Powell Butte vicinities, In Crook and Deschutes counties, was opened for homestead filing. Admiral Capps has Informed Sena tor Chamberlain that the shipping board U considering the proposal of Robert A Miller, ot Portland, to build ships of concrete but is not yet ready to enter into any" contracts. Dr. F. M. Brooks, of Portland, form erly of Sllverton, was appointed by Governor Wlthycombe to succeed Dr M. B. Marcellus as a member of the state board ot health. Dr. Marcellus resigned to enter military service. Pendleton leads the cities ot the state invcontributiona ot books to the war library, according to a statement made by Miss Cornelia Marvin, state librarian. That city has given 462 volumes and about 2000 magazines. hoc Building Materials From Roof To Cellar Willamette Valley Lumber Co. - Monmouth, Oregon Phone Main 202. oc 30Z Read your own Herald $15yL?er Monmouth Transfer and Feed Stable All kinds of transferring done promptly v and on short notice FRANK SKEEN, Proprietor. 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