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FRIDAY, JAN. 11, 1918
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Monmouth
Meditations
Consider the councilman! His
neighbors delight to do him honor
and throw any old thing at him
that comes handy. He is the bell
weather who loads the flock into
the sunlight pasture in the early
morning while the lark sings and.
the mule lits up its hoarse voice
in lamentation. He is a poach
whom his neighbors all mistake for
a lemon. His shoulders are broad
and he is a handy man to blame.
When there is a break in the side
walk, or the roof of the woodshed
leaks, or the baby has the croup
or the bread fails to raise, blame
it to the councilman ;he is used to
it and that is what he draws a
fancy salary for.
At Pleasant Valley in New York
state last week it was 20 below
while in Death Valley, Calif., it
was 92 sizzling in the shade.
As yet no one has arisen to sug
gest that the extreme cold weath
er which the east has been catching
this winter was caused by the re
cent draft.
A woman snow shoyeler in New
York city quit before she would al
low herself to be photographed.
Perhaps her shovel wasn't on
straight.
There are too many people who
only see that which is diretly in
front of their noses.
George Bernard Shaw, in a recent
discussion of the Irish question, de
scribed himself as a privileged lu
natic. Possibly we had better let
it rest at that.
President Wilson is sending his
cast off clothing to the Belgians
but it is surmised that a number of
poor deserving politicians have an
eye on the pair of shoes he will dis
card in 1920.
It was inevitable! The proposal
now comes that the government
keep control of the railroads, and
the larger the sums of money the
government puts into the operation
and development of railroad prop
erty the stronger will the cry become.
Recently the Dallas Observer
has changed to a weekly from a
semi-weekly while the Benton
County Courier has changed from
a weekly to a semi-weekly, thus
maintaining the balance in our list
of exchanges.
If reports are to be believed,
the war is proving a good friend
to Portland. The big ship yards
are working in three shifts, the
streets of the city are crowded
with people and prosperity is
there in full force. What agtrra-
vates local visitors most is the al
leged fact that the cost of living is
lower there than it is at home.
Feople from all of the valley towns
are docking to the ship building
towns. North Bend and larshfield
are1)ooming and Astoria, we are
told, doubles in population every
few days. The lumber business is
strong wherever production is car
ried on, prosperity reigns. These
things argue well for business in
Western Oregon for some time to
come.
When the governmnet took hold
of the railroads it was announced
that one of the first things to be
done would be the raising of
wages of certain employees Not a
few employees of the postal de
partment, notably, railway mail
clerks and rural route carriers,
are doubtless wishing that while
the government is in the wage
raising business, it will not over
look them.
People who believe that peace is
possible in the near future will re
ceive much encouragement from
the address which President Wilson
delivered to the House and Senate
Tuesday The one thing that has
stood in the way of prospects for
peace was the announced determin
ation to achieve it only after the
Kaiser had been dethroned. In the
list of fourteen conditions which
the president named as essential
to peace, the enforced alteration
of the German form of govern
ment was conspicuously absent.
On the contrary his language was
exceptionally conciliatory to the
Germans, one of the conditions be
ing the unhampered privilege of
trade to all the parties entering
into the peace compact which of
course would include the central
powers as well as their enemies.
More than this they cannot ask.
The fourteen conditions which the
president names are eminently
fair, and if the Germans are willing
as they have indicated to make the
best of a bad mess, they now have
the opportunity. If they do not act
they will prove to the rest of the
world that there is truth in the as
sertion that they are out for addi
tional territory, if not for world
domination.
used in those designed to hold him.
They begin to run in the spring as
soon as the ice breaks up and con
tinue for about six weeks, or until
the water gets warm, when they
disappear entirely until the next
spring. It seems that while the
southwest wind blows there is good
fishing, as the water keeps cold.
When running, they swim near the
surface and are always caught in
the upper meshes of the net.
On the east shore of the lake, in
the cold waters that empty into it,
they are said to crowd so densely
that farmers spear them with pitch
forks. And the "Pentwater" is es
peecially plentiful with them. They
are becoming each year more abun
dant, and are now caught weighing
from one and a half to ten and a
half pounds. The steelheads are
the most common off Evanston; the
Chinook salmon is mite rare, and
only a few are caught during the
season. It is held that these spe
cies of salmon must get to the ocean,
but it is a problem to know how
they can do so from Like Michigan,
and it is possible tint in their life
history the lake may serve them in
stead of the o ce an, cold water
streams furnishing the spawning
groundsfor it is observed they are
not found in the warm streams.
" The meat of these fish is pink
while in the Pacific waters it is red,
at this season of the year, (spring) .
Later in the year it changes to pink
and white and sometimes the-flesh
of a given fish will be red, pink and
white. The Lake Michigan salmon
are of a beautiful steel gray color,
and much resemble the gamey blue
fish of the Atlantic.
It is too early in the record of the
salmon fishing in Lake Michigan to
know much about this fish, but it
will before long attract the serious
attention of ichiologists. There is
no record as yet of a fish having
been caught with hook and line,
but there is no reason why they
should not in time be added to the
ist of game fish of the Great
Lakes. Oregon Sportsman.
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We Say Nothing But Saw
Wood
when some one tells us he can buy lumber for less than we
charge. We don't care to argue with a man who judges My
by price. Don't you make eueh an error. Buy ur lumber
and buy satisfaction with it. You'll be money in pocket in the
end besides.
Willamette Valley Lumber Co.
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Feed Stable
All kinds of transferring done promptly
and on short notice
FRANK SKEEN, Proprietor.
Monmouth, Oregon
London'! Cryttil Ptle.
Crystal nalace wag nrlk'lnally built
In Ilyde park for the grout cxhlliltlon
of 1851, being afterward removed to
Its oresent site and rc-crwted. At
the first state opening of tlie palace by
Queen Victoria It was urged that the
usual artillery salute should not b
fired, the reason irlven being that the
concussion would shiver the glass roof
and the company assembled below, In
cluding her majesty, would be cut Into
mincemeat. Dire were the predictions
of the senremoncers when the design
for the nalace wag made public. The
first gale, tbev said, would Inevitably
wreck It, while the beat engendered by
tho sun pouring its rays upon the
domed glass roof would be o terrific
that no human being could withstand
It. Consequently If they escaped an
avalanche of glass they would b ;oat
td to death Inside the case.
Prof. M. S. Pittman arises to
announce that he has not an
nounced his candidacy for the U.
S. senatorship at the hands of the
people of Oregon. Just the same
he has a wide circle of friends
scattered through the length and
breadth of the state who will give
the idea a boost every time it
comes within reach. The rural
school never had many active
friends at court and if it. could
manage to get Mr. Pittman to the
front would have a real champion
People who know Mr". Pittman,
know that he has capacity for ex
cellent public service.
During the year of the World Co
lumbian Exposition in Chicago, in
1893, the United States government
planted in Lake Michigan spawn of
the steelhead salmon (Salmo gaird-
neri) and the Chinook, or King sal
mon (Ancarkunchus tschawytscha)
or quinnat. Then they were forgot
ten.
Some eight years ago Charles
Leapp, while seining for herring off
the lighthouse at Evanston, 111., saw
a fish jump out of the water. He
saw that it was not a whitefish, nor
a lake trout, and he felt sure it was
a salmon but was not absolutely
certain, so he related the occurrence
to a friend who had fished on the
Columbia River, who told him he
had seen salmon in the lake. Later
fishermen off the shore caught sal
mon in their gill nets (set for her
ring, perch and whitefish) . Today
it has become quite an industry
with Mr. Leapp and others.
The salmon is a great fighter, and
plays havoc with nets set for other
I fish, so that heavier twine must be
JOSEPH A. F1NLEY, Vocal Teacher
Portland Studio, 411 Alder St.
Director of the Portland Oratorio society
Choir Director of Mt. Tab3r Presbyterian church
Conductor of the Gresham Oratario Society
Conductor of the Astoria Oratorio Society
Supervisor of Music in the Dallas public schools
Supervisor of Music in Gresham grade schools
Private lessons given every Thursday afternoon and evening at
the home of J. Craven. $8 a month in advance for a 3-4 hour
lesson a week. $6 a month for a half hour lesson a week.
CITY MEAT MARKET
Geo. Sullivan, Prop.
Fresh and Smoked Meats
Hams, Bacon, Boiled Hams, Minced Hams, Bologna. Etc
Fresh Fish on Fridays
The highest cash price paid for poultry, veal and all kinds
of hides. Free delivery. Phone 2302
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