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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1918)
The Herald RICHARD B. SWENSON Editor & Publisher I drugstores to six, o'clock. More than that we have had a mild win ter, the grass has been green in un What skill, human cunning has de- vised to increase fistic prowess was never his. As a prize fighter he had Bntand u Mcond-etkM nutur Swtambar 1. 19W. tht put offle t Monmouth. Oncon. andar ti Act of Much!. 1871. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year , $1.50 Six months 75 cU Three months Wets MONMOUTH. OREGON J, FRIDAY, FEB. 8, , 1918 checked luxuriance since the rains but one rule and that to batter his of the fall. . You may look around opponent through the strength that in any direction and fail to find a section of the country more favored at present than the Willamette val ley. Monmouth Meditations Fifty farmers in Congress is the slogan of the Non-Partisan League; which reminds us why not have twen ty five teachers, thirty merchandise men, nineteen blacksmiths.seventeen plumbers and a liberal sprinkling of druggists bankers and editors. Why not divide up the representation in a different manner than at present, have a census of the different avo cations, races and sexes and give each its numerical proportion. For one thing this would do away with sectionalism, minimize the race problem, etc. But on the other hand wouldn't it establish friction Lenine and Trotsky may yet envy in new places. Of course, there Nicholas his quiet and comfortable wouldn't be as many lawyers in Con- finish. '" j gress as there are at present but we may feei sure that the same men One fine advantage urged for the woujj be re the professional thrift stamp habit is that it keeps farmer or, shop keeper would be apt one constantly in a financial condi- to develop some of the human traits lion which makes it impossible to wm-cn our statesmen now exhibit. indulge in riotous living Harun al Raschid, in his travels around ancient Bagdad uncovered some wonderful stories but hardly anything more wonderful than one that is being enacted in real history right now. Trotsky, two years ago was living in New York City, sub sisting off of occasional quarters which he managed to borrow from dining room girls and bar tenders He bought a suit of clothes for $7 from a second hand dealer in order to array himself for his trip to Eu rope which was to result in his be coming a leader in one of the great est nations in the world. Some of the things he promised to do, to People who 'remember the Colo nel's fondness for simplified spelling .are foremost to urge that he be sent on some mission or other to Russia. Accordine to reliable reports it costs high to live well in Berlin . Butter there costs $2.25 per pound, sugar sells at 56 cents a pouiW.ham and bacon bring $2.11 a pound and Ivory soap is sold at five bars for $1.12. was his in his splendid physique. He thought it his ubility to batter down and escape the consequences of vice in the same manner asheov ercame opposing bruisers, but lived to see his error. In later yqars he became a strong advocate of tem perance, always listing himself as an awful example. Sullivan was a good advertiser. He had the fac ulty of keeping himself in the fore ground and wherever he went the newspaper reporters were always sure to find in him a prolific source of copy. This faculty kept him among the beet known Americans, along with Billy Sunday, Buffalo Bill and Teddy Rooa-velt, who stick on year after year, when popes and presidents and potentates who are to the front for a brief space, sink into oblivion and are forgotten. He wrote an autobiography some years ago which was thoroughly charac- teristic of the man. Thoroughly good-natured, always charitable to his enemies, he ambled on through a series of reminiscences which took him through places high' and low on the social scale. He invented the term "rabbit whiskey" to denote concoction, one sip of which would srive a rabbit the courage to spit in a bull dog's eye, tut none knew an described more vividly than he the abysm of degradation that entraps the booze fighter One of the things which the pat riot needs to resolve is to do even more farming than last year. It miirht be a srood thine if in daces where it is possible to do so, business around the tebles of cheaP in towns is suspended half of the restaurants in JNew lorn, nenas ac. time, the remaining half beinesDent tually performed. He would pub , . on the farms or in farmimrmdustrv. tne secret agreement oi me ai- hetoinz to raise the food that we Hed powers, he would found a "mod. will need next winter. ' el republic". He would force peace upon monarchs. Whether or not he Like a steadily rising tide the can carry out the whole of his pro- criticisms of the war department gram is another matter. constantly gather force and if the war continues the demand for. more "Shoes and ships and sealing wax efficient methods is bound to grow and cabbages and kings" is a bewil more insistent until it tnumnhs. dennz combination, met with in Such is the story abroad and such it "Alice i n Wonderland". B u is apt to be here. If resisted it will it may be appropriately applied to result in upheaval which will make a collection such as is met with in it impossible in the future to con- these columns for it is our happy duct such an undertaking as that in privelege in these rambling talks not which we are now engaged along the to be bound by any hampering, lim- lines of partisan politics. its. We note that the war may cause the come back of the base ball As Banker Powell indicated in his prodigies of a few years ago, to take address to the Normal students, the place of men who have in their thrift is as far removed from stinei- more vouthful skill, edged them nessasit is from luxury. Thrift away from the skinned diamond, means making the most possible out young men being needed as soldiers. of life at the least expense . Stingi- The life of a base ball player, as such ness that denies itself information is a short one and few are stil! or recreation illy prepares a man or in the ranks at thirty. There have woman for crreatest usefulness, been some notable exceptions, and Thrift does not deny itself anything it is a curious fact that these excep. that is essential either in food or tions have been men who were pre- clothing, for the mind and body. , eminent, and who have avoided ex cesses and kept control of the mach- . . . i .i i it I Ast summer when the drnnth me of bone and muscie mat mey was at its worst the fear was f re- were possessed oi , Miss Hoham deserves extra credi this year for carrying her annual musical program through to a sue- cessful termination. The work of preparation must have been consid erably more difficult than in years when students were more numerous, but undaunted, she kept things mov ing, imparted to the student a measure of her own energy and pep. hoc 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 solely by price. Don't you make such an error. Buy our lumber and buy satisfaction with it. You'll be money in pocket in the end besides. Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. Monmouth, Oregon Monmouth Transfer and Feed Stable All kinds of transferring done promptly and on short notice FRANK SKEEN, Proprietor, Monmouth, Oregon It became known Wednesday that considerable rain water was escap ing from our city limits and rushing over to Independence. As conserva tion is the order of the day and as we will need our surplus for next summer, and as Independence has plenty of rain water of its own, it was suggested that we construct several large pits and store the wa ter: sort of can it. as it were, for future use. Mein Herr von Hindenberg has made public a few plans. Evidently not caring to be outbragged by Sec. retary Baker, he announces that he will be in Paris by April first. How he expects to get his big guns across the French and Flemish mud, to say nothine of overcoming the heroic defenders thereof, is not so plain quently expressed that the Willam ette valley would have a lean win- Prominent among these was "Cy" ter, with food scarce and high. But Young who achieved the mark of the reality has not come near up to pitching a thousand games of league expectations. In fact, notwithstand- ball. Never a man of physical prow. ing the war, Willamette valley is in ess such as Walter Johnson or Amos better codnition than it was a year Rusie, he had a wise head on his ago. Potatoes are cheaper, ditto shoulders and by conserving his flour' and beans, all essential feat- strength and studying out theweak ures of the larder. All of these ar- nesses of his opponents, he kept in tides are cheaper here than they are the front rank for a long period of in the east where crops were rela- years, tively much larger. In addition to , this, our fuel supply is ample. East His career was the exact reverse of of the Rockies, right now, even John L. Sullivan, another sporting small business establishments must hero who died Saturday at Abington close down Monday of each week, Mass, Sullivan was a man for whom with groceries open until noon and I nature had done splendid thingi New Oregon Map A new folder mtlp of Oregon has just been issued by the Southern Pacific Lines. This map will be of service to local people in gaining a better knowledge of our state, and will also direct the attention of res idents of other states to the resour ces of Oregon. The map is carefully drawn, show, ing all the lakes, streams and prin cipal mountain peaks, as well as the railroads and highways. All the cities and towns are plainly indica ted, and an alphabetical index ena bles one to readily determine the lo cation of any town in the state. On the back of the map is a brief but very complete exposition of Or- egon's resources. The geographical divisions, with physical features climate, productions and scenic at tractions, are set forth in detai The prospective settler or the tour. ist will here find much valuable in formation . All' of the work on this map was done in Portland. Copies can be obtained from any Southern Pacific representative. CITY MEAT MARKET Geo. Sullivan, Prop. Fresh and Smoked Meats Hams, Bacon, Boiled Hami, Minced Harm, Bologna. Etc Fresh Fish on Fridays The highest cash price paid for poultry, veal and all kinds of hides. Free delivery. Phone 2302 Monmouth Oregon To prove that it pays to keep a highly bred laying strain of chickens, I have received orders this last week for 6 ' cockerels and 17 hens from Eastern' Oregon and Washington. Besides 3 cockerels in Monmouth, 100 day old Leghorn chicks, future de-.. livery, and a 50 egg incubator lot of Leghorn eggs. My fowls have been laying all winter, marketing a case and better a week thru January. Some people are complaining about their chick ens not laying. If this'is a fact take my advice and sell them off while the market is exceptionally high. Then this Bpring se cure some hatching eggs from highly producing layers of the breed you like best and get a new start of A. No. 1 fowls. Do away with those old crossed up breeds that your grandmother gave you that only lay a few eggs in the spring of the year un der the most favorable conditions. ; Some people scoffed at me for paying $1.50 a setting for hatch ing eggs from Corvallis College three years ago, but my invest- ment was O. K. for I secured the right kind of stock. I reared 115 nice pullets on a city lot the year I sold out my grocery bus iness. Those.pullets began laying in the fall and jn eleven months they brought me in $368.00 as a side issue to my var ious lines of farming. Last spring I sold from two ens of Leg horns consisting of ten hens each and two pens of Burred Rock consisting of 12 hens each, $178.00 worth of hatching eggs and hen hatched day old chicks. Could have sold more of them had I been able to spare them. This in addition to the chicks hatch ed for my own use and the eggs from the general flock that were marketed at the stores. There was a general complaint, last spring about the eggs from the heavier breeds not hatching well. From the best of authority it was due principally to the cold, backward spring. I guarantee all the eggs to hatch good that are secured from my pens, if they do not I will make them up to you by replacement. A great many poor hatches are the result of poor care of the sittnig hens. If you will place them by themselves give them good warm, roomy nests, , litter to scratch in, plenty of clean fresh water, good, dusting box of ashes with plenty of louse powder Bifted in same and not allow the laying hens to trample over them you will get a great deal larger percentage of chicks. For all around utility fowls there is no doubt that the Barred Rocks are the best breed. For eggs alone I would secure the white Leghorn as they are great layers, eat less food and are fine foragers. I can furnish you hatching eggs from winter " layers of both these breeds, the price is within the reach of ev ery one.. ' $1 for setting of 15. A. H. CRAVEN Read your own Herald
