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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1918)
IOC IOOC 301 o Local Brevities Ihaoi looi raocJ John Palmer went to Kelso, Wash. Sunday on a business visit. Fred Huber Jeft Sunday for Mik kelo, Gilliam county on a prospect ing expedition. Protracted meetings at the Evan gelical church closed with meetings Sunday. Two accessions to the church were gathered as the result of the meetings. 1 Trunks. Batrs and Suitcases. Our trunks are guaranteed not to crack or split. Moore & Walker, Indepen dence, Ore. Earl Conkey, Ellis Fisher and John Webber are among Monmouth young men recently starting to work in the ship building industry in Portland. Barred Rock eggs for setting. $1. W. E. Buell E. E. Rake and family of Carlton visited this week with Monmouth relatives. Let us frame that picture Moore & Walker. E. F. LaFayette, a prosperous farmer of near Eugene, visited here Wednesday. He reports grain looking good in his vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Lunn and three children arrived Wednesday night from their late home in Am herst, Mass. and are visiting with Mrs. Lunn's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ackerman. They are enroute to Vancouver, B. C. where Mr. Lunn has a position in the Univer sity of British Columbia. The basket ball team represent ing the eighth grade of the Inde pendence school invaded Monmouth Wednesday afternoon and engaged in an exciting combat with the Mon mouth eighth grade team. L. P. Gilmore refereed the bout and found it hard to keep the young- j sters from chewing one another up. He had to disqualify one player in order to keep the peace. Independ ence triumphed by a decisive score. W. M. Faulkner, a fruit salesman of Corvallis, was a business visitor in Monmouth Wednesday. The mild winter has left us over stocked on Heaters. Beginning March 1 for ten days we will re duce the price of our Heaters just one fourth. We have a good line to select from. Now is your chance to eet a Heater for less than the present wholesale price. Moore Walker, Independence, Or. G. T. McKinney was home Sun day for his monthly visit with hit family. The latter have moved from the Stitt cottage to a house in the western part of the city. C. 0. Metzker, unitype salesman of San Francisco, stopped off in Monmouth over Wednesday night to see how the Herald force was making it. Mr. and Mrs. W. Cooper have moved to Salem. Heater Bargains for ten days. Moore & Walker, Complete Home Furnishers. ( Virgil Voget of Canby visited at Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Strong's Wednesday. Miss Gladys Evans of the Nor mal school has secured a position at $80 per month at Dee, Ore. and will take up her duties March 1. Miss Elsie Kinley, a graduate of the Normal last year was married last week at her home in Bandon to Lieutenant Beddinger of the U. S. service. The two were formerly teachers together in the school at Prosper. The pupils of Miss Dinius's room entertained a large number of par Mits and interested friends with a Washington's birthday program in the Assembly room of the Training School on Friday, Feb. 22. The i it. program was vanea, me cmiureu did their parts nicely and were thoroly applauded by an apprecia tive audience. The Monmouth high Bchool bas ket ball team, such as is left of it, went over tq Independence Wednes day night. With the loss of Fisher and Conkey, who have finished school and eone to Portland, the team was handicapped, but the score by which the game was lost, 26 to 21, shows there is plenty of ginger left. With Dallas, the stron gest team the boys have met, Mon i mouth lost one and won one and it is likely that with the old line up they would have won Wednesday night also. Paul Blackstone has been coaching the team this year and the good work of the team un der trying conditions has testified to his good management. Mr. and Mrs. Haley entertained Rev. Morris, the Misses Cassie Blackerby and Dell Coshow and Floyd Williams at dinner Sunday. Harold Haley expects to go to Portland Saturday for a visit with relatives and may stay for the sum mer. An article in the Oregonian, Wednesday, says that Highway officials believe that the action of the Capital Issue Advisory Commit tee in approving the issue of $500, 000 bonds presages the issue of fur ther bond issues as they are needed. The next regular meeting of the Grange is on the second Saturday in March, Feb. 9. In the program, the roll call will be responded to with thoughts and facts on the fol lowinir subjects: "How we may do our bit" and the "good of the or der". Also come prepared to dis cuss the new postal rate on maga zines and periodicals. Another mat ter discussed will be "What will the work of the County Agent be?" Mr. Larson will be present and help on with the discussion. President Ackerman spent Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday in Portland visiting in the High Schools in the interest of the Nor mal. Mrs. Gentle returned home Mon day after a visit of several days with her daughter at Forest Grove. Prof. Ide of the 0. N. S. address ed the Parent-Teacher Association at Airlie on Thursday night. Edna Scott of Carlton spent the week end in this city with her par ents Mr. and Mrs. John Scott. Home Demonstration Agent, Miss Mills, one by Mrs. rulkerson, a talk on Sheep-raising by Mr. Wm. Riddell, an explanation of future plans of the',Klkins school ground by the children, progressive half hour of rural picture Btudy in which the children explained the rural life as seen in the great pain tings of the world. One of the numbers of the afternoon was de bate on the relative benefit of the farmer and the manufacturer, in which Harold Price and Frank Mfr Eldowney upheld the manufacturer and Carl Tetheraw and Carl Dod son the farmer. Much credit is to "be given the ladies of the Elkins community for the splendid manner in which they served the lunch. A strictly "Hoov erized" lunch was given (no pie nor cake being served) and every one pronounced it a decided success. Mrs. Chris. Marks and Mrs. Co lumbus Tetherow are !oth improving. Elkins Rural Center MONMOUTH HIGHWA YS Vol. II Monmouth, Ore., Friday, March 1, 1918 No. 18 Written and Edited by Students of Monmouth High School Wednesday evening the boys First Team plays Independence on their floor. Though we lost three of our first line players with the beginning of the new semester the boys are bearing up strong and hope to make a creditable showing. Monday evening a few of the girls from Independence desiring to be a fittle more fully acquainted with girls basket ball rules came over and "took on" our second team. The score was 20 to 2 in fa vor of Monmouth. Saturday even ing March 2, the Girls' Basket Ball ' Team will play the Dallas Girls on their floor. At the student body meeting on Tuesday it was voted to give $5 to the Children of America's Army of Relief for the Armenians. A picture of General Pershing has been framed and now hangs in our upper hall in the place former ly occupied by Senator LaFollette's picture. By order of Dad Sicka foose, janitor, LaFollette's face has been turned to the wall for about 11 moons. A new regulation has been estab- lished for the second semester. All students who are absent from class from any cause are required to make up the work by seeing the instructor as soon as they return to school and doing the work assigned for the time absent. Failure on the part of the student to make up five reci tations which have been missed will result in loss of credit for that course. The Smithfield basket ball team which has won eight games this season, and is considered an unusual ly strong country team will be one of the features in a double header to be played in the high school gym. Saturday night, Mar. 2. They will play the Monmouth Cubs who also have a reputation that they do not intend to lose to any country team. The other game in the double header will be between the High School Freshmen and the Training School Eighth Graders. At 7:30 Saturday night. Tickets 10c. Last Tuesday morning a group of seventeen people went from El kins school to Mountain View to capture the contest flag. These Deonle were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Loughary, Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Dod son and children, Carl, Vera and Chester. Mrs. Joe Tetherow, Miss Carson, Harold Price, Marjorie Ted- row, Frank McEldowney, Maud Mo Eldowney, Lucile Shaw, Frank Loughary and Glenn Harman. Mountain View Rural Days were being held Tuesday and the Elkins people greatly enjoyed their pro gram. During the noon hour ev eryone was busy making new ac quaintances. A very beautiful lit tle ceremony marked the giving up of the flag and Carl Tetherow re plied with a speech of acceptance from Elkins. When the Elkins vis itors left it was with a promise of a return visit from' Mountain View on Saturday. Friday and Saturday were Elkins big Rural Days. About seventy visitors enjoyed the program on Friday. The children's part of the program was partly a patriotic one. Washington's birthday was marked bv a formal reception of the Contest flag in the morning, the raising of a new school house flair to the top of the school house in the afternoon, the singing of pa triotic songs, a colonial minuet by Mildred Tetherow and Maurice Ted rnw. a natriotic wand drill on the school ground and an address on "The Meaning of Our Flag" by Mr. Pittman. Adresses were giv en by Prof. E. B. Fitts, Prof Spudder and Mr. Allen from 0. A. C. Prof. Scudder gave an ad dress in the evening on Farm Man agement. On Saturday about one hundred visitors gathered for the day, , in- eluding twenty Normal teachers who have taught at Elkins during the year. Among other Monmouth visitors were: President Ackerman Prof. Ide, Mr. Swenson, Mr. Buell and Mr. Pittman. Two auto loads of people from Mountain View came in the morning and spent the day. County Supervisor Hoppes of Marion County brought with him as representatives from his county Mrs. M. L.Fulkerson, Pres. Marion County Parent-Teacher Association and Rural Editor of the Oregon Teachers' Monthly, and Miss Fern Wells. Among the interesting numbers on the program were: addresses by Co. Agent J. E. Larson and the Monmouth Heights Dave Dove was in Monmouth on business Saturday. Dick Ogle bought a load of hay from Dave Dove the first of the week. K. H. Sickafoose of Monmouth was seen on the Heights Monday afternoon. Dow Hamar was trading in Mon mouth Tuesday. Mr. Black moved to his new home near McMinnville the first of the week. V.A.Fishbackcutwood for R.M. Bosley this week. F. A. Welch and E. L. Comstock and son Leonard were in Monmouth on business Wednesday. Roy Smith of Monmouth was out to his farm here Wednesday. America'! great corn crop. wcred- lug 3,000,000,000 bniliuit, will save tlie world's fNid iiuuilou, otnVluli of ttit Culled Bute food adinlnlairatlon b lleve. i Corn the nation'! beat food wrenl. houecwlve are beginning tu rcll. It coniulti all tli element needed to keep Hit) body lu ft Btutu of health utl wlii'ti ucd according to the ore of tried recipe, wporiully wliu com bined with nn added ioriloii of oil or fut, will luatulti llfo Indefinitely, lu ilinn wurrlo In coloulul day lived on parched corn alone for ninny day at time, ami ut Valley Forgo parched corn win hi time the pl ration t the Continental wililliTH. Owing to tnumportuilon dlfhcultto eauaed by lliu wiir thw com crop moved mora ilowly to market llili your than ew-r before. Now, however, the cereal li reuelilng the miller uud coitmiinei. In the men nt line the niitloti'i turpltu wheat ha been eeiit to Kurope. Toiluy there are approximately 30 boiheli of corn for every American. Title quantity l greuter by Bve buU eli tlmn In former year. Corn Vim become Hie nation'! uo'n tny In the crlal of wiir, Juat thl cereal anved the flint American colonial from fiimlne on mimy oecaalon, Juat n It served m t tuple food during the War of the Iter olullon mid during the Civil War, King Corn line again c e to the front la the nation' buttle with autocracy. Corn meal In finding greatly Incrcn ed uae In the milking of ordinary while bread. Hundreds of hoimewlve nml ninny of the larger baker are mixing 20 per cent, corn meal wlili wheat flour to make leavened bread. Thl kind of mixture la worked and baked In the name recipe mid with the annie method that apply to alralht wheat bread. 1 Corn bread ualng corn metl ciitlro ly I gaining greater popularity than ever before, llounewlve are coming to reallise that every pound of wheat an veil In Amerlcn mean a pound of wheal relenacd for ahlpincnt to lb natloni with which America I aaaocl ted In the war. w DON'T FORGET That A. M. Arant writes Iniu- V. ft -I I ranee: rire, AutomoDiie ana Surety Bonds. DR. F. R. BOWERSOX PHYSICIAN Si SURGEOS PHONE NOS. OFFICE 2103 HOUSE 1502 L. C. PRICE, M. D. Office cornet Echols and Jack son Sts. at Mrs. Boche's 'hone 4302 B0NQ8 MOTHER USED TO SINU. IC'VB often .icard boul the bread mother uad to b. And often we've boon t"ld about her luecioue pit and cake. But recollection ewe-ier far the mind I IreiunirlnK The hollowed memoriae of eon that mother uaed to ting. Her vile perchance, mar not have plena- d the enptlou critic ear, It mav have fi-k-.l the melody that flow m rich and clear, Put k tin.i wonrirou lower to eoolh the fretful babe to Bleep And put lo ItlKht the (ear of tlmae whe aaw nlKht'a ahadw creep. The eona that mother UMd to alng mad brlcht the dreary day. They cheered the wurkera In their toll and mouthed the ruKKl way They llxhtencd all the load of care and enaed all aufteiln. For there wa nuKlc In the nnf that mother uaed to alng. The Influence of mother' anna: u felt beyond the home And from temptation ahlelded on whr ever they chanced to roam; FVr when the hour of trial came, and vll aeemed o iiron. They heard the old. weet lullaby an! triumphed o'er th wrong. The echoe of thoa old time eonw keep rlmtlnK In the ear And ever wield power for good through alt the pinning yeira; for aweotnat, rlcheat of the Joy to whlr.h In life w cltng Are hallowed memorial of ong that mother ueed to aln. -Theolore H. Bote - Choice Hatching Eggs Strictly 0. A. C. winter laying strain of S. C. W. Leghorns, from foundation stock of 228 to 240 egg hens, mated to males of 256 to 276 egg strain. B'ggs $1.00 per 15. These birds were selected from the choicest fowls in my flock for their especially fine breeding qualities, by Prof. Chas. S. Brewster of 0. A. C. Specialist in Poultry Husbandry, pronouncing them A. No. 1 breeders and layers Barred Kocks, foundation stock 200 egg hens, mated to choice male birds of higher breeding qualities. Eggs $1 00 per 15. Theje birds are choice selected winter lay ers and they are extra fine egg producers. Guarantee good Btrong chicks and fertility. If you are con templating purchasing hatching eggs from either one of these two breed of fowls this spring it will be well worth your time to come and inspect these four breeding pens. The price of the eggs are within reach of any one wishing this quality of stock. All hatching eggs that have to be wrapped and packed in special shipping carriers will be $1.50 per setting of 15. E. M. Ebbert, C. E. Force, Paul Riley are a few of the many that secured leghorns last spring and pronounce them the best layers of any chickens they have ever kept. Millard McCaleb, Mrs. W. J. Stockholm give the Barred Rocks most worthy praise for their laying ability for the heavi er breeds. Miss Loretta Smith has 9 Barred Rock pullets se cured from me last spring which began laying last fall. From along in October until Feb. 1, '18 these pullets layed over 40 dozen eggs, some winter layersl I have a good gravel road to my home so the mud will not in terfere with your traveling. A. H. CRAVEN
