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Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, June 7, 1918
No. 40
Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Union.
NEWS NOTES
OF NORMAL
Superintendents Ccme Seek
ing Teachers for Next Year
President J. H. Ackerman ispcnt
Thursday of this week at the State
Grange in Salem.
A very interesting and entertain
ing program was given by the pu
pils of the Elkins rural center be
fore the State Grange last Wednes
day night. They reflected great
credit upon themselves and their
supervisor, Miss Gladys Carson, and
the practice teachers of the school,
Supt. Rutherford, of the Eugene
Schools, and Supt. J. 0. Mclaugh
lin, of the Corvallis Schools, and
the School Board of the Liberty
School District of Marion County
were here this week personally in
terviewing students for positions in
their respective schools.
President Ackerman reports that
he has received notice from all the
railroads that reduced rates cannot
be given to summer school students.
The withdrawal of such rates is
very much regretted, but we all re
alize that It is a war-time measure
and therefore acquiesce fully. "
This has really been Superinten
dent's Week at the Normal. Mon
day Superintemk-nt Hug of McMinn-
ville with Miss Curry and the mem
bers of the McMinnville High
School Training Class were guests
of the school. Both Mr. Hug and
Miss Curry spoke delightfully at
chapel time. On Tuesday Principal
Arnold and the members of his
school board from the Liberty
School in Marion County were here
to find teachers. On Tuesday too,
Superintendent Rutherford of Eu
gene was busy interviewing teach
ers. On Wednesday Superinten
dent McLaughlin of Hood River
who goes to Corvallis next year, was
an interested visitor.
The railroads under government
orders are not this year offering
special summer school rates accord:
ing to a recent letter from Mr. John
M. Scott, traffic manager on the S.
P. lines. This means that students
must plan to pay the full fare. The
Oregon Normal ' Summer School
which opens June 24 will probably
not be greatly affected by this
change in rates. Since the govern
ment is urging all students to enter
school as well as to complete their
present training the summer session
with its special courses as well as
regular work, offers a fine opportu
nity for this season.,- ,. .. .
Wednesday morning a special ed
ucational film showing the process
of manufacture of electric light
globes and many safety ' first devic
es was shown in the chapel. The
students really look forward to the
films which they greatly enjoy. "
Plans are now being definitely
formulated for all the commence-'
ment activities and the campus is
astir with practices for last chapel
the Symbolic Class Play and 'the
numerous festivities which are al
ways attendant on the conmmence
ment season. The enlarged chapel
will this year add much to all the
programs since there will be plenty
of seating room for the people of
Monmouth.' - ; , '
Tuesday Miss Greene of the Art
Department talked to the Indepen
dence Parent Teachers' Association
on "The Value of Public School
Drawing", This splendid talk was
accompanied by a finely assembled
exhibit of training school work done
under Miss Greene's direction. The
art work done in the two training
schools ia based on the latest and
best principles in that field of work
and the student teachers being train
ed here learn how drawing should
be taught ' properly in the public
schools. The Independence parents
were greatly interested and much
pleased by the work accomplished.
Four & Twenty Grad
uatcs in High School
Friday at 8 P. M. the graduation
exercises will be held in the High
School. Following is a list of the
Seniors who are scheduled to receive
diplomas from the High School:
Francis M. A rant, Zola Marie Bab
cock, Vida I. Beougher, Hjalmar T.
Gentle, Ermine K. Gentle, Wilda
E. Fuller, L. Manzanita Harvey,
Josephine M. Heffley, Gail A. Hilti-
brand, Wynnie Lake, Helen Moore,
Lola Fern Morgan, David E. Ole
man, Frieda M. Powell, Gertrude
Rogers, Thelma Selling, Alexander
Delbert Skeen, Mabel Jane Smith,
George Walker, Rosabel le Smith,
Burton C. Bell, Maxwell Bowersox,
Alice M. Comstock, M. Ellis Fisher.
Supt. McLaughlin of the Hood
River schools visited the High
School Wednesday.
David Oleman and Ellis Fisher,
two members of the Senior Class
have enlisted in Uncle Sam's seW
vice, Oleman has enlisted for ra
dio in the army and Fisher has en
listed in the navy.
Wilmer Powell, Clarence Walker,
Dwight Quisenberry and Howard
Morlan are members of the alumni
who have either entered the service
or are preparing to leave immedi
ately. I 1
The baccalaurate sermon for the
graduating class will be preached
by Rev. E. B. Pace at the Christian
church, June 9, at 8 P. M. It will
be a union service. "' '
Tuesday and Wednesday will be
given over to final examinations,
Thursday will be Class Day with a
program at 10 o'clock in the High
School Auditorium. The Annual
School Picnic will be held in the af
ternoon. ' '
Dr. F. R. Bowersox plans to move
his office to the drugstore with the
departure of P. D. Quisenberry and
is making alterations in the rear
rooms of the store to that end, this
week. .
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Conkey were
visitors in Dallas Sunday attending
the double funeral of John Webster
and his son Horace Webster. The
two, whose deaths were but a few
hours apart were buried jn one grave
Sunday afternoon' at 2P.M. The
father, aged 70, died of dropsy and
the son, aged 47, died of softening
of the bones. - A brother and son
of the deceased is the son-in-law of
Mr. and Mrs. Conkey. The Web
sters are old residents of Dallas
having lived there for forty years.
' Thaviu's Exposition band is to
! give two concerts at the Dallas
I Chautauqua, July 17 to 23. ,,..,'
RARE;0CCASI0N
NEXT SATURDAY
Ninefy Nine Years Before An
other Like Eclipse is Seen
Not for ninety nine years will the
United States have an opportunity
to witness an eclipse as nearly total
as the one which will take place
Saturday, June 8. The opportun
ity to witness this eclipse is especial
ly good in Oregon for the path of
totality passes within a hundred
miles of us. This totality which
covers a narrow strip of country en
ters the United States south of Pu
get Sound and makes its exit on the
coast of Florida. In Monmouth the
eclipse will be 95 per cent total.
This will mean a darkness like the
dusk following sunset. The eclipse
will begin between two and three
o'clock and will reach its point of
greatest, darkness about four
o'clock.
Letter from Birchard VanLoan
Birchard VanLoan, , with other
soldiers in France, recently listened
to a talk by Dr. Doney of Willam
ette University. He writes to his
mother:. I received your letter of
April 6th two or three days ago
and this in my first opportunity to
write you since." First I will tell of
what I am doing. Tonight I am
writing by the light from a small
opening in the tile roof of this little
barn loft away "over here" in cen
tral France somewhere (n a small
village. Here we . are among the
peaceful and home loving people of
France.' Yesterday afternoon with
my two best friends I took a long
walk away out into the country
where we saw the fine .fields of rye
and other grains which the French
raise in this region.
The gardens are looking fine now
and radishes, onions, etc., are ready
for the table. Lettuce is just com
mencing to head. '- The vines in the
vineyards are commencing to bud
The climate reminds me of Ore
gonmemories of home and long
ing thoughts with DUTY ., clearly
ahead. -.
Well, mother dear, the light is
fading fast. ' With love and best
wishes to all, ... Birchard
Red Cross Notes
In the publication of names of
officers last week the name of J. B
V. Butler as chairman of finance
was omitted. ... 'i '
The Cantonments are sending ap
peals to the various chapters for
dish towels and. dishrags. . Bags
that have been used for; the ship.
ment of land plaster are fine for this
purpose. x
There is urgent demand for nurs
es and for girls to take training for
future work in this line. Interest
ed parties may get information with
application blanks by applying to
Mrs. Lawrence T. Harris, Chairman,
Educational Committee, Willamette
Chapter, A. R. C, Salem, Oregon.
Miss Mills will address the meet
ing next Tuesday afternoon on .the
subjects of War Savings Stamps and
Conservation.
At the business hieeting Tuesday
afternoon the'following committees
were appointed for the coming year:
Buying Committee, Mrs. H. C.
Ostien, Mrs. C, Lorence, Miss Lor-
etta Smith. ' ' '' '
Cutting Committee, Mrs. Cletus
Butler, Mrs. Boche, Mrs. Perkins,
Mrs, Wolverton.
Committee on Inspection, Miss
Maggie Butler, Mrs. Edwards
Committee on Packing, Mrs. Os
tien and chosen assistants.
Committee on Knitting, Mrs. C.
Lorence, Miss Loretta Smith.
Committee on Membership, Mrs,
Jacob Smith, Mrs. Thomas Gentle,
Mrs. Alva Craven. ,
Committee on Rooms, Mrs, Booth-
by and chosen assistants.
Committee on Home Service,
Mrs. Mack. .
Committee on Publicity, Mrs. H.
G. Richards.
Miss Gladys Parker was appoint
ed head committee on delivering fin
ished goods and it is earnestly re
quested that any member of the
chapter who may be going to Salem
will communicate with Miss Parker
and give her all possible asisstance
in this important work. . . .
Members of the Junior Red Cross
will attend the meetings hereafter
and will assume the task of remov
ing bastings from the finished work
thus saving much time for the more
experienced workers to devote to
construction.
Seed Wheat for
Acre Cost $400
Four hundred dollars an acre for
seed wheat is a price calculated to
startle the average farmer, but A.
H. Craven has a small tract of land
for which he paid this proportion
ate rate for seed. It is a tract of
one sixteenth of an acre planted to
the "New Burbank" wheat and the
seed thereof cost $25, The grain
is now headed out and stands close
to five feet tall. Some of the stalks
have as many as ninety kernels and
instances are common where a single
kernel has in the resulting growth
stooled out to a dozen stalks. The
wheat is said DV ite originator to
have been tested alongside sixty
eight of the ' best wheats- in the
world and to have excelled them all
in yield, uniformity and other desir
able characteristics.' It has all been
produced from a single original
kernel and bids fair to add another
to the list of triumphs for the great
Burbank.
Glen Whiteaker is planning to en
list as an electrician in the navy,
He recently turned down a $200 a
month job in the shipyards of Port
land in order to be free .to enter the
service. . '
The regular monthly meeting of
the Grange will be held Saturday
and questions up for discussion will
deal with the more important mat
ters which appear before the State
Grange in session this week. There
will be responses to roll call and al
so a question box.
J. F. Currie who has been' con
nected with the Monitor and Post in
Independence for the past two years,
has gone to the highland of Califor
nia in the hope of improving his
health. '; ' '
Messrs. and Mesdames Paul Black
stone and E. W. Riddell attended
commencement exercises of the
Falls City school Wednesday even-ing.
ARRANGE SERIES:
OF MEETINGS
At Which Women will Con
sider Conservation Anew .
Meetings of the various Commun
ity Committees of the Woman's
Committee of the Council of De
fense have been arranged as fol
lows: Monday, June 10, 2 p. m.,
Airlie; Monday, June 10, 8 p. m.,
Falls City; Tuesday, June 11, 2 p.
m., Monmouth; Tuesday, June 11,
8 p.m., Independence;. Wednesday,
June 12, 2 p. m., Suver; Wednes
day, June 12, 8 p. m.,' Buena Vis
ta; Thursday, June 13,2 p.m.,
Eola; Thursday, June 13, 8 p, m.,
West Salem; Friday, June 14, 2 p.
m., Buell; Friday, June 14, 8 p. m.
Ballston; Saturday, June 15, 2 p.
m., Rickreall; Saturday, June 15,8
p. m., Perrydale.
At these meetings . Miss Edna L.
Mills, Emergency Home Demonstra
tor will speak on preparing the sub
stitutes and the further need of con
servation. Dr. C. Staats will pre
sent the Child Welfare work which
the Woman's Committee has been
asked to carry on in the state and
Dr. A. B. Starbuck will present the
plan of the W. S. S, for raising
$2,000,000. All women in the
communities are urged to be pres
ent at these meetings and all mem-
bers of the Council of Defense are
invited to attend that they may as
sist the Woman's Committee in
cure a definite idea about the cam
paign of the W. S. S. as the Council
of Defense are to be . asked to con
duct this campaign.-
War service appears scheduled to
lake another large section out of
Monmouth's avajlable young men
this week, a section in fact that
will just about wipe out the supply.
Last week Clarence Walker went to
Portland where he was joined by
Ellis Fisher and they went to the
Bremerton navy yard and enlisted
as cooks in the navy. Carl Bowman
came down from Tillamook, having
finished his school there, and in
company with Howard Morlan and
David Oleman, went to Dallas and
Portland where they signed in the
group of grammar school graduates
asked for by the department and
who are to be trained . for special
service. The three Monmouth young
men are to enter the land radio ser
vice and are first to receive several
weeks technical training in school
before being put to actual work.
P. D. Quisenberry is to go witif the
next draft of selected men but will
probably be transferred to the med
ical department of the army. Ken
neth Williams of Airlie enlisted in
the navy from Portland last week.
The Herald office just at present
is illumined and freshened by mag
nificent hniirmpta. n phnioo rnsps
brought in by Mrs. W. Neal. With
an array of beautiful colors- and
sizes ranging from small buds : to
flowers as large as peonies, they are
an exhibit that would be hard to
equal outside of . Oregon and the
Willamette valley, the home of ros
es.. . .". ' - f :
John Vernon and family of La
Creole were visitors in Monmouth
Saturday, , - v . ; - '