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RICHARD B, SWENSON
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MONMOUTH. OREGON
ISSUED EVERT FRIDAY
FRIDAY, SEPT. 13. 1918
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) Meditations
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They have begun to buy Liberty
Bonds already in Oregon.
Our old friend the I. & M. is
making record time this week on
the road to the junk pile.
The world series has made a new
record this year. It has attracted
less attention than any other world
series in history.
This is the week where the pas
time of picking prunes pauses to
permit the product to present
more perfect condition.
If the Irish of Old Ireland were
only as war like as some of our own
Irish politicians the crown prince
would now be afraid to show his
iace west of the Rhine.
One hundred fifty million dollars
annually have been added to the
payroll of the railroads during the
past month which will have to come
out of traffic in some shape or other
While Dallas will have the Polk
County Fair next week, Monmouth
expects also to have its share of the
fair which is expected to begin reg
istering Monday morning at the 0.
N.S.
It is not every bank in the coun
try that has two presidents but we
notice in an advertisement in the
Independence Enterprise that the
Independence National Bank has
two executives; H. Hirschberg and
D. W. Sears.
Everyone is interested in the sol
dier letters from the front. Since
the boys are serving the public wel-
- fare, accounts of their doings and
work abroad hold close attention
where presented. Herald readers
are invited to send in news and let
ters from the boys in France for
publication.
Some of the stories floating
around relative to war work are so
preposterous that it seems impossi
ble that any one could be found to
believe the same. Yet they are
constantly passed on in the hope of
finding some one willing to swallow
the hook.
, They held an election in Maine
Tuesday. News of the result drib
bled out in obscure news columns
three days after. A few years ago
the approach of the Maine election
would have been heralded in black
headlines on the front page and the
results would have been posted on
the bulletin boards a few seconds
after the count. Such is the fate
of politics in war times.
The oil tankers which bring their
cargoes to Portland are cleansed
when emptied and filled with water
as a return cargo. Water in Oak
land brings 8 cents a gallon, so the
dispatches assert, due to the un
precedented dryness in that part of
California'. 'But California ' must
become dryer than that before it
can hope for the front seat among
the commonwealths of the coast.
The next few days should demon- signed to those schools as vacancies
strate whether Hindonburg and his occur. The term of training varies
famous line are worthy of the solic- from two to three years. Board,
itude with which cautious people lodging and tuition all free at most
have invested them. J training schools and in many cases
There are large numbers of Yan
kees, thousands and thousands of
them, who have not had chance at
the fore front and we surmise they
have been saved just to show Herr
Hindenburg how ephemeral his rep
utation is.
Some of the things which people
are asked to do in the name of pat
riotism makes them suspicious ol
many moves that are deserving of
attention. The Commercial club
recently received a communication
stating that scrap iron was a very
essential war product, and asking
that public spirited people take up
the task of collecting the same as a
matter of patriotic spirit. Scrap
iron, the communication went on to
state, supplied fifty per cent of the
iron used in ship building and in the
manufacture of munitions, and that
the market in Oregon had been al
ready exhausted, apparently with a
demand for more scrap that requir
ed hundreds of carloads in Oregon
for the coming year. To make sure
that this scrap in the state was not
sent out to other states it was sug
gested that it be handled by men
only who would be designated as re
liable. Patriotism was the central
theme of the communication and in
that spirit an effort was urged to
accumulate the scrap among the
farmers and in the community
Patriotism doubtless actuates the
shipbuilders and munition workers
but there is also the small element
of financial return that impels the
workers on to their best licks. If
scrap iron is needed every rural
community can still produce large
quantities of it. But to obtain the
same promptly and exhaustively it
would be well to put the thing on
a financial basis. Let the people
who need the scrap advertise their
needs with the amount of money
they are willing to pay for it and
they will get all there is.
The Need of
Trained Nurses
The United States must have
25,000 student nurses student
nurses to release graduate nurses
for work at the front. Without
more student nurses graduate nurs
es can not be sent to Europe and
our wounded men will suffer for
want of nursing care.
It is estimated that the Army
alone will require a total of 25,000
graduate nurses by January 1, 1919.
13,000 of this number have been
withdrawn from civilian practice
for service in military and naval
hospitals. It is an imperative mili
tary necessity that every graduate
nurse not needed at home should
enter military service and this can
only be done by recruiting new stu
dent nurses. Graduate nurses can
only be supplied by filling the train
ing schools connected with our hospitals.
The demand for womea in other
branches of war service has deplet
ed the number of students takine
training for nursing until they are
now below that of normal times.
The call is for women between the
ages of 19 and 35. Intelligent, re
sponsible women of good education
and sound health are wanted to en
roll as candidates for the Army
Schools of Nursinsr. established
under the authority of Surgeon
General, with branch schools in
Military Hospitals or to enroll as
engaging to hold themselves in
readiness' until April 1, 1919, to ac
cept assignments to civilian nurses'
training schools.
Women who enroll in the United
States Nurses Reserve will be as-
a small remuneration is paid to
cover the cost of books and uni
forms. The nation needs every nurse it
can get to "keep up with the draft."
The United States Nurse Reserve
is the equivalent for women of the
great national army training camps
for soldiers. .
Books, Stationery
Ed Mill of West Salem was seri
ously injured recently in the
Spaulding camp at Black Rock. He
was struck by a heavy pole which
oroKe one arm and inmctea a se
vere scalp wcund.
A threshing outfit belonging to
W. I. Branson was destroyed by
fire on the Crane farm in McTim
mon's valley recently. It is the
third thresher fire of the season in
Polk county.
Edgar Balderee of Dallas has en
listed in a tank company and is to
be trained at Fort Law ton, Wash.
He is the third member of his fam
ily to enlist. He will train at Get
tysburg, Pa.
W. W. Wells was the purchaser
of the 15 acre farm, which was
held in the estate of the late D. W.
Harvie and was sold at sheriff's
sale in Dallas Saturday.
Ten Years Ago
Candy, Clears
Electric Light Bulbs
Souvenirs
MORLAN & SON
Monmouth's largest and mot complete Confecttontry and Book Store
Ten years ago last week the first
issue of the Monmouth Herald was
printed. Referring to the first vol
ume of the Herald it might be of
interest to know what was going on
in the city during the early part of
September, 1908.
A. F. Campbell, for 15 years a
teacher in the Normal, resigned to
practice law in Eugene. Mrs. Ellen
M. fennel! also concluded 10 years
of service in the Normal and enter
ed the English department in the
U. of O. Miss Smith, long with
the training department, accepted
a position as librarian at Weston.
The city council instructed the
marshal 1 to request persons with
waste paper to place the same in
boxes or baskets as so many papers
scattered on the streets were apt to
cause run-a-ways.
S. W. Doughty while working on
the residence of Frank Byers fell
twenty feet and broke two ribs.
School started at Sunny Slope
with A. J. Shipley as teacher.
Miss Mae Mclnnes purchased the
Davidson Sisters' millinery stock
and perpared for business by open
ing" up a large supply of new goods.
38 Mclnnes was recently of
North Dakota.
C. E. Force and V. O. Boots
went to Salem to take in the circus.
Geo. Boothby, stockman, was in
the Alsea country buying cattle.
Crosby Dal ton was looking for
wild horses to train.
The Normal was to start Septem
ber 15. Citizens with rooms to let
were requested to notify J. B. V.
Butler, registrar.
Ye reporter visited the walnut
nursery of Dr. Parish and discover
ed a tree that was five years old and
had six nuts on it. He moralized
that if a man had ten walnut trees
fifteen years old it would be suffi
cient to keep a family in easy cir
cumstances. The Dr. it seems, had
orange and lemon trees in bearing
and a colony of srinsemr whose
large clusters of ripe berries were
worth their worth in gold.
C. C. Lewis was holding down a
homestead in the Siletz country.
The cannery started up on pears
with a large force of workers. ; ,
Rolla Waterhouse of Falls City a
former Monmouth blacksmith .was
a guest at the Hotel Hampton.
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Fresh Fish on Fridays
The highest cash price paid for poultry, veal and all kinds
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On City or Farm Insurance on three or
five year policies, we take notes payable in
yearly installments.
Bonds of all sorts sold.
Let us place your Insurance with old, reli
able companies.
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