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Tine : . 1-"-' Vol. fci Monmouth, Po!!t County, Oregon, Friday, December 13, 1918 No. 15 Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Union. NEWS NOTES OF NORMAL Mrs, Sarah A. F.vant of Poitland Dir.rusics U, S. Nationalities All th'iw who mi' on the r!iirn;nl Smial List tuv ordially invite J to attend the Stu.lc.it Holy I'uni'. in tin N ormal Cm Uii'j'ii, Sitjr.l i cmin. liec'ruo-ir 11 at ci'it o'clock. I'le-itKiit AckiTiiiaii Kprnt Lot w.vA-en 1 in i'.mi alt'?.) linft' to Normal l-Uainv'jU. Mr S.ir h A. E';ui. of Portland, f-Ii e.i.l.'itt of the Federated Wo men's Clubs of Oregon uml Chair man of the Wuini'.t's Lihert Lean Committee of Orwn, give a very informational tulk on the natimal ir in-f of the foreign element in our misht at last Kri 1 ly'a chaps!. The inspiration forW lecture was Rob ert Haven Schuu!rk-r's poem "The Scum of the Earth". Mr. Evans refined to the I'nitvJ iitutcj us the "nil'ltinjf pot" that hud ceased to "melt" aii'l quoted statistics which proved the startling statu merit to he a fact. The topic is oris of vital intrcest to all citizens, but pat tic u I -it 1y to thos who are plan nine to Le teacher; for, ttu the speaker pointed out, the correitinj of this ali;rininjf- condition lies largely with the public cchcml. f.'.isj Schuette, Ileal of the Mus ic Department, entertained the patrons and children of the Minns Ruial Center n last Irulay with some imuVal selections. She was accompanied by Mi.is I.-rrin on the violin. t . Miaj Emma Kramer, an alu.nnus of the school who ii teaching in M.us'ilield, was visiting clmpcl and chiKsei on tast Monday, She was a'C 'inpanied Ly MLa Miller, llii tory Instructor in the Marshlield ' Hirfh &hool. The Y. W. cTXTcld iU post pone 1 meeting on Tuesday evening. The evening's program centered around the Christinas time, The mu iie, bath the chorus and the solo by Miss Huvely, hhadowed forth, the Benson and the leader, Mrs. Krapps, read for the Bible lesson the "Story of the First Christ mas." This was followed by Van Dyke's "Other Wise Man Illustrat ed" to!d by Miss Parrott, The theme was very appropriate for the last meeting before the, holidays and wa3 much' appreciated by the members and visitors, The motion picture for Friday evening, December 13 at eight o' clock is thinner's tress Suit". This in considered one of the test comedies filmed and follows closely the entertaining story which- ap peared a short while ago in the "Saturday Lveninr Fust". Admis sion ten and twenty cents. ' ; Miss Radabaugh, Critic , of the Fifth and 'Sixth grudes in the Mon mouth Training School, was the Faculty, representative at Chapel on Wednesday". She demonstrated some history work that was most interesting and suggestive for the students. She presented the life of that great heroine of French histo ry, Joan of Arc. The interest of the children and the marvelous skill evinced in reproducing the knowledge gniuej was an inspir.. tioii and m.'ikeJ Mi: s Radabaugh a.: a teacher of rare ability, H;e Training School is looki.rr very Christmay, Wreaths adun the windows and green dotted with bits of red are everywhere. He rooms are all very attractive attir ed in their "holiday finery" tut tint tf thf rcventh and Eighth grades i cif.ecially artistic, Mrs, Mnyaiiirah Woodward See ley, Chairman of the Committee on Student Work of the Woman's Po.:rd of Missions for Cie,;on, Washington and Idaho, will l e the Chapel Speaker for Wednesday, De cember 18, 'J he l.iteriiy Societies will not have their reguh.r meeting next week but will tend their efforts towurJ making the Community Cbristl m Tre a n e r.orable event ij the history of the school and town. One of the most interekting pro grams of the school year was givm by the Delphian Society, Friday evening, Lecenber sixth, At the joint program the Delphians were represented with a sot ics of three fetching little sanja, "Very c'tverly rendered by six of the Delphian girls. After the joint program and a hh rt lusineji meeting conducted by Marion White, the regular pro gram of the Delphian Society open e l ly an unusually interesting p'ay conducted under the tble general ship of Miss Agnes Sullivan. This very comic play depicted two day? of 6khoo' in a rural tenter cr.d much credit is duo to thoie taking part, Those participating in this play weie ns follews: Miss Agnes Sullivan, the teacher; Miss Marjor ie Whipple, Chairman of the Board of Directors; Mi S3 Chloe Bue.II, another member of the Board; Miss.Wanda Sain, the moth er of "Teacher's Fet"; and Miss Alice Do.vner, t!ie Swede lady who caused much merriment for the audience. A number of the girls played the part of children in school, some dressed as toys and others as girls. The costuming was very apropos to the occasion and all played their parts admirably. The nixt number on the program was taken from the well-known story of William Tell; where the tyrant Gessler forced Tell to shoot an apple from his son's head in hopes that it would kill him.- Miss Marguerite Brcokhardt took the part of William Tell; Miss Daisy Slute, the son and Miss Mell Car ter, tne tyrant, mis piuy was very different from the preceding one where you were laughing eveiy minute, for it appealed more to the. serious side of one's nature. How ever, if was especially pleasing and enjoyed by all. Last, but one of the most pleasing numbers was the Critic's report ably given t by Miss Esther Halvorsen. After the Crit ic's report the meeting adjourned all having enjoyed one of the most delightful programs of the year. The Vespertine Society met ,in regular session Friday .evening, December sixth". At the joint pro gram with the Delphian Society, the Vespertines contributed a vocal solo by Miss Margaret Dickie, after which they adjourned to their res pective meeting places. The pro gram presented was exceptionally FIRE DESTROYS AIRLIE STORE C. V. Johnson. Merchant and Poctmaiter Suffers Double Lota Fire at Airlie Sunday night iped out the dwelling, store building and stock of merchandise of C. V, John son, ths losa being total except some household goods which were saved. Mr. Johnson v.a3 also post master of Airlie and mail and fix tures were included in the loss. The fire stsii to 1 late Sunday night and hz made strcng headway when dis covered. The dwelling rnd store buildirg were dose tigether ard the lurjiLer yarJ if Airlie is a'so close by but prompt and vigorous work on the p:rt if eithers of Air lie saved this as well aso'.l er build ings that were exposed. Troperty loss was partly covered by insarance. New Supervisor Josiah Wills, well knv.vn in Mon mouth and a graduate of the Nor mal, has been chosen as county su pervisor to suecisJ Floyd D. Moore and will assume the duties of his ollke January 1. , lie wa3 elected at a meetinj if the board of edu- calion held in the superintendent's office last Saturday. - Mr. Wills in at i resent, teahcing in Marion county. He is the owner cf the Wolf prap -rty on West Main street which' he bought two years a,;o. Senator Doughty cf Fortland was the guest of his sisters last week. pleasing and enjoyable. Mrs. Smith directed the two charming fclk plays "The Three Wishes" (French) and "The Foam Maiden (Irish) and to her as well as to the skilled casts is due much credit. Those partici p itin in the former play were as fallows: Grace McCnn, Mable Edeames and Anita Lewis. The cist of the hitter were Kathleen Maddox, Alphia Busick, Josephine Heflley. The dancers in the French and Irish folk dances were delight ful in their interpretation of the spirit of their nationa'ity. Miss Laura Taylor and Miss Marie Schuette were remrnsible for the artistic directing ar.d n usic, an j to them the Society is grateful for the generous assistance rendere l. The Irish dancers were Ulla Dickinson, Hazel Catrcath, Vera Johnson, Daisy Wickstrom, Verena Punten ny, Eva Hendrickson, Eleanor War ner. A quartet, Fvadna Hager, Helen CoeJ Margaret Dickie and Margaret Ferrin, sang a group of familiar and pleasing folk songs in keeping with the spirit en j tenor of the program. "The Widow's Daughter", a- story by Myrtice Fowler, proved most interesting and was enjoyed by the audience. Eefittin? the pleasant character cf the evening was the last feature, the critic's report by Beth Perry. ' Kay Baker, an alumnus cf the Normal who has received his dis charge from the Officers' Training Camp for Aviators at Eerkeley, was a Chapel visitor last Wednes day. The student body greeted Mr. Bal'.er enthusiastically imd were thrilled by his recital of the life of an aviator. After over a year of military life, Mr, Baker is ready to take up his professional work again and expects to be in the school room soon. A Tale of Tile Although it ha3 not rr.ade a great deal of noise about it the Central Tile ompanv, a Mon.njuth institu tion hp kept busily at work during the pzst summer, sawing wood ar.d stufling it into their kilns in the process of baking tile. One hund red and forty thousand tile were produced this summer and the sam-j are no-.v being passed out to land owners in Polk cour.ty. There is a question of just what Folk county land needs to keep it in top production condition. Some say lime, and the tile company adds "and drainage". It i3 self evident that in a country cf wet winters, drainage is always necessary. For s-xne time past clay for tile making has been obtained on a piece of land on'C, Lorer.ce's farm. This year, G. H. Ptrtridge, manag er of the company, has been exper imenting with clay obtained nearer the plant and has found abundance that work3 perfectly. He lias beer, busy with two men during the sum mer and has worked his two kilns to capacity. Comniimity-Tree According to call a number of citizens of Monmouth, representing churches, societies, schools and lo cal organisations, met in the rear room of Mprlan's store, TuesJay evening and made arrangements tc have a community Christmas tree tiiis year similar to the cne we had b.st year. It is possible some sud den end severe appearance of sick ness may cause a postponement, but plans were laid and the indications are that the event will be as schsd u!ed. As planned a program cf singing and other incidental feat ures will be held Thursday evening' of next week, December 19. This to allow the Normal students to at tend and help. Miss Parrott was made chairman of the whole andO. A. Wolverton and Miss Maggie But ler were named as an additional committee to assist. The tree is to be located as last year at the in tersection of Main street and Mon mouth avenue, ' The executive committee met on Wednesday and appointed the fol lowing committees: Program the Misses Taylor, Gaylord, Radabaugh, Boise and Mr. Swenson; Music--the Misses Schuette, Mcintosh, Tompkins, McKinney, Richards, Havely and Mrs. M. J. Butler; Finance-Messrs. Morlan, Butler and Dr. M. J. Butler; Decorating the Misses Anderson, West, Mac Donald, Hansen, M. White, Fowler, Mrs. Fred Smith and Messrs. Clay Moreland, Johnson, Powell and Parker; Tree-Messrs. Craven, Poole, Pace, Gilmore, Harold Haley and Fred Smith. Miss Delia Brant received a let ter this week from her brother-in- law, Roy Pitzer, dated New York and stating that he had arrived safely on his return from England. Mr. Pitzer enlisted in the aviation and was in England since last March.- It wr.s a source cf disap pointment to him that he was not allowed to go to France. . Memorial services were he'd re cently for John Braden of Rickre all, one of our soldiers killed in France. DOZEN DEATHS IN ONE WEEK influenza Epidemic Hit Dallas Hard. Seven Die Tuesday In proportion to population, there are few towns in the country which the influenza epidemic has hit worse than it has Dallas. With one week, from Thursday, Decem ber 5 to Thursday December 12, there were twelve deaths in that city caused by the dread disease. On Tuesday of this week seven deaths were reported in the city from the plague. One of the week's victims was Carl Manning, a drug gist of the city. There were thir teen deaths in Dallas during the week alluded to but one death, that of an elderly citizen, was caused by other ailments. Physicians of the city are at a loss to account for the severeness of the sickness and have thorough ly examined conditions without be ing able to discover a cause. All cases are now being quarantined and Wednesday and Thursday there was a big falling off in new caes which would indicate that the crisis of the disease hid passed. Elsewhere in the county the dis ease has not "obtained a second foothold. Independence reports it self practically free from the dis ease and there have been no new cases in Mcnmcuth for some time. In this regard the Dormitory hrs made a splendid record. There have been no cases of influenza there at any time and only two cas es of tonsilitis, which some consider as allied to the' flu. ' The Dormito ry situation is a tribute to the trict and careful management of Miss Todd who has watched the con dition cf the girls closely, insisted that they be properly clothed at all times, and directed that all symp toms cf "colds" be treated promp tly. Keep Your Pledge The year 1918 is drawing to a close and Polk County faces a fail ure in attaining her quota in the sale of War Savings Stamps. Those persons who signed pledge cards for the purchase of Stamps, in reality signed a note, obligating themselves to their Government. Polk County's c uota is $321,000 of which amount, approximately $50, 000 remain unsold. All persons who signed pledge cards are urged to make an effort to redeem their pledges before December 31. To the peace loving people of Polk County, we make this last ap paal in an effort to again put Polk County over the top, a phjee that we have held in all previous War activities. A. B. Starbuck, Chair man cf Committee. A helmet formerly belonging to a German "sniper" and picked up ty Birchard Van Loan on the battle fields of Europe and sent to his par ents in Monmouth, was on exhibi tion at the schools and in the drug store last week and awakened con siderable curiosity. Mrs. All ertf acre. eft for Tilla mook Saturday where she has a school. M.1 acre went along for a visit.
