Herald
I HE
Vol. XI
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, April 11, 1919
No. 32
Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State of. the Best Nation on the Earth
Monmouth
THE NINTH.DAY
OF MERRY MAY
To Witneii (ho Revival of An-
nuftl Festival at tha Normal
President Ackerman, Miu Tay
lor, Head of the Physical Educatkn
Department, and Mri. Curran, Ku
ra) Supervisor, are again, meeting
their cIhhimmi bflvr a week spent in
SpokHi.e attending the Inland Em
pire Teachers Association. At Mon
day's ClniH)l President Ai'kerman
discussed the Educational Program
of the future as outlined by the
National Educational Association
and around which revolved the Spo
kane meeting under the leadership
of Doctor Straver, President of the
N. E. A. The hojie of today ia to
have all the citizens of tomorrow
educated. All must finish the
eighth grade; at leaat, all must
remain in school part time until
eighteen years of age unless an
Ighth.grnde diploma haa been ae
cured. Every effort also muaj be
made to have all attend High School
and then College. All Normals are
urged to extend their course to four
years and then demand that Grade
and High School teachers be com
penimted alike. These, said the
President, In brief are the move
ments occupying the attention of
the leading educators of the nation
and are movements which not only
Indirectly but directly affect us.
Conseipiriitly we should inform our
solves thoroughly upo(n them and
keep in touch in order that we may
Intelligently assist in making the
hope of the future a reality.
The Faculty May Day Committee,
consisting of Miss Taylor, Head of
the Physical Education Department,
Mr. Butler, Head f the History
Department, Miss Schuette, Head
of the Music Department, Miss An
derson, Head of the Art Depart
ment, Mr. Gi'more, Head "of the
Science Department. Mini Mcintosh
Principal of the Monmouth Training
School, and Miss Parrott, Head of
the English Department, met on
Monday evening, following a re
(luest of the Student Body that May
Day, which has not been featured
for the past two years on account of
other patriotic activities, be again
observed. The Committer set May
iUh for the festival and invited tha
Monmouth and Independence Train
ing Schools, the Mountain View,
Klkins and Oak Point Rural Centers
to join with the Normal in the cele
bration of this day which the gov
ernment has asked have a patriotic
significance.
Miss Holmes, Head of the Mathe
matical Department, spent Monday
and Tuesday in Eugene visiting
classes at the University and at the
Campus Junior High.
President Ackerman announced
at Mondav's Chapel that Mr. Even
den, Head of the Education De
partment of the Normal, who has,
for the past two years been on leave
at Columbia, has been offered a per
manent position in Teachers College,
as Doctor Strayer'a assistant. Mr.
Evendcn has not yet accepted, but
the position is such a splendid one
and carries with it such unlimited
opportunities that his friends feel
that he cannot afford to refuse.
While the Normal loses him with
regret yet it conrgatulates him up
on the recognition which Columbia
has accorded-him.
The Memorial Committee of the
Fcaculty met 'with tho Student
Body and recommended the memo
rial, to be erected to the boys rep
resented on our Service Flag, take
the form of an entrance , to the
grounds. The memorial to b e
erected at the north entrance. The
recommendations of the committee
were accepted and the architect
will soon submit plans for approval.
As soon as the plans have been ap
proved a campaign for funds' will
be incepted.
Mrs. Miller, Principal of the
Mountain View Rural Center, "was
a Chapel visitor on Monday.
The Faculty and students are
looking forward to the Easter va
cation which begins on Thursday,
April 17th.
President' Ackerman was a busi
ness visitor to Portland on Tues
day. . , ,'
Miss Anderson, Head of the Art
Department and Accompanist for
the Music Department, has for sev
eral weeks been spending her week
ends in Portland practicing with
John Claire Monteith, Portland's
popular dramatic baritone, who ap
peered at the Normal last evening.
Miss Daisy Slate, the represents
live of the Normal In the State Inter-Collegiate
Oratorical Contest
which is to be held at Eugene on
Friday, April 12th, appeared in
Chapel on Thursday,' Miss Slate
was enthusiastically received by
the Student Body and their recep
tion was an inspiration which will
be a potent factor in Miss Slate's
winning honors for her school.
The third term ends today, April
11th and the fourth term will open
on April 14th. Inconseqence rac
ulty and students have been abnor
mally busy finishing up work and
getting ready for the beginning of
the new term. There are several
students finishing this term, some
of whom have secured excellent po
sitions for the, remainder of the
year. The fifth, or summer term,
will open on June 23.
Dr. Winship, one of the leading
educators of the United States
and editor of the Journal of Educa
tion, will be at the Normal on
Tuesday, April 15. Dr. Winship is
an inspirational speaker and will
give an address that will be inter
eating to the general public- aa well
as to the Normal faculty and Stu
dents.
Mutt Not Fence in '
E$tabli$hed Highwayt
The decision in the case of A. B.
Richardson v. Polk County, which
has been in the Courts for a matter
of nearly two years has this week
been decided in favor of the Coun
ty, the Circuit Court having been
affirmed in the ''decision given in
the lower court.
The county relied upon the doc
trine of dedication as well as upon
the rule of prescription to establish
it contention. Mr, Richardson en
deavored to construct a wire fence
in what the county contended was a
county road over which they had
jurisdiction, which if permitted
would narrow the road and would
have been a most dangerous prece
dent to establish, owing to the fact
Uiat but very few roads in- this
country, except In recent yers
were established by dedication. '
Had plaintiff prevailed the Coun
ty Court would have been at the
mercy of people living adjacent to
similar roads, anyone of whom
might see fit to move their fence
into the county road at their pleas
ure. ,
This suit to' quiet title to the
strip used as a road was brought by
K. Richardson against Polk
County. The first question in dis
pute is whether the road is a legal
ly existing road; and if it is, then
the next question is whether the
line along which the plaintiffs com
menced to build a new fence is in
side of the road.
After giving a summary of the
testimony, in an opinion written by
Justice Harris, the Court says:
"The evidence clearly shows an un
mistakable intention on the part of
Benjamin t . Burch to abandon all
the land between the two rail fenc
es to the use of the public as a
county road; and consequently
there was a common law dedication
of all the land between the lines of
the old rail fences. Burch removed
the gates so that the public could
use the road without hindrance;
he built the rail fences for no other
conceivable purpose than to confine
the travel between the fences; the
county accepted the dedication and
for more than 30 years has kept the
road graded and gravelled, and the
uncontradicted evidence is that the
road compares favorably with the
other county roads, including the
Independence-Corvallis- highway;
the record shows that every dollar
paid for work upon the road was
paid by the county and there is no
evidence that", any person worked
upon the road' without pay; the
strongest kind" of confirmation of
the intention of Burch to dedicate
the road is found in the fact that
he himself recognized that the
road was a county road when he
caused Scott to work upon it in
obedience to the order of the road
supervisor. The evidence is of the
most convincing character and
leaves no room for doubt as to the
intention of Burch when he opened
the road to the public, The lines
ODD FELLOWS
ENTERTAIN
Independence Brethren Visit
Local, and Witness Work
Monmouth Odd Fellows exempli
fled the first link in their celebrat
ed chain of virtue Monday night
by inviting in Valley Lodge of In
dependence to spend the evening
with them, The third degree was
put on with E. M. Ebbert, J. C.
Andrus and Myrle Mulkey as the
recipients of the honors. The Mon
mouth team has been practicing up
a b't and had extemporized an or
chestra with J. S. Prime at the pi'
ano, Wm. Bressler handling the fid'
die bow and E. L. Kilen the drums.
Under their stimulating impulse the
work progressed with the precision
ola well oiled machine.
During the inevitable oratory
hour, 11, Hirsehberg, one of the
visitors, called attention to the fact
that Orville Butler, a member of
Normal Lodge who was present
and himself, were the only two sur
viving charter members of Valley
Lodge which was organized in 1873.
Mr. Hirschberg had joined the fra
ternity in New York the same
year that he came west and took up
his trade as a tinner in Indeoen-
dence in time to help organize the
Independence lodge. B. F. Swope,
another visitor, orated'alonir oatri-
otic lines and Ira Powell recalled in
cidents in the history of Odd Fel
lowship in Monmouth where' their
Independence brethren had served
them with the fraternal spirit. -
H. K. Sickafoose. disnenser of
refreshments, outdid himself in that
regard and at the close of lodge,
those in attendance wont nxrnleri
with ham sandwiches, cake, cookies,
Ice cream, cheese and nicklei.
washed down with amnle draughts
of M. K. s celebrated coffee.
There were about shttv fin nr-
eni at the meeting, twenty five 'of
mem from independence.
When Francis A rant was seven
years old he wag playing with other
boys at basket ball and in course of
tossing the ball' about accidentally
broke the tip off of the end of one
of the arm bones at the elbow.
The arm was sore for a time but
soon healed up. The arm always
bothered him during severe exer
cise and in his work at the bank be
came so sore that it was painful to
use it.. He went lo Portland this
week to consult a specialist and the
latter took out the tip end of the
bone that had broken off years be
fore. It was connected with the
rest of the bone by tissue, which
kept it from decaying and was
about the size of a hazel nut.
Francis now has the tip of bone in
a bottle in alcohol instetd of in his
elbow and expects to.be able to re
sume work in a short time.
Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Wood have
a new Ford auto.
Notice
The Polk County Parent Teach
ers' Association will hold its annual
meeting Saturday, April 19th, in
the Public School Building at Inde
pendence. .
An interesting program has been
arranged and it is hoped each local
association will send as large a del
egation as possible. -
Mrs. J F. Ulrich, Sec.
Grange Program ,
It is Jo be dairymen's day at the
Grange this week and all who are
interested in the dairy business are
invited to attend the afternoon ses
sion, f . M. Brandt of the deoart-
ment of dairying of the Oregon Ag
ricultural College will be present
and his lecture which is the feature
of the afternoon program is bound
to have in it many things of inter
est to th e dairyman. A communi
ty sing will also be staged during
the afternoon.
upon which the rail fences stood
mark the boundaries of the Burch
road. The decree appealed from is
affirmed, but without costs to anv
party in either court.
McBride, C. J. Bean and Benson
J. J. concur." '
Mr. W. C. Winlslow of Salem,
represented Mr. Richardson and
Mr. E, K. Piasecki, District Attor
ney for Polk County, represented
Polk County.
DEATH TAKES
t TWO MORE
Elderly Ladies Antwer Raal
Summons Daring Week Peat
MRS. EMILY HAGGEY
Mrs. Haggey, mother of Mrs.
D. M. Hampton, who ha made ber
home with the Hamptons in Mon
mouth for the past thirteen years.
died last Saturday. She was eighty
five years old and her death was due
to the Infirmities of age. Her fun
eral was held Tuesday, conducted by
the Monmouth Christian Science
church. Mrs, Haggey's grand
daughter, Mrs. Lorraine McWil-
liams of Portland read the services
and Miss Schuette sang a solo.
Emily K, Stockton was born in
Polk county, Mo., March 30, 1834,
and was married to J. C. Chaney in
1854. Mr. Chaney was a soldier in
the civil war and was killed in that
conflict. They had five children.
Mrs. Rebecca J.Hampton of Mon
mouth, R. B. Chaney of Condon,
Joseph Chaney, deceased, - of De-
Boise, Idaho, Bailey Chaney of Pen
dleton and Charlii Chaney of Mika
lo, Oregon.
' There are fifteen grand children,
seventeen great grand children and
two great great grandchildren.
: She was married to Levi Haggey
in 1893 and he died in June, 1905,
since which time she has lived in
Monmouth.
MRS. MARY HALVORSEN
Born. March 21, 1859, in Martin-
ville, Wisconsin. Died, April, 1919
m Eugene, Oregon.
Mary Iverson Halverson was in
Martinville, Wisconsin, and lived in
that state until ber twenty second
year, then moved with her parents
to Clear Lake, Iowa.
She became a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church. In
1884 the took up missionary work,
leaving her home and people in
Iowa, going as Deaconess and Mis
sionary to Moroni, Utah. Three
years of success crowned her work
there. From there she went to Salt
Lake City to do greater work
among the Mormonr . She traveled
and lectured through Northwest
Iowa Conference during her summer
vacations, organizing, and strength
ening work of Home Missionary
Auxiliaries. Her work was to
teach, aid and uplift mankind.
While in Utah she met Rev. Olans
Halversen, and on August 31, 1894,
they were married m Salt Lake City.
They moved from . Utah to Clear
Lake, Iowa, Three daughters
blessed their union. From there
they went to Minnesota, where Mr.
Halversen passed to the Great Be
yond at Big Lake, in 1911.
Shortly after his death, Mrs. Hal
versen with her daughters, came to
Salem, Oregon, spending the winter
there. From there she went to
Monmouth, Oregon, sending her
daughters to Normal. Two girls
were graduated, and took up teach
ing which called them to Eugene,
Oregon, where Miss Esther teaches
in the Washington school and Miss
Margaret in the Junior High school.
Miss Christine is finishing her High
school course.
' Mrs. Halversen was stricken with
paralysis during the first of March
which illness resulted in her death.
She leaves to mourn her loss her
three daughters before mentioned;
a step daughter, Mrs. C. G. Robert
son; a step-son G. E. Halvorsenand
a sister, Julia Iverson, all of Salem;
also three brothers living in the
Middle West. .
To all she was ever loving, kind
and motherly. In all her life Christ
was her motto, and ever in her suf
fering and pain a sweet smile would
cross her face at the approach of
friend or loved one.
Interment was made in the Citv
View Cemetery. Salem. Oreron.
with Dr. Leach of the First M. E.
Church at Eugene in charge of the
services. . ,
Death of Sam Morrison
Sun Morrison, a well known resi
dent of this locality, died in the
Dallas hospital Monday afternoon
after a long straggle for life. He
wu operated on for appendicitis
three weeks ago. His case was dim
cult because it had been neglected
to long and it was teen that recov
ery was in doubt. ' A week ago
Sunday hit condition was very bad
and it was locally reported that be
had passed away, but be rallied. A
later operation was performed last
week for obstruction of the bowels
and in hit weakened condition be
was unable to rally.
Hit funeral services were held
Wedno,Jy afternoon at the ceme
tery at Lewisville. Dr. H. C. Duns-
more of Independence officiated and
Normal Ledge of Odd Fellows of
Monmouth, of which he was a mem
ber, attended in a body and eon
ducted the ritual part of the servic
es. Mr. Morrison was born in Illi
nois, January 16, 1874 and came to
Oregon with hit parents when a
small boy. , The family settled in
the Pedee country where bis father
and mother died and were buried
in the Lewieville cemetery. He
has a brother, William Morrison
living south of Monmouth.
Mr. Morrison was a familiar fig
ure here,' having been connected
with the City Meat Market on' sev
eral occasions.
Ed Griffa laid off from his wood
hauling job because of rheumatism
and his work has been taken up by
E. Emerson. ;
OREGON JERSEY,
BREAKS RECORD
Pkkard't Vive La France Be
comes World't Champion
There is an eccentric pair of
dairymen in Marion county who
within the past month have succeed
ed in breaking two world records
in the production of dairy fat from
Jersey cows. Pickard Brothers the
new celebrities who have thus
achieved a life ambition practically
live for their small dairy herd and
especially expend thought and work
on the two cows which have just
won distinguished honors. No
child is more carefully tended by
its parents than these cows are
cared for, fed and milked. The
champion, Vive La France, complet
ed her year March 24 and during
the twelve months produced 14,866
pounds of milk and 1,031.50 pounds
of fat. Since the previous Jersey
record was held by the C. I. Hood
cow with 1,000 pounds of butter, it
will be seen that the Marion county
cow has a large marginjn the lead.
This cow is classed as a senior
four year old and has a clear lead
over all Jersey cows of any age.
Old Man's Darling 2nd, owned by
the same Pickards, has the junior
four year old record with 14,630
pounds of milk and 983.68 pounds
o'fat.
Vive La France's record will be
recognized as all the more notewor
thy when it is known that she had
no silage and practically no alfalfa
hay. She docs not like alfalfa, and
she was fed other roughness. She
had plenty of good beet pulp
throughout her entire test, and
most of the time there was ' plenty
of kale for the two cows. At times
it was hard to get the grains want
ed, but she had a little oil meal
practically all the time. Ovid Pick
ard, who is the dairyman of the
farm, tried to vary the feed to
tempt the cows' appetites, but a
part of the time only ground bar
ley was fed. Ground oats, wheat
bran, corn meal, mill run, cotton-
Led meal and cocoanut meal were
among the concentrates used. -
In January the kale froze, and
Vive La France had to do without
her only succulence. Bad weather
kept her in doors, so she did not
get quite her usual exercise.- She
still kept up her heavy feeding of
concentrates, and developed a case
of impactation'of the bowels. Two
veterinarians worked over her and
her life was saved, but it cut down
her February production of milk
probably two-thirds and decreased
her January and March production,
But in spite of all this she has
realized the ambition of her owners
by making a world record by a good
margin. . . . .
MILLIONS FOR
. RURAL ROADS
U. S. Government to Spend Big
Sunt Encouraging the Work.
The last Congress amended the
Federal-Aid law in such fashion as
to give the states more latitude in
building. These changes became
a law through the passage of the
post office appropriation bill, sec
tions 6 and 6 of which read at fol
lows; . j
"Sec. 5. That the act entitled .
'An act to provide that the United
States shall aid the States in the
construction of rural post roads,
and for other purposes,' approved
July 1, 1916, it hereby amended to
provide that the term 'rural post
roads,' as used in section 2 of said
act. shall be construed to mean
any public road a major portion of
which it now used, or can be used,
or forms a connecting link not ,to
exceed 10 miles in length of any .
road or roads now or hereafter used
for the transportation of the Unit
ed States mails, excluding everv
street and road in a place having a
population, as shown by the latest
available Federal census, of 2 500
or more, except that portion of any,
sucn street or road along which toe
houses average more than 200 feet
apart: Provided. That section 6 of
said act be further amended to that
the limitation of navmente ' not to
ecxeed $10,000 per mile, exclusive .
of the cost ot bridges of more than
ii leet clear span, wnicn the Secre
tary of Agriculture may make: be.
and the same is.; increased ot
120,000 per mile. . j
Provided further. That in the ex.
penditure of this fund for labor
preference shall be given, other
conditions being equal, to honora
bly discharged soldiers, sailors and
marines, but any other preference "
or discriminiation among citizens'
of tile United States' in connection
with the expenditure of this appro
pritation is hereby declared to be
unlawful." . . , . ;
Federal aid for road construction
for 1919, 1920 and 1921 has been
.provided on a more liberal scale
than ever before. If millions of fed
eral funds are not absorbed by the
States in State road projects, it will
oe no fault of the Federal Govern
ment. Millions are available. How
completely the possibilities of the
present opportunity are approxima
ted depends on the State adminis
trations. .
Federal funds to the amount of
$266,750,000 will have been made
available for State road projects by
the end of the fiscal year 1921. Un
der legislation enacted prior to the
last Congress there are available for
1917, 1918 and'1919-and now ap-.
portioned among the' States-$29,-100,000.
To this, the last Con-"
gress added $48,500,000 for the fis-
cal year 1919, making the total of
Federal aid for road construction
to the end of the fiscal year 1919,
$77,600,000. , In 1920 there will be '
$92,150,000 available for this work,
and in 1921 an additional $97,000,
000. ; '
On Cupid's Knoll
On Junior'Pay
The Seniors gay
Were bubbling over with "pep".
To Cupid's Knoll
Their way they stole
And lived up to their "rep".
They sang their song
As they marched along
And captured a jolly mascot.
They had their eat .
"Twas a great feat
To keep them from getting too hot.
Some were burned
They surely earned
The great fun that they had.
The pictures were good
You know they would "
Be-Seniors could never look bad.
E. Sumner, Reporter.
The Great and Only .
Charlie Chaplin, the world's
greatest screen comedian, will . be
seen in the Normal Chapel on
Thursday, April 17, at eight o'clock
in his second million dollar picture
"Shoulder Arms". Charlie has his
own ideas about whipping the Huns
and in this, agreed by critics to be
his greatest picture, he presents
them for the "edification" and "ed
ucation" of the public. In addition
to the Chaplin film there will be a
series of Travelogues shown. Ad
mission 10 and 20 cents.
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