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The Monmouth Herald Vol. XI Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State of the Best Nation SUMMER SCHOOL IS CRGANIZED With Increased Attendance Stu dent! and Faculty Start Session The Summer Session of the Ore gon Normal oixwd cn Tucxlav with I larger enrollment than Inst year and many more are expected next week at the close of the exam inations. Registration was practi cally completed on Monday and on Tuesday the clauses took up the regular work. The Student Body, according to an established custom organized in to county groups at a meeting he'd on Wednesday. The following is the order of grouping: Group I Baker, Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jeffer on, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco and Wheeler coun.ie.; Group II Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamuth and Lake Coun ties; Group III-Benton, Clacka mas, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, and Til lamook counties; Group IV Multnomah; Group V-Marlon, Polk, Washington, Yamhill, Clat sop and Columbia counties. Many old students are back to finish work and a number of them will receive their standard diplomas at the close of the Summer Session. Tito Annual Reception for the Summer School students will be held Saturday evening on the cam pus from eight to ten. All on the Normal social list are invited. Mr. Ostien, Head of the Muthe matica Department, whn has been In Y. M. C. A. work in France fori the past vear has resumed his du ties at the Normal. He will take an evening some time during the summer session to tell of his work "over there". Almost seventy of the Summer School students are taking the teachers' examinations which are being held in the high school build Ing. Tolstoi's "Resurrection" which is quoted as one of the strongest pro ductions of this great Russian re former and ohilosonher is the cine- ma at the Normal this evenlhg, Admission 10 and 20 cts. Mr, Shumate, Ginn & Co's. rep. resentative, was demonstrating the Beacon Primary Readers at the Normal this week. The faculty and students of the Normal are planning to celebrate Independence. The spirit of the duy will be carried into the evening when will be shown that much talK ed of biography of Lincoln, "The Son of Democracy.'" On next Wednesday, at chapel, Miss Marvin, State Librarian, and a member of the Board of Regents, will speak. All are invited. "The Red Lantern" in which Nazimova, the great Russian act ress, appears, will be shown on Wednesday evening at the Normal. This depiction of an Oriental festi val is auoted as one of the most spectacular films ever staged. The generous assistance of Com' mercial club and citizens of Mon mouth in transporting the Summer School students from Independence was much appreciated by the Norm al and President Ackerman takes this ODDortuniy to express his thanks. New Creamery Manager Owing to the necessity for find Intr time to attend to his own pri vate affairs P. 0. Powell has re signed the managership of the CO' operative creamery and the direct orsof that institution have engaged Joseph A. Larson to take his place. Mr. Larson is a brother of the gentleman who for a time was county agent for Polk. He comes from Canby where he has had ex perience in creamery and cheese making work and is now busy get ting acquainted in order to take up the work to best advantage. The creamery ..as prospeieu u. u Powell's management and has at - tained a large influence intthis sec tion. Miss Donna Mason is planning to attend the Capital Business College in Salem this summer. Wisconsin first to RATIFY SUFFRAGE To Wliconiln os th honor of belni the flnl stale to reililer II ratlflcktlon to lbs constitutional intendment tor luting. David 0 Junes ot Medlion, father of Ads Jamas, (hitman of WltcoiW In Womin's Psrty. borrowed, money for th "hop" to U cpl iii i, aottmi tour ju(l ahotd.ot Illinois' mewenicr.. Mr. OstLn at Home Ex-Mayor H. C. Ostien returned Saturday afternoon from his service with the Y. M. C. A. workers in France, ile was absent from Mori' mouth a little over a year. Satur day evening a group of friends, Normal faculty and others, dropped in on Mr. and Mrs. Ostien as a sur prise bringing along with them re freshments and a hearty welcome once more to our midst During the evening Mr. Ostien gave a briel account ol his exper iences abroad. He told of his meeting with Miss Butler who Is in charge oi one of the Y eating houses at St Nozaire, which is one of the ports of embarkation from France, She was highly commend ed by her superiors who said that she had been able to bring system to the work that materially helped to accomplish the vast amount of service required. Mr. Ostien told of his experienc es as an entertainer when he had charge of a moving picture mach ine. The pictures were exhibited where the opportunity parmitted; sometimes in a building, but more often out doors. Sometimes the walls of a church or other building would serve as a background and once the pictures were thrown on a convas stretched between two trees in an orchard. Mr. Ostien's headquarters were for a considerable time at Belfort. The management had planned and worked out an ambitious education al plan in which he was to have a prominent part but the war came to an end .before 't materialized About the only educational work he did he says, was to draw some maps of the Hunting front which were displayed in the Y huts and which attracted much attention from the soldiers. At the time of the Ar gonne offensive Mr. Ostien was or dered aboard cars with the soldiers and traveled a day and a half with destination unknown, but was land ed near Verdun. Here, in the vi cinity of some of ths fiercest early fighting Mr. Ostien was stataioned at the time of the war's last great battle. It was his duty to assist at a first relief for the wounded sta tion and many soldiers, both of the Americans and of the enemy were given help there. Mr. Ostien ar rived at Newport News early in June and reported for discharge in New York. On the way west he vis ited with relatives in Ohio and Ne braska. Commercial Club Active The Commercial Club found sev eral items of business 'demanding attention at a session held last Fri day evening. Traffic on the streets of the city have grown until regula tions are rei,u red and a set of tin policemen will be secured end plac ed at the intersections to give their warn'ng to travelers. The club will finance this enterprise. 1 A general clean up also was urg ed ad steps taken to push, this oc - . .. . .. ... . 1 " JZ "V"; weeds and grass. along the side walks. The water problem was also con sidered and steps taken to try out all possible avenues of increasing the supply. Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, June 27, 1919 WILL DEMAND ROAD MONEY Council Asks for Funds Held by County Now The latt legislature passed a law that Is of Interest to all municipali ties, especially where the city com prises a separate road district as Monmouth does. This law pre scribes that the money in the road Jund of such district shall be expen ded by the city and its own street department. The county coutt which heretofore has exercised jur- isdictionhas ruled that this money could only be expended on county roads within the corporate limits. Last year Monmouth was not allow ed any of this money so now with the new law in effect Monmouth finds itself with something like $1,000 to its credit. Acting underj instructions of the city attorney the Council at its session Tuesday night pawed a resolution asking the city treasurer to demand of the county treasurer the sum of money in his hands that belongs to the local road district. Proof of posting resolutions rela tive to proposed paving were also accepted .and ordered filed. The following claims were also allowed: Water Fund, J. F. Moreland, $60., R. B. Swenson, $10.20. General Fund: F. K. Skeen, haul ing,$19.75; R. B. Swenson, Recor der fees, $16.80; J. F. Moreland, $1.00; F. D. Moore, copying re cords, $8.00; Oscar Hayter, filing fees in supreme court, $10.00; Ore gon Gravel and Contractin g Co. $38.00. The Polk county Itemizer shares with the Herald the distinction of being the most regular of issue of the newspapers of - Polk county. When the Itemizer arrived a day late - last week we felt sure that some extraordinary explanation would follow. Sure enough, the Itemizer has been indulging in a new press which the editor proudly states is the largest and best in Polk county and we haste offer con gratulations. The blocks of concrete street crossings that for some time have graced the side of the street at the Maples property have been Recently moved away. Several cars of crushed rock have been received during the past week and have been hauled by truck to the edge of Independence where the highway work starts. The cars are emptied by means of a steam shovel and this machine and the trucks handle from three to four cars of the rock daily. Jacob Smith who left last week with his family for another climate writes that they are located for the present at Bend where they find the fishing is good. The warehouse owned by the Ore gon Milling and Warehouse Co, that formerly stood at Airlie has been taken, down and within the week passed has been shipped to Monmouth where the lumber will be used in a 50 ft. addition to the Monmouth warehouse. Fishback brothers are doing the work, direct ed by Mr. Girard of Independence. The Airlie warehouse has not been uses for storage of grain for ten years. For a while it was used for freight by the railroad company until they built a depot of their.own and did not need it any longer. It was in the Airlie Suver neighbor hood that Mr. Hoffman started his career as a warehouseman. The deal between the Baptist church people and the owner of the Maples property has reached the stage where the papers are being prepared but it may be two or three weeks yet before the transfer a "t- uolly talces place. Old maids, it is said write the best love stories and certainly the sentimental parts were a feature of the movie production of that elastic tale "Little Women" as pre sented in the Normal chapel last Monday evening. The homely every day incidents of Miss Alcott' book appealed to the audience, The Jones Jersey sale held' last Saturday realized 52800 for the 24 head of cattle offerelfor sale. One of the cows was bought by Mrs, Fember of this city. COMMISSIONER DIES SUDDENLY fvVts Manibn o Da'las Suc cumbs to Gangreen Po'ton'ng Moses Manston, county commis sioner, died at his home in Dallas last Thursday night, following a brief illness. So sudden and unex pected was the death that the news was hard to credit. Death resulted from gangrene poison which set in to an old wound received number of years ago in Minnesota. Man sion was born in England March 20, 1850 and resided in that coun try until he he grew to young man hood when he ran away and came to America. Ile located in Minne sota and for a number of years was a superintendent of construction for the Northern Pacific railroad. He came to Dallas in 1900. His wife died in 1905 and his son, W. H. F. Manston was killed by a motor car in 1915. For a number of years Manston was roadmaster of the Salem, Falls City and Western Railroad but when that line was absorbed by the Southern Pacific, he engaged in the real estate business. He was elect ed county commissioner in 1916. Funeral services were held Satur day morning from the Dallas Metlv odist church. Seek New Commissioner Much speculation is being indulg ed in, locally, over the identity of the new county commissioner who will be named to succeed the late Commissioner Manston. The ap pointment of this commissioner rests with the remainder of the court, it appears, and the .court now consisting of Judge Robinson and Commissioner Graves are "nego tiating in an attempt to get togeth er on an appointment. It is re ported the two are agreed that the new appointee shall be a Republi can and his residence will be m Dallas. Naturally Dallas citizens are interested and have canvassed the city for available men. How ever the men have to run the gauntlet of official approval and this narrows the field considerably. It is. said that a gentleman named Riley has all the qualifications and stands a good chance of appoint ment. Manager Partridge of the Central Tile plant has been experimenting with a building tile and has met with good results. Samples of ma terial taken from the kiln last week are now on exhibition at different places in town and are attracting considerable attention The tile are similar to cement blocks ' with air space and are 6x8x12 inches ,in dimensions. There may be in tin's the starting of a new enterprise as the material found in proximity to the kilns is apparently very well adapted to this sort of manufacture The Antioch Liberty and Elkins Sunday Schools met at the Antioch school house on Sunday,' June 22 at 10 a. m. with grand success, about 200 being present. The Sunday School was conducted by Rev. F. P Allen general missionary, of Mc Minnville, with a bountiful dinner at noon. The afternoon services consisted of a program for Child ren's Day by the Antioch and Lib erty children, with two beautiful songs by the Smith sisters of Dallas. There were talks by the superin tendents of each school and an ad dress by Rev. Benny of the Christ ian church of Dallas and another by Rev,. Johsnon of the Methodist church of Dallas. Rev. Hai riman and wife of Eugene were a'so pre sent. The forme? is a graduate with the Bible University class of 1919. All report a pleasant and enjoyable time and are planning for another in the near future. v Th nnm,l lk k en s club and the city council ot Dallas are the actuating forces in a move in that town to improve the public park of that city and make of it a camping spot for tourists who are out sight seeing in this part of the valley. Tree water and fuil will be furnished and a concrete stove furnished for their use. There will also be a bathing place for children and sign boards will point the way to the grounds. HERMAN CRAVEN NOW CLERK OF SENATE Herman C. Craren. former member of th civil service com. mlulon. hu bean uiraed thief clerk of th Sentt to wcv4 ftw U. WUkid, .Z Ostrom Bests Salem Record Last week the Salem Capitol- Journal published a news item to the effect that a citizen of that burg who cu'tivated strawberries in his back yard had grown straw, berries that yielded at the rate of $900 per acre. Of course that is pretty good for Salem, for over there they do not have the advant age of being located on the rich loam that comprises the soil of Monmouth and vicinity. We felt sure that when all the returns were in from the back counties Mon mouth would have the Salem record backed into a corner and gasping for breath. E. R. Ostrom has just concluded his harvest and finds that his field had yielded at the rate of over a thousand dollars per acre. He has under cultivation an even one third of an acre of the berries associated with the one and only variety of shortcake. This third acre yielded this year berries -which brought $367.49 which is at the rate of $1092 per acre. This is the third crop from this planting of berries, The first year the crop brought $125, the second crop brought $162.50 and the vines are good for another crop next year. Young Minister Dead The present post-war period has been saddened with the death of a number of young people, the latest being Rev. C. W. Stewart, the young and promising son of Mr.and Mrs. N. S. Stewart of Monmouth. Mr. Stewart was overtaken with nervous prostration and had to give up his pastorale at Bend for a time and come back to the valley in the hope of improvement.. Mr. Stew art was formerly a pastor in Inde pendence and the following appre ciation of him was contributed to the Enterprise of that city. "Clyde W. Stewart was born at Beaver Oak, Kansas, November 29, 1882 and died June 13, 1919, at Banks, Oregon. He was a student at Kimball School of Theology, Sa lem, Ore. He was the minister in charge of the Jason Lee church. He was married to Fern Smith of Banks, Ore.,- June 15, 1911 and to this union three children were born. He leaves a wife, three children, parents in Monmouth and a brother Carl, of Chehalis, Washington. Funeral services were held at dough's undertaking parlors, Salem, June 14. Rev. Cook of In dependence gave a talk on Mr. Stewart's life and Drs. Talbot and Hammond spoke of Mr. Stewart as a student. He was pastor at Bend for two years and seven months While there he was scout master of a large company and he was also a scout master at Independence dur ing his ministry here. He was a gentle leading pastor, loved by all." Arthur Miller, big as life arrived in Monmouth from the scenes of action in France. Arthur who is a veteran of both army and navy ex perience, was with the 20th engin eers during the present war and as such had his full set of experiences in France. He worked mostly in the lumber industry getting out building material for bridges, and other uses incidental to soldiering. The timber swed was mostly beach and and oak. Although in the same division with Capt. E. B. Hamilton he never .aw that gentle man while he was in France. No. 43 on the Earth BOARD HOLDS -ANNUAL MEET Salary Increase for Instructors Faculty Members Resign t The Board of Regents of the Normal held its annual session here last Friday and among other items of business accepted the resignations of three members of the faculty. Miss Parrott head of the English department resigned in order to attend school and Miss Anderson of the Art Department also will leave with tht prospect of bettering her- If. Miss Dunham, critic of the third and fourth grades of the Mon mouth training school resigned to accept a position with the schools of Portland. Because of the in creased cost of living the Board granted salary raise of one hundred dollars per year to instructors who have been with the Normal one year or more. President J. H. Acker- man was reelected to the presidency of the school at an increase in salary from $3600 to $4000 for a term of three years. , - The board also provided for assis tants in the physical education de partment and in the department of art and music. Miss Radabaugh, critic teacher of the fifth and sixth grades was granted a leave of ab ssnce to attend the university next year. The board expressed its opinion that the school can not.be conduct ed properly under the one twenty fifth of a mill tax. Members of the Board who at tended were: Miss Cornelia Marvin, Salem, Supt. J. A.Churchill, Salem: Judge John S. Coke, Marshfield; E. E. Bragg, LaGrande. W. C. Bryant, Moro; C. L. Starr, Portland. David Campbell Weds The following inSunday'g Ore gonion will be of interest to Mon mouth people: "Friends of Mar guerite Dosch Josselyn and David Campbell were surprised to learn of their marriage Thursday evening. The ceremony was quite simple and was performed under the trees fin the Dosch .gardens. The Kev. John H. Boyd officiated. Mrs. Campbell is the daughter of Col. and Mrs. Henry Dosch of Hills dale and Mr. Campbell is a promi nent musician. Their wedding date had been set for early in July. Out of town guests included rela tives of the bridegroom and the en tire list'was limited to relatives and very close friends. After a short wedding trip they will return to Portland. Truth About Russia Dr. Joseph Clare, "The Pastor of Petrograd" who comgs to Chautau qua on the opening night, says that the Russian revolution was not caused by the oppression of the common people but by their betray al. The vast masses of the peasant ryand they were incredibly ignor antwere not aware that they were oppressed. Their living con dition were wretched but they were accustomed to no other and the great mass of the people had no thought of revolting against the ruling powers. , As the war went on the insidious forces of treachery and betrayal crept into ths Russian government. Ammunition and supplies fell into the hands of the Germans. German gold filled the pockets of the very high in command. Traitors multi plied. The army became honey combed with corruption. ; Soldiers found themselves going into battle with one gun for every twelve men. Conditions became unbearable and the Revolution was the natural re sult. Dr. Clare was one of the first few English speaking people in Pet rograd during the days and nights of terror. He was in intimate touch with leading men at the capi tal and tells many interesting things about Lenine, Trotsky, Kerensky, Rasputin and the late Czar. At the regular meeting of Agate Rebekah lodge last Thursday night, Mrs. E. M. Ebbert was initiated into the mysteries of the order. Refreshments in the way of icj cream and cake were served and a social time enjoyed by all. Miss Daphne Ostrom came from Portland for a week end visit with home folks, r . ;