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Vol XII ' . Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, January 2, 19Z0 . .' No. 18
Many Visitors Here
For Holiday Season
Miu Beuie Graham who ia teach
ing In Portland it spending her va
cation with her parents In this city.
F, 8. Conklln, of Vernonla, Ore--.
IWi nephew of Rev. Peter Con
- kiln, wai guest at the latter'
1 lume for few dayi at Chriatmai
t time.
' -. A. C, Hampton of LaGrsnle,
president of the State Teachera As
ixiatlon, waa the Chrlstmaa guest
of parents and relatives in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. 'K. H. Sickafoor
of Newberg were calling on rela
tives and friends In this city this
week.
Messrs. and Mesdames Carleton
and Burton and aons of Salem were
Christmas guests with President and
Mrs. Ackcrman.
J. E. Simpson of Portland spent
Chrlstmaa with his mother ,Mrs. M.
H. Simpson.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Knapp and
1 Mrs. Vernon Brown and baby of
Portland were visitors at Mrs.
Shore's thia week,
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Byrd of Spo
kane are holiday visitors at 0. A.
Wolverton's. Mrs. Byrd Is Mr.
Wolverton's sister and with her hus
band attended school here twenty
five years ago.
Miss Grace Mcl.iin of Rosalia,
Washington, Is the guest of her sis
' tor, Mrs. 11. C. Ostlen and family
during the holidays.
Wm. Harvey came up from Port
land where he Is attending the Trac-
tor and Automobile school, to spend
Christmas days with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey.
Mrs. M. M. Long and children
, Merle and Mary of Corvallis visited
her mother, Mrs. L. R. Burkhead
last Sunday and Monday.
.; The annual family reunion and
"' Christmas tree was held at J. S.
Conkey's Wednesday evening of last
week. Last year, due to the preva
lence of flu the event was omitted
tut this year a large number at
tended. Mr. and. Mrs. Samuel Strickler of
Roseburg are visiting at W. J.
Miller's and with other friends in
this city.
J. 8. Fuller and family spent
Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Irvin
, Baunjn Independence. '
Mr. and Mrs. J. Bailey of Albany
and Carl Pol lan and family of Tan
gent spent Christmas with relatives
In this city.. ,
The M isses Gertrude and Florence
""' Heffley and Edna Scott are home
from school duties for the holiday
vacation, Miss Margaret Rice is
also home from the hospital in Port
land where she has been for some
time.
Arthur Parkes of PortlanJ was a
visiter Christmas at W. P. Fisher's.
The Burkhead family reunion
Christmas tree was at the home of
Mr. a id Mrs. G. R. Crnfout on
, Wednesday evening. A irogram
, . consisting of songs, readings and
' living pictures was enjoyed after
which refreshments, including oys-
, ter soup, were served. Ihose pres
ent were Mrs. L. R.'Burkhead, Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Burkhead, R. P.
Burkhead, Mr, and Mrs. M. M.
Harvey, Wm., Neta and Bernice
Harvey, Mr and Mrs. G. R. Cro
foot, Georgia and Louranie Crofoot
All returned to .the same home for
Christmas dinner.
, Lyn Long of Corvallis came to
" spend New Years with his grand
mother, Mrs. L. R. Burkhead.
MissLela Erickson spent Christ
" mas and the week end under the
parental roof, returning to her
work in the U.of 0. Sunday even
ing,
SPIRITUALISM CHIEF
TOPIC IN U. S. NOW
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America ts very much Inter
Sited la pirehle discussions and
eiperlmcnli at present. Erer
slno tbe wai this subject Us
bees Ue chief topic and interest.
As a mull, Sir Oliver Lodge ot
Kngltnd, admitted to be one el
the (retted authorities, Is to tour
tbe United Butte lecturing la
eolleittte tnd general eourm. la
tht lugutge of the people It Is
"SplrltutlUm," bat with tht more
Intelltctutl ptychlo using the
piece of tht old-tlmt "mtdlum"
end tirUiMi in from jartly
eeleatliie sunupolnu '
Mrs. and Miss Erickson enter
tained at Christmas dinnei, Mr.
and Mrs. Stombaugh in Jhonor of
the latter s wedding anniversary.
Miss Mabel Lorence of Bend, Mr.
and Mrs.' , rream of Roseburg and
Mr. Mid Mrs. Tyler of Portland
were Christmas guests at C. Lor-
ence's.
Miss Jessie Webber is in Portland
spending a few days with her
brother, John Webber.
Misses Clem and Bernice McKin-
ney of Corvallis .visited with
friends in this city the first of the
week.
Money in Rice
Clark Hembree who was in the
city the past week says there is lots
of money being made in growing
rice in the Sacramento valley. An
average yield of rice i i 30 sacks of
100 pounds each to the acre that
sells from 8 to 12 cents per pound.
During the growing and filling out
months, the rice is kept constantly
under bi'x to eight inches of water
which is supplied through pumps
and "wells and the pimps are kept
working night and day to supply the
water. The care of the rice is in
the hands of natives of India, in a
large measure, Hindoos and Moham
medans, many of whom have grown
wealthy in the profits of recent
years.
ClOSE-UP OF LOWDEN
twoMantfnl hnnmt are numer
ous 'In Republican ranks now,
among them being the hat tossed
Into the ring by Governor Frank
C. Lowden ot Illinois. This new
picture is from Washington,
where he appeared recently with
the special Senate committee ap
pointed to i consider, a. national
hudet.
Face Value,
mil Which part of your face Is
the cheapest! . . :
John Dunno.. '
Bill lour nostrils ; they are two for
a cent (scent). Boys' Lite.
Box Social Boosts
For Building Fund
University students all over the
state in their reactive towns are
taking advantage of the holiday
season to so something that will
raise money to help pay for the new
woman's building proposed to he
added to the university campus.
Because of the six per "cent limit
the last legislature could appropri
ate only half of the 200,000 re
quired for the building. The uni
versity people have undertaken to
raise the other half. (70,000 has
already been secured and to raise
the remaining $30,000is now the
aim of the students.
A basket social will be give by
local students in Odd Fellows' hall
Friday night to which all are invited
Admission free; ladies to bring
baskets for two. A good program
has been prepared to start at 8.
o'clock Auction of the boxes ia to
start at 9 with Prof. T. H. Gentle
as auctioneer The preliminary pro
gram ia as follows: '
Talk-J. B. V. Butier ,
Vocal Solo-Lora .Craven-Butler
Reading-Grace Parker '
Violin Solo Helen Cornelius
Piano Solo Dorcas Conklin
Reading Birchard Van Loan
Duet Lora Craven-Butler and
Hope McDonald
Winter of "46"
"Colder weather than we had two
weeks ago" asserts Mrs. Cattron,
'of course we have had colder wea
ther. The coldest winter I ever
saw here was the first,-in 1846.
We had just arrived across the
plains from Missouri. There was
so much snow and it was so cold
that it disgusted my father and he
wanted to go back. But my moth
er said 'No'. She had not wanted
to come in the first place, but being
here she would not go back across
the plaina for anything. In the
spring my father changed his mind
again. He took a vote of the chil
dren to see who wanted to go back
and only one voted aye. The next
winter was as fine as any one could
ak for." The trouble with Ore
gon people, Mrs. Cattron says, is
they forget the cold, between spells.
To paraphrase Parkman's words
about the Indians, "Still in the sea'
son of comfort, they forget the
time of stress. Still the inevitable
cold snap.catches them with expos
ed water pipes and unprotected
spuds and apples."
The prophesies'about the end of
theworld remind J. W. Webber of
this one. "Whenever you see a
red-headed cross-eyed negro chase
a black cat through a graveyard on
Friday night, the thirteenth of the
month it is a sure sign of a dry
summer or a hard winter." And
Mr, Webber adds, "I've rever
known it to fail." , '
Changes have been made in a
nu nber of the voting precincts of
t'.ie county to correct lines where
city precincts and country precincts
have been combined. This is to
follow the new law which orders that
municipal and state elections be
held at the same time. As Mon
mouth is not large enough to come
under the provisions of the new law,
the local precincts have been left as
they were.
A move is on in Dallas to re-or
ganize Company L, which since the
company was absorbed in the regu
lar army, has left Dallas without a
military organization of this kind.
' "Grandma" Sevier, Cooper Hoi
low pioneer, who died some day
ago, was buried from Chapman'
undertaking parlors . in Dallas
Wednesday with interment in the
Smith cemetery in the Luckiamute
country. -
Subscription Price $2
After January 15th
We have had to come to it. On
and after January 15, 1D20 the
subscription price of the Monmouth
Herald will be 2.00 per year. Our
idea of a poor way to begin the new
year is to be owing for the best
paper in Oregon.
If through any overnight, you are
in arrears or if you are paid in ad
vance and wish to extend the time
at the 1 .0 rate you ran do so by
acting before January 15, 1920.
The Herald has never felt any in
clination to lead in the general
move to raise prices. Rather, we
have held back, thinking that after
a time old conditions would re-adjust
themselves and former prices
prevail.
But the prospects now are that
before-the-war prices are a good
ways ahead, if perhaps we ever see
them again. Last week we ordered
five hundred pounds of paper at a
quoted price more than twice as
high as it was four years ago. In
the interval elapsi ng between the
receipt of the order'and the mailing
of the quotation on which the ship
ment was ordered, about three days,
the price on the shipment had gone
up $2.50 '
Everything we buy is high, and
the outlook is, this will continue for
a long time. We must accustom
ourselves to a fact that can not be
excused but must be faced. If the
Herald is to continue to live and
flourish and boost the best section
of the best county in Oregon, prices
must be raised both in subscriptions
and advertising rates and this we
are proceeding to do. We do not
believe in wasting paper and have
always tried to have every inch of
the Herald readable jvith matter
worthy of the white paper used.
But the time is rapidly coming
when more paper must be used and
we want to feel free to use it. In
the meantime if you wish to extend
your subscription at the $1.50 rate
you must act before January 15.
Considerable interest was aroused
at : the meeting of the court and
citizens in Dallas Friday to adopt a
budget for tthe new year. Two
measures were adopted by the tax
payers present in spite of the op
position of ths county judge. One
of these adds $2,000 for extra clerk
hire during the coming year and
the other provides for a county
agent, the appointing of whom was
authorized by the meeting.
F. E. Dickson has sold his Inde-,
pendence market to Gus Miller, re-
cntly of Dayton.
WORLD CORN KING
This farmer has won world oorn
honors. His name Is Louis M.
Scott and he lives at Fairmont,
Minn., on the southern edge ot
the North Star State. Mr. Scott's
corn, which was of the white dent
variety, took the grand prise at
the recent International Stock
and Oraln Show at Chtc&go.
More Light
Mr. Joslin of the Power company
was in Monmouth Tuesday looking
up the active work of installing
lights asked for on Monmouth Ave
nue and on College street. It was
hoped these lights could be of the
larger size'but they will have to be
of the turn off variety, the expense
of putting in a double circuit frr
the regular lights being too great.
S Kompany K J
Kompany K
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Co. "K" h?s just received a ship
ment, of equipment tnd it is the
finest lot of material imaginable.
Included in It are raincoats, over
coats, field equipment, blankets,
all right from the factory and never
used, also wrap leggings and many
other things too numerous to men
tion. The suits did not arrive in
this shipment but are due at an
early date. There is enough ma
terial to fully equip 85 men and
they will be proud of it to say the
least. Some Xmas present.
It is rumored that F. E. Di.k-ron,
one of our most efficient' sergeants
has sold out and will soon move to
California. Serg. Dickson has
been one of our loyal supporters and
we will be sorry to see him go. A?
a boxing magnate, he has Jack Grant
and Frank Kendall faded four ways.
It has come to our attention that
a bill is now before Congress, mak
ing military drill compulsory for all
able bodied boys between the ages
of 18 and 21 years. We would
suggest that all boys in this com
munity that will be affected by this
law1, join Co. "K" immediately and
derive the benefits to be had by
getting in on the ground floor.
You can be assured of a square
deal on the part of the officers and
non-commissioned staff and prc-
motions made strictly on merits.
Co. "K" will have a Basket Ball
team this year and under the effici
ent management of Serg. Pengra,
we should give some of these Com
pany teams a run for their money,
and mindful of the business men's
generous offer of last summer, we
will start early in moulding togeth
er a base ball team.
Now that the new equipment has
arrived, it will be issued at once,
providing the state equipment is
turned in and the men's records are
clear.
It is rumored that part of the
Salem company'sequipmentis second
hand and in comparison w:th our
fine new "stuff", we take this op
portunity to offer our condolences,
This is more evidence that Co. "K"
stands high with the powers that be.
Most of the work of unpacking
the equipment has fallen upon the
broad shoulders of Capt. Stidd and
Supply Serg. Baker and it is useless
to say the job has not been done to
the King's taste.. After finishing
up Capt. Stidd remarked that the
future of Company ' 'K" never
looked brigthter although we must
get more recruits as soon as possible
to fill up tne ranks left vacant by
men being discharged.
Company news and any items of
interest in connection with the Com
pany will be welcomed for this col
umn. Turn it in to any of the "offi
cers or the "staff",.
Co. ''K" notes will be published
weekly hereafter and for live news
do not overlook them.
Although not exactly a company
item, a Basket Ball game has just
been scheduled with the crack Leg
ion team of Dallas to be played in
Dallas on New Years eve. The
team will be composed of the best
players in Independence and Buena
Vista and will play under the name
of Independence.
U. S Census Count
Is Begun Today
On January second, tens of thou
sands of persons will begin work in
every section of the United States ,
and in our insular possessions,
counting the population of every
hamlet, village and city. The great
task this year will be under the
direction of Samuel L.Rogers, from
whose offices in Washington will be
operated the vast machinery neces
sary to a proper enumeration of the
country's population.
frobably no previous census has
attracted so much attention. The
grea'esefTortever exerted by com-
mercial organizations in all parts
of the country is being made to see
that no one escapes the census tak
ers. The rivalry between states.
cities and comunities for supremacy
is keen ?r than ever before, with the
result that nearly every community
has organized committees of busi
ness men and women to see that
ever man, woman and child of what
ever color or nationality, in each
community, is registered.
Previ ms history has shown that
all census takers are not careful;
that sometimes inclement weather
interferes with the work of the en
umerators, and that for any one of
a dozen reasens the total'population
of a city or town is improperly
compiled. It is to make sure that
Oregon is credited with every resi
dent, that many of the commun
ities of the state have formed com
mittees to assist the enumerators
tn their work. , '
Local enumerators are: East and
West Rickreall Margaret Kurre;
First and Fourth Independence
Mabel Keelan; S. E. and S. W.
Monmouth Lavina Hubbard :
Buena Vista Raymond Hall; East
snd West Luckiamute Evadna
Smith; Pedee C. E. Staats; N.
E. and N. W. Monmouth Tracy
Savery; Second and Third Indepen
dence Minnie Clow.
The Penney store and Staffrin's
drug store in Dallas were burglar
ized last week. From three to
four hundred dollars worth of
cameras were taken from the latter
place. '
Training school began on Monday
of this week with critic teachers in
charge and the Normal school will
open up for the winter session next
Monday morning. Repairs on the
Normal water and heating system,
for damage done by the frost, will
have been completed by that time.
Most of these repairs has been done
by local workmen. ;
The Ladies' Aid of the Christian
church will serve lunch on Thurs
day, January 8 with Miss Butler,
Mrs. Prime, Mrs. Beery and Mrs.
Murdock as hostesses.
McBeth of Independence has
leased his plumbing quarters to
some automobile agents and he will
seek something more modest in the
way of a business home. 1
J. A. Reynolds narrowly escaped
being burned to death in a tire that
destroyed his home Tuesday night
Sve miles south of Independence.
All the members of the family
iad gone to a neighbor's to spend
the evening except Mr.' Reynolds.
He remained at home for the pur
pose of taking a bath. As far as
can be learned, Mr, Reynolds was
in the bath tub when suddenly the
whole house was a mass of flames.
With difficulty he managed to get
out of the house but was horribly
burned. Fred Torgeson found him
wandering aimlessly about. He
was taken to the Salem hospital
and reports indicate that he will re
cover. The home was completely
destroyed with all its contents.
Post. "