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The Monmouth
Vol. xii
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, January 23, 1920
Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in th&Nation
Items of Interest
At Oregon Normal
JUTLAND HERO HERE
Herald.
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V.Ov - No. 21
Creamery Annual ;
Indicates Prosperity
The annual meeting of the Co
Seek Pipe and
5125,000 FOR SWAT
KING IS RECORD
; Right of Way
The common council held a spe
Mlu Bramberg hai to far rrcov
rd from her recent Illness is to
resume her work in the office. Stu
denti ind faculty ire most happy
to welcome her back.
. Announcement! have been rceeiv'
ed of the marriage of Mr. Oicnr
B. William '18 to Mlaa Gertrude
Yearlan on Thursday, December 25,
1919 at Salmon, Idaho. The young
people will be at home after Janu
ary 25 at 230 Ellaworth Street, Al
bany, Oregon.
, The Normal la happy to know the
possibility of securing adequate
fundi through an Initiative Bill
which will be voted on by the peo
ple on May 21 . There ii a feeling,
however, that every friend of the
Normal should do all he can to make
the bill an absolute certainty.
The viiit to the Legislature last
Friday was a very pleasant aa well
ai profitable occasion. About 147
students took advantage of this op
portunity to see the "laws in the
making" and all pronounce the lab
oratory method of studying civics a
success.
Many members of the class which
graduates in February have secured
positions. The following have been
elected in Portland. Misses Alice
Armstrong, Sadie .Havely, Florence
E. Dawson, Clara Landon, Ceila
'.undiwn, and Frances Tousey.
It Is gratifying to know that one
third of thejwhole number of the
new teacher chosen in Portland for
the new semester are graduates of
.the Normal. h'XJ',
Further election have been as
follows: Miss Elda Call Bristow
has been chosen as Rural Supervis
or of a Rural Center connected with
the Normal School at Dillon, Mon
tana. An attractive salary is a
feature of this position; Mr. Chad
Newhouse has been elected Princi
pal ot a graded school near Hood
River; Miss Varina Puntenncy has
a Principalship at Tangent, Oregon;
Miss Blenda Samuelson has a posi
tion in the elementary schools at
Baker, Oregon; Miss Helen Straus
has a position as , seventh grade
teacher in a graded school in a sub
urb of Portland.
The Devereux Players who ap
peared at the Normal last Friday
evening and in the Saturday Matinee
were a great delight to all who
heard them, It was a piece of rare
good fortune that they could be se
cured at all. Their staging and in
terpretation of the two plays, Sher
idan's "School for Scandal", and
Goldsmith s "She Stoops to Con
quer", was most artistic and the
committee in charge of such affairs
counts itself especially fortunate to
have been able to offer them to the
student!. . , K
One of the most enjoyable parties
of the year was given last Saturday
evening by the two classes of the
Normal. A rather original plan
waa followed. The Seniors enter
tained thoso members of their class
who will be graduated in February
at a costume party in the Normal
building during the first part of the
evening.1 The invitation to come
in some unusual garb brought out
many unique costumes which occas
ioned much merriment. The priz
es for the most original attire went
to Miss Alice AraiBtrjing of Port
land among the women and to Mr.
Cayz'er, also of Portland, among the
men. .
At the same hours the Juniors en
joyed a Nursery Party in the Gym
nasium. Dignified would-be teach
ers in short skirts and hair bows
skipped ropes and played hide and
seek with the zest of four year olds.
After each group had served re-
VIlPAUnl JaMIaa
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ton. D. C the iut ot the nation.
It was Admiral J.lllcoe who com
minded the Brit lib fleet n thl
one bli naval battle ot the wr,
the Jutland cluh with the Gor
man (leet.
freihmenU the Seniors joined the
Juniors in the Gymnasium and fin
ished the evening in dancing.
Classic Comedies
Are Appreciated
The appearance of the Devereux
troupe of players at the Normal
last Friday evening in the "School
for Scandal" was much appreciated
by those'able to attend. Owing to
the brevity of the notice many
missed because they did .not know
of it. The cast was excellent with
the characters well adapted to the
parta impersonated. The costumes
were, artistic, giving a most realist
ic picture of the gorgeousneai of
oclal life In (he latter part of the
eighteenth century. It was a dis
tinctly high class performance and
one Monmouth citizens do not often
get a chance to attend. "She
Stoops to Conquer", given Saturday
afternoon was in every way equal
to the first production and made a
decided hit with the audience.
The company had produced these
playa previously in Portland and
Eugene and the circumstances of an
open date enabled them to appear
at the Normal. They assert these
old English plays are especially pop
ular in Canada where their appear
ance is invariably attended with
packed houses. 1
The Live Teachers' Association
of Polk county meets tomorrow at
the Hotel Gale in Dallas at an in
formal dinner, Miss Arbuthnot will
give a reading and Oscar Hayter
will discuss the requested increase
in salaries.
Lucien P. Arant, two years a
member of The Orcgonian news
staff in Portland, and lately editor
of Associated Press news, has re
signed his position to join the ad
vertising staff of The Timberman,
the international lumber journal.
He will begin his new duties Teb
ruary 2.
J. H. McDonald quotes from a
letter from Nova Scotai the follow
ing prices now prevailing there:
Eggs, $1.25, a doz.; sugar, 15c per
pound; butter, 80c per pound; and
rabbits, $1 a pair. . Captain James
Farquhar, an old friend of Mr.
McD., although 80 years old, has
taken to aviation and recently flew
27 miles in 17 minutes . as nervily
as a boy.
The following were elected officers
of the Christian Church Bible school
Sunday: C. E. Stewart, superinten
dent, Mrs. Prime, assistant; Miss
Gladys Denney. secretary and treas
urer; Miss Eea Robinson, primary
superintendent; Mrs. Cornwall,
Home department. The following
boys were appointed delegates to
the Boy's Conference in Dallas:
Herbert Powell v Sam Suver and
Eric Swenson,
operative creamery stockholders,
which was an all day affair with a
basket dinner at noon, brought out
a large attendance and much inter
est wa manifested. Frank Lough
ary wai re-elected president and J.
R. Loy and A. E. Tedrow at the
two new director!. The other di
rectors are T. H. Gentle, A. H.
Haley, E1 Rogen and G. G. Hew
itt. The annual financial report dis
closed that 195,622 pounds of but
ter fat were handled during the
year, maae into 240,115 pounds of
butter which told for $144,870.
An afternoon program was held
in which addresses were made by
M. H. Shrock of the Oregon Dairy
men's league and J. D. Mickle, the
state dairy and food commissioner.
Mr, Shrock told what' the league
has done for the farmers of Oregon
in the way of securing accurate
tests of their milk and a fair telling
price for their producta and Mr.
Mickle in his usual concise fashion
warned the stockholders that if
they valued their future welfare
they should stick to their own or
ganization and not be led off on
promises of higher prices.
It was the custom, among the
larger purchasers of milk to get
control of the supply with high
prices as a bait and when opposi
tion had been stifled they had the
producers at their mercy by manip
ulating the only market open to
them. '
Mr. Mickle urged the organiza
tion of the smaller units into sell
ing combinations for the purpose
of selling their own wares and ena
bling them to be independent of
any one who might otherwise mon-
oplize the selling end of the busi
ness, i .
R. E. Derby, the new owner of
the Monmouth and Independence
Transfer has arrived and is getting
acquainted with the duties that he
may be expected to perform. He
has rented the Lorence house, near
the hardware store and will take
possession with his wife and daugh
ter when their furniture arrives.
There were three burglaries in
four nights,, recently in Sheridan
Mayor Wolverton is disposing of
a consignment of government candy
and tomatoes this week.
COOTIES!
Millage Bill Now
Up to the People
s
Of special interest to Monmouth
people was the act of the legislat
ure Increasing the millage for the
Normal. The condition that con
fronts the educational institutions
of the state was recognized by the
salons and the bill as below stated
was passed without opposition.
The governor has signed the meas
ure which will come up to the peo
ple for approval at a special elec
tion in May. The passage of the
act is thus described by the Ore
gonian. The house this afternoon passed
the bill providing for a millage tax
of one and two-tenths, for mainten
ance of the University of Oregon
and the Agricultural college. The
tax will be divided on the four-to-three
basis, the agricultural college
receiving the larger amount. A
tax of six-hundredths of a mill is
provided for the Monmouth Nor
mal. Based on present property
valuations in the state the agricul
tural college will receive approxi
mately $686,720 of the total
amount realized from the tax, the
university $514,280 and the Mon
mouth normal school $59,400.
Income Tax Time
The time has again arrired for
making but your Income Tax Re
turns. The law provides that all
returns must be in the office of the
Collector of Internal Revenue at
Portland, on or before March 15.
1920. Those failing to comply
with the law are subject to heavy
peanalities. , ; '
All tax payers are urged to make
out their returns at once thereby
avoiding the rush at the last hour.
For the purpose of assisting tax
payers of Polk County in making up
thjir Income Tax return for 1919,
Deputy Collectors Williams & Rob
erts from the Internal Revenue
office will beat the following named
places on the dates given below;
Dallas January 26 to 29;
r ails City January 30 to 31;
Independence February 2 to 4;
Independence will soon face the
proposition of whether or hot to
build an armory which will be nec
essary to hold Company K. In a
proposition of this kind, the city
pays one third the county one third
and the state one third.
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new
baseball afar
flaahMf arnaa (ha hnrfonn A1!na
Ing the publicity which the great
tj Cobb hat dominated so long-.
It Is Babe Ruth, home run hitting
king, pitcher-ottttelder, who has
Juit been sold by the Boston
Americans to the New York Amer
ican! for 1128,000 the reeerd
Price of l time la baseball deals.
Jury Qiiagreci
Red eyed and weary after delib
erating for more than lo hours the
jury in the case of the state of Or
egon vs. E. Fritz who was indicted
by the recent grand jury on two
counts or assault with a deadly
weapon reported to Circuit Judge
Harry H. Bfelt Thursday morning
that they were unable to agree,
the vote standing six for conviction
and six for acquittal. The case
went to the jury at 4:30 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon and after an
all night session that body failed to
reach an agreement and was "dis
missed by the judge. 1';"
The case was the outcome of a
shooting affair which took place in
Dallas on Hallowe'en night when
Ben Jones and Roy Wait, two local
boys, in company with a band of
youngsters attempted to overturn
an outbuilding at the residence of
E. Fritz in the southwestern part
of Dallas. Fritz in attempting to
scare the boys away aimed too low
with a shotgun and filled the legs
of the two boys full of shot. Sev
eral witnesses for the defense tes
tified to the peaceable chaarcter of
the defendant, but upon the wit
ness stand Fritz on cross examina
tion by District Attorney Piasecki
showed signs of an ungovernable
temper, otherwise he might have
been acquitted by the jury.
Whether the case will be laid
over until the April term of court
for re-trial has not been decided.
Special Scenery
The scenery of the Yokahoma
Maid to be presented by the Glee
Club in the Normal chapel Satur
day night was prepared especially
for the occasion by Richard Cayser
who is an artist of excellent talent.
L. P. Gilmore, in his role of soloist
is also one of the attractions of the
program. The sjene of the oper
etta is laid in Japan and details the
wees of a Japanese maid . who,
doomed by the terms of a will, to
marry one of the nabobs of the
country, succeeds in outwitting him
and wedding an enterprising Amer
ican. Tickets at Morlan's. 25 and
35 cents.
Mayor Wolverton rounded up two
autos of Independenece boys who
have been in the custom of driving
up and down in front of the Nor
mal popping their autoes until it
sounded like a bombardment on
the Argonne front, and showed the
boys the ordinance forbidding such
practice. The boys promised to de
sist in the future; ' "
Francis M. Brown of Indepen
dence, representative of the Oregon
Nurserv Co., was a visitor here
Wednesday..
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cial session Tuesday night to consid
er developments in the new water
system work.- Engineer Jones was
present and stated that he had in
terviewed most of the property
owners along the right of way and
found al) inclined to be reasonable.
The work of securing the actual
rights is now in progress. ,
Developments in the pipe market
now indicate that it will be impos
sible to get more than a small quan
tity of steel pipe, possibly not as
much as was planned, to be used
and wood pipe may be used entire
ly. After deliberation the council
dispatched the engineer to Portland
to secure figures on fir wood pipe
and redwood pipe and on steel pipe
and report at a meeting to be held
Friday evening when the necessary
pipe for the system will be pur
chased. ' , '
Advertisements for bids for lay
ing the pipe will be published next
week with February 10 as the date
for opening same. The probability
is that two gangs of men of, fifteen
each, otic to work from the intake
eastward and one to work from
MonmoutH westward, will be used
in the work. probably not more
than one team will be used in the
hauling.
Road Traffic Limited
The Pqlk county court has issued
orders closing two more .roads in
the rounty to heavy traffic. .
The road between Lewisville and
Falls City which was formerly one
of the best pieces of roadway u
the county has been cut to pieces
during the past year by trucks haul-,
ing large loads of lumber. It was
closed by the court and loads ex
ceeding 500 feet' of lumber and
one half cord of wood are forbid
den the road: Auto trucks are also
banned on this piece ot highway.
The Buell-Sheridan highway has
also been closed to heavy hauling
not more than 1500 pounds being '
permitted to be hauled on the road
at one time and then only on trucks
equipped with pneumatic tires.
Polk county formerly had some
of the best roads in the .state, but
the increase in the number of
trucks and the heavy hauling over
the roads during the winter months
has cut up the roads to such an ex
tent that drastic action Ijad to be
taken before the county highways
were cut up beyond repair.
Road Supt. J. H. Mulkey and his
assistant, Walter Rasmussen have
been busy improving Monmouth
roads during the past few, weeks.
WORLD CHAMPION IN
WHITE CORN
Peter . Lax of ShelbyvUIe.
Ind., is here shown with the SO
ear sample of Johnaon-co White
corn which won the title tor blm
at the recent International Hay
and Grain Show at Chicago, Every
ear measured 10 1-8 Inches long.
8 Inches in circumference, weighed
21 ounces and had 20 rows of ker
nels. The display was said by.
judges to be one ot the most uni
form ever shown Jn the United
States. They are u results ol
yean of effort. , , "
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