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First National
Bank
Monmouth, Oregon
Capital $30,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits. ..$19,000.00
Interest paid on time deposits. Investment securi
ties for customer. Traveler's checks. Tflerrphic transfers
We ire prepared to take care of your banking business.
lr C. Powell, President E. L. Kilen. Cashier
DIRECTORS-J. B. V. Butler, Chairman. I. M. Sampson
Wm. Riddell, Robert Steele, Ira C. Towell
rlonmouih ' Ureooro
The Herald
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RICHARD B, SWENSON
Editor A Publiihtr
MONMOUTH. OREGON
ISSUED EVERY KHIDAY
FRIDAY. FEB. 6. 1920
Subtcriptioa RaUa
One year
Six months ,
Three months
$2,00
11.00
75 cts'
Monmouth
Meditations
Satisfied Servants
4j? always found in
Electrified Homes
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Wfeatk prate, thit much of the so cafo i W? f " 5
d5SrtriH conditions The more ThE5
kitchen and laundry the eaaier rt will be for you to awad "trouble with the Help.
I Do you know that electricity will
Cook the food Sharpea the knives Wash the dishes
Polish silverware Wash the clothes Iron the clothe
dean the house Pump the water tun the fans
and do many other things at surprisingly little costt
-. ' let US show you how to keep servants by lijhterunj your house wotk.
Mountain States Power Co.
MONMOUTH OREGON
Building Material From
Roof to Cellar
Oregon Fir and Hemlock Lumber
Douglas Fir Silos
The Gold Mine of the Farm
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Lath, Mouldings, Fruit and Butter Box
es, Cedar Posts, Green and Dry Slab
wood, Cement, Wall Plaster, Lime,
Brick, Shingles, Rooling, Windows, etc.
Willamette Valley Lumber Co.
Phone Main 202. . . Monmouth, Oregon
This is tag time for dogs and ti e
canine without an official collar s
headed for the boneyard.
ln.l.rimr fmm the numoer of
small boys who are arriving in Mofr
mouth we stand a fair chance of be
ing well prepared for the next war
When action is not desired it does
nnt iwmir a verv clover man to
find a perfectly good excuse for in
action.
If the mkv i'f wofltl kw'Ps" pn
.limbing it will uwume a placi
ilotie fide olh.r sUhlul le artic'.if
which tre lifted from, time t time
ly tto artists who operate at night
with aatae from the big city.
There is sense jn Mr. Bailey's
jnororpHnn that he is la favor cf
" " o o "
an eight hour day piovidirg it j;
eight hours of real work. Tcol
much of this eight and six hour
movement is designed to avoid doing
any work at all.
By the way the burglars are
takin to the country, the im
pression must be abroad in burg'ar-
dom that the rounty districts have
of a sudden acquired something
worth stealinjr.
Nineteen feet deep without strik
ing water, that is the record made
on Stump's farm the other day
when sinking a well. Yet in the
east the impression is general that
Oregonians have web feet, that v.e
ars happy to get an hour of sun-
hin. in our winter rainfall. To
tell them that our winter has been
so dry that wells are as low as in
the summer would be to invite vari
ous expressions of disbelief.
Methinksthe county court will
get the idea in good time that the
people of the county are in earnest
on the roads and highway matter,
s;tt..a mIiuII have the farms ap
praised and shall tuke them over,
paying the owners 4 per cent gov-
eminent bonds.
"A commission shall be formed
to run the farms thus taken over
to be composed of fifteen members,
five of whom shall he farmers, five
shall be farm employes, and five
shall be appointed by the President
nftlm United States. The five
farmer commissioners shall be e'ect
u hv the farmers. The five em-
oloves commissioners shall be elect
lbv the farm employes. They
shall hold office for two years, and
their salary shall be fixe! ty the
commission.
"The commission shall at once
proceed to employ the proper per
sons to operate the farms, as far
as nossible, employing the f resent
oDeratort and their wives and chil
dren when working to continue on
farms now occupied.
The commission shall fix the rate
of pay f or farmers and farm em
ployes, but the first year the fol
lowing rate shall govern:
Farmers operating 100 acres
and under shall lupoid ninety cents
per hour,
For far ns 100 ti 205 ars.
$1.25 per hour.
"For farms 200 acres and ,
$2.00 per hour.
"Farm employes 70 cent per hour.
"All farmers, farmers' wives,
children and employes to work on a
basic eight hour ('ay, with time and
a ha f for PW time, Sundays and
nolid.ys.
"There shall be half biiidaye wi
Sundays.
"The commission shall fix the
price at which produce is to be
sold, and prices are not to te re
duced until the business permits
the divStluiir of a five per cent dm
dend to th fwrntfj. Any profit
above 5 percent stall goto the
United SUtci."
Such farmers' Plumb Plan
would put the farmers in as favor
ed a class at thl railroad Plumb bill
would put the railway employes.
It would relieve the farmer of lia
bility of crop failure and put the
result of all such failures on the
public. Its enactment would not
preclude any pther class from seek
ing like favors,
Dark DaysDcmana
See the nev White Mazda
A soft linlit without are. Docs twt strain eyes.
Eversharp Pencil From $1.00 up
Conklin Fountain Pen
At$2.50andu?
MORLAN & SON
Monmouth's largest and most compel. Confections? B
F. W. LEONARD ;
Boot and Shoe Maker
with many years experience.
Repair work prompts and P?atlv don
See me in Boulden building next door to Herald ht
Iwwtm Mtwmmw.
H-H"I-H"H"M "1 ! i' I' l i'l..!..;..! ,h-MH-H-.
MONMOUTH MARKET
All Kinds of Fresh Meat
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' Fair treatment to everyone
Highest Price paid for Stock
J. B. Hill & Son
fri'Un i rHnirHniH-fr. ! -h-s-h-m--h-
C riff a Bid
East of note
fire Insurance
WALTER G. BROWN
OetThe Gtmiine ifK
7w3j!f' Economy
INSURANCE!
On City or Fflm Insurance on nW or fjye ymir
jx)licies, we take notes payable 111 yc ny msiMinienifc
' Bonds of all sorts sold.
Let us place youf Insurance with' old. reliably
I companies. GfcU. W. ntacu
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Groceries & Provision
Good Goods and Fair Treatment
C. C. Mulkey &
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The boom of Governor Lowden is
making considerable progress at
this" time and he must be taken as a
wriouH contender for the Republi
can presidential nomination. The
weakest thirij about Lowden is not
sn mnph that he ?s a rich man but
that his money was made by his
father-in-lsw. George M. Pullman,
the man who invented the palace
car T-nwrfen's OrOtner-1 rwnw ib
PnKo.f T T .innln . Ron of the im
mortal Old Abe, so it will be not
ed there is a family leaning
toward this particular branch of
statecraft,
'A reason why America can not
eo to the extreme of excesses
readied by the Russians at present
is a general possesion by our pub
lic of a sense of hum.ir. . When ex
tremists rise to heights C .frenzy ,
whether in politics, sociology or
tfieology, there is nothing that w
soon pricks the bubble of the mania
of the moment as a keen shaft o f
wit or satire. The following bur
lesque of the Plumb plan of operat
ing the rail roads is now .going the
rounds and shows the faliacy of the
thing better than hours of argu
ment. 1' ', . .
Representative Carl W. , Riddick,
of Montana, friend of the farming
interests in Contrres and himself a
farmer, has had read intjo the Cofr
gressional Record a factious bur
lesque on the Plumb r airload plan
which was prepared by the Ameri
can Defense Society,. It is in the
form of an act and is, ars follows:
EDW. J. HIMES
Civil Engineer and
Surveyor
Phone 573 318 Uvtns St Dallas
WE BUY, BUTCHER
Wholesale and Retail
Fresh Meat
at Prices that Lead the County
THE CITY MARKET
Magazines. Periodical
Books, Stationery
Candy and Cigars
P. H. JOHNSON
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Only a Limited Number of
Ford Cars
There are mighty good reasons why you should buy your Ford car now. But
the biggest one is that there are enly so many Ford cars just a specified limited
number allotted to this territory. Those who buy their cars now will be wi.
They will have them to use whenever they wish.
Don't put lYoff next spring, even next month, is an uncertainty. We cannot
take orders for spring delivery, Even now, we must have signed bona-fide orders
sure
your
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before our monthly allottment is shipped us.' So the only way for you to be sure
of getting a rora car ib to oraer u now. uei your name on an order. It Is
protection.
Again we tell you, the allottment for this territory is limited and you must buy
now while deliveries are possible. As ever, the demand for Ford cars Is away In
oHvancA nf nroduction. So. it's first Come, first served. Snrinir nma autumn
- r r , . ' (' at 1 IIV ,
and winter are all the same to the Ford car, It is a valuable servant every day of
T-l ' L I tl ( t I i .
we year, nam or mime, u reHuy ior your aemanas. Buy now and
delivery. You won t havejto store it You enn use it.
is possible.
GRAHAM & SON
tret nrnmnt
Buy now while the buying
. iff
Insist on genuine Ford parts . , .
"The government of the United