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trrrt Monmouth Herald 11 HE Vol. XII Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, April 2, 1970 No. 30 Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Nation FROM AGRICULTURE Reach Agreement , - Farm Bureau Work Covers More Ground RACED ACROSS U. S. TO REVENUES TO AID SUFFRAGE On Paying Repairs A special session of the 'Council Items of Interest At Oregon Normal The great event of last week at the Normal was the Junior Day cel ebration which was all that had been promised and much , more. The morning festivities which took the form of a "take off" on the fa ulty at chapel hour was rr.uch ap preciated, particularly by the mem bers of the faculty themselves. The peat feature of the day was the presentation of the pageant, "Pilgrims Progress", In the after noon. This pageant which was an elaborate affair, conceived and stag td under the direction of Miss Tay lor, of the department of physical training, wu In commemoration of the 800 anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim fathers In New Eng land. Beginning with the scene on .board the Mayflower, when the compact was signed, the theme was enlarged in series of scenes set ting forth the development and progress of the nation along the various lines of government, In dustry, science, arts and education. The audience particularly Ijked the scene showing the development of playground filled with bppy chil dren. . Further celebration of the class day took the form of a frolic In the gymnasium in the evening where general good time wes had. It was. tit in all, I beautiful class day program, one giving evidence of the a-reat amount of time and ' energy put upon it. President Ackerman and Mr. Butler are attending the Inland Km pire Teachers' Association at Spo. kane this week. ' Superintendent W. R. Ruther ford of Eugene and SuperinUmdent J. 0. McUughlinof Corvallis have been visiting the Normal lately, In tervlewing candidates for teaching , positions In their respective school svstems for next year. Poth men - gave Interesting talks in chapel. The D Dsnment of Airlcullure has lost one of Its moil efficient officials. It Is Mr. William Mar tin Williams or Alabama, who has txn appointed Commissioner or Internal Revenue,' to succeed Dunlel Roper. Williams Is the man who next year will let your Income las. Candidate for Commissioner O. A. Wolvcitim filed is tcandi date for the r.nmin. Hon on the Fe- publicun ticket as county commis sioner Tuesday, for the vacancy oc caponed by the death of Voses Mamston. As mayor of the city Mr. YVolverton has made a good record. He has spent bis whole life, practically in Polk county, hrs a list of acquaintances that extendi over the county and should make I good run and a competent official when elected. Rumored, Reported Asserted, Collected Word bs been received from Miss Dora Hall that she found a new boy at the home of her sister, Mrs. -Nat.' Wither in Monterey Cal, He tipped the scales at 6 pounds and is the third son in the Withers household. Miss Taylor entertained her sister as a guest for the Junior Day fes tivities. The students are thoroughly or eanlzed to campaign for the Mil laue Bill in their home towns dur Inithe Easter vacation. A rally was held Wednesday evening which plans were discussed and ma tured sothat every student .left on Thurjdayfull of enthusiasm and determined, to'win overjiumbera of voters in his home community. ,'The Normal is pleased, to note ' that the "Pomona Grange, ' Polk County, has endorsed the Millage Bill. ' The Juniors' were especially pleased to have as guests at their program last Friday P. M. the . children from both the Monmouth ' and Independence Training Schools. Among the visitors on Junior Day from out of town, though by no means a complete list, were the fol lowing: Miss Laurel Canning, Miss Clem Cameron, Messrs. Sacre, Port- wood, Burkhead, Evans and Gentle ofU. ofO.i Miss Minnie Ambler of " Willamette: Miss Esther Sweek, " Messrs. Coons, MaxBowersox, Her man Gillam, . Henry Cassidy of O. A. C; Mrs. and Miss Poley, the Misses Irene Williams and Rose Hahn of Corvallis; Mr. Templetcn of Brownsville; Miss Jones of Mc Minnville; and the Misses Myrtice Fowler, May Borquist, Esther Pet ; erson, Helen Calbraith, Mrs. Claire Hoskins and Mr. Cayzer, Portland. ; The Co-operative Shippers' assocl ation Is rapidly gaining a monoply of the shipping of stock from the territory adjacent to Monmouth The'association'Bhips two or three times a week by truck to , Salem where the stock is handled by the Valley packing company, located there. The association marketed $6,000 worth of hogs during March Guidance for the new fruit grow- was held Monday night which wasjers was provided for at a meeting of the Farmers of the Dallas Ccnr munity under the auspices of -the Polk County Farm Bureau, March 24th. It was agreed that many rr, in takes were made by the inexperi enced grower in cultivation and fighting pests; especially is there a lack of knowledge of the importance of early cultivation of prunes. H. S. Butts was rained Committee-man ti care for this work. Among other projects for active work this season are: Vigorous prosecution of the County wide, Grey digger Poisoning Campaign; staging grain grading school; demonstration on poultry culling and feeding; standardization of po tato varieties; the organization of two boys' corn clubs; a community exhibit, and forty Individual exhib itors for the County Fair; fifteen entries for the Corn Show at Inde pendence. The committee-men named to care for Jhe program: Fruit, H. S. Butz; Grey Diggers. Frank B. Brown; Grain School, C. 'i. Ballard; Poul try, Glen DeHaven; Potatoes, W. Elliott; Corn, J. Wills; Exhibits, committee to be named. The lacks of suitable silage crop is holding back the development of attended by 11, M. Hoskins of New- berg, Attorney Jas.' Burdette of McMinnville and Attorney B. F, Swope of Independence. The con ference related to the suit which the city .has started In Yamhill county to get action on the main tenance of our Main street paving.! At the instance of the defendants the suit la being held in abeyance. At the conference It was agreed the work of repairing should be immediately let to the Warren com pany and a contract to that effect filed with the cKy officials. The re pair work can not be done until the weather is warm and dry., and the Warren people reserve the right to do it when t!.ey find convenient time for it. Mr, Hoskins explained that conditions of war and post-war work had been such that the delays could hardly have been avoided but expressed a desire to have the repair work thoroughly done and as soon as possible. .It was agreed that Engineer Jones should act for both parties. - . Aged Pioneer Dead Mr. and Mrs. Clark Hembree and small daughter came up from Willows, California, last week " o ttend the funeral of Mr. Hembree's father in McMinnville last Thurs day. Waylaid C. Hembree, the father, was 91 years oi age, was born in McMinnville, Tennessee, and came across the plains in an ox wagon in 1843. -His father took up donation land claim five miles north of McMinnville and he, himself, took up a similar claim near Carlton. He was a member of the Christian church and a veteran of the Indian wars. 2 Bute Senator Jen E Bloch ot Wheeling, W. Va., raced from his winter borne In California to Charleston to cut the deciding vote which ratified suffrage and raido his state the 14th to adopt the measure. Ed Griffa, who has been connect ed with the logging business Hoskins fjr the past two years, has given up his work there and visited frienSa and relatives in town during the past week. He istroubled with various ailments and is going to take treatments at a hot springs es tablishment in Washington. Dr. J.O. Matthis of Salem has rented the Remington house and n'sns to occupy it in the near fut ure. Chas. Newman has been at work this week decorating the rooms of the doctor'B former office In the post office block which he will resume. all of C. C. Mulkey has installed hitch. tag posts in the alley between the post office and the old picture show building for the benefit)! the visit tag public. I. H, Fream says he has not re signed as Bection boss for the South ern Pacific in Monmouth but has laid off because of ill health, and if he recovers his strength again will take up the work at a future time. l e' "" ii ii i Mrs Marinda Simmons, for thirty four years a resident of Inde pendence, died in Portland March 17 and wes brought to Polkcounty for burial. She was 83 years ot age.'.: A telegram received by Mrs. T J. EJwards Thursday states that John Palmer was seripusly ill in hospital in Redlands, Cal., that he was unconscious and slight hopes held for his recovery. Mr. Palmer has been sick for some weeks past Edward Nissen of McMinnville has located here for the purpose of buying stock wool and mohair Thirtynine Candidates Enter Encampment " . 1,1 The Independent encampment of Odd Fellows which has laid dor mant for some years, was resur rected last Saturday evening and from now on may be expected to resume its old time activity Twenty one Monmouth men had a part in the re-establishment of the encampment, two of them old mem bers and the other nineteen new members. There were thirty nine candidates in all and the three de grees of the rank were put on dur ing the evening for the benefit of all, a team from Corvallis doing the work, Grand Scribe E. E. Sharon of Portland was present as was also the Grand Senroi Warden,, Paddy Nolan, also of Portland. ' Officers for the ensuing year foj the encampment are, C. P., H. K. Sickafoose; H. P., W. Huntley; S. W., R. Richardson; J. W., P. O. Black; I. S., Mr. Chown; O. S., H.McElmurry; Treas.,W. Craven; Scribe, D. D. Good. drianage in the Airlie district, ac cording to decision reached by farmers of that section, meeting in connection with Farm Bureau work Tuesday, March 26th, three present agreed to put in plots of Sun Flow era for a thorough trial as f yield and feeding valua. It la expected by J. F. Ulrich, Committee-mai , that a minimum of six plots will be planted. The County-wide Grey digger poisoning campaign being super vised by the Polk County Farm Bu reau was heartily enaorfea, ana Percy Had ley named to see that Airlie co-operate with the rest of the County in "that work. Other projects agreed upon for the 1920 season are: A lime demonstration by Percy Hadley; Poultry meeting on culling and marketing, A. Staats, committee man, Twenty Individual exhibitors for County Fair and eight entries for Corn Show at lndepen dence Emory Whitaker in charge, a careful investigation of a County wool pool, and co-operative livestock shipping, W. E. Williams. Detailed plans for covering the district with Squirrel poison were worked out at a meeting of the Rickreall Farm Bureau Committee in Session Tuesday evening, March 2Cth. H. T. Harris, Chairman, has worked out plans for getting poison on every acre of land in the Rickre all country. A supply of County poison was delivered to the Deery Warehouse Monday, by County Agent parpen. ter. It is expected by Mr. Harris that the greater part o f the stock will be bought and placed, this week. 1 "Pilgrims Progress" - Attractive Pageant The Normal students have in times pest put on some good pro grams butthe exerciset that featur ed Junior Day, Friday afternoon, will rank with any of them. The feet that this year is the three hundredth anniversary of the year whicn saw the land in a oi the Pil grims in Massachusetts, suggested to Miss Taylor, physical director of the Normal, the idea of a pageant which she styled 'Pilgrims' Prog. ress". The program was divided into four parts, one each for the three centuries that are past and one for the present century. The 17th century saw the signing of the compact in the cabin of the Mayflower, the landing of the Pil grims and the hardships encounter ed by and th characteristics of the early settlers. The 18th century exhibited the pioneer stage culmi nating in the signing of the eontsi tution, the 19th century the devel opment of the nation along many It: :-U .L-. J burrow along the runway of the ,,ueB' f 0 I J AL - ft All- . 1 - X.- ,);,., ' TV,. ,:.nn .ill ,HrA wm. nwrjr, its nvmi ....6R.... ...v "... - ..... rain hot it io onlv .rood iudtrment 01 nunuumvganu orouiernooo. to place it in clear weather. borne ottne stage ings were very pretty, ine wuou kciw More Pipe Received ' through which the Pilgrims travel- I.J .L: , A.L ..4 k Word from the scene of activity eu uu u,e,t w ""u on the pipe line states that three wm ui lu"c . cars of pipe have been received and wnere cn"uren t"ajeu- were unloaded at Falls city and two cars P618" e00"- are enroute or have arrived at Carl T. Moore of Portland pre- D:o.t n. ; a v sented his usual Junior class song U.IUiCA. Vll v. .a I ...... . . m.t ... t.:j j n... i wnicn mis year is eniiwea i ne Fm utter irhiMi five ram will Century Maid" completing be sent to Monmouth, the shipment. At present work on the line is being held up because of unfavorable weather. Eastern Oregon Wedding Announcements were received here this week'of the marriage of Mrs. Edna Lee Tooley to Norvin C Coulter at Baker, March 12 bride is a daughter of C. P. Rags- dale, prominent sheep man of Mai heur county and nephew of D. M Hampton. . The groom is a nephew M. D. Coulter who lives south Monmouth. Mr. Ragsdale is a former Monmouth resident and while here built the housa at pres ent occupied by F. K. Skeen Friends of the Oregon Normal School are much encouraged by news of the many endorsements that the Higher Educational Relief Bill is receiving throughout the State. The commercial club of Baker, Or., has taken action similar to that of the Dallas Commercial Club. The executive committee cf the American Legipn of the state has given a whole-hearted endorsement Multnomah County Pomona Grange, the Oregon Retail Merchants' Asso ciation, the Portland Labor Press, the Portland dailies, and "in fact the press of the state generally are supporting the bill. Endorsements from smaller groups, such as worn. n en's clubs, parent-teacher associa tions, aud welfare organizations are coming in every day. . had as its guest Mr. Joseph Lan- Hat in the Ring caster, the eminent Highway Engin- D. E. Fletcher, member of the wuu 19 uuw """" ,.huJ hoard nH . nrominent attor- " ralslnB wefon s quo iW u.e ney of Independence, has filed for Urmenian ReI!- ddrf the Republican nomination as mem- P" response enoru m vu of the legislature for the joint nearts or me stuaenus, wno now j- i-:-.. t i. .j pn n lope to ne aoie io raise more man uisincb vi jjiuwiu aim xuift. i ... - n,wnn,1 that W. E. Fuller of then: quota lor these.stncKen allies. Tlolloe, f nwMnt momW nf thp M WUOT W " K U1 1 Poisoned Barley Ready Poison for the greydigger extinct ion is here and mixed ready for use It is not good policy to put out this poison in wet weather as it soon loses its strength through moisture but when the weather is favorable a drive will be put on. At present the poison may' be obtained from W . J. Stockholm who has charge of the work for this district or at Boothby & Chesebro's where a sup. ply isjield. It should not be forgotten that the poisoned barley must be kept out of reach of children and stock If a horse reaches a bag of the bar. ley he is killed just as surely as is greydigger. It is preferable to spread a few grains outside the Current Events , At High School March March went oat like a lion and April, not to be outdone, came in in the same manner. Conse- quently the High School Picnic wu taken inaoors. im picnic iuncu was converted into a banquet and under the able leadership of Toast- master Russell Kildee, many toasts ere given. ."April Fool" jokes were frowned upon by the commit tee and were kept in the back ground. , On Thursday afternoon the H. S. In order to do this i.krnn from Polk eountv will e High School will have a sale of also file for the joint representative Ke8. V 8no 88180 81 .fon' fillet in thp nror. mouui uaKery. we nope ious legislature. to have the patronage of our friends and natrons at this sale and can promise good quality and service. A Shower Miss Ruth Brown was the recipi- Wm. Riddell, Jr. recently has ent of a shower given her by purchased a large cedar tank to un friends at the home of Dr. and Mrs. prove his farm water system which M.J. Butler on Broad street last Sat- will increase his domestic supply urday afternoon. The bride to be I and place it in his barns convenient was given many useful and appro- for use. He will put up a windmill priate gifts and the guests included to do the pumping. number of her Normal girl friends, local people and some visit ors from Independence. A most delightful time is reported. In Ancient Israel 1 The special program put on by the I revivalists at the Christian church last Saturday evening called out a large crowd and was enjoyed by all very much. In cos tume, King David s court was shown, with the rite's of sacrifice from the outer and inner courts of the temple to the holy of holies. While there had Been but little time for preparation all went off smoothly and the different parts were well taken. Thinks Well of Us W. H. Winship of Kansas was In our midst this week looking over prospects in town and in the vicini ty. He found things here very much to his liking and announced that he will return here later and may induce a number of families to accompany him. He finds the Nor mal school a'decided attraction for location in Monmouth. The Normal students treated the business section of Monmouth to a demonstration Wednesday afternoon with marching and cheering and a few other pleasantries on behalf of the millage tax proposal.