101-51 Monmouth Meditations zson March did its bust to go out like a Hon. It i. a go )d thing this snow flurry did nut come twj months earlier. The way the G. rnians are cleaning up after the late revolution sug gests that the next one will be en tered into with considerably rr.ore caution. Possibly by the time this paper is issued the Anthony amendment for woman's suffrage may have car ried with Mississippi or Delaware the lat state to make the necessary ratification. The world moves fast these days. We confess to a feeling of pro found Indifference as to whether Opal Whitely is Opal Whitely or somebody else, but acknowledge Building Material From Roof to Cellar Oregon Fir and Hemlock Lumber Douglas Fir Silos . The Goldmine of the Farm Lath, Mouldings, Fruit and Butter Box es, Cedar Pests, Green and Dry Slab wood, Cement, Wall Plaster, Lime, Brick, Shingles, Rooting, Windows, etc. Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. ' . . , Monmouth, Oregon o c not 3 C 30C 3 0 .W-H-W-HH-H-!"!' :-M4 H-W HHl HI H.H-H-H "l-H-H- ! M"H MONMOUTH MARKET t All Kinds of Fresh Meat Fair treatment to everyone Highest Price paid for Stock J R Hill A GLnn Guthrie Bldg. Ui Ofc Former place of CityMarket SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE Northern Assurance Company, Limited f London, In tne Kingdom of Great Britain, on the thirty-first dar . ?'embe' 1919. made to the Insurance Commissioner ot th SUM 01 Oregon, pursuant to lav: CAPITAL Amount ol capital stock paid up (Deposit Capltal)$ 400,000.00 INCOME Net premiums received during the year 15 jjj 117 7 Interest, dividend and rents received during the year 'jhiWm Income from other aourcea received during the year Mi'.iil.U Total Income DISBURSEMENTS Net losses paid during the year including adjustment Dividend! paid on capital stock during the year Commissions and salaries paid during the year Taies, licenses and fees paid during the year Amount of ail other expenditures 5,843,141.Stl .,)2,l,i.M . l.iM.MI.N !9,M.la . 9J1.311.47 total expenditures ASSETS Value of real estate owned (market value) J alue of stocks and bonds owned (market value) Loans on mortgages and collateral, etc in uflntu anu on nana 4,715,405. S,S7.38z.M 135.000.00 Premiums in course of collection written "since "September 30, 1919 . ., , 71J 08 Interest and rents due and rmii ' 7s' 754. 4a. Total assets . Less Special deposits in any state (if any there "be). -.18,073,728.04 - 81,160.00 Total assets admitted In Oregon-. LIABILITIES Gross claims for losses unpaid.. .7,992,568.04 ri ... 1 . 1 w""""" ouisianoing risks 4,570. 4W. 23 Due for enmrmsmon and brokerage u on 87 All other liabilities Z-Z- .. " mm$l '..i!?"6' "l"lve of statutory deposit of 400,0CO ,5,504,387.26 BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR THE YEAR net premiums received during the year LoBflis incurred during the year THE NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED j. 1.. iorDet, Manager Western Dept. Chicago, 111. Statutory resident attorney for service : R. Q. Vallentyne. Portland, Oregon 4 lli.7M.48 22.1090(1 20,931.17 REEK? 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 cU8tomers. Traveler'i checks. Telegraphic transfers We are prepared to take care of your banking business. , Ira C. Powell, President1 E. L. Kilen, Cashier" DIRECTORS J. B..V. Butler,;Chairman," I. M.Simpson Li Wm. Riddell, Robert.Steele.J Ira C. Powell ' FirstaiionalBank Monmouth 0re6oru The Herald Cntersd as Mwnd-staa matter Depttnibsrl, law. a the rwt ofnes at stonmmila, Orstun, wdf tat art of Mural, im. KK'ltAKU B, SWt'NSON Editor & Publisher MONMOUTH, OREGON ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1920 Subscription Rales One year $2,00 Six months - $1.00 Three month 75 eta that the conundrum is giving Miss Whitely a considerable quantity of personal advertising. Mr, Hoover seems finally to have recullecteJ the name of the atreet and the number of the house In which he resides. Eggs at present are but little above thirty cents in price which in comparison with other products is cheap; but the (act does not det -r chicken men and young chicks abound in every direction. Organized labor feels ture that if it can get the farmer to join its ranks it can rule the roost, but It does not take into consideration that the farmer is an employer of labor as weJI as the capitalist and has certain defined sympathies with the problems of the latter class. The curious thing about Senator Newberry's conviction is that he thought he should be absolved be cause he had corruptly influenced no one. The fact that he spent more money in a legitimate way than the law sanctions he did not seem to think much of a crime. The common trouble with us is that we assume the right to consider whether laws are right or not and if we do t approve of them we disobey them. The conviction of Newberry must have a salutary effect on this habit. Whatever ia law should command respect and be obeyed. An English historian says of Hen ry VIII: "He made ParFament his docile tool. He chose many of the members himself, drew up the laws they were to pass; and sometimes sat in the house with his terrible eye on any who might venture to oppose him." Henry must have served as a model to our later day presidents and some of them have not fallen far short of his total ao complishmehts in the art of person al direction. We do not often fall for the cofr tributions of the publicity men but in printing the -extracts from the biography of Herbert Hoover on an other page we do so for a double reason. First, because the life it self has been of the active, moving sort that lends itself readily to in teresting description and second, because Hoover was at one time an Oregon man, living in the very sec tion in which we are now located and a feeling of public ' spirit and pr:de in our state must lead us to give his cause a friendly hearing. Twenty Monmouth people helped to re-organize the Encampment of Odd Fellows in Independence last week. Almost as many Monmouth people belong to the Masonic insti tutions of Independence, lodge chap ter and Eastern Star; the Indepen dence bakery and laundry supply the needs of Monmouth citizens;, Mon mouth young men are numerous in the company of National Guard with headquarters in Independence; The G. A. R. and various other or gan zations of Independence count on Monmouth to make a showing, Independence merchants and deal ers make strong bids for the trade of our citizens. If on the face of these facts, Independence Votes against the millage bill or in any way attempts to block the highway plans of the' state commission jt will be showing a shortsightedness that must, in the nature of things, react strongly against it in . the future. " Joke making as a part of govern ment activity may strike the read er as an oddity but we are in 're ceipt this week of a communication from a branch of the Treasury de partment saying it has retained the services of a skilled and talented joke maker and is ready and willing to furnifh the jokrt lie produces to newspapers who will use them it being guaranteed that no two simi lar sets of jokes shall go to rtny two newspapers in the same territory. Of course, it is not exactly a phil anthropic venture, some War Sav ings stamps adv.rtising being switched in occasionally. Kven though the cause is good we are however, disposed to manufacture our own jokes and so i iss up ti e kindly olT.ces of the Treasury t!e-partment. In a recent article David Te'sico takes occasion to deride the to-called new tin ugh t in the staging of the drama, in which it is held that tl e art of stage setting is that the spectator may tee ihj object aimed at through suggestion. Thus a sprig of box hedge 'suggest the hedge itself and a draped curtain may suggest an unlimited multitude of things. Says the great play wright: "Some things, question less, are beyond popular comprehen sion, and some of these things are plays. And no doubt, that which is incomprehensible in general socn wearies. But in the theater it is not an infallible sign of excellence; it is, on the contrary, a reliable sign of inferiority when the gen eral public condemns. I do not mean that I believe the voice of the people is the voice of God. But 1 do mean that I believe in the peuje, the oft-condemned million, with all my heart and soul. 1 have learned that its instinctive apprehension of good, in art as in life, is usually instant and lasting and therefore 1 trust the people and believe in it." He might have added that the same instinct to get away from the ac cepted and the conventional is also in evidence in the realms of art and literature, Thus we have the pain ful resultsof the "cubist" fad, ex aggerated theories of high lights and shadows, illustrations which the ordinary reader passes up with indifference or wearily strives for some tangible evidence to indicate what the artist has intended to re produce. Or in literature we have affectations for forms of poetry of insane or asinine construction, hail ed as matvels by the high pri s's'of faddism; or prose enigmas of ex traordinary dullness cleft andcarved into analytical fragments by enthu siasts who profess to find therein n iggets of wisdom" that the writt r mver dreamed were hidden there. Dark Days Demand Light See the new White Mazda A soft litflit without glare. Docs not strain ryes. Eversharp Pencil From $1.00 up Conklin Fountain Pen At $2.50 and up MORLAN & SON Monmouth's largest and mutt romploU Con feci lonory and Cook Store i F. W. LEONARD Boot and Shoe Maker with many years experience. Repair work promptly and neatly done See me in Boulden building next door to Herald shop va4 I INSURANCE! 5 I On City or Farm Insurance on three or five j(ear S policies, we take notes payable in yearly installments. X I Bonds of all sorts sold. Let us place your Insurance with old, reliable .companies. GEO. W. CHESEBRO Groceries & Provisions Good Goods and Fair Treatment C.C.Mulkey 8c Son A Good Building Material ' and an everlasting building mater ial at the same time. The Tile Works at Monmouth is making a bui'ding tile which will make any kind of building from a dwelling house to a pig pen cool in summer and warm in winter Es pecially fine for your fruit, vegeta ble and milk house. We also have all kinds of drain tile. Drain tile is you most ur gent reed. Get that wet land drain ed. We will do your draining for you if you wish, but do it your self if you can. Central Tile Co., Mon mouth, Oregon. Wood Sawing Wood Sawing. Call on foe for prompt service. Leave Phone orders with P, H. Johnson. A. L, Stim pson, : Notice of Final Settlement Notice is hereby given that Hen ry S. Portwood and Mary Mabel Staats, administrator and adminis tratrix, respectively, of the -estate of JOSEPH ANSEL HAINES, de ceased, have filed their final account as such personal representatives of said decedent in the County Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Polk, and that Saturday, the 17th day of April, 1920, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day at the court room of said Court in the County Court House in Dallas, Polk County, Ore gon, has-been appointed by thk said Court as the time and place for the hearing of objections to the said final account and the settlement thereof. Dated and first published March 19 1920. ' HENRYS. PORTWOOD, MARY MABEL STAATS, Administrator and administratrix of the estate of Joseph Ansel Haines, deceased. OSCAR HAYTER, Attorney. Fire .Insurance WALTER C. BROWN Magazines, Periodicals Books, Stationery Candy and Cigars P. H. JOHNSON Good Printing is the Product of the Herald Print Shop Satisfied Servants aw always found in Electrified Homes Investigation proves that much of the to called "lervint prob ten" ii due to unfavorable working condition!. The more drudgery you eliminate from your kitchen and laundry the easier it will be for you to avoid "trouble with the help."? Do you know that electricity will ( v , J ' " Cook the food Sharpen the knives Wash the. dlihct i PoIUh silverware Wash the clothes Iron the clothe Clean the house Pump the water , Hun the fans and do many other things at surprisingly little coitf Let ui ihow you how to keep lervami by lightening your home work. 5' Mountain States Power Co. MONMOUTH kb.