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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
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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
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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 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
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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.