The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969, April 30, 1920, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texthe Monmouth Herald Vol XII Monmouth, Polk Couuty, Oregon, Friday, April 30, 1920 No. 34 Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State 'in the Nation Items of Interest At Oregon Normal Spring li surely here, evidenced by the number of people enjoying the tcnrii courts lately. At the regular meeting of the faculty club last Monday evening, talks were given by Mr, Gil-ore and Mrs. Colilin, Mr. Gilmore spoke on County Club Work from a general standpoint while Mr. Collins treated It from the particu lar phase of the work she has found most useful in her school, the Oak Point Rural Center. County Superintendent G. U. Lamb of Tillamook County spent Monday at the Normal interview ing, teachers for the schools of his county. Mr. Lamb is a graduate of the Normal, class of 1898, and finds things greatly changed since his school days. However, he ex pressed much pleasure in his visit, President Ackerman is taking time this week to visit hitch schools in the various parts of the state. He spent the major part t last week In much the same way and re ports great interest in the Normal among high school seniors through out the state. Mr. A. G. Jackson of the Federal Forestry Service gave a most inter esting illustrated lecture at the chapel hour last Friday. He dwelt particularly upon . the beauties of the National Forests In Oregon, the pleasure it affords visitors, the great value of It from many stand points and its preservation. Mrs, Miller, Critic from Moun tain View.' cave an entertaining talk at the chapel hour last Wednesday, The interest in the Summer School is already very encouraging as Miss Todd reports that every room in the Dormitory has already been engngtd and many of the houses about town are filled. , , The No rmal will be in regular session on Saturday, May 8, to per mit teachers in service to visit clas ses. Regular work will be given In the Training School on that day. A cordial invitation is extended to all neighboring teachers to visit on that duy. The students will be rec ompensed by an extra holiday a lit tle later in the month, The President brings home the news that the millage bill is be ginning to be considered much more favorably in many localities and high hopes of its passage on May 21 are entertained. Miss Todd tpent last Thursdty and Friday in Portland. ," The Normal students some time ago voted to give up their tradit ional May Day festivities this year, owing chiefly to the proximity ( f the day to both Jupior and Senior Class Days. ' Therefore.lhe only at traction at the chapel on May Day will be a picture show at 8:15. The picture, however, Is an attrac tive one, entitled "Heart o' the Hills." The scene is laid in Ken tucky where'a party of land thieves ' trv to steal a little mountain gin's , home. With all the defiance of her clan she stands guard over her heritage with a gun and the intrud ers are frightened away, as they know she shoots to kill. Through out, the story is full of interest and spirit. Dr. J. 0', Matthis who mred here from Salem about a month ago has concluded that his interests will be best served by moving back to Salem, which he" is doing this week. He plans to move household goods Saturday.' The doctor has many friends in Monmouth who regret ...that hi is- leaving and who wish . him the best of success in Salem. Ninety Yean Old , Thursday, April 29 was "Aunt Jane" Powell's ninetieth birthday and to properly observe - the occa ion the ladies Aid of the Chris tian church mada their, weekly meeting on that day a reception to commemorate the event, Mrs. Powell, who for years has been one of the fuithful workers of the church as well as an earnest seeker for the good of the community was born In Illinois and crossed the plain in 1852. At present she is enjoying her second sight and can read or sew without glasses, She has Ave children, twenty three grandchildren and fourteen greit grandchildren. A celebration by, members of the family occurred at the homo Thurwlay evening. Rumored; Reported Concocted, Collected Within the past week the annual run of smelt on the Big Sandy took place and people from a wide stretch of territory took advantage of the event as UBual to get some cheap meat. A Mr. Anderson, former Normal student, is postmaster in a town convenient to this run and as is his annual custom, he sent Post master Parker of Monmouth I box of the smelt. Mr. Parker remem bered his less . fortunate friends which accounts for Sunday being a smelty day in numerous homes lo cally. The Herald family for one expresses its appreciation, The play "AII-ofa-Sudden Peg gy" given by the older high school pupils last Friday and Saturday evenings was very much of a sue cess. The parts were all well tak en and none of the humor with which the play abounded was lost in the rendering. Some of the young actors were exceedingly good in parts portrayed and none were poor. ' , G. T. Boothby reports two sales in real estate this week, C. P. Cornwall has sold his two acre tract with house and barn, etc., lo cated east of the prune dryer, to E. Pagenkopf. Consideration $1500. The latter recently sold his place at Talmage. J. L. Murdock's house on the corner of Knox and Clay has also sold to J. E. Larson, Mr. Murdoek will concentrate his activ ities on land he has recently pur chased and Mr. Larson has decided that buying is more desirable than renting. Mrs. Ellis returned to her home in The Dalles last Friday after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Chesebro. C. P. Cornwall plans to move with his family to Sherwood where he has a nephew and where he plans to locate, Mr. Cornwall re tains some proprety here still and may return if he finds the bushes of that part of the valley not over prolific with, greenbacks . He is one of the old residents of the city, leaving here occasionally to do saw mill blacksmith work at which he is an expert. ' The-Oregon Growers Cooperative Association will erect a prune pack' ing plant and a prune dryer in Dal las this summer. A. M. Roop, aged 76, died at the home of his daughterjin-law, Mrs, Nellie Barnett last week. He was recently from Mosier and had been in the valley only a few days when he died. ' The petition of the Sunrise com- pany to discontinue switching ser vice in Airlie will be heard by the Public Service Commission Wednes day, May 5 in Salem. On the same date the petition of the Independ- enca Telephone company'for a raise or rates will also be heard. Pan Entertainment of Breeder Visitors The Grange, Farmers Union and other organizations who are behind the luncheon which will be served to the visiting dairymen May Olh have perfected plans and appointed committees and taken hold in a manner that Promises to make the event a conspicuous success. Tlx luncheon, which Individuals will contribute, will consists of cold meat and salads suitable to serve with the same, baked beans, cake and In addition bread, ice cream and coffee have already been pro vided for. Following are the beads of committees; Elkins, Mrs. Laughary; N. E. Monmouth, Miss Maggie Butler; S. E. Monmouth. Mrs. Hefflev: S. W Mrs. J. B. Stump; N. W Mrs. Haley, committee on serving: Mesdames Heffley, Lorence, Hewitt and Jones; on coffee: Mrs. Stock holm,; serving ice cream and cake, Mcsdames Powell and ATetherow; Plates, spoons, cups, ice cream plates and spoons and tables: Messrs. Stockholm, Pace, Larson and Morlan. Home in California Sunbeam Circle, No. 670, Neigh bors of Woodcraft, report that a site for a woodcraft home has been purchased at Riverside, Cal., a 22 room building, bungalow, with out buildings, stock, machiwry and family orchard, valued at 153,000. Additional buildings are to be built for adults, juveniles and a hospital to be financed by bonds sold to members. The Neighbor of Wood craft is a fraternal organization op erating in the mountain and west coast state with home office in Port land. It was twenty three years old the first of April. Registered Voters Registration of voters ended at 5 o'clock Tuesday evening, when the books in County Clerk F. D. Moore's office were closed until after the primary election on May 21st. The last few days taxed the capacity of Mr. Moore and an extra force of clerks to record the names of vot ers who had neglected to register earlier. Figures given out by Mr, Moore show that the total county registration is now 6,752 divided as follows "Republicans, 4, 140; Democrats, 2,189, independents, 318; miscellaneous, 318. Of the total Dallas has 1,126, Independ ence, 1068, Monmouth, 936, Falls City, 617 West Salem, 300.-1 tem izcr. The Monmouth Transfer changed hands again this week. A. H. Alsip sold his interests to Pollan Broth ers, Ben and Carl, who are invest ing in a new truck and plan to go after busintss in a modern way. J Work on the digging of the pipe line will soon be completed. Next week should see thejend of the work. The supply of pipe however is held up because of the strike on the railroads and may delay the work on the line for a time, . A magazine agent called at the home of Mrs. Casteel in Dallas one day this week and was so persistent that the lady of the house was forced to hit him oyer the! hehd with a rifle to convince him that she did not want any of his wares. 1 he agent tried to have a warrant issued for the lady's arrest but was not successful. The new publisherjof the Inde pendence Enterprise, Z. C, Kimball takes charge May 1. He was-re cently in business at Klamath 'Falls . Ray Chute and wife of 'Dallas are the proud parents of Ja 71 pound son born Sunday. ' Thoroughbred Cattle Shipped to Idafio The last of the dairy hed of John B. Stump & Eon was disposed of this week. Two gentlemen from Idaho were here and made the pur chase. They were F. R. Commack, field dairyman of the University of Idaho at Boise and P. A. Fortner, county agent from Payette, Idaho. In addition to the Stump Jerseys they bought four of J. M. McDon ald and have also bought some mor in Albany. In Idaho they plan to hold a sale, disposing of the cows to the highest bidder and any profit will be used in a fund to buy more thoroughbred stock. This is the means they take to improve the breed of live stock in Idaho. ' The Stumps retain cne or two milk cows and 'also reserved six head which are entered in a sale of thoroughbreds in Portland within the we-k. The Stump herd now scattered was started in 1910 with the impor tation of a car load of two year olds from the island of Jersey. Power Company Expands The Mountain States Power com pany ia planning to spend $75,000 in increasing and enlarging its equipment in the county. The power plant. in Dallas is to be made double the capacity of the present plant and work is to start soon An additional generating unit con sisting of a 750 kilowatt turbine steam engine has been shipped from the east. The company's business is expanding in many. ways. The fruit business which is developing fast in the county requires much power in the dryers and, where they are situated to take advantage of it, farmers are learning, to use the convenient and inexpensive electric power. Joint Sunday School Event Following is the program to. be presented by the three Sunday Schools of Monmouth at the Christ ian church, Saturday evening, May l. Invocation Mr. Conklin Welcome song First grade ' Talk Mr. Morris ' Primary Department Baptist church ": ' 1. Song : 2. Piece Pauline Morlan Justa Johnson 3. Verse, Dorothy Canterbury Song "Jesus Bids Us Shine" Primary Dcp't Evangelical S. S. Number Girls class Baptist S.S. Class Exercise Primary Dep't Christian S. S. " Instrumental Number Mildred Scott, (Evangeline Davidson, Georg ia Crofoot Story Ewing Sacre Talk Mrs. Edwards Piano Solo Mrs. Robinson , Number Boy's Class, Evangeli cal S. S .., . ' Reading Grace Parker , Duet Effie Grimes, Laverne Wilson " Number Baptist Boy's Class, , Benediction Rev. E. B. Pace. Hanna Brothers, former hardware dealers in Independence may appeal to the supreme court to have a ver diet against them set aside. This case which a s tried in the circuit court awarded John Wood for $1703 a tractor which he claimed was not as represented.? . ' J. W. Stevens, second hand man of Independence, was doing busi ness in Monmouth Friday.. He says when he went to Independence he made the third second hand man in the city but since he has absorb ed his two rivals and now ha monoply of the business. Coast Country Trip Miss Neta Waller, teaching near Marshfield, enjoys he,r work there and also a few of the opportunities incident to living in the coast coun try. In a recent letter home she describes a Saturday trip to the Falls of Allegany. To reach iu they took a motor boat trip. She says: "The trip up tbe river was grand. The maiden hair ferns hang thick along the banks and the myr tle trees are so pretty. We arrived at Allegany at 10:30 - and changed clothes for the hike. All of us girls wore our bloomers and so did noi get at an tired Ihe falls are magnificent, and we spent almost an hour watching them.. The place where we stayed was a mile beyond and we arrived there in time for supper. ' In the evening we sat around the fire and visited. The next day we tramped all the wsy back to Allegany and on the motor boat we rode on top of the cabin and sang nearly all the way." The Offices and The Candidates Following is a list of the candi- dates'wbojiave filed for the contest in the primnary election that is to taxe place May 21. For Sneriff John W. Orr, Re publican. ' For Treasurer A. V. R. Snyder, Republican. For Clerk-Floyd D. Moore, jRe- publican. For Assessor Fred J. Holmaa, Republican. ' For Superintendent of Schools Jonah Wills, Sepublicanr For Coroner R. I. Chapman, Republican'. , ' ' For Surveyor J. J. Sammons and Edgar J. Howe. For Commissioner Albert Teal, Ezra Hart, O. A. Wolverton, Re publicans; W.J. White,'. C. C, Gardner, Democrats. ' 7 Filings for district officers are: For Circuit Judge-H. H. Belt, Republican. ' ' ' .... ,; For District Attorney-J. N. Helgerson, Republican; E. K. Pia- secki, Democrat. v For Joint Representative , (Polk and Lincoln counties) George T Gerlinger, D. E. Fletcher, Repub licans. , . . For Representative P. O., Pow- ell, Republican; L. D. Brown, Democrat. For Justice of the Peace, Dallas precinct M. L. Boyd, Democrat, Mark E. Hibbard, a pioneer citi zen of Independence,-died at the Beaver hotel Sunday. He had been ailing for a year and '.overworked on a nop ranch last fall, lie was 69 years of age and was born New York. His only relative this state is Mrs. Fitchards of In dependence. - W. G. Grant and family who moved from Independence to Ten nessee a while ago, are back again and plan to stay. Wm. Riddell Sr. and T. J, Alsip have been hauling pipe this week for a combination water system They plan to tap the Monmouth pipe line and thus supply them' selves with running water in their farm homes. : . i " i Evangelical Church Notw Sunday, Kay 2. 11 a. nw Sub ject "Necessity of a Noble Resolu tion.". 7:30, Subject "The Great Surrender." Reception of new members at the ' morning service, Sunday School at 10. ChristW En deavor at 6:45. . This will ; be the last Sabbath preceding the annual conference. Thei Pastor leaves tot conference May 6, to be gone over Sabbath, May 9.: Ladies Aid; Tues day and Thursday, p. m. Prayer services Wednesday, 7:30. ndependence Seeks .Change of Highway For some time past rumors have been rife here that active work waa in progress in Independence and the country south of that city to get another change in the route of the W est Side Pacific highway. It was said that $30,000 had been raised to further the project. The following Independence correspond ence to the Salem Capitol Journal will doubtless awaken a ripple of interest locally. "In an effort to get the west side Pacific highway built from Rickre- all to Independence and on south to Corvallis by way of this city, H. Hirschberg went to Portland yes terday to consult with members of the state highway commission. Tbe original plan is mapped out by way of Monmouth from, Rickreall. Farmers south of Independence and in the vicinity of Parker and Suver , have offered to contribute approxi mately 4000 and do the necessary work if the plan can be changed to include these points' on the im proved road. Other inducements, it ia said, will likely be made to have the road built through Inde pendence and it is believed that the commission will accept the liberal offer that has been suggested. A paved road has been built from Independence to Monmouth and rorth part way to Rickreall. By way of Monmouth is a shorter route from Portland and way points, but from Salem the more di rect route is by way of Independ ence. Inasmuch as most of the traffic will be on tbe east aide of - the river to Salem it is contended that the best route to southern Or- egnn is through this cjty. The re sult of the conference is looked for with much hope on the part of In dependence people." In connection with the above Commissioners Booth and Kiddle were in thiasection yesterday going over the various phases of the routes. Mr. Peterson of Parker and other people of that neigborhood who are interested were with the commissioners when the were in Monmouth. A meeting was held in Independence last night when the advocates of a change in .the road had a hearing. According 1 1 he Post, a metecr weighing two hundred pounds fell within the city limits of Indepen dence a week ago Sunday. mrs. Louisa jane amiin, agea ninety, for years a resident of In dependence, died in Oregon City last Friday. H. Hirschberg of Independence ia renewing his annual offer of free seed corn to'all boys and girls in Polk county who will plant from a half acre to one acre of corn and exhibit at the corn show next fall. Theodore Berg, overseas veteran and resident of Dallas who was killed in an accident at Mills City, was buried April 17. He was born in Wisconisn in 1896 and is survived by a widow, formerly Mildred Chapin of Falls City. ' '' V3 3 Baptist Church Notes All the regular services will be held Sunday and a full attendance of all interested is expected. The church social evening Wednesday was attended by 78 persons your-g and old, representing the school, the Endeavor Society and families of the church and congregation and friends.' The lunch was furnished 1 it T.l' f . . Dy we urates society.. The trustees let the contract for excavation to Albert Sacre and tbe contract for moving the old church building to F. K. Arrell of Independence.