f he, Monmouth HEEiyiD
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, May 7, 1920
No. 35
Vol. xn
Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Nation
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Items of Interest
At Oregon Normal
' President Ackerman is still visit
ing the various hlfh schools of the
lUte this week and reports many In
terested In the Normal. 1 '
A cordial Invitation li extended
to all teachers to visit the Normal
on Saturday, May 8, at which time
, there will be regular work both in
the Normal and the Training School.
Asa recompense (or the above ex
tra schcol day the students will en
joy a day's vacation on May 17.
This is Monday so counting the
- week end there will be really three
' days, May 15, 16. 17.
Miss Carson of Elkins Rural Cen
ter gave an entertalnlng'tslk at the
chapel hour last Wednesday, bring
Ing her students to illustrate her
statements.
The Normal was very happy this
week to assist in the entertain
ment of the stockmen from the East
who spent a short time in Mon
mouth on Wednesday.
Plans are being made for the us
ual Memorial Day program In honor
of the Civil War veterans to be giv
Ven In the Chapel May 81, at two
XJ1. Judtfe L. T. Harris of the
State" titrw Bench, will give the
address andme special music is
being prepare
Mr. L. M.AikW. an alumnus of
0. A. C. spent a IWf hours In Mon.
mouth Monday. spMing at chapel
hour. He is organiziik the county
.unnnrt of the Milia Bill and
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urged particularly that eacl
- . ual take this matter ap
' with his friends.
On Wednesday evening. My 12.
Rev. Geo. E. Lewis will givilan il
lustrated lecture on Alaska the
chapel. Mr. Lewis is especial! fit
ted to speak on this subject, haling
iunt the trreater nart of his life
In the North, and hence knows
material intimately. He, has con,
sented to speak at the chapel
hour, also, on the same day, giving
some of his reminiscences which he
la obliged to omit from the regular
.. . lecture. The public Is cordially in
vited. An admission of 20 and 30
cents will be charged in the
evening.
An excellent picture will be
shown in the chapel Saturday even
ing, May 8. The play, entitled
' "Rio Grande", Is a story depicting
life along the Rio Grande, written
by Augustus Thomas. Aside from
the story the picture contains
great deal of scenic beauty, laid as
it is In the tropical orange colored
deserts.
Mr. R. W. Kirk, Supt. of the Or
egon City Schools, visited the Nor
mat one day last vtfek.
The last program of the yenr ly
the Delphian Literary Society will
be giien on Friday evening at seven
thirty In the chapel. A spring pro
gram, consisting df an operetta,
May Dance, and some appropriate
songs has been prepared. Miss
Schuette will sing a solo.
Would Fill Community Need
The gymnasium for the high
school, the building of which ia to
be decided next week, would give
something to Mflnmouth-which is
badly nceded-a place of public as
sembly. As planned by the archi
tect, the gvm will seat 680 and
with a wide stage and a balcony
could be made to accommodate a
thousand if the occasion demanded.
The possibilities of this building as
a community center, aside from its
need as a trym. must demand the
thoughtful attention of our public.
Rumored, Reported
Concocted, Collected
Pioneer Dies at ' -
Age of Ninety
Plan Clean Up and
Paving Collection
Rev. Peter Conklin left Tuesday
to attend the annual conference of
the Evangelical church which is
held In the First English church of
Portland. Mrs.. Conklin preceeded
him to Portland. . visiting with
friends th-re but joined him to at
tend the conference. There will be
no preaching services In the Evan
gelical church as a consequence
Sunday, but Sunday School will be
held as usual at 11 a. m.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Short are
now permanently located in the
residence which they bought of
Mrs. Sarah Ground and the latter
has gone to Portland to live with
her daughters. The Shorts are
from Ranier. where Mr. Short was
engaged In the butcher business.
lindivid-
finitely
" The County Clerk's office had
record breaking month during Ap'
ril, having taken in seven hundred
and sixty dollars and twenty five
cents in fees. This is about one
hundred and seventy five dollars
more than has been taken in in any
preceding' monlh dujing the history
of the'offlce, ,
During the teim of Cduny Clerk
Moore, the business has increased
to such an extent that he has aver
aged one hundred and fifty dollars
a month more than did his prede
cessor. The work is becoming so
great that Mr. Moore states that it
will be necessary to have another
H. C. Stewart and friend, Miss
Wright of Chehalis spent the week
end with the former's parents Mr.
and Mrs.'N; Stewart.- - They
ttayed over Monday to attend the
birthday party of Mr. Stewart's
daughter, Elise, it being her elev
enth anniversary. A number of
boy and girl friends of the city
helped celebrate the event.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sturkin
visitors here this week, nave re
ccntly returned from a winter'!
trip in the east and south. They
isited it Mauston, Wis., In Chica
t ..... . r.
ito and in Indiana and lor a time
Sturkin worked In Beaumont,
They returned by way of
thA Grand Canyon in Arizona and
southern California and now plan
to locate either in Salem or Port
land where Mr, Sturkin has open'
ings. ,
Dr. M. jl Butler of thiscity was
re-elected president of the Marion
Polk county I dentists organization
at their annual meeting held at the
Hotel Marion in Salem last Satur
day, night. Dr. Zimmerman of
Portland gave a lecture on extrac
tion at the meeting.
J. C. Stombauth, city salesman
for the Cudahy company in Port
land was a week end visitor in Mon
mouth, helping his)wife get packed
for moving. The latter will board
with Mrs. Erickson until the close
of school. The Evenden house in
which they have been living has
been sold to Howard Morlan and is
to be vacated May 10.
Miss Hazel Buresell who is I
sophomore at the Agricultural col
lege, was appointed recently as one
of three assistant instructors in
the chemistry department of home
economics and she is the youngest
of the three. She is getting along
well in her studies at the college
and her friends are highly pi eased
with her progress. -
John L. Williams, a "forty nin-
er" in California and one of the pi
oneer settlers of Oregon died Tues
day night in the Deaconess hospital
in Salem. He had been bed ridden
for a long time and was under the
constant care of a hired nurse for
the past three years. With' Mrs.
Williams he was taken to the hos
pital Tuesday and did not live twen
ty four hours after his arrival
there. Mrs. Williams also la in
very feeble health.
Funeral services will be held Sat
urday at 1 o'clock from Henkle'i
parlors in Independence with Rev
Dunsmore officiating.
Mr. Williams, famlarly known as
Uncle Bob" was about ninety
years of age. He was born in Ar
kansas and crossed the plains in an
early day, tried his hand at mining
but found it more ' profitable to
raise produce for the miners. He
came to Oregon over fifty years
ago, settling at Lewisville on what
is now the Linderman place. He
moved from there to Buena Vista
and from there acquired the farm
now owned by L. E. Olden. This
farm he sold to Amos Holman and
bouirht the farm iust across the
road from the Elk ins school house
He sold this eight years ago and
moved to Monmouth. He waa mar'
ried in 1851 to Martha, daughter of
Green Simpson, who survives him
They had no children but adopted a
daughter, now Mrs. W. K. Tether
ow of Northport, Wash. The lat
ter is here to attend the funeral.
wo v. .
Clean up day for Monmouth was
officially set for May 17 at the reg
ular session of the Common Council
Tuesday night. Ihe city will fur
nish transportation to carry the rub
bish but citizens are cautioned not
only to have rubbish collected but
to have it readyjthe morning of the
17th. The rubbish this year will be
dumped in a long unused city well
which will save the usual timejand
trouble of hauling to the river in
Independence.
The long delayed resolution order-
ingg in sidewalks on the west s'de
of Monmouth avenue, south from
Main street, was introduced and
passed.
Unpaid assessments on Main
street were also considered and the
recorder was instructed to notify
delinquents that legal proceedings
interrupted by the paving suit, now
decided in favor of the city, would
be resumed to collect all
ments unpaid after May 15.
Claims' paid as follows: General
Fund J. F. Moreland, $25; Power
Co., $73.28; Oscar Hayter, $125
R. B. Swenson, $10.75.
Water Fund Continental Pipe
Co., $2904.64; and $3056.34. R
W. Jones. $166: Chas. T. Parker
$4,230.40; .RB. Swenson, $16.95;
J. F. Moreland, ' $65; Monmouth
Hardware, $67.03; Power Co.,
$44.02. , s
Road Fund-M. H. Pengra, $149..
65; G. G. Mattison, $132.50
Gravity Line Two Thirde In
The work of installing our grav
ity water system is now two thirds
done, according to a report render
ed to the council by the city engin
eer. All of the ditch ia dug and
something like four miles of pipe
are laid and covered. Work on the
intake on Teal creek has also reach
ed an advanced stage. As to pipe,
the manufacturers plead that , they
have troubles of various kinds but
Three Hundred
Are Entertained
Monmouth entertained visitors
Wednesday at noon having some
thing like three hundred (guests in
all, Jersey breeders and their
wives. They were touring this part
of the Willamette valley going
from one stock farm to another, a
link in the circuit that started in
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nmiu rrtia oracir inn Tjircp
v. v... . v ... olJ ..J Lt n.. V-
next week. If the pipe had been '""ru. "r
ready the system could have been
ready for use May 15 but ia now
apt to be delayed to June 1. ,
Miracle Performance
So Chapman Reports
back again to the point of starting.
The party reached Monmouth short
ly after 11, having visited MeAr
thur and Stauff at Rickreall and
the Morrow farm near Brunk'i cor
ner during the forenoon.
Here'dairymen of thia section,
represented by the Grange, the
Farmers' Union and citizen of
Monmouth, had prepared a picnic
Miracle of miracles, the impossi-
kin k.. LnnnaniJ In tVlA lT1ft1ll-
uo "... , .L. V7.l
LUIC. uc iawi n m --vviw. i . .
.' . , ., . ., campus, witn weal weatner ue
Marion County fought against every
uuuu uuur woo sycui. uui u uwtv.
road bond measure. His opposition
to good roads was intense, bitter
and habitual. It was supposed
nothing could change it. Yesterday
he dropped in to see his neighbor,
C. C. Chapman of Hopewell, just
across the Willamette River from
i xi- n u iw Pel. director of .the
chard in Mission Bottom, where the .. -... ,
Guests and entertainers made a to
tal of five hundred people who were
fed and thre was ample for all.
At 12:45 all assempbled in the
Normal chapel where a brief pro
gram was given. P. O. Powell pre
sided and introduced Hugh Van
American
senator grew the first loganberry I - rf
SElkint Rural Center
it
The pupils of the upper room of
The joint Sunday School program
given Saturday evening in the
Christian church proved most pleas
urable to those In attendance. The
small children on the program cov
ered themselves with glory and the
demonstration of primary teaching
the Elkins school appeared in chapel
at the Oregon Normal School last
Wednesday jn a series of physical
training demonstrations. After
chapel the time was spent visiting
classes in the Training School ; and
Hiirh School. In the afternoon a
ball game was played with the Jun
iors and Seniors of the Monmouth
High School with a resulting score
of 26 to 13 in favor of.Elkins
The pupils of the school, other
than the members of the team,
joined with the teachers in giving
the boys of the Elkins team a rt-
ceDt on Friday evening. Ihis was
in the nature of a baseball game in
which the events of the evening
were represented on the tally
cards as Innings.
ThesUdent teachers from the
Normal who are doing their prac
tice teaching work here at the pres
ent time are: Elizabeth McGerr,
Ontario, Ore.; Hillie Haveman,
Newberg, Ore.; Velda Roork, Pen
dleton, Ore
The Local Farmers' Union meet
ing was held, in the schoolhouse last
Saturday evening. The County
Agent, Mr. Carpenter, from Dallas
was present and gave a short ad'
dress. Mr. McBee, the Co. Pres.
also gave a short talk. Three new
members were taken in Mr. and
Mrs. Hannum and Mr. Blodgett.
The Elkins ball team is planning
on playing the Freshman-Sophomore
classes of Monmouth High School in
a baseball game at Elkins, Friday
afternoon. ,
Children's Week was observed in
the local Sunday School last Sunday
morning by short talks by the fol
lowing ladies: Mrs. . McEldowney,
Mrs. Mary Tedrow and Mrs. Jones,
Next Sunday will be - observed as
Mother's Day.
Convention at Lewuville
.
X Sunday School convention for
the Airlie district is'to be held at
Lewisville Sunday May 16. Follow
ing Is thelprogram.
10:00 Song Service
10:20 Sunday School Hour
Workers' Conference
Teen-age Boys-J. F. Ulrich, Airlie
Teen-age Girls Miss Gladys Carson,
Elkins
Junior Mrs. W. C. Williams, Lew
isville
Primary Miss Florence Hill, Elk
ins
11:00 Music
11:15 The Way to Emmaus, Rev
Jas. Elvin, Salem Y. M. C. A
11:45 Announcements
12:00 Lunch Hour. Basket Dinner
1 :30 Song Service
1:45 Business meeting. Election
of officers. ;
2:15 Question Box
3:00 Address, Rev. Chris J. Beu-
ney, Co. Pres.
Special meetings for the girls.led
by Miss Canon and the boys, led by
Rev; Elvin, will be held during the
afternoon. Also games and Bible
stories for the children.
Every one cordially invited
meet with us. , i
that ever were grown in Oregon
on a commercial scale. The two
cronies passed the time of day and
looked at some of Chapman's hogs
and calves. "Chapman. I'm for
the bonds," finally blurted out the
old senator who had 'led the fight
against every state and county bond
issue that had been up for years,
""What bonds? demanded Chap
man, amazea.
bonds, the amendment 1
azainst. raising the limit from 2
per cent to 4 per cent," he respond
ed. "I'm for the measure. 1
looked over the figures that those
wished to start an orchard and re
quested advice of an expert in the
business. "The way to grow an or
chard" was the advice "is to start
your trees a long time ago." The
speaker fund a simile in the 'dairy
business where quality is acquired
by building on afoundation started
a long time ago. ' He lauded the
X .? j qualities of milk as a food and ex
The state road L ...... ,.4. , .
Voted 1" uieiewre uiat kuuwnie
oi trns De aispiayea wnerercr
schools exist. 1
R. M. Gow, leeretary of fir
club, waa also intreioeed and -air
a short talk. H tune, be said,
expert acuntante figured up. and
I'm satisfied the bonds won't raise I .
uiy uam dtou iiibiij yai u wrc uu-
my taxes, so I'm for 'em, as I want
all the good roads I can get. If
they are going - to be built in time
for me to use them, they had better
hurry up and build them, for I am
getting old. I really don't desreve
ion but waa willing to acknowledge
that he bad never looked on any
better than the fertile valleys he
had seen as he came to western
Oregon. A group of girls from the
upper grades of the Training School
any roads, the way I ve fought 'em " , , ....
r . . . iL ii n presented a blossom dance which
but I guess 1 11 get them all right, r r . , , , , .
, ... .. was rvigorously Tapplauded and a
he continued with" a wink. "I'm ' ' ' ,
to
group of smaller girls, arrayed as
milkmaids with caps and pails,
sang a motion dairy song which
took immensely with the visitors.
The latter came back with the fi
nal number on the program, a song
atettintr all my neighbors to vote
for the measure." ,
"Yes, I voted against the meas
ure, but I'm for it now, he con
eluded. Let us get the roads built
nn no ia Ann VUa AM nOl'lUff
as ewu van, inv.uB., , n , ,, i .
our license fees and gas tax, and . ....... , .
mi . .1 1. 11
we may as well get tne roaas.
The bonding measure comes up
before the people at the May 21
election.
Peter Stolenberg and Miss Pearl
Ogle of Independence have been li
censed to wed.
At a special election held last
week the Independence school dis
trict by .a small majority voted to
deputy in order to do justice to his by Miss Beatrice Robinson , was ex- build a gymnasium, said building
patrons and to himself ., jceptionally good. to cost $15,000. ;,
Education and Taxes
1 "Why do all the states in t!.e un
ion support higher education was
asked by an investigator of the
higher educational support bill,
which will be on the ballot on May
21 and will provide 1.26 mills tor
the state university, the agricultur
al college and the Oregon Normal
School. He was told that education
is the greatest protector of Ameri
ca's free institutions; that the pros
perity of this country wa3 largely
due to its educational system; that
countries whose populations were
mostly ignorant usually paid the
highest taxes,:and that good educa
tion tended to keep taxes down
Whereupon he said he would vote
for the bill.
Since the earliest days the unedu
cated people of Europe and Asia
have been thq most oppressed in
the world by taxes. Many times
they have been driven into rebel
lion. Taxes seem high in the Unit-
comic ditty in which they worked
in a reference to the-Normal girla
which was very well rendered ai d
loudly applauded.
During the afternoon thetrave!-
.T V Tui-Bnn mnvort Mondav nta "
hi. now hnmn rwvnt V Durchased '"
have gone to Yamhill to live until Kht was
school is out.
Guy Newton of Independence, aft
A Seventh-day Adventist church employe of the telephone company
is being established in Independ- fell from a pole across a rail fence
ence, services being held in K, P. one day last week, seriously injur
hall in that city next Saturday af- ing his back.
ternoon with two elders from Salem M McDonald and Mr. Bullock
in charge. and their wives were visitor! Sun-
ed States, but the high level of ed- day with relatives of Mrs. Bullock
ucation of the American people in the prune district souh of fca
helps keep taxes down. Education lem. Mr, McDonald says that see-
therefore an investment and an turn of Marion.county,4at tma sea-
insurance, and this is one of the ar- sob of the year, is white with prune
guments being used for the pro- and cherry blossoms and is a aigm
tection of the work of the Agricul- worth going miles to see.
tural College, State University and
Normal School on May 21.
Pine Valley residents are making
another effort to divide Bak county.
It is proposed to cut off what is tailed
the Panhandle, ones a part of Union
county hut later annexed to Bakor,
and form a new county, .The great
distance from the PanhandU to Baker,
the county seat, Is the source of dis
satisfaction. " :;i
There has been considerable in
quiry pertaining to the legality of
independent, registered voter vot
ing at the special election,' May
21st; and the County Clerk's office
desires to make it clear to the regis
tered voters that all who are regis
tered may vote upon the meeeurea
to be submitted on May the 21 at,
regardless of political affiliation or.
I non-affiliation.