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FhsMonmouth HEi&jip Vol. XII Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, May 21, 1920 No. 37 Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of thi Best Valley of the Best State in the Nation Items of Interest At' Oregon Normal Commencement Week, June 12 to 16, with It varied activities is engrossing the attention of Senior nowaday i. The speaker for Com mencement Pay will be President Lindsay of tho University of Idiiho, and for Die Pacculnureate Sermon, Dr. Ferguson. Tho complete . pro gram for the week it at followi: Saturday, June, 12-Present's Luncheon and Junior Pruin. Sunday, June 13-Baccalaureate Sermon. Monday, June 14 -Faculty He ceptkmClBKa t'lny. Tuesday, Jun 16-Last Chapel nd Claw Day -Alumni Program and Panquet. Wednesday, June 16-Commencement. v Student! returned Tuesduy from their week-end visits to 'their hornet with mott encouraging report! re garding the Millar Bill. In nine cases out of ten it li k'ing enthusi astically supported throughout the ttate and high hoiet of iU passage are entertained. rretident Ackerman spoke at Dallat and at I allt City Monday in the high schools. Miu Bramlierg, Registrar, spent the week-end in Salem, A rally was held in Salem Tup day evening for which the program wai furnished by representatives of the three ttate Instituficns chiefly interetted In the Millage Bill, Mist Schuette and the Dormitory 5ua-( tet represented the Normal. SlTtt SinUh, Primary Critic in the Monmouth Training School, gave an instructive chapel talk Wednes day morning, "The Luck of the Irish", the mo tion picture to be presented in the chapel Friday evening, is a dramat ization of Harold MacGrath't pop ular novel by the samo nam e. It abounds in mystery, adventure and romance and moves from New York to Gibraltar, Venice, Naples, Cairo and Singapore. Judging from the vast number of inauiries that have come from the various parts of the elate, the Ore gon Normal School is looking for ward to a large attendance at the Summer Schocl which begins June 21 and ends July 81. Another in dication of a large attendance is that all the rooms in the dormitory have been reserved for several weeks. - , Special methods will be given in the different subjects for all the el ementary grades, as well as meth ' ods for rural school work. The sub , jects required by law for the ele 5 mentary teachers' training course will also be given. , NEXT SULTAN OF SULU AMERICANIZED We're all heard of tt& Sultan ol Bulu. Here It alt adopted and modernised, son, H. Oulamu Ra tal. He wat sent to America and Is ttudylni law at Washington, preparatory to duties la the gov ernment of his people. He It al ready a governor of one province and It scheduled to eventually rule Moro affairs la Sulu. WOULD RUN ON G. 0. ?K. TICKET FOR SENATE v'v... L ANNE MrWTIN Ann Mnrtln, suffrage loadnn from Nevtila, who ran (or a tout In the U. 8. Senate on in Intlo pendent tirknt In It II, hu again) unmiunred her candidacy for the n" -t, th la time sceMita a place an tti,0 Republican tklitt Yet Another Drive Headed This Way t Th definite part Monmouth Is to pl in a state-wide camnalgn of thetl;gon State Chamber of Com men! last Saturday was outlined by FIR, Ogden, representing the StatATiamJjer, who, visited Mon- mourn in Mfltccwon with a survey of the f state nowneing made. Mr. LOgdcn discussed th campaign with mmfflfr of leading local men in- uuig Ira C. Powell, president of iat National' Bank; G. T Boothby. president of the Mon mouth Commercial Club, and E. M Ebbert, secretary-treasuref of the club. Mr. rowell was named as chairman of the Monmouth execu live committee which will cooper ate with other cities in the state wide movement. He named Mr. Ebbert, R. B. Swenson of the Mon mouth Herald, A. B. Morlan and E. C. Cole to act on the committee with him. Mr. Swenson was select ed as vice-chairman. . The Oregon State Chamber of Commerce has undertaken plans to play a big part in the future devel opment of the state. Funds wijl be raised to advance advertising, pointing out the opportunities to be found in Oregon and to encourage land settlement; administration to promote irrigation; extension of railroads; refund on reclamation fund: extension of highways both for commercial 'purposes and through national forests, coopera- tion with agricultural and lumber ing interests ,and numerous other bi Droiects. the development of which will be of Incalculable value to Oregon. ' Mr, Ogden was assured by local leaders that Monmouth could be re lied upon to do her share along with other comunities of Oregon Other representatives of the Slate Chamber will visit Monmouth some time during June or July and com plete the organization work for the stnte-wide movement, which, it is declared, will benefit every section of Oregon, A Long Journey1' Wm. Jacquith and Geo. Stein bach of Akron; Ohio, .were guests last week at T. J. Edwards'. The two young men are traveling through tlie, country in a Ford. They have visited Washington, .New York and other points of interest in the east and are rceently from Southern California swliere they spent the winter. ' Scenery in Ore gon looks more attractive to them than the south west coast country and they also think better of our agricultural prospects. V Warren Neal, Dead Civil War Veteran Funeral service! for the late Warren Neal were held at the family home in this city yesterday afternoon. Mr. Neal died Tuesday morning after a brief il.neis. He was burled In the K. P. cemetery, south of town. - The death of Mr. Neal removes another of the thin line of turviv ing veterans of the civil war. He was born In Uniontown, Pennsyl- nia, April 2, 1848. When but twelve years of aire, through the death of hit father, he was thrown on hit own resource! and learned the blacksmith's trade. At soon as ,e reached a sufficient height to pass the physical requirements, be jnlistcdin the 18th Pennsylvania cavalry in Company A and was with the army of the Potomac until he was discharged July 10, 186S. Like many other young men the mines of the west attracted him and he set out to seek his fortunes, arriving in time to'take part in In dian troubles which prevailed in New Mexico and Arizona in the early seventies. He was a black smith in one of the army compa nies, serving under General Crook. Eventually, he located at Wichi ta, Kansas, as a blacksmith, but tried his hand at raising sheep for i time. July 3, 1881 he was mar ried to Elva Pickering at Arkansas City, Kansas and they soon moved to Salem, Oregon. Thrve years later they returned to Arkansas City. In 1894 because of the poor health of Mrt. Neal they returned1 to Oregon, locating in McMinnville where Mr. Neal worked as a black smith. Because of bit poor health he quit active work at- his tratje and in 1908 they came to Mon mouth where they hive since resid ed. He was among the Oregon veter ans who attended the Gettysburg reunion in 1913. Of four children born .to the Neals, two survive with the widow. They are Wm. H. Neal of Camas, Washington and Mrs. Mabel Grover of Clatskanie. Taft at Salem Ex-President William Howard Taft will lecture at the Salem Ar- mory, May 29th, on THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS UP TO DATE. Mr. Taft comes here through the Ellis on-White Lyceum Bureau. , This is inneed a rare privilege for the peo phof the Willamette Valley since Mr.' Taft lectures only in two other cities of Oregon , "namely Portland and Eugene. $9 Worth Wheat Into $36 Bread if1' i ,, ht. UK 5 Day Chautauqua ' To be Held in July It may not be generally known, but Monmouth is to have a Chau tauqua this summer. Little adver tising hat been done but M.J. But ler who it corresponding secretary for local sponsert for the series, has been steadily at work for tome time making arrangement! for the five dayt event. It is to be held under the direction of the West Coast bu reau, which although a compara' lively young concern, it showing enterprise in the "securing of at tractions. The Ellison-White peo- pie are to put on Chautauquas this summer in Dallas and Independence and with their offerings for com petition and comparison the- new company will have to exert itself to make a favorable showing. Boys Plant Corn County School Superintendent Jo siah Wills it making up packages of seed corn In 5 and 10 pound packages to be distributed jjamong the corn club members of the in dustrial club of which there are about fifty earnest workers. H. H Hirschberg of Independence pre sented the corn to the club mem' bers thru the county school superin tendent't office. Mr. Hirschberg has kept up thit practice for 'many yeart, and always furnishes the best seed procurable. The seed be ing distributed this year is valued at 25 cents per pound. Mr. Wills siys the prospects among the club members is very favorable for the oming season. At-'"' .Lost Fmger End Louis Siegel, who farms on the American Bottom, south of Inde pendence,. cut off the end of the middle finger of his right hand in a potato planter Monday and came up to town to gettt treated. The finger was amputated at the first joint. Dr. Bowersox did tlie work and also relieved John Greene of a pair of tonsils within the last week First Car f Pipe Here Contractor Chas. T. Parker and his force of men are working on the pipe line on this side of. the di vide between the Luckiamute and Willamette valleys this week. One car of pipe has already been receiv ed here, one more is enroute and with two more the loading of which is promised this week, the pipe will all have been shipped. The head works will be completed this week also but there is still the iron pipe to put In that is laid across the bot tom of the Luckiamute river to make a crossing of that stream. Senator Asle J. Oron- j na of North Dakota, j chairman of the Senate Committee on Agricul ture, usually takes a con Ttnclng argument with him when he goes for-, ward to argue tor the rights of western wheat growere. He is here shown weighing the "average loaf" and prov ing that the 19 received 'by the farmer for wheat enough to make a barrel of floor, Is tn turn made Into 400 nine-eent loaves of bread bringing forth ISO from the consumers, ..: Gel Land for Mill ' J Progresa it reported in the taw mill propoaition this' week. The tract along the railroad track 'be tween the creamery and ttock yard has been selected It has a total frontage of 590 feet. 200 feet be long to the warehouse company and thit the city hat been given the use of. The remainder of the ground belongs to C. P. Cornwell and he has agreed to tell it at $550. The money it being raised this week Mid thit land will be deeded to the city. A meeting between E. B. Hamilton and citizens of the city is to be arranged W the near future at (which definite "details will be worked out. " Rumored, Reported Concocted, Collected The city treasurer reports that delinquent paving assessments have all been paid with the exception of two and the prospects are that these will be cared for in the near future without further resort to legal measures. The Independence American Le gion post is out for recruits and to night will entertain at a banquet in the Monmouth hotel all of the ex-service men in this vicinity who can be induced to attend. The Le gion is doing a great deal to ad vance the interests of the ex-sol diers and they want all to be with them to add strength to their efforts. '' Mrs. Addie Himes has secured divorce from W. A. Himes, JjeUer xnown as oiu nunes. one auegeu desertion and was given her former name, Mrs.' Addie Whitaker, Himes is employed at Salem as i guard in the penitentiary. The Siletz Valley Lumber com pany, withjheadquarters at Siletz, Lincoln county, filed articles of in corporation with the state corpora tion department in J3alem Tuesday The company is capitalized at $25,- 000. George Larsen, A. H. Sand- strom and W. H. Masters are the incorporators. Notwithstanding a raise of salar ies all round only one member of the faculty of the Dallas high school is to remain for next year W. 1. Ford, the superintendent. Reports on damage done by the three cold days last winter show that injury is not confined to wai nut and peach trees. Many appl trees are showing the effects of the exposure and grape vines, cherry and quince trees and much small fruit are frequently found to have sustained damage. A part of the blame for this may doubtless be laid to the dry season last summer. The Indeoendence hieh school base ball team was defeated by the Monmouth high school team by a comf irtable margin in a game play ed in Independence last Friday af ternoon. The Monmouth students knjoyed a party and weinie roast .in Hirschberg's woods near Ta lmage during the evening. The frashmen were hosts and a nleasant time is reported. t , Hitch in the Proceedings A lad. from Pedee and! a girl from Independence appeared at the office of County Clerk F'loyd D. Moore Saturday for the purpose of secur ing a marriage license. Before the joy certificate could be made out, however ,'jthe mother of the pros pective bride teleDhonet1 the sher iff's office, to stop the tWatch, neither of the young people was of legal ago. Deputy Sheriff Hooker stepped across the hall upon receipt of the message and sdoIIpH th. 1 ro Truck Caravan Pays Us a Visit With banners' and tlanginjr gongs and tooting horns, with, signt urging the voter to pass the four per cent limitation act in behalf of good roads, a caravan of trucki in vaded Monmouth yesterday fore noon. They were a party of tour ists from Portland making a dem onstration for business purpose. All of the trucks were loaded, a, ninety per cent load, the prospect us announced and they boosted the ship by truck idea. Two wert loaded with pigs of iron, otheri tad machinery, power pnmpe, gaso line engines, car wheels, etc. One had mounted a small automobile. They arrived here from" Independ ence at about 10 o clock and ser pentined np the sreet, after a short stop going on to Dallas. They made a stop at the Normal campus and the students sang a song for them. Flower Oratet for Wood Montaville Flower, famous Chau tauqua lecturer, spoke briefly in Monmouth last Saturday morning. He was making a hurried passage through the county, under the guidance of Walter Tooze, Sr. and B. U. Steelquist on a speaking tour in behalf of Leonard Wood. They had a small band with them which tuned up in the band stand opposite the post office but with scarcely five minutes of previous announce ment only a handful of auditors heard Mr. Flower orate from a position in an automobile that wai conveniently at band. He tpoke very- briefly; explaining at the close that he was Wood'i sole out of the state speaker and waa en deavoring to cover as much terri tory at possible tn the allotted time. New Principal Selected The Monmouth School board hat made a start in the engagement or a faculty for the coming school year this week when they engaged C. F. Grover as principal. Mr,. Grover is from Clatskanie where be is at present superintendent of tchoola and comes well recommended. He is a son-in-law of Mrs. W. Neal of this city. ' Oscar Groves of Dallas and Miss Bessie Hoisington, a teacher in the schools vf that city were married last Saturday. . VTOmZN LINING U? FOREIGN VOTE V A new phase of political acttr ky is being exercised thit year- a direct result of suffrage. It it the torfrine or ergaaixlng of women workers from all foreign language clubs crysUIIiilng entl ment for. different candidate Mrs. B. V. Langworthy of Win netks, IU., well knows la the middle west and former president of the Illinois Parent-Teacher As sociation, is tho first woman to 1 " ' Mwmt mance. ltemizer.' - take up this work.
