I Vail Paper and Paint , Spring Time Nectssilits Perkins' Pharmacy If we haven't got it we'll get it Ask m 1.1 wc.vu New Elmer Eexford. a former resi dent, his wife and son from Albany were guests of his ? uncle, A. N Halleck Thursday. C.H.Howell of Walla Walla, who has spent the past year in Ban don, is visiting with his brother, J. W. Howell. I. G. Davidson of Portland was a business visitor in Monmouth Tuesday. . Wm. Hall who is occupying the Hall property, was a visitor in Salem Saturday. Sir. and Mrs. J. Bailey of Jeffer son visited relatives here Sunday. 0. A. Wolverton has spent sever al days this week on the trail of the festive voter. Tei Puchannan of Seattle was a visitor this week with his sisttr, Mrs. Frank Hinkle. Mrs. L. C. Robinson has bought the Cornwell house on Broad street, consideration $250. I Ira C. Powell was a business vis itor in Sherwood and Portland or. Friday last. John Gardner, traveling agent of the S. P. was a visitor in Mon mouth Tuesday on the rounds inci dental to business. l:m. Our Bargain Col lumn Binder for Sale Having two binders with use for one we offer the other for sale, a Deering, in good shape. H. B. Thompson & Sons. . " The Fordson i? a clean cut, High class piece of Machinery And Powerful It has no Equal $850 F. 0. B. Detroit Ace Garage Houses and Lots Houses with one acre. Houses with larger tracts. Very reasonable in price. See Moran. For Sale -Year old Barred Rock 0. A. C. Rooster. Inquire at Her ald offic?. Wanted -Six Buff Leghorn hens; also w.ml like to rent. small gar den in Monmouth for cash rent. Albert E. Alderman, Parker, Ore. Bx 262. Bigger Wood Saw I have a new C horse power en gine and a larger saw and am pre pared to saw your wood in country or town. Phone or leave orders at P, H. Johnson's.AL. Stimpson. Harold Howell of Bandon, Ore gon, who perhaps it the most adver tised young man . in the state of .Oregon, is a visitor in Uiis city this weeK. wiin nis miner, u. tioweii, he is staving at J. W. Howell'i, the latter being brother an! uncle of the two. J. S. Frime took the fellow-craft degree in the Masonic lodge in In dependence Wednesday night and a number of the local brethren went over to witness the ceremony. C. C. Mulkey hat concluded he 'has live J in rented houses long enouh and has bought the house recently vacated by J. E. Larson ownel by Riddell Brothers. The Mulkeys have been living in it for the past week. I Peter Cornwell, now located ! Sherwood, hasacousin in that town nameJ Hcover who is a second cou sin of the Herbert Hoover whose name is so frequently met with in the public prints. A. N. Poole, wife and three sons Cecil, Alvin and lewis attended the Evange'kil conference in Tort'and and from there went to Banks where they visited with Mrs. W. T Sellers and family. The small ton and daughter of Frank Strong of Linnton, are visit ingwith their grandparents Mr and Mrs. Stror.g of Monmouth, and will likely stay for the surr.mer, Mrs. Neal of Turner is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. T. J. Ed wards. - G. T. Boothby and wife visited their daughter, Mrs. W. McCreadie in Corvallis Sunday. Mrs. M. J. Kitchen of Albany is the guest this week of her daugh ter, Mrs. F. R. Bowersox. There was no session of the coun cil Tuesday night because of lack of quorum. Councilman- Hampton was indisposed and Mr. Chesebro was absent from the city. Accord- uigly an adjournment was taken to Tuesday night of next week. Pomona Grange meets ' with the local lodge next Saturday. The af ternoon program will be open to all and there will be numbers by the girls' quartet of the Normal and by the training school girls. Two papers by Pomona Grange members will also be presented. A number of Monmouth people attended the Sunday School conven tion at Lewisville last Sunday after noon. Evangelical Church Note Sunday, May TS. Morning wor ship at 11. Subject: "A vision of otlr present and future state' as. children of God". Text, Eph. 1: 15-20. Evening worship at 8. Subect: "The Hut and Palace' experience". Text, Rom. 7: 5, 6. Sunday School at 10. Christian Endeavor at 7:15. Prayer service, Wednesday, 8 p. m. On Thursday, May 27, under the direction of the Ladies' Aid, the church i? to be cleaned,' to which we invite all who can to come and help. The members of the Evangelical church had their annual meeting last Wednesday evening. The fol lowing business was transacted: The local budget oi $863 was ac cepted. Church to be cleaned next Thurs day. Mother's Day, Sunday, June 6. Children's Day, June 27. Old People's Day, October 31. Picnic, some day in July, to be announced definitely ere long. Four special socials are to be held at the following places: Edwards', Heffley's, Nott's and Winegar's. Baptism second Sunday in July. Sunday and Wednesday evening services to begin at 8jp. m. Wood for the year was arranged for. Church to be painted, '. 'i ' -t i : Ira Williams says Time to look your mower Over The General Blacksmith and Horse shoer . E. M. Elbert and family journey ed to Falls City Sunday to tee the progress being made with the grav. ity system. While in Falls City the called on Mr. Ebbert'a aunt Mrs. E. A. LeDow. He reports th intake about done and apparently splendidly adapted for the work In tended. Herbert Powell spent the week end in Eugene with his brother. The late W. Neal waa one of Sheridan't troopera in the civil war and had many thrilling experience as a cavalry man. In 1918 he at tended the fiftieth anniversary the Battle of Gettysburg being fa survivor of the forces contending on that field in 1SG3. He jokingly told of his experiences at the reun ion, how he went over the fi looking for landmarks that might be recognized and found the ravine where he had dismounted from his horse and a little farther on thr- identical hole he had made in the ground with his nose when stretch ed out flat he tried to escape being a target for the rebel bullets. Lewisville Convention The officers elected for the Lewis ville Sunday School District la-.t Sunday at the convention held in inemurcnai Lewisville were ss follows: President-W. C. Wil liams; Vice-president E. A. Ted row; Secretary-Treas. Emery Whitacre; Home Department-Mrs Victor Ballantyne; Supt. Cradle Roll Dept. Mrs. Ed Lehman; Supt Boys' Dept.-Dell Tedrow; Supt Girls' Dept.-Mrs. Chloe Seymour The convention was well attend ed and one new feature marked the afternoon. This was the meeting of separate Boys' and Girls' Con xerences. so well pleased were bofh the special conferences that officers were elected in each session and plans were laid for similar con ference at future Conventions.' The officers in the Boys' Confer ence are: President Melford Nel son; Secretary Mr. Osborne. "The Girls' Conference decided upon the following young ladies as their officers: President Miss Roxie Crook; Secretary-Miss Bernice Stewart. HOW UEN 0F PERFECT L1KJ " LT INNOCENT PUR SUITS ARB HANDICAPPED. Dog-whlppers, bulldog burn ers, pig-breakers, beetle-cutters, and worm-trimmers sound like extremely cruel Individual ; though, a a matter of fact, they follow perfectly Innocent voca tions in metal mining and manu facturing. Mule-taming, In com parison, would appear a mild, If puzzling, Job to those Ignor ant of the existence of mule which are not quadrupeds but in Important part of the machin ery In the cotton and woolen In dustries. . . . i , A man might reasonably be reluctant to engage In certain trades If he paid too much at tention to the names of some of the people In them. Be might shun the acquaintance of slash ers, twisters, and even of slayers In the textile manufnet ore; of sluggers and blunders (boot trade), of deadlng men and wlpers-out (glass trade), of bumpers (textile engraving), (hat-making), punchers (cocoa), scratcher (lamps), spltters (needles), tingle-makers (nails), and rippers (coal mining). Similarly, It would be wrong to refuse our confidence to graft ers, hot-air men, and Jolliers (none of whom have any connec tion with stories of American crooks), of to buekers, gnsscrs, nobblers, and underhand plck lers. They all play a harmless part In the Industry of their country; and their technical names, when misunderstood, give a totally false Impression of their characters. . . " i ........-.4f....t..-i....,."A Peculiar Cause of Celibacy. Celibacy Is almost unknown among the Mordvlns, and when It does occur It Is nearly always the result of a vow, especially In places where Russian In fluence Is strongvSometlmes a girl I not married in consequence of a vow to a deity If hail, for Instance, has ruined the crops or some misfortune has befallen the family. Such young women are termed the "wife l the hall king,"" ' Where Platinum I Found. Platinum is recovered rjrlnelDally from the beds of streams, the particles having been deposited there through erosion of large rocks, classified geo logically as "tertiary conglomerates." The platinum grains are found with gold, the proportion varying from 5 to 60 per cent of platinum, The two metals are recovered by washing the Another Royal Suggestion GRIDDLE CAKES and WAFFLES From the New Royal Cook Book THERE is an art in making flapjack pan cakes, griddle cakes or wheats, call them what you will But it is an art very easily and quickly acquired if you follow the right recipes. Here are some recipes for a variety of breakfast cakes that will make grandmother envious. The secret, of course, is Royal Baking Powder. Royal Hot Orlddle Cakes S eip Sour U tMipoon Mlt 4 teupootuj Moral Diking l"owl9r U cum milk 1 Ublnpoou shortening II ix and sift dry ingredi ents? add milk and melted h shortening; beat wtH. Bake oa slightly greased not grid die. Oriddle Cakes with Eggs i eat Soar " U tMlpOOR ult I twupoon Rorkl Diktat Powder I Off M eiipi milk 1 Ubloapooa abort tnlng Mix and sift dry ingredi ents; add beaten eggs, milk ad melted shortening: mix, well Bike immediately on hot griddle. mm BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pun r Buclrwhtlt ClkH ' ItuM surkwkaal Sow tup dour t.xpoono Roral Bakhut I'owdvr VV"r::."ormnka.u I talllMPOO moluM J lablr.pooa iborlealng Sift together Roar biking powder and salt; add liquid, molaiiri and melted short ening; brat three minutes, Bake on bot greased griddle. WafflH I nipt flour 4 toutMont Rojal Btklafl l-owdtr V tMMpuon Mil 1 cup milk 1 uiiiMpooa melted shorten. In Sift flour, hiking powaVf and salt together: add milk to yolks of egtij mix thor. oughly and add to drr in gredients; add melted short ening and mix In betten whites of eggs. Bike In well mud hot waffle Iroa un til brown. Serve hot with W , I. .I.....IJ 1 mapi ivnip. uwm about Itf minutes to bske each waffle, Kow o FREE iw efal Cook tool atalnli of other (aHiMfwl loH. Writ (or It tor at, a (Tiro wwwaoo, lltrtNMlMOt tkoMOMf "Bake with Royal and be Sure" ' If they insist Let others experiment but , f You buy a Fordson Its dependabillity and Long Life are proven Buy your Fall Fordson now. ACE GARAGE, Independence, Ore. i ' - ' .''. Work Gloves That Satisfy , Gloves for the workingman nowadays musl have good qualities. They musl fit well, the leather muft not be too he&vy, and should be very pliable to- meet the requirement;-;, of the men handling modern machinery, We belive you will find the gloves of the famous Nap-A-Ite make, mosl perfectly adapted to. your needs. A shipment is jus! in. , '" :' , ... Miller Mercantile Company ; Seven popular Storon Monmouth, Salem, Nowbtrg, Yamhill, McMinnville, Sheridan and Dayton m sand and gravel of itreams,