The Monmouth HeIald Vol XII Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, July 2, 1920 No. 43 Items of Interest At Oregon Normal The registration In Summer School hn reached 465 which num ber added to the 60 enrolled tt Pendleton maket moit gratifying total for the lummer of 1920. The Norm) wu particularly for tunate lut week to tecura Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York City at i speaker fur Thursday evening. Rabbi W lie it a man of national re putation at a social worker and It wu indeed a treat to listen to his discussion of "Americanization". Mr. Gentle will speak Friday morning of this week at the Nor mal Extension In session at Pendle ton. The question of regular work on July 6th was referred by the presi dent to the student body, The latter decided t show their patriot Ism by declaring July 5th holiday nd they are planning tome fitting celebration. The annual reception by the fac ulty to the student of the f ummer Sesalon was held In the Gymnasium lut Saturday evening. Neirly ev ery ttudent accepted the invitation nd the informal "get acquainted" party proved very enjoyable. Tho first grouping of the students by counties for the social activities of the Session wu made here, much tpirit and enthusiasm being display ed by each grouk " Plant are now , well under way by the committees ! in the groupa for picnic, social dancing, and the usual "atuntt" ' program which it given In the chap el the lut week In July. , . ... The "Norm", the year book pub- lished by the Normal students, hu been an entire flaanuial tutu thk year, under the efficient supervision of MIssEugenia' McNaghten and her corps of workers. It Is, more over, an extremely attractive book, one which will be greatly prized by its owners u the years past. , The motion picture, "Other Men's Shoes", to be given in the chapel next Monday evening, July 5th, It said to be a typical present day comedy. It ' contains many dramatic situations with well sus tained suspense and an attractive climax. . Mitt Brenton gave the students and faculty a very enjop&n chapel hour Wednesday mining. The chairman of the entertain ment committee of the faculty hat announced the securing of tome very attractive numbers for the Normal next year. Among these are Mr. Frederick Ward, well known lecturer and interpreter of Shakespeare's plays. w'-6 will be In Monmouth during the first term of the next school year. Also two un usual numbert during the year will be furnished by John Kendrlck Bangs and Thomat Wilfred. Mr. Bangs, who is so well known ua humorous writer, will lecture and Mr. Wilfred will give a most unique entertainment. He it known as a aingcr of old folk tongs and ballads and Dlaver of the twelve-string arch-lute, and gives a program of Enirlish. Danish, and French trou badour songs and music which has been much praised by audiences in Vassar College and Minnesota Uni verslty, TheJ above all promise much pleasure to the Normal next year. As evidence of their feelings of respect and sympathy for Mitt Mc intosh in her bereavement, the President and the other members of the Faculty closed their classes dur ing the funeral services for her mother on Friday afternoon. In the death of Mrs. Mcintosh all who had the privilege of knowing her will feel the loss of an example of beautiful and kinrlly age. ' Form Company To Seek Gold A. J. Babb and A. L, Miller are exhibiting this week a report from the U. S. asaayer't office in Portland on sample of ore which they took recently from their claim near the headwaters of the Rantiam. The ore assayed at the rate of $207.40 In gold and $6.24 In silver per ton and Die two prospective miners claim there it Iota more where the tamplet came from. Mr. Babb and family !ave this week for the mines with the aim to develop them and Mr. Miller will follow after harvest. They go to Gates on ' the railroad and from there pack their aupp lies overland between thirty and forty miles. Freight costs five cents a pound to get to the mines and during a maj or portion of the year they have to cross mow fields to reach them. In the winter they are blockaded. A company hu been formed to op erate these mines and other local people are Interested. Ticktt$ Find Ready Sale Representatives of Monmouth Chautauqua are camming this week for the rale, of tickets arid have met with very encouraging re sult. They are presenting a well balanced program and the fact is appreciated. Locally tickets are on sale at the following placet: Wi.ie gar's, Miller Mercantile, Hill & Son, Mulkcy&Son, Johnson's, Mor- lan's, and the Creamery. Child ren's tickets tell for $1.10; stu dent's $1.65; adult's $2.50. Normal girlt who have charge of the tale of tickets for the Chautau qua are the Misses Lois Sweek, Burdelle Brooks, Helen J, Bliss, and Eva N. Beekman, Realty Deals The Lark Hall housa and two lots were sold this week by Miss Dora Hall to Mr. Kaup of Lewisville. Thit week Ira Williamt becomf s the owner of the smaller of Mrs. Boots' houses, located on the corner of Clay and Monmouth avenue. Consideration $600. G. T. Boothby handled the deal. ( G. T. Boothby reports the sale this week of 38 acres of! of the Wm. Riddell, Jr. farm, to Edwin Nissen This is the southeast corner of the farm coming up to the high way mar the Van Muter house It includea 11 acres of prunes and the .est Is sown to clover and rape E. L. Farrens who recently sold his ranch at Roseburg, was a visit or this week with hit relatives, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Moreland, M'. Farrens is traveling with his family by automobile to The Dalles near where he expects to locate. THE OLD, rtflll I !!!l!lllllffHHIIi!'i!f IHl I A The kiddles of todsr sad listen with awe to i I !! i. 1 it ii i, i i t ii' i! ml Jk f, i jLMiJ "Uiant Firecracker." All of the pranks, the deaf ening nolaet and the filled hospitals, to much in evidence about the 1th, 10 or 10 reart aao. are but nlng Dolwt and the filled hoiDlUli. ao much la I iu AViHxnrsi ahniif th ILIti f A m trt M I I! , - w w v jvtsts) eu, lUfc 1 1 ibadr memories bow. An that It bringing at back irue meaning ot "Independence." And, best ot all, la this new type ot Fourth we are Instilling Into tbe bearta and minds of the coming generation the wtence of the Declaration of Independence and what It meant to the Americas clUtea, A Square Deal ... For Foreign Born Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, who lectured in the Normal chapel last Thursday evening, haa the happy faculty of causing people to think. Hit talk wu largely of a patriotic nature dealing with the war and the problems that have grown out of it. He advocated (he same treatment for foreigners which is given to American born. The foreigner, he said, dislikes to be considered a problem. He is human like the rest of us, he has absorbed perhaps in hit youth, customs and mannerisms that may seem strange to us but they are only outward symbols and the heart of the world, one nation the same as another, beats very largely to the same impulses. He paid many delicate compliments to the Hebrews, their sturdinesa that has persisted through centuries and thousands of years, their high ideal and their advanced intellectuality. He held the close attention of his audience throughout the address and was rewarded with enthusiastic applause at its conclusion. Coat Brings Record Price The sum of $1750 was paid by B. M. Halbert of San Angelo, Texas, to William Riddell & Sons of Mon mouth for a two year old Angora buck last week at a session of a three days auction sale in conjunc tion with the fifth annual conven tion and show of the Sheep and Goat Raisers' association of Texas. Goat men say this is the highest price ever paid in the United States for a regi stered goat. Officers stat ed that the price' of $600 paid by Mont Noelke of San Angelo to W. S. Hansen of Collinston, Utah, for a registered yearling Rambouillet ram is another record price for sheep. F or fc OLD STORY alt noon mad-duTi the wonderful tale ot tbe eroluUon la taking place ') to tbe realization of tbe r When Monmouth Had a Race Track In tearing down a partition in the transfer barn the other day, they came across a letter bearing the postmark of June 3, 1891. The letter was'written by J. R. Holman of Independence to W. Garrison of McMinnville and dealt with the subject of trotting and running horses. Mr. Garrison had tome horses which he wu thinking of en tering in races in these parts and Mr. Holman, as handler of thor oughbreds, wu encouraging Garri son to try bis luck on the local track. "The track" writes Hol man, "is in fine shape and there will be a half mile dash and t fif teen sixteenths mile run" these be ing two of the events for which there were twelve or thirteen purses ' hung up". The finder of the letter, W. R. Graham, hunted up G. T. Boothby and gave it to him, Mr. Boothby having been a chaperon of race horses as well as a jockey for the same in 1891. The letter calls up to hit mind a number of recollec tions., At that time a race track existed on what it now U. G. Heffiey's property, the stables of the track having gone to make Mr. Heffiey's barn. At that time the rage to own trotting horses wu at pro nounced u the rage to ride in Fords and Studebakers is at present. The progeny of "Rockwood" and horses of Hambletonian pedigree were of ten to be met drawing the farmers wife and a supply of eggs and but ter to town and many an awkward, unpromis'ng looking colt wu pol ished up into a speeder on which hopes and fortunes are lavished in the regular events of the circuit. .The Heffley track while located close to Monmouth wu owned and controlled by Independence sportsmen and .while Monmouth km r A hi 1 1 Pisa horsemen were welcome to attend u spectators, any attempt to com pete in the races or to train or house any of the horses who travel ed the circuit waa looked upon with c )ld disapproval by Independence. This wu the time that Boothby discovered a horse in the Luckia mute country, the Sol Stump horse known as "Coaly" which he made up bit mind had considerable speed. Riley Cooper of Independence had a horse "Black Diamond" and Old Tom Richmond of Dallas had a trot ter called "Goldie" which might be expected to be among the winners. The Luckiamute horse had never appeared before and its qualities were unknown to the regular hab itues of the track. In previoua trialt Boothby had satisfied himself that Coaly could win from Black Diamond but he had never Jiad a trial against Rich mond's entry. So when tbe three met in the Polk County Champion ship race on the local track he told his agent, Gene Cattron, that he was going to lose the first heat in order to find how much speed Richmond's horse had. The trial wu sufficient. He got the measure of the Richmond .horse and found he wu not u good u Cooper's pride. Black Diamond wu the horse which the Luckiamute un known would have to beat. Cat tron wu instructed arccordingly. The reader can imagine the pleas ure Boothby derived in taking the next three beats and the race. Cooper and hit henchmen were wild and were at little paint to conceal their chargin. "Well", said Rich mond, as be offered congratulations, "I'm glad it wasn't an Independ ence man that beat me". Coaly strained a tendon in the pasture the next spring but even with that handicap came dote to winning a second championship that year. ' " The whirligig of time plays many pranks but in few things shows as many contrasts u in the means of transportation. The road horse is fast disappearing from the high ways. Draft horses engage the farmers attention and the auto mobile bu become a common neces sity. Only the old timer now can arouse an affectionate interest in the time when the two wheeled cart wu common and the driver with coat tails flying in the breeze went skimming down the vista toward the horizon behind something which he fondly imagined wu a budding "MaudS." or "Nancy Hanks". Wedded in Portland Edwin N issen, local stock buyer, evidently beilieves in preparedness. Recently he rented the Goodman house on West street and furnished it for housekeeping. Then with the house in readiness he went to Port land and married a wife. As he has picked a Normal town to live in, it was of course eminently proper that; he should marry a school ma'am and this he proceeded to do. The bride is Miss Margaret Cunningham for five years a teacher in the Mt. Tabor school. in Portland.; The ceremony took place Saturday and was performed at a Presbyterian parsonage in Portland by Rev. Dorse. We extend the hand of wel come to Mr. and Mrs. Nissen who are now regularly domiciled in our midst. Saw Accident Proves Fatal A. L. Stimpeon, one of Mon mouth's wood taw men lost hit life lut week Friday in a peculiar and shocking manner. Because of tear city of labor he wu accustomed to work with hit gasoline taw alone. He wu working on the large piles alongside the Griffs rooming boats when the accident occurred. The woodpile wu high and to get at the sticks more retdily he climbed oh the taw and looted one or two of the sticks to cause the pile to tumble. The taw it protected by a guard on the outside but not on the in side. Stimpson fell on the intide, catching on the guard which was all that prevented bis being eswn squarely in two. As it wu the saw penetrated deeply with a gash that reached from the center of the chest down through tix ribt to point nearly opposite on hit back. Juanita Button and Pluma Shu mate, two . Bandon girls, were in the Griffa bouse, watching the work of tawing and they witnessed the accident. They gave the alarm and Mattie Crook of Luckiamute went to the rescue.' She ran up to Stimpson u he lay on the taw frame and told him to let her have hit hand and she would pull him off. But Stimpson, who wu fully con scious, told her to keep away or she might get hurt. In the meantime C. G. Griffa appeared and stopped tbe taw. Miss Crook ran for the doctor. It was found on examination that not only were Stimpeon't ribs tawed through u stated but his lungs and liver were cut into. First sid wu given him and he waa sent to Dallas where the wounds were dressed and the cuts Hwed op. fie Jived thirty hours after he reached Dallu. He wu conscious up to the lut. As he lay on the saw, before the doctors arrived he gave minute in struction! u to hit affairs and what to do in case he died. His only rel atione are a nephew in Portland, a sister in San Pedro, Cel., and a sister in Wisconsin. The sitter in California, Mrs. Coaler, wu tent for and made arrangements for the funeral services which were held Wednesday afternoon in the Evan gelical church. There wu a large attendance at the church and floweri were unusually numerous. Rev. Peter Conklin preached the funeral sermon. : Mr. Stimpson wu fifty nine yean of age. He wu born in Wisconsin but had lived in Oregon and in the vicinity of Monmouth (for yean. His wife died a few years ago and they had no children. A friend, Mr. Roe of Pedee responded to a call immediately after the accident and assisted in taking care of him. The funeral of Mrs. Frances Mc intosh, mother of Alice A. Mcintosh, wu held at the home lut Friday afternoon. Friends gathered to pay their lut respects and there were many beautiful floral offer ings. Mrt. Parrish sang Tennyson 'e "Crossing the Bar" very beautiful ly and Rer. Conklin spoke words of comfort to the bereaved. Inter ment wu in the K. P. cemetery. Misses Florence and Joe Heffley were week end visitors in Portland.