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The Monmouth Herald Vol. XII Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, July 30, 1920 No. 47 Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Nation Items of Interest At Oregon Normal Superintendent! J. 0. McLaugh tin of Corvallii gnd A. C. Strange of Astoria visited th Normal thli week Interviewing candidate! fur teaching position! in their respec tive counties. The Normal' li very appreciative of the effort of the Southern Paci fic to provide for the comfort of atudenta returning to their hornet on Friday of thii week. Provision! have been made for a special train to leave Monmouth at one-thirty Friday P. M. fur Portland by way of Salem. The but company hu alto been very kind In providing tpecial conveyance! for thou who with to start from Independence. Governor Olcott vUited 'the Nor mal Tuesday gnd spoke to the stu dents at the chapel hour. The Gov ernor Is always a very welcome guest and hit talk Tueoday, "A Day in the Governor's Office", was a particularly Interesting and in structive one. Mist Mingus entertained Miss Martha G. Lane who is a teacher in the high school at Walla Walla, Wathlngtnn. Miss Mary Williams, Critic of the Third and Fourth Grades In the lnependcnce Training School, leaves Saturday for her home in Oak Park, 111. Her numerous friends among tudenta and faculty regret exceed ingly that she is leaving the Nor mal premanently. Her work hu been much appreciated and ill hope that tha lure of the West will bring her back to Monmouth Nor mal sometime. Simple exercise) in honor of the graduates will be held at chapel hour Friday morning. Those com pleting the course are: Tina L. Roberts, of Dallas; Irene Williams, of Edmonds, Washington; Mertie Chamberlain' of Eugene; I Ida May Hayes, of Burns; and Minnie M. Johnson, of Portland. The pro gram begins at 10:15 A. M., and is as follows: Enter by groups Songs by groups Opening song by school Scripture Announcements Diplomas presented Vocal solo Mrs. Parrish Announcemment of winning group in Stunt Program Talk President Ackerman Last song The student and faculty members of the Eastern Star enjoyed a pic nic on the banks of the Luckiamute last Thursday. Rather extensive plans for en larging the library are now under consideration. Many members of the fuculty are leaving Friday and Saturday to spend the vacation period at their respective homes. About forty Btudents will regis ter for the second six weeks' sess ion of the Summer School, which will begin August 2. This work is given only for those taking the El ementary Teachers' Training Cjurte. President Ackerman, Mr. ' Gentle, Mr. Butler and Mr. Ostien will conduct the work. The members of the faculty gave a picnic Monday evening on the banks of the Luckiamute. The affair was in the nature of a fare well party for Mi'bs Msry Williams. B. B. Sargent and B. H. Wahl- ford of the Luckiamute valley were in Monmouth and made application for connection with the Monmouth pipe line. Ed Griffa Is busy at present putting in connections along the line and a number of other con nections have been made. Another Pioneer Pauet W. R. Hall was born May 18th, 1846 near Kaw river on the pluina while hit parent were enroute to Oregon, and died after a short III neat at the Dallas hospital, July 27th, 19i!0. Mr. Hall's parents located at Buena Vista the lollowlng yeur, 1847, where he grew to young man hood and hat, spent almost his entire life In Polk county, respected by all who knew him. He was married in October, 1874 to Miss Susan Spann ing who died.in 1892. Three child ren were born to this union all of whom are deceased. His twin bro ther, R. P. Hall was ki'led by a falling tree ten years ago. For the past three yean Mr. Hall made his home here In Monmouth with his brother, L. M. Hall who died in December, 1919. He is survived by the following brothers, B. r'. Hall of Woodburn and A. J. Hull of, Buena Vista from whose resi dence the funeral was held last Sunday. Rumored, Reported Concocted, Collected Dell Tedrow, who has spent the past month and a half in the east, returned to Monmouth Tuesday evening. He has been in attendance at the International session of the Older Boy't Council in Sunday School work which lasted four weeks, and was held on the shore of Lake Geneva, Wis. There were two other young men present from Oregon. But little time presented Itself for sightseeing. The boys were kept at work on the course which dealt with Sunday School methods and activity. The organi zation of the school, the chance to get Information and . instruction as well as the experience of a trip from home combined to make the trip for all a very pleasant one. ' E. L. Kilen spent Sunday in To ledo investigating a position offer ed him there. It was as cashier of a bank in the Lincoln county city and he has concluded to accept, tnk ng up his duties the first of Septem ber. Farmers this year are bringing their tractors into use as motive power for the binder. Heretofore many said it could not be done but now with a single hitch, skilled lab or and improved machinery, more acres of grain are being harvested at less expense than with teams. Fred Smith has hitched two bind ers behind his Ford son and reaps his oats in double quick time, Fred also operated his hayfork with his tractor and sent the hay to the mow a "scooting". So speedy was he that on one occasion Geo. LaFrance, who manipulated the fork, got a leg tangledjn the trip rope and as a result tripped the load before it started and was himself hauled up by the hind quarters before the machine stopped. Mrs. D. M. Hewitt and other members of the family from this vicinity attended the annual re- union of the family which was held on the original Henry and Elizabeth Hewitt donation land claim 5 miles south of Dayton, last Saturday. There were eighty people present, five ot them coming from Califor nia. There were nine of the Hewitt boys in the original family and of those living all but one were pres ent. Different members of ,the fam ily were asked to bring information relative to the family tree which is to be gathered and classified. A splendid time was enjoyed by all and many stayed over for a contin uation of the visit on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs; MacDonald start this week for an outing at the coast., '. . . Side Lights on Governor's Job If the governor of Oregon would issue all the 'proclamation! sent to him with requests for action, at serted Governor Olcott in an ad dress to Normal students, he would be proclaiming something or other all the time. Such requests burden the mails and while many of the subjects are very worthy, still if even a small portion were acted on, reclamations would besonumtr- ous that no one would read them, Requests for pardon or reprieves for criminals have also been a fruit ful source mail at the executive office but since the rul was laid down that the request for ler.;ncy must have the assent of the trial judge and prosecuting attorney, the correspondence on this score has been very much reduced, The penitentiary, asserted the speaker, is the headache of the gov ernor! office. More perplexing problem! come to him from the pen itentiary than from all of the other state Institutions combined. To handle the prisoners it is necessary that they have exercise. Idle prisoners are ever hatching plot! and exhibiting a turbulent spirit. Work done outside the prison walls continually results in the escape of prisoners. Proposed additions to the penitentiary would help in the handling of the convicts but this is something for which the public ap pears unwilling to appropriate. The governor praised the work of Dr. Steimr in connection with the penitentiary which is getting all possible out of the present equip ment. "' Intense inlercst was manifested when the speaker related several stories of the recaptnre of escaped prisoners. When prisoners escaped it was a constant practice to call on "Cherry". James, one of the prison officials. It had become necessary to reenpture a cattle rustler, twice parolled, who was plying his arts in the neighborhood of Bend. There was so much underbrush and rocks on the hills where the rustler took his stand, and he had so many friends, even among the organiza tions that were hnuting him, that it was impossible to get close enough to him to arrest him. But James finally trailed him to one of the forest reserves and captured him after a chase at the end of the trip when the convict took refuge behind a fallen log. He also climbed a logging trail in the San- tiam country and captured two men single handed. A feature of the governor's ac tivity is his membership of the state boards. The state land board controls between seven and eight millions in property and money held for the schools of the state. The loaning and care of this fund is one of the duties of the Jboani. Under the land board public forests have been cared for and sold. Recently the attorney general has had in his charge prosecutions for alleged fraudulent land sales years ago. Because of elapsed time it has been found best to compromise these cases and in a sample instance the state has received $7.50 per acre in addition to the $2.50 originally re ceived. D. M. Hampton returned this week from a visit that took in the greater part of Northeastern Ore gon. He saw many evidences of wealth and prosperity there but acknowledges that some saving grace must be offered to offset the necessity of residing there. G. T. Boothby reports the. sale this week of E. B. Hamilton's bun galow to Miss Lola E. Record, new critic teacher in the Monmouth training school. Consideration $1725 . Halt Highway Work Throughout County The conflict between the straight route and the zigzag route for the West Side highway acrots Polk coun ty took on a new angle Wednesday when an injunction was served stop ping paving work In the county by the Warren company and in the vi cinity of Holmea Gap. With ru mors and reports thick as bees at swarming time it occurred to us that a statement of the highway commission's point of view would be of interest to people in this part of the state and a letter to Attorney Jay Bowerman, Portland, elicited the following very interesting reply. I have yours of the 26th and in reply beg to'say that after hearing the Polk County Highway case on July 2nd, as you know Judge Mc Court refused to grant an injunc tion restraining the construction work then in progress and also re fused to issue a mandate requiring the construction of a road by Dallas and Independence. The plaintiff's appealed the mandamus case and af ter further considering the injunc tion case Judge McCourt rendered a written opinion in which he indi cated that he believed that the law intended that the Pacific Highway should run to or near Dallas; thence to a point at or near Monmouth; thence to a point at or near Indepen dence and thence to Corvallis. Im mediately upon receipt of this opin ion Mr. Kaste served notice that he would apply for an injunction. A number of hearings were held on this question, Owing to the fact that a tempor ary injunction at this time of the year would mean tying up a lot of construction work entailing a large loss which would be borne either by the contractors, the surety upon the injunction bond or by the State, furthermore to leave the roads un completed for another Winter would mean a large loss to the traveling public. On account of this situa tion the members of the Commission stayed here in Portland about I week endeavoring to find some so lution which would meet with the approval of the Court and at the same time permit the construction of a highway system which would conform to what they believed would be the best interests of the whole state. The Commission offer ed to locate the Pacific Highway from Holmes Gap to Rickreall; thence to Dallas; thence in a south' easterly direction to Monmouth over a routd to be surveyed and located by the State Highway Engineer This proposal was objected toby Mr, Kaste, Attorney for the Inde pendence and Dallas people on the ground that it would put two paved roads too close together. Commis- sioner Kiddle made a trip over the field last Saturday and suggested that the present road be continued south about two and one-half miles south of Holmes Gap thmce to Dal las thence southeasterly to Mon- mouth. Presumably the road from Dallas to Monmouth would connect at Orr's Corner with the paved highway now being constructed by the Warren Construction Company None of the proposals made by the Commission were satisfactory to the Court ' and tho plaintiffs. The Court indicated ' that he would ap- prove at least t wo of the locations proposed by the Commission but the Attorney for the Dallas and Inde pendence people stated that other proceedings would be immediately started to enjoin construction over any of the pro posed routes. Inas much as Judlge McCourt was to leave for his vacation and any fur ther injunction proceedings would be before somo other Judge, the Commission co uld not make certain that 7c.rrir:'1,;tion8 Compete to tome other Judee in thel ''la'- Ct..tt Tv. Judge tory to tome other Judge in the further litigation which was threat ened. Therefore the Commission determined to leave the road locat ed as contemplated last year when Polk County voted its bonds. That is to say from Holmes Gap south to Rickreall; thence to Dallas; from Rickreall south to Monmouth thence to Independence; from Monmouth south to Corvallis. An appropriate resolution was drawn and approved by Commis sioners Booth and Benson, Com missioner Kiddle had already left the City and whether he would ap prove thit program has not been de termined but from expressions made before he left the City I am confi dent that It would meet with bis full approval. ' On Monday morning shortly after the Commission had adopted the abore resolution, Judge McCourt signed a restraining order restrain ing all work between Rickreall and Monmouth and all work between Holmes Gap and McCoy except put ting on the top course by each con tractor over an area not exceeding one thousand feet, the injunction to become effective on the filing of a surety bond in the sum of $10,000. For your information I am enclos ing a copy of the resolution adopted by the Commission, also a copy of the restraining order. Inasmuch as the paving of the Salem-Dallas Highway was a part of the complete highway program in Polk county which program was submitted ' to the people of Polk county and aproved in the bond is sue, and inasmuch as the remainder of the program is to be tied up by the restraining order, the Commis sion felt that it would be to the best interests of the whole State to sus pend all operations until the Court should determine what powers the Commission had. In other words if it should be determined that the Commission is required to build a paved rjad to Dallas and a paved road from Dallas, the Commission did not feel that it would be right to add the third road from the east (Salem road) . Therefore provision was made for suspending or cancel ling the Huber contract on the Salem-Dallas road provided no loss would fall upon the State and if the Highway Engineer is unable to set tle the matter without a loss then the facte should be reported to the Commission for further action. The answer in the injunction case is to be filed by the 15th day of August and it is tentatively agreed that the case will be tried on the 30th. Local Goats Have National Fame Drilling for oil in Texas is a very thrilling pursuit, and a new crop of Texas millionaires have undeniably been created by the striking of fab ulous gushers over night, but "Bod" Davis, of the thriving little city of Rio Frio, rises to tell tie world that oil is not the only great re source of the Lone Star state. Davis is renowned throughout the United States and Canada as an ex pert judge of Angora goats, and will come to Portland in November to act ns judge in the mohair goat division of the Pacific International Live Stock exposition. He has ex tensive Angora flocks on his farm at Rio Frio and says that Texas will soon be be leading all other states in the production of mohair. . In order that Texas may make good on this prediction, Mr. Davis intends to take some of Oregon's famous Angora breeding stock back with him for the building up of his own and his neighbors' flocks, and in a letter to General Manager Miinf l.nnfest The annual Normal Summer School event known as the stunt contest, developed a well balanced program this year. The contest which waiheld in the Normal chap el Wenesday night, was between six groups representing different sec tions of the state. The honor of holding a' flag for a year is the lau rel offered. Last year the Eastern Oregon counties won the flag and the same group was a close conten der for the honors this year. "The Hand of the Whiteman" was the title of this group's stunt, a pictur esque presentation of Indians, cow boys and tenderfeet winding up with a feature song emblematic of the wheat harvest which was very pretty. As usual Multnomah county rep resentatives were in the front rank with a series of moving tableaux, representing the attractions of Port land, the beauty of which was en hanced with colored lights. Perhaps the most original of all was the stunt which the coast coun ties presented. They took as em blems, fish, lumber and cheese and cleverly brought out advertising features of the section from which they came. 1 Two of the stunts were based on Southern plantation events, in which colored people predominated, one for the Marion-Lane group and the other the Polk-Yamhill group. Their antics brought out much laughter. The regulation satire on Normal life was presented by the north western counitea "The Rise and Fall of a Normal King" detailing the tribulations of the only young man in a group of girls and the conclusion of events ten years hence. Judges of the contest were Miss Marvin, Salem; D. E. Fletcher, In dependence; and R. S. Kreason, Dallas. The name of the winning group is to be announced in chapel this morning. O.' M. Plummer the other day he announced that he will be in the market for the champion Angora . sire of the Pacific International. 'I know the Pacific International will attract the finest exhibita in the country," writes Mr. Davis, and I accept with pleasure the invi tation to act as judge in the goat division. Furthermore, atfer I have picked the champion Angora sire and pinned the blue ribbon on him, I am going to buy him myself provided my purse is long enough." General Manager Plummer pre dicts that the Texas breeder will pay in the neighborhood of $2000 for the champion Angora. Some of the finest entries at the show will come from Polk county, where the flocks of Riddell & Son and John B. Stump, both of Monmouth, are attracting nation wide atten tion. Riddell & Son recently sold an Angora sire for $1750 and sales for record prices have also recently been made by Mr. Stump on the adjoining farm. Both of these breeders will have extensive exb ib its at the November stock show, and many more fine entries wil come from Idaho and Washington, Telegram. E. R. Bingman, a brother of Mrs. J. B. Hili of this city is con fined to the house at the Hill home in this city because of a broken hip. Mr. Bingman who is a member of Valley Lodge, No. 125, Filer, Idaho, was on his way from Idaho to Monmouth by automobile when the accident occurred. While climbing among rocks during the camping interval, he fell and sus tained the injury. The accident oc curred in Eastern Oregon and Mr. Bingman was brought to Salem where the injury was treated.
