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The Monmouth Herald : : !sv . Vol. XII Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, August 6, 1920 a 48 MonmoutK is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Nation Items of Interest At Oregon Normal The iccond tlx weeks of (he sum mer term began Monday with an enrollment of forty-two. The in atructora are Mr. IJutler, Mr. C-ntlo and Mr. Oatlen. The achool has been divided into two groupa fur aocial and adininiatrative pur posea; each group ia to give an as sembly program at 0:15 A. M., on Tuetduy and Friday of each week. The public ia cordially Invited to be present at any of these programs, It will be remembered that this achool la only for those who are re quired to complete the elementary teachers' training course. The students are taking hold of the work enthusiastically and profes sionally and the outlook for a very succtstful term la flattering. Repairs are being made and sup plies ordered for the ensuing year. The outlook for the coming year ia for an Increased attendance, Mr. Bennea, the architect is in Monmouth today superintending the repairs and making the final draft for the enlargement of the heating plant. Ho reports that on account of the congeation of man ufactures it has been very hard to secure a boiler for the plant but the order has now been made. Miss West is working hard on the list of books for the Normal and Trainlnir Schools for which (4,000 was appropriated by the Board at 'It last meeting. Miss aiatance In the selection of tlie books. Miss Rrambcrg will take her va cation during the next two weeks. Cot Back Greenback A band of gypsies invaded Dallas Tuesday and began plying their tiadcof fortune telling and they found one victim who squealed and landed them in the clutches of the sheriff. One insistent creature with long hair and a greasy coun tenance persuaded Cloid Miller, the creamery man, to decorate her palm with a twenty dollar green back and by the hokus pakus. pro cedure the twenty vanished. Mr. Miller insisted on her returning it hut she claimed she didn't have It, to he applied to the sheriff who took the band to his office and after giving them fair warning as to their course, of of procedure, they returned the money and left town at onca to avoid .arrest. GOING BACK AfTER t. -Q. nr Ti inatfflT Drowned in Willamette Kay McWilllams Starr, 16 year old son of Geo. M, Starr of Gates, Ore., was drowned In the Wil lamette river near East Indepen dence Tuesday. The boy, who was visiting with an uncle in Indepen dence, had gone in with other boys to wade, tie could not awla and waded out hip depth. Suddenly he fell and floated off with the cunent. It la supposed he was seized with vertigo tr heart failure and al though hit body waa recovered shortly aflat there waa no other explanation apparent. The body was burled Wednesday afternoon at Buena Vista where another uncle of the young man resides. Rumored, Reported Concocted, Collected Cyril Richardson, formerly of In dependence, who went oversc as a member of Company L, was mar ried Sunday July 25, to M lie. Yvonne Brun, whom he met in France while doing military police duty at Aix les Bains. The bride came to Portland and they were married at the home of the groom's parent, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Richardson, Rev. J. R. N.Bell, grandfather of the groom, read the service in the presence of a few friends. The couple will make their home in Cor vallis where Cyril will continue hia studies at the 0. A. C. . James E. Watson, special traffic officer in Dallas has been making several arrests of late for violation of state traffic laws and city ordi nances which has causad more care on the part of drivers of cars.- The Shattuck Garage people were ar rested fur operating trucks without licenses and later they had their trucks operating with dealers licen ses attached, which Watson con tends is against the law and will, no doubt, result in their arrest again. The minor offenses were for cutting corners and operating without mufflers on their cars. Among recent farm transfers at Albany we note the following: 250 acres fronting Willamette river, south of Albany, from Rudd & Haight to Ed Henry, of Monmouth consideration $25,000. Also 27 acres including 7 acres of commercial apples, three miles north in Benton county to William Van Meter, Monmouth, from Mor ris Payne for $5,000. SOME MORE IMS Off Again On Again For Rickrcall Road The paving of the Weat Side highway from Independence to Munmouili and from Monmouth to Kickrcall is bving speeded up at present,. Since the work was started in the spring of 1919 it has ambled along in a leisurely curt of way ovtr the eight miles oi tne course, but now with a mile yet to do there is hustle, bustle and rush. Sundays even are being pressed into service and we will have a finished road to Rickreall before we know it, Thii, haste ia due to a friendly decision by Judge Stapleton in Port land the other day, lifting the in junction which threatened to in junct the road work of the whole' county Jnto a slate of moribund paralysis. Judge Stapleton evit ently used a different pair of spectacles to look up the law on the matter than the ones Judge Mi-Court used and we append the following account from the Oregonian. Showing that its contract for paving between Monmouth and Rickreall in Polk county is 90 per cent complete and that l would be foolish not to pave the remaining mile already rocked the Warren Construction company protested in Judge Stapleton's court yesterday aguinBt Judge McCourt's order which'ties up all road work in Polk county. The paving company contended that it was not a party to the con troversy between the people of Dallas and the state highway com mission and that its contract is al most completed. All that remains is to spread the "hot stuff from Orr's corners to Rickreall, the base and rock al ready being in pluce. To leave the road unfinished would result in heavy financial loss to the company. The attorney for the Dallas people protested and undertook to tell Judge Stapleton something about the radj in Polk county, but Judge Stapleton replied that he had been riding those roads for 50 years and knew all about them. Furthermore, the judge 'said, when the attorney wanted to cite law, that he knew what public sen timent was in this road building matter and the court directed that the Warren Construction company proceed. The company will resume laying pavement this morning. The Ore gon Paving conipany.s contract and Oskar Huber's contract were not included in the order by Judge Stapleton. Oregonian, Friday, July 30. The latest report is that another injunction has since been obtained by Dallas and served Wednesday, stopping the paving at the railroad crossing a half mile south of Rick reall. The Warren people were al lowed to finish only a few " more feet after the official visit by the sheriff and completed that bit on Thursday. . Threshing Season Starts A number of local farmers start ed threshing this week and by the end of the week all of the threshing outfits in the vicinity will be at work. The yield promises to be better than the average. Three threshing separators arrived here Thursday consigned to J. E. Wine- gar. They consisted of two Russell machines and one Rumley. They were for Jlay .Adams', Mr. John son of Suver and a Luckiamute combination consisting of Messrs. Ni-lson, Kaup and Fred Huber. Mrs. Percival expects to go to Madras with her grandchildren next week, to stay there for a short visit. Salem Plans A River Highway Polk county road prospects and road squabbles received a thorough airing in Sunday'a Oregonian and among the prospects we note a des cription of the highway which Sen ator Patterson and the Salem Com mercial club are boosing and which they propose to call the Capital or Willamette highway. Here is the plan. "The present plan calls for a highway branching off the West Side highway at Dayton, 32.4 miles southwest of Portland, and extend ing up the west side of the Willa mette river to a junction with the Salem-Dallas highway at West Salem. Which of the existing roads will be used is not yet deter mied, but in any event a'connection will be made with Wheatland ferry,. This section between Day ton and West Salem will be about 22 miles ia length. It presents no difficult problems of construction and will open up a section that now has no railroad facilities. 'From West Salerr to Brunk'a corners the recently completed pavement of the Dallas-Salem high way will be used, and here the Wil lamette highway will turn to the south and pass through Indepen dence. This section of road is one of the most heavily traveled in the state and Is in urgent need of pav ing. The association has not yet made up a route south of Independence, but if the plans of the state high way commission prevail, and the West Side highway is extended south from Monmouth to Corvallis, then the association will endeavor to get an extension of the Willamette highway south from Independence on a route nearer the river to Al bany, and thence over the river road to Corvallis. The last named section is already established as a state highway by law, but no work has yet been done on it. It will be noted by an inspection of the road map of the Willamette valley that the proposed new high way will serve a great deal of ter ritory not now served by good roads, and a highway will also fur nish several diagonal cross con nections between the West Side and the Pacific highways. It will start' on the West Side highway at Dayton, touch the Pa cific highway at Salem, and will connect back to the West Side high way at Independence by way of the connection with Monmouth. It will then connect with the Pacific highway at Albany, and finally with the West Side highway at Cor vallis." Farewell Party A farewell party was given by the Misses Butler Wednesday with Mrs. A. A. Cattron as the guest of honor. Mrs. Cattron is leaving Monmouth to make her home with her daughters m Portland and a number of old friends were invited in to dinner in honor of the occa sion.. The guests were Mesdames Cattron, F. S. Powell, Monroe Mul key, Portia Mulkey, Treat and Per cival. A splendid dinner was serV' ed and the party was much enjoyed by all. Orrin Wattenburger of Indepen dence, 20 years old", was taken to Portland by Dr. Butler Wednesday because of a peculiar ailment. His bones are so brittle that they break easily and will not stand any heavy strain. The trip to Portland was made to see if a remedy could not be applied. E. M. Clodfelter1 of Portland, a son-in-law of Mrs. Cattron, was a I visitor in this city this week. Raids A Whisky Still "Sheriff John W. Orr made a sur prise attack upor the George Lewis home in Black Rock Sunday and re turned to Dallas with a quantity of illicit brew which has been sold for whiskey, also the 'crude still is re posing peacefully in the sheriff's office. The still was made by put ting a copper boiler on the stove and on the top of the boiler was a coffee pot to which'was attached the coil which ran through a trough of water to cool. The coil was missing and it is presumed a third party interested in the work had it when the raid was made. Mrs. Lewis was making the whis key and her husband was peddling it according to evidence secured, but as there were several small children Mrs. Lewis waa not brought to Dallas. Mr. Lewis is under arrest awaiting the decision of the court. No New Gym. For This Year J. R. Bidgood has rented the house which Dr. jMatthis formerly occupied on Monmouth avenue and will move in from the farm for the coming winter. He will be an in structor in the Monmouth high school. The remainder of the fac ulty is Mr. Grover, principal and Miss Doughty with one more in structor to engage. The board is having a hard time to secure the full quota of teachers. Another problem which the board has found equally baffling is that of erecting the high school gymnasium voted in the spring. The board finds it is $3,000 short of having enough funds to finance this gymnasium and has concluded to defer the building for another year. They have retained the plans and services of the architect, Mr. Bergraff and will go at the matter again next spring. Up-to-date Map-making E. J. himes oi Dallas was in Monmouth Wednesday surveying off the part of'lhelWm. Riddell farm recently sold to E. Nissen Mr. Himes is spending his odd moments preparing a road map of Polk county. He has devised novel apparatus for doing the work., With his wife he is driving over all the roads of the county in his car. Ahead of him in the car he has a ship's compass for giving 'exact directions, a clino meter for levels and a spedometer for distances. With Mrs. Himes' help all of these instruments are re corded as they go along and with the information thus given a map is prepared which will without doubt be in demand among people who travel the roads of the county. Exemplify Rule Members of the Golden Rule class of the Christian church Sunday School enjoyed a picnic Tuesday af ternoon and evening at the farm home of the J. S. Prime's. A var ied and interesting program was given in the afternoon. While the chicken and ham were frying it was decided the crowd' was not large enough to do justice to the abundant feast in preparation so an automobile was sent back to town to collect some of the men folks. A cafeteria dinner was served under the shade trees and the number of times the plates returned for refill ing proved the excellence of the service. The picnic proved such a success'. it was unanimously agreed to make it an annual event, Mrs. Grover of McMinnville, who was a guest, gave an interest ing account during the afternoon program, of the activities of their large class of older people in that city. Census of Cities In Polk County Census returns for the cities of Polk county were, made public this week and Monmouth it listed at 582 which ia a'growth of 91 in the past ten years but it aomething'Jike 30 lest than the city bad in 1900. Independence it officially numbered at 1 143 or 17 lest than that city was credited with in 1910. The census waa taken in January and at that time neither Monmouth nor In dependence had recovered from the slump occasioned by the desertion of rural population for Portland in war industries. An enumeration in July would have shown a consid erable increase. In Monmouth also the mast of our student population ia not counted. Also Mr. Canter bury and his family of nine fine children did not arrive until spring, too late to help awell our total of population. Dallas at the metropolis of the county shows a population of 2527, a gain of 403 in the past ten years. Falls City ia enumerated at 994, a gain of 34 in the past ten years. West Salem was counted at 203. Regular Council Session At the meeting of the council Tuesday night M. J. Butler was ap pointed to the committees on which D. M. Hampton formerly held memberships. Complaints were made that red lights were not displayed by con tractors putting in the curbing on Main stre't where the pilea of sand and the mixing machine, unmarked, were a menace to traffic at night. Also that chickens in various parts of the city were causing damage and annoyance to neighbors and Marshal Craven was delegated to at tend to the matter. ' It was also agreed to sell the two lots formerly occupied by the Griffa water company to R. B. Swenson for $100 and Mayor Wolverton and Councilman Ebbert were detailed t j act for the city. The following claims were audit ed and ordered paid. Water Fund: J. F. Moreland, $65; R. B. Swenson $.10; Power Company, $78.10; Hardware Company, $149.46; Ed Griffa,$ 25.50. General Fund: R. B. Swenson, $15.55; E. L. Kilen, $5, J. F. Moreland, $22.60; Power Company, $146.56. Road Fund: L. C. Parker, $56; Albert Sacre, $34; J. H. Mulkey, $82.50 W. W. Newman estate, $1 . A communication was received from E. B. Hamilton asking that price) be set upon the motors which the city had in the water depart ment, he being anxious to buy them . It waa determined to reserve the large motor and pump until spring and to try if possible to sell the small motor and pump together, the recorder being instructed to place 'advertising in an effort to sell." , Fifteen taps have been placed on the pipe line between the intake and Monmouth for the use of the farmers living along the line. All of these patrons 'are to use water through meters. Lee Nelson, an itinerant minister who has been preaching from the curb stone in Dallas for the past week was arrested Saturday night and placed in jail on a charge of disturbing the peace. He is pre sumed to be insane and will be ex amined by local physicians soon. His main discourse was how to solve the high cost of living. He said he had the secret. If all people would follow his footsteps prices would lower, His secret and practice according to his statement, was to sleep in the park and eat dandelion roots.
