The Monmouth Herald
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Vol. XII
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, August 6, 1920
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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
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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.