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be Monmouth Herald
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, Augurt 13, 1920
No. 49,
Vol. xu
Ml-iuth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in to
New Faculty Members
Opening Day Sept. 20
Tli Oregon Normitl Sehool will
open it doori fur the ym't work
on SivU.Tnber 20. At tb.it time the
work will lUrt on the revised
chum fur the first time. The re
vision it along two lilies first,
the yen It divided Into three ternn
of twelve week each.; Thil maket
it poMlble fur mure Intensive work
in each tubject and lengtheni the
practice teaching period two wetki.
Surond, it provide fur much greater
specialization and a greater choice
of selective. The special courset
offered are: Primary, Intermediate,
advanced, music, drawing, physical
education, household economy, and
commercial. The new course offer
ed ia the commercial the completion
of which authorize one to teach
commercial tubject in high
d'hoola, The completion of the
courte In music, drawing and phy
aical education authorize one. to
teach said subject in high schools
The new instructor aret W. G.
Beattle, Head of the Rural School
Department and Institute Instruct
or; Mist BcssGodbold, Head of the
Public Speaking Department; Mist
Louise Syp, Instructor in Conv
merclal subject;' Mis Lola Rec
ords, Third and Fourth Grade
Critic, Monmouth Training School;
Mis Bessie McChesney, Third and
Fourth Grade Critic .Independence
Training School; Mra. Chloe A
Seymour, Supervisor Elklni Rural
Center; Mis Florence Hill, Assis
tant Supervisor, Etklns Rural
Center; MisNn Hunter, Assist
ant Supervisor. Mountain View
Rural Center.
The summer school during the
first six weeks wo administered in
two sections, one at Monmouth and
one at Pend'eton. The enrollment
at , Monmouth was 475 and at
Pendleton GO and the work of both
sections was very successful. The
summer,' session at Monmouth was
continued for six weeks beginning
August 2, and was planned for those
who withed to complete the teach
ers' elementary training course.
The enrollment for this term is 42
and very satisfactory work is being
done. Mr. Butler, Mr. Gentle' and
Mr. Ostien ae the instructors. It
is the first time the Institution has
offered the twelve week summer
sohool for any class of students and
in all probability such a course will
be offered next summer with addi
tional courses. '
The Board of Regents at its an
nual meeting authorized the en
largement of the heating plant and
plans are under way for the en
largement of the dormitory next
spring.
A very valuable report has re
cently been issued by the Carnegie
, Foundation covering the prepura-
tionand train nr of teachers, es-
IRISH MINISTER OP
AGRICULTURE IN U.S.
Capture (he Still
Lose the Distillers
Moonshine Raids
Halt Booze Flow
' Laurence Glnntll, member ol
larli.mcnl (or North Wonlmoatb
?nd ailiiismr ol igrlmllure In lb
rltih llopubllran government, I
l bin wajr from tut Uraerald Ul
Ir the t'nltod HMn on a "Nation-
MltMop ' The iteacnr upoo
wrudi ha sails Is oot named
I & M Rumors
Rumor of a return of the I. &
M, R. R., always ex intent, are now
more numerous than ever. It is
sild the Valley and Siletz is to get
the road from A irlie to Monmouth
and to bo extended 'to Indepen
dence. Another report says the S.
P. haa the I. & M. right of way and
will p"t down the rails again and
electrify a service to Monmouth.
The truth i ipt to be that the S.
P, will hold the right of way to
prevenfthe V. AS. from getting
physical connections In Independence.
A meeting of business men of
Polk county haa been called in the
rooms of the Commercial club in
Oallaa Wednesday at 10 . m. to
arrange a campaign for combatting
the five per cent interest rate bill.
The Christian church of Dallas
which was damaged by Are, ia nuw
repaired and services will be re
sumed in the building Sunday.
pccially normal school. The
Faculty will in all probability make
an intensive study of said report
during the year with a view of
comparing the work ' now being
done in the normal with the sug
gestions of the report. Said report
would be very interesting reading
for any one interested in normal
training.
The Normal was pleased to note
that one of its graduates, Mr. Rol
lin Dickinson has been elected
Principal of the University High
School.
Mr. Fleming Oleman has been
elected to a position in the Umatilla
eiunty schoola at a salary of $1200
per year.
The programs put on by the two
groups'of students on Tuesdays and
Fridays are very interesting. Any
one wishing to spend a few minutes
very pleasantly is cordially invited
to be present at these programs.
They begin at nine fifteen, A.M .
We halt the press to insert an
account of how the sheriff and an
editor raided still another still and
topped a source of firewater which
has probably drained Its dribbiing
course among the soak and youth
ful tipplers of Uils section for some
time past. No bacuwoods, or rocky
inlet stuff in this either unless the
region of North Independence can
be classed under the former head'
ing.
Y Sheriff Sherlock Orr, so the
report goes, irritated at the ease
with which numerous raids had
been foiled, at last got bit eagle
rye on the tight place and with his
faithful Watson, M. L.Boyd, edi
tor of the Itemizer, made a night
raid Tuesday at 9 :30. A house be
longing to L. F. Evans is the scene
of the excitement. Thither goes
the sheriff rnd his, valiant ally.,
"We are here" says Sherlock,
"Watson, you alarm them at the
front door and I'll nab them when
they make exit at the rear." A
glare of I'ght played acror the
front. of the house. It was con
spicuous distressingly so. Moon
shiners tre supposed to be desper
ate and even a small marl make a
fair target. Some one had to get
out the Itemizer this week and the
editor stuck to the shade.
Like a sheep rancher going after
a nest of coyote the sheriff tackled
the back of the house. There was
a subdued racket and two men
bounded out of the front door and
headed toward town. The sheriff
gave chase, shootim? hi revolver,
not at the men. however, because
the street had many people return
ing from the picture show. The
men leaped over the concrete bridge
and were lost in the brush.
The sheriff returned to the house
and found a big still, a-. copper
affair made by someone who knew
how. It had a capacity of a quart
every six minutes. It had just
been fired and there were only two
quarts which were freshly distilled,
but the plant was rilled with' prune
and raisn mash and before it had
cooled sufficiently to take up, 12
quarts of brandy had drained out.
Something like 200 gallons of mash
were dumped into the river at the
ferry. The still and liquor were
taken to Dallas and the sheriff and
deputy Hooker are now on the trai
seeking the moonshiners. N
In combatting moonshine busi
ness in Polk county Sheriff Orr has
a hard tusk as there are so many
conditions that favor the business.
But he has now raided and destroy
ed stills in nearly every corner of
the county and has proved himself
the uncompromising enemy of the
law breaker. His work kept up:
will maks the county so hot for the
booze maker that he will be forced
Judging from the news report
this is the on season for the moon
shiner businesa for the federal
agents for it i a rare day that doe
not tee some sort "f exposure of
this kind. Last Thursday Marion
county officials raided a still on
Tke's Island in the Willtmette,
near East Independence. The
island which it large and on the
Marion tide of the channel, makes
ar) ideal tpot for moonshlning. The
office rt who raided the island
searched it from one end to the
other without finding the appara
tus which they sought. But after
the occupant of the island, Howard
Buckner, was arrested he led the
officers to the still. It was located
on the river bank, reached by boat
and was so hidden among the
brush and overhanging branches
jf'tree that it might well defy
detection.
Thirty gallons of white liquor,
four boxes of mash, three boxes of
prunes, several jugs and a quantity
of sugar were seized and all but a
small quantity retained as evidence
wis destroyed. Buckner was taken
to the Marion county jail.
Beside the Tice Island raid two
Other itills were raided in Marion
county but week. One near Silver
ton where Willie Franki was taken
into custody with a still made of
l tea kettle and a twelve foot coil
of copper tubinj. The other was
near Aumsville. Andy Schwab, a
farmer two miles south of that
place was discovered manufacturing
a still and had 20 gallons of mash
ready for the apparatus wTien it
was completed.
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That unfortunate right angle
curve in the road near the Reuf
farm waa the cause of another
wreck Saturday atfernoon. A man
traveling for an auto supply com
pany in Portland, accompanied by
his wife, was traveling at the rate
of twenty five miles per hour when
they reached the turn and the car,
a Buick roadster, skidded off the
road into a ditch. One hind wheel
was broken and the car otherwise
crippled. Claude Skinner - went
out after the wreck and the passenger.
This drat was made at a cost
if (0 cents br Ulst Doris Peter
too ot Belllngham, Wash., a htfh
tchool alrl, who teems to have
wlvad the women's clothes prob
lem In part at least The mate
1al I sugar sacks, some colored
otton plus two hours ot labor.
vnd presto! n attractive dresa.
bflat Petertuii eie the medal.
Only two bid were received pur
suant to advertising, for the con
struction of a gymnasiu m on the
high school grounds in Indepen-
Idence. One was in the sum of
$16,998 and one (16,775. Both
bids were submitted by Salem par
ties, Mr. Anderson placing the
former and Mr. Knapp the latter,
but neither can be reached by the
money provided by the sale of
bonds as authorized by a vote of the
people, which amounts to 115,000.
The directors will perhaps modify
the plans and advertise for more
bids. The $15,000 bonds have been
sold for a small bonus above par.
hive thousand dollars was taken by
the Farmers' State bank of Indepen
dence and ten thousand dollars by
E. L. Devereau & Co. of Portland.
Recently Federal Detective Wolf
of Portland raided a still on Che-
halem creek, near Ncwberg. Tte
following account is from the Mc-
Minnville Telephone Register:
The house is located one and
half miles northwest of Newberg
on the L. F. Hall farm, in a quiet
cove at the junction of two little
creeks. The place is well hidden
from public view. Nearby is the
home of Lawrence and Ernest Hall
idowers, who are occupying the
farm, but claim that they knew
nothing of the existence of the
b i 11 . as the tract and house had
been rented by parties who intro
duced themselves as gardeners.
The Hall brothers have been arrest
ed ami taken to Portland for trial
in the feneral court, and it is said
some startling revelations may be
msde which will implicate a num
ber of unsuspected individuals.
The building in which the still
was operated was a large one, hav
ing but one outside entrance, and.
but one window' The door leads
into the living quarters, and back
of these was the bedroom, were
there were two beds. Adjoining
the living room was the still, in
the largest room in the building,
and this was lighted artificially
Back of this room was a compart
ment for storage, which had
ground floor.' Here were shelves
containing a half dozen large kegs
of manufactured whiskey, all
supplied with faucets. There was
a large stock of emptv bottle, as
well as a goodly supply of corn
meal and.hops for further manu
facture. The place had a capacity
of 100 gailons per day. There were
several containers filled with kero
sene,"which supplied the heat under
the copper still by a spray injection
produced by a pump similar to
those used on water wagons of
Would Move County Seat
Orville Butler comes forward this The bonds bear interest at six per
week with a proposal to remove the cent and are to be retired at the
county seat from Dallas, placing rate of $1,000 per year
the Question upon the ballot this
fall if possible. Says Mr. Butler, w " promised that the long
if it is necessary to build an eight heralded telephone improvements. in
mile oon at sz&.uou per mne w '
put the county seat on the high- nt few weeks. A construction ,
way, it would be cheaper to move an8 m the direction of the
the countv seat to the hiehway. Portland office ia to handle the
Seriously the selfishness Dallas is work- Many of the old pole are
showing in the highway matter in to be taken out and replaced and
obstructing work which would have P e'8M to a dozen on a line cir-
Wofittort th. hntp 'Ktjif and its cuiU are to be abolished and four
to a line win be the rule nereaiter,
it is announced, At the same time
the charge for residence phones ia
to be raised from $1 to $1.50.
cool disregard of an obligation it
should have because of the
$265,000 bond election creates in
dignation wherever it is discussed
G. T. Boothby reports the sale of
the P. E. Chase property on Clay
street to Mr. A. M. Essen of St.
Helens, Or. Mr. Essen arrived
Rev. Peter Conklin has bought
the Boots place of the insurance
companies who took it over a lew
years ago. Consideration was
here Sunday evening with his house- 1,000. Mr. Conklin has also bought
hold goods and will take possession the two lots, one on each side of
of the property immediately. The the premises, belonging to P. H.
consideration was $1,000. Johnson for $500. The Conklins
is back on the! P,an to remodel the house into
apartments for students. Tie
place has a fine location and with
C. C. Archibald
job as manager of the Mountain
States Power company business in
Independence after a brief stay in
San Francisco. Mrs. Archibald
and son who have been on a long
visit in the California town, return
ed with him.
M. B. Young has resigned from
the Dallas common council.
the improvements
desirable property.
will become t
Chas. Hubbard, a well known
young man of Falls City, died Tues
day of tuberculosis. They were
taking him to the ocean in the
effort to prolong his life and were
threshing crews. A .whole line of Unroute when he died,
tanks of large size were rowed up
for the successive processes of dis
tillation, some filled with mash in
fermentation, others with little in
them, as you approached the finish
ing process at the still
To Advise Court
Having led in the movement that
has tangled up whatever highw, y
The use prospects the county has for some
of kerosene as fuel eliminated any time to come, the Dallas commer-
exposure from smoke. Under the cial club by way of reparation is
still sat a ten-gallon glass jar recejv- planning a concerted request to the
ing the flow of the completed county court to adopt road pro-
article, and when the officers visit- gram for the county. As a pre-
ed the place, though the occupants liminary a committee from the club
had made their retreat, the still has made a tour of Marion, Lane
was yet hot and the liquor flowing land other counties to observe the
therefrom. One man was seen sort of road machinery they have in
running from the place at some use there with the idea of recom-
distance. . mending the same to the court
The equipment has been confisca- should it be deemed wise.
to get out of it. The conditions in
and around Independence have been
particularly notorious fot the past
lyearand here'B hoping the im
provement will be decided . from
now on.
ted and will be removed to Port-I
land. It is said that the land may
be confiscated to cover the expenses
of the find and the (rial.
Sheriff Henderson and son and
County Clerk Wilson went downl County Clerk Moore was sold out
Wednesday and visited the palce of the house he had been living in
in company with the federal detect-land has bought a home of his own
ive. ' 1 in Dallas.
Dr. Dunsmore is back in his
1 place in the Independence National
bank after a vacation spent at tel-
Knap springs.