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The Monmouth He-54ld Vol. XIII Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, September 17, 1920 No. 2 Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Nation Items of Interest At Oregon Normal The (lrt faculty mot-ting of the year will beheld In Room 29 lit 3:00 o'clock' next Saturday after noon, at which time it it e xpected that all the member of the faculty will be present. The meeting i called for the purpose of outlining the work for the ensuing year. Registration of pupils will Win at 8:00 o'clock nrxt Monday morn ing and the regular classroom work will begin at 8:00 o'clock Tuesday morning. The first chapel wlil le t 9:45 Tuesday "lorning. The pupils who are coming from the direction of Portland or Salem re strongly advised to take the turn leaving Portland at 4:05 and 6:15 from Salem and purchase tick ets through to Monmouth by way of Dal las and check buggage accord ingly. The special train, by way of Dallas, should reach Monmouth between 7:30 and 8:00 Sunday evening. It , is suggested that householders with whom students reservations have been made, meet this special train for the purpose of assisting students to thei. homes. All repairs, including a new floor in the gymnasium, have been com pleted. The Interior of the build' Ings have been renovated and every thing is in shipshape for the open ing. The attendance in all probability will be somewhat larger than last year. However, many prospective students have withdrawn theii names for, the purpose of 'tJai-'hli J which will diminish the totaJ enroll ment somewhat. Miss Jessica Todd, Dean of Wo men, returned from her eastern trip last Saturday evening and re portsa very enjoyable vacation. Mist Lola E. liecords, Third and Fourth Grade Critic at the Mon mouth Truining School, arrived lust Monday an I the other members ol the faculty are expected every day. Miss May Levis, Assistant Dean of Women, has returned from hei vacation at Caycean. She had pbnncd to accompany Miss Arbuth not to Crater Lake but she report ed that Bayocean was so attractive that she decided to remain there the whole of the time. President Ackerman, Mr. Parker and Mr. Swenaon motoied to Su lem, Monday morning to listen to the addrcsa of Goverr.or Cox. They do nqt report whether the Republi cans of the party were converted to Jlcmoerarcy or whether the Demo crat of the party has made up his mind to vote Republican. The whole party seems to be non-committal as to that, but the public can draw its own conclusions. Dentists of Three Counties Dr. M. J. Butler of Monmouth and Dr' , Patrick of Independence attended the meeting of the Tri- County Dental League in Newberg last Friday night. The association at its monthly meeting is planning a series of lectures of instruction which during the year will keep its members up to date in regard to the latest practices and appliances of dentistry. At NewLerg the lecturer was Dr. Rossman of Port land who gave a demonstration on "Conductive Anaesthesia" a new idea in painless dentistry, Dr Adams of Portland also lectured on General Practice. The meeting closed with a banquet in the Im perial hotel. The next monthly meeting of the association will be held in the hotel Marion in Salem, the first Friday in October. W. D. Butters is absent this week in Washington looking up the prospects in thatrtate. HOW E0HIPP0S GREW UP INTO A HORSE f 7'r cm III Q !tp&. ay " " " . According to Prof. J. N. Oldley of the Dlrliloa of PalooDtoloiy, United Elites Museum, the horse at one tlmu wm a little animal, kiiejm as Eohlppm, shown abovaj Tarousii the axes It slowly de vi!oped Into the Mnaohlppua,' Hyjiolilppus, Mcychlppud, Hlp purlon, aud thrn to the woll-known animal of to .jr, Uie Equus, or Mtor known m the Horse. Now It looks as Uotrt our Equui were KOlDg to (iovoiop Into what will knawo to future agca as the Autohlppuwobliobus. Highway Injunction Dissolved The Herald naturally feels vin-! dicutej in the decision of Judge WcCourt last' Thursday, dissolving the injunction in the Pacific high way case. The text of the decision is all the more interesting as Judge McCourt at first was inclined to fa vor the Dallas-Independence claim in the matter, so much so that At torney Kaste at the beginning of the trial declared he was positively onnuent that his side ot the case would win because of conversations he had had with the judge. Hut when the commission's side had been presented and all of the pecul iar anjles ot the matter had been placed before him, Juda Mc Court not only changed his mind, but used language indicative of right eous indignation such as a man nat urally might use who finds he has been deceived. He uses Borne strong language in the text of his decision given herewith and says things that have the sting of the snap of whip lash. After the decision, members of the commission stated that no fur ther work would be done in Polk county until all legal matters had been cleared up. An appeal in the mandamus case is to go to the su preme court. It is plainly apparent from the evidence that the route selected by the highway commission for the Pa cific highway through Polk county will ultimately carry the great bulk of the through travel and this, whether 'the sameibe now diverted through l)ullas and Independence or either of them by paved highways. Sooner or later, a road must be im proved upon the direct route adopt ed by the commission. The high way commission is engaged in im proving a system of state roads and the primary consideration for Rumored, Reported Concocted, Collected The executive committee of the Polk County Fair board have laid plans for the fair, the dates of which are placed at October 7th 8th and 9lh. The Siletz Indians have been secured to perform danc es similar tojlast year. The grain and vegetable exhibits promise to be better than a year ago. At the annual convention of the Rural Mall Carriers held in Corvai lis recently, Ed Wunder of Inde pendence was elected first vice pres i lent and Percy Dickenson also of that city, was elected as a delegate to the national convention, which is to be held in Dallas, Texas, Septem ber 21. Mr. Wunder is carrier on route one and Mr. Dickenson on route two out of Independence. Mr. Dickenson left yesterday for Texas and expects to be absent four or five weeks. He is among the oldest carriers in the state hav ing been in active service on his route for more than fifteen years. Re. Chas. Johnson, Methodist minister, is to leave Dallas to ac cept a position as secretary of the Collegeof Puget Sound at Tacoma, Wash. Floyd D. Moore, county clerk, who has been in a hospital in Port land, is reported as improving and will soonjbe back to "work. C. C. Marks, who formerly lived south ' of this city, but moved to Canbjr; had his farm f buildings destroyed by fire... While be was away 'with a threshing outfit brush fire got beyond control and caused the damage. Mrs. J. Q. Thomas is spending a few days in Portland wkh her sis ter, Mrs. Bacon from Idaho. ' the improvement of such a system is its uitlity for use by the general public. The local benefits and considera tions which nuturully appeal to the municipalities of Dallas and Inde pendence i. re secondary and were so recugnized by the commission iind by these municipalities when the latter withdrew their objection to the construction and improve ment of the highway along the " di rect route. The arrangement, in a measure, provided for taking care of the Jocal demands of Dallas by apaved road frm that place to Rickreall and thence on to Salem, and likewise cared for the demands of Independence by a paved road between Independence and Mon mouth, If more was desired by these mu nicipalities or either of them in the way of highways supplying their local interests, efforts should have been made toward securing branch or market roads extending fron. the highway to the respective cities, instead of attempting arbi trarily 10 ignore uie arrangement by which the highway had incurred a large obligation and expended large sums of money in reliance thereon. " It is probable that by proper ne gotiations, some arrangement for co-operation between these cities, Polk county, the state and federal government, for the improvement of the desired branch roads might have been effected. Engagements between a county and a state should be observed with the strictest fidel ity by the officers vested with the execution of such engagements. regardless of whether thesame are evidenced by formal contract or writing. The highway commission has been engaged in carrying out Prune Picking and Prune Prices By the fttst of next week prune drying will be well under way. So far, little damage has been report- e J because of the heavy rain the first of the week. Most of the prunes were not ripe enough to be injured although there is still time fir the fruit to crack if weather Conditions are right. Travelers through the country report much corn down which will make the crop harder to har vest. There are many good corn fields in the coun try. Hop men also report damage because of the rain and wind. In fie McLaughlin, Lewis and Walker yirds a number of acres of hop- vines were blown down. With favorable weather no damage will result although it will be harder to gather the hops. The Oregon growers co-operative shipping association through its salesman, Robert C. Paulus, hat is sued a statement giving the prices which growers will ask ot the pack era this year. The statement of prices for bulk dried prunes which ranges from 7 centa for the 90-100 class to 15 cents for the 30-40 class, is quali fied with the statement that the price has already declined from one to one and a half cents on the var- iut grades. The association's estimate of the quantity of prunes grown in Or egon and Clarke county, Washing- tin, is 60 million pounds, a reduc tion from the first estimate of 80 millions.. Mr. Paulus does not be ieve the damage from rain will be great although some pessimistic growers assert they will lose one half. While there are still unsold stocks on hand from last year it is believed the high cost of sugar dur ing the past summer has kept housewives from canning the usual amount of fruit and this fact will result in a greater demand for dried fruit about the first of the year At present there is very little ex porting. Buyers are hesitating about in vesting in this year's crop and very little has been bought. They de cline to take the risk of a drop in prices later on and prefer the grower should take the chances Mr. Alsip, the local dryer, plans to charge for the drying instead of buying the green fruit from the grower. its part of the understanding for nearly a year before this suit was instituted. It had expended large sums of money in carrying out the work and the improvements had progressed to a considerable degree. The plaintiffs had stood by and observed the progress of the work without interposing any objections until this suit was instituted, by which it is sought not only to en join the further progress of the work and have the arrangement de scribed declared unauthorized and invalid but to secure for Polk coun ty all the improvements thus far made. t The inequity of the plaintiff's po sition imputes to Polk county i breach of faith. There seem to be authorities holding that under cir cumstances similar to these shown in the.evidence In this case plain tiffs are guilty of laches. Howev er that may be, the lack of equity in favor of the plaintiff's necessari ly prompts the court to inquire searchingly into the rights of plain tiff to maintain this suit at all. This is what is ordinarily referred to as a taxpayer's suit. In such proceedings it is necessary that plaintiff plead and prove that some act has been committed, or is threatened, or imminent which will Another Suit Started Late last Saturday papers were filed in Dallas for a suit in the Circuit court in another attempt to break up the plans of the highway commission in the matter of loca ting the highway in Polk county. John W. Kaste, Portland attorney, filed the suit in behalf of the fol lowing people from Independence: M." W. Mix, S. H. McElmurry, Max Goldman, John N. Conn. Defendants are named as follows: the state highway commission, the Warren Construction Co., the Ore gon Independent I'avinz Co., and the county court of Polk county. resuit.in some material injury to himself for which there is no ade quate remedy at law. It is not sufficient that he apprehends inju rious .consequences which neither actually exist nor are threatened. Fanciful, speculative, or even possible evil results are too remote and indefinite upon which to call inj to requistion the restraining pro cesses of a court of equity . . . The plaintiffs in this case fail to bring themselves within the rule estab lished by the foregoing cases. The evidence shows that, if any differ ence, the route adopted by the highway commission will be less ex pensive than any other that might be adopted. In the absence of pecuniary in jury to a citizen, the state only through its law officers, has the right to institute a suit to enjoin public officers from acts constitut ing a deviation from the strict let ter of the law under which they are acting. This rule applies equally whether -the .deviation be ifl.the matter of conduct or from the pre scribed route of a public highway. In this suit the law officer of the state, instead of instituting and prosecuting, is defendng the same and exerting himself to uphold the action of the highway commission. Indeed, it appears from the evi dence that the action of the high way commission was taken up on the advice of the attorney- general that the same was in con formity with the statutes. ' "It follows that the preliminary in junction, therefore issued, should be dissolved and the suit diismissed ana a decree will be enteied ac cordingly." Mrs. Singleton of Portland is a visitor this week with her mother, Mrs. Dewitt. STARTING Symphony Orchestra Coming October 3rd By a combination of citizens of Independence, Monmouth and the Oregon Normal School it has been made possible for this section to hear one of the great musical at tractions of the season. Guaran tees have been signed by the parties stated for 1000 for the appearance of the Minneapolis Symphony Or chestra which will appear in the chapel of the Normal, Sunday af ternoon, October 3, this'being one of three programs which the or chestra will put on in Oregon. Under the direction of Emil Ober hoffer, conductor, the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra has achieved a national reputation. Wherever It has gone it has been acclaimed as second to none in the country. Un der the leadership of its' distin guished conductor, who has been it guiding spirit since its incep tion 17 years ago, with an artistic personnel gathered from the musi cal centers of the world, with ad equate financial support and wi th 17 years of uninterrupted devel opment and success, the Minnea polis Symphony Orchestra today has few equals and no superiors among America's great orchestras. With the orchestra la the emi nent prima donna of the Chicago Opera Company, Miss Florence Mc- Beth; James Wilson, famous Welsh narpist; jana j. Koenigen, master Cillist. Miss McBeth, soprano, is of Scotch ancestry and 'was born at Mankato, Minn. On her' return to America after successive European Qnrukat-nnoa cha vat riAUn-lhMl flu the Minnesota nightingale and hail ed as one of the greatest coloratura singers this country has ever pro duced. . :, For the past three seasons Miss McBeth has been one of the bril liant stars with the Chicago Grand Opera Company, sharing with Mme. Galli-Curci the' coloratura roles of the New York and Chicago seasons. On behalf of local backers, Miss West went to Portland Thursday to make definite arrangements for the appearance of the orchestra here. Mr. and Mrs.Floyd Bewley of In dependence are rejoicin over the arrival of a baby boy at thur home recently. ' - TO BOIL