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Meditations
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The man whoje wood pile is still
unsawed more than half suspects
that it is gmg to rain all winter.
No one who has pride in his home
or his town would live in" a house
surouniej I y a sea of weeds.
Auto drivers are beginning to see
road signs in Monmouth that they
never knew existed before.
With a few weeks like the one
just passed we will coon catch up on
our quota of precipitation.
The base ball season has reached
the stage where the box score
breaks occasionally into front page
space.
If Independence and Monmouth
were minded to unite in efforts for
their common welfare they might
ina short time constitute a consid
erable more important corner of
Polk county than they do at present,
People have leaped from Brook'
lyn bridge, gone over Niagara
Falls inji barrel, murdered emperors
and pre mlents and done other things
to attract attention just as Mr.
MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork is
achieving undying fame committing
suicide by starvation.
An evidence that the Willamette
valley is taking to corn growing is
the large flocks of blackbirds which
are becoming more common along
the river. Tangible results of this
com should be at the corn show in
Independence and at the state and
county fairs.
Not to be able to whoop up and
down Alain street with a
whiz or a bang to the accompani
ment of dying dust will rob joy rid
ing in Monmouth of some of its
pleasures.
One reason why the latest high
way suit will not reach material de
velopment is that if it is pressed to
a show down, the public is apt to
find out why the description of
project one, the through highway,
was chaneged on the official notice
from what it was when adopted in
convention, and as advertised in the
press. Also who was responsible
for it. That sort of thing went
when the country was new but it
will rot be stood for now.
Democratic managers are said to
be incensed because Candidates Cox
and Roosevelt, both millionaires,
have not as yet contributed mater
ially to the campaign. Of course,
it is obvious that the fact these
men are very weathly would subject
them to criticism instantly should
they contribute large sums to their
own campaigns. Doubtless they
can not escape ' contributions to
meet deficits when the race is over.
To have secured such an attrac
tion as the Minneapolis Symphony
Orchestra is a tribute to the enter
prise of the Normal people ana
citizens. To give it a patronage
worthy of the magnitude of the at
traction will be a tribute to the cul
ture and character of the people
who live in this section.
A Department of Agriculture
experimenter estimates that if
Americans take to and retain prohi
bition the consumption of water
will be so increased" that artificial
water will have to be resorted to
in something like 7,000 years. It
appears to ui that the experiment
er might better devote hit time to
the science of extracting cucum
bers from sunbeams.
Tne Cremona rhonograph company
of Portland, which tuanufacturt'a the
Cremona phonograph, haa purchaard
the plant of the Albany Furniture
Manufacturing company and Wrefter
will manufacture Its machine In Al
bany. It upwls to expend 126.000 In
reconduction and enlargement of the
plant and hope within a year to be
turning out 70 machine a day.
There were four fntalltlca In Oregon
due to Indualrlal accident) In the week
ended September , according to a
report prepared by the Industrial ac
cldent cominlulon. The victlma were:
Frank Frltt, engineer, Neveritlll; V.
O. Shoup, brakoman, Murshtleld;
William C. Lewis, logger, Eugene, and
P. A. Eckelman, creamery manager.
Portland. A total of 109 accident) wore
reported.
Simon Demon, aa chairman ot the
itate highway commlaalon filed ault In
the Waeco circuit court at The Dallea
agalnat Malcolm A. Moody for condem
nation ot a atrip of land SO foot wide
leading from the Moody toll bridge to
the approach of the new Deschutes
rlrer bridge, recently completed bjr the
highway commission at a coat of f 75,
000. The defendant hai refined $:S0
for the right of way.
Sara A. Koier, secretary of itnte,
served a notice on the itnte highway
department and state Indualrlal acci
dent eommlsalon that they would
have to vacate their quarters In the
itatehouie soon attor December 1 In
order that committee roomi may be
provided for the leglalaturv, which con
vene In January. Approximately 100
employe! will be effected by the mov
ing order, according to Mr. Koier.
The Oregon wheat crop this yeur la
placed at 21.924,000 bushels, according
to the September report Issued by F.
L. Kent, agricultural statistician of
the bureau of crop eatlmatei, United
Slates department of agriculture, Thli
1 n Increase of 1.(29,000 bushels over
the eatlmated crop of laat year. Other
Increases shown In the report are I,
(96,000 bushels of oata. 922,000 bushels
ot barley and 243,000 bushel) of rye.
Resident) of Bonania havo rnlsod
a fund for grading the road bed for a
branch of the Oregon, California 6
Eastern rnllway from the present
terminus at Dairy, to Bonanza. Under
agreement with Robert E. Btrahorn,
president of the rood, the Bonanza
people are to grade the road, furnish
ties and provide the rights ot way.
The railway company will furnish and
lay the rails. Bid) for grading will be
opened October 1.
By a decision rendered In the cir
cuit court In Portland, Judge John Mc-
Court dissolved an Injunction brought
by the county court of Polk county to
restrain the state highway eommls
alon from proceeding with paving op
erations In that county over a con
tested route. The effect of the deci
sion 1) to uphold the right of the
highway commission to select the
routing of highways or to change an
nounced route) In It) discretion.
' Appropriation of 4000 second teot of
water from the Klamath river for the
development of 100.000 horsepower and
Irrigation of 250,000 acres of land in
the Sacramento valley at an estimat
ed cost of (15,000,000 Is sought In un
application filed, with Percy Cupper,
state engineer, by Victor Demarals and
Charles E. Watson. The main canal
will divert water from the Klamath
river in Oregon and carry It CO miles
Into the Sacramento valley.
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