The Monmouth herald., October 01, 1920, Image 1

The Monmouth Herald
Vol. XIII
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, October 1, 1920 ,
No. 4
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Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in' Nation
Items of Interest
At Oregon Normal
The Training Sehool" In Mon
mouth and InJtfiendcnce pened
Monday morning'with i good enroll
ment In all grades.
MiM Schuette hut been oigoniz-
log the Normal Orchestra and Die
Glee Club this week. Student are
most enthusiastic and Ihe worlt is
beginning auspiciously.
The scuts for the concert by the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
have nearly all been sold at this
writing, which promises financial
'succcus for this big undertaking ,
On Friday ('resident Roberts of
the new normal school at Centralia,
Washington, addressed tte students
. and. faculty at the chapel hour. He
urged the gospel of service in a
sincere and pleasing mann er.
So many students signed up for
the new commercial teachers' course
that a double supply of typwrlters
had to be ordered.
Elkins Rural Center opened Mon
day morning with Mrs. Seymour,
Supervisor, In charge. Miss Flor
ence Hill, who is Assistant Super
vsor, Is an 0. N. S. graduate of
June 1920, an honor student, who
will no doubt make good in her new
position.
The social activities of the year
at the Oregon Normal School were
auspiciously launched last Saturday
evening by the reception given by
the president and faculty to the
students and the townspeople of
Monmouth. , Tho reception proper
was held in the gymnasium and re
freshments were served across the
campus in the Normal building.
After i hearty welcoming speeh by
President Ackerman., Miss Fran
ciene Miller responded with fitting
remarks. Miss Laura Holliday of
the music department then sung a
group of song in a very attractive
manner. A unique plan for having
the guests meet each other also
proved entertaining. The gymna
sium and refreshment rooms were
all tastefully decorated.
The moving picture, "The Heart
of a Child" is announced for Friday
evening, October 1, with Nazimova
playing the lending purt. . .
At a meeting of the two literary
societies of the Oregon Normal
School, the Delphiuns and the Ves
pertine, held on Tuesday, officers
were elected for the ertsuing year.
Those elected for the Delphians are
as follows: President, Helen
Fletcher, of Buell; Vice-President,
Norma Calbreath, of Independence;
Secretary, Lulu Hayes, of Burns;
Treasurer, Ella Hattun, of St. Hel
ens; and. Sergeant-at-Arms, Zelma
Sautvain, of Portland. '
The following were elected at
omeers.for the Vespertine bociety:
President, Goldie HufTord, of Ban
don; Secretary, Dorcas Conklin, of
Monmouth; and Treasurer, Edith
Bragg, of La Grande. " ;
X meant wEereuy IK Toad construc
tion programme (or the next two years .
may lie financed without the necessity
of dlicountlng bonds or paying out
large sums In Interest will be provided
by a levy of a 3 mill tax on til assess
able property In Douglas county for
the years 1920 and 1921, providing the
1 voters of the county approve the plan,
which It to be submitted by order of
the county court at the November
election. .' ', " y
In ordor that every scheme now
under consideration by the public and
the Dalles City water commission may
be thoroughly Investigated and ap
proved the services of an expert hy
draulic engineer will be secured. There
are now three projects under consid
eration: the building of a dam across
Mill creek, piping water from the
Deschutes river or pumping water
from the middle of the Columbia at a
depth of 12 feet.
Big Call for Tickets
Patrons of the concert to be
given by the MinneapolisSymphony
Orchestra Sunday afternoon are
Bbked to be In their seats promptly
it 2:30 to avoid disturbance after
the program has begun. The pros
pect li the crowd In attendance will
tax in fiormai auditorium to its
capacity. $1,000 In tickets have
already been disposed of and it
seems assured the tutjJ receipt will
reach twelve hundred or two bun
dred more than the guarantee. Mits
Scbuette gives a very interesting
description of the orchestra in an
other column of Uiii week's Herald.
Rumored, Reported
Concocted, Collected
Captain C, L.Stidd of Company K
of the National guard at Indepen
dence, hat sold his farm south of
Independence and resigned the job
of captain. He plans to go to Port-
lam where he has accepted a posi
tion with the Union Savings and
Loan company, His successor at
the head of Company K has not yet
been named, that event waiting the
next meeting of the company.
Company K waawganized in April,
1919 and Stidd was largely instru
mental in the move. Captain Stidd's
farm of one hundred fifteen acres
has been sold to F. W. Schilling of
Portland.
The open season on China pheas
ants begins today and hunters"Jwho
have located the" game are on the
trail hot and heavy. Farmers wh)
wish a chance at the game on their
own preserves have posted notices
warning trespassers away.
Wm. Glas who has been tester at
the creamery for some time past
and who has been on a vacation re
cently is not to return to 1 the
creamery, but leaves this week for
Davis, Cal., where hetwill enter the
California agricultural school with
a view to further work in the dairy
line.
Twenty'five years ago an atten
dance of four thousand at the state
fair was conisdered big. This past
week on single days forty thousand
attended. All report the fair big
ger and better than ever. The at
traction put on by overseas service
men Wednesday night entitled The
Argonne Battle, drew many from
this section.
Miss Emma Kramer starts in
next week as principal of the High
land school In Salem. She formerly
taught in the caoitol city, having
charge of the Lincoln school there.
For the past two years she has
taught in Marshfield. . Her sister,
Mrs. Beery, will live with her in an
apartment during the school week
and week ends they will spend in
Monmouth,
A campaign It being started at
Astoria to secure the necessary legis
lation for building an Interstate bridge
across the Columbia river. The point
suggested is Wanna and Westport.
The special election at Ashland to
vote on an issue of (100,000 8 per cent
30-year bonds to provide an auxiliary
water supply by putting In a dam on
Ashland creek near Mount Ashland
carried by a vote of 582 to 122.
Mailing of copies of proposed consti
tutional amendments and measures to
be submitted to the voters of Oregon
at the general election to be hold on
November 2 hat been completed under
the direction of Sam A. Kozer, secre
tary of state, A total of 339,750
pamphlets was mailed to the voters.
Bids for the construction of a bridge
over the Malheur river near Vale,
lining of two tunnels on the Hood
Rlver-Mosler section of the Columbia
river highway anil the grading and
macadumlzlng of several miles ct road
In different parts of the state will be
opened at a meeting of the state high
way commission to be held in Portland
September 28.
Building of Baptists ,
Ready November 1
Announcement is made that the
new Baptist church and community
Center will be ready for dedication
on or before November 1. Owing
to condHions incidental to all. build
ing operations the work has lasted
longer than was expected last spring
when it. was begun. The cost of
the building is also some higher.
The total cont of the new home for
the I!aititU of Monmouth will be
about $8,000. Of this $6,000 was
contributed b.y the National Bap
tist association.
The new structure is tu have ten
rooms, the largest being the chapel
at the rear of the new structure.
On the ground floor, to the left of
the entrance is the social hall and
ladies' parlor. The room has a fire
place to give it a homelike atmos
phere. The public library and
reading room is on the other side
of the hall, and leading off the li
brary Is the pastor's study where he
may be found by people seeking
consolation or by young people seek
ing to be wed.
The upper floor has been fitted
up for temporary living quarters
for the pastor and family but later
is to be used for Sunday School
classrooms. There is a small bal
cony at the rear of the chapel. Un
der the chapel is the furnace room
lavatories and kitchen and banquet
hall. The latter room will also be
used as a boys' club room. When
he church ia finished, and in run
ning order it will be an agent of
aervicet o the community, . ,
An" unknown man who was found
dead at the foot of a high cliff on the
highway west of Coble Saturday even
ing, committed suicide ky Jumping?
off the cliff, At the top of the cliff
hit hat and a bottle of carbolic acid
were found.
A vent which developed a tow weeks
ago In the bottom of Pamellt lake,
near Mt. Jefferson and which was
draining the lake rapidly, endangering
the large number of trout, has been
.stopped by employes of the United
States forest service.
There was one fatality In Oregon
due to industrial sccldeutt during the
week ended September 16, according
to a report filed by the state industrial
accident commission. The victim wat
Nick Musek, logger of Kuappa'. A total
of 41)2 accidents were reported.
Twenty new trade unlns have been
formed lu the state during the past
year and hare Joined with the state
federation of labor, according to the
report of Otto Hartwlg, president of
the State Federation of Labor, which
held a four-day session at Pendleton.
At a tuberculosis clinic held at the
Y. M. C. A. by the Bend chapter of
the Red Cross 60 per cent of the men
and women examined were found to
have the disease, but in a majority of
cases the condition of the sufferer was
improving on account of the dry Cen
tral Oregon climate.
The state land board has decided to
place on the market 12,000 acres of
approved state base or scrip, which
can be used for the selection of any
government land subject to homestead
entry in Oregon. This scrip will be
sold at $15 an acre In amounts not to
exceed 320 acres to any one person.
Owing to the apparent growth of
liquor stills throughout the state the
Oregon Anti-saloon league, In coopera
tion with other law enforcement
bodies, Is said to be considering ask
ing the next legislature for an ap
propriation of $50,000 to secure better
enforcement of the prohibition law.
The state emergency board at a
meeting held Saturday authorized de
ficiency appropriations aggregating
$147,866 with which to defray the ex
penses of the various state institu
tions, state departments and organiza
tions and societies receiving state aid
until the next session of the legisla
ture In January. 1
More than six miles of trackage Is
being laid in the O.-W. R. & N. Co.
yards at Huntington, and the yards
are being extended a long distance
west of the present ground occupied,
a new 12-Inch well is being driven to
provide additional water facilities for
betterment In every department of the
service at this division 'point.. . "
Symphony Music
And Its Orchestra
In view of the fact that we are
loon to have an unusual musical
treat in this city, it may not be un
welcome to place before you some
salient facts about the modern sym
phony orchestra. Think of the or
chestra as being a single great in
strument upon which the conductor
plays. He has at his command the
most wonderful means of musical
expression in the world.
The symphony orchestra consists
of from fifty to one hundred players.
It comprises four divisions' There
are three principal groups of instru
ments and one accessory group. To
the musical profession they are
known as ther "strings", "wood
winds", "brass" and "battery".
The "strings" arehe violins, vio
loncellos, violas, and double-basses.
The "woodwinds" include the flutes,
obcea, clarinets and bassoons. The
various horns, trumpets and trom
bones belong to the "brass" group.
The "battery" has these instru
ment of percussion drums, trian
gle, cymbals, balls, etc. '
' The violin group is the founda
tion of the orchestra, and is given
the place of prominence in the seat
ing of the players., "On the left of
the conductor sit the first violins;
their leader who is known as concert-master
occupies the first dusk
on the outside row. Directly op
posite the first violins on the right
of the conductor are the second vio
lins; next.them toward the center,
the violas are placed. Contrasted
with the violas on the side by the
firat violins are found the voilonel-
los. ' ' '
"Directly back of the 'violins and
'cellos are grouped the double bass
es. This leaves the whole center of
the orchestra to the wood-wind in
strument. The flutes and piccolo
occupy the first row' The oboes,
which include the alto oboe or En
glish horn and clarinets, the row
behind, and the bassoons and the
French horns the next. To balance
the "strings" (the 'cellos and dou
ble basses) the "brasses" (trum
pets, trombones and tuba) flank the
right center of the orchestra.
"The tympani (kettledrums) and
the percussion instruments occupy
the middle center, directly opposite
the conductor. Roughly speaking,
each group consists like a vocal
choir of four parts corresponding to
soprano, alto, tenor, and bass". A
concert goer ought to be familiar
with the personality of each instru
ment and the emotional effect'of its
voice.
The modern orchestra is called
symphony orchestra because its
chief function is to play symphonic
music. Only an orchestra of a
large size ;an properly present such
music. A symphony is a sonata set
for an orchestra. It consists of sev
eral parts or "movements", gener
ally four in number. We might
think of it as a story with various
chapters. The first movement is
usually quick and cheerful, and is
most often marked allegro; the sec
ond movement goes at a leisurely
pace, and is marked andante. The.
third is the humorous one and is
marked scherzo, while the fourth
and last movement is always rapid
and in most cases represents trium
phant joyousness. The symphony
is the highest form of pure music.
Marie A. Schuette.
The Astoria school board has re
quested the county board of equalisa
tion to Increase the assessment roll 50
per cent In order that the port com
mission may be able to issue sufficient
bonds to complete projects in hand.
' Frank Minney of Vida has been ap
pointed as superintendent of the state
flab, hatchery on the qpper McKenzle
river In Lane county to succeed Matt
U Ryckman, who has been named as
superintendent of all state trout hatch-
Another Try at Paving
S. S. Houston, civil engineer,
was here from Salem Saturday with
plans and specifications for paving
Monmouth avenue strips along the
highway paving and notices were
posted by order of the council that
the subject will be taken up at a
meeting to be held October 8. At
that time property owner will have
opportunity to present objections
or remonstrances.
Polk County Fair
Comes Next Week
Folk county will hold its ninth 'an
nual county fair October 7, 8, and
9 at the fair grounds at the end of
Clay street, Dallas.
. The season has been an excellent
one for grain specimens, and the
display will be a good representa
tion. The various booths at the fair will
be under the head of schools, in
dustrial clubs, community and in
dividual. Keen competition is
being waged between Brush College
and Elkins districts. The exhibits
at the fair will include sheep, goats,
swine and poultry, farm products,
grains, vegetables, fruits, domestic
science, amateur kodak photo
graphy, cut flowers, domestic art
and school work.
The second annual automobile
show will be put on by the Polk
County Automobile Dealers' associ
ation. ' , .
Big Chief Williams of the SileU
Indian reservation wiU bring on his
band of braves, in full Indian cos
tume, and will entertain with fea
ture dance and music. '
Arrangemnents have been made
with the Oregon, Washington,
Idaho Airplane company to be in
attendance each day of the fair.
They will give exhibition flying and
passengers will be taken on a flight
over Dallas. i .
The special election called at Ash
land on Initiative petition to vote for
the city to issue (100,000 bonds tor
the purchase of Buck take, 35 miles
east, at an auxiliary water supply,
defeated the proposition by a vote of
833 to 60. A 1100,000 bond election
to conserve the waters of upper Ash
land creek for auxilitary water supply,
held September -19, carried 4 to 1.
Willamette valley hop growers re
port that the Oregon crop is about 90
per cent harvested and saved, notwith
standing the recent exceedingly heavy
rains. It Is believed there will be
scarcely any lose In the remaining 10
per cent In the yards. The clusters
have been free from lice and mold.
The Oregon crop this season will ag
gregate about BOjOOO bales.
The continued fall rains have done
great damage to the Oregon prune
crop. Allowing tor exaggerations In
reports, which are usual when a crop
is in danger or injured, prune men
nevertheless believe that this year's
.crop has been cut down one-halt. It
this it true It will mean a lost of
about $3,000,000. to the prune grower!
of Oregon. There were prospects in
the spring of a crop of 80,000,000
pounds of dried 'prunes In the state.
The estimate was -cut down to 60,000,
000 pounds when (he June drop came
and now the rain damage has reduced
the crop probably to 30,000,000 pounds.
O. R. Hartwig of Portland, president
of the Oregon State Federation of
Labor, was nominated to continue in
office at the state federation conven
tion at Pendleton. ' Davie Ellis of
Portland was nominated for vice-president
and W. E. Kimsey, Incumbent,
was nominated for secretary-treasurer.
Nominations for the executive board
were as follows: Portland, Arthur
Brock, J. C. Jensen, J. E. Starr; Salem,
U 1. Simeral; Astoria, M. M. Lornt
sen; Pendleton, Charles Keane and
Sandy McClaln; La Grande, H. T.
Dodd; Baker, Alex. Sewell; Bend, C.
H. Baker. These nominations will be
referred to all local unions affiliated
with the state federation, to be voted
on by referendum within 30 days. The
new officers will take office lfaiwk
4. Portland was named as the stood
for next year's state tedertlonBOnr
venuon. no date was sec
Burning of Dryers
Entails Big Loss
A $17,000 loss ensued when Art
destroyed the prune evaporating
plant of F. A. Kurtz, last Tuesday
morning. Fire was discovered at
about 7 o'clock in the morning and ,
made headway so fast that nothing
could stop it. The dryer which is
one of the largest in the country, ,
has been running at full capacity
and there were several tons of fresh
and dried fruit in the building at
the time of the fire and which were
lost. About $5,000 insurance was ;
carried. The Kurtz company, own
er of the plant, is associated with
others in the ownership and man
agement of the Monmouth orchards ;
south of this city.
According to the Itemizer the to-1
tal loss In the burning of the Evan
Evans prune dryer is $20,000. The
dryer itself cost $12,000. It had
twentyjtunnels, four furnaces and a
daily capacity of 1300 bushels of
prunes. $8,000 insurance was car
ried onjthe building but none on his
prunes of, which 500 bushels were
lost belonging to Evans and his son- '
in-law, Geo. Kurre. 6,000 bushels
of prunes were lost in the fire the
remainder the property of E. C.
Kirkpatrick, H. L. Fenton, Robert
Kreason, W. H. Marsh and others.
At the alarm of fire the Dallas de- '
partment responded but could do
nothing as there waa no water
available. The advantage of locat
ing dryers close to abundant water
supply is obvious.
Reward for the Faithful '"
At the regular Odd Fellows meet
ing Monday night Claud Boothby
was chosen degree work captain and
the business of manufacturing Odd
Fellows for the coming session will
be inaugurated with neatness and
dispatch. A candidate for the in
itiatory will .be received Monday
night and another will follow on
the succeeding week. An interest
ing event of last Monday night's
meeting was the recognition of long
and faithful service by Paul Tach
eron, secretary of Normal lodge, by
increasing his monthly salary from
$2 to $4. Mr. lacheron is recog
nized at headquarters as one of the
live secretaries of the state.
Prunes About Picked
With only a few days more work, 1
the prunes for the season of 1920
will be in the dryer and ready for
packing. A considerable portion of
the crop has been lost the amount
stated from a fourth.to a'.half accor
ding to the optimism of the owner.
The price for picking was first ,
agreed on by the association at 5
cents per box but later because of
the spoiled prunes to be handled
the price paid was raised to 71
cents.
A committeVof the Minnesota legis
lature, composed of W. L Nolan and
W. I. Norton, representatives of Min
neapolis, and J. T. Mcintosh and John
I. Levin, senators of St. Paul, were in
Salem last week conferring with mem
bers of the Oregon Industrial Accident
commission with relation to the opera
tion of the Workmen's Compensation
act, now In effect In this state. 4
That the taxpayer! of Oregon next
year will be confronted with a tax
levy far In excess of any in the history
of the state unless the legislature
curbs the demand for appropriations
was the opinion expressed by state of
ficials who havp received Intimations
of what may be expected. Besides a
threatened increase of 16 per cent In
the cost of conducting the Btate Insti
tutions tor the blennlum starting Jan
uary 1. 1921, which will add approxi
mately $248,000 to the appropriations
authorised at the beginning of the
present blennlum, several of the state
departments now report funds about
exhausted and probably will look to
the state emergency board for finan
cial relief. ,