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and
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SALEM, OREGON
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Set it to work for you. Give it the task
of multiplying itself. In doing so it will
perform its part in the world affairs.
Everyman's money should be making use
of this opportunity. Farmers, forinstance,
can nor only feed the world; through
businesslike handling of their farms
and businesslike handling of their in
comes they can help to develop the world
. Thrift Is Patriotism
Saving is a form of serving. It it one of the biggest
forms of national service service to your country.
Our first president said, "Economy makes happy
homes and sound nations."
The way to start right is
to start right now I Saving
is as much a habit is
spending or puttingthings
off. Once formed, it is
easy to continue. But un
like other habits, it is a
good habit'
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RICHARD B, SWENSON
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MONMOUTH, OREGON
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With fair weather, Morinuuth will
be host to one of the largest crowds
in its history Sunday afternoon
No, we did not notice that any
item of the biff program of work
which the highway commission
plansjfor next year, refers to Polk
county.
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want try our bargain column. It will buy or sell for you,
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'Bedroom
Furniture
No house furnishings deserve more of
your thoughtful attention than the bed In
which you rest after each day's crowded
hours of work And the dressers and chif-
foniers also outstanding features of the
bed room present many opportunities for
showing the good taste of the home owner.
For the kind you wish come here. Our line Is
Rich in Style
We have a large assortment of all bed
room furniture in the modern styles and
finishes. There is no lack of attention either
to the details so often neglected that make
for comfort and convenience.- Prices, as
usual, make these offerings unusual in value.
Good Furniture Is Our Pledge to' You
MONMOUTH HARDWARE
:, J. E. Winegar, Proprietor
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year
With the state fair this week
and the county fair next week
the mammoth pig and the blue
blooded pumpkin once more arouse
the admiration of enthusiasts,
From the exhibits it is hard to be'
lieve that it was once said the Wil
lamette valley was no pig country,
That theory was disproved just as
the theory that it is no corn country
is being disproved.
Theodore Roosevelt once predict'
el that Alaska would within a cen
tury, support as large a population
as the entire Scandinavian pen
insula, that with its enormous re'
sources of mineral and great fish
eries it would produce a nee as
hardy and vigorous as any part of
An erica. It is equally reasonable
to believe that the entire rorthwest
has but scratched the possibilities of
future development and will mul
tiply at no distant date its popuU'
tion and business importance.
A Seattle publication comes to us
this week with propaganda favoring
the Japanese side of the controversy
which is one of the big questions of
t'w coast. The question is dealt
with from the standpoint of the
employer to whom the opportunity
of securing Japanese workers
doubtless attractive. The other
side of the question of course comes
from labor which the Japs supply
and from communities where the
question of Japanese predominance
among the citizens is aa real as
negro domination in the south
metime this question will have to
be faced in this countrv and both
Jes mutt have a chance to be
heard.
As the fast month of the campaign
draws near Candidate Cox is cor
fronted with a most perplexing
problem. As the theories of Presi-
ent Wilson trj at stake the latter
i anxious to see his party win, He
is planning now to take an active
nterest and boost the party ticket.
At the same time. Cox. rmvlno-
erged from the west, might be
expected to appeal to the large cities
the east by leaning a little heav.
on the wet issue. The question
will not one of these moves off
the other? Will not the appeal
Wilson for his league offend
those of the wets who are Irish and
German? Will not anv Wnino- hv
a "j
to the wets offend Wilson's
league friends, to many of whom Jt
akin to a moral issue?
The smash in prices last week led
the Ford Company and two
Chicago mail order houses developed
some momentum' although not
enough to achieve radical results in
way of lowering the cost of liv-
Business at present is too
highly organized to allow any great
amount of price reduction atone
although the trend is evident
the signs indicate that steadily
lowering prices will continue for
some time to come, We hear it
asserted that wages must stay as I
by
the'
ing.
time
and
they are but fail to see how there
can be much of i reduction In pric
es until wages ire reduced. People
talk about the high coat of living as'
fioiigh the items of cost were mat
ters that affect other people exclu
sively. But the truth is every
body Is Implicated; all to a gieat or
less degree share In its advantages
and are responsible for its extor
tions. But the laborer, instead of
being the least, shares greatest re
sponsibility for high costs. Labor is
the one big factor in the high priie
of everything we buy. Therefore
it ill becomes labor to seek to re-
ducte the price of agricultural
products for wealth is obtained from
the land and if the farmer can not
make money enough to buy the high
priced products of labor there will
soon be an end of big wages every
where, A writer in the Youth's Compan
ion callsattention to the difficulties
of grammar as a study, He says
that our grammar as constituting a
branch of instruction in schools, is
an adaption of the Latin system
which, while it serves admirably for
that language, is faulty and awk
ward when it conies to classifying
the elements of English. In other
words the result is similur to what
would happen if a surgeon skilled
in separating and arranging the
organs of the human body should
insist on the same classification for
whales. Whereas the Latin lan
guage waa built like a machine,
with modifications and additions as
they became necessary or desirable
the English language was formed as
the hills grow at the terminals of
glaciers taking the material as it is
shoved onto them with little choice
as to its character and uua itv.
To classify such a mass under the
divisions invented by the Latins at
once confronta many obstacles. As
technical branch of Instruction it
presents the difficulties inherent in
any inexact science; its standards are
constantly changing. The termin
ology of grammar differs radically
from year to year just as do the
ityles of clothing or of architecture
and a knowledge perfected now with
patience and labor may in a few
short years become obsolete when
some bright mind with new or orig
inal ideas rises to make a new plan
for analyzing the structure of our
mother tongue. We have one rock
of refuge, however from which it is
hard to dislodge us; this teing the
classics of the language as they have
come down to us through the past.
The man who is reasonably well
familiar with the language of
Shakespeare or Oliver Goldsmith or
Washington Irving as a background
for modern reading need not be
alarmed at the move advocated in
some quarters to do away with the
study of grammar entirely.
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On City or Farm Insurance on three or five year
policies, we take notes payable in yearly installments.
Bonds of all sorts sold.
Let us place your Insurance with old, reliable
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Groceries & Provisions
Good Goods and Fair Treatment
C. C. Mulkey & Son
In the name of clean sport base
ball enthusiasts must insist that
the players convicted of purposely
aiding to lore games for the sake of
gamblers should be hunted out and
banished from the ranks of their
associates. Attention at present is
focused on the Chicago American
league tea n where a number of
players have been charged with and
have admitted guilt In this dishonor
able practice. Charges and BUS'
picion of the sort have been made in
big league circles previous'y but
this is the first time that proof has
accompanied the accusation. May
we not suspect that this is only an
other of the instances where war
and its accompaniments have loos
ened from their moorings the moral
character of men and caused them to
do things they normally would not
have done? Previous to the war we
are told that messengers employed
by the banks of New York were in
variably honest and the loss of val
uables entrusted to them never oc
curred whereas within the past few
years, thousands, even millions of
dollars have been lost through con-
pfracies and sudden lapses in fidel
ity attending these bank messen
gers, it s in the air.
Fire Insurance
WALTER G. BROWN
Monmouth Transfer
We have Just bought a new truck and J
are able to do all kinds of hauling and
transfering. For work of this kind see
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Time from Monmouth to Salem, 1 hour. We make direct connection In
Salem with buses for Portland, Silverton and Mill City and Stayton, We
connect also with trains at Oregon Electric and Southern Pacific depots.
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For Sale
Six room house, toilet and bath
barn 6 lots, 2 J blocks to Norma
school, located on Monmouth Ave.
10 ares of land, all in cultiva
tion, good house and barn, mile
to city limits, an ideal home" Price
right.
7 room house. Plastered, city
water and lights. 2 lots. Located
on East street, for $1200. Terms.
4 Room house, 2 blocks to Nor
mal. Price $600, terms.
For Sale or Trade for Monmouth
property 5 room house, modern
conveniences. Lot 50x169 feet, on
South Commercial Btreet, Salem,
Oregon.
G. T. Boothby.
The Monmouth Cooperative Ship
ping Association will save farmer's
money in the sale of livestock, Ship
with us and cut out middleman's
profit. II you have stock to ship
notify W. J. Stockholm, Mgr. tf
Houses and Lots
Houses with one acre. House '
with larger tracts. Very reasonable
in price. See Moran.
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by having us put in your home one
of the new style handsome bath
tubs. To bathe in one Is a delight
ful luxury, You will realize that
you never before knew all the pleas
ure oi me path. Or come and
talk it over. We will convin vn.i
that at our moderate rates, the
installment of the tub will hp
good investment from several an
gles of view.
RICH & ELLIS
Dallas s Ore.
512 MAIN St. PHONE 452