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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1921)
T h e H erald Ira C. Powell J. B. V, B utler P re sid e n t E n te re d as seco n d -class m a tte r S ep tem b er# . 1908, n th e p o et office a t M onm outh, O reg o n , u n d e r th e A ct of M arch 3. 1879. F. E. C ham bers V ice P re iid e n t C ashier R IC H A R D B, SW E N SO N E ditor & Publish«! First National Bank MONMOUTH, OREGON MONMOUTH, OREGON FRIDAY, JAN. 28. 1921 ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY S u b sc rip tio n One year • Six months - Three months - R a te s * - - $2,00 $1.00 75 cts Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Paid C ap ital.._____ $30,000.00 Surplus Fund ___ 1 10,000.00 Undivided P ro fits.--...15,000.00 non - Monmouth Meditations 30C Y ou r B a n k in g B u s in e s s m a y b e e n tr u s te d w ith c o n f id e n c e to us I About th a t c a r e fu l an d e f f ic ie n t s e r v ic e w ill be r e n d e r e d . Directors J. B. V. Butler, Chairman Wm. Riddell Robert Steele I. M. Simpson Ira C. Powell For any thing you want or don't want try our bargain column. It will buy or sell for you. “ Home” Motives and A Few Incidentals “ Back of the Recall—W hat?” asked the Independence Enterprise last week in 12 point type and pro ceeded to bewail the sorry spectacle of the Herald’s sordid selfishness in wishing for Polk county a better name abroad in the state than it has at present. We admit the selfishness in this regard. We have a high opinion of Polk [county and its possibilities and are just selfish enough to wish to see it where it belongs—in the forefront of the galaxy of splendid counties that border the Willamette. would more than offset the grading of the two hills south of Monmouth. As to the motive back of the re- j call—selfishness- as charged by the f Enterprise man with some flippancy aim considerable ambiguity, we are all in a sense selfish. It is self-; ish to seek to five, to cultivate the regard of friends, to have rights and t) seek to maintain them. We admit selfishness in believing that Monmouth has certain rights and in seeking to maintain them. For School Books and Supplies GO TO At the time of the highway con vention in Dallas in 1919 certain projects were set aside for improve ment, embracing the main traveled Monmouth's largest and most complete Confectionery and Book Store roads of the county. Project one specifically named the road south- of Monmouth as a part of it, by [ way of the Helmick bridge and .«..I. » .!.-« T I. T T. T _ T t_ . T 1___ L J .J - A J . J «-J-.t. rT T T T T T TTT1TTT TTTTTTTT7 skirting the V> heeler hill. It was provided the bond money could not be spent on any but the projects specified. When the official notice was issued the other projects were with many years experience named as adopted, but project one was not described as adopted by £ Repair w o rk prom ptly and n e a tly d one the convention. Its description was so worded us to be applicable to a i See me.in Boulden building next door to Herald shop ! I number of routes. This made our 1 +++++■#•+++++++♦+++■*■♦++++++♦++++++ - v»«.« F > ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ >♦♦ ♦ ! road south the only main traveled it« « » * * * * * * * « # « * # * « « * « * * « « . •* * « * •* * •* * * # « « * « # « * « * •* « * road in the county not specifically provided for. Rightly or wrongly, we blame Judge Robinson for this £ ^ On C ity or Farm Insurance on three or five year omission. To the best of our Jj policies, w e lake notes payable in yearly installments. knowledge he has not denied re * Bonds of all sorts sold. sponsibility. MORLAN t j F . W . LEO N AR D l B o o t and S h o e M aker IN SU R A N C E! Were it not lor this fact, what ever we might have thought of the controversy with the commission, Monmouth would have kept out of it. As it was we felt we must act to vindicate our rights. Therefore we assisted the commission in its suit as best we could and presented certain facts and papers which had a share in winning for the state. Ws. now feel that the fact of the changed description jeopardidizes our rights and as a m atter of self protection, we support the recall. Let us place your Insurance with old, reliable I companies. GEO. W . CHESEBRO Groceries & Provisions Because Judge Robinson refused to be bullied into a willful viola tion of the statutes, asserts the En terprise, referring to highway work, he is condemned by the Port land papers, etc. The judge will As to this whole controversy, w«| not work with the highway com mission because the commission make bold to express the opinion ] wishes to violate the law, etc. Next th at Independence is, with its back to the direction of progress, stand - , to the courts, the official interpret ing in its own light. It is alienat-1 ers of the laws are the state’s at ing a large section of country that torneys, headed by the attorney formerly was friendly to it. With j general. Attorney General Brown good rail an 1 water connections, j with its position as terminal of the | advised the commission that it was railroad to the Siletz basin, with complying with the law in the an agricultural country adjacent WALTER G. BROWN point where it disagreed with | unsurpassed in fertility, with the Judge Robinson. Mr. Brown has ! prestige of long establishment in since been appointed to the su trade, it is wasting its heritage be preme bench and the appointment cause it is not broadmirdel enough to live and let live. Because it can has been ratified by the voters of not have its own way in the high the state. Considering his qualifi way m atter, it ¡swilling to throw a cations as an expounder and in te r monkey wrench into the .works to preter of laws, we marvel that the the detriment of the county and W e h ave ju st bought a n e w tru ck and governor and the people of the section in which it is located. For the sake of a fancied municipal ad are able to do all k in d s of h au lin g and ■ state in selecting a supreme jus- vantage it is willing to defy the ! tier, overlooked the editor of the public spirited opinion of the peo transfering. For w ork of th is kind s e e ple of Western Oiegon. Foiled in I Enterprise. Leave o rd e rs a t G a rag e Call f'h o n e 2003 H ouse 1803 the achievement of '^reasonable de POLLAN BROS., Props. Again, the editor of the Enter mands, it maligns the highway com 4 prise asserts that as regards the mission, a group of clear minded ¿ A A A A A 4 4 A A 4 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A f c A A A A A A A A A r * * * * ^ * * * * k A 4 Ar A A 4 * routes south from Monmouth and and able gentlemen, serving the without pay and seeking to do from Independence—“ Of course state that only which is for the best good the Herald is not telling its readers of us all. that it will cost Polk county many Prating of selfishness and sordid thousand additional dollars the motives in others, it would cause Monmouth way. It is silent in this everv one who travels through the m atter and the soft pedal is used south of the county to go two Bran, Mill Run and Corn in giving its justification” . In miles out of his way for a barren P o u ltr y S u p p lie s BON E, S H E L L a n d G RIT this, the Enterprise man, of course, achievement that would earn only is talking for home consumption. the obloquy of the travelers whom Like the man who wanted to think it inconvenienced. that blue was pink and kept re We might suggest in closing, peating and reasserting the thing that if Independence is inclined to • ‘r r i » * I r I V T . • I i T * iT " l • T l i r i i l * on every occasion, he is trying to meet Monmouth ori a fair and just make himself and his readers be basis, that of the greatest good to the whole section, both cities might lieve an untrue thing by asserting begin to achieve some of the F R E SH AND CURED MEATS and reasserting its alleged truth. growth and development now being P ork S a u s a g e ; S w e e t, S o u r a n d Dill P ic k le s For if there is any Jone thing the with-held from us. F R E S H FISH ON F R ID A Y S Herald has done, it is to expose the Passed by Government Inspector December 2 falsity of the assertion above quot ed from the Enterprise. G u th rie B ldg; Former place of CityMarka* T In his testimony before Judge McCourt, Commissioner Booth told y ' E S . S I R , I T S a S P A N O O LD V./OOLU A N D I’M of the various ways in which the M I S H T V S L A D . V OU 0 E T commission had tried to make T H A T M R NOAH A N D peace in Polk county. Notwith H I S F O L K S D ID N ’T M IS S TH E: 3 0 A T standing the route was longer and would penalize the through traffic by over two miles, he said he fav ored the Independence route, if as asserted it could be built cheaper. At the time Commissioner Kiddle was appointed, the latter with Mr. Booth went over the two routes and held a meeting with the busi ness men of Independence. But E D W . J. HIMES when they came to get the engi C ivil E n gin eer and neer’s estimate on the two routes Office and residence they found the Monmouth route S urveyor Kurre Apartments was cheaper because the building Phone 4 0 3 5 5 0 L e v en a 5» D a lla s Phone I9 0 t of a necessary trestle a t the cross ing of the Luckiamute near Parker Good Goods and Fair Treatment C C. M u lk ey Fire The fin e st w ord in th e la n guage! P ity th e m an w h o is w ith o u t a h o m e. Lum ber is d o w n w h e r e it ’s ch eap er to buy and build th a n to p ay rent. B e your o w n landlord and m o v e w h e n yo u are good and ready. A sk u s for e s tim a te s . & SON & Son Insurance M o n m o u th T ransfer Highest Market Price Paid for Poultry and Veal Calves M o n m o u th L u m b e r C o. M hos. Boulden L. VV. Waller, Manager.) | M O NM O UTH M A R K E T öhcle -Jofos tfosfa J. B. H ill & S o n r M a g a z in e s, P e rio d ic a ls B o o k s, S ta tio n e r y Candy and Cigars P. H. JO H N SO N — L C. 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