The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969, February 04, 1921, Image 1

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    T he M onmouth H erald
No. 22
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, February 4, 1921
Vol. XIII
Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Nation
"MM o m H i
Made a Start
Prunes, Prunes
Bill Bumped by Bea,^0 ,-| [ ) e a t h R e lie v e s
Rumored, Reported
V
Senate Bill. No. 117, in wh»»V¿
About twenty five men and
the
teachers
of
the
state
had
a
live­
women responded to the call for a Concocted, Collected
A Week of Prunes ly interest, went down in defeat in %■ Isaac H. Fream
meeting at the “Skookum” house
last Tuesday evening and took the Thomas J. Campbell, aged 87 and The Oregon prunes will soon be the house Wednesday afternoon. Isaac H. Fream passed away Mon­
Since the power was off and no first
in organizing a club. It a resident of Oregon for more than standing in the lime light, as a Speaker Bean 'of 'Lane county took day at his home in this city after a
heat could be provided, the pupils was steps
determined
bring eatables 67 years, died at his home in Dallas movement is under way to name the the floor to defeat the bill claiming long illness For something like 27
bt the Training School were dis­ and meet in the to basement
it was the work of the “educational years he was in the employ of tbe
last Sunday as the result of a lin­ week beginning February 14 as | trust”
missed Monday for the morning room of the community house dining
Oregon. The bill which Southern Pacific railroad in this
Tues­
classes. Studies were resumed in day evening, February 15. All gering illness. Mr. Campbell was PRUNE week in Oregon, when all I aimed of untimately
require two city, a large part of the time being
one of the famous Campbell broth­
Oregonians will be asked years of training to for
the afternoon.
teachers section 'oreman. Of recent years
interested are invited to atend. ers, the oldest twins in Oregon. patriotic
patronize a home grown product. would have helped the profession
Faculty members and students are For this meeting a committee con­ The Campbell twins, with their to Down
in California, the stores in meeting the competition of in­ he experienced poor health and took
anxiously watching the progress of sisting of Messrs. Gilmore and parents, settled in Polk county in will not handle
prunes gr^wn in Or­ ferior teachers and would have re­ several vacations in the hope of im­
.* .nate bill No. 117, introduced by Moore and Mrs. Cornelius are pre­ 1853 after the party had crossed egon. They work
for California sulted in improvement in rural dis­ provement. A year ago he gave up
Senator Patterson. This bill pro­ paring a program. Another com­ the plains from Iowa by ox team. and when any one calls
for prunes, tricts especially, through the crea­ his work and after a rest of a month
vides for the training of teachers mittee consisting of Messrs. Gentle, Thomas J. Campbell is survived by the French or Petite prune
or two again took the reins but the
hand­ tion of higher standards.
and is of particular interest there­ Boothby and Pace will formulate a his twin brother, James M. Camp­ ed out. One cannot buy is Oregon
work was too much for him and last
plan for organization and present it. bell, a son and a daughter. The prunes retail in Los Angeles.
fore to Normalités.
fall he gave it up for good.
. ^The gymnasium was artistically The kitchen shower held at the brother resides in Dallas. Only Just to call the attention of the February 16, the Date
He died on his birthday, having
decorated by the Seniorslast Satur- community house last Thursday once in the 67 years that the twins good housekeepers to the value of Now that all preliminary pro­ been born in Canton, Missouri, Jan­
.day evening for the dancing party. night proved to be a deluge compar­ lived in Oregon was either one out the Italian prune as grown in Ore­ ceedings ha\e been complied with, uary 31, 1859. For thirty years
The colors used were the Senior able in every way to the work of side of the state.
gon, this special prune week will be the county clerk has named the past he has been a resident >f Mon­
purple and gold which lend them­ art which nature is putting on at The Lincoln birthday dinner will put on beginning Monday, Febru­ 16th of February as the date for mouth. He is survived by a widow,
the recall election on the office ef whom, as Miss Sadie Nunn he
selves well to decoration. The par­ present. Over one hundred plates be at the G. A. R. hall in Indepen­ ary 14.
ty was, all in all, a great success. were received and atout everythirg dence at noon, February 12. All From a standpoint of food value, County Judge. J. H. Ulrich, tie married in Maywood, Missouri, in
candidate, was a visitor in 1883; and a son and two daughters,
Miss Mabel West spent Friday needed for the kitchen and dinirg civil war veterans and their famil­ the Oregon prunes rank high with recall
this
city
Tuesday evening in the C. R. Fream of Roseburg, Mrs.
and Saturday in Portland, visited room was received, including mon­ ies, sons and daughters of veterans, 19 per cent sugar and 22 per cent course of putting
'cam­ Susie Lewis of Dallas and Mrs.
the school section of the Public Li­ ey with which anything overlooked are invited to come and take part other carbohydrates. Only 28 per paign under way. his He active
plar.s
to Ruby Baker of Willamette; also a
cent
isn.oisture.
The
analysis
shows
brary and attended the Russian Pal­ might be purchased. The commit­ and make this day one to -be long
visit
the
several
sections
of
the
sister, Mrs. J. B. Nunn of Dallas.
that
from
a
food
standpoint,
the
tee takes this occasion to thank the remembered by all present. After
let Friday evening.
county.
He
makes
a
good
impres­
Oregon
prune
has
exceptional
food
After funeral services held yes­
donors
for
their
generosity.
the dinner there will be music and value. At the present prices it is sion where he appears and ¡snak­ terday
The officers of the Student Body
afternoon at the Baptist
a program.
for the remaidner of the year were
ing new friends in the county rap­ church with Rev. E. B. Pace offici­
Died
in
California
one
of
the
most
economical
foods
The
regular
meeting
of
W.
R.
C.
duly installed last Monday morning Margaret Jean, the small daugh­
idly.
ating, his remains wore sent to
will be at their hall in Indep?ndence on the market today.
at chapel hour by Mr. Butler.
and Mrs. J. A. Riddell February 5. All members of the The head and hide of a mule deer It is Councilman Parker Portland for cremation.
Miss Syp gave an instructive dis­ is ter to of be Mr.
buried
morning at 10- Post and Corps are urged to be buck killed out of season and confis­
C. E. Wilson, who for two or
cussion of the work of the commer­ 30 o’clock from this
Dy District Game Warden Hous­ The common council at its ses­ three years past has been in the em-
the
Baptist
present at 2:30. Business of im­ cated
cial department—the new depart­ News of the^little girl’s death church.
brought $119 when auctioned off sion Tuesday n!ght accpted the re­ ply of J. E. Winegar at 'the Mon-
portance will come before this meet­ ton
ment of the Normal this year—last with startling suddenness in a came
at
Bend.
The meat already had been signation of M. J. Butler as council­
tele­ ing.
Wednesday morning as her chapel gram recevied here last Saturday
sold for $45. The entire amount goes man and as his successor named H. mout hardware, has accepted a job
in McMin.iville and with his family
Bend chapter of the Red Cross
talk.
Local employes of the S. P. have to for the
H.
Parker.^Mr.
Parker
received
a
morning.
charitable
work.
moved
to that city Tuesday. As
The cantata, “The Highwayman,” The Riddell’s were at Burbank, been notified that they have their The nucleus for a herd of full-blood­ number of votes at the^iast election. Mrs,Wilson
has been operating die
to be presented by the Glee Club California, when the little girl was share in the woik of readjustment ed Shorthorn cattle was received in He is one of the more recent acqui­ hctel for some
their go­
will be given Monday, February 7, taken with flu which later developed and reconstruction now going on in The Dalles last week by H. R. Rich­ sitions to the city but has made ing also leaves time a past
vacancy
there
ards,
a
prominent
rancher
living
east
this
_
country.
Section
"men
have
at 8:15 in the chapel. At chapel into spinal meningitis. On receipt
manyjfriends
and
will
make
a
good
which
is
being
filled
by
Mrc.
F.
of
the
city,
when
six
heifers
and
a
hour, 9:30 a. m., on that day Miss of the telegram Wm. Riddell, Sr. had notice of reduction in wages registered bull arrived from Prinevllle. official.
Hinkle.
Schuette will give a talk on “The started for California but was pass­ iron.*48 cents per hour to 30 [cents The shorthorn bull is said to be val­
The seriousness of the coyote men­ The Normal basket ball team will
Highwayman” , the origin, setting, ed enroute by the funeral party per hour, which makes a total of ued at more than $t000.
In the Callapopla valley and Sweet play the North Pacific Dental |Co’i-
etc. The townspeople are invited coming north. Funeral services $1.44 per day reduction. Some talk To cope with existing climatic con­ ace
Home
districts is shown by the fact lege team in the Normal gymnasi­
ditions
in
central
and
southeastern
strike
but
there
is
a
well
defined
to this chapel exercise as the ex­ were postponed for his benefit.
of
the
agitation *ln favor of a coyote um Saturday night, February 5.
Oregon,
the
experts
will
endeavor
to
opinim
that
striking
had
better
be
planation will greatly aid in under­ Mr. and Mrs. Riddell have the
club
which
will pay bounties of $100
develop
an
early
heading
spring
wheat,
standing and appreciating the can - sympathy of all in their affliction. delegated to summer months when a late heading winter wheat, and a for grown animals and $20 for pups. This, the first outside team to visit
tata. Mrs. Rychard will read the The little girl was four years old there is plenty of other^work to be wilt-resisting potato, George R. Hys- Unless Asa B. Robinson resigns as the Normal this winter, is a strong
found.
iop, of the Oregon Agricultural col­ county Judge there will be a recall one and a good game can be looked
poem on the evening of the per­ last August.
election in Polk county next month. for. Admission 10 and 25 cents.
faculty, declared at Bend.
formance.
Negotiations for the transfer of lege Prize-fighting
Clerk Moore has held that petl
as
carried
on
in
Port­
baby girl was born Sunday to
Strange Coincidence the Parrish-Strong-Riggs-Nocker land and Mliwaukle does not meet the County
The society program given by the
tions filed with him are sufficient and Dr. A and
W^s. Hanson of Indepen­
property
to
the
Odd
Fellows
are
that
the
election
will
be
called
within
approval
of
the
clergy
of
the
Episcopal
Mrs.
Herman
Wunder
got
word
Vespertines was presented on Thurs­
dence.
in the state. They celebrated tbe 20 days specified by law.
day instead of Friday evening of last fall of the location of a sister being completed this week and the church
the appearance of Jack Dempsey, the Jack McKeown, 27, a truck driver Mr. and Mrs. Bullock and daugh­
thi s week, because of the excur­ in Benton City, Wash., of whom trustees of the lodge are actively heavyweight
of the world, at employed by the state highway com
sion to Salem. The central idea she had not heard before in twenty busying themselves with future Mllwaukle by champion
voicing
strenuous ob­ mission, was fatally Injured; D. H. ter are again reneweing acquaintan­
of the program was Lincoln’s birth­ years. She went to visit the sister plans. The local lodge gave the jections against professional fighting. Dickerson, a workman, suffered a ces with Monmouth friends having
day and the performance reflected about Christmas time. Two days initiatory to three new membeis The state board of health, by a vote broken collarbone, and four other men resumed their Old positions in the
4 to 2, elected Dr. F. B. Strieker of were slightly Injured In an accident dormitory. Since leaving here li st
after her return home she received Monday night, Glen Whiteaker, Jce of Grants
credit.on the society giving it.
Pass as secretary of the state on the highway four miles east of summer they have lived in Salem
word of her sister’s death. Again Suver and Joe Staats.
of health. This office carries Pendleton.
The try-out to select the orator she went to Benton Ciiy to attend Mr. Paul Brown of California, a board
salary of $4000. Dr. Strieker has Authorization has been granted by and Eugene.
to repreesent the Normal in the the funeral. During the funeral known throughout the United States passed
last two months in Arizona the Interstate commerce commission
Christian Church Notes
State Oratorical Contest will be sermon the pastor in charge related as a Christian Endeavor leader, is but has the agreed
to return to Oregon
the United Railways to abandon 18 Sunday
morning sermon subject:
held at chapel hour Monday morn­ a boyhood incident that caused Mrs. to be in Monmouth February 9 and immediately to assume the duties of to miles
of track between Llnnton and
"A
Standard
for the True Measure
10.
_He
will
speak
at
the
Christian
bis
new
position.
ing, February 7. The public is in­ Wunder to recognize him as a
Wllkcsboro, at the same time authoriz­
Church
at
7:30
Wednesday
evening,
Organization
of
wool
growers
in
of
Christian
Attainment.”
ing
tile
arqulsitlo.i
of
the
trackage
by
vited to hear the speakers.
cousin. After the tuneral she made February 9, and at the Normal western Oregon is now to be under­ the Portland. Astoria A Pacific Rail­ Evening subject: "How Much
known to him. Tht minis- Chapel the following Thursday taken in fourteen districts that Include road company.
The excursion to Salem to visit herself
Faith Does it Take to Save from
ster,
Rev.
was astonished morning. This is the first time a the seventeen counties west of the Cas­ The district engineer at Portland Sin?”
the legislature and actually to see to learn that Rhodes,
Illustrated by the Story of
National
Christian
Endeavor
man
cade mountains, as the result of plans has recommended to the board of army
he
had
just
preached
laws in the making, will take place, the funeral sermon of his cousin. has been secured to speak in this formulated by the subcommittee ap­ engineers for rivers and harbors that Naaman the Leper.
Friday, February 4. The trip will Just another reminder that the city and a large attendance is ex­ pointed by representatives who met at plans be prepared for a detailed proj­ Bible School at 10 a. m. Some­
pected on each occasion.
Albany last week to discuss a pool. ect for the Improvement of Coos Bay thing extra at every service. The
be made in automobiles.
world is a small place after all.
Members of the subcommittee are J and harbor and Isthmus slough, ac­ contest begins Sunday mornirg
B. Cornett, of Shedd; W. C. Obermyei, cording to advices received by Repre­
Miss Taylor, Miss Smith and Miss
High
School
Notes
between the men and women and
Mingus attended the Pavlowa per­ Prune Center Camp of Dallas Monmouth High School won its of burg. Albany, and F. W. Herron, of Rose- sentative Hawley.
boys and girls, and ends Easter
formance in Portland last Friday j will hold an open meeting in behalf first basket ball game Saturday Portland exported a greater amount
Sunday. C. E. both Junior and
of the Modern Woodmen in the evening when it triumphed over of freight In 1920 than Ban Francisco,
evening.
Senior,
at 6.30. Next week prayer
Baptist
Church
Notes
! Odd Fellow’s hall Saturday night
Elkins High School quintet on according to a report received by the All the regular services at the meeting Wednesday eve at 7:30.
A picture show, “The Mark of | of this week. The Woodmen are the
chamber of rommerce from
the Independence Armory floor by a J Portland
Zorro” , will be given in the chapel the largest fraternal insurance score
W.
Chrlchton.
district agent of th> usual hours Sunday morning and
17. It was a fast United States shipping
board The evening. Timely messages by the Evangelical Church Note*
Friday evening, February 4, at organization in the world and all game of but 23 the* to final
outcome
was
at
report
shows
that
there
weie
194 sail Pastor or some visitor at each Sunday, February 6. At 11
8:15. The background of the story | interested are invited to turn out to no time in doubt. The Elkins team ings from ’San Francisco, v hlrh
ca- church service.
o’clock the Pastor will talk on "The
is centered around early Southern the meeting.
ried e total tonnage of 570,385, as Miss F. White of Chicago, candi­ Hope of Glory.” Text, Col. 1 ;27.
was
outplayed
from
the
time
the
Califorian of nearly a century ago
131 sailings from Portland
began until the final whistle against
when its destinies were zealous'y Notwithstanding Monmouth this game
with
a
total
tonnage of 612,674. Ac­ date secretary for the Women’s In this sermon we will 'endeavor to
The victory is a great one cording to these
figures Portlsnd’s ex Foreign Mission Society expects to show what is the glory which every
guarded by Spanish settlers. Ev­ year has a special school tax of 1.3.1 blew.
when
it
is
considered
that
the
Mon­
ports
exceeded
those
of San Francisco be in Monmouth Sunday and would Chrsistian, even the humblest, may
ery detail of setting and acting mills and a special city tax of 10 mouth team was entirely without by 42,189 tons.
like to meet all young ladies inter­ hope to win. And the second
has been given the greatest care in \ mills it has the lowest tax levy of practice.
W. L. Robb of Portland, presidential ested in missionary or other church thought will be, on what conditions.
presentation, thus creating an ar­ j any city in the county this year,
elector, who was delegated to carry
tistic whole that is distinctly supe- 161.3 mills. Dallas is next with Monmouth has been handicapped the official electoral vote back to work, at 2:00 p. m., in the Com­ At 7:30. The theme will be. That
through lack of a gymnasium for Washington, D. C., left last week In munity House parlor for an inform­ Jesus Christ is on our hands to le
.rior.
j 62.6 mills; Falls City, 66.3 mills,
games. The Star theater build­ spite of the ruling of Vice President al conference.
disposed of just as truly as he wrs
| Independence, 67.2 mills; W’est its
Marshall
that
the
vote
that
had
pre­
ing
has
been
fitted
up
and
while
too
on the hands of Pilate when le
Pastor
E.
B.
Pace
will
begin
his
A quiet little marriage attended Salem, 69.9 mills.
viously
been
mailed
would
be
suffi­
|
small
a
floor
space
for
games
has
asked? “ What shall I do then with
fourth
year
as
local
pastor
Sunday,
only by a few intimate friends, oc­
cient. Robb should have been In and will commemorate the occasion Jesus?”
Mat. 27:22. In the intro
curred at the Evangelical Parson­ R. H. Smith who was down from j been used lately for practice.
Washington by midnight Monday, but
age. January 29, 1921, P. Conklin, the Mistletoe district Friday re- A practice game was played because he had been Improperly ad by some expression of appreciation duction of this talk we will show
officiating. The contracting parties porti he has taken from his incu­ Wednesday with Independence and vised concerning the law. thought he for the kindly treatment received that public opinion is oftener wrong
not need to reach the capita! be­ during the brief term served and than right.
were Reuben A. Hastings, of Pedee bators the first hatching'of chickens 1 another Thursday evening with the did
fore
9. Several state mes­ something of what he hopes to see Sunday School at 10.
Oregon, and Mrs. Mary C. Lee. of and was rewarded with a 95 per j Normal team, this being about the sengers February
failed to show up on time, accomplished
in the remaining thir­ Endeavor at 6:45.
Portland, Oregon. After the cere­ cent hatch, which for an incubator, I only way that real practice can be witb the result that tbe senate adopt­
mony the happy couple motored to is an unusually good record and obtained. The High School hopes ed a resolution relieving them from ty years that he hopes he will have Prayer Service, Wednesday, 7:30
their home near Pedee. Bon voy­ speaks well for the vitality of the to put Monmouth back on the mai payment of a $1000 fine, 'equlred un the joy of serving with the good p. m.
der the law.
Ladies Aid, Thursday p. m
people of Monmouth.
as a basket bail town.
Standard Poultry yard hens.
age over the sea of life.
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