The Monmouth herald., February 18, 1921, Image 1

Vol. XIII
No. 24
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, February 18, 1921
Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley, of the Best State in the Nation
Recall Becomes
Organize for Better | Mrs L c piske
Items of Interest
Would Make Us
The Regulation of
A Ratification
The Ultimate Price
At Oregon Normal
Better Acquainted
Fire Procection,
Buried Thursday
The choral work chosen for the
The first meeting of the Mon­
annual concert of the Oregon Nor­ mouth Community club met in the
mal School m"sic forces was one of Community House last Tuesday
the most ambitious ever attempted evening and all sat down to dinner
here.
Deems Taylor’s cantata together. Enough
people were
“ The Highwayman” was the offer­ present to fill the dining hall.
ing this season. It is an interesting Later in the evening a program
fact that the young American com­ was enjoyed upstairs. Articles of
poser wrote this especially for the organization were discussed and
fifth festival of the MacDowell Me­ adopted and under the direction of
morial Association held at Peter- L P. Gilmore a varied program
boro, New Hampshire in August, was presented, which included musi­
1914. Miss Schueite, the head of cal selections by Helen Cornelius, a
the Music Department had, for its quartet of young men, and a
intelligent appreciation, a lecture- "jazz” address by Prof. Gentle in
recital in the Monday morning which he dwelt on the advantages of
chapel period.
With the admir­ getting acquainted with one an­
able support of John Claire Mon- other.
teith, dramatic baritone of Port
land, and Mrs. Rychard, the reader
Mrs. M. E. Mack, mother of the
of Alfred Noyes’ poem, the Oregon
late
W. H. Mack, died at the home
Normal Glee Club gave an unusual­
of
her
daughter, Mrs. Fay Brown
ly satisfactory interpretation of the
of
Salt
Creek,
last Friday night.
cantata.
She was 82 years of age and was
The Misses Wilson, Berg, Lan- born in New York state and came
don, MacDonald, Madsen and Spitz- to Oregon 27 yeaps ago. She was
bert sang pleasingly the three part buried in the Brown cemetery at
song “ Dreamy Town” by Clifford Salt Creek Sunday. Rev. A. Es-
Chambers.
son, who baptised Mrs Mack 22
Mr. Monteith himself sang a years ago, preached the funeral
well balanced program in addition sermon.
In addition to Mrs.
to the solo work in "The Highway­ Brown she is survived by three other
man” . He is a favorite with Mon­ daughters: Mrs. Maud Terry of Mc­
mouth audiences and the rich, Minnville; Mrs. Ada Sumpter of
smooth beauty of his tones and his Dallas and Mrs. Celinda Mack of
charming delivery during the even­ Minnesota.
ing brought him much applause.
His accompanist was Miss Ida May at the chapel hour on Wednesday.
She spoke on cultural reading, call­
QdPke.
The school orchestra played as if ing attention to many recent books
inspired and have never this year on various subjects, books which ev­
showed to better advantage. Miss ery well informed reader should
Zelma Sauvain, Cecil Hughes, Ger­ know and enjoy.
trude Rogers, Helen Cornelius,
The Normal men’s basketball
Mary Cole, Mildred Scott, Dorothy team played Philomath at Philomath
Clarke, Mr. and Mrs. Lee and Don­ last Saturday evening. The game
ald Skeen were chosen to give the must have been an exciting one as
orchestral numbers. Very commen­ the score was 28 to 33 in favor of
dable was the work of the school Philomath. The Norrnalites are
accompanist, Edith Driver. Her good losers, however, and promise
finished playing added much to the to reverse the score when a return
success of the concert.
game is played in Monmouth.
The Normal was pleased to enter­
A motion picture showing “ How
tain on last Friday afternoon
Magazines and Books Are Made
evening Mrs. Bean, Mrs. Carter, was shown at th«* chapel hour Mon­
Mrs. Gallagher, Mrs. Mosier, and day to the children from the Train­
little Louis Bean. These ladies are ing School as well as the Normal
wives of members of the legislature students. This film was used to il­
lustrate some work being done in
now In session in Salem.
Mr. Albert Loughridge of Salem the classes in Library Methods and
will speak at the chapel hour Fri­ some model lessons on the use of
day morning, February 18. Mr. the library being worked out in the
Loughridge is a distinguished veter­ Training School. The picture was
an of the Civil War.; a man who secrued from the free collection of
was identified for many years with films loaned by the University of
the educational history of Iowa, be­ Oregon.
Reconstruction problems, the
task of adjusting individual needs
to fit the recurring fluctuations of
modern market conditions, especial­
ly as applied to farm products, was
the topic of dicussion at the grange
meeting last Saturday afternoon.
Tin.- program was mostly impromptu
and beginning with complaints
gruwing out of abrupt price
changes and alleged manipulation
of markets, developed into an ex­
position of the means by which
modern organization meets these
questions. Mr. Keeney, who hand­
les the topic of poultry for the Farm
Bureau, explained how storage of
eggs both commercially and in a
domestic way would help tide over
a period of low prices.
W. J. Stockholm and Wm, Rid­
dell, J r. explained that the prune
situation was due to market condi­
tions that caused the price to be too
high to the consumer and as with
wool and’other products, the farm­
er must plan to organize along lines
laid down by the farm bureau which
would enable the producer to hav«
a voice in the handling of his pro­
duct until it reached the final mar­
ket.
A number of important steps in
the organization of a fire depart­
ment for Monmouth were taken at a
meeting of young men held in the
City hall Wednesday night. A. L.
Miller was chosen fire chief, W. R.
Graham, assistant chief, Howard
Morlan and J . B. V. Butler, J r.,
hose captains and C. E. Chambers,
ladder captain. I.ater the officers
organized by electing Howard Mor­
lan, president and C. E. ChamDera,
secretary. As an aid to effective­
ness in summoning aid for a . fire
the city was divided into five dis­
tr ic ts , numbered consecutively be­
ginning with one; the number of
taps of the fire bell to indicate the
location of the district in which the
fire is located. District one com­
prise:. the business section, bound­
ed by Monmouth Ave., Jackson,
Broad and Clay streets. For the
remaining four districts the Rail­
road and Main street are the divid­
ing lines. The even numbered dis
tricts are on the north side of the
city and the odd numbers on the
south side. Number two is the
northwest quarter, three the south
west quarter, number four the
northeast quarter and number five
the southeast quarter.
Twenty one young men turned
out to the meeting and as testi­
mony of a willing spirit they volun­
teered to give two days work or its
equivalent, each, toward the build­
ing of a new city hall and fire hall
or for the repair of the old one.
Death came to the relief of Mrs.
L. C. Fiske last Monday after a lin­
gering illness that has attended her
for some years. Luella Bailey Fiske
was born in Medina county .Ohio,
December 29, 1859 and was united
in marriage to Lewis C. Fiske at
Alma, Mich., December 21, 1909.
They came to Oregon nine years
ago in the hope of improving Mrs.
Fisk’s health, an 1 hr.Vo been resi­
dents of Monmouth sinee that time.
Beside her husband, she is sur­
vived by a son by a former mar­
riage, F red.M . Taylor of Weed,
California, and a sister, Mrs. Eu­
gene Eo.jert of King’s Valley.
Funeral services were held Thurs­
day morning in the Baptist church
with Rev. E. B. Pace in charge ana
burial was in the Odd Fellows ceme­
tery in Salem.
Some Tax Talk
TLe idea that there was a general
clamor for (he recall of county
judge Robinson received a severe
jolt in the light of the re urns last
Wednesday ¡[night. It was hardly
an election that was held but rath ­
er a Robinson ratification with In­
dependence and the north end of
the county taking the leading parts.
The total returns show that in the
county Judge Robinson triumphs by
nearly a thousand votes. His total
is 2581 while the total for Mr. Ul­
rich was 1627. Here is the way
the separate parts of the county
vote^:
Independence— Robinson 682,
Ulrich 31; Dallas— Robinson 627,
Ulrich 241; Monmouth—Robins« n
73, Ulrich 364; Falls City—Robin­
son 81, Ulrich 201; West Salem—
Robinson 152, Ulrich *17; Lewis­
ville—Robinson 40, Ulrich 17;
Airlie—Robinson 59, Ulrich 81;
Buena Vista- Robinson 143, Ulrich
2; Suver—Robinson 23. Ulrich 52.
The total vote was 4203 which ia
700 short of the total vote a t the
general election.
From the returns it is evident
that the Ulrich forces were out­
played in politics of the practical
variety and also th at the gravel
scattered through the county dur­
ing the past two ‘months was judic­
iously apportioned.
To the Tax Payers of Polk County:
Since receiving the tax notice
from the Sheriff no doubt many are
wondering why their taxes are
higher than previous years. Study
the following data and you will be
apprised of the real fa«.ts per­
taining to tax increase:
A Recital
The total taxable valuation for
Polk
County for 1919 was $13,218,-
A delightful recital will be given
345 and in 1920, $13,302,760 or an
in the Normal chapel next Wednes­
increase of $84,415, an increase on
day evening, February 23, a t 8:15
McCaleb and Mason sent their
an average of $14.07 per capita, by
by Mr. Thomas Wilfred. Mr. Wil­
first batch of young chicks to Port­
taking the general tax levy for 1919
fred is a distinguished singer of old
land last Friday. There were sev­
of
21.3 mills would ihcrease the tax
songs and ballads and player of the
eral hundred of them and they were
of each tax payer less than 30 cents.
twelve string arch-lute He is $aid
sent by parcel post.
The State and County levy for
High School Note»
to be one of thé very few artists
The February Eugenies clinic of
Tbe boys’ basket ball team jour­ 1919 was 16 mills, and for 1920,
who, without assistance, can hold
the
Marion county Children’!
24.1
mills,
an
increase
of
8.1
mills
an audience for an hour and a half neyed to Fells City Friday evening
Bureau
will be held in the Salem
or
$8.10
on
every
$1,000.00
valua­
and
won
from
the
Falls
City
High
with a varied and Hematic program.
His listeners are
one minute team with a score of 21 to 23. The tion, ’this increase was caused in part Commercial club, Thursday.the 24th.
thrilled with excitement, in the boys making the trip were Clay Eg­ by the vote of the people on the All chilldren to be examined should
next made to laugh and finally sent gleston, Jack Stump, Leonard measures in the primary election in be registered previously with Mrs.
home humming a graceful minu»* Kaup, Lowell Kaup, Herbert Pow­ May of last year. At that time the R. L. Matthews, Fairview Ave„
from the strings of his priceless ell, Neal Edwards, Teddy Graham. voters of Oregon by their affirma­ Salem.
E. N. Keeney was a visitor at tLe
old lute. When he was in Europe Russell Kildee, with James P art­ tive vote for appropriations to O.
Queen Alexandra of England honor­ ridge as manager and W. J . Mulkey A. C., U. of 'O ., Oregon Normal, state legislature Wednesday
Public Schools, Soldiers, Sailors and
ed Mr. Wilfred with a command to as coach.
In the Oregon grown prune, there
play at Marlborough House and
A student body meeting was held Marines, and State Market Roads, is 40 per cent sugar, according to
King Christian of Denmark asked Tuesday afternoon to consider son e levied an additionaFtax of $6,058,- careful analysis, and 22 per cent of
him to sing at the royal castle. plan for raising money to finance 258.66 upon themselves. The State other carbohydrates. Only 28 per
Monmouth and the Normal School the deletes and other activité s. tax plus the ^6 per cent increase cent is moisture. The Oregon
are thus particularly fortunate in
For this purpose, a basket social without these measures would have prune is proved by analysis to be a
the opportunity to hear this unusu­ will be held at the High School on been approximately $3,400,000.00 most nutritious food. And a t the
al entertainer. Tickets will be on the evening of February 21. All in­ but with the increased tax it present price, it is one of the mo t
sale at Morlan’s on Monday. Ad­ terested patrons and friends are amounts to approximately $9,500,- economical.
mission 50 cents and 35 cents.
cordially invited to be present, the 000.00 of which Polk County tax
In the commercial world, prunes
ladies with well filled baskets and payers.must pay their part.
are known by the number required
Polk county School districts have to weigh one pound. Thus the size
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Boothby en­ the gentlemen with well filled purs­
voted
an increase of $17,709.86 ov­ known as 30-40 according to com­
tertained a number of relatives and es. An interesting program in keep­
er
1919.
mercial practice, will count 39 to
friends last Sunday at their country ing with the spirit of Washington's
The General Road levy of 1920 is the pound. The size known as 60-60
home north of this city, the occasion birthday will be given.
seven tenths of a mill less than in will require 69 to the pound, la
Today, Friday, our Monmouth
Next week is National Week of being the birthdays of C. H. Booth­
ing a teacher In the State Normal,
1919, but on the other hand the
and directing the first summer Song, and the Oregon Normal by, Clarence Grund. Irvin Grund, negative debating team, Eric Swen­ people of road districts 7-14 & 15 quoting prices to the eastern or
school ever held in that state. He School will endorse this nation-wide and Mrs.Bell Beckley, their birth­ son and Horace Butler will go to voted a special 'tax on themselves, foreign buyers, an equal amount cf
sizes running from 60 to 100 at*
Corvallis to debate with (hat team.
has led an active, varied life and as­ movement by singing each morning days falling on the same date.
the total amount of which is $18,- taken together and a price name«’,
The
hostess
served
a
dinner
that
Honor grades were awarded last 205.63.
suredly has a message of worth for in the chapel the good old songs
which is known aa the bulk price.
his hearers. The townspeople are which reflect the great heart of the would tempt the appetite of the Thursday to Harold Price, Elva
In 1920 all school districts not Then the eastern or foreign buyer
most
confirmed
dispeptic.
She
was
Nisson,
Minnie
Keeney
and
Bear-
invited to come to this chapel exer­ people. “ Ben Bolt” , “ Robin Ad­
having a high school had to pay a
air” , "Music intbe Air” , “ Minstrel assisted in serving by Miss Enchedie nice Stewart. These grades are high school tax of $26,352.18 or knows that with a certain bulk
cise.
price, sizes 80-40 will coat him 2 i
of
Salem
and
Miss
Morton
ot
Mon­
awarded by the combined faculty on
The new heating plant was fired Boy” , "AH Thru the N ight” ,
an increase over 1919 of $8,614.30. cents more a pound. If he wants
mouth.
The
table
decorations
were
up for the first time last week and “ How Can I Leave Thee” , are a few most beautiful and consisted of car­ grounds of scholarship, deportment
The total [tax to be collected by them in 50 pound boxes, l i cents
and attitude toward the school.
of the many songs to be enjoyed.
works very satisfactorily.
the
Sheriff’s office for 1920 is $566,- per pound is added.
nations and Oregon grapes. The
The
cast
for
the
play,
“
Green
877.63
or an increase of $43,009.40
Friday evening at seven thirty
company expressed their apprecia­
Following is the program for the
itate to purchase property at the
the Delphians will give their regu­ Stockings” , to be given by the J u ­ tion of the opportunity of being M >thers’ Club which is to meet at over last year.
market price because the assess­
niors
in
March,
has
been
selected
as
It
is
my
aim
to
attem
pt
an
equal­
lar literary program. .The enter­
present and all joined in wishing the Community House this after­
ment
roll shows it assessed at a
ization
in
assessments,
when
we
as­
follows:
the
Misses
Anna
Ulen,
El­
tainment is planned around St. Val­
many happy returns. Those present noon: Piano solo—Mrs. Eidgood;
small
per cent of the market price.
eanor
Wells,
Leone
Barger,
Ruth-
sess
this
year
as
at
present
the
entine's day as a motif. The pub­
were: Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Boothby "Value of Spiritual Training of a
I
request
every tax payer to drop
Anne
Hoffman,
Fannie
Steinberge,
property
of
the
County
is
not
equit­
lic is welcome to this program.
Mr. and Mrs. G T. Boothby, Mr. Child’’—Mrs. Pace; D u et,“ Nobody
and Messrs. Mark Conklin, Joe Sto­ and Mrs. Ed Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Knows but Mother”—Mrs. Pember ably assessed. I also contemplate me a card at once and express your
Miss Mabel West and Miss Edna ver, ^Chester L. Ward, Glen D.
raising the assessed valuation of views as to whether or not you fav­
Mingus attended the monthly lunch­ Turner, W. L. Van Loan, W. J. R. E Derby, Mrs. Bell Beckley, and Mrs. Fsson; Address by Miss all property which will not increase or the adjustm ent of our assess­
Miss Gertrude Rogers, Miss Morton Taylor; Question Box. All moth­
eon and meeting of the Association Mulkey, and A. W. Johnson.
ment valuation on property—fe-
and
Miss Enchedie and Messrs. John ers, old and young, are invited to the taxes one cent, but will benefit
of Collegiate Atumnni—an organiza­
member to raise the valuation will
us
all
as
a
whole.
At
present
we
"The Penalty” , one of the big ! Grund of Portland and Clarence and attend.
tion of which they are members—
not raise your taxes as you will
have
a
ratio
of
49
per
cent,
or
in
pictures of the year, is scheduled Irvin Grund.
in Portland on February 5;.
George Herren of Santiago, Cal­ other words property is supposed to have a greater valuation and a less
to be shown in the chapel on Satur­
The winner in the preliminary day evening, February 19.
Philomath college is to be repre­ ifornia, visited several days recent­ be assessed at 49 per rent of its millage. Do not write me about
The
contest held a t the Normal last story is one of tremendous power, sented in basket ball game with the ly with his brother, C. E. Herren cash valuation which is the lowest high taxes as 1 cannot lower them,
week was Miss Jennie Carroll, who forcefully showing how good im­ Normal boys at the Normal gym and his sister, Mrs. M A. Simpson of any county in the state. Foms but let me know your opinion on
assess as high as 97 per rent. It the increased valuation as 1 will be
spoke on “The Stranger Within Our pulses finally overcame and took the | tonight. Last Saturday night the in this city.
is unjust to us to advertise our governed by these replies.
Gates” . Mias Carroll will repre­ place of hatred and revenge. Of two teams played on the Philomath
Thanking you for your hearty co­
county
at the valuation of $13,300,-
James Hinkle is taking a vacation
sent the Normal in the State Ora­ course this 'sort of play requires floor and Philomath triumphed by
torical Contest to be held in Eugene skillful presentation and the actors a close score, but the locals do not from his duties as mail carrier on 000, when it is worth in reality 3 operation, I am Sincerely,
Fred J . Holman
early in March.
are said to be fully equal to their . plan to allow their visitors to re- the local rural route and Frank times that amount. People from
County
Assessor.
the
east
coming
here
sometimes
hes-
Skeen
is
substituting
for
him.
I peat.
Miss Wes»t gave an excellent talk task«.