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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1921)
T he M onmouth H erald Vol. XIII No. 29 M onm outh, Polk C ounty, O regon, F riday, M arch 25, 1921 Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Nation Items of Interest At Oregon Normal OFFEREO $3,000 I UH Ht.i HENNA LOCKS Superintendent Bittner of Mc Minnville and County Superintend ent Alderson of Multnomah County visited the Normal this week to se- CJre teachers for their schools for the coming year. Miss Smith gave an interesting chapel tala on Wednesday. On Friday evening, March 25, the American Legion of Independ ence will show a series of war pic ture3 in the Normal chapel. These pictures were taken by the official photographers who were with each division on the tront in the World War, and wer«-#ctually made in the midst of battles. They show the trenches, men going over the top. stretcher-bearers at their work, in short all the details of the front lines of the army. The appeal of these pictures is Tn their reality as they are truly war pictures in the actual sense of the words. The proceeds of this entertainment will go to the Legion. Grace Nicholai ol Evansville Ind. had long locks—ucautiful hair of henna shade lor which a Chicago actress offered her $3,000 What would you do? It meant a longed for college education — and anyhow— _ all the girls are now wearing bobbed hair.— Well she refused. Rumored, Reported On Thursday Miss Hales gave an Concocted, Collected excellent talk on the work done by the children in the grades in Phys T. H. Halleek was over from ical Education and had the pupils Newport for the week end to see on the platform to demonstrate his mother'who has been quite sick, what she said. but is now better. Mr. Halleek xc- Mr. H. C. Seympur,of the Coun ports a busy winter at Newport ty Club work at O. A. C., visited with many people occupying the the Normal Tuesday and addressed cottages. While they have had one the students at the chapel hour. of the warmest winters on record, Several students as well as the with nothing even resembling a elected delegates accompanied Miss freeze, it has been a stormy winter Godbold and Mjss Jennie Carroll, with one gale following another in This has the Normal orator, to Eugepe last continual succession. damaged dock and port property F rfday when the State Contest was held.' AH report an enjoyable One time the city went two days time and a very creditable represen without mail, the connecting rail tation for the Normal on Miss Car- way being obstructed by slides. The power company also found it roll’» part. hard to operate there and the ser Several out-of-town guests at vice was shut off ir. the day time tended the dancing party in the for a considerable period. gymnasium last Saturday evening. Among these were Miss Eugenia The house of Mrs. J. W. Pember McNaughten of McMinnville, Miss was broken into last Thursday night Ruth Johnson of Portland and Miss and silverware to a considerable Genevieve Howell of Astoria, all value was taken. The indications graduates of the class which finish are that the theft occurred at about ed last June. 8:^0 in the evening while Mrs. Pem Miss Alberta Green of Portland ber was absent from the tomse. It spent the week end with Miss West. is about a year ago that the, Kilen valuables were taken, with appear The June class, which numbers ances that local knowleJge of the about eighty, is ordering invitations facts contributed to the theft. this week. Mrs. Conkin reports that Mr. Amotion picture entitled ‘Officer Conklin who is undergoing treat 666” will be shown in the chap» 1 ment in Salem has improved pros Saturday evening, March 26, at p e rs for recovery. His age and 8:15. The plot of this play con cerns a young millionaire who pos the fact that his ailment is of long standing are in his favor t u t he es as a policeman in order to trap will have to take months of treat a thief in his own home. The ment and must give up active work drama from which the picture is for some time. Prof. Beattie will made was most popular on th e ! hive chart e of the services in t'-.e legitimate stage when it was played Evangelical church re<t Sunday, a few seasons past. both morning and evening. A motion picture, entitled "Jes Elmer Chapin of Parker accom Call Me Jim ” , has been secured to be shown in the chapel next Tues panied by his family, left Sturdy day evening, March 29. The lead for his home in Eastern Oregon. ing part is taken by Will Rogers Mr. Chapin is an ex-service man who who has a role well suited to his ¡saw service in France. He was personality. As Jim Fenton, the married shortly after his return simple, rugged woodsman, he is a from overseas and settled on a farm character one does not easily for- at Parker. Recently he purchased get. His bashful conquest of th e 'a farm near Prineville, in the pretty milliner, his simple code of Ochoco irirgatior. project and this s honor, his loyalty to a friend, and where he will move, above all his delightful humor are j -------------------------------- Several bushels gain in production reflected in a picture that will re main long after it has been shown. can be made by early spring plow- The Normal Chapel, Tuesday, , ing. Cultivation of early spring | plowed land improves the soil solu- March 29, at 8:15. j tion and increases the yield. Co-op- Intelligence tests have beeiv con- en tiv e moisture studies at the More ducted recently in Ballston, Perry- j branch experiment station have dale, a rural school pea*- Hood riv - ' proved this to be a fact. er, Silverton high school, a few ------------ ------------- classes in Salem high school and the Mrs. J. C. Rounds has been en- honor of the four highest grades joying a visit for a fev/ days from still remains with the Monmouth their daughter, Mrs. B. A John- higFTschool. Only one perfect was ston of Corvallis. She returned found, a local Sophomore. . home Tuesday afternoon. Fruit Flourishes Harmony Pervades His in Polk County Highway Matters w e a t h e r gue ^T o rpat SrlFNCE J County Odd Fellows X H e a d e d This Way Polk county ranks as one of the According to different news items The Odd Fellows of Polk county great prune producing counties in published this week Dallas and In will visit with the Monmouth lodge the state. The IT. S. Department dependence have agreed that there of the order on Monday evening of of Agriculture in making its Ore is nothing to be gained by further next week. This is one of a Berks gon estimate of crops fer 1920, fighting of the highway commissiot of visits with which the fraternity plaies the prune crop in this coun and have called off and made set- in the county has been trving to ty at 7,668,000 pounds. This crop t'ement in the suits pending last keep up and develop cordial rela was harvested from 6,908 acres in year. The sentiment is especially tions during the past winter, bo the county. strong in Dallas that mote is to be you hear the rumble? It is the re Billie H a r t , to li- ta k c r n.t tho In te r n a tio n a l bridge a t E agle Pass. The apple crop last year in this gained by working with the com verberation of footsteps, approach T cra s, has a n a tiona l reputation county was 104,000 bushels, gath mission than against it. indepen ing in tin Lizzies. Several caravans ns a w e a t h e r p ro p h e t, being more ered from $1,600 acres. The aver dence, however, is restive [and may reliable t h a n 1,'ncle S a m ’s official of camels and donkeys (made in De scientific d e p a r tm e n t. Billie will age price per bushel is estimated at resume on its own hook, says the not tell his system , but he p r e troit, Mich). will soon be observed 75 cents, and on this basis the crop report. With proper co-operaticn dicted two g r e a t g u l f s t o r m s — th e at various turns in the road, travel Galveston a n d th e C orpus Christl of apples brought to the county with the commission it is believed Hoods. Sheepm en a n d r a n c h e r s ing in the mu—, sand and heading th e so u th w e st often wire Billie last year the sum of $78,000. forty miles of hard paving within of toward Monmouth. Monmouth, fo r predictions, while m ore r e Polk county did not go strong on the county can be laid by the end cently a W all S tre et b r o k e r wired known to the initiated as the rara- a b o u t t h e w e a t h e r to use as pears as the governments experts of 1922, and the ground cleared for d him disc of pedagogs is to entertain the a ta on c otton speculation. estimate 150 acres of tearing pears further improvements in road mak tribesmen and hillsmen from the in the county and from this 150 ing within the county. through highly cultivated land, and whole county. As an oasis in the an expensive bridge across the country between Jericho and Samar acres, a crop of 18,000 bushels. Some time since it was published Taking the state as a who'e, the that building the highway south Luckiamute. ia the chain gang scouts have seen “ In April, 1920, another location it from afar and have given hails estimate is a value of $1.50 per from Monmouth would cost many bushel. But on an estimate of $2.CO thousand dollars more than south was made d'reetly south from Mon of encouragement to- the plodding mouth, crossing the Luckiamute on bushel for the Polk county pear from Independence. An inquiry to the present bridge at Helmick and caravans. Here where the milk crop, this places value of $36,000 the highway engineer elicited the continuing along the existing road and honey flows they see prospect.» to a point 0.75 miles south of the of dried dates and goats milk and for the crop last year. following reply which we publish Although Polk county ranks sec at this time. The letter is signed Luckiamute. The survey then bore they hear the squawk of the sleek to the southeast and joined the first ond in the state in cherry acreage, by W. D. Clarke, who is the local survey at a point 1.3 miles north of and fattened barred rock as the de due to the unfavorable weather division engineer. the Suver-Airlie road. This route is term ine! Febekahs take to its conditions during picking time, the 0.3 miles shorter than the first sur trail. Here even the camels and “ No final plans or exact esti crop harvested the past season mates have been prepared for either vey, requires 1.9 miles less of new donkeys may be refreshed for it is amounted to a little mo.e than of these lines. The preliminary right of way, and does not requue asserted there must be gasoline in the construction of a bridge across 1,000,000 pounds for commrecial estimates which have been used for the Luck’amute.at this time, as the the water that flows down from comparison show the total ultimate uses, ranking fourth in the st- te. existing hi idge is a comparitively Teal creek, for only thus can they ’ Marion county had about 200,000 cost of the two lines practically new structure. The most serious account for the pep and ginger of identical but final plans and exact more pounds of cherries than Polk estimates might make a difference disadvantage is the overflow land tie Monmouth brethren. Again county. On account of favorable of $25,000 to $50.000 in favor of crossed'just south of the Luckia hail the day and1 may no brother mute. This will require a long fill, weather, Lane county harvested the the route frouj Monmouth depend which, however, is entirely practic miss the event. ing upon the plan of construction largest cherry crop in the state, es able and the second route has been adopted at the crossing of the Luck- adopted by the Highway Commis After Booze Venders timated at 2,158,000 pounds. iamute River. The two lines are sion.” John Orr. sheriff of Polk county, The crop of loganberries in this not greatly different injlength or in is attempting to eliminate the free county was 900,000 pounds for com cnaraeter of construction except at Found D ead in Field use of booze in the county and par mercial uses. The price averaged the Luckiamute. The Indepnedence line is 8 04 miles and that from Chas. Walters, a man who has ticularly is he taking steps to clean 12 cents, bringing into the County Monmouth is 7.57 miles. The been working on the ranch of Wal up the beverage scentod attendance $108,000. equality of the preliminary esti ter Domes near McCoy, was found at dances. Saturday night he had mates of the two lines applies to dead Sunday morning by a neigh four deputies at various dances Plan a Clean Up the grading work and paving work The Com munity Club at its meet separately as well as to the total bor. Mr. Walters did not live in throughout the coutny'and he, him ing Tuesday night started the ball but any difference in cost made by the home of Mr. Domes but'was oc self, was on duty in like manner. rolling for a real clean up day in possible charge in plans as above cupying a shack Jsome distance He arrested Paul Buchanan at a referred to would affect only the Monmouth this spring. It was de grading and the entire difference away. He had been employed in dance at McCoy for having booze cided to ask the other clubs and or would come in that part of the blasting stumps to clear up some in his possession. Mr Buchanan land on the ranch. He had procur is a cook in the Beaverton hotel in ganizations of the city, the common work.” council and the schools to determine Of course it is not necessary that ed milk from a neighbor and on last Independence and appeared befoie on a single day when a united effort the road south from Monmouth Sunday morning when he failed to Justice of the Peace, Fid Coad at shall be made to polish municipal cross at the Helmick bridge. This appear the neighbor thought some Dallas Monday and paid a fine of appearances. At the conclusion was adopted as the bridge is in good thing must bewT.mgand went to in. $25 and costs the ladies of the city will be asked shape and making use of it would vestigate. He found Mr. Walteis Feed strains arc attracting much to prepare a dinner in the grove at save money at this time. Here s lying dead in a field on the opposite attention at present. Growers are side of the fence from where he had the Normal or in some suitable what the commission says about the been doing blastirg. Mr. Walters- realizing that any variety is no bet place. Everybody will be asked to matter in its annual report. was 53 years of age and, thus far, ter than the seed strain of that va lay off for half a day, the city will "Surveys for the section of the riety. There may be a consid- rable be apportioned to different leaders West Side Highway fromMonmouth only a brother-in-law by the name of difference in the tonnage of two lots Ernest Spindal of Winlock, Wash and lieutenants to see that a thor- to Suver have been made during of winter cabbage of the smaller ington, has been located. He arriv 1919 and 1920. The first survey O J g h job is done. variety. One lot may produce 10 L. P. Gilmore, who had investi ran due south from Monmouth, fol ed Monday evening -and took the lowing practically along the exist remains to Winlock for burial. tons an acre and another 15 tons gated the workings of a building ing road for 3.75 miles, then bear an acre, grown under the same con and loan association in Salem, re ing to the southeast to the Luckia The Mothers’ Club and invited ditions. Just as in poultry hus ported to the club as to what he mute river which was crossed about guests w ere delightfully entertain bandry so in vegetable gardening, three quarters of a mile above Park had learned in the matter. er. From this point the road ran in ed with a St. Patrick’s Day lunch these high yielding strains affect nearly a direct line to the junction eon in the Community House last the crop more than the mere variety Fred Eye of St. Johns has suc of the Suver-Airlie road with the Friday afternoon. selected. The O. A. C. experiment The tables were beautiful with station is endeavoring to eollect ceeded to the place formerly held road to Corvallis about a mile west of Suver. This route necessitated by C. E. Wilson at the Monmouth about three and five tenths miles of their green and white decorations, the higher yielding strains of many Hardware. new right of way, most of which is and luncheon and program also car different vegetables in order that ried out the scheme for the celebra these may form the basis of future tion of the day. breeding of seed. NFW TWO-YEAR-OLD WORLD CHAMPION ÌÈ & í ; ÎS0ST € K a t h e r i n e 's Trixie owne4 by W a lte r C W hite of O atei Mill, O.. a n d bred by Albert Sehieber of Bueyrua. O . Is th e new world's c h a m pion two-year-old cow She haa just aet a record by p ro l u e i n « 1 8.475 7 pounds of mllli and 7» 48 pounds of b u t t s r fst. be ating out th e record m ade by L i n r w a t r Hope by 17 pounds who r u l e l tin two-yeai-old» for eig ht years She Is a Guernse y 1 he neighbors of Chas. Newman and wife in their new home north of the city, dropped in on them last Friday night and gave them a wel come to the neighborhood. They had phonograph music and social diversions during the evening with refreshments at 11 o’clock. All re port a royal time. The rains of the winter and spring which are holding back agri cultural affa > 3 , are booming clover fields some of which looked very un promising last fall. It is bringing O J t an abundance of vegetation. Wild flowers in the wood are raiely so plentiful or rank of growth at 1 this time of the year. Mi_a Finid Benson of Corvallis 'spent the week e.id at A. F. Hu- The decayed dormant spray is the first apple scab spray. It should be applied just after the leaves sur rounding the tiny clusters of unde veloped blossom buds have separat ed sufficiently so that the spray can reach the bud cluster. More vegetable seeds were im ported from foreign countries dur ing 1920 than in 1919, according to O. A.C. department of vegetable gardening. Prices on these seeds have dropped considerably so th tt American grown seed will have to be reduced in price in order to c •m- pete with foreign grown seed. This shows that foreigh nations are get ting back to normal in seed produc tion. A. F. Hu ier and D. M. Hampton were visitors in Salem Wednesday.