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o T he M onmouth VoL XIII H erald Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, June 3, 1921 No. 39 Monmouth is Located in the Best Section of the Best Valley of the Best State in the Nation Items of Interest At Oregon Normal Heap , Big Picnic The biggest event of the year is the Odd Fellows’ picnic which is to be held at Rickreall on Saturday of next week. The general public is invited to join with the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs from the whole of Polk county in a day of recreation. J. K. Weatherford of Albany is to be speaker of the day. The Rebek- ah band of Portland will be present and the Training School orchestra of this city will appearjon the pro gram. An afternoon of sports will include a*ball game with Monmouth and Independence combined against Dallas and Falls City. Don’t (miss it. Ships and Students Baccalaureate Topic New Bank Building Erected Next Year N orm als W in a t Base Ball Wednesday afternoon the Mon mouth High School and Normal teams played a scheduled Tgame on the Normal grounds. The result ing score favored the Normal 10 to 0. In many respects it was the best game the Normal team has played this season, only one error being registered. The Normal boys pulled two snappy double plays, w'hile the high school registered one. Had Davis been given as steady sup port as Shields the game would have been air-tight. Unfortunately the high school lads lost because of their errors in fielding. Shields pitched a good game for the Nor mal, striking out ten men. Turner and Lee were the Normal’s best bets at bat, Turner negotiating three ¡singles while Lee connected with two doubles. For the high school Joe Staats and Kildee were the star batsmen, each getting two bingos. Kaup, at first, did some pretty fielding and saved more than cne error by his almost spectacular stops. Stover, at first for the Nor mal, took eight chances without an error and some of them were hard ones. Lee played a good game at short for the Normal and cut off two balls that looked like sure hits. The fcleechers were spirited in their cheering and showed that games of this sort are appreciated. A move was made this week, starting the wheels in motion that will eventually result in the addi tion to Main 6treet of a new bank building. The sale was completed by which the First National Bank acquires possession of the corner of Main and Knox streets a t present occupied by the Newman black Several former graduates of the smith shop. The transfer was Normal have called at the office made to Ira C. Powell, president of lately, many returning from schools the bank, who acts for it. The lot where theyjhave taught during the includes a space 41 i by 90 feet and year. Miss Evadna Hager, '20, of wasjsold for between eight andjnine A Wanderer Eugene Public.Schools and Miss Ir hundred dollars, a part of the price Several days ago a carrier pigeon ma McCallister ’20, of LaGrande, being represented by a paving spent a few days at the Normal vis flew at evening into an upstairs claim against the property. iting friends in the student body window at the hotel and perched Mr. Powell announces that build upon a transom. It readily sub and faculty. ing on the lot willkbe started next mitted to capture and was found to spring and in the meantime the Mr. Edgar B. Piper, editor of the bear the number "A. D. 20, 1606” . bank will seek plans and ideas for Oregonian, accompanied by Mrs The pigeon was taken downstairs, constructing a building such as the Piper and their son John, visited fed and placed for the night in the directors have had in mind for some the Normal last Friday. Mr. Piper hotel woodshed. In the morning it time. The structure of the building spoke to a large crowd of students flew away. It has continued to re will have especial reference to and townspeople at 1:30 in the turn for several successive days and farmer patrons of which the bank chapel. He told most entertaining is oecoming a matter of routine at now has a large representation ly of his experiences and impress the hotel where it occasions almost among its depositors. It w ill be ions in attending the last great as much speculation as on a certain equipped with safety deposit boxes political convenitions at Chicago previous occasion did the raven who and approved banking equipment. and San Francisco. It was a very perched upon the bust of Pallas, This is one of the most im portant interesting discussion and was much just above the chamber door of Ed announcements that has been made appreciated by the audience. gar Allen Poe. in Monrrouth in years and with the MrjBeattie will deliver the comf erection of the Odd Fellows build mencement address to ¡the graduat Oregonian Editor ing which is expected to go up next Former Faculty Man ing class in the high school at Clov- year, will make a decided advance erdale Friday evening, June 10. in the business life of the city. Discusses Politics Talks on Teaching The building which the bank at Dr. E. S. Evenden, a member of present occupies has been bought the faculty of Teachers’ College, Edgar B. Piper, the gentleman by Robert Steele who will remodel Dr. E. S. Evenden, member of Columbia University, visited the it for mercantile use. Mr. Steele the faculty^ of the Teachers College Normal Monday and Tuesday of this who edits and controls the destinies already owns considerable property of¡Columbia University, New¡York, week. Dr. Evenden is a graduate of the Oregonian of Portland was a visitor in Monmouth Friday appear on the street and the purchase of who is visiting this week with old of the Normal and was for six years more is an expression of confidence friends in this city, was the speak a member of the faculty so he was ing in a lecture to the Normal stu in the future of Monmouth er at chapel exercises Tuesday a trebly welcome guest. He spoke dents and citizens of the vicinity in He Mr. Powell, who will have active morning. to the students at the chapel hour the chapel Friday afternoon. charge of the improvement has been Tuesday on the present situation in took politics as his theme, embellish The teaching of this man who had ing it with some vivid descriptions with the bank for thirty two years. made it a life work, Mr. Evenden the educational world as he sees it of things seen as an eye witness in He started in as a clerk and has had contrasted with the average Ameri from his vantage point in Columbia. experience with all that pertains to can teacher. In America, due to It was a rare treat to hear this various national conventions in the Rumored, Reported the business from opening the doors the conditions of the world war, discussion from one who has a past He, had, he said, small use in the morning and starting fires to t e a c h i n g s t a n d a r d s thorouhgly cosmopolitan point of for the nonpartisan. He believed Concocted, Collected had buying and selling bonds. Up to steadily grown lower. A New York view and who looks at the situation the progress and growth of America in the art of government was intri ten years ago the intsitution was superintendent told him that so in an entirely unbiased, scientific cately interwoven with the history known as the Polk County Bank great was the shortage of teachers way. The Dallas Chautauqua dates of the two great political parties. have been set for the week begin but for the last decade has been that pupils of the seventh grade The Normal took part in the Ten He believed they were necessary ning July 19 and ending July 25. chartered as a National Bank. had been known to receive tempo nis Tournament held at Albany last as vehicles of popular expression Stefanson, the Arctic explorer, is Friday afternoon. Miss Dorcas of preference in matters of public one of the headliners of their pro Next Tuesday evening the pupils of rary permits to teach. One super Conklin won the ladies’ singles there policy and insisted that all true cit g ra m and Peter Clark MeFarlane, the first five grades of the Dallas intendent, bound to fill the vacan an accomplishment of which her izens must belong either to one or the well known writer, will appear schools will present the operetta cies, carried with him a supply of blank permits and when he met a Normal friends are very proud. the other. in a lecture. Willie Collier’s New "The Snuggleman” . likely person in the course of his Other members representing the Of the two great political conven York success “ Nothing but the W. W. Bird, for 35 years a resi travesía, was accustomed to solicit Normal played very creditable tions held last year, both of which Truth” will be presented and Lier- games and it is felt that it was well Mr. Piper attended in the capacitfy ance’s Symphony Orchestra will dent of Oregon, died at the home him or her to take up the teaching of his daughter, Mrs Austelle Me profession and to issue temporary worth while to have taken part. of correspondent, the Democratic come. Carter in Dallas May 22 He was permits on the spot. A motion picture made from the convention in San Francisco had in born in 1852 in West Virginia. The Dallas high school graduates As a former student and member popular play. "The Charm School” it considerably more of the ele a class of fifteen on Friday evening | Independence is raising money by of the faculty of the Oregon Nor will be shown in the chapel Friday ments of human interest than did of next week. B. F. Irvine of popular subscription to buy a pul mal and a man who has reached a evening, June 3, at 8:15. This the Republican convention in Chica the Portland Journal is commence to be used in restoring peo high station in the profession of play was a great success on the go. The delegates in the latter in ment orator. A class play, "Miss moter speaking stage and also has the stance were more commonplace in Hobbs” is to be given June 3. pie in danger of death from drown teacher, Mr. Evenden’s talk was peculiarly interesting. His zeal ing. qualities which make an attractive their deliberations. for the welfare of the profession At Chicago, he saio, he was seat picture. and his enthusiasm for the possibil ed in a restaurant with a group of ities which it may achieve were newspaper men, two of whom were Mason* Visit alike in evidence. He referred to from Cleveland opposing political Several Masons from this city at factions to Senator Harding, then a an educator whom he had recently tended lxlgein Dallas Friday night. candidate. Harding entered as they met, a man who for^over fifty years Lewis Ballantyne of that city was were seated together and came over had taught in one school in one of given the master mason degree, to the table to greet the Ohio men the glens of Scotland, who had the work being performed by hia He spoke for a few minutes and.re- made teaching a lifework, who had brother, a member o f the Dallas fusinge an invitation to sit down taught succeeding generations, had lodge. At the conclusion of the with them, withdrew. His candi watched over his flock with the care work refreshments consisting of dacy at that time seemed about as of a parent and rejoiced in their chicken pie, ice cream, etc., was far away as it could possibly be. triumphs and sorrowed in their dis placed before the members and When he had gone the newspaper asters. their guests. Visitors were present men resumed the conversation he Teachers, he said, are accustomed also from Independence, Falls City had interrupted,w hich did not per to deplore the lack (of appreciation and Rickreall. tain to politics but was speculative of their work in the community In a review of local Masonic his and argumentative as to the best they serve; that they are ignored tory presented at the meeting Oscar place in the city to get a glass of and slighted; but after all moral Hayter said that Jennings Lodge beer. ized Mr. Evenden, how can influen (Dallas) was founded sixty five tial citizens of a community feel in He told a number of interesting years ago. the first lodge in the stories of W. J . Bryan extolling clined to consult with teachers who county and only eight preceeded it his power as an orator and his are fifteen or sixteen years old and in the state. It was named after aptness in using biblical illustra who have had only a grade educa Oregon’s first Masonic grand mas tions. As an instance of hia chiv tion? ter. Lyons lodge of Independence alry he told of the famous resolu He said the experience of army was named after Captain Lyon of tions which Bryan presented in 1912 officers and educators taught them Portland, an early ocean navigator, which he sought to read certain th a t one fourth of the people of hailing from New England, who New York Democrats out of the the United States did not have suf spent his retiring years teaching party. Mrs. Taft was attending ficient education to read a newspap Masonry to the uninitiated and who the convection and just before er understand ingly or write a read was a giant among the pioneers of Bryan got the floor to present hia able letter. the order. resolutions his attention was called Training of teachers he believed to the fact that she was present and Supply Gave Out to be a m atter of economical im he went back to greet her. After portance to the profession. The L. E. Olden wishes ua to an ward it was shown that the origin treating of sick dogs and cats] he nounce that he has no more cows al resolution denouncing the New said, would require a longer train for sale. He inserted an advertise Yorkers said they’were not Demo ing period than two years. He be ment in the Herald recently to run crats but belonged to the same plu lieved the two year Normal course three issues. He sold the cows the tocratic clique as that which had should be increased to three and first week and since then has spent just renominated President Taft in then to four years and felt assured his time turning away inquirer*. Chicago. In deference to the lady M arket report* by Wirele** for all the farmers in the U n ited S ta te s that this would lead gradually to a .ire now bring furnished T h u shows the formal inauguration o f th e Had he had them he says he could with «horn he had just shaken •«•rviee from the Post O tfee D epartm ent Rtxldtng in W ashington. S ec different type of teacher for no one have sold "all kinds of cows” as the hands, Mr. Bryan had. before pre r e t a r y of A griculture H enry W altere, of Iowa, is handing P o a tm a ste r could afford to undertake the full result of his modest investment. senting bis resolution, aat down General WHI Hay« the first burran of market report« which are to be a course if he planned to drop out of and with a pencil marked out all «I ■!/ feature to ike f.OW station» throughout the nation in th e ftitore. the ranks of the profession after a Pack of Mr H a y s .is .C harles F. Marvux, ctoef_of the weather b u re a u / J. W. Pernber spent the week end that part which contained refer year or two of active practice. with his family in this city. ence to Taft. Ex-Senator C. P. Bishop, propri etor of the Woolen Mills Store in Salem, will speak at the chapel hour Friday morning. Mr. Bishop will take as his topic "Wool and Woolen Goods” . The townspeople are cor dially invited to hear this talk. The chapel hour begins at 9:30. CA. mmencemert exercises for the High School which are'to conclude with the program at the High School auditorium tonight, started with baccalaureate services" held in the Baptist church lastSunaay evening. It was a union meeting of the churches of the city and Rev. Ros- sell of the Christian church assisted Rev. Pace of the Baptist church in conducting the services. Mr. Pace founded his address on the well known story by Kipling, "A Ship that Found Herself.” The story relates how a new ship put to sea, and the captain, replying to a remark of the owner’s daughter ¡on the perfection of the finished pro duct said the ship was not yet com plete and would not3be'until it had weathered storms and its numerous parts had learned to work in unison. He compared the new ship to the high school graduate who, however favorable his natural capacity might be nor how perfect hia school train ing had been, must weather a few storms in order to find himself and determine his adaptability and sea worthiness in breasting th>? storms and calms of the voyage across the ocean of life. Features of the baccalaureate services'were vocal solos by Miss Hope^cDonald of Monmouth and by Mrs. Mary [Hoham Parrish of Dallas. There are twenty three members of the graduating class this year. A list of them appears on another page of this paper. The annual senior class day exercises were held yesterday morning in the high school ar.d in the afternoon occur red the picnic at springs in the hills across the river from Independence. MARKET REPORTS BY W IRELESS TO FARM ERS 1 1 e moriai° By Portland aadge A proper adjustment of liberty and authority was the happy achievement of the makers of the United States constitution, said Judge John E. Kavanaugh of Port la n d ^ his Memorial address at the Normal.chapel Monday afternoon. Happy are the people, he said, who do not mistake emotion for wisdom or sentiment for judgment. Too much libel ty causes anarchy and too much authority causes despotism. Because’they did not have that happy combination, he continued, Russia, with the largest area of un separated lands in the world, with the largest white population ’under one government, with the largest army ever assembled, became in^the course of the world war ilke a great sea monster that had been stranded out of its native element and made a most humiliating and foolish peace with the enemy that attacked it. Judge Kavanaugh’s address was a moving appeal for sanity in public and private life. He appealed to the students as the teachers of the future citizens of the country to guide the young minds in the channels of patriotism. A group of Grand Army surviv ors,'members of i the Independence Post, occupied seats upon the plat form. President Ackerman of the Normal school was chairman of the meeting and introduced^? speaker. In the column that filed into the chapel and took seats were members of the W. R. C. and of Company K of Independence. The children of the Training school appeared for a patriotic chor us timed with the waving of fiags. A trio of students furnished vocal music appropriate to the occasion. Weather for the day was fine and the meeting was in every way suc cessful. Mrs. C. G, Griffa Buried Tuesday Mrs. C. G. Griffa who for some thing like twenty years was a reai- dent of Monmouth, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. Mc- Beth in Independence Saturday. She had been afflicted with stomach trouble for two or more years past an d on different occasions her life had been despaired of. When the Griffa rooming house in this city was sold to Mrs. Beckley last spring, Mrs. Griffa with her hue- band went to Jefferson to live with her daughter, Mrs. Clodfelter. Lat er they came to Independence. Mrs. C. G. Griffa was born in Baden, Germany, August 6. 1847 and came to this country at the age of twelve, residing in New York City. She was married to Wm. Moose, who left her a widow with four children who survive her. They are Mrs. Emily Broberg of Manhattan, Kansas, Mrs. Lydia Dehler of gSylvan Grove, Kansas Mrs. Sarah Fechter of Calistoga, Calif, and Mrs. C. McBeth of Inde pendence, Ore. In 1878 she was married to C. G. Griffa of Lincoln, Kansas who also had four children, three of whom are living; Mrs. J. C. Gardner, Sa lem; Arthur Griffa, Portland and Ed Griffa of Monmouth. This un ion was blessed with one child, Mrs. C. V. Clodfelter of Jefferson, Ore. Mrs. Griffa leaves also one sister, Mrs. Chas. Kanzins of Ves per, Kansas. She was a member of the Baptist church since twelve years of age and lived a Christian life in deed as well as name. She wasj a resident of Oregon for 31 years. The funeral was held in the Bap tist churoh in Independence with Rev. Proppe officiating. Burial at the I. O. O. F. cemetery. The pall bearers were Petei Kurre, Wm. Scott and Geo. Werline of Inde pendence and J . L. Mudrdock, John Scott and Joe McClellan of Monmouth. * - ■■ ■ — ■ :»ii. • Dorcas Society The Dorcas Society will not give the dinner ¡on Commencement Day as planned on account of not wish ing to run in opposition to the local eating bouses. But instead they will give a strawberry social in the basement of the church on Tuesday eve, June 14, from 4 to 8 P. M.
