T he H erald VALUE OF CREDIT C n terad u «econ d-elas« m a tte r Sep tem b er«. 19GG n th e poet office a t M«,r.mouth. O reg on . ur«ier the 4 c t o f M a rc h Ï. 1*7$. RICHARD B. SWENSON E d ito r & P u b lis h e r MONMOUTH. OREGON li.-C I.fi L V K R Y A checking account is the first step toward establishing credit with a bank. And credit today is a real asset. Yet it is what you make it. The tight credit at the right time, at the right bank may be worth more to you than a batch of letters presented by you as a stranger. W e seek growing accounts of grow­ ing business m en -m en who will come to us for advice, and who will want the fnendship of a strong bank when credit is needed. This bank will be glad to meet you and serve you. It is a pleasure, as well as good business, to have young men grow with us. First National Bank MONMOUTH, OREGON Ir« C. Powell P resident J. B. V. B utler F. E. Chamber* V ic e P re s id e n t C a s h ie r I RI DA Y that wherever Prof. Gilmore goes he will net be content with a per­ functory performance of the bare requirements of his job. Aside from what he may have been at the Normal, he has been a live wire in the social and industrial a'-ti Mties ■ utn and we will all miss him. It is reported the recent state editorial convention at Bend went Su bscriptio n Rate* i on record as favoring a code of i One year - - 12,00 ethics among newspaper men, one Six month* - - $1.00 item of which frowns upon the time Three months 75 ct* honored editorial custom of refer­ ring to a contemporary as a red headed burglar and character as­ I sassin, etc., according to the style Monmouth's largest and most complete Confectionery and Book Store hoc : set by the “ Arizona Kicker” of ¡ blessed memory. Doubtless anoth­ er item put on the blacklist of pro- ?5?SSS2Sc5ES2SZSH5aS fessional printorial etiquette is ref­ A T W A T E R BROS. erence to that hoary old poverty Cj HOC wheeze which frequently was too pathetically true to be comical. 3 F ir s t C la ss W o r k G u a r a n te e d County Clerk Moore’s story of The observant reader has, however, pear's found at N'etarts will doubt­ long since noted that these sins are In B o u ld en B u ild in g less stimulate interest in that resort not practiced with anything like the gay and reckless abandon character­ and increase its patronage. It is M o n m o u th O reg o n not so very long ago that pearls istic of yore. Resolutions and con­ !saS25ZSZ5ZSSSa52S25ES2SZ5ZSii5HS2525ZSH5ZSZS2SZS2SZS25Z5H5ESaSZ5ZSS525^ were first discovered in the fresh certed action are not needed to water mussels in the rivers tribu­ achieve something that has already tary to the north Mississippi. Large been achieved. AS the excelsior I says: “There’s a crowds tock to pearl hunting. Men, biscuit man women and children waded in the reason.” This state of affairs has! water picking up the “clams” and come with improved machinery,! searching for the elusive pearls. especially typesetting and casting J But the excitement was soon over. machines. It costs more to get Thousands of dollars worth of into the printing game than it for- \ pearls are taken annually from merly did. The time when any Mi the upper Mississippi and its tribu- blatherskite with an unquenchable taries but they are found by com- thirst and a nose like the danger paratively few men. Traveling signal in The Midnight Express’ , CORONA along the rivers you may occasion- can a<,<4uire ari army press and a ally see a man in a small boat. few fonts of type and set out on a Behind him in the water he pulls > career of libels and abuse, has gone The portable typewriter. Carry it drag of wood. From it hang num- by. Using a newspaper as one with you. A perfect machine for the erous lines each baited with a bit would use a dishrag or a garbage of iron. As the bits of iron drag can may lead to a strenuous life Home, Office or Student. along the bottom of the stream while it lasts but it is bound to be they occasionally tickle the face of a short one. When a man has WALTER G. BROWN an open clam. The clam immedi­ equipped a modern printing office ately closes on the irritation and is he begins to realize that the safest hauled up from its resting place. and sanest procedure is to live and i^^SE5ZSZS?S25Z5!S2SZS25ZSZSZSZ5ZS2SZ5ZS25Z5Z5ZS2SZSZ5ZSZSZSZSZSZSZ^ M ONM OUTH TRANSFER The pearls found are usually let live. The newspaper business cj ^ — ■■■ ■ n T ra n s fe rrin g by worth a few cents. Occasionally has made some giant strides in re- one worth fifty or a hundred dollars cent years and a- its influence q | V -'-* ailtO t r u c k a n d b y may be found, but very infrequent­ r«.