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O O T he M Voi. XIV onmouth H erald o There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley I Items of Interest At Oregon Normal Kansas and Missouri Shows Fine Yields Passed. Into Illinois j F rost Does D am age Diversified • A light frost was observed early j Farming Herren Hop House Burned The hop house of C. E. Herren southeast of town, burned to the ground last Tuesday night. The last batch of hops of the season were in the house being cured and these were destroyed with the building. A. A. Moore was looking after the dryer but did not realize the fire had started until the whole structure was aflame. The building had been used for two weeks stead ily drying the crops of Mr. Herren and L. Damon of Independence, and the hops lost belonged to the latter. There were about 5,000 pounds of them and they were fully insured. Mr. Herren is the heaviest loser by the blaze as only a small insur ance was carried on the building. The building was put up by Joe Craven about twenty years ago and was obtained by Mr. Herren when he bbught the land off the Craven farm. It could not be replaced for $1500. <a New Bridge York Obstructs Travel Monday morning in exposed places' »n-1 lig h te r frost fro st appeared aoDearedi j and a still lighter Because two concrete bridges are Wednesday morning. For the Winchester, 111., Sept. 10. Here is a statement of three The following is a list of new , most part locally it resulted in oc- being put in on the highway south Dear Editor:— Have I been guilty faculty members who will start most P*™ locauy u rcsuncum of town, highway traffic to town is work Monday for the first time at “ T “ ' fr08ted leaves on cucunibCT *<i n d s w h l c h have of saying I didn’t see how any per being diverted by way of Talmage, the Normal and 8quash vines. although in some aM well and go to show the son could live a contented life in whi’h adds two or three miles to At the head of the department of P‘“c^ tomatoes were damaged. D. diversified harvests which this sec- Kansas after seeing other states? the journey. At the meeting of Science, succeeding L. F. Gilmore. * ,J ker’ who WHS herefrom tio n y eld s. K. O. Dodson has just Then let me retract and apologize the commercial club Tuesday night, Buell Tuesday, reports that on the f,nishet* hulling his clover and re- publicly to those whom this state is Mr. Homer Dodds, who comes | way he saw many cornfields that P°rts the average of seed is four ment has offended. The facts are I G. T. Boothby and W. R. Graham here from Fruita, Colorado, where had been damaged. In Marion and a half bushels to the acre which was never so agreeably surprised were delegated to see if a shorter detour could not be obtained. They he has been superintendent of | county a tem perature of 32 degrees makes a fair return. George Nig- in a state as in Kansas especially s 'hoots for three J vears . oast His ! cwuniy “ wwnperaiurc o* looked the ground over and report **. was reported Monday ui morning, the left at the Herald office Monday the eastern part. The only reason educational has , , . September „ , ® in ! a h°x __ of - prunes which . . . weighed . . at they see no possibility of putting , . _ experience , , . . been . ac- coldest 12 recorded a person could possibly have for the rate of nine to the pound. In in temporary .bridges or otherwise quired in Colorado, he having 25 years. leaving Kansas for the Willamette a year when prunes are scarce, Mr getting around the obstructions. taught previously at Primero and The frost early in the week was Valley is the climate. Incidentally Grand Junction in that state. He uneven in its effects, many fields Niggli expects to have something Mr. Gentle will tell you that when Both sloughs are dry at this season C. E. was educated at Ottawa, Kansas, escaped while fields close by had like two hundred bushels. of the year, but the new bridges we say climate we mean heat, academy, the University of Kansas their leaves shriveled. As a result Herron, however, tops the list with winds and rainfall. The first night take up so much room and the run and the Gunnison, Colorado Normal j many farmers are busy getting in a record of $3011 received for hops there we experienced the winds. of the dry channel is such that no school. He is a married man. practical way has been thus far silage which work last year was not raised on 5 acres of land. He esti They blew so hard that we had to mates $500 as the outside cost of found to get by. At the head of the department of done until October. pin the tent comers under the bed growing and harvesting the crop, Music, succeeding Miss Schuette, is The two bridges occur a short to keep it from blowing away. If leaving him the balance for his Miss Helen Moore, who was educat distance south of town, one near Kansas had Oregon's climate it own work. ed at Northwestern University at Rumored, Reported Wamsley’s place and the other near would have three times its present A ccidental Death This five acres is located in the Evanston, Illinois and at Columbia Evans’ farm Ku I lander Brothers Concocted, Collected city limits of Independence, along population. Ernest Smiley, brother of the have the contract to put them in University. And now for Missouri. Let s the river. The hops were contract see, Dave Hampton, after years of contractor and builder, was acci and the carpenter contractor at the As assistant in Music, Miss Jennie dentally killed Tuesday afternoon. dormitory is putting in the forms. ed at 40 cents which is ten cents Peterson of the University of Idaho absence from that grand old state, Jack Leask was burning brush on succeeds Miss Holliday and as assis his wood lot Tuesday when the fire above the present market of 30 still rises when occasion permits He was helping to put up silage on The Kullanders also have the con tant in Physical Education, Miss got away from him. A call was cents, which is satisfactory to the and speaks a good word for Missou his farm near Talmage, operating tract to build two concrete bridges Hales is succeeded by Miss Vivian sent to town for help but the fire grower. He dries the hops in his ri. I often wondered why he left, the cutter with a Ford car. The north of Rickreall. Chandler of the University of extended to the road and burned dryer southeast of town. He con but now that I ¡have crossed the cutter was the kind with the knives tra<-ted his hops for one more year state I know. Dave decided he had attached to the balance wheel and, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Wolverton Oregon. itself out. The wood lot, known Miss Florence Beardsley is to have as the Lucas’ grove is close to Rid when he plans to quit this particu better get out before he mired revolving at a high rate of speed, spent several days the past week in the wheel burst and a fragment Portland where they were the charge of the new rural center at dle’s and there was fear that their lar game, maybe. down in the mud. We have travel struck Smiley, penetrating his side guests of relatives. Judge Wolver Eola and Miss Mary Donaldson will barn was in danger. The wind fa Wm. Riddell, Jr. who is one of ed more than 3000 miles and in and killing him instantly. The assist at Mountain View and Miss vored them, however, and the dan ton took them up the Columbia the executive officers of the state nine different states, but we have body was taken to Independence Florence Enschede will assist at El ger passed. highway in his Cadillac which was yet to find a state with roads as wool growers association reports and prepared for burial. kins. The last three named are a very enjoyable feature of the trip. uniformly bad as those of Missouri. Mr. Smiley had lived in the vi A team of horses and a valuable that a large sale of low quarter I would consider myself a mean Normal graduates. Miss Hazel McGilchrist of Salem cow were lost in a farm fire on the wool was recently made by the asso man were I not to caution my cinity of Indpeendence for 12 years W. J. Mulkey, Jr. surprised his has been appointed as assistant in E. E. Steptoe place near Inde ciation at 18 cents per pound. Last friends about Missouri roads. Her and he is survived by a widow and friends last week by taking unto pendence last Saturday night. The year the -best offer that could be only reason for so many mules is to one daughter. As the cause of himself a wife. The wedding took the Registrar’s office. Miss Agnes Campbell of Mon origin of the fire is a mystery. It secured was 10 cents a pound. have the means of pulling thru the death was readily apparent, no in place Wednesday at Vancouver with mouth is to succeed Miss Ragon as burned during the hours after mid This is for the inferior grade of mud. We never had any trouble quest was held. Miss Erma Kline as the bride. The assistant in the Art department of night and it is reported the family wool and the higher grade is of whatever with the rear end of our or Missouri, but it falls short of young people have been working in the Normal. Miss Campbell is of slept through it and did not know course expected to bring more. car until we were in the heart of this in Illinois. Some of it will the hop yards near Independence a family long connected with the of the accident until morning. Which goes to show that more Missouri. Then it came and we make 80 to 90 bushels to the acre where W. J. is conducting a branch Normal in its earlier years. She is The loss was $1800 with no insur favorable market conditions are have been having it ever since. I was in to visit the Scott County store. The bride’s people are from with us and the association is giv a graduate of the Normal and the ance. Illinois looks good to me. Her Farm Bureau headquarters and find Portland and she attended summer ing an acitive demonstration of state university and has studied in roads are good in spite of the rain this is considered a bumper crop. school here. Rev. F. M. Fisher of Milwaukie usefulness. Europe, at Columbia university and and black gumbo. For miles the All thru the portion of the Corn A Mr. Arnold who has been work at the Art Students’ League in New was here Wednesday visiting with Mrs. J. S. Fuller was a visitor roads here are oiled and in fine Belt which I crossed corn is report York. She has had several years old friends in the city. He came last week with her daughter, Mrs. condition. I am feasting my eyes ed good to heavy. In Kansas it ing for the bakery in Independence has rented Miss Duncan's house on teaching experience in Oregon and to take his father back to spend the Lewis in McMinnville. on the best corn I have ever seen. sells at 24 to 26 cents per bushel College street and thinks some of for the past year taught in the winter with him. His son, Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Riddell were Jack Stump raised corn that com and the Agent said a carload sold starting in the bakery business in Fisher, was in the navy during the high school in Bend. pares with anything! saw in Kansas here Scott County for 45 cents war and while in the service mar Portland visitors Thursday. this city. Miss Beatrice Hotchkiss has been Most offers here range from 40 to ried a native of Dalmaita and appointed secretary to the Dean of Frank Skeen who has been build brought his bride back to America Enlarged Dormitory Greets Normal Students 45 Farm help here is given $40 Women. She is a graduate of ihe and board per month or $1.25 to ing a barn on his newly purchased to live. He is now in Portland Normal and has taken a four year After a whole summer of build marshal, commissioner and their $1.50 per day with board for property on East street, has had working with a transfer company. training course at St. Vincent’s Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Parkes, ing, order is gradually rising out of agents in Salem Tuesday and an ad special work. Twelve hours makts the house remodeled, rewired, re hospital in Portland. While here the form ers nephew of Mr. Fisher, chaos in the new dormitory addition justment was reached satisfactory a day. We entered Colby, Kansas plastered and kalsomined and other she was considered among the most completed structure to all. Briefly, this consists in on a Saturday "afternoon and found wise made ready for occupancy. now living in Portland, are the and the competent of the members of the promises to welcome the students postponing some of the work until things different there. Farm help parents of a boy born last Sunday. student body. of the Normal when they come pre next year and going ahead with es lays off Saturday afternoons. Paul Riley and brother Warren You may think this gush, but the J . W. Pember has bought the pared to start 'school next Monday. sential work this year. The sec left Saturday for Ripley, West The first Faculty meeting of the Stevens corner at Knox and Jack Owing to the exactitude of the retary of state insists they shall facts are I like Oregon farm condi Virginia, where they will visit year has been called by President - -- tions better than anything I have son, site of the house burned last estimates and plans as they appear not exceed the budget figures. their parents and other relatives. Land ,*rs for 2 o’clock Saturday after spring and report says, may build a on the budget of the Normal and When the new dormitory addition seen'here. Paul came to Oregon at the time noon in Room 30 at the Normal. There is something cramped house. A. C. Canterbury is tusy the way any kind of building has of ia completed there will be in the >f the Portland exposition in 1905 There has been a strong demand this week grubbing out the hedge exceeding estimates, for extras and dormitory, the two annexes, the about the habit of thinking in and liked the country and some of for faculty members to serve as in that lined the street on this corner various reasons, the lower^floor of Senior and the Junior cottages, these regions. In many places we its inhabitants so well that he has structors in various county teachers’ and has much improved the ap the new structure will not be en room for 200 girls, distributed as And folks drinking out of wells we been here ever since. institutes. Thus far'the following pearance of things. tirely finished by tonight, which is follows: 155 in the main building, would condemn in Oregon, also dis have been scheduled: Miss Smith, the scheduled time. In fact some 26 Jn the Senior cottage and 18 in posing of sewage by means of earth Monmouth Odd Fellows are pre J. F. Hager is preparing for a Curry, Coos, Columbia and Benton of*the work will have to wait over the Junior cottage. In the Senior en outhouses. That is the habit in paring for a home coming and get Counties: Mr. Gentle, Clatsop, Yam wet winter by reshingling his house And yet until next year to be taken care of cottage there is also room for the relatively large cities. together of members of the local hill, Benton: Miss Records, Yamhill, they wonder why they have so muih chaperon and a guest room, known in next year’s budget. This will lodge w hen it is planned to have as Jackson; Miss Arbuthnot, Sherman, include hardwood floors for the liv as “mother’s room” . The Junior sickness. many of the members present as Marion; Mr. Butler, Grant; Mr. I 1 have been in towns where tie in g quarters on the lower floor and cottage also provides room for a ■an be found. The lodge has a Beattie, Sherman. Gillian , Clatsop.1 stores keep open till ten and elevtn some of the furnishings. Miss chaperon. large membership and there are A number of urgent invitations In addition to students, the main o’clock and open at six in the mom Todd has had to exercise consider- WHEN YOU 6 0 enousrh of them to make a full h ive come to President Landers building provides room for four ing. Is it any wonder that one aMeJirgenuity to make the furnish FISHING NEVER COUNT house when they get together. asking for institute addresses. ings keep within the limits set for members of the faculty, the dean,’ finds folks ‘‘settin’ round” and YOUR CHICKEN S Thus far he has definitely accepted j BEFORE YOU PULL fcM expenditure, but has succeeded. her secretary and six rooms for the “askin’ ’bout Uie folks” in there only the one from Baker-Union-! Christian Church OUT OF THE WATER Due to the death of President Ack kitchen and dining room help. On parts. And yet with it all there a Wallowa counties* which hold a The Minister has recovered from a kind of quaintness about it that erman, much of .the executive work the upper (burs there can also be combined meeting at LaGrande. his recent illness and will fill his makes one enjoy the change. in connection with the construction made room for four additional ser own pulpit on Lord’s day morning I have raised somewhat my noth n work has devolved upon her and she vants. The council held an adjourned and evening. of Oregon roads. If the Blue The servant problem has received has proved equal to the task. session Wednesday night and adopt The morning subject will be, special attention in the new build Mountains could be fixed 1 would A mixup in the matter of wiring ed the engingprs report relative to “ Delight in the Lord” . In the threatened for a time to disrupt ing. Not <gily have sleeping quart rank Oregon at the head of the list. tiie new street at the south end of evening the subject ¡will be. “The proceedings but now has been ad ers been provided, but there is an She seems to have the best road Knox. Unless a separate agree [ Transfiguration” . jufted. Agents of the state Are extra living room and an extra din policy of any state we have covered ment is reached with the owners it Bible school at 10. marshal and labor commissioner ing room which they will shar%with with the possible exception of Ida will take several w e e k s m g k e the We are expecting several car who inspected the building found the twelve students who are accus ho or Kansas. loads of visitors from Corvallis for street a reality. I have said my say. Now I must tomed to pay a portion of their keep the wiring as originally planned •he morning services. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Clough of would not pass their tests and in by serving the tables. Their meals pray for clear, drying weather so will bw served first in a separate that we may pull out of Illinois C. E. at the usual hour. Sa%n were visitors at N. S. sisted on changes that would entail room sir there will be no mussed ap Mid-week prayer meeting Wed gumbo in safety. Stewart's Monday. $300 additional expense. President pearance when the main body of nesday at 8 p. m. L. P. Gilmore. Mrs. Landers was a business vi Continued on page 4 ® ! landers l.e*d a conference wit^ttoe sitor in Portland Wednesday. I — l! 0 tolde -Jobi» tÄsfo 9 No. 2 Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, September 16, 1921 \-J?
