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M onmouth H erald
M onm outh, Polk C o u n ty , O re g o n , F rid ay , S e p te m b e r 23. 1921
Vol. XIV
U oí O Libra r y
• No. 3
There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley
R ec e p tio n to P re sid e n t
City is Sued By
Sudden Death of
The Faculty of the Oregon Nor­
mal School invites the townspeople
Portland Engineer
Charles E. Herren
( of Monmouth to be present at a
reception in honor of President and
City Recorder J. J. Williams has
Citizens of Monmouth were
The Normal opened Monday with Mrs. Landers and the Student
been
served with a notice of suit
shocked
Thursday
morning
by
the
an enrollment which shows a splen­ I Body, in the gymnasium on Satur­
brought
against the city by.S. S.
announcement
of
the
death
of
C.
did increase overcast year—a fact day evening, September 24, at 8
Huston,
engineer
of Portland act­
E. Herren which occurred without
which has necessitated some revi­ j o’clock.
ing
through
a
Portland
attorney
warning the evening before. The
sion of the class program. On
named
Carter.
Suit
is
filed
in the
: end came shortly after 9 o’clock.
Wednesday the total enrollment was
O ra to r ic a l C o n te st
circuit
court,
and
is
for
$252.75
three hundred and forty seven.
On October 27, at 2:00 o’clock P. Mr. and Mrs. Herren had planned
on an early start to Portland in and interest since September, 1920,
On Saturday evening the mem­ M. the oratorical contest amorg
the morning and had retired early. and costa. This amount Mr. Hus­
bers pf the faculty will entertain the grade children will be held on
Mrs.
Herren heard her husband ton claims is due him for prepar­
the students and the townspeople in the Band Stand in the pavilion, at
give
a
gasp. Arising hastily she ing plans and specifications for the
honor of President and Mrs. Lan­ the Polk County Fair grounds.
turned
on the light and saw the two blocks on Monmouth Avenue,
Every school in Polk county is
ders. The party will be held in
case
was
serious. She hastened tc where it was proposed at one time
the gymnasium at eight o’clock. entitled to send one delegate who
summon
the
doctor but the end had to pave the space between the state
The townspeople are mcst cordially has learned Lincoln’s Gettysburg
highway and the curbs on either
already
come.
invited to attend this reception and Address, and won first place in his
side
with concrete.
Charles
E.
Herren
was
a
native
meet President and Mrs. Landers, or her own school. Every delegate
This
alleged job relates to the
of
Oregon
having
been
born
in
Ben­
as well as other new members of should write to Supt. Josiah Wills
second
attempt
to pave the sides of
ton
county,
June
12,
1862.
¡He
was
and notify him that he is the
the faculty.
these'two
blocks
on Monmouth Ave­
married
to
Anna
Hall
May
9.
1891,
chosen one from his district. Supt.
Repairs and changes in the libra­
nue.
The
first
attempt
was in 1919
who
survives
with
one
daughter,
Wills will then provide a free tick­
ry are still going, so students are
at
the
time
the
highway
work be­
Mrs.
Ernest
Riddell
and
one
son,
et to the delegate and send him
doing their reference work in the
tween
Monmouth
and
Rickreall
was
Harold
H.
Herren
of
Astoria.
He
further information concerning the
various classrooms for the present.
started
when
the
plans
were
pre­
has
three
brothers
and
one
sister
contest.
living: R. L. Herren of Portland, pared by Attorney Swope and En­
Mr. and Mrs. Butler returned
last Saturday from a pleasant out­
A d d itio n a l E q u ip m en t . Will Herren of Albany, George gineer F letcher and "a blue print
ing at the beach.
People who know say that Atwat­ Herren of California and Mrs. ! made by a man named Von Planta
of Portland. It was first sought
A. Simpson of this city.
A goodly number of students re­ er Brothers have now the best
A careful prudent man, he was a not only to pave Monmouth Avenue
sponded to the call for orchestra equipped shoe repair shop in Polk
kind
husband and a good neighbor but Main street as well along the
members that was made at the county. The latest addition to
and
will
be missed by many in this highway on both streets. The bids
their equipment was secured this
chapel hour on Tuesday morning.
received were considered too high.
vicinity.
week, a power stitcher designed for
Classes in the Monmouth and In­
The city fathers assert that Hus­
Funeral
services
will
be
held
Sun­
sewing shoes, harnesses and auto­
dependence training schools will
ton
was never regularly engaged as
day
afternoon
at
2
o’clock
at
the
mobile tires, in fact will sew any
open next Monday, September 26.
engineer
but had undertsanding
Baptist
church.
Burial
in
the
Inde­
material up to cast iron, to a thick­
The work in the rural centers will
with
individual
members of the
pendence
cemetery.
The
Odd
Fel­
ness of seven eighths of an inch.
also be resumed on that date.
council
whereby
he
prepared tenta­
lows
will
have
charge
at
the
grave.
The machine is a “ Champion” and
tive
plans
and
specifications
in pre­
A motion picture entitled “The was purchased in Salem. It is sup­
paring
which
he
was
largely
aided
Rider of the King Log” will be plied w ith a heating apparatus to
Mrs.
Mary
E.
Gwin
by
work
previously
done
by
Fletch­
shown in the chapel Friday evening warm up the working parts of the
er and Von Planta. When the
September 23, at 8:15. This story machine in cold weather and keep
Was
Pioneer
of
1849
prospects for receiving an attrac­
of lumber camps in Maine is said the wax in fluid condition.
tive
bid on the work was felt to be
to make a most entertaining picture.
discouraging
the project was defer­
Mrs. Mary E. Gwin, one of the
E. E. Hewitt of Ashland visited
P rom ise o f L a u n d ry
red.
And
when
the bill for $252.75
this week with his mother and other pioneers of Polk county, died at her
was
presented,
it was thought to
G. T. Boothby reports the sale of relatives in Monmouth.
home in this city Thursday night.
be
excessive'and
conisderation
of it
the Dornsife place at the corner of
She had been in feeble health all
has
been
postponed
from
time
to
Knox and Jackson streets to T. J.
summer. She was a daughter of R
Old
Offenders
Wedekin for $1,000. Mr. Wede-
R. and Mary A. Boothby and was time. The weakest point in the
kin came here recently from Texas
born in Adams county, Illinois, city’s case is that the specifications
At New Tricks February 15, 1843. She crossed were officially adopted in Septem­
and has been living on [the M.
Stewart farm north of town. He
the plain with her parents in 1849. ber, 1920.
plans to occupy the place and estab­
The
family settled in Salem and has
In years past the Hunnicutt
lish a laundry.
lived
in this section continuously
family gave the officials of Polk
since
that
time. She was married Sight Seeing in
county more or less trouble and
V iew ers N a m e d
February
15,
1859 to James L.
two of the boys, Harrby and Emzie,
At an adjourned meeting of the
Southern Oregon
Gwin
who
died
about
ten years ago.
served terms in the pentientiary
council Tuesday evening the matter
She
had
lived
in
Monmouth
about
from th.'s county. But of late ytars
of the proposed Highway street was
little had been heard of the Hunni- twenty five years. Since her hus­
J. O. Andrus and family, whe
taken up and G. T. Boothby, John
cutts until last Friday evening, band’s death her son Seldon has returned Monday from their vaca­
Fuller and J. L. Murdock were ap
when one of them, William, the been her constant companion ai.d tion trip, went as far south as
pointed viewers. The official notice
servitor. She was the mother of Hornbrook, California. They visit­
oldest, broke into jail.
appears in another column.
Friday afternoon .Sheriff Orr and seven children, five of whom are ed with friends in the Illinois river
Four weeks ago Mrs. Egleston Deputy Sheriff French visited the living. They are: S. U. Gwin, valley where Mr. Andrus lived in
ran a thorn in her thumb while Pankeller hop yard, south of Inde­ Mrs. Anna Strain, C. H Gwin and his youth and where the improve­
picking blackberries. Blood poison pendence and in a tent occupied by F. B. Gwin of Salem and A. P. ments through irrigation ¡attracted
developed and resulted in much William,otherwise known as “ Bill” Gwin of Los Angeles. G. T. his attention. They attended the
pain and at times since her life has Hunnicutt, and his family, found Boothby of this city is her brother. county fair at Grant’s Pass and
Funeral services will be held Sat­ were impressed by the size of the
been endangreed. She is recently about two gallons of moonshine
out of the hospital and is recover­ whiskey and two quarts of home­ urday at 2 p. m. at the house with vegetables on exhibition. They
ing slowly but will have to have the brewed beer. Hunnicutt, who was burial in.the K. P. cemetery.
were close to the Caves of Oregon
small finger on the hand amputated. picking hops at the time, was a r­
but did not visit them owing to the
John fcRash, .father-in-law of Vance rested and brought to Dallas and to having intoxicating liquor in his road work being done in that local­
Butler, has also suffered from blood lodged in jail until Monday fore­ possession. He was fined $250 and ity. By next year a highway will
poisoning all summer as the result noon, when he was taken^to Inde­ costs.
be completed to the caves which
While at the hop yard Sheriff
of cutting his foot with tne ax pendence and pleaded guilty before
will be lighted by electricity and
Justice of the Peace R. W. Baker Orr also searched an automobile have attendants to show their splen­
while splitting^wood.
belonging to Harry Hunnicutt, and
while he failed to find any booze
in it he did find eight motormetera
science p
our house on wheels
secreted therein. Hunnicutt could
not give a reasonably good explan­
ation of how he came into posses­
sion of them and the sheriff con­
fiscated them in the belief that they
were stolen property. Harry Hun­
nicutt was not arrested, however,
as there was no evidence to prove
from whom the motormeters hid
b**en stolen.
While the raid was going on at the
hop yard Deputies Cnase of Dallas
and Chapman of Independence
searched a certain houae in Buena
Vista upon information that had
been filed to the effect that a atill
w is in operation there. The two
officers found evidence that a moon­
,^A N cw tJ e rK jr "man ha* invented this’ Automobile bungalow
It
shine plant had doubtless been
ha»' IritchenJ pantry.* sink, bedroom.* stove« and . th e . front ,»eat i s ! i
frn n g room , a dining table bring fitted over the rad iator when needed.*
there once, but it had been moved
T hrou gh scientific w eighting it is not top-heavy % Copy righted feature*
and nothing contraband was then
g i n ted by * thiajpaper ,J>y. sp ecia l. arrangement ¿w ith 4F opuUrgS jen efc
to be found.—Itemizer.
Attedance at Normal
Shows Fine Increase
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dors to the tourists. These caves
are 45 miles long as is proved by
the fact that there is an exit near
Crescent City where, if a fire is
built, the smoke will, four and a
half hours later, appear at the en­
trance in Josephine county. The
Andrus party stopped at Roseburg
and saw the house Russell lived in
when he was killed at the time of
the disappearance of the dentist,
Brumfield. It is alleged in those
parts that Brumfield spent two or
three weeks searching for a proper
victim suited to his purpose. One
bachelor who lived back of Looking-
glass had a date with Brumfield but
when the latter came to visit him,
had other visitors, and attributts
the fact that he is able to sit up
and eat three meals a day to this
cause. Southern Oregon has car­
ried the camping grounds facilities
to the height of convenience al­
though all charge for the service
in some sha)>e or other. At Ash­
land, for instance, there are elec­
tric stoves which are touched off
once a day by putting a twenty five
cent piece in the slot and which a
city official sets once a day, ready
for another quarter. They also
have concrete boxes with sheet iron
tops in which wood fires are made.
The wood is sold to the camper.
Decks Cleared Eor
High School Start
School begins next Monday, Sep­
tember 26.
Many of the students have al­
ready enrolled and have thus re­
ceived more assistance in getting
their courses arranged than would
have been possible upon the open­
ing date.
Considering the school as a part­
nership the shareholders consist of
taxpayers, parents, school board,
faculty and students. A success
fui partnership requires the active
cooperation of all shareholders.
Parents and citizens generally are
extended a cordial invitation to vis­
it the school at any time, inspect
the work and to confer with the
members of the faculty concerning
matters of school interest.
The following facts concerning
the faculty for the coming year
may be of interest at this time.
L. L. Gooding, who will serve as
principal, has had twenty five years
of experience as a teacher, princi­
pal and superintendent in the
schools of Indiana and Oregon. Be­
sides his work in the public schools
he served as an instructor in sever­
al county normal schools and taught
Belleau Wood Hero two terms in the Indiana State Nor­
mal at Terre Haute, Ind. He was
elected
to teach his eighth year at
Returned for Burial
Harrisburg just before his election
to the local schools. Mr. Gooding
The body of Thomas Bennett,
will teach mathematics and book­
who was killed in F’rance during
keeping.
the war while a member of the fa­
¿lisa Doughty needs no introduc­
mous marines, was buried Sunday
in Dallas under the auspices of the tion to Herald readers. The com­
local post of American Legion. ing year will be her tenth year as
Funeral services were preached by an instructor in the local schools.
Rev. Frank James at 2:30 at the Miss Doughty will again be in
charge of the History work and will
Chapman undertaking parlors.
Thomas Bennett was born near assist with the Algebra classes.
Pedee, Oregon, on July 28, 1891, She will act as assistant principal.
Miss Madeline Slootboom will
and had lived in this county all his
have
charge of the Science depart
life up to the time of hie enlist­
ment
and assist with the English
ment in the marines on August 17,
work.
She is a graduate of the
1917. He was the son of Mr. and
University
of Oregon where she
Mrs. W. S. Bennett, both parents
made
an
excellent
record in her
now deceased. His only surviving
scholastic
work
as
well
as in athlet­
relatives are two sisters, Mrs.
ics.
Last
spring
she
won the in­
William Muller and Mrs. Herman
Muller, both living in North Dallas. tercollegiate tennis championship in
He was a graduate of the high singles.
school of Perrydale and a member
Miss Sibyl Smith, a graduate of
of the Christian church of that Willamette University, will have
place. After his enlistment he charge of the foreign language de­
took a course of'training at Mare partment and also handle most of
Island;
Califorina,
Galveston, the Fingi ¡sh work. While a student
Texas, and Quautico, Virginia, be­ in Willamette she made an excel­
fore being sent overseas. He was lent record in the language depart­
killed at Belleau Woods on June ment and served as an assistant in
25, 1918.
that department. She also served
The other Polk county boy whose as president of the Y. W. C. A. in
body has arrived from France for the Univeristy and was interested
burial is that of John Braden, who in other student enterprises.
was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Of course "Dad” Sickafooae will
Braden who resided near Green­
again be the dispenser of the “ hot
wood station at the time of his en­
air” and has the building in excel­
listment, but now live in McMinn­
lent condition for the opening of
ville, Oregon.
school. He expects to use much of
He was originally a member of
his time in keeping the fires burn­
the Woodburn company of the Third
ing in the "lower regions” daring
the winter days.
THE GAME IS ON !!
The repairs made during the sum­
mer have made the building look
like new even to the flag pole.
Oregon infantry, but later was
transferred to the 127th infantry,
and while serving with this com­
pany was killed on the battlefield
of France.
The body is being held at the
Chapman undertaking parlors, fun-
real services of which will be held
next Sunday under the auspices of
the local post of the American Ee-
gion and the interment will be in
the Salem cemetery.
The old students of the Normal
gave an informal reception to the
new students at the Community
House on Thursday ¡evening as a
means of getting acquainted and
alao to introduce them to the build*
in*.
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