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T he Vol. XIV - l ' ' No. 8 Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, October 28. 1921 -------------- Items of ------------------------- Interest Award Damages At Oregon Normal President Landers spoke Monday at the Douglas County institute held at Roseburg, where he went from Pendleton where he was en gaged in similar work last Satur day. Wednesday he spoke at the Polk county institute in Dallas. The many friends of Mr. Beattie will be glad to learn that he is im proving, though slowly, from his recent illness. The first basketball game of the season is to be played in the gym nasium on Thursday evening, be tween the Junior and Senior men At this writing, the members of both Junior and Senior [class are in dustriously practicing veils and songs with which to cheer on their respective representatives. The students and faculty were pleased to hear Miss Ruby Lorence sing at the chapel hour on Thurs day of last week. Miss Lorence sang two groups of attractive songs which were much appreciated and heartily applauded. Friends of Miss Goldie llufford of Bandon, who was graduated from Normal last year, will be pleased to learn of her recent marriage to Mr. William Wood, also of Bandon. Miss Huffu.d was a popular stu dent, an officer in various Normal organizations, and has many friends who will wish her much happiness. Students and faculty members are looking forward eagerly to the recital to be given Wednesday, No vember 9th, by Mr. David Camp bell and Mr. Mutch, both of Port land. This is the first of the reg ular Lyceum numbers to be given this year. At chapel hour on Monday, Mr. Butler briefly recounted his exper iences at the institutes where he spoke during the past two weeks. He met many former students and had all in all a most interesting time. A motion picture entitled Little Italy” is to be shown in the chapel Friday evening, October 28th. This is a Realart picture with Alice Brady in the leading part and will interest old and young alike. On Tuesday morning at the chapel hour, Mr. Butler read a letter from Miss Olive A. Whipple and Mrs. Lela Schaffer McDonald who are teaching in Hawaii. Both are * graduates of the Normal and are doing the real 0 . N. S. type of work in the far off islands. Miss Macpherson week-end in Salem. spent -_____ _____________________________________ _________________________________ la.-t In the case of the county court vs. the county superintendent over high school money alleged to have been collected in excess of the 6 per cent law. Judge Belt decided the superintendent was right and could not be compelled to refund any money in this fund. The court rul ed the excess should be paid out of the general fund of the county. We have received from the county court a financial statement showing expenditures and receipts of the county and figures explaining the necessity of the proposed $70,000 special tax to be voted on in No vember. A digest of the s*atement will be published next week. The concert given in the chapel Wednesday evening will be repeat- e i at the Grand Theater in Dallas tonight. The committee to whom was re signed the disagreeable duty of ap portioning damages and benefits in the newly designated Highway street met last Saturday as advertis ed. After lengthy deliberation they agreed that Postmaster Parker’s land had been damage! to the amount of $375 and the Chas. Leonard property was aw arded $175. The commission consisted of G. T Boothby, J. L. Murdock and John Full.r. First Lyceum Number The date for the first number on the Lyceum course will be Wednes day, November 9. The principals for this first concert are a Faculty Duo from the Lllison-Y\ hite Con servatory of Music in Portland— Mr. Erwin Mutch, baritone, and Mr. David Campbell, pianist. Mr. Mutch is an Eastern man and has a fine baritone voice at once resonant and rich in color. He sings with an unusual dramatic fer vor, adapting himself readily to a variety of styles and altogether demonstrating wide versatility. These natural endowments, coupled with an ingratiating presence and manner have placed Mr. Mutch in the foremost rank of young American baritones. Six times soloist with the New York Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Walter Dam- roscli; soloist for four years at the Cathedral of St. Johns the Divine, New York City, one of the most enviable positions of its kind in America; and successful concert appearances all over the country, is indeed a splendid record of accom plishment. To achieve such success even in this day of young men is in every way remarkable. David Campbell needs no intro duction to a Monmouth audience. Monmouth is his birthplace and his home. He received his early e lu- cation at the Normal. From this school he went to the Whitman con servatory of music in Walla Walla, and from there to Europe w here he studied for several years with Ru dolph Ganz. The outbreak of hos tilities in 191t put a sudden check to the auspicious beginnings of a concert career in Europe. Return ing to this country he enlisted in the American Expeditior.ay Forces, was sent overseas, and did not re sume his musical activities until the fall of 1919. Since that time his reputation as concert artist has grown steadily and his marvelous playing has already gained him a large following. Last spring he scored a notable success wi th the Portland Symphony Orchestra in Eugene, and this winter he has been engaged to play with the Ix>s Angeles Symphony in that city. During a vacation spent in Califor nia the past summer, he visited and played for the noted pianist Pader ewski; That greatest of all living musicians gave high praise to his gifts, asking him to return and plsy for him again when occasion per mitted. The program which Mr. Mutch and Mr. Campbell will present covers a wide range of musical sub jects from Arias and Rapsod'es to Irish ballads and Negro 'love songs. We many count ourselves fortunate in having secured such versatile and well known artists for our first Lyceum numl*r. The evening of November 9 holds a treat in store. ________ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rumored, Reported Concocted, Collected % . . I arm Bureau Head Addresses Grangers . . . —, Assessments in Polk county were raised this year over last year by the sum of $ 181 , 666 . 2,515 acres of tillable land were reported this year more than last year. Property tn Polk county is assessed at 49 per cent of actual value hut next year an effort will he made to have the assessment raised to 70. State tax es are assessed to the county, not on local valuation but on what state officers think the proportionate val ue of county property is. The W. R. C. of Independence will meet at their hall Friday, November 4th at noon. After din ner a special meeting will be held at 2:30. An inspector will he pres ent from Portland to inspect the corps. All nembers of the G. A.R. and the W. R. C. are urged to at tend. Don’t forget the date, Fri day, November 4. G. T. Boothby reports three real estate sales this week. The Murphy property on Monmouth avenue, north of the Baptist church has been sold to John Scott who desires to get his residence nearer to his work Consideration $1600. The C. C. Lewis lots at the corner of Powell and Echols streets have been sold to Thos. Bouiden, consideration $300. This consists of a quarter of a block. The two lots on Broad street, be longing to M. H.and Louise Rester, and across from the residence oc cupied by R. E. Derby have been sold to H. E. White, an employee of the Miller Mercantile who may build thereon. The fall has been very favorable for farmers on the lower lands and most of them have put in their full acreage of fall sown grain. Heavy rains which have been with us for the past week have loosened up the hills and started the young grain to growing. Thomas Strain has been serioui- ly sick this week. Married in Montavilla The Wilford Smith residence, 39 E. 72nd St. N., was the scene tf the marriage of Mrs. Effie Reason and Mr. Newton Foster. The bride was attended by her sister, Mrs. Wilford Smith, Mr. Andy Nogard acting as best man. Thé ceremony was performed beneath a lattice work of peacock blue and white with a large bell hanging over the bride’s and groom’s heads. Rev. L. C. Haskins, pastor of Montavilla Christian church, officiated. The bride was attired in a becom ing shade of peacock blue and silver and wore a corsage bouquet of pink and white roses. The effective trîtnming of the room was a pretty conti ast with the bride and her at tendant. After the ceremony ice cream ard cake was served to fifty guests, a11 relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Foster will be at horn ' to tl e r friends at 1664 Has- salo street. A towel and handkerchief shower was given for Mrs. Reason hv Mrs. McQuiston and Mrs. Dozier at[the latter’a home Thursday afternoon. October 13 in honor of Mrs. Reason's a| proaching marriage on the 16th. Quite a number of friends and rel The Dorcas society of the Christ atives att* nded. 1 he afternoon w : a ian church met with Mrs. H. k . fpent w ith music and l'est w ishes for Sickafoose Tuesday afternoon. ¡the brid.. te le .— Montavilla Times. President Mansfield of the state fai m bureau was the special attrac tion of the afternoon at the Pomona grange meeting here last Saturday afternoon. Mr. Mansfield address ed the crowd at considerable length and drove home a series of perti nent truths in a most telling man ner. In his service for the bureau which has taken hin) through the state and as far east as Washington, D. C., he has uncovered many curious facts. The idea prevailed in some parts, he said, that farmers have no t ight to interest themselves in their product after it is grown. To expect to follow the food pro duced until it reaches the consumer, was considered by some,to be Bol shevistic. If this is true the Stan dard Oil is a Bolshevistic concern, for it is accustomed to buy oil bear ing lamls, to drill for the oil and refine it, to establish depots, to ped dle its oil direct to the retailers, and even engages in the retail game itself. So many abuses have grown up in the handling of the farmers product that it is time the farmer took a practical interest in the matter. Mr. Mansfield told of the agricul tural bloc in congress which was non partisan and was accomplishing much that it had sought for. He described “ Phantom” freight, an item which he asserted increases unjustly the price of all articles sold on this coast. As an instance he cited the steel industry, where standard prices are set for Pitts burg with freight charges added at every point west. Steel costs $12 more in Chicago than in Pittsburg and $30 more in Portland than in Pittsburg. This charge, he said, attaches itself to all commodities, so that articles manufactured on this coast hear the cost in the east ern market plus the cost of the freight that would have been neces sary to transport it had it been nec- e.-sary to ship from the east. 'Die farm bureau, he said, desirt s to bring injury to no one. It does nut wish to build up the farmer at the expense of his fellows in other callings. lit realized that all must work together and that one must give and take with the other. Nevertheless he believed the farm ers are taken advantage of unjustly and must he alert to look after their own interests. Mrs. lenders, whose singing makes her a prominent figure on any prof ram where she appears, rendered two vocal solos for the grange and was given a very ap preciative hearing. In Foreign Lands That the life of an American sail or on those American warships which happen to he stationed in the orient is not all deck scrubbing and coal passing is indicated in a letter received from Ernest Sickafoose, son of H. E. Sickafoose, foot of Miles s tn e t, who is a member of the crew of the United States ship Albany. At the time of writing the letter the Albany was stationed at Hankow, China. When the sailors get shore leave they are entertained by varieties of amusements on shore and when they are aboard they have smokers and boxing matches to pass the time, according to Mr. Sickafoose's letter. ‘‘I like Shanghai for its many dif ferent ways of entertainment” , wrote Mr. Sickafoose. “One can see old Chinese sights right near the city. Then there are the clubs where there is something doing all the time, the bars, the cabarets and my favorite haunts, the dining rooms and the tea houses. Meals are cheap. "In this country ashore one hard ly has to do a thing. At every turn in a club or public house one sees Chinese to do some little thing that lightens one’s trouble. Even in playing tennis one has a hoy at his side to chase a hall if it goes out of bounds or out of reach.” —Oregon ian. Getting an Education University of Oregon— (Special) Houses are scarce and rents are high the world over, hut two boys from The Dalles, Norman Russell and Guy Ferry, who are now fresh men at the university, have shown a resourceful independence of land lords. Their domicile is a tent un der a leaning maple tree, about a half a mile from the campus and they do their commuting on a mo torcycle. Their tent home is not a tempor ary expedient. They expect to live in it for four years. Over a wood en foundation the two men placed an army wall tent. The wooden floor is lioarded up from the sides for more than three feet. This wall is neatly covered with tar pa per and the tent fits snugly down over the sides. A jointed stove pipe protruding from the south'side of the tent and a split pile of wood bear witness that the men are standing by for chilly weather. Electric lights will soon be installed. Norman^Rossell is majoring in med icine and Guy Perry in education. A number of Modern Woodmen from thiscity attended the enlarge«! session held by Prune Center camp in Dallas last Saturday evening. Visitors were present from Port land, Salem, Independence and Falls City, also. About 125 attended. A company of foresters from Rose City Camp, Portland, initiated a class of six into the order.- Dis tinguished visitors present were J . A. Tate, of.Portland, chairman «r/ the national hoard of auditors; Fred Currey of Rend, new deputy; the retiring deputy, J. W. Simmons of Portland; Frank Moore of Portland and ex-Senator Walter Pierce, who is at present state lecturer of the Woodmen. All of these gentlemen made addresses. A fine luncheon was served as a part of the evening program. The Polk bounty Pomona Grange in session Saturday elected officers for the coming year as follows: Master, P. O. Powell; overseer, A. L Ewing; lecturer, Mrs. Pearl B irtlett; steward, Frank Loughary; assistant steward, Arthur Buell; chaplain, W. J. Stockholm; treas urer, Mrs. P.O. Powell; secretary; Mrs. Nellie White; gatekeeper, Willard Buell; O res, Mrs. T. J. Edwards; Pomona, Mrs. Emma Carter; Flora, Mrs. Wm. Riddell J r.; lady assistant steward, Mrs. Jennie Utley. Fourtten new menders were in itiated into the fifth de/ree. A rejolution was passed endor sing the work of the farm bureau Mr. and Mrs. St ah man of Ranier in Polk county. __f are the guests of the latter’a sisters. Y rj. J. S. Fuller has been under Mrs. N. S. Stewart and Mrs. Short the weather the past week. this week. Commissioner Gives Reasons for lax The proposed $70,000 special road tax was explained by Com missioner Thomas Graves of McCoy at the Pomona Grange meeting held in this city last Saturday. The court, he explained, has been com- t>elled to call this special election for the purpose of wiping out a de ficiency of $23,000 now existing, to provide necessary funds for the in creased cost of administering coun ty affairs and to provide for a con tinuation of necessary road work in the county, in all of its dis tricts. The deficiency, he explained, came from a number of causes. Last years estimate in all of the county offices were lowered at the time the actual budget was made out by the court, hut time had proved the original estimates were necessary and enough money had not been raised to run the county offices. There had been during the year, two special elections which had not been reckoned on at the time last year’s budget was prepar ed. The balance of the deficiency had been acquired in road and bridge work. Mr. Graves said as far as he was concerned he had been neu tral in the highway location squab ble but as far as the court was con cerned this matter had been settled with the commission last spring. Some of the extra costs had been met in the bridge fund. Two bridges have been built south of Monmouth, one is to he built just north of town. An expensive bridge is to be built across the Rickreall. Another bridge is to l e built across the I.uckiamute south west of this city. As for right of way this had cost some money. The net cost of the semi-circle arourd the cemetery hill was only $100. The right of way round the Wheel er hill had not yet been acquired. The total of the tax money wi.s to he distributed among the neces sary expenses of the county ard the balance will lie put in the ro:d fund. The road fund is divided seventy per cent to the separate road districts and the balance to the county bridge fund. A discus sion of the tax among the Grant-e members and others present did not develop any opposition to it. Tl e opinion was that the tax was neces sary and would have to be voted. A Good Program The musical program given in tl e Normal chapel last Wednesdiy evening was very successful. While in a measure it was home talent, traveling companies of a similar character do not ofUn surpass it. Mr. Launer, pianist, who is a son of Rev. Ijruner of the Salem Evan gelical church, displayed his talent to fine advantage and played difficult selections in a manner which n.et with the approval of the audience. Miss Gweneth Davis, the soprano soloist, met with a warm welcome. She has an engaging presence and a well modulated voice and her singing has been received with very favorable c«*nrment. J . Rowell s baritone selections were very g<*d and Burton Arant as piano accom panist and manager of the company, acquitted himself very creditably. One of thp selections sung by Mirs Davis, "My Love is like a Red. Red Rose” is original with Mr. Arant and the audience expressed its a| - precistion of this with special ap plause.
