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No. 8
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, October 28. 1921
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Items of
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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
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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.
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Concocted, Collected
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I arm Bureau Head
Addresses Grangers
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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.
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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.