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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1922)
o ( j r O o /j T he M onmouth H e r a l u • No. 24 Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, February 17. 1922 Voi. XIV T h e r e is N o L a n d L ik e O r e g o n a n d O n ly O n e W i l l a m e t t e V a lle y Ruincreti, Reported Live and l each School Oregon Norinul ',a|ent*ne the third arc* fourth Concocted, Collected In The Same Building ® grades o f the Monmouth Training Items of Interest TRAINING SCHOOL Homage was duly paid to St. School, Tuesday afternoon, Febru- President Landers gave the stu- ary 14f with [the following cadets dents an excellent talk on some out-| acting as hostesses: Mrs. Florence standing qualities of Abraham [Lin- Fink, the Misses Charlotte Ballin, coin’s character at the chapel hour Fannie Steinberge, Vilolet Denney, on Monday. _______ Gertrude DeWitt and Mildred The students who have'completed their rural practice teaching during the past six weeks have returned to the Normal and new groups have gone to the various rural centers to take up the work. Howell, The guests o f the afternoon were Mr. Gentle, Miss Records, Mi.-s Ward, Francis Benrett, Glenn But- ler, Wallace Collins, Gordon Eb- bert, Mary Newman, Robert Nic- cols, Jim Pember, Allyn Phillips The faculty committee which has Helen Robinson, Henrietta Rossell, in charge the selection of motion Mary Sevcik, Sammy Speerstra, pictures announces that the picture j Maud Sumpter, Stanley Pennett, made from Blasco-lbanez’s "Four Dorothy Pork, Virginia Coats, Paul Horsemen o f the Apocalypse,” has, Doughty, Elizabeth Esson, Eliza been secured. It will be shown in' beth Gooding, Zola Gooding, Ber- the chapel on Friday evening,1 niece Harvey, Frederick Hinkle, March 31. ft is rare good fortune Lloyd Kaup, Nadine Mason, Alvin to be able to see this picture in Poole, Eldon Riddell, Madaline Ril Monmouth, as it is one o f the very , ey, Glenn Robinson, Herald Sarter, best and biggest productions o f the Paul.Sevcik and Thelma Wlison. film world. The class room was gayly deco The great event o f this week at rated with a border of red hearts, the Normal is to be the Junior class artistically fastened together with play to be given Saturday evening, white bow knots. An artificial ceil February 18, at 8:15 in the chapel. ing was constructed by festooning "Clarence” , the play, by Booth Tar- red streamers from corner to cor kington, deals with the adventures ner. Suspended from the window o f a returned soldier, who, in seek shades were tiny red hearts, while ing a position, becomes involved in occupying a most conspicuous cor the various domestic difficulties of ner reigned supreme the box o f the a wealthy New York family. Be- hour which held messages o f greet cause'Clarence makes some common ing for all. A short program which included sense suggestions, the family im mediately accept him without ques several short stories, victrola selec tion o f his past or his antecedents. tions, and games was enjoyed. The dining room where refresh Some interesting humorous situa brick ice tions result, leading to a surprising ments, consisting o f climax. Tickets are on sale at fifty cream, centered with a strawberry cents for townspeople, thirty-five heart, and heart shaped cookies, festive with decorations o f pus cents for students, and twenty-five sy willows, streamers and red cents for children. hearts. President Landers attended a - > A mass meeting will be held at the Christian Church tonight at 730 in the interest o f the boys’ and girls’ farm home near Corvallis. The following program has been prepared: 1. Orchestra 2. America- Audience 3. Invocation 4. Vocal solo— Mrs. Chambers 5. Duet— Misses Berreman and Williams 6. S olo—Mr. Arnold Morgan 7. Address—Senator I. L. Pat terson 8. Address Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh 9. Orchestra 10. Benediction A keen interest in the project has been manifest« d throughout the state, and it is hoped the citizens of Monmouth will turn out en masse to hear about this worthy under taking. Local politics has begun to take on form and some argument *n re- gaid to the County Commissioner's office as the term o f present incum bent, T. J. Graves, expires this year. Several prospects are in the field ir.cludnig George Stewart of the northwest part o f the county, George McCullock o f the north part o f the county, and L. D. Leighton o f the west central part o f the county. Mr. Leighton lives between Falls City and Dallas, a part o f the county which is not represented in the county political circle. He is also w\' »known in Dallas and the north part o f the county. It is ru mored that A. B. Blair o f Dallas will be one o f the democratic candi dates. None o f the aspirants have yet filed and it is expected that within a few weeks the campaign will be well under way. The hear ing o f the suit brought by a delega tion o f Independence against the State Highway Commission in re gard to the location o f the State Highway will be heard the 17th in Judge K> lley’s court at Salem, and it is quite evident that the decision o f the court and the evidence given at the trial will be one o f the dis cussion during the campaign for County Cpmmiioner in Polk county. The recent visit o f forty exten sion representatives to the Mountain View rural center has called atten tion to the unique position which it occupies among rural schools Lo cated on the west side highway five miles north o f Corvallis, it com mands an inspiring view • of the mountains and is aptly named Mountain View. The building, con structed two vears ago at a cost of $11,000, is commodious and serves both as a school house and as a home for the teachers, There are four recitation rooms. A sliding door between two o f the rooms makes an auditorium available, with stage and piano. The base- men Peon tains a large playground, and a dining room and kitchen equipment. The second story is nicely furnished and serves as a dormitory for the ten teachers and housekeeper who live in the build ing. Mrs. Inez Miller, the principal, and her assistant, Miss Mary Don aldson, have charge o f the 74 pu pils in attendance and supervise the work o f the eight student teachers from the Normal. The building serves as a community center and Sunday school church services and parties are held there. There are no dances held in the building. The patrons o f the school take a great interest in it and their coop eration has helped to make the pro ject work a distinct success. The mothers’ club o f the district is alive to the needs of the communi ty. and has made possible the serv ing o f soup to the school children. The health program which has been so successfully conducted with the pupils has had its effect upon the entire community, and it is said that theie is no white bread being used in the district now. The student teachers put in full time for six weeks at Mountain View before returning to their rec itations at the Normal. They are all enthusiastic about their work, and such is their attachment for the school that they shed tears when the time comes for their departure Mountain View is a conspicuous example o f how the preplexing problem o f the rural school can be solved. It is not a consolidated district and has an assessed valua tion o f only $135,000. meeting o f the Executive Commit Mr. and Mrs. J H. Strurkin of tee o f the Board of Regents on Salem were visitors in Monmouth Thursday of last week. Sunday. Their house which has A program was given by the Ves been occupied by Frank Clark is to pertine Society, Friday evening. be vacated, Mr. Clark moving to The ideas carried out were a com Lebanon to enter the garage busi bination o f Valentine and Lincoln’ s ness. The house will not be vacant birthday. The first half of the pro long however, as Mr. Hargett of gram was given over to Valentine the drug store is planning to move numbers. One of these was a little in. "Valentine Dolls” dance by six J. E. Winegar and family were girls. An attractive Valentine in McMinnville Sunday to assist his reading by ^Charlotte Ballin was father, M. Winear to observe his given. There were also various 82nd anniversary. Some twenty musical numbers. The patriotic children and grand children were The combination o f wet weather part o f the program consisted chief present. and a flu scare served to keep down ly o f a plantation scene of darkies The suit brought a number of years attendance at the Grange last Sat and their plantation life. Also a ago by the government to recover un urday, but there were more than A letter received this week from flag drill was given by a group of sold lands from the Oregon & Call enough present to fill one of the L. P. Gilmore indicates that he is fornla railroad, Southern Pacific and girls in white costumes. others has been set for hearing May long tables at the Grange dinner. now located in Hughesville, Penn A motion picture entitled "A 1, according to announcement by Degree work held interest during sylvania where he has purchased a Woman’s Place” will be shown in Judge Wolverton In federal court at the forenoon session and in the half interest in the D. W. Osier the chapel Friday evening, Febru Portland. afternoon a nice program was ren Woolen Mill and is, to quote his Following action taken by the Ore ary 17. With Constance Talmage gon Humane society. Dr. Andrews, dered under the direction o f the own words "as busy as a boy kill in the leading part, an entertaining We wish him all Marion county agent for the society, lecturer, Mrs. T. J. Edwards. Ar ing snakes” . evening is promised. left for Oates and other rural com nold Morgan appeared in two of his sorts of success in his venture in munities where he will make an In justly celebrated solos and by way the manufacturing business There were thirty four bulls in vestigation of reports that many o f good measure was persuaded to the car gathered by the Oregon Jer horses and cattle are suffering from add a third. The Riddell Bros, en sey Cattle Club and shipped to lack of feed. The recent cold weather has caused tertained with violin and piano and Humboldt county California last but little damage to loganberry vines ¡County Supt. Josiah Wills rendered week. iThey brought on an average In the Willamette valley, according to an account o f industrial club work $200 each. Ivan Loughary, who the reports of experts who have In in the county. This he said, had as secretary o f the association had vestigated the berry growing districts proven satisfactory as far as garden most[to do with the work o f gather of the section. Broccoli has suffered ing and fruit work was concerned In some extent, as has late-sown grain ing them, accompanied the car to but had not deveolped the interest In the lowlands its destination. Because o f his re wifi be no legal hangings In it should have in live stock clubs. absence and the absence also of the Oregon until the state supreme court He thought this could be remedied j president, C. O. Lewis, the annual and possibly the United States su by getting children to take an in meeting o f the Luckiamute tele preme court hsve bad an opportunity terest who are from families where phone company which was schedul to pass on the constitutionality of the live stock is raised. ed here last Saturday was not held. laws relating to murder In the first Rev. Lewis made his initial bow degree. This was made plain when to the Grange and delivered a short A pruning demonstration is to Governor Olcott extended the re prieves previously granted to Elvle but eloquent address on the benefits be held on the John Friesen farm Kirby, alias James Owens; John o f cj-operation. Messrs. Stockholm south east o f town Monday begin Ratbte and Dan Casey until Friday. and Rogers,also gave short talks. ning at 10:30. Bring your lunch July 7. Extension of the reprieves wss There will be coffee on the ground. made necessary. It was said, because The Eugene high school debating County Agent, [Paul Carpenter will of the Inability of the supreme fours team o f which Ronald Beattie is a be in charge o f the demonstration. to hand down an opinion in the ha beas corpus proceedings Instituted by member lost unanimously to Rose- A. N . Poole was a visitor in Port Kirby before the date set for the ex burg last week. As the affirmative ecutions. and the probability that the team o f Eugene also lost to Rose- land last week looking over the lat - 1 case will be carried to the United est in the way o f builder's plans States supreme court tor final deter- burg, Eugene is thus eliminated from the finals in the association. and equipment. ^ itatloa. h ig h school Commercial Club Rats and Talks The Senior Reception given at the | hi« h « h o o l last Saturday evening was a decided success, the hall was very attractively dceorated, thanks to the decorating committee, and a very interesting program was presented. The program was open ed by talks from both Mr. Gooding and Rev. Pace. Among the other numbers was an address by Presi dent Landers, readings by Miss Allen and Miss Dunlap, songs by the local quartet and other musical numbers. The last number was, o f course, the refreshments which seemed to be enjoyed by all. The school is glad to welcome \ir Gooding back after his week of illness. Melford Nelson o f the Salem high school was a visitor at Monmouth High last Friday. Mr. P. H. Johnson gave a very interesting talk to the student body Monday morning. Due to the fact that he has been a resident o f Mon mouth for a number o f years, he chose for his subject “ The Devel opment of Monmouth” . The classes have been compelled to adjust themselves to a slight change in schedule in order to meet the requirements of the second semester. But everything is run ning smoothly and the only new class is that o f academic arithmetic. "D ad” Sickafoose was again sum moned to Portland this week, to the second session of the Federal grand jury. Bill Jones is taking his place, however, and is looking after [the lower regions as well as furnishing the necessary “ hot air” to the upper deck. The Monmouth High basketball team goes to Airlie, Friday 17 to play a return game. A close game is expected as the Airlie boys put up a hard fight at the previous game. ta rl Tetherow. W. J. Mulkey, Jr. more familiar ly known as “ Dubs” was winner in a boxing match the main event o f an athletic evening arranged by Company h Salem Wednesday night. W. J. was pitted against Carl Mil ler, a Eugene man and the match which was to last ten rounds ended in the eighth when Miller found himself no longer able to put up any sort o f opposition. According to technical ruling W. J. won the battle two or three times during the course of the [evening and his opponent and the ring officials were willing to concede the victory. But the crowd wanted a fight and not referee’s decision and Miller tried his best to do his share but was at no time a match for the clever youth from Monmouth. Plans for a park in Monmouth, which have been considered a num ber o f times here, were given an other boost at the meeting o f the Commercial club last Tuesday even ing. President Landers o f the Nor mal was the speaker who brought up the matter and he volunteered to donate one or more trees to get the work started. He proposed to take the lot on which the band stand is located and beautify it. Another proposal which he made was that the city consult with the landscape and architectural depart ment o f the O. A. C. in getting ad vice as to development o f the city along these lines; advice that would tend to harmonize new buildings as erected and to beautify the streets. Mr. Landers detailed at some length and most interestingly hia ideas o f national economic progress and gave a few reasons why he be lieves business conditions are on tbs high road to improvements. An in teresting fact that developed from his talk was that the Normal might ask the legislature for an appropri ation for a training school in Inde pendence where the facilities are beginning to be cramped. His address was the feature o f the evening at a luncheon enjoyed by fifty club members and associa tes in the dining room o f the hotel and served to bring the new land lord and landlady, Mr. and Mrs.' Sivier to the acquaintance o f the business men o f the city and vicin ity. President G. T. Boothy o f the club, presided and other talkers were Ira C. Powell, who spoke on highway decoration and the benefits therefrom in increaisng the good opinion for the state not only <Jf our visitors, hut the people who live in it; and R. B. Swenson, who detailed a few facts about the pro posed state income tax especially from the view point o f a former resident o f Wisconsin, While the failure o f the State Bank o f Portland announced yester day, creates a sensation it has small local interest as the Monmouth bank was not connected in any way with it. Neither was the State bank a member o f the Federal Re serve system the value o f which is always exhibited in times o f finan cial stress. A daughter was born last week to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wild o f Port land the same being a granddaugh ter o f C. G. Griffa, formerly o f John X. Webber o f Salem was a this city. visitor here several days this week J. T. Guthrie and wife o f Dallas and it is reported plans to take up was a visitor with his brother, H. the'garage work where Frank Clark E. Guthrie and wife in this city laid it down. Sunday. MOMENTOUS MOMENTS
