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T he M onmouth H e r a l u
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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
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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
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>
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