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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1922)
T he M onmouth H era L d o Vol. XIV Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, April 21, 1922 No. 33 There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley items of Interest At Oregon Normal Classes were resumed at the N or mal on Tuesday after the short Easter recess. Nearly half the stu dents spent the vacation at their homes. Viaitors As the political season grows warmer the evidence that we are really to have a prim ary election grows a little more convincing. Wednesday Editor Ingalls o f Corval lis and Mr. Miller o f the same place called at the Herald office. They were on a general scouting expedition in an effort to locate the goal for which destiny is headed. They find considerable sentiment ii. favor o f Senator Patterson’s candi dacy Benton county has the rival candidates for state senator this year, the candidates being Mr. Johnson, a Corvallis banker and Mr. Belknap, a farmer from Monroe. Yesterday the Herald office was visited by Senator Norblad o f As toria who seeks the seat in Con gress now occupied by Mr. Hawley. Lew Cates, form er editor o f Dallas, now operating a moving picture show at St Helens, was with Sena tor Norblad, who is his son-in-law. The Astoria man finds many favor able to his candidacy. Rumored, Reported lax Investigators Concocted, Collected and Plans Proposed Harold Dickey, a young man o f Sheridan who has been operating a f. r-hire car from that place for other parties was taken into cus tody Saturday evening at Buell, where he had taken u partv o f men to a dance at that place. The ar rest was made by Sheriff John W . Orr and his deputy, Rea Craven. The young man was brought to Dallas and confined there over night On his appearance before Ed F. Coad he was held for trial Wednes day under $250 bail on a charge of bootlegging. The bail was furnish ed by his father. | • 'constitutional limitations on taxing bodies in order that the slack pro duced by shifting the burden from general property to personal in comes remains permanent, and that additional sources o f state income lead rot to increased expenditure. Other phases o f the problem be ing investigated include the rais- ; ing o f the schedules o f specific or privilege taxes, such as fees and li censes, and the reduction o f the cost o f state, county, city and dis trict administration. The committee has not yet reach ed any fixed opinions and is very desirous before doing so o f obtain ing, as far as possible, concrete suggestions from taxpayers which will aid in reaching final decision. Building Progress and Property Sales Work on the new bunk huidilng The tax investigation committee which started last Friday is, with which was appointed by Governor pleasant weather in attendance, Olcott in compliance with an act o f making rapid progress. Pollan Brothers and M. W. Jones have the last legislature, and which has done the excavating, Ben Johnson been in action in Eastern Oregon, and a force o f men from Independ will reach the W illam ette valley in ence are mixing and placing con toward the Junior Week-end festiv the near future and is scheduled to crete for foundations, plumbers ities which occur on May 5-6. The from Salem have laid the ground hold meetings as follows: At Med Juniors w ill present a variety pro pipes and drains and a crew o f car ford April 24; at Roseburg on the penters ure busy building forms. gram in the chapel Friday evening, 25th; at Eugene on the 26th; at May 5. On Saturday, May 6, the I . J . Wedekind started on his Albany on the 27th; at Salem on building operations this week. He regular May Day celebration, for the 28th; McMinnville, the 29th is digging out beneath his prospect which the Normal is so well known, and in Oregon City May 1st. The ive building and the material is w ill be held on the campus. This commission has found it impractca! used for filling by the Grahams who County Superintendent o f Schools includes the crowning o f the May will have a concrete fioor. to visit all ctu nty seats and hss Josiah Wills has mailed from his Queen, various drills and dances, made the meeting points as central W . J. Mulkey. Jr. has decided office to the teachers o f the county and the contest events in tennis, a requisition blank for the eighth as possible so as to give all a chance that he has lived in Monmouth long The has*' ball game between In volley ball, etc. in the afternoon. grade questions, with a request tu be heard. enough to determine to settle down dependence and Monmouth High that they be immediately filled out It is hoped that many people from Membership of the committee is | iiere and make our city his perma Schools, which was to have been and returned to his office. N j pup the surrounding country w ill plan I. N . Day, chairman; Henry E. nent place o f abode. A t any rate ils will be sent questions unless played last Friday afternoon., was The science o f breeding dairy- to spend that day at the Norm al. Reed, Coe S. McKenna and C. S. ! this week he invested in the Julia their names appear on the blank. Lunch will be served at noon on the cows is the subject o f three sessions In the same letter was enclosed a Chapman o f Portland, E. H. Smith called off on uccount o f weather ! Sawyer property on West Main campus by members o f the student with the Polk county dairymen this program for the Polk county field o f Lakeview, Charles A . Brand o f conditions. i street and will reside thereon. In I f *he weather permits. Mon body. The proceeds from this week with Prof. Fitts o f the 0 . A. meet which w ill be held at Inde Roseburg and Walter Pierce o f La- addition to the house this property mouth High will play Falls City lunch will be added to the children’s C. pointing the way, A meeting pendence Saturday, May 20. Ac Grande. consists o f land 82J feet by 330 cording to the program every school High on our field Friday afternoon. Farm Home fund to which the stu was held yesterday at the T. J. The duty o f the committee as ex feet. Consideration was $1100. Werth farm near Grand Ronde and is entitled to not more than three dents pledged $200. The baseball diamond was given G. T . Boothby made the deal. pressed in the legislative act is "T o entries for each event. at 10 o’clock this morning a meet gather information, form ulate rec its final working and rolling down Miss Taylor spent the week-end Mrs. Erickson was here from Eu ing is to be held at McCoy on the J. A. Larson, who is manager o f ommendations, prepared proposed Tuesday afternoon. at her home in Tacoma. gene Saturday long enough to at- Porter Frizzell place and at 2:00 a farm ers’ creamery in Marshfield, legislation and report to the gover A large number o f students, who tend to the transfer o f her resi Mr. Butler is planning a visit to this afternoon on the John R Loy was a visitor in this city Saturday. nor upon the question o f whether are interested in tennis, have been dence property on Broad street the state institutions at Salem ir. farm near Buena Vista. Prospects in Marshfield, he says, or not it is feasible to raise from busy clearing the grass and weeds which she has sold to L. L. Good the near fnture for the students A t the Evangelical confreence are looking up. The lumbering in other sources a substantial portion off o f the tennis court this week. ing, principal o f the Monmouth high who wish to go. held in Dallas last week V. A . Bal- dustry is once more hitting its sride o f public revenue.” There was a large "tu rn ou t” for school. in Coos Superintendent Strange o f As- lantyne was re assigned to A irlie and most o f the mills Reports from Salem indicate that the g ills first baseball practice The sale is reported this week o f to county are at work. Mr. Larson, the deliberations o f the Tax Reduc- toria visited the Normal last week and Lewisville; J. L. Burns Tuesday afternoon. the Elizabeth Clarke house on Main to interview prospective teachers Rickreall End A . L. Lonsberry to who owns a house i>i this city, says tion League is about to culminate The boys have been taking ad street to I)r. F. W . Bowersox, con he plans to come back some time to in an initiative measure to be fo r the coming school year. Mr. Dallas vantage o f the good weather to get sideration, $1350. The doctor w ill Strange gave an excellent talk to Emmett C. Forsythe o f Hood occupy it. placed on the ballot designed to re all the practice possible in baseball improve the property and occupy it the student body at the chapel hour River and Miss Bessie Sw.«pe o f In peal the 1.2 m illagetax voted two and athletics. According to Portland announce as a residence. on Thursday. dependence have fcesn licensed to ments the highway commission will years ago to the univeristy and ag A committee from the Student Arrangements have been made wed. Thomas E. Campbell o f Dal order advertised for its May meet ricultural college and also to put With fair werther this week Body o f the Independence High fo r the Salem Women’s Club Cho las and Ida E. Wahl o f Polk county ing contracts fo r paving the high into effect other taxation reforms. School visited our high school Tues farmers are making the utmost o f way south from Monmouth and They propose a penalty fo r the non the advantage and working early rus to give a concert in Monmouth have also been licensed. day and expressed the desire of from Rickreall to Holmes’ gap. and late. Lumber men also wel assessment o f property that now Albert Sacre is here from Eugene on Sunday afternoon, May 7. They their Student Body that all relations ! come the change fo r it will enable w ill bring with them three soloists this week clearing up the Sacre Fred Lockley, correspondent for escapes taxation such as money, between the two schools be kept on them to g et rid o f the snow which premises and doing some timely the Portland Journal, who makes a notes, mortgages, etc., and they al — soprano, violinist and pianist— a basis o f cordial good fellowship. has held up operations in the coast farm work. specialty o f reminiscences o f the so propose that assessment o f prop and will present a most attractive range. It is seldom that so much pioneers, was in Monmouth last Fri erty shall be on a profit basis. This Our students applauded the speaker snow is found and fo r so long a program. This concert w ill round heartily by way o f appreciation.! day interveiwing people who could period in the lumber district as has contemplates that property w ill be out the May Day entertainments furnish material for his articles. A couple o f weeks ago a committee 1 prevailed this year. Mrs. Henry Constance, a resident taxied on what it can earn and not and furnish an excellent musical from the Monmouth High School Mr. and Mrs. A . Parker enter Thus a Deputy Sheriff T . B. Hooker on on what it w ill sell fo r. appropriate fo r Sunday afternoon. o f the Oak Point district, was had made a similar visit to the In tained relatives from ‘ Yamhill buried in the cemetery south o f In Monday made a turnover o f county business property or farm which Arrangements for the concert are in Carl Dodson. I county Sunday. tax money to A . V . R. Snyder, earns six per cent profit w ill be as dependence High. dependence Tuesday afternoon. the hands o f the student body com county treasurer amounting to the «■ - - — ----- --- ----- - ■ ' ■■ ■ mittee on the Children’s Farm She was born in 1849 and had been sum o f $27,366.69. Mr. Hooker sessed at fu ll value while property Home Fund. A small admission a resident o f this section for years. estimates that about 50 per cent o f which according to past experience fee w ill be charged and all pro Mr. Constance has been a paralytic the total amount o f taxes have been earns only two per cent, w ill be as sessed fo r only one third o f its real C e le b r a te d “ Orpheus Four/* W in n e r s o f H ig h H o n o r * at San F ra n c U c a ceeds over actual expenses will go fo r some time and a few weeks ago collected to date. E x p o s itio n , t o S in g f o r L o c a l P e o p l e Soon . his mental cor.dtiion bceame so bad value. into that fund. Kullender Brothers o f Independ that he was placed in the state hos In discharging the duty imposed ence are mixing and laying concrete D. M. Hampton, who is putting pital for the insane. Mrs. Con by the legislature the committee fo r J. W. Pember this week. They in his time these days on the feder stance, who had worn herself out are doing work for a new garage, has made a study o f tax economics al jury in Portland, assisting to dis caring fo r him, sank in health curbing and other improvements. and investigated the systems o f oth pense justice to bootleggers, coun steadily until death released her. er states. It is now gathering sta terfeiters and other reprobates, y o u r tistics on assessment and taxation spent- the week-end at his home in Henry C. Constance, husband o f this city. _ _ _ _ _ the above, died in the state hospi The sense o f smell is the most in Oregon and making a critical ex tal in Salem yesterday. He was acute o f all the five senses. Men amination o f them. Christian Church The preliminary study o f the Subject o f morning sermon, born in Wisconsin but had lived in and women often have defective commission has thus far disclosed "God and the Sparrows” . Oregon fo r some years. Mrs. Con eyesight; defective hearing; some Evening subject, "M ake Room stance was also a native o f Wiscon time their feelings m e too easily that under present con ditions real fo r Jesus” . sin. Their only heir is a grandson hurt, and some are entirely without property seems to be bearing the The Choir has prepared special In this sense. The sense o f taste is greater part o f the tax load. 13 years o f age, Charles Wlison. music for each service. rather well developed in the race, tangible property, represented by Every chair was filled at the G. H. Partridge received word money, notes, accounts, bonds and some more some less. prayer meeting Wednesday eve. this week o f the death o f his father Grace Parker led the Class in Train We have all kinds o f schemes and shares o f stock, carry but a small ing for Personal Evangelism and which took place at the fam ily home devices to help the dairymen get a per cent. The shifting o f the bur in Evansville, Minnesota, April 7. did it well. better price for his cream; mostly den from personal property to real The father, George Partridge, was they are a failure. Every dairyman property and the gradual decline of Evangelical Church 91 years o f age and was born in and each member o f his fam ily is intangible property on assessment "T h e Homelike Church’ Fingal, Ontario, coming to the W ' ¥'.■ ■ -•* provided by nature with the above rolls appears to be a progressive 11 a. m. "T h e Blood uf Christ” United States when about twenty movement. 7:30 p .m . Mr. S c h u s t e r t h e one. He enlisted with the 30th mentioned sense o f smell and the It has also occurred to the com use o f this valuable, tho little used, Presiding Elder, will preach and Wisconsin regiment and served mittee that there is undue under will also conduct communion ser g ift every dairyman can procure fcV vice. All are invited to participate. through the civil war. A fter the the highest price for his cream or valuation in assessment, resulting J 10 a. m. Sunday School. Howjdo war he took up a homestead in Min milk. in inequality. nesota in Douglas county. He is you spend your Sundays? Riding It has been the custom of \ To reach the intangible wealth, out into the country or setting your survived by two sons and two people for ages upon the departure which is now avoiding taxation, the children the proper example by daughters. o __________________________ o f friends to give the final hand committee has under consideration bringing them to the church? Think about it. shake and kiss. Now you dairymen the imposition o f a tax on personal Christian Science 6:30 p. m. Christian Endeavor. don’ t let a can o f cream leave your incomes as a new source o f reve Subject fo r Sunday, April 23, Tuesday and Thursday Ladigs Aid possession without givin g it a final nue from which to i^erive a suffi at the church. Come and bring "Probation after Death” . "s n 'ff” . I f you are not pleased cient sum to carry a portion o f the vour needle. The announcement Hint tie- < irphi im f our is to appear here la llJ with the sensation received, it is expense o f state administration, near future la xultn leut to park the local auditorium to Its capacity. This la Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon the Home thereby relieving genersl property undoubtedly the moat (»ipt/lar quartette In America today and la known from like Society w ill meet atjthe home "T h e Four Horsemen o f the nature telling you in the plainest o coaat to coast aa a apteodld high grade organization. The Orpheua Four wilt o f Mrs. Fuller. You are invited. Apocalypse vs. the Fifth Horseman, language that you have put off this f a corresponding amount. It is realized by the committee long to- remembered hy the San Fran* I w o Kipoaltlon patrons, for thla quar 7:30 Wednesday, Prayer meeting. (after Ibanez— a long way a ft e r }; parting too long. The often*r you I f you w ill come once we know you and, "W hen the Sun Sets in the part with your cream or milk the that experience has shown that the tette < arrh-d off the national gold medal nt that time. They ara to appear here noon with their delightful program o f fun and melody. The Orpheua Four Is will come again like numbers o f West” ; are the subjects for Sun better the creamery man w ill lo*e tendency follow ing the increase of undoubtedly A m erica'« prem ier male quartette. others are doing. day morning and evening, respect you; the more money you w ill get revenue is toward legislative ex 6:45 p. m. Saturday Choir Prac ively. travagance. To forestall this it if Bible School and the Endeavor for your hutterfat; the happier we tice. Please be there. Y.’e have suggested that there be enforced w ill all be, so please use your nose. some important matters to discuss. meetings as usual. HIGH SCHOOL Obituary A m erica’s Premier M ale Quartet Coming Nose K nows JÊÊ é In the Normal Chapel, April 24
