T he M onmouth H era L d
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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.
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'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
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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
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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
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vice. All are invited to participate. through the civil war. A fter the the highest price for his cream or valuation in assessment, resulting
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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.
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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
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In the Normal Chapel, April 24