The Monmouth herald., May 05, 1922, Image 1

T he M onmouth H erald
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Vol. XIV
Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, May 5. 1922
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No. 35
There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley
living. I^iura, my elJest daughter,
mer session are extremely anxious
is the mother of Judge L. T. Harris,
that the parents of children in the
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district may decide promptly to en­
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Walter, my eldt.-t son, is dead. Mv
roll their children in the six-w'eks'
¡next child, Martha Alice Craig,
seision. The cost to the district
lives at 324 Broadway. My son
Just to prove that his name of Co­
Junior Week-End, including the for the school will be practically
The local Odd Fellows have now j Mrs. A. A. Cattron, a pioneer of Edgar is in business at Spokane,
lumbus
Hooker Howell is not acci­
May Day celebration, is the chief nothing, thus making it possible rceeived the plans and specifications Oregon and long a resident of Mon- Eugene, my next son, is in business
dental
that
gentleman is starting
at
Seattle
Bertha,
my
baby,
now
topic of conversation at the Normal for these centers to have six weeks
their building and they ha\ei mouth, was buried in this citv
Mrs. Clodfelter, lives on the east this week on a voyage of exploration
this week and all members of the more school than they would other- been submitt-d to a number of; Tuesday. She died April 29 at the side. I have eight grandchildren
into Eastern Oregon where he goes
committees are directing earnest wise have, and that too, at little or oontr»ctors with the result that the . home of her daughter in Portland, and three great grandchildren.
to
exploit a recent invention of his.
efforts toward making those festiv­ no cost. It is planned to have the decisive figures are to be presented The Cattrons were familiar figures
“ I had hard sledding after my
The
machine is known as a weed
ities the success they have always session open at 8:00 o’clock in the and bids opened on Saturday May in the early history of Monmouth, husband’s death, but 1 determined
killer,
an indispensiblo article in a
been in the past. The program morning and close at 12:00 for the ; 13.
a street in this city as well as a to give all my children an education
country
where half of the land lies
and
I
worked
early
and
late
to
do
The plans call for a two story subdivision bears the family name.
will begin with the Junior Frolic day, with two short intermissions
it.
1
spent
the
most
of
my
married
fallow
each
year. In the dry reach­
structure with ground dimensions Although the first home of the fam­
to be given in the chapel Friday ! between.
life at Monmouth. 1 met Dr. es of the Inland Empire it is neces­
eighty by eighty feet. The floor is ily was at Yamhill, they lived in Campbell there and learned to res­
evening at 8:15. The exact nature
The June promotion will be made to have room for two or three store Monmouth for many years and the pect and admire him. His son is sary to conserve moisture and if
of t^is entertainment is a deep se­
cret which may only be discovered and the class work will begin in the buildings as may appear to best ad- husband, Jonathan Cattron, died president of the University of Ore­ weeds were allowed to grow on the
in the chapel or. the appointed even­ summer school where it would oth- vantage. The upper floor is to be here. About two years ago Mrs. gon and is very much like his fallow land the purpose of the rest
father.”
given the land would be defeated.
ing. On Saturday the May Day erw.se begin in September, Those devoted to a lodgeroom, sixty by Cattron sold her reisdence here and
To kill the weeds it is the custom
children
who
remain
in
the
Training
forty
five
feet
and
a
banquet
room
will be celebrated on the campus
went to live in Portland.
S on o f R ev. G oode D e a d
to
work the land with a razor like
centers
for
four
or
five
years
of
0f
the
same
length
but
33
feet
with the following program, which
In the course .of his journeyings
contrivance
which skims the top
The
following
from
the
Oregon­
their
school
course
will
make
up
a
wide.
The
banquet
room
is
to
have
will begin promptly at nine o’clock.
up and down the state Fred Lockley
soil
without
loosening it, which
ian
will
interest
many
Monmouth
year
without
any
forcing
at
all.
a
kitchen
at
the
rear
and
ante
9:00 Procession of the Queen
of the Portland Journal once upon
would
allow
it
to dry out.
people.
Rev.
John
A.
Goode
was
A
meeting
will
be
called
some
(
rooms
and
a
lounging
room
will
be
Assembling of the Classes
a time interviewed Mrs. Cattron as
The
common
instrument with
at
one
time
Evangelical
minister
in
afternoon
this
week
in
the
Training
at
the
rear
of
the
lodge
room.
Crowning of the Queen
follows:
which
Eastern
Oregon
farmers bar­
this
city
and
his
children
were
ed­
School
building
in
Monmouth
to
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9:30 The Junior Pageant
“The first money I earned in Or­
ber
their
fallow
fields
is open to
consider
the
matter
more
fully
Robert
W.
Crawford,
plant
mar.-
ucated
here.
egon was for taking care of Mrs.
10:30 May Pole Winding
the
objection
that
it
is
not
adjust­
with
the
parents
of
the
children
ager
for
the
Willamette
Valley
Flax
“
As
a
result
of
being
gassed
Ransome
Clark’s
sick
baby.
1
took
11:00 Volley Ball
care
of
it
every
day
all
day
long
able
and
while
at
times
it
gives
a
who
are
now
attending
the
Training
and
Hemp
Growers
Cooperative
as-
at
the
front
while
fighting
against
12:00 to 1:00 Intermission
for three months. This was in the the Germans in 1918, Dr. Earle bum shave and leaves a weeks
sociation
has
resigned.
No
reason
School.
1:00 Tennis and Quoits
for the resignation has been made winter of 1846. She gave me four Goode, 27, died at the home of his growth of stubble on the chin of
1:30 Base Ball— O. N. S. vs. Al­
yards of calico for a dress, in pay­
public other than it was for busi­ ment for my winter’s work” . Mrs. parents, the Rev. and Mrs. John A. Nature, ut other times the blade
B u n d le D a y
bany College
May 24th will be Bundle Day ness reasons. Mr. Crawford is a na­ Jonathan Cattron, who was speak­ Goode, 7412 Fifty-fifth avenue digs in with a vigor difficult to dis­
2:00 Folk Dancing
for Near East Relief throughout tive of Belfast, Ireland, near which ing, leaned forward and said: “The Southeast, yesterday afternoon. courage and getting down below
2:15 Original Drills
women of today don’t know what
3:30 Base Ball (Women); Relay the United States. Last year Amer­ city three fourths.of the world’s hard times are. The first winter Dr. Goode was a member of the the roots of the weed pests, makes
linen
is
produced.
He
was
trained
ica sent 1,000 tons of clothing to
Race (Men)
we were in Oregon my father split state legislature from Multnomah them more thrifty and encourages
in
the
flax
industry
in
the
Emerald
the Near East. President Maesan-
rails for Jordan Hembree in pay county in 1917, being one of the a rank growth rather than slaugh­
Awarding of Trophy
Isle
and
has
lived
in
Canada.
He
ment for two hogs.
These
two youngest men ever elected to su-'h tering them for which purpose the
agian of the Armenian Republic
Beginning about 1:30 P. M., and says that one fifth of the present was formery manager of the peni­ hogs, with boiled wheat and frozen a position in Oregon.
work is done. At times the weeds
during the other events, the Nor­ population of that section have been tentiary state flax plant. The as­ potatoes, were all we had to eat
When the war broke out, he en­ gather and accumulate before the
mal men will play a baseball game clothed in cast off American gar­ sociation is the one which has that winter.
listed and was soon at the front. blade, causing perplexity, perspira­
“ No, I wasn’t born in Oregon,
with the Albany College team. ments during the year. New cloth­ bought the Rickreall mill and re­
but I have lived in Oregon for the Since his injury he had been a vic­ tion and profanity before the blade
The exercises on the campus will ing wears out fast enough, the sup cently let the contract to a Dallas past 75 years, so I can pretty nearly tim of the lingering illness.
is cleared and started to working
close with the awarding of the tro­ ply of half worn garments is now man f ° r tearing down the same. qualify as a pioneer. I was born
Dr. Goode is survived by his par­ a;ain.
in Missouri on September 18, 1837, ents, a brother, Hubert A. Goode,
phy to the winning class by Presi­ completely exhausted. Number This work is now in progress.
The heeps of weeds left from
so I have reached the age of four secretary to Commissioner Mann, these shearings are not only un­
dent landers. The judges chosen less men, women and children are
score and four years and I am sup
A S tr a w V o te
for the fcont*. t events a - Wft-s. J. destitute of cloth/ng and thousands
posed to be old, but as a matter of and a sister, Mrs. H erlert R. Tyler,” sightly but are a nuisance when the
A. Churchill and Superintendent have no covering whatever save
At the meeting of the Social fact I am not really old. When
time comes to put in a crop.
Hug, both of Salem, and Miss Flor­ the thinnest rags. Inside the Near Hour Club with Mrs. Ackerman people get old they live in the past H a p p y H a rm o n y Q u a r te tte
Hooker’s machine, which has been
ence Alder of the Department of East Relief orphanages much of last Tuesday afternoon a straw vote and lose interest in what is happen­
patented and a specimen of which
The visit of the Happy Harmony
ing today and what is going to hap­
Physical Training in the U. of O.
the clothing in manufactured by was taken of favorites for the office pen tomorrow. 1 regard the de­ Quartette to Monmouth was surely has recently l>een turned out by the
A dancing party in honor of the j the children themselves under the of governor which resulted as fol­ bates in congress and all the polit­ a happy event and all who heard Multnomah Iron works has two
Juniors will be given by the Sen­ direction of the relief workers, but lows: Lee 3, Olcott 9, Patterson ical news in the papers much more them were delighted with their blades, one back of the other, each
iors in the gymnasium on Saturday the majority of them and almost 11, White 1, Starkweather 2, Bean carefully than do my children or beautiful singing. Saturday even­ of which can be raised or lowered
at will. One blade works at a time
evening. Local friends on the Nor­ the entire.population of Armenia 3, and one lady evidently thought grandchildren.
ing they were greeted by a large
"Do
1
remember
coming
across
and when it fouls, it is raised and
mal social list are invited to this will have to dress in American sec- McNary was a candidate and gave
audience at the Christian Church
the
plains
in
1846?
1
should
say
1
ond hand clothes again next year.
a vo*e- Mesdames Staats, J. do. 1 was 9 years old, and as I when they presented an interesting the other lowered by lever which
party.
Approximately eighty percent B. V. Butler and Mingus assisted think back to our trip it seems as program of quartettes, duets, solos saves time, keeps the work in mo­
A most cordial invitation to at­
of the hand looms have been des- •^r8, Ackerman in entertaining. fresh as if we had made the trip and readings. The program made tion and allows the accumulation
tend these festivities is extended
My mother, an effective appeal on account of to be spread out as the machine
troyed during the war; famine and ^ ere
be just one more meet- this past summer.
to all friends in the community.
whose
maiden
name
was Lavina
proceeds. With its system of levers
invasion hawe scattered the women 'nK
c*u^ bef°r<? the summer
the liberal sprinkling of popular
The Misses Ruth Jenkins and and airls who formerly operated '»ration and that will be held with ' fille r. met my father, Zebedee
ana giris wno iormeriy opersiea
Shelton, who was bom in Tennes- numbers, and the humorous num­ the blades are readily adjustable to
Jane Gunn, who were elected to j them; and the flocks of sheep which wr- aiadls-___________ __
meet land conditions and a first
see, at her birthplace in Missouri. bers were very cleverly done.
represent the Normal at the Stu­ in former days furnished the wool
class shave is guaranteed each time
They were married there. With
Miss Sylvia Gilfilen, the soprano
dent Volunteer Conference at Eu have been killed for food or stolen
B o o st fo r B ill
theirjnine children they started for of the quartette, is assistant in­ the fallow land is barbered.
Lucy and Susan took
gene last week-end, brought ba-k by invaders.
Mr. Howell has spent the winter
Wm. Riddell, J r. for county com­ Oregon.
scarlet
fever
and died before they structor in vocal music at E. B. U.
reports of a most enthusiastic and
missioner deserves the support of got to St. Joseph, where the em­ and the other three members, Viv­ at Valsetz. He has been at work
inspiring meeting. They gave ex­
the entire area of Polk county just igrants were to assemble. My old- ian Whistler, soprano, Helen Good­ on this machine for the past four­
HIGH SCHOOL
cellent reports at the chapel hour
The high school greatly enjoyed as a matter of policy. In our pri- est sister was America Minerva, win, alto, and Alice Brunk, contral­ teen years and it embodies many
on Tuesday morning.
the address given Monday morning mary system in too many instances ■''he married Mr. Bidwell. The next to, are students of the school of ideas he accumulated during a long
apprenticeship in the fields of
Dean John Straub of U. of O. by Dean Straub of the University the man who seeks the office is too {*'***• John w - aa a farmer in \ am- music. They have practiced togeth­
type best qual.fied to Jamw c bpcame a doctor and er ^ t for
. nearly two years and have Eastern Washington and Oregon.
visited the Normal on Monday and of Oregon. Hia theme was. Value often not the
conduct public business. In Mr. tied at Salem. 1 was the next child. attained a perfect blend of the
gave an address to'the students and of an Education” .
It
will
nf
intt>ro«t
tn
all
Rth!»
Riadell we have a man who was Nancy came next. She married Dr. voices that is delightful to listen
faculty at the chapel hour. Mr.
drafted
into th . service because his E. W
* . Thodtaa. the n , » to. The voices are also excellent New Church for Fairview
Straub’s long association with
«»‘ individually and the solos and dueta
young men and women has made tie n o n th e Old Testament will be " '¡« hbOT» H v . conMemt. in him p^ " nV ' e " * " K
Alter holding services in the
him particularly skillful in the ex­ given at nine o’clock Friday, and a r‘ know that he will make a cap- the baby of the family.
were greatly enjoyed. The pro­ Fairview school house for some
busy and
.... . ,
pression of concrete, vivid stcle- on the New Testament at one able public ... servant. , His
, . . ,
It took us six months to a day gram was made doubly interesting time the members of the Raptist
prosperous
life
speaks
for
his
char-
lo
cr0M the
the p|aina-
ments which especially appeal to o’clock.
plains We rame by by their sparkling personalities, and church in that vicinity are antici­
acter
and
offers
positive evidence way of the newly opened Barlow all agree that they are well named pating with pleasure the dedication
young people and his speech w e b , A baseball game is scheduled
certainly one of the best heard from with Dallas, Friday evening. May that he will be exactly the kind of trail. Oris Brown was captain of "Happy Harmony” .
of the new church. These services
a man Polk county needs as countv
train. His mother, Tabitha
the chapel platform this year.
Sunday they sang at Sunday will occur Sunday, May 14, and
5. The game will be played on the commissioner.
She
started
I Brown, was with him.
the school at Forest Grove that be- School, Endeavor and church ser­ plans have lieen formulated for
Students and faculty were es­ Dallas field.
~~
came
Pacific university. We stop- vices, and on Monday gave six se­ making it a big community affair.
There will be a regular meeting
pecially fortunate on Monday in
At the council meeting last Tues-; ped at Absolom Hembree’s place lections at the chapel exercises at
Services will start in the morn­
hearing also the members of the of the school borrd Friday evening. day night the auto bus ordinance i ne,r
till father could look the Norm el. Their presence in the ing promptly at 10:30 o’clock and
Happy Harmony Quartet, a musical
The Polk County Track and Field ^vas passed a and
__i at . the
l .
.
, around
Bnd , pick out a farm. We city for the three days {was an in­
same time
by
.
the dedication sermon will be deliv­
3 1 met my uncle. Dr. Janies McBride,
organization of the Eugene Bible meet is to be held at Independence,
\ote of the council i > cents per at Oregon City. He got in a few spiration and when they return ered by Dr. Wright of Portland.
School who sang several selections. on May 20.
day was made the official license 1 days after we did. They had been tiiey may be asaured of a hearty At the hour of noon a basket din­
The Baccalaureate sermon for the fee for the Salem-Monmouth bus. just one wagon train behind us all welcome.
The summer session of the Ore­
ner will be served to which all at­
gon Normal School will inaugurate graduates of the high school will E. N. Keeney appeared before the the way *croM the plains.
tending the services are invited to
’Father took up a place just
The band boys have secured the participate.
one new feature this summer. It be held Sunday evening, June 4, in council asking that curbs be order­
Dr.
Milliken of
across the Yamhill river, three
is now under consideration that a the Evangelical church. Reverend ed in along Broad street but this miles west of where Carlton was services of Rev. V.#E. Lewis as Salem, will deliver a sermon in the
matter was laid over for further ater located. W. L. Adams was lesder and at the last meeting of afternoon and evangelistic services
summer practice school be organized Lewis will deliver the sermon.
>
The Commencement exercises of investigation.
in Monmouth, Independence and
my first teacher / My next was the Odd Fellows the boys were will t e held in the evening.
Matthew P. Deady and then came granted the use of the lodge room
Mountain View. The demand for the high school will be held in t h e ------------------------- -
The Fairview Baptist church is
Judge Cowles.
on Tuesday evenings for practice. located about 10 miles from Dal­
practice work by teachers who are high school assemblv, June 9. Pro- class production,
regularly employed during the rest fesacr Du Bach, of the Oregon Ag-! The cast includes Carl Tether-
wa’ ^
old when I mar- Rev. I,ewis is an accomplished mu­ las on the Luckiamute river. Rev.
of the year making this feature riclutural College, will deliver the ow. Dorothy Clark, Hugh Van Loan 'T *- M> .uncle*
McBrtde, sician and a good instructor and the
mAtirnmn
’
»wiLiwi, whose son is now on the supreme boys are nappy in the prospect of J. C. Tihbits of Salem holds ser­
very necessary now. It is the next *"
vices semi-monthly to good sized
' ’*'arn,ce Stewart, Adair Hooding, bench of Oregon, married us. My
forward movement for the Normal ¿The high school play “ Between Mary Bowersox and Horace Butler, husband, Jonathan Cattron, came making musical progress.
congregations who are quite en-
School. State normal schools else­ Acts" will be given the week end of
W atch for announceme nts aud to O'««0« the year M u re.
We
There will he no regular meeting j thusiastic in the good work they
where have had summer practice the twelfth and thirteenth. The | plan to be present at the appear lwer* married
The new
May 28, 1853. My of the Woman’s Relief Corps in In- are accomplishing.
huaband died five days tefore
schools for the past two or three cast has been faithfully rehearsing ! ance of this ’All S tar” east.
church
has
just
been
completed
and
Bertha, our seventh child, was’dependence this week nn l the next
years. Those in charge of the sum- and hopes to be able to give a first
|cost
about$1700.
Silver Philips. born. Fivelof our children are still regular meeting will be on May 20.
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At Oregon Normal
Rumored, Reported Pioneer Resident
Dies in ortlanu
Concocted, Collected
Howell Would Help
The Inland Empire