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M o n m o u th H e r a l d o V, VOL. XV 44 MONMOUTH, POLK COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1923 There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley meats of Mr. Jones in the talk that preceded his, ami said that friends of repeated but we did not know the measure must awake to the necessity for action. He believed women opened. the law in the referendum is in grave I sack that she carried. In it were po • . . , .. tatoes. They gave Mr. Helmick three . .. . . ~ ' danger o f defeat. If defeated he The woes o f the farmer and produc With no community observance of One of Oregon s oldest innabitants and me three. Then they showed u« Although they have only half the urged that another and stronger law the Nation’s birthday, Monmouth cit and first pioneers was honored on how to rugst them in the fire. Wc needed force, work on the laying of er came in for considerable attention be initiated immediately in time for izens celebrated in various places, meeting ballot cf the autumn of next scattering in all the directions of the there. since noon of the day before, and they 8teadily' B>' Monday night 1400 feet held at Rickreall last Saturday. A year. compass. Many went to Dallas where a round up was the central at The guest of honor was Mrs. Sarah were all that we had until the next,*1®4* been laid which is at the rate of before dinner and after dinner pro- He advocated the severance tax on traction. It is said Dallas entertain J. Helmick, who came to Oregon 78 morning. a mile in twenty days. Even at that gram o f speech making was the , revenue ed ten thousand people on the Fourth. y*ar* a* ° >n her twenty-seconi year. -The squaws did more for us than ,ate of progress they will get quite a feature of the dav and all of the '° * S »* * " « “ "* o f / a,s,nK Salem also had automobile races Pennsyl- ¡she is by far the oldest person in give us food. They told a man nam- * 1 . . , n, , ,. and reducing state taxes. Linn county and has lived in Albany ed Ebbett, living several miles down ¡ ' ' ay\ th,s s‘ de of the Lucklam«t* this talkers, in some form or other, dis- L (u, said ^ such # tax x on on an an which attracted some of our citizens. 45 years. * the river,‘ about us and he came the tall but the prospect is that when eutsed the problems that loom large . - , , , on iron Some went to the Turner convention, and many went to the beach resorts The occasion was sponsored by the next morning to give us aid. We told the harvest work is over with they before the Oregon farmer. I , . , „ w‘ 7 bl rV L t-l??_1‘>cal. 0rKa" i.Zatlon of h‘ m ™hat. h?d happened to us, and will be able to get a full crew and will 1 The main address of the day was ° " “ nd h t h t ’84’ sources verj in Lincoln and Tillamook counties. The visit of President Harding in 1 , *. . . * . effective tor the puipose of re Modem Travelers. A public recep- he offered Mr. Helmick a job build- progress faster. I made by Seymour Jones of Marion I Portland also was an attraction to tion was held at the Helmick home ing a barn. revenue. our citizens and in the great throngs Where the paving is level water county. on the front steps o f the dwelling, at, "Ebbetts helped us down to his During the afternoon theie was a which greeted the nation’s chief on 1:30 o clock. I home, where he was boarding from is kept on the finished surface to keep Mr. Jones is an ex-legislator, an ex Claude Bryant, son of Hubbard 20 to 25 men, who were working at it from drying out too fast and where speaker o f the house, an ex-attorney sporting program for prizes put up by the streets of Oregon's largest city, Salem and Dallas merchants. A del not a few were from Monmouth. Bryant, a Linn county pioneer, was getting out timber to be floated down Wherever they went, the address spokesman of the occasion, congratu-1 the Columbia. Mrs. Ebbetts was a there is a grade, earth is thrown on. 'and now a fruit grower and farmer. egation from the D.illas round up p.No made by the president on Multnomah The operating crew has taken po- The income tax was the subject of lating Mrs. Helm.ck on her ripe age squaw. I helped her with her work, . it aPPt’ared under their manager, G. W. field was a feature of the program. and useful life. Many flowers were and we got along well together. session of Helmick park and there his talk and he showed •ent in by friends, and for three -\\e stayed there two weeks. Eb- are a number of families living in tent very pointedly, insisting that i t '* “ 1) ’ a" d K“ ' e a !" 'lu s 1,1 lu>’ b,ick By means of radio and amphfyei's 1------ * — , J --------- and roping stunts by way of adver the address was heard by hundreds of days centering on the event her betts ------------ gave my •— husband an - old wairon 1 > , ,, , ^ . ,. ., , At Falls City, Dallas, home them, that ne he naa had aiscaraea. discarded, Henry w ««—- fixed, sbacks One man flock of would , equalize the tax burden, that it tising their Fourth of July perform thousands. V” 1" ' was -«= made beautiful unuiaiu with - wic-i.i. mat . . , there. , , has a -------------- ■ Salem, Corvallis and other points, Letters came with congratulations Up the rig. Our oxen were delivered |chlckens kpPt within bounds by means was Just, and that it would not drivel ance. sound reproducers brought out the from friends in distant places as well to us. We hitched them up and drove Iof wire fencing. A blacksmith shop out capital nor keep outside capital talk in lifelike tones. Of course as nearby towns. down to where Oregon City now is situated where picnic dinners for- from coming into the state. ■ private radio sets also tuned in and A feature of the program was the stands. There was nothing at all at ] spread 1 It was acknowledged he said that • '© g d ll b e r r y S u p p l y presentation to the aged pioneer of a Portland then. neny were spread. It was acknowledged, ne said, tha O u t t r r n w u 1 hi* M a r k e t heard the president discuss immi- birthday cake decorated with one "A t Oregon City we met John Me-1 “ 18 sald a PorNon of the grade the bill was not what everybody j u u i g i u n s m e. m u i reere giation and other national problems. hundred candles. The cake was pre- Laughiin, the founder of Oregon. He south of Mrs. Suver’s place will not be wanted. It was not so good as the i apPearanic.s are that there will ■ Ye editor was among those who pared by the women of Grace Pres-, was the kind of man who would paved this year. The surface is still Grange bill because it does not go far e „-eat miantitv of Loganberries heard the address from the range of Multnomah bytenan church, which Mrs. Helmick give, even to the last hair on his head IfT . ./. , . . . . , • . . .. . , i6e a great quantity oi i^oganotrues a .spectator in Portland. was influential in founding. There to anyone who needed aid. His little iloose and il is to be graveled and al- enough and its rates are not high in the Winanu.tte valley that will not field is a natural amphitheater taken advantage of to make an arena for was also singing and special numbers. st0re and home were the only build- iowed t4> «ettle through the winter. enough. Very few laws are passed be pjcktd al a>| tbis j ar. Some The ^The^ women’s clubs ^ and societies ¡ngs at Oregon City then. His stock Four county trucks have been busy that are perfect and work smoothly 'tanneries refuse them entirely and football and other sports. of Albany participated in the ar- Was low because he was due for a this week hauling gravel from Inde- from the time they go into effect. 'others are taking only from steady pa grandstand was packed with women and there was a fringe of people on rangements and presented Mrs. Hel shipment of goods from California mick with tokens of esteem. that was expected any day. He had pendence to the road that starts near Experience shows where they a r e .trons who have otber f ruit to dispose all sides of the field and in the center Hundreds of thousands thousands, who sat upon boxes or The Fourth of July was also the only scraps of cloth left, but he told the Wheeler hill and runs to the Simp- defective and what their strong points |Qf ^ them. occasion of a family reunion of the me to help myself to anything I could son place. are and these are often different fro m lof ¡ast year8 pack have not yet been folding chairs or who stood during the program. Helmick», with members of four gen-1 find to make a shirt for Henrv and | what theoretically might have been disposed of. The operation of the device for in erations present. This event took I a dress for myself, More Power For uxpected. Such laws are subject to When questioned concerning con creasing the volume of voire was a place at the Helmick home in the "I found a piece of blue and white P o w e r C o m p a n y amendment and improvement in the ditions in the loganberry market a matter of wonderment to all. Ap morning before the public reception. | striped hickory cloth big enough for Nearly a hundred relatives w ere' a dress for myself. That was the ----------------- same way they come into existance prominent grower said that an en parently the speakers used only an or dinary talking voice and faced the served with a cafeteria luncheon at only dress I had for two years.” The 66,000 volt transmission line an(j the present law can be improved tirely different situation confronts vast assemblage as if in ordinary noon- | Ebbetts had written to McLaughlin of the Mountain States Power com- where actual experience shows it the Loganberry grower than faced by public speaking. But the apparatus In spite of her century of stren- jn regard to a grist mill that he and uous living, Mrs. Helmick is able t o 'a Methodist missionary named Jud- pany is now completed from Albany needs improvement, the grower of cherries. Cherries are picked up the words and through a walk and talk readily. She is blind, ¡king were planning to build near the to Independence and was put into ser-j He defended he income tax as a just in good demand the prices paid for series of horns on a small tower above the speaker sent them out across the due to the growth of cataracts, but>present site of Salem, asking if vice for the first time Tuesday after- Way of raising revenue for it takes them range comparitively high but space so that people a quarter of a maintains an intense interest in cur- Helmic might not be given employ- noon at 5 o’clock, the new line being taxes f rom pe0ple able to pay. 1* ¡cherries are a crop that has been rais- mile uway heard as though they were rent events. Moreover she remem- ment. McLaughlin engaged her hus- j is true that taxing an income occas-|)ld for years and has a market ready within a few feet. Listeners on distant bers clearly the outstanding incidents band to help in the construction, Mrs. entirely up to expectations. of her eventful trip with her young Helmick said, upon Ebbetts’ recom- Heretofore the current used in Polk ionally works an injustice where in-1 to ab3orb it. Loganberries are a corn- slopes trained opera glasses upon the speakers stand and saw as well as husband across the plains behind a mendation. So they moved to the county has been transferred over a comes fluctuate and follow or precede paritively new thing in which the sup heard. yoke of oxen. j neighborhood that later became Sa- 11,000 transmission line from th e 'years during which a loss is suffered. ply has grown faster than the ca At the same time these tones were Mrs. Helmick was born July 4, 1823, iem, where they remained for the rest in Harrison county, Indian*. She of the year and until the fall of 1846 Dallas plant, and the new line will The bill provide! for this by allowing pacity of the market to absorb it. sounding out across the field, deli went with her parents to Burlington. In 1846 Mr. and Mrs. Helmick took mean a greatly increased production as an ofTset any annuai i08g suffered The de-hidrated or dried loganberry cately adjasted instruments were picking them up and sending them Iowa, when she was ten years old. up a donation land claim in Polk and many extensions and improve- wjthin three years, Upon reaching maturity she was en county, four miles south of Mon- ments by the company in Polk county.) He did not favor a provision for also has to create a market which is out into the ether to be picked up and up-hill business at present prices. t »produced at thousands of stations gaged in the occupation of spinning - mouth. There they remained until and weaving at Burlington until her Mr Helmick’s death in 1878. They The current now in use has its origin allowing property tax to offset income When the housewife in the East or of stations throughout the land. On the great flat space of the foot marriage to Henry Helmick in Feb had planned in that year to move to at the Prospect plant of the California tax_ j j e showed that under tbe 1 Middle West is asked to pay 80 cents ruary, 1845. Albany and build a home. Mrs. Hel & Oregon Power Company in Jack- workin|f of the )aw a family man did a d for dried l0Kanberries the ball field the throngs, listened or com mented or waved their hats in cheers In the spring of the year of their mick carried out the plans alone. son county. The power is taken not pay on the ftrgt $2,000 income. ice „„turally alarms her. But as or walked from place to place and wedding, Mr. and Mrs. Helmick join- (building the house in which she still by the de-hydrating process no ordinary murmur such as comes ed an immigrant train bound for Ore- lives. Two years ago she deeded to from the Prospect plapt over a 110 Qn the third thousand the tax would put gon. In their party was a neighbor, tbe S(ate a portion of her original mile transmission line and then tied $io and the rate increases until eacb pound of berries will obsorb five from throngs of people had an ef of the Helmick family. M_r. and Mrs. ciajm be used as a park. The with the Springfield steam plant and a twelve thousand dollar income pound8 of water and resumes its nat- fect in preventing the listener from catching every syllable uttered from Helmick had four oxen. They decid state highway commission called the ura) fiavor aru| when tested out the the speaker’s stand. ed to take no stock because to do so place _ ^ Helmick Park, in honor of the the Albany water plant. Arrange the t#x would be about $250. ments have been completed whereby He explained the offset for real es- k e is not so unreasonable. But it This sort of thing may become com would have required a hired hand to donor Would chiefly benefit large if - a price pri assist in carrng for the cattle of the During their residence on the any interuption to the service th e(tate , __ ____ ___ , - - ib acknow| „ „ „ „ „ edged that ___ -- one mon enough in the future but to those immigrants, who pooled their stock c]ajm j|rs Helmick said, she and her Dallas plant can be called into use property owners and the principle o f third lower could be made the market who saw and hearh for the first time and shared the work of caring for the.i family had no trouble with the Cala- and the interuption would only be of tbe thing would allow them to cheat woujd largely increase. The cost of it was a marvelous performance. animals. pooia Indians, who would steal from - the spirit of the law, while he thought, |abor_ fuel and equipment has added They encountered no more than the 0thers because they were treated short duration. Historical Society The Mountain States Power com- small property owners would cheer- jmm,.ngely to the cost and is reflect- usual difficulties that attended pion- wj(b no consideration, Offers Essay Prizes eer settlers crossing the plains, j "The Indians were good to those - -- .. ... - i — — - . ----- -r -------,Pan>- has Purchased the electric ligh t fu „ y pay the ta x fo r to pay it m ea n t . the prict.. though they had less trouble with In- were good to thorn/* said Mrs. plant and distributing system at Leb-jt. t l # vp nn in th e1 . i • « nr»t h*» nro- The Oregon Historical Society has dians, than was to be expected in Helmick. L They bothered us a lot ¡L o n and will start the transmission / d ^ ^vv n / o f .n income L " ' “/ " w i t h " aoe tu.ee 1845. but in the long run we were repaid ,. . -. # * . K tV)Ut . . . end the *evy ,n^ o i an income 1duced to compete with juice. selected “ The John Jacob Astor Ex After having traveled a whole the inconvenience of I 11» having them 1,ne immediately to furnish that sec- wouid Qf necessity lower the duoct The piom.er growers of logans made pedition” as the subject for the 1924 a- wav^a ------------. for . I for UL W l t f 1I1V.UIIV trllltrllL C U \ 11! ^ tliC II l day and . camped over night “ without around for ^bey always protected us fo n with power _ ......................................... Manager E. J ,#vy on ^ property. ¡money on them. Others saw the pos- C. C. Beekman History Prizes and finding water, just East of the R o ^ - 1 ajjainst thieving and vandalism.” Pagc of the Dallas district of the com- ^ scoffed at the idea that an in- sibilities and many acres were set out. Medals. The prizes are four in num ies, Mrs. Helmick relates the party | Mrs. Helmick has two children liv of immigrants came upon a river on ¡n^ Three others have died. The jpany states that it is expected this |come tax would keep out or drive 0nc man wjth a small field of the ber, viz., first, sixty dollars; second, What capiUl ■oeks.|bt.rrie8 gold $600 worth of tips for fifty dollars; third, forty dollars; and July 4, 1845. . living children are James Helmick of work will be finished in about thirty away capjta|. " W . stopped there, Mrs. Helmick ^|bany and Mrs. Mary Tedrow of day8‘ _____ he asserted, is dividends. Unless propag ation purposes in one year fourth, thirty dollars; and will be said, "and rested on the banks of the f;orvaHi8. In addition there are six they make money in Oregon they do and did tbia without any harm to his awarded for the best four origional stream. The captain of our train g randchildren and seven great grand- DAILY TRAIN SERVICE , . __ Now there is an immense essays on the above named subject suggested that it miffht be well for us cbiidren. The grandchildren are FOB PERRYDALB REFUSED not n**d t0 Pay any ,ncome tax " " , field. to stay there until the Fourth mean' | Clarence Tedrow of Monmouth; Mrs. he said, would not pay a tax of $250 creage and the supply will have to written and submitted by girls or boys while. A vote of the party was U - Frmnce8 Hill of Albany; Mrs. Sarah There is little or no prospect for a when he knew it meant an income o f wait J until the demand catches up. over fifteen years of age and under ken and they were unanimous in aP- Smith of Monmouth; Mrs. Nellie eighteen years of age, attending any proving the idea i f t S T o f M o n Z ™ A i b e r t T e d r o w o i restoration of the train ^ i c e to the $12,000. U U o f men would not on! •. . . ............. "On that Fourth of July we had a p ortjand and Mrs. Mary Wiest of town ot Perrydale, in Polk county, pay the tax but would be willing t o j the possibilities of de-hidrnU-l logan public or private school, academy, little program, away out there ° n the jfiammtb Falls. which was discontinued May 10, last, pay a fifty per cent bonus to get fhe ■ berries is at all pessimistic as to its seminary, college, university, or other plains. " I " ! / ! L U8rm.hl Th« KrPBt grandchildren, Marjorie .uicording to advices received by the income. educational institution within the future. were still in America and could ^ Maurice Tedrow of Monmouth, ., t state o f Oregon. Each of the four rejoice at the freedom as well there Bush of Monmouth. Albert w ! publu serv,ce ^m m ^swn from the Opposition ■ to the tax, he said. prize winners will also receive a as we could at home. And so we sang <|'edr<JW 0f Portland, Verda Frances Southern Pacific company. Perrydale comes from the larger citiee and from h IKSHBKKG EK FOR OREGON ALWAYS handsome bronze medal. the Star Spangled Banner and en- Albany and Marie Louise and s now setved by a tri-weekly mixed people who are not now paying their' joyed a days surcease from OW (William Allen Wiest of Klamathjtrain service whereas prior to the re- just proportion for the expenses of Portland, Oregon,— “ I’d rather liv* Ira C. Powell and family spent ' fe w ’ weeka later the party reach-, Fal,s- _______ m t m _________ ¡ ent change it enjoyed a daily ser- go\ eminent. But he (»uld not see in Oregon for ten cents q day than ir the Fourth at Netarta, leaving here ed a point near where The Dalles now -phis week O. A. 'Wolverton came to vice. Stage competition, the rail- how any farmer could consistently the east for a dollar a day,” is th' Tuesday afternoon. stands There the immigrants P*acpd an agreement with a special purchas- road points out, has reduced business oppose it. their belonging» «n a r*ft to be Dost- committee- of the Normal Board of to such an extent as to make the The opponents of the tax law have verdict of Joe Hirshberg of Indcpen dence. Mr Hirshberg, probably th ed down the Columbia to a point ---------- _ u; v fcl_ -------------- 1 ^ .,- --------------------------- filed two referendum petition* against above the Cascades. I Regents by which his residence prnp- daily service unremunerative OUR ADVERTISING ALPHABET it. To defend the law it will be best known reeident of Polk Count; Other members of the party had crty 0n Monmouth is to be sold to Edward Oliver, former Normal n(^ segary to vote yes twice on the went to Washington to attend th sent word shead to friends. Mrs. Hel- L be Oregon Normal. Consideration is if student, was a visitor in Monmouth ballot which is to be taken in No- Shrine convention, and afterwar J iih “ .V on." « 7 h 7 * f.i. ”.nd cir™ *<■«» TW -o n .™ .« « ol th. Friday. traveled to New York to see wha* At present he is principal vemb*T. ------------- of a six room school in North Bend Mr French of Ysmhill county de- ■ Broadway and Fifth avenue look i i Helmick had no such friends. They and Secretary of State Kozer. Thi* and has been elected for another year. |ivgred a )of,g address during the 1 He- admits that the east is all w* CONSUMERS made arrangements, however, to get property consisting of a large real- his wife and small son accompanied f,,rpnoon sesaion during which he ¡enough in its way, but "give me assistance later through some of the dence >nd a half block of land, ad- him and they were Fording it to Port- covered most o f the problems that ¡Oregon.” fo r y o m . X o m .1 * ,1 « E ... .» d » land. Since graduating Mr. Oliver the farmer, especially in mar- A d vmriH* ara d « / / School patrons in the Highland west via a mounUin trail that later • desirable property, especially for taught one year at Nyfsa on the Idaho keMng_ Bolshevists in this country school district are thinking seriously became the Barlow road. the Normal. line, two years at Bridge and another he defined ag unscrupulous manipula- i f ^ u rto o f closing . ip their school for the year Left alcne, the bride and groom tied ----------- ^ ----------------- rursl center in Coos county and h* torg 0f the market and people who their raft to the river bank and wait- j j . o . Andrus and Claude Boothby and transpesrting their pupils to inde has been two years at North Bend dpftw, the pl*,hlbitk>n law. / i ed. During the first day of tb*jr wjth families and friends were repre- pendence. Independence has oTcred The Olivers are planning a vacation j Mf p arnljtier of Hood River, the them a tuition rate o f $5 per year per * H e { J I T * « ! m fi S S i - t a t i v e s of Monmouth Odd Fellows at Glacier Park this summer. nrw c rangP master, also spoke dur- pupil and they have about twentyfive from iU moorings Before Mr. Hel- in the visit of the Polk county assort ’ He reviewed the Miss Leto Wolverton. daughter of >nK th* forenoon. . . „ f them. Th« y are looking up trans- milk could ac< the raft and all on it. the Odd Fallows’ home in »•' — rra a ge-1 nd including ever j artu.1# wf «luthing and partjand Sunday. There were shout O A. W olvert««, is on a vacation ihistory of t.be grange w portation and if this th ■ can be a grra' trip to the Central S ta te. She has ¡was founded in the city of W».h*ng- it is quite Ilk ah,' they will try the new There are now 10,000 Thev were *lv?wn been teaching in Portland for the past j**" ,n system. Semiring the grade pupils ried out into the stream and dashed lunched together, oy the in« rapids the feature* of the home and the two years and has acquired a close ’ 'n tbp . u» has to would mean that the high school pu to pieces by Confronted with the prospect of work wbich state Odd Fellows are friend there with whom she is mak- ,n* to us e all the in pils of thi'j district would also be at get the number largely increased staiv’.ng. Mr. and Mrs Helmick built doing for their dependent*, horn» in Die Independence hig‘i school. ling the trip. The two young women a fire with the two matches that Mr. Cover nor Pierce t. as the last I left Seattle Thursday bound for Riv Helmick found in a vest pocket and J. ft. Btdgood and family of Jeffer er Falls, Wia. speaker of the day. He instituted I Frank Aines has moved his house li* a*** u await Jtath, and to hufw son, passed through Monmouth Sat comparisons between state taxes in hold goods into the hou. e west o f the for rescue. \ "And the rescue came the next urday on their way to Tillamook J. M. McDonald is slowly recovering o r a r s a and in other state« in the un Herald office. The house he vacate* day" »aid Mrs. Helmick in relating _ - from a aevare attack of pneumonia (0B_ H# itrong|y endori«d the argu- haa b e* i rented to G. W. Chesebro. her experiences. “ It came in the fo: m T- Mrs. Helmick is 100 ¡they Friends Observe Day Paving of Highway Grangers Talk Tax I Steadily Progressing A t Annual Picnic ^ r : , £» r, : h' , ct " § July Fourth Oration Heard in Many Places ■ . c »«SWTTiaKS £ • -i *• - **’•>’ fo r
