The Monmouth herald., July 13, 1923, Image 1

M onmouth H erald
VOL.
XV
No. 45
MONMOUTH, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1923
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 illa m e t t e V a lle y
Items of
Interest
At Oregon Normal
R ep u b lica n ’ s New
National Chairman
Indiana Professor
Interprets Comedy
fourth Chautauqua
Conducted to Success
Öfters Billion for
U . S. Merchant Fleet
Mass of Objections
Postpones Projects
At the meeting of the council Tues­
The second number of the Normal i Notwithstanding adverse
condi
day night the council was flooded with
Summer School Lyceum course w it tions the Chautauqua this year proved
- uch a flood of protests against curbs,
given Tuesday evening with the ap- •* success, financially and from an eti
paving and sidewalks that they set
pearance of Kollo Tallcott in u read- ! tertainnient standpoint and has been
the whole matter over and are nôt
ing o f “ The Fortune Hunter” .
Prof signed up for u return visit next year
likely to attempt anything of this
Tallcott, who is dean of the School o f! The dates this year were not as
sort this year.
Public Speaking at Valparaiso Uni- l favorable as they might have been
Rev. L. V. Lewis of the Evangel- j
The council passed an ordinance
| vanity, is ranked among the six The five day session started on the
ical church addressed the students at
for the payment of $100 to J. M Me-
greatest in America as a reader and first day of school after a brief fourth
the chapel hour on Monday morning
Donald for the right of way the new
interpreter of literature.
[of July vacation which interfered with
Mr. Lewis gave an interesting talk
street.
He is equally at home in tragedy llh* ticket selling campaign among the
on the Chinese language.
In the general auditing o f bills it
as well as comedy, but the trend of * ormal students. 301 students tickets
Mr. and Mrs. Beattie left on Wed­
was discouvered that considerable ex­
the summer session is always for the i were sold this year as against 450
nesday for a two-weeks’ visit at Rho- '
lighter things and a comedy was pre-|sold last year.
pense attaches to getting descrip­
dodendron Inn on Mt. Hood.
tions for the use as a basis in public
sented.
“ The Fortune Hunter” d e -1 The first two days of the session
improvements.
Bills from county
ipicted the adventures of a young New (were accompanied by rain, the heavy
Professor Rollo A. Tallcott, Dean
John W Slack. President of a clerk, F. D. Moore, and county as­
\orker
who
went
to
a
small
town
in
rainfall
of
Friday
evening
being
of the School of Public Speaking,
manufacturing plant at Sliver Creek, sessor, F. J. Holman were presented
Pennsylvania determined to woo the'something not expected at this time
Valparaiso University, gave a program
V V offers the government $1.0CJ,-
richest girl in town.
He was suc-|°f the year.
As a result two of the
000.1)00 for the entire U. S merchant totaling $118 for getting out copies
in the chapel on Tuesday evening of
cessful but not satisfied with his quest programs were held in the Normal
tleet. "Too luuch.” »ay* retiring of property descriptions; 133 hours
this week.
Mr. Tallcott proved a
Chairman Lasker
it Is hinted o f time being consumed in the pro­
and
his
adventures
offered
a
theme
chapel.
pleasant speaker, doing work of a
Henry Foul had a baud In the Md, cess. It gives the citj accurate des­
for
a
lot
of
wholesome
comedy
which
j
At
the
time
of
the
first
program
high grade and giving his hearers
although Mr. Slack will neither
criptions o f about seventy five per
confirm nor deny the report.
Big Ed E. Smith, a lawyer of Min­ Prof. Tallcott improved to the ut-,the sale of tickets amounted to $150
both pleasure and profit.
cent o f the property within its limits
;less than the guarantee. General ad-
nesota and long a power in the Ito most-
The Apollo Club, a well known mu­
publican party. Is the man selected
which will be useful in the future.
Wednesday morning he appeared missions, however, yielded enough to
by President Hanling to tuke hold in “ The Famous Mrs. Fair” before meet the claim of the Cadmean peo- PAVING DONE THIS FALL
sical organization of Salem, will give
The city attorney was instructed
of the party reins in preparation for
ALBANY BRIDGE TO BE LORER to draw up the necessary documents
a concert in the chapel on Tuesday
the student body at chapel time.
iple by the fourth evening and the re-
the 1021 elections.
evening, July 17 at 8:15.
The work
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|ceipts o f the fifth day lacked only
Commissioner Wade Malone of Cor­ for refunding outstanding warrants
of this club is too favorably known in
Record Rainfall
about $10 o f enough to pay all ex- vallis says in an interview in the Cor­ with bonds.
A Popular Subject
Monmouth to need recommendation
Some discussion was also indulged
The rainfall o f Friday evening, penses incidental to handling and vallis Guzctte-Times that the W’ est
Mr. Bowling who is handling the
or praise here for the members have
in
relative to placing signs with the
which
was
one
of
the
heaviest
on
ree
erecting
tent,
seating
it,
etc.
This
Side
highway
through
Monmouth
will
„
.w
a
• lnew course in world politics at the
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Hune ord for July’ did somt! damage to hay was covered by the balance from pre­ be finished this fall except for about names of streets at intersections and
singing has always been of high or- popuiar
With an enronment of which was down, and also split all of vious years. The amount received this
quarter of a mile south of Mon­ the addoption of a system of number­
der.
Admission for townspeople seventy he was forcej to close en- thl‘ ?arlier cherries, especially the year in excess o f the guarantee to the mouth. “ This will give Corvallis and ing houses.
will be 50 cents^_______
trance to the class but he was later Lamberts which cannot be marketed. Cadmean people was $56.
Benton county people a much shorter
The Corvallis auto camp is to have
A motion picture “ The Prince and persuaded to take another class in ^ was
8 reat help to grain, how-
The programs this year were bet- road to Portland, as well as taking
the Pauper” , will be
shown in the the same subject after hours.
The ever’ ar,d corn is responding to its iter than the average and gave satis- them away from the poor place in an electric sign on two concrete posts
faction throughout. It is conceded Oregon City and the traffic jams of Camp is furnished with laundry equip­
chapel on Friday evening, July 13, at second class is conducted from 7 to refreshing influence.
ment, shower baths and a telephone.
that Waldemar Geltch, concert violin­ the Portland bridges.” .
8:15.
¡8 in the evening.
So popular is the
Efficient Manager
ist who appeared Friday afternoon
Regarding
the
Albany-Corvallis
The county clerk has issued a li­
Miss Leon. Jackson of Newberg topict, that hia class room ia c° " - , „
. „
,
City Schools visited the Normal on atantly thronged with visitors until
Howard Morlan, who has been a c t-,and evening is the highest class en- road the commissioner says it will cense to conduct a dance hall near
_ y ,
*
¡it is hard to get in or out of the doors. 've as manager of all four Chautau- {tertainer who has yet appeared on be paved starting early in the Spring. Bridgeport.
....-
; It is possible he may have a class in *ltias we have had, deserves consider- the local circuit. He took classical niu- Except for the fact there are four
The Dallas Commercial club which
Miss Macpherson made a business world diplomacy with the opening of able credit for the successful outcome *'c and rendered it so beautifully that fills which must be left to settle work
conducted their recent fourth of July
trip to Salem on Wednesday.
the regular school year in September.
the series this year.
As usual he “ 1* could appreciate it.. His lack of could start this Fall. Also they will
celebration found a small balance on
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sacrificed time and labor and was a pretense, his gentle
and courteous receive federal aid next Spring.
hand when the bill were all audited
Here from Canada
G. T. Boothby was taken seriously
most important factor in putting it Character made him a general favo-
In connection with the new bridge
and has announced that another cele­
Mrs. Glenn Rash and children of
at Albany he nays it will be located
|ill Wednesday with a disorder o f the|over*
r'**-
bration will be held next year at the
Alberta C .I.A L ,
here thi. j , tom#ch and u confine<J tQ
house
The Sprague players In the “ Bubble” three or four blocks down the river
week and moved in with Mr. Rash, Sr. at present.
Sheep to California
|aiso met wjth
favor -j>he pjay from the present strut ture and thus same place on the fourth of July.
on Knox street.
Arthur Jepson and
Wm. Riddell, Jr. and C. E. McCaleb ^ which depicts the experiences of a will not interfere with traffic while
The Dallas commercial club is plan­
family, who have been living with
Farewell Party
shipped thirty Romney bucks to Cal- German delicatessen man in New under construction. It will be a low n in g to erect an arch across the Dal-
Mr. Rash, have moved into one of
A number of the friends and neigh- ifornia, Wednesday, most of them b e -1 York who was induced to invest in bridge with some form o f draw not las-Salem. highway at the entrance to
bors of Mr. and Mrs. Will Lange longing to the former.
the apartments in the hotel.
The Rom- oil stock and enjoyed a brief season yet decided on.
• he city, said sign to be illuminated
gathered at their home Tuesday even neys go to Clark Hembree at Wil of wealth, only to have the bubble
electrically and to bear the worda
The
bridge
across
the
Willamette
Enlarging Garage
ing and gave them a farewell sur- lows who distributes them in the vi pricked and return to his former stat- at Harrisburg will not be completed "The I’rune City.”
Jack Leask and a force of men have prise party.
After spending a very cinity o f that town.
us, was interpreted cleanly and with for two years at least.
been busy for the past few weeks pleasant evening, dainty r e f r e s h - , ------------—
Record Rainfall for July
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'a wealth o f wit and humor that pleas-
building an addition to the rear of ments were served and all left for 80 ACRE HOP FIELD IS
According to weather observations
ed all. "Gustav Muller" and his wife
Graham’s garage which will prac­ their homes, extending to Mr. and
NOT BEING CULTIVATEI were two characters that will remain Crushed to Death by Sacks o f Cement in Portland the rain fall last Friday
S. D. Bryan, a night watchman em­ and Saturday was the heaviest re­
tically double the capacity of their Mrs. Lange their best wishes.
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long in the memory.
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Dallas, Ore.,— E. A. Gwin who ha . L* . „ „ .
.
place of business.
The addition has
ployed by the Oregon Contracting corded in July in 21 years. During 21
Missouri Publisher
a farm a short distance out iron. I,,,, red
,ates’ who lectured on company was found dead last Satur­ hours 1.23 inches of rain fell and dur­
walls of building tile and a concrete
Hal
Wise
who
runs
a
daily
news-
Dallas,
was
in
the
Independence
vicin
0">n>“
n'ty
Aches and Pains" was day morning. The Oregon Contract­ ing the first six days of the month
floor.
paper in Webb City, Mo. was a visitor ity Friday and visited at the Seid anoth*r hl8 h >‘Kht •*» the five days se- ing Company is putting down the 2.8 inches fell. The normal rainfall
in Monmouth with his former fellow Back hop yard. Here he found a hop ['lea- Mr c,ates called for a showing of hard surface on the highway from for the month is only .54 of an inch.
Orange M eeting
Next Saturday. July 14, is the reg­ citizen, F. E. Chambers last Friday, field o f 80 acres that is not beinj ,hands to hnd how many of the aud‘ - Rickrcall to -Holmes Gap. Bryan was
Rain Spoils Lamberts
ular Grange meeting for the month. Mr. Webb with his wife and daughter worked at all this year on account o / *nce were born *n larKe cities and employed as a watchman.
He made
The Lambert cherry crop in the
During the forenoon, business sess­ and two sons has been touring the the probable low price that will bs, T d that a ^reat majority o f his bis bed under a projecting piles of
ion reports will be received from the west by automobile since last May. offered for them. Mr. Back has in aud,ence wer* burn either on farms concrete sacks and they apparently valley is virtually a dead loss. The
delegates and visitors to State Grange. They i\ent through Kansas, Oklahoma, his warehouse the hop crops of three °.r ,n lowns of leaa than
popula- caved in on him. Bryan was 62 years cherries are 100 per cent cracked and
aside from the fact that a compara­
In the afternoon there will be a short Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and years back that he is still holding for t,on'
apoke of the number of old.
tively few of them will be dried, but
program consisting of literary and California, going as far south as San an advantageous price.
The
Me- , ou" try born Pe°Ple who achieve to
musical and vocal numbers and the Diego. They visited Yosemite and Laughlin hop yard, in the same1 Ieaders,llP 1,1 politics, business and packing concern sent telegrams to a few Lamberts will find their way
master and his better half will tell of left here headed toward Seattle. They vicinity, is being worked and Mi. ?c,ence *nd asserted that a big rna- buyers and sellers which overcame into the market.
Several growers that have checked
their experiences at Corvallis at the plan to visit the Yellowstone park on McLaughlin is meeting with consid- j° rity °* tbe ‘ »mates of asylums a nd competition and enabled them to
recent visiting session made by Polk the return trip and to be away from erable difficulty in securing the nece- penitentiaries are country born. He make the buying and selling prices of up on the situation agree that there
asserted that the percentage of peo- the product they handled. He assert­ is practically a 100 per cent crack in
county farmers.
'home something like three months. ,sary help.
! pie who leave the country for the city ed that statistics showed grain deal­ this class of cherries.
and are even
moderately su ccess­ ers made more profit out o f grain
The Lamberts were just about get­
ful is rivaled by the number who are than the farmers did and showed how- ting ready for handling when the
positive failures. He called attention easy it is for the large holdeis to heavy rains hit them last week and
IT MAY BE A GOOD IDEA. BARNEY,--BUT \X'HAT ARE WE TO
the sun has completed the havoc.
to the tendency of the farmers to manipulate the markets,
DO WITH THIS PERFECTLY GOOD FOUNDATION?
Lamberts brought in during the
leave familiar scenes and “ retire” to| The three Hawaiian artieta, known
the city and said it was an insUnce as «Lot*« Pacific Serenade«” were rain were rejected by the canneries
of the general tendency to look down among the musical numbers most as not being fit for handling and their
on rural life. He believed this was highly appreciated.
The Five Ma- destruction was continued by the con­
lue to our social and educational rine Maids also had a novel stunt in tinued rains.
This is probably the most com­
system which placed the city and the way of a musical trip on th -
¡city life on a pedestal as a goal to ocean.
With songs, impersonations plete cherry loas ever experienced
which all should aim. The aim, he and orchestra music they brought the here on any individual crop.
-aid was to make country life attract- series to a happy close.
! ive; a desirable home for old and
The superintendent this year w r.
OUR ADVERTMHO ALPH A BP^
|young and repeated a number of an­ Lloyd Cooper and he worked hard to
ecdotes o f his own experiences in keep the wheel* moving.
Mist
helping country people to make the Frieda Smith was junior superintend
most o f their opportunities.
ent and she early gathered around
Paul Fung. Chinese student, was |,er a iarge group of children whose
i , ß r D O tL M p
another speaker to make a hit with efforts culminated in a grand parade
the audience He has been in school heid th<. i „ t afternoon o f the te flo n ,
fs v « / A /f
W g y i
in thie country only two years and j n the parade were children ranging
ht èhm V i * '
had to strain a few things to keep f ron) i ra William’s two year old to
his <ur£mg thoughts within his vo- Hal,ie Johnson.
The merchants of
JfrnJ
I cabulary but he found plenty to say the city w
ere visited for appropriate
He appeared in the garb of a Chi­ prizes for special effort in the parade.
nese mandarin's son; then as a stu­ Mrs. Venders, Mrs. Boothby and the
dent sn<f finally as a soldier, all of superintendent, Mise Smith, were the
which were among his experiences.
judges
Prizes were awarded to the
Congressman Tincher of
Kansas following characters: Two Turkish
• old o f the work which resulted in dancers, Buffalo Bill and Cowboy ui
passing a If w to' curb speculation in carriage. “ Lion” in cage with Train­
stock snd grain in Chicago.
He er, Happy Hooligan, Indian Princess,
told o f a dummy corporation in which Two Baby Clowns.
So many others
all the big packers held membership, deserved prizes that the
judges
which had no busmesa and no em­ found the task of making awards
ployes.
Its directors held regular very difficult.
They appealed to
meetings for the private intercourse Morlan & Son and P. H. Jo!:..son, who
it allowed them to talk over business generously furnished a candy treat
matteis and after each meeting of for the entire bunch of youngsters
the directors it was seen that each and all went away happy.
President Landers returned Sun­
day morning from San Francisco
where he had attended the annual
meeting of the National Educational
Association.