The Monmouth herald., September 14, 1923, Image 1

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VOL. XVI
MONMOUTH, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEM BER 14. ÎUÜS
<6
No 2
There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley
ness, its patrons and habitues a r
New Members Named j will have charge of the new Depart- Destructive
Fire
Hop
Picker
Machine
wont to linger in fond remembrance Hard Surface Work
,.
„
of the days that were, the golden days
For Normal Faculty j will
ment of Geography and Miss Devore
when favorable hop weather was a
Is
A
Monster
Affair
1
nreatens
Corvallis
Again Draws Fire
be principal at Independence.
m atter of real concern to thousands
m
Inquiries and corresp o n ds -e indi­ Up-keep work on tne Normal and Corvallis was the scene of a fire V\hen you hear of a hop picking in the W illamette valley.
Notwithstanding the efforts of of­
cate there will be the usual healthy Dormitory which has been in progress last Thursday evening that destroyed machine you doubtless imagine some­ MRS. J. C. ROUNDS
ficials, work on the hard surfacing of
growth of attendance at the Normal. for the past two weeks, is nearing property with an estim ated value of thing like a corn harvester or a silage
DIES IN CORVALLIS the highway south of the Luckiamute
The faculty list is now coinp’cle. a completion. The Dormitory has had $103,000. M. A. Rickard, a son-in cutter. There is a hop picking mach­
has lagged recently and there have
number of new names having been ad a coating of preservative upon its law of H. E. Guthrie of this city was ine on the Horst hop ranch between Mrs. Ellen Rounds, wu> of J. C. been frequent shut downs. The man
ded since the June commencement
roof and exposed walls have been | the heaviest looser, The fire started Independence and Eola and any such Rounds of Monmouth, died in Coival- who was putting in the bridges near
at 11:10 o’clock Saturday morning the Benton county line grew weary
In the Physical Education Depart treated with waterproofing. A w ater in his garage. At about half past description as that would be far lis
pipe is being laid across the street to j four in the afternoon a Studebaker from the mark. This machine re­ passing away at the home of her son- of waiting for gravel with which to
ment, Miss Josephine Goldstaub and the
training school to Drovide for ad- car, leaking gasoline, was driven quires two or three hundred men and in-law and daughter. Prof and Mrs. do his work and is reported to have
Miss Sheridan come to take up cer­ ditional
w ater on that side
into his garage. Onus Brown, women to operate it and is housed B. A. Johnson, 329 South Tenth thrown up his contract. The follow­
tain phases of the work of that de­
She has been failii'K during ing is from a recent issue of the Cor­
partm ent. Miss Goldstaub is a grad­ The W olverton house is undergoing mechanic took a can and went to place under an immense shed. A hop pi k- Street.
lecent
months
and her death came vallis Gazette-Times:
it
under
the
car
to
catch
the
dripping
ing
factory
would
give
a
better
ilea
uate of the Oregon State College of a reconstruction. A h»t air furnace
after a gradual decline. Mrs. Rounds Judge W. H. Malone, state high­
last June and worked very success­ is being installed in u basement re­ gas. Static electricity it is thought of the real enterprise.
was a native Oregonian, bo^.i Janu­ way commissioner, made a trip to
fully here during the iast six weeks cently dug beneath the house. The set the gasoline on fire and Brown The hops are drawn to the factory ary
7th, 1850, her age being 73 years Dallas and Rickreall yesterday for in­
jumped
back
with
his
clothing
in
on
wagons
and
as
the
loader
pulls
rooms
are
being
fitted
up
to
accom­
of the summ er session. Miss Sher­
8
months
and 1 day. She is sur\ived spection purposes to observe the pro­
flames.
He
obtained
an
extinguish­
the vines from the trellis in the field
idan will have immediate charge of modate the women members of ihe
by
her
husband,
her daughter, Mrs. gress of the West Side highway and
er
and
applied
it
to
the
flames
but
he
catches
the
stem
s
on
a
spiked
faculty,
not
otherwise
provided
for,
the health of the young women of the
and one son, J. A Rounds, look at the bridge and approach south
institution and is a trained nurse as who will make their home there this the tank soon exploded and very piece of wood which in unloading is Johnson,
Yakima, W ashington.
of Rickreall. The Polk county com­
well as teacher. P art of her duties winter. Miss Esther Mason will Le quickly the whole place was ablaze. used very much as a gam brel is used of Funeral
services were held in Bo- missioners were undecided about the
A large air tank close by soon ex­ n slaughtering a beef. Hanging from
in connection with Miss Taylor will caretaker of this house.
ploded, and this helped to spread Ihe the spiked stick the vine approaches vee’s parlors at 2:30 Tuesday a fte r­ nature of this bridge, and the Judge
be to conduct physical examinations
flames. Soon the gasoline tanks the feeders, two men, each of whom noon. Rev. Daniel Bryant of the Bap­ straightened affairs out, deciding to
of all the young women of the insti­
and tires of automobiles in the build­ grabs a vine and attaches it to a sort tist church ofliciated. Burial was in go 50-50 with them on the concrete
tution, recommending to them the
approach.
ing were exploding ifjke giant fire­ of endless chain or belt w h;ch pulls the Crystal Lake cemetery.
proper corrective physical exercises
crackers.
he hop vine through a series of cyl­ Mrs. Rounds was taken to the John­ The paving north of Rickreall is
necessary to the best health and de­
The Corvallis fire departm ent inders. The cylinders are flttel with son home in Corvallis when ner ill­ progressing rapidly and is practical­
velopment.
which responded promptly, was handi­ wire teeth which articulnte with ness became serious and where her ly finished. This job is a dandy, the
Miss Agnes Erickson comes from Seventeen hop kilns on the C. A. capped because of poor pressure from similar wire teeth on a series o f cylin­ daughter could care for her.
Judge says, and fills a bad gap and
an assistancy in the State Teachers McLaughlin
the city w ater mains But a steam ders above. As the vines pass be­ Mr. and Mrs. Rounds came to Mon­ has a detour that has been very dusty
property,
two
miles
north
College of Greeley, Colorado. She
Independence were burned on pump was brought into position and tween the cylinders they loose imps mouth in 1910. They kept boarders and bad all summer.
will have charge of the Bookkeeping, of
Thursday
of last week. A t with w ater taken frov. the river, and leaves. There are three sets of for a while but because of advancing The paving in South Polk county
Office Practice, Penmanship and Busi­ the same afternoon
tim
e
about
of proved effective in checking the cylinders, perhaps a dozen in each years gave it up. She was a woman is making very slow progress, the day
ness English. Mrs. Bertha Hall, the land were burned over. forty In acres
flames, which were under subjection
addition
and when the vines have passed of refinement and culture and her before yesterday only 160 feet being
head of the Commercial Department, to the kilns, buildings used for dry­ within an hour of the tim e the first set
between
the upper and middle cylin­ memory leaves a grateful impress on laid, and yesterday none at ail. The
will have charge of the Stenography, ing, storage, and baling were destroy­ blaze broke out.
ders
they
on the return trip all who knew her. For the past few job is being held up by lack of m ater­
Typing and Practice teaching in com­ ed as well as a quantity of wood, sul­ There were fifty three automobiles between the follow
lower and middle cylin­ years Mr. and Mrs. Rounds lived in ial delivered at the railroad points.
mercial subjects. She has been in­ phur, green hops and other m aterial. in the garage which were destroyed ders until they are back to where one of Mrs. Mack’s houses,
Judge Malone is looking up this de­
structor and student the early part W ithout a pumping outfit the In­ with it. Only $5,000 insurance was they started and the same mechanism or to secure the liberal interpretation lay and promises to do all he can to
of the summ er in the Behnke-W alker dependence fire departm ent was able carried on it. The loss on the g a r­ which fastens its grip on a fresh set before a man is named for the speed up the work.
Business College, and for the last do little in the way of checkimr the age is estim ated at $10.000, and the of vines releases the grip on the old position.
Paving will not be completed any­
three years in the Corvallis High to
how this fall and what is left will be
daij^ge but a pump from the Salem automobiles at an averag* of $1,000 ones. They fall to the floor and are
I’EMBER AND SNELL STOCK
School and under the direction of the departm ent which responded in record each.
given a coat of gravel. Judge Malone
dragged off.
WAS SOLD YESTERDAY says he is most anxious to have this
Department of Commerce in the State time, was instrum ental in s s . ing a Other property losses were: M. Mil­ In the meanwhile the leaves and
College. She had charge of the com­ large quantity of wood.
ler residence, $3,000; Beaver Laundry hops are off on endless belts where At a meeting of creditors of the finished, as he wants to travel it him­
mercial work the last six weeks of the The blaze was a spectacular one and and apartm ents, $¿,500; Pacific Tele­ they pass between rows of women who Pcmber
& Snell Oompuny held ;inder self on his frequent trips to Portland.
summer school in the Normal.
as the news of the fire spread, people phone Co., $2,700; Rickard residence, pick out broken bits of stem s; through the supervision of the court hi Port­ The east side road to Albany is re­
Dr. H. T. Schutte, scheduled to a r­ came from all directions to see and $900; A. A. Gardiner, furniture $200; huge cylinder screens where some of land Thursday, G. W. Ingt am was ported in better condition, the road
The buildings Mountain States Power C>., $300; W. the leaves are sorted from the hops; appointed trustee and the sab of having been scarified, and the holes
rive today from Chicago where he offer assistance.
has just received his doctorate, is en­ were about a hundred feet from the A. Shuey, furniture $20C; A. Bardon, on vibrating aprons where friction the stock and fixtures was ordered filled. While the loose gravel and
snd gravity serve further tc separate through advertising, bids to be open­ dust will soon be sucked up again,
gaged in the D epartm ent of Educa­ paving which in the heat melted and roof fire $200.
tion. He will have branches in Psy­ was so soft that it interfered with During the early stages of the fire, the hops from the leaves, part other ed Tuesday. Mr. Ingram was in Mon­ this is expected to help until the west
chology, Tests and M easurements, traffic. Telephone poles along the rumors concerning it went flying rows of women who pick out and sep­ mouth Monday at which tim e repre­ side road is thrown open, which will
Principles of Edusation and other roadside burned down and one oak about the state and a Portland paper arate clusters of hops, again thru sentatives of three concerns looked be in about three weeks. This will
have a good coat of gravel and the
allied subjects. He has been recently tree had its trunk destroyed and its printed an extra with the headlines the separators until the hops shoot over the goods.
shouting “Another Astorin Fire.”
into sacks on one side of the factory Owing to a m isunderstanding by road to Albany is expected to be in
head of the training school in the top now lies upon the ground.
Northern Arizona Normal School at The building loss is estim ated at General George A. W hite of the and the leaves accum ulate in piles which certain prospective bidders good shape all winter.
$40,000. The hops destroyed were state militia, who was in attendance on the other side.
Flagstaff.
claimed they were not getting fair LORD AND T H k V k a 'R
at
the
Legion
convention
in
Seaside,
Separating
hops
from
leaves
is
not
covered
by
insurance.
The
hops
play the time of opening bids was ex­
Miss Eleanor Kurth, home now in
MEET ON MOUNT HOOD
under contract at a higher price heard that Corvallis was doomed and as easy as separating grain from tended from Tuesday to Thursday. A
Portland, is engaged in the D epart­ were
called
up
the
city
and
asked
what
was
chaff and men are constantly busy number of buyers have visited Mon­ Francis Lord has a brand new best
present m arket price.
ment of Music. Her experience in­ than the buildings,
it is announced, will needed in the way of tents, supplies with brooms sweeping up the over­ mouth to look the stock over and sev­ story.
company with Carlton Sav­
cludes three years in the State Teach­ be The
in the spring. As picking and guards, which shows how quickly flow and putting it hacx into the chan­ eral bids w ere placed by concerns on age and In others
made the trip up
ers College at Kearney, N ebraska, and and rebuilt
is now in progress it they would have been ready with such nels of separation. In side rooms, only such inform ation as the obtained Mount Hood one he day
this past week
her preparation also includes five or would harvesting
also, men and women are busy pick­ from the inventory.
possible to get them re­ help if it had been needed.
and
on
the
top
of
the
mountain they
six years study abroad, a large part built in not tim be e for
ing by hand the branches which
use this year. The JUDGE D Et'ID EfiC O U R T
sighted
a
bear.
The
bear evipe.itly
of that tim e in Berlin. Miss Ruby balance of the McLaughlin
broke off before being stripped of their MONMOUTH c T ki ""LANDS
is be­
was
not
looking
for
them
and tried
Lorence, well known to citizen; of ing cared for by neighbor crop
CAN
4
HANGS
ROAI)
SAFELY IN JAPAN to avoid their company but
products. Quite a little hand work
yards and
when a
Monmouth and this section of the in driers not in use heretofore
this The case of the Salt Creek market is necessary to see that the vines are Monmouth relatives are anxiously party is close to the top of the m oun­
state, and who was engaged in the
road was argued before Judg_* Belt thoroughly stripped but it is confi­ awaiting word of Miss Agnes Camp­ tain and a bear is between them and
summer session a year ago, comes as season.
To
dry
the
hops
suitable
for
storage
Tuesday
and the judge promptly de­ dently asserted th at the machine bell, who was expected to arrive in the peak, it requires some strste ;v on
an assistant in the D epartm ent of it is necessary to subject them to a
hops are cleaner than hand Japan shortly after the recent eartn- the part of the bear to svoid a colli­
Mus ic. She will have charge of heat of 140 degrees which is a danger cided that if the county court could picked
picked,
although ground up and pul- quake with its acompaniment of flood sion. In making good his retreat the
establish
a
m
arket
road
it
could
also
H istory of Music, Harmony of Mu­ point in the business. The preseent
erized
considerably And it is also
abandon
or
change
a
m
arket
road
pro­
sic and some of the practice teaching. season has been hot and dry which
fire. She goes to Kioto where bear chose a different canyon than the
vided they followed the regulation told that when the bops are of good and
she
has
a position on the faculty of one the party was ascending. But
Miss Anne Ulen, a graduate of the has added hazard to the harvest.
routine in the m atter. As to the regu­ luality and the factory force in good the University
of Japan and which Lord saw tnrough his scheme and in­
Oregon Normal School and engaged
lations and consideration given to working condition they are known to is located a hundred
.miles from Yo­ tercepted his bearship on the way
Takes Fine Position
in Roseburg the past year in public
them in the present case he was in separate fourteen hundred sacks of kohama, where the main
dam age wus down. Lord did not have a rifle hut
Miss
Edna
Scott
started
in
this
school work, comes as an assistant in
some doubt. He gave the plaintiff five hops in one day.
dona.
She
sailed
on
the
Maru he had a cam era and is now showing
week
as
a
teacher
in
history
and
the A rt Departm ent. Miss Ulen's
From the picker the hops go to the la'gest of Japanese liners Taiyo
days
in
which
to
file
a
brief
and
the
and
a
num­ the photograph of the bear and the
fine record here as a student a id as civics in the W ashington high school defendants five days in which to make kiln for drying which is not conduct­
ber
of
contradictory
reports
have mountain and the canyon to back up
in
Portland.
Miss
Scott
who
is
a
an instructor in the summ er session
answer. During the interval the pres­ ed in the manner of prunes on trays
story.
of last year insures her a hearty re­ graduate of the college in McMinn­ ent injunction stands and no work can in a tunnel. Instead the hops are been published concerning the fate his The
guide said he never knew but
of
this
boat.
It
has
been
published
ville
has
been
teaching
in
high
schools
ception and success in the work for
piled on the floor of the drier, about that it arrived safely and also that one other
be done on the road.
bear who had a weakness
in
different
parts
of
the
state
for
the
the coming year. Those acquainted
three feet deep. The doors are then it has been laid up for repair;. No for mountain
The
road
this
suit
refers
to
is
the
climbing it is thought
with Miss Laura Holliday when here past few years. Last year she went road from Dallas to the Tillamook closed and the heat turned on for %
this
one
was
driven
up seeking safety
word
has
been
received
from
Miss
to
the
university
and
got
a
m
asters
form erly, will be pleased to know cf
country and is used constantly at this stated period of time, when the doors
from hunters.
her return as Mrs. Ostien, also an degree making honor standings in time of the year by people from this are opened again. Dry hops are Campbell.
The Oregonian Wednesday an­ I M. Simpson of Portland was s
all subjects.
assistant in A rt.
section as well as from the surround­ like so many feathers. They are nounced
that the Taiyo Maru had an­
Miss Lois Criswell of Tacoma, for­ F. J. Coad has sold the Dallas plan­ ing region. The route makes little dif- scooped out with large shovel:: into chored at Kobe with all passenger* business visitor in Monmouth S atu r­
the
bal
ing
machines
where
at
last
the
day.
merly of Pendleton, takes the work in ing mill to A storia parties and the erence to people on either end of the
safe.
the library left vacant by the resig­ machinery will be moved in the near route. It is merely being used in the hop becomes a commercial product.
future. In rebuilding A storia is has unfortunate feud that prevails in the The Horst ranch covers 7C0 acres, FRED HILL BECOMES
nation of Miss Grace Leaf.
been
difficult to get machinery county and the delay m ust aggravate 400 of which are nov/ producing hops
MONMOUTH MEAT MAN
Mr. Waldo Zeller, who is to be an as fast found
Time was when 24" additional acres
all
who
use
the
road
and
espec'aiiy
as
it
was
needed
and
Mr.
Coad
instructor in the M mm outh High had an offer which he did not feel he thoae who travel it in the winter.
were covered with wires and vines Fred J. Hill has started in business
School, also will have chaigt of the could refuse.
helping to produce the product that for himself, buying out the interest
men's athletics in tn<* N ,rmal School. But Dallas will not be without a
Juice to Dallas
cnce made brew that made Milwaukee which his father has had with him
He is a graduate of W illam ette Uni­
heap of poles recently unload­ famous. These 240 acres of hops since they started here four years
mill. The W illamette Valley ed The
versity and has a splendid record as planing
by
Power company in Mon­ have been olosve 1 up and the land ago. He has his trade well in hand,
Lumber company announces that it mouth is the being
an athlete and coach.
hauled along the high­ put to other uses. Any one who wants keeps a clean and attractive shop, and
will establish in Dallas a combination way to the north
of the city. They to argue the promlHtion question wi’l gives courteous service. J. B. Hill I ? y jv c a n » IV « t o d a y
Vacancies in the force of critic planing mill and box factory and cut­ are to' be used in the
construction of find plenty of opportunity it he ling­ has not decided w hat he will do in the
teachers in the training school at In­ up mill that will employ from 25 to 75 a new and heavier power
line to Dal­ ers on the Horst premises.
Jç*nd ih * "ad ia rÿa sn *
future, but will stay in Monmouth
dependence have been fl'led by the men in the season.
las.
In
the
old
days
our
It
is
said
to
be
one
of
the
largest
and will probably start up in the
election of Miss Florence Beardsley. I
nei
a w a y/
who form erly was eritic in the rural j A special meeting of the Civic juice came from Dallas now it hop yards in the world. From three chicken business.
goes
through
here
to
Dal­
to
five
thousand
men
and
women
are
center in Ëoîa. and Miss Naomi H ag -M » b
h*ld
hi«h
the power plant there being no registered and on the pay roll of the ,
t
\
ensen. a graduate of the Normal | b.u ild,n* Tuesday / ftcir ro ^ *t _2_,_0j las,
Live Wire*
longer
by the company. Con­ yard at this time of the year. They j Mr». C. Lorence
M
atters
of
interest
will
come
up
and
School whrf has k«cn engaged in members and others interested in civic nection used
in
renewing
her
is also being made with have three camps there, each one a [ subscription this week ordered the
teaching in Pendleton the past year, improvement are urg -d to attend.
Rickreall
and to farm ers along the small city of tents. Children swing Herald sent to her in Ohio during her
anjl Miss Peart Ellis, also a Normal
route.
under th shade of the trees. Young visit there. This is her first visit
graduate who comes from the Port­
Notice To Pay# l ’p
men toss horse shoes, girls spru< e up i-nck there in 48 years. O ther renew­
land school* with severa' years of Notice is hereby given that the firm
.Moon Hides Sin
for
the dance, for the Saturday night als and new subscriptions during the
While
the
w
eather
Monday
noon
successful experience.
of J. B. Hill A Son has been disolved
ball
at the hop yards is an institution week were, W. W. Elliott, N. S. Stew ­
Mrs. Mattio L Carr, a recent grad and that the business will be conduct- was a bit cloudy, local people had no in itself.
art, D. W. Tilton, J. W. Scott, Miss
trouble
in
w
atching
the
course
of
the
uate of the Normal, will have charge ed at the old stand by the undersign-
Edna Scott, H. K. Sickafoose, Mr*. A.
The
hop
business
which
has
had
its
eclipse
of
the
sun.
The
eclipse
was
of the rural center of Eo'a and Mrs j ed and that all accounts owing the
Arline B. Farieigh. als> a N orm al'said J. B Hill A Son are now due most nearly complete during the noon funeral sermon preached on a number L. Boynton, Mrs. Mary Campbell.
hour at which tim e all the character- of occasions is still n rath er lively Mrs. D. M. Hewitt, Alfred Smith,
graduate, of the critic work a t Oak and m ust be paid at once.
corpse. As in many another busi­ Mrs. Kate Baab. T. J. Edwards
istics of tw ilight prevailed.
Point.
Fro* >■ ■ ■
$40,000 Damage in
Big Hop Yard Fire
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