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There is No Land Like Orciror
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West Side Highway Open
Promise Winter Road South
By the first of next week the new concrete pav
ing on the W est Side highway will have seasoned
sufficiently to be used for traffic and the ban which
has long existed on travel from south of the Luck-
iamute will be lifted. Secretary and Engineer
Kline of the highway commission has announced
that the unpaved part of this road will be kept in
condition for w inter use. The only doubtful
place on the road is the cut through the Heimick
hill; the rem ainder of the unpaved p art of this
road is highway that has been graveled and used
for years.
In the cut through the hill a spring of w ater
was encountered, a spring which it is claimed is
connected with the underground reservoir from
which the well on the Clay Bush farm gets its sup
ply. A great deal of gravel has been dumped in
this cut and at present it is in usable shape. It
is reported the commission will plank this stretch
if it fails to hold up under w inter traffic.
Of the unpaved road there is still a mile be
tween the Benton county line and the end of the
new paving, and about four miles between the Hel-
mick bridge and Monmouth. The paving finished
this summer is practically all new road through
the Luckiamute bottom country and around the
Wheeler hill, form erly an obstacle to travel south
of the bridge after the winter rains set in. The
new road which leads through the Steele, Suver and
Jones farm s, through fertile land and fine stand
ing tim ber, is characterized by pretty scenery and
is bound to be popular with the public when finally
made accessible.
The opening of this road means much to Mon
mouth and Independence for it aids to remove a
barrier to w inter travel that has been keenly felt.
In regard to roads this section has advanced
considerably this year with more progress than
has been made during the same tim e for a genera
tion at least. Heretofore it appears to have been
the program in influential centers of the county not
only to take all road improvements possible but to
apportion to the Monmouth section as little as pos
sible. This year fortune has been good to us and
work on two thoroughfares has helped to bring
nearer to us the fertile land of the Luckiam ute
valley. These roads are the King’s Valley M arket
road and the road around the Antioch hill.
Said a visitor from Falls City the other evening,
“Did you know that only two miles of road need
to be graveled to make a direct road from Mon
mouth to Falls C ity ?”
A prominent purpose in the publication of this
special edition is to remind the citizens of these
territories affected of the facts and to suggest that
they take advantage of their opportunities. During
this Christm as season they will find the advertisers
in the Herald will treat them right in the m atter
of trade.
Closer relationship should also be established
that the combined influence of all can be brought
to bear where it will do the most good.
Monmouth Odd Fellows entertained visitors from
Falls City last Monday night and conferred the
first degree on three candidates for the Falls City
brethren. The three candidates were: W ellington
Hill, Guy Mott, John Zuver. In addition the same
degree was conferred on one Monmouth candidate,
Harvey Young. The Falls City delegation will
Monday with the same
be back again a week
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candidates for the thir
eras w aiting for them,
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le a hasty trip to the
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Club Plans Street Numbers
Would Protect Shade Frees
At the meeting of the Commercial club Tuesday
night the club went on record as favoring the prop
agation and preservation of shade trees on the
streets of the city. It was unanimously decided
to urge the council to refuse permission for the cut
ting down of young trees in the parking spaces of
the streets of the city.
Since some time had elapsed since the last m eet
ing of the club, a number of m atters were aw ait
ing attention.
For some time the club has been custodian of a
sum of money to be used in the permanent better
ment of the city. At this meeting it was decided
this object could be achieved by placing street signs
in place and working out a system for the num ber
ing of houses along said streets. E. M. Ebbert,
K. E. Derby and E. C. Cole were appointed as a
committee to investigate and put into effect a sys
tem of street numbers. It was felt this is urgent
ly needed in the city. Strangers here are con
stantly seeking direction to residences or rooming
houses and street numbers will help in this m atter
m aterially.
Hitching posts for the accommodation of team s
which are tied in the streets while owners are en
gaged in business, also commanded attention. The
present hitching place near the corner of Main and
Broad is open to objection in that the Monmouth A
Independence bus garages ale close by and the
large cars passing frequently bother the horses. It
was decided to remove the hitching posts to another
place on the same street and E. C. Cole was named
a comm ittee of one to look after this public con
venience.
The G range is considering inviting the Oregon
Dairy ouncil to meet with it at some future time
and the club voted to offer what encouragement to
the project it could.
were elected to office for the ensuing year.
M aster, W. J. Stockholm; Overseer, Paul Riley;
Lecturer, Mrs. Edwards; Steward, Mrs. Hull; A s
sistant Steward, E. N. Keeney; Treasurer, Geo. R.
Crofoot; Secretary, Maggie Butler; Gate Keeper,
Ed. Rogers; Ceres, Mrs. Crofoot. Pomona, Maggie
Powell; Flora, Julia Stockholm; Lady A s'st Stew
ard, Allie Butler.
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Men Grangers Prepare Meal
Casualty List Not Numerous
Grange Meeting last Saturday was what is known
as “Brothers’ Day”, so called because annually the
men folks of the G range are expected to prepare
the dinner. Usually it has been custom ary to ov
erlook various wifely or sisterly aides, but on S at
urday, under the leadership of W. J. Stockholm and
P. O. Powell, it was decided to make the dinner en
tirely masculine. The only article of food on the
menu contributed by the women were the cakes
which the men folks bought from the dinner com
m ittee of the Dorcas Bazaar.
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Feminine curiosity was of course ram pant and
Christmas Tree and Program
For Training School Pupils
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A Christm as festival for the children of the
Training School will be given in the Normal audi
torium next Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. The pro-
giam which follows includes a Christm as tree and
a number of fine musical features which have been
arranged by Miss Kurth of the Normal music de
partm ent. Children, parents of children and all
friends of the Normal are invited to this program.
Tuesday, December 18, 1923
2-30 P. M., Normal Chapel
Processional—“ Deck the Halls”—Children of the
Training School
PART I
The C antata "C hristm as”—F. Abt.—O. N. S. G irls’
Glee Club
Chorus— Prayer for deliverance—Glee Club
Recitative—An AngeP’Ye Shepherds W atching’’ -
M yrtle Mortenson
Angels’ Chorus—Proclaiming the coming of Chris’.
—Glee Club
Alto Solo—"F ear not at all, the Light ha* com e"--
Florence Metcalf
Shepherds’ Song—"O come Thou great le a d e r"—
Glee Club
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the members, both male and female, arrived early.
The women were “shooed” into the lodge hall and
told to open up the session while the men repaired
to the kitchen. Such sterling cooks were there
among them as W. J. Stockholm, U. G. Heffley,
Charles Parker, Wm. Riddell, Jr., M. M. Harvey and
others, all of whom acted as though they had done
such work before. They boiled and mashed pota
toes, roasted a fresh ham of pork, made gravy, pre
pared oyster soup and when all was in readiness
called in the multitude.
The women admitted that the dinner was extra
good but insisted th at if the home cooks were as
extravagant there would soon be lota of business
for the divorce courts.
In addition to its being "B rothers’ Day” it was
also election day at the Grunge and the following
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