T he M onmouth H erald
MONMOUTH, POLK COUNTY', OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1923
VOL. XVI
No. 16
There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley
TO WORK
HIGH SCHOOL
01d Customs Revived INABILITY
Items of Interest
MAKES MAN DESPERATE Our Japanese Friends
Last Monday morning, the Student County Budget Day
of the high school enjoyed an
Old Man Becomes Despondent
At Work and Flay
By
Dormitory’
Girls
Again
Gets
Publicity
At Oregon Normal Body
interesting talk given by Professoi
E. G. Erickson, 83, Saturday after-1
Bowling of the Normal School. Pro­
The Fall term of the Oregon Nor­ fessor Bowling illustrated the subject
mal School came to a close at noon of his talk by a blackboard diagram
Wednesday. The last week was a showing the students the plan of
busy time for students and faculty. battle used by the Allies in the World
W ith work incidental to the closing War. As it was his duty in the war
of a regular school term and with to draw such plans he was able to
Christm as program s and the rush to give first hand information of general
get away for the holiday vacation, all m ilitary tactics used in the war. Tht
were thoroughly engaged. Modest Student Body will appreciate future
commencement exercises for the visits of Mr. Bowling.
graduates who concluded their work The High School Basketball team
with the fall term were held in the played the Deaf School in the latter’s
chapel W'ednesday morning. There gymnasium at Salem last Frida)
evening and lost with a score of 33
were twenty-five graduates.
19. It was very difficult for oui
Registration tor the w inter term to
boys
to locate the basket in the first
will start promptly at eight o'clock half at
end of which the score
on Wednesday, January 2. To se­ was 19 the
to
5
in their favor. But
cure prompt registration a fine of in the second half
one dollar for each day of delay will closely contested. the game was more
be levied and after five days have On Friday evening, December 21st
elapsed no student can register for at 7:30 p. m. the team will play Inde­
full work during the term.
pendence High School in the Nor­
The Christm as program put on by mal gym. This will be a good gaini
the pupils of the Training School, the and the interest will be stim ulated
Glee Club and the Dramatic A rt de­ by the rivalry which has existed be­
partm ent, Tuesday afternoon was a tween the schools for some time.
delightful event. Miss K urth of The students winning a place or
the Music departm ent directed the the debating team are: Opal Wede
program and she was assisted by kind, Cecil Poole, Robert Hall, and
Miss Beth Godbold of the Dramatic Earle Stew art. These students will
A rt departm ent and Miss Jennie represent the high school in the de­
Peterson at the piano. Especial bates in the Middle W illamette Dis
mention m ust be made of the first trict of the Oregon High School De
and second graders who put on bating League.
“ Dear Santa’s Shop” and carried Faith and Maybelle McClellan will
their parts wonderfully well. W ith’ not return to school after the Christ
skillful lighting and clever acting mas vacation as they are moving to
the search of the Three Wise Men for Tualatin.
the Babe of Bethlehem was also
Donald Skeer
noteworthy. The singing of the
cantata Christm as evidenced patient
Bigger Post Office
work in preparation and the play The post office is shortly to have
“The Man who did not believe in San­ the extra room it needs by taking
ta Claus” was very effectively pre­ the room to the rear now occupied b>
sented by students in the Dramatic Arnold’s bakery. A block addition
A rt class.
to the Improvement building is being
built and will be occupied by tht
Good Word for Alumni bakery
in place of the room which
Dr. Henry D. Sheldon, dean of the ~
The post
school of education spoke on “The Re­ office business has long outgrown
it?
lation of the Normal School to the present space and additional room
U niversity” at a recent m eeting of
facilitate the work greatly
the Oregon Normal School club, com­ will
More
posed of members of the Oregon Nor­ stalled. mail boxes will also be in
mal School now at the University of
Oregon. He believes the normal The conunittee from the Commer-
school course most valuable to anyone cial club who have had charge of
expecting to take up university work. making a plan for numbering thi
He said that Normal students know city, report progress. They have
how to work, how to make use of decided on 100 numbers to a block
reference books, how to concentrate, and each intersection will begin with
in short, how to study, and they make a fresh hundred. In a short time
the most of th at knowledge. Dr. the m arshal and one other will
Sheldon stated th at the average make the rounds of the city and col­
grade of the normal students is a lect 26 cents from each householder
third higher than that of other stu­ which will pay for the numbers and
dents, the attitude is more serious, place them on the buildings. Inter­
individually, and there is a greater sections are to be equipped with ap­
appreciation of the opportunity for propriate signs. This work will be
learning given by the university.— done in the near future.
Oregonian, December 16.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hampton and
George Sullivan of Woodland, small son are expected from La-
W ashington, is here calling on ' Grande to spend Christm as with
relatives.
friends.
Acting upon the theory that the
supreme court is liable to hold the
tax conservation law invalid the m a­
jority of the Polk county court de
cided Tuesday to proceed as though
the law had not been passed.
This means there will be the ad­
vertising of the budget and a regular
budget meeting so that no m atter
what the decision of the supreme
court the county will not be without
tax receipts during the coming year
Action was taken by Commission­
ers H art and Riddell with Judge Rob­
inson dissenting. The same budget
subm itted to the commissioners will
be subm itted to the people
The commissioners contend that in
making the cuts in the places they
did the commissioners have made it
.mpossible to conduct county busi­
ness .
The budget m eeting is called for
Thursday, January lUth.
Christmas Programs
The program at the Cymmunity
Christmas tree on Monday evening
vvas a success in spite of the rain.
* n interesting program was given
with Miss Ruby Loience of the Nor­
mal as leader. 500 sacks of candy
were given out; these being donated
by the merchants of the city.
About fifty members and guests of
the Golden Rule class of the Christian
church gathered in the church parlors
ast Friday evening for their annual
Christmas tree and good time.
A fter a short business meeting
all enjoyed a program and games in
which a number of prizes were dis-
ributed to the winners.
A pretty Christm as fairy came
lown stairs singing a Christm as
long and distributed the gifts; after
which all enjoyed refreshm ents.
The ladies of the Homelike Society
have been busy during the last week,
making dolls to be sent to the chil-
Iren at the Farm Home and on Tues-
lay a family of about fifteen dolls,
lressed in their very best, gathered
it the church ready for their journey
o offer Christm as cheer to some lit-
cle girl.
The Society also had a short pro­
gram with the usual Christmas tree
ind treat. Twentytwo members
were present.
Delphian Program
The Delphians put on the last lit­
erary program of this term , Wednes
Jay evening, December 12. In its
nature it was a Christm as production
which brought forth much laughter
from the audience, this being one
proof that it was a success. Those
having charge and taking part in th<
program are to be complimented on
the results of the undertaking.
P. L. Fishback visited relatives in
Salem last Friday and Saturday.
A Christmas Tragedy—Fr Pop
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S n e a k
presents
mo
house
iS CA.VJÖHT I N THE ACT-
committed suicide by sitting on Most of us like to read about trav ­
The annual Christinas program in noon
a
box
dynamite and touching a el und adventures. If we ourselves
the Dormitory was held Tuesday match of
to the fuse of a stick of the , cannot
see far-off lands we enjoy
evening and was attended by many explosive which he held in his hand.;
features of absorbing interest to on his farm near Ellendale in Polk seeing them through the eyes of some
one else Here is a letter today for
students and faculty. This program county.
starts at 5:30 with a processional of Although only the stick he held in your fireside traveling that will take
girls down the stairw ay singing his hand exploded, both of Erickson's you to the romantic and picturesque
Christmas carols until they reach legs were blown off at the knees, his 'and of the cherry blossom. The let-
their places in the dining rooms. The left hand was blown away, his right er was w ritten on Armistice day in
dining room and its appointments hand terribly mangled, his left eye Kyoto, Japan, by Agnes Campbell, a
weie prettily set off by holly and ivy blown out and he was otherwise m u­ Monmouth girl, now teaching in
Doshisha university. She writes:
and red Christm as candles, and the tilated.
atmosphere and associations of the He was rushed to the Dallas hos­ I went to the top of Mount Hiei
gathering made it one long to be pital where he died within three last week. Hieisan, as it is usually
called, one of the holiest mountains in
remembered. The students in the hours.
two dining rooms of the dormitory For months Erickson has been in Japan, stands guard over the city of
exchanged rooms twice during the poor health and lately has been liv­ Kyoto, to the northwest, protecting
course of the dinner, both times be­ ing with his daughter in Dallas it against devils, since that is the on­
tween courses. At a given signal Saturday afternoon his daughter, who ly direction from which they can
the girls arose, and marching and is a member of the Seventh Day Ad­ come. For the same reason, all the
singing carols wound their way out ventist church, went to church. In temples and palaces have re-entrant
of the room. When the hall was her absence Erickson went to the migles in the northwest corners of
cleared the doors at the rear opened hardware store, purchased a 59-pound their walls; only through corners, not
and a double file of girls from the box of dynamite, loaded it into his angles, may devils enter. Hieisan
other room came in singing, and automobile and drove to his farm figured largely at one time in the his­
tory of Japan as the stronghold of the
again the tables were filled. With near Ellendale.
bonzes,
or Buddhist priests. On the
school songs and special songs com­ Glen Brock, a rural mail carrier,
plim entary to the season, the faculty as he drove past the farm , saw ridges und in the thirteen canyons
and guests, the tim e passed swiftly. Erickson sitting on the box of dyna­ that Hank the mountain were many
Dean Taylor’s genius for composition mite holding something that was monastries, fortified for defense.
was happily in evidence in some of smoking in his hand. When Brock Some time in the Middle Ages a man
the songs.
had gone but a short distance he named Nobunaga made war upon
Dinner ended, faculty and guests heard the explosion and hutried the priests, killed them by thousands
seated themselves around the draw ­ back. He found Erickson writhing and burned the monastries and all
but a few of the temples.
ing room and the two hundred stu ­ in pain on the ground.
dents marched in, singing, and seated No other motive than that of poor We began our climb from a village
themselves on the large rug. The health and despondency because age called Y’ase, which is noted for its
Yule log was then brought in and had handicapped him in his work are beautiful women. They do have pre-
ty faces, and dressed in their village
placed before the fireplace. Pres- known for the suicide.
dent Landers fittingly expressed the Besides his daughter in Dallas, costumes, are attractive. One old
sentiments of the Christm as season Eiickson leaves a son, Richard woman passed us pulling a cart piled
high with short bundles of wood. She
with a prayer for its preservation
had tucked up her kimono, the better
and blessing. Miss Brenton spoke Erickson of Salem.
to walk, and her under-kimono, her
pleasingly or the spread of the influ­ Veteran School Teacher
tabi, or short stockings, and her head
ence of the Dorm and various young
Dies
in
Independence
diess
were spotlessly white. Her face
women in turn sat upon the yule log
and made wishes which covered a Miss H arriet McNanama, aunt and held the beauty of years of placid
wide extent of territory from the adopted mother of Miss Arbuthnot, contentment. These people of Yase
acquisition of a swimming pool for passed away at her home in Indepen­ care for the royal palaces and parks
the Normal to best wishes for Miss dence last Friday evening, after a in Kyoto. They once did an em per­
Todd, the absent dean, who when lingering illness. Funeral services or a service, and this privilege has
and theirs only, ever
ast heard from, had reached Rome were held at the house Sunday at been theirs,
Continued
on page 5
n her European tour. Good wishes
P. M. and burial was in the Riv­
were also expressed to the Bullocks 2:30
View cemetery in Salem Monday The Following are Candidates for
and artists of the kitchen who made er
morning.
Messrs. Butler, Gentle Graduation, December 19, 1923
possible the splendid dinner.
and
Beattie
of the Normal faculty
A nicely told story of the first were among the
M argaret Ackerman
bearers. Rev. H. C.
Christmas followed. Then out of doors Dunsmore preached
Alice
A Aldrich
the
funeral
ser­
a chorus of men’s voices was heard, mon and Mrs. Landers sang "Cross­
M
argaret
N. Anderson
at first distant but steadily growing ing the B ar”.
John
Angell
in voluma and approaching nearer. The deceased was 78 years old.
Beatrice Brown
The windows were opened and as the She taught school for twentyfive
Velma Henrietta Colt
words of the old Christm as songs years in Des Moines. Iowa.
Leola Davidson
came in it was remindful of the Miss McNanama was for several
M argaret Ann Dickover
pages of Dickens or W ashington Ir­ yeats a resident of Monmouth and
Frances A. Eckert
ving.
Gladys E. Endicott
has many friends here to mourn her
Then a move was made to the new death.
Neal Edwards
drawing room on the lower floor. Miss Arbuthnot is spending the
Elizabeth Dora Frances
There a holly w reath was hung over Christmas vacation in Portland, and
Jane Berkley Gunn
the fireplace and there was singing, when school convenes agnin, will
Suzan Ethel Haulenbeck
iwo beautiful solos by Mrs. Landers, make her home with Mrs. Ackerman.
Ethel Marie Jenson
and a Christm as song by a girls’
Ruth O. Minier
quartet, with Miss Peterson at the Enterprising pupils in the Training
Myrtle G. Murphy
piano.
School published a paper for the
Thelma 1. Nixon
From there all were invited up to Christm as season and found the day
Inez V. Nyman
the laige reception room again to see of the Christm as program an oppor
Ruby J. Peterson
Christmas gifts the girls had made tune time to circulate it. The p a­
Mildred Stephens
for the W hite Shield Home in Port­ per styled “The Breezette”, gave op­
lierm ina Zipple
land. Although the girls have been portunity to the young literary
L Kate Rosa
very busy they found time to make lights of the school to shine in prose
Lee Smith
a goodly number of house dresses and and poetry, also had a generous
Katherine E. Brown
baby dreases. The work was beauti­ amount of school news and a choice
Edna Denson
fully done and did the girls much collection of jokes. They aim to
credit.
make “The Brezette” a quarterly.
Civic Club
The Christm as program is a regu­
The Civic Club meets this a fte r­
Real
Estate
lar feature at the dormitory each G. T. Boothby reports three sales noon, December 21, in the high
year. The outline program is the this week. J. O. Andrus has sold school building at 2:30.
Just a
same, following the customs of old his residence on Clay street to short business session will be held,
England, and it would be difficult to Charles Petrie, consideration $1200. the tegular meeting date having be « n
improve on it, but each year there Mr. Andrus has bought the four advanced a week because of C hrist­
are variations and each year there it large
on East Main street owned mas.
a new group of students to partici­ by B. lots
F.
Swope.
These are fine lots
pate. To them it leaves a memory and Mr. Andrus will
build a house
cam ADviartsisG ALmsarr
that will linger long, one of the big thereon, starting soon after
the
first
events in their two years work at of the year. For some months past
the Oregon Normal.
Mr. Petrie has been living in the
Bookey house on Echols street.
Literary Societies Elect
Election of new officers for each Jam es Goodman has bought the
literary society was held last week. Griffa house east of the city limits
M
£ r Y E S “,
Those being elected for the Vesper­ and plans to make it his home.
tine offices are: President, Lillian
A Large Lnion
i f you'J
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Mortensen; Secretary, Helen Hanson; Howard Morlan is exhibiting two
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RESULTS
Treasurer, Dorothy Briggs; Sergeant large lemons which he received this
at Arms, Florence M etcalf; Reporter, week from Miss Mabel West of
Thmi -wvmjj mmkm yarn £lm.A
Clara Case.
Bakersfield,
California.
One
of
the
The new Delphian officers are; lemons weighs one pound and eleven
* ft
President, Violet Bowden; Vice-presi­ ounces.
West w rites that
dent, Christine Johns; Secretary, these are a Miss
variety of lemon
Ann H artm an; Treasurer, M srguer and there are new
only
two trees of them
ite I» re ts; Sergeant at Arms, Ger a t Bakersfield.
trade Larson; and Reporter, Ruth
Loral Odd Fellows entertained vis­
Rosenbury.
•
itors from Falls City and Dallas,
Mr. and Mrs. Rake and daughter Monday night and put on the third
of Omaha, Nebraska, arrived in degree for the benefit of three candi­
Monmouth Wednesday for a visit dates, two, C. £. T e^erow and H ar­
with their son, Elm er Rske of the vey Young from the local lodge, and
W ellington Hill from Falla City.
Monmouth Heights district.
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