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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1924)
T H E M O N M O U T H H E R A L D , M O N M O U T H . O R E G O N F R ID A Y , F E B R U A R Y 15, 1924 Pag* 2 HELD PRISONER WEST SHIPS RECORD IN ICE WELL FREIGHT TONNAGE OVER S. P. LINES Workman Climbs Forty Feet and Then Falls Back When Traffic Handled Without Con Pegs Give Way. gestion B y Increased Rail road Efficiency SAVED HOURS LATER Canterbury, England.— A remark able adventure befell Frederick Tuff, a workman on the Chllham Custle es tate, near here. He fell Into a dis used Ice well, from which he tried in vain to escape by means of a ladder o f pegs, and remained a prisoner for 26 hour». Tuff had beard fellow workers talk o f the well and on his way home from work decided suddenly to Investi gate It. He pushed open a door, walked along a passage and In the darkness stepped over the sill and fell to the bottom, a distance o f 20 feet, amid a shower of bricks, bruised, but not much hurt. Climbs Up With Pegs. Shouting failed to attract help, and he tried to make his own way to safety. “ I found some bits o f board on the well bottom," he said, "and shaped six pegs. Then I dug holes with ray knife In the cement between the wall bricks and pushed the pegs Into them. Just t w t th in gs have m ade M p assib le lo r us to g iv e you this 28 X rsdu otisn on Tuxedo: 1. A red u ction in the c o s t of K entucky Burley tob aoeo and in paokage m * tarials, aa we The con solid ation ol th ree ol eu r M g plants into one. (M r. Ford m ay net he in the tobaooo b u sin esa but ha is right about co n solid a tion .) Tusado Is alw ays F ncsm . Every p aok a ge is — I N C Raising the Dead. He kicked off hie wet shoes, s l i d b i s tired feet into a pair o f carpet slip per«, lit hi« pipe, set down with no air o f relief and declared that wild horse« couldn't get him out o f the bouse before morning. "H en ry," suid bis wife, “ you potted that letter 1 gave you thla morning, I suppose?" “ I did, iny love," he replied unblush Ingly. " I asked mother to postpone her visit for a while," bis w ife continued. “ You Henry did eee, bis w ife saw, too. M hat she saw was a tired man Jump from his chair, kick off hla sllppera, put on hla shoes and get out Into the mud as tbough ha liked nothing better. And when, a few minutes later, be came back with the remark tbst he had been to see how the thermometer stood down at the post office, his wife smiled. A Modest Hope. Sometimes the hopeful natives ex- " p w t miracles The Aiuerlcun icbool by Astilkaga. the usurper. ." j » 4 year« 5.. uboiapur. In India, got a letter from ago. The Emperor Godslgo dispatches a native whose sou hud been sent to his sous to uearby provinces to raise stu .ly. recruit* for his campulgn against Ashl "It you will kindly try to read Ills kaga and their tombs are scattered phrenology," the doting father wrote, around the country. The Imperial "hie physiognomy and graphology, you mausoleum board Is making a search ■oust discover as the most prom for ancient graves with the hope rhal ising boy te turn him out to be presi discoveries -will be made which -.till dent o f America aa James Ourfleld, help In the study o f the history o f the Lincoln and others." country. Kven In mission life many a comedy la staged In early Honolulu days, a Good Stuff. chief, quite naked, called on a mis "T h e olgivr man. thinks pretty well sionary. Being reproved for this, he o f his line.** went back to hla hut, and returned "H u u r wearing a pair o f women s stockings " I t abounds In superbas and per and a tils hat I— Frederick Slruplch, In feet os." I ,h* s,tur<1*/ Evening Poet in tfte Pen. ~ "W h at Is the name o f that hand Anclent Japanese Tombs. | some prisoner?" asked the impresslon- Tombs o f six Imperial ancestors i able young woman. have Just been discovered In ob«cure “ No. 2206, Miss," replied the guard. spot* In the suburbs o f Kyoto. T h e y "H o w fu n n y! But. o f course, that hsvs been ldeutlfled as those o f the Is not his real nainw." sous and daughters o f Emperor C.o- "Oh, no, m iss; that's just hla peu dalgo. who was banished to OkJ Island nume."— Boston Transcript. E t ia u e i i t We dare the etsrry heavens with eur naglc wooden wing, and wt warble machinery— any time we «a n t to sing; we have done away with h«a*ra and divorced the mutey cow, and we cultivate our foil tier with an automatic plow. I reckon there's no limit to the energy of met why we shore aside old Biddy- for varnished wooden ben! Here's our |<atrnt noiseless cooker that performs without a rtre- an begoeb. we re «ending message- without a sign o f w ir e '! We can hear the festive yodler ou the : ' rim tisetoe— or feeet on Jats from Nurvllle. any time we turn the screw -tttmpty tune 'he fam ily Jigger -sny time yon have the ha Dee- met be ketch « Coo f o nigger or —a gars bo In F ra n ce’ ! I ain't * ir;>rts«-l at anything In this flam t-n an life -t* • tell roe they are tnet i n out an a m w if e ! 11 X r a i d dt.'wring fa r t anal re p o rt .?» p o in lt t f Blw gntut at hr art « S m r j •> -v trwiit y i n A . L td * , earn af Otta • * • « » rapar, an ela rm i a ta il a d i 'weird D kab A. W ill you kindly tell roe the kind o f a cote that ahould be written In case o f a dinner and theatre party having to be postponed? la It bet ter form to send a meaaenger with the note or poet U ? A R xadcb . When condition* arise which pre vent the giving o f a dinner a note should Immediately be despatched either by messenger or special de livery, either canceling or postpon ing the affair. T h e note may be written In the third person, some thing to thla effect: Mr. and M m Robert W illiam s re gret exceedingly that due 1» fire In their home they must postpone their dinner arranged fo r Wednesday Dm cember the tenth, to Monday. Decem ber twenty-third, on which date they hope to have the pleasure o f Mr. and M m James Oolltera company at half after seven o'clock. Another reader asks the kind o f a note that should be sent In the case of a stop-gap at a dinner party. Thle means stopping a gap which has been ceased by a gueet'a sud den Inability to keep a dinner en gagement. It is quite permissible to call upon a friend to fill a vacan t) occurring at a dinner party at the last mo ment However. In aneb a case the situation -hould be frankly etp laC d arid not a format ra n i -ent out a.*, the last minute For e ia iu p le i I ' m Ma Bkowtv: W i n yo u t e m it o t-H g i.ig __ _ and lielp me out on W e r t ' January the twelfth? The grippe has seised one of uty guests a* the '« e t mlu.it* »e thyt I am , a-1 the g,*. | notare o f my friend* ’ Y » will ,||. * at seven o'clock, and | shall forward to the pin e.ore o f rour company and thank r nt n u n tin , * fo r the favor yon rot > r t>j Moat Silicee f , yours. J ut* B bus. I. helpful UE ALTH hints Antiseptic l< >n to i i ' at as a h*-’p an «Irr a» prevent Uv« *1 vL — » . It and water ( l-)*s wafer • is ex- i r f.: vsrrle It will •dy » - wett ■4 >■ ' .’ fil é * Each Hole Took About H alf an Hour to Make. Each hole took about half an hour to make. “ When I got h alf way up I found I had not got enough pegs. I came down again and tied string to the lower pegs, and then as I went up pulled them out behind me to use high er up. ‘T had got almost to the top when the peg I was standing on gave way and let me down. A fter that I gave up. A t the time I could hear a cricket match being played In the field out side and children playing round about. Rescued by Brother-in-Law. “ I could make nobody hear." (It seems that Tuff's shouts were heard, but nobody could discover where they came from .) “ I cleared the toads that were In the well down a drain to have the place to m yself and tried to get to sleep. It was very cold and uncom fortable. but I slept fairly well. I heard twelve and four o'clock strike, and then nothing until the church bells woke roe. "Just before two p. m. I heard my brother-in-law shouting, and I an rwered. He then found me and fetched a ladder and got me out. 1 walked tw o miles home to Shottenden and had a Jolly good dinner." b tj U i h t i H a c fle tj e I f W alter L. Hodges had been content to remain an obscure farm hand on an Indiana ranch nineteen years ago he would not now 1« tin Hon. W alter L Hodges. I .os Angeles millionaire |D HKU. poverty- stricken, uneducated, sickly, he was eartuug fifty cents a day ou a little ranch he didn't own Ills mother In law fell heir to a note for »3 000 given hy a teaming " mpany. She traded the note to Hodges Making his way to Ixis 1 ncelee he forced the company to give him sixteen mules and four >gone But what was he to do with sixteen hungry mules? Itidiug one of them and leading the other fifteen he found a gravel led on a I.©a Amnio* river where he could gel gravel free. On his nerve alone he hired three negro drivers and with them l>egat> hauling ¡.ravel Into l ow Angeles at »2.50 a lood. At the eud >f two years be had not made a cent- To make money be innst And a shorter haul He found a bed of gravel four miles nearer I-os Angelos Demand for gravel at »2.50 a load waa great, hut at the end o f a je e r he was »13,000 In debt In a department store, where he had gone to buy overalls, he save an escalator. Hurrying to a Junk dealer he obtained an assortment of old machinery and rubber lodtlng, and In a week had erected a laig. heavy movable belt running from his crushing platform down Into the ravine. One man could thus load more rock onto this belt and have It dum|>ed at the crusher then fourteen could handle before. Ills business began to show a slight profit At night he studied In the I-os Angeles Y M, C A., walking twelve miles each day to do so. But ■even months later, be found himself »35.000 In debt. One Monday ■ note for »10 (XX) fell due. He went to the bank and asked to tee the president. "I'm through." said Hodge* "H ow much do you need?' asked the banker tie loaned him »16 000 more. Then the tide eet his way In 12 months he paid the hank. Then fire wljied him out. causing a »70.000 loss But from Insurance money be built a better plant. Fix months later a flood swept down and buried hie new plant nnder sand. Ills loss was »90.000 He built a new plant and sold the sand In May. 11)22. bis profits were «.> great that he sold his Interest to a Western corporation for »1.100.000 cash. Cars Loaded in 1923 Would Make Train 8,600 Miles Long; Would Encircle United States W estern shippers loaded 1.050,90# cars of freigh t on Southern Pacific s Pacific System lines in 1923, an In crease o f almost 200,000 cars over the loading fo r 1922. which was 851,942 cars. The 1923 loading, according to J. H. Dyer, general manager of the com pany, was the heaviest in the history of the company. I f all the freight cara loaded on the company’s Pacific System in 1923 were coupled up with the locomotives nec essary to move them and with a pro portionate number o f cabooses, they would make a train 8,600 miles In length— long enough to extend around the United States from Portland. Ore gon, through Chicago, Buffalo, New York, Washington. New Orleans. Los Angeles. San Francisco and back to Portland, with about 400 miles of cars left over. The figures cited give some idea of the prosperity and productiveness of i the western states, fo r these cars were loaded in the states of Oregon, Cali- ! fornla, Nevada, Utah, Arlxona and New Mexico. The slie o f the imagin ary train also gives an ldsa of the enormous task performed by th# Southern Pacific Company In handling this traffic, which was moved quickly and efficiently, without congestion or general car shortage. Southern Pacific, as one of the leading railroad systems of the coun try. has had a consistently good rec ord in operating efficiency, extending over a period of years, but despite this fact. Southern Pacific's 1923 per formance in heavy car loading. In obtaining a high dally mileage of freight cars, and In keeping locomo tives and cars in repair, was uniform ly better than in previous yeara. would be a year o f unusually heavy traffic, the railroads joined In a cam paign to speed up transportation They set definite high standards of operating efficiency as a goal fo r the Individual roads to reach. These stand ards w ere: 30 tons of freight per car loaded: 30 miles per car per day; 85 per cent of locom otives In service able condition and not requiring heavy repairs by October 1. the atart of th# season of heaviest traffic; and 95 per cent o f freigh t cars in serviceable condition, by October 1. Southern Pacific bettered these standards In every Instance except In the average carload, and Its perform ance in this respect was a rem ark ably good one and not to be measured by the gr.al set tor all the railroads, because o f Southern Pacific's large tonnage o f light loading, perishable produces, a full car o f which averages about fourteen tons. 210 Oregon Building O R EG O N Associated— Thomas Brown A m T arant R e lia b le Fire in su ra nce and Surety Bonds OFFICE HOURS 2 to 5 P. M. PHONE 805 B. F. BUTLER Dentist Post office bldg. Monmouth Oregon DR. F. R. BOWERSOX PH Y SIC IA N U S I ’R G E O S . 3393 3.302 O F F IC E HOUSE H. W . M ORLAN N o tary Public Blank Deeds, M ortgage«, Etc. W o o d Saw ing per cord Hard wood, twice cut, 90c “ 3 times in two $1.15 Fir. tw ice in two80c; 3 cuts $1.00 Seth Smith, Phone 3205 IT’S H ERE One door Building. east o f the Odd Fellow s Up T o Date Electric Restaurant Tables fo r ladies. G ive us a trial. C. E. Fetxer Monmouth & Independence AutoBua T IM E SCHEDULE Bus leaves Train leaves Monmouth Train Independence 7.08 6.40 A. M. To Portland 10.03 9.45 A. M. To Portland 10.25 9.45 A. M. To Corvallis 12.13 11.55 A. M. To Corvallis 2.22 1.50 P. M. To Portland 3.48 3.25 P. M. To Corvallis 6.38 5.10 P. M. To Portland 7.15 6.45 P. M. To Corvallis Raymond E. .Derby, Phone 1504 Prop. Now is the time to have your screens made and to figure on your work for the summer. See or write G. A. Nestler Shop between Hotel and telephone office. Efficient Service Courteous Treat ment A. L. KEENEY Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer Calls Promptly Answered Day or Night. Prices Reasonable PHONES 9821 AND 9822 Independence, Ore. T h e average tonnage per car loaded in 1933 was 27.5 tons which was an In crease o f seven tenths of a ton over the excellen t record made in 1922. T h e company made Its freight cars tra v e l tw elve miles farther each day than the goal aet fo r the railroads as a w hole, getting an average dally m ile a g e per car o f forty-tw o miles In one month, an average o f 47.3 miles per car per day was obtained. The average fo r 1922 wae 36 8 mile«. Equipment In Repair Southern Pacific, during 1923. aver aged 9S 5 per cent fo r the number of lo com otive« In serviceable condition and not needing heavy repairs as corn- par e l with a percentage o f 16 5 in 1933. ilirl Makes Three Futile In only one month did the company Attempts to Take Her Life h a v » lest than 88 per cent of Its loco- Atlanta. Gs.— A fte r three attempts mot Ives In serviceable condition, the to end her life, all o f which failed. goa 1 set by d ie railroads as a whole Maggie Bedford, fourteen years old, fo r October 1. In only three months la In Jal) for examination. did the company hava lees than *5 The girl tried to kill herself b j I pee cent o f freigh t cars In serviceable Jumping from a w tndow In her home, condition, tbe national goal by Oc- by cutting herself with a knife, and t.ooer 1. The average fo r the year by hanging herself. Doctors beltrve w as 95 4 per cent as compared with she Is Insane. 93.65 per cent In 1933. Another Improvement la perform Train Ended the Quarrel. ance was In the gross locomotive Washington. Ind.— T w o autwnoblle* load, which averaged 3 per cent better collided on the railroad, tracks near In 1923 than in 1913. Thla means Washington. W hile t?,e drivers were that each locomotive was made to arguing about whoa* was tbe fault, a haul a heavier load. train speeded down the track and W hile there was a shortage o f re knocked the tw o cars to splinters. frigera to r care during the peak o f the grape shipping season It did not IX 'ovwan Fin e d *#5 ^ K issin g a Horse. approach In extent the shortage of London.— A-.x'uta»-! of kissing a horse 1932 and did not appear until a great on the street . a woman was fined $5 er tonnage o f grapes had been ship In London, England. T h e w.vmsn ped up to that time than la any pre p i ended that she d.d no wr.*ng. bnt she vious year 'c a » h itoxlc» ited. and the fine was p e r T h e same effort fo r increased effi s iltto l to «.an d. ciency is being made In 1934. accord ing to Southern Pacific officials, and Fa'ln 9 1» Inc set and Breaks Leg im provem ent« and additions are be Olean. X. Y —Fall'ng ab-ett a ll ing steadily made over the system. 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