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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1924)
TOE MONMOUTH HERALD, MONMOuTIT, OREGON FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1024 i , . .... Local W A ' "S Spring Time is Cleaning Time. a a a a a a a a 9 Cleaning Time is Papering Time Papering Time is Painting Time We have a full line of Paints and wall papers. Perkins' Pharmacy If we haven't got it we'll get it. Ask uj. Secretary of Navy Judge Curtis Wilbui. California' Supreme Court Justice and a grad uate of the Naval Academy in 18S8, has accepted the folio in President Coolidg?'s cabinet ns the new Sec retary of the Navy. Smallest Church A ( km4 1 P4 jf rfi,llr'1a5cAtT':R 1 St. Anthony's Chapel at Ft. At kinson, la., the smallest church in the world, will seat just eight peo ple. It was built in 1848 by S. J. Huber and John Gartner, who mi prated from Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Wagner of Pallas visited with their daugh ter in Monmouth Friday. She is a Normal student who lives in the Johnson rooming house. Mrs. Oestreieh and family have moved from the Scott house to the Kgelston house. Rev. Len B. Fishback of Hillsbcro was a visitor with friends and rela tives in Monmouth Friday. i A. Parker, rural carrier in the Mil waukie postoftiee spent Memorial day I with his family in Monmouth. j M. J. Butler of Monmouth, Roy Walker and Clyde William of Inde- I pendence and their famillies spent I the week-end in the vacinity of Bar ! v;.,... TV,,,,. . .,ii..,.,.i .1,'... clams and caught crabs and report a fine time in general. Mr. and Mrs. Wm, MeCreadv of Corvallis spent Memorial day at Mrs. G. T. Boothby's. William Wallace of Beaver, a neph ew of Mrs. N. Boche, is here to spend the summer with the latter. Ira C. Powell and A. M. Arant and families spent Memoral Day in the vicinity of Pedee. Mrs. H. E. Gutrie is the proud po ?essor of a new Decker piano. Mrs. Chester Henkle of Dallas was l visitor during the past week with Mrs. M. A. Simpson. Mr. Echols of Canby has been the guest of his brother-in-law, J. T. Bul lock and family in Monmouth this week. Lloyd B. Hesse of Bandon was the week-end guest of his sister, Mrs. A. H. Craven and family. He was on his way to Belknap Springs for a hunting trip with friends from Curry county. Mr. Boulware is moving his house hold goods from Cherry Grove to his new home in Monmouth. Joint Picnic A joint picnic, combining the Grange and the Farmers' Union is to be held Saturday, June 14 in the city park in Dallas. Editor Brady of the Salem Statesman is to be speaker of the day and there will be program of sports in the afternoon. This will include a base ball game between Dal las and Salem. NOW THEY'RE MAKING GAS OUT OF DRY WHEAT STRAW The United States Bureau of Chem istry announces the discovery of a method whereby a ton of sundried wheat straw is said to yield 10,000 cubic feet of illuminating gas, 10 gal lons of tar and 6.25 pounds of car bon residue. The bureau intimates that some day we may see motorists buying gas by the cubic foot from the local gas company, instead of gasoline by the gallon from the service station. Cars have been operated by gas experi mentally, the gas being carried in a rubber storage bag. A car carrying 300 cubic feet of gas can run about fifteen miles it is said. Elmer Hastings of Pedee spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Elkins. Hemstitching done. 8 cents per yard. Shop 242 East Main Street. '5ZS2SSS2SSSSSZS3S2SiSZS2S2SiS3S2SiStSi 52SSSi Porch Furniture We are now showing a line of Reed and Grass Furniture for the Porch and invite your inspection. We have some very good, comfortable Rockers at attractive prices. We will buy your old Furniture, Cash or . Trade. Moore & Addison Independence Oregon 1 i ... Women's Voile Dresses Lovely summer dresses of beautiful dotted and flowered voile, trimmed with soft lace Simple becoming styles PARASOLS For the Kiddies 45c Attractive patterns and colorings. Little Folks like to imitate their elders. Make them happy with one of these. $6.00, $6.50, $7.25 DECORATIVE BASKETS One Half Price Assorted shapes and sizes Values $1.00, $1.25, and $1.50 All exactly half price. PICNIC NEEDS Jelly 15c Marmalade 20c Ripe Olives 25c Green Olives 37c Deviled Meat ..: 5c Tuna Fish 16c Lobsters 59c Dill Pickles 28c Stuffed Olives 24c Pimiento Marrones 13c Sandwich Spread, a de licious combination of pimientos, ripe olives and genuine sardines 15c NEW FIBER SWEATERS New.. Sleeveless.. Sweaters. Just the thing for summer wear. All the wanted col ors. Latest creations from the Columbia Mills. Priced so reasonably that your pocketbook will not miss the cost. $3.00 $4.00 $6.00 MODISH COLORS Holeproof Hose Light and medium weight In tht famouH Holeproof quality. Black, white, beige, peach, gray, bob olink, polo, Cordovan, African, otter, Log cabin, grey, suede,' camel, and jack rabbit. $1.65 and $2.00 ft Remnant Sale Hundreds of Remnants ready able merchandise of all kinds. for your choosing. Tables are piled high with desir The biggest Remnant Sale we've had for many a day. REMNANTS OF Dress Goods Silks Silk Mixtures Linings Longcloth REMNANTS OF Wash Goods Sheetings Muslins Nainsooks Pillow Tubing REMNANTS OF -Outing -Indian Head -Madras -Tissues -Percales REMNANTS OF Challis -Voiles -Crepes -Scrims -Swisses REMNANTS OF Marquisettes Cretonnes Table Damask Towelings Oilcloths Every Piece Marked at a S pecial Low Price Monmouth. MILLER Oregon Kenneth McRevnolds of Cottace 1 o Grove was a guest last Sundav of Miss Elsie Canterbury. Get your hemstitching done at the White Novelty shop, 242 E. Main. The ftioht Kind of Polki. One of the most successful real es tate operators In the United States once told me: "Give me GO families of the right sort who will agree to live In a new locality, and there will be no trou ble getting plenty mere to live there, people who are wholesome, ordei.lv, pay their bills promptly, like artistic homes and well-kept lawns, will always at tract others." Fre.i Kelly In the Na tion's Business. , - Date Palm a Beauty, To the dute palm Is given the praise of being the most beautiful of all palms, and although as a family they are foreign-born, they have taken happily to the new world. Nature Magazine. Grirt'RB ofteu makes cowards of the best of men. It tends to Mad their thoughts to the fori . umphs of tlio putt rather than to the possible achieve ments of the future. It makes them slaves to estab lish codes. It throws a cloud of suspicion over luno "Vution It makes them afraid of a new Idea. ! They were the scholars of Athens who fed Socrates 1 poison." They were the scholars of Italy who lit the fagots at the feet of Savonarola. The wise men of j Spain Jeered at Columbus. Cultured England laughed at Darwin. Schooled scientists scoffed at Harvey's theory of blood circulation, at Watt's tea kettle engine, 1 at Whitney's machine that cOuld sew, at Daguerre's un picture, at Well's anaesthetics, at Morse's tele graph, at Bell's telephone and at Edison's talking machine. A quarter of a century ago a professor of j physics at the University 'of California "proved abso I lutely" that It was a physical impossibility for man ; to fly. But the Wright boys showed that this professor was a slave to his cuiiura. Every great triumph f 1 the world's history has 1 fought Its way over the boundaries of temporay fail are and gained its goal in spite of tbo scoffs of the cultured." Society's pet Is seldom a prophet True talent Is discovered tardily, 'jl'o possess all Its accumulated knowledge of the past does not make a man great We are measured not toy onr accumulations but by our contributions. The brainf! that are remembered are those which had not knovledgo but the patience and the confidence to pursue unabated a great plan or put pose and create knowledge. Because a fellow la doing something different from what has been done, don't be too quick to call him crazy. Time may make you the bigger fool of the two for having rejected bis idea before understand ing it , It's the fellow who sails a new sea who discovers a new shore. It is the fellow with originality whom ' the world most needs. "; If a man's faith In his new scheme can stand the add test of the unthinking sneer, he may live to -benefit the world. The fellow who Is afraid to depart from convention, and who is afraid to do something " different for fear be may be laughed at, is a crarea no matter how much he way know. The men and women who acquire knowledge that they may be respectable,', who look ti,the past that ' ? they may be comfortable in the present, without any thought of duty lo the future, whq stully merely for '; ' the mental gymnastics of training their minds and ' who are afraid to use the mind when trained, an , about as effective as an army, which has learned ft ' rJ march by marking time. . V Learn not only to fill your bead but to Me FW head. Don't be afraid to beat out a saw path, Tt ".' beaten paths are overcrowded. . ' The pioneer's path is always hard but it Is tht " pioneer who finds new fields and new benefits and whom In the end the world most honors.
