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o The Monmouth Herald 1 MONMOUTH, FOLK COUNTY; -OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1925 VOLUME XVII There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley ' ..... t : ; J - LOTS TO EAT AT NEWJfUR MEET Six County Granges Plan A Hi? Union Installation With Local (I rangers New Year's Day which wus obaorv d by the Monmouth Grange with the annual family dinner and social time, brought out member of the fraternity and their friends to tin number of one hundred mid fifty. A peculiarity of the dinner was that more place were spread thun wan necessary for the dinei In order to get room to accommodate the eata blea that were brought. 0. VV. Ktl logg wa responiiible for the appear ance of a big roaster full of wild duck at the feawl. A brief piogram wan given afternoon, arranged by Mr. C. K. Crofoot. Prominent features were vocal aoloa by Ronald Ileultle, piano dueta by the Miaaes Faulkner and recitation by the younger folk. P. O. Powell then presided in an Informal dinoUHHion in which several participated and many topics were diKiugHed from the upbringing of childien to national finance. The regular January meeting of the Granite will be held on Saturday. There will be a short program during the afternoon, Something new In the way of Grange work ia promised Friday after noon, January 111, when all of the Grange of the county with the ex ception of Brush College which had made Its arrangement earlier, will unite In a union inatnllation of offic ers. Mr. Pulrniler, the slate muster, and Mr. Bertha Beck will be present. 1liia nVuri'lMiil U ill he held in the! Odd Fellow' Hall, Monmouth, Btart-; ing at 1 :.;. Six gets of officers will be Inatalled. The inatallation will be n open one. f Hat In Ring l ' -ir . -t. it .-.v. i 7 IBKroATK,l Mrs. Florence Kahn, widow of the late Congressman Kahn of California, haa formally announced her candidacy to succeed her hus band at Washington H1GHSGH00LALUMNI VISITOR FORM IfflTl Graduates Hold Holiday Get-Together and WiU Boost for Gymnasium IS FRIEND Of Fill LTEACHERS University Representative Finds Things looking Up For Country Folk - SOPHIE BRASLftU YOUNG CONTRALTO Brilliant Record of Noted Singer Who Is To Appear Tuesday January 13 The Dorcas Society meets with Mia. E, C. Cole on Tuesday afternoon of next week at 2 o'clock. It ia the an nual meeting for the diction of offi cera and a large turnout ia desired. Wc Arrive An unofficial report la that the sales of the Monmouth postoflico for 1924 paused the eight thou sand mark which entitles the office to rating as a second das office. The excess is said to be in the neighborhood of $.'!00, which is as serted to be $200 higher than the record of the Independence ollico during the same period. Versatility ia an Invaluable posses nion for any artist and few have been so richly endowed with it as Sophie Braalau, the distinguished American contralto who ia appearing here on Tuesday evening. January 13. In the matter of language alone she la vi rv unusual, for ahe sings with per feet dietion, in addition to her native English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Hebrew, some of her ong in ancient Hebrew be ing among the moat remarkable things she does. Having a voice of uncommon range and flexibility her musical repertory is much wider and more inclusive than that of most singers. Although her voice is a true alto in its lower regis ters of the true diapason quality which one always hopes to hear and so sildom does, it carries easily to B-llat in alto and the entire HteratSii of the mezzo Boprano is within its range. Miss Braalau has command of true coloratura to an astonishing extent. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there must have been aome very remarkable contraltos judging from the music that has come dovn' On New Year's Evt some of the alumni of the Monmouth Iligh School met for a social evening and to or ganize an alumni association. A few games were played that had been popular in High School days, after which the business meeting was held. ' A constitution was adopted and th following ofllcers elected: Clare Powell, president; James Partridge, vice president; Grace Calbreatht sect retary and Mary Ode, treasurer. The principal discussion of the evening was on the new gymnasium for the Hiifh School. It was decided that every alumni member would ged behind the proposition and boost lor the passage of the bill soon to be sub mitted to the people for the raisifi of the necessary funds to build it It was decided to hold an annual banquet in June, at the time of gradJ uation, and a get-together business meeting annually in December. I Annual duea will be fifty cents and should be paid to Mary Cole or Grace Calbreath before the end of January After that time a ten cent fine will be levied on all delinquent members. Members are requested to attend ti this matter at once and ally them selves with the association at the earliest opportunity. Jimea Partridge took the chair and after a brief address, continued the discussion on the gymnasium. The meetinz then closed and after few old Hiirh School songs, choco late and sandwiches were served; and the Darty broke up with eery body wishing every body else a Happy New Year. Guests of honor were Missca Clarke and Somera of the High School fac ulty. - ' There is every hope for a auccess- ful year and a live association if all members will try to further the spirit shown in the meeting. Richard E. Enright to us from that time for the fioritura given to them was almost as elaborate as that written for soprano. Much of the best of this music Miss Braslau has studied and her vocal ornamenta tion is of extaordinary quality. Sophie Braalau will sing at the Normal, Tuesday, January 13 at 8 p. m. Reserved seats may be purchased at Morlan's after 8 o'clock, Saturday morning. Price $1.00. This is a high class attraction and well worthy of your patronage. According to Professor Mabel Car nev whi lectured to the Normal atu dents in chapel Tuesday morning, the premier rural school in the country Is at Tempe, Arizona. The teacher thereof gets SilOO a year. Miss Carnev. who dot a fuld work for Co luinbia university, said this was only one of a series of noteworthy schools which she visits. When she gradu ated, from an Illinois Normal School she said she was asked to take a cer tain rural school in the slate. . At first she refused, but. urged to think it over before deciding, finally she had taken the rural community position, and it has resulted in considerable ad vancement along that line. She said that rural teachers must take an interest in the problems of rural life, working to the end that the lot of farmfolk be made more at tractive. She advocated income tax, saying that it was necessary to re adjust the expense of conducting the government, now too much of a bur den on real property. She added that the positions of county school supervisors and county superintendents should be made at tractive enough to interest capable men. and asserted that county super intendents should be named by county school men. She told of meeting a county school superintendent in West Virginia, who had only a graded school education and no- teaching experience. The superintendent, a young man of 24, admitted that he. had not sought the position, but had wanted to be nom inated for sheriff. The convention had named the best man they had to look after the county criminals and turned over the five thousand school children of the county to an inferior man. Miss Carney paid tribute to S. C. Evenden and M. S. Pittman, whom she had met at Columbia, and ex pressed appreciation of the work the Oregon Normal School is doing. She said Oregon did not attract the at tention it merited in the east, possibly because, being between Washington and California, it was in the same sit uation formerly assigned to North Carolina. Of the tar heel state.between Virginia andr South Carolina, both filled with pep and fireworks, it was formerly said that North ' Carolina was a valley, of humiliation between 'two eminences of conceit. Miss Carney's talk was enjoyed by all who heard her. J a. A'-,.;. NEW CITY OFFICERS D U LYINSTALLED Committees Appointed and Machinery Started for a Very Busy Year Ahead La v ttZLijari p MJTOCATTCtl The man who came up from the ranks to head the police of the world's greatest city, New York. He has done more in seven years' time than all predecessors to bring the department to its present high standard of efficiency. He has made New York safe for the stran ger and avoided by the crook. FRESHIN FULLS ft PNEUINIftlTl Robert Dawes, High School Student, Aged 17, Falls Before Dread Disease WHEN DAD WAS A BOY By SATTERFELD While the work of registration at the Normal is still in progress, the in dications are the total for the Winter term will be about fifty less than at the opening of the Fall term. This is accounted for in great measure Dy the fact - that the Normal now has four terms in all of which students take regular work." More start with the Summer term and with the Fall term than with either of the other two terms. , " ; , Robert Campbell Dawes, the sev enteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis D. Dawes, died in the Independ ence hospital, January 5. He had been sick for several weeks with a case of the grip which developed into pneumonia and his life hung in the halanee for several days with the doctors doing what they could to re lieve him. The vouncr man was a member of the freshman class in the Monmouth hiirh school and his classmates at tended the funeral in a body and the pall bearers were selected from their number. Funeral services were held in the Christian church, Tuesday afternoon, January 6 at 2:30. Rev. Victor P. Morris officiated and A. L. Keeney of Independence had charge of the arrangements. Burial was in the Monmouth cemetery. The voune man was born in Vin eennes. Indiana. August 8, 1907 With his parents he came to Oregon about six years ago. They lived in the Mistletoe district for a while ata three years ago came to Monmouth. They live near G. W. Baun's on the northwest road out of Monmouth. He is survived by his parents, one sister, Margaret and one brother, Walter. The sympathy of the neighbors and community was expressed in many flowers placed about the coffin. At the council meeting Tuesday evening the shift of officers lor tne next two years took place. Mayor Ebbert called the meeting to order and promptly administered the oath of office to his successor, H. W. Morlan, and then withdrew. Mayor Morlan administered the oath to C. C. Powell and F. II. O'Rourke, new councilmen. On motion of F. E. Murdock a vote of thanks wa3 tendered the retiring officers for efficient and faithful service. Under officers were elected as fol lows: F. E. Chambers, city treasurer; F. R. Bowersox, city health officer; C. Stewart, marshal and water super intendent. The mayor announced the following committees: Sidewalks and streets Murdock, Powell, Graham. Auditing Graham, Powell, - O - Rourke. Public Grounds and Buildings O'Rourke, Murdock, Graham. Water Board Mayor, Recorder, Murdock, Graham. Finance and Taxation Graham, Murdock, Powell. It was ordered that delinquent Main street Bancroft bond payments be placed with the city attorney for col lection. An order was also issued placing the matter of the opening of Clay street with the city attorney. The following were appointed as apprais ers: E. W. Staats, J, N. Fuller, James Gentle. As a start on New Year's business, it was also ordered that the marshal buy wood pipe for water system to be prepared for emergencies. t - ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Mon mouth Improvement Association was held Monday. The past year was a prosperous one for the association. O. A. Wrolverton was re-elected pres ident; Mrs. G. W. Chesebro, vice president; Ira C. Powell, secretary treasurer and Mrs. Peterson, Miss Maggie Butler in addition to the other officers, as directors. A ten per cent dividend was declared. A County Nurse 1 With the report of $1.27 addi tional the total sale of Christmas seals in Monmouth reaches a tetal of $93.40 this season. Mon mouth, also was the first town to report at headquarters . with its work completed. The amount sold entitles the county to the ser vices of a public health nuvso for eiv tuaoVa purine tllA rAmino vpflr. The motion picture play this week i 1 on Saturday evening. Richard Bartholomes appears in !'Classmates" which is one of the popular favorites. President Landers was in Corvallis last night as a judge in an inter-col legiate, debate. ; , ' - , ; . Three new members of the faculty appear this week. Mrs. Cuntmings has resigned because of sickness, fahe was in a Portland hospital for a while but has recovered sufficiently to be able to go to the home of her son at Oakland, California. Her place in the English department for the re mainder jf the school year, has been taken by Miss Beinardine Robertson. The latter is a graduate of the Lewis ton,' Idaho Normal School and of the University- of 'Washing Um. Her home is in Poitlftnd.'.iV: Miss Margaret Mylne of McMinn- ville -bus taken Mrs. Bartholomew s place; ;. She i;f Jonv ttie'" University of I Oregon..- ' " ; 4 : : "Miss 'Eva. Schulti of Portland suc- . cecds Miss . Golds taub in the depart ment of Physical. Education. She is from the O. A. C. V. MUt 1 v " 'If iiiiilliiil : mmmmrnmmmmmm Sophie Braslau il
