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The Monmouth Herald
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MONMOUTH, FOLK COUNTY; -OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1925
VOLUME XVII
There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley
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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.
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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
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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.
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NEW CITY OFFICERS
D U LYINSTALLED
Committees Appointed and
Machinery Started for a
Very Busy Year Ahead
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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
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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.
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