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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1925)
i Monmouth Herald if x: JTh! VOIAJMK XVII SK ADDll SUMOFS72.000 Polk County Delegation In troduces Hill For More Money For The Normal President LhihIcih witH in Salem Wednesday, at which time the bill which proposes it 11 appropriation of 72,OOl) for ail'lil iotial inniiitiimiire for the Noinuil S -honl whh agreed on mid presented tn (ln i'olk nuiiity delegation for int i I tic t i o it in Hi. legislature. D. V. Giifl'itlis' "super production" America will he shown in tin' rlmpil Satuiduy night at '!Mt. Tltiu is a U reel picture. AihiiinMi.nl price will bo 15 ami 50 ci'iilti. There will be a biu krtbnll game thin Friday night between North Pa cific Mental ('nib nil I the Normal team in the gymnasium at 8 o'clock. I Saturday night the Junior have' their firxt foi mnl party for the new year, Klabm ate pl-irt are bein.r made for a Japanese night. The various literary societies in itiated in w nieii'lii rn on Wednesday nd TliuiH'lay of this week. Wednesday afternoon Mm. S. M. Garland of Libanon, Mrs. Albert Hunter of Islam! City, Mrs. Clmrhs Hunter of Wallowa, Mm. Cliarhs Shelton of linker and Mis. Dan Mc Clelland of Salem were gutsls of the dormitory. All but Mrs. McClel land, who brought them over from Sahm, are wives of legislators, and wore Interested in the Normal School. Mian Todd invited several facility members in for ten in thu nfternoo'i, many of whom knew the guetuiT" In their home towns. I hey also weie guests Ht dinner in the evening. Mrs. Ackerniiin in inviting to din- ner Friday evening Miss Todd, Mi."jt,(i- . lhe young couple win Todd's cousin. Miss rarrcn from Pittsbuig, Pennsylvania, Miss Tay lor, Miss MacphciHoii and Miss Brain erd. Miss Levelle Wood was called home last week because of the death of her mother. She expects to re turn to her work next week. In the meantime, Miss Moore, who substi tuted for her two weeks at Chriiit mas time, is taking cure of her duties. The governor has appointed John H. Fuller of Ashland as regent to succeed Judge Coke. The latter lived in Marshfield when appointed but has since moved to Portland. THE SPRING HATCHING There is No Warren of Michigan New Attorney-Genera! 31 Charles Beecher Warren, of Michigan, former U. 8. Ambassa dor to Japan, hai been named at torney-general by President Cool Id ge to succeed Harlan F. Stone, who now becomes a Justice of Use U. 8. Supreme Court T E Two Monmouth Girla Find Husbands in the Sections Where Worked Called Mrs. J. V. Webber went to Port land Friday night. Her daughter, Miss Jessie Webber, boarded the train at NewbtTif and accompanied , her mother to the big city. Saturday they went to Vancouver where the daughter was married to Gerald I, con Kemper. After a few days, ill. I l,i urirwt on their ftfTnirs in mve for Colorado where the groom has a ranch. They will go by way of California and Nevada, arriving in Coloiado in time to put in a Spring crop. Although she was born in Califor nia the brido has spent practically her whole life in Monmouth and has attended training school, high school and normal, graduating from all of them. She has taught this past Fall in a school near Newberg, now resigning the position. The Herald joins with other friends in wishing the young couple happiness and pros perity. Miss Pearl E. Conkey and Claude v. ft'"' w...J.. 'V J WaKu MIS DURING MONMOUTH, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1925 Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley GRANG E State Master Presides Over Ceremony in Which Five Granges Participate The advertised union Installation of officers of five Granges of Polk coun ty took nlace as scheduled. With the itate master, "George Palmlter, of Hood River to oversee the work, 65 siibotdinate Grange official were sol emnly and impressively Inducted In to their positions. Granges partici pating In the event were: Mc Coy, Oak Grove, Buena Vista, Suver and Monmouth. The state master was! assisted by Mrs. Corydon Blodgett, Mrs. Arthur Utley of Brush College, -nd Mrs. P. 0. Powell. Mrs. W. F. McCall of Brush College presided at the piano. Lunch was served at noon to about 200 people. The Monmouth Grange meets Fri day. January 23 at 7:30 in regular session. The first and second de grees will be put on. The Suver Grange held an interest inir meeting last Saturday. About thirty five members were out be sides several visitors from Monmouth. A bountiful dinner was served at nix.n bv lhe ladies. This is a new Grange but they are working hard to be a standard Grange. Polk County Pomona Grange will meet at Brush College tomorrow, Sat urday, January 24. An interesting program has been prepared by the Lecturer for both afternoon and even ing and a class will also be given the fifth degree in the evening. R. Brown were married at the home of the bride's mother, Mm. J. & Conkey, in this city Sunday after noon, Rev. L. E. Kirby of the Mon mouth Evangelical church, perform ing the ceremony. Both of the young people are at present residents of Valseta and plan to reside there in the future. Mrs. Brown is one of four teachers in the ValseU school and Mr. Brown is a contractor em ployed in the mill there. The bride is the product of our school system, training school, high school and nor mal school, having been graduated from the Normal last summer. The groom is a son of Francis Brown, orchardist and farmer living north of Independence. Tim vounir couple have many filpnds who wish them joy and hap- nin. Thev are spending a few days honeymoon in Portland before starting housekeeping in a Valsetz bungalow. By SATTERF1ELD DOINGS TUTS MANY ANNUA IE I A T "Indies Night" at Commer cial Draws Large Crowd And Cheer and Oratory "Ladies' Night" at the Commercial club proved all that its sponsor's could have hoped for. Not only was there a large attendance, one hundred and two plates be!; g laid, but the gen eral feature of the evening was one of coidiality. The meeting was held Tuesday evening in the dining room of Odd Fellow's hall. The meal, which was prepared by Mrs. Sivier of the hotel and her asiiiKtants was general ly complimented on its excellence. P. H. Johnson as president of the Commercial club called the meeting to order and stated that the regular business of the club would be post poned for action at an adjourned meeting to be held Tuesday evening, January 27th in the city hall. Then he introduced the editor of the Herald as chairman of the evening. A musical trio, consisting of Mrs. Grace Calbreath, Miss Mildred Scott and Theodore Graham furnished in strumental music during the early part of the evening. The chairman announced the theme of the evening was a general consider ation of prospects for 1925. P. II. Johnson responded in behalf of' the Commercial club. As instanc es of things which he thought the club should encourage he named the road to Newport by way of Elkins and King's Valley, a direct road west to Cooper Hollow and Falls City, the placing of appropriate markers at the entrances to the city and gener al aid to Normal welfare and city im provements. He reviewed the evi denees of development" thus - far achieved and expressed anew his faith in the 'future of the city Mrs.. F. O'Rourke, president of the Civic club responded for that organ' ization giving a brief review of some of the year's plans. Prominent among these are: the planting of trees on the common; another lecture by Prof. Peck on municipal and property land scape decoration. Mrs. Florence Home Gerke of Portland will also lecture on the same topic next month. The club is also sponsor for a film to be shown illustrating better homes. This comes through the Federated Women's clubs. Mrs. J. S. Landers rendered two fine vocal solos. Her singing is al ways enjoyed but rarely shows to better advantage than in the two selections given. Miss Peterson of the Normal music department was her accompanist on the piano. H. W. Morlan, mayor, then detailed a few of the improvements the coun cil proposes. First is the pro posed sewer , system, mention of which aroused applause. This is to be voted on in February. The pro posal is to raise $35,000 by bonds, re deemable through general taxation. The Normal School in its budget has promised to take care of $10,000 more. This Will leave from $15,000 to $30,000 to be paid by individuals through the Bancroft Act or in cash as the nroDerty owner chooses, j The llmnviir uointed out that maintenance work would have to be done on tne ivjam street paving in the near future. The general upkeep of the city streets with little to do it with, the laying of sidewalks where urgently demanded, were also among the things which the city '"might not ac complish during the present year, but which it would still keep Striving to do. ... ... Clares Powell, seci elary of the dub, gave some figures to show wiiat j 'money had been expended b r the ilubj ; raised through the Initiative of thej club. ' This included the cost of' numbering the stvcels and placing i -i j- i.; t ....'-: SlgllDOaiOS, CUIlUUl-Mlig UK! uutuin- mute celebration and paying for the annual calendars. The total was nearly $800. ' 1 Iva C. Powell told 'of the develop ment of the West Side highway asso ciation and its efforts to get fair play in the way of sign boards along the highway. The association seeks to get the East side road labeled East Side Highway as the West Side has been. They are also endeavor ing to get Justice in representation on maps for the tourist. The asso ciation consists of three representa tives from each commercial body HAPPY Coming Home to be Secretary of State ' i 4 - Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota, is on the high seas enroute to Washington from the Court of St. James at London, where he was serving as U. S. Ambassador. He is to succeed Chas. Evans Hughes (resigned) as Secretary of State, beginning March 4th. E "Monmouth Star" Shone for Twelve Weeks. Familiar Names In News Hems L. E. Olden brought in to the Her ald office this week a copy of the Monmouth Star, one of the various newspapers that have been published in - Monmouth since- the town was founded. This particular issue of the Star is dated April 12, 1907. Twelve issues of the paper had already been printed and in the news columns ap pears an item to the effect that num ber twelve was the finish. It was in September of the same year that the first number of the Monmouth Her ald was issued. Advertisers in this issue of the Star are as follows: P. E. Chase, jeweler; S. M. Daniel, general mer chandise; Johnson & Robinson, mar ket, T. A. Riggs, grocer; E. Bogert, furniture store; E. N. Hosner, hotel; Bridwell & Craven, wagons and bug gies; The Acorn, now known as the Normal Book Store; L. S. Perkins, druggist, C. G. Griffa, city water and plumbing; A. N. Halleck, junk dealer; Joseph Radek, bakery; Graham & Son, transfer; Polk County Bank; J. H. Moran, real estate; V. C. Boots, insurance and C. E. Force, barber. Here are some items from the Star Chris Cummins of Dallas has bought the Boothby place and moved to town. Chance Mulkey of Pleasant Hill visited Monmouth relatives. Spurred by the prospect of a can nery many were planting raspberries and loganberries. -'A N. Poole was working in New. port. An athletic entertainment was scheduled with boxing bouts by Artie Burkhead and Walford Belshe and Ray Shute and Glenn Work. David Hampton of Dundee was in town on business. Charles Herren sold his place east of town to Harvey Robinson of Airlie. A. N. Halleck made the deal. A dance was scheduled in Wood men's hall. The Social Hour club met with Mrs. . Cattron. CIVIC C L U B The" Civic Club meets this Friday afternoon in the high school building. Mis. Schutte will at this session. i R NEWSPAPER AD T speak to the ciub.P'cmc lesuvai. from the west side country. r Mr. Landers then took up the Nor mal School situation, first calling at tention to the way the Golden Rule is meeting favor in political and economic conditions and in the or dinary business of life. He told how the founder of the Stadtler hotel sys tem has settled on the plan of deal ing as though the customer is al ways right, and how his ideas of service had given his hotels popular ity and caused them to thrive until Continued on page 6 NUMBER J. CREAMERY RECORD E Total Business for 1924 and Half Year at Warehouse Exceeds Quarter Million The stockholders of the Monmouth Co-operative creamery are being noti fied of the annual meeting of the creamery which is to be held Janu ary 31. During 1924 the creamery received 371,765 pounds of butter fat which was made into 465,405 pounds of but ter, an increase of 31,850 pounds over the amount made during 1923.The butter was sold for $188,362 which is $94.21 greater than the amount re ceived during the previous year. Con sideration of these figures shows the average price of butter during 1924, 42 and a third cents was about four and a half cents less than the average price for 1925. The total creamery sales during the year was $198,552. With ware house sales the total was swelled to $250,627. The warehouse has been op erated for only six months. During the year the creamery paid out in wages $10,069. The total of operating ex penses including truck, power, in surance, taxes, interest to stock holders and other incidentals is $26,610. The expense of conduct ing the warehouse was $3,783J6. The earnings of the warehouse totaled $52,596. Guy Deming reports the sale this week of a lot from J. B. Stump to W. Mulkey. This lot is situated along side the one on which C. C. Mulkey built a bungalow last year, and Mr. Mulkey plans to erect a companion residence this summer. Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Keeney left Tuesday in their Overland car for Martinez, California where they will visit with their daughter and hus band, Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Pettersen. They will also visit other parts of California, taking a vacation to last from four to six weeks, If anyone departed from the Grange meeting Friday with a pair of rubbers too small for her she may exchange with Mrs. E. Rogers who was left a pair that were too large for her. Visitor From North Tells Of the Marvels of Alaska Henry R. Miller of Alaska, father of Ruth Miller, a Normal student, is here to visit his daughter. Mr. Miller is a station agent on the rail road which runs from Seward to Fairbanks and is located at Birch wood, near Anchorage. During the winter months his only companions are the section hands, but in summer there are many tourists who make the trip on the railroad. The summer time in this portion of Alaska is when Nature makes up for the long, cold winter nights. Dur ing the summer the days are an al most continuous round of sunshine, and under the stimulus of light and warmth vegetation performs prodi gies of growth. Mr. Miller tells of celery three feet tall and head let tuce so crisp that it breaks at the slightest pressure of the finger and as for roses and sweet peas, no fairy wand ever produced anything so won derful and fragrant. In the summer season the bushes in the vicinity of Birchwood produce thousands of quarts of raspberries and red currants and people come from Anchorage and other near by points to gather the ""berries and' put them up. They bring cans j with them, camp out in the bg station lliotisa and make of the occasion a we , Ttunu oi Alaska as a. cold country, and at times it is cold. When Mr. Miller left Alaska a few days ago it was forty degrees below - 1 zero, Yet the 500 miles of railroad to the interior are traversed .every day, all the year around, and trains are rarely more than ten minutes late. ; ;:j Mr. Miller is off on a six month's vacation, most of which he plans to spend in Southern California. ' Mr. Miller's description of Alaskan scen ery shows him appreciative of Na ture's wonders. He is a poet of con ( Continued on page 8) . T XH BITS GROWTH AVTOCAttTrt.- )
