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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1916)
Ht COMMUNICATION. It’s a Long Way to Tillamook. 1)1 ¡41 to II S€ \V ID III St 1)1 la IO w ri nt Is P' îii" si il 1» il M H M tl II S 1' II ri fi li <1 il O II il J 11 a a (Continued irom first page) county for their consideration. It is de sired th at they make an im partial in vestigation and decide the case on its m erits. The county judge has prom ised to consider the project before ex tending the pavem ent past this point and the wishes of the people should be m ade known to the county court to guide it in this m atter. To form ulate this, it is likely th a t petitions will be circulated and those interested be given au opportunity to express themselves on the proposition. Gasolene *5= The Golden Heart AND Auíomobüe By BARBARA PHiPPS There has never been an invasion of an enemy’s country th a t the invader has n0t matle captives of a ____________________________ ! number of the daughters of the region luvatjed. During the w ar betw een the states m any a Union soldier wooed and won a southern girl whose antagonism against the Union arm ies w as very bitter. There seems to be som ething Plasker Bros, for all kinds of d u m b ing, bath room outfits and fixtures. Til In the social relations th a t defies the lamook, Ore. TILLAM OOK horrors of w ar. Lieutenant Joaquin Molina, a young Spanish officer ju st out of ills teens, was during the last years of the last century sent with Ills com m and to Cuba. Those were the days when General W eyler was attem pting to crush the Cuban revolution by execu tion and imprisonm ent, and both lie and Spanish soldiers w ere hated by the downtrodden Cubans. Lieutenant Molina was encamped with his regim ent near a sugar plan ta tion owned by one Leandro Reyes. The officers were received a t the plantation ONE NORMAL NOT ENOUGH with civility, if not cordiality, for Oregon has but one Norm al School. This school Reyes did not care to antagonize them, is located a t Monmouth. E xcellent as is the work though his sym pathies w ere all for of tii is school It Is u tterly unable to supply but a free Cuba. His daughter, Inez, a dark small part of the need for trained teachers for the eyed beauty of seventeen, saw Molina, State. O f m o re t h a n 6,000 achool t e a c h e r s In t h e p u b lic schools and notw ithstanding she hated him as of O re g o n , b u t 13 per c e n t h a v e been t r a i n e d f o r t h e i r an enemy of her country she fell at pro fe ssion of te a c h in g In N o r m a l Schools. once under the spell of love, a spell It is a well established fact th at our one Normal School cannot supply the needs of the entire state. tlint was m utual, for Moliua reeipro- T hat is why we ask for your work and vote for the catcd. proposed E astern Oregon State Norm al School a t True, the lady did not a t once ac Pendleton, Oregon. knowledge th a t she had given her heart GIVE EASTERN OREGON SQUARE DEAL to the young Spaniard. Indeed, she w as struggling against her enthrallm ent. E i g h t c o u n tle a In t h e W i l l a m e t t e V a l l e y h a v e e m p lo y e d d u r in g t h e p a s t fi v e y e a rs , 203 t e a c h e r s w h o h a v e g r a d u It w as not long before the two a te d f r o m t h e M o n m o u t h N o r m a l as a g a i n s t 39 M o n m o u t h passed from n m ere acquaintance to N o r m a l School g r a d u a t e s f o r t h e e i g h t le a d in g c o u n tie s of E a s t e r n O re g on . an acknow ledgm ent'of w hat they felt D u r i n g t h e p ast f i v e y e a r s t h e a t t e n d a n c e of s t u d e n t s for each other. Inez, though she ad f r o m nine W i l l a m e t t e V a l l e y c o u n tie s w a s 877 s tu d e n t s as a g a i n s t 91 s t u d e n t s f r o m nin e of t h e le a d in g c o u n t ie s m itted her passion for the young offi of E a s t e r n O re g o n . cer, refused to become his betrothed Owing to the crowded condition of our one Norm al on the ground th a t he w as engaged In at Monmouth and also the distance and expense of the work of subjecting her country attending, students from E astern Oregon are com men to the yoke of the king of Spain. pelled to go to neighboring sta te s to secure th eir training as teachers. He pleaded for her to at least w ith hold her decision till the w ar had end ONLY COSTS 4 CENTS PER $ 1 ,0 0 0 ed, but she replied th a t the end of T h e a n n u a l m a i n t e n a n c e cost of t h e pro posed S t a t e the w ar, w hatever it might lie. would N o r m a l School In E a a t e r n O re g on a m o u n t s to b u t one 2Sth of a m i l l or 4 c e n ts on a t h o u s a n d d o lla rs of t a x a b l e not a lte r her decision. p r o p e r t y , le n ' t It w o r t h t h i s to h a v e y o u r c h i l d r e n t r a i n e d W hen Molina’s regim ent was order- to become u seful and p r o d u c t iv e c itiz e n s ? | ed to Santiago there was a sad parting STRONG ENDORSEMENTS j between the two, during which Inez Among those who strongly endorse the establlsh- ! gave way aud told her lover th a t if m ent of the proposed E astern Oregon Norm al School | Cuba achieved* her independence be are Governor W ithycombe, J. H. Ackerm an, P resi | m ight come bock and ask her again. dent of the Monmouth State Norm al; \V. J. Kerr, Encouraged by tills, lie took one kiss, President of the Oregon Agricultural College; P. L. which she perm itted, and tore himself Campbell. P resident of the State U niversity; Robert aw ay. He left her a parting gift—a C. French, form er President of the W eston Normal, little gold h eart ho wore on his watch and practically all of the leading educators of the chain. State. J. A. Churchill. Superintendent of Public In struction, voices the sentim ents of those who are Molina fought a t Santiago, and when most fam iliar with the need of more adequate Normal the end carne bo w as shipped w ith Ills facilities when he says: regim ent to Spain. He asked for leave “ O re g o n 's need f o r Its r u r s l schools Is t h e j in order to visit Señorita Keyes, but. t s * - h e r w h o has had f u l l p r e p a r a t i o n to do h e r w o r k . Ri ch r e p a r a t l o n ca n best cocr.e t h r o u g h N o r m a l School owing to the term s of the surrender, tra in in g . •'I t r st t h a t t h e v o t e r s of th e s ta t e w i l l a s sis t In ra i s i n g was unable to obtain one. He was t h e s t a n d a r d of o u r schools b y e s t a b l i s h i n g a S t a t e N o r - j obliged to defer seeing her ngnin for m a l School at P e n d l e t o n . T h e loc a tion is c e n t r a l , t h e I n t e r e s t of the people of P e n d le to n in e d u c a t i o n m o s t e x c e l ' a final reply tr» his proposition till lie lent, and th e la rg e n u m b e r of pup ils In t h e p u b lic schools had gone to Spnin Then, if neces w i l l g iv e a m p ls o p p o r t u n i t y to s tu d e n t s to g e t th e a m o u n t of t e a c h i n g p r a c t i c e re q u i r e d In a s t a n d a r d n o r m a l s c ho ol.” sary, he would resign his commission All the above educators insist that a Standard In order to seek her. Normal School m ust be located In a town of 5000 When Lieutenant Molina reached or more population and having enough grade pupils ; Madrid he found It Impossible to ob- for teaching gractlce. 1 tain a leave to return to America. He V O T E RIGHT ; would have resigned bis commission in order to go nnd claim Inez, but his By v o t i n g Y E S f o r No. 308 you w i l l h e lp t o g iv e to t h e school c h i l d r e n of O re g o n th e s am e a d v a n t a g e s e n jo y e d m other dissuaded him. by t h e school c h i l d r e n of o u r n e ig h b o r in g sta te s . “ tVhat!" she said. “ Will you cross V o t e Y E S f o r N o . 30S. the A tlantic to claim a girl you are Eastern O regon State Normal School Committee not sure of? if you resign from the By J. H . Qwlnn s —v., P -ndlfton, Ore. arm y w hat career have yon? And yon will not find it pleasant to live on the income fu ru ish et hv your wife’s fa (Paid a d 'e rtts rm e n t) ther." Molina was th u s persuaded to put ofT tbe_matt£E so near his h e a rt from dav . . W. A. WILLIAMS 308 X YES IS A VOTE FOR YOUR CHILDREN ! to day, till a t last, having thought less | and less of it, he drifted aw ay from it altogether He w as throw n In with i girls a t home who desired the atten- j tions of a young soldier who had been I through the last struggle to preserve I Cuba for Spain. In n few years he ! married one of them, nnd his Cuban romance was looked upon th ereafter as a pleasant dream . Fifteen years passed. Molina had in the m eantim e resigned from the arm y and had been elected a m em ber of the rortes. Ten years a fte r his m arriage liis w ife died and left him a widower without children. Fourteen years after the close of the Spanish-Ameri- ran w ar he was appointed to a promi nent place in the Spanish legation at W ashington. W hile there he was one night attending a reception of the president and was introduced to n ady of middle age who. though a na tive of tropical America, w here wom an bloom and fade early, w as still beautiful. He did not catch her name, but saw a t once th a t there w as Span- ’sh blood in her veins. “W e have m et before, senor." she laid. “Indeed!" looking a t her scrutiniz- ingly. “ W hen? W here?" “ In Cuba.” “ I have not been to Cuba for fifteen years. W hile th ere I m et a num ber of ladies.” “To one of them you gave a token." “A token!” “Yes.” Inserting her fingers under the neck r>f her dress, she caught a chain and 3rew forth attached to It a little gold heart. For a few m om ents Reyes looked at It w ithout rem em brance concerning it Then it rushed upon him th a t he w a s the donor. “Inez!” he exclaim ed. “ Are you m arried?" “No. 1 have been w aiting to give a final answ er to oue who was to call for It.” W hen Molina returned to Spnin he (ook w!Mi him the d au g h ter of the Cu ban m inister to the United Stateg. Age of London. London was probably an ancient B ritish town. It appears to have been resettled by the Rom ans about 43 A. D., and Londinum (called also Au gusta* w as the capital of B ritannia in the last part of. the Roman period A fter the d ep a rtu re of the Romans (about 412) and in the early Saxon pe riod its history is obscure, though there wore bishops of London from the seventh century. It was plundered by the D anes aud rebuilt by Alfred aud Athelstnu. By the fourteenth century its comm erce had greatly developed. It w as scourged by the plague In Ifido and w as alm ost entirely destroyed by the great fire of l(»(I(j. Victor Hugo’s Double. Victor Hugo had a real double In flesh and blood, who exploited his physical resem blance to the man of genius. He cu t his beard like Hugo’s, copied the m aster’s dress iu Its sm all est details and so for eighteen years divided w ith the m aster the adm ira tion of the public. ‘ His especial de light w as to ihjso In n (»oetical attitu d e In fro n t of a Punch an d Judy show. He did this a t a p a rticu la r spot every T hursday afternoon for years, thor oughly enjoying the m urm urs of curi osity and applause proceeding from the gaping crowd which lie deceived. We do not b ear th at he reaped any other rew ard but pleasure. Well I W hat W as It ? Speaking of fam e, w hat was the name of Molly P itch er's husband?— Boston T ranscript.