Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-02

Grande in a happy vein, telling of the
sports and pastimes of the soldier boys
there. He says most of the boys are on
duty guarding the railroad property.
Monmouth certainly has the appear
ance of being the center of wheat
district since the Portland minimum
price was set on wheat, great quanti-
| ties have been received at the ware
houses, farmers have been busy hauling
now that the price is established. 1t
is not uncommon to be able to count
dozen wagon loads passing a given
point on one of the country roads with
in a half hour.
Ed Griffa and George Sullivan re-
turned last Saturday night from a hunt
| ing trip in the Siuslaw country. To
prove their luck, they ran the car into
| the garage and from there Ed carried
lthe game down the street to the meat
market. Ed wants you to know that he
killed that buck, and that IL weighed
.Iz2 pounds, dressed,
Thomas Alexander who lives three
miles south Of town, met with a very
bad accident a few weeks ago. He with
his son, Earl, were hauling the last
load of the thirty five ton hay crop
raised on the farm, The load was 9
| large one and in some way as the wheel
dropped in deep rut the whole load
rack and all was dumped off on top OF
the old gentleman, with the result that
the hip bone was broken and the leg
bone badly shattered. He was taken to
Portland to the Good Samaritan hos
pital and despite his eighty years he
! is recovering very nicely.
Monmouth Red Cross workers have q
good list of useful articles which they
have made and delivered to William
eute chapter, Salem. esldes many knit
| ted articles they have made I'll Z
bandages, 35 tray cloths, 81 napkins
rs pair bed sox, 173 handkerchiefs, II
suits paiamas, henfmed wash rags 92
oakum pads 27, busters 10, one extra
coat and boxes white cloths. The
secretary reports that the membership
is growing, under ,Ae new plan of 'ev
erv member get a member Mrs. Ed
wards has received four new members
recently, Miss Mabel Riddell, John Pa
mer, Wm. Riddell, Jr., and Mrs. E. K
Ostrom.
D.. T. Williams has sold his harness
business to Richard Evans and ha
bought a stock of groceries in Amity
where the family moved Wednesday
Mrs. Williams will take charge of thu
store there and Mr.. Williams will re
main here until he can dispose of hi
feed business
Willie Strong, who was taken sudden
| ly very i'll Tuesday and was taken tt
/ Salem Wednesday for treatment grew
steadily worse and on Saturday passed
away. The remains were brought bacl
to Monmouth and laid to rest in the K
p. cemetery.
1, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Ferguson and lit
u tie son, Van, arrived Saturday from
Dallas for visit with the Van Loans
Mrs. Ferguson is a sister of Mrs. VaI
Loan. They came recently from Sid
ney, Montana and are thinking of 10
eating here.
Many Monmouth people took advant
age of the fine weather to visit th'
state fair and take look at the blut
ribbon attached to the Polk count.
! booth.
OF the 2Sl students registered at th'
normal, only seven are men.
While watching the crowd at th'
! state fair last week the writer nOte'
! with regret the conspicuous absence o
young men. Many bewitching damse
walked alone and many mother wa
sad because of the absence of SOM
dear soldier boy.