Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-13
Monmouth News
(Capital journal speeial servie.

. ACoHAeeA o1CCAetA Ot1 NACNJ
Monmouth, Or, Nov. 15.-On Satur.
day, Nov. 10, occurred the regular
monthly meeting of Monmouth grange
There was a good attendance of the
members and during the noon hour a
number of invited guests came and par
took of the "wheatless " dinner and
remained for the excellent program in
the afternoon. The breads served at din
ner were made of the whole wheat and
of corn. Some bran, and some raisin
and nut bread-not strictly wheatless
of course, but as nearly so as may be.
Cakes and pies were conspicuously alb
sent thoug there were bran and oatmeal
cookies galore. The program begun with
music by Normal girls. Following this
President j. H. Ackerman spoke briefly
but earnestly in behalf of the army T.
M. G. A. Miss Myra Butler, head of the
Domestic Science department of the nor
NAL explained how to prepare the waste
paper for shipment and asked for dona-
tions for the Red Cross. E. R. Ostrom
! then gave a reading, entitled 'fE Kiss
ed the Cook Miss Gladys Phil - rena
dered piano solo. Then came o. sPeca
ial feature of the day, the addEhR$ by
| Miss Mills, of McMinnville ON ''Epnser-
walton. - AS we must ceuserve 81 heat,
meats, fats and sugar for eur soldiers
and the allies, the prqbIeIn sbefores us lis
to ascertain what other-fo Ne can
substitute in the place of these which
contain practically the same food value
She gave list of these land urged that
in all things we use our common sense
and that we not go to e&tfemessNe
over-estimate our capacity for food and
so leave a quantity, to ,beowasteds Miss
Mills also mentioned 4he Oscarel3y of
wool and cotton and said that wesNdlEEdC
soon be 'called on to . Eohservee these
things also. She suggested that tAA best
way to do this was to get out bAr old
clothes, clean and mend them 90 anlb
wear them instead Of buying neWR ones
Miss Mills was given aerising vote of
thanks for her exeellentoand timely ad-
dress. A discussion on flour for bread, 4
on the Red Cross, the Y.{M. G. IA. and4
various other timely topics were inteY4
esting and beneficial. Ihe next regular
grange meeting will be 6Brothers Y day 1
when the men folks are expected to pre-
pare the dinner and W5sISt1ie Dishes
About seventy five Add Fellows andE
Changers went to Dallas last Tuesday
to attend the funeral of j. H. banning |
ton, our highly esteemed ex-may0f and /
fellow citizen. Mr.. Remington Vas a
member of the Odd Fellows lodga, the (
Rebekahs and of the Grange here. He |
was also a Mason and member of tiTSt
Masonic fraternity had the honor of !
conducting the burial service. The fun
eral was held in the chapel of the Chap
man Undertaking parloars and the re-
mains of our beloved brother was laid
to rest beside those of Mrs. Remington
in the Dallas cemetery.
The Monmouth Red Cross has been 7
raised in rank from auxiliary to branch I
society, because of the quantity of good .
work it has turned in.
A letter received from Sumner Ostrom
electrical sergeant in charge of all the
electrical apparatus at Ft. Candy, Wash,
states that the companies stationed
there are now being trained for service
in France where they expect to be by I
the first of April. The mornings are de-
voted to infantry drill, bomb throwing
and bayonet exercises and the afternoon
are taken up with artillery practice
on Wednesdays everyone goes on hike
of at least twenty miles and on Thurs
day evening they have night drill which
consists of artillery drill, skirmishes and
drill. Sumner says this last
is most interesting to him as he has
charge Of it. He says all the boys are
so busy they have no time to get into
AS non commissioned staff
officer Sumner has a house Of his own !
with modern conveniences. The boys are
happy now in their work as they are
confident of seeing active service
abroad.
Miss Gladys Evans begun her three :
week S practice teaching at Oak Point I,
Rural Center Monday morning. Under !
he new system adopted this year the =.
students get seveFa =actuassp prac- a
ice under direct, ct,supervisinp of A com p
1etent critic teaeh6iS Gladys plains to p
AXE a position nat n}afY semester, and fin L
sh her course at tie normal afterward. >
Miss Jessiea Tedd---made a tl1p to
Portland last Monday in the interest h
# the senior cottage Which is pIactic h
lily ready to move inco.l al
Mrs. Nina Cornelius has purchased o
he residence she has occupied for the n
asst two years. The price paid was $1,000. /
Mr.. E. B. Hamilton received word L
eeently that he had been appointed
irst lieutenant in the engineers re- G
erve corps with instructions to report
0 Washington by wire at once. hG' =
The first meeting of the Parent
'eachers' Association for the season
'as held Tuesday evening in the High N
chool auditorium. A large crowd of e,