Summer Normal enrollment nears 800 as Oregon state campus notes
The Oregon Normal School summer session closes its second week with 790 enrollments and projections toward 800. A Salem band concert at 7:36 to 9:00 p.m. on campus invites public attendance. The annual President and Faculty reception highlighted the season with student groups presenting ambitions and campus decorations. Mrs Halliday Haight entertained, while Mrs J B Lowash arrived from Portland to help care for ailing father.
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Oregon Normal School
Salem
Miss Booth
Ackerman
Baker
Eugene
Rain and hailstrike hit Monmouth area Tuesday afternoon
Heavy rain and hail fell amid a southwest cloud over Monmouth Tuesday afternoon. Water flooded streets and leaky roofs, with rain missing areas two miles north. The shower aided gardens and berries but damaged ripening cherries and mown hay.
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Monmouth
Deaths and Local Theater Notes From Monmouth
Deaths: Mrs Charles Jackson of Monmouth died June 26 1916 after a brief illness. She leaves husband five daughters Ethel Powell Edith Sadie Mamie Edna. Funeral June 27 at home conducted by Rev G A Pollard. Also theater notes on Geo Eliots Silas Marner at Norm theater and Melting Pot showings with patriotic themes and Lib erty statue imagery.
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Chas, Jackson
Monmouth
Lucy Jane Jackson
Phelps
Northboro
Mass
Chas. Jackson
St. Paul
G. A. Pollard
Monmouth Baptist Church
Ethel J. Powell
Edith
Sadie
Mamie
Edna
Portland
Silas Marner
Moving Pictures
Geo. Elliot
Frederick Warde
Players
Monmouth Bride and Groom Marry in Quiet Home Ceremony
Miss Marie Morlan and Byron A. White wed at nine o'clock last Sunday morning in Monmouth Baptist church. The ceremony featured sea foam decor and orange blossom veil pins with a three course wedding breakfast. They plan a Newport honeymoon and later teach in Tillamook.
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Byron White
Marie Morlan
Monmouth
Byron A. White
A. B. Morlan
G. A. Pollard
Monmouth Baptist Church
Earl White
Gladys Putnam
Gertrude Heffley
Clara Wade
Newport
Waypoints
Bert Cross
Clyde
Mabel West
Myra Butler
Gladys Wade
Reta Marks
Gladys Thompson
Messrs
Joe Clark
Harold Haley
Fresh batch of city fathers in control
City of Monmouth faced a quorum crisis after resignations by Chas Goodman and John Riddell left council unable to meet. Riddell’s absence and Goodman's injury delayed filling vacancies, but a Wednesday session with a full quorum approved Riddell’s replacement E. H. Lorence and Goodman’s successor Geo. H. Boothby. The meeting also reviewed Main Street paving remonstrances and awarded a paving contract to Hoskins & Hobson with sidewalk work to be charged to property owners.
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Chas. Goodman
Monmouth
John Riddell
Portland
Swope
Goodman
John Riddle
E. H. Lorence
Lorence
Geo. H. Boothby
Heirdate of
Hoskins & Hobson
Funeral Held for Blashes Foster in Christian Church
Funeral services for the late Blashes Foster were conducted in a Christian church last Friday with a large turnout. W A Wood and K H Sickafoose praised the deceased, Rev W A Elkins delivered the sermon, and Masonic services were led by I H Robinson with B E Smith and H C Dunsmore assisting. The Norm feature on Shakespeare and royalty, “Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player,” screens Thursday and Friday, timed with Shakespeare’s 300th birth anniversary.
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Blashes Foster
W. A. Wood
K. H. Sickafoose
W. A. Elkins
Masonic Lodge of Independence
I. H. Robinson
B. E. Smith
H. C. Dunsmore
Shakespeare
Lord Bacon
Queen Elizabeth
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J. B. Lowash
Charles Jackson
New York Bay
David Campbell
Walla Walla, Wash
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