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Newspaper
Monmouth Herald
Location
Monmouth, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1916
Page
2
A fragmented patriotic verse salutes a nation’s mountains and skies, praising heroism and sacrifice. It invokes memory of heroes, hallowed ground, and noble breast to honor the land and its people. The text blends mythic images with exhortations to cherish liberty and courage.
A visitor notes Weatchester New York as Westchester’s oldest village. The piece recalls the old village store near the causeway, the Presbyterian church hill where British breastworks stood in 1776, and the dwindling Spy Oak famed for its height and girth. Legends speak of a British spy lingering in its branches, heard at dusk, near St. Peter’s church.
The yard holds headstones dating to 1713 with Philip Honeywell’s inscription urging reflection on journeys. Queen Anne funded bells once on the early church now melted into a new Sabbath bell. Across the street a parsonage, once colonial capital site during a fever outbreak, stands near the old rectory on a green knoll with land from 1703 ancient glebe.
From 1683 to 1760 Westchester served as shire town while land was carved from Edward Collier's old lott and the eight acre division near the sheep pasture. The village began in 1642 with Throckmorton and a Massachusetts group led by Roger Williams, seeking homes for five dollar families. The Dutch named the area Vredeland meaning Land of Peace, possibly for attracting settlers.
George Lewis Bailey recounts how 140 years ago in the Philadelphia statehouse a panel of men faced the choice to sign the Declaration. Thomas Jefferson presented the parchment. Adams urged the pledge amid tense whispers as the crowd faced the threat of punishment. The parchment was signed and the bell rang, a moment echoed globally thereafter.
Washington reports Secretary Lansing telegraphed to Mexico City demanding immediate release of American troopers captured at Carrizal and a formal statement from the Carranza government. The note calls the Mexican reply a deliberate hostile action and warns force will be met with force. Wilson and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reviewed the situation as tensions rise.
Wireless dispatch from Field Headquarters Mexico to Columbus New Mexico reports 23 soldiers known dead at Carrizal with nine additional fatalities suspected by Major Jenkins of the Eleventh Cavalry. Captain Morey found alive nine miles from his last reported location with non fatal wounds.
The Italian auxiliary cruiser Citti di Messina and the French destroyer Fourche were torpedoed in the Strait of Otranto. Citti di Messina, escorted by Fourche, went down as the submarine first struck. Fourche attacked the sub, which disappeared, and almost all of Fourche’s crew were saved.
Rioting broke out in the City of Panama during the elections with eighteen injured and no foreigners among them. Colon saw no trouble while a man was killed in Chiriqui province.
Portland grain prices range from 96 cents per bushel for Bluestem wheat to 88 cents for Red Fife with other varieties and hay, millfeed, and vegetables listed. Spot prices cover corn oats beans potatoes onions and fruits with eggs butter and livestock figures for Oregon and eastern markets.
Oats and barley strengthen across the coast as traders expect government orders for feed cereals at border and Mexico posts. Oats hold around 26 dollars with bids at Merchants' Exchange near 25.50 to 25.75, barley trading quiet locally but around 28 dollars in Portland via San Francisco futures, wheat showing no activity, and rain lifting Northwestern crop prospects by up to 15 percent in parts of Oregon.
A bulletin from Renskorf, Lyon & Co. in New York notes higher freight capacity lowers rates, with coffee down and cotton up in the U.S. sugar shows no decline yet. Submarine activity relief has cut insurance costs and reduced congestion. icebound North Russian fleets reduced. Summer may bring relief at ports, benefiting American business.
L. Barnes of Salem purchasing the Black Eagle mine at Gates for 100000 follows his inspection of the Gold Creek mine and vein formation seen near the tunnel. Barnes, president of the Capital Journal mining company, has sparked activity among nearby miners and stockholders in related firms as claims rush to stake new prospects.
Vale Malheur county notes a recovery of prosperity as the Warm Springs irrigation district forms on May 19 with directors planning a landowner vote. A June 14 decision creates the Willow River valley improvement district uniting 10000 acres for roots, farms, and regional progress.
Judge Bernard Daly pledges Bank of Lakeview will finance rebuilding after a devastating fire that wiped out residences and businesses. Revised estimates total about 71000 in losses with 15000 insured, many victims unable to meet brick or stone rebuilding codes. The meeting in the courthouse drew citizens seeking action following Daly's prior fire relief in 1900.
Governor Withycombe announced he would be unable to attend the Western Governors conference in Salt Lake City due to the Mexican situation. He said the travel and national conference commitments could be indefinitely postponed as the Mexico trouble deepens.
Work has begun on a winter feed yard east end of town on flats near the new railroad, to house about 8000 sheep. Klippel and Madden of Portland own the project, with J W Cathcart contracted to supply fill for sidetracks and building materials.
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