Page Two THE MONROE MONITOR--Monroe, Washington Friday, October 2, 1925.
THE MONROE MONITOR
Consolidated with
MONROE INDEPENDENT
By J. J. REARDON & SON
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Entered as second-class matter at
the postoffice at Monroe, Washing-
ton, under the act of March 3, 1879.
No. 648
TUNNEL PROJECT
GREAT NORTHERN'S
The announcement that the Great
Northern railway had instructed its
engineers to survey the route for a
new tunnel eight and one-half miles
in length through the Cascades, is
news of far-reaching importance.
As an' engineering enterprise it
would take rank with such famous
Alpine bores as St. Gothard, Mont
Cents and Simplon, but associated
with the magnificent improvement is
the development of the Chelan power
project and the reclamation of a
great area of agricultural land.
The tunnel project has long been
considered. The maintenance of the
so-called "high line from Scenic to
Tye, where it plunges through the
mountains, has been difficult and
costly. It has been necessary to con-
struct miles of snowsheds to safe-
guard the track from the heavy snows
cf winter. Each recurring year has
seen a vast outlay in permanent im-
provements in that picturesque
stretch of track.
[4isregard common sense in our ac-1
[tions- Experience has taught us a/
[few things, often at a stiff price.]
I The youngsters, however, must learn[
]from our teaching and example. We'
]would hate to see them take some of
I the fool chances we sometimes boast
[ about. If they get the idea that safe-
ty means avoiding all sports in which
there is an element of danger, they
will either lose their initiative or else
regard all safety" teaching as bunk.
Teach. them what you yourself have
learned through accident prevention
work at the plant--that there is a
safe and an unsafe way of doing al-
most everything• Show them the haz-
ards of the street and playground and
how they may be overcome success-
fully• Teach them to avoid danger
when the result is not worth the risk,
and to face it squarely and calmly
when necessary. There is no place
for fear in the safety movement--
Public Utilities.
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK
The United States destroys more
than five times as much property
by fire as do European countries, to
say nothing of the thousands of lives
snuffed out annually• European coun-
:tries have laws dating back to the
i Code Napoleon making the tenant or
owner of a building liable for fires
caused by negligence.
W. E. "Mallalieu, general manager
of the National Board of Fire Under-
writers, who has recently returned
from an extensive study of fire in-
surance problems in Europe, observes:
"Perhaps in order to reduce losses
on this continent to a less reprehen-
sible fig-are, it may become necessary
to supplement this extensive fire pre-
vention work of fire insurance com-
panies, cooperating with many civic
bodies, by the widespread enactment
and enforcement of personal liability
acts, such as already exist in some
of our cities. If the man who caused
fire by his carelessness or negligence
were looked upon, not as an unfortu-
nate, but as one guilty of misde-
meanor and subjected to a fine, as he
is under the Napoleonic law, doubt-
less we would all be more heedful."
Fire prevention week will be ob-
served nationally from October 7 to
10. It is safe to predict that there
will be fewer fires during this week
than normally. Instead of dropping
back into our old habit of "fire care-
The Great Northern engineers long I
have known that eventually a great t
tunnel would have to be built which I
would eliminate difficult grades and]
costly protective works. They have l
dreamed of a great enterprise which
would' permit their line to pass the
barrier of the mountains at a much llessness," at the end of the week,
lower altitude than at present. That why not continue fire prevention as
dream is presently to come true. a national habit?
As great as are the advantages to
be derived in the operation and main- HEAP BIG CHECK
tenance of the railroad, there is even I Another instance of the dimensions
more-important development in the Io f the automobile business is nicely
background. The completion of the Jset out in the news item that the
Chelan power project with the open-
ing of a vast storehouse of scenic, Standard Oil Co., paid into the cof-
fers of the state o gas sales for
agricultural and industrial res.ourceslthe month of July, 1925, the sum of
is the beginning of a new pemoa mi$158,870.98 ' which means at two cents
the state'ss development.
......... i the gallon that 7,943,549 gallons in
lne neian project is necessary to l n,,lvd nd' which would
the electrification of the Great North-' ....... "--7];-moveme ......... ,
. . .. . . , ! mean auLomoD 1 v nL uurlno
ern, DU me poEem;lal power is iar on
..... i thai period in the state of Washingt
in excess of me requirements of tne,^v a . . m|a nhnnt th dis-
railroad. It will be available for as-f,,.,'Vnn''o:n t-hm'-Vhon
r]cultural and mdustrml purposes. Its lwe multil" that b" the 48 states in
use in bringing water to semi-arid 1, .... P h,, h ....... o
DU Ierule lan Will mean me acl(ll- . . • r. ,o, ,, . ....
tion of 80,000 acres to our productive lg:t omlld °ot4;e':21c?ennvetenUw;
areas, consider the great centers of pepu-
The building of better roads, the
construction of new resorts on Lake
Chelan and the opening of a tourist
recreation ground will add enor-
mously to Washington's attractions.
The Great Northern should be con-
gratulated on its enterprise and its
farseeing policy. Its vast undertak-
ing adds materially to Washington's
brilliant prospects!--Seattle Times.
lation, more and more cars, more
more mileage, more geperal expense
in such operation. Railway mileage
dwarfs by comparison with the trans-
portation accomplishments of the
automobile in the matter of miles.
Tremendous is the automobile game,
and better and bigger it is to become
as the days go by. Increase of hard
surfaced road mileage will aid this
already been made available. If suf-
ficient funds do not come to make the
buy, contributions already received
will be returned.
The Kellogg Marsh Grange carried
off the special prize of $75.00 at the
Granite Falls Fair for the best agri-
cultural exhibit in' Snohomish coun-
ty, quite a nice pickup for that grange
as well as the fine notoriety which
it brings to them.
The expose which the air muddle
at Washington has brought about
may not be such a bad thing after
all for the nation. Speaking right
out in meeting, an old custom and
said to be a good one, is "hat many
times brings innovations. The truth
especially when told in times of peac.e
about such matters, cannot hurt only
those who deserve to be injured.
It is because men and women so
many times are not altruistically
good that we have laws to govern
society and' the more corrupt people
become the more laws we write upon
the statute books of legislature• There
is no question that we have too many
bad laws operating, offensive inroads
on what may well be termed inalien-
able rights. It is such offensive stat-
utes that aid so much in engendering
disrespect for laws that are good and
absolutely necessary to the social or-
der. We have had too many legisla-
tive fads for the good' of society and
the thing to look out for henceforth
is to keep the faddist who breaks
into legislatures so many times off
the judiciary committees of these!
bodies. Too much of the freakish is!
at the bottom of most of the present!
day of mischief in the social order•
The saddest spectacle of the hour so
related is the wholesale disrespect
for law, and' the easy money game
that has grasped too many of our
people.
This office is in receipt of a num-
ber of recently issued correspondence
relative to what was supposed to be
a gone and forgotten organization,
the Delta Electric & Water Co. These
communications contain various sub-
ject matters and are sent out from
the office of Chairman Morgan of
Sedro Woolley, of the bondholding
committee• There is hardly any nec-
essity for the Monitor to either re-
produce these letters or expiate at
any length thereon, as no doubt ev-
ery reader of this paper interested
financially in Delta has received such
a set as has come to this office from
Mr. Morgan.
i
Camp Fire Girls
The Monroe Camp Fire Guardians
held a meeting Monday evening•
i Plans for Camp-Fire activities for the
year were discussed• It was agreed
that a grand council (for all town
groups) should be held on Friday eve-
ning, October 16th. The members of
each group are holed to list the
honors earned during the summer and
give the list to their guardian a week
before grand council.
The Tocmetone Camp Fire expects
to hold a meeting of their group on
Friday of this week. Miss Himes
is the guardian.
Monday afternoon, Mrs. Gibson
gave a tea at her home for the girls
of the Tawasi Camp Fire. At the
business meeting held, a program
committee was appointed ahd' the
girls decided to have their annual
Halloween party next month. The
A NEGLECTED SPOT
"When musing on companions gone
we doubly feel ourselves alone."
These lines of Scott came to om
memory recently while passing the
old cemetery, on the banks of the
Pilchuck, at Snohomish, in which
many of the early settlers were bur-
ied, from as early as 1864 until Dec-
ember 14, 1876 it was no man's land,
a free for all who needed burial, but
on that date Mrs. Mary L. Sinclair,
for herself, and as guardian for her
minor children, conveyed to the Sno-
homish Cemetery Association the
three acres of land constituting the
cemetery. The officers of the asso-
ciation were Hugh Ross, president,
Isaac Cathcart, vice-president, and
E. C. Ferguson, secretary and treas-
urer. ,Lots were sold and the ground
fenced in--but after a few years the
place was neglected; the fences brok-
en down, and it became a jungle of
ferns and blackberry vines and a
favorite place for the town cows to
ruminate. Up to the year 1899 many
bodies were committed' to the earth
at this spot, ministers of every de-
nomination officiated, and the mourn-
ors were comforted with the assur-
ance that the sleep of the dead was
so profound that the giant tread of
the earthquake even, could not dis-
turb it. 'However, when the Grand
Army of the Republic Cemetery As-
sociation incorporated on March 2,
1899, with D. F. Sexton, Fernando
Turner and M. W. Packard as trus-
tees, they purchased 3.67 acres of
land from J. W. Heffner and wife in
Sec. 12, twp. 28, R. 5 East. This was
the initial step in the formation of
the beautiful burial grounds west of!
MEANING OF SAFETY
tow many of us know the real
meaning of safety? To some, the
slogan, "Don't Get Hurt," is the be-
ginning and end of the safety move-
ment. "Safety First," which became
popular in the early days of accident
prevention, also has its Hmitations.
Of course, if safety isn't first there
may be no opportunity for anything
else, but there are times when it is
necessary to relegate safety to sec-
ond place.
When the lives of others are in
danger, disregard of personal safety
rises to heights of nobility; when
safety is ignored to save a few sec-
onds or to get a thrill from some un-
necessary dangerous act, it is plain
dumbness.
We adults can usually judge when
it is dvisable to play safe or take a
chance, even though we sometimes
and' all states are building roads,
miles upon miles of it every year.
From these few figures it can readily
be seen also what a wonderful bus-
iness in volume and no doubt in pro-
fit the gas and oil sales for auto-
mobile purposes is. Then the Union,
the Shell and' General and' smaller
concerns sell gas. The total figures
would be staggering to ordinary in-
tellects.
Plans are afoot to make a part of
the Washington,Natural Parks Ass'n.
a grove of cedars near North Bend
that are about the biggest things of
the kind alive in the country. In
this grove is one tree which measures
fifty-eight feet in circumference and'
m, according to expert naturalists,
more than 2,000 years old. The tract
is offered to the association for
$2,000, about a fourth of which has
girls who attended were: Eva Hol-
lier, Margaret Bascom, Lulu Lille-
moen, Mildred Stretch, Grace Larson,
Gladys Hysom, Alberta Fuller, Mar-
guerite Lillemoen, Margaret Palmer,
Marian Roberts, Audrey MacDougall,
Eileen Camp and Rachel Ross.
The Tatapochon Camp Fire met at
the home of Annie Isaacson on Tues-
day- afternoon. Names for new mem-
bers were suggested and a song prac-
tice of Campfire songs was held.
Mrs. Cooley is guardian of this new
group.
Wenatchee--Building permits for
August totaled $91,390, $477,875 for
eight months, three times record of
1924.
Walla Walla--$200,000 hospital will
be guaranteed by 22 physicians and
others.
An Added
Attraction
I
A Radio Set is an added attraction to home life that is
worth many times what it costs. Let us demonstrate
some of our newer models. You will want one installed
at once. The Best in Radio Service.
Thedinga Hardware Co.
I "Everything m H. ardware'' ]l
Snohomish. Many of the bodies wore
caused to be exhumed by surviving
kinsmen and re-buried in the new
cemetery, but still many graves are
to be seen in the old graveyard, mon-
uments overthrown, fences rotted
down and in a general unkempt con-
dition, that should appeal to the
hearts of those who still survive and
have relatives buried there.
--A Pioneer.
INDUSTRIAL
NEWS NOTES
Kelso--Vein of excellent lttery
clay uncovered on courthouse grounds.
Spokane--Thirty electric trains
daily will go from Spokane & East-
ern terminals.
Goldendale--Union Oil Cd. building
large distribution plant here.
Tacoma--Plans being drawn for
$750,000 family hotel on Stadium
Way.
Ridgefield--Seven modern business
houses built here this year.
lllonro¢ theatre
"The Little House With Big Pictures"
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Saturday, October 3
Joseph C. Lincoln's
"Rugged Water"
With *LOIS WILSON* and *WALLACE BEERY*
Comedy--"Family Life"
(COUNTRY STORE SUNDAY)
Sunday, October 4th--
*FLORENCE VIDOR* and *CLIVE BROOK* in
"Christine of the Itungry Heart"
Fox News Comedy--"Westward Ho!"
(COUNTRY STORE SUNDAY)
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 5-6-7--
"The iron Horse"
Featuring *GEORGE O'BRIEN*--*GLADYS HULETTE*
Admission--Adults 50c--Children 25c
(COUNTRY STORE SUNDAY)
Thursday and Friday, October 8-9-
*BETTY BRONSON**RICARDO CORTEZ* in
"Not So Long Ago"
Comedy--"A Scientific Husband"
Items from Monitor Files of Oct. 6,
1905
Rev. Dr. W. E. Richardson, Pearl,
Idaho, has received an unanimous call
to the Congregatim.al church of Mon-
roe, and has accepted.
The Monroe baseball team returned
last Sunday from Wenatchee, with
three games won and none lost.
+++++•••••+••••••÷lservedin a like capacity at Stephens-
: t,00lle.
TWENTY YEARS AGO **l Mr. and Mrs. John iHallan have
+++++++++++++++++
" - been spending the week at the Lewis
and Clark fair.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. White took in
the fair at Wenatchee last week.
Ben Sykes brought in two young
bears. Tuesday, which had been killed
up on Woods Creek.
The Skykomish river bridge here
is in danger, since Tuesday, of being
taken out by high water.
Miss Laura Lemon entertained a I School enrollment 259, total days
few friends Friday evening. [attendance, 3999, per cent of attend-
Miss Evelyn Sprau entertained, ance 96 for the month of September.
Monday eve]ing, in honor of Miss
Rainier Park had 167,634 guests Beatrice Lloyd's birthday. [ shipped'Wenatchee--75from hereCarsdaily.applesTotalbeingcen-
this year. Park will be open all win- Mrs A Leduc entertained the Cath- tral Washington product about 18,000
ter. olic Lad'ies' Aid Society, Tuesday l carloads.
, afternoon, and a goodly number
-okane--Gas coman-s 110 m- ] Eastern Washington farmers will
plo.es exle4 \\;to sl 1500 shares l were in attendance. Ipay practically all debts from this
company stock in 10-d'ay campaign, i A oarty of young people of Monroe I year's crop return'.
^' ............... /droveup to Wallace Falls Sunday. i W--uiam uimb & Wilson con-
lympia--rtgn senooi DUllI for OOUl ' , **-- --Q Y .
students, now has 800 and will bel Rahort Mnin was superintendent of tract for building $40,000 furniture
enlrarge& by $50,000 addttmn. [ the Cherry Valley S S and B. Syke. store.
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