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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1879)
November, 1873. THE WEST SHORE. (i rove, twenty-four miles due west of offer a pretty picture of village life. The stately oaks, suggesting to the traveler's mind the appropriateness of the name of the place, encloses in its shadiest recesses the Congregational church and the two huildings of l'acitie I'nivcrsity. The newly brightened ex terior of the latter, does much to relieve eyes that had become weary of their clinginess. The surroundings of the (Jrove are perhaps more attractive than those of ail) other town in the county. Four miles to the west the foot-hills of the Coast Range rise abruptly from the prairie. The gentle slopes on which the town is built are lost on the north and east in the level expanse of the plain. To the south lie the famous Tu alatin bottoms. This is where fifty eight bushels of wheat to the acre have rewarded the comparatively light work of the farmer. The population of the Grove is almost the same as that of 1 lillsboro, and the amount of business is about the same in each. Neither, however, has enough tributary country to entitle it to the name of a lively bus iness place. The college makes the Grove, and the county business makes 1 lillsboro. Provincial egotism surpasses any In existence. We will descant no more on the beauties of our earthly home, but, leaving it with the usual variety of saints, rascals and putty-heads to roll onward in its appointed orbit, we will mention Dilley and Gaston as the re maining towns of the county. These two places have Inrcii places of great excctations, and they seem never to have gained anything more. Gaston sits wrapped in ague visions, at the head of VVapato lake, waiting for the influence of time to fully unlock the Hig Ditch which is to transform the malarial swamp into a garden. These two last names do not, how ever, exhaust the list of Washington county's towns. From the barbarous regions of the north come at intervals, dim rumors of a town whoa inhabit ants exult in one continuous "tear," where mansard roofs are the common style of architecture, though said roofs surmount the inhabitants of the city ami nut their habitations. This tlcjio ncnt not having witnessed the city nor any resident thereof, has doubted the existence of the same; but on the .111 liioiity ot persons ot undoubted verac ity he feels justified in stating that Glencoe is one of the towns of this county. Time fails us to apeak of Cent re Ola. three miles northeast of the drove, from which the glory departed When its mill was burned a year ago; urn can we linger at Greenville, " the Nii.br of cities," weeping amid the buck-biush: " The rmlimrntN of rntl'tm bora Ara I'lMtii- M'l unit tin . The i-hao" of itilubi) mirlil li rounding Intu lurm." The voices which fust taught the English language to the echoes of these woods, foily years ago, an- mam ol them now silenced, and the feel which first followed the plow across those prairies, now lie motionless beneath; but, thanks to the integrity, the intelli gence, the self-saciilice of those noble old pioneers, this county contains the germs of social systems which coining years will expand into mighty inatrtl mentalities for good. Although out progress hitherto may seem but slight, it furnishes an umple stipHirt on which we may rest out telescope while we look into the future, There we may see the villages ol to-day become cities, and the cross-roads become busy tow ns. TIIK Sl'OKTSMAN. y rrfiit'nn mono. Ilia nsme wm Augualua ktsoDonlary, Ilia aga II was I wanly sail alna. ! hail no linsrt fur tutn-foolry, Rut busting wm ngbl In bu liar, In Um country h apanl bis tamltua, And 1iMi1.nl through fnreata anil twlda, ll. MMluros was Out regulation, Ills dog taggad cIwm st bit hmla. Tha gray aqulrrel ran up Iho black )mi. Taw woodpaakst oonrad Ma phis, Aa tha hutitar ret u mad nn tha bsrk track, Ilia gun bald ready for " hit TVa hawk took s long Ma atrywaMl. Tha Una-pay " auutoat la sua." Tao yvaag aa eautui-ad s by-won), Aad Ml US. auaaaatlluag a eriata. Hut birda tn not (rea tram mortality. II ami! hxanl a ammil in Ilia huh. Tha dg . ...! I out Ilia looallly. And Augualua I. .1.1 bim to " huah ' Hut Iba optlia ol both ware allMlad, And wbtla tbay ware aart-blng around, A phmaant (law up ulidataflad, And ! ft Ibam aanlng Iba ground. Tha I. it. I gara ream of huatilily, Augualua Juuipad Into tba air, Tha gun, on Ha own liability, Hrought down Iba bird on Iba uar Hut faimar daclared thai tba pbaaaant Wm bla, ai.d .lamau laj a Ian, II. . baiga-l mu.'h more Ibaa WM pIxMul, And AugMtua will not bual again wwBuaaMaM A scIkmiI ma'am has Introduced a new feature into hei acho.il. When one of the girls misses a word, the boy who -in II- it gets permission to L... her, As a raatilt, the girls are becoming very poor spcllera, while the boys ai In proving. The end crowns the work. I. aura (with uowl)")h, if this (ale were only true, and I were the heroine f" Kate " What ! wilh lirr iwiari ulioiia, brr Bkiwry V l.aura M Ah, but then, ilear, remember she does get a buahaud after all '." W Kinky is now made front leather, and ibis may perliaps explain why mi many perwma who drink are so often strapped. It is a p.rt of the unwrilten parental code that our own children arc "dar lings," our neighlaiis' 14 dirty brats." A rale without an exc rpiioit.