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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1907.
PUSH CLUB FORMED
UP AT WILLAMETTE
CITIZENS WILL MAKE TOWN'S
MANY ADVANTAGES KNOWN
TO WORLD.
Willamette has caught the spirit
that (Glory bo!) lately has begun to
pervade all of Oregon City's suburbs
the spirit of improvement, push and
co-operation. Nearly GO of Willam
ette's citizens attended the meeting
for the organization of the Willamette
Improvement League,
At this meeting officers were chos
en as follows: President, D. K. Bill;
vice president, E. Mass; secretary, F.
R. SUer; treasurer, J. F. Sanders. A
committee was also appointed to pub
lish the advantages . of Willamette
abroad and to make known its attrac
tions to the investor.
Willamette is one of the prettiest
residence towns in thevalley and be
sides has industrial advantages pecu
liarly Its own. An aggressive and per
sistent publicity campaign cannot
help but put the town in the front
rank.
BIG SHIP COMING.
Washington, D. C, July 2 Presi
dent Roosevelt has determined upon
an Important change of American
naval policy. The new policy em
bodies these features.
Transfer of the Atlantic fleet of 16
battle ships and two armored cruisers
to the Pacific.
Withdrawal from Asiatic waters to
the Pacific Coast of the armored
cruiser division now in the Far East.
Withdrawal to the Atlantic of the
protected cruisers now comprising the
bulk of the Pacific fleet
The long voyage of the battleships
to the Pacific cannot be begun within
six months and probably the great
armada will not get under way until
late in the spring of 1908.
SUMMONS.
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for Clackamas County.
Maribel Bentley Reister, Plaintiff,
vs.
Edmond Relster, Defendant. j
To Edmond Reister, the above '.
named defendant: 1
In the name of the State of Oregon !
you are hereby required to appear and j
answer a complaint filed against you
In the above entitled court and cause
on or before the 19th day of August,
1907, that being the last day pre
scribed in the order of publication or
dering this summons, and if you fail
to appear and answer said complaint,
the plaintiff will apply to the court
for the relief prayed for in the com
plaint filed In the above entitled
court and cause, to-wit: for a decree
dissolving the bonds of matrimony"
heretofore and now existing between
you and the plaintiff, upon the
ground of willful desertion.
This summons is published in the
Oregon City Enterprise for six suc
cesive and consecutive weeks by or
der of Honorable Thomas A. McBrlde,
Judge of the above entitled court,
made and entered on the 20th day of
June, 1907, tbe first publication being
on the 5th day of July, 1907, and the
last publication being on tbe ICth day
of August, 19u7.
JOHN F. LOGAN",
C0t7 Attorney for the Plaintiff.
Miss Harriett Case arrived from
Alaska Tuesday where she has been
teaching. She will spend the sum
vacation with her mother, Mrs. Mary
Ca.se, and sister. Miss Minnie. '
Rev. and Mrs. J'. K. Hammond
children Ward and Marguerite
and
will
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leave Wednesday morning for their
new home at Eugene. They will be
missed by a large circle of friends
and acquaintances, who regret to see
them go.
ORCHESTRA FOR NEW
ERA CAMPNEETING
Punton's complete orchestra has
been engaged for the entire season
at the New Era campmeetlng and will
give three concerts on Sundays. The
date of the camp is July 6 to 28.
The New Era campmeetlng dances
will be on Saturday evening, July 13,
20 and 27. Dunton's orchestra will
furnish .the music.
Fire crackers, six bunches for 25c.
At Lent's Confectionery store.
A DEAL IN BANANAS.
No like ts skrrnny old man
bol com- to dvfi iwuhiUi man'
Today n' buy ilu wan tmmui'.
II mak' me sccckl
Ecf evra customer eos ma
For niiika trwoka an' talk m
Like hevm. you bat my life. I no
Gut rwclia Quoeck.
Wat, deesa man h com' an' ssrt
'"How tnnocha for banan' today?"
An' ao I tal heem rltttit away,
"Ers two for n'."
"O my. 1 mus' b Ratlin' dec-f
Or you ees tnlka UUe da t'lef!"
He say to m. an' look a eet
He gona cry,
"Ee (wo for fl'." I nay tftn.
He ahak' hws head at me an' den
He tal ni. Mak' eet (V for ten
An' tak da mon'."
"All rtcht." 1 ay, "I (t'loss weell do."
Ien "Fl' for ton ees wan for two."
He say. "More e two cent for you,
I taka wan!"
He tak' da beeKRes' wan of all!
Ha. w'at you theenka dat for gallT
He 'a meant num. so small,
He "iak" me soves.
Eef evrs S stonier vei so
For maka ttvt-cks an' ta'ka so
Like heem, you bat my life, 1 no
Oat reecha queock.
T. A. Daly In Catholic Standard and i
Times. .
There Were Limits.
Nervous Old Ijidy Do people lorn?
their lives bcA- very often?
Old Salt No, mum; only about once!
-Tatler.
His Dire Threat.
There was determination stamped on
his bcow.
"Refused, eh"' he hissed, snapping
his words like the explosions of a mo
torcycle. "Then I shall turn on the
gas." i
The beautiful girl swooned. When
she recovered she found him sitting
in an easy chair reading the sporting
news,
"Ah, you didn't turn on the gas after
all, did you?" she asked In trembling
tones.
"Yes, I did." he replied coldly.
"You you turned on the gas, Har
old?" "Of course I did. How could I light
it If I didn't turn it on?"
And then she asked his forgiveness
and accepted him on the spot. Detroit
Tribune.
Puzzled.
The noted foreiguer was perplexed.
"Zis was a btrange eountree," he re
marked, with a frown. "The longer I
stay 7A less I understand."
"What la the trouble now. count?"
asked hU American friend.
"Mooch, monsieur. I get on ze train.
Ze conductor carry me past my station.
I get wild. I wave my cane, I stamp
my foot, I shout! Zen za conductor
grab me and hold me. When I nsl
him w hy he hold me he say because ho
think I nrn off. Ha, ha! He say I am
off, and zat is ze very reason why I
rah all ze noise- because I om not off,
but on"
tar, Main S
OREGON CITY, OREGON
3ORGH : FURNITURE J
OstoXCMeOOsSXSMe to
BILL II1E OF THE BOOMERANG
FAMOUS HUMORIST TO WHOSE GENIUS AND MEMORY.
A MONUMENT IS TO BE ERECTED.
Characteristic Glimpses of a Man Who Made Millions Happy
Enough to Laugh Disliked Being Lionized and Carica
tured as a Baldhead Popular Lecturer and
Writer of Humor That Simply Made
You Laugh or Burst.
By robertuj LOVE.
ONE, but not forgotten. Is' Bill
Nye, most famous of newspa-
per humorists. He died elevcu
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years ago. Now tpere is goiug
to be a Kill Nye monument. The an
Douncemcut comes from the A merlon u
Press Huitutrists. nn organisation of
"poets, paragraphed and philosophers'
who do their poetising, paragraphing
and philosophising in the dully and
weekly papers. This association lr
raising a fund to build a monument to
the memory of Bill Nye Kill Nye of
the Boomerang.
The llootueranic whs twins. It wm
a mule and a newspaper, both owned
by Kill Nye. Both Inhabited Laramie,
Wyo, Tbe Boomerang newspaper was
named after the mule. The monu
ment Is to be erected at Laramie,
we are told, because it waa In that
fur western town that Kill Nye first
discovered that he was a humorist.
Prior to that discovery he had made
the mistake of Imagining that he was
a lawyer. The mistake was well nigh
J fatal, as he confessed himself.
Three-year-old Project.
Though the definite announcement of
the Nye monument as a consummation
to lie achieved this year Is a matter
of news, the project Is three years old.
The matter was discussed In a vague
and Irrelevant manner during the sec
ond annual convention of the American
Press Humorists la St. Louis In 1004.
But the members ' were seeing the
World's fair, Including the Pike, and
nothing definite was done. Tbe next
year the humorists met In Cleveland,
WAS AND
but they visited John I. Rockefeller
and in their awe of the living they
forgot the dead.
i Last year Philadelphia was the place
of rendezvous, but the study of ancient
history on the sit precluded the con-
1 slderatlon of the monument matter.
So the project was passed along to
Los Angeles, where the fifth annual
convention Is to bo held during the
week beginning Sept. 1". Secre-
tary Frank T. Searlght of the associa
tion, who lives there, proclaims that
' the Bill Nye monument fund will bo
brought to a final focus and fulfillment
at a monster entertainment to be held
in the Auditorium during the week.
I The Auditorium, by the way, is quiie
an appropriate place for such an en
tertainment, for on Sundays und pray
er meeting nights It Is the edifice In
which the Rev. Robert Jones Burdette.
pastor of the Temple Baptist church
of Los Angeles, preaches and prays.
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Bhis may account tor tho ramuinr ease
with which ho wrote of mules, turulp
ami other farm products,
The world has a w holly erroneous
Impression or Hill Nye s personal ap
j'euntnee. This U uue chiefly to w alt
McDougall. the comic artist who Il
lustrated Mr. Nye's weekly output for
several years. It Is true that during
the latter period of his life the humor
ist was bald oti top of his head, but he
had quite a fringe of hair at the sides
and rear. There Is a photograph of
blm taken In 1S7U, when he was editor
of the Laramie Boomers n if, which
shows lilm with a full set of whiskers,
though a fur cap serves to leave the
matter of his upper baldness at that
period an open question.
Those McDougall pictures, though
they enhanced the humor o Nye's
writings, were not pleasing to Nye him
self, it Is related that Nye requested
the managing editor of the Amerlcau
Press Association, which syndicated
his weekly letters during the last seven
years of his life, to get another artist.
McDougall. he said, made hltu look
ridiculous. Accordingly the artist C.
C. Kush was cast for the Nye perform
nice, but the newspapers taking the
service-forthwith emitted such a roar
that It was deemed necessary to return
to Mr. McDougall. Mr. Bush's pictures
were good, but they had too much hair
to suit the public, which bad len
dieted on baldness until baldness and
Nye had become brothers.
"Let me Illustrate the stuff myself,
then," requested Bill Nye.
Now, Mr. Nye was a fiumorlst, but
caiuoa rruisr haw him.
not an artist. Nevertheless he waa
permitted to execute some crude
sketches, which were funny while they
lasted, but eventually the McHougall
pictures replaced all substitutes.
Measurably Handsome Man.
Nye was by no means n hairless liv
ing skeleton, though In- was tall, nearly
six feet, and slim. After he became
famous ho always shaved eleun, per
haps on thfl theory that it would look
ridiculous to have his hair on the
wrong end of his head. He wore
clothes, he confessed, to cover his body,
and ft must be admitted thnt he did
not waste bis time lu studying the
Parisian fashions. But he dressed
pretty mn h as the average man dress
es and therefore was In no sense a
comic Sunday supplement at large.
Nye was. In fact, a measurably hand
some man. Walt McDougull's Idea
seems to have been that he must tuftlct
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Pi.'
raator Burdette Is also Bob Bur
dette. Now you know hltu. For near
ly thirty years prior to his reforma
tion ho was a famous press humorist
tmd funny lecturer. He lives at l'nsa
(leim.'nenr by, and will be one of the
Nye monument fund entertainers,
along with a doen other press humor
Ma who art bold enough to speak their
pieces on the stage. Mr. Burdette Is
"perpetual parson and pastor emeri
tus" of file American Press Humorists,
The elective officers are Thomas A,
Huly of Philadelphia, president; Itob
ort D. Towne, editor of Judge, New
York, vice president, and Mr. Hcarlght.
who In addition to being secretary Is
also treasurer nud In his latter capac
ity Is witling to receive and account
for Nye monument contributions from
my source-and no questions asked.
Edgar Wilson Nye was Uu'it nt Shir
ley. Me,, la 1HW), He told with par
donable pride how at the o of two
years he took his parents to Wisconsin
and Krew up on a farm. Thooith Mr.
Nye from time to time furnished the
world with iHuh uiohlugraphlcnl In
formation, (here Is quite a wide gap
tietweoii tho Maine village and the
Wyoming struggles, but he once re
marked that when he was fifteen years
oh) his father died and he took charge
of the IKK) acre Wisconsin farm. It Is
not to be doubted that he grew np
with more than a ciiklig acquaint
sure with hard work or. tbe farm.
Nye's personal appearance as exag
geratedly funny as were his writings,
which accounts for the fact that thoie
who did not know Mr. Nye by sight
continue to think of htm as a cadaver
ous scarecrow with a benevolent grin
on Its face.
As a youth Nye put In six sorrowful
months trying to rend Blnckitoue
Coke, t'hltly and other favorite Ml
tliors iu a Wisconsin law olllcn, lit
always maintained that he cotil4 read
those authors ovi-r and over again And
Ond them just as fresh ami novel a
t the first reading. Nevertheless he
managed to be admitted to the bar a!
Laramie, Wyo., In ls'il, where he set
tied ilowu and made a feint at prac
ticing law. Fur pastime and jome
lie sent a weekly letter of correspond
ence to the Cheyenne Sun, for which
be received $1 per column. Ill one o'
his numerous autobiographical confes
sions he states that hU Income from
this source v.ss nearly t n 3 ear
This, he nuIJ, was so much more than
be made at toe law that he determined
to sink deeper Into Journalism. So
be secured a regular Job vn the Lar
amie Sentinel nt $12 a week. Tor
short time he worked in I "cover as a
reporter on the Tribune, the paper on
which Eugene I'lelil somewhat later
tiiade his l!rt reputJtlo.i us a ImniorM.
Ufttnniitig to Lnratiilf', Nye eabllnlied
he Boomerang, which boomed once
1 ve- k. He was nls. elected. aplolnl j
d and otherwise erected Into the dtf
nltles of Justice of the peace, police
magistrate, I'nlted Hates commission
er, t-ostma'der and siipcrlntendiint of
schools. They citllisl him Judge Nre
which nj doubt helped some,
But being the otlb lal pooh Bah of
I-flrnn.le was not particularly lucr.i
tlve. Nye worked so hard to make .t
living that his health broke down. The
Boomerang wns not financially suc
cessful. He resigned bin multitudinous
offices. He wrote to the postmiistet
general that he would find the key of
the MstotIlceuuder the door mat. Then
Mr. Nye let.irned to the vicinity of his
former home In St. Croix county, Wis.,
to recuperate. That wss alsnit tin
year lis.T
Quoted In All Quarters,
But the Boomerang, though dead, I
had made Its mark. It wns a sheet I
of modest appearance, making no par
ticular specialty of news, but bubbling
full of Bill Nye. fctrny copies floated
Into eastern newspaper otllces. A gen
tlemnn who was connected editorially
wltli a Itochoster iiewspacr In the
Iioomcrung tlays told me recently that
ho picked up a copy of the Boomerang
on his ibKk one day Jut out ef curios
ity, bcenue It looked so lonesome nnd
was so far away from home. The
next thing he did was to put the
Boomerang on his regular exchange
list, after sending n large section of
It, scissored out, to tho composing
room. The Boomerang was quoted
east and west, north und south, and
It was evident that a new humorist
had arisen.
i Bill Nye wrote a book nlsiut his
Boomerang experience while be rustl
cuted in Wisconsin, offers from big
I eastern papers le-gaii pouring In. but
Nye was shy. l lnnl!y the New York
World Induced hhn to go to the me
tropolis and take a Job as a regular
contributor. Incidentally he was lu
great demand ns a lecturer. Ills plat
form tours with James Whltconib
Itlley are recalled ns events In the
lyepimi world. Nye declined to live In
New York city, but took a house In tho
rural districts of Stiiteti Island, where
his children could play with the gouts,
for h! had married nnd multiplied.
Nyo wrote for the World from ISM
until lHMl, when his services were so
cured by the American Press Associa
tion, From that time until his death,
more than seven years later, he fur
nished n weekly Idler of about two
columns, whether he was sick or well,
at home or ou the road, missing otly
ono week. IIu wrote his matter, wo
are Informed, with a loud pencil ou
nil sorts of paper, frequently on the
homely stationery of some small ho
tel at which he stopped while chasing
a lyceuni engagement. Much of his
work during the last three years of his
life was done nt his farm Jjomo near
Aslievllle, N. C, where he built n hand
some residence . near tho George W.
Vanderbllt estate. It was there, on
Washington's birthday, 1X0(5, thut tho
humorist died.
Nye's weekly snltiry from the Amer
ican Press Association was the largest
ever paid to a syndicate writer up to
that period. It figured up about I'ill
cent a word. Thus the Boomers ng
Came buck to him- after many days.
It la an Id that from his writing and
his platform work ho earned at oiw
time about 40.kiu a year.
Nye disliked being lionised. Alsiut .
fifteeu years ago he wrote a piny, "Tli
Cadi," which was to ls produced In.
New York. He was In tho city on
business connected with the piny.
"Nye came Into tho olllco one day,"
says Hunter Marshall, who at that
time was managing edllor for the
American Press Association, "nud look
ed M(oiind In a bashful, hesitating man
ner. He said that tie hud to be to
town for the day and lie didn't want
to attract attention. Couldn't wo hide
hltu somewhere--behind a screen, for
Instance? I fixed up a corner In th
wlHeo and screened It off. Nye sat
dowu there, with books and papem,
ml spent the day."
Had to Laugh or Burst.
The Nye brand of humor wits some
thing new under the sun. Arteunm
Ward, Petroleum V. Nnsby mid Jowh
Billings had won wide recognition, but
each of them relied to some extent
upon distorted spelling to attract at
tention. Nye always spelled correctly
and used good grammar. His exag
geration wits linguistic rather than or
thographic. He could string lilfalutlti
adjectives like ctmlii lightning, making
tho humblest, commonest object In our
everyday life take on a glamour so much
out of proportion to Its real Importance;
that the exaggeration waa ludicrous.
The reader simply had to laugh or
burst.
"What was the funniest thing you
ever wrote?" Bill Nye wus asked
shortly before he crossed the great
divide.
"The funniest thing wns borrowed
from tny platform manager," replied
the humortnt, who whs inodent as wetl
as shy. "Ha gave me the Idea, and I
put It like this: (In being requested
ono day to do the carving at dinner I
replied that I wus not much of a suc
cess as a carver Is-cause I couldn't
make the gravy match the wall paper."
BUI Nye published half a dozen
books. Kut the Amerlinn press Hu
morists are aware thnt (lien, are not a
auMclout monument to bis genius.
They know too well that hooks of
avowed hiiLuor which pre made up uf
fugitive pieces are subject to the stat
ute uf limitations, I'suully they resem
ble the houHfhold cookbook or t he
campaign life of Unrrield In their gen
eral inocliiuilcnl makeup. Their fate
Is to cud up ou the bargain counter
along the sidewalk, marked down to 30
rents. Wherefore, o lords and mas
ters, h t the boys build a more endur
ing mouuiiient to BiU Nye, and long
let the prairie rephyrs of I.nratule en-
ress the memorial or the man who
niade millions of us happy evmgli to
I laugh
MOHLCI? LET OPP
WITH A LECTURE
On complaint of several of htit
ni'lghlstrs, Hydncy Mulder of this city
was arrested by Humane Officer Brad
ley on charge uf cruelly to animals.
Mulder Inn lhr contract to furnish
horses for the Mnatnas on the occit
hluii of their annual outing, and hu
been breaking a number of wild
horses for the trip. One cif these bo
canie Injured In some iiummir and
I was left lying m the ground without
any care from the owner till the tlm
o his nrrest. Mohler was hrotiKht
before Ileputy District Attorney O. I).
Kby, jind after receiving a severe lec
turing, promised to kill tho hoi ho or
tend to Its suffering.
Tho animal was killed Monday
evening.
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