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VOL. XXVI
HILLSBORO, OREGON, APRIL 17; L919
NO. 6
Five Miles of Wood to be put
Down Experiment
A STEEL FREIGHT SHIP
Reconstruction Work Over State
Meant Much Expenditure
April I t,---Portland - Lumber
liii'ii have arranged to en opi-rutc
willi Oregon highway ciiiiiinii
siiin in laving nil experimental
! ttxi nf five miles nf wood
block paving wild full confidence
that if it is properly put down
it will prove mii miti-tfaclnry llwit
it will lie tin- forerunner of mi
t- I in si v- tine of wood blocks in
llii' northwest.
J ' i 1 1 !,i 1 1 I building permit for
March increased KM) per rent
over I IMS.
Astoria Kit new, $ 1 1)0,(100
bank.
Marion county Iiiih program
for 100 iiiilei in ii i k i' t roads in si
Vcari.
Siillierlin Keti $50,00 fruit
drier ninl cannery.
Jobs nre going begging on
Cooh liny for link of laboring
lion.
Northwest sawmills gel order
for 15.000,000 feet Donald fir
ties.
Heavy snowfalls ill I lie Cns
rndei menu abundance of wnlcr
for crops.
Suleni fruit union to Increase
capital to $75,000,
Corviillis- firound liroken here
for new $13,00 cfinnrry.
Mnlalla pushing new road to
Wilhoit Sjiriitfj; h.
Portland - North weHlern dec
trie earnings increased $!l(i,5(!.'l
in I IMS.
Sherman enmity enrried $.'100,
000 lionil IsNiie for 07 miles of
highway.
J lermislon Onnlnirt let for
highway grading 21 miles, $180,
85:1. I'ortland - Willamette Iron &
Steel Co. linn $100,000 Union
Tanker contract.
Salem License fees for three
months for registering motor
cars. $H5,728.
Astoria plans 1H street im
provements, total cost $'J'J2,000.
Portland Columbia Steam
ship Co. gets first .steel freighter
allotted.
St. Johns terminal pier to lie
lxi i 1 1 for $2!l,l71.50.
There will he another sawmill
huilt at St. Helens, on the point
of Sanvies Island.
Condon Geo. II. Flagg, of
I'mirie City, acquires Times nnd
Globe nml will consolidate them,
lie is a son of well known news
paper man K. II. Flagg, at War
reiiton. Tomatoes arc coming from
Mexico hy the carload. They cost
$t.B0 per big hox. New potatoes
come from there. Here is the tie
that will hind the American peo
ple closer to Mexico than stand
ing armies.
PACIFIC HIGHWAY
Contractor Guthrie, who will
hliild the cement road between
Portland nnd Ilillshoro, has a
force of rnrpenters building
about a ilor.cn portable houses
for cook and sleeping quarters
for men who will lay the. cement.
The men will be served and
housed right where the work is
in progress, and as rapidly as It
is built Ihey will move along.
Grading Is already commenced
on the F.ast end, and a big crew
will soon be employed.
Thrift...
That's the twentieth century way of spelling success.
The war has made it a common word in the. lexicon of
every desirable citizen. We now know that it. does not
mean penurinusness hut rather the exercise of one of the
primary attributes of good citizenship.
When you open a savings account with a reliable
bank you betray certain characteristics which go far to
wards insuring a successful career. You nre more than
merely thrifty. You are also prudent. And these two
qualities positively exercised are the beginning and end
of success. t
Our bank's assets total over $800,000.
SHUTE SAVINGS BANK
PROMPT : CONSERVATIVE : SAVEJ
,1. A. Odcll, of Laurel, was an
Argus caller Friday.
For greater value in used curs,
don't fail to sec Perkins.
Thus. FowIch, of above Moiiu
laindalc, was in the city Friday.
Flowers for funerals and olliei
occasions.. -liergen Floral Co.,
Ilillshoro. a 2 If
I. mi Myers, of Chchiilin
Mountain, was greeting friends
here Saturday,
Some big fours (used) Over
lands, and others at right prices,
1'.. I.. Perkins. Ji tf
Mrs. IVtr.i Itorgeu and Mr.
and Mrs. Fee Crowlliers, of Dil
ley, were county scat visitors Sat
urday. Highest market price paid for
livestock. Also want scvi r.il
fresh cows. - C, F. Peterson,
Ilillshoro. Phone ill'. ft I If
Chester Bridges, who has three
tenuis hauling lies up in I lie Hel
vetia country, was down to the
home tow ii Saturday.
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
- Sunday services, Masses at 8
and 10:110, Week days, Mass lit
H:l(). .1. T. Coslclloc, Rector.
Wade A rmeiil rout, of near
Hoy. was ilit v it to the city Fri
day morning,1 lie says he never
saw better prospects for winter
grain in his locality.
For Mile: Minnesota "l.'l" .seed
coin for sale. Will aeclimati d.
The best for the silo; 10 cents
per lb. -Clem Sham r, Ilillshoro,
I!. .'I; .'I miles out on North
Plains road. 8-7
Itoland Gates, sou of Mr. ninl
Mrs. J. W, (iates, has just recov
ered from a siege of the mumps
at the Mare Island Training sta
tion for I'. S. Marines, in which
he is enlisted.
I can furnish you paper for
Spring hanging. Get what you
really want, by samples. Paper
li.i n ur i ii lt . painting, wall tinting
and decorating.- J. Murrow,
Ilillshoro. Phone 2(1118, 5-7
Mrs. ,1, W. Gates, of Lcisy-villi-.
Friday brought in the first
consignment of clothing for the
lied Cross for shipment to Eur
ope. The I.eisyrille Red Cross
were the first to finish their terri
tory. Win. liurnelt, who recently
left Hanks for Kansas City, to
take a course in mi auto school,
died enroute F.ast, according to a
dispatch received by Will Moore,
of Hanks, Friday. Hurnett was a
son of N, I. liuructt, who settled
near Greenville several years
ago, Burnett's wife died last fall,
and his health failed him so that
he sold his farm. When he pro
cured bills for his public sale he
told the Argus that his heart
troubled him so that he was
prompted to quit farming, lie
was aged about 40 years, ami
had a host of friends in the
Hanks country.
Harry Cook, of Cornelius, was
down to the city Saturday. Harry
says that the Cornelius young
sters have organized a baseball
team and will be in the Held this
summer. "It's a .shame Ilillshoro
and Forest Grove can't get a
good team each like in the old
days," says .Harry, "I remember
I he time w hen we were young
that we would hire rigs, pay for
lliem ourselves, and travel 20
miles to play ball, with out a cent
of compensation. Today if a fel
low develops a little baseball
cleverness he immediately wants
to capitalize it and refuses to
play unless he can pull four or
live dollars out of ii game. Gosh
hang it, 1 wish old Father Time
would reverse us back a few
years and let us get into the game
once more."
James Gibson, Aged 85 Years
Still Hale an Hearty
REEDVILLE'S OLD PIONEER
Came to Oregon in 1847, Settling
First at Dilley, Aged 14
There are few sprycr men in
Oregon among the pathfinders of
the slate than James Gibson, of
Iteedville, who reaches his 85th
birthday on April 21, MHO
Monday next. Physically as ac
tive as the average man of CO,
and menially alert, Gibson pre-
scuts a certilicutc of character
for Oregon as place in which to
live. He was horn in Hoone Coun
ty, Mo., April 21, 1S31. He was
the son of O. Gibson and
wife, ami the family started in
IM7 for Oregon, crossing tho
plains in an oxteani train. Jas.
drove the "bulls" a greater part
of the way, and it was a matter
of a thrill almost every day. They
rcaeiieil Hie. Dalles October 20
of that year, rafting from that
point to the Cascades, where
they made a portage of their ef
fects to below the Falls, now
tl.iiuined in by the big locks that
menu so much to the upper River.
The Hudson Hay Co., then man
aged by Dr. John McLaughlin,
transported their personal be
longings to Vancouver on bat
leaiix, eight nieii to a barge, and
three days later saw them at
I.innton, where they spent the
w inter.
In the spring of 1 848 the Gib
son family moved to Corneius,
spending the summer there, hi
the Fall they moved to Dilley,
where Mr. Gibson Sr. and wife,
Mclinda, took up JI20 acres of a
donation land claim. Buying .'120
acres more this gave him (HO
acres a square mile. In 1819
Gibson Sr. built a grist mill, and
turned out bis first Hour in 1850.
The big California mining ex
citement was on nnd burro pack
trains were used to transport
llour to Sacramento and Marya
villc. The Spaniards paid Gib
son Sr. $50 per barrel, and each
burro carried 100 lbs.
James Gibson moved to Iteed
ville a few years ago, and will
spend his declining years there
all ho I'iK'le Jim isn't declining
very rapidly.
He was married to Mrs. Han
nah Whetstone, and three chil
dren were born to the marriage
one dying in infancy. Two
daughters survive, Mrs. Jennie
Moore, of UkiaTi, Ore., ami Mrs.
C. W. Hanson, widow of the late
C. W, Ransom, Forest Grove's
and Ilillshoro' druggist in the
eighties.
Mr. Gibson married again in
1S75, his present wife being Mrs.
Anna Swan Haldra, pioneer of
1853. A daughter, Mrs. Minnie
Richards, resides at Woodburn,
Wn.
If you want a good pioneer
story, just connect up with this
remarkable octegennrian. He can
give it to you with all the frills
of early days, with all kinds of
sage brush ntmosphere. His geiv
ial disposition, his kindly charac
ter and bis reliability, go to
make him one of the most lov
able of the old pioneers, who are
passing rapidly to the beyond,
Gibson thinks he will make the
!) per cent, unless something
goes wrong with his transmission.
A few davs ago a party assenv
bled at the Iteedville home to cel
ebrate the birth anniversary of
the patriach, and there was a
big dinner. Those present were
Host nnd Hostess, Mrs. F. Eu
gene Walling, Mrs. W. R. Haldra,
Helena Faith Rice, Emma v ool
ley Chandler, Bertha Evans
Greene, Francis Eugene Walling,
Eugenia Clements Gibson, Wil
Hani Edwin Rice, Helena S
. - """"OS. "
Jacob Schmidt, of Laurel, was
a city visitor Saturday.
Cninile Duyck, of Forest
Grove, was a city caller Satur-
lay.
Andrew BcniJlt-r, of North
I'ualaliu Plains, was a city caller
Monday.
Daniel Deaville, of Oak Park,
was in the city Monday morning
on legal business.
Wanted: Plowing for a tract
or. Win. Goodin, James Station.
ddress Cornelius. 5-0
Henry Scheuermann, of near
Blooming, was in town Saturday,
greeting county scat friends.
Miller tires arc good tires.
Perkins has exclusive territory.
Get his prices before buying new
tires." a-tf
Otto Vogel, an oldtime Bloom
ing resident, now ol lores!
Grove, was a citv caller S.itur-
lav.
Perkins now has his free air
d water .system installed'-
Irivc up and help yourself. Vmi
are welcome. .( il
Gen. Moore, of North Plains,
was in the city Monday. He says
there is plenty of road work in
progress out his way.
Wanted: Some Canadian feld
I teas. Also a lew .stock sheep.
F.d. Nay lor, Forest Grove, Ore.
Phone 0185. Forest Grove. 5-7
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gotleib, of
Meek Plains, and Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Jacobsen, of West Union,
were Ilillshoro visitors Saturday.
Lost: White pointer dog, one
year old; lemon spot on ear.
Must be in Ilillshoro or vicinity.
Notify Lloyd Brown, 1310 Jack
son St. Reward of $5. 6-8
Art Miltenbergcr went to
Portland Sunday to visit his wife,
who is convalescing from an op-
ration at St. Vincent's Hospital.
She will be able to return home
in a few days.
Eggs for Hatching From pure
bred, heavy winter laying strain
Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds;
$1.50 for 15 eggs. Call at resi
dence or phone 2274. E. L. Mc-
Cormick, 1324 Jackson St., Hills
boro, Oregon. 49-tf
Jack Bisncr, of South Tuala
tin, was in town the last of the
week. He reports that Ids broth-
r, Win., engineer on a Paeifie
freighter, arrived in from Asiatic
waters last week, and is spend
ing a few davs in Portland and
the South Tualatin ranch.
Findley McCleod, of Gaston,
was down to the county seat
Monday morning. Findley has
been up ill the Gaston section for
about 85 years, anil wouldn't
he anywhere else. lie states
that crops are nearly all seeded
ip his way except in the extreme
lowlands.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Quick, who
ive been living at Grants Pass
for several years, spent Sunday
it the F.mmett Quick home at the
Grove, and at the Thus. Fowles
home, above Mountaindale. Mr.
ind Mrs. Quick are enroute to
the Alberta country, where he
will go into the farming business.
Over 00 per cent, of the new-
ears this season are equipped
with U. S. L. batteries, among
which are Oldsmobiles, Over-
mds, Buieks, Chevrolets and
many others too numerous to
mention. Hillsboro Battery Ser
vice Co., are agents for the bat
teries, which are sold on fifteen
months guarantee. 5-6
A. W. Walker, of South Tua
latin, is mourning the loss of a
watch which he says be bought
il years ago and was a perfect
timekeeper. A. W. swung a big
piece of brush on a fire the other
day, nnd it caught his chain, and
watch, chain ami all went into
the blaze, where the time-piece
remained 2i hours. When be
brot the watch in to Hoffman it
hadn't a cricket in it.
Parents: Would you like to
have a set of pictures of your
old schoolmates the boys you
used to scrap with the girls you
used to, tease? If you knew where
to get them you would have them
f you had to steal them. Now
your children want pictures of
their fellow schoolmates which
will grow dearer to them as the
years roll on. Give them money
to have good pictures taken for
exchange and not let them ac
quire the habit of stealing. Re
member that Johnson s Studio is
headquarters for school pictures
as well as kodak finishing and all
other photo work. 6-8
Rice, ' Richard Lindsay Rice
Elizabeth J. Boyd, John Boyd
Annie Woolley Briedenstein
Fred Ebbert Woollev, Nell B
Woolley, Mary E. Ransom, Mrs,
Mclinda Cave, Miss Rose Cave
W. R. Baldra and T. E. Baldra.
C0E-S1LG CASE 01
Verdict for Plaintiff in Sum of
$314.20 Rendered by Jury
A CASE OF MIXED BOOKS
Twelve Men Stay up Until 2:30
A. M. on Sunday Morning
The case of it. L. Coe against the
Slay Round Silo Company, suit
o collect hit ceil eighteen hun
dred and two thousand dollars,
tad a five days seance in circuit
onrt last week, commencing on
Tuesday morning and lasting un
til 2:30 Sunday morning, when
the jury finally agreed on a ver-
liet for plaintill. It w as a e,, ,v
of badly mixed book-keeping on
III sides of the a Hair, and it
needed Philadelphia lawyers to
unravel the puzzle
Mr. Cm; had based the plan--
iiiL' mill on North Rane Street
o the Stay Round people, who
turned out silo lumber nearly all
of la-.t Summer.' W hen the Stay
Round people pulled out they
aimed they had overpaid Mr.
'ur, and Mr. Coe claimed they
owed him a trille less than $2000.
I'here were many witnesses, and
the case was stubbornly contest -
I throughout.
The jury went out for deliber
ation Saturday evening and from
the first it was agreed that Coe
liould have a verdict, but the
i im u n t in question was what
swallowed the time.
It is not likely that the case
will be appealed either way, and
uly payment of the judgment
is expected.
It was a sleepy dozen of yur-
ors which filed in with the ver-
liet at 2. -.10 in the morning, just
when the roosters ven' starting
to crow, giving Coe $314.20.
The jury on the case: t arl
Clapshaw. Jacob Dahinden. J. H.
Garrett. John Friday. Walter M.
Cole, Arthur Christensen, W. B.
Finmons, C. Blaser. John W.
'ritehard, Alfred Hevwood. Al
fred Freerksen, Thad C. Rey
nolds.
This was a case where the eon-
esting attorneys both had an in
ningthe Tonirues getting a ver-
lict, and Mr. Hare, for the Slay
Hound people, getting a reduced
I aim.
BEN SELLING HERE
?en Selling, of Portland, was
icre Sunday evening and talked
to a crowded house at a union
scrvcic at Jhe Methodist Church,
in behalf of the drive for the
starving people of the Near East.
Selling explained why he, as a
Jew , was asking for and contrib
uting to a fund for Gentiles, bas
ing his appeal on purely humani-
irian ideals. It was one of the
icst meetings ever held in the
it v, being staged by the business
men of the city, co-ordinating
with the ministry. Rev. B. F.
Clav reports that $i.'0 were
raised Sunday evening, and this
gave the committee plenty of
pirit to get out and finish the big
drive.
Mr. Selling is the State Treas-
j . I A T" 5 1. .
tirer ot the uregon urive, ami ne
made an eloquent appeal for re
lief. This was one of the largest
meetings ever held for a charita
ble subscription in Ilillshoro, and
Mr. Selling was accompanied by
I. J. Handsaker, of Portland.
ODELL-WOLF
Mrs. Sophia Wolf, a daughter of
Henry St offers, of East Hillsbo
ro, was married to Edward
Odcll, of near The Dalles, at The
Dalles, April 3, 1919. The groom
is a rancher of Wasco County,
and the bride is well known here
and at Bethany, where her broth
er, Henry Stoffers Jr., resides.
Her two small sons, Frank and
Ralph, are with her in the new
Eastern Oregon home,near Boyd.
HENRY DURST
Henry Durst, aged 81, died of in
fluenza at Deer Lodge, Montana,
at a Sanitarium, last t'riday.
Durst was born in Wisconsin, and
was a brother of Mrs. John Lof-
tis, of above North Plains. He
owned a ranch near White Sul
phur Springs, Montana, and vis
ited here in 1905. when the Lew
is & Clark Fair was held in fort-
land.
Eggs for Hatchinir Single
Comb White Minorcas, prise win
ning birds, American Beauty
strain. Per setting of 15, 12.00
Won 24 prises at two 1918 shows
Two roosters for sale, good type,
pure white. Wm. Tupper, Hills
boro, Ore. -tf
C. B. BUCHANAN & CO.
(Incorporated)
Hillsboro, Cornelius and North Plains
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In
Grain, Hay, Flour, Feed and
Grain Bags
t
Car-lot shipper of POTATOES and
ONIONS. Grain chopped or
rolled at any time
Lumber, Shingles and Lath
AT CORNELIUS
Beaver State Flour
The Best Flour at the Lowest Prices.
Telephones; Hillsboro, Main 14,
Cornelius, City 1515, North Plain, Main 263.
Qontract is Let for
State Highway
AND A HARD SURFACE ROAD WILL
LEAD FROM PORTLAND THROUGH
THE FAMOUS
Beaverton-Reedville
Acreage
NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR
HOMK BEFORE PRICES RAISE. A
SPLENDID ELECTRIC SERVICE WILL
TAKE YOU TO AND FROM YOUR
WORK IN PORTLAND.
SHAW-FEAR COMPANY
102 Fourth Street
C. K. ROGERS
ROGERS'
AUTO TRANSFER
271 TAYLOR STREET
Daily Trips to
BEAVERTON HILI.SRORO FOREST GROVE
Phones: Main 6765 A 3110
GENERAL HAULING LONG DISTANCE MOVING
Office'With P. R. England
n Old Accounts
We get results. j
We report results. j
We remit results.
We pay the expense. I
We take the blame.
Knight Adjustment Company;
Ilillshoro, Ore.
HUMP & BUM P, Managers i
We Have the Neatest and Most Complete Stock of
JEWELRY and
SUNDRIES ...
In the City of Hillsboro. We do repair
work in first-class work and our charges
are always reasonable
IF YOUR EYES ARE TROUBLING
YOU, LET US FIT YOU TO GLASSES
SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT.
HOFFMAN
Jeweler and Optician
Main Street i Hillsboro, Oregon
PORTLAND, OREGON
Res. Phone: B 1464
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