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About The Hillsboro argus. (Hillsboro, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1926)
T he H illsboro A rgus The Home Paper of Washington County On the Addreaa For Expiration Date “The Leader in Its 1 ield" 6- s V Watch the Date O HILLSBORO, VOLUME XXXIII PROMINENT LOCAI MAN DIES FRIDAY C. W. Redmond Succumbs Af ter Several Weeks’ Illness LIVED HERE FOR 34 YEARS Deceased Had Served as Dep uty Sheriff and Consta ble for Years OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1026 No 44 I Legion b Slay r o be Second Line of City Defense Hillsboro Again ( Visited by Rob bers on Sunday A. ! ' SHARE OF GROWTH 7 Arrangements were considered by Hillsboro post of the Legion Tues- day night to provide a second line ot defense ill case of fire or caliim- ity in tho community. The fire de partment is having a man come out from Portland to lecture on first aid work soon and the firemen will bo invited to meet nt the Veterans’ hall at that time so that the service I men can get some information that would be valuable to the community. 1 Tho public will also be invited. Joint instnllation of the auxiliary and the Legion will be held January 11. Plans for a minstrel show to be held in the near future have been turned over to the activities com- mittee, Ivan Freeman, chairman, The Legion men started n fund Tuesday night for fixing up com ' fortable club rooms in the building ; as soon as possible. * I J Wi' I; P'X 4 Charles Wesley Redmond, seventy, died at the family home here Fri day after an illness of several weeks. Death wax from pneumonia, which set in four days before. Mr. Redmond was sent out from the sheriff’s office about noon on November 7 to deliver some paper« over near Progress, He wax in an automobile accident shortly after serving the papers and it is not known whether h e suffered the stroke before the accident or wheth er the nervous shock of the acci dent brought on the stroke. Mr. Olson of the Olson garage brought him to Hillsboro, and not knowing where he lived, left him at the Oregon Electric depot. He showed some improvement for a, couple of days after the stroke but took a turn for the worse and National, Commercial to Join four days before he died, pneumonia Forces; Conduct Busi set in. ness in National Mr. Redmond was born February 24, 1856, nt Hamilton, Ontario, The Consolidation of the Hills Canada, the son of Mr. and Mrs. boro National Hank ami the Hills William Redmond, lie was 16 years boro Commercial Bunk was assured of age when he went to McMinn last night when the stockholders of ville with his brother, John, who the Commercial Bank approved the died several years ago. After attend merger. The National Bunk stock ing McMinnville college, Mr. Red holders approved of the merger mond moved to Portland, where he Wednesday night of last week. lived for several years before mov The new institution will begin ing to Hillsboro, which had been his busine- Monday, ami will be known home for 34 years. as the Commercial National Bunk, He was married to Miaa Alice El The assets of the two banking liott in 1888 and one child was born houses will be merged Saturday to this union. Marguerite, the late and Sunday, ready for the opening 60 Miles Now Under Mainten Mrs. Raymond Harvey. of business •Monday morning in ance; Plans Call for 25 During the early part of his life the Hillsboro National Bunk build- in this county he was a prominent ing. Miles New in 1927 race horse driver and trainer, driv The new bank will have assets ing for George V. Janies, Van De of over a million and a quarter i Washington county is fast emerg Lash mutt and Thomas li. Tongue, dollars and will be the largest i Ing from the depths in road con- Sr., at the race track at Witch bunking institution in the county. ' struction to first rank among the Hazel. After his racing days, Mr. The quurterx of the Commercial counties of the state. For many Redmond spent 12 years in the Bank will be occupied some time yearn this county was the recipient livery business in this city. Mr. next month by the Wilken zXbxtrnct ' of many jibes from the Portland Redmond had been active in civic Company, and the local branch of press. Modern system was then an and political affairs of the county the Maytag Washing Machine Com unknown quantity here. for years, and had been conxtuble pany will occupy the quarters to Sixty miles of the market road and deputy sheriff for many years. ■ be vacated by ’the abstract com- system are now under maintenance Deceased is survived by the wi pany. und 5.8 miles of this lire oiled. The dow, Mrs. Alice Redmond, a sister. entire system totals 292 miles and Miss Margaret Redmond of Port Lighting Effects i it wax estimated at the beginning land, and a brother, Frank Red thnt it would take eight years for mond, of McMinnville. The follow at Venetian Best ¡completion, hut with the proper ing nephews and nieces also sur amount of co-operation from the vive: Wesley, Roy and John P. Mina, A clever Christmas tree was nr- McMinnville; William and Mat range i'd on the stage of the Vene- , people the system will probably be thew, Centralia, Wash., and Dr. Earl tian theatre for Friday, Saturday, ' completed in nix years. The pro Smith, coroner Multnomah county, Sunday, .Monday and Tuesday. The gress of the market road system will be a big factor in the grent de and Miss Helena Smith, Portland. lighting effect was without doubt Many friends of the deceased at- the best ever seen in Hillsboro and velopment tTiat is bound to come to tended the funeral services in the the management is to be congrat the Northwest. Road work in thin county is all Congregational church Sunday af- ulated on the display. on a cash basis and ax a conse ternoon at 1:39. Rev. Lowell A. The theatre was darkened com Young officiated. Pall bearers were pletely and the lights coining on quence the county is better off fi J. E. Reeve ,, E. J. McAlear, Thomas gradually and in different colqrx nancially than any other county in H. Tongue, E. B. Tongue, George made the different colorings. When ' the Fiate on roadn. Thin county in Alexander and Virgil Weckert. He on full the lights on the tree blink I one of the very, very few that has was buried at the Portland crema ed constantly. The lighting was so no road bonds. No other county bordering on the financial condition torium. arranged as to fade out the tree. of Washington in doing ax much work. Less money wax spent for road work in the county in 1926 than in 1924 and 1925, The market road work in all un der the supervision of engineers. The supervision of the work, organ izing of crews and selecting of fore men and routing of all equipment (Edward C. Robbins) I Moving forward, I became prin- is in the hands of experts, who keep WENTY years Hillsboro was | cipal of the Hoigal school for a complete cost record« on market ^'struggling to ago establish a high road work, «hops, all equipment and I period of four years. “In 1900 I camo to Hillsboro to quarries. In addition to thin, books school. Even a majority of the school board then opposed the in take over the principalxhip of the are kept on the financial standing stitution. A union high school, giv local schools. For a number of years of all road districts. In keeping with the age of spec ing equal educational opportunity I taught the eighth grade. “After having been in the com ialization the members of the court between the farmer and the urban community, is thu timely develop munity for perhaps four year«, real and the market roadmaxter are en ment of the secondary curriculum. ization of the need of a secondary deavoring to truin foremen and Superintendent B. W. Barnes brings institution appeared. Demands of find out the part of the work that the environment for greater and they are bent adapted to and keep this out in his interview. “I was born in Ohio near the more specialized training was then them on that. This differs from the large city of Cleveland,” declared in its infancy in the Pacific North road supervisor system and is a Burt William Barnes, when discuss west. Outside of four or five places big aid in bringing up the standard ing his life for the Argus early in like Portland, Astoria, Salem and of construction in the road districts. Eugene there were no high schools Before any work is done a sur the week. in Oregon, llillshoroites, however, vey in made, complete plans and "The date," he was asked? possessed enough foresight to grasp specifications are made up in ad "Well, it was a long time ago. the growing educational demands of dition to n preliminary estimate of "At twenty I moved to Nebraska, the changing environment. So the cost of work, based on amount of settling at Naponee, located about petition movement for the establish work to be done, whether grading, half the distance across the state on ment of a high school wax initiated. macadam or other incidental work. the Kansas line. For four years I Several public spirited citizens led In this way it is possible to have wax employed ax a telegrapher for in the circulation of the documents. several projects going at the same the B. & M. R. R. Another year was Of course there wore objectors who time and still not overreach the taken up in farming. Four years contended the institution was not available funds. Without this method later I obtained a Bachelor’s degree worth the extra tax that would be it is a hit and miss proposition with from the Lincoln Normal university necessary to support it. out any knowledge of what your at Lincoln, Nebraska. By receiving “When the meeting was held 30 money will do beforehand. The this degree I was prepared in the voters appeared. After considerable plans and estimates are submitted fields of education, commerce and discussion, coupled with heated or to the highway commission for ap business, hanking and telegraphy, atory and verbal fireworks, the plan proval, and the work must be done “Securing my first teaching po passed almost unanimously. About in accordance with the plans. Upon sition, I taught in a rural Nebraska school at a salary of $27 per month. (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on page 4) & The Argus wishes you a MERGER HIEESBORO MARKET ROAD WORK Evolution of Educational System in Hillsboro Told in Interview With Burt W. Barnes, Superintendent The Waffle House on Main street, Building Permits Show an In owned by Mrs. Evelyn Hall, wax crease Over Last Year rifled ■Sunday night and about $30 in cookimr utensils, dishes, silver ware, groceries and two waffle irons CANNERY PACK GREATER were taken. Everything wax scat tered around ax if they were look Power and Gas Companies in ing for money. They entered the Expansion; Expect Cash restaurant through a window in the hull, which led into Mrs. Hull’« place, Sales of Property buck of the real estate office. The Harry Morgan home, 1232 Hillsboro, the hub of Washington Jackson street, wax entered the same night but so far no losses have county, is having its share of the been discovered. The Morgunx be tremendous amount of development lieve that the robbers were in the that is occurring in the Pacific house when they returned home Northwest. Building has taken a big jump und the various industries of and that they scared them away. The home of Mrs. Claus Reese, the city show a healthy growth. The total value of building per Sixth and Walnut, wax also entered Sunday night and a watch, a couple mits i.-.-ued this year is $155,600 of brooches, a few rings and $15 a compared with $130,612 for 1925. were taken. The robbery occurred Eighty-two permits were issued this between 7:30 and 10 o’clock while year as compared with 34 the year Mrs. Rehxe was visiting at the before, which wax not complete be home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry cause it wux not compulsory to ob tain permits in 1925. The total value Steinke. The McCready Lumber company of building permits issued in 1925 was visited for the second time with ax compared with those of 1926 in u week and this time the safe seem large considering the number crackers did their job at the Bea issued, but in 1925 one permit was verton yard. They blew up the safe | for $50,000 for the Venetian the- arid took about $70. The safe at atre. Forest Grove wax blown the week Thirty-five residences were erect before. ed this year, as against 20 in ly 25, at a value of $102,133. The value of residence construction in 1925 was $46,680. Estimates of assessed valuation for 1926 are placed at $1,540,859.56 | to $1,470,329.56 in 1025. 0 The estimates of value of real Council to Pass on Bond Issue estate transfers for 1026 is $163,- 170 not including farm transfers at Regular Meeting Next valued at $438,085. The 1925 trans fers, not including the farm trans Tuesday Night fers valued at $303,430, are valued The matter of readjustment of at $136,400. The Ray Mating, Inc., cannery is street lights wax left to the city Annual Meeting of Chamber manager to arrange with the I*. E. showing a remarkable growth and I*, company to make the change nt their sales this year will exceed Commerce Will be Held a special meeting of the council on $1,500,000. The company was in on January 6th Tuesday. This will make a more corporated in 1920 and the sales even distribution of the street lights that year amounted to $50,352.37 and have shown a tremendous "Always give n reasonable’margin throughout the city, to n local institute n,” declared The city attorney was authorized growth every year since then. The Charles E. Wells, in discussing home to prepare a bond ordinance to be buildings and land cost of this big industries before the forum lunch passed on next Tuesday in which institution amount to $120,000 and eon of the chamber of commerce at will be issued $40,090 of general the machinery and equipment is the Grange hall Monday noon. obligation bonds which will consist $180,000. The executives and office force "If they can be assured of local of the following items: support it gives them n good back- 1 $15,000 to retire street assess maintained permanently consists of ground for going out into the near ments on city property; $2,500 in ten persons, which of course is in by communities for additional busi terest on street improvement assess creased during the packing season. ness," continued Mr. Wells. "Hills ments; $6.500 to buy the Shipley The factory and warehouses for boro business is entitled to a little property adjoining the city hall; eight months of the year have a the best of it. The local business $13,500 to refund park bonds, and payroll numbering from 200 to 817 man is entitled to my business at a $2,500 to pay off park fund war men, women, girls and boys. Dur ing the other four months a per-- margin of from 19 to 15 per cent rants. Of thix amount, the item of $6,-' 4'ianent force of superintendents, higher.” mechanics and warehousemen are Mr. Well« pointed out thnt if 590 for the Shipley property is the employed. The salaries and payroll Hillsboro is to be u city within its > only increased debt. The assessments for 1926 will exceed $300,000. In own right, rather than just a xubur- | on the city property have to be met J925 the pack was 303,147 cases as ban community, it should have great i and the issuance of bonds will per- against 515,000 cases in 1926. The - oo.„.>.t anil ..ol ov, “ »inking fund er development eve ybody would 1 mit the ci,y to cost of the raw product exceeds profit ax a result. Nearness to Port to take cure of the bonds. The park $690,000. bonds curry 6 per cent interest ax land has its advantages ax well ax The cannery expansion this year do the improvement assessments its disadvantages. bonds, so on the proposed issue a sav includes a two-story concrete ware “Anyone who has community in ing of at least $250 per year on in house building, size 90 feet by 193.6 terests here is cheating himself terest alone can be made. This bond feet, at a cost of approximately when he buys elsewhere," Mr. Wells issue will put the city on a better $40,000. Later in the season they said. He expressed the opinion that financial basis, for with the creation constructed a frame building 100 it wax somewhat incongruous for a of a sinking fund, all obligations by 160 feet at a cost in excess of business man to go into outlying $6,000. This building will be used will be protected. communities to bring about better When any property is sold, the as a storage warehouse. New equip relntionx between the town and the amount called for will be placed in ment and machinery installed this rural districts, and still maintain a the sinking fund as will any receipts year is of the approximate value of charge account at one or all of the from the auditorium be placed to $60,000. Portland department stores. He il The Portland Electric Power com the credit of the park bonds. lustrated this by saying that a man pany’s expansion for this year is playing solitaire gets little satisfac approximately $93,000. The prin tion out of cheating himself. Abstract Company cipal items of expenditure are as “Nothing succeeds like success, to Bank Quarters follows: and ax these business firms succeed They replaced the burned down they can better serve the commun sub-station at Beaverton with an up- The Wilkes Abstract and Title ity." stated the speaker. "The fu to-date station that materially in lure of Hillsboro is largely what we company will move into the quar- creased the power here giving much ters occupied by the Hillsboro Com- make it. There are industries here better service, at a cost of $40,000. of which we can be proud. The mcrcial bank in the corner of the Reedville, Hillsboro and Forest Commercial building at Second and bakeries and laundry are not get Grove each received equipment to Main streets some time in January. ting the support they ought to have. increase the power, the combined We lire too ready to find little This follows on the heels of the pro co t being $20,000. excuses for changing to Portland In posed consolidation of the Hillsboro Line extensions received $33,000. National and Hillsboro Commercial al itutions.” The most of this expenditure was A person is harming his own busi banks, as announced in last week's for rural districts and at the dos« Argus. (Tfficinl announcement of the ness when he gets things in the city, of this year there arc in excess i.Z the opinion of Mrs. Wells, who merger of the two banking houses of 25 per cent of the Washington is expected momentarily an.' is only said that she had found in her own being held up for work from the county farms electrified. experience that she could do nx well The power company has a ten- comptroller at Washington, I). C. or better in Hillsboro in her pur The new quarters will allow for tative survey for the purpose of in chase a. the expansion of the abstract com creasing the water supply. This W. G. Ilnre said that "We did not pany, one of the thriving business would probably be completed next practice what we preach," and cited institutions of the city. M. II. Stev year, the estimated cost to be $44,- examples of the support given Hills enson and E. L. Johnson purchased 000. boro manufactured bread and milk. That Hillsboro is showing a very the abstract company from the He thought it queer thnt some re Wilkes brothers in 191!». The of evident and substantial growth is tail buxines« institutions will plead ficers of the company were then lo shown by the fact that the Portland for home buying and then buy goods cated in the building now occupied Gas & Coke Company has just es in Portland that can be purchased by Kurntli & Wixmer on Second tablished a branch «tore in the city here. nt the corner of Third and Main street. Henry Kurntli expressed the opin streets. The opening of this store ion that everyone should demand wax celebrated on the first of this Face Booze Charges home products. month when the public wax invited Week-end arrests and the charges L. J. Merrill, chairman of the to visit the new store, which was arc ax foliowx: George Kessler, home industries committee, acted ax brilliantly lighted for the occasion. luncheon chairman. He said that the Thursday, booze; Jack II. tjuxtrum, The new gas street lights, which Friday, booze; Art .lapel, Saturday, program of the committee was to have just been installed outside tho driving while intoxicated, and P. (Continued on page 4) Danich, Saturday, drunk. (Continued on page 4) LIGHT READJUST + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + ♦♦♦ Press is Damaged, Send Copy Early Hard luck smiled on the Argus lust Thursday morning, with the result that the big newspaper press wax dam aged to such an extent that it was necessary to send to the factory at Chicago for a major part. The press work, as a consequence' had to be completed in Portland last week and all of it in Port land this week and possibly next. Ill order to make the mails it is necessary to close the forms Wednesday night and the publishers would appre ciate it very much if corres pondents and others having news items would send them in a day early next week. If anything is left out it will be handled next week. The ad vertisers uro urged to have their copy in by Tuesday night at the very latest. + 4> + 4,4,4, + + + 4- + 4-4' Albcrt Tozier to Ring the Church Bell 54th Time Albert Tozier, early Hillsboro res ident, will ring out the old and ring in the new at the Methodist Episcopal church tomorrow night (New Year's Eve) for the fifty fourth consecutive time for the New Year service. Mr. Tozir started ringing the bell when a boy and has never missed n year since that time. He will speak from 11 till 11:30. Mr. Tozier is in charge of the Champoeg Memorial building. Watch night services will be held at the church and the Epworth League will have charge of the so cial meeting from 8 to il. There will be pictures from 10 to II. Murtha Mohr will have charge of the devotional meeting from 11:30 to 12. Two Fined; Court Activity is Light Activity in the circuit court dur- ing the past week has been slight and there is nothing on the books until Monday. W. C. Gross wax Tuesday fined $500 and given a six- montbx jail term and then paroled on payment of $500. Ivan McKnight pleaded guilty and wax given $100 ami six months. He was paroled for $250. The parole of Jim Smith was ra voked. Orders wore given in the following cases: Oscar Raines vs. Edith Raines; Helen E. Richey vs. Joseph Richey; J. B. Adams vs. C. E. Freed and Hillsboro Commercial hank vs. Carl A. Carlson and lion A. Cole, C. L. Wilson was ordered released. A divorce was granted Margaret Freerkxen from Alfred Freerkxen. INDUSTRIES URGED