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About The Hillsboro argus. (Hillsboro, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1927)
MAY 20, 1927 THE HILLSBORO ARHUS Orenco In spend the summer with her diiugh- his new duties a* soon ns bls suc ter, Mrs. A. E. Mills, and family. cessor hns been appointed by the Mi'dforil Person, u union high | department at Washington. It is ex school studeut, fell and suffered u pected thut the one recommended by broken collur bone while practicing i Mr. Peterson will be named. Curl pole vaulting ut Hillsboro. Medford I has given entire satisfaction in the 1* getting ulong as well as could be office and his many friends will re- expected and went right on with I gret to Me him leave, but will wish him success in the larger office. his school work. Mrs. Vera Husband and little. Tony Bella I* now working in u daughter of Multnomah were guests I cooperage shop in St. Johns, the of tfie former's mother, Mr*. A. same establishment in which Calvin Allen, and family a few days the Grose und Dwight Goodman are em ployed. past week. We neglected last week to men We wish to offer our congratula tion the social given under the aus tions and best wishes to the editor of the Argus on the birth of n son. pices of th«' Women’s Circle in hon Thl < sum is cause for rejoicing in or Mr. und Mrs. C. J. Griffin, which was in the nature of a farewell re tile home of the McKinneys. Miss Clara Goodman is the only ception. There was a large attend graduate from Orencn in the union ance and the evening wa* passed in high school ut Hillsboro thl* year. u very pleasant manner. Mr. Grif The graduating exercises will be fin has been principal of the school held Friday evening and a number for three year* and Mrs. Griffin has taught in the grades for the past of our people expect to attend. Carl Peterson, who has le en post two years und they have made many master here for five or six years, friends since coming to Orenco. Mr. lias secured u position in the Port Griffin will be principal and athletic land office and expects tn assume coach of the junior high ut Cen tralia, Wash., the coming year and Mrs. Griffin will attend normal. -4BI School close- on Friday und the school program will be given in the iiMKcmlily room Thursday evening. Fred Qtiiiinlance went to Califor nia recently and Mrs. Quaintance may join l\lm in a few week*. Miss Catherine Pratt went to Al bany Wednesday of last week and spent several days with relatives ami friends. Some of our young people, who attend the union high school nt Hill* boro, were present at the baccu laureate services at the county scut Sunday evening. Mrs. Mary Beach left Monday for Kalama, Wash,, where she expect* Vaught’s Grocery First Quality Groceries Prices Reasonable WE DELIVER - PHONE 61 g— r BUILDERS Houses, Barns and Store Rooms, any description, modern type of construction. Gambrel, Gable, Hip or Mill Roofs. 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The great majority of the people wouldn't even cot. der such a small measure. In fact, it is probably so small that it is invisible except under the most p wi-rful magnify ing glass. Nevertheless, e.igifn ■ rs of the Oakland Motor Company i heck their gauges, which arc accurate up to 1,000,000th of an inch with this master gauge which i accurate to the two-millionth part of an inch. GROUND IN VICINITY OF BEAVERTON WAS LAKE (Continued from Page One) quantities as to maC'riitliy increase the world’s gold supply. Father spec ulated while mother made money hands over heels by operating a boarding house. Uncle Philip Harris ran the homestead. I understand he made them finally come back when things were running down. "Uncle Harris was well known in this part of the country during the pioneer day*. He built about the first bridge across the Tualatin at Farmington. It was then known as Mrs. Nettie Vinson of Beaverton the Harris community. visited Mrs. Frances Rogers recently. “During the latter part of the Mr*. Shoemaker, Mrs. Weaver and fifties father bought 450 acres at Mrs. Charles Haines were recent vis what is now St. Marys, east of Bea- itors in Portland. verton. We moved to the place. Mrs. Charles Haines and Mrs. Mother passed away in 1858. In Robert Chamberlain motored to March, 1860, father left for the Salmon river mine in Idaho. That Carlton Friday. Charles Haines has been spending day we saw him drive his mules out several days here with his family for the mining region was the last from his duties as engineer at a we ever saw of him. He never came , back from the mines. What ever logging camp near Carlton. Mr*, Jess Hayes was a recent vis- happened to him is more than we itor at Beaverton. will ever know. This left my brother, Mrs. Muves and son. Jack, and Bill, and I to shift for ourselves, Louise Whitmer were guests of For many years we lead regular • friends at Oswego lake Sunday. dog lives. W. G. Clark has sold his house “You ask where Bill is now? Well, and lot on Huber uvenue to Mr. he is now a detective for Olds, Penny, who is manager of a Port Wortman and King department store in Portland. Until 1913 he was a land taxicab company. Mrs. Andrew Denholm entertain deputy United States marshal. When ed several Portland friends at a the democrats came into power un der Woodrow Wilson he lost his job. birthday dinner on Sunday. Mrs. Alice Wheeler was a guest But almost immediately he secured his position with the department of Portland relatives recently. W. Abbott has been making some store and has held it ever since. In improvements on his acreage on 1869 I secured a job driving sheejr to eastern Oregon. Enroute back I West Blanton street. Mr. Maxfield, the Aloha baker, came down the Columbia river. At . the Cascade locks I saw the sight will soon move to Hillsboro. Archie Buchanan is completing of my life. It was a railroad, My, ills new home on Wheeler avenue. It but how I did stop and gaze at that steam engine pulling the cars, For is of the English type. Judge and Mrs. Jacob Kanzler of the first time in my life I had seen Portland were guests of Mr. and a horseless wagon of which I had so Mrs. Matt King recently. often heard. The road was used for Mr. and Mrs. Vernquist of Pio- portage work at the Cascades. “Returning to Hillsboro, I attend neer. Wash., were visiting Mrs. Vernquist's sister, Mrs. Rydeman, ed the old county fair they held in recently. those days. E pecially interesting was the trapsh oting. A true pro When you buy, try Hillsboro mer duct of the frontier, I was a good chants first.______________ g_tf marksman. I wa quite a proud chap when I found I had defeated the late Tom Tucker, then famous up It Pays to Eat and down the country for his marks- at the manship. "Going to Portland, I bought a ticket for Salem and boarded a steamboat for the trip. I went to Salem to attend the state fair. The Hillsboro horse racing attracted my attention above everything else. Main Street Opposite "I attended the Umpqua Academy Court House at Wilbur, which is located between We Serve the Best for Less Oakland and Roseburg. I obtained my secondary education there. “Securing a job driving cattle, my roamings next took me to Ne vada and to southern California. Again I returned to Washington county .this time buying out a store at Beaverton. I ran the first store in the community. G. W. Betts was the man from whom I made the purchase. On May 28, 1871, I mar ried Sarah Emily Betts, the oldest daughter of the man from whom I had purchased the store. The Rev. R. B. Wilmott, who turned out to be a prominent Beavertonite, married us. In 1872 I sold out and continued my journeys in the world. “Going to West Port, I secured a job burning charcoal. In 1881 I went to Olympia, where I secured a job as foreman of the Port Town send charcoal works of the iron plant. Shortly, I left this work to I Aloha Î Coffee Cup Restaurant camps around Puget Sourtd for IS year*. "In 1895 the fever came over me to return to Oregon, *t> I went to my brother Bill in the Umpqua coun- try. For several months I secured a job driving a stage on the Grant' Pass-Crescent City route. Next, I was employed us a carpenter in Salem for many years. .Since 1911 I have been working in a garage at Hood River. “Despite the fact I am now 75 years old, I am still capable of out working most of the lazy, worthless young bucks of this day and age. I am now working 12 and 14 hours per day in the Hood River garage, doing everything about the garage. "Is my work mainly that of a night watchman? No, sir. You might think that to be the case of most old men, but it isn’t true of me. In the first place I work all night. I do everything from master mechanic down. I am still going hard and think the eight hours per day idea is a twentieth century appeal of a lazy generation. 1 hope to keep it up till passing an even hundred. "I have been married three times and have raised three families. Of my 13 children, 10 are still living. Mrs. Minnie M. Bell-Layton, my old est daughter, is in Washington; Mrs. Hettie E. McKinney is in California; Mrs. Mary Potter resides in Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs. Carrie Cays, who has four married children, resides in Washington; Mrs. Edith Smith, who has eight children and many grand children, lives in Washington; Mrs. Lucy Turnbull, who has two chil dren, lives at Okland, Oregon; goes to the Hood River high hoot B. R. 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