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About The Hillsboro argus. (Hillsboro, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1927)
T he H illsboro A rgus YOUR HOME PAPER Thin paper luvt the inont thorough •irrulntion in th« county, milking it th« h<*Mt ml v ert Ini ng medium. WATCH YOUR DATE The date on the address of your paper give» time of expiration. Pay in advance. “The Leader in Its Field" HILLSBORO, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1«, 1927. VOLUME XXXIV Large Cache oí Booze Found in Brush Near Road “Goody” Has a Good Nucleus for Football WOULD LOOK INTO TELEPHONE RATES Footbull talk alway tarts in August with the announcement of the opening date of school, which also means the first foot ball practice. The Hillsboro union high school eleven has lost about 12 good men from last year’s squad, but Coach B. M. Goodman, who has given Hillsboro a winning team ever since he started here several years ugo, is not downhearted by any means. He has some good boys to build his team around, includ ing Jack Rushlow, John Hare, Lester Smith, George Bagley, Roy Thwaite, Wynne MacMani- man, Lester Chase, Leonard Reh, Cecil Johnson and several others from last year, who will muke a strong bid for positions on the first string, There is some question ax to whether Johnson will rtourn to rchool this full, but if he does “Goody” is going to have a line plunging fullback and punter, who is in a class by himself. No. 25 Men to PORTLAND MEN ARE MORE STREET WORK Legion Try Round of ASKED BÏ PETITION KILLED IN CRASH Golf Thursday Broadway and Ninth Are In Members of the Hillsboro post of No Witnesses to Fatality Early the American Legion will try their Sunday Morning Will Be Represented hand at the so-called "cow pasture pool" at the Forest Hills Country FIVE SEEK BOND ISSUE club course at Blooming next Thurs HIKER DISCOVERS WRECK SECTION HEADS AT WORK day evening as the guests of Wil Hillsboro Banks and Lumber liam Martin, manager and proprie Light Car Crashes Into Rail Evans' Shows and Rides Popu tor of the county course. man's Trust Company High road Bridge Piling; Other lar in Communities Where A group of the veterans, who Bidders for Bonds have been bitten by the golf bug, Wrecks Injure They Have Been Resolutions of intention to im have started the tournament plans Two Portland men were killed, prove several city streets with mac rolling, but because so many of the The industrial exhibits by manu adam were passed by the city coun ex-soldiers are just starting in on probably instantly, at an early hour facturers and merchants will be one cil Tuesday night on petition of the game, it will be impossible to Sunday morning, when their light "of the interesting features at the property owners. The streets to be | arrange any handicaps. Adjutant touring car left the highway about third annual Washington County ' improved are Nihth from Washing- Frank Blewett is getting up one 200 feet east of the Rock Creek Fair, September 22, 23 and 24, ac- ' ton to Baseline, and Broadway from team and Jake Weil the other. All bridge east of Hillsboro and crashed cording to Ed. L. Moore, who Is Maple to Summit. Objections to who want to go out should let either against bridge piling on the South handling the industrial exhibits and this improvement will be heard on of the captains know ahead of time ern Pacific trestle. Arlie L. Morris, concessions. or leave your name at the Argus. 25, electrician, and Peter Currie, Tuesday, August 30. Display Prie*» Reduced The boys will start out from the 26, switchman, both of Portland, Would Improve Lincoln Space for exhibits in the build- It is planned to include this work first tee at 4 o’clock for nine” holes were the victims. Ings I" rather limited and from the Coroner Investigate« in- the street improvement work and this will be followed by a 50c present inquiries received and con The tragedy is thought to have I now in progress. A petition was dinner at the club house. Mr. Mar tracts sold, undoubtedly every foot 1 read for the improvement qf Lin- tin is helping the cause of golf occurred about 2 o’clock, but the of space will bo usod. The price I coin street from North Range to along by eliminating the green fee bodies were not discovered until 8 for displays in the buildings this First. Councilmen expressed the and loaning golf clubs. Further de o’clock in the morning, when H. W. year has been reduced. More lights sentiment that it would be a mis tails will probably be worked out at Skiff, of Garden Home, a hiker in have been installed and the illumi take to put in macadam oh this the meeting next Tuesday night at training for the Journal Labor Day All Crantes Invited nation will he much better. A num Group Makes Survey , hike, chanced to see the wreck. street unless it went down to grade Veterans’ hall. Plans for a Grange picnic to be ber of business firms that have al There were no witnesses to the ac- and curbs were constructed. of the County held next Sunday in Scoggins val ready contracted for »pace are ' cident. State Traffic Officer Frank No objections were filed to the ley are being announced. Riverside planning to give away souvenirs at ’ McMahon was notified, and called improvement of Main street from A health survey is being made of grange is sponsoring the event and their booths during the fair. Neurly ' Coroner George Limber to the Second avenue to Third avenue, every line of business will be rep Washington county this week l.v Master C. W. Craft says all gran i Portland, Aug. 15.— (Special)—'north on Third avenue to Jackson, scene. Miss Grace Milgate, public health gers and their friends are invited. resented. Tracks indicated that the automo The first fifteen days of August and thence west to the city limits, The automobile show, if the pres nurse of Portland, who represents There will be a basket luncheon at have registered twenty-five new This improvement will be much ap- bile, which belonged to Mr. Morris, ent plans are carried out, will be in th« state tuberculosis organization. noon. had plunged off the highway about settlers on the records of the Land predated by residents of the Gar- “I think the county is greatly in The special lecturer’s program Settlement department of the Port- den Tracts, for it will take them Local People Return from Two 200 feet from the bridge, ran into a largo tent, with a good floor and plenty of lights. The auto dealers need of a health nurse," Miss Mil put on by Lecturer R. Ilornecker land and State chambers of com- out of the mud. Months’ Motor Trip to the ditch at the side, and then down have agreed to display their latest gate declared. When informed that was made up of recitations, read- merce. These recent newcomers, i the highway embankment to crash Five bids were received by the Middle West styles in cars together with all the the women's clubs are campaigning ings, and musical numbers, The according to the real estate men council for the $30,000 bond issue. ' head-on into the railway bridge pil for a health ntirse provision in the program follows: different accessories. ing. The railroad bridge runs and local committees, have invested The two highest bids, those of the Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wallace re county budget for next year she I over $82,090 in the lands which i The Oregon Manufacturers’ asso Recitation, Robert Barris. parallel with the Rock Creek high Lumberman ’ s Trust company of turned Thursday from a two months ’ Piano selections, Georgiana Jones. they have purchased since coming to $1,007.11, and of the Hillsboro motor trip to the middle west, and way bridge. ciation is taking a great interest in expressed her sincere hope that the provision would be put through. Reading, Mrs. J. L. Auld. the county fairs throughout the Both Morris and Currie were Oregon from other states. , banks of $1,005.00, were held over visited at the home of their daugh “The local need for a county Piano, violin and saxophone selec i Interest in Oregon lands continues for state this year, and will probably __ ______ ____ ___ w_________ _ spe- w__ ter, Mrs. Wm. Gaetter and family, hurled against the piling, receiving further investigation at a mnke a display at the Washington health nurse Is so great that a real tions, by Robert and Georgiana active with daily arrivals in the cial session of the council today, on Tenth street, before going on fractured skulls, broken necks and emergency exists,’’ she declured. Jones, with Miss Ruth Jones playing state of farmers who have been in The lowest bid was $100.80. These over to Beaver. County Fair. I various other injuries which would the piano accompaniments. .Show Much Interest I correspondence with the depart- bids provide for printed bonds and Their return trip was made over have made death instantaneous. All the officers and division super The program concluded when all I ment. In addition to the letters legal opinion. practically the same route that they The car had little resemblance to of the members joined in a game. I being received from those who have j intendents are hard at work in their Discus« Insurance covered thirty years ago in a wagon an automobile, it was so badly The local Grange plans to put on been in touch with the department i The matter of insurance for the and in some cases they traveled wrecked. different departments, and from the the first and second grange degrees , for as long as two and three years, city auditorium was turned over to the same road. They started on interest shown throughout the coun On Way to Beach With a desire to aid the high at the evening meeting of August a steady stream of new inquiries City Manager C. G. Reiter for in- their eastern trip just thirty years ty by the granges and other or The two men started on their ganisations there will undoubtedly school graduates who intend to at 25th. call for information and literature vestigation. 1 from the day that they’ started out fatal trip about 1 o’clock Sunday tend college this fall and in ac be a very lurge attendance. about Oregon farm opportunities. I Ed. L. Moore, secretary of the for Oregon from the Dakotas by morning and it is believed they in The W. B. Evans company, which cordance with Governor Patterson’s tended going to the beach. An im- During the first half of August 577 chamber of commerce, asked that wagon team. will be here during the Fair with plan for harmony between the Uni . . letters have been received by the the city waive the license on a car- They drove east by way of Cali . mediate start would place the time shows and rides, are in The Dalles versity of Oregon and O. A. C., llUy department. Many of these come nival company for the berry festival fornia, Utah, Nebraska, and to In of the fatality at about 2 a. m. this week. Reports from the dif- members of the Greater Oregon Mr. Morris is survived by his wi --------- | as direct results of railroad adver- here next May. This question was diana. In Nebraska and Indiana ferent cities where thin company committee of the University of Ore The Hillsboro and Forest Grove' tising, while a large number are laid on the table for further con- they visited relatives. Mr. Wallace dow, now living at Los Angeles, and has played give them the highest gon are explaining the courses of Rotary clubs will hold an inter-city. sent by those whose friends and sideration. particularly enjoyed a short visit by his mother at St. Helens. Currie praise for the manner in which they fered by that institution. Miss Mar golf tournament at the Forest Hills former neighbors have already with old railroad chums at his old was single, but is understood to garet Long has been appointed in Country club Friday afternoon. A i availed themselves of the services of conduct their amusements. home in South Dakota, where he have had relatives living at Fargo, There will be dancing in the big charge of the work of the commit ten man team, including good play- , the land settlement organization and saw service as a conductor for ten I North Dakota. auditorium Thursday, Friday and tee in Washington county, with Miss era and “dubs,” will represent each ' settled in Oregon. Mortis was identified by his union years. He went over the same old Saturday nights, and a good orches Helen Connell assisting. I card and later by F. C. Ream, an club. In answering new inquiries and route. Besides explaining the courses of Salem, Aug. 17.—Faced by a se- tra has been secured for these dates. B. M. Goodman is selecting the furnishing information to those who A bear, which they encountered official of the union. Currie’s iden- fered in the different schools of the team for the Hillsboro club. The contemplate ooming to Oregon as rious situation as to the price of in Yellowstone Park on their way, ,tity was learned through a switch university, members of the commit- KOod players and beginners will be ' farm settlers, the land settlement their product, the prune growers. hastened their departure from one man’s key found in his pocket. tee give information in regard to j selected from the following: Harry j department sent out 2,026 letters packers and shippers of Oregon and place. The bruin became playful Coroner George Limber of Hills expenses and fees, and adi is given I Hill, R. R. F “”*“' J. T ' ' M —«♦ I during • • - ■ two ■ - of - Au- - southwest Washington have decided and wanted to eat their lunch box. boro took charge of the investiga Easter, H. n- Garrett, the first weeks hte student in securing catalogs M. P. Cady, B. M. Goodman, J. M. I gust, with 479 packages of illus- j to proceed toward complete co Mr. Wallace says that the geysers, tion and the bodies were removed The union church service and and other printed informational Person, Glen Stapleton, Orange trated literature describing agricul- operative organization for 1928, re with the exception of Old Faithful, to the undei taking rooms here. The young people's meetings are being matter. gardless of the California situation. are not as active as they were years condition of the bodies, Coroner Phelps, W. G. Hare, Verne McKin-, ture in Oregon, exceptionally well attended, The The committee of nine represent ago. Nice cool weather was en Limber said, indicated death had ney, Charles Walker, R. B. Denney, services next Sunday evening will ing the growers and packers, met countered on almost every stage of taken place at least four hours be W. C. Theda and R. Frank Peters. be in the Bnptist church. last week in Portland and decided their trip. fore they were discovered. Failure The play will start about 4:30 The young people’s meeting will to have the contract which was and they will have dinner at the “A person doesn’t appreciate the to find the bodies sooner was due bo held at 7 o’clock. Miss Martha agreed upon at the Corvallis meet good roads of Oregon until they are to the fact that they lay in such a club. Dan Jesse, former Pacific Uni ing of July 9 signed by the packers outside the state,” declared Mr. position as to be concealed from Mohr is the leader, and the topic A. Nimi was Saturday fined $500 versity athlete, has been sold by the between now and October 1st, to Wallace, who said that the roads passing automobiles. will bo "My Life Work.” apd given the usual six months jail Salt Lake club of the Utah-Idaho be held in escrow until January 1st, were so bad in the 7,000 miles their The union public services will be term for a booze law violation. He Find Bettie league to the Cleveland team of and if 90 per cent of the prune Star covered that it was necessary at 8 o'clock and the sermon from was paroled for 1150. The cars of Officer McMahon stated that he the subject, “Where Is Jesus?” will H. H. Bloch and G. Gates were or the American league. Jesse has been tonnage is not by that time con- to buy two new tires. found a broken liquor bottle on one Several Washington county peo playing shortstop for the Salt Lake . traded for by the co-operatives, the be preached by Rev. L. C. Poor of dered confiscated. An order was The price paid for gasoline by of the men. the Methodist church. Henry Ku- given in the case of Sarah Silver ple attended the sixth annual re team, and the deal is said to have I contracts to be void, but in the Mr. 'Wallace varied from 12c to 28c LeRoy James of Beaverton route union and picnic of the Second Ore set a new record for cash payment meantime an effort will be made to a gallon. ratli will direct the song service. vs. Albert M. Hocken et al. (Continued on Page Four) gon Infantry at Laurelhurst Park, for a class C player. I have at least 90 per cent signed up. Portland, Sunday. Those attending Jesse shortstopped for Hillsboro It is considered that the thought of from here were Hugh Rogers, Hills- in the old Inter-City league here I self-preservation will bring the boro, Co. A; Fred Boyd, R. F. Buck, j several years ago, and has refereed I growers together, as otherwise, ruin Forest Grove, Co. F; Albert Spier-' high school football games here for faces the prune industry. ing, Hillsboro, Charles Herb, Banks, | several years. He is considered one Co. H; and Ray L. Antrum* Aloha, of the best athletes ever turned nnd F. L. Jensen, Hillsboro, Co. K. out at Pacific. Hugh Rogers of Hillsboro was re (Edward C. Robbins) Fire, thought to have started there should ever arise n question It was “fore” and maybe more elected vice-president of the group. from a spark from a threshing en among (members of the Hillsboro ERI) GRONER of Scholls was of keen competition with the for Two hundred out of the original Thirty-four were in attendance gine, destroyed the C. M. Kruchek Rotary club last Thursday evening hranded as some sort of a eign crop he realized that the pro 1300 were registered. Governor I. at the potato field meeting held on house in the South Tualatin dis-1 when they were guests of Mr. and tective tariff could be resorted to "crazy” farmer dabbling in some the farms of H. P. Strickler and of L. Patterson delivered an address. thing that would never make a suc for protection of the "infant indus Legionnaires and auxiliary mem Treber Bros. & Baxter on Chehalem trict Saturday about noon. Mr. Mrs. William Martin at the Forest cess in Oregon. "He’ll never mnke try." bers and their families enjoyed mountain. Discussion and identifi Kruchek estimates the loss at $1500, Hills Country club golf course at Every indication, so far as cli the English wnlnut grow in this Blooming. their annual picnic at the Crouch & cation of the diseases which cause partly covered by insurance. The Kruchek house is not occu country. His tims spent running up mate and soil are concerned, pointed B. E. Mating had the honor of Wilson grove on Gales Creek Sun the running out of potatoes was the and down the country is surely to successful results. day. Legion men are enthusiastic order of the day, which caused most pied as the Krucheks are now living winning high score of 106. His wasted. He certainly belongs in Anyone who is not pleased with about the annual picnic and plan to of those in attendance to stay in Hillsboro. The land is rented by prize was a distinctive one for a Traveling up nnd down the coun an insane asylum." These words try, Mr. Groner finally found what their assessment or who feels that make it even bigger and better through a meeting lasting three W. W. Lawrence and the Ed Boge consolation prize. B. M. Goodman threshing crew had just gone by had the low score of 42 and won formed the gist of community gos he was looking for in California. an error has been made, will have next year with substantial prizes hours. the side of the house to start thresh-1 first honors. The prizes were given sip 20 years ago when speaking of The nut was successful in the an opportunity to air their griev for the winners in the various con H. P. Strickler showed a field of Ferd Groner. southern commonwealth and the ances before -the regular session of tests. potatoes developed from a single ing. Flames broke out on the roof by Weil’s Department store. Mor To the bystander his travels up trees bore annual crops. His prob the board of equalization, commenc- Races for the women and men, hill, from a number of hill selec about ten minutes after the engine ris Weil, president of the country nnd down the stnte seemed to I ' lem was to adapt the tree so that ing September 12. club, was in charge of the arrange contests and games, swimming and tions planted four years ago. In had passed. A wind threatened a spread of ments. Orange Phelps fooled H. C. nn immense waste of time. What a it would bear according to the sea The board will remain in session eats kept the veterans and their this manner high yielding potatoes wasto of time to even try to plant sons of the Pacific Northwest. The for one month from Monday, Sep families occupied throughout the practically free of disease are de the fire to other outbuildings, but Hill and E. L. Moore and made a the threshing crew and neighbors better score than they had figured. walnuts in Oregon? According to solution lay in making a successful tember 12, according to the legal day. veloped. Treber Bros. & Baxter ex the popular concept, those nuts graft. notice published in the Argus this hibited a number of hill selections worked hard to keep it from spread He won the bacon and so did the ing. The country chemical from the editor. Many Rotarians played for were a foreign product and they In 1907 first planting of the week by W. F. Boley, county as- from which they expect to develop Hillsboro fire department was called the first time and liked it. would never succeed in America, grafted Franquette English walnut sessor. disease-free stock. when it was thought that the fire I A chicken dinner was served the unless that it might be California was made in the Scholls community was spreading. or Florida. But the idelt of an by this pioneer in the field. Realiz Rotarians, and the chamber of com I Earl Larson, 17, of Hillsboro, was English wnlnut grown in Oregon ing that his crop would not bear merce orchestra, composed of Mrs. arrested here Tuesday by Sheriff .1. was regarded ns absurd or a men for ten years, he said to himself, Katherine Benn, Mrs. Hoffman, Bert I E. Reeves and taken to Portland by tnl picture that belonged in the “Too many are in a hurry to make C. Shipley, Dr. J. H. Rossman and Excavntion was stnrted this week a deputy United States marshal to The Coffee Cup restaurant was realm of ubnormnl psychology. Francis Rowell, furnished the music. money and spend it. Usually that Nevertheless, Mr. Groner wns class has nothing. By using patience by the Richfield Oil company for n face federal charges of stealing a opened Friday by Mr. and Mrs. J. A small roof fire in the woodshed The Hillsboro, McMinnville aud R. Hill of Hillsboro, who purchased back of Coffee Cup restaurant called Forest Grove clubs will hold a joint studying his field. That most of and courage I will hnve a fortune service station on the northwest cor letter from a mail box. The youth was indicted secretly the eating house from C. T. Lauge- out the fire department Tuesday af meeting at Forest Grove, September our walnuts were being imported when my crop doos begin to bear." ner of Tenth and Baseline streets. was a factor ho was taking advan Years psased and his planting The oil company purchased a lot by the federnl grand jury last month I son of Portland. The restaurant has ternoon. The blaze was put out 7, to hear a report on the interna tage of. In other words there was brought in no revenue. The heavy 100 by 100 feet on the corner from charged with the theft, which was been closed since the latter part of quickly and there was no damage. tional convention at Ostend, Bel Representative L. M. Graham of alleged to have occurred at Seaside June. The Hills started the Coffee The buildings are owned by the gium, by Rotarian Sncdecor of Port room for nn American product to Forest Grove. last December. (Continued from Page Five) Cup several years ago. Wood estate. land. supply the American market. If Nearly Every Line of Buainesa A lurge booze cache wus found Grange! Co-operating With at the side of the road running Legislative Committee west from the four corners on the North Plains roud road Wednesday by II. D. Kerkman, road foreman in GRANGE MEET SATURDAY that section of the county. Shci iff J. E, Reeves was notified and Riverside Grange Sponsors a brought the cache of 23 gallons ! Picnic at Scoggins Valley into the court house yesterday af- | ternoon. Next Sunday •Sheriff had probably been there since last Members of the Hillsboro Subor fall as the papers in which they dinate Grange in their August ses were wrapped were mouldy, The sion Saturday took steps towards latest' date on the papers was Octo investigating the high, telephone her 26, 192<1. The sheriff il of rates of the community. The ac the opinion that the booze wus hid tion wax taken when a question den there by someone who wus luter naire was filled out and sent to the taken into custody. Oregon State Grange. During the recent session of the state legisla ture appointment of a committee was authorized to investigate the high rates. The subordinate granges ' throughout the state are co-operat ing. Master George Woodworth an nounced he would probably appoint a special committee from the local Representative of Tuberculosis group. HEALTH NURSE IS DECLARED A NEED cluded in Plana 25 Settlers to State in First Days of Month OLD WAGOTROUTE CO VEREDBY MOTOR College Students to Aid H. S. i Grads Rotarians of Two Cities Golf Prune Growers to Organize for 1928 Union Service Is Attracting Many i Judge Metes Out Liquor Law Fine Jesse Will Have Trial in Majors Local Vets Attend Second Oregon Picnic Ferd Groner of Scholls Branded as “Crazy" When He Started in Walnut Game in County Some 20 Years Ago Field Is Started / From Single Hill Flames Destroy Rotarians Play Kruchek House; Golf at Forest Prevent Spread Hills; Like It Legion Picnic Is Enjoyed by Many F Equalization Board Hearing Date Set n Faces Charge of Stealing Letters Richfield to Build Service Station J. R. Hill Opens Coffee Cup Again Roof Fire Causes Department Call