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HILLSBORO, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2», 192«
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THOUSANDS TO CELEBRATE HERE NEXT WEEK
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Bunion Derby
Early copy is the call for next
week on account of Wednesday
being the Fourth of July and a
national holiday.
In order that
the mechanical and editorial force
may join in the festivities and
•‘celebrate here” it is nere- ary
that all community correspond
ence and advertising copy be
turned in on Monday or earlier,
The Argus is alvay particu-
larly anxious to have copy sent
in as soon as possible after
Thursday and anyone h iving new ■
items of interest should mail
it in.
Many I likcrs
1928 Celebration Expected to
Exceed All Others
B. F. Irvine Is Speaker
Sherwood Will
Play on Fourth
All attendance record-
peeled to be broken nt Hillsboro'«
22nd annua! Fourth of July cele
bration, which open» nt Shute park
Monday morning ami ends the night
of July 4. This year's celebration
ha* everything that nil prevloie
events have had together with many
new- features nod, if the went her
man is favorable, the expectation
of the committee on nt tendance
should come true.
A
Portland Valley
Sunday’s
Ben Medofsky, above;
Callicotte, center; William
N. Riopelle, below, among the
100 entrants in the walking
race from Portland to Hillsboro
on the Fourth of July, starting
from the Journal building at 8
a. m. The entry list includes
many from Hillsboro and Wash
ington county, and some of the
entrant* are women.
—Courtesy Oregon Journal.
Calls Airport
A Civic Need
Application Eor
Spud Certifying
Must Be In Soon
•An airport is of benefit to tile
entire community, according to A.
H. Neil, organization director of the
Aero club of Oregon, who talked at
the meeting of Hillsboro post,
American Legion, Tuesday night.
Mr. Neil said he was interested in
seeing "America first in the air.”
An airport, he said, was just as
necessary as the highways and he
expressed the opinion that in a short
time the city that did not have
such a aervice for air transporta
tion would be considered a back
number.
II. L. MacKenzie, chairman of
the post aviation committee, said he
had secured the endorsement of the
city council for an enabling act to
permit people to bond for or lease
an airport.
He also said that a
Inrge aerial sign would probably re-
suit from the efforts of the com-
mittee.
Commander Charles Jones, Wil-
barn Dierdorf, 11. L. MacKenzie and
W. Verne McKinney were elected
delegates to the state convention at
Medford, and the alternates are Dr.
Ralph Dresser, Ray Denham, Clark
Gardner and L. C. Kramien.
Short talks were given by Ed
Bayliss of Sheridan, district com
mitteeman. President Hi Gill of the
Yamhill County Pow-Wow, Com
mander Bob Enschede of Forest
Grove post, and Commander Claude
Nyberg of the Sherwood post.
Reorganization of the Washington
county council of the American Le
gion was planned at a meeting of
post commanders of the Hillsboro,
Forest Grove and Sherwood posts
with
District Committeeman Ed
Bayliss of Sheridan Tuesday night,
following the regular session of the
local post. Representatives of these
three posts together with Banks will
meet at the Veterans’ hall here next
Thursday,
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By O. T. McWhorter, County Agent
Potato growers who want potato
seed crops inspected by the potato
certification board should make ap-
plication to the county agent for
this service this month. Early ap-
plication is necessary that arrange-
ments may be made with the potato
certification board,
More than the
usual amount of certified seed pota
toes are being bought by the local
growers.
The price is somewhat
lower than in previous years, and
potato growers are taking advan
tage of the opportunity to get a
start of improved
Burbank seed
which is relatively high ^producing
and more free from disease than'
Permission to lay plank on their the average run of seed potatoes.
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section of the street in the proposed
improvement of Sixth street from
Baseline to Oak streets was asked
of the city council Tuesday night by
a representative from the Southern
Pacific.
The plea was made on the ground
that changing transportation condi
The divorce suit of Mrs. Mary
tions might cause them to take up
LaFollette against
Representative
their tracks in another two years,
Charles R. LaFollette, republican
'1 he representative said
if the nominee for the legislature from
change wa- not made at th<- end of
this county, started in circuit court
two years they would lay concrete
yesterday before Judge George R.
paving, and if the tracks were taken
Bagley. Incidentally the trial start
tip they would also do the work. A
ed on the fifteenth birthday of their
meeting of property owners on the
son, Carl.
street will be held this week to as
Mrs. LaFollette in the complaint
certain their wishes in the matter.
and in an amended complaint makes
All proposed charter amendments
sensational charges against her hus
to be voted on soon at the special
band. She accuses him <vf cruel and
city election were reported ns ready.
inhuman treatment, which has un
An enabling act to allow the peo
dermined her health.
They were
ple to vote on bonding for or leas
married October 5, 1912, and then-
ing an airport will also come up
are five children. She asks a half
with the other amendments.
interest in the property, custody of
An ordinance was passed order
the children, $760 attorney fees, I
ing the improvement of Broadway
and $160 a month alimony.
street from Oak to Walnut streets.
Representative LaFollette is con
Thia calls for 16-foot macadam.
testing the suit and W. G. Hare and
The firemen's by-laws ordinance
Thomas II. Tongue are represent
The Hillsboro Canners will be in
was passed.
ing him, while James Alexander of troduced at the end of the patriotic
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Portland is attorney for Mrs. La exercises in the Shute park audi
Follette. The case will probably be torium the morning of July 4 and
the greeters practiced a few drills
ended tonight.
Monday night in anticipation of
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i their first official nppearance. They
will also practice tonight at the au-
ditorium and again Monday in full
Russell 11. Merrill, brother of I,.
uniform.
Additional members are
J. Merrill of the Shute Savings
• being signed up.
bank, is reported in a news dispatch
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from Seward, Alaska, ns dying at
Hillsboro’s citizen soldiers return
Kotzebue, where he was taken for
treatment after being lost for nine ed yesterday afternoon from their
<lays when two planes bearing n two weeks’ encampment at Camp
The contin
film expedition were forced down Clatsop at Genrhart.
between the Endicott mountains and gent included Lieutenants Ivan Free
man and Arthur Kroeger and 18
Point Barrow.
Dr. E. IL Smith has been ap
Pilot Merrill was suffering from men, Lieut. Freeman commanding.
The work of the local company, pointed chairman of the chamber of
snow blindness and from exposure
headquarters company, second bat commerce aviation committee, The
and lack of food.
He lived here with I his brother for talion, I62d infantry, was on the committee will co-operate with the
n short time and has visited here line of communication. More than legion in securing an airport for
Other members of the
often. Two years ago he addressed 3,000 men and officers were present. Hillsboro,
the chamber of commerce on avia A combat demonstration and bri committee are L. J. Merrill and W.
C. Christensen.
gade review were held Saturday.
tion in Alaska.
Railroad Asks
Time to Pave
LaFollette Divorce
Suit Before Court
Introduce Canners
On Fourth of July
*
Russell Merrill Is
Reported as Dying
Guard Company Back
Aviation Committee
Named by Chamber
1
Standings
11
Oswego
Hillsboro
9
Sherwood ............ .. 7
Estacada ............ .. 5
4
Barracks ............
. ... 4
Washougal
3
Davidson ............
3
Armory
Given Publicity
The bunion derby from the Jour
nal building in Portland to Shute
park is attracting considerable nt
tention throughout the northwest
and through the cooperation of the
Oregon Journal this event and the
nnnual celebration in receiving con
nlderable publicity. The number of
entries is close to 100, the limit.
One entrant is a young man 6 feet
6 H inches tall, and another is a
man 67 yearn old. who declares that
he will be in the money. The con
teetants leave the Joiynal building
at 8 a. m. and President R. W. Weil
ot the chamber of commerce and
President Harry Hill of the Rotary,
and Jake Weil and II L. MacKenzie
of the celebration committee will
stnrt the hikers. The contest is over
the highway and is expected to
create considerable excitement. The
pi ize list is an follows: First, $40;
second, $20; third, $15; fourth, $10;
fifth, sixth and seventh, $5 each.
The patriotic exercises will start
in the auditorium at 10 a. m. Wed
nemlay under the auspices of Hills
boro post, American Legion. B. F.
Iivine, editor of the Oregon Jour-
Charles
nal, will be the speaker.
Jones, communder of the legion,
will act as chairman of the exer-
vises
and
arrangements are in
charge of Morris Weil. Mrs V. W.
Gardner and Mrs. L. ('. Kramien
will sing vocal solos, The progrum
will open with the audience sing
ing "America,” and will close with
"The Star Spangled Banner.” The
new greeters' club, the Hillsboro
fanners, will lw introduced by Com
mander Jones, and a response will
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League
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1
3
5
6
7
7
8
9
Pct.
.917
.583
.455
.364
.364
.273
.250
Results
Oswego, 5; Washougal, 4.
Hillsboro, 8; Barracks, 3.
Sherwood, 11; Davidson, 9.
Estacada, 8; Fleischner-Mayer, 0.
The Fourth of July baseball clas
sic will be between Hillsboro and
Sherwood, runners-up in the Port
land Valley league, in a non-league
baseball game, starting at 145 p.
m. Wednesday. The game on July
3 will be Hillsboro versus Verboort,
which holds second place in the Tu
alatin Valley league.
Both games
start at 1 :45. Washougal and the
locals will battle here next Sunday.
Uncle Sam's fighting men were
given an 8 to 3 trimming at Van
couver Barracks Sunday by Ray
Dillon's boys.
The soldiers gave
Hillsboro a scare when they shoved
over three runs in the first three
innings, on a combination of five
hits, a couple of misjudged fly balls
and an error.
The locals shoved
over two runs in the fourth and in
the fifth they pounded out five hits
and with a walk an an error brought
in five runs.
Day, Hillsboro's new moundman,
pitched a nice game, allowing but
six hits and they all came in the
first four innings. Stangel and Mil
ler carried off the batting honors
with three hits out of four chances.
Turk made the longest hit of the
day. a triple with the bases full.
Chuck Hoag handled 11 chances
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Larson Delegate to
Meeting at Spokane
Martin C. Larson was elected
dele., te to the National Farm Loan
association meeting at
Spokane,
Wa-h.. July 11 and 12. at the dis
trict meeting here in the chamber
of commerce rooms Thursday. Mr.
Larson was chairman of the meet
ing. The next district session will
be held at McMinnville.
Speakers included E. M. Ehrardt,
president of the land bank at Spo-
kane, and directors A. S. Goos,
Hugh Sproat and E. J. O'Connell
and Presiilent Frank Burns of the
stockholders' association.
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Gain Sore Muscles
At Pvthian Picnic
Liniment was very much in de
Monday
mand for sore muscles
morning as the result of the races
and games at the Pythian picnic at
Soda Springs near Gales City Sun
day. The picnic was held jointly
by the Hillsboro and Forest Grove
lodges.
The Hillsboro lodge won out by
a big score in a baseball game with
the Grove l’ythians. Races for old
and young, fat and lean, were held
and ribbons presented the winners.
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Woman Run Over As
She Leaves Cannerv
Mrs. E. T. Bush of Airlie suffered
a possible fracture of the skull
when she was struck and run over
by an automobile as she was leav-
ing work at the Ray-Maling can-
nery at 9 p. tn. Wednesday, She
was taken to the Smith hospital,
where the extent of the injuries had
not been determined nt the time of
going to press. The name of the
driver was not learned.
Business Houses
Close Wednesday
Hillsboro business houses will
remain open until 9 p. m. Tues
day evening, but will be closed
all day on July Fourth, in accord
ance with the closing dates agreed
on several years ago.
Pioneers Are
Eulogized at
Annual Picnic
Cornelius,
Wilkes,
Escapes
D’Arcy,
Find Shortcut
To Tillamook
No Boulevard
Gales Creek to County Line Is
Hirnes, Purdin Speak
Logged Friday
Mrs. Redmond Leader
Road Is Found Narrow
Old Time Music Feature; Mrs.
Virgin
Trees
and
Scenes
Powell and Mrs. Elliott
Beauty Abound; Grade
Are Honored
Is Stiff One
More than 200 pioneers and their
descendants gathered at the Shute
park all daj Sunday in their an
nual picnic to do honor to the mem
ory of those brave men and women
who blazed the trail to the Oregon
country, a few of whom are still
living.
“We have met here to say thanks
and to commemorate the work of
the pioneers who founded our free
schools and courts, who formed the
foundation on which the govern
ment stands, and who sacrificed to
build a western empire for the ris
ing generation,” asserted B. P. Cor
nelius in his address of welcome.
"There is a lack of understanding
and appreciation of their work, and
it is our duty to bring back mem
ories of their old customs and early
modes of living.”
L. E. Wilkes, chairman of the
morning session, spoke on the char
acter of the pioneers, in response to
Mr. Cornelius’ address. “The for
titude of the pioneer mother is the
greatest example of nobility in his
tory,” declared Mr. Wilkes.
Sam Walker, who introduced him-
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Trusty Makes
His Get-away
Carl V. Stewart, who was sent to
the state prison at Salem from this
county in August, 1926, following
his conviction on a charge of as
sault with intent to kill, escaped
from the penitentiary farm last
Thursday and no trace of him has
been found, He was serving as a
trusty.
Sheriff J. E. Reeves is of the
opinion that he had outside help,
Two men, who are said to have
been friends of his in prison, are
missing
from
their
accustomed
haunts.
Stewart was serving an 8-year
term, He is 34, complexion is me-
dium. large blue eyes, dark hair,
weight 148 pounds, medium build.
5 feet 11 inches in height, and has
prominent teeth.
Every effort is being made to ap
prehend the fugitive, the prison of
ficials having 100 men in the field
looking for him. Possible routes of
escape are being watched. Sheriff
Reeves was stopped on the Newberg
bridge Sunday night by officers
looking for the fugitive convict.
Local officers are on the alert,
watching for his possible return
here, as he is reported to have made
threats against those responsible for
his arrest. He is also understood to
have a grudge against his former
wife.
Stewart fired three shots at his
father-in-law, William Brogden, at
the Brogden place at Sewell station.
After firing the shots he was scared
away by a shot fired by Mr. Brog
den. He returned the next morn
ing, however, surrendered himself,
and expressed sorrow that he had
made a fool of himself. Telephone
wires to the Brogden home were cut
by Stewart on his return from an
absence in Portland and before he
made the attack. Mrs. Stewart filed
suit for divorce a few days before
the shooting.
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Hundreds Present at
Arab’s Tent Opening
Nearly 400 couples were present
at the formal opening of the Arab’s
Tent at Shute park Saturday night
and all expressed delight with the
Arabian decorations.
The orches
tra drew favorable comment as did
the “Village Smithy,” popular radio
entertainer. They plan to hold these
dances every Saturday night.
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Service End Sold
By W. S. Alexander
The service and accessory part of
the Used Car Exchange at Second
and Washington streets has been
sold by W. 8. Alexander to Mr, and
Mrs. Thomas Rollins.
Mr. Rollins
has been employed in the service
Mr. Alex-
part for several years.
ander will devote his time to the
sale of Nash automobiles and used
cars.
of
Wilson river road, in its
present state, from Gales Creek to
the Washington county line, which
was last week announced as com
pleted, is far from being a boule
vard. This thought gained long be
fore the car driven by County En
gineer Charles D. Jones and carry
Carl V. Stewart, sent to the peni ing the writer reached the top Fri
tentiary from this county in Au day afternoon.
gust, 1926, escaped a week ago
The sharp, blind curves, steep
from the prison farm while serving grades, narrow roadbed and deep
as trflsty.
canyons, which are somewhat hid
den by the green foliage and trees,
| require extreme care on the part of
the automobile driver. The places
1 to pass another car are few and far
between and backing, up or down,
would not be relished by the best of
! men.
The virgin beauty of the great
firs and cedars and the views of the
Nine votes were cast in the an , beautiful Tualatin valley, that one
nual high school election at the high occasionally glimpses as the car
school building Monday afternoon winds around the loops to the top
at a cost of about $1.50 per vote, . of the mountain, are ample rewards
taking into consideration advertis I for any afternoon’s drive. The na-
ing of election and printing ballots. ture of the road enables one to have
As a result of the vote Rex Parsons but fleeting glances of the won-
of Orenco was unanimously re-
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elected director.
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The total cost of running the
union high for the year was $39,-
126.29, according to the annual re
port of Clerk James A. Wood. This
¡amount includes $5,307.40 for trans
portation. The site for the new
‘school cost $11,357.50, and
the
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building costs to the date of the re
By O. T. McWhorter, County Agent
port were $9,072.48.
Superphosphate and lime for al
L. J. Merrill was re-elected chair-
falfa is being tested out on four
man of the board at the organiza-
I soil types in Washington county by
tion meeting last night, and James
the O. A. C. extension service.
A. Wood was again named clerk.
Phosphate, 300 pounds per acre,
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for what is known as the Hillsboro
loam soils about Hillsboro and ex
tending to Cornelius and southward,
has given very beneficial results as
is shown by four years’ trial work
on the Charles Coppens farm at
Newton station.
In April, 1925, the county agent
President Morris Weil of the For
applied
300 pounds of superphos
est Hills Country club is giving a
president’s cup, which will be play phate per acre on test plots on this
ed for in a club championship tour farm where lime had previously
been used at the rate of 1000
nament to be arranged later.
Mrs. Sam Bentley and Mrs. Glenn pounds per acre. Without any ad
F. Bell were hostesses at the wo ditional applications the fertilized
men’s day tournament yesterday. area yielded double the amount of
hay in 1926 and 1927.
These affairs are held on Wednes
Last fall, 1927, Mr. Coppens ap
day.
plied 400 pounds of superphosphate
Those going into the semi-finals
this week were Byron Goodman of per acre and left about one-fourth
Hillsboro and A. B. Caples of For of an acre unfertilized. When the
first crop was dry enough to put in
est Grove in the first flight. William
the barn this spring the fertilized
Christensen of Hillsboro and Louis
area gave a return of 7840 pounds
Schultz of Forest Grove in the sec
of hay per acre, and the unfertil
ond flight. James Wells and Jack
ized area 2560 pounds of hay, show
Hirons, both of Hillsboro, in the
ing a difference of 5280 pounds per
third flight, and Mrs. Robert Forbis
acre, dus to the use of superphos
and Mrs. Sam Todd, both of Forest
phate.
Grove, in the women's flight.
This four years result is rather
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exceptional, but it will no doubt be
a guide for the use of superphos-
1 phate on the Hillsboro loam soil
‘type of Washington county.
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Parsons Elected
Director In the
Annual Election
Give Cup For
Golf Winner
Year’s County Jail
Term Is Given Dixon
Ivan Dixon withdrew his plea of
r.ot guilty to one of guilty to a
statutory charge after the jury had
been drawn Thursday.
He was
sentenced to a year in the county
jail.
Philip Lesser, C. C. Howard,
Ralph Godby, Henry Peterson and
Bernice Wills pleaded guilty to
liquor counts and were given the
usual $500 fine and six months’ jail
term. Miss Wills was paroled for
$250, Lesser and Peterson for $200,
and Howard and Godby for $150.
Albert Schlappi was sentenced to
a year, and Tony Flosi to six
months, on the first of two larceny
indictments.
Sentence was post
poned on the second count for each.
Hearings on motions to suppress
testimony were heard in the cases
of John W. Paisley and Robert
Schmidt and the motions overruled
by Judge George R. Bagley. The
J. A. Vaillancourt car was ordered
confiscated. Robert Schmidt plead
ed guilty.
An order was given in the case
of Clara Mitschke against Dora J.
Elliott. The Packard sedan of C.
C. Howard was ordered confiscated.
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Heywood to Discuss
Consolidation Plan
A special school meeting will be
held at the Heywood district school
west of Hillsboro on Monday night
to discuss the plan of consolidating
with the Hillsboro school district.
Annual Frolic of
Rotarians Is Held
Rotarians and their wives from
the Hillsboro, Forest Grove and
McMinnville clubs held their annual
picnic at the W. B. Dennis grove
at Carlton Thursday evening.
A
Hillsboro team, consisting of Mrs.
Charles
Wells
and Mrs. Frank
Peters, won out in a nail driving
contest, which was part of the pro
gram.
About 40 attended from
Hillsboro.
A memory stunt was put on by
G. V. Payne and Byron Goodman
as Hillsboro’s part of the program.
Other numbers included talks, mu
sic and readings.
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New Postal Rates
Effective July 1
New postal rates will go into ef
fect Sunday, according to the act
passed by the last congress.
The
one cent postal is restored, zone
rates applicable to the advertising
portions of publications entered as
second class are reduced, the tran
sient second class rate is cut to one
cent, pound rates are established on
bulk mailings of identical pieces of
third class matter in quantities of
not less than 20 pounds or 200
pieces, and a special rate is pro
vided for library books when mail
ed to readers by public libraries.