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About The Hillsboro argus. (Hillsboro, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1928)
HOME PAPER WATCH YOUR DATE Thia |>u|H*r haa Ihn muai thorough circulation In th« county, making it th« The date on the addreaa of your paper gives time of expiration. Pay in advance. B«*l Advertising Medium • I SO and Worth Itl YOUR HILLSBORO. OREGON. VOLUME XXXV THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, l»2fl DR. SMITH BUYS LAND FOR AIRPORT Beautiful Organ Local Tossers Is Introduced to Win Long Tilt Fans of Venetian In Thirteenth Washougal Falla Into a Tie With Hillsboro Turk Suffers a Break Victory Com» When Two A re Out ; Vancouver to Play Here Next Sunday Singles by Hoag. Nosier and Del- planche after Pitcher Ellis was handed a walk with two men out in the last of the thirteenth inning brought a fl to 5 victory to Hills boro over Washougal nt Athletic park Sunday afternoon. Raj 1 hi Ion's boys fought hard for thirteen innings to topple the Washington team from their place at the top of t he • perch, alongside Oswego, to u tie for second place with Hills- boro, It was a great game, a little loose in i spot«, but plenty of fight every second. i Out Frank Turk, bane- , man, broke a bone in his right foot whin he slid into first base in the fifth inning and will tie out of the game for the rest of the season. The hitting of Hoag, who hit I safely five out of seven times, and Neuenschwander, who secured three hits in four times up, were features j of the game, together with two ' double plays by the locals. Hoag I to Stnngel accounted for a twin out, and Miller made one unassisted. I Two bus« hits were garnered by : Neuenschwander, ___ ___ Neuenschwander. Delplanche ami Hoag, who had two to his credit. Gaines, pitching for f the vinitorB, struck out 16 Hillsboro batters. Pitches Good Gam« Flying Doctor Doesn’t Stop at Trifles The new Venetian organ was for mally introduced to the thin ter- going public Friday night. llarwm Woods, popular Portland orgunist, played for the opening with a "trip through the organ,” which proved very interesting. It will be featured in concerts right along, according to an unnouncement by Manager Orange Phelps. The remodeling and installing of attachments such as piano, mundo- lin, largo harp and a new set of pipes has kept workmen busy for three months. The organ has been all revoiced anil is considered the best on the coast for a small town. The console has been relinished in an ivory-stapling, which is very effective under a spotlight. Doctor, First to Take Up Aviation Here, Buys 100 Acres of Hawthorne Estate on Orenco Road; Legionnaires Local To Give Co-operation; Here Popular One in Air Transportation. Hillsboro is to have an airport! This important step in the progress of the city comes through private initiative, however, since the people by an overwhelming vote last week refused to amend the charter so that the people of Hillsboro could vote on the question of purchase or lease of an airport. Plan Air Circus Dr. E. H. Smith, local physician and surgeon, has pur chased 100 acres of the Hawthorne estate, a mile east of Hillsboro, and with the co-operation of Hillsboro post of the Dr. E. 11. Smith, first Hillsboro resident to take up aviation, More boys’ and girls' calf clubs, plane, which has become a familiar site in the air above Hillsboro. attention to showing cattle at state, county and district fairs, and great Hillsboro airport. er activity of the Holstein owners in breed improvement, was urged by F. W. Durbin, state president of the Holstein association, in a talk at the unnual county Holstein breeders' picnic at the Connell brothers' farm at Connell station Friday. Mrs. Warrant Secretary Dillon's sluggers scored once in the fourth, three in the fifth, once In the eighth, ami again in the thir teenth. Bob Neuenschwnnder pitch ed a great game until the ninth. | when he began to tire and the visi ' tors slipped over two runs to tie, the count. He was then replaced by Ellis. The victory Sunday gives Hills boro n good chance in the second half for honors. Oswego has three of the hardest nuts in the league to i The new super service station, crack in their three remaining games I —Washougal, Estacada and Sell constructed at the corner of First wood. while the locals play Vancou and Baseline streets by O. Coslett, ver next Sunday, Sherwood on Au will be formally opened to the pub lic Saturday by C. W. White of the (Continued on page ten) C. W. White Motor company. Th«' station will be known as the C. W. White Super Service Station. The architecture of the new sta tion makes it one of the most at tractive in the city, in the opinion of many. It is at the junction of the highway with the through street The body of Edward Trofltter, a running north and south. man about 45, was found at his The equipment at the new White home at Tigard last night. Coroner station includes everything from Glenn F. Bell says the man com- new Studebaker and Erskine sales mitted suicide Tuesday night L, by and repair service, to gas and oils taking nicotine, according to the and washing. The show room will autopsy. Trofitter had lived nt Ti be as neat a show room as will be gard about two years. found in Washington or Multnomah Sheriff J. E. Reeves, who found counties, it is said. There will be the body, was called to the scene a private consultation room. The by Fred Mallet, a Portland police latest in rest rooms have been con officer and a neighbor of Trofitter, structed. A new steam washer has who became suspicious when there been installed together with a hy were no signs of life about the Tro draulic hoist for washing and greas fitter place during the day. The ing service. sh«*riff turned the body over to the Frank Jones is in charge of all coroner. the repair service and Ernest Claf Trofitter is survived by a widow, lin, who was in charge of John K. a son and a daughter. He is said Ia'ander's new car service in Port to have been despondent over a long land for five years took a position illness. with Mr. White Monday. Super Station To Be Opened Autopsy Shows Man Committed Suicide Group Exhibit Of County For The State Fair new Air King, three-seater1 The doctor has purchased land for a James Sigler Dies Farmer Talks Of Conditions Before Rotary I American Legion a class A airport will be constructed. The deal was handled through Connell 4 Sewell An air circus will be held her« within the next few months by Dr. Smith and the American Legion to help finance the airport. This air circus will probably be staged at about the same time as the Wash- On two milkings per day and on [ ington county fair, September 20, her first lactation Amy’s D’s Millie 21 and 22. A recent air circus at 665046 easily qualified for a silver Silverton, staged by the American medal. She was started on this test Legion, attracted 10,000 persons, according to a conservative esti when she was 2 years and 2 months mate. Nearness to Portland is ex of age, and in the following 365 pected to bring even greater crowds days she produced 577.06 pounds of here. This air circus will be in the butterfat and 10,917 pounds of nature of a port dedication. milk. Her milk averaged 5.29 per The Hillsboro Airport, as Dr. cent butterfat for the year and she __ was with calf for 174 days of this Smith says it will be called, will time, qualifying for her medal in have a 3,000 foot runway in one direction and 2,500 in the other. Class AA. Plans for a class A port call for Millie is owned and was tested by i 2,500 foot runways in each diree- J. J. VanKleek and Sons of Beaver j tion, and airmen who have seen the ton. Her sire is St. Baronet 180672 present layout, predict that it will and her dam is La Creole's Amy’s be one of the best in the northwest. Darling 430823, a cow which has a Fog. which hovers around the river 365-day record of 590.01 pounds of j in Portland at times, in the opinion fat and 9,763 pounds of milk made of leaders in air transportation when she was one year and eleven should make the Hillsboro Airport months of age. the most desirable port in the Port land area. Good Record Set By VanKleek Cow On Two Milkings Pineapples, bananas and other foreign fruits are in direct competi- tion with the local fruit grower, ac- cording to Ray S. Glatt, secretary of the Woodburn Berry Growers’ association, who addressed the Hills Farmer* Aid boro Rotary club Thursday. B. E. Sheaf grain is being furnished by Maling. manager of the Ray-Maling the following farmers: Gray Winter cannery, was chairman. oats by W. C. Hergert, Hillsboro; All Interested Shadeland Eclipse oats by Earl Don- He suggested a tariff on these clson, Hillsboro; White Winter! fruits as an aid to the local farmer. wheat by J. C. Bechen & Sons; Jen The berry industry in the state, he kins Club wheat by W. J. Enschade. said, would run around $5,000,000, Hillsboro. and anything that affects it, such as The exhibits in the county booth the foreign cheap fruit, is of inter are not entered for competition. est to the entire commonwealth. Start Air School Threshed grain entered for prizes at The Woodburn grower expressed the state fair must be separate lots Work will be started immediately, the opinion that a lot of this farm than those on exhibit in the booth, according to Dr. E. H. Smith, and relief talk is "pure bunk” and the states O. T. McWhorter, who has members of the American Legion marketing of surplus at a profit charge of selecting the exhibit. will give volunteer labor in the James Sigler, resident of Hills seems difficult to him. He felt that Barley I. Winner I preparation of runways and in the boro 71 years, dies after long ill- it would tend to increase produc For the past three years Wash ness. Ralph Nickeson, 10, son of Mr. ; construction of hangars. The Amer tion. Mr. Glatt declared that it was ington county Hannchen barley has and Mrs. B. R. Nickeson of 1333 ican Legion has had an active hand economically unsound for the gov won the championship at the state Walnut street, is in the Dr. Smith in the advance of air transportation ernment to reclaim thousands of ' fair. Several grain exhibits hav# hospital suffering from a fractured throughout the United States. acres more when there are already Dr. Smith will start an air school been promised for the state fair this a number of bankrupt irrigation skull, body bruises, and slight in as soon as possible and Charles fall for individual entry, Only the districts. Every reclaimed acre is ternal injuries sustained early Fri (Continued on page ten) very best has any chance at all in in competition with already develop day evening at Fourth and Oak the competition and there is a ten streets when he was struck and run ed land, he said. per cent fee in all classes. The minute there seems to be a down by a car driven by Miss Viola F. C. Fluke of Metzger will as profit in one product, everybody ’ Bottenberg of ’ McMinnville. The car j James Sigler, 71, pioneer son of sist with the county exhibit and re was owned by Harold Lee of Mc- rushes into it, the speaker said. main with it during the entire fair. Washington county, died at the fam Minnville. Woodburn Prosperous The boy and his brother, Earl ily home on South Third street Mr. Glatt pointed out that Wood- Tuesday night after an extended burn, due to its diversified farming, were on their way home, according Hillsboro churches are co-operat- illness. Funeral services will be was as prosperous a community as to the father, when the accident oc ; ing during the month of August curred. held from the Free Methodist church any in the state, and that the peo j They waited for a truck from the ¡»nd holding union services in the court house yard at 8 p. m. Sunday. at 4 p. m. today, and interment will ple of Woodburn and surrounding territory are proud of the cannery. \ west to pass and then started across The union service will be repeated be in the Hillsboro cemetery. j in the path of the other car appar at the same hour each Sunday eve Jack Lenox, who was doing time Mr. Sigler was born October 30, He expressed the hope that the Ray- ently without realizing it. Lee’s in the county jail on a statutory j 1856, on his father’s donation land Brown plant would continue to pack report of the accident says that ning in August. charge, escaped while serving as a claim, a little more than a mile more and more. “Far be it from me to give the Earl stopped and tried to stop his trusty Monday morning. Jailer southeast of Hillsboro, and had canners ‘the dickens,’ for we need brother, but that the lad dodged in Henry Hickox had him working in lived in or near this city all of his them in our business,” stated Mr. front of the car. the court yard with a lawn mower life. Glatt. and during a temporary absence He was married to Miss Lucy A report of the president and sec- Lenox decided to take a vacation. Ellen Butler on December 30, 1883, retary’s meeting will be made Au- Earl Masterson was arrested and six children were born to the J. N. Wood, pastor of the Free Thursday on a traffic violation union, all of whom are living. He gust 9. E. J. McAlear is in charge Methodist churhc, has been returned chnrge and Floyd Lenocker was is survived by the widow, and the of the program today and on Au to Hillsboro for another year by the taken into custody Friday in Scog sons and daughters are: Dale B. gust 16 a meeting will be held at Oregon annual conference, which gins Valley, charged with assault ! Sigler. Portland; Mrs. E. H. Bran the golf course. Judge George R. Bagley Thurs has just been held on the camp President Orange Phelps made a and battery. daw. Miss Augusta Sigler, 11. Ray report on the Boy Scout camp. day gave an order staying action grounds on the Canyon road. The Sigler and Mrs. Harold Kellington, in justice court in the case of Wyatt j Rev. J. T. Taylor was elected dis- all of Hillsboro, and Mrs. H. H. against Christensen to secure pos , trict elder. Frank of Garibaldi. Mr. Sigler also session of property until the suit of leaves a sister. Mrs. William Tup Gertrude Christensen against J. R. per of Hillsboro, a half-sister. Mrs. Wyatt is determined in circuit court. I Julia Walker of Hemet. Cal., and a Gertrude Christensen charges that I half-brother, Sam Conrad, of Wood Wyatt, her attorney, gave her the A call to residents of Washington land, Wash. use of property with the under- Seventh Day Adventists of west county to save and prepare their ern Oregon will open their camp standing that she was to improve exhibits for the county fair, Sep meeting Thursday at the camp I and work it until they were mar- tember 20, 21 and 22, is made this ried. ground at Forest Grove and meet- week by Finis L. Brown, manager. Orders were given in the follow- ings will continue daily until Sun- He says that people should start ar Seth Miller, Hillsboro trapshooter, day, August 12. Young people's ing cases: Frank Schmidt & Co. vs. broke 100 pigeons without a miss to ranging their exhibits now. Mr. v.-ork will be emphasized in the A. H. Berg et ux, and H. L. Wil- win his second leg on the Jaeger Brown will assume his duties as j liams vs. M. E. and Delia Under- manager in September, which is Forest Grove. Aug, 2.—The pure meeting, and programs have been | hill. J. H. Wilson was freed from trophy in the semi-annual Jaeger arranged for juniors, intermediates later than in previous years. shoot at Everding park in Portland bred Jersey cow, Prince’s Beauty and adults, Two meetings will be i jail on bail. ' Sunday. Miller led a field of 25, — Betty 613945, in the herd of Thomas conducted daily in the German lan his nearest competitor shattering 98 targets. Williams of Forest Grove, has com guage. Dr. I. J. Woodman, secretary of pleted her first official production A half dozen shooters have won legs on the Jaeger cup since it was test, Betty was started on this test the Western Oregon Conference of when she was 4 years and 6 months Seventh Day Adventists, is in charge. placed at stake three years ago, but Miller is the first to win more than of age and in the following 305 one leg. The trophy will become the The Hillsboro delegation to the days she yielded 539.77 pounds of The third cover spray or the first permanent possession of anyone state convention of the American butterfat and 10,938 pounds of spray for the second brood codling winning it three times. I.egion nt Medford Thursday, Fri milk. She was with calf 237 days moth in the Willamette valley is ap Twelve shooters had enough day and Saturday, left last night. of the ten months and for seven plied now. The second brood moths added birds to give them perfect Those making the trip arc Clark months of the test she produced are now on the wing and eggs laid scores after two strings of 25 birds Gardner, Dr. Ralph Dresser, William more than 55 pounds of butterfat Dr. L. B. Smith and George by them will hatch in five to eight each had been shot. Nine remained Dierdorff and Albert Krahmer, all per month, reaching 62.24 pounds tied at the end of the next string of Hillsboro post. Henry Stohler, of butterfat in her best month. With Chambers were injured in an auto days. Lead arsenate is the standard of 25, so by agreement, the handi delegate from Ranks post, will make the above record Prince's Beauty mobile accident near McMinnville Dr. Smith re spray material. The powdered lead cap was changed from added birds the trip with the local delegation. Betty qualified for the register of Friday afternoon. The name of Commander Charles merit of the American Jersey Cattle ceived body bruises and Mr. Cham arsenate is used at the rate of 2 to yardage, and in the shoot-off D. Jones of Hillsboro will be pre club. Her sire is Poppy’s St. Mawes bers was cut above the eye. The pounds to 100 gallons of water. A Miller won with a straight score sented to the convention for dis Prince 2d, 179,145, and her dam is two men were on their way to Til thorough application is essential if from the 21-yard line. Dr. E. H. Smith of Hillsboro shot a 91. worm injury is to be prevented. Monida’s Betty’s Beauty 387,998. lamook on a fishing trip. trict committeeman. The county agricultural exhibit is now being assembled for the Ore gon state fair to be held in Septem ber and later will be shown at the Pacific International Livestock show. Boy Suffers a Skull Fracture To Bury Early Pioneer Today Churches Join In Holding Services Trusty Takes Leave Of Absence Monday Judge Stays Case In Justice Court Fifteen Women's Clubs Represented Prepare Exhibits, At Federation Meeting Here Friday, Fair Manager Plea Pre-School Clinics Urged by Nurse Fifteen of the *. Federated clubs Mooberry of Cornelius told of the were represented at the County benefits to be derived from this li Federation meeting held in the brary, as an art course is a pnrt of Christian church here Friday, with i the studies. Mrs. Clara Smith of Metzger was an attendance of about 70. Mrs. W. S. Roberts of Forest Grove, elected secretary to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. president, presided. The morning session wns devoted J. M. Person, who is ill. A new of- to reports from the different clubs, fice was created- that of second Elwood Sherwood and Watts being the only vice-president—and Mrs. clubs not represented. At the close Johnson of the Women’s Relief of the morning session musical num Corps was elected to the office. Mrs. Anderson of the Forest bers were rendered by Miss Mar jorie Sewell, violinist, accompanied Grove club, Mrs. Smith of Metzger, by her mother, Mrs. Fred Sewell, and Mrs. Anderson of Hiteon gave pianist, and a solo by Miss Alice interesting reports on the State Fed Nosier, accompanied by Miss Lenora eration meeting at Klamath Falls. Mrs. C. E. Wells gave a short re Bryant. port on the General Federation The Women’s Service club mem meeting nt San Antonio, Texas, and bers were hosti'sses and served n told that the school picture library luncheon in the church basement. work of Washington county was In the afternoon Miss Grace Mill mentioned at that meeting. gate, county health nurse, talked on Clubs represented at Friday's general health conditions, and urged meeting were Hillside, Kansas City, all clubs to hold pre-school clinics. Gales Creek, Gaston, Forest Grove, Mrs. Clara Smith of the Metzger Cornelius, Leisyvilie, Huber, Hiteon, club reported on the free picture Scholls, Metzger, and the Needle library, and said that everything craft, Coffee Club, Women's Relief would be in readiness by the open Corps, and Women’s Service clubs ing of the fall term. Mrs. Lester of Hillsboro, Plan Air Circus to Help Finance Port; Fog in Portland Harbor Is Expected to M“ve Port Urge Holstein Cattle Men to Show at Fairs Robert and Jean K. Warrens were unanimously re-elected to serve as president and secretary respectively for the remainder of the year. More than 30 Holstein cattle enthusiasts and followers were present. A pic- nic dinner win served at noon and the arrangement of details by Frank and Arthur Connell indicated much work ami planning for the event. K. E. Everly, northwest represen tative for the Holstein Freiaian as sociation, spoke briefly urging the club not to undertake too varied a (Continued on page ten) Make Plans for Building Class A Airport East of City for Immediate Use Adventists to Start Sessions at Grove Miller Wins Leg In Jaeger Shoot For Second Time Forest Grove Cow Makes Good Record Legionnaires Off to Medford Legion Meet Third Cover Spray Is Due This Month Auto Accident Halts Pastor Is Returned To Hillsboro Church