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( ouiily Gl hl OpriH i I l Id« y Niität on I* I IJglilrd I irld xWUsborw^rQ us II ill .boro, < h e^on, 'linn sday, September 21, 193. Nimrods Desert City As Deer Season Opens Hillsboro Argus and Hillsboro Independent Consolidated in 1932 No l ish Story Volume 46, No. 28 Horned Owl Burglar Gets (Haut Ex - County Killed in Raid ^233 in Night On Chicken Yard Assessor Store Prowl Here Dies I ’cense, I ng Sales in Local Checking “Forget-Me-Not" Sales Help Those Who llrlp'd I » In ‘1J; Buy a Boutonnirre Two Sections, Fourteen Page? Record Closed Grand Jury Returns Two Indictments Station Indicate Extensive Following Donning red bats and hilts, Hillsboro nimrods taped their annual mass exodus into the hills this week and were on the trad of fleet footed deer as hunting season opened Wednesday morning. Brisk ales of resident hunter ' licenses and spec lai antlerle s deer fags at • oi win’s hardware, local < becking station, indit ated large numbers from this county were answering the wood. < .ii • Union High Bus Ordered Prowlers Rob Clothing of S. P. Workmen both h<* was .«!:<» abb* to prov«' that his V as m> -fish Hoi J The sal- niofi. |.nn«**4 to !><• caught by a b"y < t 14 v«ar* -i und« r tl|»|M (I th«* < ah !» at I » p >und at Hub. night, u < re being sought by Wash mgton county authorities this week According to school officials wh< hegi the Caravan Tour Officials See ange and a suitcase before Authorities in neighboring Mr Annual Report Shows County School Costs One Survivor Mr B k;. <nly survivor is a : ■ ■ Mr Ada Tr n x ut Sycamore, O .f - Nellie having pr • ceded him n death September . i'i2' Mr li ih y .born on August 211 18' i ! i ;n Ohi" the >n of Cather- in. Etc he n. a native of Germany, ar. 1 Jose ph Boley, a native of Fr •.;.'■»■ Many county officers at- •< nded th. former county assessor s intend« nt O B Krau ' ' hand as of Ju 1938 the star th«- r cal i as $45.10168 rc|»ort showed Bec during th«* f..- 133 25. of whk rial tax of county >f near Tuala- me nt ary henffs office state scl t s<»m<*«>nu entered her Hughes id air«»' from the Bed loan*- $.' HH2 61 betw« «*n August 7 and 808 37 » while she was away $24 i <*xpensive rug and Ent rance was made by burscmei $312 423 12: 3 4 among and tcac 25 87. $184 8 ¡ometime within the past the George F’bhvr place 33 s H Red ('ross Work | : । . i I Washington claim I(M) P« r cent membership in the Junior movement an Mound'd Monday by O. B Kraus, «'hairman the campaign in Wash ington county Four rooms with a : tboul IM i pils turn«*d in their annual dues hen* Monday. Kraus »»aid. Enrollment in the county this year is cxp«*ct<*d to «*xceed the top I figure of the 1938-39 campaign a h« n 112 h< I rooms embracing ab« ut 2700 pupils joined up. it w a> I said F r annual dues of 50 cents per r«»om, each gr<»up of Junior Bed Cr«»ss ineinbt rs receives a month i ly magazine of news fr »m chap- ters ail over the world, a banner and badges for the members. The | movement has been organized to I promote go<xl will between na- lions. ■ tic S29 7B0 11; fue $1 light and power. $5.625 21; $194199 materials for cafe- manual training and domes- .< nev dcpartHH-nts $2 672 96 and oquipmen -a.d off. $34(1 »ff. $.34 0! $4 641 33 193! ending the schoo ■ been called for Tuesday September 26. it was announced this week by M P Cady chairman of the high school board Other members of the b »ard, each of whom will bring one taxpayer-member of the budget committee ar«* Tom Goodman. J »hn K »mna. W G McNay and John Gates Jr The Hillsboro grade school budget meeting has been set for Monday night, November 25 Both b »ards have rough drafts of their antici pated expenditures and receipts for the 1939-40 year already outlined. • ,. MH ■ Ed B . A inan. B M. Good in;.: C D William- William N u i Ja k M irton. Don Me. . .ri,' : ... -' d a irshipful master from Ohio re c< ming to North Plains in ar 1911. Mr Boley had been lent >f Seattle for one year, t" that he was one of the ; citizens of Fostoria. Ohio, served as mayor of that city < years. He also served as >al of the Fostoria high fi r a time was clerk of the i f education for a number of and served on the teachers' He was married to Nellie C. Bi i n . Peoria Ill . June 21. 1905 At North Plains he was a justice of the peace from 1911 to 1914 and in Washington county s< rved as deputy county assessor । from 1914 to 1916 and as county as- ses-or from 1916 to 1935. Rough Budget Hillsboro’s city council in special sr's n Thursday night tackled its annual job cf whirling another year., budget into shap.- State law rectuires that the budget be drafted and adopted by November 1. The regular budget meeting, at which time the budget committee will submit its recommendations based on the council's original rough draft has been set for Sep tember 27 A public hearing date will then be set and 20 days allowed for public notice. Hillsboro Sees Building Activity on Three Fronts Week’s Weather Counsel Appointed Woods accidents accounted for serious injuries to three Washing ton county mill and logging camp workers this week. The last two mishaps were strangely parallel, having occurred in camps about one mile apart within a few hours of each other The victims, both of whom were brought to the Jones hospital Monday are aged 19 and 20 and both are residents of Cor nelius route 1. They are Melvin Erdman. 19. who suffered serious cuts and abrasions on his face when the top of a fall , ing tree struck him and threw him into another tree, and Eddie Wil kinson. 20. who sustained a frac tured leg when a pcavy broke and cast him to the ground. Erdman was employed by the Alder Creek Timber company in holdings two miles above Dixon's mill and Wilkinson on the Carl Lets operations about three miles above Dixons mill. A previous woods accident had taken three fingers and an eye from Erdman. The third accident victim is Oliver Westcott of Hillsboro, who fractured two ribs in a fall at the Murphy mill north of Mountain- dale. He was brought to his home here and at last reports was rest ing comfortably. Pat Murphy, operator of the mill, was taken to a Portland hospital last week with injuries suffered in a fall. County Court Appoints 1940 Budget Board Arraigned in circuit court Satur day, Hudson was given until Satur day. September 2a. to enter a plea and Neal Bush was appointed as his attorney. Weaver was jailed last Thursday after he allegedly threw a clod of dirt weighing about four pounds through a window at Fulton B. Bowman. Aloha Appearing in cir cuit court Saturday with his attor ney. Paul Patterson, he entered a plea of not guilty to the nidictmenl charge and was released after post ing bond. No date was set for thu trial. Sentences Postponed Three other men appeared before Circuit Judge R Frank Peters on Saturday James Bean. 28. who had pleaded guilty to a larceny charge was given his liberty with sen tence postponed until some time in the future He was represented by his attorney. Thomas H Tongue Jr. A postponed sentence was also the fare of Robert Callison. 26. Forest Grove route 1, who was arrested August 10 by Deputy Sheriff Dick Busch on a charge of stealing log ging quipment irom a cainp on Wilson river. Bean was arrested with him. Donald R. Gentry. 20, Vancouver Barracks recruit who admittedly stole a truck belonging to the Im perial Feed i Grain company here, will appear for sentencing on Sat urday. September 23. the court de clared. VFW Sponsors Play Thursday, Friday Nights "Coast to Coast." a three-act homo With its initial budget session talent musical comedy sponsored by tentatively set for Thursday. Octo the Washington county post. Vet ber 5, the Washington county court erans of Foreign Wars, w ill be pre Wednesday announced that Al Am- sented at the Hillsboro Grange hail acher, Hillsboro; Charles Herb. tonight 'Thursday! and tomorrow Forest Grove route 2, and Elmer night i Fridayi. Performance each Guerbcr. Hillsboro route 1. have night will begin at 8 o'clock. been appointed as a committee to Receipts from the play are to be work with the court in preparing used in helping disabled veterans, the county budget for the coming according to Lester Alter, post year. commander, who urges attendance Department heads and officials in of the public the various branches of county An outstanding cast has been se government will be notified of the lected as follows: "Madam Hycenia. initial meeting date. Judge H D Daisy Plapp; "Don Palmer." Roy Korkman said. A second meeting Burnett; "Pete Perkins." Morris at wmeh time the final draft of v., Schmidt; ‘Sampson,’ Rev. R L. tentative budget will be completed Putnam; "Jean Bosworth." Maurine will be held later in October. Moore; "Titus Pennyback." H A. Washington county taxpayerswill Kuratli; "Trixie Trimble," Beverly be given a chance to propose al Hurd; "Jack Skinner," Elmer In terations in the final budget at a gram; "Louie Dicker." Robert Fur budget hearing in November The row; 'Percival Snell." Bill Lieder; final budget must be drafted and "Lizzie Lullerlittle," Georgina filed with the state by November Brown, and "Colonel Rowes." Jake 30. Weil. A small army of volunteer workers stocked with a plentiful supply of blue "Forget-Me-Not” boutonniere will be stationed on Hillsboro street corners Friday ami Saturday to sell the “flowers of temernbrance” for th> benefit of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War. Another corps of volunteer workers will contact all stores and business offices in the city in the annual two- Fainter« front all parts of Washington county will gather in the chamber of commerce rooms here at 1 :3i) p. m today to discuss the world wheat situation and to discuss crop plans as a result of the changed market conditions resulting front Hie war in Europe. An attend ance of between 50 and 100 growers is expected at the wheat acreages because of possible price increases due to war condi tions. Hepi’csontnlivcs of II ¡omcipal wheat counties reported at Pendle- ' ton that they expected most of their farmers will stay by their AAz\ wheat allotments m planting winter wheat A resin r ey of the situation in the spring may determine 1 whether an increase is warranted at that lime, it was said. The general decision of Oregon farmers is in line with tile ideas ex pressed in other western as well as mid western states, sani N l< D idd of Haines, dnector of the western AAA division, who was principa' speaker He said that wheat growers are generally agreed that present huge surpluses make immediate | acreage expansion rbky. Three Loggers Injured in Woods Mishaps Two true bills of indictment were returned by the Washington county grand jury which adjourned iti regular monthly session Friday. Calvin Hudson former resident ol this county, was charged with lar ceny in tne first bill and Harr, Weaver. 58. Aloha, was called into court in the second bill on a charge 1 of assault while armed with a dan gerous weapon. Hudson was arrested by federal G-men in Seattle and brought here in August on a warrant iMUMl about three years ago He is ac cused of stealing a 75-foot rubber belt and a double set of horse har ness from the Edwin and George Burkhalter place south of Hillsboro where he was once employed. Volunteer Army to Sell D. A. V. Forget-Me-Nots on Streets of Hillsboro Friday and Saturday Decision to Retain Crop Plans Foreseen as Outcome of Wheat Growers’ Meeting Here Today meeting, nccordin»! t <> County' A«enl William F Cyrus Called by the AAA the meetmi; will iie addressed by Stan McClurg, secretary oi the Washington coun ty aKiuidtural conservation asso ciation; W C B och I i . represent mg tlie state AAA office, and either F. H. Jackman or W I. Teutsch from Oregon Stale collegi'. Meeting Orans 300 The decision of local farmers is expected Io concur with the attitude of wheat growers in the Pendleton area, where a meeting Inst week brought out the common opinion that flui i led wheat market due Io war conditions are not balde Io bring a general increase in winter wheal acreage. Approximately 300 fai liters and farm leaders attended the meeting, with discussion cen tering on advt ability of expanding To Plead Saturday William Franklin Boley, former Washington county assessor, who died suddenly Friday Th«* tot W during the «03 22 it w U.S Reedville First Weaver Pleads Not Guilty Assault Charge; Hudson F. '-iki. B .lev 80 Wa h- •. ., • - tor for 19 years d<-nt o. Hillsbor . . .r the ir '!:■ -1 uddenly Friday. ' f ., •" art attaek He had I -K ./th for a number of Tu«*sday night or early tian»«’ into the Fairway mark« t on th«- < urn< r of Mam and S^orid i av«nu< h«n* and « ; .«¡xd wlt.i al d< po it box containing $233 ini cash and < h<« k it wa.. r«'por*ed i by Cdy Offn « r GIv Ni<4son. who is conducting an investigation Entry wa mad«* by break.ng a I w indow in the south warehouM do«H and b« nding a steed bar fa*- t« in d on th«* in id«- of the door ' Aft« i .« hasty < hc< kup. Huber Kirn- । m« i 1«', manager, stat«*d that noth-1 mg • I.«- is beli«*v«*<i to b«* missing ' About $115 y Passing Long Public Service Record Ni«*ison Investigates !’i • .*. kr w« M* I mhiim I f<»l «.I hill cuuiiti* a In i» killing ‘>1 mill« i h ■ • «1« « i lh being hwii «« «i I I Ally In ad<blion, other Washington fmnty num«** found on hunting and tagging hcrn>e stubs al ( oi w ill •• checKillg Mati««n h« i e were a*» fol- l«»w Kuben Kmath, H«»b« rt Smith. Hillabuio, Sam Strubb. Buxton . tai lout« V* ilhs () Dell, ( alvm IH on nor. I. B ll««wdl Edith How« 11. all of H i II mf >I<» mute J. Jake Kuhl HHI botu loule I. blank Johnston ( lay Holland, HilHboi » loule 3. I « »al Bo'»« Glenn bfX «11. Hlllsb •! ■ lout«* a, A l Flipper, Donald Biunswick Francis Keenun. Hubert I 4 I J h V, ( ■ , > » . i Stiubu Buxton. Floyd h Kain <h«-m«>. L«»me Madden. H«a\«'it>n, II (. andeaux. Beaverton i hi tv 2. Earl lupper. E<»i«*t Grove, Ernest Hunger, Fur« 4 Gmve i«mtc I. ’1 hemdore Valid« i/an d e n. Bank Another (»0 pa ..« ng«r .ill- t e e I joule |, H W and Veinon W« tcotl. 'ch«r»l bus will tn* placed in s«'rvice («.I ton, (ho! ge Behrman Coint-liu*. Earn« Hi »wn. Timber, and W. II this year f »r rural students in the Oivnco Helvetia district coming to Jiataoin Gai« t ic« k th«* union high school in Hillsbor •. it was announced thus week by J K Cox. pi incipai Purchase* and «»¡»oration of th«* ad ditional carrici has been found m*c'«'ssaiy t«» accommodate incn a- cd numbers of stud« nt-emnmut« i • from that Mvimn. C«»x .aid Two bu ses are making double trips mt » the vicinity at the present tun«', h * Prowlers made their way ml«» i « port« d t«*nts of tin* Southern Pacific «lew An order for bids on Die new at the Dw yer company c amp Thurs bus is being puhlism d W ith ( k tuber day night while th«* m«*n were 3 set as th«* closing date !«» submit sb < pmg mi«l rifh’d the worker?«’’ ligui« Sp«*cif hat ions call for a 1 clothes, it wa.> i«'polled here this ton truck with huavv duty chassis week following an investigation by Deputy Sheriffs Dick Busch and Halil« Ireland Wallets from which ca h had bci’n I I XX I S I \l I INI. retnon d were found in lh«’ num- mg iK'ar on«' of the hmls Thos«* Max. Min. free who ii’porh'd cash losses w«.«' Wednesday tM> 40 .00 Janns lialph, Lome Holt, Thurifd&y oo 41 oo $1 .»0. Howard Wciberg. $4 21. and Friday 73 54 .01 Leo Moran. $7 50 A $10 che< k in Saturday 7H 47 00 Moran's wall«*! wa not taken Sunday 77 40 <M> Moran told the officers that In Monday 70 45 00 car was broken into Ilie .«me ni*;ht Tu<-sday 00 41 00 and Iwo suits of clolhes stolen. William F. Boley Closes Book on Ole lit« 1111 !»1 x *1«> hllMfie- |»<«j»h' .in h .« th « a* h«4«l in the chmnb«T of v»in« im’iv«* r«MMna Inie tin;» spring will ug.Hn b« uVtillubh* thin full. .n<<>ld mg to word r<H«lv«d Monday by J W I’oynh'i iiM'ui mijm t \ i ■ i from Ai nd E V Dunn, .•tut«- u- |Bi\iwr <>f (hstributiv«* rdm .ttion rhe ^.^n»<• it of oi guni/ation .« w . in iu»<'d f<»r th«* bpring tl.r.« will be u . m J f<>r the full m i h • I'oynti i Mild When u Miffii H nt nmnb«i of | m t M>n& prufexs mtei «•4 in th«* • .ime «»\4ilubh xubj« • i they Will be oigmn/vd into .« via; and a pi«*h**.M>r »« vurctl L i them Eight 1« »xoiiM of two hour < a« h with two h*Mun» per w««k «on Ktitute the uh mil cla>:> . ■ hedule Pt>ynl« i Mild, but cla> ■ uirang« inuiiU may b<* altered according to cm unibtances. It han b««n uggoted that da • ill Hillsboro might be organized around the fallowing Mibjict caid writing, window display. book k«< ping and b|M*<*ch problem.*» It i> advised that there be fi!U«n per sous III a d<e»s >o lh.it the tuition chaigc can be held to a minimum । . ■ . i the cost ।• j «pi by in< »tat«* lh« tuition chaige m most c ase» 1» held to a minimum of tw< d«»Hara p<-mon fur th«* full tight Icnom Ecex aiv collected ut the tjegmumg of the elites mheduh CnrrH'd <»Yi muter the <»nspn*< of »Chou 1 distile l No 7. Iht'M « la. offer an "pp*>rtunity fui Hillsbor bu* m« smen t«> bimg lhrm>«*li « ^ oi then employes to a higher «I« greu of efficiency by learning b« t 1er busmess methods, laut \«ar »upp«»i ter» saat Anyone mic i« t ed may get further ml< rinatimi by calling or wilting to J W Povntei Mip'i intendimi ui »chuuls, Hill, buru. Marauder Enters I Trough Warehouse Window; Hepiesenting building activity on three- fronts, the above houses ilia- just a few of the many new residenees under construction or reea-.illy completed here. In the top row. left, is the low. rambling five-room house- reeentlv occupied by Mr and Mrs Neal Bush Next on th - right is the eight-room Boston colonial icsidcnee being built on East I incoln at t ome’ll road (oi Mr and Mrs Leroy Camp bell On the- light is the atlractive six room modern bungalow on Fifth and Edison just eoni| leted for Howard Hillis Middle row. lell. is Ihe five-room reside nce being built bv Boh Beattie on Ninth avenue between M un and l.mcoln A broken roof Inn- adds to the beauty of the six-room I aje I od colonial, now in final stages of construction on Nevi th Filth avenue tor Mi and Mrs (I E David son (second Hom left, middle row.) Simplicity will be the key note, on the other h ind, of the six-room Cape Cod residence <righti being constructed for Mr. and Mis Charles Douglass at 149 North Ninth ¡ venue In the bottom row left, is the five-room residence reeentlv finished and now occupied by Mr and Mis H. .1 Hibbard on North Third Second at bottom is the seven-room ¡ill-modern residence of Mr and Mrs .1 K Cox now being built on North Fifth A party room in th.- basement features the Cape Cod plan on which the seven-room house of Mr and Mr-- Harry B ites (extreme right! i: being built. Two more house- are due to start in the An derson addition w ithin ten dav s In the Hillis tddition. prelimi nary construction work has begun on Houses tor T M Spencer and I N Kirk and work is to lx- in soon on houses for G W Spencer, George Enciuon, and J. E, Welt Mure home pictuiex later. day campaign to raiae fundi forb - the organization to carry on its worthwhile work through the next dies. decided t > and did in 1920 f irm a militant organization of their own, year. the Disabled American Veterans of I” ues Statement For the benefit of anv who might the World War "This group has been recognized not be acquainted with the public service being rendered by the Dis ¡is the voice of disabled soldiers and is their congressionally charted abled Veterans' organization. R I Kirkpatrick, county chapter com spokesman. Its membership is lim mander. Tuesday made the follow ited to those World War veterans who saw active military service ing statement: prior to November 11. 1918, and wiio "It is the wish of the Washington were wounded, gassed or disabled county chapter of disabled Ameri by reason of service. can Veterans of the World War that Maintains Staff the people of this citv should know "The D A. V maintains voluntary the aims and purposes of this organ part-time or full-time national paid ization. how the money it receives is rehabilitation officers in ni >st cities spent and what its accomplishments where regional officers and hospit are. als are located In Portland the re Formed in 1920 "World War veterans, disabled and therefore occupationally hnndi- ca; pe l by reason of their military reivice. noting that technicalities and indifference resulted in the le gal ier.ial of equitable claims of thousands of their war-tune bud habilitation officer is C F Hogan, who takes care of all members of th” various chapters in Oregon The services of this officer bring human itarian justice and badly needed purchasing power Io thousand of ( deserving disabled veterans and Jheir dependents each year."
