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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1911)
GRESHAM AND VICINITY RHSUMI' OP TUB WBIK'I DOINGS IN ANU ABOUND Till; CITY GRESHAM’S POSTOfHCE BUSINESS The following show« what business ha« been done at the Gresfinm P. O. for the first quarter of the years 1910, and UH I Order« issued from January 1st, 1010— Domestic 922. International 11. Orders issued paid from January 1st to March list, 1911 — Domestic issued ll<H. International 30. Postal Receipts from January 1st to March 31st, 1910, 1982.61 Postal Receipts from January 1st to March 31st, 1911, »1134 It. HOME SU Kt RS AI II MION! FOR SALE— Eighty acres of fine well laying land, 2S miles from Handy, 15 acres in gissl timber; good water, eight acres in cultivation, 83200. l.iquireof C. W. Cassidy, Handy, Ore. Gresham's water and sewer Isnids, W II. Karri« slightly improved. Grandma l.iiineman is contiirdng to amounting to 120,000, were a warded to E. II. Rollins A Hons of New York. improvs« They brought a premium of |2 oh an I J. II. t'iialkeKof Arlrta was in Gres all costs of issue, including th» blank ham Wednesday. IsHids. This I« Gresham s Grati bond Mi«« Fraud« Judy of Salem visited issue and tlie money will Is- used for Miss Parmely last week. laying water mains, which will l»< con Little Luella Hldppy from Vancouver, nected with tlie ei'ond Bull Run pipe Wash., visited Mr». A. Thompson sev line, and s sewer system The city en eral day« th!» week. gineer is now pr paring plans for fedii T. R. Howitt hs» opened a now liuni- and tb<* work will commence In a few Ì WON FIRST PRIZE AT ALL FAIRS nesa institution in Gresham,namely, an months HliADQUAK I F.RS IWH.I. office for buying and «idling ol stock. Standard gunge track is now laid from they Bl; AT PLEASANT HOME the Troutdiile brandi road eastward on hitched. Don't forget to ttend the sale and tea at the millinery store Saturday the Mount ll'srd line to the end of the w. F. c inney afternoon and evening given by tin- grade near the Handy river. The rails Phone 274 Never Out Of Work. Queen Esther circle lor the benefit of »re K' i ;s>iind steel and have been put The liusiest little things ever made down as the permanent truck Stand the |Hsir. are Dr. King's New Lite Pills, Every ard locomotives have I hm - ii over the line Mr. Htisd who has lieen very ill for ■0'1 « time is liot able Is* out Vet slid several limes this week and are engag pill is n sugar-coated globule of health, that change» weakness into strength Will not Is« able to teach again this ed in hauling ballast, ties and camp The most valuable con languor into energy, brain-fag into term. Mi»» Emma Wilkie will take his supplies to tlie farthest point, where sideration in placing an ad mental [stwer; curing Constipation, claws'» for the remainder of titin term. work on a new section is to lie com vertisement is the number Headache, Chill», l>y»|M<pia, Malaria. menced at once. . In the M. E. Church Sunday iiioru- of readers you can reach W. F. Akin, well known in Eastern Only 2fic at all druggists Illg there will lie special Easter services Multnomah, lias been elected ol the through the medium you an<l music and Sunday evening there ------------------ are using. The Herald al Our friend« are like our clothes—un will la< an Easier Cantala by the choir Business College Baseball league, com at H o'clock, under the direction of C. posed of tlie four business collegi*» of less they wear well we get little satis ways has been, and it con Portland. Th« clubs will play every faction out ol them. W. Albertson. tinues to be, the most wide Friday and Saturday during the next There was very pleasant surprise two months and then the two leading ly read paper in eastern party, Wednesday evening given in ciuf« will play a series of exhibition In CMM of rheumatism relief from Multnomah and Clackamas honor of Miss issliel Metzger at the pain make« sleep and rest poasibla. game». Counties, Don’t make a home of her cousin, Miss Velma Metz Bert I »mg »nd family of Washougal This may lie obtained by applying mistake by failing to con- ger. There was about fifty of her Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale by friend« and sc I hmi I males tier« to wel • re visiting Mr». Ding's parents, S. 8. all druggist» sider this. Thoni|>»on They expect to move into come her tan k to Gresham. the »mall house near Mr. Thoni|t»on*s The big railroad camp, located at tlie and Mr. I*ong will do teaming this northeast corner of the city for the Yea, He Was Good. summer. P«»t two months, wa« moved »n Mon “Were you a good boy in school to There will lie tlie last quarterly meet day?" Jay to t'ra»well's Crossing where it was j "1 think SO. dad. Anyway, teacher re-established. It number« al»>ul 21M) ing of the year at the Free Methodist men, employed ballasting the track, church la-ginning Friday evening and called me a holy terror."—Buffalo Ex- setting trolly poles and building fence. lasting over Sunday. W. \V Johnson presa. SANDY, ORE. presiding elder will preach. Tlie baseball value that was to have Lived on Water. Dealers in Rough and Drew»«! been played next Sunday ladween the] W. E. ('rasiseli has sold two farms The Tramp-1 once lived on water. Giants and Portland Maroons on the | lately. Mr. t'raswell is operating in lady, for six months. The Ijidy—You Gresham diamond has I mm ’H |WM»t polled real I state at Pleasant Home and rtf don't look like It. How did you man to some future date on account <»f wrt port« many eastern caller» but they age It? The Tramp—I was a sailor. ground »n l the Giant« will take u rv«t think pro; erty tisi high. Mill East of SANDY William It. Ree , for many years a To have failed la to have striven; to as there lias been no other gmin* wr« resident of Cascade Dick», died in have striven Is to have grown.—Malt ranged for. Special Prices on all Olii Stock Portland last Sunday, aged 74. He wa« hie D. Babcock. John I*. Wellies and Miss Alice Illirismi at hi« old home on Tuesday. Mickelson, of Russellville, were married Itoy Hartley and »on Elvin of Boise last week and are now at home in a Idaho, are visiting Mr Hartley'» par newly built cottage of their own. They are Isith well known in Eastern Mult ent», W. T Hartley ami wife. Mr». J. E. Miller of Portland visited nomah, living members of Russellville grange, and very popular with their ns- home folks Wednesday. •ociates. The Herald extends congrat ulations Iky larmlnq Iruths 8 Rural route No. 1, from Cleone, has “Dry Farming,'' by John A. Widtaoe, been readjusted to lake rffi-ct May 1. president ol the Utah Agricultural Col Bv the new arrangement the Cleone lege (published by the Macmillan Com route will l*e taken off the Base Line pany, New York), is a recent contribu road for most of the way, leaving tlie tion to modern agriculture. It ap|rears . service there to the Gresham route, as a number of the Rural Science Ser- j on the Both routes have been lapping iea, of which 1.. II. Bailey, dean of agri- j Base Line since the service I tega n culture at Cornell University, is editor. Opeiiing of the new Barr road allow« In this volume of »trout four hundred Electric service is at your complete the change to lie made pages, excellently illustrated, the auth- ; command any hour of the day or night. A gissl wood and coal yard is one of or presents, in well-organized and log- I tlie needs of Gresham. With Its rapid ical order, scientific facts underlying! It will heat baby’s milk in an electric growth and constant advancenient the the prislucti'in of crop» in regions of ' water heater in three minutes at 3 a. m. town should have such an institution llmiteii rainfall. The Issik appears at ami a good business is in sight for tlie an op|»irtune time, because of the just as easily as any other time. one who is first in tlie field. Already great need of reliable information upon > No matter when is the hour of your many persons are giving orders to farm the subject of dry farming The semi- ers out of town for their next winter's arid West of that part of tlie United need, the electric servant responds in supply of wimh I, and the demand reach States lying beyond the lOilth meridian I stantly. You can’t tire it out. es over n wide territory outside the to the Pacific Coast, extending from ' city. You may have light, heat, power—one Canada on the north to Mexico on the United States census reports L r tffi- south, which lias in greater part an an or all—at the pressing of a button. towns of Multnomnh county were made nual rainfall of twenty inches or less. And the cost of the service is well with public last Saturday. Gresham is cred It is rapidly being settled by thousands ited with Mil; Troutdale, Soil; Fairview, of families from all parts of the coun in the means of the average family. 204; Saint Johns, 3872 and Portland try. who are undertaking to cultivate Why not talk to us about it? 207,214. There has been a rapid growth these lauds with scarcely any knowledge since the census was made nearly a of dry-larming iiu-thisls. Telephone Main 6688 or A-6131. year ago and all the towns have more President Widtgoe’s embodies the people now than then. It is certain l»,«t and most reliable information ob that Gresham has r»o per cent during tainable upon the subject in hand, not the past year. only for the man who actually tills tlie The publicity committee of the Gres soil, but also the scientific investigator. ham District Commercial Club is pre To quote the author: “It tins been paring copy for a circular which will Is* written with the needs of^the farmer in presented to the club tonight for ap view primarily.’’ Noone knows better proval. If satisfactory it will la' issued than does 'lie writer of this book what in circular or booklet form to lie sent these needs are. lie is a product of the out where it will do the most good. environment of which be writes; lie is SEVENTH AND ALDER STREETS Mrs. C. 8. Smith, corresponding secre a scientific investigator of tlie highest rank and a close student of western tary of tiie club, has it list of over KMX) names to which literature may be sent agriculture, and haa done, probably, and it cannot fail to have lieneficial re more than any other man >n bringing to light the fundamental truths upon sults. which dry farming is based. He dis cusses the relation of dry farming to farming; its problems, require DAIRYMEN PIAN U) (OOPfRAÎt humid ments for succcms , area involved, gen eral climatic features, soils, conversa A meeting of the dairymen of Eastern tion oi moisture, evaporation, summer Multnomah has been called to assemble fallow, tillage, crop adaptation and at the Gresham Grange hall on Thurs crop improvement, as well as other day, April 27. at 10 a. tn., for an all phases of the subject, A brief history day meeting, when steps will lie taken of the development of dry farming is Io form a co-operative distributing sta included. w M. J. tion in Portland. The movement is the result of dissatisfaction with the Saved His Mother's Life. terms offered by the creameries in this “Four doctors had given me up,” district and it is aimed to cut loose from writes Mrs. laiura Gains, of Avoca, Ijt., them entirely. •‘anil my children and all my fniends It is the conviction of the milk pro were looking for me to die, when my ducers that some means must lie found son insisted that I use Electric Bitters. I Can Give Customers the Benefit to market their products with (more I did so, and they have done me a of a Price that Is Right profit, as the exjienses of the dairymen world of giwal. I will always praise are steadily increasing. If the associa them.” Electric Bitters is a priceless tion is formed one of the first things blessing to women troubled with faint will be to undertake a system of dis ing and dizzy spells, bachache, head tribution in Portland which will elimi ache, weakness, debility, constipation nate the middle man, raise profits and or kidney disorders. Use them and reduce the price to the consumer at the gain new health, strength and vigor. ■aine time. Further information inay They’re guaranteed to satisfy or money lie had by consulting 0. E. Frits. refunded. Only 5Oe at all druggists. GODHARD The Servant That Is Never Off Dufy Portland Railway, Light & Power Company RUBBERTIRES THE BEST MAKES AND THE LARGEST STOCK Diamond and Goodrich Makes OSBORN Blacksmith Shop - Main Street •1» Henry «14« Phone. Main 1010 POKTlJtMt». OREGON J. M. SHORT, M D EMPORIUM S. P. BITTNER, M. D FASCINATING STYLES IN SPRING MILLINERY Ph vslcisas-largess» • Qrsahasa. Oregon W . S . WOOD We arc allowing a complete line of GERMAN COACH STALLION LUMBER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Real Estate. Probate and Corporaton Law. Prompt Attention to All Business MILLINERY Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats AUCTIONEER Phone 137 J Res. Phone 708 Y Residence H04 15th St. AT REASONABLE PRICES M K ED L. D. MAHONE (i R E S M A M - W ashington V ancouver , - LADIES TAILOMNO AND 1. 1. J ohnson FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING JOHN VAN ZANTS Johnson à Van Zante POWELL ST. ATTORNEYS AT LAW GRISHAM Removed from Commtfrial Bide. to *14 Hpauidlr;« Bldg . mi A Washington PORTLAND, ORE W. J. OTT OTT BROTHERS DENTISTS Gresham. Oregon W. C. Belt, M. D., C.M Office over First State Bank Phone, office, IV, re«., 1» GRESHAM, OREGON HERALO BARGAIN OFFERS Beaver State Herald and other papers The price of The Herald alone is |1. a year, bat to those who would like the advantage of a clubbing rate with other papers we offer the following low pncee: R'-mraber thes* are the lowest Rates “The Herald" in combination with any of the following: For Plumbing I THAT IS PLUMBING I J. J. WODAEGE In Carlton Bldg. Main St, ' Gresham I | Phone 3b Semi-Weekly Journal Clubbing Offer' Regular |2.50 pricrf',' both Herald and Journal, ♦2.00. 1 yr- • EVENING TELEGRAM WEEKLY OREGONIAN..................... 2.00 DAILY OREGONIAN .................. tf.K OXY and SUNDAY OREM >NIAN ft.«» SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL.......... 2.(10 DAILY JOURNAL DAILY and SUNDAY JOURNAL 7.00 PACIFIC MONTHLY...................... 2.00 PACIFIC HOMESTEAD 1.75 PACIFIC FARMER 1.75 POULTRY JOURNAL (monthly) . 1.50 OREGON AGRICULTURIST 1.50 FARM JOURNAL, 2 yrs and Horse deerets ........................................... 1 SO McCALL’8 MAGAZINE (Ladies') 1.40 .7» This price is for delivenr by mail only and ___ only when remittance is made with order. Papers may be sent to seperate addresses. Sub scriptions may becin at any time. ♦ ♦ BANK OF GRESHAM Capital $ 15.000 J. Elkington, Pres. Jno. Sleret, Vice Pres. Emil G. Kardell, Cashier Genera! Banking Business Foreign Exchange Bought and Sold Interest Paid on Time Deposits Loans Negotiated Fire Insurance Written : : : : : Notary Public and Conveyancing THREE REASONSLWHY Duluth Woven Wire Fence IS THE BEST a is made of the best quality hard steel galvanised wire. The knot is simple, strong and effective; has four points of bearing; annot slip and has no sharp ends, yet is flexible, ¡allowing tlie fence to conform to uneven ground. The line of horizontal wires in* supported by strong, stiff, one piece steel pickets or cross bars, vhich are held securely in place by the circular knot. • 34 41 47 42 39 in. in. in. in. in. high, high, high, high, high, 9 wire - - - - $ 9 wire - 10 wire ----- 10 wire - - - - 9 wire ----- .37 .39 .42 .41 .39 per rod per rod per rod per rod per rod FOR SALE BY STERLING & JOHNSTON RELIABLE HARDWARE Main and Second Sts. Gresham, Oregon E. E. Marshall Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Agent for Portland FARM MACHINERY PHONE 503, GRESHAM, OREGON