BlfCEfT BIMflEfT ul BEST An Up*to-Date Country Newspaper--Republican in P, litica. - V V o l. 1. W ASH ING TO N COUNTY. C OR RE ZPOHBE • # ' . 9 — ■ ■ ■ rzz^ __ - ...... F o r e s t G r o v e , W i s h i a ^ t o n C o u n t y , O r e g o n , A u g . 7, 1 9 0 3 . Sherwood school board has just re­ cently engaged the following teachers for the ensuing school year: E. T. Faltiug, of Michigan, as principal, ana Miss Alice Irwin, of San Diego, Cai., as primary teacher. From the infor­ mation received by the board prepara­ tory to the hiring of Mr. Falting, he comes highly recommended as an ex­ perienced man in the way of education and school methods.----- The United Artisans o f Middleton and Sherwood were the guests o f the Scholls As­ sembly on last Tuesday evening. Ai» reported having a splendid time, and many are the praises for the hospital­ ity received.----- The town recorder was called out from his peaceful slumbers a few evenings ago to quiet a periodical spasmodic which predom­ inates to quite a degree in a suburban couple. However, the altercation was soon adjusted, and the couple went ome rejoicing to think that the fra­ ternal ties that so closely bind were not severed.----- The onion growers of this district report the weather very unfavorable for the maturing of the crop. They claim that the greates. danger now- exists in the cloudy, cool weather bringing on blight and mould. The crop will be several thousand sacks short o f last season’s yield. about over here, and some of the far­ mers are beginning to prepare for threshing.—— Miss Short and Miss ./Templeton, who have been the guests of Miss Mary Bmmel for the past week, returned to their homes in Fo. ost Grove last Wednesday.----- The i'oung people of the Farmington M. E. hurch are going to give an ice cream ■ocial next Saturday evening, August A pleasant time is anticipated.— ■One of our farmers was in Portland this week with a load of farm pro- iuce. principally potatoes, and was obliged to reap what some scalawag farmer had sown. If we want to gain the confidence of city trade, let us re­ member that “ honesty Is the best pol­ icy." ed home from their outing at the only trouble now is his appetite.——- Coast.----- It has been too cold for com- Several of the Gaston boys were out 5T Scholls, Aug. 6.— Mr. and Mrs. Wollschlegel have just returned from Glencoe, where they have been visit­ ing friends.----- The lawn party at A. B. Flint’s home last Saturday night is reported to have been a very pleas­ ant and successful affair.----- C. H. Brooks and w ife will start for Califor­ nia as soon as they can get packed. Mr. and Mrs. Fisk will move into their house.----- Mrs. Lillegard, from Farm­ ington, was at Scholls, Saturday, giv­ ing music lessons for the first time.— .—Mr. and Mrs. LeRue, from Portland, are visiting friends at Scholls. Banks, Aug. 6 — Mr. Robert Rufli had several ribs broken by being pressed against the barn door by a horse.----- McGraw & Co. are baling hay for Mr. McGill.----- Mrs. Mahona, o f Forest Grove, is visiting friends at this place.----- The F ir Grove picnic went off nicely, with an attendance of about one hundred and fifty people.— — Mr. N. S. Prickett and son are going with Mr. Herb's thresher.----- Mr. Gar- rigus has five acres o f fine corn, which he intends to put In his silos this fall. Oilley, Aug. 6.— Abner Bruggs re­ turned from Seaside last week.----- Mrs. Maury and Mrs. Miller made a business trip to Forest Grove Wednes­ day afternoon.----- Mr. D. Chowning has gone to Seattle for a short time.— — Samuel Aplin, of Rainier, is visiting friends and relatives here.— Mrs. Hat­ tie Burchell, of Heppner. is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bucking­ ham.----- W e are sorry to hear of th « sad accident that happened to W alter Chatfield while working on H. A. Hub- bert's baler, but hope he will soon re­ cover.----- Miss Elsie Maury was visit­ ing friends on Gales Creek last week. ----- W e see Porter Tupper is able to he hauling wood.----- Miss Mack is vis­ iting friends in Portland.----- Mrs. Mc­ Pherson is having an addition put on­ to her house.----- E. J. Hubbert is doing a big business in wood and has sev­ eral men employed.----- Mrs. Jennie Burchell. who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Sally Hoover, left for Heppner Thursday.— If anybody wants a good square meal, call on Mrs. Mag­ gie Ulm. on Grand Ave. Beaverton. Aug. 4.— Miss Emma Archabold. of Hillsboro, and Professor Coffee, who has been taking a special course at Stanford, spent a few days visiting with R. H. W alker and family last week.----- W. E. Barnes and fam­ ily are enjoying an outing at Alsea Bay.----- John Wolf. Lorance W olf, and George Hughaon are spending a cou- N o . 12 fort at the seaside this summer, fox ln the mountains thU week and re- turned with a number of fine deer, in fact we have not had any summe; They report flndlng partleg ,n tb(J yet and if the weather man don’t hurry woods wlth dogg that were uged ,Q it will be autumn before he gets his chaslng the deer Any one who w ll, summer started, and the sea bathing use dogs ,n huntlng deer lg but uttle will be lost to many an eager swim- better than the bruteg he ugeg ,n the mer.----- The wild hay that grows so cbasP abundantly on the uncultivated part of the Wapato lake land has been cut Beaverton, Aug. 6. Mr. John Henry and baled and Is now being shipper went to the Coast Saturday to spend to Oswego, where it is used in making a ^ew days with his family, who are moulds in the Oswego foundry. The catnping there for the season. Mr. hay is not very valuable as feed, but Fletcher, from Seattle, consented to makes excellent packing for foun- barber the b° y 8 of Beaverton Satur- drles, bottle factories, etc., and Is day He used hls tools very cleverly. W. H. Morton is improving his much cheaper than excelsior.----- Pat­ premises with a new sidewalk. Mr. ton & Holscher have been unable to fill the demand that has been made Bailey is doing the work for him.----- Hayward, Aug. 6.— Mr. R. Strohmyer upon them for lumber, and they have Quite a bit o f wood is being hauled is building an addition to his barn.----- just completed putting in another en- lnto town and plled alon« tha rallroad Hayward farmers are busily harvest­ glne of 90 horsepower and boiler, anu ^or shiPment- W. L. Barnes, the ing their rye and oats. Potatoes and also a gang edger. They expect to be f ° reman tb*8 section. Is off on a other crops are looking fine this year. able ln future to fill all orders on sh o rt! two wepk8’ vacatlon to the Coast t0 ----- Mrs. Stote, of Portland, is visiting notice with the very best of lumber, as v,slt hls father- Mr H ’ C’ WaUs U her mother and sister this week.----- they have a fine body of yellow fir fll,inK hls plftce whl,e he 18 * one’----- Mrs. Raulf and Mrs. Roebuck were from which to select their logs. Quite a drove of sheep was kept over calling on Mrs. Whitten Friday even­ Master Williams, at the Patton mill, night here Tuesday night. They came pie of weeks in the mountains, hunt ing.----- Mr. J. D. Jennings and fam­ while riding a log on the mill pond from UP the valley’----- A 8ma11 bunch ing and fishing.— Aug. Rossi. S. Lai» ily were visiting on Gales Creek Sun­ came near being drowned, as tne log of hor8P8 18 belnS pa8tured to r ducei and A. Morracci are sojourning day.----- There was German preaching he had selected was a cranky one and a few days- They were brought here at Newport.— Miss L illie Wilson, of at Hayward Sunday.----- Miss Traver threw him Into the water, and onl, | by three Kent,emen from ^ atern ° re* Portland, visited Saturday and Sun­ will soon close her school at Hayward. for the prompt action of mill hands * on *° 8el1’----- Hou8es are ,n K° ° d day with Dr. Robinson’s family.----- R. Glencoe. Aug. 5.— Mr. C. S. White, She has had a successful term and he would have found a watery grave. ! demand here at the Present’ one man D. Benham is in Beaverton again for of Shady Brook, fell ofT of a log last everybody is well pleased. At closing ----- New potatoes are an excellent crop 18 ramplnK in tb® ed« e walt‘ a few days.----- The new sidewalk Saturday morning and hurt himself there will be a picnic.----- A dance and thls season, and hops are promising ln* for a ebance to rent or buy a hou8e' which Judge Morton is having laid In quite badly. Quite a gash was cut ,ce cream supper will be held p.t Hay- well and unless something unforeseen ! Some of our c,tlzens would do * ? U front of his store and residence will above his right eye and his face ward dance hall next Saturday night, turns up will give a big yield.----- to bu,ld 8ome houseB t0 re n t------- ^ be a decided improvement over the bruised. Mr. W hite won't try to w atlr' August 8. Frank Ralston has Just received h counc" dld 8° rae more of the pl8nnln* old one.----- The cap and necktie social any more logs very soon.----- Mr. a n d ----------------------------- large steam thresher engine, and H. L 1 of 8 nPW Jalt Mom,ay n,* ht’----- Me88r8' given by the young people of the M. E. Gm ton, Aug. 6.— A number of pco­ Cowls has also had a large enR,ne ; G o r g e Hughron and John W olf shoul- church was a decided success, both Mrs. Thos. Connell spent a few day, in Portland, visiting relatives. If-t > e the city o f Portland are shipped out to use In baling bay ! dp™ ’ ,helr rtfle8 and took to * * socially and financially. , _ .. . mountains to chase g ae for theu week.---- Mrs J Inch. - _ uu ' ,pt» r mi ;>* f » She has been bedfast nearly two They are staying near enough to shel- Sherwood, Aug. 5.— Perry Hall, who weeks.----- W e are glad to see that ter ,o In case of rain they can come early and late while the season lasts theT crop as doing well, and thoy are has been engaged in the harness busi­ Wm. Joos is able to be out again, after in out of the wet these cold days.----- ----- Bert W hite has hls thresher ready la hopea that the prlCe W‘ " be brtter ness for the past four months, has 'is recent sickness.----- Miss Lucy It was carelessness or the lack of to run and wil start the macnlne to than last year.----- Molly Mitzel is vis­ moved to Portland to accept a posi­ Davis is home from Portland, where thought that caused people to crowd humming Monday morning.----- Farm iting the home folks this week.----- tion as teamster on a grading job.----- the has been working for the past upon a bridge to its overloading ana ers are storing a large amount of hay W. T. Desinger is going on a two I The S. P. Co. are now busily engaged three months.----- Quite a number of to their own peril or destruction. And this season ln anticipation of a better weeks' trip to the hot springs In the | in laying heavy steel on their track the young folks attended the ice how much more careless, shortsighted price next spring, but we believe at Cascades to spur hls health up a little. I through this place. This will be a cream social at W est Union last Sat­ or positive lack o f thought it must be present prices it is a mistake.----- Mr ----- Misses Summers and Zimmerman | great improvement over the old steel, urday evening.----- John W. Connell for young men to drink liquor at all, to Rogers has planted a fine new picket called on the former’s sister at Farm­ which was far too light for the in­ went with Dr. W. D. Wood and Thos. say nothing about drinking to excess, fence in front of hls dwelling, thus ington Wednesday. creasing heavy traffic durir.g the past Tongue, of Hillsboro, but had mercy when they know that it Is a certain adding to the appearance o f hls place, Patton Valley, Aug. 5.— Mr. Dan Mc- few years.----- O. Brown, o f Forest on the deer and spared them all.----- road to dishonor, loss o f position and and it’s an Improvement to the town Grove, who has been interested in the Miss Lena W alfler is suffering with a ruin worse than death. How many ----- The Gaston baseball club have I,eod and Jimmy Lee went hunting creamery business for the pasl fifteen blood poisoning in her hand.----- Mr. become useless, worthless wrecks be- rented a ten-acre corner of Wapato Friday. They killed two wild cats, years in Oregon, and is now desirous and Mrs. B. Cornelius, or Hillsboro, -ause thev do not stop and think.----- lake and are wearing the sod in their but failed to bring back the venison o f securing a favorable location for a spent Sunday with their daughter, Frank Kelly Is piling high a fine lot of practice. Fd. Jeter, the pitcher, spits for which they went.----- Mr. Styhten- plant, spent a few days in Sherwood Mrs. W. E. Mays. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. cak and fir wood at the Gaston switch. on the ball and then sends it on a bock and family, of Portland, are and vicinity gathering data as to the Cornelius and fam ily fere alo there.— Can not get cars, so the pile grows curve that challenges the world. The spending their vacation on their ranch advisability of locating at this place. — Mrs. J. W. Connell is up at the Den­ higher and higher.----- J. Satterle», only trouble so far is that they can’t about eight miles west of Gaston, ex­ Mr. Brown states owing to condition» ny Ford, camping with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Naylor, Allen Bran and W. find any one who can catch hls deliv­ pecting to stay two months. Mr. which now exist in the way o f competi­ J. W. Morgan, of Hillsboro.— Mr. G. P. "verest were out from Portland foi a ery. T ’-e bovs are going to challenge Stvhtenhock Is of the Pacific Paper tion from the Portland buyers, that it Norman and son, of Astoria, are visit­ day’s fishing. They were guests of the world’s champions as soon as they Company, Portland. Oregon.----- Mr. would be a very unprofitable Inves- ing with his sister, Mrs. Mary Davis. Dr. and Mrs. Everest and took a fine get a lltle more practice.----- Henry William Davis and family, also Mr. E d string of big trout home with them.— Caves, who has been quite low with Kilham and family, recently of Port­ ment to start a creamery, especially this close to the metropolis.----- The Farmington, Aug. 6.— Haying is — Edna and Mamie Hibbs have return tvphold f?ver, is convalescent. Th« land, have moved on their ranches to make their homes.----- Messrs. Btyhten- bock, Davis and Gilson each own 400 acres of good land. They are prosper­ ing. owning about 400 head o f stock, horses, cattle and pigs Their ranches are at the head of Patton Valley, about eight miles from Gaston.----- The bal­ ers are very busy this week at the Darling Smith place, baling for Jack Olsen.----- Haying Is proceeding rap­ idly; will soon be done.----- The grain is ripening fast; already the binders are singing the old song we like to hear.----- Miss Rosa Oerrish and Mr. W ill Oerrish were visiting at Mr Alau McLeod's last week.----- Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Bloom and Mr. and Mrs. A. M r. McLeod were visitors at Mr. Alan Mc­ Leod's Sunday.----- Mr. Frank Fields and a companion, of the condensed y V ” ' milk factory, were In Patton Valley In 1 the Interests of the factory.----- M». Brown, of Gaston, was In Patton Val­ ley on a business trip yesterday.----- Mr. Frank McKenzie flndlng the cli­ mate agreeable, is now working on the Johnson-I.eabo farm.----- Mr. ana Mrs. George Doney and sister were visitors at the home o f Mr. C. H. Standbridge Sunday.----- Miss Ann!» | Hynd and father, o f Eastern Oregon, are visiting her sister Mrs. George Doney, at her home three miles south west of Gaston. They expect to stay only a short time. The field o f The News Is the first agri­ cultural county of Oregon. First for clover, for onions, for grapes, and In d airyin g ; It also leads in diversified farming and is famous for fine horses, good cattle and blooded sheep and goats. Its hay is being bought, thousands o f tons of It, by the government to feed cavalry horses in the Philippines; Its wines took gold medals over California's exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair. Its prunes and hops get the top prices in the market, and sugar beets, flax, tobacco, sweet potatoes, horse rau ish, and mushrooms show the variety of its production. Its 18.000 people live la 3500 houses, o f which 2500 are on farms, and the great majority own their own homes. Sig wagon roads and two lines ef railway connect the county with Portland, metropolis of the Pacific Northwest, frofc 4 to 32 miles distant, und here is found ready sale for its products. Good scuoels, good roads, a network of farm telephones and many rural delivery routes affording dally mull make Washington county a pros­ perous country region with all the con­ veniences of the city. C0vxrr ' w ..- - - --»— MONEY IN PRUNES A W I L L A M E T T E V A L L E Y PRUNE RCHARP. GOOD BL ACKS MI T H A T DI LLEY. People of that vicinity will he glad to know that now their needs in Macksmlthlng, new work and all kinds o f repairing and wagon work, especial­ ly horseshoeing, can be accommodat­ ed at Dilley. by a first-class black­ smith from Tillamook. 8, O. Thayer, who has opened the shop there. •