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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1903)
'V M ' An Up-to-Date Country Newspaper--Republican in Politics. V o l . 1. WASHINGTON COUNTY. The Held o f The New , Is the first agrl- cultural county o f 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 cuttle and blooded sheep and goats. Its hay Is being bought, thousands of 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. I t » prunes and hops get the top prices in the market, and sugar beets, rtax, tobacco, sweet potatoes, horse ran lsh, and mushrooms show the variety of Its production. Its 18.000 people live In UoOO houses, o f which 2500 are on farms, and the great m ajority own their own homes. Sig wagon roads and two lines ef railway connect the county with Cortland, metropolis of the I ’acific Northwest, from •» to 32 tailes distant, and here Is found ready sale for Its products. Good schools, «1 roads, a network of furm telephones and many rural delivery routes affording dully mail make Washington county a pros perous country region with all the con veniences of the city. ctvxrjr F o rest G r o v e , W a s h in g to -i - C o u n ty Mr. Wm. Tucker returned from East ern Oregon with his wife, who has been up there for her health. Mr. Tucker says she is greatly improved. ----- C. L. Mitzel, who went up in East ern Oregon for his health, writes back that his trip is doing him much good. ----- Daniel Bailey and family started back to Ohio Tuesday. ----- A. M. Moore, from Astoria, is a new citizen of Beaverton, and will occupy Mr. Mazzie's house in the eastern part of town.----- Mr. Alexander is moving in to the house vacated by Mr. Bailey’s family. Mr. Alexander has a wild cat for a pet. ----- J. N. Fischer is still confined to the house. ----- The buzz of the wood saw in town reminds one that winter is nearby; so get your wood ready. ----- Lou Tulloc, Wm. Walker and Mary W alker left for Ya- quina Bay for an outing Wednesday. ----- Ben Patton and Ollie Whilam's families went through here on their way to Patton Valley to pick hops. ----- W. H. Boyd is hauling pears to Portland. H e has quite a few to sell this y e a r .----- The children, with din ner pails and books, are the order of the day since St. Mary’s Academy opened last Tuesday. ----- Dr. Rob inson is putting an addition to his b a rn .----- School begins here on the 28th, with Mr. Evenden, from McMinn ville, as principal, Miss Timms, of Bertha, in the intermediate room, and E&rl Fischer, of this place, in the pri mary. ----- Blanch Tulloc and Wm. Tucker made up their minds that they would “ follow suit after the others’ lead,” and go hop picking. the rustic o n .----- Mrs. Emma Brooks started for California last week. ----- Mr. Jesse Snyder, who has been run ning the gang-edger for Groner & Rowell sawmill for the past three months, has started his new house. Mr. C. R. Adams is doing the work. ----- Misses Minnie and Jennie Suth erland have gone to Portland to work for the winter. ----- Mr. F. T. Sheels has returned from the harvest fields and is going to work for the mill com pany aga in .----- Taylor Bros, have giv en their house a new coat of paint, A. Wedisking wielding the brush.----- The G. & R. company,are going to pqt Telephone C oncert— Buggy and W agon Collide— Hop F ield O uting — V isitors In an electric plant this winter in their and V is itin g . sawmill. ----- Mr. Ernest Hanson has E A S T O F G R E E N V IL L E . I Garden Home, Sept. 9.— Mrs. M. E. his hops all picked and Is busy bal ing. ----- Most of the young people of Spencer has been visiting a cousin, H arv e s tin g W e ll Along — Slashing Scholls are picking hops for Mr. W in Mrs. Laura Dittmer, of Portland Burned— Baling and H aulin g H a y — Heights. ----- Miss Sophia Shoemaker ters. ----- Mr. Cyrus Brown has gone Stock E x h ib it fo r State F a ir. has two young ladies from Portland to Woodbum to dry hops this year. Blast o f Greenville, Sept. 10.— Most staying with her during the hop pick- ----- C. H. Brooks and W. E. Prosser o f the farmers feel quite safe with are off to the mountains for a bear in gseason. They take a horse and their crops. Some are through thresh hunt. Leave your orders for bear ing, and those that are not, have their meat at Adams' store. ----- Mrs. J. W. grain well stacked. ----- Mr. Hilts Ratcliffe is going to take a trip to burned his slashing last week and it The Dalles in a few days. ----- Mr. made quite a fire, but added much to J. S. Miller has moved back on his the looks of the farm. ----- Dr. M. H. farm. City life does not agree with Parker purchased some fine oat hay him. from J. B. McNew last week. ----- Mr. Reiling hauled his baled hay P A T T O N VALLEY. to Forest Grove last week. ----- Mr. M an y V is ito rs — B ear Disturbs M r. Louis Kuder. Mr. Potter and Mr. Clar Robinson's M ilk in g — Surveying fo r ence Sinclair started hop picking in E lectric P ow er L in e— School House Yamhill county this week. ----- The Im provem ents. Speiring Bros, started threshing here Button Valley, Sept. 9.— Mr. and this week. ----- Mr. Brown has been Mrs. Hatch, o f Goldendale, arrived hauling hay for Mr. Hill, near Moun- here Sunday afternoon, to be the taindale. the past few weeks. ----- guests o f Mrs. Hatch’s parents, Mr. Deputy Recorder W illis Ireland, from and Mrs. Joseph Bates. ----- Mrs. C. Hillsboro, made a call at H. Vander- H. Standbridge spent Monday and zanden’s one day last week. ----- Mr. Tuesday at the home of her daughter. A. Chalmers left this week for Salem Mrs. Rutherford. ----- Mrs. Roberts with his cattle, to attend the State and sister-in-law. Miss Roberts, spent Fair Tuesday in Forest Grove. ----- Mr. Dan McLeod is pulling poles in the hopyard near Gaston.— Rev. Mr. Put man, of Dilley, is visiting in Patton Neighborhood Notes— Sum m er V is it Valiev this w e e k .----- Mr. L. C. W al ors R eturn to the C ity — Bicycle E x ker and partv, from Forest Grove, cursion. have been surveying for Mr. Haines Hillside, Sept. 9.— Mr. and Mrs. Hen in this virlnitv for the I ee Falls elec ry Bamford are still visiting in Port tric power plant. ----- Mr. Fred Rob land. but are expected home Friday. inson had a visitor the other night ----- Mrs. Frank Woods and daughter. while he was milking his cow, but un Mabel, expect to return to Portland like most visitors it came growling. next Monday, after nearly three The cow was unwilling to make the months on Hillside, enjoying country stranger's acquaintance and didn't life. ----- Misses Daisy and Lena Cur wait to be milked, but ran away. The tis rode their wheels to town and bear came right Into the door yard, spent last evening with Mrs. Watkins about forty yards from the house. In Forest Grove. Bears are quite numerous this year. The neigbors vainly pursued bruin ail SCHOLLS. the next day. ----- The Patton Valley school house has improved in appear Busy Tim es— R ural M ail D e liv ery — ance since Mr. Patton commenced E le c tric P la n t fo r G. A R. M ill— work on it. tOXRBiPOHBtHet O r e g o n , S e p t . 11, 1 9 0 3 buggy and drive about a mile to the near Middleton, Grandma Vincent, where she will attend the Ross Seral- hop field which Mr. Detlef Sherner — — The hop picking is now well un- nary this winter. Her brother, Leon- has rented.----- Mr. Chris Spamer, of der way with several yards having ard, accompanied her as far as Port- Pc^dand, spent Sunday with George completed picking. Some yards paid lan d,----- Chas. Schneider and J. Bar- Peterson. ----- Mr. and Mrs John 50 cents a b o x .----- There is to be a ger were Hillsboro visitors Sunday. Gavrde and family, o f Tigardvtlle, grand hop picking ball in the A. O. U. ----- Quite a number of our people are sp-nt Sunday with Mr. Gaarde's sister, W. Hall next Saturday night. A big picking hops at John Buchanan's.----- Mrs. Morgeson, of Garden Home, and time is expected. Remember the place From the amount of shooting we hear called on Mrs. Gaarde’s mother and where you have a good time.----- Mrs. lately, it is evident that quite a few brother as they were returning home. Justina Cooke and Miss Louise Brey- people are enjoying game out of sea — - Mrs. Herbert Turner’s little 5- man, o f Portland, were visiting friends son on their bill o f fare. It would moaths-olrl daughter has the whooping and relatives over Sunday. ----- Mr. be well for the game warden, or some- cough. Mrs. Turner lived in Garden Chester G. Hall and wife will return one vested with authority to punish Home till the time of her marriage. to Portland shortly, where Mr. Hall those who are boldly violating the will attend the medical college this game law, to make this locality a vis- ----- Quite a number along the tele i I t . ----- W e could almost hear the loug- phone line were listening to Mr. John winter. ---------------------------- 1 drawn sigh o f relief o f the farmers Gaarde's graphaphone Sunday evening who were fortunate enough to get and It sounded like more. ----- Miss -------- their grain threshed out, and the rest Carrie Nicholson has been visiting her parents for several days, and her | A 12-inch Sunflow er— Long Bridge Re- Just wait patiently (? ) for the men paired__ Game Law V io lated — Hop with the threshers, and promise them- friend Mr. Okestrom stayed over Mon Notes. selves to not be compelled to call on day. ----- Miss Sophia Shcemaker and Fern Hill, Sept. 9.— Joe Cooper has them next year, as they think of mak- her two young friends were out driv ing and met with an accident. Geo. gone to the Grove to enter the real Ing the old-fashioned flail do duty for Peterson had stopped his horses to estate business. ----- Tim Barger has what grain they will raise, and raise rest when the girls came along, and constructed a cider mill and now dis- more h a y .----- Mr. R. W. McNutt, of In trying to pass the wheels caught, penses fresh cider to his many friends Cornelius, who has been furnishing us the horse and shafts going on, but the ----- Mr. and M tb . J. Dixon attended with fresh bah quite often during the rest of the buggy remaining. With church at the Grove Sunday.----- Mrs late summer, made his last trip our the help of Mr. Peterson the rig was Wagner, of Forest Grove, visited her way Monday. ----- Mr. Aiten, an aged last resident, has been quite ill for some fixed up so that the girls could reach daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Barger, A fire set in C. W. Hend-j tim e.----- Lawrence Dixon, hauled hay home. week. rick’s slashing burned several hundred for Dr. C. E. Geiger the first of the feet of new board fence belonging to week. Archie Duncalf and his j. D ixon.----- Hop picking began Aug, friend made a trip to town Wednes- Mrs. Wm. Bennett and grand- T w o M arriages— Public School Open 31 in Pollock's yard, and was finished day. ing— Death of Mrs. V in c e n t — Hop on Monday, this week. The boss re - 1 son and daughters, Flora and Mrs. ports a light crop.----- Since the News Clara Irmler, o f Portland, visited at Picking Ball. Sherwood, Sept. 9.— Married, at Mid mentioned last week a 9-inch sunflow- the Chapman home Wednesday, dleton, Miss Mary Bristow and Mr. er as being in the prize-winning class, I Jewett, last Sunday.----- Mr. William we might mention the fact that Mr. 1 Barber, son o f Rev. J. M. Baiber, of George Chapman has growing on his V is ito rs From Iowa W oodm en H a ll Hood View, and Miss L ily Seely will farm quite a number o f heads that! — Im provem ents at W est Union 17 ( C em etery— Off for Canada— Cam pers be united in the bonds of wedlock to- measure 12 Inches across, and fo r W ilson River— N ew S aw m ill. dv- ^.W e wish them a long and happy inches over. How is that for size? Glencoe, Oregon, September 9.— th it r .g h -life - The puhljp M.r r’ha*>man also haa a natch of good f school of Sherwood will open the 28th corn this year. — far'. 8 .' Altm i*n*r- '« * * * * 1 has just disposed o f his crop o f 1>an<l, Mr. and Mrs. Chapin, are visit*, inst., with Mr. B'alting as chief wield- peaches, which were of fine quality. lnK them from Atlantic, Iowa. They er of the hazel, and Miss Lilian Briggs — Some needed repairs have recent-"111 shortly return to their home, as primary wielder. ----- The school way of San Francisco. ------ The house is to be repainted inside and out, ly been made on the long bridge.------ ^ and to have a general cleaning, a thing The Pollock brothers are drying the carpenters have commenced on the of which it has been need for some hops for the Porter yard. ------ Miss W. O W. Hall, and expect to have time. ----- Died, Sept. 5, at her home Clara Dixon left Monday for Seattle, 11 finished by the 1st of October. j J. W. Goodin, C, P, Berry and J. C. Tlllls have built a new fence around the West Union cemetery. — ■— Dr. B. Sandford has been on the sick list, suffering with heart trouble. • Threshing is about over in this vicin ity. and nearly everyone Is proparing to go to the hop ygrds.------Mr. James Gray, the shoe maker, has gone to Canada for a visit with his children for two or three months. He will stop off for a few weeks at Salt Lake City | to visit a nephew. ------ Mr. Eslle Mil ler returned from Eastern Oregon last Monday, where he has been staying for his health. He is much improved, and says his brothers. Perry and Charley, are a good deal better than they were. ------ Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Cornelius, Fred and Eva Cornelius and Louis I Boulby, of Hillsboro; Mr. and Mrs. W. I E. Mays, Lucy Davis and Richard Sandford, Jr., of this place, started on a trip to Wilson river Monday. If the weather continues good they may 1 go to Tillamook before returning.----- , Clarence E. Mays returned from the coast last week, very much Improved In health. ----- J. W. Goodin Is build ing a sawmill up on the Sam Johnson place for Crocker & Parker. ----- Miss Lina Graham, of Portland, Is the guest o f Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Goodin. Cold W e a th e r D rives In Hop P ickers — Removed to Ohio— A Sick F am ily— New Resident — House P a in t ing. Bear H u n t— N ew Houses. Scholls. Sept. 9 — Three steam threshers and a sawmill running In the neighborhood make Scholls a very busy place this week. ------ Grain is turning out good this season, es pecially oats. Wheat is still a little scarce around here this year.------The new mail carrier from Sherwood is delivering mail daily on the new free delivery route from that place ------ Mr. Fowler, who has been living on the old J. 8. Miller place, has gone to work in Newberg for the winter. and J. F. Miller Is looking after bis harvest for him. Mr. Wm. Crater has his new house all up. and part of M ill S hort of W a te r— Sick People Ben e fite d by Change of C lim ate— Mov ing— 8 t. M a ry ’s Academ y Opens— Public School Teachers— V is ito rs to the Seashore— Im provem ents. Beaverton. Sept. 9.— Livermore's mill, west of town. Is having quite a time getting water. Two or three wells have been sunk, one over one hundred feet deep., and still they have to haul water, two men and a team being kept busy supplying the mill. ------ Several more went up the valley from here hop picking Sunday ____ N o . 17 W A S H IN G T O N COUNTY TOBACCO. The last census credited Washington county with only part of an acre on wMch 260 pounds of tobacco was p oduced, but a number of patches over the county have demonstrated that It could be produced and three years ago must have been an exceptional year if over a ton of the weed was not raised. Burt Stewart, on Philip French’s farm near Thatcher, a dozen years ago. raised enough tobacco for his own use and that of the neighborhood from a quarter acre. Mr. J. T. Fletcher’s father, cn his Gales Creek farm, planted once four different varieties of tobacco seed furnished by Senator Mitchell and the early kind did very well. Mr. Townsend, near Centerville, and several around Dilley have raise ) fair crops and John Weoll, of Gales Creek, has been marketing fine tobacco for a number of years About the frost line on the hillsides Is said to be especially adapted for tobacco rais ing and another season is likely to see this a considerable Industry. Beaverton, Sept. 9.— People continue to go to the hop yards. Some have already returned on account of the cold weather. ------ Daniel Bailey and family left Tuesday morning for Ohio, where they will reside In the future. ------Several members of J. N. Fisher’s family, including J. N. Fisher himself, are confined to the house by illness. ------ A. M. Moore, of Astoria, a son of J. F Moore, of this place, has taken up his residence In our city. ------ W. J. Alexander will occupy the Coleman house .lately vacated by D. Bailey. ------ Ned Nelson Is Improving his resi dence by giving It a coat of paint.------ Mrs. J, M Hobart Is visiting with J. M. McGee at Tlgardvllle. ------ L. D Elston made a flying visit to Bea verton Tuesday evening. A few gnod horses and several sec- ond-hand buggies for sale at a bargaln. or will trade Call at News offlee or see Peter Peteraon. •