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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1903)
THE *A G E SIX WASHINGTON n COUNTY NEWS, FORE3T GROVE, OR., SEPT. 11, 1903. SHORT 1 W ith good teeth follows good digestion, with bad teeth disease and trouble* Good teeth improves beauty* W ith any living person they are absolutely necessary* Even good teeth need care* Because they do not ache they should not be neglected* W e Preserve Teebh W e Fill T eeth W e Clean T eeth W e Insert T eeth W e Repair T e e th W e E x tr a c t T eeth C v i P rices fo r the BEST DENTAL W O R K ARE REM ARKABLY L O W FOR SKILLED W ORK To those who mention having seen this advertisement in the Washington County News and have work doue, we will give a years subscription to the news F R E E WASHINGTON COUNTY DENTAL PARLORS Dr. V . L. DIMMICK, Manager OOft NEIGHBOR—THE TIMES. A local paper, which calls Itself the *"*Y>reBt Grove Times,” and claims to edited and owned by "Walter Hoge «ft Co.," the company being recorded In the business directories as Charles T . Hoge, ever since the establishment 'X * T h e News has been weekly demon strating its Irritability over the pros - verity of Its new neighbor. Vinifica tion and abuse have been liberally meed In vain attempts to distract atten- TJcm from the real I sbuo that The W ashington County News Is la every «way the better paper, why the most roarsory comparison will promptly •demonstrate, and a house to house campaign o f slander and Jaundiced ex pressions of envy In season and out of season socially have backed up the Tim es' consistent course. No better -prauf that the Times considers it Is -«uttering by the competition is needed T h is unhealthy frame of mind has led «to hasty and reckless writing, full of «errors, both of form and of fact. Take •the misspelling of Tabasco, to which T h e News has before referred, and "It «don’t.” which ought not to occur In a oollegetown newspaper, lapses of 1g- xsorance that cannot be credited to ty pographical error and reflect on the -community among those who do not \n nw how little the Times’ represents ■horest Grove. pjven those who out of charity pat- woulxe the paper are not In the habit -«pf sending copies of the Times when i*|ms « s o t to give s favorable impres s io n ot Forest Grove. It Is Just this of «Which the Times complains when It «mmmends Portland for buying an In* ^•rior fire-boat because It was a home ^production, as though the flames would dm more charitable to Portland wood «Imn to Seattle steel So the Times -targe* people to "stand by their own th em even st th# sacrifice of soms- SThlng ” That something which Mr. Vfoge recognise* Is sacrificed by stand i n g by the Time*, which he consider* « b e town. 1* enterprise, news, style, mppeamnre. circulation, all that reader sand advertleer want In a newspaper. •-a.il that helps a town. A sample lit was that thrown over *two pictures o f haying scene* In last Ismt*. both of which were recently Tarnished by Mr. E. L. Naylor, and wnade within the past thre weeks by whe Sunset Engraving Co of San W m a rt.no twit recording to Mr. Hoge. wno may know something about farm ing, there has not been a horse-power hay baler on the Naylor farm for years. Mr. Hoge claims the right to speak for Mr. Naylor without consulting him, as he has done for issues past, each week telling about the brick building Mr. Miller was going to put up on the only business lot In town not tied up against the sale of liquor. There is as much foundation for the one story as the other, and In neither Is there a word of truth. The advance Information about Percy Kelly as compromise candidate for United States district attorney was threshed over before the congres sional nomination last spring anil was news only to the Times man, who en livened It by a blundering substitution of a lumber manufacturer's name. The ridiculous feature of one who professes Geer friendship, pretending to be the mouthpiece of that political antipode, Jack Matthews, Is, o f course, lost on Mr. Hoge, but anyone who knows any thing about Oregon politics will recog nise the absurdity. Now, the editor of The News is not employed to snarl at smaller news papers, but to provide the news of th* county for Its readers, still a few words are here spared to suggest that each time the editor of The News has been pictured In the papers in the pre dicament Mr. Hoge mentions, an ex oneration has followed. But The News man is In position to tell more about the Times plant than can Mr. Hoge. and It Is not a fact that Walter Hoge & Co. own that office without a dollar of Incumbrance, for they did not get It from those who had a title to pass. Also, when that plant was In the writer's possession It paid taxes on a valuation of $1.000, while with all Its other boasted possession* the present company pays tax on a total valuation of $450 The present Times has not enjoyed an existence since 1889, but ceased to exist Jane 4. 1898. ard did not come Into existence again till April. 1899. then claimed to be the Identical Times until the following January, when the Post Office ruled that It was not the old Times, and re quired It to be re-entered. Perhaps Mr Hoge was Ignorant of these facts when he had placed In the American Newspaper Directory for thla year a circulation claim which Included the Washington County Hatchet, as though that and his paper were the same. The rating below appears In this issue of the Directory, but the attention of the publishers has been called to this bare faced fraud, which gives Mr. lloge's paper a standing to which It is not en titled. The editor of The News is not a stranger to Washington county, and takes some little satisfaction In hav ing edited the only county newspapers of large circulation ever published in ashlngton county, The News now running over 1,400 a week. “ Times; Thursdays; Republican; “ four pages, 18x24; subscription (1 ; "established 1889; Walter Hoge & Co. "Circulation: Actual average for the "first six months of 1897, 1339; for "1898, 1392. In 1899, yL (Estimated "at exceeding one thousand, but no "recent circulation statement has been “furnished from the office of the pa- ■per, and a consequent probability "that the last circulation rating ac- “ corded to it may be higher than a "new statement would warrant.) In “ 1900, yl. In 1901, 'J K L ' (indicating “ that the average Issue of the paper "Is not supposed to exceed a thousand “coptes, which is the advertiser's unit “ of value).” The extract is the notice of the Times as it appears in the 1903 edition of Geo. P. Rowell A Co.'s American Newspaper Directory. In parenthesis appearing the explanation of the letter ratings. The figure ratings were those of the Washington County Hatchet. Wanted—Good Bartlett pears, under 2'^ Inches In diameter, in change for goods at Bailey’s Store. not ex Big * Rev. R. H. Kennedy was Saturday released from Hillsboro county Jail, where he was held on a charge of burglarising the Warren residence, through the efforts of Dr. C. L. large, who. with nine others. Dr. J. P Tantie me of Hillsboro, and Banker E. W. Haines. City Treasurer Walter Hoge. Druggist C. F. Miller, T. H. Adams. Henry Hamilton. M. Peterson, E. R. Burton and J. W. Cornelius, qualified on his It.OOO ball bond. His liberty enabled Mr. Kennedy to take hts counsel. Hon. S. B. Huston, to Port land the fore part of the week, where they went over the ronte the clergy man had taken on the evening of the housebreaking, and accounted for ev ery moment of his time in Portland that night, and the attorney says he will so thoroughly establish his client's alibi that no one can doubt his innocence. Mrs. Mackinder's testi mony at the preliminary hearing, so posittve in her identification of Rev. Mr. Kennedy as the robber, is another warning that people should not be too sure and leaves that lady in embar rassing plight, having falsely accused one whose vindication, had it not been for his timely release, would have been exceedingly difficult. One of the important witnesses was on the point of leaving for the kfest, and the others whose names were unknown, would have been hard to find by any direc tions the prisoner could have given, so that but for this release, for which she was in no way responsible, her mistaken testimony would have sent an innocent man to the penitentiary and blighted that home now so happy, where the wife and six children re joice In the return of the husband and father. Oliver Curtis, who has been carrier on rural free delivery route No. 1, has been appointed to route 2, which starts the 15th, through Verboort. Dooley's thresher made a record at the John Ireland place, 1318 bushels of oats in 3 hours and 10 minutes, and finished the day at Wilcox's place, get ting through 3450 bushels in the day. Ben Villiger’s new hotel near the depot will be ready for occupancy about Nov. 1, and will have 20 bed rooms, varying, 12x10, 12x12 and 12x 14, a first story 44x34, and a second floor 40x32. The third floor, with space for 10 rooms more, will not be finished until needed. A parlor 20x26 and a billard room of the same size are on either side of the lobby or of fice, which is 2oXl5. The dining room is 22x34 and the kitchen 40x22, the lat ter with a big range and a 50-gallon boiler. Heating will be by hot aii from a furnace in the large basement. Plumbing is complete, two bathrooms and five closets, and will cost about $600. The plastering costs $1000 and with the third floor unfinished and no furniture the outlay of the owner will exceed $8,000. Louis Christen, of Francis. Wash., with his three sons is doing the building, and the hotel will be managed by a brother of the owner, Henry Vllleger, of San Francisco, who Is expected here shortly. Hollis A Hawks, of the Grove, were attorneys for Burke, who broke Jail at Hillsboro last Thursday. Mrs. Burke, whom he had married only a short time ago. recently came up with $1,500 for cash bail, but the charges were too numerous to admit of bail. Mr. E. A. Stewart, president of the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Co., after an Inspection of their Forest Grove plant, returned Friday evening to Kent. Wash. A considerable addi tion of machinery is planned for this winter to the local condenser, which already, with its stock on hand, repre sents an Investment of about $75.000. Vancolen A Banks are Improving their meat market, making It up-to- date in Its arrangement and appoint ments. and with the excellent quality of their stock, courteous treat Hillsboro has been lively this week ment and fair prices, are deserving the large patronage which has made in the vicinity of the county court necessary this rearrangement o f their house. Mrs. Tromley, wife of the man quarters. tarred and feathered, Wednesday The Shogren farm, near Gaston, has morning set on fire her dwelling, north been sold to J. L. Devltt. of Auburn- of the courthouse, which had been ad Wash.. 140 acres, for $6.000. and will judged the property of an old man be used as a dairy ranch. Its new whom It waa claimed she had defraud owner was attracted by and will be a ed. She claims she was Intotxcated at the time, but property mortgaged to large patron of the condenser. Miss Marie fttdehr began her school Weftrung A Son. which she claimed at Reedvllle Monday Miss Chalmers had been burned, waa afterward found cached In a barn In the outskirts of o f Centerville is principal. town, the absence of any metal re Maitland—To the wife of Frank mains from the piano having first ex Maitland, o f Hillside, on Aug. 27. a son. cited suspicion. So the lady was placed In the woman's ward o f the Dr. C. L. Large attending. Jennings— To the wife of H. O. Jen county Jail, near her husband's cell. nings. of near Gaston, on Sept. 8. a I-ooklng up these mutters and caring daughter. Dr. C. L. 1-arge attending. for an insane woman kept the Sheriff basy, besides having to borrow bed ding, as County Judge Rood declined to authorize the purchase o f any for the woman's ward. Late at night the jail was locked, but evidently the steel door of the cage was prevented from locking, although the lever shut down much as usual. About midnight John Tom McNa. mara, often in custody, this time for larceny of two rings from a store, re calling a hole made in the wall during Sheriff Bradford’s time to release the jailer who had been locked in, started to dig out, assisted by Burke, the For est Grove forger, using two halves of a heavy staple. They soon made a hole Just large enough to crawl through, and spring locks on sheriff’s office and courthouse floors made the rest o f their escape easy, Trombley stayed, although he says the pair offer- sd to get a crowbar and break open the woman's ward if he and his wife wanted to go too. Early In the morn ing Trombley gave the alarm to the janitor, saying he feared to venture on the street to call the sheriff, lest the city marshal might shoot him as a fugitive. All possible points were noti fied, and Sheriff Sewell personally has offered $160 for Burke’s recapture and $25 for "Brick Top,” although the lat ter would be a good riddance for the county, as he is forever in trouble. $175 REWARD. Broke Jail at Hillsboro, Ore., night of Sept. 8, 1903: J. H. Burke, age 35 to 45; weight, 140 to 150; medium light hair, streaked with gray in temples; light mustache (may now be shaved); blue gray eyes, with cast; face long, fore head broad, and runs to point at chin; face a little pitted; some pits on right neck; hacking cough; talks deep in throat; smokes cigarettes made of Durham tobacco and brown paper. Ar rest and wire; $150 reward. Broke Jail at Hillsboro. Ore., Sept. 8, 1903; J. T. McNamara; about 5-ieet 7 or 8; sandy, red hair; black-brown eyes; weighs 140 to 150; Inveterate cigarette smoker; nose twists one side. Frequents low saloons. Arrest and wire. $25 reward. J. W. SEW ELI,, Sheriff of Washington County. Oregon. For Sale— A fine ten-acre tract of land, one mile from Forest Grove. Enquire Wash. Co. News, or J. P, Wagner »15-18