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and furniture to his new home. He leaves one of the finest homes in the west, at Orleans, and was one of the pioneer merchants of that town. We are glad to welcome such men as Mr. Morgan to our community and trust Centerville. that he will find this climate more Ed. Burke and wife have moved in- • • j agreeable than that of the plains. to Mrs. Wren’s house. The Dayton people are having H. Osterman went to Portland on more trouble over A. C. Probert’s business the last of the week. banking operations. The directors of Mrs. L. Williamson is visiting her the “ ex-bank” are being sued for mother, Mrs. C. Wren. deposits to the extent of about $4000. Last Saturday, while playing with Much feeling is shown over the matter. her sister, little Maria Biel, a sweet The feeling ought to take form in little girl of six, had the misfortune of landing Probert where he ought to having three of the fingers of her left land. hand chopped off. Dr. Bailey, Jr. Civic Improvement Meeting. sewed up the wounds. There will be an open meeting of Miss Gertrude Marsh visited with the Civic Improvement Society at Verts her folks the first of the week. Hall, on Wednesday evening, March Seghers. 16. A good program of music and J. C. Parsons and F. Donelson have addresses has been arranged and a organized a new company here, under large attendance is desired. the firm name of the P. & D. Wire Fence Co. Anyone wishing their To the Citizens of Forest Grove. services, call at an early date as they Tomorrow occurs the state intercol are always very busy. legiate oratorical contest at this place. Anyone having old tinware to mend There will be a much larger crowd of can have it done in first-class style by students here from other colleges than Joe Bronner an accomplished tinner our hotels can possibly accomodate with sleeping room. Anyone having from the old country. Mr. August Roth was a visitor among rooms to let out that night at hotel his many friends, at Verboort, on last rates will accomodate us by giving Friday and was highly entertained by notice of same to Principal H. L. Bates Father Verhaag and also at the mansion or to J. W. Philbrook.—Committee on Entertainment. of Theodore Bernard. Our Correspondences Gaston Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Alexander, of Forest Grove, and Mrs. H. D. Jennings of Gaston, visited at the home of J. J. Baxter, of Forest Dale, for a few days and report a jolly time. Mrs. Baxter entertained some friends on Saturday evening, good music and refreshments were enjoyed. Gales Creek. Dallas and Qualley (mail-carriers) started out on Monday, Feb. 29, with the mail for the Wilson River route. When they got half way to the summit could get no further so returned Mon day night for reinforcements. McGil- very returned with them and they took 3 horses and broke a trail through 6 feet of snow. By Wednesday they had reached Brown’s Cabin and they finally reached Rhears at 3:15 a. m. on Friday. J. T. Fletcher was up on Gales Creek surveying for Wilson Bros. On Monday, of this week Berry and Thrapp sent the last load of the prune crop of 1903, to the depot. Dilley. The revivals which began the first The Dethlefs Bros, have just returned of the week in the M. E. church con ducted by Mrs. Hickenbottom and from Portland where they sold a car load of potatoes for 96 cents a sack. Rev. Alferd, are very well attended. The Lewis family who had a bad Miss Jessie Freund visited friends in attack of scarlet fever, has about the Grove Saturday. recovered. John Beal, a former resident here, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Briggs left Satur* day for La Camas, Wash., to visit rela has moved back again after an absence of three years. John says there is no tives and friends. The dance given in the Hall last place like home. Joseph Bronner, who was laid up Friday night was a success and every for a week with a bad case of acute one had a good time. swelling of the tonsils, is up and Mrs. Miller, of Cornelius, has organ around again. ized a singing class here. Oliver Chowning spent Sunday with his family. # " Banks. Things are moving along about the same as usual. The snow is all gone in the foothills, and the farmers are looking around to see what they have left after the long rainy winter. They are beginning the spring work by re pairing fences and pruning trees, etc. The Telephone Co. had a meeting at Carstens’ mill on the 5th inst. The merchant at Elbow is talking of moving to where the Shipley mill once stood. Professor Garrigus and his class will give a musical entertainment at the Thatcher church next Saturday night. All are invited. The numerous sawmills are getting ready for the spring work. A New Sunday Paper. Few people realize the enormity of the labor and the extent of capital necessary to put into circulation a daily paper in one of our large cities. The following editorial which appears in the Journal, of Portland, will be interesting and self-explaining. “ On the eleventh day of this month The Journal will be two years old. It is safe to say that during the last year no American newspaper has made greater proportionate strides in business, circulation or in influence. From a modest and purely experimental plant it has in that time grown into a thor oughly equipped and well established < > institution. Six months ago it more Jake Shearer, a prosperous farmer than doubled the capacity of the floor of Hillside gave the News office a space at its disposal. It is already be coming so cramped for room that fur call this week. ther expansion is again a problem Paul Garrison had the misfortune to which is immediately before it. step on a nail last Saturday, the result In its mechanical equipment it has was a painful flesh wound and absence secured the very best that money from his classes in the Academy. could buy. Nothing has been bought R. M. Stephens and family from to meet a temporary exigency; every Almena, Kan., unexpectedly dropped thing has been purchased to meet not in upon their old neighbor, M. Peter merely the present, but what at the son last evening. It is needless to time was believed to be the probable say that the surprise was mutually en needs of the establishment for a long joyed by both families. time to come. The Goss press upon Steven Morgan and family, and his which the paper was first printed was son, Leo Morgan, and his family, arrived speedily outgrown. In its stead was yesterday morning from Orleans, Neb. ordered a superb Hoe press with color Mr. Morgan and son will make attachment. This it was fondly be Forest Grove their home. Mr. Morgan lieved would fill the bill for two years brings with him two car loads of stock | to come. But in less than seven LOCAL HAPPENINGS!! months’ time this press has been out grown and another deck has been or dered for it that will increase its Capac ity by 8,000 complete papers an hour. This press will then print, cut, fold, count and deliver a 32-page paper from a single impression. It will print in one impression in four colors, as black, red, green and yellow, besides the va riations in color that may be achieved through blending any of these. On this press, which we hope to see in stalled within the next two months, The Journal will achieve results in color work never before attempted by any newspaper in the Pacific Northwest and which will challenge comparison with any color work produced by any newspaper in any part of the United States. Every other part of the mechanical equipment is immediately being raised to the same high standard so as to the same high standard so as to meet the increased demands which are being made upon it. Now that the evening issue of The Journal is regarded as an established institution, the logical and unavoidable outcome is a Sunday morning issue. While a newspaper may only be printed six days a week, the news of the world goes on just the same for the full seven. That news is just as essential on the seventh day as on the other six, just as much in de mand by the readers and just as much enjoyed. When that fortunate time comes in the history of a newspaper that it is taken for its own sake, that people become attached to the princi ples which it professes and its methods of presenting the news, the readers be gin to regard it as a hardship that the news field is not covered for them every day in the week and that on one day they must turn to other and less favorite sources for their enlightment. There comesa time when this demand becomes so insistent that it can no longer be denied. It is this stage that The Journal has reached. The demand for a Sunday morning issue of The Journal has be come so widespread that it can no longer be resisted. Following its usual custom to meet every reasonable de mand upon it by the people it serves, and who have faithfully stood by it from the start, it has determined to put forth a Sunday morning issue on the 20th of the present month. This will mean that for six days each week, that is every week day, The Journal will be printed in the evening, while on one day in the week, that is Sun day, it will be printed as a morning newspaper. All arrangements are now practically completed for a superb staff of writers, men and women of national fame. It will have its own leased wire service to cover the news fully and adequately and more picturesquely than it has ever before been done in Portland. It will embrace many novel features, many new and striking methods, but it will stick closely to the fearless policy which in two years has placed the eve ning issue far in the forefront* in its field and which we venture to say will in much less time give its Sunday issue unchallenged first place in that particu lar field.”