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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1904)
Forest Grove, W ashington County, Oregon, Thursday, April 14,1904. Vol. 1. Council Meeting At the regular session of the com mon council Tuesday evening all the city officials were present except Coun- cilmen Stribbich and Starrett. The finance committee made a report which is given below, as is also the settlement with E. W. Haines for lights and water. The street committee was authorized to obtain the necessary lumber for street improvements. The treasurer was instructed to make oat a bill against E. W. Haines as a penalty for failure to furnish light covering the period he was installing the plant at his new dam. A. W. Johnson and John W. Price were granted water privileges. Byron M. Smith was credited with $20.22 for water installation. J. M. Garrison was credited $16.75 for same reason. As a result of the reform movement which is sweeping the city the ordi nance committee then introduced a resolution prohibiting smoking, spit ting, or using profane language in the council chamber and the resolution was adopted. It will be news to the readers of this paper that the older members of our common council had so far for gotten their gei tl manly instincts that they would fail to observe the presence of ladies or postpone the use in any form of the weed if it were offensive to any person present. If they are ad dicted to vulgar language, that is something we did not know, but if these things do exist, the resolution is in order to define the conduct of the city dads. The presence of a resolu tion on the books will be known only to the councilmen and if it is to apply to others present it should be put in bold placard form upon the walls of the council chamber to inform the barbar ian from without that he is expected to act the gentleman. However it is hardly probable that a resolution will reform a person devoid of the sense of propriety. The ordinance committee reported back the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph franchise ordinance and it was laid upon the table to be called up at some future time. The agent of A. G. Long Co., pres- ented the claim of merit for the Bab cock Fire Extinguisher and Councilmen Hughes and Hollinger were appointed to confer with the fire department regarding needed supplies. The Vineyard and Hill Telephone Co. was granted permission to come into the city and unite with the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Co. under the direction of the street com mittee. After some other matters were talked over the council adjourned. BILLS ALLOWED P W C ronin, m arshall................................. S Brick, labor.................................................. W S Hudson, trea su re r......................... .... E A D ixon, labor............................................ Portland G eneral Electric Company, lamps E W H aines, light co n tract........................... Ballard & L eneville, water su p p lies........ Blake M cFaul Company, led g er................... Forest Grove Tim es, b lan k s........................... L C W alker, secretary m in u tes................... L ight and water contract expenses............. $ 12 25 2 00 19 25 2 75 57 01 421 75 1 60 500 8 75 3 00 39 00 T o ta l .............. ................................................................ 572 76 To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the City of Forest Grove. I here with submit my report of Re ceipts and Disbursements for the month March, 1904. March 1 Balance I« *4 in n . . _ _ Treas. 10 Ree. from County • 6 11 “ S. 8 . Hughes 66 éé L. C. W alker fine 31 “ 66 éé 31 “ 6« • 1 L ight W ater 31 " • • It Lamps 31 “ $259 59 $152 24 3 50 4 00 300 71 147 15 2 40 610 00 T otal R eceipts DISBURSEMENTS Feb. 2 Pete Peterson w arrant No. 1917 $ 1 00 (• 1916 1 50 2 J. H. Hughes él II 1919 77 46 9 W . S. Hudson " tt • • 9 Cornelius!!Hancock 1928 8 50 It té 800 1931 9 L. C. W alker tt lé g •* •• n •• 1922 6 20 II té 19 50 1930 9 P. W . Cronen lé té 9 W ashington Co. News 1921 15 00 It 160 00 9 E. W. H aines check éé té 16 00 10 H. Shannon warrant éé 1926 éé 1923 16 80 10 Sam Todd éi ét 1918 1 00 11 L. G. Moorly éé 4* 1920 50 11 R. M. Taylor " éé éé 1929 13 05 12 Chester Johnson éé éé 1927 1 00 15 Steibach A Purden éé “ 1924 13 12 15 S. G. H ughes té 1932 20 00 L. C. W alker 869 59 378 63 Balance 490 96 Respectfully Submitted W. S. HUDSON City Treasurer April 12, 1904 To the Honorable Mayor and Members of the Common Council Forest Grove, Oregon G entlem en:—Please find the w ithin bill w hich is com posed of the follow ing items: Cash R eceipts as per T reasurer’s Statem ent $4774 25 Amount Credited to W ater Installed 274 40 Value of Light and W ater furnished during year 5048 65 Contract Basis 3783 40 Increase B ill (one-third of 1265 25) 1265 25 421 75 Very tru ly yours HAINES ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY By E. W. H aines T his leaves the city a net increase over last year of $843.50 which Is a handsome profit. W e are now the envy of our neighboring cities in cheap lighting and our lights will compare favorably with our sister cities. The Free Lecture Course 9 The series of lectures given last week by the Rev. W. Hendrichx, of the Missionary Union of New York City, given at Vert’s Hall last week, proved to be one of the most interest ing intellectual feasts given here for some time. Rev. Hendrichx showed himself to be a man of more than or dinary intelligence and education and also a very charming speaker. He handled his subjects in a manner which held the complete attention of his aud ience and the hall was filled every evening he was here. The question box was a popular feature and excited much interest. Rev. Hendrichx will always be assured of a large audience, should he return to address us in the future. Nc, 48. the last and eve^thing that human skill could do was done to save him, but to no avail. He was bom at the old homestead where he died, and leaves to mourn his departure, an aged father and mother, seven brothers and three sisters as follows: Alvina Neu- kirch and Henry Dethelps, of B’oom- ing, Emma, Amelia, Peter, Albert, Barnhert, Earnest and August of Dil- ley, and Emeal of Spokane, Washing ton. The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Gales Luth eran church, Rev. L. Steube of Bloom ing officiating. The interment took Joseph Marok of Phillips Dies by His place at the Gales cemetary. A host Own Hand of friends feel the loss of Herman Coroner C. L. Large, in company keenly and he will always be thought with Sheriff Sewell, last Friday, in of with' the tenderest regard. vestigated the death of Joseph Marok, aged 49 years, who was found dead in Forest and Stream Rod and Gun Club Following are the rules and regula his bed at his home by a neighbor, Fred Settgert on that day. Letters tions of the club. which the deceased had written and ART. 1 . Objects. Sec. 1— Protection and propagation of game and fish. left on his kitchen table with a bottle Sec. 2. To endeavor to plant trout partly filled with strychnine showed in the streams of this vicinity. plainly that the wife of the dead man Sec. 3.— To promote interest and with whom he had lived five years, proficiency in shooting by means of had left him Wednesday morning April moderate target shooting. 6, and through despondency, he had taken poison and died that night. ART. 2. Membership fee. Sec. 1. The membership fee of this He was bom in Lichftfnsteig, Austria, club shall be one (1 ) dollar. and had resided at Troutdale for Sec. 2. Each member shall pay to twenty years, the past seven months the secretary and treasurer one ( 1 ) had been living on a farm at Phillips. cent for each bird shot at. He left a wife, and a sister, Mrs. Sec. 3. Any one not a member of Catherine Frommelt of Troutdale, and this club shall be allowed to shoot a son by his former wife, at Lichten- by paying a fee of twenty-five steig, Austria. (2 5 ) cents for each day’s shoot and one (1 ) cent for each bird shot at. Obituary Herman Dethleps, son of John ART. 3. Duties of the secretary and treasurer. Dethleps, was called to his Maker last Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of the Sunday evening at 7 o’clock, at the secretary and treasurer to buy targets Dethleps’ home, after an illness of four ancfVn#. into the general fund one days. Herman was a young man of ird shot at. but 19 years of age, of exemplery of the general habits, very popular, and with a bright incurred in future before him. The Dethleps fam trapping Sec. 3. In e of the secretary ily is one of the oldest and best known and treasurer an] ber shall be in Washington county, and in the loss of each bird authorized to Herman, death has for the first time shot at and turn e to the invaded the family circle, who are at lecretary and treasurer? tached to each other as are few home ART. 4. Sec.l. The r e £ J |fe shoots shall be held on Sunday a%4 Wed circles. On Wednesday he was nesday of each week at 3-30 p. m. stricken with that dread desease pneu monia, and in spite of all efforts he ex ART. 5. Sec. 1. The officers c ^ th e club shall be, President, Vice-Presi pired Sunday evening. The family dent, Secretary and Treasurer. minister, the immediate family and the W. W. G o f f , Secretary and Treasurer. physician, Dr. Ward, were with him at