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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1904)
u Estate of Eliza D. Thomas* deceased. Garden Home. Dwight H. Thomas appointed admin One of the cooks at the mill, who istrator. Bond fixed and filed at | has been away several days, has $1,600. A. B. Thomas, C. O. Roe just returned. and J. T. Fletcher, appointed Master Ernest Nicholson is working appraisers. for the loggers, greasing skids; Ernest Estate of R. H. Whitehead, deceas being only 11 years old, we think he ed. Final account approved. Admin is doing well. istratrix authorized to turn $267.35 One of the mill hands nearly cut off over to County Clerk in trust for chil his foot Friday. dren. Administratrix discharged. The little boy down at the cook tising Furnished on Enquiry . Guardianship of Elsie and Belle Mc- house was run over yesterday. He has In giving credit for results of the j $1.00 a Year in Advance. election Monday we should not forget Claran, minors. Final account appro a fashion of jumping npon the end Office on Pacific Avenue. of the wagon and yesterday the teams the many faithful about the county nor ved and guardian discharged. Both Phones. ter did not notice him but he thought the County Central Committee which Marriage License the rear wheels raised somehow and Entered at the post-office at Forest has spared no pains to conduct a clean Grove, Oregon, as second class County Clerk Geo. A. Morgan issued looking back to see the cause, he and energetic campaign. Everyone mail matter. admires the chairman of the County on the 4th inst. a marriage license to saw the boy on the ground gasping Address all communications to Wash Central Committee, John A. Thorn S. W. Hogate, of Webster County, for breath. The wheel had run over his ington County Pub. Co., burg, for the manly way in which he Nebraska, and Miss Charlotte E. body but did not injure him, although Forest Grove, Ore. it took some time to get his breath. laid aside every personal matter result Hucken, of this county. Miss Irene Ryan, of Newburg, If the NEWS fails to reach its subscrib ing from his own previous campaign, ers or is late, we request that immedi and worked night and day for the suc Hillsboro visited Mrs. Spencer Saturday, and ate attention may be called to the same. The Court House was closed on left for Portland in the evening. cess of the party in Washington We hear that Miss Jennie Stephens TH U R SD A Y , JU N E 9, ’04 County. If anyone in the county had Saturday afternoon on account of the reason to feel out of sorts it was John funeral of Deputy County Clerk. J. W. changed her name, Sunday. Jennie A. Thornburg, but in making him Morgan. A large number from all has been in a dentist’s office for some I told you so. time where she met the young man chairman the committeemen knew parts of the county attended. Listen—to the sweet girl graduate. that his nature could harbor no ill Work on the new bank building of whose name she has taken. feeling and that if any man was able to Russell & Sholes is under way, also on Patton Valley Now they sing we’ll “ Go way back harmonize the party interests in this the new brick of Schulmerich Bros., Tom Sain is pening up a new road. county that he was the one man in on Main street. and sit down". Mrs. Doner is expected from whom the people believed. If. the County Clerk Geo. A. Morgan, as Chicago in a few days. Seven— Come eleven with crepe on chance ever comes the people will the dooi— Downs. show their appreciation of his efforts. sisted by J. A. Imbrie and Justices of Mrs. C. J. Hogerty went to Portland the Peace, Benton Bowman and H. T. to attend to some business matters A man with a cigar, just before and The republican party has cause to Bagley, completed the official count on and will probably be gone a month. after election, if a candidate is about. feel satisfied at the result of Monday’s Wednesday, of the election returns. T. W. Sain, supervisor, had the offer election. Every man on the ticket of 20 men to haul gravel providing The trail up Salt Creek was crowded Cornelius easily won out in spite of the few they could haul from the nearest place Tuesday, some of the candidates hav Hurrah for our side! voters who bolted for reasons best on the creek. ing rations to last them several years. There are some “ new things vnder known to themselves. The victory of Two men from Washington were E W. Haines was signal, he winning the sun” that are brought to our out looking for gold, they found the The state campaign which has just closed, resulted in a republican vic in his own ward by a vote of 17 5 to notice occasionally, and the one that mountains and gulches, but no gold. 60. The county situation is back to is still fresh in our minds is, that our tory and an endorsement of the pres The man who took the county road precinct went republican, and the fig ent administration. The effectiveness the place where it ought to be and we for a wheat field had the audacity to ures in the head lines of the morning of the campaign was the result of the are again a power in state politics. tell his neighbors to get out as they paper make us feel good clear down We have also shown our appreciation untiring energy of our State Chairman would have too because he would for Frank C. Baker. His business ability, of the administration and its effect in to our toes. bid the thresher crossing to thresh his extended acquaintance with men the November election will be marked. their grain. Perhaps he thinks he Gaston about the slate, his skill and tactful The news extends its congratulations will raise a wonderful crop and it will Twenty or more teams are kept busy ness and his being a man of means, all to the successful candidates and feels be useless for the threshers to bargain contribute to make him the man for that the respective offices will be run every day on the lake, in order to get for other jobs. That is all right so the place and time has proved the for the public interests in every way, the crop in. long as you keep them busy. Perhaps Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harding visited no one else will get his grain threshed. wisdom of his selection. His success thus meriting the confidence placed in has been far above the commonplace, them by a majority of the votes of with E. X. Harding and family for a John Seth attended the horse sale at few days. They have just returned the Grove. since he took the helm at a time when Washington county. from the St. Louis Fair. the party was not in the best of trim, Probate Court yet by establishing close connections For Sale— Good Smith-Premier type Mrs. H. E. Hudson and sons and Estate of John M. Underwood, de writer, No. 2, used only 8 months. between the state, county and precinct ceased. A. Field, Robert Burch and Bert Best of Tacoma, are making an Sell cheap. Inquire at News Office. committees, by keeping in personal B. H. Turnbull appointed appraisers. extended visit with their mother, Mrs. touch with the local condition.s in each Estate of Casper Bauman, deceased. Ed. Best. Hoffman & Welch, the attorneys, county, by inducing disaffected repub Miss Helen Fans of Portland, was in were in Portland on legal business on licans to bury the hatchet and line up Tuesday the Sth of July, set for hear town visiting relatives and friends last Wednesday. for the ticket, he has harmonized the ing of final account and objections week. party and won a splendid republican thereto. Harness, all home manufacture and Mr. Carmichael is beginning to lay Estate of Joseph Marock, deceased. victory. He could not have filled the of the best workmanship, at Parson’s chairmanship to better satisfaction, and Frank Fromelt appointed administra plans for a new warehouse. He ex shop. we congratulate the party that he tor with bond fixed at $2,000. Bond pects to build it in the same place as J. J. Kuratli, the other, but it will be larger. remains its manager for the fall cam filed and approved. If you need a new wagon—you Samuel Kuratli and John Sneider ap J. D. Hibbs was a Portland visitor paign. Washington county has felt his should see the Weber, sold by M. pointed appraisers. Tuesday. influence and tireless energy in the Peterson, they have been tested in our past few weeks and Mr. Baker can rest Estate of Wm Leverich, deceased, Miss Verdie Parker of Portland, climate and are guaranteed to be more assured that his labors here have been i July 11, 1904, at the hour of 10 a. m. spent a few days at the home of his durable and lighter running than any appreciated. j time fixed for hearing of final account. ; uncle E. H. Parker. other. WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS Time has arrived for the business men and citizens to make some move EARL B. HAWKS. Editor. toward bettering the road leading from Published Every Thursday by the Washing the depot to the business part of the city. To say that the road is a dis ton County Publishing Co. Incorporated grace to the city is a weak statement. at Forest 6rove, Oregon Let the Civic Improvement Society, WILL FRENCH, Butin«*« Manager the Board of Trade, the business men, EARL B. HAWKS, Associate Manager. and the citizens unite and make a road CIRCULATION 1500. that at least is safe to travel the year Rates on Job Work and Adver around. \ e X
