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"Dame Rumor has it that a new
Walter Hamer left this morning for
building will be constructed upon the
Newport.
EARL B. HAWKS. Editor.
Wanted a cook— Enquire at The lot west of the new buildings erected
by A. B. Thomas, and that they will
Published Every Thursday by the Washing Laughlin.
be used for offiice purposes.
ton County Publishing Co. Incorporated
The Staeher sisters returned from
at Forest 6rove, Oregon
Miss Cora Beaks and Mrs. G. Hart-
Newport Monday.
rampf, who have been visiting with the
WILL FRENCH, Busin««» Manager.
Dr.
Pollock,
with
a
party
of
friends
EARL B. HAWKS, Associât» Manager.
parents of the former for the past three
hied to the tall timber of the Nehalem, weeks, in Washington, returned to the
CIRCULATION 1500.
Monday.
Grove, Monday. Miss Beaks will re
Rates on Job Work and Adver
Attorney Mendenhall and Ed. Boos sume her study of music.
tising Furnished on Enquiry. of Portland, returned today from their
Mr. Anderson is operating a Real
hunting
trip
near
Buxton.
Estate and general land office in the
$1.00 a Year in Advance.
WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS
Office on Pacific Avenue.
Both Phones.
Weitzel & Christian have remodled
the interior of their store this week by
adding new shelving and otherwise
Entered at the post-office at Forest
improvrng it.
Grove, Oregon, as second class
mail matter.
The new Congregational Church
Address all communications to Wash building is beginning to assume good
ington County Pub. Co.,
proportions. It will be an imposing
Forest Grove, Ore.
looking structure.
If the N ews fails to reach its subscrib
Mr. Arthur Watkins of the Coast
ers or is late, we request that immedi
ate attention may be called to the same. Range Lumbering Co. paid a pleasant
visit this week to Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
T H U R SD A Y , AUG. 11, ’04 Sloan and other friends.
Miss Pearl Smith of the Hillsboro
It has been decreed by Roosevelt Argus, is spending her two week's va
that all federal officers shall keep strict cation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
ly out of politics.
Hugh Smith of this place.
School RepoM
The following is the report of the
Kist school district No. 55, for the
month ending July 29, 1904. Num
ber of days taught 19; number attend
ing 13; average at.endance 8; days
absent 7; times tardy 2. Those
neither absent nor tardy and having
excellent deportment are Earle Dallas,
Mabel Dallas, Lottie Bergerson, Betsey
Bergerson.
N ellie M. R aymond ,
Teacher.
Probate Court
room adjacent to Brook & Son’s Har
Guardianship of Fred W. Heberlein,
ness Shop. Mr. Anderson is an ener
getic business man and will have the a minor. W. F. Heberlein appointed
opportunity to work up a good business. guardian with bond fixed at $200.
Bond filed and approved and letters
Articles of incorporation of the Banks
issued.
Hall Association were filed with County
Estate of Margaret Jones, deceased.
Clerk E. J. Goodman, on Aug. 4,
H. W. Jones appointed administrator
1904. The incorporators are R. M.
with bond fixed at $100. Bend filed
Banks, N. S. Prickett, and A. J. Kil-
and approved. Eld. Summers, F. W.
len. The corporation is organized for
Cady and H. Livingood appointed
the purpose of erecting and maintain
appraisers.
ing a hall in the town of Banks, Wash-
Guardianship of Elizabeth Schmidt
ingion County, Oregon.
insane. Valentine Schmidt appointed
Mrs. Geo. Sloan left at the News guardian with bond fixed at $250.
office a limb from a peach tree grow Bond filed and approved. Lelters is
ing in -the hotel yard, which proved sued. E. I. Kuratli, Geo. H. Wilcox
conclusively that peaches can be grown and E. C. Luce appointed appraisers.
successfully in this valley. They were Inventory and appraisement filed and
fine specimans and there is no reason approved. Petition for sale of real es
for believing that peaches cannot be tate filed. Citations ordered to be is
grown at a profit in this county. A sued and served on Elizabeth Schmidt
proper under drainage might be de and superintendent of asylum.
sired in some localities.
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Stock and Grain Markets
Mrs. P. G. Northup was buried yes
Port Arthur and Kuropatkin are both
on the anxious bench. The Japs are terday at Wilkes cemetery. Her hus
band died some three months ago.
proving splendid strati gists.
Particulars have not been learned.
Henry Rustin, the electrician who
The son of Mr. Vanoy near Dilley
conceived and devised the illumination was arrested Wednesday and brought
at St. Louis, has failed in health and before Justice Stephens of Dilley, on
Banks
never saw his achievment which won the charge of entering the house of
him fame. Over work brought on Mr. Lyberger and stealing $5.00 and
Grandpa Carsten’s house aud barn
consumption and he was hurried to a
are
finished all but painting.
sundry articles. The lad was allowed
dry climate.
John Carsten has built a new wood
to go on his own recognizance until
Saturday morning 'when the case will shed and the new hall which is go
The terrible railway accident near
ing up rapidly will soon be completed.
be tried.
Pueblo, Colo., in which over 110 are
Johp Friday’s house is almost ready
G. H. Goff was hurridly called to
now known to have been killed cast a
for occupancy.
deep gloom over the entire country. Portland Tuesday evening by the
Waid Armstrong has his house fin
These terrible accidents bring to the physician who has charge of the case
ished.
surface the deep and tender sympathies of Mrs. Goff at the Sanatorium. Mon
F. Bradley is building a hop house.
of the American people for all forms of day morning Mr. Goff returned from
Portland much lighter in heart than he
N. C. Shipley has his large bam
suffering and bereavement.
has been for weeks, because he left his nearly completed.
The New York Sun has deserted wife much stronger than she had been
The Sunday school district con
for
a
long
time
and
the
news
of
Tues
Judge Parker on the ground that his
vention at the Harrison school house
speech of acceptance lacked a tone of day was unexpected. She is slightly last Saturday, was a decided success.
conviction. Many of the voters feel improved today.
Hiram Smith of Newberg, was a
the same way and will support a man
S. T. Crow, the veterinary surgeon visitor here last week.
who has the courage of his convictions. who left here several months ago for
Messrs. Hopkins and C. Shipley
an extended trip throngh the north and families have gone to the coast.
County Court
west, returned this week. During his
The hay baler has been along the
County Judge L. A. Rood on Wed absence he visited many points in creek baling for F. Sell, A. Stephens
nesday, August 10 , 1904 , bound British Columbia and Alaska, stopping and A. Carstens.
Claude Jackson, over to appear before ’for a short time in Edmonton, Calgary,
the circuit court at the next term and other towns in that vast territory.
Marriage Licenses
thereof in November, on a charge of Mr. Crow says there is a great im
Andrew C. Phillips and Daisie D.
rape alleged to have been committed migration to that country, especially Giltner, and Ward Thompson and
on the person of Belle Gerritse, a fe from the central states, and much of Mabel Hullenbeck.
male under sixteen years of age. the government land is being taken
Jackson’s band was fixed at $500 for farming’ and stock raising purposes, Candidates for the trip to St. Louis
for which the section is well adapted.
which he furnished.
Pearl Chandler............. ............... 1892
The
winters
there
are
no
worse
than
in
Alyce Cronin............... ............... 1488
A petition with numerous signers
Manche Langley......... .................. 313
Godman, county clerk, calling for a the northern states. The summers
Stella
Via................... .................. 25
local option- election next November are delightful, long, cool, and pleasant.
Detta Friday............... ...........~ . . . 13
in the precincts of North Forest Grove ! The soil is very productive and they
Maude Shannon........... ................. 8
j raise everything common to that zone.
and Dairy Precinct.
Grace Baer................. .................. 3
\
Wheat Valley, per bu...................................
77c to 78c
Hay, Timothy, per ton..............................$14 00 “ 15 00
“
Clover
“
“
10 00 “ 11 00
“
Grain
“
“ .............................. 10 00 “ 11 00
"
Cheat
“
“ ............................... 10 0 0 “ 11 00
Oats, No. 1 White perdw t........................... 1.22
Bran
per ton .................................. 19 00 to 20 00
Middlings
“
“
22 00 “ 24 00
Shorts
“
“ ................................... 20 00 “ 21 00
Hops, crop of 1903..................... 21 to 24c per pound
Chickens................................... 11c to 12c per pound live
T urkeys.................................... 15c “ 16c
“ “
“
16c “ 17c
“ “ dressed
Geese.............................................. 5 to 6c “ “
l.ve
Ducks.........................................................$6 to $7 per dozen
Eggs, Willamette Valley........................20 “ 21 “
“
Butter, Sweet Cream..................... ..
18V4c per pound
“
Fancy Creamery................
- 20c “
“
“
Choice
“
“ 22s “
“
v D airy.............................................. 17c
“
“
Onions............................................................ $1.30 per sack
Potatoes, Fancy old......................... $1.00 to $1.25 per 1(4)
“
New.................................$1.50 “ 1.75 “
*'
Beans, Small w hite.......................................3*V4c
per pound
“ Large ................................................... iVt “
“
Forest Grove Markets, In Trade
E ggs................................................................. 19s
per dozen
B utter...................................................... 35c to 40c per roll
Potatoes, good grade.........................,1.50 per 100 pounds
C hickens................... .........................10 to 12Vic per pound
Beef, dressed................................................ 6cVj “
“
Veal, “ ......................................................... 6c “
Pork “ .............................................6V4 to 7c “
Good Buys
Farms, Town Property, Acre
Tracts, Timber Lands, Business
Chance’s, Houses to Rent, Col
lections etc. Everything includ
ed in a first-class Real Estate
Office. Send for list.
R . W. M c N U T T ,
Real Estate Agent, Cornelius, O.