Washington County news., December 08, 1904, Image 1

WASHINGTON
C o u n t y n e w s
NO. 28
FOREST GROVE, WASHINGTON CO., ORE., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1904.
VOL. 2
A BIG TIMBER DEAL
taken carrying out the intentions of
the company.”
It will be remembered that Mr.
Steams spent considerable time at
Eastern Capitalists S e e k in g Forest Grove last winer, looking the
country over and investigating our
Washington Co. Lands
resourses.
Three Dolls Free.
Sawmills to be Built and Immense
Abbott & Son have in their window
Coal Deposits Opened—
three beautiful dolls to be given away
Boon to the Grove.
That the vast timber and mine
recourses of Washington county are
about to be developed, seems now
certain. The recent transfer of im­
mense timber lands to A. W. Steams
means more to Washington county and
especially, Forest Grove, than can at
this time be realized. Large sawmills
are to be built and railroads constructed
while a vast coal vein which has been
discovered only a few miles from here,
will be developed.
The Sunday Journal contained the
following information on the subject:
“ One of the biggest deals in Oregon
timber lands made during the year has
recently been consumnated by which
title to several thousand acres of the
best timber in Washington county has
passed into the hands of A. W. Steams
of Duluth, Minn. The land purchased
is on the headwaters of Gales creek, 14
miles from Forest Grove.
Mr. Steams is backed by Michigan
. and Wisconsin capitalists, who contem­
plate organizing a strong company,
which will go into the lumber industry
in this state on a large scale. The
company will build immense sawmills
on their property and have in contem­
plation the construction of a railroad
from their mills to Linnton, where
facilities for shipping their lumber by
water are offered.
Mr. Steams is now in San Francisco.
After the business affairs of his country
are satisfactorily arranged he will
return to Portland and steps will be
free on Christmas, the first to the girl
receiving the largest number of votes,
the second to the girl receiving the
next largest vote, and so on. One
ticket is given for each SO cent pur­
chase up to five dollars, but on pur­
chases above 85.00 one ticket for each
dollar is givn—thus giving the small
puschaser the same chance as those
who purchase more. The votes will
be counted each week and the vote
made known through The News. The
contest closes on December 24, and
the prizes will be awarded on Christ­
mas day.
Relief Corps Officers.
The annual election of the Women
of the Relief Corps, was held last
week and resulted as follows: Presi­
dent, Mrs. Lillie North; Vice-president,
Mrs. V. Weitzel; Junior vice-president,
Mrs. Mary Smith; Secretary, Mrs. Em­
ma Anderson; Treasurer, Miss Alice
Reynolds; Chaplain, Mrs. Kirkwood;
Conductor, Mrs. Marguerite Leach;
Guard, Mrs. Emma Cheney. Six del-
agates were chosen to represent the
local lodge at the state convention
which will meet at Oregon City next
June.
Crystal Wedding Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. M. Taylor cele­
brated their fifteenth, or crystal wed­
ding anniversary last Monday evening,
at their home in this city. It was a
very pleasant affair, games of all kinds
were played and a dainty luncheon was
served to the guests which numbered
about twenty.
Xmas Round the Corner
Christmas is approaching and no firm in Washington
county has more fully prepared for it than we.
W e have
the largest and best stock to be seen outside of Portland
and at prices that are right.
There is nothing in the Jewelry Line that
you can’t find here. We make a specialty of
S ilv e r w a r e
Watches, Docks, Rings, Watch Chairs, Charms, Lodge Pins, Cuff
Buttons, Brooches, Stickpins, Hatpins, Purses, Lockets, Thimbles,
Card trays, Souvenir spoons, Butter knives. Berry spoons, Pie knives,
Gravey ladles, Sugar bowls, Cracker jars, Cake stands, Silver pitchers,
Knives and Forks, Ebony brashes, Cut glass.
Everything and anything to be found in an up to date
Jewelery establishment.
A B B O T T & SON,
J e w e le r s
F orest Grove,
Oregon
The lady returned home
HELD 2 SPECIALS | knowing
of the phone’s
and not
presence,
j heard the bell, whereupon she pro-
| ceeded to the front door to admit the
Busy Season in Municipal person whom she thought was there—
but no person. Again and again did
Affairs.
this bell ring, and again and again did
this good lady open the door to find no
Pay for Dead Horse and Attempt to one there, when finally she thought it
must be some neighborhood boys play­
Pass Fire Limit Ordinance
ing a joke, and in her anxiety to lay
— Action Postponed
hold of the perpetrators, she stood
around the comer of the house for a
long, long time, but no boys. Re­
The council was hurriedly called turning to the house disgusted—with
together last Saturday morning for the everything in general and nothing in
purpose of passing an ordinance parlicular, she was soon joined by her
extending the fire limit in block No. 2 daughter, who is married and lives in
which contains the row of business another part of town, and to her the
houses on Main street. The ordinance mystery was told. Together they ex­
was given its first reading and upon amined the doorbell but could see no
the motion of Councilman Johnson it reason why it should “ act so.” But
was referred to the ordinance com­ finally it was decided it needed some
mittee to be reported on at the next grease. But to grease it, how? No
regular meeting. The prime object of available way was seen to administer
the ordinance is to prevent Ed. Ward the grease which the ladies were cer­
from building and running a planing tain it needed, without taking the bell
mill on his property just across the apart. This was more than they cared
alley from the Main street buildings on
to undertake, but would let the “ old
the grounds that to run a planing mill thing ring” until her son came home.
in that locality will raise the insurance
When the son came, all was told him—
premium 8400. per year more.
even the conclusion that the old bell
Mr. Ward has deferred operations
needed grease—and he too was con­
for a time, pending the action of the
vinced that it was grease; but with no
council and also to await the decision
attempt to alter the case. And not
of a number of business men in that
until this dear lady had occasion to go
block, who are contemplating pur­
up stairs did she discover the source
chasing the property.
of her trouble.
Mr. Ward stated to The News that
Wanted
he was willing to sell, and if he does
One thousand, strong, sturdy chop­
sell he will erect a building on another
lot and proceed with his business. pers to be initiated in the Forest of
The mill under construction is not so Woodcraft at Portland on Feb. 21 st.
large but will answer a long felt need Our Camp will do their part to furnish
here. In the winter only a few hands some good timber for this raft. F. A.
would be employed, but in the sum­ Falkenburg, our esteemed Head Con­
sul, the man who has led us through
mer quite a number will be used.
the years past in the peat work of pro­
CALLED MEETING
tection for o tr loved ones, has set his
Council room Tuesday, Nov. 22, ’04. mark for 100,000 members and 8100,-
The common council of the City of 000 in reserve by the next Head Camp
Forest Grove met at the call of the session which meets in April, and the
mayor “ for the purpose of transacting Camps in Portland and West Side
Camps will furnish 1000 by that time,
general business of the city.”
Roll call showed the mayor and five and each chopper in the forest has
councilmen to be present, also the again sharpened his ax and wiil do all
recorder and marshal; absent, Council­ in his power to help to build the raft
of one thousand “ sound logs” for the
man Starrett.
The call of the meeting was read. mill at Portland, Feb. 21, ’05.
Our Camp will make arrangements
The mayor stated that the special
object for which the meeting was to go in big numbers, and special rates
called was to consider the liability of will be given those wishing to be
the city for the killing of the horse present at this, the grandest fraternal
belonging to the Base Line Lumber demonstration in the history of our
Co. on the morning of the 18th. inst. district. Each Camp has its com­
Some interested parties not being mitteeman, who is the clerk, and he
present, the council proceeded to will work in conjunction with the Exe­
the transaction of general business. cutive Committee of Portland Camps to
On motion of Councilman Hollinger, make this p eat drive of logs as the
the recorder was authorized to have mill will be in readiness on time to
such legal blanks as are necessary to receive this “ Mammoth Raft.”
J ohn A nderson , clerk.
conduct his office, printed.
On motion of Councilman Hollinger,
Fined Tw o Hundred Dollars.
the recorder was authorized to have
In the district court, at Hillsboro,
a book of 1000 warrants printed.
i Oliver Chowning, of Dilley, was last
The council then took up the mat­
Friday morning fined 8200, upon
ter of the killing of the Base Line Lum­
pleading guilty to selling liquor in
ber Co's horse and after full discussion,
quantities less than a gallon. There
Councilman Harris moved that the city
were four counts against .Chowning,
pay one-half the value of said horse,
1 and upon pleading guilty to one, the
(which is said to be 875) which motion
others were dismissed.
was seconded by Councilman Hollinger.
1 Dilley people have been up in arms
Councilman Johnson asked the call of
against this “ blind pig” for some
the council. On his request Councilman
months, and it was owing to its exist­
Hughes was excused from voting.
ence that the precinct was the closest
Roll was called and Councilmen
in the county at the recent election,
Harris and Hollinger (2 ) voted “ yes,”
when it returned but one vote against
and Councilmen Johnson and Stribich
prohibition. Chowning will endeavor
(2 ) voted “ no.” The vote being a
to secure a majority of the voters to
tie. On call the mayor voted “ yes,”
sign a petition to have a licensed
so the motion prevailed.
saloon.
On motion of Councilman Hollinger,
Church Fair a Success
Councilman Hughes was appointed a
The
Endeavor
Society of the Chris­
committee to confer with said company
tian
church
held
its fair and bazaar
in the matter of the settlement.
On motion of Councilman Hollinger, last Saturday all day and evening, in
the new brick building near the I. O.
common council adjourned.
O. F. hall. The room was tastefully
Telephone A Nuisance.
decorated and plenty of good music
That a telephone proved itself a nui­ was had. The ladies did a good busi­
sance to a certain lady in this city re­ ness and netted 835. Every article
cently will be verified by the lady her­ that was not sold during the day was
self—if you could only know who she auctioned off at the last. The proceeds
is. Her son had a phone put in the will go to pay off a debt on the organ
house during the absence of the lady while the balance will apply on the
in question, and had it located on the preacher’s salary few the next year;
first landing of the staircase— where it 850 of which the Endeavor society
could be heard from all over the house. has pledged.
WORK OF GRANGE
Build Many Rods of Good
Roads
The Business Men and Farmers Con­
tribute Liberally to the
Good Work.
The Gale Grange which has taken
up the ordeal of building good roads
in this vicini.y, has done some good
work in this line, a report of which we
are permitted to publish. It will be
seen from the report just what the
work is and how they went about it.
At the meeting in Vert’s hall last Sat­
urday, a large attendance was present
and an enthusiastic meeting was held.
The report follows:
“ To the Worthy Master, and mem­
bers of Gale Grange, P. of H.
We your committee appointed on
March 5th, 1904, to see what could be
done to improve the roads leading into
Forest Grove, beg leave to report as
follows:
First, we held a meeting with the
road committees, from the Board of
Trade, and the Civic Improvement
Society of Forest Grove.
At this
meeting it was decided best to call on
the County Court and see what they
would do to help in the matter. Fol­
lowing this decision, the three com­
mittees and others from this vicinity
called on the County Court during
March, 1904, and after consulting
with and explaining to them what we
were trying to do, the Court promised
to put the roads in proper condition to
receive the rock and to crush all the
rock that we would put on the roads
by volunteer work and also to receive
and spread the rock on the roads.
With the encouragement of the
County Court, your committee got up
subscription papers, which were pre­
sented by the members of the com­
mittee to the farmers and others along
the roads leading into Forest Grove and
also to the business men and others of
Forest Grove, with the result that there
was subscribed by the farmers and
others outside of town. The hauling
of 2182 yards of rock and the business
men and others in town subscribed
8808.50 to be used by the committee
;n hauling rocks into the roads leading
into Forest Grove. The hauling was
distributed among the different roads
as follows:
On the Gales Creek roadthe farmers
hauled 215 yards, and the committee
hauled 63 yards of gravel, making 278
yards hauled on this road.
On the Thatcher road the farmers
hauled 1000 yards and the committee
hauled 184 yards of crushed rock,
making 1184 yards hauled on this
road.
On the Greenville road the farmers
hauled 226 yards and the committee
hauled 123 yards of rock, making 349
yards hauled on this road.
On the Cornelius road, the farmers
hauled 205 yards and the committee
hauled 328 yards making 533 y<rds
hauled on this road.
On the depot road the committee
hauled 141 yards.
On the Dilley road the Farmers
hauled 357 yards and the committee
hauled 55j yards making 412j yards
on these roads.
In all making a total of 2897i yards
of rock hauled onto the roads.
Respectfully submitted,
H. T. B uxton ,
IRA E. PURDIN,
E. W H aines ,
H. H aynes ,
Committee.
The chairman of the committee
inf'»— us that of hiUliftg abo . i'th'fri- '
tlo ted there is still a small amount not
doi e, and a small sum of cash is as
yet
na '
Mrs. J. A. Pollock, the mother oP
Dr. Wm. Pollock, is reported to be
very low to-day.
We still have a few of those Salem Wool­
en Mills Suits and Overcoats left that we
are selling at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES
Something New!
Fine Line of
Lewis and Clark Ties
Send one to your Eastern Friend as a
Christmas present, and thus help to ad­
vertise the Fair
JOHN ANDERSON,
The Tailor
Johnson & Co.
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Brick Livery, Feed and Sale
Stable
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specialty. Our ’Bus meets all trains. Carries U. S. mail.
Baggage and freight called for and delivered.
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