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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1906)
WASHINGTON m G COUNTY FOREST GROVE, WASHINGTON CO., ORE., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, ID IS REORGANIZED unusual efficiency and in Chas. L. Walker, the boys will have a compe tent and experienced supervisory man ager to look after the individual inter hip Includes Old Band Men ests of the players as well as the other duties connected with the office. The Many Improvements Over Last 01 Last Year’s Aggre Oscar Loomis will remain as treasurer Summer’s Car Will Enable It and some one will be elected later to gation to Climb 4tb Street Grade fill the vacancy in the secretaryship made by the absence of Ralph Kinton. The success of the band will depend to Supply Summer Residents largely on the support tendered by the I Will Be Given Trial To-morrow and Hth Evening Concerts From the citizens and if each one does his duty Will Be Put On Forest the band will be a permanent fixture ! Band Stand In Eells Park Grove Run in our community. 1906. N O . 48 which are now held back b e -! MOTOR CAR NO. 4. HERE j towns, cause of isolation from the centers of APPALLING H IL L S ID E Forest Grove again has a band. Monday evening arrangements , m»de and steps were taken to- 1 a permanent organization for the »e, principly of supplying the L i n e r residents with music during L long evenings of July and August Ld, incidentally, for the 4th of \luly [elebration which will probably occur ) Forest Grove this year. The con- given last summer were very at affairs and with the improve- bent that Eells park is soon to have be concerts from the new band stand bis summer will make Forest Grove ne of the most pleasant little resident fities in Oregon. The new organization is made up of iedy the same members as last sum mer's institution, all old musicians and r the most part, with substantial band perience behind them. DISASTER up again the harmonies of the Lohen grin March. I population by infrequent or unsatisfac The entire wedding party took the tory train service. The general use of afternoon train and were entertained j motor cars on the Harriman lines in Known Facts Regarding Ihe Most Ter- ,he «room’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. i Oregon, to be followed, if successful, r . ... , Clarke at Fifth and Hall streets in rlble Calamity of Ihe Portland by their introduction on other roads out of Portland, will mean much to the Bay City. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke were both development of the state. students at Pacific University in earlier j years, at the same time, and both are TO THE PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY Mr. C. E. Kindt has had printed Mr. Macy returned from Albert?, Union Pacific motor car No. 4 and is engaged in circulating an anon last Saturday. ; arrived at the Southern Pacific shops, ymous circular, intended to injure roy Frank Baker sold his mules last 0D l^e ^ ast Side, Tuesday, and is now candidacy. It is quite long, but the week to Lewis Carson. undeigoing minor repairs. It will be substance of it is that my refusal to Mrs. Barber gave us a very interest - ' ° Ut * *eW ^ajs’ an<* ’s P'anned to support free silver, in 1896, was be ing sermon last Sunday. !* "* the car a ln*‘ sPin on ^ d a y . cause Mr. Tongue was elected to n w- Then it will probably be sent over congress and I wanted to get his law Grandma Mickle has been quite ill ! ,__ , , . . . , . several local runs, where quick service business. but is now convalescing. | • . . . . , !ls required, with frequent stops, and It is easy, of course, for a corrupt Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bamford are when it is determined where the car mind to imagine bad motives in an spending a few days in Portland. will do the best service its run will be other. The truth is, as the records Mrs. Watkins and Master Walter of announced. It is expected the Forest will show, that I made a fight in the Forest Grove, were visiter: of Hillside Grove division of the Southern Pacific democratic convention, in 1896, for over Sunday. is where the car will be operated. If the gold standard, and against free Miss Anna Dunsmoor, who is teacl - l^e new piece of rolling stock gives silver, before Mr. Tongue was either ing at Hayward, spent Saturday and satisfaction, others of a similiar design nominated or elected to congress. will be built and put in service on the Free silver democrats in Prgtland wrote Sunday at home. Oregon branches of the Harriman letters to Washington County asking A number of the Hillside young system. the democrats not to send me to the folks attended the meeting at the a U Confirmations wel1 known in Forest Grove. Miss Bailey has been a very popular young From San Francisco— Complete lady in the city and wherever she has gone. She has made her home with Details Not Known Yet. J her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. M. H . I Shipley for a number of years. Mr. Clarke is an expert civil engineer and Nearly the whole City of Sen Fran ! is engaged at present in railroad work cisco destroyed by shocks and by fire j near Eureka where the couple will ensuing. make their home, for the present at Unknown number of lives lost. least, after a contemDlated visit to San Stanford University ruined and sev Francisco and Sacramento. eral lives lost. State University at Berkeley practically uninjured. Another important feature connected Town of Santa Rosa practically de with the Clarke-Bailey affair, this week, stroyed by shock and fire; 500 lives j was tjjC lunch given by Mr. and Mr». reported lost. John E. Bailey at their residence on City of San Jose suffers greatly from Fifth Avenue last Tuesday evening, to disaster. the members of the Fleur de . Damage in Oakland will amount to wedding party and a fetfc^m ffra several hundred thousand dollars, with guests. The supper was in celebration five lives lost. of the next day’s event and the imme Alameda escaped without loss of diate friends of Mr. Clarke and Miss life; damage estimated at 8250,000. Bailey were present. A very delight Insane asylum at Agnews destroyed, ful event it turned out to be and a superintendent and wife killed and 125 very simple menu was served to the bodies of inmates taken from the ruins. guests from the dining room by Mrs. Heavy damage is reported at Salinas, E. W. Haines. There were about Santa Cruz, Hollister and Gilroy. thirty present and included Mr. and Nearly all ol the finest business Mrs. A. B. Caples, Mr. and Mrs. structures in San Francisco either Mayne Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur wrecked by tremor or fire. McEldowney, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. \ t 1 o’clock this morning the fire is Haines, Mrs. Charlotte Graham-Rastall, * under control, has invaded the Mrs. R. D. Cheney, Mrs. Carrye Watt- ter residence districts and the cul- Macrum and the Misses Margaret Hin- nation is not yet. man, Minnie Myers, Manche Langley, Among the largest and most prom Maude Shannon, Kate Shannon, inent structures that were destroyed Francis Sorensen, Ora Caples, Gladdys are the following: Call, two stories; Hartley, Maude Buxton, Ethel Mose Claus Spreckels, 19 stories; Hearst, ley, Pearl Chandler, Helen Chandler, eight stories; New Chronicle, 17 Daisy Abemethy, Wilma Waggener stories; Winchester Hotel, Grand and Greta Bailey of Salem and Messra. Opera-House, Crocker, 11 stories, i Alex. Ewen, Ralph Clarke, Alfred California Hotel, eight stories; St. Clarke, Herbert Clarke of Tacoma, Francis Hotel 12 stories; New Jewish Robert McClelland of Tabor, Iowa and Synagogue.—Oregonian. J. Philbrook of Salem. Oregonian's Latest The car claimed to be vastly superior state convention, because I was a gold to No. 1. which came to Portland last man. As revival services are being held at Summer, but did not meet the require I talked with many people in this Thatcher, Hillside omitted its Christian ments of interurban service and was county, both democrats and republi In Harry Hastings, one of the most Endeavor to attend their meeting, sent back to Omaha. It will seat cans, long before the conventjgp, en perienced and best educated band last Sunday evening. about twice as many, besides having l deavoring to convince them - iters in the state, the new organiza A surprise party was given Saturday j powerful engines that can climb grades silver was a delusion and . ba has an instructor who can hardly night to Mr. Case and family; there which v/ere too steep for the original j Furthermore, my books will show ¡excelled. N. L. Atkins, who will were about fifty people in attendance car. Ventilation is claimed to be my law business, in 1895 and 18v„, and conduct the band is a and a nice lunch was served at mid- successful, doing away with the gaso- amounted to 85,000.00 a year, so it is netist of recognized ability and of night. line fumes that collected in the otherI foolish to say that I left the democratic ■ car, as well as providing such free party for the sake of. getting more bus circulation of air that the stuffy effect iness. so often noticed in cars will be entirely ! Now, as to motive behind this mat lacking. te r About 1896 or 1897 it happened I The heavy gasoline engines are that I was a member of the grievance located at the front of the car, and the committee of the Oregon State Bar power is applied to the front trucks. Association. Charges were filed A speed of 40 to 60 miles an hour is against Mr. Kindt, by his own uncle, claimed for it. A complete airbrake to the effect that he had manufactured system is used, and the car is said to false affidavits, forged his grandfather’s C L A R K E - B A I L E Y W E D D IN G Among the prominent out-of-town be under perfect control of one opera name and had been guilty of lots of guests of the Clarke-Bailey wedding tor, who sits at the pointed front end other disreputable practices, in en The Most Elaborate Social Eve n t not already mentioned in other con- of the car. That the car is able to deavoring to defraud his grandfather’s of the Season i nections were Mr. and Mrs. Hunting- make any grades that locomotives can estate out of the pitiful sum of 8150, ton of the Dalles, Miss Huntington of The most elaborate social event of climb is the belief of those who have and this while acting as attorney for the the season occurred, last Wedesday Portland. Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Clarke l|fl seen the performance of motor car estate. afternoon, when Miss Mary Bailey, of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Ship- No. 4. It is believed that it will solve Upon investigation we found the daughter of John E Bailey, and ley of Seattle, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wil the problem of rapid interurban service. charges to be true. We filed charges A trailer came with the car, and will against him in the supreme court of William Dexter Clarke, of Eureka. Cali cox and Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Wag fornia, were married at the Congrega gener of Hillsboro. probably be attached to it in regular this state; a trial was had, and he was tional Church. The decorations were service. These cars are combination disbarred from further practice in the Found Dead gorgeous and most complete, festoons mail, baggage and express cars, with courts of this state, and that judgment of ivy were gathered over the pulpit, Christian Rottger, aged 84 years, exterior finish like the motor c a r.! is still in force. while along the railing clung an abun was found dead in his garden on Gales Both are of sheet steel construction. H e is now trying to get even with dance of apple blossoms which very Peak, Wednesday. Mr. Rottger was a The use of motor cars in Oregon on me by circulating these anonymous prettily relieved the banking of ferns widower and lived alone just behind the network of branch lines that will and scurrilous circulars. Whether he and Oregon Grape, in the background. Gales Peak where he had a little home. be built by the Union Pacific system is being paid for doing so by one of Before the ceremony Miss Moseley The remains were brought to town is intended to beat the interurban my opponents, I cannot say. I only played Grieg’s ‘‘Wedding March” and Wednesday afternoon. Decomposition electric cars at their own game. It is know that he is distributing Mr. at 2 o’clock precisely, the bridal pro had set in indicating that death had claimed that the Union Pacific has Tooze’ picture with the circular. Our rigs will be the celebrated cession began to form and came up the occurred some number of days ago. solved the problem by perfecting cars Mr. Kindt tried to get the matter aisle. The ushers, Mr. „Alex Ewen The body was discovered by Fred which have all the good points of the contained in this anonymous circular land Mr. Robt. McClelland, led, Brown, a neighbor, who lives near the trolley, with the added advantage of pub ished in The Hillsboro Independ-j followed by eight young ladies who place. Coroner Brown of Hillsboro is being cheaper of operation. More ent, but it was refused under any con were singing Lohengrin’s “ Wedding investigating the case. attention is being paid to the motor sideration, although he asked the and March,” they were Misses Ora Caples, car at Omaha, and the latest product editor to name his price for it. This, | Maude Shannon, Gladdys Hartley, Kate of the car-builders is No. 7, a sharp- in itself indicates that some one VERY | Shannon, Helen Chandler, Frances nosed, steel shell, with portholes for MUCH INTERESTED in this congres •wen, Pearl Chandler and Daisy j windows, and lines that suggest the sional campaign is supplying the nec Abemethy. Following the chorus i cup-winner Reliance. Trial runs essary money to carry out this con came the bridesmaid. Miss Wilma demonstrated the ability to climb steep temptible scheme, because if he has Waggener, and the bride accompanied | grades and a speed of 40 miles an any means of his own, no one has ever by her father. The bride was gowned hour was developed with ease. Union found it out, and many of his creditors in an exquisite creation of white organ Pacific officials believe car No. 7 to be would be only to glad to make such a dy over white taffeta and carried a the best of its tpye in existence, but discovery. bouquet of bride’* roses, while the further experiments will be carried on As to my relations with the late Con bridesmaid was very beautifully robed in the Omaha shops. It was expected gressman Tongue, it is only necessary in a princess gown of pink organdy that No. 7 would be the car sent to for me to say that, during his lifetime, trimmed in embroidered chiffon and Portland, but it is thought to be the he and I were warm personal friends, carried a bouquet of pink carnations. intention to send it to the State of New and one of the first persons to solicit The groom was conventionally York for service. me to become a candidate for congress ^ (he bfide with het T h e S H U R - O N mounting and It is believed the general introduc was his oldest son and former law the best quality lenses, fit father, at the altar, with his best roan tion of motor can will revolutionize partner, and who is now one of my ted by M. J . Abbott, the Mr. Ralph Clarke, a brother. Rev. both interurban and branch-line pass moat enthusiastic supporters in this optician, with Abbott & Henry L. Bates assisted by Rev. Her district. enger business. With quick and Son, will give satisfaction If roy reputation in this county, bert Boyd performed the simple ring frequent service over practically all or money will be refunded. where I have lived for the past 23 ceremony mid the strains of Schubert’s milroad lines will come a denser popu years, is not a sufficient answer to an Serenade played by Miss Moaeley. lation in country districts tributary to attack from this man, it would be use » | After the service had been completed fo rest g r o v e orbgon the cities, together with a more intet- less for me to add anything to what I the procession filed out to the recep- j have already said. sive cultivation of the soil and the The Jewelers non parlors, the ladies chorus taking i S. B. HUSTON. marked building up of the sma.ler Catholic Church, Easter Sunday. BUGGIES w. On April 1st we w ill show the people of Forest Grove and vicin ity the finest lin e of Buggies, Hacks, Stick Seat and Rubber Tired R igs ever shown in W ash ington County : : Studebaker Mitchel, Lewis & Staver Co. I liu J No other dealer ■ is able to show you two ^ch fine lines as we have. COME AND SEE THEM G O F F B R O S ., , ABBOTT & SON 1.1