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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1906)
W ashington VOL. IV FOREST GROVE, WASHINGTON CO., Forest Grove Boy “ In It.” ' COUNTY NEWS but most of the meat markets. Two AVERTED Mark Noble, one of our real estate special trains were run out, leaving at brokers, has received word that his son 8:45 a. m. The number of people is Charles, has just sold his mining claim estimated at 1500. „tar Goldfield, Nevada, for the lucra Dr. David Starr Jordan in a lecture tive sum of $12,000. It formerly cost delivered at tht Unitarian Church, in young Noble $1,000, says his father. San Jose, Cal., located the original of for he The deck of the old flagship Niagara, grew up here, playing mumble peg, t on which Perry wrote that immortal leap frog and keeps on the town lots ! phrasei “ We have met the enemy, Dairying In Oregon the preservation of this noble relic for all time, a small sum for Prof. G. L. Mckay, who is in charge of dairy husbandry at the so glorious a purpose, Iowa State Dilley, which town continued to be Mr. Purdy was his home until 1898. Company. Cross and Create Havoc In NO. PROMINENT WEDDINGS Forest Grove. as th'ngs go in 10 o’ clock, when the telephone line Ladies Missionary Society have their annual “ Jug Breaking” Wednesday, July 25, at 8 :0 0 p. m. | various enterprises in the home of Mrs. Raymond. which interested. ments will be served. he is In this county he has repeated his political Two Beautiful He Louis, Wallace Graham of the Berlin Sch violinists, with his usual large hearten ness, has consented to furnish t : program. Mrs. Graham will acccylf pany him. Everybody invited. 'c PATERSON-STOCKMAN I« DEATHS At high noon, July 18th, the home has a wife and seven children— Emma, got crossed with the trolley wire of the Bruce and Sidney. The largest daily paper ever printed new electric car line, thus sending over Refre Prof. Willi of Music, and one of Portland’ s bJ is the Knights of Pythias and the Artisans. He Impressive Decorations. fraternally associated with the Masons, Nellie, Clifton, and Ceremonies— Artistic 1902, was last election was re-elected. great catastrophe Friday night about The the Gaston Congregational church w ’ Young Ladles. on the Republican ticket, and at the a Forest Grove’s Most Popular elected to the Legislature of Oregon Forest Grove narrowly escaped a man to .grind ot’ i filled with the Washington, and in June, Inconvenience. of H e is still the possessor of successes experienced in the State of of Eusiness, Causing Much News has engaged side sights at the beach. Dan Cupid Steals Two west of Gaston, and his time is well Over Five Hundred ’Phones put Out The popular resort is Newport and 1 the happenings of our colony there arr his large farm, about three miles north these days.— American Press. College of Ames, I o ., is a recognized 1906. pany to erect the flour mills at Gaston, as ‘ he Co-operative Milling I and receiving his education at the an(} they are 0UrSt>> ¡¡es half buried in Forest Grove Public Schools and Tua- sand on the shore of Misery Bay. btin Academy. Twenty thousand dollars it is estimated will insure JULY 19, Trolley Wires and Telephone Lines known known to the seismic disturbances in Behring Sea. present generation as “ Si,” is a “ made H e says the next will be in the vicinity in Oregon’ ’ boy and we might call of San Leandro and Haywards, Cal. product, T H U R SD A Y , one of the organizers of a stock com - Charles, or com m only m a Forest Grove O R E ., Alta, of Mr. and Mrs. W m . Stockman was | the scene of a very pretty wedding, Wiley B. Bray the distance in 58 3-5 seconds, beating her to remain about your homes, The funeral of Wiley D. Brajr, vHjXJ when their daughter Maud was married died in Portland last Friday was j Friends Meet After Half Century of j to Mr. George G. Paterson. here Monday afternoon. 1 burning out the switch and fuse The house was beautifully decorated Seperation. The services were performed at ra board at central, setting the office afire with ferns and spiria. Mrs. John Zackery, who was visaing grave in Buxton cem etery by F*!L in places, raising havoc with over 500 W’ hile the bridal march was played her biother, Alvin Brown, here last Isaac Baldwin and the remains of i’* private phones, starting a blaze in i * J L l'i by the Misses Harrington, the happy week, crossed the plains in 1846 with Bray were laid to rest by the s id A j Schultz’ s butcher shop and raising a Mrs. N. J. Walker. They were but couple took their places under a large his wife, who died in this city in great disturbance in general little girls then and seperated after wedding bell of sweet peas and love in ! Mr. Bray was the father of Mrs. h ||H The rope holding the trolley arm the mist. com ing here, losing all trace of one Day, who lived in Forest Grove down and in place became detached. The impressive ring ceremony was I another until the happy meeting a several years. H e was 79 years The arm flew up and caught on to the performed by Rev. L. F. Belknap in [ week ago. The reunion was a most and a pioneer of Indiana. Tw o i telephone line, which crosses the trol- i the presence of a large number of j , , . , pleasant one and the lady pioneers ters survive him; Mrs. E. W . , butcher holJ„ , ec,|iin ! incident, ' ' ' “ i " ' “ d i,r,rn' d " ' ln' nd‘ of Santa Barbara, Cal., and Mrs. shop. This tore the phone wires from ............. ........... . , h „ occured „h ile th e , .e r e c ,o ,.in K The * » * " i" d “ > of Portland. When Mrs. H«Jj the insulators and brought them in di gown of Cre Di Parid and carried a to the coast by ox team. They started learned of the serious illness of 1 rect contact with the entire voltage re- j ... 7' , . ~ . ' 7 1 bouquet of roses I J The bridal party , , from Missouri on the sixth of May and H father, she started immediately "j quired to run the car and electric I 1 ! *• — —• *— -* — then retired to the lawn, where a arrived at the Spring Hill Farm, now made an heroic effort to reach“ light. This was about 9:15 and Night j bountiful dinner was served, under the owned by the Johnson heirs, in dying bedside before the end c> Operator Williams immediately felt the shade of the cherry trees. D ecem ber. Mrs. Walker has never but she arrived just a few hours | shock and luckily escaped being elec The bride is one of Forest Grove’ s been out cf Oregon since she came late. trocuted. Young Williams is new at beautiful and accomplished young over half a century ago. the business and didn’ t think about ladies, while the groom is a worthy the record by 2-5 of a second. ripping out all the fuses, which would authority on all subjects relating to I in Kentucky, it is said, was the “ home 550 volts over the telephone to Europe by the U . S. government to j j coming investigate j dairying. Five years ago he was sent dairying interests there, He is in Oregon now for the purpose I of addressing meetings of farmers at a number of points in dairying. following The the interests of statement made by him is one of the results his trip to Europe. He says: edition” of the Louisville Her- aid, issued June 6, consisting of sixty- four pages, of which 65,000 copies were printed. daily, about 40,000 copies of special were mailed throughout the country to of \ Kentuckians.— American Press. “ In | Notice Germany, Holland, Belgium and Den- mark I found dairymen operating on land worth from $500 to As the regular issue of the Herald last year averaged 20,706 $1000 an To WH0M IT MAY CONCERN:— acre— and making money, too— and ' Notice is hereby given that Monica under conditions generally far from as '■ Gefl. more generally known as Mona I Rink, left my home at Buxton, Oregon, favorable as conditions in O regon.” on July 6th, 1906, without my consent At Nottingham, E n g., C. M. Daniels, on July Am erican, 100 yd. amateur swim m ing won 12, j and against my wishes and that I will the ! not be responsible for any bills of any match fo r , kind contracted by her and you are the championship of the world, going j further notified not to harbor or permit Dated this July 14th, 1906. The grocers of Portland closed their T. H. RlNCK. wire, have prevented most of the damage, F. G. G. C. Shoot young man and has won many friends Destroy the thistles. in his business and social life. The News force was treated to wed the They were the recipients of many and ding cake from Mr. and Mrs. Geo. G. beautiful presents. -Mr. and Mrs. the Paterson. It was very dainty and we Paterson left on the evening train to con- wish to thank them; we hope that they spend a short time at the seaside. The water cov will have a long and happy career. but instead turned the hose on stores all day yesterday and went out j burning switch and insulation plain to Bonneville on their annual o u tin g ., To convince plain people use caused a continuous cnrrent over Not only all the grocery stores closed I talk. whole affair, as water is a good dubtor of electricity. H A Y IN G M A C H IN E R Y o f A ll K in d s MOWERS, RAKES, TEDDERS ered the office floor and the whole The funeral of Mrs. Joseph Lilly, | DIMICK-CAPLES room became a strong electric battery. who died last week in the St. Vincent The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W . Williams saw that he couldn’ t do any hospital in Portland, was held at the Caples was the scene of a pretty wed- thing with it, so sent for Electrician Chehalem Mountain cemetery and her ding at 8:00 a. m. Wednesday; when Hughes, the owner of the Hughes tel remains were interred there. Her their daughter, Miss Oro D ., becam e ephone line, who cut out the fuses and home was at Gales Creek checked all furtner damage. Williams, Jim Reeher was over from Wilson, discovering the blaze in Schultz’ s Saturday, and stated that the fire was butcher shop near by, broke into the still raging in the mountains. The building and extinguished the flames fire wardens, he says, refused to give which might have caused the destruc any compensation for extinguishing the tion of the entire business block. fire so the people just let it bum. Hughes secured a force of men, in A tramp card writer, George Wilson cluding Electrician Wilkes, and they the bride of Mr. Oregon City. The parlors were with ferns, white marguerites. Rev. The Forest Grove Gun Club the assistance of a couple of trav; men held an exciting pigeon yesterday forenoon and afternoon. >, hair splitting records were m a d s l H the boys had a good time so t t f ^ | all that’ s necessary. After the lemonade was served. Here line up so you can figure out whiU ” was on: Robertson, ................................. 3S Powler, ........................ Walter D im ick, of W Goff................................... Stokes, ........................ ........................ daintily decorated Belknap, Nichols, ........................ carnations, and II Goff, ........................ H . L. Bates per formed the cerem ony in the presence of the family intimate and a few friends. Outing for Forest Grove Bail Charles Walker was in Saturday, preparatory to Po going The bride was handsome in a coast. H e received a m e s s a g ^ f l last week and creation of white silk mull trimmed in Monmouth last week offering 11 were again ready for service. All day consoled the news writer of this sheet Irish baby lace, and carried white good proposition if he would brii Saturday, however, people were calling with the information that he had carnations. After the ceremony light Forest Grove band over to N c formerly been a typo, but that he refreshments were served, after which up Central only to be told of the a month this summer. Mr. had worked his way up by working the bridal couple was escorted to the saster” Friday evening. All lines accepted the offer and in a cou the people. now in operation again. Portland bound train by number of i weeks the mermaids and summer Homer Davenport, the noted car their young friends. will j,e en chanted by the sweet ■ The guests in attendance at the 0f our Hoys like unto that of Washington County Re-elects Promi toonist, in company with body guards scarcely stopped to eat until the lines ' by name, did the town \ where the wedding from out ol town were: an(j Anon of old. Am ong th Oregon cartoonist will purchase sixteen Mrs. Fred Olson, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. will be on hand with an instrur F. Purdy of Gaston, Arabian horses, costing him $30,000. Caples, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Caples and Charles Walker, Lowell Marke from Washington H e will have to travel in native garb Miss H elen, of Portland; Miss Alice Peterson, Herbert McNutt, nent Man. Hon. Bruce Representative H A Y LOADERS, SW EEP RAKES Besides a full line of M Y E R S ’ H A Y TOOLS Consisting of H ay Carriers, Slings, Single and Rouble Forks, Pulleys, etc. Everything . for a com plete outfit W e sell only the Pure Manila Rope. D o n ’t take an inferior rope it wont last half so long will soon sail for Arabia, County, ex-merchant, large land-owner an(j by camel into the interior, and enterprising man of affairs, is a Willard Wirtz, formerly connected native Oregonian, born at Salem, with The News, who has been attend October 16, 1854, and in 1874 at ing the Chatauqiia this week, left Port Goldendale, Wash., was married to land today with his sister Mabel and Miss Cora A. McCune. Ivy Smith for San Francisco. They Mr. Purdy was for several years will travel by steamer to the earthquake president of the Co-operative Milling city and from there to Santa Cruz by Company, of Gaston. rail, where they will spend the summer At the old institute and the public with relatives. schools ol Salem, the subject of this sketch studied when opportunity offer- Wll*°n, who left for the harvest , OREGON Benj. Scholfield and Miss Loomis and George Littlehales. Hattie vey Baldwin will chaperone the j Scholfield of Cornelius. Oregon Photographic of Tour Ended. musicians and see that get into trouble. With a collection of about 500 views Howard Thomas is visiting Joseph Padilla, a staff photographer of land this week. the Sunset Magazine, has left for San Francisco, after touring the state from Ashland north and for some distance along the Columbia River on the O. R. & N. The excellent collection of cuts, ed, and besides received a practical j fields in the Inland EmP>« a «>uple of negatives and pictures in the Sunset on the paternal farm. weeks ago, returned home Saturday office were destroyed in the San From earliest youth he became inter evening. H e says the wages up there Francisco catastrophe, and special cars ested in his father’ s milling business, are not so good as they are in the were sent North and East to secure and in 1875 went to Klickitat County, valley and moreover the heat indicator new material. T h e pictures embrace 116. These two things Washington, where he took up govern registered many subjects, and will be used in the have induced Jim to sing “ there’ s no ment land and engaged in farming and publication known as the “ Road of a stocknising, the Utter on a very Urge place like h om e.” Thousand W onders,” which is issued “ Death to the thistles” is Com m is- annually by the Southern Pacific, in scale. He became prominent politi WATCH WRONGS RIGHTED If your watch has gone lost its accuracy or suffered more serious injury-we’ ll right once more if it lies a watchmaker’ s skill to d o $ M The same with Clocks. Of course there are uH su l cally and otherwise, and in the Fall of rioner Beattie’ s' slogan todav, as he is addition to other Harriman system 1890 was elected to the first Washing- scouring the city looking up th e o b je c- a d v e n in g — Telegra yond repair, and in that case1 ^ • ton State Legislature, well you should know we serving through tionable weed and rooting it out. He | In is also reminding property-owners of This summer Forest Grove bids fair to keep to send one of the biggest delegations Grove upon a farm of 350 acres, and their premises clesr of thistles of what- of revellers to the seaside ever sent there engaged in stockraising and soever variety.— The Dallas Chronicle, from here. This week has seen a farming on a Urge scale. During Couldn’ t we hire Beattie to com e down great inroad made into our popuUtion 1894-95 he com bined farming and to Portland?— PortUnd Journal. H e on account of the beach goers snd 1891 Mr. Purdy located near Forest the law which com pels FO R E ST GROVE Merryman of Hillsboro; Mr. and Mrs. home training the regular and special sessions. G O FF BROS., !f them stockraising interests with the manage- might also find employment in Forest from now on through August the stream will continue to flow that w ay., ment of » general merchandise store at ( Grove. Watches or Clocks injured I I good line of watches and to select from. ABBOTT & SOr J e w e le r s