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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1906)
t WASHINGTON ■ VOL IV LOREST GROVE, WASHINGTON CO., ORE., REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF The F i r s t N a tio n a l B a n k of F o re s t Grove, Oregon COUNTY NEW: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1906. for the sentiment by all but the dele FOREST GROVE ENTERTAINS gation from the normal school towns. H. H. Stuart of the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Co., stated that no OREGON BOOSTERS | business pays better money than dairy NO. COUNCIL HOLDS MEETINI ing as it pays for itself and more dur Regular Monthly Routine of Busli ing the first year. “ We must have good herds, weed out the present ones Gone Through— Warrants Order«, ; RESOURCES. l ia b il it ie s . and we can easily treble the number grossed D iscounts.........................................$97,189 82 C a p fu l «ocle paid In ................................ M J , S.OOO 00 Paid— Hard to Obtain Quorum. I of cows we have at present.” Overdrafts, secured and u n s e c u re d ............ 191 70 Undivided profits, l e u expenses and tases p 5 Bonds to secure c ir c u la tio n ................ 25,000 00 The big event of the afternoon ........................................................... 1.82110 m m iim i on U. S. B onds............................. 825 00 session was Senator Fulton’s address, N ational Bank notes o utstanding................ 25.CCO 00 Bead*, securities, e tc ....................................... 20,827 78 Individual den o titi subject to c h e ck ........ <*,629 which aroused considerable enthusiasm. Banking house, fu rn itu re a n d n a t u r e s . . . 2,963 00 D em and c e n i« ate« of d e p o t« .................... 23^58 56 H e impressed upon his hearers the More Street Crossings to be Put ln -^ 1 Due from State B anks a nd B a n k e rs ........... 1,383 91 T im e c e rtifiâ te s of d e p o sit........................ 10,671 70 difficulty he met with in Washington, Due front approved rese rv e a g e n ts ............. 21,129 95 C a sh ier’! checks o utstanding...................... 5*0 29 Water Meters Up Again— Streeii necks and other cash Ite m s......................... 1,039 95 when he sought to push appropriations T Total $183.5.-1 17 Hotel of other N ational B a n k s.................... 200 00 for river and harbor improvement and Commissioner Dispensed With. factional paper c u rre n c y , n ic k e ls , c e n t! 12 36 urged the necessity of organized devel ................................. » '» « Last Friday was a great day in the it had actually been built. opment work on the part of his consti Legal-tender n o trs............. . .s e e 365 l l ,518 00 history of our city—the session of the In this work the Harriman system tuents. in order to meet the eastern ledemption fund w ith U. 8. T re a s u re r Willamette Valley Development Lea was taking the lead, and he thought objection that the commerce of Wes (5 per cent c irc u la tio n )............................. 1,250 00 The city fathers met Tuesday even#9 gue aided materially in boosting Forest it only right that the league should tern Oregon is not sufficient to justify ing for the regular monthly meeting* T o tal $183.564 47 Grove once more to the front ranks, as express its recognition of that fact. la-ge outlays. in the city hall, W. R. Harris acting1,1 STATE OF OREGO N. C O U N TY O F W A SH IN G T O N , ss: a wide awake town and one that is The officers of the system were not He took a rap at the existing freight chairman. All were present except <! I, R. M. Dsoly. P re .id e n t o f th e ab o v e-n am ed b ank, do lolem nly » e a r that the above named atatem ent always ready to assist in the develop only taking the lead in building new rates and argued strongly for compet Mayor Peterson, and CouncilmeaB j, true to the beat of m y know led g e a n d b e lie f. r . m, DOOLY, President. ment of the Willamette Valley’s re lines, but they were aiding in many ing railroads and free government locks Campbell and Hollinger. The regulanj! Subscribed and sw orn to b efo re m e CORRECT—Attest: sources. this n th day of S e p t.1 9 0 6 FRANK E. DOOLY, other ways in developing the interests at Oregon City. He was given a routine of the monthly meeting was, EDWARD L N A Y L O R . -------- R. M. DOOLY, Jr, N o ta ry P u b lic. Delegates from the commercial of the country. hearty reception, and his remarks gone through—that of auditing and® J. E. LOOMIS. Directors. bodies of the Western Oregon cities issuing warrants for the past month. 5 »! H. C. Atwell of this city, and a struck a responsive chord. gathered in the college city to meet in leading fruitgrower of the Valley, read An excelent paper on civic improve The street and sidewalk proposition]!! the fifth quarterly convention of the a paper on fruitgrowing. He showed ment as a factor in development was was again discussed. More crossings It Idler's Bail Fixed Thousand Dollars Willamette Valley Development Lea that this Valley could grow not only read by Prof. Mary F. Farnham of will be put in before the rains settle in j ; COUNTY COURT NEWS gue. About 75 delegates were in at the apple, the king of all fruits, but Pacific University, who has been an for good. The street commissioner’»!,! Hiram Naylor of Gales Creek, who PROBATE COURT tendance, and a spirit of optimism per was equally well adapted to pears, important factor in making this a clean month being up with the last day of j I ns «nested a few days ago for threat- Estate of N. S. Howell Monday meated the meeting which was held cherries, gTapes, strawberries and nuts. and attractive town. August, it was decided that after this® lining to kill one John Ranes, had his C. C. Chapman spoke on advertising laborers would be hired by the day to il He would prove his assertions not only | hearing before the justice at Hillsboro Oct. 1st 1906 time set for hearing ob in Marsh Hall. jections to final account. Many of the business houses were by the fruits shown on the tables in the Oregon from the standpoint of a prac repair both streets and sidewalks. The , | Saturday. meters were again the subject of some * Estate of H. R. O’Neil. Ordered decorated for the occasion with bunting, room, but the testimony of dealers in tical advertising specialist. John Ranes is the stepson af Mr. R. L. Sabin, president of the Mer discussion but nothing was decided I Naylor and did on one occasion assault that property be turned over to M; ry and the city as a whole took on holiday the cities accustomed to handling all chants’ Protective Association of Port upon in the way of final action as to Iindbeat him and on several occasions E. O’Neil the widow, and excutrix attire. Marsh Hall was prettily decorat fruits. Dr. J. P. Tamiesie of Hillsboro, land, explained the purposes of that whether they shall be put in or not. released and discharged and closed of ed with bunting, flags and evergreens. | lad applied to him vile names. At the rear of the building the local president of the condensed milk com organization and presented its claim as Three bids for the construction of the *fl Some of the evidence in the case record. grangers had arranged a splendid exhi pany of that place, made a short talk a power in the development of the new city hall have been prepared and I tended to show that Mr. Naylor threat- Estate of R. W. Ireland. Closed another will be soon, but have not been bit, showing the agricultural possibilities on the dairy business of the county. state. lined to shoot and kill Ranes, while of record and Executor discharged. of the county. Fruit, vegetables, and He said that from the best information A set of resolutions was adopted at presented, and the location of the hall ■other witnesses testified that Naylor Estate of Sarah Jane Waters. Last seems to be a puzzler for the city I said he would kill him if he (Ranes) will and testament admitted to probate. grain of various sorts had been gathered he could gather he believed that the the evening session asking for the fathers. in profusion. The display was com dairymen of this county had received improvement of the navigation on the lever bothered him again. Eva E. Wilkes appointed executrix. C ontinued on last page Mi. Naylor was placed under $1000 F. T. Kane, M. E. Bump and Geo. mented upon by the delegates who about $390,000 during the past year Willamette River and the bringing thought it a wonderful exhibit and a for about 30,000,000 pounds of milk. aobut of goevmment ownership of the hail and was committed to jail until a H. Wilcox appointed appraisers. credit to any community. Two condensed milk factories have locks at Oregon City. Efficient bond was given. County Judge Had Busy Day. Estate of Jacob Wunderli, closed of The delegates crowded the hotels, been established in the county three The sense of the convention was also record. Property turned over to and many were entertained by personal to the effect that the request of the years now and the number of cows has The newly elected Judge, J. Westley Leg Broken in Runaway. Elisabeth Wunderli and executor re j friends. Forest Grove truly realized increased to four times what it was people on the west side of the river Goodin last Thursday had a busy day, The team of Josh Merrill of Coroel- leased and discharged. from Corvallis to Whitson for addition in which he committed two boys to that she was entertaining the men three years ago. |r,s, ran away last Wednesday, threw who mean to build up Oregon, and A. T. Buxton, master of the Oregon al train service was reasonable and the Boys’ and Girls’ Aid Society, a Constantine Miller was examined fr. Merrill irom his wagon and broke J the Willamette valley in particular, State Grange, was introduced as the j entitled to the consideration of the man and a boy to the asylum, a man i leg above the knee. No otheT se before County Judge, for insanity and j and wore a glad smile. “ King farmer of Oregon.” He said Southern Pacific officials. Also that to the county poor farm and suspend committed to the Asylum for the in ws injuries were sustained. The visitors were met at the depot he regretted th.-t he had to appear in since railroad competition is an impera ed judgment on another youth. sane on Sept. 6 th 1906. I by the red ribboned memDers of the the place of the “ queen of farmers” as tive need of the Willamette Valley, J. Tenscher, traveling agent of the —Buy your knock-about Shoe at , board of trade and of the local grange. it had been expected that Mrs. Waldo, citizens and cities are requested not to Boys’ and Girls’ Aid society of Port Continued on last page. ¿ley’s. He carries a very strong line" Many of the delegates expressed sur the state lecturer, would be present j place obstacles in the way ol their land, aslt week secured possession of construction. The efforts of the Port some poor, abused and neglected chil prise to see our electric car line and but had 1 een unable to attend. were amazed at the metropolitan airs He said the new conditions in Ore- j land commercial bodies to secure dren of Washington county by causing taken on by our city, but all were gon farming required a change from appropriations for the improvements of the arrest of Fred Williams, aged 14 agreed that Forest Grove was a fitting the extensive to the intensive system, \ the Columbia River were endorsed years, Francis Williams, aged 6 years place for the holding of a de\ elopment and it was the purpose of the grange but the improvements of Coos Bay and Max Barnes, aged 7 years, all of \ convention. to teach the farmer to keep up with and other Oregon harbors were deemed Beaverton. The delegates were then taken to the progress of the times. The grange of equal importance to the develop The complaint filed sets forth that the business district, shown around and is an educational institution and is ment of the state. the Williams children are cruelly neg made acquainted with the business intended to make better farmers. (C ontinued on p a c e 3) lected by the parents; that the father men of the city. Everything was in Hal D. Patton, the genial Salemite, is habitually intoxicated and the moth formal and all the visiting business who has unfurled a flag over every New Professors for Pacific Next Thurs er is weak minded. The same charges men appeared well pleased with their school house in Marion County and were lodged against Mr. and Mrs. day. i stay in the college city. Forest Grove’s who is lovingly referred to as “ Our Barnes, except that Mrs. Barnes is not The new professor of History at feeble minded. welcome might have been bigger and Hal” by the school ma’ams, did a more spontaneous, but it was thorough little boosting for the State Fair. He Pacific is Arthur C. Boggess of Catlin, It is further alleged that the Wil ly cordial and warm hearted. The said that the state fair would this year 111. He is a graduate of the State Uni liams family, the parents and two chil attendance at the sessions would have excel all previous fairs. H e had a versity of Illinois, where he received dren, have for more than a year lived been larger had not the meeting come banner advertising that event hung the degree of A. B., later he entered in a single tent and occupies the same the department of the University of at so busy a time of the year. But across Pacific Avenue. bed. Both children are rather feeble Mayor F. W. Waters of Salem, Wisconsin, making his major study for minded. taken as a whole the convention was a two years, the last year holding the success and will be productive of good spoke on electric transportation facili Max Barnes was brought before the results for Forest Grove and Washing ties and announced that arrangements fellowship in American History. He county judge, J. W. Goodin, yesterday were practically completed for the became a Scholar in American History and after the examintaion of many wit ton County. delegates building of an electric line to connect in the University of Penn., receiving nesses the court advised the father of The conversation of the the degree of Ph. D. at the end of two on the streets and in the hotels, where- j Salem and Forest Grove, the lad to take better care of his chil ever they gathered, was new Oregon, j H. E. Lounsbury of the Southern j years. He has taught for several vears dren. This the father agreed to do. united Oregon in general, and a closer Pacific freight department, made a ( and is well prepared for the position After hearing the evidence for and community of interest in the Willa- favorable impression with his speech! here. He has also done several years against the Williams children the court research work in two of the best insti mette Valley in particular. on the Harriman system in Oregon, j gave Francis Williams to the Boys’ The program as scheduled followed, notwithstanding the fact that Colonel tutions. and Girls' Aid society and committed Prof. Bridwell has already arrived deep interest being evinced in the Hofer, the champion Harriman baiter, Fred Williams to the insane asylum at differents addresses and the speakers was the directing genius of the and is busy getting acquainted with hit Salem. new surroundings. He finds many be'ng accorded hearty applause when , meeting. Little Robert Curtis, aged 10 years, they touched upon a point of excep- i The two issues most often brought! things as a professor of biology that are who has been a charge at the poor new to him in this country. His home tional value. ,0 the fore and most forcibly discussed | farm, was also given to the Boys’ and The meeting was called to order by were competition in freight rates, j has been in Kansas, altho he has trav Girls Aid society by the county judge elled extensively, this is his first visit Thursday. State Senator Haines, who expressed carrying with it, as a condition preced to the Pacific Coast. Constantine Miller, a farmer, resid the pleasure it gave him to bid the ent, the construction of new railroads j Prof. A. Ben Kori will have charge not affiliated with the present monop- j league a welcome to Forest Grove. ing one mile south of this city, was the of the department of M odem 1 He was present at its organization 18 oly; Government ownership of the ] man committed to the asylum. Languages. months ago in Salem and paid tribute Oregon City Locks, and the improve- j ment of rivers and harbors. Other professors are: Prof. F. W. to the good work it had done. The resolutions passed refer speci-! O tt , and Prof. George H. Coons. Mayor Peterson of Forest Grove, ex tended a hearty welcome to the organ fically to these points, and most of the Dead. ization, and, speaking in a humorous speakers at some stage of their remarks vein said that Oregon had a difficult referred to them. The presence of Mrs. Albert Friday died at her home country to advertise, because when the Senator Fulton was deemed especially near Banks on Sept. 9th, aged 30 years truth was told it was so wonderful that fortunate, as it gave the league an 7 mo. and 17 days. She was born in exceptionally good opportunity to urge I Eastern people could not believe it. this county, the daughter of Mr and Col. E. Hofer of Salem, president of these needs upon him as perhaps they Garrigus of Banks, was married to 12 league, delivered the opening address have never been urged before. Albert Friday in July, 1896. She The Senator, both in his address and ; of the session. He expressed his leaves a husband and two children, pleasure in having the opportunity to in private conversation, pledged his ] besides a father, three brothers and a efforts to secure the ends sought s o 1 come to Forest Grove, with its educa sister to mourn her loss. Interment tional and natural advantages, which frankly as to leave no question as to was in the Wilkes Cemetery. make it "as near a social heaven a* is his sincerity. Mrs. E. A. Jerome died in a Port This meeting has undoubtedly given possible on earth ” He reviewed the work of the league and showed that it new impetus to development work, land hospital last Wednesday evening had aided in starting a revival of devel and its complete harmony was a de «! the age of 51 years. She was born The G orreet T im e opment in Oregon that is yet scarcely monstration that the pull-together in Clinton Co., Mich., and came to is something worth knowing and realized. In the eight yean previous sentiment is a real and potential quali- Oregon in 1878, settling in Astoria, OR is very important to most people. then moved to Portland, and later to to 1905, he said, the railroad mileage ty in Western Oregon. Our watches do not vary a second Professor J. M. Powers, Superinten this city where she lived for 18 years. of th e state had actu ally decreased, We give a strong guarantee. but undeT the stimulus of the poblic dent of the Salem City Schools, in the Her maiden name was Ella O. Thomas. organizations of O regon in the last course of a talk on educational needs, She leaves « husband, a daughter, Mn. A. J. Wfrtz and an adopted son. The year 1 and a half railroad building was made the statement that Oregon’s body was brought here and the funeral Normal Schools were too numerous and forward at a remarkable rate. J e w e le r s go in g fo r e s t g r o v e , oregox More than 1000 miles of new line had should be consolidated into one credi- was held in the Methodist Church with been surveyed, and several hundred of table institution. He was applauded interment in Naylor’s cemetery. AT THE CIXtSE OF BUSINESS SEPT. 4, 1906. 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