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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1907)
I 0TES. W ashington cointv news FOREST GROVE, VOL. v WASHINGTON CO., ORE., THURSDAY. AUGUST 29, NO. 8 1907. Additional News Notes. BACKING DOWN ON AGREEMENT Ladies’ New Dormitory at Pacific University I tion of the best varieties ef small fruits, and to assist their cultivation by scien- W. H. McEldowney, for many years l tific methods. manager of the Ladd & Reed farm in This work is bringing results. A Yamhill county until last April w. ; number of canning establishments will he resigned, has been induced to tv. I be erected within a short time. At up the management of that farm aga n | present there are two fruit canneries at besides all the farms of the company j Portland, and others at Salem, Spring- In what is known as the Yamhill cour- ty farm there are 4500 acres, 2500 IM j Ui;put at Banks a Rime uf Con A b jn d a o t Harvest In Washington ! brook, Eugene and Ashland, and oth ers have been started this year, at under cultivation; 840 acres in this tention. County. Grants Pass, Brownsville, Monmouth county and 1000 acres in Clark countv, and Lebanon. The Salem plant is to Washington. Mr. McEldowney has be enlarged, the Eugene cannery has been employed by this farm company been improved, and the arrangements for nineteen years and his knowledge have been made to establish another of farming on a large scale has proven large cannery at Salem and another at invaluable to them as his reappoint Newburg. ment to the head of the entire acreage All sections of the valley are awak certainly verifies. Their method of Merchants Are Hauling Freight Frcm Southern Pacific is Aiding the Fruit ening to the possibilities of fruit grow- farming is strictly on a businesslike itg in connection with the canning in basis. They formerly maintained the Forest Grove By Far Industry By Good Trans dustry, and by next spring it is likely bookr of the farms at Portland, their Cheaper. that ¿500.000 will be invested in can- 1 headquarters, and each farm is required portation. neries throughout Western Oregon. to make a report each month besides The output of canned fruits on the an annual report. Mr. McEldowrey Southern Pacific Lines in this state, ! "^ V - will have his headquarters in this city. There is something doing in our The prospects for a good sized outside of Portland, during 1906, was t»r neighboring city of Banks every min The annual meeting of the trustees cannery here are growing brighter as less than 50 carloads. This year the j •< ÎiS» ,*• ' ' '• WÊBKBtei*- - - ■ of the M. E. Church society was held ute as will be seen by the loads of this year’ s fruit crop is being harvested. output is larger and by next year there (Matrix by courtesy Portland Journal.) at the parsonage Tuesday evening for freight that are hauled to that place Some time ago a fruit buyer from the should be nearly 100 carloads for ship the purpose of making the annual re from the Forest Grove depot. Yes, Weber-Bussell Canning Co., Seattle, ment to the Eastern markets. Within I COLTS ARE S H U T iO JT . SWALLOWED COLLAR BUTTON port to the conference which meets Irom Forest Grove. That seems stiange the large st on the coast, was here look the next five years, shipments of September 24th, at the Grace M. E but nevertheless it is the truth. Why ing over the fruit crop with a view of tinned fruits from Western Oregon First of Season and all Due to Seiies Little Miss Vani.oy Nearly Lost Her church, Portland. The society has do they haul freight from here? Well, buying all he could get. He made should amount to a 1000 cars a year, j of Errors. Life Last Week. made about $300 worth of improve it is like this: When the P. R. & N. statements while here that led to the CONTRAST IS STRIKING. ments on the parsonage besides im built its line it was mutually agreed fact that he has favorably reported to For the first time during the history Little Miss Gertrude Vannoy the five There is quite a contrast with Cali his company the enormity of the fruit of the Colt baseball team they met a year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. P. proving the sidewa ks. The trustees that that city should have a good depot. fornia on the fruit output. California crop adjacent to Forest Grove and that complete shutout Sunday last at La- Vannoy of Dilley, came near losing are mucn pleased with the progress of The line is finished that far as we all ships 60,000 cars a year of fruit pro company is now casting about for more Fayette with the ball tossers of that old her life last week from swallowing a the church during the past year and know but the depot is not. Mr. Banks, ducts, exclusive of wines. Of "This feel that the report to the conference is the father of the town, gave the ground information and will in all probability town. Yes it was a great big goose collar button. amount, 35,000 cars are oranges and unusually good. A. G. Hoffman was to the company for the purpose of launch a big cannery here next su mmer. egg for our boys and just think it She had a small metal button in her lemons, 10,000 cars dried fruits, 8000 chosen lay delegate and F. M. Starrett constructing a nice depot and as yet Mr. Bussell, one of the members of wasn’ t Easter either. mouth last Wednesday while playing .. n • tr . r- cars green fruit and about 6000 cars there is none. And what is more, the firm, will visit Forest Grove as soon 8. . . . , . . . . . . But in order to check any hard about the house when she accidentally was chosen alternate. . , • , , , canned fruit. A large part of the fruit they say, there is not likely to be any. after the season s crop is harvested as . , . _ . . ... words in the Colt’ s egg reception let swallowed it and it became lodged in Judge Langley and Miss Manche . . , . 1 raised in California is grown wilh the At present, and ever since the road he can and will meet the farmers of 6 us state right here that they put up the windpipe. She was brought to returned from the Langley camp at aid of irrigation. In the Willamette this section with a view to installing a capital ball, but met a bunch of ding town the same day to Dr. Hines who Timber Thursday last, Mrs. Langley was built for that matter, the merchants Valley there is no need for irrigation. cannery. It will be necessary for them ers— not exactly all from LaFayette. was unable to locate it he having and Lote having preceded them by a have been obliged to rent a barn near The best cherries in the world are to go into the fruit raising business on Springer, the lad who recently pitched thought it had passed into the stom week or so. The sojourn in the by for the purpose of housing their grown here with scarcely any attention. a larger scale besides giving the com such a whirlwind game for St. Johns, ach and the swelling of the throat was mountains, so says the Judge, did h m goods wh le passengers who sought Berries raised here without irrigation pany some assurance that it can expect was on the knoll for the ’ ettes; Dustv caused by the irritation. Tne next more good than a barrel of patent passage via the P. R. & N. are com are equal to any grown in any part of a large amount of fruit. Roads of McMinnville caught; and day she grew worse and breathing medicine. There were lots of people pelled to stand out in the rain. Be country. I am informed on best au A. J. Henneman, buyer for the com Roper, the lad with an evil eye, and became difficult and on Friday even camped there besides the people from sides, claim the merchants, paying thority that the California fruit grower pany, is in the city and is having a worse arm did stunts around third ing the little sufferer was brought in here— about sixty at one time and a double freight rates from Hillsboro, realizes much more profit from his bought for the company ail the fruit pillow, scooping up all the vicious again and it was found that an opera jolly good time was had during the they are compelled to pay rent for a canned fruits than from that he dries. that is marketable which insures that bingles and morguing the runners on tion was necessary to save her life. whole stay. They fished, hunted, and depot, and it has Deen found by them The output of green and dried fruit the highest price will be paid. Any first. Two very costly errors were re She was taken to Dr. Brown’ s office five deer were killed by the party that it is cheapei to have their freight in the territory served by the Oregon one having pears, apples or any other sponsible for the three runs by the where by the use of the X-Ray the Many nights the crowd would stay up shipped to this station and hauled to Lines of the Southern Pacific does not fruit should look up the buyers in this Favettes and according to Manager button was located. Dr. Bishop was till twelve and one roasting venison Banks by wagon than under the con exceed 1000 cars a year. With the city, for the more fruit that is shipped Wirtz it should have been an 0 to 0 called and together the three made a The girls of the camp say they killed ditions there as they now exist. promotion of the cannery industry and It is understood that the matter will from this point this season just so much game instead of 3 to 0. hurried operation. The incision was several “ dears.” the raising of large amounts of small be taken before the Railroad Commis brighter are the chances for getting a The game was cut short to seven made in the windpipe and the button fruits, this figure will be much in L. J. Corl has bought the lot on the sion with the hope that matters can be cannery. innings so the Colts could catch the removed. A tube was inserted to creased. corner of Pacific avenue and Second righted. train. Moore was the star of the day. permit the little patient to breathe. Mr. Malboeuf says the canning in Besides glomming onto two hard ones SHe was later removed to the Laugh- street, adjoining the old Varley livery Interest in growing small fruits Unlike the Times of Cleveland. dustry should equal the creamery bus in center veldt and catching a man on lin Hotel and placed under the care barn from Brian Tully, an Eastern man. throughout the Willamette Valley and iness in importance in this state, and He will move his building, now occu Something decidedly unusual hap the home stretch by a long whip from of a nurse and is now recovering. It the establishment of canneries to pre he is satisfied it will do so within the the same garden, he soaked out a was a close call and the timely opera pied by the bicycle store, onto it as pened the other day— yes, it was only serve them, is being fostered by the next few years. How great the cream soon as he can get a clear title to the last week. Uncle Bill Kane was com couple of safe hits. Southern Pacific in Oregon. A cam tion is all that saved her life. ery industry is in Oregon is generally property. Mr. Corl will then begin ing down town wondering who in the There was no score getting at all paign started by the company for the known. It is interesting to know that the erection ot his new brick on the world he could get to put in his wood until the fourth when the fatal three growth of the fruit-canning industry in Brakeman Dies Suddenly. Mr. Malboeuf had much to do with present site and hopes to have it com which he recently had sawed, for labor crossed the rubber. Rhodes laid this state promises to bring about the turning the attention of Oregonians to down a single. Nelson came np shak C. P. Clark, brake man on the For pleted in the early winter. The new is scarce, very scarce. He was philos best results. Under the direction of the possibilities of the creamery busi ing direfully at the knees, but he est Grove local, died suddenly Tues building will contain two rooms, one ophising upon the future and thinking Charles Malboeuf, district freight agent ness in Oregon, and he secured the lo leaned onto the leather; Davis had it in day morning just as he was about to he will occupy himself while the other how in the times of the Cleveland badge »Or the Oregon lines, a great industry cation in this state of the largest milk in the canning of small fruits will be the twinkling of an eye and shot begin the run to Portland. Mr. Clark is already rented. he could get doodles ol men without and cream condenser now operating in built up in Western Oregon. It is it to first— but oh-----------, here we had not been in the best of health and Dr. J. H. Knox the vetenary surgeon, the asking, when he passed the harness 1 ! Oregon. Mr. Malboeuf’ s plan to make this in the must leave a blank space fur had returned from the hot springs in had a rather peculiar case at Gaston last store of Mr. Bowman, and lo, and be The campaign just begun by the dustry as important in Oregon as fruit language several of the boys used August where he had gone to recuper Sunday when Mrs. Ralston’ s cow took hold! there sat four idle men, Henry Southern Pacific will be carried on growing and preserving in California^ ( throughout the year, and for the untimely zipping of the sphere- ate. Monday evening he ate a hearty sick with a bad case of perturient ap- Hamilton, William Hatfield, Eddie This can easily be done, he says, by j .. ._ 8 ___A _ ________ „ _______ oid past first station, for Rhodes scored meal and likewise on the following polexy. It is unusual, by reason that Wirtz and Charlie Jackson. They it is hoped to have many more canner encouraging the marketing of green and Nelson was perched on third before morning but just as the train was ready a desease of this nature always follows were “ gasing” and thinking of every ies in operation by next summer.— Ore fruit and the increase of canneries in equilibrium was restored. Hubbard to pull out the conductar ordered that closely after calving and in this case it thing else but work when Uncle Bill gonian. went out and Nelson and Roper scored several of the coaches, be locked was five months after. Doc says that questioned the bunch: “ Say, ’ spose this staiie. Mr. Malboeuf has attended a num on another error. This concluded the which had been put in service for the there is no case on record like this and there is an idle man in town I could Some More Crockery. ber of meetings of fruit-growers in va run getting and the game was cut short benefit of the patrons who were attend that it has been only recently that his get to put in my wood ” The men Miss D. became suddenly interested at the seventh canto so the Colts could ing the show as all of them would not rious parts of the Willamette Valley, profession has been successful in treat on the door step sat silent for a few and his project has been favored. He | in the preparations of several members go home. be in use until nearing Portland, and ing it. The cow has recovered. moments when one, perhaps Henry has promised very favorable freight of the Rod and Gun Club who were go- it was while attending to this duty Mr. Line up: Hamilton— and then perhaps not, sug The basement of the Public School rates, both on green fruit to the can- ing out t0 take a “ shoot” last Friday, Colts LaFayette Clark was taken with violent hemor gested that they would do it. “ I ’ ll building is being put in shape for the neries, and from the canneries to the when she asked, “ What are you going M oore............. rhages of the lungs. He was discov give you two and a half if you will,” manual training department which was “ Clay birds,” came the Bullock........... . . .r f____ market. Generous reductions have to shoot?” ered on the rear platform in bad con tie ex architect and builder remarked. recently voted as a part of the school. been made in the tariffs for the benefit answer from Roy Brookings of the Ireland........... . . .If......... dition and by the aid of a truck he And the (our struck out foi William The board has plac :d an order for tools of the fruit grower and canner, and Honey man Hardware Co. “ Are they K opple........... ............... Dill was hurriedly moved to his home only Kar.e’ s house on Fifth Street without and benches ar.d everything will be “ Oh, yes, delicious, W. S ch ultz.. . . . . 3 b . . ........... Ropier a short distance on Fifth street, where during the coming year there will be ; good to eat?” saying another word. Tney shed their “ How do you R. Schultz . . . . . , 2 b ____ ......... Nelson he expired before medical assistence hurried to completion in time for the large tracts throughout the valley I’ ll bring you some.” coats and you ought to have seen the beginning of school. A meeting of know you are going to get any?” Britton . . . . . . l b ____ . . . . Hubbard arrived. planted to small fruits. the board will be called in a few days wood fly for an hour or ov;r until they “ The present season” said Mr Mal | “ Well, we’ re going to take 25 shells Getter............. He was about 40 years old and had to determine the date school shall open had eight cords snugged safely away “ How do you Davis.............. boeuf, “ has been notable for one of each, that’ s sure.” been in the service a long time. He in the basement. The head of the “ Oh, you can parboil the biggest crops of berrie* and cher- i cook them?” was well known to most all the patrons \ C. N. Johnson will begin picking household watched the workmen as Umpire: Vickery of Dayton. sies on record. Favorable conditions them but they are more palatial on between here and Portland and liked his hops today. He says that mould they threw in the wood stick by stick [throughout Western Oregon have made toast. ' And the jovial salesman by everyone for his jovial disposition is liable to set in and he is afraid that while the perspiration ran in big msa - Fake Story. | the yield a large one. Within the nudged the others to keep quiet. The and courteous manner. He leaves a he will experience the same trouble ures down their necks. The job don .; Saturday afternoon a rumor got past two years the people of the valley »hoot was a success as Miss D. will ver- wife. this year that he did last when he did he plunked up th« two and a half and have planted large numbers of black- ¡ty. lor Mr. B., the true sportsman that abroad to the effect that a child had The funeral was held Tuesday and no. save all of his crop. Geo. Beal remarked, "W ell, I have found some been cruelly torn to pieces and killed I|berry, loganben-y, raspberry, and other he is, brought back a box carefully the remains shipped to California for says that the mould has so far advanced men who would work and you have by a cougar, and the people of the fru it roots, largely with the view of mar wrapped which contained clay birds interment. in his yard that he does not know done me a favor.” The bunch went enough for two messes. “ How kind whole county were wild over the affair, keting the fruit in lortland. whether it will pay him to pick at all. jollying up town and it is not known “ Oh, don’ t mention it; but happily nothing could be found to “ The very large yield this Summer you are!” Hillsboro Argus Sold. wiiat they did with their money for the verify the report. It was said that Z. Wing of Gales City was in town ceeded the most sanguine expecta- some of them are pretty badly shot up Iron House is closed. H. G. Guild of Portland, has pur Tuesday having returned from Portland And Miss two men had gone out hunting taking ms, and the Portland market was but there’ s a good mess.” their little boy along, up above Forest chased a half interest in the Hillsboro where he attended the circus. He ersupplied. Nearly 1000 tons of D. carefully undid the package just to Miss Manche Langley and Mbs Grove somewhere. The two huntsmen Argus from L. A. Long, its editor. states that he with his family will move «Berries alone were shipped from the take a peek. She took a peek, and killed a couple of deer and left the Mrs. McKinney will remain a partner to San Jose, Cal., in about two weeks, Maude Shannon walked to Hillsboro in only a peek, and the joke was at an llamette Valley to the Puget Sound I record time this morning and thereby • a r reries, as the Western Oregon can- end. After the laugh subsided Mr. little boy to watch the game while as formerly. Mr. Guild is said to be a where his daughter Evelyn, who grad won several medals on wagers. They B. who wished to make amends, pro they went to get horses to drag the good newspaperman having had a great uated last year from Monmouth, will per-.ps could not handle the crop.” started from the Grove at a quarter to mised to bring her a nice China phea deer home. But, the report contin deal of experience in newspaper work take a course in the Normal at that i seven and arrived at the county seat ENCOURAGE SMALL FARMING. I sant. “ Yes, I suppose that will be ued, when they returned to get the in various parts of the sta'e. The Ar place. hurt one minute to eight. They ha\e deer they found the boy killed and gus which has for many years been a Realizing the conditions, and with j some more crockery.” Mr. and Mrs. Willis Goff and Mr. | been sojourning in the mountains for badly mangled by a cougar. How democratic paper will be converted in he desire to encourage an industry so and Mrs. Gus Irmler spent a week at the past two weeks and their mout- they found out it was a cougar is not to a republican organ under the new »ell suited to the climate in Western Have you a child you are intending Lee’ s Falls in Scoggins valley hunting tain climbing is probably responsif le )regon, the Southern Pacific Company to give a musical education? If so, known. The longer the story contin management thus making all the pa deer and fishing, returning Sunday. for their record time. Ss fostering in every way the cultiva start them on a piano between the ued to circulate the worse it grew and pers in the county republican papers. Willis reports lots of deer in that G. N. Gundersen, general merchart some people had it that the boy had t io n of small fruits and the establish ages of 6 and 10 years. Now is the neighborhood (or rather lots ot tracks) of Fairview, Wash , was in this city ment of canning factories. The result time to get that piano whereby you been eaten entirely up and that by a Attention G. A. R! but says the moon was too full. ! Tuesday, visiting his old friend. B. F. rill be a more extensive cultivation can save enough in price to pay for bear. It is not known who started the J. H. Parr of Indiana, has leased the Wagley, the vehicle man. Mr. Gun James B. Matthews’ Post No. 6, [and the dividing up of large farms into the musical education of your children. fake story but identically the same dersen was invited hers by Mr. Wagley smaller tracts. Many of the canneries Call and see what we have to offer, we thing was making the rounds both in Department of Oregon G. A. R. Im restaurant of Walter Rpswurm and took to look over a good town and after i e oossession on Tuesday. Mr. Parr has portant business will come before the at will be established will be built will surprise you. Sale 2 weeks only, Forest Grove and Hillsboro. was driven over the place bv Mr. V . Post on September 4. All members had previous experience in the restao- and operated on the co-operative plan, to be held at the Bazaar. Hollenbeck | rant business and promises to give he was convinced that Forest Grove Avery Rafferty has accepted a posi are requested to be present. ia the intention of the Southern Pa- & Shipman, Local managers Eilers was an ideal place to live. W. J. R. Beach, Adjt. Forest Grove a first class eating house. tion with Hoffman St Allen. fic to aid in every «ray the introduc- Piano House. j PROSPECTS GOOD FOR A CANNERY RENT PROBABLY BUIO NEXT YEAR BARN FOR DEPOT ;nt delega- on Congress ed by Gov- president of them will n Irrigation September Oregon is ition. All address at I, Septen- m. where opie. 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