FORCES CLASH IN
ANNUAL MEETING
the board he selected would be satis-
NEW S T E A M RO AD R O LLER
C O U N C IL M EE T IN G .
Ye General Court has accordingly given '
factory to all concerned but the oppos-
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i secret orders to Master Malachi Hux-
ing contingent could not see it that County Court Fulfills Promise to Buy Last Meeting of Old Board Tuesday — ett. of ye brig Propasse, to waylaye
way.
Machinery for Build-
Paid Regular Grist of Bills—
Sed -Welcome’ as near ye coast of
The constitution and by-laws do n o t■
' n9 Roads.
Other Business.
Codde as may be and make captive ye
The County court has ordered a sev-
Common council met in regular ses- said Penne and his ungodly crewe so
B. and M. M. F. R. A. This City In provide for the voting of proxies and
Election lines off Quietly
in as much as a motion was put and en ton steel roller from the east which sion Tuesday evening with Mayor that ye Lord may be glorified and not
Throes of Battle
This City.
carried to bar them, it is contended will be delivered about April IS. It Laughlin absent for the first time since . mocked on ye soil of this new countre
I by the old board, or the greater part will be an Americal Gasoline Motor he was elected one year aeo. His ab ' with ye heathen worships of these
: of it, that they are in the right and the roller and the fuel will only cost about sence was due to illness. Councilman people.
set of directors chosen on the proxy $2 per day. This is estimated as a Starrett, president of the board, acted
"Much spoyle may be made bysell-
, much lower cost than would take to in his-stead.
'in g ye whole lot to Barbadoes, where Usual Wet and Dry Fight Avoided by
“Porxy Contingent" Claims Right of ballot is unconstitutional.
Attorney Hoffman gave notice that run a steam roller. The cost of the
Report of Financial Committee read slaves fetch goode prices in rumme
Election and Proceeds to
Union of Forres— Good Ticket
their
side would carry the matter into roller was $2500 but the old roller was and accepted and sight warrants or- and sugar, and shall not only do ye
Choose Officers.
Elected.
the circuit court and to the supreme taken in at 8400.
dered drawn for several amounts.
Lord great service in punishing the
court if necessary to establish their
Judge Goodin is very much pleased
Upon motion of Councilman Wirtz wicked, but we shall make great good
The first annual meeting of the
Monday’s was the most peculiar
rights
to
vote
proxies.
at
the
attitude
the
county
is
taking
to
Master election ever held in Forest Grove,
the
bill of costs in case of City vs. for his ministers and people.
Bankers and Merchants Mutual Fire
The non-proxy board of directors is wards road improvement and he be Miller amounting to 812.50 was al- Huxett feels hopeful and I will set
Relief
Association of this city
and probably dates the dawn of a new
as
follows: J. P. Dodge of Ashland, lieves that the people are becoming lowed. Election bills, total 810, al- down ye news when his shippe comes and progressive era. For the first
was held in the offices of the sec-
educated up to a good standard of lowed.
back. Yours in ye bowels of Christ.” time in the history of the town, accord
retary, W. H. Hollis yesterday morn Lee Teutsch, of Pendleton; W. H.
E. highways. The reason why Dilley
Hollis,
S.
G.
Hughes,
H.
J.
Goff,
Councilman Hinman reported that
‘‘COTTON MATHER.”
ing to the oldest inhabitants, there was
ing at 10 o’clock and the business of
voted down the proposition was be- records do not show any alley in block
W. Haines and M. Peterson.
the first year was wound up.
absolutely no electioneering and the
Cornelius Jottings.
The proxy board follows: J. P. cause they are at the expense of build- 13 of South Park.
reason was simple: Only one ticket in
The reports of the assoaiation were
There was a lively discussion over
Judge Fitch of Cornelius, was kept
the field which seemed to meet the
in every particular very flattering. Dodge, Lee Teutsch, M. S. Allen, ing a new school house this year.
the special assessment, over the de- on
jurnP the latter days of last
hearty approval of everyone in town
Nearly seven hundred thousand dollars Fred A. Watrous, J. N. Hoffman, C.
National Bank Officers.
feels in which it was drawn up and week- dealing out justice to the offend- but one oi two of the straightest laced
worth of insurance was written during L. Bump and E. W. Haines.
Tuesday was the annual election of
The proxy board held a meeting in
upon motion of Councilman Hinman ers of the law at our neighbor town.
and most radical suffragists.
that period and had it not been for two
officers
and
directors
of
the
National
The preliminary trial of John Inge-
The lightest vote in years was poled
bad incendiary losses at Shedds, Ore the offices of Mr. Hoffman yesterday banks in this state and the two nation the matter was ordered laid over to a
brightson was held who was alleged to —only 102 while there are at least 400
gon, the showing would have eclipsed afternoon and elected the following al banks in this city held such elec called meeting by the mayor.
Report of Canvassing Board of Elec have tried to wreck the Portland bound voters in Forest Grove. When a sug
all expectations and quite a large per officers: Pres., M. S. Allen, Vice Pres tions and chose the following directors
ident,
J.
P.
Dodge;
Secretary,
J.
N.
tion
composed of Messrs. B. H Laugh S. P. train Thursday morning, was gestion was handed out to a big num
h cent would have been returned to the
and officers: Directors of the First lin and Walter Hoge showing result of
Hoffman;
Treasurer,
C.
L.
Bump;
all
heard and he was released on 8500 ber of voters they would come back
policy holders. As it is, however, the
National bank aie R. M. Dooley, J. election was accepted and ordered
receiving
four
votes
each,
the
number
bonds
put up by his father to appear wjth> .‘We„ ,he Union ProKressive is
association will be able to declare
E.Loomis, H. C. Wortman, R. M. placed on file.
being
present.
n
the
circuit court. He had been in a ROod ticket and in accord wilh mv
dividend of 25 per cent at the end of
Dooley, Jr , Frank E Dooley and M.
Likewise
the
non-proxy
board
held
a
the
employ
of the section work for the yiews. jt wi„ be elected> so wh„ . s the
TREASURER’S
REPORT
the fiscal year, about March 1. Un
Peterson. Officers, R. SM. Dooley,
meeting
last
evening
at
the
Associa
railroad
and
had been discharged. use Q, my yotinR anyway( ¡t wouldn.t
Receipts
der the economic management and
Pres.; M. Peterson, Vice Pres.; Gor-
tion’s
headquarters
and
proceeded
with
Wednesday
night
he indulged in chanRe rc, u |te » That if the altitude
Balance
December
1
...........
8
651
24
c»reful selection of risks that has been
don S. Ogden, Cashier. The only
Rec’d for lights...................
357 99 booze and placed a railroad tie diagon- (hat a biR majorjty of the vote„ 0, lhia
adhered to the past year it is estimated the election of its officers, which fol
st
ti
made was the addin« of Mr- Pe'
water...................... 233 05 ally across the track. At the trial d ,y took and that ¡, the reason why
that the next year’s business will lows: President, E. W. H aiti«-V ice chan*e
terson
to
the
board
of
directors
and
President,
M.
Peterson;
Secretary,
W.
W Hoge, license. . . .
21 00 when asked by the detective, J. A. 1Q2 inslead Q, 400 votes were cast.
thrible that of last. The business of
j choosing him as Vice President. Mr.
H.
Hollis;
Treasurer,
H.
J.
Goff.
The
Had u not been for ,he stories of E
“ Morley fine.
1 35 Riley of the S. P. what motive he had
the association heretofore has been al
j Peterson is one of Forest Grove’s sub-
treasurer’s
bond
was
fixed
at
86000
m
placing
the
tie
there
said
that
he
did
w
Haines and a few others the board
“ pool licences
9 00
most entirely handled by the president
I stantial business men and will thus
and
the
secretary’s
at
81000.
not
have
any
motive
but
just
did
it
for
J
WQuld
haye s,ept UMriBg)y (or lhe work
Wilbur
M
cEldowney..
30
00
and secretaty, E. W. Haines and W.
! strengthen the bank’s directorate,
Both
boards
have
qualified
and
the
devilment,
and
was
influenced
by
the
was
not
sufficient t0 keep the Judgeg
HoJJ’s, respectively, and the credit of
j The bank has done the largest busi-
papers
have
been
forwarded
to
the
liquor.
and
c|erks
awake. Bm how different
Total.......................... 81284 63
the success of the association is largely
I ness the past year of any in its history.
Secretary of State.
Complaints
were
sworn
out
against
fr0m
other
years when candidates went
Expenditures—
due them.
The Forest Grove National did not
The Non-Proxy board is in posses
C.
Shilling.
Mark
Tracy
and
Amos
to
the
uttermost
corners of the munici
Paid
warrants........................
675
56
A brief statement of the association’s
sion of all the books, papers and all , make any change in either the officers Balance..........................
McCurdy
alleging
that
they
had
sold
palities
with
surries
and the glad hand
609
07
resources and liabilities is as follows:
necessary equipment to carry on the j or the directorate and it stands as fol-
John
Ingebrightson
liquor.
Shilling
t0
search
out
the
voters and bring
Special
fund—
I lows: Directors, Thos. T. Todd, J. W.
Cash collected to Janu-
business and will continue to do busi
plead
guilty
and
was
fined
850
but
the
them
in.
Runners
were
sent out into
Balance
Dec
1
....................
185
47
ary 15, 1908............... 8 12 335 61 ness as before, while the other board ' Fuqua, J. A. Thornburg, John E Bai-
other
two
men,
Tracy
and
McCurdy,
highways
and
hedges
and
were not
Rec’d
A
B
Thomas...........
21
60
Paid out—
have all these things to get yet, and | ley, W. B. Haines; Officers, W. B.
stood trial and were fined 850 each, stingv with cigars in the least. But
“
L
L
Hollinger...........
7
00
U
Agents commissions. . . .
1 757 80 it is thereby contended that as ‘W
pos- Haines, Pres.; John E. Bailey, Vice Paid two warrants.................
16 25 but served a writ for a review in the Monday not a single cigar was given
Office expenses.............
558 24 session is nine points in law” the bat
circuit couit. Harry Bagley was attor away, not a single runner sent out.
bank has seen in its one year’s exist
Total losses...................
5 208 10 tle royal is by no means over yet.
ney for the prosecution and George
Balance....................
8
197
82
The council chamber, the little jail,
ence, one of the most remarkable
Adjusting losses.............
37 05
Bagley
for
the
defense.
Three
cases
Library
fund—
which
on previous city election days
growths and everything points to a
What the Taxes Go For.
Return prem ium s...........
70 80
from Cornelius are up for review in the has been a veritable sardine box jamed
Balance Dec 1 ......................
123
39
The tax levies for this year are now | continued prosperity in its future
184 56
Printing and advertising.
Paid one warrant...................
38 25 circuit court.
to overflowing with wets and drys
License fee and corpora-
all made and people can estimate about
Buxton Telephone Meeting.
keyed
up to the limit and keen to see
18 50 what they will have to dig up soon to
tion seal......................
A few days ago a fellow was passing
Balance..........................
85 34
that
nothing
was done that would be
A
large
and
enthusiastic
meeting
1 200 00 keep the machinery of government
Salaries of officers...........
L. J. Corl’s new brick building reason
Building Fund—
in
violation
of Hoyle, was almost
was
held
Jan.
11
at
the
Bailey
school
67 50 running another year. The total levy
Policy registers...............
ing aloud with himself as to whether
Balance Dec. 1 ......................
117 12
empty.
Stephen
Blank
ho enter
house,
four
miles
north
of
Buxton,
for
1 70 for the larger part of Forest Grove is
Exchange .....................
he should make a certain purchase or
117 12
tained the board with reminiscences of
the purpose of building a telephone Balance........................
26.3 mills on the dollar. If your prop
Total balance........... 1009 35 not and every word that he uttered was the early day and conditions of the
8 9 104 25 erty is assessed at 81000 you will have line from Buxton to Wm. Kelley’s
hurled back into his teeth. The fel
Bills Allowed—
city .being about the only onlooker
3 231 36 to pay the following amounts and for place on the other side of Green moun
Cash on hand to balance
low grew very angry. He repeated
J. G. Lenneville, sal and
Monday and he did not challenge a
tain.
the purposes indicated below:
another sentence and word for word
blacksmithing...............
12 00
single vote.
P.
Rutledge
the
promotor
of
the
8 12 335 61 State tax, 2.1 mills.......................82.10
with every accent came chasing after
Walter Hoge, recorder, Nov.
And the eventide brought no -
Total amount of applica-
County general, 1.5 mills.............. 1.50 line, presided at the meeting. The
his syllables as an angry bull after a
aDd D ec........................
8 80
Heretofore the candidates
tions received............. 8672 145 00 County road, 2.88 mills..................2.88 subscribers formed an organization to
red shirt, fie could stand it no longer change.
Forbes Supply Co. wire. . . .
19 71
be
known
as
the
Green
Mountain
Tel
and
those
much
interested in the out
Policies issued............... .526 145 00 County school, 2.78 mills.............2.78
and foaming with rage he made his
J. C. Latta, freight and
ephone
Co.
come
of
the
election
have been pres
Applications rejected. . . , 1 900 00 i County library, .04 mills.................... 04
way hastily to the rear of the building
hauling..........................
1 15
The
officers
elected
are
as
follows:
ent
with
pads—
no
women
attended,
Applications conceled. . . 48 350 00
with the avowed intention of smashing
Bazaar, supplies...................
1
10
President,
J.
R.
Bailey;
secretary,
A.
however—and
pencils,
and
when
the
“
City Hall, 1 m ill. . 1 . 0 0
In suspense..................... . 96 200 00
his mimic to a pulp. He hunted high !
5 50
H. Walford; treasurer, C. Gribner; di E B Sappington, labor.........
name
of
John
Doe
was
read
scratch
Library 1 m ill. . .
1.00
and low; finally went to the basement
21 61
rectors, Martin Hart and Fred Greener. L. J. Corl, sal. and com . . . .
672 595 001
School tax, Dist 15, 5 mills...
.5.00
and made a regular Heney investiga went the multitudinous lead writing
11 90
3770 30 I
The line is to connect with the M. Peterson and son, n ails..
Resources . ...................
Road Dist Special, 5 mills----- .5.00
tion, but with no avail. He finally sticks; and, if perchance the clerk
J. F. McGill, pipe bands.
2 00
Hughes telephone line at Buxton.
Liabilities........................
598 68
came to the conclusion that he had should slufl a tally by mistake the
Total................................ 826.30 A branch from the proposed line will Hugh Smith, street w ork.. .
2 00
Notwithstanding the very laudable
buncoed himself, that what he had i thribble quartet with some more would
People who know what their assess- run to Hoffman and Jeppesen’s saw L. L. Hollinger, revising
report above given all of the tranquil-
heard was really nothing but an echo. j sing oui ‘‘That’s wrong” before tl e
assessments...................
ity and peacefulness that ever prevailed ment is can figure out for themselves mill at Bacona, to communicate with.
10 00
Feeling cheaper than an open work fellow doing the official stunts had time
Len Munkers, work for city.
6 60
over the association during the past *rom l^e a*30ve u ble what their total Portland.
garment during the winter months he to corrrct his announcement. As a
B. L. Doane..........................
6 65
seemed to have taken wings and flown taxes w‘" be.
went home and kept the matter to result of all this tally keeping there
Jubilee Singers.
Residents of that part of Forest
S. E. Todd, labor and salary.
27 95
when the moment for the selection of
himself. On the following evening he has always been a riotous run on the
Grove included in road district 14 are
Friday evening’s entertainment at
a board of directors came.
was going home with a friend that was pencil and paper shops on the second
8 136 57
About sixteen members of the com not subject to the special road tax, so the college by the Tennessee Jubilee
passing the holidays in the city and Monday in January.
pany were present when the board was their taxes will be 85 less per thous singers was the largest attended func
But what a slump in the graphite
the local character suggested that one
A Reformer of Old,
tion in the course. The aggregation
selected and the usual proceedure was and.
business
there was Tuesday and for
of the plainest echoes he had ever heard
did not come up with the Fisk colored
Mr. W. J. R. Beach of this city,
expected to rule, but the offering cf
good
reason.
Not a soul was preset t
Died.
was that made by Corl’s building.
singers that visited this city two years handed us the other day a copy of the
127 proxies by F. A. Watrous, general
after
the
curtain
fell to assist the clerk»
‘T i l just show you,” he added. Each
Lambert, the little five year old son ago, yet they did not appear in a num
Hawk-Eye, published at Burlington,
agent, which was blocked by a motion
in
counting
up
the
ballots. Folks tb»4
person
recalled
the
best
echoes
they
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Loomis, who has ber in which they were not roundly
Iowa, which contained the following
that carried to the effect that only
have
made
this
sort
of an annual soc al
had ever heard and then as they passed
been suffering the past few days with
applauded. Some few folks attended j bit of American history, alleged to have
those present be entitled to vote, pre
affair
and
homegathering
event were
the city treasurer’s building the local
diphtheria, died last evening. On ac who didn’t crack a smile, even the
been written by Cotton Mather in
cipitated a lively discussion, which has
not
there.
The
absolute
silence
* as
count of this case of diphtheria, the hardest jolts at comedy of the big
character whispered to the friend:
1682. In the letter Mather announc
by no means at this time abated. In
only
perforated
by
the
counting
of
I e
public school, wH:ch is located on the homely negr0 provinR futile. Such es an attempt to prevent the landing of “ Now listen when I shout how plain
fact H has been the cause of a second
officials.
Chickens
would
have
sh
d
opposite corner from the Loomis home,
people should have stayed at home for William Penn and a body of his follow- every word comes back,” then empty thr ir feathers because of the impent*
set d directors being chosen.
has been suspended until after the di
they might have known that the colored ers from the good ship “ Ye Welcome.’ ing his lungs with, “ What are you trable gloom had ther been there »nd
'Attorn»/ J. N. Hoffman, chief
sease is abated.
doing there.” The walls of the build not even the rooste-s crowed over the
contingent would not indulge in clas The letter follows:
spokes:.
for the proxy contingent,
ing vibrated and revibrated with the result.
Announcement.
sic flights; if they had the big majority
Boston, Sept, ye 15th, 1682.
argued for the admittance of the votes
Outside of a few scattering votes the
reply,
“ None of your d — n business.”
The undersigned wishes to announce of the audience would have been pa ‘To ye aged and beloved John Hig
on the grounds that they had volun
result
ol the election was as follows!
Investigation revealed that a bunch of
gin son:
tarily been given to Mr. Watrous for him his candidacy for the clerkship of thetically deceived. What they went
B. H. fatnghhn, mayor. 95 votes; J.
bachelors had gathered to discuss ways H Wirtz, councilman for short term,
to nse as he saw fit and for the benefit of Washington county to come before the for was to hear negro melodies and
“ There be at sea a shippe called
and means of dodging cupid’s darts for 95 votes, H J Goff. 95, Geo. (». Pat
tha assoc. ation. Mr. Watrous also i
primary next April. I have had exper- that is what they got, instead of exhi- ‘Ye Welcome,’ R. Greenaway, Master,
terson, 98, and Chav. O. Roe, 95 votes,
the year 1908.
•uwd he members present that if h \
cce in that office and i* elected will bitions of classic technique. To see a which has aboard an hundred or more
councilmen for full
Waller
of ye heretics and malignants called
be allowed to vote the proxies— 127 in Atve the people my best efforts in that bunch of solemn folks at a negro festi-
McNeill went Hoge, record r, 95 votes; L. J. _Crw'.
treasurer. 98 vote»:
val reminds one that they had rather1
Quakers, with W. Penne. who is ye
all and enough to have carried the en office.
marshal, 93 votes.
gone
to
a
morgue
meeting.
|
chief
scarnpe,
at
the
head
of
them.
tire election—he would guarantee that
w . D. S m it h .
TO AIR MATTERS IN COURT
- *
n
at
iced
portai
it
will
ONLY ONE TICKET IN FIELD
.
all
is
íes ti
thr
h ol
m on
. foi
ef*
same
îe licet
ined
cand
G.
49
for the
: result
i:
ET
1 .....
cher
e r ........
rix.........
ET
o n .........
man .
it more
devant
mas..
j
>ck......
uator.
oro,
r joint
:d of
and
reared
resided
us he
joro,
e lower
is chairmi
;• at
; acqui
i will gi
for th*
; vote
letted.
in anen
•re discu
rest and
urday en
ra wa»-.
¡estions
t to be
amended
:nt.
■era l.n
nd resulti
J. Goff
easurer,
shooting
Sunday
R0fJ t
ir of South
, and by
r County
leted a
beginning
-imng to
;nue, that
at Mr.
od road