s
Clippiu and Pasted
ADVERTISED TOWN, GOT RESULTS
FO RE ST G ROVE PRESS
Published by
Advices from Albany are to |
G. E. S e c o u r & J. D. F o o t e
^ e^ect tfiat ^)ie|r advertising
In the City of
,
F orest G rove , O regon ,
is
.
_
proving effective,
they are
THE BAMBOO
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alow but Sur» Poiton That I» Used
THURSDAY of EACH WEEK, receiving many inquiries daily
fay th# Javan«»».
The young shoots o f tbe bamboo are
Entered at the poet office at Foreat Grove, Oirn
_ T 7 > .
a
covered with a number o f very flue
ae mail matter of the eecond clas».
k
th e
East. Among jjuirg that are seen under the mlcro-
those
whom
the
Linn
County lit- scope to be hollow and spiked like
T e r m s o f S u b s c r ip t io n
erature has reached, and who bay°net8- These hairs are commonly
CASH IN ADVANCE
called bamboo poison by tbe white
- OtWYear $1.60 - - Six
.75
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a Lp ¡.H
v a n ta ira
+ u „ i _ low
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W jll
1“ t laKe.
»«vantage
of the
en re8lllem ln Java for . the
from
D i s p l a y A d v e r t is i n g rates on appli-
cation. L o c a l R e a d e r s five cents per
line o f seven words each insertion.
Display advertisements for publics-
tion in the PRESS must be in this office
.
not later than Tuesday evening to in
sure appearance in current issue
NOTICE
nuiiul
TO SUBSCRIBERS
prospective
settlers
rates this month and next, are that murder
forty families from Illinois and th1-00«*1 their
is frequently committed
»Keucy.
t w e n t v f r o m W o o f V irm 'n ia
When a Javanese woman takes a
,<•
,
. . . . . . *#ncJ t0 a European, according to an
If
0 n e 8eC tlon o f t h e W ,I1‘ ° fflclal, Dutch reP °*- ab«
either
amette Valley is more prosperous haTe hlm or poison him if she gets the
chance. She seeks any and every op-
than others, the reason forit lies portunity of mixing these infinitesimal
in the fact that the people who hairs among his food, and they serve
populate it , realizing that oppor- the PurP*>«e o f irritating the whole
iu ovueumuL
;
The P ress will be mailed reg-
ularly to all paid in advance sub-
BcriV.oc«
w hose
subscriptions
scribers,
Whose SUDSCnpuons
were received by the previous
management, without additional
cost
NOTICE
I desire to announce that Mr.
G, E. Secour, an able newspaper
man has purchased ar. inteiest
in the P r e s s and will be assoc-
iated with me in the conduct of
the business. Mr. Secourcomes
highly recommended and is a
man of broad experience in ad-
vertising and publicity work,
He is thoroughly familiar with
all the details
. of . the printing
7 and
publishing business, and is a
practical man wlth^practical
ideas.
J. D. F oote .
SALUTATORY
„
,
length o f the alimentary canal and set-
X
tumties are ail
around tnem, ting Up maiignant dysentery, it may
unite their strength and brains take a long time nnd many doses of
arid d ig . instead of wasting e n - tb,B 80 calted p « i ® o " to effect the pur-
. s:
.
_
pose, hut the native woman does not
tire, and death will surely result. The
male native win also try this method
revenge for an affront.
The planters know all tills and
ergy in individual
efforts. With-
out exception it w ill be
found
th a t in
in the
t hp growing
o-rnwincr to
w n « , the
th e
that
towns,
. ,
,
. ,
,
people have adopted and are per- dreml t'be bumboo balr> but lt ,9 al.
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iecting plans tor the advertise- ways difficult to determine whether
ment of their resources, and
favor improvements which will
;uid to the material wi n 1th nf
the community. There you will
find enthusiastic
commercial
clubs and boards of trade, which
¡,re the mediums through which
they work effectually. In order
that Washington county and its
towns may get theirsha-e of thp
new-comers
thU
rnntrv
nnH
,,t
w tu r n e r s l to
o m
i s COUi
t r y , and
thereby increase in wealth and
population, there must be con-
is caused by the poison
,,bo1" naturally, when a
lllm,"'l f « prey to attacks
, ln Enslaud
reign of
," I;J1be1
,," ,,"e several
"""" "ecaa’°
greatly v
excited
through
cases
1,1 poiaonlug. and pai : lament enacted
a,iuw
boiling to death the pen-
alty. This Jaw was on the statute
j certed action on tne part of the
citizens, No systematic adver-
. . . . . .
.
.
tisinp: is being done, and, though
■ it is a ‘Treat county with splendid
It was
books about sixteen years,
® a«le retroactive, so as to take In a
case that chiefly prompted Its euaet-
ment—that of Richard Uosse, other-
Wise Coke, the bishop of Rochester’s
tl,e dysentery
or
p'ataer
,ak,‘ M voyage to Europe.—rearson’s
VVe‘‘k,ir’
AN INFANT PRODIGY.
Sir John Evelyn’s Tribute to His Won­
derful Child.
f >f itll tile stories or lufiiut marvels
the most touching is ihut told by Sir
John Evelyn in bis diary wheu be re-
cords In his rjualnl. dignified style the
j death of his wonderful little hoy:
“ Died my deure sou Richard, to our
inexpressible griefe and affliction. five
years and three days ouely, hut at that
tender age a prodigy for witt and
learning. To give ouly a little taste
o f them and l hereby glory to God.
sense o f God. in two and a balfe old
he could perfectly reade any o f ye
English La tine or French or Gothic
letters, pronouncing the first three
languages exactly He had before the
fifth yeare or in thal yeare got by
heart almost the entire voeabulnrie o f
Latin and French primitives and
words, citld make congruous syntax.
turne English into Entitle, and vice
versa, construe and prove what he
read and did the government and use
of
relatives, verbes, substantives,
elipses and many figures and I ropes
and made considerable progress in Co-
tueuius .lamia, began for himself to
write legibly and had a stronge pas­
sion for Greek As to his piety, aston-
Isblng were Ids applications of Serip-
tur(, fo tbe IM.<.a8|on
i j e declaimed
against ye vanities o f the world before
he had seene any. So early knowl­
edge. so much piety and perfection!
Such a child I never saw, and for
such a child I blesse God, In whose
bosom lie Is.” —Exchange.
HELPING A SCULPTOR.
Terrible Torture That Was Once the
Law In England.
The Fa vor Falguiere Did For Young
Macmonnies.
When Macuiounies. the American
sculptor, was a young man working In
Paris Falguiere. the famous FreucD
sculptor ou one occasion entered his
atelier and found there a beautiful
Diana that had been for months "on
the stocks" and was approaching a
perfection measurably satisfactory to
the sculptor himself.
Falguiere became so absorbed In the
work before him as to forget that lt
was not his own
He begati to twist
and pull the dainty limbs o f Diana this
way and thal. to punch her in the ribs,
turn her queenly bead- for she was
then only In clay, o f course, uud sus­
ceptible to impressions until at lust
he had produced the very pose he de­
sired. "There, my friend: I like her
better so." he cried, nnd skipped out
o f tbe studio
He had really intended to do Mnc-
monnies a favor and had Indeed paid
him llie greatest compliment o f which ,
he was capable, hut the young sculp­
tor was in distress, for ou comparing
the remodeled Diana with a photo­
graph o f Falgulere's statue of the
same character he found the French­
man had uneonsi lotisly made a prac­
tical replica ot the other
Macmon­
nies did la I rest until lie ll.ld restored
his statue to Its original pose
of the P r e s s hav- opportunities few people who ~ V ? h K " S 2 *
ing passed through some rather have not been here are aware ol a{ Rochester. The infliction was at-
BW'f changes in the past few the fact. In this age of compe- tended with peculiar cruelty, as Coke
weeks, we feel it incumbent u p - 1 ««on the imports.nee of adver-
^
on ourselves to oiler a few words tiding applies to st. ites and coun- a . few yenrs inter, in March, 1542, a
of exulanation.
ties as well as to the individual young woman named Margaret Davy
In the coiuinualion of the in business. Experience teaches ™a(?nu
i
T.
P ress among the li t of Oregt i
newspapers, the publishers are counties in the state are setting ( withstanding the comparatively slow
pace wiiich the others must i t™ vel oi uews ,n those days, the story
prompted by a desire to maintain the
» ,,
,
.
.
o f Margaret D avy’s trial and punlsh-
meut soon B|>read through the klng-
an enterprise in a community of to llo W or be outsit ipped.
•
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! dom and aroused universal horror
progressive people and to make
Bolling to death remained on the stat­
In a nearby Oregon town the ute hooks, however, as long as Henry
the paper a potent factor in the
development of a section of great pastor of a church had occasion reigned, perhaps because the monarch
beauty and unusual natural ad to thank his congregation for 57 himself had a dread o f being poisoned.
hls death parlla'
vantage, feeling assured that varieties of buttons placed in the ment repealed the law.
•very effort of the paper to pro- contribution box during the past
mote the interests of the com- month. Presumably they were
Helping a Man to Suicide.
»unity will I».’ substantially
intenbdd for the tewing circle of It Is remarkable how a suicide by a
C illy
R ice and
a
Pin.
I certain method or iu a certain place
[ will lead to another o f the same kind.
A surgeon o f the Middlesex uospital
. I n London went into a barber shop to
Billy 1.1. e. the negro minstrel, used
to tel! the .¡lory of a man who picked
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The P ress stands pledged to
up u pin ns lie was leaving tlie office
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o f n great merchant after au unsuc­
work for the growth an 1 per.na-
A Seattle woman with violent he shaved. The barber spoke of a man cessful quest for work The mer­
nent prosperity of the city oi refi hair is suing her husband for who had been unsuccessful in an ut- chant. seeing the mans action from
Forest Grove, and the develop- divorce because he called her
himself by cutting his the window, called him hack and gave
him employment, which kindness lie
ment of fliVIhe territory tributary “ Uoddy” and “ Brick Top” in throat
“ H e could easily have managed I t " repaid by becoming owner ot the eu
thereto.
public. Cruel and inhuman man. sa il tile surgeon, "had he been ac­ tire business in au •lueredihly short
quainted with the situation o f the time.
It will be the aim of the P ress
carotid artery."
Billy used to end his story by say­
to foster and encourage the ad­
"W hore should he have out V” asked ing thal lie tried that scheme once
A R O U N D TH E CIRCUIT
vancement of all educational in­
I the barber. The surgenu told him. lie when he was looking for work, drop-
| at once left the room, and. unt return- plug a pin carefully on the floor as
stitutions o f the community, that
Corvallis Masons are contemp-1 '*>« »8 8°»“ 88 was expected the sur- he entered. He stated his wauls to
present and futur<> generations
lating the er ction in the near
»« look for him «.m discov- the proprietor, who uot only had no
may
keep r pace
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.
«red In in In the yard with hla head employment to offer him. hut remark­
lectual advancement of the most ‘ u*ure °* an UP to elate nve story nearly severed from his body.—Lon- ed to Ills partner as Rice picker! up
progressive people of the state builJin*- T h e G » « * Times | don M a l l . _________________ ___________ tbe pin:
"Say, If that fellow's so small as to
and
A Solar Plexus.
steal a pin off Hie fioor. how much do
The columns of the P ress will «PPearance and attractive d i­ On one occasion Sam Berger, the you think he'd leave In m.v till?"
brawny tight manager, was In a small
al ways he open to the various s,Kn>
California town sounding some o f the
D am ascus, "City of Magic.”
religious denomim-tiens for the
About 550 business men pnd residents as to the possibility o f hold­
All oriental ■ lly ot magic called up
publication of church news and farmers from all parts of the ing a prizefight The local |>olloe force, by n slave o f the lamp to realize oue’s
contributions tending; to promote state recently attended 0. A. C. a clownish looking ludivli ual. with a dream o f Hie orient; a city ethereally
huge badge, heard o f Sum's Investiga­
lovely, exquisitely eastern, ephemeral,
a healthful moral and religious during Fanners week, and found tion«.
to be blown away by a breath like a
“ You can’t hold no prizefight In HiS
tone to the community.
the short course very instructive
tuft ot thistledown, uot white, hut
While the P ress is in one sense and entirely to their satisfaction, here tow n." said the police force delicately pale with a pallor bolding
threateningly lu his heat “ I be the
a private enterprise, yet we want
The Commercial Club of Ore- marshal" tones. “ It Is agin tbe law. i the faintest bint of a seashell flush; a
city »lender, calm, almost mystic in Its
all to feel that it intern s to stive ^on city is planning for a gala and I won’t stand for It."
fragile grace, set In the heart o f a
"A w . heat It." said Berger in dls great wonder o f green,
the best interests of every worthy d&y March 12th< Xhe
people of
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a maze o f
The people
of gust.
"W hat do you know about law?
bright and ardent woods, beyond
institution of the city, as well as
County have been invited
T°ur ver> appearance in publie which lie
the desert spaces—this Is
to promote a spirit of civic pride and indication8 point to a large “ * "^.leanorr-Upplncon^
Damascus from the mountain o f Jebel
Kasyuu lt holds one almost breath­
and a desire to work for mutual and enthusiastic meeting, the
Chatter.”
less seeu thm from afar. - Robert
advancement,
and
we
make
our
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p»«kins
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hich
ill b
e to
The famous
u u je c i O
UI f W
WH
IC H W
vvJTl
ue
UI bring
[»ring
i«uu»u« p painter
ainter
i Fuseli
uscii
n
had
ad a
Illchens iu Century.
the church.
sU,,,'s ,ha’ 11 W|U lu‘
nation.
bow
cu.,f
cast
that
port
feeling that "our lines are
¡n „Ipnsiint nlaces” and
in pleasant placts . ami
tne paper will receive sup­
according to its merits.
G. E.
Aureli
S ecour
an d
J.
,b
e in low
ment much needed improvement
o n th o r i v o r
e r iv e r .
1). F oote j
,
.
The incident of the elopement
of tho Detroit man with his
mother-in-lavv is a precedent for
t k * M t nhHahment of a new order
r
th (.¡.¡„.p , together in a united
fur chatter Due af
ine cll,zens f ^ n e r in a united teilloon ,
of frWndll
a TUU
effort to secure from the govern- to hi» studio, and a ftw a few moment«
io k o s
A ny-
of mother-in-law joke. . A n >
thing in the n a t u r e of a change
will be welcomed by the public.
♦ j
■i*‘ut in looking at the pictures they
seated themselves and proceeded to in
dulge in a long and purposeless talk
Albany’s business men, believ- At la,t- 1,1 ”uo oi ,he »I'Khf pauses.
*
.
.
Fuseli said earnestly, "I had pork for
,nR .. that
much
more can , be ac- 4|
nuor today "
complished by co-operative eftort| "W hy. my dear Mr. Fuseli," ex-
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o f the odd
startled
group.
than b> individual work, got , I claim
“ What ed au one
extremely
rem ark!’
Rather a few days ago and orga-
l t r - «tid the («In ter ingenuously
ffizetl Under the official title of -W h y. Isu t It as Interesting and Im-
.. .
Men’s Association of
a* ““y“ »1“* t“*1 baa ^
B u m i u s s M e n s Assouation o i for th. lMt hour?"
Albany.
Attorney-at-Law
Collections and all business entrusted to
us given prompt attention. A tto r­
ney for Forest Grove Collection
Agency.
Office Hoffman Bldg., Pacific Avenue
Inependent Phone 505. FOREST GROVE
J. D. FOOTE
,
Attomey-at-Law
Collections and all business intrusted
to me given prompt attention.
OFFICI.
H O F F M A N BU ILDI NG
P H O N E IND. 5 0 2
J
PACIFIC A V I N U I
FOREST GROVE
!
W . H. HOLLIS
Attomey-at-Law
Forest Grove
Oregon
H . W . V o l l m e r , M. D .
P H Y S IC IA N
BOILING TO DEATH.
T h e person el
• D gn tT eu .
J. N. H O F F M A N
AND
S U G E O N
Office in Abbott Building-
B O TH P H O N ES
F O R E S T GROVE
C AR L H O FFM A N
Sanitary Plumbing
and Heating
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Charges
reasonable. Basement Hoffman build­
ing. Phone 502.
Albert C. Mackrodt
Studebaker Automobiles
Indian Motorcycles
General Repair W ork
North
Main St., next to Peterson's
WOOD
FOR S A L E
Maple, Fir, Oak and Ash, $4.50
and $5.00 per cord.
Second Ave. and Fifth St.
H. W. MILLER
EDW .
R.
W lR T Z
Practical and Sanitary Plumbing
PHONES- b e l l 21 - I N D . 681
Forest Grove,
Oregon
M. J. Abbott
Exclusive
Optician
OFFICE: Shearer’s Jewelry store
VICTOR LIMBER
Funeral Director
and Embalmer.. .
Chapel
Modern Equipments
F orest G rove
O regon
The PRESS
Is fully equipped to
do up - to - date Job
Printing of all kind.
W ork guaranteed.
Prices reasonable.
Not Exactly a Compliment.
Hewitt — Ignorance Is bliss. Jewett —
Y’ ou’ii better get yonr life Insured.
Hewitt—What
for?
Jewlit - You’ re
liable to die o f Joy —New York Times
Our stationery is the
very best, and our
workmanship is un­
Generous.
Stranger—Did you ever reveal your
flshlug hole to a friend? Angler—
| on ce _ Brooklyn
I did t o a Life
friend on his dsath-
I’he mau who to too proud to ssk for
Record Herald
««
many -Chk-ago
excelled.
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convinced