work a few can do great damage
in
a short time. From them a
Published by
stranger
invariably gains an un­
G. E. S e c o u r & J. D. F o o t e
*n the City of
favorable impression o f the town
F orest G rove , O regon ,
j and the honesty o f its citizens,
THURSDAY of EACH WEEK. j Wherever they are found they
Knicied at the post office at Forest Grove, Ggn seem unable to look upon the
as mail matter of the second cla-.s.
bright side o f life even through
T erms of S ubscription
a smoked glass.
CASH IN ADVANCE
Just criticism has its place. It
One Year $1.00 - Six Months .75
is a factor in preventing any acts
D isplay A dvertising rates on appli­ of a questionable character on
cation. L ocal R eaders five cents per the part o f individuals. But the
line of seven words each insertion.
“ knocker” has no function to
Display advertisements for publica­
perform
in the progressive and
tion in the PRESS must be in this office
not later than Tuesday evening to in­ enlightened community, and in
the language o f the vaudeville
sure appearance in current issue.
actor, the man who speaks CIS*
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paragingly o f his home town and
The P ress will be mailed reg­ his fellow citizens, had better re-
ularly to all paid in advance sub­ pair to the wood shed and remain
scribers, whose subscriptions there with the rest o f the ham­
were received by the previous mers.
F
o r e st
G
ro ve
P
r e ss
According to the tariff a hen .
a bird until she lays an egg.—Ex.
Dl A L L
The trust may stop singing continuu*
ilil
“ Our old New Jersey Home.” — Franklin.
L e.
Ex.
Only a rich man can wear his J
Girls do not care for a brass old clothes without exciting com­ W . M. Langley & Son
band when it comes to a wedding ment.
Lawyers
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ring.
Many a man who never saw a i
Forest Grove, Ogn.
Repartee during courtship de­ ship is capable o f handling
generates into plain back talk schooners.
J. N. Hoffman
after marriage.
A ltorney-at-Law
A woman opens a telegram
Collections and all business entrusted to me
Generosity frequently consists with as much trepidation as a Riven
prompt attention. Attorney for Forest
Grove Collection ARency.
of forcing upon other3 that for
man opens a j ack-pot.
Q^ce-Hoffman Bldg. Pacific Ave.
which one has n0 uge
Ind. Phone 502
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Forest Grove
The incredible report is being
The best way to keep people circulated
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that Hetty Green,
H. W . Vollmer, M. D.
f rom getting on to your curves is iady o f the frugal habits, is on
Physician and Surgeon
to be perfectly straight.
the verge o f giving away $500,-1
Office in Abbott Bldg.
000 as an Easter gift. The news
When you economize it isn’ t was a shock to those who have Both Phones
Forest Grove, Ogn.
good business to advertise it by persisted in calling her a “ tight
management, without additional
cost.
cutting your advertising.
The Fallacy of Wealth.
wad” of the first water.
J. D. Foote
That wealth alone does not in-
Attorney-al-Law
,
.
.
“ The painter o f Presidents” is
Booster and Otherwise.
Wm. M. Weakly a Bishop of | Collections and all business entrusted to me
sure happiness is exemplified in dead> but the white. washer 0f
Riven prompt attention.
A commendable spirit is that the lives o f most o f our great officials ig Btil, on the jo b .—Ex. Toledo, Ohio, denounces Presi­
O/Sce-Hoffman Bldg. Pacific Ave.
dent Taft and Joe Cannon in the j Phone Ind. 502
Forest Grove
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o f the man who evinces an abid­ millionaires. About the only real !
ing loyalty for his town, and who pleasure which they experience [ President Taft is anxious to Religious Telescope for “ degrad-!
manifests interest in everything is that derived from the mere have the Maine raised. It should the nation to the level of a ball- j O. W . Humphrey
pertaining to its upbuilding and possession ol money.
Money be done—everything else is going room” when they did a break­
jAttorncy-at-Law
down at a recent social gather-!
civic improvement. He is a com­ means power in this commercial Up. —Ex.
Offic:-
K.
P. Bldg.
Phone 644
ing in Washington. Presidents j
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ponent part of the largest class age, but power while satisfying
Forest
Grove,
Oregon
which goes to make up the citi­ in a way to the ambitious is not
Bro. Fiske of the Itemizer is on and Czars should observe more
zenship o f the average commun­ synonomous with happiness or the job. Make it red, white and decorum.
Dr. O. H. Scheetz
ity. He has a good word to say contentment.
blue for the 4th and “ W e’ ll be
Though Peary had experienced j
for his town, even if it boasts o f
ChiropraElic Spinologist
The misguided man whom the I wid yer.”
the extreme cold of the Arctic Specialist in nervous diseases. lunR trouble,
"" .
only a few houses, a store and possession o f millions gives a
postoffice. He is directly op­ thrill of joy may imagine himself
These are strange days. A regions, he found it so frigid in rheumatism, in fact all diseases.
Office next to LaCourse's store
posed to the “ knocker” and does a successful and happy man and horse trader is under arrest in the South during his recent lec­
ture
tour,
that
it
was
necessary
not recognize the latter as a legi­ so does the miser who by scrimp- Portland for “ misrepresenting”
for him to hike to a more salub-1 W . H. Hollis
timate member of modern society. ing and saving through years of an animal.
rious
clime. The idea was prev-1
It is just such men who make toil accummulates a hoard only
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A ttorney-at-Lcw
alent
that Dr. Cook was about to J
the best, most useful and desir­ to leave it behind him.
The latest great new town in
be
robbed
o
f
his
laurels
as
the
able citizens o f any town or corn-
The sole object which the aver- Canada is called Vermillion. Its
Forest Grove, Ogn.
munity. They are honest in their age man has in gaining a compe- name is a recommendation this on^ genuine north pole fakir.
convictions that their native or tence or in amassing wealth is side the border,
Portland has joined the ranks i W . Q. Tucker, M. D.
adopted state affords just as good that he will thereby be enabled
Physician and Surgeon
The Treasury Department has ° f fbe awfully good. The chief
opportunities for men in all vo­ to satisfy, first, the natural
cations o f life as any that the wants of himself and those de­ decided that the hen is a bird, of P°lice is bent on breaking up Diseases o f Women A Specialty
Dr. Brown’s Old Office
midday sun ever shone upon, and pendent upon him, and second, hut our own view is that she is the wicked and depraved habit
Main Street,
Forest Grove, Ore.
an
angel.—Ex.
of
dancing.
Warrants
have
been
that the inhabitants o f the town the “ cultured” wants when their
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issued
to
arrest
members
o
f
a
or community with whom they standard of living rises and lux­
As the department of agricul- fraternal organization for holding
W . 3 R. Beach
have chosen to cast their lot, uries become necessaries. After
ture
decides
that
the
hen
is
a
a
dance
at
Arion
hall.
It
is
ex­
constitute as worthy a class of these wants are satisfied, the j
Fire and Life Insurance
citizenship as any enlightened possession o f a large surplus is bird, the hen might return the pected that the next move will
Written
be to arrest all fiddlers and all
not only not conducive to happi- comPbment. E x ._____
country affords.
players of stringed instruments,
They are imbued with the same ness but is the source o f worry
The Senate has passed the such music having an immoral! Most popular stocks negotiated
and
discontent.
spirit, though shown in a lesser
Bourne absent-treatment farm tendency in encouraging people
degree, as the man whose patrio­
The man who is comfortably
North First Street, near Main
bill. There will be lots o f time to dance.—Ex.
tism and love of country prompts “ fixed” gets more pleasure out
before the grab is ready.
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Forest Grove, Ore.
him to give his life in defense of o f life and has far less to answer
'Windy Jim” Discourses
its laws or in repelling foreign for in the Great Hereafter than
Nothing is easier than fault-
invasion. As a part o f the minor such men as Rockefeller, Morgan finding; no talent, no self-denial.
Speakin’ of co-insidenses” said C AR L H O F F M A N
divisions o f our great social and Carnegie. The latter gentle- no brains, no character are re- j “ Windy Jim,” as he settled him-I
Sanitary Plumbing
structure, they stand ready to men, while not in the same class quired to set up in the grumbling self in a more comfortable posi-
and Heating
defend their towns and commun­ with the common people in this business.
tion on a new cracker box (the
ities against the unjust attacks world, are human beings and
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old one having been used for I
CharK?
o f non-residents and hasten to none the less sensible to crit -
A stranger in Washington mis- kindling wood since the last is- inK- Phone 502. ‘ "
UItman t’uild*
put a quietus on all mischievous eism which justly or unjustly is ! took Speaker Cannon for a min- sue) “ Reminds me o f the last :
reports circulated abroad and heaped upon them. In innumer-1 ister the other day. The strang- time I was to church.”
p
T
, , „
E D W . R. W lR T Z
tending to leave unflattering im­ able ways enormous wealth ren- er must have been “ hard o f hear-
pressions,
ders life unpleasant and compels j in g.” —Ex.
texts and the one he used most
The inhabitants o f a county or the possessor o f it to deny them­
7
w a s ‘Flee from the wrath to cum’
PHONES — BELL 21 — IND. 681
a municipal subdivision live in a selves the gratification o f the \ Up to the time we lope off to and he used it on the pregent oc_
Forest
Grove,
Oregon
little world o f their own, and greatest human desire—the so- ‘ press, about the only post Mr. i casion.
though from the nature o f men, ciety of one’s fellow man. Their Roosevelt hasn’ t been offered is
“ Well, I was settin’ next to
VICTOR LIMBER
there must always he honest dif­ notoriety accompanies t h em the Chair o f Poetry at Missouri Deacon Barnes’ hired man, who
ferences o f opinion on subjects of everywhere they go, and many I University.—Ex.
was settin’ next to the Deacon’ s
Funeral Director
local as well as o f national inter­ an unhappy moment they spend j
...
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. . 41 wife an’ ’ bout the time the Par-
and Embalmer. . .
est, still the good citizens will be in attempting to avoid the gaze
When a fellow meets the "g h t son m t through rearW hi* i
text
a unit in devoting their timw and of the "vulgar herd” or the snap ? irl he sometimes finds that he' a nice big fat g o n e -ile a I his
m ean -
Chapel
Modern Equipments I
energy to accomplish the great­ shot o f the camera fiend. When *s, *be wrong man. It isn’ t the orawled out from under one of
F
orest G rove
O regon
with a a cold manner who is
est good for the greatest number these Lords o f high finance, un-
the Deaconess’ new silk gloves
freeze on to a fellow,
of people. These men will be able to purchase eternal youth, apt
and began sharpenin’ his bill
~
found not only boosting their become aged and infirm, th e !
with a whet-stone as the Deacon
JOHN WUNDERLICH
The business man who adver-
town and resenting unjust criti­ thoughts o f a future life in the
lost the week before w hile mow­
Democracy o f the dead' ’ dues not tises invites you to trade with
cisms, hut they will be engaged
in’ around the barn lot, and
Funeral Director
in local upbuilding and improve­ afford tke “ peace that passeth bim, while the one who does not what the Ilea carried in the
m-
advertise
should
impress
you
and
Embalmer......
ment, so that, like Josh Billings’ all understanding.” There is a
s de o f his vest.
with
the
fact
that
he
does
not
rooster, they will not only have stoi-n realization that in the “ Re­
“ Well I nudged the hired man
Prompt Attention Given to
the crow, but they will have the public o f the grave” there is care enough for your trade to
and
he said “ why what’ s the
ask
for
it.
Calls. Modern Equip­
neither
rank
nor
station,
and
spurs to hack the crow up with.
matter?” so I says, “ look-a-
ment.
“
Dives
must
relinguish
his
mil­
Among this class o f citizens,
The New York Humane Society *nere’ ar-d when he saw that
are all those who devote valuable lions as Lazarus relinguishes his
aims
to protect the sponge, which aea he says ’ quite appropriate
time without compensation and rags.”
it
says,
suffers excrutiating tor- a‘at ** • Just then the Deacon’s
Banks
Oregon
without mercenary motives, to
ture
when
tom from its bed. w'*e 8600 the flea and 1 seen the
It is real mean o f a democratic
promoting the general welfare of
you
fled-
the community and to securing newspaper to say that the presi- The next move, possibly, will be
the use of «tfe-worms. ^ tthe ^ red
dld" 't *>t
to its members safety and health. dent’s “Aunt Della” declares
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away and the meetin was broke;
Entirely different individuals that being president “ has not » "d fishing about to begin,
up and the Deacon’s wife ain’t
are those
commonly termed spoiled William one bit,” and
Let no pleasures tempt thee. K°t over it yet “ As I was say-
"knockers” . They compose a then to add, “ but it has played
\h
* re ,hec' no
ta’-
sometime»
far less numerous class of society, the duece with the republic,
no example sway provokin’ - ’ er. what the dick-
thee. no persuasion move thee to ens went with them matches?”
but owing to the nature o f their party.” —Ex.
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