cerre:l and has one important part to perfonn in the awaken- Published & Edited b;, ing from the lethargy that seems G . E. S e c o u r to have seized this most valuable in the City of F orest G r o v e , O r e g o n , industry and by careful, consci- THURSDAY o f EACH WEEK. entious, boosting give to Forest Grove a reputiation wide as the I n d e p e n d e n t P hones O f f i c e 505 R esidence 231 world and which is rightfully hers. That o f producing fruit Entered at the poet office at Foiest Grove, Oirn which cannot be excelled or du- aa mail matter of the second cla. e. ! plicated, anywhere, regardless T erms o f S u b s c r ip t io n o f country, climate, or other CASH IN ADVANCE conditions. One Year $1.00 - Six Months .75 f o r e st G rove P r ess The man who stutters does not need to be told to think twice be fore he speaks once. ---------------------- Some folks find out how far a dollar will go by seeing how far they can go on a dollar. ...— ployed doing what he was made to do, carrying out the great life- purpose patterned in his individ ual bent. The practical fulfilling o f the life-purpose is to man what the actual running and keeping time are to the watch. Without action both are mean in g le ss.—Orison Marden. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY 1 W . M. Langley & Son Lawyers The pig has never been known to express any desire for jewelry, Forest Grove, Ogn. Energy when controlled by though it very often wears a sanity, works wonders; when al ring. lowed to run riot, spells failure. J. N. Hoffman Uncontrolled energy crushes con A ttomey-at-Laro It keeps the society doctors D isplay A dvertising rates on appli Collections and all business entrusted to m servatism and makes puppets out given All About A Knocker. prompt attention. Attorney for Forest cation. L ocal R eaders five cents per | busy nowadays hunting up new of otherwise successful men. Grove Collection Agency. line of seven words each insertion. What is a knocker? A knock-: diseases that the common people Q/fice-Hoffman Bldg. Pacific Ave. Don’t smother your energy, just Display advertisements for publica Ind. Phone 502 Forest Grove er is a fellow who would fall | do not have, get it under control. It will tion in the PRESS must be in this office dead if there were no boosters. not later than Tuesday evening to in mean your greatest assets. What is a knockers chief busi j Some say they will advertise sure appearance in current issue. H. W . Vollmer, M. D. ness? To imagine that he can ¡when “ their ship comes in.” A If a man thinks everyone is Physician and Surgeon Again W e Say, “Get Busy.’ do everything better than the better way is to advertise so as against him he will treat them Office in Abbott Bldg. j to make it come in. fellow who is doing it. so they will be. If he thinks Both Phones Forest Grove, Ogn. Organization has been talked Does a knocker ever make j --- . everyone is a friend he will treat and advocated among the fruit money? Yes, he makes money An enterprising exchange has them nice and they will be growers o f Washington county off the people that the boosters a long catalogue of work for friends. If a man is suspicious j O. W . Humphrey for a number of years, yet today bring in. 'rainy days; but, then, who wants of everyone they will be suspic- j Jlltorney-at-Law they are approaching the com- Do the boosters care? No, to work on rainy days? ious o f him. You get just what Office-K. P. Bldg. Phone 644 mencement of the fruit season they hope the knockers will all is coming to you, good or bad— Forest Grove, Oregon apparently no nearer an effective get rich so they can soon retire It begins to look now as though that’s sure. If you keep on organization than they were at and become respectable citizens, more people will try to raise fighting, you’ ll get licked some Dr. O. H. Scheetz the beginning of this important J ______________ chickens than sweet peas in their time, good and plenty. Chiropratlic Spinologist industry several years ago. Highways, Good And Bad back yards this summer. It is not necessary to cite other Specialist in nervous diseases, lung trouble, The man without initiative rheumatism, in fact all diseases. localities in the Pacific north-west Among the greatest o f draw- will be a long time on the road to An effort to shock Chicago Office next to LaCourse’s store which in a few years time sprang backs to farm life are bad roads, success—and especially in the j j with barefoot dancing failed, from obscurity into a world wide Fortunately these are obsticles advertising business. He will | W . H. Hollis fame as producers of the choicest possible of being overcome, j Chicago was the home o f the always be waiting for some one of fruit. Not one of these sec- Most questions have two sides, original “ Midway plaisance.” to approve this or that b efore! Atlorney-at-Law tions have as many natural ad- hut there is only one side to the going ahead, and as a conse- j Always stand up for the right, vantages as we might enjoy to- need and value of good roads, Forest Grove, Ogn. day, or are they older or longer Good roads like good streets, are but do not wear yourself out with quence his co-workers will pass j him. The man who succeeds is j settled. Experts have carefully noticeable at once to the most in- worry because you can not turn examined the soil and climate different observer. The differ- the world and make it over in a the man who has the courage t o , W . Q. Tucker, M. D. take the initiative and likewise Physician and Surgeon conditions of the entire state and ence between good roads and poor day. in silence any criticism resulting, j Diseases o f Women A Specialty have decided upon this locality ones is practically the difference Dr. Brown’s Old Office Many a woman as sharp as a as being the most ideal for the between profit and loss to those Main Street, Forest Grove, Ore. culture o f fruit, especially the who have to use roads. A good brier at the bargain counter, has apple, yet the merits of soil, cli- highway is a universal public been obliged to confess that she Victor H. Limber mate and the fruit itself, de- benefactor. There is not a single was fooled in the selection of a Funeral Director and Ejnbalmer serving and unexcelled as they member of the community who husband, Modern Equipments are, have not yet reached the does not receive advantage and IV.— How Lill Came to boundries of our own state, j pleasure from it. It is most So the “ sub-conscious self” is Chapel, F orest G ro v e Advertise These facts are too well known democratic o f all public institu to enter into litigation arising | ------------------------------ ---------- Bill Blue refused to advertise. to our readers to need reviewing, tions. A court-house is for liti- from marital infelicities? How Said he, “These measly paper guys W. I. R. Beach yet the question, “ Why do these gants, an asylum is for the in far-reaching the pyschological Will never get my hard earned cash." AND THEN B I L L 'S B U S IN E S S conditions exist?” is ever before firm, a jail for criminals, a thea- implications o f life todav are. Fire and Life Insurance W E N T T O SM A SH . us and it certainly admits o f but ters for entertainments, a park Written So very “ near" was old Bill Blue He pinched a dollar bill in two. one answer, “ Lack o f progress for recreation, a school for in- A fire has just been put out He pinched his trade in two likewise. and organization on the part of j struction, a church for worship- after it has burned for fifty This opened poor old William’s eyes. Most popular stocks negotiated the fruit growers themselves ers, a hotel for everybody—saint years and consumed $2,000,000,- North First Street, near Main and citizens in general.” and sinner, man, wayfarer, but 000 worth o f coal. It will take No one questions the import- ¡a road is for woman and the consumers a long time to get Forest Grove, Ore. ance and value of a progressive, child, maid and matron, young it paid for. live, up-to-date association and ! and old, rich and poor, healthy CARL HOFFMAN in no one place in the Willamette i and sick, the lame, the halt, and A Long Island surrogate has valley is there as great an oppor- *he blind—all get a share of ben- decided that a gentleman may Sanitary Plumbing tunity for, or as great a need of, et^ ^roni a t?ood road, get drunk three times a year. and Heating such an organization, as there is make a good road involves But what some o f them would Satisfaction guaranteed. Charges in this immediate vicinity, “ So the expenditure o f money, but it like to know is how many times reasonable. Basement Hoffman build why have we not got it?” Any I *s nioney well spent, as it practi- may a gentleman get drunk and ing. phone 502. of the interested citizens when 1 calb' becomes an improvement in still be a gentleman. approached on the question al- community enjoying it and E d w . R. W i r t z most invariably reply “ I will do worth every dollar of costs, The foremost advertising vir Practical and Sanitary Plumbing my part. ” Here seems to be the tue is persistence. One can no answer to the question, “ Alack The shirt waist has a great PHONES— BELL 21 — in d . 68l more make a single effort, how of leadership, of individual pro- deal of starch in the course of a ever large, serve for a year’ s Forest Grove, Oregon gress and push.” Neither the year. publicity, than he could get phy country surrounding Forest ---------------------- sical nourishment, for a life time, He smiled a bit and said: “ By gee! I think I ve barked up the wrong tree. Grove or Washington county in A runabout wagon is greatly from a single dinner. JOHN WUNDERLICH T o cure a business on the blink general will come into its own to be preferred to a runabout Preecribe a dote of prlnter’e ink.” until some one does more than wife. Funeral Director Bill saw the “print." “A page," he said. An UP-TO-DATE NEWSPAPER The printer man almost fell dead. his part. A short time ago a and Embalmer..... there is cash in William's till. cannery for our City was a very The evils o f riches are seldom aims to GIVE THE NEWS WHEN IT Now T H E AD. FO R M IN E !” says "Boost probable proposition and the only manifest to those who possess IS n e w s . No re-hash or worked er Bill.” Prompt Attention Given to Over Stuff, but UP-TO-THE-MINUTE reason it is not being built here them. Calls. Modern Equip NEWS. When it is live news and today is that our citizens had not Oregon Electric Time Card ment. interesting to the public, you the enterprise to grasp the op The skunk can not be called LEAVES WILL FIND IT IN THE PRESS. ARRIVES portunity when it presented it penniless since he always has a T h e E volu tion o f Booster Bül self. Today a proposition of vital importance is before them and it behooves them to lay aside the dillatory tactics of the past, change the disposition to wait for some one else to take the lead and g e t busy and do at least a little part in assisting nature in doing what she seems determined to do, make of us the central figure of a fruitgrow ing section. This work does not rest with k the fruit growers alone. The merchant, the farmer, the labor- er and every resident in this fer- ble country of ours is vitally con- Forest G rove scent. when thoroughly sifted there is not much left. That ”$500” clerk who wrote to Secretary MacVeagh that he had saved the government twoj cents in ink by not dotting his i’s or crossing his t’s spoiled all his economy by writing an un necessary and foolish letter, thereby using up ink that might have been saved. There is this to be said for the apple tree —it never hides any fruit in its trunk. --------------- *----- Sheep are most persistent gam holers, though they are constant- ly being fleeced. It is as impossible for a human being to be happy who is habit ually idle as it is for a fine chron ometer to fce normal when not running. 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