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About Forest Grove press. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1909-1914 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1910)
F o r e st G rove P r ess Published •£ Edited by G. E. SECOUR in the City of F orest G rove , O regon , THURSDAY o f EACH WEEK. I n d e p e n d e n t P h ones O f f ic e 505 R e s id e n c e 231 Entered at the poet office at Foreet Grove, Oirn as mail matter o f the second class. T erms of S ubscription CASH IN ADVANCE One Year $1.00 - Six Months .75 D isplay A dvertising rates on appli cation. L ocal R eaders five cents per line o f seven words each insertion. before them; pointing out the good and bad qualities o f each to the voters through the publica tions o f the state. Let the peo ple have time to carefully review and ponder over them, and the chances are that a more intelli gent action will be taken on them by the voters as a whole than would be the case in the legisla ture, where men selected for the most part from the mass have only a comparatively short time to consider the hundreds of measures that come before them. If government directly by the people will always be a failure, then representative government in this country will also be a fail ure, because the average legisla tor is not superior in intelligence to the average voter. If the people are weak the legislator will be weak, because- he is from the people. uge under Jeff’s chair. It is pos sible that the streak o f “ yellow” that was expected to show in the negro when he»'£ntered the ring, evaporated the day before the fight, and some good fairy o f the white man’ s backers caused it to assume the shape o f a dog, and sent the animal to Jeff’s camp as a warning. They failed to take the tip, however, and the coon failed to show the “ yellow” and now no one, from toothless old gran dad to the cooing infant in arms, will be content until some stalwart caucasion comes forward and retrieves the “ honor” o f the white race. Professor Lowell says the Mar tians are not human beings, and yet there some who desire him to produce the records o f his trip to and from the little planet. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY ■ f, m..— i. ii I j A scientist has discovered that there are three times as many germs in a plate o f ice cream as there are in a kiss. Even that will not prevent a merger of them, when the season is fairly opened. W. -------- — -------- ----- --- M. Langley & Son Lawyers Forest Grove, Ogn. J. N. Hoffman A ttorney-at-Law We men have kicked so long and persistently about the money women spend for clothes that Display advertisements for publica some are trying to satisfy us by tion in the PRESS must be in this office not later than Tuesday evening to in only clothing about half the body. sure appearance in current issue. To Be Congratulated. The latest, the mermaid dress, is an example. It certainly does The “ Opportunity Edition” o f Let the People Rule. not bmd on the lungs. the Umpqua Valley News, pub lished at Roseburg, Douglas coun- j The voters o f Oregon will be ty, Oregon, issued last week by called upon next November to Scientists who have established the enterprising publisher o f that telepathic communication with vote on a large number o f meas paper, contains twenty pages Mars and learned all about its ures that have been filed at Sa Advertise Your Business. lem under the Initiative, or setting forth in a very compre irrigation system have reason to through the Referedum.and those Don’ t imagine for a moment hensive and entertaining manner fear the rivalry o f the Harvard who are at all times opposed to that advertising will not bring the resources and advantages of j prodigy who has devised a means the people making their own laws, you results in your immediate Roseburg and the Umpqua Val o f reaching the planet Venus in those who through birth or for- field. That’s an error that ley. The edition contains a large 20 minutes with a radium aero tutious circumstances have gained many merchants make, when number of fine half-tones o f the plane. a financial ascendancy over their they assure themselves that their residence and business houses of fellows, and have become self- store is so well known that it Roseburg. and in picture and In Japan, day laborers get 20 constituted leaders o f the mass doesn’ t require newspaper adver story shows the wonderful pro cents a day and women servants o f the people, bring forth the tising—that the trade will natur ductiveness, especially in the receive 84 cents a* month. Our plea that it is impossible that the ally drift his way, anyhow. way o f fruit, of the Umpqua Val informant does not explain voters of the state as a whole can There isn’ t a store anywhere in ley. We congratulate the pub whether the women servents get act with any degree of intelli the world that has so secure a lisher o f the News and the peo- j Thursday afternoons off or not, gence on public measures, and footing as that—not a single store pie o f that section on the fine but we suppose they do. Our that only representatives elected —and you are not doing business! edition. indignation should be at once to make the laws can give to con in a field but that your sales can aroused if we thought they templated acts of legislation that Even Champaign, Illinois, has be increased by careful newspa didn’ t. gone drv. careful deliberation and intelli per advertising. If this is not gent insight which is necessary true, why is it that a stream of Four kisses brought $20 in for the passage o f wise and just mail orders is constantly going Omaha. Let’ s hope they were laws out o f your town to catalogue w<rth it. It may be that every man is houses? And are not these sales not capable o f acting with intel made by these catalogue houses Perhaps it really was cheaper ligence in voting on a public the result o f persistent advertis to move than pay rent in the measure, but the average voter ing in the very field you feel that good old days. is as well qualified to act thereon you have cultivated to the limit? as the average legislator. The VI.—She Is a Harmonizsr A mosquito lays forty eggs Whenever you get such an idea majority of the men who consti fixed in your mind, and really be day. One sometimes wonde Hilda the Helper organized the W o tute any given legislature are se lieve that there’s nothing more how he gets the time. lected from the rank and file, men’» Civic Service, and, oh, TH E to conquer, you are simply turn and that they can give, in the W A Y SHE ENE R G IZE D made The Egyptian tombs outdo the ing over ready money to the man short time the legislature is in Mr». Slowpoke nervou*. that does possess the broader vis New Jersey cold storage ware session, the necessary thought ion—you are ceding territoiy and houses in all but quantity. and deliberation to all the vast rights to others that careful number of measures that come No man likes to be interrupted newspaper advertising would re before them, is not proven by in the midst o f a sentence unless tain in your possession. . efforts o f past legislatures. If he is serving a sentence in jail. representative government was The Value o f Exchange. the success that i s ad vocates so Taft supporters are greatly in strongly proclaim, the people terested in the proposition that Occasionally you find the pub never would take the making of lisher o f a country sheet who Roosevelt head a delegation to the laws directly into their own plumes himself over the fact he the South Pole. hands. exchanges with but few of the It’s the same with women who When conditions liecome intol smaller papers of the state, set erable tbe people take the initia ting forth ihat did he so ex fish for compliments as it is with tive o f lawmaking into their own change, his advertisers might be other anglers. The big ones al hands, and as is to be expected, deceived in thinking he had a ways get away. make many blunders and mis larger circulation than was really Perhaps you have noticed how And old Miss Knocker was so mad takes, in the beginning, through the case. The P r e s s has a large she wouldn’t 'tend the meetings inexperience. Do those who pro number o f exchanges among the some men hurry to get nowhere fess to know the way by reason country publications, and believes in order to do something they at first, but later she got glad and of superior intelligence and edu that a much more comprehensive have no excuse for doing. sent her kindest greetings. cation, seek to lead them aright? knowledge of the different sec A man in Virginia ate some Not if they belong to that class tions o f Oregon may be thereby canned corn, herrings and ice Hilda the Helper, don't yon see. was who believe, or profess to be obtained than from the metropol such A S W IR L OF ACTION she lieve, that Providence has or itan papers. Most o f the pub cream. The floral offerings at his funeral were beautiful. made the women all agree and dained that the few shall rule lishers o f country papers, while strangled every faction. and the many shall be ruled. boosting for their home town, If railway managers traveled Rather they sit back and point are not so narrow but what they less in private cars they might out how the people o f Greece two will speak an occasional good learn some o f the reasons why Oregon Electric Time Card thousand years ago made a fail word for others, if the opportu railway companies are unpopular. LEAVES ARRIVES ure of self government, and pre nity to knov’ o f such towns is F ora «! G rov e at P o r t la n d dict the same dire result in this placed in their way. While we As Germany has plenty o f sol 6:50 a m 8:00 a m day. live in the “ prettiest town in Or diers it is compaiatively easy to 8:40 a m 9:50 a m 10:30 a m The Repulican party will hold egon ,” there are other sections collect the remains o f the steera 11:40 a m 12:20 p m 1:30 p m a state assembly in a few’ weeks o f the state w here people like to ble balloons that run away in the 1:40 p tn 2:50 p m for the purpose o f meeting to live, and by joining forces with German sky. 4:10 p m 5:20 p m 8:10 p m 7:00 p m gether and selecting after due the country papers o f Oregon we 9:45 p m 10-.50 p m investigation into their character may better induce residents of Possibly it is no sin to play and fitness, men whom they the East to come where there is golf on Sunday, except on the ARRIVES LEAVES P ortla n d F orest G ro v e think it would be for the best in room for ten times the present theory that it is sinful to waste 7:06 a m 8:15 a m terest of the state to vote for at population and golden opportu time on Sunday or any other day 8:30 a m 9:40 a m the coming primaries. o f the week. 10:20 a m 11:30 a m nities for all. 12:10 p m 1:20 p m Why not have something on 2:10 p m 3:20 p m that order in regard to the mak The Californian who announces 3:30 p m 4:40 p m “ Yellow Pup” No MaacoL 5:30 p m 6:40 p m ing o f the laws? Let represen that he has developed an edible 8:25 p m 9:35 p m The evening before the scrap rose might now turn his atten tatives be selected from each county, who will meet once in between Jeffries and Johnson a tion. as other horticulturalists S .t a r d ., O alr L n Portland U JO p m - A r . F.G ISJB a m two years, carefully inquire into yellow dog entered the cottage o f have been urged to do, to the Sunday only the merits o f each measure placed the white fighter and sought ref production o f a scentless onion. L n F..G. MO p Ml— Ar. at Portta«wl 4 m D m Collections and all business entrusted to m irlven prompt attention. Attorney for Forest Grove Collection Agency. Office-Hoffman Bldg. Pacific Ave. Ind. Phone 502 Forest Grove H. W . Vollmer, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Office in Abbott Bldg. Both Phones Forest Grove, Ogn. O. W . Humphrey Jlttorney-at-LaW Office- K. P. Bldg. Phone 644 Forest Grove, Oregon Dr. O. H. Scheetz ChiropraElic Spinologist Specialist in nervous diseases, lung trouble, rheumatism, in fact all diseases. Office next to I.aCourse’s store W . H. Hollis A ttorney-at-Law Forest Grove, Ogn. W . Q. Tucker, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Diseases o f Women A Specialty Dr. Brown’s Old Office Main Street, Forest Grove, Ore. HILDA THE H CLPER Victor H. Limber Funeral Director and Embalmer Modern Equipments Chapel, Forest Grove Dr. C. E. Bockmann Chiropractor Consultation Free Office in Forest Grove Nat’ l Bank Bldg W. J. R. Beach Fire and Life Insurance Written I « - T — If you don’ t insure with me W E BOTH LOSE _____ North First Street, near Main Forest Grcve, Ore. CARL HOFFM AN Sanitary Plumb ng and Heating Satisfaction guaranteed. C h afes ’•easoi »file. Paiement Hoffman 1 u Id- ing. I'hone 502. JOHN WUNDERLICH Funeral Director and Embalmer...... Prompt Attention Given to Calls. 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