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FOREST G R O VE PRESS
Published & Edited by
G. E. S E C O U R
in the City of
F orest G rove , O regon ,
THURSDAY o f EACH WEEK.
I ndependent P hones
O ffice 505
R esidence 231
Entered at the poet office at Forest Grove, Oirn
aa mail matter of the second class.
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tion in the PRESS must be in this office
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to the stringers leads the pedes-
trian to a fepling o f security,and
may be the cause o f serious in-
jury.
Recently the writer saw an
elderly man thrown heavily to
the ground, having been tripped
by a loose board. Fortunately,
no bones were broken, but his
trembling lips and shaking form
showed plainly the shock to his
nervous system. The failure o f
a property owner to repair his
sidewalk is, in most cases, due to
carelessness, rather than to will-
ful neglect. He fully intends to
give the matter attention when
he has time, but puts it off from
day to day, and the result is, the
days grow into weeks and
months,and still the loose boards
remain.
If your sidewalks need repair­
ing, get a hammer and nails,and
a new board or two, if necessary,
and repair them. Do it now.
Sidewalks are for the use o f the
public, and it is a civic duty each
property owner owes to the com-
munity to keep those in front o f
L!-
,J!-----— in J good
— J:i:—
his L
holdings
condition,
Neglect may occasion serious in-
jury, and in the case o f elderly
people who are victims o f your
carelessness, the shock
may
hasten their death.
very properly make a business
matter o f it because they bargain-
ed for something they are not
getting. They make these issues
every day in the year except the
first day, when the business idea
is forgotten, and the only thing
uppermost is a plea to get out of
paying what they honestly owe
the paper.
The same men will meet the
newspaper man with a smile, offer
him a drink or cigar and then
ask him to say in his paper that
he is the most enterprising and
progressive citizen in the state.
That’s their idea o f business,
Now, the newspaper is a busi­
ness. It is not a glory making ma­
chine. It can no more live on
This paper has been asked to
sentiment than its employees.
give its views on the Assembly
It may surprise you but type­
proposition, and as we will say
setters don’ t work for nothing,
nothing, when in a serious mood,
and no amount o f persuasion will
but what we believe,our opinion is
make them do it. It’ s true you
that the assembly, when the
may owe $1 for a year’ s back
members of such are acting
subscription, yet if 3,000 or 4,000
wholly as an advisory board,so to
subscribers reason like you—
speak, for the purpose o f suggest-
that we collect news for the fun
ing candidates for offee to be rati-
0f |t, printers work all night just
fied at the primary election, is a
.
. for
- you, the paper mill
to print
it
good thing for the Democratic,
gives us our paper just be-
Republican and all other parties
cause it wants to see us do
that may be a moving force in
well, the machinery men give us
the affairs o f government, so long
machinery for the same r e a s o n -
as such assemblies act openly and
then it becomes a different mat­
in good faith.
ter. Instead o f $1 worth o f
We believe that where men
glory it is $96 cash each week for
A Vote Should be Taken
who have never before held office
help and supplies. —News, Mont­
When the citizens o f Forest gomery, W. Va.
offer themselveg as candidates
before a party, delegates care- Grove come to investigate thor-
fully chosen for the purpose may oughly the offer made by the
Dirt,flies, disease, death; each
better gain a knowledge of their University officials to unite in follows the other.
fitness than the members o f the building and maintaining the new
party as a whole. In the case of library, we believe that a major-
The early worm often gets us-
those who have held or are hold- ity will be in favor o f the move,
ed for fish bait.
ing office, whose qualifications There can be no question, in our
are known,who have proved effi-; view, o f the great advantages
Politics are quiet but the slate
cient, and who again offer their that will accrue to the city by
factories
are running day and
names to their party for re-elect­ uniting with the college in the
night.
proposition.
With
a
thirty-thofl-
ion, we think it immaterial wheth­
er they are endorsed by any as­ sand-dollar (more or less) build­
The cream from the milk o f
sembly or not, as the people will ing, stocked with the magnifi­
know them,and will return them cent library owned by the college, human kindness makes butter for
and the interest from the endow- the bread o f the needy,
to office if they so desire.
There is a fear expressed that ment fund and the money con-
If you stand by your town, the
if the candidates endorsed by the tributed by the city for the up-
keep
of
the
new
institution,
we
town
will stay by you. A few
Republican party assemblies are
will
have
something
that
will
not
may
knock
but it is only a knock-
elected, it will be the begining of
er’
s
knock
and
don’ t count much.
only
be
o
f
incalculable
benefit
to
the end for the direct primary
those
now
living
in
the
city
and
law. We think not. The pri­
mary law was born when most their posterity, but as an ad­
A Pittsburg sculptor arrested
needed,and will remain as a de­ vertisement to the town its value on a Paris street wore nothing
terrent force against party cor- will be very great. W’e believe but a pair o f socks. He probably
ruption,unless the people become the citizens should vote on the thought he was at home and
careless and indifferent, when matter,
sufficiently clothed in smoke.
they will have only themselves
to blame. Eternal vigilance on
Beautify 1 he Church Square
Man gets five years in prison
the part o f the people as a whole
for putting dynamite on car tracks
A business man o f this city ap­
must be the price of good govern­
“ just for fun.” It’ s horrible to
ment, and if the leaders of a party- proves our editorial in regard to think what would have happened
attempt the old “ slate” method the townspeople supporting a to him if he’ d been in earnest.
o f nominating its candidates, it band organization, and states it
will be a simple matter for those as his opinion that the business
A New Jersey man . received
o f the party opposed to such men and citizens should also get
„
methods to put a spoke in their together and beautify the Con- $200 for a tooth h e lo s tm a fight
wheel by candidates coming be- gregational church square, with with a street car conductor. This
is one o f the crudest as well as
fore the party by the direct pri- tho consent of those having it in
charge.
Some improvements most expensive cases o f dentistry-
mary.
We lielieve in political parties, that he suggested were to build on record.
as we believe that the interests cement walks diagonally across
John D. Rock feller now asks
of good government will best be the square, to intersect near the
fora
universal seligion.by a fusion
served by having opposition part- center. Instal a fountain where
of
all
churches. It would take
the
paths
intersect.
Sow
the
ies. the day o f the non-partisan
all
of
them
to keep J. D. out of
square
to
lawn
grass,
and
hire
a
party being not yet at hand.
hades,
if
half
what's said about
man
to
water
and
trim
the
lawn.
We do not believe that any
him
be
true.
Place
settees
under
the
large
party will ever try to "k n ife”
the direct primary law. This trees, where people may rest.and
When you hear a man or wo­
law will remain, because the peo­ make other such improvements
as
may
seem
needed
from
time
man
talking about his neighbor
ple as a whole will see to it. and
to
time.
and
your
neighbor too. look at him
it will act as a safeguard when
We
believe
his
suggestion
to
be
and
ask
yourself
who he is before
political parties attempt to return
you
take
for
granted
what he
a
good
one,
and
the
only
thing
to old methods.
says.
Usually
such
persons
are
required for its accomplishment
telling
their
own
stories
and
is
conserted
action.
Repair Your Walk*
charging others with their own
shortcomings.
In all sections of the city are
Newspaper Rights
to be found loose boards in side­
walks. The riding of bicycles on
There are some men who have
A French astronomer announc-
the walks or warping of the peculiar ideas about a newspaper es that the comet which was vis-
boards causes them to become and regard it not as a business, ible recently is not Halley s, and
loosened from the stringers, and but as a convenience. If the pa- he promises that the genuine
while the walk may be in good per reaches them late or fails to comet will appear in August
order otherwise, the very ap- give every item of news, or its Can’t get us excited over any
pea ranee of a sound condition, conduct toward them is in a man- more comet announcements. Prof,
when the boards are not fastened ner they do not like they then It’s too late now to get anything
On The Assembly
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into the magazines about an Aug­
ust comet, anyhow.
Ingenuity worthy of a better
cause was that of a couple of Jer­
sey robbers who, on calling at a
house and being admitted, bound
and gagged the inmates, after
which one jovously played the
piano to deceive the neighbors
while the other gathered up the
loot. This is the whistler at the
plow with a vengeance.
In the good old days they used
to have signboards at the cross­
roads in the country region to
point the pilgrim on his way. It
was a cheery sign. It spoke a
welcome to the stranger. It in­
dicated a disposition to be help­
ful. But these signboards are
nearly all gone. Only now and
then you see one, and then it
seems like the relic o f a bygone
friendship. It seems to say to
the stranger: “ We once took an
interest in you, but we do so no
longer; if you don’ t know the
way, what do we care?” That is
the situation today; a forlorn one
indeed; a cheerlessone. No little
sign thrown ou tlayin g: “ We are
thinking o f you, we care for you,
we want you to go right. ” Now,
this ought not to be.
There
should be little signboards to
greet him, and to tell him the
way he ought to go. This thought
is getting some headway in Mas­
sachusetts, where there is an e f­
fort to restore the signboards,
and give to the stranger the help
o f knowing where he is.
HILDA THE
HELPER
S
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PROFESSIONAL
DI R E C T O R Y
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W . M. Langley & Son
Lawyers
Forest Grove, Ogn.
J. N. Hoffman
A ttorney-at-Laru
Collections and all business entrusted to m
Riven prompt attention. Attorney for Form
Grove Collection Agrency.
Qffi«-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, Ogii,
O. W . Humphrey
Jhlorney-al-Law
Office- K.
P. Bldg.
Phone 644
Forest Grove, Oregon
Dr. O. H. Scheetz
Chiropraflic Spinologist
Specialist in nervous diseases, lunar trouble,
rheumatism, in fact all diseases.
Office next to LaCourse’s store
W . H. Hollis
A ttorney-al-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.
Victor H. Limber
Funeral D irector and Embalnicr
Modern Equipments
C hapel,
F orest G rove
V II.— Her Magic Touch
Hilda the Helper went along about
her daily duty, singing a helpful,
cheery song and radiating beauty.
Dr. C. E. Bockmann
Chiropractor
Consultation Free
Office in Forest Grove Nat’ l Bank Fldg
W. J. R. Beach
Fire and Life Insurance
Written
If you don’t insure with me
W E BOTH LOSE
North First Street, near Main
Forest Grove, Ore.
CARL HOFFMAN
The town beneath her magic touch
became A PIACE ATTRACTIVE.
New folks poured in to beat the
Hutch, and realty was active.
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