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About Forest Grove press. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1909-1914 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1910)
living on the farm, were almost showing what can be produced too grievous to be bourne, and ac by the soil o f the county, but we Published & Edited by counted mostly for the young think they do not go far enough. G. E. S E C O U R leaving the farms for the cities. In connection with the display of in the City o f F orest G ro ve , O regon , Those times and conditions are live stock, fruits, vegetables and products, there THURSDAY o f EACH WEEK. now happily past in the case of manufactured should be given a series o f lec most o f the people now living on I n d e p e n d e n t P h on es tures by men and women chosen farms. The telephone and rural O f f i c e 505 R e s i d e n c e 231 free delivery o f mail brings the from each section,and the people Entered at the poet office a t Forest Grove, Oirn farmer in direct touch with the should make it their business to 1 mail m atter of the second class. cities, and if the country roads, be present and get the benefit T erms o r S u b s c r i p t i o n which are being made better therefrom. CASH IN ADVANCE from year to year, still are too One Year $1.00 - Si* Months 75 Columbia County Shown Up poor for much travel during some Display advertisements for publica o f the winter months, the tiller of tion in the PRESS must be in this office The Rainier Review published not later than Tuesday evening to in the soil and his family have the a Columbia County Development daily papers to while away the sure appearance in current issue. number last week, which shows evenings, and may hold social up the resources and develop converse with neighbors and ment o f our neighbor county in friends in town over the magic great shape. The paper is filled wires. Dwellers o f the country The PRESS is published with districts are being brought closer with splendid half-tone cuts o f the constant aim o f best serving business houses and dwellings in our advertisers and subscribers. together because o f the cutting the various towns o f the county, W e believe they are interested in up o f large farms into small the publication, and we shall be tracts, which gives them better and tells in an entertaining man pleased to receive any suggestion advantages for social intercourse. ner o f what makes Columbia looking towards its improvement. This also gives the farmer more county one o f the greatest in If you know any news items of Oregon. Walter C. Fry, the interest, such as visitors to or returns for his labor, and more publisher o f the Rainier Review, time for recreation, than where from the city, weddings, social gatherings, births, deaths, new he attempts to take care o f more knows how to place the advan improvements, fires, accidents, ground than one man can handle. tages o f his county before the etc., either in town or country, Farmers are learning that ten world, and we congratulate him. phone them in. make a note of acres well cultivated will net the occurances and hand in at the The barber belongs to a shav office, or tell Mr. Ed. S. Sparks, them more money with less work, who is reporter for the PRESS, than one hundred acres half culti ing se t about it. Your kindness will be vated. By systematizing his appreciated. When you have work the farmer now has time to Single men should not lead read your paper,kindly hand it to visit the city with his family,and double lives. some one not a subscriber. If he will spin into town in his rubber- reads a copy we will land him. tired buggy or his automobile, Loyally yours, The fish you catch always eye THE PUBLISHER. with his family, and enjoy an you with baited breath. Ind. phones: Office 505. evening at the theatre or other Residence 285 or 231. places o f amusement, and his en Are your friends the kind you joyment will have a zest to it that need or the kind that need you. City or Country is lacking in the case o f the blase city dweller. Should the farmer The man who puts his foot in his Perennially the discussion be ill for a few weeks, he is not comes up as to the relative mer- haunted by the fear that he may mouth at least makes both ends its o f town or country life, and come to want, as his crops will meet. we heard a heated argument re continue to grow and his stock to cently on the subject, one per take on flesh, with the assistance In the drawing for brains the son championing the country as that will be given by kind neigh number o f blanks seems to have the place where the greater bors. been numerous. amount o f happiness is to be With the increasing advantag found, while his opponent held es o f country living, more and The bachelor who is afraid o f that the city or town offered far more people are leaving the con- falling in love should take out an more chances for enjoyment o f gested cities for farms.and as the accident policy. life. electric roads into the rural dis- Our opinion is that with pre- tricts increase and the highways Woman tells us that angels do sent day conditions, life on the are improved, making for not gossip. Where do women go farm is to be preferred to life in rapid travel to and from tl>e to when they die? those who are better the city, especially for those in city, moderate circumstances, and fitted by training to work at There’ s one good thing about were it possible for us to choose, trades rather than to perform your political enemies. They the present writing would find farm labor, will at least seek to never borrow money from you. us on a “ little farm well tilled." own an acre or two in the country, Life for the laboring man in the where a home may be built, a I f a woman is really in love a city is made up mostly of a daily cow and chickens kept, a garden grind, six days in the week, with raised, and the owner spend his cheap engagement ring will ans the possibility at any time of los- nights away from the turmoil o f wer just as well as a diamond one. ing his job through sickness,clos- the city after his day’s work is ing down o f the plant where he done. Somehow Senator Gore, the may be working, or by being_________ ? blind Senator, does not always “ fired.” When the laboring County Experiance Meetings see things the way his colleagues man in the city stops work, his do. income stops also, and if he hap One way to advance the best pens to have a few dollars laid interests of Washington county And if some people didn’ t think by for a rainy day, the clouds would be for the people living they knew quite so much tney are very apt to give up their within its borders to get together would probably know a little moisture about this time. The once a year for a day or two, and more. principal methods o f enjoyment discuss the needs o f the various ----------------:---------- o f the dwellers in the city are sections; tell what has been ac- What has become o f the old- attending the theater,ball games complished in the way of road fashioned man who attended a and other forms o f amusement, building, soil culture; what crops wedding and insisted on kissing While these are all well enough are best adapted to the different the bride? in moderation.the constant same- qualities o f soil; what kind of — ness soon palls on one, which is live stock are the most profitable You cannot always judge a man shown in the look o f boredom on where the crops raised must be by the clothes he wears, but you the faces o f most o f the city peo taken into consideration; better can judge his wife by their ap- ple. methods o f marketing; how to npflranpp. Time w r s when to live on a enhance the relations between farm was almost to live out o f the grower and the consumer, When a young man starts sow- the pale o f civilization, because of and. in fine, to make o f the gath no other means o f communica ering an experience meeting, inghis wild oats, his parents should tion with the outside world ex where those who have profited see that they are thoroughly cept by traveling over roads, (es- by past experiences may pass thrashed out pecially in the winter time.) their knowledge along, Victoria Falls. whose condition was worse than About the only occasion when Ttw African name for tbo Victoria execrable, to judge by the mut- the people o f the county get to- falla la **Moal od tunja." which me«us tered language of the farmer as gether is on the 4th o f July, and •smoke thunders her«." Society M olars. his horses wallowed through the then more for the purpose o f giv- Drntlat— Woll. bow do tbo now tooth knee-deep mud and a wagon ing manifestation o f their patriot- work? Everything satisfactory? wheel sank to the hub in a chuck ism. than anything else. The Pattont— Not exactly. Thoy seem to hole. The long months o f isola- fairs that are coming to be an eat tbo others Dentist-Naturally. They don’t be tion during these times, which annual feature in Washington ta the same sat, yon k n ow —Ex- fell moat heavily on the women county are o f much benefit as F o r e s t G r o v e P r e s s T o Our Patrons The warm weather has a tend ency to make some people hot in the collar. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY 1 I rii A Morman preacher claims that the garden o f Eden was located in Missouri. Anyway old Adam was shown a few things. W . M. Langley & Son Lawyers A Berlin scientist says that food can be made from air—which may enlighten us as to how some people have existed in the past. Forest Grove, Ogn. J. N. Hoffman A ttorney-at-Laro Collections and all business entrusted to m given prompt attention. Attorney tor Forest Grove Collection Agency. No, rio, Ermyntrude, no one in Forest Grave is heir to four hund red millions. Merely a pipe dream of the other fellow, dear. OiSce-Hoffman Bldg. Pacific Ave. Ind. Phone 502 Forest Grove H. W. Vollmer, M. P. Physician and Surgeon The mosquito who puncture the epidermis of the grouch with his proboscis and makes a meal o f his corpuscles must want to commit suicide. Office in Abbott Bldg. Both Phones Forest Grove, Ogn. O. W. Humphrey yltlorney-at-Law When speaking of a dead friend do not say, “ peace to his ashes,” or some people may think you art- making a mean inference a.out the place he went to. Office- K. P. Bldg. Phone 644 Forest Grove, Oregon Dr. O. H. Scheetz ChiropraClic SpinologU Specialist in nervous diseases, lung trouble, rheumatism, in fact all di?easeb. When you wish to take a fall out o f any one, it is good policy to be sure of what you are writ ing about, otherwise you may make yourself ridiculous. Office next to LaCourse’s store W . H. Hollis A tlornetj-al-LcW One hundred Chicago girls in writing essays on “ The Ideal Husband," said he was one “ cap able o f living the real life .” A diagram should go with that Forest Grove, Ogn. W. Q. Tucker, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Diseases o f W omen A Specialty Dr. Brown’s Old Office Main Street, Forest Grove, Ore. HILDA THE HELPER Victor H. Limber Funeral Director and Emtahner Modern Equipments Chapel, VIII.—Might Have Been Mayor Forest Grove Dr. C. EL Bockmann Chiropractor Hilda the Helper now and then was Consultation Free wont to say to women, “ Let us CO-OPERATE W ITH MEN and Office in Forest Grove Nat’l Bank Bldg be right in the swimmin'.” W . J. R. Beach Fire and Life Insurance Written If y o u don’t insure with me W E B O T H LOSE North First Street, near Main F orest Grove, Cre. CARL HOFFMAN Sanitary Plumb'ng and Heating So pleased were all the men with her— they saw SHE WAS A Satisfaction gi:a* anteed. Chaiges STAYER— they said, if she ¿id reasonable. Basement Hoffman build not demur, they’d like to make ing. rhone 502. her mayor. Bat Hilda had another plan in help- fnlneu to mingle, the which con- cerned a tingle man who wouldn’t long be tingle. 1 Oregon Electric Time Card LEAVES Forest Grove 6:50 a ts 8:40 a m 10:30 a m 12:20 p m 1:40 p m ^ 4:10 p tr -A 7:00 p n l 9:45 p ARRIVES at Portland 8:00 a m 9:50 a m 11:40 a m 1:30 p m 2:50 p m 5:20 p m 8:10 p m 10:50 p in LEAVES ARRIVES Portlaad Forest G ro v e 7:06 8:30 10:20 12:10 2:10 3:30 5:90 8:25 a a a p p p p p m m m m m m m m 8:15 9:40 11:30 1:20 3:20 4:40 6:40 9:36 Saturday O aly _ L n Portland UkO » m - A r . Sunday only P.O. a a a p p p p p m tu m m m m m m 1XJS a n Lra F..G. U > a a — A t. at Pi tta od 4-St a a JOHN WUNDERLICH Funeral Director and Embalmer..... — Prompt Attention Given to Calls. 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