We think the citizens o f the town
at large are under no obligations,
and should not be taxed for the
G . E. S E C O U R
purpose, but that the duty of
In the City of
F o rest G r o ve , O reg on ,
building the watering trough and
THURSDAY o f EACH WEEK. providing for its maintenance lies
with those directly interested,
I n d e p e n d e n t P hones
who are the business men of the
O f f ic e 505
R e s id e n c e 231
city and those having teams who
Entered at the poet office at Forest Grove, Oirn
make Forest Grove their trading
as mail matter of the second class.
center.
T e r m s o f S u b s c r ip t io n
^ bill collector gets one cent
At first blush it might be con­ may have acquired will slip away
C ASH IN A D V A N C E
as
the
sands,
but
a
clear
con-
darnages
because he was bitten J. N. Hoffman
sidered that we have'a nerve in
One Year $1.00 - Six Months .75
A ttorney-at-Laro
science
will
endure
to
sustain
and
by
his
creditor’
s dog. What’sthe
asking outside people to help sup­
Display advertisements for publica­ port an institution within the comfort us in our transition from prjce o f fche dog?
Collections and all business entrusted to m
Riven prompt attention. Attorney for Forest
tion in the PRESS must be in this office
Grove Collection Agrency.
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■—
town, but it looks to us like a fair life to the grave, and the great-
not later than Tuesday evening to in­
Q#ce-Hoffman Bldg. Pacific Ave.
est epitaph a man may have on
The term ••affinity- is not M.
deal
in
this
case.
Moreover.it
is
sure appearance in current issue.
Ind. Phone 502
Forest Grove
mostly the horses o f outside peo­ his monument is:
Here lies an belous, dicides a New York court,
ple that will receive the benefit. honest man.”
It’s awful hard to insult a New
H. W . Vollmer, M. D.
The farmers come to town with
----------------------
Yorker, nowadays.
their produce, which they ex­
Physician and Surgeon
The Heart o f Youth
—
The PRESS is published with change with our merchants for
Office in Abbott Bldg.
Some o f those who reformed
the constant aim o f best serving value received. The farmer and
We
have
been
told
that
as
long
Both
Phones
Forest Grove, Ogu.
just before the com et’s tail was
our advertisers and subscribers.
the
merchant
are
both
pleased.
as
we
keep
our
hearts
young
we
We believe they are interested in
due to hit the earth have slid
the publication, and we shall be The animals that drew the load need have no fear of the depress­ clear back again already.
O. W . Humphrey
pleased to receive any suggestion that caused their pleasure are ing lonliness of advancing years,
looking towards its improvement. thirsty. What more logical than
Jlllorney-al-Law
and many writers more or less
An editor in a Kansas town
If you know any news items of that both parties should provide
Offict-K. P. Bldg.
Phone 644
experienced
in
such
matters
have
interest, such as visitors to or
sold but because he never receiv­
Forest Grove, Oregon
suggested many ways in which ed “ sympathy” and “ encourage­
from the city, weddings, Social them with a drink?
gatherings, births, deaths, new
We believe that were a petition we can accomplish that desired
improvements, fires, accidents, circulated among the business end. No two natures, however, ment’ ’ . He never deserved either.
Dr. O. H. Scheetz
etc., either in town or country, men o f the town and the farmers
are
alike,
and
it
follows
that
no
Chiropraäic Spino'ogisl
phone them in. make a note of
Indianapolis doctors made a
the occurances and hand in at the visiting the city,an amount could set o f hard and fast rules can be man a new nose from a chunk of Specialist, in nervous diseases, lung trouble,
rheumatism, in tact all diseases.
office, or tell Mr. Ed. S. Sparks, be quickiy raised sufficient to made to apply to each distinct j
his
leg.
He
limps
now,
and
he
Office next to LaCourse’s store
who is reporter for the PRESS, build a cement watering trough personality. The man or woman j
about it. Your kindness will be large enough for all coming needs, who passes through life alive to can’ t smell, but otherwise the op­
appreciated.
When you have and durable enough to last until
eration was a success.
W . H. H o. .is
the blessings which abound on
read your paper, kindly hand it to
some one not a subscriber. If he that time when, mayhap, our every side rarely ceases to be­
A ttorney-at-Lcu)
Chauffeurs who find gasoline
great-grand children, reclining come an active contributor to
reads a copy we will land him.
leaks
by
means
o
f
lighted
match­
luxuriently on the cushions of the lives o f others, and as long
Loyally yours,
Forest Grove, Cgn.
THE PUBLISHER. their upholstered aeroplanes in as a person actually participates es must be lineal descendants of
Ind. phones: Office 505.
their old age, and sailing over in any work, large or small, the those who used to look for leans
Residence 285 or 231.
“ the prettiest town in Oregon,” influence o f his personality is in the gas pipe with lignted ca. - VV. Q. Tucker, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
will look with languid interest on bound to be felt and his counsel dies.
They All Like The PRESS
Diseases o f W omen A Specialty
the last remaining one o f man’ s regarded. It is only when one
Dr. Brown’s Old Office
faithful friend, as he gratefully has tired o f the game, or enters
Main Street,
Forest Grove, Ore.
An Oregon pioneer who came drinks the cool sparkling Clear- only half-heartedly into affairs j
to this state when it was really in creek fluid, at a fountain buildel outside o f his own special inter­
Victor H. Limber
the wild, and who has resided in by thoughtful ones long dead. ese that he ceases to exercise
Washington county ever since, the Go to, now.
Funeral Director and Embclmer
any influence, and nis individual­
last twenty years in Forest Grove
ity is no longer recognized. En­
Modern Equipments
at his ease,living on the fruits of
thusiasm seems in some way to
T o Be Honest is Best
C h r p e t,
I c r e s t G rove
his early toil, dropped into the
be an attribute o f the youthful VIII.— Might Have Been
P ress office the other day, and
Senator T. P. Gore, o f Oklaho­ character; at any rate it is fa
Dr. C. E. Bockmann
Mayor
digging up the price o f a sub­ ma, appearing before the special easier to become interested in I
scription, remarked: “ I havebeen committee appointed to investi­ what is going on in our immtdi-J
Chiroprc ctor
Hilda the Helper now and then was
reading the P ress for a couple of gate the charges of bribery grow­ ate circle when the pulse beats j
Consultation Free
wor.t to say to women. "Let us
weeks; I like it and you can put ing out of what are known as the high and the blood courses w arm -}
Office
in
Forest Grove Nat’ l Bank Eldg
CO-OPEEATE WITH MEN and
my name on your books. When McMurry land contracts, involv­ ly, than in later years when so
be right in the swimmin’.”
my subscription expires for my ing the sale o f Indian lands.stat- many o f us are conserned only
other papers I am going to stoj ed that a man “ higher up” in the with our own affairs and evinCc :
W . J. K. Eeacfi
them. ”
Government service was “ inter­ but small interest in the doings
Fire and Life Insura ice
We hope he did not mean he ested” in the contracts,and being o f others.
Written
would stop his Portland daily, if pressed to tell the name o f the
he chances to take one, as, while official, he named vice-president
If you don’ t insure with me
Repartee is too often a synonym
the P ress prints two pages of James S. Sherman. Senator Gore
W E BO . H LOSE
for impudence.
world news each week, our field stated that he had been approach­
North First Street, rcnv Main
is more particularly Forest Grove ed by one Hammon, who offered
A
man’s
idiocies
look
like
real
Forest Grove, Ore.
and Washington county.
Our him a bribe o f twenty five thous­
subscribers seem to be pleased and dollars if he would remove genius—to his mother.
with the way we cover the field. all Congressional opposition to
CARL HOFFM AN
the contracts, t hese contracts ! You will always have money if
‘ ’ »’ •v PVmbing
A Watering Trough Needed
having to ao with the sale o f four you save half your earnings.
hundred and fifty millions of
and
Heating
So pleased were all the men with
The thicker the letter a woman
This paper has been requested acres of coal and asphalt lands
her—they saw SHE WAS A
Sat s, action g' a s
.d
Changes
to speak editorially o f the need belonging to the Indians for a writes the less there is in it.
Basement Hoffman build-
STAYER—they said, if she did " in,;. tsonahle.
Phone F02.
o f a watering trough where farm­ consideration of thirty millions of
not demur, they'd like to make
ers and others coming to town dollars, the lawyer and his as­
The hardest job on earth is a-
her mayor.
with teams could water their sociates to receive ten percent of pologizing for some people.
horses. The matter has been this amount for putting through
But Hilda had another plan in help­
discussed before by the P ress . the deal.
Money may make the mare go,
fulness to mingle, the which con­
but we are willing to again open
Senator Gore stated that ,whil ■ but it will not banish the night­
cerned a single man who wouldn't
the subject, as there is no ques­ he believed that Hammon, who mare.
long be single.
tion as to the need o f some kind had told him vice-president Sher­
of a receptacle holding water,and man was interested in the con
Boasting o f what you have
placed in some easily accessible tracts,as well as several congress­ done doesn’ t knock out the per­
Oregon Electric Time Card
s|H)t in the business district, where men and senators, was in the simmons.
the dumb animals could slack main a truthful man, he might
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their thirst.
deviate a little on occasions. We
Balloon pilots are careful to
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We think that not only should hope that this man has deviated avoid alighting when the ship is
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from
the
truth
on
this
occasion,
such an institution be maintained
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in motion.
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during the summer months, but and that the vice-president will
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completely
exhonorate
during all other seasons o f the
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year. Horses that have to pull himself from the charge. It is a
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r
heavy loads through the deep sad commentary on the times,
able to men.
Letter Heads, Envelopes.
mud and chuck holes that usually when men who are honored by
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Portland
F o r n a i Grove
characterize our roads during the high political preferment by the
Did you ever meet a spinster
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rainy season, are apt to become people, and who have all the
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even more thirsty and in need o f money they need to live a sane, who would admit that she never
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water than when the weather is reasonable life, will, in the wild had a proposal?
Anything
else that can be P*0-
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Romance is not dead? Pretty
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ceptacle and provide for its up­ seems at the present time to be soon our young people will begin
will deliver you a satisfactory and
keep, there is a diversity o f opin­ almost a national trait, sell their; eloping in aeroplanes.
f o r e s t G rove P r ess
Published & Edited by
T o Our Patrons
HILDA THE
HELPER
ion, the general one being that honor and moral rectitude.
the town should bear the expense.
Far better would it be if we
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