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About Forest Grove press. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1909-1914 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1910)
F o r est G rove P r ess Published & Edited by G. E. in the S E City C of O U R F orest G rove , O regon , THURSDAY of EACH WEEK. I n d epen d e n t P h on es O f f i c e 505 R esidence consider the planting and proper care of shade trees as of vital moment, Forest Grove will have no occasion to be thought behind the tim< s if it should do likewise. Washington County Should Join the Movement 231 Entered a t the post office at Fo e it Grove, Otfn such language have confused ideas and lack an appreciation of what is true and beautiful. There is nothing more servicable in making good clean men and wo men out of the children, than a household habit of clear and con cise expression. It promotes not only thin king, but thoughtfulness, and thoughtfulness is one of the greatest virtues of a home. But make exact and proper speech one of the institutions of the home and it will remove from the heart many anxieties for the future of the child. A girl with perfect feet is not always a poem. ------------------- New England holdups are ju3t as bad as those born in the west. PROFESSIONAL DI R E C T O R Y — A man on trial for his life nat W. M. Langley & Son urally hangs on the words of t' e Lawyers - judge. Forest Grove, Ogn. A fat man never seems to re alize how much room he takes up J. N. Hoffman in a street car. Attorney-at-Laru Collections and all business entrusted to m prom pt attention. Attorney for FrJ!» Hugging up those new tube *iven Grove Collection Agency. oreit women must be something like Office- Hoffman Bldg. Pacific Ave Ind. Phone 502 Forest Grove embracing a stove pipe. Washington county will do well to join tne other western counties T e r m s o f S u b s c r ip t io n of the state that are to meet the CASH IN ADVANCE One Year $1.00 - Six Months .75 expenses of an exhaustive road test that is to be made Display advertisements for publica building by Professor H. M. Parks, of the tion in the PRESS must be in this office not later than Tuesday evening to in Agricultural College. sure appearance in current issue. We do not believe the roads of Little Value in Rumors this county, taking them the en tire country over, are in any To Our Patrons worse condition than those of the There is but little news value Two men in a New York town H. W. Vollmer, M. D. majority of the counties of Oreg in rumors, and especially true is made their escape from jail by Physician and Surgeon The PRESS is published with on. this in the case of railroad build means of a safety razor. But it Portland automobilists es Office in Abbott Bldg. the constant aim of best serving pecially have made a great to do ing stories. Within the past two was a close shave. Both Phones Forest Grove, Ogi, our advertisers and subscribers. about bad condition of our years there has been great activ We believe they are interested in roads as the against fine shape in ity among the Hill and Harriman Two or three knockers in a O. W. Humphrey the publication, and we shall be adjacent counties the keep theirs, but railroad interests in Oregon, in community can do more harm in pleased to receive any suggestion the criticism is hardly just, for building both steam and electric a shorter time than a hundred jltlorney-at-Law looking towards its improvement. the reason that in the cases lines, and Washington county has where Office -K. P. Bldg. Phone 644 boosters can undo in double the If you know any news items of good roads are found they are received a full share of such ac Forest Grove, Oregon time. interest, such as visitors to or those that are main tivity. It may occasion our citi from the city, weddings, social generally lines of travel, and for that rea zens no surprise to hear rumors The man who took time to fig Dr. O. H. Scheetz gatherings, births, deaths, new son more time and are spent of little feeder lines being in pm ure out that the people of this j improvements, fires, accidents, upon them than on labor Chiropractic Spinologist those isolat ject in all sections of the country country spend nearly a million Specialist etc., either in town or country, ed districts. Most of the in Wash diseases, lung trouble, and in fact such stories are afloat dollars a year for shoe laces must rheum atism in , in nervous fact all diseases. phone them in. make a note of ington county roads that have constantly, but it is better to be what the papers call a string Office next to LaCourse’s store the occurances and hand in at the come under the censure of auto wait until active work has com fiend. office, or tell Mr. Ed. S. Sparks, mobile riders in the past few menced before placing too much W. H. Holli» who is reporter for the PRESS, weeks are those but little travel credence in them. When » about it. Your kindness will be ed. However, neither the roads lectric line from Portland to the this e Old age and youth are both I A ttorney-at-Law appreciated. When you have in this nor other counties of the city was first projected, the peo working to the same end, trying 1 read your paper, kindly hand it to state, to cover up their age; the one at as a general rule, are in a ple of Washington county expect tempting Forest Grove, Ogn. some one not a subscriber. If he condition to hide his lack of years ed that immediate construction to be a source of pride reads a copy we will land him. to the citizens of the state, and would begin, and the road push and the other attempting to cover j W. Q. Tucker, M. D. Loyally yours, up his supply of years. ed to completion. The papers of any move for the betterment of Physician and Surgeon THE PUBLISHER, our highways that has a scientific the county kept up this idea by Diseases of Women A Specialty Ind. phones: Office 505. publishing long articles in regard basis back of it should receive the Dr. Brown’s Old Office Residence 285 or 231. Main Street, Forest Grove, Ore. hearty co-operation of the voters. to the activity of this or that pro moter, who had plenty of money The campaign by the subscribers Spare the Shade Trees of the good roads fund to secure back of him to carry on the work, Victor H. Limber who was going to see that It is to be regretted that many the adoption of the constitutional and Funeral Director and Embalmer the road was built without loss of property owners in Forest Grove, amendment at the next election time. Modern Equipments Years passed, and through when making improvements allowing counties to issue road Chapel, Forest Grove long deferred, the people fin IX.—Becomes a Partner about their holdings, and especia building bonds should receive the hope would not believe the electric lly when building new sidewalks, hearty support and help of every ally railroad would be built to this city For Life property owner in the state. Dr. C. E. Bockmann should deem it necessary to cut even after the line was under ac There is no one thing that will down the beautiful shade trees Chiropractor the Helper wedded Brown, advance the prosperity and well tual construction and had reach Hilda which line our streets. her faithful young Philander, the Consultation Since the founding of the town being of a county or state more ed the boundary of the county. richest merchant in the town, Office next door to Forest Free Grove Pré« in pioneer days, it has been than good highways. It is esti We will wait until surveys have who thus propwd with candor: known to fame for its beautiful mated that the loss in wear and begun or rights of way are under negotiation at least, before making maples, and the late President tear on teams, harness and vehi any W. I. R. Beach wild predictions. cles, through bad roads in the Hayes, who visited the city when Fire and Life Insurance it was yet a village, gazing on United States, amounts to over Written the trees in all their leafy verdure a billion dollars annually. Were Knocking Down of Bogy-Men called it “the prettiest town in this sum spent in scientifically If you don’t insure with me Oregon.” Instead of cutting improving the condition of our The metroplitan papers are WE BOTH LOSE down the trees we now have, roads, they would be in such shape fond of publishing stories having North First Street, near Main more should lie planted, until in a very few years that a less for their theme threatened disas sum than the loss now occasioned ter to the smaller towns, and es every street in town is a lane Forest Grove, Ore. running between them. In the would keep them in perfect re pecially the closing down of bus west where we have an abund pair, adding immeasurably to the iness enterprises. Such so called CARL HOFFMAN ance of timber, a tree is looked comfort and happiness of the news make a bit of sensationalism people of the country, and to and helps to fill space. A story upon with more or less contempt, Sanitary Plumbing such a helper, Hilda dear— and its destruction is a matter of that of the faithful animals that of this kind concerning the clos "You're and Heating you’re such a business heartener ing down of one of the Washing —it no particular moment either to draw their burdens. seems to me 'tis very clear Satisfaction guaranteed. Cb ton county milk condensers, you ought the owner or the citizen at large, reasonable. Basement Hoffman I to be my partner." ing. Phone 502. should the company extend their but the time is coming when the Good Language field of operation into Tillamook So read the moral, maidens all: forests of the west will be deplet ed as they now are in the east, A very valuable habit for a | county, appeared recently in a DON'T STOOP TO KNOCK AND u o 3 o j q - - . s jju s a SLANDER, BUT BOOST YOUR unless they are conserved, and family to acquire is that of using Portland paper, but the P r e s s TOWN. ROLL THE BALL: when our cities loose their back pure and precise language. As considered it better to make no THERE'S HELP MORE THAN ONE grounds of lofty pines, a tree in a matter of art, such an acquisit mention of the item, as we believ- PHILANDER. "$U3tU town will receive the consider ion is desirable. There are beauty ed it was nothing but a bogy-man - d in b g u ja p o p ^ •8I1«0 ation it deserves. An idea pre and grace in the very form of conceived by the fertile brain of (ThA End.) o i UOA10 u o i j u a u y iduiM j vails among small towns just put language correctly and concisely !a newspaper reporter to throw a ting off their swaddling clothes spoken. There is a charm in the! scare into the patrons of the corn- ........j3 u i|B q u i3 p u s and making metroplitan preten speaker who is careful of his I pany. Should a business enter- Oregon Electric Time Card J o p a j i Q |B ja u n j tions, that a shade tree is a mark manner of his speech. But far Prise be reported as on the eve of LEAVES ARRIVES at Portland of village ways, and has no place more important than the beauty failure, or as about to close down Fore«t Grove 6:50 a m NHOf 8:00 a m H D IT H H a N f lM in a growing city. Wisdom will of correct speech is the intellect- t°r any reason, it is better for the 8:40 a m 9:50 a m come with the years, and cities ual vigor which it simulates and community more nearly affected 10:30 a m 11:40 a m 12:20 p m 1:30 p m that now destroy with ruthless promotes. The use of good lan- to keep cool in the matter and 1:40 p m 2:50 p m hand the trees that adorn their guage encourages the habit of hope for the best. Should a bus- 4:10 p m 5:20 p m 7:00 p m 8:10 p m streets, will come to know that clear thinking. Speaking well ine.-s house eon tern plate closing its T h e Press Prints 9:45 p m 10; 50 p m they ate one of a municipality’s and thinking well naturally go to- affairs, denials bv the papers will Letter Heads. Envelopes, i; ost \ i h able assets. The centur gether. The intellectual process help not at ail, but will only tend LEAVES ARRIVES Business Cards, Calling ies old cities of Europe are far largely controls the manner of to make the people uneasy. P ortland Forest Greve i. ore advanced in this respect expression. This does not com When the event actually occurs 7:05 a m Cards, Statements, Bill 8:15 a m 8:30 a m 9:40 a m than the cities in the United mend the use of stilted and pomp will be time enough to mention 10:20 Heads, Circulars, «d a m 11:30 a m State:, and Paris, France, is es ous language, for that can be, the occurence as an item of actual 12:10 p m 1:20 p m Anything else that can be pr0, 2:10 p m 3:20 p m pecially noted foi its many and and sometimes is used, to conceal news. Otherwise, time spent in 3:30 p m 4:40 p m duced with ink and paper. I* oeautiful shade trees. If a city the lack of thought. Our object knocking down bogy-men is time 5:30 p m rr. 6:40 p m 8:25 p m us have your next order. * 9:36 p m that has set the fashions in cloth- is to discourage mussy, incoher- wasted. will deliver you a satisfactory*^ I g and innumerable other things ent, scrappy and slangy speech, — Saturday Only pirce a >in e long before any read- becai se it tends to ruin the mind A man that would blow out Sunday Lva Portland 11:80 p m — Ar. F.G. 11:85 a m ea'y er ot the P ress was bom, should .. . murals, too. People who use his brains hasn’t any. An Artistic Job L n F..G. 8:30 p m —Ar. at Porth*«vi 4*40 o m as mail m atter of the second cla s. HILDA THE HELPER V