Country Merchants Stand Pat
Cornelius News.
The evil wrought by mail order
Who has opened a contest for his
Mrs. Lewis made the Rose City
salesman! Giving five vaidableI houses in country towns is ex-
premiums to the first five men tended, perpetuated and encour- a visit last week.
sending in the largest amount o f aged by the indifference of the
Fred Walton was a passenger
business in cash between now merchants.
In the opinion of
to Portland Saturday.
and February 1.
the writer there is only one meth­
Service—7:45 to 9;00
As I intend to strive for the
Jacob Buchele was a business
od
to
pursue
in
battling
catalogue
first prize, I hereby ask the aic
Three Shows Every Saturday—7:30, 8:40, 9:50
visitor to Gaston Saturday.
of any customer by offering re peddlers.
Matinee—2:30 p. m. Saturday
wards as follows:—To the one
Several years ago the mer­
Mrs. E. L. Barnett was a pass­
paying me the largest amount o f chants o f a small Middle W'estern
enger to Portland Saturday.
Daily change with best films procurable
cash for goods or on collection
town were confronted, or rather
will give a 7 jewel Elgin watch
J. F. Killgore and wife were
Clean and Up-to-Date !
affronted, by the appearance o f a
20 year gold case, value $25.
passengers to Portland Saturday.
large
box
car
on
their
railroad
2nd prize: Set of Roger Bros
Mr. and Mrs. George Wilcox
silver knives and forks, value $5, siding filled with articles to be
II
3rd prize: Silver cake basket distributed among the farmers were passengers to Portland Sun­
value $2.50.
P A C IF IC
IN S U R A N C E
day.
In addition to these will give a and residents o f the country. A
hurried
meeting
o
f
the
business
J. M. Brown, of Forest Grove,
beautiful salad bowl to everyone
COM PANY
HOME
men’s^ssociation was called and was in town on business Satur­
who buys $5 cash in goods.
M U T U A L F IR S
Respectfully,
the writer was employed to se­ day.
C. S. A ydelott ,
cure the names o f those who re­
Ernest Reynolds made a visit
Forest Grove, Box 197.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE. FOREST GROVE, OREGON
P. S. I will also give a year’ s ceived goods from the mail order to the Rose City the first of the
subscription to the Pacific Home­ specialists. Upon receipt of these week.
stead for every $10 worth cash names, the association mailed a
Mrs. R. W. McNutt made the
till the 20th o f Dec.
Will Save You More Than 25 Per Cent
letter to each person informing
That you may know this is a them that in the future no mem­ county seat a visit one day last
square deal, will say, none o f my
ber o f the association could or week.
relations have any chance in first
would issue credit to those who
Helen Olson was a business
three prizes.
C. S. A.
received goods from box car mer­ visitor to the Rose City last Sat­
chants or mail order houses.
urday.
A stand o f this kind in any
Mrs. E. G. Webb, o f Forest
community will have a strong
Grove, visited relatives here over-
effect. No resident will oppose
Sunday.
-of t h e -
the edict as unreasonable. He
W. F. HARTKAMPF
Mrs. L. S. Fairchilds was a
cannot expect to send his cash
Wholesale and Retail
passenger
to
Hillsboro
the
lastrf
away and still claim the indul­
gence o f his home merchants. the week.
FOR SALE—A Columbia Graph- Even though his credit and pay­
C. B. Buchanan made a bus­ V etch Seeds, all kinds o f grass seed. Grey
Seed Oats, Rink W in ter W h eat
ophone with a dozen records ing habits be o f the best, he is iness trip to Portland one day
Hay and Feed
CHEAP for cash or instalments. still a retarding factor in local last week.
Graphophone has been used a progress and should be forced to
short time. Call at the Forest
Chas. Schilling and w ife /is-
see the question from the stand­
Grove Pharmacy.
HEADQUARTERS
ited relatives in Portland two
point o f the merchant.—Ex.
days last week.
for
FOR SALE—Choice
yearling
Cotswold rams—Choice year­
Milburn
Wagons,
Milwaukee
Refused Credit Now
Mr. Mahon, bank cashier of
ling Angora bucks, all from
Mowers and Binders and
A merchant in western Kansas Hillsboro, was the guest o f O. J.
imported sires. E dward L.
Plymouth Binder
playing the part of the villian Briggs Sunday.
N aylor , Phone Ind. 185, For­
Twine
the show. During the good
est Grove, Oregon.
tf
Asst. Supt. o f Schools, Jack,
times when everybody had mon-
FOR SALE Light set double
of Hillsboro, made the school an
he quietly went to work to
work harness in good repair for
official visit Friday.
Forest Grove, Ore
lnd Phone 50x
collect a list o f the patrons of
sale cheap.
Mrs. Antone Homens and her
tf
J. B. M atthews .
mail order houses. He used sev­
eral methods to secure them and daughter were passengers to
If you are thinking o f build­
The BEST all-round Family
succeeded in getting a pretty Portland Saturday.
ing a house or barn the Press
Pope Photo Gallery Sewing Machine that can be pro­
is in a position to figure on
complete list, which he filed away
John Boyd and wife drove to
duced. Made in both ROTARY
Mrs. Winifred Gunton
your materials and we be­
for future reference. Now all Salem the last o f the week, re­
2nd
Street
and VIBRATOR styles.
lieve we can save you from
the crops are burned up there, turning Wednesday.
The rotary makes both LOCK
10 to 25%. See us—and save
Hillsboro,
-
-
Oregon
money is scarce and the people
the money.
and
CHAIN stitch. The latest
Miss Vida Challacombe and
need credit. When a man steps
up
to
the minute steel attach­
into the store o f the merchant Mrs. Chas. Neep were passengers Bring in your Kodak work to­ ments with each machine. Sold
For Sale Real Estate
to Portland Sunday.
day, you can get it tomorrow
and asks for credit he hunts up
on easy payments. Send name
160 acres good timber.
Will lis list, and if the man’s name is
Mrs. H. M. Webb and daught­
and address for our beautiful
trade for business property.
there he tells him to go and ask er Vena were passengers to Port­
H. T. catologue free.
Press office
The
Weekly
Oregonian
for credit where he spent cash. land Sunday morning.
— and —
The revenge is tough, but really
White Sewing Machine Co.
Chas. Dickerson, o f Seattle, is
WANTED TO B U Y - N i c e
can
you
blame
him
much?—Ex.
Forest Grove Press
visiting with his mother, Mrs. S.
young team o f black or gray
1640 Market S t
horses suitable to drive to hearse;
P? Dickerson, o f this place.
Hillsboro Gets Natatorium.
weight IKK) lbs. to 1150; write
One
Year,
$
1
.5
0
San Francisco,
California
H. W. Wright, who resides be­
with description and price.
Subscriptions are being taken
t2 W. E. Regg, Beaverton, Ore. for stock in a corporation formed yond Blooming, was seen upon
ESTABLISHED 1885
BOARD and ROOM $5 per wk. for the purpose of building a na- our streets the first o f the week. J .C . Kuralti
g e n e r a l A u c t io n e e r s
Colonial Hotel, new management. trtorium and gymnasium corn-
Adam Beil, the Centerville E.I. Kuralti
n o t a r ia l w o r k j
fined at Hillsboro. On the first blacksmith, was in town on bus­
ALL KINDS OF
door is to be the swimming pool, iness the last o f the week.
dressing rooms, balcony for spec­
E. A. Moore, an attorney from
tators, with gymnasium in the the state o f Texas, was in town REAL ESTATE,COLLECTIONS Monumental W o rk
rear, while the second floor is to Saturday looking over the coun­
Estimates given on First-
MONEY TO LOAN
be a large assembly room and ty with a view o f locating.
Class Work and Stock Only
German spoken in the office
cabinets for permanent exhibits
264-66 Fourth St. Opposite City Hall
PHONES
Wm.
lrmler
and
Henry
Schen-
o f the county’s produce.
The
Bell. Main 346
Ind.
City
344
PORTLAND, OREGON
total cost is estimated at about erman took in the foot-bail game
A 1115
between the U. of O. and the U. HILLSBORO.
OREGON Main 8564
$17,000.
o f W. in Portland Saturday.
Tillamook Train Delayed.
Oregon Electric Time Card
W. T. Patton, o f Portland, for­
The train en route from Hills­ merly o f this place, was in town
LEAVES
ARRIVES
boro to Tillamook over the new­ the first o f the week looking
Portland
at
Portland
line o f the P. R. & N. Co. was
after his property interests here.
6:55 a m
7:35 a m
W e A re Dropping stalled in the mountains last
8:30 a m
9:45 a m
J. N. Lowden and J. Julian re­
10:50 a m
11:50 a m
v
w i _ i i i i -
..
Wednesday night as the result
1:15
p
m
2:25
p m
You a Word of Advice About 0f a slide, and did not reach Tilla- turned Monday evening from a W e have on sale Olympia
3:30 p m
4:40 p m
6:00 p m
7:25 p m
Colds and Grip.
mook until Thursday night. Pass­ fishing trip on theNehalem. They and Eastern Oysters : : ;
8:30 p m
9:20 p m
engers on the belated train spent brought home a wagon load of
11:25 p m
11KK) p m
fine salmon.
the night in the mountains.
At the first indication o f
Try us once and if we
ARRIVES
The
company
has
had
consider-
W. J. Lytle brought a sample
LEAVES
having a cold or grip get a
please you tell others;
Forest Grove
Forest Grove
able trouble with slides but are o f strawberries to this office the
a box of Our “Godd Health
if not tell us.
8:06 a m
6:20 a m
putting forth every effort to keep last o f the week which were
Cold Tablets,” a few doses
9:40 a m
8:30 a m
the track clear.
o f which will relieve you.
picked from his vines. This is
12:02 p m
10:35 a m
Located on Pacific Avenue
2:27 p m
1:10 p m
Dairying Business Helped By not such a bad country if .we
Just try for your«elf and see
4:42 p m
3:25 p m
have
had
some
snow
already
this
7:15
p
m
6:10 p m
Cow Testing Association.
if they don’t do all that we
9:38 p m
8:05 p m
claim.
Our tablets cure
Cows to the number of 643 month.
12:30 a m
9:53 p m
L
J.
R
e
e
c
h
e
r
others and they’ll cure you.
have been tested for butter pro­
Mr. O. J. Briggs, o f this place,
Train« leave North Bank Station in Portland
duction since March by the mem- has entered the poultry business
Pacific Avenue,
IS minutes earlier than schedule
j-
r-j.
bers o f the Washington County and will raise full blood Plymouth
All Trains Daily
r Orest Lsrove i hannacy Cow Testing Association. The Rocks. Anyone desirious o f eggs
Buys and Sells Second
annual
meeting
o
f
the
associa­
TH« U M O O » t l D K U a silT I
Hand Goods
.* .*
tion, held in Hillsboro Saturday, for spring hatching wili please
The one way to help a worth­
t’HONRS
Bell 231
In *°* showed dairying conditions as send in orders early—first re­
less man along is to administer
P R K E D E L IV E R Y
rapidly changing for the better. ceived first served.
Dealer in Flour and Feed a swift kick in the proper place.
Hurrah for Dr. Koch!
Scenic Theater
Motion Photo Exhibitions
Advertise in and get your Job
Printing o f ^orest Grove Press.
CLASSIFIED ADS.
Forest Grove Press
THE
WHITE IS KING
J
Portland Marble Works
K u r a l t i Bros.
Forest Grove Restaurant
and Oyster House