FOREST GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 30,
AWARDS GRANTED
IN POULTRY SHOW
I 3r i hen, 1st 2nd 3rd pullet, 1st pen,
''''alter Roswurm.
Light Brahmas
-nd pullet, W. H. Greer.
Pit Games
Event Was a Marked Success
From Every Standpoint.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
Competition Was Keen in Every Class and
Close Marking Was Necessary
2®d kl, Guy Stockman.
White Wyandottes
lit lind ckl, 1st 2nd pullet, 1st pen,
l Rogue; 3rd ckl, 3rd pullet, Wm.
2nd pen, Chas.Buhman; 3rd pen,
Mn. D. Seymour.
R. C. R. I. Reds
OREGON ELECTRIC
HAS CLOSE CALL
Attempt Made to Dynamite
Electric Train.
ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE
armies during the Boxer trouble.
Mr. Hauser was wounded in the
hip and side. He lived in Forest
Grove for 9 years and is survived
by his widow. Funeral services
were held Sunday under the aus­
pices o f J. B. Matthews Post,
G. A. R. o f Forest Grove and
was buried in Forest View Cem­
etery.
DR. PARKER.
1st Cock, 3rd Ckl., 1st, 2nd, 3rd hen,
1st pen, R. H. Greer, Hillsboro; 1st 2nd
ckl, 2nd 3rd pullet, 2nd pen, 3rd pen,
Joe Saunders; 1st pullet, H. 0. Hays &
Son.
,
White Leghorns
1st cock, 1st, 2nd ckl, 1st 2nd 3rd
pullet, 1st 2nd h»n. 1st pen, R. H.
Greer; 2nd cock, 3rd hen, 2nd pen, Ed
Ahlgreen; 3rd ckl, 3rd pen, K. E. Duns-
more.
W hite Orpingtons
An apparent attempt to dyna­
mite Oregon Electric train No.
32, leaving Forest Grove for Port­
land early Saturday morning, was
discovered when Section Foreman
Burnett o f the Oregon Electric,
found two-thirds o f a stick o f
dynamite lying beside the rail
just after the car had passed.
Officers regard it as miraculous
that the dynamite failed to ex­
plode and wreck the car which
contained 45 passengers.
The
explosive was so close to the rail
that the flange o f the car’s
wheel tore off the paper in which
the dynamite was wrapped.
Sheriff Hancock and W. P.
Lillis, special agent for the Ore­
gon Electric, made an investiga­
tion, following which James
Mills, aged 23; his brother, John
Mills, aged 20, and Miss Dorothy
Stuart were arrested Saturday
night and lodged in the jail in
Hillsboro. James Mills and Miss
Stuart are held on a statutory
weight bird, Walter Roswurm; best charge and John Mills is held as
solid-colored non-weight, R. H. Greer; a witness.
It is thought by the
best display o f poultry by a lady, Mrs. I authorities that the prisoners
W. H. Dolan; best display, American may be able to explain how the
class, Mrs. W. H. Dolan; best display, explosive came to be found on the
English class, G. M. Littlehales; best track.
display, Mediterranean class, R. H.
The Mills brothers and Miss
Greer; best display, Asiatic class, R. H. Stuart were arrested while living
Greer; best trio o f White Leghorns by in a tent opposite the place where
amateur; Eld Ahlgreen; best display o f the dynamite was found. The
Barred Plymouth Rocks, J. Murrow.
men nad been employed clearing
land. They say they cannot ex­
Australian Boys Here
plain how the dynamite came to
Forty-three Australian Boys, be lying on the track. Suspicions
who are touring this country, o f the officials were directed to
Mills, as the elder is said by an
spent Tuesday and Wednesday employe o f the road to have made
¡n Forest Grove and entertained threats Friday because some mer­
local people with their excellent chandise failed to arrive as ex­
band music. The boys are under pected over the road.
The Mills brothers and Miss
the leadership o f Prof. J. J.
Stuart are restaurant waiters by
Simons.
occupation and came here from
The boys played an exhibition Tacoma a month ago.
game o f Australian football at
The car which struck the dyna­
the close o f P. U. and U. P. S. mite was in charge o f Conductor
game Tuesday. Tuesday night Billsby, Motorman DeBoest and
Brakeman Matthews.
they were tendered a reception
The Mills brothers and Miss
and Wednesday evening they Stewart deny any knowledge of
gave a concert in Marsh Hall.
the attempt, but are still in cus­
They were a fine looking set of tody. Other clews are being fol­
boys, and their visit was enjoyed lowed.
by all.
Deaths
Potatoes Await Buyers
There is an opening in Forest
2nd 3rd cock, 1st 2nd 3rd ckl, 1st 2nd
hen, 1st 2nd 3rd pullet, 1st 2nd pen, Grove for some energetic man to
G. M. Littlehales; 1st cock 3rd hen, J.E. establish a produce store for the
Pogue.
buying, selling and storing o f
Buff Orpingtons
fruit and vegetables.
We have
2nd ckl, 1st 2nc. 3rd pullet, 1st pen, a ready market in Portland only
W. C. Tucker; 1st ckl, 1st hen, W. H. 26 miles away and yet Forest
French.
Grove prodccers cannot market
their products satisfactorily ow­
Barred Plymouth Rocks
1st cock, 1st 2nd pullet, 1st pen, J. ing to tne lack o f a regular deal­
Murrow: 2nd cock, 2nd ckl, Frank er. Their are buyers in all neigh-
Saunders; 3rd pullet. 2nd pen MaryRaf- boring towns, hut SO far no one
fe r ty ; 3rd
ck l,
N e ff
Bros.; 2nd hen,
W alter R osw u rm ; 3rd pen, A . T . B ux-
,t o n .
White Faced Black Spanish
2nd cock,
2nd 3rd
ckl, 2nd 3rd hen,
2nd 3rd pullet, 1st pen, E. J. Hufford.
Single Comb Black Minorca«
1st cock, 1st ckl, 1st hen, 3rd hen, 1st
pen, R. H . G reer; 2nd cock, Dan Pierce;
3rd
cock,
2nd
hen,
2nd pen,
M.
R.
M arkham; 2nd Old ckl, 2nd 3rd pullet,
F . M. R am sey.
Partridge Wyandottes
has looked kindly toward the lo­
cal field.
Several carloads o f potatoes
await buyers in this city. Local
merchants will not and cannot
handle all o f them. There may
not be much poetry or sentiment
about the humble tubers, but
there is nutriment in them and
money to be made in handling
them. Here is an opening. Who
will understand it? Some o f the
finest tubers produced in the
wpst are grown in this vicinity.
1st cock, 1st pullet, 2nd 3rd ckl, 2nd
ken, 1st 3rd pen, M rs. D. C. Clark, 1st
Forest Grove W eather
A Press reporter has heard a
Silver Laced Wyandottes
few Forest Grove people kicking
1st cock, 1st 2nd 3rd ckl, 1st 2nd 3rd
about the weather during the
Pullet, 1st pen, F rank 'Thatcher, 2nd
past two weeks and some o f
3rd hen, M rs. R. G . A llis >n; 2nd pen,
them think it is "horrible. ” A«
J- H. Shearer.
a matter o f fact Miss Mercury
liasn’ t even flirted with old man
Buff Wyandottes
Zero. There has been no wind,
2nd ckl, 2nd 3rd pullet, EL Goff.
no snow, no floods—just a few
Columbia Wyandottes
gentle rain showers. To those
cock, 1st 2nd ben. R . H . Greer. o f you who live in Forest Grove
and Oregon how does this strike
Silver Spangled Hamburg»
1st 2nd 3rd cock. 1st 2nd 3rd ckl, 1st you?
«kl, 1st hen,
2nd pen, S. E . Jackson.
.
ington County. •
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to an amount exceeding $1,500,-
000. The affairs o f the company
are being conducted in a matter
IND. COMPANY PURCHASER ¡ ¡ t t S - S t a S * * “ oc'“
Dr. Parker, an old time res­
Explosive Was Placed on Rail—Wlwd ident and business man of Green­ Change Means Much Belter Service
S. C. R. I. Reds
ville, died last night. Obituary
Flange Tore Paper From Stick.
Reduced Rates.
Ind cock, C. L. Shaw; 1st 2nd 3rd ckl,
will appear next week.
Is; 2nd 3rd pullet, 1st pen, Annabelle
Forest Grove Beats ’ Em All
Forest Grove beats ’em all!
The Baltimore Dairy Lunch in
Portland has been exhibiting a
turnip—said turnip being labeled
as the biggest in the world. Mon­
day’s Oregonian contained a pic­
ture and write-up o f another sup-
posed-to-be famous turnip grown
at Camas, Wash.,weighing 19J
pounds, with a circumference of
33J inches, in fact much has been
spoken and written about tur­
nips, but when it comes to grow­
ing turnips, "that are turnips, ”
Forest Grove takes the cake.
There being displayed in the
window o f Nicholson’ s grocery
store a turnip that weighs exact­
ly 32 pounds and measures 48J
inches in circumference.
This
turnip is o f the purple top variety,
well proportioned, not pithy, and
we’ ll bet dollars to doughnuts
that it is the biggest turnip ever
derricked out o f the ground. It
was grown bv Louie Strohmier
on the farm formerly owned by
Mr. Nicholson. Come on with
your turnip if you can beat this.
There is also a white winter
radish on display in the office of
the Verhoeven Realty Co. that
weighs 14i pounds. It is about
as fine a speciman o f the radish
family as the Oregon sun ever
kissed.
Turnips and radishes
are not the only big things grown
in the Forest Grove section.
reduction in board rates all
the state.
The Pacific Home Mutual Co.
was organized in 1908 and has
grown at a rapid rate. A t pres-
Deal Includes Entire W a s h - t h e »mpwy¡Beaming ™,k.
kt2ndckl, 1st 2nd 3rd pullet, 1st pen,
L. T. Sills.
The Third Annual Show of the anl Heletn Mickle, 2nd 3rd hen, sec. pen,
Washington County Poultry As- W**ne Shrock;
Fawn Indian Runner Duck«
sociation closed Saturday even­
1st drake, 1st 2nd duck, 0. S. Higby.
ing and was declared by all to be
the most successful event held White Indian Runner Ducks
1st drake, 1st 2nd duck, G. M. Little­
in the history o f the association. hales.
Secretary Littlehales reports
Pekin Ducks
that the attendance was excel­
1st old drake, sec. old duck, 1st young
lent throughout, and after pay­ duck, best trio, Wm. Schlumerich; sec.
ing all bills there is a comfort­ old drake, 3rd old duck, C. A. Graham;
able sum left in the hands o f the 3rd old drake, A. Buxton; 1st old duck,
treasurer to be used in the 1st young drake, R. G. Allison.
Bronze Turkeys
1912 show.
The annuul election of officers 1st gobbler, 1st hen, Wm. Schulmer-
ich; sec. gobbler, sec. hen, Mrs. Haage.
was held and resulted as follows:
White Plymouth Rocks
President, R. H. Greer, of Hills­
: 1st cock, 1st sec. ckl, 1st sec. hen, 1st
boro; Vice-President, J.
E.
sec. 3rd pullet, 1st pen, Mrs. U. B. Dol­
Pogue, of Forest Grove; Secre­ an
tary, G. M. Littlehales, o f Forest
Buff Cochin Bantams
Grove; Treasurer, Walter Ros­ 2nd ckl, 1st pen, Harold Watrops.
wurm, of Forest Grove. Execu­
Specials for Highest Scoring
tive committee, J. Morrow, J. F. Best parti-colored weight bird, S. E.
Saunders and W. B. Dolan, of Jackson; best solid colored weight bird,
J. E. Pogue; best parti-colored non-
Hillsboro.
The next annual show will be
held at Hillsboro and the officers
are going to do their utmost to
make it a greater success than
the one just closed in this city.
The local show has done much to
encourage the officials and poul­
try raisers, and there is every
indication that the 1912 exhibi­
tion will be well worth attend­
ing.
One of the features of the
show just closed was tne
the keen
competition, and Mr. Dixon, who
made the awards, was compelled
to give the marking the closest
attention to determine the win­
ners.
Awards were made as
follows:
Brown Leghorns
TELEPHONE DEAL
IS CONSUMMATED
Double Weddm.
Rev. Father Buck solemnized
a double marriage ceremony ac
The Independent Tplenhnnp St. Anthony’s Chapel Tuesday
Co., o f which S. G. Hughes ia morning, that united Mr. Victor
manager, has purchased the in­ DeCuman and Miss Nellie Smith
terests o f the Bell system in this and Mr. Frank Smith and Miss
city, the deal having been closed Margaret Saunders in the holy
Special
yesterday and confirmed by Mr. bonds o f matrimony.
decorations
had
been
made
for
Hughes.
the
occasion
and
the
ceremony
Hereafter all ’ phones will be
The grooms-
operated by the Independent \ was impressive.
were
Will
Vandehey
and
through one switch hoard, giv- j ™en
ing a more efficient service and a Lhas. DeCuman, the brides­
maids being Miss Clara Vande­
much larger exchange.
The peisonnel o f the manage­ hey and Miss Claresa Saunders.
The party entered the chapel
ment o f the merged interests
will be composed o f those who to the strains o f Mendelssohn’s
have been connected with the wedding march, and stood be­
neath a large evergreen arch,
Independent Co.
The deal is hailed with gener­ from which was suspended a
al satisfaction by all, as hereto­ large wedding bell, Father Buck
fore it has been difficult to secure was assisted by Father Conway,
first class service with both com- ° f ^°y» *n administering the see­
pages in the field. The pur- rament o f matrimony, which was
chasing company promises im- i followed by the singing o f the
provements that guarantee a Nuptial Mass,
modern service.
At 12 o clock the party was
The Independent Co.,o f Hillsboro dined at the residence o f John
has also purchased the Bell line Smith and was attended by
in that city.
Of the deal the
Mr- and Mrs. Smith will
Cornelius Tribune says:
reside at Lebanon, while Mr. and
A deal was closed in Hillsboro ^ rs> DeCuman will make forest
the last of the week whereby the Drove their home. All have the
Washington County Independent; best wishes o f a host o f friends.
Tdephone Company has purchas- j Forest Grove Enjoys Holiday
ed the Bell Telephone system ■
“
in
Forest Grove people are observe
that city, the Pacific States re­
ing Thanksgiving and making it
tiring from the field. The Inde­
a real holiday.
All places o f
pendent companies will operate
business have been closed, allow-
both the Pacific States and their
own instruments over one switch ! infï P1« " ^ o f tin\e £ en-»°y the
[X)a(.(j
j annual feast, and Forest Grove
j
School Notes
No school Friday this week.
All the grades prepared Thanks­
giving programs this year.
Two new furnaces have been
placed in the Lincoln building to
take the place o f the large one
which was unsatisfactory.
The school fire department was
called out twice this week at the
Central Building the occasion be­
ing a fire under the stove in room
AUSTIN E. JAMES
10. once the fire got quite a start
Austin E. James,aged 29 years, before being extinguished.
died Friday at his home in For­
The basket ball team expects
est Grove after a lingering ill­
ness. The young man was born to have a fine try out and practice
in Nebraska and came to Oregon game with Beaverton Friday
two years ago and located at night
Forest Grove, thinking the change
The chemical apparatus has ar­
might improve his health. He rived has been placed in the cabi­
improved greatly and returned net and shelves ready for use.
east where he again became ill.
The class in book keeping
He again came west, but failed
"th e largest class in High School”
to find relief. He is survived by
his parents and two sisters living is doing very nicely with their
in Forest Grove; Funeral ser­ work. They expect to finish by
vices were held Saturday at the the middle o f the year
Judge Hollis visited us Tues­
home o f his sister, Mrs. Harvey
Baldwin, with burial in Forest day morning and gave us a splen­
did talk in assembly. He is a
View Cemetery.
great friend o f schools and shows
JOHN HAUSER
it by word and act. Finding that
John Hauser, a veteran o f the
new tools are needed in the Man
Spanish-American and Chinese
ual Training room, the Judge
Boxer wars, died suddenly at his
freely offered $5.00 toward the
home in Forest Grove, Thursday j
purchase o f the same. "G o thou
evening o f heart disease. Mr.
and do likewise” .
Hauser was born in Berlin, Ger- j
many, 57 years ago and came to; Jas. H. Jack made us a very
America with hia parents when pleasant call this week and
he was 8 years old. He lived in talked to the high school pupils
Ohio, and later came to Washing­ at assembly. Mr. Jack will find
ton where he served at Vancouver a warm welcome any time he
Barracks for 20 years. He served may return.
in the army during the war with
Spain and did service in the
Wm. Herman, o f Cornelius,
Philippines. At the storming of called at the Press office yester­
the Chinese wall by the allied day.
The sale will mean that the In- ? eo.Ple
felt morf u lik«
dependent Company will switch J°y,nff Thanksgiving than today,
for about 800 city and rural tele- Excellent
health,
prosperous
phones, all under the one man- j times for all and a spirit o f con
agement: with reduced rates to tent combined to make the event
subscribers so that the single ser- one o f real thanksggiving.
vice will be much less than the
Tonight Union Thanksgiving
double and with no party line em- j
= _ will ^ u - ij in thp M„ th
bracing more than four tele- 8e, vlce8 W1‘ ‘ “
.ln the Meth,
phones.
odist church. The discourse win
be delivered by Rev. Thomas.
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There will be special music. The
Pacific Mutual Elects Officers 8erviceg wiU ^ jmpre8i,ive '
The Annual Meeting of the participated in by all denr
Pacific Home Mutual Fire Insur­ sions.
ance Co., o f Forest Grove, was
Fern H‘
held in the offices o f the company
Saturday. There was a good at­
Most farmers i
tendance o f members and officials. potatoes.
Among
important changes
A little baby g.
made was the election o f Marion
Markham to the office of secre­ day at the home c
tary, to succeed F. A. Watrous. W. Schendel.
who was appointed inspector o f
W. Kenis, o f Po.
risks. The business of the com- j Sunday with home fi
pany is growing rapidly hence
Mp and MnJ w m
the need o f an inspector o f risks.
Qn theip relative8 SunQay.
The promotion o f Mr. Watrous
was deserved by him, he having
Miss Coral McGinn, a student
been an efficient member and of- at
I“ore8f Grove High School,
ficial o f the company since its or- 8P«nt a f ew days at home,
ganization. Mr. Markham’ s pro-
We are all pleased to hear that
motion comes as a reward of his Miss Kate Francks has improved
excellent services as assistant greatly and is able to be at home.
secretary for the past two years.
(Too late for last week)
The officials o f the company
for the coming year are: Pres..
W . C T. U.
M. S. Allen; vice-pres., Hon.
The W. C. T. U. will meet Fri-
Chas. Hines; sec., Marion Mark-
ham; directors, M. S. Allen, J.A. day afternoon Dec. 1, at 3 o ’ clock
Watrous, F A Watrous J N at the residence o f Mrs. G. A.
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rick on North St. All
Hoffman, Hon. Chas Hinea.
women
are cordially invited to
Among the important orders
attend.
The following progam
made by the company was that
will
be
given.
on and after Dec. 1 full board
rate premium will be collected on Devotional Service
all policies, making the collection
Mrs. E. T. Scroggs
and returning o f premium the Song—Edith and Lela Moore
same as enforced by the Bankers Paper, ’ Temperance in Christ-
& Merchants Mutual Co. This
mas Giving’ , - Mrs. McKenzie
change was made by reason of Discussion
the fact that there has been a Business