News
Times
F orest
G rove
Voi. 3
PROGRESS IN
OUR SCHOOLS
Library is Enlarged, Musical
Instruments and Pictures
are Added.
P ress
FOREST G R O V E , O REG O N , T H U R S D A Y , June 13, 1912.
certificate to teach school.
These young people have had
good training and will make
good in school woik.
They have a vision o f the
work such as only few beginners
have and will really try to teach
and not simply get through the
1.
work of the text.
Our scientific department is
entirely new and a very good 2.
laboratory has been purchased
and placed in cabinets for
physics, phyiography, and chem
3.
istry. This apparatus is all new
and o f good quality and the ex
periments are complete in every
way.
4.
In addition to all this a new
building has been built and fur­
5.
nished, 5 rooms o f the old build­
ing have been reseated, a large
plav shed has been built for the 6.
children in stormy weather, a
modern, up-to-date toilet build­
ing has been added, all the 7.
rooms have been tinted and
painted, besides all the incident­ 8.
al expenses have been kept up.
Several thousand dollars worth
o f warrants have been issued
9.
but are nearly all paid. The
last bond on the Central build­
ing is to be paid this year and
10.
all material is now paid for.
With this financial condition
before us and the school having 11.
the standing it now enjoys, we
predict a lowering o f taxes and
a progressive movement in school
work which will hold Forest
Grove as one o f the leading pub­
lic school towns o f the state, this
together with the college privi­
leges will make this the best
educational town in Oregon.
Four years ago, when Prof.
Gardner came to our schools at
Forest Grove, we had a school
enrollment o f about 360, with
ten rooms and ten grades. We
now have an enrollment of near­
ly 600 and an accredited high
school from which two classes
have graduated.
Last year we had twenty
teachers, of which seventeen
were regular and three were
special.
Four years ago the school was
all in one building, and now we
have a new building which was
completely filled this year.
In the way o f improvements in
apparatus, etc., the work has
been
phenomenal.
From a
school o f no material, it has be­
come one o f a fair equipment.
Three clocks have been added
to the buildings.
Maps, of
which there were none, have
been added until both buildings
are supplied and a set o f relief
maps is in continual use.
Not a single musical instru­
ment was in the building then,
while now there are two pianos
and organs in many of the
One Side of the Question.
rooms. These instruments have
Josephine Daskam Bacon, not­
been supplied almost entirely
ed novelist and short story writ­
without help from the district.
By the efforts o f the teachers er, writing to the New York
and pupils there have been ad­ Times, recently said:
“ To a person o f any mental
ded $200 worth o f choice pictures
so that every room has from one capacity whatever, it ought to
to three masterpiece reproduc­ be sufficiently clear by this time
tions of which the frames were that there are two distinct points
made by the manual training at issue, in the question o f
woman suffrage.
1—Whether
boys.
As there was no place for as­ woman has or has not been un­
sembly a partition was removed fairly handicapped by man in
and folding doors w'ere installed the big evolution sweep stakes,
in the place so that two rooms and what might have happened
were thrown
together, and if she hadn’ t been, and 2—
thanks to the Junior class of whether or not the present sys-
1912, a portable stage has been tew of Government in this coun­
built which can be placed or re­ try is going to be improved by
moved in ten minutes and which the addition o f Mary’ s confusion
furnishes an excellent place for to John’s.
Personally, no suffragist whom
evening meetings, programs etc.
I
have ever been able to hear
The library has grown from
long
enough to keep my mind on
320 volumes to a splendid, up to
the
mixture
o f crudity, misin­
date working library o f over
formation
and
hysteria present­
1,000 volumes.
ed
for
my
attention,
has been
Two cyclopedias have been
able
to
distinguish
between
these
added.
The American at the
two
points.
The
woman
move­
Central and the International at
ment (which is immensely in­
the Lincoln buildings.
There was not a good diction­ teresting and has much o f my
ary in the school, now all the sympathy) is hopelessly confus­
rooms that can use a large dic­ ed with the suffrage movement)
tionary have the best and small­ which is a local by issue and great­
er ones are in the lower rooms. ly ovestimated by the majority
Two splendid sets of books have of its supporters.)
I would like to ask the suffrag­
been donated by the two grad­
ists:
if you could be assured that,
ating classes.
i
nthe
carefully weighed opinion
The Domestic Science depart­
o
f
a
world
congress o f histori­
ment has been added and had
ans,
politicians,
biologists, psy­
the record this year o f being
one o f the best organized de­ chologists and political econom­
partments in this part of Oregon. ists, the best good o f your na­
Those who know, from Corval­ tive country would be secured
lis and from the normal at Mon­ without your vote, would you
mouth have pronounced the work prefer that condition to running
here, one o f the best in the the chances o f improving things
and have your vote ? In other
state.
Drawing and music were ad­ words, do you want the end
ded this year and the progress (which you so amusingly claim
your vote will produce) or do
was wonderful as shown by the
you want the means (which you
work done.
so
amazingly claim you ought to
Miss Weist is surely a jewel
have?)
and can make good in the draw­
If the suffragists forget them­
ing department o f any school.
selves
so far as to tell me that
Another innovation this year,
they are honestly seeking their
was the teachers' training class
in which 8 pupils took the work country’ s best good, then candor
and graduated receiving a sU ie, compels me to state that, as a
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENIG PROGRAN OF
P. U. CONSERYATORY OF MUSIC
nard and Mrs. H. Underhill,
(signed) Mrs. Katherine Kerr.
Present Superintendent.
It is now estimated that 800,-
000 women will vote for the
next president and candidates 1
3Friòay
and campaign managers are tak-'
ing notice.
Sonata, Op. 12 No. 1 (Rondo) lor violin and piano Beethoven
Four women from the enfran­
Misses Margaret Lowell and Esther Spillrnan
chised states will sit as dele- j
“Lorelei"
.
.
.
.
Hans Seeling gates in the national Republican
Miss Helen Wilcox
convention.
Vocal:
At the May election in Dayton,
a The Little Gray Dove
Victor Saar Wyoming, Mrs. Wessler trium -1 Hillsboro, Ore., June 9.—
b
Come Down Laughing Streamlet
-
Spross phed over the saloon element (Special,)—A. Kinney, a resi­
and was elected mayor, a great
Miss Esther Chalmers.
dent o f Forest Grove, was re­
victory over the saloon party
Violin;
leased by Countv Judge Steven­
Air Varie No. 7
-
-
D e Beriot and gambling houses and other son Friday evening upon habeas
evils. There promises to be a
Charles Walker
corpus proceer.ings and as a re­
new era of reform in Dayton.
Night Song
-
sult of Kinney’s incarceration
Schumann
Play is as essential to child­ for a few minutes only, the city
Miss Liola House
hood as bread, and if the
o f Forest Grove is threatened
On the Road to Mandalay
Speaks mothers had a vote as to how tax
with a big damage suit for false
Charles McNeil
money was to be spent, there
imprisonment.
Violin;
would certainly pe more play
Kinney had connected water
Romance
.
.
.
Rubinstein grounds in every city and town
pipes to the main, contrary to
Miss Margaret Lowell
with good, competent jiersons to
the ordinance, and he was ai-
supervise
and direct their play.
The Nightingale
Alabieff-Liszt
rested and taken before M. R.
Miss Esther Spillman
Markham, City Recorder, who
SCHOOL ELECTION, JUNE 17
Vocal;
fined him $10 and costs.
Re­
corder
Markham
then
gave
P.
a The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Speaks
Salem, Oregon, June 7, 1912.
W.
Watkins,
chief
o
f
police,
a
b
Irish Love Song
Lang
We do not attach sufficient im­
commitment,
ordering
him
to
Miss Helen Bishop
portance to our annual school
Valse; Brilliante, Op. 17 No, 3
Moskowsky meeting. This year our annual keep Kinney in jail until the
Miss Helen Anderson
meeting occurs June 17.
On fine and costs were paid. Wat-
kins brought the commitment
Hungarian March, 2 Pianos;
Kowalsky this day one director and the
clerk are to be elected in every which is said to be contrary to
Misses Laura Famme, Janet Ingram,
school district in Oregon, a mat­ statute, and the prisoner to the
Lióla House, Laura Wiest
ter of much importance to each county seat and Sheriff Hancock
community. I should be very placed the defendent in jail.
glad, indeed, to find that many Shortly afterwards Kinney’s at­
$aturi>ag
o f the Oregon school districts torneys sued out the writ, which
were making the day of the an­ was granted, and also gave judg­
Lust spiel overture (2 pianos)
Kela Bela nual school meeting an import­ ment against Sheriff Hancock
Misses Helen Wilcox, Helen Anderson,
ant occasion, and at the same for $5 and costs of the filing fee.
Kinney, as stated by one o f
t|me taking advantage o f being
Lillian Elder, Elida Loynes
his
attorneys, will now -sue for
together to talk over the ppob-
.Sonata (appasionato) Op. 57 \
false imprisonment.
Beethoven lems o f the schools.
The ordinance in question pro­
Perry Burton Arant
The voting for director and
vides
that a person must have
clerk will take place at the
Vocal;
written
authority before he can
In Thy Dreams
Dudley Buck school house. It should be re­
tap
a
water
main, and the pen­
membered that women alreadv
Miss Blanche Harbison
alty,
according
to the quoted
have the privilege o f suffrage
portion
o
f
the
statute,
provides
Two Larks
Leschetizkÿ in school elections. If all the
that
a
violator
cah
be
fined or
women o f the community will
Miss Lillian Elder
pack their lunch baskets, and as­ imprisoned, or both, but there is
Violin;
semble at the school honse on no provision to the effect that a
Faust Fantaisie
W ieniawsky the morning o f June 17, I am man can be placed in jail “ until
Edson Dwinell Clapp
confident that the men will be his fine is paid.” Kinney’ s at­
there also when the sun reaches torney’s say that the commit­
a Valse de Juliette
Guonod R a ff
the meridian.
Of course the ment, were it legal, would keep
Fantaisie
Chopin members of the family under a man in jail during his natural
Miss Ada Taylor
voting age will have to have life, provided he were unable to
dinner. So all will spread out pay, or had no friends to liqui­
Morning Hymn.
Henschel
their lunches under some pleas­ date the penalty.—Oregonian.
JAILED MAN
IS ANGRY.
Resident of Forest Grove
Promises Trouble.
Miss Goldie Peterson
8.
No. 32
Concerstueck
Von IVeher
Miss Agnes Johnson
Midsummer Night Dream (overture) 2 pianos
Misses Ada Taylor, Agnes Johnson,
Liola House Esther Spillman
Mendelssohn
wage-earner, an employer, a
professional woman, a self sup­
porter, a wife, a mother and a
housekeeper, I have never seen
and cannot see, one circum­
stance or situation in my life
where the possession o f the bal­
lot could demonstrably assist me
or any o f those dependent upon
me in any capacity.”
umn o f space weekly, to be fill­
ed with items concerning their
work and general temperance
news.
Mrs. Katherine Kerr
was elected press superintend­
ent to have charge o f this work.
After transacting other rou­
tine business, the following
officers were elected for the en­
suing year:
W . C T. U. NOTES
President, Mrs Anna M. Bold-
rick.
Vice President at large, Mrs.
Emma Carlyle.
Correspondiug Secretary, Kath­
erine Kerr.
Recording Secretary, Mrs. S. G.
Morgan.
Treasurer, Miss Emma B. Pen
field.
^ 'ce Presidents, Advent church
Mrs, H. W. Volmer.
Christian chuuch, Mrs. Rilda
Steigleicler.
Congregational church, Mrs. J.
S. Bishop.
Methodist church, Mrs. J. E.
Showers.
The W. C. T. U. held its an­
nual meeting Friday, June 7th,
at the residence o f Mrs. Barber.
Mrs. Carlyle conducted a short
de/otional service, followed by
an interesting talk by Mrs. Ber-
nard on the work o f the Flower
Mission Department. Following
this Miss Thatcher reported
work done by the Union in that
department during the past year.
The secretary gave her annual
report, which showed progress
during the past year.
The President reported that at
her request the Forest Grove
Press and the Washington Co.
News-Times had kindly consent-
ed to give the W. C. T. U. acol-
/
The following were appointed
as a propram committee.
Miss Emma B. Penfield, chair-
man. Mrs. H. W. Volmer.
J. S. Bishop, Mrs. H. R.
ant shade, and enjoy dinner to­
GALES CITY
gether.
After dinner all will be in the
We are enjoying a nice little
right frame o f mind for select­
shower
at the present writing.
ing the officers, and discussing
It
may
have
done some damage
school affairs,
The patrons will
to
the
early
hay,
but the people
have this opportunity to investi­
are
onto
its
tricks
and have kept
gate the conditions o f the school
a
weather
eye
on
fhe
clouds and
house and grounds, and see
perhaps
very
little
damage
has
what repairs are needed; if the
been
done.
school house is properly heated,
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Jacobson
lighted and ventilated, and what
o
f
Portland, and Mrs. D. S.
books and pictures are most
Pierce
and family o f Forest
needed.
Let us make June 17 a
Grove
spent
Sunday with Mr.
red lettef day for our district !
and
Mrs.
James
Churchill o f this
You re for better schools,
place.
L. R. Alderman.
Sup’ t. Public Instruction. _ Mrs. Vincent and Mrs. Church-
ill are on the Bick lift this week.
We have decided to discontinue
Mr. and Mrs. John McCann
handling the cylinder phono- are the proud parents o f a new
graph records and will close out baby girl.
our entire stock of indestructible
Mrs. Clarence Miller is run-
recoçds at less than cost. 2 min- rung the cook house at the Bei-
ute records, regular 36c. at 24c. mrohr saw mill.
4 minute records, regular 50c, at
The wood contract for school
36c. You will have to hurry and district number 30 was awarded
get your pick before they are all to Charles Maitland and Nor­
gone. Forest Grove Pharmacy. man Lilly.
Eugene Loving o f Gales Creek
FOR SALE—200x400 (2 acres)
best o f land, all clear, 15 minutes spent Sunday in Forest Grove.
Mr. Hines and family o f Hill­
walk from Forest Grove post-
office. $500; $100 and $100 per side. was visiting with his father
year, 5 per cent.
I*and will Cicero Hines o f this place Sun­
more than pay for itself.
Press day.
office.
The Scenic Theatre has chang­
Brown Leghorn hens and pul­ ed its name to the Star and ia
lets for sale, 75c each.
Mixed running at full blast in their new
chickens 60c. All laying. W. C. quarters, a fine fire proof build­
[Graddy, Cornelius, Route 1.
ing.