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Voi. 5
CONCRETEIS
BEING LAID
THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME.
SCHOOL STUDIES PORTLAND
NEEDS OF COUNTRY
M ENT
TO
ENRICH
R U R A L LIFE
POPULATION HALF RURAL
FLETCHER TO HILLSBORO
Con­
The Farming Conditions
O f the Country
The grading and curb construction
crew o f the Linden Kibbe Construc­
tion Co. completed its work in Forest
Grove the first of this week and has
turned the paving activities over to the
concrete crew which will be in opera­
tion Monday.
The new outfit laved
703 yards o f concrete the first day and
expect to average 1000 yards per day
while here. The surface crew twill ar­
rive in a week or two and will lay the
bithum at a rate that will complete
the paving a few days after the con­
crete crew have finished.
Geo. Clausen an 1 his concrete bri­
gade come from HoodRiver where they
have just completed a large amount of
most satisfactory pavement. Mr. Flet­
cher who has been in ¿harge o f the
grading work here, will leave for Hills­
boro where the company will soon be­
gin operation.
— A l l m a n in W i s c o n s i n State J o u r n a l .
Bank Contract Awarded
Last Monday the contract to build
the new three story bank building for
the First National Bank o f this city
was awarded by Architect Bell to
C. F. Kratz o f Portland.
Work has already begun and will be
pushed with all possible speed towards
completion,
Annex Not Occupied
Nothing has been accomplished in the
m atter o f acceptance o f the court house
annex, altho Contractor Foster and his
attorney, John M. Wall, met with the
county board to see if a settlement
could not be made, and acceptance of
the work follow on an amicable basis.
A fte r looking over the work the board
told Mr. Foster that they would expect
pay for the long delay, and some re­
compense for the work that must be
done in order to bring the building to
specifications.
In all probability there will be litiga­
tion over the settlements for the work
unless there is concession on both sides
o f the contract. Foster contends that
everything was settled and agreed up­
on some time ago.
The court on the other hand, holds
that before acceptance the building
must come within specifications, and
until this is done, settlement cannot be
made on the contract price. The board
firmly asserts that they are entitled to
pay for the long delay, the county be­
ing inconvenienced and out the use of
the money, besides having paid for
warehouse charges for the new furni­
ture.
Store Changes Hands
G. H. Baldwin this week has again
taken charge o f the confectionery store
on Pacific avenue which has lately been
under the management o f Felix Ver-
honen. Mr. Verhonen will engage in
real estate business in Portland.
Agriculture, on the contrary, must pro­
duce its long succession o f crops, and
in the end if the people are to survive
must leave the soil richer than it
found it.
THIRTY F1YE WILL
ARRIVE TOMORROW
Half Oregon's Population Rural.
General Prosperity Depends On
of Portland Gets
tract to Build Bank
Build'ng
CHILDREN TO
ENJOY OUTING IN GROVE
P H A M P LE T TELLS OF M O V E ­
S U R FAC E L A Y IN G O U T F IT IS
EXPECTED IN FE W
W EEK S
Kratz
No. 3
FOREST GROVE. WASHINGTON COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 7. 1913.
FOREST LANDS OPENED— RECEIPTS GO TO
SCHOOLS— STATE FUNDS APPORTIONED
COUNTY SUPERINTENDANT REPORTS
Six million acres o f withdrawn pub-1 last year $352,481.16. W ith an in­
lie lands were restored to entry during crease, however, o f 7601 in the total
the months o f May and June upon ap­ school population during the year, the
proval by secretary o f the interior o f total population for last year being
the recommendations o f the geological 183,507 and that for this year 197.110,
survey. This action was the result of the apportionment for each pupil has
examination and classification o f the been reduced 3 cents, the per capita
lands by the survey, those restored apportioament last year being $1.86
either having been found not to be and that for this year $1.83.
valuable for power sites, reservoirs,
County Report.
coal, phosphate, or potash deposits, or
County school superintendent has is­
having been definitely valued as coal
sued his annual report which is given
lands, and rendered available for pur­
below in a condensed form:
chase under the coal land law.
Number o f persons betwen 4 and 20
In Oregon approximately 75,000 acres
years old, 8098; pupils in school, 5848;
are restored as non oil bearing lands
teachers employed, 192; eighth grade
and about 12,000 acres were withdrawn
graduates 247; average daily attend­
for water power or reservoir site.
ance, 4446; districts in county, 106; dis­
Fore.t Receipt, to Schools.
Washington. A circular just issued tricts having six months’ school, 13;
by the forest service calls attention to districts having seven months school,
the- various laws under which more 14; districts having eight months school,
than a third o f all National forest re­ 50; districts having nine months school,
ceipts go to the benefit o f the states 29. Received from all sources includ­
in which the forests are situated, for ing $21,198.75 on hand, $173,981.30;
schools and roads. In 1912 the amount paid teachers, $88,747.31; school sites,
o f money thus made available for state $14,944.07; paid warrants, $20,555.84;
purposes totaled about $750,000. The all other expenses, $30,273.86; total,
states’ share o f National forest funds $154,521.08; balance on hand, $19,460.22
since the laws were passed has aggre­ Estimated value o f school property,
$279, 536; average monthly salary male
gated more than $3,000,000.
teacher, $70.01; average monthly salary
State Funds Apportioned.
female teacher, $58.19.
Salem, Ore. Compared with the to­
The riport o f Supe: visor Jas. H.
tal o f last year’s apportionment o f the
Jack shows that he traveled 2709 in the
interest o f the irriducible school fund
1 discharge o f his duties, expense for the
among the counties o f the state, the
same was $298.30, He made 204 visits.
tatal o f the apportionment made for
The one weex normal school to be
this year by state treasurer Kay ex ­
held at Hillsboro will begin August 25.
ceeds it by $8,230.14, the total for this
More than forty teachers have express­
year being $360,711.50, and that for
ed a desire to attend.
In a recent booklet issued by the
Oregon Agricultural College “ The En­
richment o f Rural L ife ,” the following
appears as an introduction to the de­
scriptive matter o f the work promoted
by that institution. This state school
is undoubtedly doing a great work for
the rural life o f Oregon, urging scien­
tific
production,
introducing
more
valuable varieties, and teaching better
methods of marketing.
The most striking interest that has
possessed the thought and imagination
o f the American people during the past
decade, is the movement for the en­
richment o f rural life. The interest
has not been confined to any class.
Scientists, scholars, and United States
presidents, as well as laborers and cap- i
tains o f industry have vied with the
farmers in their zeal fo r re-instating
pre-eminence o f agriculture in national
life. No mere temporary motive, such
as the hardship incident to the higher
cost o f living, can account for this wide­
spread enthusiasm. It is founded on a
larger wisdom. It rests on the general con
viction that agriculture is the basic in­
dustry of any great state, and that the
prosperity and character o f that state
must ultimately depend more upon the
stamp of its rural population than upon
any other single factor. It recalls the
national solidarity that distinguished us
in the days when we were exclusively
a nation o f farmers, and the peculiar
reliance that has been placed upon the
agricultural population in every gr. at
crisis o f our history. As a conse­
quence, it views with alarm any symp­
tom that would suggest the decline of
agriculture in the scale o f industry. It
striv. s, therefore, in every way, to
strengthen the rural ideal, not simply
by reviving old interests, out by ex­
tending and enriching the whole field of
rural endeavor.
Sustain! all Productive Industries.
In promoting agriculture, there is no
danger that other occupations will either
suffer or be neglected. Without a pro­
gressive agriculture there can be no
permanent progress for American in­
dustries. Little countries may succeed
ns the commercial servants of big ones,
hut a country as vast as ours can never
succeed without self-supporting agri­
culture. Indeed, its agriculture must
not only sustain itself, but all other
productive industries, as well. When
agriculture fails, the coal will remain
in the mine, the factory will be silent,
the railroad will b: desolate o f trains,
the steamboat will rot at the wharf,
and the wilderness will usurp the earth.
Agri-ulture, moreover, must succeed
perpetually. The iron mine yields h
single crop and is forever unproductive.
The oil well gushes to the limit o f its
capacity, but can never be renewed.
Oregon's destiny is plain: the devel­ P O R T L A N D T E N E M E N T CON-
opment of her natural resources. With
DITIONS R IV A L E A S T ­
a larger territory than New York and
1’ennsvivania combined, witli approxi­
ERN CITIES
mately 24 million acres o f tillable land,
it is inevitable that Oregon should he
an agricultural state. Over half her
population is rural. Her manufac­
tures, almost without exception, de- ■
pend directly upon the products o f the
Mrs. Macieoud Local Leader of
land. W ith the remarkable diversity
Movement Has Met With
o f altitude and o f temperature in dif- j
ferent sections o f the state, and the |
General Co-operation
wide variation in rainfall, the climate
is such as to foster a multiform type o f
tillage. The noble reaches o f great
Tomorrow Forest Grove people will
plains, the dignity o f broad river be the hosts and hostesses to thirty
basins, the quiet beauty o f enclosed ' five Portland children, who have been
valleys, the grandeur o f living waters, sent by the Fresh Air organization.
and the inspiration o f mountains, lend This movement has suiidenly come to
a glory to the rural life o f Oregon the front in the social betterment plan
scarcely parallel« d in any other en­ and many other Oregon towns are en­
vironment.
tertaining their share o f these city
CITIZENS DESERVE PRAISE
People Interested in Agriculture.
Such a wealth o f natural endowments
awakens ¡j corresponding civic pride.
The people o f Oregon are universally
interested in agriculture. Their great­
est publications give it chief attention.
Their public official* study its problems.
Their immigration commission, their
development leagues, their railroads,
and their great commercial enterprises
lend it direct and positive aid. Their
Agricultural College, the largest educa­
tional institution in the state, has for
thirty years exerted a leadership in the
agricultural end industrial arts that has
brought distinction to the state for its
enterprise and progress. More liberal­
ly and efficiently equipped today than
ever before, especially for lending a
helping hand to every community in
the sta e, it is entering upon a period
o f progress in the enrichment o f rural
life in Oregon tha* promises still great­
er advancement for the future.
••
S A N IT A R IU M NOTES
*:
Mr. Pierce, an old resident o f Forest
Grove is now lying sick in the hospital,
Mrs. Grady o f Cornelius was brought
to the hospital Sunday and is slowly re­
covering.
Baby Quick, who was taken to the
hospital some months ago is doing nice­
ly, Baby went to Portland with Dr.
Kauffman the first o f the week to see
the specialists, Drs. 1). W. Carmel and
Pierce. They both agreed with Dr.
Kauffman that little Mildred is getting
idong as well as could he expected.
Mrs. French o f this city was taken
to the hospital Saturday and is doing
nicely.
Mrs. W, C. Hines was operated on
the first o f the week arid is slowly re­
covering.
Mis* Fraley is again on duty after a
vacation.
waifs.
Forest Grove’s response to the ap­
peal for the Fresh A ir Children does
credit to the people in our city and
community. The clergymen of the
various churches very kindly endorsed
the movement for their pulpits at Sun­
day morning services, and special cred­
it is due Father Buck, o f St. Anthony’s
also Miss Minnie Myers, for the per­
sonal assistance given Mrs. Macloud.
I f there has been any want o f inter­
est it is because o f a lack o f knowledge
o f the conditions which surround Port­
land’ s poor. Portland has its tene­
ments, its squalid shacks, without a
foot o f doorway, just as do eastern
cities, only in lesser degree.
When we read in the Oregonian o f
the poor baby who in all the year o f its
existence, had not been outside o f u
basement and cried continuously when
taken in the party to Silverton, be­
cause of the bright daylight, it should
he enough to make us open our homes
to the children to whom our beautiful
yards would be a veritable fairyland.
Thirty five children have been placed
and will arrive on the Oregon Electric
at five p. m. Friday. The following
have kindly volunteered to entertain
one or more o f these children:
Mrs. Chas. Morgan, Mrs. Carl llrod-
ersen, Miss Frances Myers, Mrs. Sam­
uel Show, Mrs. James Andrus, Mrs.
Henry Correll, Mrs. Minnie Baber,
Mrs, C. F. Aydelott, Mrs. Thomas Ott,
Mrs. John Haney, Mrs. Hattie Wade,
Mrs. John Anderson,
Mrs. William
Alder, Mrs. Chas. Hollvoett, Mrs. W.
R. Ives, Mrs. C. Duyck.
Takes Hydroplane Ride
While on a visit to Coos bay from
which he returned this morning Carl
Hoffman was given a several mile ride
in a hydroplane owned by Mr. Steven­
son o f that place. Mr. Hoffman said
he enjoyed the flying and that there
was class to the speed that the machine
cut the water when about to rise into
\ the air.
GRANGE MEETING IS ENTHUSIASTIC
|
OVER COUNTY FAIR EXHIBIT CONTEST
Last Satunlay the August meeting
o f the Gale Grange was held at the K.
o f P. hall. Considerable enthusiasm
was arroused over the idea o f the vari­
ous Granges o f the county holding a
cjntest as to which can send the best
exhibits to the coming County Fair.
Hon. Ira Purdin, in his talk on “ What
Laws Which We Do N ot Have Would
Be a Benefit to Our S tate,” suggested
a fruit grow ers’ commission whereby
growers could realize some money from
the fruits now going to waste on farms.
He also spoke o f discouraging treating
in saloons.
Mrs. S. T. Walker gave an interest­
ing description o f an improvement on
the wash boiler in canning.
Mrs. A. T. Buxton answered the
questions, “ How can the woman in the
country home fin I more time for study,
recreation and uut-of-door life?” and
" I s the average American home to
much cluttered with it«»'*»«« thing«?”
Mrs. George Rogers read • selection
entitled “ The ideal Grange.”
Mrs. Carl, an elocutionist, who spoke
at the CongregatianRl church the same
evening, favored the Grange with two
recitations which were enjoyed by all.
RUINS OF FACTORY FI r L
IN
B I M O H A M T O N _____
To Secure Boys’ Release.
Declaring that his son Orin. along
with Dan Ward, was railroaded to the
reform school, Mr. Lacourse o f Forest
Grove, and Mrs. Barber were in Salem
this week to lay the matter before the
state board and ask for the release of
the boys. Mr. Lacourse to'd Superin­
tendent Hale o f the industrial school
that the boys were dragged into court
and sentenced to the school without the
parents being notified or having any
chance to represent the boys. He also
sail! that the man who was doing the
bootlegging was not even arrested.
Efforts have been made by the county
court this week to secure evidence that
will lead to the prevention of the |a)e
of liquor to minor*.
[R U IN S O f iStNG
I«SING F IR E .
¿HOWARD ELLIO TT
Snapshots
Of the Week
NcWS
KNAPP
HMNQF.P.
(„„p,.,, were so bmlly burned that Identification was Impossible. Convicts In Ming Slug prison mutinied because mnny of them
were to be transferred to other prisons. They set fire to buildings anil destroyed one factory Inside the prison walls. About sixty
o f the men were later transferre«! to Auburn Judge William L. Chambers, Judge Martin A. Knapp and G. W. W. Hanger,
the federal board of arbitration, tiegan efforts In New York to settle the threatened rallroa«! strike. Howard Elliott, president of the .Northern Pacific ratt-
road, w ai chosen president o f the New York, New Haven and H artford to succeed Charles 8 Mellon.