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'Vo Oregon Historical Society v "V o F orest G rove RESS Your suggestion, criticism and cooperation is solicited to help make the “ Press” a true representative of all the people o f Forest Grove and of Washington County. The best developer of a community is a progressive and representative news paper. Send the ‘Press” to friends whom you wish to welcome to this country. FOREST GROVE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14. 1913. Vol. 5 COUNCIL PAYS MONTHS BILLS P. E. & E. BEWARE THE SUMMER ENGAGEMENT. J. F. PIERCE DIES : LAST SATURDAY POST OFFICE VETERAN OF GREENVILLE PASSES GRANTED UNTIL 1914 TO AWAY BEGIN HERE No. 4 AUTO SKIDS, MAN KILLED MACHINE HITS BUGGY AND SMASHES INTO BRIDGE, OPERATION Mrs. Elizabeth Bolen, Age 89, NEAR HILLSBORO ATTEND TO DETAILS Dies Last Thursday- NARROW APPROACH Other Deaths Discussion Over Bill Renderd by Engineer Garrow Of Warren Co. Tuesday evening the city council held a busy session at the regular monthly meeting, at which time several impor-1 tant matters were considered, and many expenses cared for. The report o f the finance committee providing for the payment of nearly $2,000.00 for current expences was read and accepted. Col Eddy, representing the P. E. &E. presented a resolution requesing an ex- tention of time to the first of the year for the rail road to begin operations, f The resolution, stating that the delay having been caused by matters beyond the control o f the company, was adop - | ted. A communication accompanied by a bill o f $203.60 Was read from Engineer Garrow o f the Warren Construction company, requesting the city to stand Registration for the coming fall elec for part o f that amount which is still tion is already begun in the county, j due to the Warren people. Due to a Some difficulty has been encountered mistake in making the assessments on by County Clerk Ed Luce, in securing the improvement o f First street, a registrars for several o f the districts, j strip of several inches was charged to That voters who registered in 1912 j the Oregon Electric Company that can cast their ballots at the special should have been assesed to the proper election this fall without re-registering, ty owners. Mr. Garrow claims that and that new registrations in 1913 will the mistake was due partly to the fact give the right to vote in spite of the that he received incorrect information fact that the Day bill specifically pro- ] from the city officials, and that if the vides registration qualifications, is the city fails to pay the company he will be ruling made by attorney general Craw held for it personally. The matter af ford. ter considerable discussion, was laid on ! The following appoints have accepted We all know the great benefits the the table and a letter ordered sent to and qualified and a»e now ready to re Lewis and^Clarkes World’s Fair accom Mr. Garrow explaining that as the ceive registrations. Others will be se plished for the state o f Oregon. Com council saw the matter, it was in no cured as soon as possible. ing at the right time it successfully way their fault, as it jvas his duty J North Forest Qrove precinct, J. H. placed this state on the map to stay to ascertain the correctness of such fig Wirtz. there. We are still reaping benefits ures, they could not accept the proposi South Forest Grove precinct, Manche derived from the A. Y. P. E. held in tion. Langley. Seattle in 1909. The coming Panama The treasures report was read and Gaston, E. X. Harding. Pacific Exposition to be held in San accepted. Matter pertaining to repair-1 Dilley, Wm. R. Stephens. Francisco in 1915 undoubtedly will at ing a spring switch on the Oregon East Cedar, L. J. Francis. West Cedar, M. E. Buck. tract more tourists and home seekers to Electric that is now a danger to the West Butte, C. E Kindt. this great western country than these traffic was taken up and referred to East Butte, H. B. Tigard. other worlds fairs. Just preceding this the street committee. Gales Creek. J. W. H. Adkins. will o c c v the opening to the worlds The appointment o f E. C. Kelsey as Columbia, W. F. Boley. night watchman was confirmed after Pacific States Elect’c Co. wire 18.86 commerce and travel o f the panama ca nal. Conservative estimators fortell which adjournment took place. R. P. Wirtz light collecter 26.25 the unbelievable emigration to the Paci Bills allowed at the meeting were: Tucker and Whited freight & dray .88 fic coast via Pauama. General Fund V. J. Fuqua salary etc 68.80 The West is a country o f great oppor James Rasmussen $5.60 total 299.79 tunity. Oregon as a state is a mere in John Stribich, repairs hose wagon 19.15 Water Fund A cc’t fant in deyelopement, and Washington Forest Grove Planing Mill, Lumber 6.17 P. W. Watkins salary 50.00 county possesses the ability to lead in W. B. Coon Veterinary 2.50 labor 3.50 the upbuilding o f the state. We speak Wash. Co. News-Times Supplies 13.25 J. Hall labor 3.50 of the Williamette Valliy as being the J. S. Bishop Health Officer 9.00 F. Meyers P. Watkins expense on pipe line 6.10 center o f intensified farming, a great M. S. Allen Park Bill 1.40 R. Munckers labor 6.00 diversified country. When we talk thus, Grove Lumber Co. 4.25 R. Dean labor 33.50 we are thinking o f a possible future G. Mann Hay 21.27 J. S. Jennings labor 13.25 rather than of present conditions. J. Devlin Labor street 2.50 H. Wells labor 28.00 We all realize in a vague way that John Ballinger 2 months salary 115.00 J. W. Watkins labor 8.50 some day there wiil be a great many Frank Bair 42.50 J. C. Smith & Son livery 4.50 more people in this valley than at pres H. Wells Port bill 28.25 W. A. Chalmers livery 15.00 ent. We realize in a vague way that P. W. Watkins port bill 25.00 Portland wood Pipe Co. 49.80 this valley can produce a vast and di P. W. Watkins chief 20.00 Scott Bros. Supplies 107.78 versified yield that can rarely be equall- i J. A. Parker supplies 1.00 R. P. Wirtz water collecter 26.25 ed. Yet we do not stop to consider A . G. Long fire hose 500.00 Gordon & Gordon supplies 55.82 that at present Williamette Valley is R. P. Wirtz city treasurer 12.50 O. S. Sandford supplies 2.00 not more Ilian half farmed, and that R. P. Wirtz stamps etc. 6.40 M. S. Allen supplies 3.15 j i.alf done very unscientifically. Wash. Co. News-Times printing 1.72 Tucker & Whited freight & dray 2.50 Many worthy movements are now on P. E. & E. f t '/ . 1.06 Total 414.15 foot to promote the developement of B. H. Tupper & Son 67.46 1S13 Street Improvement Acc’t waste lands and to secure a more inten Tucker & Whited dray age 1.47 J. Fairchild 48.75 sified and a greater densified produc- Wr. F. Hartrampf 39.85 Wash. Co. News-Times printing 57.36 J tion. Plans are being proposed tt> total 950.30 A. A. Kirkwood engineer and supplies i make thousanos of acres o f Oregon Light Acc’ t and helpers 142.34 stump lands available for agriculture salary 75.00 C. R. Morgan Total 248.45 occupation. The Government is open salary 75.00 S. G. Morgan Grand Total 1,672.84 ing productive acres among the timber boiler compound Valvoline Ore. Co. Library Fund lands. The railroads have leased their 35.00 Librarian & Janitor & Literature 50.00 right o f way in some places in Eastern Oregon which are now utilized with po tato rows, miles in length. On many farms, due to lack o f drainage, or other preventable causes, valubie sqil is en tirely neglected. Thousands of acres Tomorrow morning a special train to prove successful and in all probabili »re non-productive every year due to composed largely o f Portland news ty will be put in operation between the wasteful practice of summer-fal paper men will visit Forest Grove for a Portland and Forest Grove in the near lowing. few hours, while on a tour o f the sev future. More Stock The nearly constructed Eugene-Cor- eral Willamette Valley towns, on a sort Schools, organizations, and individu - 1 o f an initiative trip over the P. E. & vallis section o f the Portland, Eugene E. They will be conducted about town & Eastern Railray will be thrown open als are constantly calling attention to in autos and given a glimpse o f the to traffic before September 1, probably wasteful methods and advocating new by August 20, according to statements and more profitable ways. That it is surrounding country. P. E. & E. officials announce that made here today by President Strahorn cheaper to drive your profits to market they will have their electric lines in o f the Portland, Eugene & Eastern. than to haOl them is rapidly becoming First service is to be by steam, pend recognized. operation before the first o f the year That is, it means more and will begin traffic by steam and ing the completion o f the electrification money for the farmer, if he will raise o f the West Side lines o f the Southern cattle, horses, and hogs on his ranch gasolene before that date. Col. Eddy while here Tuesday stated Pacific from Portland to Eugene, which than to depend upon the uncertain that the company waa giving the final are to be taken over by the Portland, market in hay or grain. teat to a gasolene car which promised Eugene & Eastern. Y ean ago it was the general idea REGISTRARS ARE NAMED Last Saturday James Franklin Pierce, Brad) Chowning of Forest Grove one o f the early settlers of Washington : County, died in Forest Grove at the I Wears Smashed Nose and is home o f his daughter, Mrs. John Ire-] Considerably Bruised land, Mr. Pn rce was 82 years of age ' and has been a resident o f this county Luther W. Woodruff of Los Angeles, sixty-one years. Mr. Pii rce was born at Taunton, California, was killed last Friday even Mass. He came to Oregou by ox-team ing when he was thrown from an auto from Peoria, 111. in 1852. Settling in which was trying to pass a buggy on Washington County, he acquired a do the long bridge about a mile this side of nation land claim o f 160 acres near Hillsboro. Brady Chowning, a barber, i Greenville, and until 1874 actively fol o f this city was also thrown from the lowed farming. At the time he em machine, and landing on the edge of the barked in the general merchandise bridge, rolled off, making a fall of business at Greenville, receiving a about twelve feet. He escaped with a commission as postmaster the same severely smashed nose and several year, an office he retained for 17 years, bruises. when he resig ned, sold his business and The auto party who consisted of Wood ruff, Chowning, Russell Prouty, Harley O. Wishard, and J. E. Blackburn, of Portland, driver, were returning to — B r a d le y in Chicago Newt. Forest Crove from Hillsboro. In at- [ tempting to pass a buggy which was | going the same direction as the car the machine skidded into the bridge throwing the car crosswise and into the hind wheels of the buggy. The j cur was almost demolished and the rear [ of the buggy in which Mr. and Mrs. Alva Emerick were driving to their j farm, wai smashed. Mrs. Emerick jumped from the buggy, and a tho ov ercome by the shock, it is not thought that she received any serious injury. The party in the auto was enroute from this place to Forest Grove, where Blackburn has a contract for the con struction of a residence. Woodruff was his brother-in-law, and waa work ing for him. He was about 40 years that little but wheat and clover could old and was a member o f the Order of b r a is e d in the valley -Since then the Railway Conductors. He is survived hop industry, the prune orchards, the remooved*to Forest Grove, tw Lere he by a widow and two children, who are dairy business all have developed into had since resided. in California. Yet we place too j Mr. Pierce, in 1859, married Miss E. staple products, No Blame Fixed great limitation upon the bountiful A. McNemar. Five children survive. Hillsboro The Coroner’ s jury, Sat They are: Mrs. Mary Vollum.Mrs. Elsie gifts nature has bestowed upon us urday, found that Woodruff, came to Hogs, alfalfa, apples, garden truck of Dashiel, C. W. Pierce, all of Portland; his deuth as a result of a collision witli Mrs. Alice '1 homas, o f Milwaukie, and all kinds, in fact almost any life at all i a buggy and bridge. No blame was adopted to a temperate climate, will ] Mrs. Clarissa Ireland o f Forest Grove. fixed. J. E. Woodburn, ownsr o f the thrive in Williamette Valley. Jo»eph M. Rots Dead. auto, testified that he thought his ma The following clippings (among many chine was running between 15 and 18 HILLSBORO, OR. JoBeph M. Ross, others not clipped,) furnished the in of Volmer, Idaho, died at his home Fri miles an hour, and that he did not see spiration for the above. day, aged 54 years. He is survived by Alva Emerick and wife until within 20 or 30 feet of the vehicle. The dust four sisters and one brother in Oregon Why Not Hog» It was reported here Tuesday that Mrs. J. B. Schafer, o f Linton; William obscured Blackburn's view. He says the bank at Amity would purchace a Ross and Mrs. Emma Dierdorf of Hills- he sounded his horn, and in this he is carload o f Holstein milch cows to be j boro and Mrs. P. C. Buckingham, o f Gif- corroborated by the two men who were let out to the farmers o f that section ' ford, Idaho. The body will be shipped to not thrown out of the machine. Em- on easy terms. This is an effort on the Hillsboro for interment in the North rick testified that he did not hear the part of that institution to build up the Tualatin Plains Cemetery near the Ross machine nor the horn When the machine siiidded against dairy industry, and make a better pay-' homestead, the end of the railing the timbers of roll for the country. McMinnville ' Girl Die» at Comeliui. the fence struck Woodruff over the News Reporter. Inez Geiger, aged 17 years, died of heart, breaking three ribs. A 3x12 Field Pea» Thrive at Laurel consumption at her home in Cornelius plank was broken by the impact o f the Grandville Everest o f Laurel brought on the sixth o f August. Inez was a machine. The Country Court inspected to the Independent office Monday sam- High School student in Cornelius. Inez the approach to the bridge, it being ru plea of field peas that show a remark- leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Link mored that the unfinished condition had able growth. The vine brought in Geiger. The funeral was held Aug. 8, something to do with the tragedy. measures seven feet and is thickly filled : at the Meth dist church in Cornelius, P. E. & E. Heads Viait, with pods, and Mr. Everest says the wnere interment was made in the Cor Arriving on a “ special,, this morning whole field «sill average four feet. He nelius Cemetary. a party of electrical experts headed by also brought in some fine specimens of President R. E. Strahorn called on For Old Reiident Passea Away alfalfa and black barley. He is an en est Grove while on a tour of inspection thusiast regarding alfalfa and says Mrs. Elizeheth Bolen, mother of Mrs, of the new line. The party consisted there is no question but good crops can J. W. Caples, o f this city, died at her o f R. E. Strahorn President P. E. & E. A. H. Babcock Consulting Electrical be grown in the country if one under home in this city, Aug. 7. Engineer from San Francisco; W. C. stands it, Mr. Everest moved to his Mrs. Bolen, who was 86 years old, Myers assistant to Mr. Babcock; P. Lebenbarem Electrical Engineer P. E. presant location in Newhurgsix months has lived in Forest Grove for a num ago. ber of years. The funeral was held on & E .; R. T. Guppy Chief Engineer P. E. & E. and W. W. Slater Signal En August 9th at Woodland, Washington, gineer S. P. Company, and their assist Tea»el Crop» the family burial place. ants. At the present time a farmer in the Molalla district, east o f Oregon C^ty in the hill lands, ¡8 harvesting a crop probably not grown by any other ranch er in the Williamette valley teasels. His present crop consists o f about 70 acres and during the harvest season he employs about 40 hands at $2.50 and $300 a day. The teasel is a flowery Many people of Forest Grove met the one of the women who have recently burr, and makers of cloth use it in Portland fresh air children at the depot been refused a pension. The father o f the process of raising nap on woolen last Friday and took them to their re the children is in the sanitarium with goods, a process for which no inventor spective two weeks country homes. an incurable disease and this case has has been able to invent a mechanical Mrs. Macleod, and Misses Florence En- received considerable attention. substitute. chede and Minnie Myers conducted the The people who are entertaining the children from Portland to thiB city. Walnut Free» Bearing The thirty five children are so delight “ Fresh Air” children are; Mrs. K. N. BUENA VISTA, OR.. Aug. 9.— ed with Forest Grove and the nearby Staehr, Mrs. B. F. Emerson, Mrs. J. (Special.) On the 1200-acre farm o f country, and the entertainers are so F.nchede, Mrs. J. Rasmusen, Mrs. John B. Stump, west o f Monmouth on pleased with the children that it is be Benjamin, Mrs. Chas. Morgan, Mrs. the Falls City road, 9-year-old walnut ing considered to bring another com Carl Brodersen, Miss Frances Myers, trees are coming into bearing. They Mrs. Samuel Show, Mrs. James An pany of them. are of the English variety and the or drus, Mrs. Henry Correll, Mrs. Minnie Two children who are spending their chard gives the appearance ot bearing vacation here wrote to their mother in Baber, Mrs. C. F. Aydelott, Mrs. a paying crop in a few years. Mr, Portland, told her what a nice time Thomas Ott, Mrs. John Haney, Mrs. Srump was one o f the first farmers in they were having and they were sorry Hattie Wade, Mrs. John Anderson, Polk County to set out walnuts and has she had to work so hard. The mother Mrs. William Alder, Mrs. Chas. Holl- had splendid success with the growing o f these children is a janitor woman at voett, Mrs. W. R. Ives, Mrs. C. o f the trees. I the board o f trade building and she is Duyck. MANY NEW CROPS GROWING IN WILLAMETTE VALLEY INTENSIFIED CULTIVATION WILL MAKE ROOM FOR MANY NEW COMERS— DEVERSIFiED PRODUCTION INDICATED TRIAL RUN OVER P. E. & E. TOMORROW PORTLAND NEWSPAPER MEN TO STOP HERE 1 j PORTLAND CHILDREN ENJOYING VISIT AT FOREST GROVE AND NEARBY FARMS i