FOREST GROVE PRESS, FOREST GROVE. OREGON, THURSDAY AUGUST 14, 1913.
boys and girls to*the city.
At any rate, it is a pity to raise a boy or girl,
G E O R G E H U N T IN G T O N C U R R E Y
isolated from all communication with the rest of
EDITOR A N D O W N E R
mankind. This is the one great rural problem.
City folks and country folks are both alike.
Published every Thursday at F orest Grove, Washington County, Oregon. They simply do not know each other and im­
Entered at the Forest Grove, Oregon, Po6t Office as second-class matter.
agine a difference.
Better schools, more churches, more grange
S ubscription K ates in A dvance .
meetings, more trips to the city are needed.
One Year......................$1.50
Six Months........... 75 Cents For the poor farmer’s children, and there are
some, it would not be an unworthy cause for
O ffice on M ain S treet .
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the city’s well to do, and there are some, to
give them an outing in the city. Country life
In running their race, men o f birth look back
is rapidly being enriched; but also city life is be­
too much, which is the mark o f a bad runner.
ing improved. A little reciprocity among the rich
Bacon.
for the poor and exchange of visits among them­
selves will make fuller and better citizens out o f
Let Us Face This Issue.
our children, whether urban or rural, rich or
poor.
In the development of any community it takes
as much common sense as it does hot air. Ev­
For the remainder of the present month the
ery locality has its distinct characteristics, and
Washington-Oregon
company is furnishing the
what may he a tonic for one city, often proves
city
with
free
electricity,
as a practical test
disastrous for another.
Forest Grove is a city o f homes and schools v\ hether or not they can do so cheaper than the
and churches, and the better class o f citizens. city can generate it. We can not see but that,
It is a trading center for a great productive if they can demonstrate that they can furnish a
territory. It also is a manufacturing or indus­ reliable service, at the same time extending the
trial center. It lias several good plants that service to the full twenty four hours, and can
help boost the payroll. That is the principal sell it to the city cheaper than they can make it
benefit of any factory to a city. Poyrolls mean themselves, it would be nothing but a business
people and people mean business. We should plan to enter such a contract for a number
years.
all be willing to help boost the payroll.
Of course methods of generating electricity
We have an industry here at present that is
may
be revolutionized. What might look like
employing something over 150 people. Lately
an
exceedingly
low rate now, may in a number
it has been proposed to increase the number of
o
f
years
be
actually
excessive. The manufac­
employees from that figure to about 500. The
ture
o
f
denatured
alcohol
may assume com­
success o f this movement will depend largely
mercial
importance
and
the
city might he able
upon the citizens of Forest Grove, for we are
to
generate
its
entire
heat
from
what is now
speaking o f a peculiar industry and the number
considered
merely
refuge.
Again
we are close
on its payroll will depend solely upon the good
to
the
ocean,
and
the
unlimited
power
of the
will of the employed, for the extent o f the mar­
surf
may
be
harnessed,
which
would
greatly
ket will increase with the output.
Now the mere fact that these employees come diminish operating expenses.
It does not appear that it would be a wise
here to spend money does not materially make
thing
to do away with the municipal plant; but
matters any different than if they received their
if
it
can
be demonstrated that it is cheaper to
money here to spend. It is also true that,
where a few occupied in this industry is of no buy the current than to make it, it is simply a
great benefit to this city, three times the pres­ business matter to contract to do so. Only it
ent number, or about 500, would be a great will be well to remember the future and not do
business factor. As a purely commercial propo­ away with the city plant, nor to grant a too
sition the business men and property owners of long term fianchise.
FOREST
GROVE
PRESS
Forest Grove should encourage the development
o f this aspiring industry.
You have undoubtedly read between the lines.
We will change the word industry to institution.
We are writing about Pacific University,
Under present conditions o f course this col­
lege is not yielding the dividends to the citizens
o f this community that it should. An institu­
tion with such buildings located almost ideally,
and with a good start toward a substantial en­
dowment, with an excellent alumni working for
its future, it certainly has great chances for
growth.
Too many remember only the past few years
since Pacific has fallen below its proper stand­
ard. Let us forget the past. Let us> study the
present and work for the future. It is the de­
velopment of those factors particularly bene­
ficial to a community that in the long run prove
the substantial benefits.
Let us give the new president, and the new
class, a reception o f a new and confidential co­
operative spirit, and work for a new and great­
er Pacific University situated at Forest Grove,
the city o f homes and schools.
The Country Youth.
Forest Grove is surely a well pleased host
to the many Portland children. Their pleasure,
so frankly expressed, and so evident from their
actions, well awards the slight inconvenience
they cause. It is a great work to give these
little city prisoners a glimpse o f Go I's out of
doors, and we hop > to be able to return the favor
again next year.
But education should consist o f a knowledge
o f fellow beings, as w ell as o f nature: and while
the city tots have too little o f tin* latter, many
country children are as completely destitute of
tin1 first. The only ditference is that the par­
ents o f the urban children cannot afford to send
them to the country, while most rural people
are well enough t > do to occasionally bring their
Undoubtedly there are many little improve-
merits that the citizens o f Forest Grove would
gladly make if they were only suggested to
them. If by any chance or other some happy
thought for the betterment of the community
finds a receptive place in your mind notify the
rest of your neighbors through the columns of
the P ress and you may soon'see your dreams
coming true, for many are working for future
betterment.
Take Your Coupon Book
TO
The leading and enterprising firms with whom we
have arranged to redeem Press Coupons.
Their prices meet all competition.
THE JACKSON PHARMACY
A. G. HOFFMAN & CO.
GOFF BROTHERS
GOFF BROTHERS
Cornelius
Pacific Avenue, Forest Grove
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A. S. HENDRICKS
GEO. G. PATERSON
General Merchandise
Furniture and Pianos
Cornelius
Main Street, Forest Grove
GASTON DRUG STORE
SHEARER & SON
Drugs and Medicines
Jewelers
Gaston
Main Street, Forest Grove
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BRIGGS BROTHERS
FOREST GROVE PHARMACY
General Merchandise
Pure Drugs and Medicines
Dilley
Pacific Avenue, Forest Grove
G. LUNDQUIST & CO.
SUN-RISE GROCERY
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Hardware
Groceries and Provisions
Cherry Grove
Pacific Avenue, Forest Grove
ERIC ANDERSON
C. G. DANIELSON
Jewelry and Drugs
Bicycles and Sundries
Pacific Avenue, Forest Grove
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Cherry Grove
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FOREST GROVE STUDIO
FORSBERG & BROSTROM
Photos and Photo Supplies
Forost Grove
There is one thing in which the American farm­
er must take a stand for improvement. That is a
better classified and more uniform packing
policy. In the long run the consumer will not
nay for more than he gets, and if all the big po­
tatoes are put on the top, he will get in the
habit of reversing the sack before opening.
Before you kick at the way your representa­
tives in c o ) rress are behaving, it might he
proper to write to them giving your views and
asking for information in return. They will
gladly give and take on this basis for it is diffi­
cult for them to keep in touch with their home
conditions.
Billy Sunday said in Portland last Sunday
that a hard hitting preacher knocks the devil
out of the box. We wish to comment that it j
seems to us that the preacher should pre form the
exacting work o f manager and produce a little j
more inside ball that is, better team work.
C. L. BUMP & CO.
General Merchandise
Cherry Grove
THE C. C. STORE
General Meachandise
Day Goods, Groceries, Shoes, Hardware
South Forest Grove
Orenco
MORTON & FREEMAN
ORENCO DRUG CO.
Groceries and Provisions
M
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Drugs and Jewelry
Hillsboro
J. A. HOFFMAN
Orenco
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Jeweler
Hillsboro
THE DELTA DRUG STORE
Drugs and Medicines
Hillsboro
Wm. OELRICH
Builders’ Materials
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Orenco
OREGON NURSERY CO.
Wholesale and Retail Nursery Stock
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Orenco
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II M. P. CADY
PERCY LONG
Hardware
General Merchandise
2nd Street, Hillsboro
Beaverton
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MRS. M. L. BURDAN
J. L. HARDY
Millinery
2nd Street, Hillsboro
SAELENS & SPIESSEHEART
Meat Market
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Confectionery and Patent Medicines
Beaverton
R. L. TUCKER
Everything to Build With
2nd Street, Hillsboro
Beaveiton
N. C. LILLY
Hillsboro
PEOPLES STORE
into a basket o f kittens, drown-
ing the whole flock. She slipped
on the cream and fell down cel-
lar, breaking her leg and a $19
set o f false teeth.
The baby,
left alone, crawled through the
spilled cream into the parlor and
ruined a $40 carpet. During the
excitement the daughter ran
away with the hired man, taking
the family savings bank with
them,
'T h e moral is that every man
should be a subscriber to his
home newspaper.”
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Furniture
The following clipping from
an exchange tells about the dire
things that happened to a tight-
wad.
"W e once knew a man who
was too stii /v t<> take the news
paper in his home town and al-
ways went over to borrow his
neighbor’s paper.
"One evening he sent his son
over to borrow the paper, and
while the --on was on the way he
ran into a large stand o f bees,
Hardware and Supplies
Hardware, Implements, Autos
A good many o f the young men in this county
leave every summer for the Eastern Oregon |
harvest fields. It certainly is a great priviledge I
to spend a few weeks in healthy outdoor exer­
cise, but in a great producing section like Wash­
ington county, it seems that sufficient employ­
ment could he found in the home fields, the or­
chards, and the hopyards, and figuring the trans­
portation charges it ought to orove more profita- j
hie.
and in a few minutes bis face
looked like a summer squash.
"Hearing the agonized cries o f
the sen. the father ran to his as-
sistance and in doing so ran into
a barbed wire fence, cutting a
handful o f flesh off his anatomy
and ruining a $4 pair o f trousers,
"The old cow took advantage
o f the hole in fence, got into the
cornfield and killed herself eat-
ing the green corn.
Hearing
the racket the stingy man’s wife
ran out o f the house, upsetting
a four-gallon churn full o f cream
Cornelius
Main Street, Forest Grove
A. C. DONELSON
A Tightwad’* Penalty
Drugs and Medicines
General Merchandise
General Merchandise
Gales Creek
E. J. AYERS
General Merchandis e
Hillsboro
MRS. WINIFRED GUNTON
Pope Photo Gallery
General Merchandise
Gales Creek
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KINTON & JENSEN
General Merchandise
Banks
Hillsboro, Oregon
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Blacksmith and General Repairing
Forest Grove, Ore