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About Forest Grove press. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1909-1914 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1913)
TAGE 4 •i •1 River. The ranch is well stocked and will make a nice home. The M int; all the social events of the g y o u n tf COUpIe slipped over to Van- ,* .welt, ami your phone call or » 5 „ , IV . Staking B talrim r Ole D ip ______ Jenson, a *8 letter w ith t.hp n v A . COUVGr S lB K lH ^ f U1G with the i»Hrt.iiMil«rs particulars n of f » any brother |of the groom along as a t so ial or other event will be greatly ! t appreciated. Phone number, Main ; j witness and had the knot tied in >2. Items should be at the office ] ! ; Washington state. 1$ by Wednesday afternoon, or earlier i s py B if possible. ••.•.•.v.v.’.'.v.v.v.v.v.v.v, * t * | * * Everybody has been so excited over Christmas the past week that it has caused a stillness in the social circle. Well, Merry Christmas to you all, and may you have all the good things which are appropriate for the celebrating o f the Xmas tide. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1918. FOREST GROVE PRESS Celebrate 55th Wedding Anni- versary—Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Traglio who have friends in this section, celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary a week ago Sunday. Mrs. Traglio is a French lady and her husband is a son of sunny Italy and their son, Julius who frequently visits at Banks, is pastor o f the German Metho dist church at Phillips in the eastern end o f this county. Firholm Couple W ed — Miss Laura Knighten, a well known young lady o f the Firholm sec Sophomore-Junior Party—The tion, west o f Forest Grove, be Sophomore and Jnnior classes of came the bride o f T. Henry the High School gave a Christ Busch at Hillsboro on the 18th of mas party at the High School this mont.Ji. The ceremony was building last evening. There was performed by his honor. County a Christmas tree ladened with a ju d g e D. B. Reasoner in his g ift for each member o f the chambers at the court house, and classes. Games were played was a quiet affair, only intimate after which refreshments o f ice friends being present. Mrs. cream and wafers were served. Busch is the daughter o f Mr. and Every one present reports a jolly Mrs. Marion Knighten, promi time. nent residents o f Firholm. She has been a social favorite in her A Linen Shower -Mrs. R. F. community, and has for several Emerson invited a number of years taken part in social life of girls to her home Friday evening, that section. Mr. Busch is a the occasion being a tree linen prosperous young farmer o f Fir shower given in honor o f Miss holm. The P r e s s joins with Hazel Barker. There were about their hosts o f friends in wishing 15 girls present. Among the them a happv life together. , This .. various stunts was a mock wed- makes the third Watts school gin I ding which caused a great deal that has fallen a victim to Cupid s 0f merriment. Refreshments darts within the last two weeks. were served by the hostess after The others were Miss Pearl Stev which the girls left all wishing enson and Miss Kathrine Pechin. Miss Barker much joy and hap «•** piness. «* * 9 ^ *»9 Married in Vancouver, W n .— nother Forest Grove bov joined A family reunion was held at e benedicts Friday of last week the home o f Mr. and Mrs. D. N. when George Jenson, son o f Mr. Morris Sunday. Their children, and Mrs. Peter Jenson o f this grand children and great grand city, was united in marriage to [children were there. Those pres- Miss Helen Miller o f near lent were: Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Dayton, Yamhill county. Both ( Morris, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Good, young folks cwn farms o f their [ Mr. and Mrs. E. J. McAlear and own adjoining each other which son, Lowell; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. will make a nice ranch of 90 acres May and son, Edson, and Mr. and on Deer Island in the Williamette Mrs. Carmel Good. A COLLEGE RAH RAH BOYS MANY HUNGRY MEN UVE ON $3 A WEEK MUST HAVE WORK OR- in Portland alone, What is to become home, h e n u oeen in every state in o f the other 9,000? the Union but Maine and in many for Where will they secure employment? eign lands, but intends to travel more. Portland simply proposes to run them O f course he will pick up postcards for out o f town, to “ v a g ” them and order his collection. them out of the city. W hat then? Portland has rid itself o f their presence PROBATE COURT but they are still broke, still out of work, still hungry. And in that condi-1 * tion, cold, hungry,'m iserable and des- Sarah Lee has filed her final ac- perate, they are coming to your town, count in the probate court as ex- j They will wander, starving and shiver- OCUtrix o f the estate o f Joseph ing, in your streets, a menace to your s Lee, deceased, and January 26 property and perhaps your very life. has been set for hearing objec- This is not a threat. It is a state- to the final settlement of ment of fact. the estate, Joseph Lee was one These men must eat . Y ou yourself . o f the most prominent pioneers would steal before you would starve, o f the Gales Creek section. He The soluiton offered by Portland is no died in this city about a year and solution whatever. That simply passes a L a.1 f a g o , where he and his wife the unemployed along to you, leaving, ^ad moved from their farm, you with your limited local resources D a v j d p u r s e r h ag fiJed re c e jp ts and madequate pol.ee protection to deal with the problem which they failed to solve. with the probate court, showing Hiat ad sums due agfainst the ¡estate have been paid in full. ' H e h as b e e n . released from f urther liability as executor o f „ . W hat will you do with the hungry men? Pass them along to the next town? That is no solution. Shoot £b e e s j a ^e them? That would scarcely be allowed. ' Feed them? Somebody must feed the matter o f the estate of them, but remember they themselves M erritt C . Davis, Ethel B. Davis are not asking for charity. They want administratrix, has been ordered work! They beg or steal a living now borrow $100 to pay claims ex- but they would rather work and main- lsting against the estate, as the tain their own self-respect. The only court deems it best not to sell possible solution is an immediate open -, any real property at this ing of work by the state o f Oregon. f ' me- Michael A. Schuster, has The state can provide work for these Sppointfvi administrator o f men in building roads, reclaiming land, the estate o f Martin Schuster etc., and must be forced to do so. | W‘1C was his brother. You cannot sidestep or evade this j Jennie L. Brown, administra question. W ork must be provided at trix o f the estate o f Lawrence C once for these men or they will take Brown, has been authorized by their food and they will take it from the probate Court to dig the po- you because you have it. ' tato crop on the place and pay W e call upon you to act and act at for the work. The household [ furniture has been given to her. once . Hold meetings and demand that the This estate comes up for final state take up this problem before it b e - ! hearing January 26. Objections comes a still more serious menace. to the final settlement o f the es A ct and act now . The League of the Unemployed, 63 North Seaond Street, Portland, Oregon tate o f Herb, deceased, heard February 9. will be Card of Thanks. We wish to thank our many i friends who have been so kind to LOCAL SON MAKES GOOD AS CANADA FRUIT EXPERT ^ K “ "WS K £ ¡ ¡ S f i H J o h n A. B u r k e a n d C h il d r e n . „ , * . ............ .. Gordon Brown, who is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. Brown, in Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Cadwell left this city, is inspector and advisor in for Los Angeles, Cal. where they horticulture in the biggest fruit section will spend the winter for their in Canada. His headquarters are at health. Vernon, B-iitish Columbia, and his ter The Misses Elbe and E ffieSage ritory involves 6,500 acres o f orchards in the Okanagan Valley. His special o f Dilley were visitors in Forest problem for several months past has Grove Sunday. been fighting “ fire blight,” a bacterial Miss Iva Devlin who is attend disease that kills the trees quickly. It ing school in Eugene is visiting seems to be more insidious in Canada her parents in this city. than it is in the Willamette Valley, and Keene o f this in order to stamp out the disease it has . Mr. and Mrs. been necessary for Mr. Brown to order l® *t ^ a ^ Francisco last many acres of orchards grubbed up. I t>aturaay. FELIX VERHOEVEN HAS OVER 5000 POSTCARDS FRESH COWS is a good move. But is it He toek a little trip to the Statue o f Liberty, and in the ear o f that! more than 10, (XX) idle men 1 massive monument he wrote a postcard I » that New House The Forest Grove Planing Mill Inc., General Contractors, deal in lumber, shingles, lath cement, lime, sand and plaster; building and roofing papers. All finish lumber kiln dried. W e make a specialty of house building and carry a full line of sash, door frames, mouldings, glass, paint and every thing required in the building line. Call and let us figure with you. Forest Grove Planing Mill Inc. General Contractors and Builders Council S t Forest Grove, Ore U. S. A. Livery, Feed and Sales Stables Good Teams and Rigs, Baggage Called for and Delivered to All Parts— Open Day and Night Handy, Clean and Comfortable Under the New Management W1RAK & BROWN Phone 742 EMMET QUICK, Mgr. W e invite you to inspect them. Peterson Bros. Phones 0198, nnd020X 22 Pacific Avenue Forest Grove, Oregon CANDIES FOR XMAS SPECIAL H om em ade C an d ies 10 pounds for - $1.00 2 pounds for - 25 cents He has just finished the inspection o f ’ Mrs. T. W. Sain and daughter, , 300,000 trees o f nursery stock before Mrs. Hankins o f Scoggins Valley they could be sent out to fruit men. vjsjted friends in this city Mon- I British Columbia has spent more on d a y public improvements, says Mr. Brown, I than all the other Canadian provinces Miss Bernice Via o f Buxton is | combined. He describes the climate as visiting her grandmother in this ! beautiful, with snow and sleighing I City. Three good square meals a day at $3 | The problem o f unemployment has about three or four months out of the Mrs. L. L. Burns went to St I per week is not a"bad record, consider j assumed the most serious proportions, year. He left that country last week Helens this week on a visit. 'j ing the present price of eggs, bacon , The nation is swarming with idle, pen- and the roads were in fine enough shape ! ^ and other foodstuffs, yet that is what niless men. Men who are willing to to ride his motorcycle over thirty-five Geo. Emerson Emerson of Newburpf . ----- ‘ Sunday ....... *L D the Boys’ Club o f Pacific University is work, who want work but for whom miles Of public highway. ! 1 SP0".1 with R F. Emer-| paying for board, and they are getting ! no work can be found. The following He is a graduate of Pacific Univer- ! *P this City, fat yn it, too. clipping from the Portland Oregonian, | sity and the Oregon Agricultural Col- Holman Ferrin who is teach- One o f their members, Z. A. Olson one of the most conservative papers in , lege. That the O. A. C. boys are ing School a t Washougal is Visit- by iiaui , an i a farmer boy that comes the state, ia significant. | making frond *> fart good is nrovad proved hv by t.h the fact that, that in g ill FoTGSt G l’OVG th is WGGk. from the rich agricultural section near “ Demand for labyr never was so a considerable number o f them has Mrs. Rose Olmsted and child-1 Hillsboro, has gained almost ten pounds scarce in Portland as it is at present. been taken by the Canadian govern ren are visiting relatives in this since he took up quarters at the club, “ On account o f the wonted winter in ment as fruit experts. city this week. and his condition is but i' dieative of the activity in lumber and logging camps, physical state of other members. railroad construction and public im Mrs. Sarah Ware and sister of Most o f them are taking some form provement work thousands o f men of Oregon City are guests at the o f athletics, and are supposed to use I various parts o f the territory tributary Blank home this week. pie and cake sparingly, but these deli to Portland have been laid off. Many cacies appear occasionally on their o f these men now are walking the Miss Anna Addison, who has menu. Edwy O. Dibble, o f Troutdale, streets o f Portland looking for work. he« n trimmer fo r Mrs. Lombard, is the mans n'r and buys all the food Other large numbers have left the city, Felix Verhoeven is a p< stcard hark l e f t for her home at Independence stuffs, and Mrs. Dei by is the matron. but labor agencies say that for every as well as a globe trotter. He has Sunday. The hoys say that the bread she hakes man who has left another one has come. over 5000 of them that he has gathered Mrs. L. R. Barker o f Oak Park, makes them think of home and mother. “ Employment agents who usually up from this and th the Old World and visited Thursday with Mrs. W. For breakfast they have some cereal have more orders for help than they can islands o f the sea, and they are a mine h . Barker o f this citv. and a big plate of buckwheat cakes till now are unable to provide work for o f education, if that figure o f sjetch Miss Gladys W aldersof Gaston, they are not limited to one or two hots a single individual. One o f the biggest is correct. visited at the Vanderberg home but they come in by the platterful, the agencies in town one that had places When Felix went to the big exposi rak l-S we moi in not Un stu«:lents, mul for 2000 men six months ago yesterday tion in Belgium, he picked «ip cants in in this city last week. gen the ix ,». seuil Ii'Hi'k for more w as without a single order. The big London, Paris, Brussels, and hut dreds Mr. C. B. Gatchell, former Tin s of C«►urs V is just ari appet i ze r ami blackboard on which the jobs, in more o f other places o f the most interesting manual training teacher in the aft. ■r tin- heits the ho} ijoy their active times, are listed, were clean. things he saw. and the happy | art High School who is now teaching baroil sud gs, (Hítalo«*s, home-made “ And no relief is in sight. Not un about it is the fart that he has a mem in South Bend, is visiting friends lin»«I and <h*?«ert, which ine!Indes raw til weather conditions permit will ac ory that retains all the postcard facts, in the Grove thiirweek. ai) 1 rook« 9Ú 1 fruits, pit- «mi rake. At tivity in construction camps and logging together w ith personal experiences that Mrs. Sarah Lawrence moved pre:a.-nt tht r■ are tifi«»en members. districts be resumed. Most labor men would make a tirst-rate lecture. to Hillsdale tnis week. They are Mei<srs. Olson, Bernanis, Mc- look for little or no demand for men He began life— well, he began as t <>y. M cN oil. Case, N. F rost. Price. B. iftitil A pril.” most of us do, but when he got a little Abraham, Goodman, Davis, Briggs, This is not a local situation and can larger he put to sea as a sailor and rode L. W ebb, and two Japanese, Okanoto not be solved by local authorities. This the briny deep for several years. His and Nakawaga. It is a cosmopolitan is shown by other newspapers in this experiences as a sailor would also make club, and among the nationalities rep and other section. The newspapers are a lecture. When Felix was in the East For Sale resented are Scotch, German. Irish, keeping as quiet as possible, but they a couple o f months ago he picked up .Swede and Japanese, and they might be cannot ignore the situation entirely. postcards of N iagara Fulls, W ashing, railed Ui.c’e Sam’s college family. The city o f Portland has taken steps ton’s monument, the old home o f Rob - ] W e have just received another to provide work for approximately 1000 ert E. Lee and General Grant’s tomb. car load o f choice fresh cows. M r . and Mrs. Elmer Schuse, of men. That Dillev were shopping in the * solution? There are Grove Mondnv, How About A Special Mixture of Xmas Candies, Cheaper than buy ing Stock Candies. W ill furnish in quantities for churches or family tree. GRISWOLD’S QUICK LUNCH AND CANDY KITCHEN Corner Pacific Ayenue and Council Street, Forest Grove. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK FOREST G R O V E , O R E G O N Capita! and Surplus $ 6 0 ,0 0 0 . U. S. D E P O S IT O R Y . OFFICERS: E. W. H A I N E S ................... P resident JOHN T E M PLE T O N - V ice -P resident GEO. G. HANCO CK - - - S ecretary B oard of D irectors : Geo. G. Hancock Allen Rice John Templeton T. VV. Sain H. J. Golf E. W. Haines Geo. Mizner Chris Peterson W. H. Hollis W. K. Newell H. T. Buxton