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/ i Oregon Historical Society H E LP YO U R FAVO RITE The best developer o f a community is a progressive and representative news paper. Send the "Press’ * to friends whom you wish to welcome to tb'« F orest G rove The PEOPLE’S Paper:— Prints the news o f Forest Grove and Washington County accurately and when it is news, endeavers to faithfully represent the interests of all, treats everyon« belongs to you, is absolutely independent, is always progressive, and urges your activity in the further development o f this community's great pos FOREST GROVE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON VOL. 5 FAMOUS BOWMAKER FINDS FINAL REST F, S. Barnes, Aged 75, Dies After Picturesque Career As Soldier, Watchmak er and Bowmaker. WON LAURELS ABROAD His Bow Won Champion ship of America. Maga zine Writers Fre quently Came to See Him. THURSDAY, MARCH 5,1914 H. E. FERRIN CLUB SCRIBE ri — c. Blower m his trips over the state. Guests at the “ Dexter House” — A few days since some special guests were at “ The Dexter House,” new name for the residence of the missionaries from Turkey, Dr. and Mrs. R. M. Cole. Mrs. Amy Cowles, missionry from South Africa,acting secretary o f the Woman’s Home Mis sion Board for this Coast, and who had come up from Campbelle, Cal., to meet several appointments in state and Washington. At supper before going to the meeting at the Congregational church Prof. Proctor and family, as also Dean Farnham, of the college, were invited so they might meet the inter esting speaker. Following her suc cess in the Grove she has been spending a week in Portland speaking to various churches and interested au diences, sometimes speaking two or three times a day. NO. 33 TATTOOED BIRD FROM MONT. Currey, Resigned At a meeting o f the Commercial Club held last night, George H. Cur- rey resigned as secretary, and Has kell Ferrin was elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. Ferrin is assistant cashier of the Forest Grove National Bank, and is a graduate o f Pacific University. He is eminently fitted for his secreta ryship. It is urged that those who owe pledges to the club should pay up so as to meet responsibilities. It was voted to get out descriptive literature of Forest Grove, which will be distributed by Publicity Agent Geo. jame fairness, is ever at you Acre iti ATiur RjiAnr n x \ j c CLOSES IN NINE MORE DAYS C A N D ID A TE S A R E Y O U GOING TO W IN ? -J U S T A F E W MORE D A Y S LE FT FOR A LOT OF H ARD W O RK — A LL H A V E AN EQUAL CHANCE TRIPLE VOTES ON ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS Now is the Time for Those Who Have not Done Much Up To the Present Time to Get in and Win— No More Votes Counted Until Close of Co.itest— Send Reserve Votes In. Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Christine Mackrodt .................. Alta Williams ............................. Joy Adelott ................................... Una Emerson ............................. Ruth Austin ............................... Winifred Littlehales .................. Wanda Todd ................................ City City City City City City City 95,620 87,940 67.140 47,240 24,360 16.140 6,480 Man at Hillsboro Served Other State Time in One of the men who were recently arrested while stealing clothing at the Toggery in Beaverton, and landed in the county jail at Hillsboro, has been indentified as an ex-convict of the Montana state prison. This man who now goes under the name o f Ed die McNutt, was convicted o f second degree assault and sentenced to the pen June 3, 1911, under the name of Harvey Walker. He also served time there under the name of Ed. Burns. Sheriff Reeves suspicioned that two Beaverton robbers had done time before, and he “ mugged” them, send ing their photos to the wardens of prisons all over the Coast. The war den of the Montana pen sent two pho tographs o f the man known as Har vey Walker to Sheriff Reeves, and they are the dead image o f McNutt, the Montana officer also said that Walker had a horse head and horse shoe and apehor and flag tattooed on his right forearm, and when Sheriff Reeves came to look at McNutt’s arm there shown the same tattoo marks exactly as outlined. No word has yet been received concerning McNutt’s partner, but Sheriff Reeves thinks he will soon hear from other prisons that have harbored him. BUSINESS CHANGES MADE THIS WEI • B. F. Purdy, Fred Watrous and Golden Rule Sell to Different Parties. CABLES TO BUILD BRICK i To Put up Good Structure on First Avenue North. Three business concerns changed hands this week. Arthur B. Caples and his father, J. W. Caples, bought ! out the B. F. Purdy store on Pacific Avenue and will soon call for bids for the construction of a brick building on First Avenue North, abutting the store building of King & Caples. The structure will be a one-story building and will have & frontage o f 66 feet, and will be 76 feet deep. For many years J. W. Caples conducted a store here with James Adams, in fact they were knwn all over the country and were pioneer merchants. A. B. Caples looks happy and natural be hind the counter again, ar / friends. The firm nar •* Caples A Co. Mr. Purdy, who is a mi •» city council, owns a residence on Third Sttreet, and will continue to> make this his home. He stated to the ! Press that he would just kill time for a while and rest up. R. W. Oaks and son Edgar, o f Caldwell, Idaho, have taken charge o f the Golden Rule Store, and are this week invoicing. They still operate one o f the largest stores in Caldwell. Fred Watrous Tuesday sold his confectionery store to M. F. Derting, who has been living here several months. He form erly lived at Gol- dendale, Wash. Mr Watrous will go on the road with an advertising proposition. F. S. Barnes, the world famous bow maker, and one o f the most pictur esque characters on the Pacific Coast, died at his home in this city early last Friday morning, aged 75 Miss Merle M a u r e y ............................... D ille y ........... 41,280 years. Miss Lena McBurney.......................... Gaston ........ 37.140 With the last Barnes bow ever AN EVANGELISTIC SUCCESS. Miss Tessie Johnston .......................... Gates Creek 46,180 made the championship of America Miss Arlie Fineout ............................. Gales Creek .......................... 39,460 was won last August by Dr. J. W. Miss Adelaide Lewton .............. . . . Route 37,840 Good Results With R. I Doughty, of Tacoma, in an archery Preacher and Thomas Miss Ruth Willis ............................... Bnks 24,780 contest at Cambridge, Mass. With Singer. Miss Ida Oglesby.................................. Route 2 12,140 his death passes the local industry, Miss Vida C hallacom be....................... Cornelius .......................................... 7,180 for it is regretable that no one ever Last Sunday night the series oi went into the workshop of the old meetings which have been in progress All the world loves a hustler, sure and do it this week. Remember at the First M. E. Church for the past master bow-maker and learned the PROF. W. G. HARRINGTON And you know ‘tis true, that if you do not qualify for the Ex month closed with most satisfactory craft. Make a noise like a hustler, tra Votes it may be the means o f you results. In spite of the fact that there Magazine writers from all over the Will Give Lecture Recital Monday on And the world will help you. losing the prize you are working for. were numerous other meetings and United States have come to Forest Kipling— Free to Public Your competitors will take advantage entertainments to attract the public Grove to get interviews with the late Candidates, now is the time to se- ' o f this offer, so must you. The Extra the congregations were good every F. S. Barnes, and when travellers The lecture which will be given by were passing through the city they the faculty of Pacific University cure a lot o f Extra Votes; this is one Votes are what will win for you. night. The interest was good from the always stopped to have a chat with * Monday evening March 9th, will be grand opportunity for those who have ! No one candidate has a cinch on him. Only a few months ago C. H. delivered by Professor W. G. Harr- not done very much up to the present any one o f the prizes, the contest is Stevens, who has been writing for ington, subject, “ The Poetry of Rud time to get in and win. Any candi- still open and the Grand Prize is date can win a special ballot if she within the reach of all. All that it tne Youth’s Companion for 40 years, will but try. Now is the time to get will take to win vs a little hard work was here for a writeup of the Barnes those promfces in. If you have ever bow industry. worked in your life, you want to be ' (ConUnuelTlyr^^ Will Thompson, the well known Se attle poet-lawyer, was a close friend SEND IN THIS COUPON FOR YOURSELF OR A FRIEND o f Mr. Barnes, and frequently’came to j COUNTY COURT NEWS shoot on the local archery course. A THE PRESS, A. Katz, who was arrested a couple few years ago he wrote a beautiful Forest Grove, Oregon. o f weeks ago, charged with stealing poem which he dedicated to the old some iron posts from John Shute, o f archer. Enclose Find.................................. Dollars as payment for my subscrip Hillsboro, had a hearing before Jus In the Fall o f the year Mr. Barnes tice Smith Monday and was held to would go up into the Cascade Moun tion to the PRESS fo r ...................... Years. Please credit the votes answer to the circuit court in $600 tains and secure enough yew wood to bonds. last until another Fall,and in the little Mrs. Dora Reed Barber, of Forest Miss shop on First Avenue North, near the Grove went to Salem Tuesday, taking postoffice, he w’hittled out the bows a girl by the name of Krug, to the Signed that sold from $25 to $100, and which school for feeble-minded. The Krug I went to all parts o f America, Eng girl lived with her parents near Jorth land, Scotland, Australia and South Adress Plains, and has always been mentally Africa. yard Kipling.” These lectures deficient. As a boy at Rossee, New York, which have been given by the faculty ' Clip this coupon and send to THE PRESS Office and help some young There is no session o f circuit court where he was born, Mr. Barnes made have been of the first class and the lady win a prize. Votes are issued on both old and new subscriptions beginning and increased toward the being held this week, and everything bows and arrows, and after serving people o f the town should consider i last o f the meetings. is quiet around the court house. A (Continued on Pages Two and Six) Uncle Sam in the Civil War he again it a privilege to be able to hear Dr. R. E. Dunlap was the minister couple o f divorce cases were decided took up bow making as a pastime, j these men upon the subjects with through the entire time and those last week for outside parties, the He went from New York to Oberlin,' which they are familiar. Admission ian church under the preaching of Delivers Interesting Sermons— Alonzo Dix and later assisted in or Rev. Ashley o f Nez Perce, Idaho who failed to hear him missed some plaintiffs getting the relief as prayed Ohio, where he learned the watch | free, ganizing the first confeience of this who preached at the Christian Church of the strongest sermons that have for. The trial jury for the past term making business, and was married to Martha E. Bowen in 1864, and in 1868 himself a pioneer in the fullest sense . L'hurch in Oregon, in 1897, at Dilley both morning and evening last Sun been given in Forest Grove for some o f court was dismissed Saturday by they moved to Elgin, Illinois, where of the word. Being a man of gentle Oregon, he was licenced to preach day delivered two strong addresses. time. Not to the minister alone was Judge Campbell, and a new jury list he was employed in the watch fac and loving disposition, strong convic - 1 ' n ^ ' s church, and the next year at In the morning he spoke upon mis the success o f the meetings due but has been drawn. A few divorce cases tory. From there he went to Roches tions, and firm as the Rock o f Ages, 1 Cornelius, Oregon, was ordained to sions and said that the church must to the singing evangelist, Mr. Thomas and suits for money are on the dock its own Isaacs, also, who always delights his et to be taken up by the court when ter, Minn., in 1876 and in 1883 to he was fitted by nature to become the n**n*stry, and under his preching be missionary to preserve audience with his singing. And to the March term begins. Fargo, S. D., and from there to Ore one o f the hardy characters who many were brought into the church, j life. The churches that have closed Saturady Judge Campbell released " as a faithful worker in the their doors are the anti-missionary the chorus choir credit must be given gon in 1885. For some years he blazed the trail for the westward Elmer Davis, the youth who was ar them for their excellent work under Lords Vinyard and might thruthful- churches. In the evening in speaking worked for Albert Feldenheimer and march o f civilization. rested a few weeks ago at Sherwood Hendrickson, o f Portland, at the Elder Sturdevant was born in W y ly say “ 1 have fought a good fight.” upon a common sense religion he the direction o f Mr. Isaacs. There were a number o f conver for robbery. L. B. Stichler, the boy He is survived by his wife Mrs. said that people ought to use as much watchmaker’s business, and in 1893 oming county Pennsylvania on the he moved with his -family to Forest j 19th day o f August 1848, in which Belle A. Sturdevant and five children reason in religion as in the things of sions and a number more who made arrested with him, was released hy Grove, where he continuously resided he grew to manhood, and on August as follows: Mrs. Edith Miller, Port- life. We do not understand the sun- a start in one way or another. These the juvenile court. The fathers of the Oregon; Monta, Sturdevant, shine; we can not analyze the rays and meetings which have just closed havt boys who were sentenced to one year until his death. ! 18th 1872, at the age o f 24 he land The funeral was held at the house married Mi»s Belle A. Johnson and Cornelius, Oregon; Mrs. May Du- tell what they are made o f; nor how been the most successful meeting' ■n jail and paroled, said their off Sunday afternoon and the old soldiers five years later emigrated to the ay, Weiser, Idaho; Mrs. Bessie and why the punkirl and watermelon | which have been held in the Methodist pring were not guilty, and the boys vere let go with a lecture and told to attended in a body. Rev. D. T. Thom state o f Texas then one o f the wild Hutchins, North Plains, Oregon, and grew so wondrously; but still we re- | Church for several years. eport each month for a while to the ' I. L. Sturdevant, Cornelious, Ore. i cept these things and use them. We ' as. o f the Congregational Church, est spots on the western frontier. Oregon and New England— Ificera. preached the sermon. Interment was Three years later he moved back to He is also survived by a brother in ! should show the same attitude with Spring-like days are with us, the the state of Kansas, a sister in Penn God’s Word. If we do not under-1 in the Mountain View cemetery. Pennsylvania, and in 1883 he start skylark, robin, etc., being in evidence A wife and daughter, Mrs. A. U. ed with his family on the long trail sylvania, ard nine grand children. stand the miracles, the resurrection, Grove Friends Meet in Portland-- by songs as well as presence, while The funeral services were conduct or virgin birth we should accept to Oregon, settling in the town o f Marsh, of this city, survive. Miss Nora Smith went to Portland the newly awakened frogs and hens Beaverton, Washington county, the ed by Rev. Alonzo Dix at the Meth- them as given o f God. the first o f the week to meet her talk also of spring, quite in contrast same year, two years later he moved 0<*'s* church in Cornelius, but many CHRISTIAN SOLDIER DIES friend Miss Myrtle Butler. They had this Grove winter to all other places ■ - ■ ■ • | to a homestead in the northern part were compelled to stand in the street a pleasant time and attended the in the country. Think of Northern Knights Express Thanks— Elder Sturdevant, Poet-Preacher An- of Washington county where being for lack o f room. Theatre together. Miss Butler £<- New York and New HamptHrc — swers Call at Cornelius Home j without roads he packed in the pro- ¿rly lived in this city and wc The Knights o f Pythias o f this city porting 50 degrees below zei' a to ------------- j visions fo r his family on his back. orite in social circles. She i_ through the Forest Grove Press wish times, while in the latter for V Grandma Campbell and Marion to thank the business men for the The sudden death o f Elder H. S. In 1891 he sold his homestead and a good positioh with a depa months it was belew zero all the ' Sturdevant at his home in Cornelius, bought a small place in Cornelius Coe, o f McMinnville, spent the week artistic window displays made by store at Redmond, Central ( . Oregon, on February 27, 1914, was a where he lived at the time o f his end at the home o f Mr. and Mrs M. them in honor o f our Golden Jubilee. W. C. T. U. Will Meet Tomorrow, i She does all the buying o f the dr> great shock to the community. He death. He was an ardent Christian goods for the concern. She was in* Friday— Wirak, o f this city. The Wirak f a m - ------------------------- - was an old timer in Cornelius, and having united with the Baptist church The W. C. T. U. will meet at the Portland for that purpose. You are invited to look over the held the universl respect and love o f 1 when 24 years o f age. In 1888 he ily have moved from Third Street to home o f Mrs. J. M. Barber Friday, its citizens, changed his beliefs to some extent Pacific Avenue, between Third and new wall paper designs at Roe & Co’s March 6, at 3 in the afternoon. All Before you rtpaper your house this Coming o f pioneer stock he w a s , and united with the Advent Christ- Fourth streets. 32tf members are urged to be present. spring sec Roe & Co. 32tf _____________ Your suggestion, criticism and cooperation is solicited to help make the "Press” a true representative o f all the people o f Forest Grove and o f Washington County. T W E N T Y STILL H A V E A GOOD C H AN C E _ T W O W E E K S A N D T W O D A Y S MORE TO W IN THE PRIZES IN THE PRESS C O N TEST