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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1916)
J Another Big Metro Feature! Road Supervisors ----- for the County POPULAR PLAYS AND PLAYERS PRESENT Mme. Petrova The Magnificent Emotional Star, in “ THE V A M P I R E ” An Intense, Powerful and Realistic Photoplay SWJii Star Theater V* SATURDAY Afternoon and Evening Jan. 29 Admission 5c and 10c NOTES AND PERSONALS will attend Pac fic University the Mrs. Elinor Sanford Large was in Portland Sunday. Business called Harry Goff to Portland last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Bryant visited in Gaston Sunday. Karl Schaeffer, of Hillside, was in this city the last of the week. Chas. Purden was out from Portland Thursday of last week. Mrs. C. E. Geiger visited with her brother in McMinnville Sun day. Miss Carrie Bamford and broth er of Hillside, were trading in town Monday. Mrs. A. G. Hoffman and dangh- ter, Aileen, were visiting in Port land Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wright of Thatcher were trading in town Monday. Mrs. Brady Chowning has been enjoying a visit from her father, A. Frieund, of Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. A . E. Gardner returned from their honeymoon trip Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shipley of Banks, were attending to busi ness in this city Monday. Charles Boise of Mason Ehr- man Co. of Portland, was looking after business here Monday. Harold Robinson, who has been working at Wenatchee, Wash., for several months, has returned and boro R. 3. Dist. 36—C. C. Nelson, Bacona. Dist. 37— Grant Mann, Cor- nelius. Dist. 38— George Pate, Hills on any promise we make to deliver work on a given date. The Express has one of the best equipped little printing plants in the Willamette valley, having added several hundred dollars’ worth of material to the Williams plant for . JOB PRINTING purposes and more good material is on the way. The management would very much appreciate it if those in need of stationery, office blanks, or any other kind of printing would call at the office for samples and prices. If you’re too busy to come to the office use the phone and a representative will call on you. PHONE 821 The initial number o f the Forest Tonight’s Entertainment Following is the program for the musical entertainment and play to be given at the Star The ater this evening by the Forest Grove Woman’s Club. Road supervisors for 1916, with Grove Express appeared last week. It their respective districts and post- includes eight five column pages and office addresses, as appointed b> Editor Benfer frankly admits that the aim o f the new paper is to make the MUSICAL PROGRAM the county court are as follows: publisher’s living and if it doesn’t do Overture— Walker’s Orchestra. District 1— Chas. Geiberger, this it will be discontinued. But here’s “ The Clock” — Melody Chorus. Tualatin. hoping it will live and prosper and then , “ Rondo Capriccioso” (Mendels Dist. 2—Z. T. Cole, Sherwood. some. Newspapers are getting pretty i sohn)— Russell Beals. Dist. 3— W. Hathorn, Laurel thick in Washington county, and. in fact have increased more rapidly than “ Hail to the Dawn” from “ Poet R. 1. have readers, but a few more or less j and Peasant” (Von Suppe)— Har Dist. 4— Ernest Dethlefs, Gas will not count. Except for the inter- j mony Chorus. ton R. 4. vals following the News’ shopping trips Cornet Solo— “ Weber’s L a s t Dist. 5— Otto Vogel. Cornelius Forest Grove has had two newspapers j Waltz,” M r. Enoch M ocre. for many years past and the college | R. 2. city is surely big enough to provide (Mrs. E. E. Williams, Chorus Dist. 6— Nels Larson, Hillsboro. picking for two. Hillsboro Independ Director.) Dist. 7—Jonas Moline, Beaver ent. “ THOSE DREADFUL D R E W S" ton R. 2. The Forest Grove Express appeared Cast of Characters Dist. 8— Henry T. Hesse, Hills-1 in its initial number, last week, with a Mrs. Richard Whitney, who lives next boro R. 2. Utah man as editor and publisher. to the Drews Mrs. A. U. Marsh Dist. 9 - A. Zwiener, Hillsdale His greeting to the people of Forest Julia, her daughter Mrs. W. Pollock Grove sounds good, and he takes an j R. 2. optimistic view o f things in general. Mrs. Clark, her sister............................ Dist. 10—J. J. Shevlin, Beaver- Miss Jenness Miller Forest Grove has been getting along ! ton. Mrs. Roberts, her friend......................... with one paper for a couple o f years Miss Manche Langley Dist. 11 -J. J. Wismer, Port and the Express publisher says there is a field there for another, and he beat Anastasia Drew Mrs. C. E. Richardson land R. 2. Ruby, her maid Mrs. M. I. Mallory Dist. 12— W. J. Gregg, Hills a prospective publisher to it in estab- lishing.—Hillsboro Argus. boro R . 3. George Withy com be and Omar The initial number (Vol. 1 No. 1) of Moore of Gaston, spent Sunday Dist. 13—A. B. Todd, Forest The Forest Grove Express is on our in this city. Grove. table. It is a neat five-column quarto, Dist. 14—A. L. Vanderzanden, issued every Wednesday, W. C. Benfer, Hancock & Wiles have $25,000 Forest Grove R 2. editor and publisher. The paper is a to loan on farms. 1-tf Dist. 15—J. M. Hiatt, Forest! spicy little sheet, containing all the important local and county news and Grove R. 1. Dist 16— Nicklaus Bothman, has a good advertising patronage. Its general make-up and 'appearance is a Banks R. 1. credit to the printer. Brother Benfer Dist. 17—John Friday, Banks. is an old newspaper man, having spent Dist. 18— H. L. Goff, Cor-j his lifetime in the journalistic field. The citizens of Forest Grove, no doubt Steam and Hot Water Heating nelius, R. 1. Dist. 19— Fred Hamel, Hills will appreciate the words from his pen, First Class Work Guaranteed. as he possesses more than ordinary Estimates Cheerfully Furnished. boro R. 4. ability which is an indispensible requi Dist. 20— Gabe Essner, Moun- site for a successful writer. The News S h o p w it l i ( « o n i o n n m l G o r d o n extends to the Express a welcome taindale. IKoreat ( ¡ r o w , O regon Dist. 21— George Fisher, Bux- hand, wishing it success. — Cornelius P h o n o <M3 News. | ton. The Forest Grove Express, Vol. 1, Dist. 22— Harry Robinson, Bea FOREST GROVE No. 1, W. C. Benfer editor and pub verton R . 1. lisher, is a new “ independent weekly Dist. 23— H. W. Scott, Gaston newspaper’ ’ published at Forest Grove, next semester. Mr. and Mre. Grover Rogers of Portland visited Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Reder over Sunday. Miss Ruth Putnam of Hills boro was visiting with Mrs. Rose Vermilyea, of this city Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Jackson of Hillsboro visited one day last week with Mr. and Mrs. J C. Latta. E. H. Martin, salesman for Pearson Ryan Co. of Portland, was calling on local merchants Monday. Frank Emerson and J. F. Mc- ; r . i . Feeters were clerking in theCaples Dist. 24—J. H. Hoffman, Gas store while Art was sick with the ton R. 2. grippe. Dist. 25— Joe Z i m m e r m a n , Ivan Donaldson, who was called Hillsboro R. 2. to Tillamook by the death of his Dist 26—John Trachsel, Beav mother, has returned to his school erton R. 2. work at P. U. Dist. 27—Henry Keenon,Banks The many friends of Gordon R. 3 . Brown, son of M r. and Mrs. Os Dist. 28—J. B. Campbell, Hills car Brown of this city, will be boro R. 3. pleased to learn that he has been Dist. 29—J. S. West, Forest offered and accepted the position Grove R. 1. of superintendent of the Horti Dist. 30—J. M. Vanderzanden, cultural Experimental Station at Banks R. 3. Hood River, this state. Gordon Dist. 31— T. R. Moore, Laurel is a graduate of Pacific Univer ' R. 2. sity and of the Horticultural de Dist. 32—Thos. Bradley, Hills partment of the 0 . A. C.and for dale R. 2. the past three years has been Pro Dist. 33—Ben Heesacker, For vincial Fruit Inspector for the est Grove R. 2. Canadian government at Vernon, Dist. 34—Ambrose Schmidlin, B. C. He visited his parents in Buxton. Dist. 35— Carl Berggren, Hills this city during the holidays. We’ll Make Good W h a t T h ey Say boro. Dist. 39—Abbo Peters, Sher wood R 5. Dist. 40 —Walter Watkins, For est Grove. Dist. 4 1 - Fred Papple, Beaver ton. m- v. Dist. 42—Otto Brose, Timber. Dist. 43 —Albert Kruger, Sher- wood Dist 44 Will Edy, Sherwood. Dist. 45—Alfred Pieren, Hills boro R. 1. . , , Dist. 46— D. L. Smith, Banks R 2 Dist. 47— Nick Kemmer, Beav erton R 3. . Dist. 48— John Schmeltzer, Sher wood R 3. _____. Dist. 49 —Jasper Lytle, Gornel- 1US. Dist. 50 - Frank Williams, Hillsboro R. 4. Dist. 61— H. V. Meade. Orenco. Dist. 52—W. H . White, Gaston. Dist. 53— C. M . Scofield. A C. R . Laslmm Plumbing Undertaking Co. which has reached the exchange desk. It is neat typographically and starts out with a fair advertising patronage and a goodly budget o f interesting news.—MeMinr.ville News-Reporter. J. S. BUXTON, Prop. Funeral Directors and Embalmers PHONE 642 Forest Grove, Oregon Charles F. Levick Called Charles F. Levick, who re sided in the David’s Hill district for the past three years, died at II CHOWNING, Prop. his home of heart failure last Wednesday evening, Jan. 19th, Baths Shaves Haircuts Shampoos after a short illness. Deceased was born at Seneca, Main Street Kansas, fifty-one years ago and Nixon Building was married to Miss Charlotte! Tallman at Snohomish, Wash., Nov. 6th, 1389. Six children came to bless this union, five of whom with the widow, survive, as fol lows: Robert, aged 23; George, 21; Grace, 14; Hazel, 9 and Helen, 3. He is also survived by a brother and two sisters in Wash ington and one brother in Okla homa. Charles Francis Levick was a I SQUEEZE THREE LAMPS INTO ONE provident husband, a kind father If you could combine three old fashioned and good neighbor and many carbon lamps into one, you would get only the same amount of light as you would now friends and neighbors will mourn obtain from a single NATIONAL MAZDA LAMP his death. He was a member of the Forest Grove lodge of Odd and this clear, cheerful light burns for the cost of one carbon lamp. Fellows, and that order had It will cost but little to equip your home charge of the funeral, which was throughout with these lamps today. held from the Forest Grove Un H. J. W A L R A T H , Two Doors West of First National Rank dertaking company’s chapel at 2 Rea. Phone 61 Office Phone 486 o ’clock last Saturday afternoon, Rev. R. E. Dunlap preaching the sermon. The burial service o f 1 the Odd Fellows was read at the grave. SIGNS, SHOW CARDS, LANTERN PALACE BARBER SHOP A. M. SELEY, ------------ SLIDES------------- Card o f Thanks The undersigned desire to thank Leave word at Palace Barber Shop the membersof Washington lodge, I. 0 . O. F., and all their friends UO LLIS & GRAHAM and neighbors for acts of kindness { and assistance during the late ill Attorneys At Law ness and after the death of their - Oregon husband and father, Charles F. Forest Grove, Levick. Respectfully, N .H O F F M A N Mrs. Charlotte Levick and Children. Attorney At Law Hancock & Wiles carry Life, Accident & Fire Insurance. 1-tf Forest Grove, - Oregon J