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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1916)
She Jfnrrst (Srmtp tx^rresn Published every Wednesday at Forest Grove. Oregon. W. C. Benfer. Editor and Publisher. Entered as second-class matter Jan . 12, 1916, at the postoffi Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 16T9 TH U RSD A Y, JU L Y 20. 1916 N O T E S AND Most of the men who abu>e President Wilson for not declaring war on Mexico are too old to enlist. ______________ CO M M E N T S nabob or a foreign ranch boss or mine manager? W e’ll Save You Money We believe that history teaches on anything in the line of us that peace in Mexico would come naturally and remain for Groceries, Dry Goods and Notions ever if each industrious Mexican Iaidies’ and Gents’ Underwear had a chance to own a piece of at half price ; Children's regular Mexico and was free to work it. 25c hose, 2 pair for 25c. Mexico cannot be “ pacified” by shooting peons or holding them in Corner Third St. and Pacific Ave terror of our guns. Peace cannot F. A . MOORE I’hrnir t l x come to Mexico so long as the birthright of the Mexicans is in Silo Staves Shakespeare Up to Date the loot bags of their masters. Thia is the modern story Go to Me Far Ian* Brew, for And let us remember that the Of those lovers, true and tried, your silo staves, 2x6x32, all ready last time we went to war under Brave Romeo and his Ju liet, to put up, at 60c each. the alleged auspices of divine And other folk beside. M< K a k l a n k B r o s ., providence we “ benevolently as Said Romeo, “ Will you wed me? 23-tf Manning, Oregon. similated” the Phiilipine Islands. My heart is Tempest tossed, Remember that we have had I'm in a sorry pickle, Free Methodist Church I fear Ia>ve's Labor L o s t." national indigestion ever since Sahbath school 10 a .m ., preach Remember that a f t e r eighteen Then Ju liet blushed and answered, ing 11 a. m. and 8 p. rn . prayer Said she. “ Pray do not make years we have not got the little meeting on Wednesday evening at , So Much Ado Aisiut Nothing, brown brother a bit further along .... 8 p. tn. All are welcome«!. , . . . . . I H marry for your sake, the road than is the Mexican peon. J . N . W o o d , Pastor. “ W e'll set the time and place now, Remember we have tried shoot If that will suit you beat; The attendance at the Christian ing. water-curing a n d bribing It shall be As You Like It Endeavor l a wn party a t the withont avail. And you may name each g u est." Bishop home last Friday night If we would see peace in Mex On Twelfth Night they were married; was not what it would have been ico, let us permit the Mexicans to It was a stately show. had the weather been warmer, Where all of Shakespeare's people retake Mexico for themselves. but those who went had a good It will hurt Hearst and his kind; Were walking to and fro. time. Two Gentlemen of Verona it will sell no munitions. Waited on the groom; The Portland Oregonian s ix But Mexicans, free to till Mex The Merry Wives of Windsor times a week and the Forest ico's soil and work her mines FOR Made music in the room. Grove Express once a week for T H E M SEL V E S will bring an end The Merchant of Venice was usher only $6.00 jht year, which is the to laziness, bushwhacking, sloth- To these guests so fine ami gay. price of the Oregonian alone. fulnt-ss. ignorance and physical While Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, and mental filth. It will end Gave the fair bride away. those things in Mexico as surely Great Julius Caesar lead the van as it has e ded them in Switzer With plumes and banner bright; King I.ear and Macia-th arm in arm, land or in New Zealand. Closing Out are “ lazy” and “half-naked,” that they “prefer to roam a« bandit raiders to staying peacefully at home,” that they “ would rather The United States department raise hell than beans.” The fact of a civil war that has of agriculture reports that 43 car- lasted three years is cited as proof iads of strawberries were shipped ut of Oregon this year, as against positive that we. under Provi- pence, must go down and machine- 24 cars out of Ca'ifomia. gun the fear of God into their The county fair is the Chautau hearts and drop dynamite and qua of the farmer, orchardist and love of their felk>w-men upon -took grower and the city folks their heads from war aeroplanes. are the spectators. Do your duty Carranza, having been president to the department to which you for two years and having failed to end civil war, is a “fraud” and oelong. ______________ Cats, rats and dogs are said to “imposter,” “ impotent.” a “joke carry the germs of infantile par president,” the head of a ‘straw alysis, so if baby must play with government” and so on, and so on kitty, see that the latter is kept and so on. And yet, in the seven years' war away from filth and other cats which freed the American colonies which mar not be clean. from British rule the struggle The average value of farm land often descended to guerilla war in the United States has increased fare, and it has been held up to at the rate of $2 per acre per year us as the highest proof of un for the past ten years and is now quenchable patriotism that George $45 55 per acre, according to the Washington held the ragged rem agricultural department reports nant of his army together for the winter at Valley Forge when he The business world is made up was ali but deserted by the weak of two classes of men—those who and infant straw if you piease), are on time and those who have government of the American col the best reasons for being late. onies. The man who meets his engage To this day England’s com Roseburg—Forty men at work on ments at 9:01 misses the chance plaint is that o u r forefathers telephone line to Myrtle Point. Shelburo—New road to Santiam River that is there at 9.00 The man fought from cover, in Indian style, and ferry being built. who misses his train gives the and we were then, in the eyes of Myrtle Creek—N ew bridge across large order to the other fellow. respectable Europe, ragged ban Umpqua opened to traffic. The man who leaves the office dits who preferred to roam the Suttles Lake irrigation project, of a: 5:59 misses the great oppor woods and plains and to fight Jefferson County, bonds being'sold to tunity that comes at 6:00. The rather than to work. The men irrigate 12.000 aeres. W ater t o b e opportunity always goes to the of '76 were outlaws and traitors stored in Blue and Suttles Lakes, 25 miles distant from center <>f project. man who is on time. Paste it in by royal decree. Income taxes collected in Oregon for your hat; write it on your cal After four score years of inde year ju st closed $118,437, as against endar pad; carve it on your desk; pendence and organized govern $123,306 for year previous. Marshfield—State will supervise ex emblazon it over the door—be on ment, we ourselves plunged into a penditure of good roads bond issue of time. civil war which wasted a far Coo* County of $362,000. greater proportion of the life and Cottage G rove--0. P. A E. Ry. erect “SOM EW H ERE” Europe’s war cloud is casting property of the north and south ing gasoline storage warehouse. Cooe Bay bar survey shows depth of its shadow even across the .-eas. than has yet been sacificed by the channel 27 feet low tide 6O0 feet wide. Here is a heart breaking tale frorri warring nations of Europe. And Willamina to have new M. E. Church. Los Angeles. Little Jimmie St. because Lincoln could not end American Soda Products company Dizer, 15 years old. was called that civil war in two years—or of San Francisco installing plant north home from school to his mother's three—will history be permitted east of Paisley to refine alkali. E ch o~0. W. R & N. company will bedside. A few moments after to tag him with even a fraction of build 2100 foot passing track here. the epithets heaped upon Carran his arrival she passed away. Hood River—Apple confection pro “ Mamma is dead. I don’t za : ducts factory to be built. Not that we even suggest com Coquilie—Burned creamery to be re want to live any more. I want to die with her,” Jimmie sobbed. parison of Carranza with Lincoln built. An hour later they found him — but none the less having in Newport to build concrete seawall mind the variation due to race, 710 feet long. dead; he had taken poison. B aker—Rich strikes reported in Con Jimmie’s father is “somewhere environment and circumstances, ner Creek mines. Mexico is now going through Cottage Grove—Standard Oil company in France.” permitted to install station here. much the same purgatory that You other little Jimmies, aren’t Grants Pass will have sugar beet silo you glad your name is Smith or America did in 1776 and in 1861, to feed 150 head cattle. Brown or Jones, and that you except that Mexico is getting hers Stayton—Black Eagle Mines develop have a president who k^eps your in one dose instead of two. $200 per ton ore. The American colonists saw Marshfield—Contract let for r a d i o daddies out of war?—Portland their government (the English station. News. Bum s—Crane in new terminus of rail parliament and king giving away road into Harney Valley. PEACE IN MEXICO, OR empires of lands, forests, mines, Springfield to have new skating rink PIEC ES OF MEXICO trading concessions and the re built. Laying aside for the time being sources of a virgin con inent to Estacada to hard surface main bus the phrases “our national peril,” royal favorites like Lord Balti iness street. “ the life of the nation at stake,” more and the Penns and to trad Iron Ore deposit located 14 miles and other similar tommyrot, the ing a n d exploiting companies from Cottage Grove. Portland woolen mills has bought and jingo editors have gone back to (the forerunners of modern, im is moving Ellensburg woolen mill here. their former jargon—the abuse of personal corporations;. Congressman Sin nottof Eastern Ore Mexico and Mexicans, says the The war of the American rev gon promoting jack-rabbit hat industry. Monmouth plans civic improvements Omaha Daily News independent;. olution was fought to free land Hearst and his fellow land and- and opportunity to the colonists. to build model school city. The Dalles—Libby canning plant lets mine-grabbers in Mexico, ar.d the The American civil war was contract for subway track under rail munitions makers, who have made fought to free men. road. huge and bloody profits out of The Mexican peons are fighting Portland—Strikers on 0 . W. R. & N. tunnel return to work. Europe’s war and want another for those two things today. Available for a naval base, mouth of home-made war that will sweep Who shall blame a peon for be- Columbia River channel will be 40 ft. up more profits on a tide of blood, ing “lazy” when he has no plot deep at low water and 700 ft. wide by have given their editors a new of ground of all those millions of August 1st. cue. acres, whereon he can work. Sumpter—Ribbon mine shipping out The public is to be told, over Who shall say he ought to stay much ore. and over again, and with infinite at home when ‘ home” is a cane The Express Is prepared to meet variations, that the Mexicans are stalk shack whose poor shelter he the prices of traveling calendar “steeped in ignorance,” that they,holds only at the will of a native salesmen in lots of 100 or more. SIGNS OF PROSPERITY . . A < d > A truly royal sight. Anthony and Cleopatra, With jew els’ flash and gleam. Made of the stately pageant A Midsummer Night’s Dream. SUMMER TOURS But the swarthy Moor, Othello, Suddenly changed the scene Into a Comedy of Errors With his wit so sharp and keen: FOREST GROVE TO S A N F R A N C ISC O When he joked the blushing Romeo About Taming of the Shrew; But they gave him Measure for M chh J ure Without any more ado. RO UND T R IP A threatening Tempest rose then. But King Henry broke its spell By telling a merry W inter's Tale; And A ll's Well that Ends W ell! Home Friend Magazine. OREGON ELECTRIC D ated TIM E CARD July IS. 1916 Arr r. g . Air. Pt. L». Pt. L». F. G. 7:40 6:50 a m 8:07 6:20 a m - 8:15 a m 9:32 7:05 a m ■ 10:25 a m 11:40 8:15 a m 9:45 a m 11:00 1:15 p m 2:25 1:45 3:30 p m 4:40 12:30 p m 5;i si 5:30 p m 6:45 It pm 5:05 p m 6 2 6 6:15 p m 7:30 7:40 p m 9:05 7:20 p m 8:40 9:45 p m 11:00 11:16 p m 12:35 P. E. Ar E. ELECTRIC TlIME t ARI) L». Pt. A i t . Pt. L». P. ( 7:50 t7:15 6:35 a m C7JB a m 8:45 t9:05 a m 11:10 11:00 t9:41 9 m 1 2 0 2:15 t*:00 9 m 3:20 t3:30 3:50 P m 5:05 5:40 t6:15 t4:34 P m 5:55 8:00 t6:22 P m 7:45 t i l : 15 • P m 10:50 ss 1:00 Arr. P. G. a m 8:35 a m 10:22 a m U 16 p m 3:30 1 *0 pm 7:00 pm 7:35 p m p m 9:20 p m 12:35 p m 2:20 Good for 30 Days Ninety-day T irkrt $35 Meals and berth included on the Twin Palaces S .S . Northern Pacific arid Great N orthern-only 26 hours at *eH. 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