AN IND EPEN DEN T WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Vol. I, No. 34
FOREST GROVE. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUG. 31. 1916
$1.50 per Year
NEWSY NOTES Of
G E N » INTEREST
lingham feed store, on South
Ed. Sayres is enjoying a visit
First street, and before the liâmes
from his mother, who resides at
could be checked the building was
Dayton, Wash.
badly scorched It is the opinion
Mr. Iaipsig of Portland spent a
of some of the firemen that the
portion of the week at the C.
blase wa^ of incendiary origin;
Hollovoet farm west of town.
that it was started with oil under
Mrs.
Elva
Watson
had
business
President Hurley and Secretary ' a stairway. T h e oroperty is in Portland Monday.
Mrs. V. H. DeCuman and little
Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs.
fobs of Gaston visited her parents, James F. Reeher, their four sons,
Reder of the Washington County owned by Elmer Mink of Mt.
Miss Lizzie Armstrong spent
Fair association were in Portland Hood, was insured and had been Saturday in Portland.
Sunc^1^ ^ ra ^ * Smith, over sjx daughters and twelve grand-
Monday, boosting for the fair and vacant nearly a year.
m “ Ruby Randall and n tt|e ! ^¡Idren nnjoyed a family reunion
Ethel Ward of Gaston is visit
Considering the inflammability ing Alice Ralston for a few days. son left Monday for her home a t ; a^. e pioneer Reeher home, 3_
Mr. Reder reports that they visit
ed the Chamber of Commerce, the of the structure the firemen were
Miss Ruth Patton of Nehalem Mackay Idaho, after a months miles west of Forest Grove, on
lucky to save any of it.
valley is visiting friepds in the visit with Miss Lena Smith.
Automobile club and the Portland j
the Wilson river. At noon there
city.
Ad club and the officers of these
I-awrence
Mayea
is
spending
was a big banquet of chicken, fish
S O C IA L N O T E S
Rev. Dunlap is expected to the week with relatives here and ,and all the good things needed for
associations promised to do what
preach at the M. E. church next will enter Columbia University,; an enjoyable repasc. The after_
they could to secure a good a t- j Mr. and Mrs. Walter Itoswurm Sunday.
Portland, next week to continue:
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attendance of Portland business were given a surprise party last
noon was spent in talking over
his
studies
Herbert
Dunlap
and
Clayton
Friday evening, when a crowd of
men during the fair.
Mrs. E. A. Sharp entertained the things that have happened
Forest Council, K. and L. of S. Giltner were Portland visitors
The offices of the Oregonian motored out to their home. The Sunday.
; Mrs. Marked of Spring Brook. since the older children left the
Judge Hollis returned Monday Ore., at St. Anthony’s rectory old homestead and in getting ac
and Journal were also visited and evening was spent swinging, danc
the managers have promised to ing and, pi tying games on the evening from a business trip to over Sunday. The ladies were quainted with new grandchildren,
girl friends together in the east.
send representatives to the fair lawn, Miss Marjorie Hesseltine Yaquina Bay.
nieces, nephews and cousins.
Miss
Edith
Weaver
of
La-
and
Miss
Mona
Mallory
furnish
Dean
Mary
Famum
attended
to take notes and make pictures ing the music. Refre hments Grande visited at the Templeton
of Father and
I the dedication Thursday of a , , All
,. the „ children
,
of the most important exhibits, consisted of a watermelon feed. home Monday.
I monument at Multnomah Falls, Mother Reeher were present, as
giving the fair much publicity.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wirtz have marking the old Oregon trail, follows: B. H Reeher, wife and
The sports committe is busy ar Roy Hesseltine, Mr. and Mrs. taken apartments in the M. S. The Daughters of the Revolution baby, Gaston; Mrs. Wr. W. Gibbs
had charge of the program.
ranging the program for the var Geo. Hancock, Sir. and Mrs. Ben Allen apartment house.
land four children, Wilson river;
Whited,
Me-dames
J
D.
Conger,
Mrs. E. A. Sharp expects to | Mrs. James Prater and two child
M. T . Sherrett was over from
ious events connected with the Blanche Richards, A Duncan,
firemen’s tournament, the band Margaret Mallory; Misses Iva Eastern Oregon Tuesday for a leave Saturday f o r Williston. ren, Dayton, Wash.; Mrs. C. A.
North Dakota. Mrs. Sharp ha-> Hoyt and five children, Tacoma,
contest, the baseball tournament Conger, Marcella Richards, Oleva short visit with Mrs. Sherrett.
Cornelius, living south of been at Forest Grove tor two , Wash.; James A , Max, Howard,
Berger, Mona and Gladys Mal the John
and other special features.
town
of Cornelius, visited months, the guest of her brother, Julia, Jennie and Helen Reeher.
The special premium commit lory, Chattie Chapman, Mar Forest Grove friends yesterday.
P e v .J. R. Buck pastor of St.
One son-in-law, W. W. Gibbs,
jorie
Hesseltine
a
n
d
Mr.
Joe
Anthony's
church.
tee has secured $600 worth of
and
G. A. Bryant, the local pho
Mrs.
M.
T.
Sherrett
of
the
Wiles.
Miss Zetta Fink of Sheridan, tographer, were also present, the
premiums, outside those listed in
Luughlin Hotel had business in
Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Allen en Portland and Vancouver Monday. Miss Zanana Emerick of Salem, latter having been summoned to
the premium list, for the special
events and exhibits and a special tertained Friday in honor of the
The Holmes family left Tues Messrs Alden John, Dale Ham ' take pictures of the Reeher clan.
premium list will be issued in the bir hday anniversary of t h e i r day for the Newport beach, where mer and L. N. Bennett of Philo
Mr. and Mrs. Reeher, Sr., are
near future, showing the disposi daughter, Gertrude. Al>«ut half they expect to spend a few days. math autoed to Forest Grove and still living on a farm they home
spent Sundav at the home of Mrs. steaded thirty years ago and,
tion to be made of the premiums. a dozen guests were present and
Florence Templeton returned L. S Phillips.
all
enjoyed
a
delightful
visit.
! while they have worked hard, both
The work of moving the stables
Monday evening from Portland,
Chas. Peterson, in a Ford, col are hale and hearty.
and other buildings from the old
where
she
has
been
visiting
rel
Miss Faye Templeton enter
to the new fair grounds has been
lided with Roland Lockwood, on
Sunday's was the first complete
tained
the Intermediate League atives.
a bicycle, between the Burlingham reunion in seven years.
started and present indications
Beth
Emerson
and
Mabel
Ras
the M. E. church Monday
and the Oregon Electric j
are that the new grounds will of
evening,
the members being en- mussen left last week for Port corner
have better accomodations for
depot
Monday,
bruising Lock-
Leroy A. Jones Called
in compiling scrap books land, where they will visit Mrs H. wood rather painfully
and
badly
j
livestock, poultry, etc., than the gagid
Leroy
Augustus Jones, aged 63
i Price
for the Christmas boxes.
wrecking his wheel.
old.
years,
passed
away at his home
Morris McKay of Lebanon vis George Littlehales reports that
Crop conditions are now such | Mrs. H R. Bernard yesterday ited
his parents, Mr and Mrs. A.
that there is no need to worry morning entertained sixteen ladies McKay, in this city several days between 7:30 and 9 o’clock Satur on North Main street last Sun
day evening, while the family was day, after several years of feeble
about a scarcity of agricultural at a nine-o’clock b r e a k f a s t . this week.
Those
invited
were
Mesdames
E.
away from home, somebody en health, excessive blood pressure
exhibits—there will be no scarcity.
Virginia Abraham of Hood tered his residence and carried being the cause of death.
E. Coucher, Lulu Rogers, Anna
¿laker, O. O. Hodson, McMinn R i v e r , is visiting her grand away a lady’s gold wrist watch
Deceased was born in New
ville; Mrs Lawrence. Pori land; parents. Mr. and Mrs. J o h n and a gent’s silver watch.
York
state on Jan. 27, 1853, and
Mrs. Cain, Illinois, and Mesdames Templeton.
Earle Buxton and Roy Watkins spent his early life in Minnesota.
John Lilly of Gales Creek is
HofTman, Allen, Littler, Scott,
The annual session of the local Hurley, Johnson, Dopp, Hunter, suffering from an infected hand each have novel watchcharms, | On December 24, 1877, at Wells,
made from the tushes of the bear
public schools will commence Heath and Bishop of this city.
and was in town Tuesday to re they killed Aug. 15. The charms Minn., he was united in marriage
: ceive medical attention.
Monday, Sept. 18. This is about;
are neatly bound in gold, bearing with Miss Letta E. Pepper, who,
Ray Thomas, who has been the initials of the two hunters as with seven children, survives him.
a week later than the usual time
! working in Portland during his well as the date of the kill.
of beginning, but has been chosen
I The eldest daughter, Mrs. Deet-
vacation, has returned to Forest
to accommodate those pupils who
Mr.
and
Mrs.
J
.
H.
Shearer
re
tee Bradley, having passed away
Grove to attend school this fall.
will still be employed in the har
turned Sunday from a week’s_visit
vest fields or in the hopfields.
Mrs. L. S. Overman of Philo with relatives at Eugene, The'1 t*iree years ago last March. The
The railroad Brotherhoods and math
With this later opening day there
came to Forest Grove Fri were accompanied home by their eldest surviving daughter is Mrs.
should be a full enrollment on the managers have decided they can day and spent a few days visiting daughter, Mrs. Carrie Wood, and R. H. Leach of Karmatar, India,
first day and the general standard not come to a settlement of their Mrs. Sturgis and Mrs. L. S. two children, who will visit their who, with her husband, has been
of work improved through absence disputes and the Brotherhood Phillips.
Forest Grove relatives for a few in India as a missionary for eight
of tardy entrance. One of the members have been notified by
Mrs. L. C. Misz returned last weeks.
their
officials
to
cease
work
at
7
years. She expects to return on a
chief causes of poor work and
evening from the Good Samari
M. B. Parounagian of Salem. furIough next March The oldest
retardation has been found to be o’clock next Monday morning.
hospital, where she has been Sunday school missionary of the . . . . .
President Wilson is now trying tan
late enrollment. The pupil thus
for
the
past seven weeks. She is Oregon conference, delivered an
Aetna, residing in Cali-
entering finds the task of catching ing to get through congress legis on the road to recovery.
interesting
talk,
entitled
“A
Trip
fornia;
Arthur, whose present
up with his cla.iS more than he lation that will prevent the calam
Mrs.
J.
H.
Straub
and
children
to
Armenia,”
at
the
M.
E.
church
whereabouts
are not known, is
can accomplish, becomes discour ity that would follow' a tieup of and Mrs. Williamson expect to
Sunday evening He was the next oldest. Those at home are
aged, and probably fails at the rail transportation.
leave today for the latters’ home guest of the A. G HofTman fam- G
Theodore, Ethel a n d
end of the semester. This con
All National Guard regiments at Galesburg. 111., where t h e ily while in the city.
1
g
ernjce
dition is more prevalent among on the border have been ordered ¡Straubs will spend the winter.
high school students than in the home, which may mean federal
Messrs. HofTman and Nichols j ^ e famj]y came to Forest
Goldia Hayes, a former resident Tuesday
grades.
shipped out the last of | _
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policing of the roads.
of the Grove but now of Eugene, their 1915 crop of evaporated Grove last April from Hopewell,
IIitch School Principal Chosen
spent the first of the week with Loganberries, nearly $5,000 worth this state, where they had resided
Aged Woman Dead
The position of high school I
friends here.
of the berries. Thev went to for nine years, and deceased has
principal, made vacant through1 At 3:30 yesterday afternoon
Mrs
M.
A.
Baker,
Mr.
and
Cincinatti, O., and Salem, this proved himself a good citizen, a
the resignation of G. PL M urphy,1 Mrs. Martha Shaw passed avyay
Mrs.
Gordon
Baker
and
Mr.
and
state
The plant is now busy kind husband and devoted father.
has been filled by the election of at the family home, three miles
Mrs.
Harper
Jameson,
all
of
Mc
extracting
the juice from this
Funeral services were held in
J. H. Pruett of McMinnville. north of this city, after a linger
the Adventist church Monday
Mr. Pruett is a graduate of the ing illness of a complication of ail Minnville, visited at the Frank year’s crop of blackberries.
McMinnvilh* College, being val ments. Deceased was born in Gordon home Sunday.
H. W. Shutt and family, late of afternoon, Elder Faulkenburg of
Mrs N. A. Turner and daugh Wallowa, are visiting at the home Portland officiating, and the re
edictorian of his class. After be Kentucky 83 years ago and had
ing engaged in high school work resided on the farm where she ter, Olga, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. of Mrs. Shutt’s parents, Mr. and mains were interred in Mountain
with much success for four years died for more thaa forty years. VValrath and W. H. French and Mrs. A. J. Barkham of Carnation. View cemetery.
he received a scholarship in the Her husband, E. A. Shaw, passed children formed a picnic party to Mr. Shutt was until recently pub
Little Child Called
University of Chicago, where he away about twelve years ago, but 1 Rippling Water Sunday.
lisher of the Reporter at Wallowa,
Marian
Eleanor, the fourteen-
spent the past year in graduate she is survived by two sons and
Mrs. J. E. Iioomis and daugh but has sold his paper and ex
study and was state assistant in one daughter—Charles Shaw, who ter Mamie returned Monday from pects soon to go to old Virginia, months-old daughter of Mr. and
physics in the university labora lived with his mother, John Shaw, eastern Oregon where they have the home of his ancestors!
Mrs. W. J. McCready passed
tories. .
of Woodland, Wash., and Mrs. J. been making an extended visit.
away
at the family home, South
Mrs. Mary House and daughter,
The teaching corps is now prac D. Rode of Gales Creek.
Mr. Loomis and the boys w’ill re Liola, left Monday for their new- Main street, Friday morning of
tically complete and the names,
Deceased was one of the best- turn in two weeks.
home in California. The s on, acute bowel, trouble, after an ill
with assignments of grades and known women of the Thatcher
You may entrust to us your Earl who came up from San ness of but two days. Funeral
buildings, will be published prior district and was beloved by her prescription, no matter what doc Francisco a few weeks ago to aid
to opening day.
neighbors and her acquaintances tor writes it, with the full assur in the preparations for the de s rvices were held at the residence
for her many good qualities.
ance that it will be carefully and parture, proceeded them to the Saturday, at 2 p. m., Rev. O. H.
Vacant House Damaged by Fire
The funeral will probably be accurately compounded with the new home to attend to some busi Holmes of the Congregational
About 10 o’clock Tuesday even held from the late home tomor best of drugs and chemicals at the ness matters and make prepara church officiating, and the remains
ing fire broke out in the seven- row afternoon, depending on what very lowest price. L i 111 e r ’ s tions for the arrival of his mother were interred in Forest View cem
etery.
P h a r m a c y .1
and sister.
room house just south of the Bur-1 word is received from John.
ARRANGING DETAILS
FOR COUNTY FAIR
A
FAMILY
ENJOYS REUNION
The Public Schools
Open September 18th
Rail Brotherhoods
to Strike Monday
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