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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Voi. 2. No. r,
FOREST GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 15. 1917
$1.50 per Year
View cemetery, with the G. A.
R. burial service. The funeral At 8 Baldwin-Woodward
o’clock last Thursday,
was largely a t t e n d e d by old evening, Judge
Beach united in
soldiers, relatives and friends who marriage Abraham
Baldwin and
sincerely mourn the passing of Miss Lucy L. Woodward,
two
this excellent citizen.
Some time between 3:30 and 4 ('
well-known and highly respect* d W’ith Councilmen McCready
o’clock Monday morning burglars ^u/ing the Civil war and i* cred­
citizens of Forest Grove, the cere and Todd absent, the city council
in Lincoln’s Memory
it blew
. open
... and , , looted
. . . . the safe , at .tie hihtory:H(.
d with the en|it,(ed
following
military
being performed at the met Tuesday evening for the Feb-
{ ¿ m Wood- Judge W. J. R. Beach Monday mony
Beach
home.
Friday evening a ruary meeting.
the Forest (.rove postoffice, get- ford County, II)., on the 1st day delivered
to
the
Forest
Grove
. . school
, | pupils an address
,,
number
of the
happy
couple
s “ After hearing
and approving
ting away with about $200 in of February, 1802. to serve three , high
on
young
friends
gave
them
an
old-
.............
the
reports
of
I.
J.
retiring
money and $22.00 worth of years or during the war, and was Abraham Lincoln and his achieve fashioned “charivari.” and on Sat- city treasurer, and Hoar,
his
successor,
stam ps.
mustered into the U. S. service at ments that is worthy of more urday and Monday evenings a S. Sparks, the report of the
Although a number of persons Anna. III., April 10, 18(52, as a -¡pace than the Express can give number of their grown friends E finance
on monthly
¡it. Being one of the veterans called to show their good will 1 bills was committee
were awakened by the explosions,
accepted
and
warrants
who fought in the union army The crowd that came Saturday ordered drawn fo r liquidation.
no one saw the burglars, for few
'luring the civil war, Judge Beach evening p-esented Mrs. Baldwin The payroll, for the first time in
people connected the noise of a
knows and feels about the great
blast with burglars and Night
a beautiful blooming plant, the history of the city, contained
emancipater as none of the later with
Watchman James was not in the
which
the bride values very high­ items of salaries for the mayor
¡generation ca n feel or know. ly, as she
neighborhood when the blasting
d^e- the fern presented
members of the council. The
was done. He is of the opinion
Judge Hollis gave an interest­ her by the Woman’s club. Mr. and
mayor
draws $4.00 per month
that he was in the council cham­
ing talk to the students in the and Mrs Baldwin are comfort­ and councilmen
$3.00 and if they
ber, putting wood in the stove,
morning on the same subject.
ably
domiciled
in
the
Woodward
get
the
city
out
of
its muddle with
when the burglars blew the j-ufe,
property
on
South
First
street.
the
sewer
contractors,
the city of­
as that is the only time he was
CONDENSED
NEWS
NOTES
ficials
a
re
worth
their
wages;
Younger-Joy
where he would not have been at­
otherwise
it
is
a
debatable
ques­
Mrs. Ernma Stoecker returned Miss Ethel A. Joy and Edward tion.
tracted by a noise loud enough to
last evening from a visit at Port­ L. Younger of Portland we r e
awaken people three and four
On recommendation of Council-
land.
blocks away. James says he had
A -s.cn was bom at the Forest Bâtis'a t\te F i™ t Cow rw Jtion-’ Coon, »ages of unskilfed city
been at the postolliee, on his reg-;
ular rounds, a b o u t 3:15 and
g«™* hospital Monday to Mrs. al church in this city at 6 o’clock 30c per hour.
"*re raised from 25c to
noticed nothing out of the way.
C. W. Mercer.
last Friday afternoon. A wed- Water collector was instructed
He then we n l to th e council
W. B. Keen of Gresham at- ding supper at the home of the to prepare list of persons who
chamber, fixed his fire and made
tended the funeral of Elias C. bride’s brother, C. M. Joy, fol- owed
as much as two months'
preparation* to go off duty at t
Smith Tuesday.
lowed the ceremony and at 9:35 water for
or
service and it is
a. m., as is his custom. He went
Cream separator, incubator, the bride and groom departed for likely that light
service
home and to bed without having
and fruit and vegetable cannery a wedding trip through California, tinued to such will be discon­
learned <>f tbe burglary, which tea* private of Captain Samuel Sher­ for sale cheap. Phone U24x. It returning via Salt Lake City.
discovered by Fred Gardner, as­
Marsnal Watkins reported
Weber was oper- The bride was formerly a teach- that City boys
sistant postmaster, w h e n he man’s Co. H, 62nd Regiment, ated Mrs. on Walter
had been bothering
the local hospital Sun er in tbe Forest Grove schools the lights who
opened the office at 7 o’clock. It Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Col. day and at is getting
in
the
postoffice were
and
has
for
the
past
three
years
along nicely.
didn’t take long to discover what Jas. M. True commanding.
now
known
and
in­
been employed in the Hillsboro structions. T h e c he i t y wanted
George Armentrout. who has schools.
had hapjwned, for the floor was He received honorable discharge been
recorder
Mr. Younger was for­ was asked to look up the law and
ill at the home of his merly foreman
strewn with pieces of safe, broken at Little Rock, Ark , on the 2nd ,son. quite
P. shops report next meeting.
Wade, at Banks, is con­ at Hillsboro, but in is the now S. employed
furniture, torn mail and stamps day of Feb. 1864, by reason of valescing.
and other litter. Several small re-enlisting as a veteran in the Mrs. E. Dowd and Mrs. Ella in the company’s Brooklyn shops, The ordinance committee pre­
particles of the safe door were samt. company and regiment, Hastings of McMinnville visited at Portland, in which city Mr. sented an ordinance making it un­
blown through the windows and ^
day. to serve tbsee years
Mrs. Younger will make their lawful for any firm or individual
Crabtree home the and
into the street, fully forty feet more or during the war, under | at first the of Frank
home
after March 1st.
to keep more than one pound of
the week.
from the safe.
¡Capt John Foley and Col. James
Those
present
at
the
w’edding
dynamite or more t ha n five
The safe had been blown by M, Tiue commanding,
; The little son of Dick Goff of were Mr. and Mrs C. M. Joy, Pounds of gunpowder inside the
the old method of filling the! During the period of this en- HilLide, who had an opera: ion to Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Joy, Mr. V.
hmits. Referred to recorder
cracks around the door with soap,1 |jgtrm
; one of his hands last week, is get- B. Joy and Misses Eleanor and ^or ,nv’estigation.
in
many
he
assi-t*d
leaving only a small hole at the skinnishe8 with the em.my en- ting along nicely at the local Dorothy Joy.
! Another ordinance provides for
top, through which to pour n.tro- dim.d the triaU and hardships of hospital.
nr ,
M _
competing the installation of fire
noman
s Hub Meeting
escapes on all buildings in excess
glycerine. As both the ms.de and armv ,ifp bravelyf was promoted Mrs. Jack Raynard and baby,
(mi side doors were besmear* d
^
,.d Z Ruth, of Scholls visited at the The regular meeting of the of two stories. This was also re-
with soap, it is evident that the H*»Uy Springs, Miss., while with a home
of Mrs. Raynard’s parents, Woman’s club was held in the ferret^ to the recorder, who will
two doors . were
blown
at
different
Mr.
and
Mrs. Frank Crabtree, Congregational c h u r c h parlors report next meeting.
. u pOMlble
i for
r detachment
thebaaeof
tunc, and . . Urn
,, , j guarding
atla‘ k«i
by thl, Tuesday.
* eb*
I he secretary, Mrs. \ resolution ordering cement
»„race incuple claim the y heard two , n|.m>. at dawn, an(l U m i gul- L. A. Fernsworth, former Banks G.
D.
Rodgers,
her resigna- wa|ks in front 0f theCaples, Hoflf-
explosions. The safe is a com­ lant part in all imjioriant engage- editor, who has been on the bor- t ion as she is to sent
be
away
for the man and N a y l o r properties,
plete wreck, not worth repairing, men ts bet ween his company and der as a soldier for the past six rest of the winter. The club
ac­ North tyain street; the Baber
as the sides are badly l>ent and ,,
cepted
the
resignation
with
much
months, arrived from the south regret and Mrs. Whitehouse was property, on First avenue, south,
the door a complete wreck. The
^’
lot on the north side of Fir^t
owner, Dr. I.arge, carried burglar He was mustered out at Little yesterday on a business visit
eketed to fill the vacancy. Mr*. and
avenue
south, between Fourth
insurance on the safe, so he will: Rock, Ark., March 6. 1866, anti Messrs. J. S., A. 1 a"duH/ T* White reP°rted for the civics com- and FiBhTtre^ts,‘was
"giVen" first
lose nothing except slight damage received honorable discharge at Buxton Sunday attended the fun­ mittee, that they had found it and second leadings and
laid over
to the windows and fixtures.
Springfield, III., by reason of ser- eral of Wm. Breidenstein, who impossible to carryout their plans unt;i next meeting.
died in Portland Friday, aged 55 in rigard to bird houses as it is On suggestion of Councilman
The loss of money and stamps v’cf> no l°nift*r required
falls on Uncle Sammy, as Post- Shortly after th<* close of the years. He was married to Anna now . . too late for this season.
, .
. Mertz it was arranged, before ad-
master Wirtz u.-ed due diligence war he and his family came west, Wooley, a cousin to the Buxton l vis‘. ,
er>
chairman
of
j°urnment, that the c o u n c i l
by
way
of
San
Francisco
to
Ore-
boys.
in caring for the government’s
the
Public
Health
committee,
re-
should
hold an executive session
gon with the pioneers of 1871. Roy Devlin, son of Mr. and poi ted their sales of Christmas the following
property.
to select a
They have made their home in Mrs. James Devlin, who came seals had been the largest this committee to evening
About the only clues left by the around
confer
with
the of-
Fore t Grove since that home with the Oregon roop< ye *r of any season yet $*0.85. fjcers of the Elliott Construction
burglars are some footprints, lead
ing to and from the back door,
n°nrlvC*‘in yesterday, came out last evening 1 he state had hoped to get $5000, company regarding a compromise
hotrl in this city marly 30 to spend the night with his par- and at last report it had reached of the sewer dispute. Mr. Elliott
where entrance was gained by a years.
pying open the door. SherilF
* ents, returning to \ cincouver t.o* $6800, und not ull returns in.
wus present und ugreed to meet
Applegate und Chief of Police Mr. Smith was an active mem­ day to be mustered out.
JVlrs. L. E. \\ lllinms, chuirmun cnoK o committee The meeting
Watkins were on the scene shortly ber of the local G. A. R. post and Forty-five member., of the of Ke.l UMter Day. wa, uoabie to
after the robliery ^ax discovered was at one time commander of Congregational Working Society ^Present, but sent her report and mittee selected and it is expected
and made thorouglnnvestigations, the post here.
gave a surprise party at the home , j4‘ f.or . . scholarship loan that a meeting will be arranged
but nothing encouraging has been Several years ago he became a of
Mrs. Dan Danser last Friday fund-. A r‘' inR kvote of th®nk* for an earlv date.
discovered that might lead to the member of the F o r e s t Grove afternoon
Mm. Van Walters, w|*s *,v.e " J he cha.rman and all
capture of the crooks.
Christian church and was a faith- the retiring to president,
A Beautiful Party
it is wh.cl.a83Ifled-. Thatcher, chair-
A postoffice inspector arrived ful member to the day of his said Mrs. Walters was and
certainly *1|>S Marcia
Mrs. J. R. Joy last Saturday
from Portland during the fore- death,
. surprised. The afternoon was
. .. Rose
, , committee»
, . . , re- afternoon entertained a dozen lit­
noon and checked up the loss and Last June Mr. and Mrs. Smith spent at sewing, just a little talk Pprtt>(^
Bad decided not to tle girls in honor of the first an­
damage done.
celebrated their sixtieth wedding and the disposal of a very nice 8»ve the western product supper, niversary
of the b i r t h of her
anniversary, which was attended lunch. Yexterdav afternoon, at rhey had decided to ask the busi- daughter, Dolly
After the
by their two sons and daughter, the home of Mrs. A. E. Scott, the
men, "’bo seemed willing to little tots had Betty.
played variots
Deceased has been declining in same ladies gave a party in honor U’LI>'
f
°
^ games to their hearts’ content,
health for the past year and death of Mrs. M. Peterson, who leaves on^ f u> r
Filina a huh they were taken to the dining
was due to a general breaking in a few days to make her home ! TJ* matter. of m s^ling a bub-
where a beautiful sight
Elias C. Smith, for forty-five down of the system, death coming ‘ in Portland. A very nice social b ,\? fountain in front of the room,
greeted
eyes. The table was
room was decided It is decorated their with
years a resident of this city and | painlessly and peacefully.
afternoon, with delicious lunch; | remjmg
kewpies and red
to be the property of the city, streamers, a large
county, passed away at his horn*', Deceased is survived by his was the result.
kewpie in the
i given by the Woman’s club. Mrs.
corner Pacific Avenue and A j widow, Eliza Smith; Nora, an
center
holding
in
his
a tiny
John Abbott was instructed to candle, emblematic of hand
Christian Church
street, at noon last Sunday, aged ! adopted daughter, who has for Lord’s Day
the
first
an-
, order and install the same. Next niver.-ary of little Miss Joy. The
as follows:
85 years
years been to him as his own Bible school services
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i meeting, Feb 26th, is to be an
9:45 a. m.
Elias C. Smith was born in child, the two sons already men­ 11 a. m. Communion
and Sermon. open meeting; each member can guest* were Eleanor Joy, Laura
Franklin county, Ohio, on the tioned, and a brother, Luther, of Theme: “The Supre'hie Task.’’
Mae Jones, Leone Burns, Mar­
1 ask one guest The club sent jorie
Endeavor,
22d day of October, 1831, and Los Angeles, who is 89 years of 6:30 p m. m. Christian
Burns, Margaret Stribich,
Mrs.
Barber,
who
has
been
ill
all
and sermon. ¡year, a plant valentine, and Miss Lucile Stribich, Nernice McNutt,
was united in marriage to Eliza age. Both sons were here for W. 7:30 J. p Clark, Song our Service
National Adul t
Andrews, in Franklin county, the funetal.
Tina Ritchie, Blanche Tucker,
sm>erintendent
in
Bible
work, Lucy Woodward congratulations Alma
Ohio, June 17, 1856, from which Funeral services were held at will deliver the message. School
Nagle, Jessetine Nagle and
Following and a fern.
union were horn two children, the chapel of the Forest Grove the service there will be a baptismal | The Political Science class felt Harriett Helen Hughes.
J. D. Smith of American Falls, Undertaking company at 2 o’clock ^ service.
the time was so short they could Mrs. L. C. Misz and Mrs. E.
Idaho, and Judge W. D. Smith of Tuesday afternoon, Rev. R. L. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:15 p. | only
tell the club what they were E. Williams Monday attended a
Hillsboro, Oregon.
Putnam officiating, and the re­ Everybody invited to these services. missing.
Next meeting will be meeting of Martha Washington
Elias Smith server! his country mains were interred in Forest
R. L. PUTNAM, Pastor. I Monday with Mrs. Scheetz.
chapter, 0. E. S., at Portland.
BOLD BURGLARS
LOOT POSTOFFICE
The City Dads
Seek Settlement
Civil War Veteran
Answers Summons
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