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Hands Off?
Editor
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Second-hand s c h o o l hook«
The weather man, sometimes,
houyht at the Book Store. We
known as "Old Probability," has
are in the* hook husineiM.
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been very kind to us during the I
See that new line of shoe», for pant few weeks in causing two
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men, women und children, at A blades of grass to grow where
FruitH and Vegetable in Season
< i. Hoffman & Co ’«
none or pc,haps only OM) grew u,,ke. p exp en se, so that m o r e V
E U. Ca'e in in the Hood Riv- before. Evidence, vWt the west! COUnty road could he built. The
half of Block No. six (6). T hree! money lo retire the bonds does
district looking after a farm for we. k, ago it would frighten a L,ot come out of the property*
PHONE 701
which he recently traded.
dead horse into a run away; now |OWners, unless that property con-
South Main Street
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Forest Grove, Ore
A line line of ladies’ spring
,w an abundance of grass sists of automobiles, for both in-
coats, in the latest style and most 'or a
”ozen horses, and a few ter«*Ht and principal is to be paid
approved pattern, just received at hens, ducks and geese could find j by auto licenses. With the num-
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Anderson’s. Come and see them, «uhsister.ee for the balance of the ber of licenses issued last year, at m^ p
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open season, lo those who are the price Axed by the last legis-! N ,th ’ K ’
11 a m,,ltary
Perjple who have rooms to rent interested or who have much in- |ature, this license fund would ro.!f,7 8*cr*U'7 ot 'V*,fnB*kel’cB,iy,1 *
during the G. A. R. encampment fluence in this airair, please see ; almost pay the Interest and prin- mil,Ury f *’" 1 l,houW ,M; 10
15 mileB
June 26, 27 and 28 please; that live stock is not permitted to I cjpal in twenty-five years. In the from the ocean or a river, in order to
be safe from all fleet*. Now can any- j
notify Mrs. John Anderson.
graze on this vacancy until after
(he increase in autos has been one
call the Columbia Highway a mili
Whatever Federal aid is grant
The short-burner "Mon-Ami” the Encampment of the Grand :i|H)ut 40 per cent. If in the next tary road? I think not.
kerosene stove brings the heat Army of the Republic, because if folir years the increase should Now we have found out that this ed for the construction of roads
close to your cooking utensil. not disturbed, the grass and weeds amount to 30 per cent and then road is not an agricultural road and t in Oregon this year and during
S«e it at the Gordon hardware will cover the greatest display of remain stationary, the auto license cannot, by any possible means, be used the continuance of the war will
refuse, fill h and other long-time funds will pay interest and princi- as a military road. What, then, is it?
store.
be allotted for roads extending
accumulations
that ai e usually pa | on the bonds and leave a sur
For Sale Two young horses, round at the back
It resolves itself into a scenic highway,
door
wh.
re
the
plm
of
$7,000,000
at
the
end
of
southward
from Portland, toward
one good 2-horse gasoline engine occupant* do not care only for the 25 yeais. He said auto owners pure and simple, and nothing else.
and one grain-cutter. Inquire of p oper appearance of the front of
Can Oregon afford at the present the California line, a link in the
who had given the matter thought, time
I.ouis Mayea, F o r e s t («rove, the establishment.
to build scenic highways? In New proposed Pacific Highway.
were glad to pay the increased li York it is costing them $120,000,000 to
phone 91x.
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This is indicated by an an
In olden times people cared so cense fees, for the pav* d roads i
Clarence Kelsey, Taylor Gra- little for the sanitary condition would double the tire mileage, build 9,000 miles of road and last year nouncement sent out by the Coun
harn and John Hall left last week of the dwelling house that they cut down the gasoline and repair it cost them $4,000,000 for upkeep of cil of National Defense to all
the 7,000 miles they had completed
the parlor.”
bill- so that the
bonds would
in and the highway commission of New state executives, urging the con
in the Kelsey auto for Wallace, ‘ . kept, the . pig in
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Idaho, where they expect to se- Again permit me to urge you to rea.uy be paid by the waste now York iveg the
that th
t j tinuance by the states of work on
cure employment and Mr. Kelsey "hand* off until after the (.rand experienced Washington county feoo(wioo from autil taxes „ / ¿ J military highways, and the tempo
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, Army Encampment
last year paid $3,100 in auto Ji- ,
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rary cessation of work on auto
writes hi, wife l hat the trip proved
OBSERVER
o n s e a n d e e t J»,ut $dU0,«(H) lcv!' ‘ ux “ i
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a
pkwant end uneventful.
w..nh of paved road, Portland P*y p? nc">*
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. mobile roads designed primarily
At . he last meeting of the Mod-
s( ()l T N S
W f «0 per cent of the auto tax
autog fPaj, to uke care J anP th
to make accessible spots of scenic
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,urJ
and gets not a mile of the road,
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or
historic interest T h e an
ern . VXWHjmen . ot
**ir
v<m want
wuni anyining
unvthinvdnn*
well u
ask
r no paving
• will 11 be
u done
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, this . . city, the
.
ii you
uone wen,
s for
out . of t go on to say
: that . auto . taxes will
, never
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nouncement,
therefore, m e a n s
members were informed by Clerk the Scuts."
this fund in incorporated towns. pay,\he 'nter! 9t “nd pnncpal on the
Paterson that he had turned over Thu .has been*,, unusually busy week
A m ;in instance of wliat paved
¿tier’ Can 0regon hwpe tofare that whatever money is advanced
Saturday,
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to Mrs. George McKibbin a draft for the local Scout*. On Tenderfoot
r" ‘‘ds meant to farmers, he stattd
Now let us come to the greatest ques- to Oregon from he Federal roads
i four candidates took the
for $2,000, covering the insurance t examination. Results are not yet ob th it far me 8 IJl Powell valley, 16 tion that has ever confronted the Amer- appropriation will be applied to
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Mr. McKibbin carried in the M. tained, but it is thought all will qualify. tnih-s from Portland, had been ¡can
|>ecple the present European war; , the Pacific Highway and will not
paying
V
&
c
per
ton
to
get
their
W. A The draft came just ten A number of Scouts expect to take , produce to the railroad, $1.50 per yes, and our war, also. Everybody ad be allotted for the road around
days after Clerk Paterson sent their second-claw examinations within ton to the rai roads for freight mits that Russia is out of the war as Mount Hood or the road leading
far as being an aggressive foe to Ger
away the proofs of death. The the next two weeks. Wednesday night i and another 75c in dra>age from many is concerned. Germany has to the Oregon caves.
meeting was taken up with drill fo r!
In the language of the Council,
camp voted a cash donation to the Sunday Memorial march. The boys th«* railroads to the Portland com thrown 600,000 men from her eastern
mission
houses
or
markets.
This
federal
aid should only be grant
front to her western front and the
members who suffered losses in have done well and Manley is to lie
made
a
total
of
$3.00
per
ton
French
commission
said
if
Germany
ed
"for
through r o a d s , leading
an Illinois cyclone several weeks j congratulated on the showing he is Since the Columbia highway had
was
willing
to
sacrifice
that
600,000
ago.
making aa drillmaster.
from one center of population or
At the Wednesday meeting it was de m ade au to ti uck hauling possible, men g^e coukj „till capture France and commerce to another,” and spe
Joe A. Wiles would like to j
if possible, to take the Highway th e-e Powell val.ey farmer-, gel t.hen have England at her mercy, cific mention is made of the Pa
write your insuram-e. Will give cided,
trip, starting June 5th. There is some thoir produce hauled frorn the Where would we be then? No red-
you service that
will
be
to
vour
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! chance that this trip may be replaced fa'm gat»* t o t h e com m ission blooded American would think of any- cific Highway extending through
advantage.
I pstairs
in Antler-
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by a trip to the Wilson river and three hou-c, by auto, f • kr ju st $1.00. thing but winning the war and it would Washington, Oregon and Cali
son block, room 2.
52 I ! «lays
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__ there, ___i
camp
provided the weather He didn i See why farmers should be up to us, and us alone, to do-it. Can fornia, this being cited as the one
A swarm of bees has taken an is such as to make the road passable, object if the auto owners wanted anyone imagine the task we would then road system on the Pacific coast
to gi\e the slate $6,000,000 worth have? Would we have time to think of
unusual liking to Martin Ryling ! The Scout* badly need the loan of a of
paved roads, even it the pav and build scenic highways then? No! requiring immediate attention.
of the Verboort district. The
H,,d waK"n for a few hour#- The ing did not pass every farm; let A thousand times no!
In this stand the Council ap
hall at present stores a large quantity I
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the
farmers
take
the
money
they
bees come to Ryling’- last fall anti ' of
Well,
why
take
a
chance
of
getting
proves
thoroughly the attitude of
paper that needs baling and a horse j '
t«ok posession of a bedroom, hut I is needed to bring the baler in. If you are now -pending on trunk lines caught that way by dividing our atten- the Secretary of War, and in-
this county th* line from the tion between the great national danger
later left and Martin thought he | have a rig to lend, phone the Scoutmas tin
Multnomah
to th*- Yamhill county and bonding our state for pleasure dor ed by the Secretary of Agri
was rid of them hut a few days I ter Main 4fi3.
line, thiough Beavtrtnn, Hills drives? While France and England culture and, as these officials have
ago he heard an unusual buzzing The Scouts greatly appreciate the boro, Forest Grove and Gascon) are willing to fight our battles in Eu jurisdiction over the Federal road
dinner given them by the ladies Friday
and investigation disclosed the | evening and they hope it is not the last and build laterals over which to rope, let us back them and give to j fund, they will be able ab
haul their produce to market by them all the encouragement in our solutely to control the allotment
bees in an unused chimney of the time that the mothers, fathers
an<
autotrucks. The word ‘Bonds” power. I^t us, instead of competing
Ryling home. Martin doesn’t i scouts get together.
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and stipulate on what roads it
had a sinister sound to many
want the bees and somebody ean i Saturday saw Troop 2 out for the people, but this i-sue need scare with our beloved government by voting shall be used,—Legislative Good
get a cheap "flock’ of them bv ! flrat h'kc- Notwithstanding the busy- no one. as the bonding plan was $6,000,000 of 4 per cent bonds, kill the Roads Committee.
bond issue and leave the way clear to
j ness of the season, thirty of the troop
calling on him.
invoked in order that the money buy the government’s Liberty Loan
1 reported for the hike, with full packs
migh: be had immediately, in- Bonds and by so doing help our allies
The hike was taken in column forma-
D. D. & M. B. BUMP
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waiting 25 vears until in Europe, help to save the blood of
tlon to the W «Its school house, where, | ,
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the auto licenses ; m ount'd to the America, help to bring peace back to
Attorneys at Law
after u rest of fifteen minutes, the boys
He favored huild- earth and do our part in the great
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sum
r quired.
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continued to Rippling Water, where i .
Loans and Real Estate
the roads _i and
using them world problem of today.
tents were pitcher! and each two Scouts lng
u-i.u.
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D.
D.
BUMP.
M. B. BUMP,
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while they ^ were being Y. paid
for.
Oregon has furnished more than her
I cooked their own dinners over fires
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Residence
Residence
Hillsboro
¡senator Wood
started by themselves. Can you start
oenator
wuou of
u. Hillsboro
nmsuoro also
aiso share of men for the army and navy, Forest Grove.
a fire without paper and use not to ex- SP0 !*4“ briefly in favor of the bonds Now let us hack up our heroes by vot- Phone 444
Offiees-HILLSBORO
ceed two matches, cook dinner and ant^ L. M. Graham, who presided ing down the $6,000,000 road bond bill
property extinguish your fire? All this 5,t (be meeting, explained that and giving our undivided thought and
N. HOFFMAN
a Scout can do, and did.
Washington county had enough attention to the war, to our boys there
After dinner, twenty of the boys money on hand to prepare her and to the grand service they are doing
Attorney At Law
hiked over the mountain and up to erst-and-west road for I he pat ing. us and mankind.
Patent
Office Business Solicited
Roderick Falls. Taylor, as
guide, ^ the bonds were defeated, this! One could goon and on, speaking of
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Oregon
brought them out within fifty yards of money would have lo be spent in the labor shortage at present, also that Forest Grove,
the trail, a pretty piece of woodsman- repairs on this and other roads public work should be done in times of
th tn we Would not have depression, notin needless competition
ship. The return was made to Rip- an<^
supper cooked, con- PU^ed roads. He d dn I See how with private industries. Also think of
pling Water and suppe
Washington
' desiring
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sisting of bread, potatoes, .bacon and W
ashington county could lose by China,
to join the allies, L
but * on
beans. Seven minutes after the whistle voting for the bonds.
the verge of a famine, taking away
tents were (tacked and the troop had
1 he atten d an ce at the meeting from, instead of adding to the world s
fallen
in
for
inspection
before
the
re-
was
very light, but those present f»**1 supply. Surely, if at any time,
A Roofing for
WHY DON’T YOU
turn. All completed the hike, tired, got a better understanding of the ; now is the time for us to put every
CALL ON
E v e r y Kind
but ready for the next. Try carrying question than they ever had be ounce into raising food and in carry-
ing on the war.
twenty pounds of pack for twelve miles fere
Of Building
H. T. GILTNER
FOR ROAD BONDS
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Government Officials
Declare for
Pacific Highway
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But Hard T o
Boat
Say!
and you will realize the gameness of ———
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the younger hoy* of the troop, who
THE PUBLIC PULSE
finished strong, without a murmur.
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The Scouts took part in the Memorial
Road Bonds or Patriotism
exercises Sunday. The new colors were
Gaston, Ore May 30, 1917.
used Hnd the boys did themselves proud. Editor Express:
They wish to return their thanks to the
Just a few reasons for voting against
G. A. R. for the spirit of comradeship, the $6,000,000 bond issue June 4th.
and the realization of the Scouts’ e f - , County officials of Multnomah county
forts, that they showed in extending tell me that if the Columbia River High-
the invitation to attend the services.
I way were completed through the state
Troop 3, Forest Grove Scouts, will to Idaho, and cost the same rate as in
soon be a reality. Lester Jones has Multnomah county, the highway would
been chosen as Scoutmaster for the cost as much as a transcontinental rail-
new troop, which will be formally or road. Now then, surely no one will
claim the highway .s an agricultural
ganized within a week or ten days.
If you have work for a boy, call the road, aft it is bounded on the north by
Scoutmasters. We will endeavor to get the Columbia river and on the south by
you a suitnble hoy.
G.
rocky cliffs, hundreds of feet high in
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It cotta nothing to inquire
Manufactured by
Roofing Manufacturing Co.
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Portland, Oregon
FO R HALB BY
Forest Grove Planing Mill
Phone 0232
The United States has been called
upon many times, as though picked by
the Almighty, to help in the progress
of civilization. Surely we will not fail
now. Let Oregon stay to the front.
let us help our nation to do the work
of God, let us prove our sincerity by
voting June 4th for Patriotism for all,
n°( a pleasure for a few.
THOMAS R. ROE.
You’ll enjoy mowing the lawn
jf y OU
(^e easy -adjusting
light-running "Eclipse” mower!
Adjusted by a single thumb-screw
anfJ
and ¡s ^If-sharpening.
se|f.sharpming. See it at
the Gordon Hardware Store,
Public sale bills printed at the
Express office.
F. A. Moore
ASK HIM ABOUT
PRICES ON
GROCERIES
AND GET A HIGH CASH
PRICE FOR YOUR
PRODUCE ?
Phone 181
Pacific Ave. and Third St.