fC\
*\f
’ fr~
*
C i
* f —
IfiUTst (irmtp Express
A N IN D E P E N D E N T W E E K L Y N E W S P A P E R
Voi. 2
FOREST GROVE. OREGON. TH U R S D A Y . NOV. 22, 1917
Red Cross Show
Made a Big Hit
46
Finds Many Knights
Forest Grove Family
Among Soldiers ^ 1!}acd(. ^ b,ind ,ür more lhan
Hit By the Huns
E. H. Parker of St. Johns, She
Kebekahs Klect and Frolic
was
a widow, without children,
The members of Forest Rebekah
lodge last night elected Missl
Jeanette Little as noble grand, I
...
,
,
An audience that jammed the Mrs. Ida McGill vice grand, Miss
While no native sons of Forest
Chas. I). Staley recently re-j
A Good Family Leaves
Star Theatre to it« doors wan the Marchia Thatcher secretary and reived another letter from his son,,
Grove have been killed by the
answer to the appeal of the Red Miss May Cooper treasurer.
Chas. (»., who went to France
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. I^asham Huns, so far as is known, at least
Cross workers for a good attend
After the business Mrs Aldrich
^ e 18th Engineers several and daughter, Esther, who have one local family circle has been
ance at their entertainment lust and Mbs Darling played' a piano months ago
sincerely warm broken, for on Tuesday Mr. and
The young soldier’s made m a n y
night, and the program was well duet, Newton Shipley favored the ^Uer is dated
Somewhere in friends during their four years’ Mrs. E .S . Lloyd, living west of
received hy everyone present. audience with a violin solo, W. F. *‘ ranc(i; ' j c t- . l*to ,
an d all residence in this city, departed the city, received a message in
The first number was a film show Johnson sang a solo and recited a through the mis ive runs th< in Tuesday for their new home at forming them that their son,
ing Atlantic City, the great, water selection from Burns and six of vitation to “ write often,” indicat Tacoma. Mr. Lasham h a s a Noble Richardson Lloyd, had been
ing place and pleasure resort of the "h e " members instituted a ing that the boys want to hear plumbing job with the govern- killed in action in France, the
New Yorkers. Fifty thousand new order, which they called “ The from home. (This sentiment runs ment at Camp Lewis and his son, casualty taking place last Satur-
bathers sporting in the breakers , Sons and Daughters of Roaring through all the letters the editor Clayton, has a job in a govern- day. Noble was 33 years of age
and playing on the sand at one River.” The initiation ceremony of the Express has seen from ment warehouse at the same and enlisted in a Canadian regi-
time, and countless thousands was as damp 'for the candidate) as abroad.)
place. Billy, the eldest son, is at- ment of infantry in 1914, the
Charley says his clothes are tending the artificers’ school at family at that time living in Cal-
parading up and down the cight- the name of the lodge would sug
getting too tight for him, so he Mare Island, so all the male mem- gary, Alberta He was not known
mile board walk is a sight that gest.
must be getting fat. The other hers of the family are serving in this city, his parents having
makes us all resolve to visit this
Washington county boys with Uncle Sam.
great show place some day when
come here from Canada in July,
him are well and happy, he says,
our ship comes in.
Some idea of the popularity of 1915. In addition to his father
but anxious to get letters from this family may be sensed from and mother, deceased is survived
The next film was a laugb-get-
home
oftener. He says Emery I^a-
by four sisters and two brothers.
ter, showing "Lonesome Luke” on
Mrs. Martha E. Watkins, be Mont is standing near and wish the fact that a half-dozen parties One sister, Mrs. Martha Kir^tein,
his honeymoon. The millionaire loved wife of Philip W Watkins
were given Mrs. Lasham and
ing he could “ stand in front of the daughter during the last week of resides in this vicinity; all the
went broke, or thought he did, j
of this city, passed away at the
and he wanted his daughter to: family home in Caples Addition First National bank and see their stay in this city. Friday other brothers and sisters residing
Charley Staley com» up the hill afternoon Mesdames M . S. Allen, in Washington and Canada. M r.
marry the Count, but she ran
at 7 o ’clock Monday evening as with his milk cart.”
J. E. Loomis and J. H. McFeet- and Mrs. Lloyd departed Tuesday
away and married Luke, who was.
the result of paralytic stroke sus
There are a numl>er of K. of P. ers entertained forty of Mrs *or a visit at f'algary.
a helper on an ice wagon. Go tained while returning home from
men in the regiment and Charley
seethe picture tonight.
a visit at Newberg Sunday even ■-ays he never fully appreciated Lasham’s lady friends in her honor,
the afternoon being spent in sew
The next number was a stirring ing, having b e e n unconscious
the meaning of "F . C. B.” until ing, knitting, ‘ v i s i t i n g
and
reading by Fred Jones, who
told
|
,
twenty-four hours. Mrs. Wat- he got so far away from a lodge
luncheon.
about the way Uncle Sam s boys kins and her daughter, Mrs. Elma
room
It rains where he is “ just | Frid
even5ng fortv of the boy
wid round up the Roches and put Kopplin of Laurelwood, had visited
Rev. R. E. Dunlap, for the
the brand l S. A. «>n them. Frtd the former’s sister, Mrs. Her ha
* ° n’ r hB “ P *nd girl friends of Miss Lasham
and adds “ This keeps us from get guve a skating party at the rink past four years pastor of the local
responded with a humoroua jo k e 1 Barnes, at
Newberg Saturday ting very homesick.
A little
u,._ u „v„_ „.:.u *r_
M . E. church and for 22 years
about well, go tonight and get • an(j Sunday afternoon, on her further along he says: “ Gee! You in her honor, with Mr. and Mrs
pastor
and presiding elder in Ore
the laugh yourself.
way home, Mr-. Watkins stopped ought to se your soldier i>oy now; E. D. Stout as chaperones. Fri gon, last night informed the of
day
evening
the
Royal
Neighbors
Something new to the natives tat Wapato to visit friends. The he looks more like a ’arrner than
ficial board of his church that he
of Forest Grove was the whistling1 train she expected to take ran a soldier, for we are wearing over held a social session after the reg had decided to ask Bishop Hughes
of Peter Vanoudenhagen, of Ver- j past the depot and she ran to alls, slickers, rubber boots and ular meeting in honor of Mrs. to relieve him of his charge, that
boort, who appeared next on the catch it,'stum bled and fell to her buckskin gloves. Pretty well fixed Lasham, who has been one of the he might go to New York and as
program. He can imitate the call I knees After she caught the train, for wet weather. Old Uncle Sam most active members of the lodge sist in the five-year drive for $80,-
and songs of birds, the cry o f ! he complained of a pain in her is a pretty good fellow to fix us There was a fine musical and 000,000 for home and foreign
program and a lunch.
barnyard fowls, and whistles tunes i head and by the time the train up so well. And there is a rumor literary
„
^ missions. T h e mission boards,
in perfect time with the orchestra | reached this city she was quite ill, that we are to get some kind of
Sunday evening
D r.^W . D. having heard of the hustling abil-
He was recalled several times by crying out with pain several times. oiled suits— s h o r t c o a t s and Ward e n t e r t a i n e d Mr. and ¡ty 0f tbe
pastor, have asked
the audience. His whistling is a
Mrs. Lasham and daughter at him to take charge of one of the
Mr, Watkins was notified and pants."
real treat and you don’t want to came to the dc|>ot for her, finding
A later U tter, of a more per dinner and Monday evening the money - raising departments and
miss it.
her very ilt, but still able to talk. sonal nature, states that Charley members of the Eastern Star j Rev. Dunlap feels that he can do
Thomas Isaacs next gave a pat Shortly after reaching home, the and Emery La Mont have been Chapter held a social session in just as good work for the church
riotic solo and res|>ondcd to a unfortunate woman became un transferred to headquarters com honor of these three members of I in the business office as in the
well-deserved
encore.
---------- — -------------
„ Russell
. ---- -,conscious and remained in that (K„ pany,
. . T, „ but
„„
v... bunk the family, ail being rn^rn^ers.0^ pulpit and says he believes a new
they are „ still
Morgan of Hillsboro, sung in his condition until death came to her mates and their friends call them the Chapter. There was a nice pastor might do more effective
!unch and pleasant social session. work in this city than one who
always delightful way, and those j relief. She had never before been ’ ‘The Gold Dust Twins.”
Surely these people will not has been on the job four years.
pre-ent would not tie satisfied i seriously ill.
An Unlucky Brigade
soon forget that they have friends He asks to be relieved not later
until he came back.
! Deceased was the daughter of
Miss Manche Langley , who has in Forest Grove.
“ Under the Stars and Stripes in Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Thomas and
than Jan. 1st.
for
the past three years been cor
was
horn
in
the
state
of
Iowa
on
France” was a film showing our
The resignation has rather up
boys "over there,” receiving in May 20, 1868. With her parents responding with Capt. Hugh M or
set the local congregation, for
tensive training, with their French she came to Oregon when a child timer formerly of Astoria, hut
Rev. Dunlap has become very
allies as instructors. Tiench dig and in 1886 was united in mar now of the 123d battery. 28th
a large majority of the
ging, bomb throwing, machine riage with Philip W. Watkins, the field artillery, B. E. F., has re
By a vote of 20 yeas and 9 members, and many citizens not
gun instruction and all the meth- marriage taking place in Scoggin’s ceived a- letter from the captain. nays, the taxpayers of School members of the church w illjegret
ods of modern warfare are being valley. For the past ten years
Tht^writer'expuinVlhat DisWct'.Nc,.1 5 I S t ' & t u r f a y ' v S : | t h i . m a t. leave Forest
taught the Sammies, and when Mr. and Mrs. Watkins have re-
he
has
been
“ outed,” which means
i ° . ask the county court to levy Crove. --------------------
i hey go “over the top," Berlin elded in this city, where they
service
sufficient
that
he
has
been
out
of
service,
“
«
“ l e « * . millage to raise
!
CONDENSED NEWS NOTES
will be their first stopping place, have made a host of warm friends
He
has
been
|
780.00
by special taxation to run
probably
wounded,
The program closed with the Deceased is survived by her hus-
the schools of the district. Frank
- t ..
d •,
a j j
singing of “ The Star-Sj>angled band, one son, John Watkins of in the service since September, Hinman and others asked that . Th,e. uRejucve" af t"i d? " c.ers elv
Banner” by Mrs. Fred Jones in near Banks, and one daughter. 1914, and at one time wrot • that $3,000 of this mount he rut off Joyed their firet hop of the pres.
.OI ims a™ °unt
e .v r OIJ ent season
;
------- at
K. of P. hall last
her inimitable way, the audience Mrs.Elma Kopplin of Uiurelwood; he was the only member of the
also her mother, M r s . H elen177th brigade. Royal Field A n il- lhe budget as the law did not night
standing.
The high school or
f o .S
S
! Guy M
cN
McNutt,
son of Mr. and
chestra gave numbers throughout Thomas of Forest. Grove; two lery who had not been either
brothers, W . E. Thomas of Pen- killed, captured or wounded; now year, but others contended that,
the entertainment, and this con
sum must eventually be
CL S. M cNutt, went to Port-
that any escaped
tributed in no small measure to diet on and J. E. Thomas of this he cannot say
“ v for ^e^half
been £ id it w a f teuer
L . « , navv
'and yesterday and enlisted in the
city;
three
sisters—Mrs
Georgia
this
distinction,
he has been -
the success and enjoyment of the
of
it
each
vear
than
to
havp
a
hia
navy.
program. Those who were un Matteson of Gaston, Mrs. Aimee twice in the hospital. Speaking ° A1 ea< * t h a n to have a big naJ£*
Dr. Darland and family are now
Wahl of Watts and Mrs. Bertha of the recent battle, he says: " I lump fall due in any one >ear,
Dr.
able lo attend last night will have Barnes of Newbe-g, and three thought I had seen SOME fighting an.d the major.ty of the voters domiciled
in the Bean property,
an opportunity to go tonight and grandchildren.
at the Somme, but this caps all evidently took this view of the corner A street and First avenue,
enjoy this melange of good things.
Mrs. Watkins will be mourned and if one survives, the good God ™att*‘r - It was estimaU'd by the n°rih .
by many citizens outside the fa m -. only knows what the next will be. d,rec.to1? that $30 310 00 will be
Word comes from Camp Kelley,
ilv circle, friends who had learned Desolation is no name for the re£.ul.re* , J 2 J t h e schools, of .^n Antonio, Tex., than Enoch I.
to love and respect her on ac- country and the noise goes on which $-0,<80.00 must be raised Will, late of this city, has been
count of her many good qualities from morn till morn; sometimes by a special levy, estimated to be made a sergeant of aviation.
Forest Grove raised $1,337 50 and her passing will leave a void it’s increased, but it never stops. in the neighborhood of 18 mills
Mr. and Mrs. J S. Buxton last
and the west half of Washington in the community where she has Am writing this in a dugout,'
Under the old law, the taxpay-
Thursday took their daughter,
county, including this city, a total spent the past decade of her life, hastily constructed from such de- ers, at the budget meeting, fixed Mrs. Jessie Covert, to Dr. Pierce’s
of $2.809.21 for the fund of $35, - 1 Funeral services were held in bris as is handy. Its dimensions the millage, but the law has been sanitarium, at Portland, where
OOOOOObeing raised for the Army
the Christian church at 10:30 yes- j are 12x5 feet and about 5 feet so amended that the taxpayers she shows signs of improvement,
Y. M . C. A., according to figures
p av p i p „ f _ high in the center
Th ee of us decide how much they need and
Fre(j Davidson and Miss Lo
compiled by Secretary R. E. Dun nam official ing, and ’ the remafns : share it during the day and if it j the county court fixes the levy,
retta Hermsen informed some of
lap. Fully seventy percent of the were interred
in Forest View i^ 0!®8 nothing else, it keeps off the
v
! the*r friends on leaving yesterday
Dr. and Mrs.
:;urn mentioned is in cash, the re
'
‘
for Portland that they would be
cemetery. The funeral was largely | rair?j _
|uuck^
.“ d! a^ „0_u.tl.:” ! leave tomorrow for an extended
mainder in p'edges that fall due attended bv sorrowing relatives (he’s a Britisher) another month’s
tomorrow
sorrovv,nf!! relat,ves fine weather and the Hun would ^ 'P east. They will first go to maAr',ied before ) hey returned;
not later than February. This is and friends
Rochester, Minn., where Dr.
A fat steer that was auctioned
$1,200 more than was required,
—
, have been miles back of where he
Hawke
will
enter
a
clinic
at
the
stock show in Portland
but the oversubscription through
( ard or Thanks
i ¡a today. The mud now varies
Mayo hospital, then to New York, yesterday brought 80c per pound,
out the nation will defer the next
We desire to thank the many from four inches to four feet in
tota* ° f $904. The reason
drive until late next fall, it is es friends and neighbors who so depth. I feel very proud that I where the doctor will make fur- t,r a 1
ther
studies
in
surgery.
They
ex-
,
^ae.
price was that the
timated.
kindly assisted us during the last ¡have always stuck up for Presi-
pect to be absent until some time ^ *e price was to be given to the
Mrs John Anderson and Mrs. ! illness and death of our wife and : dent Wilson, for I think he has in January. Mrs. Hansen of Port-1
Cross.
John McNamer visited at Tilla mother, and for the many beauti- done wonders.”
Everett Burnworth and Wilbur
land,
sister
to
Mrs.
Hawke,
will
mook and Barview from Friday to ful floral offerings.
Mrs Martha W ood rum, aged look after Malcolm and his sister, L. Thomas of this city, James H.
P. W. Watkins,
Tuesday, Mrs. Anderson having
80 years, passed away at Portland Helen, in this city.
Jacobsen of Hillsboro and Alfred
J. W. Watkins,
gone to inspect the Tillamook
Friday and the remains were in
Greenburg of Beaverton are the
Mrs. Arthur Kopplin.
Relief Corps. A t Barview they
terred at Gaston Monday, Rev.
Mrs. S. A. Walker writes her four men selected by the county
were the guests of Captain Farley
Humphry N o. 4 hand bone Johnson of Portland officiating husband from a Portland hospital conscription board to fill Wash
and family at the life-saving sta mill, good as new, for $8. Pacific Deceased had made her home for that she is able to walk a little ington county’s vacancy at Camp
tion.
some years with her sister, Mrs. ¡and will soon return home.
¡Lewis.
Market.
A Sudden Death
From Paralysis
Popular M. E. Pastor
Will Resign Charge
i lLi°VTS i
School Patrons Adopt
Budget for 1918 £¿7
¡1 “
“¿'25?
Drive for Army “Y”
Was Great Success
Jr?’-'