/? xJJ*Q üJltu 3nm t Okmt? îExitrt'Sü AN IN D E PEN D E N T WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Vol. 3 FOREST DROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1918 No. 24 orations were thoughtfuljand were School Meeting Uneventful Do Soldier Boys Forest Grove Nason delivered in a masterful way. BIG CLASS AND One of the m o s t peaceable Mis» Ethel Mocroft was given meetings held in thus city a Banquet? school on Building Committee first honors in scholarship and in years was that of last Monday, FINE PROGRAM Miss Nellie Walker second honors. President Want Hoffman of the Com when Chairman W. P Dyke and At the Masonic grand lodge mercial club would like to know Clerk Dorothy .Seymour were re­ meeting held in Portland last whether or not the young men elected without opposition. Count­ week, L. M. Graham of this city Howard Brooks, aged 57, died from Washington county who ing the directors and clerk, there was elected one of five members were just fourteen voters present. at a Hillsboro hospital at 7 1 On account of labor shortage, of the committee which will over­ o ’clock Tuesday evening, as the leave Hillsboro for Camp Lewis next Tuesday would attend a sup­ Ed Allen suggested t h a t the see the put chasing of a site and result of injuries sustained when i per and program next Saturday school year be cut to eight month“, the building of a Masonic home he was run over by the Southern j evening, if one were arranged. but, as the members of the board during the coming year. This will Pacific train which leaves Hills­ boro at 4:40. Mr. Brooks, who The members of the club and had already decided to defer the mean that Forest Grove’s claim lived in the I^urelwood district, business men in general would be opening of the fall term un'il for the location of the home near was a juror in an important law -, pleased to give the boys a send- (jet 1st and, if found advisable, this city will be heard. A big por­ suit and was running to catch a off, if it is wanted, but they do eliminate some of the holiday va­ tion of the needed funds has al­ moving train for home, when he j not care to prepare something and cations, it was not thought nec­ ready been raised. Mr. Graham slipped or tripped and fell under have no guests, so Mr. Hoffman essary to otherwise shorten the was also placed on the judiciary committee, which gives him a life the wheels suffering concussion of asks that all Western Washington term. membership in the lodge. the brain and having a leg broken, ¡county men ,n, caH let him The Masons elected the follow­ Deceased is ason-in-'aw of Sam know by 10 o clock next Satur ing officers: F. W. Settlemier, Lennox, a well known pioneer, and ,day morning, June 22d, whether grand master; E. C . Branaugh, leaves a wife and three (children. or not they would attend this meeting and eat with the citizens. deputy grand master; W. S Kerr, The funeral will be held Friday, Between fifteen and 30 soldier senior grand warden; F. S. Bail- Professor Edward Taylor will Congregational at t h e Gaston guests are wanted by the Com­ have charge of the work in math­ iee, junior grand warden; J. B. With the largest class of grad­ church. mercial Club. uates in the history of the local ematics and physics in Pacific Cleland, grand treasurer; J. S. Nine Called for Vancouver University next year. Prof Tay­ Robinson, grand secretary. high school, the commencement CONDENSED NEWS NOTES The Ea-tern Stars elected the lor is a graduate of the engineer­ The county w a r board has exercises held in the M. E. church ing department of the University following officers: called Geo. A. Isaacs, Ernest F. last Monday night proved very Plan to celebrate July Fourth of Minnesota, from which he Worthy grand matron, Mrs. Thompson, Rant Dunsmore, Ray at Balm Grove. interesting to the large crowd of holds the degree of C E. He has Mabel Settlemier; worthy grand Jackson. Gus Kencracz, Clement friends and relatives who appeared M. Kemmer, Waller Gray, Oscar Miss Jeanette Little visited in done graduate work at the Uni-j patron, H. H Young; associate versity of Oregon, and has had a grand matron, Mrs. Alberta S. to see and hear the program, Ramsey. Ralph B. Kirby, Wm. Portland Sunday. which consisted of the proces­ E. Peters, Claude E. Barber and The Express prints butter wrap­ number of years’ successful ex-I McMurphy; associate grand pat­ perience, both as a civil engineer ! ron, Ed. S. Kiddle; grand secre­ sional, the invocation by Rev. Willie Diedrich to appear at Hills­ pers with non-poisonous ink. and also as a teacher. He comes ' tary, Miss Nellie McKinley ¡grand boro at 10 o ’clock on June 30th Ebert, several songs by the high J. S. Buxton visited his brother, with high recommendations, in- i treasurer, Mrs. Mary E. Johnson; for service. From these twelve school Glee Club, orations by will be selected nine men as labor- ^ Ust'.n’, a t . ues^a*’ aru* eluding strong endorsements from grand conductress, Mrs. Ida Um- Misses Helen Reeher and Mar­ ers in the aeronautic division at ^oun( Austin quite ill. the University of Oregon. Indeed, back; associate grand conductress, garet Martin and Mr. Albert Sny­ Vancouver barracks. ; he had an attractive offer to Mrs. Minnie Letson; grand chap- A daughter was born last Thurs­ L e I a n d der, a local solo by Miss Kath- George Alexander was Tuesday day to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Love teach in the University Practice lain, Mrs. Marion Burnett; grand eryn Collier, a violin solo by Miss sent to Vancouver to fill a clerical of the Thatcher district. School but declined because he lecturer, Mrs Jennie G. Rinehart; Frances Benjamin and an ad­ position and four mechanics, not wants to do just the kind of work grand marshal. Mrs. Alice C . J. L. Howard, late of California, that is dem »nded by the position Cowell; grand organist, Miss dress by Rt. Rev. W. T Sumner, yet selected, will be sent to San Episcopal Bishop of Oregon. The Francisco on July 1 to attend a has entered the employ of V. I. in Pacific Univer-ity. He expects Ethel Gaylord; grand Adah, Mrs. Fuqua as a phonograph salesman to move to Forest Grove very Boggs; grand Esther, Mrs. Lillian speaker was only present by ac­ training school. in outlying districts. cident. as the written invitation I soon. Young; g r a n d Martha, Mrs. went to Portland and he was at Mrs. C. E. Roy and daughter, Professor Taylor will offer some j Maude Scott; grand Electa. Mrs. Lots of Flour Returned work in a spruce camp on the Virginia, are expected to return very attractive courses, including, Theresa Castner: grand warder, Washington county people sold lower Columbia. He saw in a this evening from an extended several with a war-emergency in-' Mrs. Ella Springer; grand senti- Portland paper that he was ex­ back to the government more visit at Portland and Vancouver. | terest; a course in Spherical Trig nel, Leslie Parker. than 30 tons of wheat flour dur­ pected to be here and he came, The Fuqua 5, 10 and 15c Store ¡onometry and Navigation and a and he delivered one of the most ing the past two weeks, according Young Mother Called will be in its big new quarters in course in Mechanical Drawing, forceful addresses heard in the to County Administrator C. E. with special emphasis on prepara- A multitude of friends were Wells, who says he is proud of the Fuqua block Monday morn­ city in many years, taking for I he , tion for shipbuilding draftsmen. ing. Come and see the pretty saddened in Forest Grove Mon- keynote of his address the advice the record made. Gaston collect­ Pacific University has also com­ : day when th y heard of the death ed and turned in 13,000 pounds, things at low prices. to "G o all the way in whatever Remember, friends, you must pleted arrangements for instruc-;0f Mrs. Henry Fogel, aged 22 you undertake.” Everybody at Forest Grove 18,000, Corneiius 4,000, Banks and Sheffiin 4,000, pay in advance to get the Express tion next year in Bookkeeping. years, at her home here. She had some time starts somewhere, but Beaverton 2.500and Hillsboro be­ at one d »liar per year. The reg­ Commercial Law, Shorthand and lived here all her life and by her very few finish, he said. The man Typewriting. It is believed that or woman who has the stamina to tween 15,000 and 16.000. Other ular price is $1 50. We pay you these courses will have a special beautiful character had won a points further east sent their fiour legion of friends. 50c to collect fiom yourself. go all the way are the ones who : appeal at this time. Gertrude R Sappington was count. He advised all who could to Portland by auto truck, so no Professor Handlin’s successor born at Hillsboro October 27, to go to college and suggested record is obtainable of th se T H E ADVANTAGE amounts. has not been chosen, but it is ex­ 1896. and was the daughter of that, with as good a school as Pa­ OF A HANDICAP” pected that this place will be filled County Treasurer E. B. Sapping­ cific University so handy, many An Enthusiastic Meeting |very soon. ton and until a few months ago of the class of 1918 should man­ Dr. Elliott Boyl Returns to Chautau­ Rev. A. B. Patten and W. J., Information comes by recent she was employed in his office at age, somehow, to get a college qua With New Lecture. cablegram from Professor Hand- Hillsboro. She was married to education. Only 51 per cent of McCready were the speakers at a the high school graduates of the War-Saving Stamp meeting held Dr. Elliott A. Boyl has ninny friends lin that he has arrived safely in Henry Fogel August 17, 1914. nation go to college, but. the aver­ at Balm Grove last nightand report In the West He lectured on this France. The funeral services were held age for Oregon is 78 per cent. that more than 200 people attend Chnutauquu circuit two years ago and at the Buxton chapel Wednesday Harry C. Gist Bishop Sumner laid great stress ed the meeting, coming from miles In response to the many requests he ts morning and were conducted by In the death of Harry C. Gist, Rev. C. A. Sias of the Christian on the importance of service to around to show their loyalty. | returning with a new lecture, “ The Ad­ country and complimented Qre_; Rev. Patten delivered a rousing vantage of a Handicap.” Dr. Boyl has postmaster of Yamhill, passes an church, of which Mrs. Fogel was gon on the good showing she has 15-minute speech and Mr. M e - 1lwomi one of the strongest lnspira- old time resident of Forest Grove. a member. The floral offering made in furnishing soldiers and Cready made a shorter one, but |t,onal 1*cturer* on the platform. He Mr. Gist died at his home at was beautiful Interment was in Yamhill Sunday following an ill­ money for the war against Prus­ drove home some telling blows. the Forest View cemetery. ness of several years. Following Mr. Pat en says the upper coun­ sian autocracy. Besides her husband and father the services conducted by the in the War " 7 will wm be lw heard uraru from ' In presenting the 37 diplomas try Mrs. Fogel is survived by a baby Elks and K of P. at the home to the graduates, W. P. Dyke, Stamp campaign. daughter, born June 7; three sis­ Tuesday the body was brought to chairman of the board of educa­ ters— Mrs. Clarence Hanley and Forest Grove for interment in the Chautauqua Meeting tion, followed Bishop Sumner’s Mrs. William Christiansen of [ Buxton cemetery, where cere­ Monday evening next, June example in emphasizing the im­ monies were held under the Portland; Miss Irene Sappington, 24th, at 7:30, there will be a portance of “ stick-to-it-ive ness ” at home; and a brother, Harold auspices of the K. of P. The members of the class had meeting at the Rest Room of the Mr. Gist was 55 years of age Sappington, of Portland. stuck through their high school Rogers Library of those who and lived in Forest Grove during Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Littler and course and he believed if they agreed to purchase tickets for the the early nineties and was em­ daughter, Florence, motored to started on a higher course a large 1918 chauiauqua. Officers will be! ployed by the old Smith furniture elected and committees appointed. Portland Tuesday evening fo ra number would stick to the end. ¡factory. If you are one of the 100, pit ase visit with Mrs. Littler’s sister, H. E. Inlow, superintendent of For several years he had been Mrs. Joseph McDonald, who has be present. Committee. schools, presented Cecil Shotwell a merchant at Yamhill. He is just arrived f r o m Fairbanks, with a year’s scholarship in either Interesting to the Ladies survived by a widow and a daugh­ Alaska. _______________ of the six conference colleges of ter, Mrs. Victor Minnon. Chas. Kaddeilyof Portland and the state, the award being made Mrs. C. O. Roe of this city are to the student most likely to make Organ and Choral Concert putting on interesting demonstra­ the most of his opportunities. To On Friday evening, June 21, a Miss Irene Hall he presented a tions of cooking and baking with the Universal Combination Range concert will be given at the Meth­ scholarship in Willamette Uni­ at the Goff Hardware store today, odist church at 8 o ’clock sharp. A number of Forest Grove peo­ versity, to Miss Nellie Walker a tomorrow and Saturday. Ladies Mr. A. F. Reilly, an organist of scholarship in Whitman College ple entertained twenty soldier- 1» not only n splendid orator, but ft and to Miss Katheryn Collier a and their worser halves are invit- deep thinker, n close and loglcul ren- Portland, will play several selec­ workers from the spruce cut-up scholarship in either of the con­ ! ed to come to the store and see soner nnd has a mind stored with per­ tions on the new organ. The choir mill at Vancouver from Saturday where the Universal excells all tinent facts. People are thinking and will giv« several selections from ference colleges. O n e o f the I other ranges talking about his lecture for months Stainer’s Oratorio “ The Daughter evening to Sunday evening, the young ladies delivering an oration boys being in charge of Rev. and years niter he has gone. of Jairus.” had walked more than ten miles After next Monday morning, No admission will be charged, Ralph L. Putnam, former Chris­ during the afternoon to take part the 5, 10 and 15c store will be tian church pastor in this city, Dr. Ward is continuing his but an offering will be taken. in the program and, as a result, located in the Fuqua building, but now a “ Y ” worker in the practice and is prepared to answer she was not in the best of con ­ north of the present location, The sheriffs of Oregon will hold spruce camp. The boys arrived dition for her task, but, aside where goods can be shown to bet­ calls both day and night. Office an important convention at Port­ from Vancouver at 7:35, were met hours, from 9 to 11 a. m. and 2 to from this .slight deTect, all the ter advantage. Come and see. land tomorrow. 4 p. m. 18-tf (Continued on Page 3) CLASS ROLL Mabel Allan France« Benjamin May Church llo Brown Kdilh I»urlami Kathryn Collier Myrtle Ferm Clarence Famine l