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NEWBERG, YAM HILL COUNTY. 4
ON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26.1907.
chop four cords o f w ood,
shovel aw ay the snow to m
room for the son to rise!
In S. A. Clarke’» “ Pioneer Day*
Sometimes we went to school
o f Oregon H istory,” in »peaking
in
the winterr-not often. Only
o f Solom on Smith who came to
on the days when it was 1
Oregon in 1882 with Wyeth he
cold
and storm y to g o out
• a y « “ In 1836 he went to the
door».
Then we sat on a nice,
mouth o f the Chehalem river, on
cool board about fifty feet aw ay
the W illam ette,H o build a »aw
from the stove and gayly blew
and grist mill in partnership with
at our finders and picked icicles
Sw ing Young, and remained
from our hair.
The Fanner’« Your. '
thereuntil 1840. Before the mill
Then same the merry spring
w as completed all wheat had ta
During the first half o f the year time. Rise at 2:30 a. m. More
be sent to Vancouver. When re ju st ended the fanners o f th e
pairing the mill on one occaaion United States were threatened low ing herd! The herd low ing
they found teeth and large bone» with > general crop failure ow ing t o “the supply o f fodder
being low .
o f a m astodon, that Dr. Mc throughout
the length and
No memory is more
Laughlin sent to England.”
breadth o f the territory east ‘ o f with jo y germs than the
The site o f this mill was not at the Rocky Mountains. H ow
crop working. Can we ever
the m onth o f Chehalem as might
near it came m ay be gathered get the plowing? H ow
be interred from the reading ot from the statement o f the Sec
Clarice*» account, but was on retary o f Agriculture that “ The the plow when we had to
Chehalem creek, or river as he very last day was exhausted that op with a pike pole to get
term s the stream, back o f the could be withheld from crop handles; how we drove the
plug team, with the lines
present site o f the Edwards brick
grow th and still leave a harvest our ne6k; how , when the
factory.
^
w orth taking.”
broke, the mares walked'
In later years some fine speci
But the turn came in time, and with our trail bodies d
mens of bones o f elephants and the year as a whole, instead of
m astodon have been found along being a failure, is the m ost profit, behind by the ears? When
the creek near this point, which able the fanners o f the United ness came we stabled the pi
and went forth to milk the brio-
indicates that this is a good point
States have ever known. They
die heifer. The heifer kidtep
tor original research on the part o f
will have more money t o spend across the barn floor and an
students o f geology and »oology,
and more to invest, from the
a ll ot which goes to show that proceeds ot their crops, than in cow obligingly kicked us
the “ m outh o f the Chehalem any previous year. The crops again. Then, when the milking
s over, what fun to turn in
riyer” has been a favorite resort are not the largest in quantity
and
teach a fool calf to drink!
fo r “ early settlers” lor many that have ever been gathered,
generations—possibly long years but high prices have made the rtus acting a s dry nurse to a
bandy-legged calf was one o f the
beiorC M t. Hpod was catalogued
money value o f them greater.
m ost unmixed joys o f all. We
in the baldheadcd list.
It is the American farmer who tied the calf short, set the backet
This being a halfway point in sustains the foreign credit o f the
in front o f him, g ot astraddle of
the valley and no grist mill near
United States, and keeps the bal his neck, stuck tw o fingers in his
er than Vancouver, it is easy to
ance o f trade favorable. Daring mouth, and with the other hand
see bow Solom on Smith and
the fiscal year o f 1007 the ex ammed his head into the pail.
Ewing Young could look ahead
ports o f farm products exceeded And all the time we were empty-
and see promising possibilities
the im ports by four hundred and ng out abuse on calves in gener
to r the future in the milling busi
forty-four million dollars. The al and. this lop-eared idiot in par
ness on the waters o f the Cheha
farmers have succeeded in keep ticular. This went on until d
lem. Some years later when
ing the balance favorable for came in and with loving pat
unde Dave Ramsey emigrated
sewhipped us fit f
t o Oregon, after having been
fa v orof the United States during
place.
brought up about the mill rites
that time being more than six
Then, when we had carried in
•on Sugar Creek in Parke county,
billion dollars, while the uon- the w ood, brought forty gallons
Indiana, he also looked with
agricultural products during the
o f water from the spring and
favor on this mill rite on the
same period have shown an ad eaten about eight pounds o f solid
Chehalem, Choosing, as he said
verse balance o f more than four food, we went joyfully upstairs—
later, to cast his lot here, when
hundred and fifty millions.
and came (Town again immedi
be m ight have gone farther up
The secretary says with truth ately th breakfast.
26 Piece Set o f Table Silver Reg
the valley where he could have
that it is the farmer w h o haa
ular $10 set for 17.60.
We often dream and wake to
taken up a section o f open prarie
paid the ocean freight on im Weep for the days gone by when Toilet Set o f Comb, Brush and
land and engaged in farming on
ports, the interest, dividends and the hay was ripe. We recall the
Mirror, Quadruple Silver, $8.00
« n extensive scale.
principal on investments in the old swamp that always had to
A dam site where the running
United States by fo r e m e n ; has be cut bv hand. We recall little CLOCKS-Special Mantel Clock,
water made the wheels go-round
Black Ebony Case, 8-day and
sent credit to expatriated Ameri stones that we rasped the edge
w as w orth while in those days,
strike,
special price, $5.60
cans, supplied the American trav o f our blades on. We recall the
«specially in a new country, little
eller with pocket-money, and pretty snakes wfe stepped on Toilet Sets in Sterling Silver,
being known o f steam and noth
furnished the immigrant with with our bare feet. We remem Special, $2.00 to $8.00
in g o f electricity, except possibly
the millions which he sends to ber it all with solemn gladness.
w hat was given otri by the fes
his loved ones in other countries.
Well, well! H ow it all comes A ll goods engraved free
tive vender o f lightning roda
H ow much the grow th of farm back to us!—Chicago Nfws. *
Ho, the fact that this site on
Charge
ing owes to the Department o f
the Chehalem w as considered a
Agriculture may be gathered
desirable one back in the thir
New 'Steamer for
from a single statement. Durum
A Complete Line o f Rogers’ Sil
ties and forties with the coming
wheat was introduced by the
verware at Lowest Possible
The Albany iron works will
o f the white man, is not to be
department less than ten yea n shortly begin the construction o f
Prices
wondered at, but just what
ago, at a cost pf ten thousand a sixty-horse pow er engine forR .
those older settlers o f the m asto
dollars.
This year's crop is J. Galbraith w ho will install the
d on family were doing down on
RINGS
worth thirty million dollars, or engine in a boat which he is now
the creek is something o f a
BRACELETS
more than twice as much as the building at his farm in this coun
stumper. And then again why
whole cost ot the department.— ty about tw o miles fromx Cor
JEWELRY
ahould they pUe up in the mud v . . . rnm no ■
vallis. The boat when com
with a band of elephants and al- fYouth * Companion.
in profusion
pleted will be operated between
lo w themselves to be covéred
Boyhood’s Happy Days.
Portland and upriver points,
over and preserved, aw ay back . f
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Cut Glass—Chafing Dishes
in the M iodne days, only to v- Our friend A. T. Blair grew up and is being made snfficientlv
have their bones dug up and in Iow a where the wiqter cli light draught to allow it to go
Special W atch Sale
carted off across the country and mate is somewhat different from as tar south as Eugene.
The craft will be seventy feet Gentlemens Size Elgin or
on to England to be placed in a that o f the Willamette valley,
•curiosity shop, or later to be and the reading of the follow ing long and sixteen feet wide. The Waltham Watch in Nickel Case,
, placed on thè shelves of the muse clipping has brought “ boyhoods pipe boiler is being made in Chi While They Last $4.44
um over at P. C. to be grinned happy days” on the farm fresh cago now . It will require sever
a t by the stuents.
to his memory. He thinks oth en al months before the boat is fin Sterling Silverware is nice
About some of these things will eqjoy reading it and they no ished, but when done will be pat
for Christmas Gifts
on the river at once for freight
there is A shade o f mystery, but doubt will:
Make your selections early be
one thing is self evident. They
Yes, sir! B oyhood's happy and passenger service, and no
fore the best pieces are gone
practiced “ mixed- farming,” the days, o f course. We know about donbt will be a success. ,
Mr. Gal breath is a compara
m astodon being supplied with that. We haven't forgotten the
all goods pur
teet^ o f monster sise and yet jo y o f sleeping in an unfinished tively newcomer to Oregon, ar
shaped like those o f the dog, loft in winter, when onr breath riving here a tew months ago chased of us free of charge
making him a flesh eating ani froze to the bedding and we had from the Alberta country, Cana
. while you wait
m al, w hile vthe elephant whose to thaw oa t with a hot flatiron da, and buying the Pinkerton
place near C o r v a l l i s . Before
bones repose in the same earth every morning.
com
ing to Oregon and Linn
strata had sm ooth m olars,
Morning, too! We g ot n p a t
show ing him t o be a lover o f 4 a. m. pitch dark, tour below connty, Mr. Galbreath operated
grass and herbs, the same as the aero, and still going doom ! We a coal mine in Canada. He is
Jumbo of Singling» of today.
had to set up, hustle out, And also an e x p e r i e n c e d man in
Newberg Jeweler
Then thdre is another thing feed and milk the low ing herd, steamboat yrork, having run for
that is easy. They knew a good carry the tsar elevation o f the twelve years on the great lakes.
Next to Poetofflce. \
thing when they saw tit and they family mate, thaw ou t the pump, —Albany Herald. *
Eariy
NO. 10
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“ settled” on the Chehalem, there
to remain. Others have done
the same thing later and have
had no cause to regret it.
But to get back to the doings
o f these “ first families” a t the
“ mouth o f' the. Chehalem” —well
there is room for a lot o f specula
tion—“ Some dav we’ll under
stand.”
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Christm as
Specials
M IL L S
ft
Wright A White
W ill sell yen a Fanning Mill that cleans
grain and small seeds and gives satis
faction—T H E C L I P P E R
And a stove that wffl bake your bread
TH E
L O R A IN
R A N G E
W e carry a foil line o f F E E D and
SEEDS
and sell as cheap as tha
Goods Delivered Free
Both Phones
First
Cl MIL IRMI
The place to get your
DRUGS A MEDICINES*
PRESCRIPTION WORK A
SPECIALTY.
CHRISTMAS I
GOODS
Books, Stationery, Fancy and
Toilet Articles. Camara and
Kodaks aad all klads o f Casserà
Supplies.
LESSONS GIVEN IN KO DAK»
EKY
W ar W ith Japan.
Could not possibly make so many
cripples ss rheumatism does every
year. And yet there is no reason
why this disease should cripple
anyone, if all sufferers will rub the
affected parts night and morning
with Ballard’s Snow Liniment.
Cures all aches and pains. Sold by
Moors’s drug store.
The New
HOM E B A K E R Y
r in operation and
we will bs
Is
pleased to wait upon all who would Hko
to try our homo made bread, pisa»
cakes, etc.
G . F. Harriott
and Edwards 8 c
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