Newberg graphic., April 29, 1909, Image 4

This weather is aw fu lly hard
« a the ice man.
Poor old A bdil Hamid, the
deposed Turkish ruler!
Only
eleven o f his w ives aré to be
allowed to go w ith him to prison.
The weather man says this is
the dryest A p ril Oregon has seen
in thirty-eigh t years. W ith the
continued cool weather and no
■now coming out o f the mountains,
it is feared that hot weather in
June w ill bring it out w ith a
rush and make high water.
who were privileged to visit
them that this would be the last
for a long term o f years, but no
very great lapse ot time has been
allow ed to intervene between
these great spectacular events.
W ith the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
not yet out o f the shell, there
comes in clarion . notes from
stakfold Boston a proposition
for holding a W orld’s F a ir for
the New England states in that
city in 1920, in commemoration
ot the three hundreth anniversary
of the landing o f tbe Pilgram
fathers at Plymouth Rock. The
suggestion comes none too early,
for the tact that New England
has never held a big exposition is
ample evidence of their tendency
to deliberation, and ten years
w ill be none to o long in which to
mature the “ idear.”
inform ation they desired.
Recently we began prepa­
rations for making a count ot
the people ot Ncwberg this
spring, when we learned that
Prof. F. K* Jones o f the college
was planning to have the young
men o f his Sociology class takje
the census. As a result we have
decided to w ork together, and
consequently blanks have been
prepared and the w ork w ill be
begun this week.
The tow n has been laid o ff in­
to districts and divided up, and
the count w ill be made by the
follow in g named young men:
Roy Fitch, Bari Henry, Nathan
i 'ook , Ernest Hadlock, Haines
Burgess, Roy M ills and Harvey
W right. They have been in-
Henney & Stover
OLIVER FAILS TO SHOW US.
HIG HEST GRADE, CO M PLETE STOCK
A Chicago representative in
the Illinois legislature
has
introduced a bill, the purpose ot
which is to lim it the size o f
women’s hats to 18 inches, and
forbids the adornments to extend
more than six inches beyond tbe
crown. The “ mean thing.”
King & Bennett Hdw. Co
Tbe position o f editor o f such
a great newspaper as the Orego­
nian is one o f greater honor than
th at o f minister to Mexico, and
H arvey W. Scott is to be com­
mended for his good judgement
in dedm ng to lay down his pen
to go to Mexico as a representa­
tive of the home government.
Plumbing!
O ur stock is larger and more complete than ever.
W e have all the latest patterns, consisting o f
F. H. Caldwell
Taffeta, wash taffeta, messaline, kobe, mira, rice mes­
saline, foulards, podesoies, pongees, malabars, Arnold,
Jap, China, fancy silks, etc., etc.
t
how it could be done, his
proposition would no doubt
meet w ith favor, and asked him in dne time we w ill be able to tell
to forth w ith show ns. This he yon w hat the present population
does not attem pt to do. In fact o f Newberg is.
~
, ;V
he states, in a play to the
I t is surprising to aee what galleries in a column article last
an accumulation o f old tin cans, week, “ a t this tim e the w riter
scrap iron and miscellaneous w ill have bat little t o say relative
junk can be gathered up in N ew - to figures that w ill show fo r
berg each year at cleaning* up themselves.”
Then he a t once proceeds to
tim e, but it serves a good purpose
in m aking fills in depressions in foil into the trap^laid for him, by
streets when w ell covered w ith goin g on to show th a t while bat
dart, and great is the re lie f to the meager sum o f $4500 has
have it put out o f sight, rather been paid on the w ater bonds in
than to have it scattered about eleven years time, and further
th at while a large amount o f
money has been collected in
A short tim e ago the Graphic w ater rents, it has all been eaten
called attention to the fa ct that a np in m aintaining, and enlarg­
fresh coating o f gravel spread ing, and extending the system.
about the Southern Pacific depot This is exactly w hat we expected
grounds would be appreciated by him to say. We all know that
the patrons o f the road, and a the city is receiving a large
car load o f decomposed granite m ontly revenue from w ater
has already been set out a t the receipts, am ounting to $6000 or
C H A S E ft L IN T O N
station w ith which the want is to more a year, and we also know
G
RAVEL COM PANY
be filled, thanks to the prompt­ that the city must be looking
ness
o f the
accommodating out fo r a larger w ater supply for
A ll kinds o f gravel fo r con­
officials, whose attention only the near future. The revenues o f
crete work, cem ent blocks,
needed to be called to the need. the past have been expended as
or wood work furnished on
stated, for keeping the system up
short notice. Leave order»
to meet the requirements ot our
at the office o f R. IJ, Linn-
grow in g little city, and it is like­
v illa
ly that.fhese conditions w ill not
during
the present
merit, regardless o f political change
generation.
In
fact
the chances
affiliations and congress has
are
that
more
bonds
w ill need to
passed a census bill in ac­
E. A. ELLIS
be
sold
in
the
not
very
distant
cordance w ith his views. This
G e n e ra l C o n tracto r
w ill meet w ith tbe approbation future in order to be able to
Septic tanks built after the
I
a i the general public, for a census furnish the w ater Newberg w il
latest approved methods.
demand.
report to be o f vaine must be as
This being the case we are un­ Sew er and T ile W ork. W ell D i « i n *
nearly correct as it is possible to
make it. L et tbe bràt men be able to see how it w ill be profit­
chosen, from the heads o f bureaus able fo r the city to undertake the
down tbe line to the smallest purchase and operation o f a
precinct enumerators, and then lighting plant, which w ill cost
hold them, each and everyone, ten times more to operate and
strictly accountable for the work keep in good order, than it costs
put into their banda L et the tbe city to maintain it ’s gra vity
census of 1910 be tbe most wdter system.
I f M r. Oliver w ill show ns how
accurate ever taken in the history
the city pan jfgrnish. the-people
o f the country.
w ith better lights and better
power, for less money than we
A city is kept dean by every
are now paying, we w ill allow
man sweeping in front of his own
him to cut out the big savings be
door. A city is made beautiful
proposes to
make fo r the
by each man keeping bis home
purchase o f other very desirable
neat and his front yard in order.
utilities, and we w ill vote him a
Even a rented place is pretty if
public benefactor forthw ith.
the tenant has pride enough to
But first giye us the figure*
keep it neat and clean. Where
aH tbe houses and yards on a M r. Oliver.
T H E BAZAAR
Golden
Iridescent Glassware
Something new in the glassware line. Prices on this high
grade glassware is very low. Call fo r further particulars.
H e a d q u a r te r s fo r
W atches, C lo c k s ,
and Jew elry
Kienle &, Sons
Eyes tested and
Glasses F i t t e d
LUMBER
C. B. C U M M IN G S A CO
boira
Moulding
C. K. Spaulding Logging Go
Orégon
Newberg
street are well kept th at street
attracts tbe attention o f passers-
by.
It does not take much
tim e to m ate a place neat, and
the sight of a nCat place raises
tee estim ation the public has for
a fam ily. The city should do
something for its parks and for
the streets; tbe people must
d o it for the houses. T o have a
city beautiful the people who
•wu tbe house* and the people
w ho rent houses must take an
interest. Attention to details
mak^ beauty.—C orvallis Gasctte.j
Windows
CENSUS OF NEWBERG TO
BETAKEN.
In a grow in g tow n it »a lw a y s
a m atter o f speculation as to the
actual number o f inhabitants
within the corporate limits, and
only at periods when the census
is taken are the residents able to
give inquirers any very deffinite
in form ation al to the number of
people the tow n has. Three
different times in the past the
Graphic has taken the census o f
Newberg, the office bearing the
People to trad« with us.
C. F. W I L L I A M S
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A gen t fo r Oregon Sienna Pkfnt Co’s, paints and var­
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Linseed O il Turpentine and Kalsomine. G ive us a
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N ew berg to buy paints • A ll work and material
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