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NEWBERG. YAMHILL COUNTY. OREGON, THUBSDAY, JULY 14.1910.
NO. 39
roads bringing in the variously engaged in the morn­
PLEASING REmOSPECr dusty
people in family loads and bear­ ing including such thrilling ex­ YEARLY MEETING ENDS
ing the big clothes baskets filled periments as setting off a fire­
Some Okl Tuna Celebrations in with yellow legged chicken and cracker held between his teeth. Annual Gathering of Friands
Provas Harmonious and
V alley.
-
custard pies.. Few indeed were And better still, perhaps this
Successful
the light vehicles. Here and “ community o f family interests”
Such occasions as last week’s
there would be seen some young meant that the b oy ’s picnic din­ On Monday afternoon was
celebration here always make
fellow from Dayton or LaFayette ner would be flavored with the held the last session o f Oregon
the old timers reminiscent and it
who had driven up with his presence o f a certain rosy cheeked Yearly Meeting o f F r i e n d s
is fortunate for the younger
“ girl” in a buggy. He was at little Miss, which presence how ­ Church, 1910. In many ways
generation that it is so. Were it
once stigmatized as a tow n dude. ever brought an unwonted shy­ this year’s gathering was the
otherwise, whence the local his­
We were all pretty much coun­ ness over him which caused a most satisfactory held since the
t o r y and traditions always so
try Rubes. It stuck out all over, solicitude on the part o f mother establishment o f the Yearly
interesting, and the means o f
but we didn’t know it. The who asked after the state o f his Meeting in 1893. The attend­
comparing past and present?
young people came out in all o f stomach and had him sticking ance, owing to the rush o f the
The other day some o f the
the Fourth o f Jjjly finery that out his tongue for parental berry season, was not so large
■“ first citizens” were recalling the
the cross roads store afforded. inspection.
as it has often been, but the unity
old days in Chehalem Valley and
In the afternoon the athletic and harmony o f spirit manifested
The country lasses were aijorned
told o f some early celebrations
in all the colors which the day sports on the grounds were tihroughout .has neveT b ee n
held in this vicinity before a town
made appropriate while the largely restricted to foot races be­ equalled. As a result a more
dotted this part o f the country.
swains wore cherries in their tween local champions and per­ hopeful, optimistic tone charac­
Back in the late seventies a
hats, big bouquets in their button haps a rifle shooting contest terized the sessions which augurs
Fpurth o f July celebration was
holes and carried striped little would be held near by. The well for a good year’s work.
held northwest o f town, in the
canes. Self-conscious and happy more sportily inclined to whom
In the closing hour M onday a
grove across the road from the
such amusements were tame change was made-in the time of
couples
swung
around
the
circle
old Larkin farm. The speaker
to the creak, creak o f the old would disappear along in the holding the Yearly Meeting which
w as Robert Douglas, o f Ohio,
swing and to the tune o f the afternoon and rumors would it is believed will suit more people
unde o f J. H. Douglas Jr., who
Arkansas Traveler as whanged come drifting back o f exciting and be generally beneficial. The
was on a trip through the West.
out by some local backwoods horse races which were taking time fixed upon is the day follow­
The day was far from like that
follower o f Ole Bull. And we can place farther east on the Everest ing Pacific College Commence­
o f Monday, July 4, 1910. In
even yet see the cherry bedecked track. * But o f these the small ment, which Friends from a
short it is rdated-that it snowed
young gallant lean far over to ­ boy knew only by hearsay for distance will thus be able to at­
and that the sons o f the tree had
such wicked diversion was not tend.
to build camp fires to keep*them- ward his Dulcina—merely to ad­
countenanced
in the Quaker Dis­
The mention of “ Peace and
selves warm and their patriotism just his body, o f course, to the
rapid revolution o f the swing. cipline. The indulgers in such Arbitration” is to o often the
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worldly amusement were spoken same as hanging out the “ wake
Shortly after this the scene o f Blessed old Merry-go-round and
o
Who f with ominous shaking o f the me when it’s over” sign. But
such gatherings was changed to blissful country lovers!
head and the boy looked upon one of the very interesting
a grove east of town where the says people never get anywhere
them much as he would upon a sessions o f the week was that o f
who
go
in
a
circle!
Henry Ehret home now stands.
Jesse
James or a Jack Dalton.
Seats were improvised under
Thursday evening, devoted to
Opposite it stood the Friends
As ¿he shades o f evening drew this subject. Prof. Oliver Wees-
the
“
Oregon’s
Tall
Pines”
(which
Church. It was on these old
on, the elders finished their yisit- ner of Pacific College delivered in
— grounds that the first merry-go- were firs however) and the crowd
ing>
the boys spent their last a convincing manner his master­
round in this part of the country gathered to listen (?) to the
nickel at the lemonade stand, the ful oration on “ The Fallacy o f
made its appearance, and there­ Fourth o f July oration and
horses were hitched up to the War.” F. A. Morris gave some
other
exercises.
We
can
still
get
by hangs a tale. It was at a
wagon and -with a parting. astounding figures as to what
Fourth o f July celebration that the aroma o f the fresh cut lumber,
“ Now, come and see us,” the co jd be done in promoting the
one Witt Ruddick introduced the o f the sawdust sprinkled over
the ♦^ground and o f that indes­ family was on its w ay “back fd arts o f peace with the equivalent
novelty. He had never ^ead
the farm in time to get the chores o f the cost o f the building and up
Conwell’s “ Acres o f Diamonds” cribable tang o f seasoning fir.
done up before dark. Tired and keep o f one o f our modem battle­
but he applied the principle just The leading citizen or some bud­
happy the boy went to bed, ships. Willis Hotchkiss empha­
ding
elocutionist
recited
the
the same. The old horse swing
thinking how awfully long it sized the necessity o f providing
Declaration
in
approved
form.
proved a sensation. Nothing
would be until the next Fourth the moral equivalent o f war in
like it had ever been seen in this Some bright school boy (little
o f July.
Philander
stands
before
you!)
terms o f the conquest o f the
neck o f the woods. The inhab­
declamed
“
There
was
tumult
in
world for the furtherance o f
itants fell over themselves to get
the
city,
in
that
good
old
Quaker
W
illie
Cordier
Drowns-
Christ’s
Kingdom.
“ a trip around the world for the
tow
n,”
and
“
Ring
Grandpa-pa,”
A good audience was present
small sum o f a dime.” They
with
swelling
emphasis
on
the
Friday
morning to hear Mrs.
On
last
Monday
evening
at
swamped Ruddick and swing—
last
syllable.
The
“
oration
of
Lulu
Shepard,
o f Salt Lake,
four o ’clock Willie Cordier, the
he couldn’t take the money fast
the
day”
was
given
by
some
spell
fourteen year-old-son o f Mr. and deliver a stirring address on the
enough. He was finally so loaded
binder
of
more
than
local
reputa­
Mrs. Wm. Cordier was drowned prohibition question. A pleas­
down with silver that he had to
tion.
He
was
apt
to
be
old
Dr.
while
bathing in the Myers fish ing and ready speaker, she gets
sneak away into the brush,
Watts,
of
LaFayette,
the
Oregon
pond a mile and a half east of quickly to the bottom o f the
cache it aw ay in a hiding place
elector
who
figured
in
the
Hayes-
Newberg.
question and wastes no time on
and return to load up again.
Tilden
presidential
contest
in
non essentials. “ Oregon’s go­
He
with
some
o
f
the
younger
Not long after he left for Texas
1876.
With
savage
and
patriotic
children o f the family went to ing dry," was sung by the audi­
with the proceeds o f his day’s
delight
the
old
Yamhill
giant
the pond on that warm after­ ence with an accent o f conviction.
work and invested in a big Texas
and
war
horse
would
proceed
to
noon and went in bathing, the A reading in harmony with the
cattle ranch! Some o f the details
tear
out
the
long-suffering
younger children keeping close to occasion was given by Mrs.
o f this narrative might not stand
eagle’s
tail
feathers,
one
by
one,
the shore while Willie ventured Antoinette Dunbar o f Rex.
the test o f historical criticism,
to
get
the
old
bird
to
screaming
farther
out and swam up to the
Friday afternoon and evening
but what o f it? If a man has a
in
approved
fashion.
And
just
head o f the pond where the large was devoted to the considera­
good story to tell, he should have
as
he
got
under
w
ay
some
irre­
spring empties into it. Suddenly tion o f missions. The particular
the courage o f his convictions!
pressible
youth
who,
benighted
he sank from sight and his com­ Alaska field o f the Yearly Meet­
Why should we worry him over
in
ignorance,
had
never
heard
o
f
panions at once gave cries of ing first received attention, re­
non-essentials?
a
sane
Fourth,
would
set
off
a
alarm which brought tw o Japa­ ports from which were given by
One o f the oldest memories o f
whole
bunch
o
f
firecrackers
in
nese men who were working Rev. and Mrs. J. Perry Hadlev,
the writer goes back to a similar
close
proximity
to
the
stand.
near by to the rescue. One of lately returned from Douglas,
occasion on the same grounds,
But
what
was
a
little
bunch
o
f
them plunged in and dived for Alaska. In the evening Willis R.
sometime in the eighties. T w o
firecrackers
to
that
well
remem­
the body but the water was so Hotchkiss gave a ringing mes­
men were present from a distance
bered,
strident
and
piercing
cold he was unable to remain sage, presenting the subject from
who gave a public and thrilling
voice
o
f
the
pugnacious
but
good
down long enough to secure it. the world standpoint and voicing
account o f their escape from
old
doctor?
But
what
would
Another Jap was called from a such a clarion call as only he can
Andersonville prison during the
these
exercises
have
been
to
the
half mile aw ay and with a rope make.
civil war and how, in their ema­
youngsters,
had
they
not
been
tied to his body he went down
Unusual interest attached to
ciated condition, they were
plentifully
interspersed
w
i
t
h
and
secured
the
body
o
f
the
un­
the
educational session this year
hurried to Washington, D. C.,
“
music
by
the
band,”
with
which
fortunate lad.
on account o f the successfully
half dead and into the presence
Rev. G. J. Rieker and Tom Herd closed campaign for the new $30,-
o f President Lincoln to serve as Skunk Hollow always came to
who chanced to be near at hand 000 building for Pacific College.
an object lesson of the treatment the front?
And then came the afore­ did all they could to restore res­ Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Wood-
accorded Union prisoners by the
South. And to this day the men­ mentioned fried chicken, custard piration but failed. The parents ward gave an account o f the
tion o f Andersonville brings up pies, et ceteras. T o the delight are almost heart-broken over the campaign which they had carried
the whole story which made such o f the boy, the contents o f the loss o f the son, though are com­ on, the former giving notice that
a vivid impression on the small home basket would be spread forted from the fact that he was it was to be followed up im­
boy, some twenty-five years ago. out with those o f some other an earneft Christian boy and an mediately by another, for an
It would be rich entertainment family or families. This was active member o f the German endowment. Hearty apprecia­
tion tor the efforts o f Newberg
for the Newberg o f to-day if it highly satisfactory both from a Methodist Church.
[gastronomic
and
social
stand-
The
funeral
which
was
held
on
people in raising the substantial
could iust stand aside and look
on at the rest o f us celebrating 1 point. In the first place, the Tuesday afternoon was con­ building fund, was voiced. The
as we used to do on the old result was a variety and quanti­ ducted by Rev. G. J. Rieker, the educational address was well
delivered by J. Edgar Williams,
grounds east o f town. There ty, to which the stomachs o f but pastor.
o f Seattle, good talks on the
was no train to bring the people tw o known animals would be
in from both directions—there equal—those o f a boy and a goat.
Brown—What have you got advantages o f denominational
was no tow n to get up a parade. In the second place it probably against that man Smith? He education being given by Chas.
Indeed the parade consisted o f brought him into continued com­ has done some very good things. White, o f Indiana, and many
the old farm wagons, rattling panionship with his chums, with Jones—Yes, but I happened to others. The interests o f Green-
leaf Academy, Idaho, were also
down the hills and along the whom he had already been be one o f them.—Life.
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presented and met a hearty
reception.
At the meeting of the Pacific
College corporation held the
previous evening, the retiring
members o f the Board o f T rustees,
J. H. Rees, A. R. Mills, Jesse Ed­
wards and M. P. Elliott, ’ were
re-elected. In the later organiza­
tion o f the Board, E. H. W ood­
ward was elected president for
the ensuing year. Evangeline
Martin was chosen as financial
agent and commissioned to
work for endowment.
On Christian Endeavor even­
ing floral tokens were presented
to all comers by the Endeavorers.
A good program was presented,
Prof. Reagan presiding. Chas.
White spoke briefly from the
words, “ Let no man despise thy
youth.” Mrs. Emma Hodgin o f
the college faculty, gave a note
o f warning against over-empha­
sizing “ doing” at the expense o f
being.” Duetts were sung by
the Misses Eula Hodson and
Lola Kaufman and by Mr. and
Mrs. Emmer Newby.
Sunday was busy as “ Yearly
Meeting Sunday” always is,
with services at eight, ten, two-
thirty, seven and eight. The pul­
pits o f the Baptist, Presbyterian,
C h r is t ia n and M e t h o d is t
churches were o c c u p i e d b y
Friends ministers. T h e te n
o ’clock service at the Friends
Church was in charge of Chas.
White. J. Elmer Pemberton
presented the needs o f the Evan­
gelistic Board, in response to
which $500 was subscribed. The
evening service was held in the
open air on the church lawn, the
sermon being delivered by J. Ed­
gar Williams, o f Seattle.
At the opening o f the Monday
morning session a general and
feeling expression o f apprecia­
tion was voiced o f the services o f
Mrs. Mabel H. Douglas and W.
Irving Kelsey to the church and
college and o f what they and
their families have been to the
community.
The subject o f church extension
received further attention, it be­
ing decided to elect a superinten­
dent o f evangelistic work for the
coming year. For this work the
Board later chose H. Elmer Pem­
berton, o f Salem.
The last department to receive
attention was that o f literature,
on Monday afternoon.
Prof.
Reagan emphasized the necessity
o f parents knowing what their
children are reading, and of keep­
ing them at home at least part
o f the time and introducing them
to good literature. He declared
it impossible tor people to go to
moving picture shows-frre«**
nights in the week and maintain -
their taste fo r good reading.
Mrs. Emma Hodgin was called
on to speak o f the desireability
o f parents devoting as much
time as possible to reading with
their children.
Pleasant View .
Rev. John Shires preached at
the schoolhouse last Sunday.
Eva Priestly is visiting her
grandparents, Geo. Howie and
family.
The second daughter o f W. E.
Perkins had the misfortune to
ent off the end o f one of her fin-
gers.
Ross Alumbaugh has just fin­
ished a neat granary to keep in
line with the rest o f his neat
buildings.
Everybody is reioicing over the
prospect o f a new school district
in this part o f No. 9, the bound­
ary board granting the same.
Wm. Coverdale and family and
John Hutchens left by easy stages
for Etna, Washington, where
they will work in a logging camp.
There are to be services at the
Mountain Top church next Sun­
day, the 17th, following baptis­
mal services at Field W ood place.
When in need of something
pleasing to the eye come ont and
take a look at the nice young or­
chard o f J. Wr. Painton, his farm
having been transformed tiom a
stump patch in less than three
years. Plenty o f room for such
men as J. W.
J. W. Noble met with an acci­
dent on his farm. W’hile coming
down the hill with a load of
w ood the brake broke apd the
team being unable to hold the
wagon, it was overturned break­
ing it pretty badly. J. W. saved
himself by jumping.
“ How do you distinguish the
waiters from the guests in this
cafe? Both wear full dress.”
“ Yes, but the waiters keep
sober.”