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THE NEWBBRO ORAPtllC. August 4. >»•«
Watch the Graphic next week
F. B. Vestal has been having
for an interesting letter from our his barber shop re-tinted and
“ Country Contributor.”
burnished up generally.
Miss Laura Wotherspoon left
• D. A. Moore left Tuesday
morning for Wisconsin, to re­ Wednesday morning for Illinois
to be with her sister who is
main tw o or three months.
Cap. Herrick returned home seriously ill.
from a tw o week’s visit at Rain­ J. L. Van Blaricom is back be­
hind the grocery counter, after
ier the first of the week.
having
spent tw o weeks rusticat­
S. P. Timberlake and family
ing
at
Seaside.
and Mrs. J. L. Van Blaricom
Attorney A. King Wilson, of
joined the Newberg colony at
Portland,
visited here with an
Newport Tuesday.
The Baptist Young People will old friend over Friday night in
give an ice cream social on the the person of H. E. Keim.
Miss Jennie D. Miller, ot Port­
lawn of their church Tuesday
land,
is staying with Mrs. George
evening, August 9.
Rev. W. C. Reuter who spent Larkin and children during
his vacation in Southern Oregon George’s absence on his vacation.
Miss Harriet George, who has
and at Newport arrived home
been
enjoying a rest ot several
the first o f the week.
weeks
a t home, went back to her
Mrs. W. H. Taylor has gone
up to their Dundee home to look work as professional nurse, in
after things while the young Portland, Saturday.
Robert Howie, who has sold
people are off “ coasting.”
bis
Chehalem mountain home to
Mrs. Lon Hadley and Miss
Pearl Cobb went to Cloverdale W. * B. Sims, will probably go
the first of the week to visit south for his health. His parents
with Hubert Smith and family. expect to move to town.
Last Thursday evening Shiloh
Mrs. C. E. Bascom, of Okla­
homa City, is in town visiting W. R. C. No. 28 surprised their
with her sister, Mrs. L. M. Krick sister, Mrs. Sarah Hicks, at the
and will remain for some time. home o f Mrs. Sutton. She start­
ed next morning to Nebraska to
Miss Vera Stannard arrived
visit her brother.
home from Albany, Monday
Thr pastor o f the Presbyterian
where she had been visiting with
church
will preach as usual next
relatives since the close o f school.
Sunday morning at 11 o ’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. James McGuire
Subject—“ A Helpful Vacation.”
and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Jef­
Union meeting at the Friends
fries and daughter were pas­
church in the evening.
sengers for Newport Monday
Ode Hatfields came down from
morning.
Dayton the latter part of the
Roy Slater, alias “ Slats,” g o t
week and visited friends here
a hand pretty severely crushed
and at Springbrook for a few
in the machinery at the sawmill
days.
They have recently, re­
one day last week, necessitating
turned from Idaho and contem­
a layoff of several days.
plate leaving for California soon
, Russel and Paul Lewis started to look for a location.
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out on their wheels for th e coast
Mrs. Langellier, wife ot Joseph
Wednesday morning, declaring
Langellier who is working in the
that they would lave their foot­
Graphic office, and their daugter,
sies in salt water before the day
Mrs. B. G. Mitchell and baby,
was done.
are here from Portland visiting.
Attorney Scott Gillispy and Mrs. Mitchell’s husband is con­
wife, the latter a prominent nected with the Portland Y. M.
reader and impersonator, were C. A.
up from Portland last Sunday
Mrs. Maggie Littlefield aad
visiting at the home o fj. Watson
son, H obart went to Corvallis
Baker west of town.
Monday to visit her son-in-law
Misses Esther and Edna An­ and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. C.
drews and their guest, Miss Ella A. Eldriedge, and incidentally to
Crawford, o f Newberg, Oregon, see how the baby is progressing.
departed Wednesday for Camp Master Hobart asserted how­
Baldy for an outing o f ten days.— ever that his mission was to see
Whittier, Cal., News.
the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunn, o f Albany,
W. E. Croze r and family re­
the parents o f Mrs. F. C. Stan­ turned from their fruit farm at
nard, and also her sister, Mrs. Rosedale the first ot the week
Montague, of Portland, have where they spent tw o weeks
been here during the week visit­ taking on tan. W. E. in the in­
ing the Stannard household.
terval worked off some o f his
N. C. Christenson and family surplus avoirdupois getting the
are taking their outing on the fruit evaporator in order for the
ranch purchased of Jerre O’Brien, season’s run.
where they are very pleasantly
Miss Geneva Wilkerson, known
located for tenting in a dark, to many in Newberg, was mar­
shaded canyon on the side of ried July 25th at her father’s
Chehalem mountain.
home near Klamath Falls, to
Mrs. Emma Bell, of Portland, Sydney V. Burroughs. Mr. Bur­
was visiting in town the first of roughs is an engineer running
the week with her daughter, from Los Angeles to Long Beach
Mrs. Orville Hollingsworth and and the young people will make
with Mrs. W. E. Wight. She their home at Los Angeles.
is planning to return here perma*
J. H. Graham, o f Cowlits coun­
nently within a few weeks and be ty, Washington, and his brother,
at home again on South Meridian Wm. Graham from Los Angles,
street.
were here last week visiting with
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Honnold D. P. Strait and family at their
and little daughter, o f Cam­ farm northwest o f town. On
bridge, Nebraska, were in town their departure Monday Miss
a few days last week visiting Belva Strait and her grand­
with Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Han­ mother, Mrs. Lombard, went
ning. Mr. Honnold and Mr. with them as far as Portland.
Hanning were business partners
“ Live birds,” read the placard
for several years in Nebraska.
on a big bird cage which
Dr. Patterson, who has an arrived at the depot by express
advertisement in these columns the first of the week, addressed
this week as a veterinary, was t o Miss Elsie Jefferies. But a
a t one time the traveling phy­ glance inside revealed the fact
sician for both man and beast, for that it was a misnomer. Pretty
Barnutu & Bailey’s circus. A Polly will never want another
little talk with him on his experi­ cracker. The parrott had been
ences in this capacity and of the started out from Iow a and ex­
life he saw behind the scenes con­ pired en route at Tacoma, pre­
vinces one that he is good for a sumably from brain storm in­
star magazine article on the cident to watching Tacoma
grow . -
subject.
Dr. Maribn George arrived
Herman Smith who is carpen­
home from W alla W alla Wednes­ tering and contracting in Port­
land, is in town visiting with his
day evening.
Born, on last Thursday, to parents.
Earl Carter and wife o f West
Rev. A. J. Hunsaker, the pioneer
Baptist preacher ot the county,
Chehalem, a daughter.
Mrs. W. H. Galland left on was down from McMinnville
Wednesday evening for a visit Monday.
with friends at different points
Miss Hattie Pearson, ot Tecum-
seh, Nebraska, is here visiting
in Tillamook county.
The W. C. T . U. will hold a her uncles, J. Watson Baker and
mothers’ meeting next Wednes­ bis brothers.
day afternoon with Mrs. Bower-
F. L. Slater left Wednesday
morning for Minnesota to spend
man. Friends are invited.
The Paulsens and S. W. Atkin­ two or three months looking
son went down to Portland after the interests ot his farm.
H. G. Rosenberger, formerly a
Tuesday to attend the- wedding
o f Mrs. Paulsen’s brother, Frank member of the Pacific College
faculty, now a* practicing phys­
Mulheron»
Mrs. Chas. Crabtree has gone ician, o f Whittier, California,
to W allowa, northeastern Ore was married July 15, at Oska-
gon, to remain some months as loosa, Iow a, to Miss Faye West
Charlie is engaged there in con­ of that-city.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Mills and
tract work.
A daughter was born Sunday, younger children joined the New­
July 31st, to Mr. and Mrs. J. H berg throng a t Newport Tues­
Moore. Mrs. Moore, as Miss day. It was W alter’s tender­
Agnes Richmond, was formerly foot trip, lor though he has
one o f the teachers in the public lived here twenty-one years, it
was «bis first view ot the big
school.
Nathan Cook, who has a jo b waters.
Rev. W. C. Reuter has returned
a t the Black Diamond mine in
Linn county, has been taking from his outing, and will be in
home treatment in this vicinity bis pulpit at the Methodist Epis­
for several days for a felonious copal church next Sabbath morn­
ing. His subject at 11 a.m. will
finger.
be: “ M ajor General Gideon, and
Mrs. Clarence Butt and sons
H is T h r e e H u n d re d Spinal
Ralph and Dale went to Newport
Columns.” Everybody is cordial­
today for a stay o f tw o weeks.
ly invited. A t night the church
John T. and Justin Haworth,
will join the congregations o f the
With their families, started on
city in the Union meeting.
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the overland trip to the Big Nes-
A pleasant surprise was given
tucca beach the first o f the week.
Mr. and. Mrs. M. G. Reetz last
It would be a whole lot easier
Sunday by their old neighbors,
this week just to say that every
the Gustins, Mrs. F. Kruger,
body, with the exception o f a
their son B. A. Reetz and family,
few unfortunates who are hen>
and their daughter Mrs. Jo Ego
ically staying by the stuff, is off
and family. This being the birth­
at the beaches. But we’ve go t a
day anniversary o f Mrs. Reetz,
lot o f good space that must be
the event was celebrated with a
filled.
big dinner and ice cream.
There was an enjoyable Kelsey
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Sims came
family reunion ^Sunday at the
up
from Pbrtland Tuesday even­
home o f Asa Morse in the Red
hills east o f town. I t was par­ ing. W. B. is arranging to take
ticipated in by Asa Kelsey and possession at once o f the forty
wife, Pres. W. I. Kelsey, Francis acre Robert H owie place which
Morse and Asa Morse and their he recently purchased, on the
hills north o f town, and over
families and Nathan Cook.
which he is enthusiastic. He is
L. L. Graham, assistant sta­
going to clean it up thoroughly
tion agent, is such a cheerful in­
and set the land to walnuts.
dividual that one would scarcely
He says he w ill develop the
guess there was any special rea­
springs on the place so he will
son for his being so good natural
have plenty o f water aud that
the last few days. - But the fact
he will make it a thing o f beauty.
is, he is rejoicing over the arrival
Those knowing Mr. Sims’ good
o f a son in their home Friday.
taste and capacity for hard
In the unexpected absence of work will entertain no question
the pastor, an old time Quaker of his making good.
meeting was held at the Friends
D. J. Gilbert came out from
church Sunday morning, the
members speaking their “ con­ Tillamook last week to see his
cern” as the Spirit moved. Milo people, but the day after his ar­
rival word came from Sheriff
Elliott sat “ head o f the meeting”
with Henry Mills and James Crenshaw, of Tillamook county,
saying his -return there was
Price on his left.
desired.
He was accordingly
James Vestal has sold his home taken back at once and he and
place to a gentleman named Raa- six other men were arraigned on
sico who is’working on the new a charge ot bootlegging, upon
high school building and who which they plead guilty. As it
will occupy his new purchase. was the second offense for D. J.,
The Vestals will move the latter he was given a sentence ot thirty
part ot the month to the old days in jail and a fine ot $500
Deskins property, now owned was imposed. In following such
by Frank Vestal, who has been a course, Dan is departing tar,
having it fixed up.
far from the traditions o f his
The crusade for Union depot fathers. Justice o f the Peace
facilities for the Yamhill division Stanley, before whom the men
has started something. Travel­ appeared, is a brother of Nate
ing Passenger Agent Jenkins of Stanley ot this place.
the Southern Pacific was in town
Another old veteran ot New
Saturday interviewing the New­ berg awoke at the last reveille
berg people to get their attitude Sunday in the death o f John Me-
and find out w hat they want. Chesney Gilliland. While he had
He hadn’t been here long before been in ill health for some time,
he told the Graphic that he had death came rather unexpectedly.
gotten w hat he came after and Fuueral services were conducted
that the expression was in no at the home Tuesday afternoon,
uncertain tone.
He made no interment being made in the old
promises but we look for favor­ soldiers’ cemetery. The deceased
able results from his visit.
was born in Pennsylvania in
The union Sunday evening ser­
vices for this season were opened
very auspiciously at the Friends
church last Sunday. A fine au­
dience was in attendance which
listened with profit and interest
to an able, vigorous address by
Rev. F. C. Stannard who gave a
graphic picture o f his ideal of a
real, four square mx;n. Inciden-
dally he dealt some hard blow j
at social and political evils, bom
at home and abroad. Rev. 0. C.
Ritchie presided.
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1832. He engaged in mining in
California as a young man and
was married at Sacramento in
1878 to Miss Hattie Sloan,
who survives him, with a mar­
ried daughter, Mrs. Austin Bow ­
man. The> family has lived in
Newberg for twelve years or
more. The relatives wish to ex­
press their appreciation *of the
kindness and attention of the G.
A. R. veterans who, assisted by
Rev. Stannard, had charge of the
services.
Rev. Melville T. Wire, pastor
o f the Methodist church at The
Dalles, came Wednesday to en­
jo y a tw o weeks vacation at the
Wire home north o f town.
The contracts for the erection
o f the new packing house oppo­
site the U. S. National bank
were let Monday. Thos. Herd
& Son get the carpenter, and
Chas. H. Lucas the brick con­
tract.
W. E. Crozer, assistant cashier
in the U. S. National Bank, has
bought the property on the
corner o f Second and River
streets, formerly known as the
Nicholson property and will begin
at once to give it a thorough
overhauling with a view o f mak­
ing a home o f it.
The Imperial Hotel came near
losing its star cook Monday
evening.
In connection there­
with there’s a story too good to
keep and at the same time too
nearly tragic for jest. Suffice it
to say that the distress signal
was rung ip from the kitchen,
and with all hands to the rescue,
with much vigoi ous pushee and
pullee the coffee barrel was made
to give up its own. A good,
solid bottomed chair will doubt­
less grace the Imperial kitchen
hereafter.
Rumors continue to float into
town to the effect that the Ore­
gon Electric surveyors ary run­
ning a line from Wilsonville up
the river toward Newberg. Roy
Woods, carrier on Route 2 says
a crew o f surveyors have been
at work lor tw o weeks on Par­
rott mountain about the R. O.
Bristow farm and grade stakes
are being set but thk object is
not given out to the public.
Some think the surveying is be­
ing done in the interest of parties
w IJ q have bought timber in that
section.
Rev. J. F. Lyons, Rev. A. J.
Weaver. A. C. Stanbrough and
J. C, Hod son are eligible to mem­
bership either in the Mazama
mountain climbing organization
or in the Ananias club. The for­
mer, if they scaled Mt. Hood last
Thursday as they claim; the lat­
ter, if they are trying to come
Dr. Cook on us. The Graphic
expects to submit to the public
their records and observations
next week and it can deliver its
own verdict as to whether the
local explorers discovered the
pole of old Hood. They got
home Monday, enthusiastic over
their trip and bubbling over with
stories o f the funny things expe­
rienced.
“ Boy, lost, ding dong, boy
lost,” was the hue and cry raised
in the southwest part o f town
Monday evening over the sudden
disappearance o f eleven year old
Roy Fortune. He had been set
by his mother at weeding onions
but despite that fact the scent
could not be picked up by the
would-be trailers. Night came
on and Roy was not. He was
located next morning up toward
Dundee, he having bivouacked
in the Ramsey cemetery. Evi­
dently he rested better in the lat­
ter than in the onion bed, for he
was still unregenerate in heart,
expressing a determination to
return to the companionship of
the whited sepulchres.
Little Miss Frances Elliott,
under the leadership o f Mrs. C.
B. Wilson and assisted by Miss
Doris Gregory, gave a private
piano recital Friday evening in
the parlors of the Commercial
Club:
Attorney I. H. Van Winkle, o f
Salem, wno received the endorse­
ment along with attorney Kelly,
o f Albany, o f the Republican as­
sembly for the nomination for
Circuit Judge of this district, is
in tow n getting acquainted w ith
our people. For the past seven
years he has been in the office o f
the Attorney General a t Salem,
which has given him much valu­
able experience. He is a man of
fine appearance and has a splen­
did reputation where he is best
known.
There is a deal on, which is
said to be practically closed,
looking toward the consolida­
tion o f the tw o telephone com­
panies in Newberg. The proposi­
tion is that the Independent Co.
shall buy out the Bell Co. as far
as its local business here is con­
cerned taking over its poles,
wires etc but substituting its
own phones for those now used
by Bell subscribers. The home
company will thus have entire
control of the telephone business
in Newberg. There will be one
office, one line and patrons will
not have to bother with a double
service. In return, all long dis­
tance business from Newberg is
to be turned to the Bell lines.
On the evening of July 22nd a
large number o f the members o f
the local Christian church gath­
ered at the home o f Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Slater to give a sort o f
combination farewell to the tw o
McCoy families and Mrs. Hicks,
members ot therhurch that w ill
be gone for some months, the
McCoys to their claims in Crook
county and Mrs. Hicks to Ne­
braska to visit her brothers and
other relatives and f r i e n d s .
Light refreshments w ire served
and a general good time was
had, only marred by the thought
o f the near approach o f the de­
parture o f the honored guests.
. OivTuesday afternoon Mrs. C.
C. Ferguson entertained the Em­
broidery Club at their spacious
new home on North River and
Hancock streets. The afternoon
was given in compliment to Mrs.
C. A. Crabtree, a member o f the
Club, who leaves to join her hus­
band at W allowa. The ladies
present were the Mesdames N. C
Christenson, C. A, Crabtree, W.
W. Nelson, W. E. Wight, W. H.
Nelson, John Larkin, F. H. Bu­
chanan, L. B. Ferguson, Wesley
Boyes, James Martin o f Dayton,
T. H. Bryan, Geo. Allen, Dave
Irelan and the Misses Ella Nel­
son, Nadine Bryan, Carol H oag
o f Portland, and Helena and
Mildred Ferguson.
While coming down the street
yesterday morning ruminating
on the beauties o f nature, the
Graphic man was ordered to
halt in a peremptory tone o f
voice issuing from the door o f
the Spaulding Co.’s office. Or-
rie Macy was waving an ugly
looking black bottle in a mena­
cing manner and informed us
that there was a little bill for for­
maldehyde charged up against
the Graphic at the drug store!
Harry Gordon and Miss Emma It was soon impressed upon us
Dorrance and Mr. and Mrs. A.C. that the Graphic’s recipe for the
Seely arrived home from their prohibition ot flies failed to pro­
very pleasant auto trip to the hibit. The night before the
coast last Thursday evening. Spaulding force on leaving the
They camped first on the Nestuc- office had set pans ot formalde­
ca river near Blaine, after which hyde about the room, and on re­
they visited a few days at Tilla­ turning next morning, found,
mook with Mrs. Seely’s sister, not a ghastly array Of ujiburied
Mrs. Edna Lamb and husband. carcasses as they expected, but a
They visited various places o f in­ big swimming fest in progress
terest up and down the beach amid general hilarity! The mis­
and enjoyed some very good fish­ take was natural as we were not
ing on the Trask river. They explicit enough in our directions.
left Tillamook at noon Thurs- Each fly must be caught and
dav, stopped twice to eat and held by the feet in one hand, and
more often to talk to other tour­ the wings pulled back and held
ists and arrived home at 8.30 by the other hand, thus expos­
in the evening. Their machine ing the greatest fly surface. TheA
made the whole round trip with­ immerse and hold resolutely be-
out ever hesitating once, until | neath the liquid for seven min­
they got clear home when it utes. If this doesn’t., fix Mr. fly
balked at the very doors o f the the Graphic will cheerfully settle
garnge!
' the aforementioned account.