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NEWBEEQ, YAMHILL COUNTY. 0 HE 8 ON, THUB 8 DAY, AUÖUST 25 . 1910 .
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NO. 45
Onward ever,
ly for him, and the graceful
an address, proving himself a
Lovely river.
journey
o f the river charms his
pleasing speaker. Such familiar
Softly calling to the sea.
mind.
Roseate ripples dance;
martial airs as, ** M a r c h in g
Tima that scars ns,
then they are
Through Georgia,” and ‘‘Tramp, Did Sam L. Simpson Contem
Maims and mars os.
Re-lhre Tramp, Tram p,” were sung, and plate Suicide? Circumstances
Edwards Grove Presents G ala Appearance—Vetera
Waltzing, flashing,
Leaves no track or trench on thee.
Tinkling, plashing,
O ld Days to M artial Airs of Dram Corps—Good
Under W hich the “Beauti
a reading was given by Mrs. Jo.
Spring’s green witchery is weaving
Limpid, volatile and free,
Profram s Heard Daily.
Braid and border for thy side;
ful W illam ette” W as
Hollingsworth.
“
These
sentiments are as de
Grace forever haunts thy journey,
written«
A particularly good address
lightful
as
the bird-song.
Beauty dimples on thy tide.
was delivered by Rev. F. C. Stan-
Wreathing
sunshine on the morrow,
Through
the
purple
gates
of
morning
"H a te off! Along the street there comes,
nark. His remarks were crisp
Request has been made by a
Breathing fragrance on today.
Now thy roseate ripples dance, .
A blare o f bugles, a ruffle o f drums,
and concise. As usual, he spoke subscriber that Sam L. Simpson’s Golden, then when day, departing,
“ These are cheerful lines to
A flash of color beneath the sky,
Hats off! The old flag’s passing b y .”
On thy waters trails his lance,
contemplate. ’Tis true the poem
straight from the shoulder, and “ Beautiful Willamette” be given
“ Blue and crimson and white it shines
Waltzing, flashing,
treated with truth and fearless place in the columns o f the
grows more serious tow ard the
Over the uniformed, ordered lines;
Tinkling, plashing. ’
ness the real live issues of the day. Graphic.
close, but it is because the theme
We
have
publishec
Hats off! The colors before us fly,
Limpid, volatile and free—
grows serious. The river is ap
He convinced the old soldiers this beautiful poem several times
But more than the flag is passing by.
Always hurried
that there is still fighting to be before, but it is w orthy o f space
Sea fights and land fights, grim and great,
To be buried
proaching the Ocean-the e r id ^
Fought to make and save the State;
done, mentioning especially the in our columns at least once
In the bitter, moon-mad sea.
eternity; and he leaves the river
W eary marches and sinking Bhips,
war against the liquor traffic, each year and it is given below In thy crystal depths inverted
that he may apply the thought
Cheers of victory on dying lips,
and
against
the
monopolies
o
f
Swings
a
picture
o
f
the
sky
vVe
(ilso
give
some
interesting
to himself.
Days of plenty and years of peace,
Like
those
wavering
hopes
of
Aidenn
our country.
March of strong land’s swift increase,
bits o f history In connection
“Joaquin Miller, who has said
Dimly in our dreams that lie.
Equal justice, right and law,
The sessions are continuing with it which appeared in the
so m any pretty things to so
Clouded often, drowned in turmoil,
Stately honor and reverent awe,
with interest and enthusiasm, Oregonian in 1902.
many peoples, once told me that
Faint
and
lovely,
fa
r
away—
Sign o f a nation great and strong
and will last over Friday. The
Some
one
in
California
has
Wreathing
sunshine
on
the
morrow,
Simpson’s
‘Beautiful Willamette’
To ward her people from foreign wrong
attendance
is
good.
With
steam
Breathing
fragrance
round
today.
started
a
story
that
Sam
Simp
is far the greatest poem written
Pride and glory and honor, all
•Love would wander
swing in action and refreshment son was planning suicide just be
Live in the colors to stand or falL
in Oregon. And I take it that
Here and ponder.
H ats off! Along the street there comes
booths keeping open house, the fore he wrote “ The Beautiful
his judgment in this matter is
Hither poetry would dream;
A blare o f bugles, a ruffle o f drums,
grove gives the appearance o f a Willamette,” and that the sight
correct.
Mr. Simpson, like Mr.
L ife ’s old questions, '
And loyal hearts are beating high.
belated Fourth o f July celebra of the river so appealed to him
Bryant, wrote one poem by far
Sad suggestions—
Hats off! See—the old flag's passing by.”
tion. A t any rate there is enter that i t changed his d a r k
“ Whence and whither?’’ throng thy his best; this is the ‘Beautiful
stream.
The words of the beautiful worn the blue during the stirring tainment and enjoyment tor old thoughts and inspired him to
Willamette.’ The reason this
poem went throbbing through times o f the civil strife, and to and young, • and everybody i* write his best verses on this sub On tbe roaring wastes o f ocean
poem is his greatest is because
Soon thy scattered waves shall toss;
our hearts and brains on Tues whom in their declining years happy.
at the time he wrote it, he came
ject. The Oakland Enquirer o f
’Mid the surges’ rhythmic thunder
day morning o f this week as the so much of honor is due. Mr.
M i l l i e B. W h i t t e n .
nearest
catching the divine affla
recent date says:
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Shall thy silver tongue be lost.
members o f the Yamhill County Christenson also spoke fittingly
tus; it w as a time when his ideals
Joaquin Miller received a letter Oh! thy glimmering rush o f gladness
Veteran Association, who had o f the w ar against the liquor
were at their zenith, not when
A few days ago from Professor Mocks this turbid life o f mine,
met here for the purpose o f hold traffic which is now on and ap
he was wandering through some
J. B. Horner, o f Corvallis, Ore Racing to the wild forever,
Down, the sloping paths o f time.
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ing their second annual reunion, pealed to the veterans to fight as
shadowy valley. The internal
gon, who stated that he was
Onward ever,
marched down the street with hard to down this evil as they
evidence
o f the poem confirms it. ~
preparing f o r publication a
Lovely river,
screaming "fife and throbbing did to down slavery in the sixties.
The
Beautiful
Willamette’ *is
revised edition o f his book on
Softly calling to the sea.
drum, with their country’s em ’ President Britt was to have H e Describes in His N ew Book a the literature o f Oregon.
Time that scars us,
Mr.
destined to be one o f the surviv.
Charge by a Bull Elephant.
blem floating proudly over them, responded to this address o f wel
Maims and mars us,
Miller, being originally o f that
ing gems o f American literature.
Leaves no track or trench on thee.
as thev wended their way to the come, but after a few humorous
Every state must sing a song;
state, is asked to contribute
Edwards grove to hold their first remarks he called on B. F. Pike
Professor Horner Speaks.
At last we came in sight of the samples o f verse for the /publica
and in the absence o f a state
business session o f {he yenr with to respond in his stead* M r. Pike mighty game. The trail took a tion. It is P rofesso r H om er’s
Interviewed r e g a r d i n g the song that w ill rank as a classic»
Col. N. E. Britt as presiding offi possesses the enviable faculty of tw ist to one side, and there, desire to gather the best things legend repeated by the Oakland Oregonians may be content to
always being able to say the thirty yards in front o f us, we written by citizehs of the state paper concerning the origin o f sing o f their most beautiful river.
cer.
right thing at the right time. He made out part of the gray and and to put them into book form Simpson’s sweetest poem, Pro
‘The Beautiful Willamette’ will
was in a particularly pleasing massive head o f an elephant rest that they may be preserv ed for fessor H om er said to an Ore be memorized by children, by
mood and his remarks, which ing his tusks on the branches of the use o f future generations.
gonian correspondent:
toilers, and sweet singers; and
were all to the point, provoked a young tree—elephants hardly
“ While the ‘B e a u t i f u l Wil although it may be a hundred
The former edition o f “ Oregon
much applause.
ever feed a t noon. A couple-of Literature” is probably not as. lamette,’ like every other great years before it w ill fully catch
Mrs. Carrie Courier o f Port minutes passed before, by cau complete as its author has wished poem, probably has back o f it the National ear, it will rank
land, was with us and gave a tious scrutiny, we were able to it to be, hence his plan o f revising a lofty imagination, intellectual with some o f the sweetest lines
reading which was much en tell whether the animal we could it.
attainments, fine heart culture yet written by any American.”
joyed, ‘‘ Why we wear the badge.” see was a cow or a bull, and ' Oregon has given to the world and a touching experience, yet
After this Mrs. Millie Brouillette whether, if a bull, it carried heavy some literature o f the best quali it seems improbable that with
Whitten spoke for a short time enough horns. Then we saw ty, but the public has not always the true pogtic nature o f Mr.
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in behalf of the W. R. C. Music that it was a big bull with good realized its source. When a per Simpson, it was necessary for
Enthusiastic Meeting of Poultry
by the drum corps finished the ivory. • It turned its eye; and I son reads some o f the more an experience so severe to bring
Association. N ew berg to be
program.
fired a little to one side o f the inspiring stanzas written by out the melodies o f his soul. It
the Petaluma of Oregon.
In the evening at 7:30 the sec eye at a spot which I thought Joaquin Miller, Samuel Simpson would have been a cruel order o f
ond program was epjoyed by a would lead to the brain. I or Ella Higginson he does not things indeed for a community
The Yamhill County Poultry
goodly number o f people. This struck exactly where I aimed, have occasion, as a rule, to con o f circumstances so to combine Association met Tuesday even
program consisted of, music by but the head o f an elephant is nect the thought o f the poem to as to extort from one so noble a ing, Aug. 23, in the City Council
the drum corps; song by male enormous and the brain small, the state from which the author promise to do that which the Chambers, in response to the call
COL. N. E. BRITT.
quartet, consisting of Messrs. and the bullet missed it. H o w came.
gods would forbid, and this in issued in last week’s local papers,
In the afternoon of Tuesday Hanning, Morris, Buehler, and ever, the shock momentarily
It is probable that o f the order that he might sing most and the following officers were
the first program was given in Frazier; Chorus, Mrs. Geo. Allen, stunned the beast. He stumbled various gems o f Oregon litera sweetly. It was not necessary. elected: J. L. Hoskins, Pres.;
the grove and was heartily en Mrs. C. B. Wilson, Miss Nora forward, half falling, and as he ture nothing thus far written It never occurred.
Joseph Hall, Vice-President; C. A.
joyed by all present. The first Parker, Miss Jessie Britt, sopra recovered I fired with the second can surpass the poem composed
“ Hon. Clabius Stewart, o f Al Hodson, Secretary, and Dr. N.
thing on the program was music nos, Mrs. Stannard, Miss Ethel barrel, again aiming for the brain. by Samuel Simpson entitled bany, who set the poem in type Morrison, Treasurer. An execu
by the drum corps. Somehow Morris, Miss Jessie Gardner, al This time the bullet sped true, “ The Beautiful Willamette.” It for the Democrat, where it first tive committee consisting o f N.
when we hear these civil war tos; Rev. Stannard, Mr. Gatch- and as I lowered the rifle from is doubly interesting when one appeared in print, speaks o f ‘Ad L. Wiley, C. E. Newhouse, and
musicians play we can excuse ell, and Omar Fendall tenors; my shoulder I saw the great lord knows the circumstances under Willamettem,’ or ‘Beautiful W il Joseph Hall was elected, said
the strong men who hide their Mr. Craw and Mr. Buehler, bass. o f the forest come crashing to which it was conceived. It was lamette’ as a production that committee to report at the next
The numbers rendered by both the ground.
faces and the women who weep
on the banks o f the lovely W’il came like a strong editoral from meeting, which w ill be held on
openly like children. Surely there chorus and male quartet were
But at that very instant, be lamette River one bright morn the well-filled fountain pen o f an Friday, Sept. 2, at 8 P. M., in
are none who inspire us more at excellent, and the audience mani fore there was a moment’s time ing just as the sun was rising able writer. Mr. Simpson pos the City Council Chambers.
these reunions than the men who fested its appreciation of them in which to reload, the thick over the snow-capped peaks o f sessed true poetic genius; he
Great enthusiasm was mani
handle the fife and drum which by hearty applause.
bushes parted immediately on the Cascade Mountains that the well knew how David, Homer, fested by those in attendance,
Very fine addresses were deliv my left front, and through them poet stood contemplating self- Virgil and Bums wrote, and he and the great advantages to tbe
played such an important part
in keeping up the courage of our ered by Judge Geo. H. Burnett of surged the vast bulk o f a charg destruction. His life had been a simply did his best in the ‘Beauti poultrymcn, and to the city and
weary, toot sore soldiers in the Salc3*; and Hon. Wallace Me- ing bull elephant, the matted troubled one and he had planned ful Willamette.’
country as well, seem to indicate
days when our country’s honor Cammanl c f Portland, who mass o f tough creepers snapping to put an end to it.
“ Then it has been pointed out that the show will be an un
was at stake. And so, whenever proved themselves able speakers, like packthread before his rush.
But the beauty o f the scene— that the Tjeginning, o f the poem qualified success. Relying upon
we had music by the drum corps, and who provoked favorable He was so close that he could the clear river, the charming exhibits a childlike playful mood tbe well known loyalty o f the
our hearts beat high and our comment. Both speakers made have touched me with his trunk. landscape, the timbered sides o f o f the writer—
Newberg people to Newberg en
eyes were full of tender light as eloquent pleas tor a display of I leaped to one side and dodged the distant mountains, the rising
terprises, the association asks
Leaping like a child at play.
we looked back over the years everyday patriotism w orthy o f behind a tree trunk, opening the sun, and the blue sky—appealed
“ The outset does not strike for and expects the support o f
and fancied we saw ‘‘our boys 1 the magnificent example set by rifle, throwing out the empty to his poetic nature and instead you as does Hamlet when he con the poultry growers o f Yamhill
who wore the blue” taking the the boys o f *76 and ’61. It is in shells, and slipping in tw o cart of ending his life in the river’s templated the most serious o f county, and especially of those
long, dusty, obscure, footsore deed rarely one’s privilege to ridges. Meanwhile Cuninghame stream he sat upon the banks things—
in Newberg and vicinity, reali
marches with nothing to keep up hear such a scholarly and mas fired right and left, at the same and put his feelings into lan To be or not to be, that is the question— zing that we have here an ideal
their courage except “ a purpose terful historical review o f any time throvipng himself into the guage.
For, methodical as is Hamlet, country for the development of
as high as heaven itself,” that period as that given by Mr. Me- bushes on the other side. Both
In an editorial in a leading his moodiness impresses those the poultry industry, and that it
! Cammant in his portrayal o f the his bullets went home, and the Washington paper, a year or who best understand him. This will be to the advantage of our
this country should be free.
Rev. Stannard invoked divine Civil War.
bull stopped short in his charge, more ago the editor, after re soliloquy is Shakespeare’s inter city and surrounding country to
A business session of the Asso wheeled, and immediately dis- producing the entire poem in his pretation o f human nature at a be called the “ Petaluma of Ore
blessing, after which “ America”
was sung. The address of wel ciation was held* Wednesday appeared in the thick cover. We article, tells o f the poet ’s con direful extremity—at a time gon,” which is by no means im
come was given in a most pleas morning. At noon a splendid ran forward, but the forest had dition at the time o f writing it, when men do not sing. But the possible. Now everybody boost
ing manner by the mayor o f our chicken-pie dinner was served at closed over his wake. W’e heard and then following is the com- ‘Beautiful Willamette’ is not a and talk chicken, and help the
citv. N. C. Christenson.— The the grove bv the ladies, o f Lhe. W him trumpet shrilly, and then all pfete poem:
gruesome view o f a sordid mind; good work along. A good a t
freedom of our city was extended R. C., which was well patron sounds ceased.
it is the song o f a sweet singer. tendance is desired at the next
The Beautiful Willamette.
to the visiting veterans and their ized.
From Theodore Roosevelt's
meeting. Everyone who is inter
The river is so cheery—
At the afternoon session, alter new book, “ A f r i c i a n Ga me From the Cascade’s frozen gorges,
friends, and to these veterans
ested
is requested to attend.
Bright Willamette glides away.
Leaping like a child at play,
mayor Christenson presented an invocation by Rev. E. Hayes, Trails,” to be published in Au Winding, widening through the Valley,
“ Spring’s green witchery is Remember the date, Sept. 2, 8
splendid eulogies (or having Rev. Knotts, o f LaFayette, gave gust by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
weaving braid and border pretti- P. M.
Bright Willamette glides away.
OREGON’S GREAT POEM
YAMHILL VETERANS IN SESSION AT NEWBERG
MR. ROOSEVELTS NAR
ROW ESCAPE
DAT CHICKEN BONE