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NEWBERG, Y A MUTI. T. COUNTY. OBEOON. THUR8DAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1912.
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judge when the foreman had
banded in the verdict. “ Have
Thoughts suggested by news you anything to say why the
A motion picture o f the great­
note, telling o f discovery o f the sentence o f the Court should not
est eloquence ever displayed. The
body of a suicide, tenant o f the be pronounced upon you?”
Î highest inspiration ever impart­ W fll Have 420 Electoral Votes—
The prisoner slowly arose, and
underworld, washed ashore near
Roosevelt Second and Taft
in deliberate tones replied:
ed. Patriotism that cannot be
Astoria.
Third in the Race.
“ Your honor, I have something
aroused by the illustrated words
B y the dark sluggish stream,
to say, and I will not tire you
o f Lincoln on the battlefield of
Covered o’er w ith the grim e
All the speculation made as to
with
my
speech,
I
think.
I
have
Gettysburg must indeed be dead
O f its foul, muddy bed.
been a worthless, drunken vaga­
And the edges green slime,
Friends, patriots, every lover of the probability o f the election o f
President being thrown into the
Lies the icy dead form
bond, your honor, but I am not
home and country, do not fail to
O f s woman o f sin,
House
was time thrown a w ar,
a thief. The ring which was
see it, and lend your presence to
In the dark o f the night.
for W oodrow Wilson made al­
found in my pocket belonged to
its mighty sentiments and its ir­
W ith the tide drifted in.
most a clean sweep o f the slate
my mother, dead and in heaven
resistible uplift. Its resplendent
Pause fo r a moment,
and w ill be the next President o f
years ago. It is better so. I won­
showing a t the Star theatre, Fri­
T o gase on the dead.
the United States. The latest
der, your honor, if the angels
day and Saturday o f this week
A s she Uee in her beauty.
know o f the shame and disgrace
The cold slime her bed;
w ill be a local celebration, arous­ report at hand gives the states
A face pinched w ith want.
o f those they loved on earth?
ing the spirit that actuates the o f M i c h i g a n , Pennsylvania,
T u n e d up to the skies.
South Dakota and Washington
“ The lady identified the ring,
best and n o b l e s t thoughts
A n d a wide, aw fu l stare,
to
Roosevelt, Utah and Vermont
but I believe that she was hon­
tow ard our fellows and our
In the dead, filmy eyes;
to
Taft, Idaho, Illinois, Minne­
estly mistaken; the rings are
country, strengthening and up.
On Saturday and Sunday w ill occur the regular quarter­
C asing upw ard to Heaven,
sota and Wyoming are in the
probably similar. I stand before
lifting our characters, the founda­
ly meeting o f the Friends church and op Sunday afternoon
W ith fixed, stony glare.
doubtful
column, while all the
you to-day, your honor, the
tion o f the nation.
W hile the foul w aters seethe,
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishing o f the quart­
other
states
are credited to Wil­
wreck o f w hat once was a man;
A s they ooae through her hair;
erly meeting will be celebrated.. 1
son.
Think how a mother
the urchins on the street jeer at
h a
Follow in g a basket dinner which will be served in the
W ith tender caress,
Hawley, Lafferty and Sinnott
me and laugh a t my rags. I
basement of the church a program will be given as follows:
H as bent o’er the cradle.
will
be Oregon’s representatives
have been homeless and hungry,
That the telephone girls are as
I. Early History o f Friends itt'Oregon and Establishment
H e r darling to blees.
in
congress.
F o r the senate the
your honor, and would barber
good merry-makers as they are
of Newberg Quarterly Meeting................ .John H. Rees
Looking down on the sweet one.
my soul for a glass o f something
operators, was proven beyond a fight is veiy close between Selling
II. Reminescences. Friends Pioneer Work in Oregon
In innocent sleep,
and Lane.
warm to start the cold blood
doubt Thursday evening when
Praying God, in H is mercy.
............................ ....... Jesse and M ary E. K . Edwards
Single tax was badly beaten.
once more coursing through my
H er treasure to keep;
they left the switch-board in a
III. Growth and Development* of Friends Church in
The
vote on equal suffrage was
Thank God! she knows not,
veins. But I am not a thief.
body and went to the home o f
Oregon and the Pacific Northwest..... Evangeline Martin
very
close and the result is in
H ow to-night, steeped in sin.
“ I would not harm God’s
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ehretin the
IV. Friends Educational Institutions in the Northwest
That puie, sunny face.
doubt,
though it is thought the
weakest creature. As a boy I
east part o f tow n to spend the
............................................. „..Pres. Levi T. Pennington
W ith the tide drifted in.
gathered th e m a i m e d a n d
evening in appropriate celebra­ measure carried.
Five Minute Talks by a number o f persons.
By the dark riv e r's edge
Graves and Laughlin, Republi­
wounded animals f r o m t h e
tion of Halloween. All calls for
Driven mad by despair.
street into the kitchen, and fed
central were turned down and cans, will represent Yamhill
Sick o f life, dreading death,..
them as no man yet ever fed and
She skrieks a w ild prayer;
fo ra whole evening not a girl county in the legislature. Sitton
She thinks o f her mother.
cared for me. I was a happy
called, “ Number,” “ Line’s busy,” beat Cummins for commissioner.
O f childhood and borne,
In the four Newberg precincts,
boy. M y father was wealthy
or “ Hold your phone.” The
The little thatched cot,
which
includes Springbrook, the
and distinguished, my h o m e
young ladies also proved their
And the calm starry gloam .
vote
on
President was: T a ft
luxurious. I went to college and
gifts in the culinary art with an
The stars looked down coldly.
239,
Wilson
187, Roosevelt 170,
graduated w ith honor, and soon
exceedingly well prepared supper.
N o com fort w as there.
Chafin 165, Debs 50. On
afterwards, on the death o f my
Those enjoying it were, Mrs.
The night winds blew bleakly
father, I succeeded him in the
Henry Ehirt, Mrs. R. H. C Ben­
Across her w ild hair:
She thinks o f life ’s sunshine.
practice of law. M y mother died,
nett, Miss Alma Forkner, Miss
N o w clouded by sin.
apd the property was mine. I
Josephine Noyes, Miss Maud
And there she lies cold,
was a rich man. Then came
Switzer, Miss Effie Wentz, Miss
W ith the tide drifted in.
First Friends Church Built in Pacific Northw est in 1880, N ew berg, Ore.
An evening o f fan now and
months o f dissipation. M y com­
M aggie Wentz and the Misses
Forsaken by man,
then
is better than physic and
panions were, like myself, pos­
Dorothy, Flora, Minnie and
N igh forgotten by God,
knowing
that the public general­
sessed o f ample fortunes. Our
H er life w as a burden,
the first dry farming congress Lvdia Ehret.
ly appreciates this fact, “ Bqb”
revels were the talk of the city
H er heart w as a clod;
opened in Spokane, Reuter was
Seeds, the jo lly Irishman who is
N o hope le ft on earth,
and we were proud o f the fact.
on hand with an exhibit that
W ith a wild, w eary dread,
advertised as a “ laugh-maker”
We had none but the choicest
surprised the dry fanning world.
One plunge, it is over,
wines, and I was glad when I Lethbridge, Alberta, Oct.28, 1912
Nellie M ay Larkin was born in with a national reputation, was
The outcast is dead.
A t that time there was not any
booked for the first number o f
could drink more than the others
Oregon beats the world as a
railw ay running south from the Blue Earth County, Minnesota, the lyceum course.
And up there above.
could stand. I thought it was a dry farming country, according
W here God sits in H is might,
Columbia river into Central Ore­ March 8, 1877. She came to
On Monday evening he opened
mark o f manhood, your honor.
to awards given exhibits from
Shall her soul be condemned
gon. Reuter hauled his wagon Newberg with her parents in the course at W ood-Mar hall
“
It
is
the
same
old
story.
I
that state at the International
T o the darkness o f night?
, load o f products fifty miles to 1888.
before a good sized audience and
N o, think it not man.
will make it short. I became a Dry Fanning Congress
She was united in marriage to
w ,c the nearest railway and in that
In thy pitiless pride.
the w ay his hearers shook their
common drunkard, my property closed here yesterday, and T ill-!
Walter Hugh Nelson July 10,
H er sins and her sorrow
.
c
A
rw
wa y Bo t his p r i z e - w i n n i n g
was gone, everything but the man D
Reuter, o f Madras, Oregon, prodnrts into the Spokane „
1900, and died at her home in sides and then laughed some
W ent out with the tide
more was good evidence that his
ring. I could not part with that, is the man who put his state s o »
W icked her actkm.
position. He took down twenty- Newberg, November 1, 1912, efforts at fun making were not
it was the only link which bound prominently upon the dry farm­
But think o f her woe,
three prizes at that congress. aged 35 years, 7 months and 23 in vain. Mr. Seeds evidently ap­
me to a happy past, the only tie ing map. He crossed the line
O f all love bereft,
.
.
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,.
. , Last year, at the International days, leaving a husband, tw o preciated the audience he had for
Shunned by all men below;
between me and the mother who m to the Canadian country tak- D
Farmi
Co
held in sons, a father, mother, tw o sis­
N o hand w as outstretched.
he said the next morning that he
bore me, who cared for me, who ing a carload o f what experts’
N o arm to protect,
Colorado Springs, Reuter carried ters, three brothers and a large had written the lyceum bureau
loved
me.
Many
a
night
when
pronounced to be the finest dry
circle o f friends.
Driven mad by despair,
I was cold and hungry I have farming products they had ever off thirty-four prizes, o f which
She dared not reflect,
The funeral services were con­ that if they would assure him
eleven were first prizes. Reuter
such receptive audiences in the
taken it out beneath the glisten­ seen.
The w ater was there,
is prouder than ever of his ac­ ducted at the home by the,pas­ future he would live happily ever
N o refu ge beside,
ing stars, and its sparkles were
Reuter was awarded the sweep-
complishment this year because, tor o f the Baptist church, and at afterward.
And there she lies now,
as if my mother’s eyes were look­ stakes in the following classes:
D rifted in with the tide.
as he says, he backed Canada off the grave by Eastern Star Satur­
The next number o f the course
ing at me with the brightness
Best sheaf of barley .
the boards. Reuter is a thorough day afternoon.
— C .E . R.
will
be given on Thursday even­
which once was theirs. I t was
Best individual exhibit o f all
American
and
feels
that
he
has
ing,
December 5, bjr William
only a fancy, your honor, but it kinds o f grains.
done
something
for
the
Stars
and
Sterling Battis, an interpreter of
was very dear to me. I was ar­
Best grasses and forage.
Stripes in making Canadian dry
the stories of Charles Dickens.
rested while drunk, one night,
Best ninety-day corn.
The next lecture will be on Sat­
farmers
take
a
back
seat.
Largest potato.
He wasnotabad-fooking man, and the ring was taken from me;
urday afternoou, November 16,
then
the
lady
thought
she
recog­
Three
first prizes were awarded
the prisoner at the bar. Dissi­
at tw o o ’clock, in Duncan’s ball,
pation had left its mark, but nized it as one she had lost. But him besides, as follows:
by Professor Luther J. Chapin-
F or the best six-rowed barley.
there was something about the she is wrong, your honor. The
Walnut Grange held the an­ His subject will be “ Farm Man­ The ladies’ auxiliary of Pacific
Best Spring rye.
face that made you think that ring is mine! I am a drunkard
nual harvest festival Saturday, agement.”
He will outline to college desiring to make some
and
a
vagabond,
but
a
thief—
Best three years’ grow th of October 26. The forenoon was you how you can secure an agri­ money to carpet the platform in
back in his young manhood were
the auditorium and at the same
never!”
alfalfa and sand vetch.
other and happier days. He was
devoted to r o u t i n e business. cultural agent to study your time give the people o f Newberg
As he stopped speaking he drew
This is not the first time Till­ Dinner was served at noon to problems and help the farmers a pleasant and profitable even­
not raised a thief, this man ac­
a
small
paper
package
from
his
man Reuter has won a “ world members and friends. There was to solve them. He will also point ing, have engaged George Gil­
cused o f stealing a diamond ring.
The court officials noticed the pocket. Where he g o t it no one series” in the dry farming field. a fine showing o f fruit and other out a few of the principal farm bert Bancroft for Monday even­
clear-cut features which might knew; and before his hand could He first appeared in the limelight home farm products. The after­ management problems and sug­ ing, November 18.
Mr. Bancroft will give his lec­
once have been handsome, the be arrested he had swallowed the in 1910 at the first International noon was given over to Mr. gest remedies for some of the
ture
on “ Get-there-ism.”
matted hair which once curled in contents. The lawyers jumped Dry Farming Congress, which Davis of L a Grande, Oregon, poor farm practices. The farmers
In preparation o f this most
to their feet and seized the pris­ was held in Spokane, Washing­
beautiful ringlets, and said:
who spoke of the accomplish­ who were present at Dr. Withy- ractical and valuable number,
“ The fellow is changed; prison oner; a doctor was sent for; but ton. Reuter, a t that time, had ments o f the Farmers’ Union in combe’s lecture will recall that >r. Bancroft has interviewed and
life has done him good. When we before medical assistance could been a resident ofCrook County, bringing the farmer nearer the th e farmers voted to h a v e scientifically analyzed the sys­
tems and methods of more than
g o t him he was the ugliest-look- be obtained the prisoned was be­ Oregon, about three years. He consumer and the manufacturer Professor Chapin come at this
eight
hundred successful sales­
went there as a homesteader, nearer to the farmer, and to Mr. time. Now it is up to you to men, business and professional
ing fellow in jail; but since he has yond the reach of-human skill.
“ Mother, I am not a thief,—I and quickly saw the great pos­
g o t the prison pallor he looks as
Hodder o f the Co-operative Sup­ give him a full house. No doubt men, and he has found that the
if he might be an imitation of a was only drunk,” he muttered. sibilities of the volcanic soil as a ply douse o f Portland, whose this lecture will be by far the average man or woman who
succeeds in business today, suc­
The door opened, and a woman producer. “ You see, my father
gentleman.” *
house is doing in the Pacific most practical, and should be
ceeds from the fact that they,
entered
in
g
r
e
a
t
excitement.
was a chemist before me and I Northwest and in a more retail the most helpful o f the entire
Six months of enforced sobriety
cpmply with laws that they do
“
Judge,
Judge,
stop
the
trial!
took
to it naturally.”
and good habits had certainly
way, what 'the Farmers’ Union course. - If possible we will have not understand, in other words
That is the secret o f his success is doing in the nation^ The day an expert apple packer in New­ they succeed in spite of them­
made a great change. Perhaps I have found my ring. He didn't
in dry farming. He analyzed the was voted an enjoyable success berg on the 15th and 16th to selves. Tv. o hours o f practical
the jury noticed it, too. The ring steal it. I was mistaken.”
T o o late! The soul had taken soil and found out what it would by all. The next meeting will be demonstrate to ypu how to select scientific knowledge is worth
was a valuable one, and yet the
its appeal to a higher than all produce best. Thus he went to held Nov. 23, Groth’s hall, Dun­ and pack apples for commercial many years o f business specula­
sentence was for only a year.
tion. This number gives univer­
“ Prisoner, stand up!” said the human courts. Prank L. Wells. work farming his land and when dee. Charles H. Coleman, Sec. shipment.
W. S. Wharton.
sal satisfaction. -
“LINCOLN’S* GETTYS­
BURG ADDRESS.’
DRIFTED IN WITH THE TIDE
WILSON ELECTED BY
SWEEPING MAJORITY
TWENTY-FIFTH ¡ANNIVERSARY
WIRES CROSS WIT I LLOWEEN
A SUCCESS
L
OREGON IA N CHAMPION DRY
FARMER OF THE WORLD
1 R S. W. H. NELSON DECEASED
ATTENTION FARMERS
NOT A THIEF
ANNUAL HARVEST FESTIVAL
GET-THERE-ISM ON NOV. 18
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