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VOL. XXVIII
NEW BERG, YA M H IL L
any impression at ell, for they
SEEING THINGS
too have arret and acres o f wal
COUNTY SUND
and almonds as well.
f l
IN CALIFORNIA nuts
'Id picking lemons the color
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1915
SCHOOL CONVENTION
Miss Jostle Britt Writes Enter scheme is disregarded entirely.
tain in g of Her Trip to ‘- They take them in green, yellow
or intermediate v hades, ripe or
unripe. The only standard is
Ii you really with to tee Cafi- Size apd this they gage by slip-
an iron ring over the fruit,
fofnia, ydti matt leave San Fran
pick it. The lemons are
cisco with its big fair and crowds
then
taken
to the packing house
o f people and g o down into the
where
they
mn washed by swirl-
tunny South.
We went _ by *_ train
o b »hat i. iD* * roo" d in »
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known ss the Coast Route and spuds then wrapped in tissue
if change ot climate is conducive paper and boxed. Japanese men
to health, then we ought to have do thé wrapping: And talk
been splendid specimens by night about technique! A virtuoso
fall. California has a peculiar might well envy the lightning-
climate, even without changing like rapidity and precision with
your location yon can get a dif which they use their hands,
ference o f fifty degrees in tem while they apparently never lose
perature in one day. The weath a moment or make one false mo
er is downright cold in the morn tion. It is really wonderful.
Pomegranates are another
ing, gets tropical during mid-day
novelty o f the South. They are
and cold again at night.
about
the size of an apple with a :
When we left San Francisco in
pulpy
interior containing a lot '
the morning, we were shivering,
but by three o ’clock in the after o f large red seeds which constitute
noon we had shed several layers the edible portion of the fruit. I
of clothing and had no use at all did not take.to them very mtich
for the sweet song that admon myself. They are too flat and
ishes one to “ keep on the sunny insipid. We also saw persim
side.” We were dusty and grimy mons hanging on the trees. They
and to add to our discomforts look something like a yellow
there were several long tunnels plum and have the reputation of
in which we were boxed up for making your month pucker. I
five minute« at a time, it seemed. wouldn’t mind having a few
When we finally emerged, every tucks taken in mine, but I didn’t
body was coughing and Sputter- w a it any puckers so I wisely re
frained from sampling this fruit.
lug.
By four o ’clock in the after Olives are another thing which
noon it was much cooler and grow In Southern California.
we fo /g o t all the disagreeable I thought it would be grand to
features of the day- For now pick them right ofi the trees and
¿.them , instead o f
the train begins to wind.
dow n brlow, you ca n n F ^ ftn tis
apparently a toy railroad. You
a«v much surprised when yon
find that this is the track from
which your train has just come,
or to whick it will soon descend.
At San Lais Obispo the train
stops for several minutes and it
is well it does for otherwises the
passengers would be tempted to
hurl themselves from the cars so
great are the attractions o f the
place. It is surrounded by grand
and lofty mountains, and in the
immediate foreground was an
ic£ cream wagon. These tw o
features o f the landscape will
ever linger fondly in my memory
when I think o f San Lnis Obis
po. T o alight from the hot dus
ty train into the cool mountain
air and to feast otlf eyes on the
beautiful scenery while the ice
cream slowly melted down our
throats was a delicious combina
tion. If yon wish you can take
buttermilk with the mountains,
this delicacy also being served
from the same wonderful wagon.
Soon after leaving this charm
ing place the train descends to
the coast and follow s the ocean
for many miles. It is moonlight
by this time and the view is en-
chanting.
r
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At«,Ventura we were met by
Prof, and Mrs. F. K. Jones, form-
tr residents o f New berg, add had
a delightful auto ride o f sixteen
miles to their home in Santa
Paula: The same lovely South
ern moon threw its glamour over
the orange a n d " lemon groves
through which we sped, and this
time the- scenery was served
with| luscious grapes which the
Jones’, knowing our propensi
ties o f old, had thoughtfully
stowed away in their auto. They
were n oC 'sou r grapes” either.
While |Jn Santa Paula our
friends took us to ” Lemoneira”
which is the lsrgest lemon or
chard in the world. Not to be
outdone I came forward with
the statement that we have the
largest walnut orchard in the
world right here at Dundee.
But it fell flat without making
PROF. J
The thirty - third annual convention o f the
Yamhili County Sunday School Association will
be held at McMianviHe on Wednesday and Tburs-
day, November 1 7 1
18. Every Sunday School
represented at this’ inter-
in the county
denominational.
A number o f good i tkers have been secured
And a great meeting j
cpected. The picture o f
one of the speakers,
J. Sherman Wallace, o f
McMinnville College,
town herewith,
to all delegates on the
Free entertaini
Harvard plan.
fork, but I Was informed that
they were not good until pickled
s o I had to forego that pleasure, j stone wall and it nearly drove j extensive scale. It was horribly
Oil wells are also another me crazy to think that I coaid interesting and I felt well repaid
product. The landscape is dotted not get a peep into this mysteri for my visit for it was enough to
all over with derricks which con ous place. We were there at the give anyone the nightmare for a
tain the pumping machinery. wrong time o f d a y ’ to be ad week.
They even extend out into the mitted inside the mission but', We also visited Exposition
ocean. So far ¿he output has through the grated windows we ¡ Park at Los Angeles. As its
been crude oil. Bnt they seem could peer into dark vanlt-like name implies it contains a sple n
to have nearly everything in rooms o f stqne in which were did exhibit o f the various re
California so some day they may curioni old relics of by-gone sources and industries o f Cali
strike a “ gusher” of oliveoil and days. While prowling about I fornia. Most interesting to me
then the whole state will be one came upon some narrow steps was the museum in which were
leading up into a dark winding all kinds of relics o f the missions
huge combination salad.
The roads are so perfect it is stair case o f stone. I had no and the Spanish regime.
We had only an hour at Whit
the antoists’ paradise.
Oar idea whither it lead but it looked
friends, the Jones,’ gave us. a like a delightful adventure, so I tier and if Charles Moore, the
most delightful trip *to Santa determined to find out. I dim bed erst-while genial druggist of
Barbara ovlfr the Pacific High up and up while delicious cold Newberg. had not kindly requisi
way which follows the ocean for shivers chased up and down my tioned his antomobile for our
many miles .with an occasional spine. When I finally emerged service we would never have
detour among the mountains it was into the «bright* sunlight gotten around to see all the
Where the scenery is equally on top of one o f the towers friends. Whittier seems to be
beautiful. On our way we which stand on either side at the largely recruited from former
stopped at Ventura where one o f front ot the mission. From the Newberg residents.
When I
the oldest missions in the state narrow windows in which the think of Whittier it is a confused
is located. I was always very old bells hang 1 could look down Composite picture o f the M oore’s,
fond of the old cemeteries such at and get a beautiful view of the Douglas’, Albertson’s and Mc-
they have in the Eastern states. surrounding grounds. AI1 the Orew’s, all lovely and friendly,
love to move about among way from Los Angeles to San reminiscent o f former Newberg
the tomb-stones and read the Francisco yon will see at fre days, and wishing we coaid stay
quaint and carious epitaphs. quent interval* on the main longer. The pleasant old town
But now the missions o f Cali traveled road old mission bells is merely a blurred back-ground.
fornia are a close rival in my surmounting guide posts. Under
As I returned north I hid a
affections. They are so delight each iron bell is a sign board very pleasant visit of several
fully old and crumbly. Inside which bears the legend “ El Cam- days
they are dark and gloom y and ino Real.” When yon give these Mrs. Roy David who will be re
smell like ancient history. The words the soft Spanish pro- membered in college circles here.
one at Ventnta has been partial noundation they ripple off the At Berkeley I was most pleasant
ly restored and is still in use as a tongue like muric. Translated ly entertained in the home of
church. When we stepped off they mean “ The kings highway” Miss May Lamb; a college class
from the bright snnnj street in or in more prosaic language mate, who also has many friends
to its eool dark interior it was “ The mam thorough fare.” in Newberg.
like going ipto another work). These bells were erected years I had bidden the fair a reluctant
At the door w a i a stone laver ago by the mission Fathers, to good bye when I went south out
containing the holy water. serve as land marks. To-day I could not bear to go through
Candles burned dimly among the they give a decidedly picturesque San Francisco without seeing it
flower decked altars and images, touch to the landscape.
again. So I spent one more love
and even the black robed priest
We had only one day for Los ly day out at the fair grounds,
was there performing his sacred Angeles, Long Beach and Whit most of the time in the Educa
offices.
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tier,so had to d o some quickwork. tional Building.
At Santa Barbara » a n o th e r
We inspected the widely ad San Francisco most be train
mission which is exceedingly vertised “ Alligator Farm” where ing for future citizenship. You
pictnresqne and interesting. It I expected to see several acres of will see droves of school children
in particularly noted forits secret alligators all io s high state of at the fair in charge o f a teacher
garden in which no woman was cultivation. I found however t o answer questions and point
ever supposed to enter.
This that the fanning operations were out instructive features. While
garden is enclosed by a high on an intensive rather than an 1 was in the Educational Build
ing, a troop o f little Portuguese
children went by a booth where
there was a large highly colored
picture of some distinguished
man. One of the little boys was
quite impressed. He queried
“ Arc that Uncle Sam?” Then be
turned to bis companion and
raised the pertinent question,
’Are they a truly Uncle Sam?”
The other little boy answered
with fine patriotic fervor, “ yon
bpt” and even the teacher nodded
in confirmation.
WEEKS DOINGS AT
PACIFIC COLLEGE
Mr. E. G. Borton, national
secretary for the Intercollegiate
Prohibition Association, spoke
in chapel last Thursday. Mr.
Borton urged upon the students
the necessity for them to study
the
DEATH OF ARTHOK STRETCH liquor question in order to
understand it and discuss it
Clyde Stretch who returned intelligently. He spent the day
home last week from Merced, at the college, and assisted in
California, where he was called increasing the membership o f the
to attend the funeral o f his local league.
brother, furnishes the following
Prof. Norman F. Coleman, o f
dipping from a Merced paper for Reed College, addressed a meet
publication:
ing o f the city teachers in Wood-
John Me Arthur Stretch, the Mar HaU Thursday evening. He
youngest son o f Mr. and Mrs. G, gave the fourth of a series o f
E. Stretch, o f Merced, was born lectures under the auspices o f the
in Monument, Kansas, February’ Oregon Social Hygiene Society.
7, 1883, and died October 27, Prof. Coleman’s remarks were
1915, as the result ot an auto much appreciated by those in at
mobile accident. At a treacher tendance. He dealt especially
ous turn in the road near Pleas with the teacher’s share of the
anton the friend’s machine in duty of sex education.
which he was riding overturned
Claude A. Lewis', ’ 12, who is a
and be wassofatallyinjured that
senior in the medical department
he only lingered a few hours.
of the University ot Oregon at
Mr. Stretch was a graduate ot
Portland, led the Y. M. C. A.
the Merced high school in the
meeting Wednesday morning.
class of 1914. As a student and
The bi-weekly meeting o f the
athlete he held very high rank.
Trefian
Literary Society
He had recently joined the order
held
Wednesday
evening in the
of Modern Woodmen and was a
faithful member of the Baraca dormitory parlors.
Class o f young men in the Sun The plot of ground lying just
day School of the First Methodist north of Wood-Mar Hall was
church and interested in aU^fa the scene of a pretty
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converted at the age of
in Monument, Kansas, and
joined the church there. Later
when the family moved to New
berg, Oregon, his membership
was transferred to that place.
At the time o f his death Mr.
Stretch was s member of the
local post office force and highly
respected by his associates.
Though unassuming and retir
ing in his make-up, Arthur
Stretch was o f the substantial,
reliable type; a young man of
sterling principles, one who was
admired by all and beloved bv
his intimate friends. He is sur
vived by his parents and tw o
brothers, Roy Stfetch, of Merced,
and Clyde Stretch, o f Newberg,
Oregon.
honored custom at P . C , planted
a tree. In response to an an
nouncement on the b u lle t in
board, the students and faculty
gathered to witness the impos
ing spectacle. Robert H. Dana,
president o f the associated stu
dent body, made a few remarks
explaining the custom which was
being observed. , The members of
the class then passed around and
signed their names to a paper
which was placed in the hole
under the tree. Each member of
the class held a stre mer, the
other end of which was attached
to the top of the tree. After the
tree was placed in the ground
Harold Hinshaw, president o f
the class, made a short but very
appropriate dedicatory speech.
Each one then added a shovelful
HIGH SCHOOL
of dirt, and the hole was quickly
Last Friday evening the soph- filled. The ceremony was ended
mores gave a Farmer Boy and with the class yell.
Milkmaid party to their col
leagues, the seniors. The pro PROGRAM OF QUARTERLY
gram was opened by an address
MEETING FRKfflS CHURCH
from President Wilson o f the
sophmore class, after which oth
Friday, November 12.
er fine numbers *<Were rendered. 2:00. Ministry and oversight...........
The happy crowd then went to 7:80. Public department m eeting...
the gymnasium where they play Song service.................Mrs. Mary Allan
Devotions........................... ..Rev. Arnold
ed games till a hot lunch was Address—“ Silver and Gold“ ............
served, consisting o f hot tomales
...................... Rev. Louise P. Round
and pickles. After bidding each M usic............................................ _
other good-night the happy far Reading—“ The Deacon's Experi
ment” ........... Prof. M. D. Hawkins
mer boys took their milkmaids
A d d re ss-“ The Heavens Opened” ..,
on one arm and their pails on
.................... Rev. Elisabeth Palmer
the other and left for their re M usic.
.
............. t y f i
spective homes.
Saturday, November IS.
Our honorable yell leader, Ray 10:80. Meeting for w orsh ip....... ...
mond Bassett, commonly known 1 JO. Business session...................
as “ Pete,” has been giving a se 7 JO. Conference Echoes ........... .
............................Rev. C. O. Whitely
ries of lectures on enthusiasm at
athletic contests. “ Pete” is cer
tainly right in his view o f the TONIGHT AT WOOD-MAR HALL
question and we should all turn
Under the auspices o f the Ore
out and see and help win these
gon Anti • Saloon League Rev.
contests. As long as “ Pete” is
Louis Albert Banks, a speaker-1
giving us a good start why not
o f national reputation, willspeak
co-operate with him, put some
at Wood-Mar Hall on National.
“ pep” into the school and make
Prohibition. Mayor Edwards
up for inexperienced men in our
will preside. A general invita
team, by backing up the ones we
tion is extended to the public to
have.
Prof. McNulty who taught at attend. ______ ______
St. Helens last year is teaching in Weekly Oregonian and Graphic
the place vacated by S. E.Launer. one year, to 1917, 91-85.
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