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About Beaverton times. (Beaverton, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1918)
Page Four THE BEAVERTON TIMES Friday, August 16, 1918. THE BEAVERTON TIMLS Beaverton, Oregon. A Weekly Newspaper, lusued Fridays. R. P. Jonas, Editor and Publisher Entered at the Beaverton (Oregon) Poatofflce as second-class mail mat ter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In advance except by arrangement with the publisher. One year by mall $1.00 Six months by mall. 60 Advertising rate on application. WHO WILL BUILD A HOUSE? During the past few weeks the town has been frequently visited by people from the city in search of houses to rent. When the city homes fill up, people begin to look around for homes in the suburban towns. Then it is that they find out what Beaverton people have neglected to adver tise in the past. Then it is that they learn that Beaverton, with jits unexcelled train service, is closer to the center of Portland, both as to time and distance, than manv of the thickly settled sections of the city. Then thev learn of the unexcelled gardens that grow in this locality and of the surplus of fruits and fno rtlants awaiting a market that renders living far cheaper here than avwhere else near Port land. Then thev learn that gas. electric lights, telephone service and city water may be had here and that schools unexcelled any wherfe are provided for the child ren of those who make Beaver ton their home. Have you who live here real ized these thincs ? Have vou much as passed the word along? Are you ready to welcome thesei seekers for better living condi tions to your midst? Beaverton will be a better place for you and your children if you will seek to pass these ad vantages around. Lulled by the ease of the con ditions here existing, centetit ment has grown fat and taken on the form of lethargy. Today there it not a habitable vacant house in Beaverton, yet there are dozens of people crying for Dr. Theo. G. Hetu t DENTIST Cady Building.. BEAVERTON OREGON houses in which to live and hun dreds more that but await the knowledge of Beaverton's advan tages to come and make it their home. Who will be the first to come forward and help solve the sit uation ? A hundred, or five hun dred modern houses built in Beaverton this summer could be sold or rented before they could be completed. . Let's wake up and pass the ad vantages of our town around to some of our homeless neighbors and do it to our own immnse ad vantage. New Safe Deposit Boxes Here. The Bank of Beaverton Wed nesday received a nest of 85 new safe deposit boxes. As the bank here is able to rent these safe de posit boxes much cheaper than the banks in t he city rent them, there is quite a demand for this service at the local bank and for several weeks they have been un able to supply this much-wanted convenience. PIGS FOR SALE George H. Holsheimer. Santa Rosa sta. 33 .' Given Honorable Discharge. Joseph Fitzpatrick, son of Mrs. Anna Fitzpatrick pi Sorrento and elder brother of Beaverton's popular post mistreses, has been given an honorable discharge from the cantonment of Camp Grant at Rock Island, 111., where he was called in the July draft. He was rejected because of an injury to his eye caused by the kick of a horse when just a lad, which had caused partial loss of sight and which had been the cause of his rejection on several occasions when he had sought to enlist. He is now in Chicago and is engaged in theatrical work with a troupe on the road. DANCE THE DANCING SEASON AT THE HUBER COMMERCIAL CLUB WILL OPEN WITH A BIG PUBLIC DANCE on SAT URDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 17th, Admission : Men, $1.00 ; (war tax included) : women free. W. H. Cady of Aberdeen, Wash., came to Beaverton Sun day night to enjoy a visit with his cousin, Willis Cady, while the latter is home on a furlough. He will spend ten days here, visiting the families of F. W. Cady, his brother, M. P. Cady, of Hillsboro, and Mrs. Cady's mother, Mrs. D. C. Fisher. Today they are en joying a trip over the Columbia Hichway. Dr. C. E. Mason T Phone Calls Answered Day and Night BEAVERTON . OREGON W. E. PEGG UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR Licensed Embalmer Calls answered day or night. Prompt Service. BEAVERTON OREGON U. S. Loans To Farmers Now Nearly $50,000,000 Nearly twelve million dollars was loaned out to farmers of the United States by the Federal land banks during the month of Jan uary last. On February 1 the total amount loaned out to, farmers by thesT banks since they were established was nearly $50,000,000, the num ber of loans closed being 24,000. Tbe amount applied for at that date was $260,000,000, representing over 100,000 applicants. The total loans made by the va rious banks were as follows: St. Paul T $9,760,400 Spokane 8,930,075 Wichita 8,648,200 Berkeley 3,666,600 Omaha 3,210,190 ' Houston 3,124,412 New Orleans 3,025,255 Louisville 2,927,900 St. Louis 2,296,480 Baltimore 2,114,200 Springfield 1,614,605 Columbia ., 1,469,055 Are you getting ready for the Fourth Liberty Loan which be gins next month ? It will be big-: ger than any of the others and the need is greater. 5 FOR YOUR INFORMATION Here are come of the things your Liberty Bond money loaned to tha Government will buy for our boys "Over There": A $50 Liberty Bond will supply four months' sustenance in the field for one of our soldiers. A $100 Liberty Bond will supply 200 pounds of smokeless powder fo one of the big guns. A $20O Liberty Bond will equip and uniform four of our bluejackets. , A $500 Liberty Bond will eupplyl80 of our boys with gas masks, In which to face one of the dead liest menaces of the trenches. A $1,000 Liberty Bond will, buy gaso , line enough to" drivss one of our submarines 2,000 miles In our campaign against the underseas raiders of the Kaiser. A $2,000 Liberty Pond will supply 520 thirteen-pound shells to sink German submarines. Every Liberty Bond yon buy helps actively to shorten and win the War. "Protection the Allies afford us may weaken our sense of duty." Taft, Feb. 4, 1917. Have you weakened? Dt your duty! Buy Liberty Bonds. W. M. WERT Barber at the old Jack Hooper shop Halrcuttlng Our Sepcialty. Laundry Agency. BEAVERTON - OREGON Letters from The Boys Who Have Gone to Make the World Safe for Democracy (Continued from Page 3) Letters received from Leon S. Davis, former editor of the Times and now with the Ameri can troops on the fighting front in France, by his father, S. H. Davis: "Somewhere in France", June 21, 1918. Dear Dad: Wrote you a letter the other day but was called out again and man aged to lose it before I got it mailed. Didn't have much to say though, so you don't miss much. . I have been under fire, now on several occasions so you see I am no longer of the army that is in training. All I can say is that hell can be no worse. ' Some w"ay a fellow loses all fear and don't care whether they get you or not. That is after the first one hits. ..Well this has been postponed again but I am continuing again. Am not up there now but will be soon I guess. Got a dent put in my helmet the other night while pulling out of position, pretty lucky for me I guess because some weren't. They hit pretty close some times and in some places. Say but it seems quiet back here in the country out of sound of the guns. Just like the quiet of a great city on Sunday morn ing. , How would you like to sit in a dugout with a few feet of dust, stones, cement and iron rails over your head and have a Hun register his gun on you. Well they had our number all right, and six-inch high explo sives rocked the dugout and al most turned it upside down. On top of this there was all kinds of gas, so you may believe it was rather uncomfortable. I want you to readxan article in the Literary Digest of Mav 4. It tells of an affair of April 20 at Seicheprev. Lately my position was in this vicinity. I guess before I finish I sha1! have traveled over most of France. Can you see in vour imanns tion a shell swept field pitted and scarred by shell fire, traverse by angling entanglements of wire, dotted with crosses show ing above the waving patches' of seared grasses ? Can vou see the .scuddinp clones moving swiftly 'overhead, and the twinkling I stars peening out peacefully ! above a silent world in which the cannon's roar had ceased for a ,time? i Can you see a sweating, curs , ing crew of men moving a heavy piee of artillery from its con fpalment toward a track through i the mud and fitful drizzle of rain, I a strantre siriit perhaps, as a i star shell bursts over the I trenches fasting its pale light on I the scene? ' ' , . Can vou feel the tension of the I men. whose tired bodies and tient strung nerves stramed to the breaking point waiting for the first one to come over. This is only a moment in the life of a soldier. Will close for now. Your son LEON. (Additional letters on page six.) Preaching morning and even- iniT AS USUal at. TvTet.hnr?is nh - -ww. .viU V Vi. VAJ. 'IJL next Sundav. Members and vis itors cordially invited to attend. I , G. A. GRAY, pastor. 3 ACRES 'ALL IN CULTIVATION AND , TILED, GOOD SOIL, GARDEN. .WELL, SMALL HOUSE, BARN I AND CHICKENHOUSE. IN CITY LIMITS. - WILL SELL FOR $1,500 CASH OR TRADE FOR 20 ACRES OR MORE OF UNIMPROVED LAND AND PAY CASH DIFFERENCE. R. L. TUCKER REAL ESTATE Loans, Insurance, Rentals.
