I . I V ! VCLC2 vn. BEAVERTON. OREGON, FRIDAYJULY 26, 1919. Kb D C3ASIXS OTTO KILL SUFFERS SEVERE BURNS FROM CAUSTIC Thirteen Month 014 Sob of Popular Mechanic Finds Concentrated Lye While at Home of Grandparents. While visiting at the1 home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ad ams, Charles Otto Hill, the' thirteen-months-old -son of Mr. and Mrs. 0. V. Hill, on Saturday evening: climbed to a shelf and from a can of concentra ted lye ate enough of the caustic to seriously burn his mouth, throat and 0 stomach and to affect his breathing organs. He was rushed to the home of Dr. Mason and everything possible was done to relieve his sufferings. but the burns seemed fatal and on the advice of the physician, he was rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland. Even there the specialists held out no hope, but the young man v : had inherited a strong constitution from the sturdy mechanic who fixes ' your car at the Stipe Garage and in spite of the fearful burns he hung onto lifeand at latest reports he is reviving strength and has excellent prospects for complete recovery. ... . New Cedar Mills Store is Dedicated. N With appropriate good cheer and a liberality that showed he appredt- atedthe patronage he had enjoyed, E. S. May, the Cedar Mill merchant, dedicated his new store Saturday ev .jfening. He has a spacious hew build u ing and a choice selection of new and . attractive goods and when the two are combined the attraction to the customer need be only courtesy and service and. Mr. May and his estim able family are adepts at both of the requisites.; ' A goodly crowd went oyer from Beaverton and report a royal good time with plenty of refreshments , and a royal welcome for all. ' PAVING PROGRESS PLEASES: HIGHWAY HEADWAY HURRIES Local Street Work Will Be Complet 7 ed Next. Week Canyon Road Next Highway Camp Moved to Aloha. Oregon Cows Make World Record. . The highest average ever reported irom as many as 3366 cows in five testing associations was made by Oregon herds for Maj, says E. L. Westover, federal and 0. A. C. dairy extension specialist. The cows aver aged 950.4 pounds milk and 39.79 pounds fat. When it is understood that 40 pounds of fat a month puts , cows of America in the honor class the Oregon dairy cow performance is seen to show up the average as good as specials in other states. The est cow was Dot, owned by Joe Dur rer, of Tillamook, which made a record of 2210 pounds of milk and 14 103.8? pounds of fat in May the best of any cow west of the Mississ ippi River. . Only Morning Service at Methodist The regular morning service will be held at the Methodist church Sun day morning, but there will be no ev ening service account the Oregon Holiness campmeeting in Portland which many wish to attend. Rev. and Mrs, G. A. Gray are at tending the campmeeting of the Or egon Holiness Association in Portland this week. "Col." A. B. Fassett of the Warren Construction Company has been in Beaverton practically every day this week hurrying the work of paving on our streets along. He says that the job will be completed next week and that the next job is the Canyon Road. The crews will tta from hern ti the road and the grading crew will com mence work early next week and hur ry their job to completion. On Monday he was accompanied by J.C. Beck, a leading attorney of the metropolis and owner of the Beck building, who has property interests here also. . He inspected the progress being made, expressed pleasure at the forward-looking appearance . of the town, and "may decide to move his building out here." Work on the highway is making good progress, although halted to some extent by the necessity of mov ing the camps and laying new track. The concrete had been laid to the center of Reedville Wednesday fore noon when the machines were stop ped and the camps moved to Aloha. from which point the operations will go forward until Beaverton is near ly reached when the camps will be moved again and the third lan of the work completed. '-, While the people othis section are very much disappointed bv the fail- ure to rush this work through in or der that the present summer might see some use of the new highway into Portland, the prospects for its read iness by the first of the year are of a pleasing nature and the paving of the Canyon Road in addition to the new highway will make it of double value to local people. BEAVE3TON REALTY MOVING FAST . THIS SUMMER SEASON Coming of Highways and Paving of Streets, Coupled with General and National Prosperity. , Produces Many Changes. 1 x BIRTHS. Dr Mason reports the following ad ditions to population: ' KEPRO At Emmanuel hospital in Portland, to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kepro, of Beaverton, Saturday, July 19, an 11 H -pound boy. .Mother and babe are doing nicely. BERENS At Cedar Mills. Thurs day night, July 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. V. Bercns, a son. WRAY Monday morning. Julv 21. to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Wray, of Beaverton, a nine-pound girl. Beaverton's real estate continues to move rapidly. During the past week a number of realty deals have been consummated and a number of others are still in the formative stage and may be announced at any date. Messrs. Stroud & Pegg, the motive power behind the most of these sales, anouncethat inquiry is brisk and that property is readily moved. The in. coming buyers know definitely what they want and the proximity of Port land makes the Beaverton section an ideal residence section; The combi nation is irresistible and whenever a Beaverton resident has grown sur feited with the good things he oniovs and hankers for a change in a way that indicates a willingnes to sell out at a reasonable profit on what he paid for the best home on earth, he has but to whisper the fact to these live realty dealers or put a small ad in the Times and his wishes will come true before he has time to change his mind. South Dakota Man Buys Baker Place. Martin Gleason late of South Da kota., came in the other day and told Frank Stroud just what he would like to own. Frank listened a while and then gave Mr. Gleason a short ride in his new Scripps-Booth automobile. The result was that Mr. Gleason now owns the G. W. Baker five acres in the south part of Beaverton and will take possession the tenth of August where he will live with his three children and his sister. Mr. Gleason is a stockman and this is his first at tempt to grow berries and fruit. He says he thinks he can become a hor ticulturist and may decide to dabble a bit in rabbits and chickens. Mr. Baker has another ten-acres out south of town on which' he has been building a house. He will hur ry, it to completion and he and Mrs. Baker and their son, Jesse will move out there and improvethat property. BAKERY SOLD TO JOHN DAVITi !MRy EVANS WILL TAKE EST?. Popular Confectionery Will Contianc To Serve Light Lunches S3t Drinks in Connection with Sale f Bukery Goods. Tho Beaverton Bakery was sold on Saturday Jo Mr. and Mrs. John Daviat who will continue to serve light lunches, ice cream and soft drinks a in the past, with the sale of bakerr goods, cigars and confections. W. E. Evans, who has conducted the place for the past two years, will take a much needed rest and will than probably identify himself with iome other Beaverton business. Ho . hast not yet decided just what he will do. and says that he will give it' no thought until he. has first had a va cation. ' : . , .. ' i :;;V , ,. , Mr, and Mrs. Davis are well known in this locality and will undoubtedly meet with success n the conduct of the business! receiving the same lib eral patronage that has come to Mr. Evans in the past.. They will contin ue the business just as Mr. Evans carried it on for the present, but con template some added features in the future. Hurt at Rock Crusher While working at the rock crusher north of town, Louis Reghitto, well known gardener i of Beaverton. was struck by. a flying rock and knocked down. He suffered a severe gash on his right knee and the fracture of one of the small bones of his left leg. Dr. Mason attended his injuries. . Paved streets certainly make a dif ference. " Two Services at Congregational. Rev. J. W. Price, former nastnr of the local Congregational church and now pastor of the West Seattle Con gregational Church, who is snendincr his vacation visiting here, preached twice last Sunday at the Congrega tional church to appreciative audienc es and will hold services both morn ing and evening this coming Sunday.' McGee Buys Wert Residence. ,W. P. McGee,, Beaverton's new merchant in the Hedge building, has purchased W. M. Wert's .residence which the latter bought from Mrs. 8. J. Robinson some months ago. The deal has "been somewhat delaved be cause of a difficulty with the ab stract, one of the heirs to the proper ty at some time in its past history having mysteriously disappeared, but the attorneys think that this can be readily uvtivomti. . This property is close in and convenient to both school and store and with tho improvements to it that Mr. Wert has made will give Mr. McGee an ideal home. Mr. ad Mrs. F. M. Havens, who came here recently from Indiana and last week bought the James I. Hoon- es place south of town, are visiting at Aloha with the family of their daughter, Mrs. Wiliam Clifton, while waiting for some preliminaries to be arranged before they move to -their new home. Mr. Havens and his grandson. H. C. Kinarsburv. who is Mrs. Clifton's son, were in Beaverton Tuesday inspecting the new prop- Every town has its unassumfnir and unadvertised heroes, those men and women who unselfishly do the- will of the Master without thought of reward or compensation. Beaverton. has its full share of these and yet. there are often, thoughtless remark made in censure of these when if th truth were known the critical nn would be ready to humbly beg the? forgiveness of the one subjected to the unjust criticism. - This came to uav very forcibly when a thoughtless ona- spoke a criticism of Dr. Mason. Per haps this would' have passed unnot iced if we had not learned a short time before now be had readily paid the hospital bill of a patient who wast m need of the better service which lacK of sufficient competent help ren dered it impossible for him to give here. There was slight chance of the ability of the patient to repay promptly if ever and yet he did not hesitate nor wait to be asked to giva his guarantee to the bill. C. R. Craig, after spending soma months in Portland, is back withtha- North Coast Power Company in this county. He was in Beaverton thin week assisting with the moving of poles made necessary by the paving; of Front Street. Alfred Davies went to Portland Monday to visit with his sons. erty. Mr. and Mrs. Havens are from Mbnticello, Ind., where they lived on a farm, but he is an old railroad man. having spent more than 80 years on the various roads : inthe United States. - Thome Property Sold to 8. P. Man. W, C. Curruthers, a Southern Paw' cific train dispatcher from Portland, has bought the Thome property in the south part of town and will occu py it as soon as Mr. and Mrs. Eden, who are now living there, can find some other place to move. Stroud at, Pegg conducted the sale.