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About Beaverton times. (Beaverton, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1922)
wrMiitJXicinv onfm.i X13I3US 1V3KIU15IH Nt)'J3t BEAVMON, OHQOtt, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1921 MO. S 8UVERT0N SOON WIIX LOCAL UNO PERSONAL NEWS OF THE TOD CJIiir HHOR KltnERS Ml CLUB'S WE STATE 1011 READY 10 ENFORCE TftOGK UK LINCOLjN HAVE IMCHI SHOP f 1809 I CMnmnleitloni ind ConnitlM Re porta Fill ETninf njmfort Station Considered. Dnee norrow Night. To- t,,j Beaverton Commercial Club had liuiy session Wednesday night. Many " letters were before the club and com aiittee reports occupied much time. A communication from H. L, Hudson enclosing a letter from the Oregon Public Service Commission relative to commutation fares was read and pro voked a renewal of the discussion of rates of fare between here and Port' land. The cummication was placed on file,' t The University of Oregon had writ- . ton, to the president requesting that thu secretary' be sent to the winter short course for secretaries. The ptvnident had answered that it would be impossible. The club concurred; George L. Cleaver, secretary of the Hydro-Electric League of Oregon wanted to know what this county thinks of financing the 1926 exiposi' $ion by popular subscription and an, estimate of what the county would subscribe. .The secretary was in structed to acknowledge the letter, pledge cooperation and confer with other clubs in the county to arriveat a reasonable estimate. " Jtfrs. A. A. Cook wanted the club to assist in the introduction of the of ficial rose festival Bong. The letter will be read again at the next meet Ing of the club. 0. Phelps, of Hillaboro, wrote the secretary that a date of February had been set for the county dance at Hillaboro, but W. C. Gifford, who had been to Hillaboro, reported that the pavilion had been set aside for the uae of the Beaverton Commercial Cub and that the Hillaboro Club had no intention of taking a part. The club would be held responsible for about $110 in expenses, regardless of income, vAs Hillaboro is giving "" bif dance on the 22nd, the club Decid ed to decline the use of the hall undc the conditions set forth. . The committee appointed at the pre vious meeting to investigate the ad visability of a comfort station for Beaverton reported that John Davis is willing to rent the land and care for the station without charge, pro vided it were placed back of Morse Hall. That Ragolo Rossi wilt be will ing to donate the ground west of the barbershop, and that the cost of the building will be about $300. The com mittee was continued and the various reports left in their hands. The club will meet again the first day of March. A dance will be held at Morse Hall Saturday night at which old fashioned country store prizes will be given. WHEEL CHAIR TRIPS Note Long journeys are taken In Florida by occupants of wheel chairB. ; One man plans 385-mile trip. &jeans they always are providing ; Folks that travel to give aid Ways for people to go riding I For their benefit are made New inventions none are hiding I They turn all loose to the trade. J(i the water with a paddle ' They have floated with canoe Placed a yoke upon their cattle ! And they hauled some big loads too. - On the horse they put a saddle As today they likewise do. Two-wheel carts made easy hauling ' Then the four wheels came to Btay. BicycleB in line were falling They are ridden still today, For more speed people were calling Then the auto came their way. - Steam cars run upon the railing Cable and trolley as well. We have now the plane for sailing , Time alone their speed will tell. Wagers now are seldom failing For freak notions Borne will quell. From Florida we are hearing That car drivers are aware On the highways are appearing Folks a-rolling a wheel chair. Of speed cops they have no fearing O, the long time to "get there." O. O. SMITH. GRABBER-JOHNSON A very pretty wedding took place in Portland Thursday when Mr. Louis Graeber and Miss Emmo Johnson were' united in marriage. They took supper at the Burleson home on Coop er Mt and received many valuable presents and the beat wishes of their many friends, also were serenaded by the "Cooper Mt. Band" in the late evening. i I Moat Operator! Have Compiled and Commission Warns Others They Must Apply at Ones, Chairman Williams of the Public Service Commission gave out the fol lowing statement relative to delin quencies under the "Truck and Pas senger for Compensation" act: The Commission has endeavored to give notice to all operators and own ers of commercial passenger , ana freight automotive conveyances op erating over the, public highways of the Btate for compensation as to the provisions of the new law governing such vehicles. During the first week in January official notice was given to such said operators and owners through newspapers of general and local circulation througout the state, as to the instructions of the Commis sion, provisions cf the law, and the effective date of Bame. Copies of the law, together with rules and regula tions of the Commission were for warded to the County Clerks and County Courts of the various Coun ties of the state. As a consequence thereof few, if any, of such operators and owners failed to get this informa tion even in the most isolated districts of the state. The attitude of the public officials, the public and the operators, general ly, we are glad to say, signified their close co-operation with the Commis sion in the enforcement of this new law; but there has developed recent ly a noticeable failure on the part of some of the owners and operators of commercial cars, under the purview of this act, to comply with the law. The Commission has at all times, since the first announcement, been ready and prepared to take care of all applications. While there have been some delays by reason of inves tigations and other details connected with the general program there ib not necessity for further delay or failure -to 4ile applications. This sot a penalty for failure to ob serve or comply with the law, and the rules, order and decisions of the Com mission, which is as follows, to-wit: shall be guilty of a misde meanor and punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and im prisonment." Our duty to the public and those who have made application and filed their obligations prompts us to insist that all persons, corporations or as sociations, subject to the provisions of this law, file in thiB office at the ear liest possible date.their applications, as otherwise it will be necessary for us to call upon the various peace of ficers throughout the state to take action to force compliance with the law. We sincerely hope it will not be necessary to resort to such extreme action, as there is no valid or reason able excuse for non-compliance- with the law, as this act protects the op erator to the same extent it protects the public, and is mutually beneficial, The law as passed charges the Com mission with the enforcement of each and every one of its provisions, and we have nsr other alternative than to fulfill our obligations to the state. The law is plain and specific in that any individual, firm or corporation transporting persons or property by automotive conveyances for compen sation over any public highway shall first procure a license from this Com mission. The law further provides that cer tain rural operators or owners not on a commercial basto, may, under def inite conditions, be exempted from the requirements of such law, but such exemption must bo obtained through the medium of the Commission. There is no minimum or maximum limit set as to the number of trjps a vehicle shall or shall not make over the highway, but exh and every such conveyance operating over the public highways of the state for the purpose of carrying passengers or freight for compensation, regardless of the num ber of trips made, comes within the restrictions of thin act. This eludes for hire cars and trucks as well as stages and truck lines. The Com mission does not, however, regulate motor vehicles carrying freight pascengers for hire exclusively within a city. Further tho law has no bearing on competition with railroad carriers and has only to do vrith the use of the public highways of the state by com mercial automotive conveyances, and the protection of the person and pro perty of the public. Mrs. Frask Johnston and two child ren are quarantined in Portland with diptheria. The younger boy is quite ill with the malady. Let us Ka-Oe 7l i'Jc ; faith that right H-.j V makes might, ) A J andin that faith (m CjjX I $ let us dare to do jjw jK l JA our durj) as vJe ,v T J J understand it. Vtj ' j 1 Abraham Lincoln bsA A ' 5 1 Am DUTY WELL DONE Springfield Citizens Worthily Honored Lincoln's Memory, Writer Whs Knew the Great President Commends Placing of Tablets at Points of Interest. Springfield citizens have discharged a duty which the nation has owed to future generations. They have re called the memory of Abraham Lin coln's life fn Springfield by placing thirteen bronze tablets at places made historic by events ltf Lincoln's career while he resided there, writes Henry B. Rankin In the New York Tribune. These tablets bear bis name and tell of the events that transpired at the various places and dates. The bronze, the designs and the workmanship represent the best Quality of memorial art. To younger citizens who never knew him and to the thousands of visitors who are attracted to Springfield only because It was the home of Lincoln, these tablets will be mosk revealing of his presence In the Illinois capital. These memorials are a living embodi ment of the Lincoln spirit in Spring field and are as appealing and more voiceful than even bis tomb. He still lives at Springfield now in daylight, Ths Old United States Court Building, Springfield, on the Third Floor of Which Was Lincoln's Law Office. as well as at midnight and limited no longer by Lindsays poetic vision of Lincoln Walks at Midnight," The poet wrote; It It portentous and a thing of state That here at midnight, In our little town, A mourninc figure walks, and will not rut. ear me oia iourinouae pacing up and down. Some of the locations marked are more Intimate than others to the writer, tboagb all are worthily and correctly placed. Four f the tablets mark places and events where I was present and familiar with the events cited. These are the cues st the old Journal office, when Lincoln received j : the telegram notifying- him of his ! nomination; at the C. M. Smith build ing, in the .third story, where Lincoln wrote his first Inuugnral address; also the tablet reciting events at the State house (now Court house), where his great speeches were delivered and where his body lay Id state and from where it was borne to the tomb. The fourth tablet marks the law office which Lincoln occupied the last seven teen years he was In Springfield. This Is to me the most appealing and sacred of all in memory's retrospect. Lincoln's Law Offloe. The first three mentioned I will not further refer to here, as they were fully described In my "Personal Recol lections of Abraham Lincoln." Of the Lincoln law office some more Intimate recognition of the part It bad in Lincoln's life deserves mention at tbis time. This office was the center of Lincoln's legal, political and literary activities in Springfield. Volumes might have teen written of what took place here, hitd there been ouch a compe tent, gossiping scribe as Boswell al ways present to take notes of what transpired. It Is now more than sixty years since I passed dally under the swing ing sign, "Lincoln & Henidon," and up and down the stairway, Into and from a back room, located in what was then a two-story building. This bad been the law office of Abraham Lincoln for I the last seventeen and most strenuous I years be spent in Hprlngfield. I It was my privilege, for several of those later years, to share In that of fice Its routine as a student, and to enjoy the personality and instruction of this most remarkable man of bis century. The end of his presence at the law office came the evening of February 10, 1861. I recall seeing Abraham Lincoln passing that night, for the last time, out of his office and down the narrow stairway to the street. On the fol lowing morning he departed from Springfield on his mission Into the strange, strenuous sacrificial life that has embalmed bis memory forever to endure In the heart of the ages. Foresaw Coming Events. No place In Springfield, not even his tomb, throngs with memories such as this office brings to the students of Lincoln's history. Lincoln's most studious years were spent here, as well as the most aspiring ones. It WRITTEN AT TOMB OF LINCOLN Hers Idle lies behind this gats, Where little children and ths grsat Forgst-ms-noto and laurel lay, All ths useless, hsllowtd clay Of Lincoln, in his lonely stats. A spirit, vast compassionate, Unfaltering in a world of hats Of little men who rags when thsy Hesr Idls lies. Lord, how we silly humans prats Of life's Inconsequential date. And epoch passes while we pray An epic sung while asses brsyt A god went by that w, too lata, - Her isoitssi was here that be grew clear vtsloned on the future's national problems and tnrew bis whole soul Into their solu tion. Here he acquired his deiterous skill In handling human implements. Political events rapidly succeeded each other In those years he spent there. These arose to a climax st length with swiftness unlooked for by most others. Not so to Lincoln. They culminated at last suddenly, bringing fierce strife of brother against brother, of state against state. Dark clouds filled the political and nutlonal skies, bursting at last Into a storm of bitter hate aud bloody war. This had become Inevi table. When that hour of need had struck It was from this office there came a man fully prepared by yours of study for those fateful hours. An honest, The Lincoln Home st Eighth and Jsok- son Streets, Springfield. tall, gentle, strong man, heroic and sad, who was constitutionally called by his fellow countrymen from this office and placed at the helin of state to preserve our national union. In that time of political turmoil aud civil revolution he guided fats country safely through blood and fire and tears, with a steady, unshaken faith to God and man. - , Truly "A Man for ths Ages." It was not the opportunity nor the stress of great occasions, such as the delivery of his speech in ths Illinois state capital on "a house divided against Itself cannot stand," nor the debates with Douglas that followed It, nor the opportunity before a New York audience at Cooper Institute, that ac count for or explain ths progressive development of Lincoln. It was not Salem, Springfield or Washington; It wss neither Stoart, Logan, Herndon, Douglas, Baker, Bar din nor the abls men In bis esblnst and who surrounded him In so many other capacities, both dvli and mill tary ; who can have the credit of prom inence In the making of Abraham Lin coln, much as those places snd somt of those men have contributed to It. After snd beyond sll these Influences and those times snd men that be there moved smong, snd rising beyond sll comparisons with them, we dearly dls own ice unique and exdaatvs amy of Lincoln hlmsejf, i Peterson A Carlborg Lease Frohnauer Building and Will Start Manufac turing; Next Month. Beaverton Is to have a machine shop. Through the efforts of J. Frank Stroud, the John Krohauer gar age has been leased to John Peterson and Charles Carlborg, of Lebanon. Oregon, who will move here next month and establish a machine shop for the manufacture of hand-made tools, auto springs and general manu facturing. Those enterprising gen tlemen who now have their shop a t Lebanon, had an Interesting display at the recent Portland automobile show which proved to all who saw It the value of the enterprise and some thing of what it will mean to Beav erton. v0( The new shop will employ a number Of men, perhaps 30 or more when It 1b running; Jull blast. The new In dustry will prove one more item in the building1 up of Beaverton which has long been Frank Stroud's ambition. J, H. Helfrich, also of Lebanon and an old friend of Frank Stroud, will be associated with Peterson A Carl borg in the new enterprise and will make Beaverton his home. HUBBR DOTS M. E. Blanton has sold his fine res idence property st Huber to W. M Saunder, of Portland, Ore., and bought farm on the main highway near Edgcomb, Washington. We regret to lose this hospitable family from our midst as they have resided here for fourteen years. Their host of friends wiBh that happiness snd prosperity will Invade their new home. Mr. Blanton Is a thorough farmer and s hard working man and will undoubt edly push the plow when he gets set tled on his farm. The Huber Com mercial Club Intends giving him and his family a farowell banquet before they "tearer1 - ' Huber is to have a new store, so the writer was Informed this morning. The old store-room has been sold to a Portland firm, that will start into business' at an early date. Mr. and Mrs. Reed have been down with the la grippe, but are improving st this writing. Mr, and Mrs. Bauer are kept quite busy looking after their business here. The Washington County Farm Bu reau has given notice of a schedule of farm bureau meetings in this county and announces that It will pub lish the schedule in next week's issue of the Times There will be motion pictures of an appropriate and inter esting topic, basket lunches, talks by members and other interesting, in structive and entertaining features- Attention! THE JUNIOR CLASS PRESENTS ' Dramatic and Operatic Stars OF THE LOCAL SCHOOL In "Program at 'Che HICH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Tuesday, February 21 8:00 p. m. FACULTY PLAY SAWYER &EEBE MATHER "A STORY DAY" a dialogue" Impersonation of Faculty Meeting Other Number, on Program Include MUSICAL NUMBERS Admission I5c& 25c. Res. Seats 35c Lees) News Nuggets That Tot assl 1 u4 All ths Rest of te Ar Interested In. J. Frank Stroud spent Thursday in Portland. Orandgeorge and Howell shipped one ton of horseradish Tuesday, Mrs, J, A. Hopgood entertained at a one o'clock luncheon Thursday, Her guests were: Mesdames W. O. Rob ertfl, W. C, McKull, L. 1). Shellenber- ger, R. H. Jonas and Mrs. Geo, Wil son, of Portland. Yhe afternoon wsa passed in social conversation. . . A number of ladies surprised Mrs, Marshall Jones last Friday afternoon at her home In Sorrento, reminding her of her birthday. The afternoon was paused in social conversation and refreshments of salad, sand wlchea, cake and toffee, which ths ladies had provided, were served, Mrs. W. C. McKell entertained at a one o'clock luncheon Tuesday. Ths afternoon was spent playing bridge Mri. F. H. Schoens winning ths prise. Those to enjoy her hospital ity were, Mesdsmes J. E. Davis, Lea He Spencer, A. E. Hanson, E, W, Woodruff, F, G. Donaldson, J. A. Hop- good and F. H. Schoens. Mrs. George Btassar entertained at luncheon last Friday. Her guests wars, Mesdsmes L. D. Bhellenberger, J, . Davis, W. H. Boyd, H. L. Hod son, F. C. Peck, H. O. Stipe, Elmer Stipe, H. R. Nelson, Doy Gray and Otto Erlckaon. The afternoon was enjoyed at "500", Mrs. Doy Gray win ning the prise. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Csdy, Mrs. John Bsnkus, Willis Csdy and Miss Bar bara, are all til with lagripps at ths Cady home. Hal Pcgg la assisting in the hardware store during ths ill ness of Mr. Csdy and Willis. Miss Elva Rossi, for several monthtt secretary to F. H. Johnston at ths lo val Standard Oil plant, has been transferred to ths forilm -ottoem st the company, ' MscCormse Snow was callsU to San Francisco Tuesday on business connected with his Isw practice. Ha will be away about a week. Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Summers and Mrs, Elmer Stipe visited Myrtle Chapter, O. E. 8. In Portland last Fri day evening. Mrs. E. M. Adsms and daughtsn Ruth, are confined to their home with la grippe. Ruth Is improving but Mrs. Adams Is still quite ill Mrs. W. B. Emmons, who has been seriously 1)1 with pneumonia, is im proving, much to the delight of hsr many friends. Mrs. H. L. Hudson has been eon- fined to her home with la grippe for several days, but Is reported some whst improved at this writing. .