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BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE
FOR A GREATER EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY
1, No. 14
BEAVERTON
O REG ON
F RID AY. J U N E 17. 1927
PRICE 5 C E N T S
Tried to Dit?
New Artist
ST STOREKEEPER AT C a p tu re d B e « BEAVERTON WON
BOYS ARE
Septic
SECOND
PLACE
In
Beaverton
VERT'H INTERVIEW'D In H ls Y a rd
NEARLY DROWNED
Tells Of Early History Of
^ E a s t e r n Section Of
*
f Washington County
WAS
18
YEARS
OLD
——
W b «n H e O p e n e d S t o r e in B e a v e r -
t a n in 1870; F a t h e r O w n e d 450
A c r e s n e a r St . M a r y s
W hile tearing down the old T rans
Lin
Second
Pet
JJw* Dehcy
on a board last
I'rulay and sprained his ankle quite
severely. At noon a swarm of bees
. settled on an apple tree in his yard
FIRE THURSDAY AÏ
ÌHYNG RESIDENCE
w i
Hurtfom
Surprise Birthday
H on
John Haskill, T hom as
Party At Cedar M i l l s
Dent :, William Tucker, Tom lu c k -,
A surprise birthday p a r t y was
e r i >1 (ieorge W. Betts
“ th e s e ^¡vvn for Vrthur Gould W ednesday
gaim 1 from drainage of the lake, njgbt at the home of Mr and Mrs
he laid.
Fred Losli, near C edar Mills Games
“B. averton was laid out into to w n 'w e r e play. 1 and a m - d time en-
lots | when Joseph Gaston built his Joyed
1 hose preset., were
\d a -
« ¡lrf
into the community in June, line, i illi<\ am
'•*
, '
1870.
Joshua W elsh gave Gaston and Mrs VV Hogan and 'laughter
land for r.ght-of-w av and terminals Betty
Jean, of
urtlaml. Mr.
and
T h e [ two of them laid out the city Mrs
Lrm-*. Losh. Mr. ™d ■ £
of B averton, m arking .ff street and
K. Loxl. and children Miss Esther
and Wilma l-osli, Fred and Willie
C
Pittlekau and Leslie Losli.
“l i r store was the first at Bea-
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verte
I had purchased the bmltl-
PICNIC
AT
LOST
PARK
mg I in which 1 placed niy store
from (i W
Betts in
m 1870.
1*70.
Bill
Mr and Mrs. Wm. H am m er and
W.ln >tt bought me
Alice, (. harles and
later
\ \ hile there I met and m a r ­ Merill.
have
been
visiting
Mrs.
ried my .
first wife. . Sarah Emilv Hammer's parents, Mr .and Mrs.
Belt* oldest da ughter of the man ^ j
Swenson.
W ednesday they
*roni
■
« « u n 1 m arried on May
h j jt- f)
i t « . «
nan
18/1
In passing, it is aLain inter-
b^aulllH| natural park with
springs
estirn to note that we wer* united ^ twQ |a^ e.
The water has been
in W' ill--ck by the Kcv R B Wil- ¡(' t r)e,j fr,„n ,.nf ,,t the lake* and
tnot,| prominent pastor of the com- ^
bottom will be cemented oxer
nw««i t and frontier life.
,
,b rn it can be used for a
“At er
leavttu the community in , w,m.ng tank
T he t ark i
1872.
I never again
returned to Up with benches and
tables and is
1 W
nn to lixe
For many year« always quiet and c 4 e srn m the
1 UVtJ in W ashir.k - n
It* tough luck when men trv to
Considerable comment
bus been
dig a septic tank and clicounti
made bv residents of Beaverton and Pete Bowles and Oga Fred- spring water.
I VV Noyes secured
visitors, regarding the new Rossi
the contract for digging a septic
erickson go Swimming in tank for Mr Manning on his prop
building, especially in regard to the
six placqucs depicting a beaver on
erty on W atson stric t, but when
Lake Oswego
a branch of wood used as a finish
about four feet had been dug, Tile* -
at the top of the pillars. They are GOES
the men hit a stream of vv ater
D O W N 3 T IM E S day,
mailt up in cream and, with the
and h.ul to bail the w ater out.
star placquc at the top in the c e n t­ S p e c t a t o r » T h o u g h t t h e y w e r e P l a y ­ T hey went down twelve feet, bail­
er of each store, form a contrast
ing all the lime.
\ \ hen they r e ­
ing a n d c*d n o t go t o T h e i r
with the brown finish which is very
sumed
w
o
r
k
Wednesday
montili.;
Retcue
striking and pleasing to the eye
A crowd of voting people from there was several feet of water in
Miss Helen Hockens, freshman at
Beaverton drove over to Lake C).*- the bottom of the pit and bailing
Beaverton High, made the molds
was resumed.
vvego Friday afternoon and went
and Bert Hockens east the placqucs.
boating and swimming
Mnonng the
crowd were Pete Bowles and Oga Real Estate Transfers In
Frederiekson, who went out in the
And Around Beaverton
l a k e m a canoe.
They paddled
j
around for a while in their canot
James S Miller to H arry Eluent
with their swimming *uits on and
seemed to be having a good time lln g g s et ux 7 Blk J Beaverton.
Suddenly the canoe tipped over and
Newton C Shipley et ux to W m
Dr Look, of Hollywood, wrote to the boys were struggling in the
1 Dr G. K. W a tts last week in r e ­ water. They managed to hold on to T. Goeser et ux, 7.5ü acrcs of Lot
gard* to renting the studio at Beav­ the canoe for a time but everyone 1 H 8 Beavertou.
erton for a serial to be filmed tin* thought they
were playing and paid |
summer . Dr. W atts has not yet no attention to them.
Suddenly! C hristina Johnson et ux to J. T.
received an answer to his letter, so Oga was seen to lose his hold and W hitten, Lot td Beaverton Reed-
nothing definite can be announced Pete tried
to hold him up and ville.
now
managed to attract the attention of
G. R Bennett et ux to Lumber­
some people in a row boat,
who
MR
HDG HF.S
helped pull them in and took them mens Tr. l o. Lots (id, X o7 Jo h n ­
The funeral of William Hughes, to *horc
It was a narrow escape son s l-.st. Aibl. Beaverton.
Beav erton Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. f..iher of Thomas Hughes, son-in- for both boys.
252, and Rebekah Club N'o. 2-18 will I. vv of W. F l ’cgg, was held W e d ­
Isabella McMillan el al to F i n ­
hold memorial services at the Aloha nesday afternoon in Portland.
est C . Gifford el ux, Lot W oodland
Mr.
Community church next Sunday at Hughes had been ill for some time Luncheon And Card Party Acres.
11 a. in.
Rev. Tetwiler will de ­ and his son recently arrived front
liver the sermon. Every member of California to visit him, but he ap­
A very pleasant luncheon and card
Appointed Administrator
the I O. O. F. and Rebekah lodge peared to feel better, so Thomas party was enjoyed Friday at the
are urged to be present and do returned Sunday morning to bis home of Mrs. W C. Abbott, at
1 C. Stickney has been appointed
honor to those who have passed home
Mr. Hughes became ill S u n ­ Aloha. Among those present were:
adm inistrator of the J. Schilling
to the great beyond.
day afternoon and passed a vv a y Mcsdames F Stevens, V. (). Whit
Mat t
Sunday night
W. E. l’egg was in uey, D Elliott, of Portland, Mrs estate by the County court.
Rush, and C harles
c’ox, of Beaverton, Dan Shaw and King, C . F
charge of arrangements.
S c h i l l i n g were tak,..g inventory
; !.. E. Klatt, of tubili.i.
Tuesday.
Beaverton won second place in
section 2, t ities in Oregon, at the
T hursday parade of floats, at the
Rose Show in Portland.
Newberg
was first.
lit section tJ, class B, the Metzger
h* ,C*Ued "n, ”u: neighbor fo, school was iirst.
help and captured the entire hive
T he Beaverton float carried out
without anyone being stung, but the slogan, "The City of Homes."
Milne pi-opK Wire ei<dt!. excited
A pretty bungalow nestled in a
—
garden of flowers, roses, carnations,
daisies and other wild flowers. The
bungalow has a moos roof and tiny
cozy windows, typical of the Vmeri-
can bungalow.
Petals were blown
from the chimney as the float pro­
ceeded
Great credit is due Mrs,
French and her many helpers.
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T he Metzger float represented a
Clothing C a u g h t Fire As colonial tea garden. I ttder a trellis
M rs
J h
Entered
of roses curved to a heart shape,
f
=*
sat a Miss, dressed in the costume
Nitchen
of long ago.
The flowers were
fox gloves, roses, ferns, daisies and
S H E U S E D HER H E A D lupines.
,
A very interesting interview with
i Jess- N athan Griffith has been pub
' lish.
in the Hillsboro Argus and
we herewith give cxerpts from its
^■ nns:
Mr Griffith was b o m
on Ins
f a tb c 's donation land claim, between
Scrolls a n d Farmington, February
J1852.
F a th e r came to W ash
ingt'
c o u n t y and the Tualatin
plai. s in 1KT6, and owned 450 acres
at t d
Marys, three miles west of
Bea crton ami a great deal of 1 m * T o r e C l o t h e s o f f R a c k a n d w i t h t h e
earl>
life was spent in Beaverton
H el p of Mrs.
Phose, put the
and vicinity.
F ir e out
"I was the first to operate a
A fire at the home of George
store in Beaverton.”
W hen opening the store in 1870 T hyng was extinguished T hursday
morning by Mrs. George Thyng,
Mr. Griffith was 18 years old.
“Jo -h u a W elsh and W. 1*. W a t ­ with the assistance of her neighbor,
son owned the original homesteads Mrs. Khose.
Mrs. T h y n g had hung some cloth­
maki g up the townsite of Beaver­
ing on a dry rack near the gas
ton,” continued Mr. Griffith in rc-
stove and stepped out of the room
callin his early days in the vicinity
I t he Beaverton country.
“O rig i­ a minute to answer the door bell
nally there was a big lake m e a su r­ W hen she returned the clothes were
She burned
her hands
ing seven miles in width that stood burning.
when
she
threw
the
clothes
on the
in The general vicinity of the com­
floor, but
she rushed from the
munity. For miles within that sec­
fire d e p a rt­
tion land not actually under water room, phoned for the
was more or less swamp. I h e lake ment and then caught up the g a r ­
was artificial.
'I h e beaver, known den hose and played w ater on the
a s 'o n e of the most intelligent spec- kitchen walls. T he fire was almost
iespin the animal kingdom, was res out when the fire departm ent a r ­
Mrs. T h y n g showed rare
ponsi le for its formation.
1 h i s rived.
presence
of mind else the whole
little animal had worked patiently
house
might
have burned to the
peVtmiis for years in idling logs,
brush and mud across a creek until ground.
he J i a d successfully constructed a
dam.
I h e b a c k w a t e r eventually ~
form. ,I the lake
S hO W C T TOT
"By the time the main body of
T
r 11
civili. ation began to reach the Ore
A t TS. j L . i i l l C l l
gon | country the beaver had been
^ ^ ^ L e d off.
During the previous
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half I century to 1870 British trap-
.\ number of f r i e n d s of Mrs.
pcrslth ro u g h the old N orthw est Fur Lewjs Allen, nee Miss Noreen Nel-
Tradi lg company and later consol- SOM> tendered her a miscellaneous
idaMd with the Hudson Bay com- shower F'ridav evening at the home
pany and American trappers under Gf p,er parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
companies like the A stor Fur coin- k
Nelson.
She received a great
pany had almost cleaned the Wil- l i u n v beautiful and
useful gifts
lamei e and
Tualatin
valleys
of |)ain ty refreshm ents w e r e served
their fur bearing animals.
1 his ex- Those present w e r e :: Mrs. F'liner
plain the existence of a great arti- s^tjj,e> Mrs 1 )oy Gray, Mrs. J. < .
ficial lake at Beaverton with almost Huntley, \ | r *. L. D. Shellcnberger,
no animals swimming about iti it, ^ j rs George Blosser, Mrs. J. F2
as America civilization was rapidly i)avtSi \ l rs |- C. Peck, Mrs. VV. 11
swan ling into the te rritory during 3 ^ ^
\ ] rs
Inez W hitw orth, and
the third qua rte rs of the past cen- daughters FA a and Elsie W hitw orth,
ury.
Mrs. W . A. Scidmore, Mrs. Dayton
i-
i Peck, Mrs. Joe Keller, Mrs. W . K
“ 0 , e
day
a Canadian
trapper
Xlrs
S. Dobbins
know to the s e t t l e r s
as John
^
^ ( ^
Alltn k.f, for th e h
Hen.
came to the c o u n tr y
Real- hcme ¡„ Heppner, Saturday morn-
izmg the little value of a big body
of w a te r with nothing in it, he sug-
^ ■ < 1 th a t it be drained
Finally
the Idam was dynamited and w ater Several Cases T o Be Tried
from the lake flowed down into
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Bart, n’s c r e e k .
Eventually, the
. . . . . . . .
whol. community was drained by
June 21, a
hearing will be held m
an ,
■»
Swenson * •
m th. cast
....
,
, , ,
, r, . of F. C.
Hanley for $100 attorney
“W a te r from the lake left a
^
rich, black soil which, it is said, be-
2J a n o |h e r |u.aring will be
came among the richest ot soils for ^
^
of autom obile.
agrw Itural purposes in the country. ^
(
pn)h|
plaintiffi an(| Mrs
It | oved immensely valuable for j . ^ Q i-ierce
and A. A. Pierce,
^ f e g onions.
recovery of balance due, an attach-
Mi
Griffith recalls owners of m t n t suit.
^ ^ B t i . m land claims in the vicinity
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of fc e a v e rto n
Am ong them were _
.
r j • . I J __
Tank
Studio May Be
Used This Summer
Memorial Day
Services Sunday
HARDWARE S10RE
AÍ ALOHA
Farewell Picnic For
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Mr. and Mrs. Marugg
A farewell picnic was given S u n ­
day at Rippling W aters, for Mr
and Mrs. G. L. Marugg, of Tobias,
J. C. Bridges now has Two v.'. are making arrangem ents to
leave for a six months trip to Fill-
Stores; One at Aloha
rope
Dinner was served at noon
and one at Beaverton
Miss Nadia Chase, of Hillsboro,
and Miss Christine M a r u g g , of
NICE L I G H T
STOR E Portland, expect to accompany Mr.
and Mrs. M arugg on their trip as
as Chicago, where they will
Wi l l C a r r y a full li ne o f H a r d w a r e far
spend the summer visiting relatives.
a t b o t h P l ace*, D i i h e i , St o v e s ,
Furniture,
etc.
A new hardw are store
was open­
ed in the W heeler building in Aloha
Monday by J. C. Bridges. He has
a big stock of hardware, including
dishes, cooking utensils, furniture,
bedding, stoves, plows, rakes, shovels,
etc.
Mr. Bridges also has a store
at Beaverton, T he Beaverton Fix-
change. This store has been estab
lished three years and he is well
known throughout the county.
Mr. Bridges had such a large
stock of goods at his Beaverton
store that he could not display it
to good advantage and so decided
to open another store in the thriv­
ing town of Aloha.
Mrs. Bridges will be in charge of
one of the stores and her sister.
Mrs. Katie Shores in charge of tin
oth e r and Mr. Bridges will super­
vise both places.
Store Has Good
Looking Fixtures
T h e Thyng Confectionery and Ice
( ream Parlor has some very good
looking fixtures.
T he mirrors arc
large and the shelving has beautiful
leaded glass doors.
He lias had a rack made for
fruit, which can be used either i n ­
side or outside the store.
W ednes­
day, men were busy installing a
striped green and white awning and
Friday an electric sign will be put
up.
S. T. Winisky installed the co/v
nooks in the store where ice cream
will be served. It is made of beau
tiful panelled wood and the varnish
brought out the grain of the wood
DROVE
OFF
THE
ROAD
LOCAL NEWS
V.
Mr. and Mrs A Dixon amt Geo
Coupe motored from Green River,
Wisconsin, to Beaverton, and arc
visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. Myers
T hey intend to make their home in
Beaverton.
Ì
I
u G. Davit, formerly Beaver
ton boy, with bis wife, is travel­
ing west from Sioux Falls, S. D,
and will visit
Beaverton friends
this summer.
He is writing syn­
dicated descriptive articles.
W atson S t r e e t road was oilc.
Mr. and Mrs. K. C P a rro tt ari- Saturday and a number of car
enjoying a new seven tube radio.
ttirncil back and took another roa<
when they saw the big pools o l
Mr anil Mrs. Doy Gray and fam­
oil.
ily a t t e n d e d the performance of
"Rosaria,” Tuesday.
Holding forth at window two, of
the Hibernia < o m m e m u l and Sav­
Mrs. E m i l y Frankure, of San ings Bank, is Al F.mmqns, the head
Francisco, California, neice of Mrs ! of the savings department. He lias
Emma Huntley, visited in Bt-av crton been with the bank since the spring
T hursday with Mrs. Ethel 1 divards of 1D2D and has worked his way
and mother, Mrs. H. O. Hockens, through the different departments
Mrs. W. H
Pearce of Portland to his present position, which he has
and Mrs. A. B Clement.
held since last fall
Al has lived in
Beaverton since he was four years
Mr. and Mrs F. A. Yeager drove old.
to Grand Mound, W ashington, to
Mr I.. V. G raham was taken to
witness the marriage of Mrs. Y eag­
er's sister, Leona Marsh, to Walt*» the Fanmanucl h o s p i t a l
Monday
morning where he is under observa­
Mills, on June 4.
tion following a sudden illness, the
Mis. Charles
Read field
and n ature of which has not as yet
>
daught Blanche, are visiting for a been determined.
Miss F-mina Delsman drove her couple of weeks at Marshfield.
T he following students arc hotn<
ear off the road near the Marsh
from the O. A. C. : I.« tina Hulctt
Garage, W ednesday evening
The
Your child shi >uld drink at least
F.lva F.ckstrotn, J u n e and Jaimi
ear skidded and went through a a quart of milk ; day.
Dewey The Plumber
Plioiir
Hudson.
Those arriving from th<
icnce and down through an orchard. Molía Dairy Adv.
Opens Shop Marsh's wrecking car pulled the
University of Oregon a re : V ciij
Gaskill, Myron and John Gray am
machine back on the road and re
Dewey I). Drorbaugh opened hi* paired the damages to the car.
Mr. and Mrs
E. Chaney, who j I.eland Sh aw.
Mr. Shaw graduatei
new plumbing shop in the Hanna
live two miles south of Beaverton, this year.
put up two posts with a largi
building in Beaverton this week
Family Birthday Dinner have
Mrs ( la r e n c e Walfolk ami baby
The interior of the building ha*
light on top at the entrance t<-
been repainted, new partitions put
tlu ir driveway.
All the wiring is arc visiting at the home of Mr. anil
M r and Mrs. F II Schoene en under ground and was done by I , Mrs. D. C. Howard.
in, an up-to-date line of fixture*
installed.
He has workeiL out a tertained with a family birthday J. Vinson.
complete bathroom with all fixture* dinner Saturday evening in honor
Mr. ami Mrs. L. L. Meyers at-
installed and it gives a housewife f the birthday of Mr. Schoene and
tended a family I cumuli in Port-
Mrs.
A
Long
returned
Monday
new ideas on how a bathroom will Mrs.» Schoene’s sister, Mrs. A. F. from a week-end trip to Astoria.
land Sunday.
Hanson. O thers present were Miss
look when rightly equipped.
Mabel Carlson, Clarence Carlson and
Misses Helen Tefft and Betty
Mr. ami Mrs. C. Anderson of
\. E. Hanson and two children.
Huntley were guests last Friday
Portland,
spent
a
week
with
Mrs.
School Election June 20
A nderson’s brother, Mr. and Mrs. of Barbara Cady at the W ashington
Sche>ol election will be held at
High school, Portland.
Spending
Summer
< . VV Farr.
the Beaverton school Monday, June
In Beaverton
2D A clerk will be elected for om
Mrs. VV. (J. Roberts and S'
Mrs. L. P. Byrnes is greatly im­
vear and a director for three vearx
Frank, left for an automobile ti
Mr. Dean is the outgoing officer
Mr* John ( lements and daughter proved.
last Sunday to Los Angeles. Th
Miss Alice, are in their home in
expect to be gone several week
GAVE LUN CHEON FRIDAY
Miss Joseph Maulding, of Salem,
W atson St., for the summer.
Mrs.
Mrs. F. W Cook of Greenburg
lements has spent the winter with is visiting her mother, Mrs. I. J
Mrs. Floyd T efft and daughters
wave a luncheon Friday at her home her daughter in t McMinnville while Vinson, over the Fourth
They will H e l e n and Thelma, left Sunday
Those who enjoyed the event were *he has charge of the music de­ spend part of the time at Seaside.
morning for Indianapolis, Indiana,
*
partm ent at Linville college.
w here they will be the guest for
men, A Bro. k«. W H O ’Kelly. F
H
I.
Hudson returned Sunday several m o n t h s , of Mrs. T c f f t’s
•
Bellringer, E. Christy, L. H Eich
MARRIED
from a business trip to Idaho.
sister.
meyer S r . f. H F.ichmeyer, Jr., and
Miss Helen H enrietta G t i n t o n ,
daughter Ruth
Boyd Sprague i* able to be out t Rev and Mrs J F'rank C u n n in g ­
-laughter of Mrs. W inifred Douglas
again after a severe illness.
ham and baby left .Monday for an
Gunton,
became
the
bride
of
Ben
Giving Away Ironing Pads
extended
camping trip
They will
.f F\ la y m a n , of Beaverton, Monday
T he Multnomah Electric (
Mr* Lurinda Davi, was quite ill also visit relatives in Idaho.
evening
at
the
First
(
h
r
i
s
t
i
a
n
Multnomah, are giving away abso­
lastweck, but is improving.
Mrs.;
hurch in Portland.
lutely free, a "Well Maid” ironing
Davis is Mrs. F. G. Donaldson’s
Drink cold milk on h< t days
board pad and Cover with everv
mother.
you'll feel better.
Aloha I >airy.—
new H ot Point iron sold
These P O S T M A S T E R L O W R Y M O V E S
Adv
P o stm a ste r 1.« >wry, moved l a s t
pads ordinarily sell for $2 and ar<
Mr and Mrs Tally S trayer and
Mrs. I). I Tallman has returned
well made, they have snaps on the week into his home, the former
Mr Mr and Mrs. F-. A. Morgan mo­ from
St
Vincents
the
In is pi tal,
back where they can be laced to­ Gaunt house, on the highway.
gether so as to fit the board ex- Lowry has lived for some tune in tored to Woodland, W ashington, r e ­ w here she was opciuted on for
cently to visit Mrs Hulda Kluger
goitre.
ihe rear of the W heeler building
actl).