The Beaverton enterprise., October 07, 1949, Image 5

Blacksmith Finds Horseshoeing A Lost Art
T H O U G H W illiam L. Ariss has
m ain tain ed a b la ck s m ith shop at
M a m s tr e e t and B u r n h a m avenue
fo r the past 40 years, it ha s been
som e tim e sin ce he a ctu ally shod *
any horses. "Tl\e fa c t of the m a t ­
te r is," he said, in sp ea k ing of
b la c k s m ith ln g in general, "shoeing
horses is gradually becom ing a
lost art. And th e la st time a fa r m e r
c a m e in
h e re for a team-job,
which w as ab out two years ago, I
turned him down. I ’ve been re p a ir­
ing wagon wheels, doing acetylene
and ele ctric to r c h work, in recent
years. A f te r all," Ariss said, “ I
shod horses for alm ost thirty
years.
Asked where he learned his trade
th e b la c k s m i t h —who is 74 y ears
old, and built along the lines of a
good lightw eight b oxer— informed i
t h a t he’d begun his apprenticeship
b a c k in M ichigan, m a n y y ears ago
“ At t h a t tim e a te a m of horses,
trim m ed and shod, cost a dollar
H E A T I N G AN' I R O N to a c h e rry red, A riss tends his fo rge
and tw enty cents. I t was hard | with u tm o st cu re and skill, in his b la ck s m ith shop in Tigurd, still
work, and not m u ch money. L a ter,
in its location of some 40 years.
when I c a m e out to Oregon, I was
T im e s huve changed in his business span and with it have com e
glad to lea rn t h a t fa r m e r s here
e n tirely new demands fro m the public. Schooled in th e fine a r ts of
fo rging and smithing, Ariss has kept a b re a s t of his cu stom ers' needs.
paid four dollars to have a team
fixed up."
(P h o to by E . C. C a rr, R o u te 2, B o x 172-B, T ig a rd )
Did Mr. A riss ever have a horse
k i c k him, w hile shoeing i t ? "Y o u ;
learn ab o u t horses, putting shoes
on th e ir fe e t,” he assured us. “And
you darn soon learn to dodge a
k i c k .”
“I re m e m b e r one tim e a fa r m e r
brou g ht in a p articu larly sk ittish
anim al. He weighed rig ht around
1400 and he had the look of the
m
Devil in his eyes. T h e fir s t thing I
noticed ab o u t h im was th a t his
e a rs were unusually close together.
I t w as a sure sign t h a t th e anim al
w as a tro ub le-m a k er. I'm positive
t h a t h o r s e ’s e a rs weren't two inches
a p art. . . well, anyw ay, I s ta rte d to
w o rk on him.
“T h e firs t th in g he did w as to
r e a r up on his hind legs. I g ot out
o f the way. I fussed around with
him fo r a good th irty minutes,
but cou ld n’t g e t any w here with
T H I R T Y S E V E N Y E A R S AGO. W illiam Ariss, center, posed
th e busin ess a t hand. In those days
w ith his helper and a friend who stopped in a t his b la ck s m ith shop.
I was young and pretty proud of
W hen th e picture was ta k e n , in 1912, horses were in th e ir glory
m y repu tatio n a s a b la ck sm ith,
and the village sm ithy w as as impcATant a s to day's super service
and no horse cam e into th e shop
sta tion s.
.
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fo r a shoe jo b which didn’t get it.
Well, I m anag ed to get in close to
this a n im a l and when he reared
He was breathing, so I doused him 1
up, I w ent with him.
“B u t th e a n im al reared so high with cold water, brought him |
th a t he lost his balance, his b a ck around. He didn't pull an y more
and
after
th a t j
fe e t slipping fro m under him. The m onkeyshines,
last I rem em b ered I w as sailing w henever he cam e in fo r a jo b, I
through th e a ir and the horse was d idn’t have a bit of trouble with '
fallin g down. I don’t know how him .”
M r. A riss withdrew a s trip of
long I was out, but when I cam e
to the horse was lying on th e floor re d-hot iron fro m the b rick -en ­
o f th e shop. I went over to him closed shop fo rge and s ta rte d to
and he had a bump on his head b a n g it into shape. F o r a man
the size o f a small b a sk e tb a ll. I who is well p as t seventy, and
realized then, th a t h e ’d fallen onto i weighing less th a n one forty, it
the anvil and knocked h im s elf out. i was pretty to watch.
Ladies Prepare
Kitchen For Fall
Dinners, Bazaars
T h e Aloha G ra n g e Home E c o
nom ics club m et last Wed at the
hall for an all day meeting
T h c ladies did som e fall cleaning
in the k itch e n and dining room in
p reparation fo r the dinners and
B a z a a r which th e d ifferent group.-
of the co m m u n ity will hold there
A short busin ess meeting was held
and plans discussed for hazaai
and d in n er w h ich the g 'o u p will
give on Oct. 29. T h e next meeting
will he at the hom e of Mrs. L lnn ie
T h o m as. H o ste sses » e r e the Mrs
A nna Anderson, E ls ie Nault and
Agnes H iggens
Oregon Divides
Rehabilitation
Money For Vets
Reedville Herd
Shows Value of
Artificial Sire
B E A V ER T O N
ENTERPRISE
F rid a y , O ctober 7, 1949
E G G I M E N -W O O I .K Y K I T I . s
her home in Greybull, Wyoming
Mrs. M ernice Wooley of Heed- recently by plane. Miss Brooks
ville and Theodore Eggim en of was here to a ttend the wedding of
W itch Hazel were married Sept. her niece Miss P a tric ia Mitchell
on Sept. 10 and has been a house
T h e first con crete evidence of 17 at Vancouver, Washington. Mr.
guest at the Mitchell home the
the high quality o f the dairy sires and Mrs. Charles D rake were their
past three weeks.
attendents.
T
h
e
couple
are
at
home
| owned by the O regon D airy Breed-
. - Association » a s brought out in in Reedville. Mr. E ggim en Is e m ­
ployed a t th e Linde Air Pr.xliicts \ 1 S I T S D A U G H T E R
the recent Dairy Herd Improve
ment Association record s obtained Co. in Portland.
Mrs. A. A. O s » a ld left Wednes-
in the David Hagg A Sons herd
day Sept. 28, for a visit with he-
1 n e a r R eed cille. re p orts P a lm e r S
Miss T h e lm a Brooks, s is t n of d aughter and family Mr. and Mrs
Torvend, County Agent.
In the Mrs. F rielu n d Mitchell returned to P lx so n in S ea ttle.
Hagg herd seven of the f i is t at
tlficially produced d airy h eifers
have been in production long en- . T H E O R I G I N A I W E S T E R N
H/^DBOARD
ough
to have betw een two and
th ree m onths records. T h e averag e
production of these seven daugh- ]
! te rs has been 1 6 pounds of but |
te r fat per day and 29 pounds of
milk per day. T hey a re unselected J
d aughters of two of the sires own-
ed by the associatio n.
Most d airym en will ag re e T o r
vend said that this b u tte r f a t pio-
duction for two y e ar old heifers
is well above average.
T h e services of the D airy Breed-
o i s \ssociation have been used on
the H ag g farm since it was s t a r t ­
ed three years ago. B y continu al- |
ly selecting the best sires avail- j
able the Oregon D airy B reed ers
are offe rin g to every d a iry m an the
Id e a i in
opportunity to use the best sires |
available
in his
herd
selected
w o r k a b ilit y ,
both for increased m ilk and but-
finish
a
n d stren g th
te rfat production.
for the Home Hobbyist
S t a t e funds appropriated by the
1949 leg islatu re to assist veterans'
org an iza tion s
in
rehabilitation
work will be divided on the basis
of 38 percent to the Am erican L e ­
gion, 38 percent to the V eterans
o f F o r e ig n W a r s and 24 percent
to the D isabled A m erican V e te r­
ans for the 1949-50 fiscal year, the
sta te d e p a r tm e n t of v e te ran s ’ af-
| fairs announced this week The
j d e p a rtm e n t’s advisory com m ittee
had previously found these three
o rg an iza tio n s qualified to receive N E E D L E < 1 1 It I ’O T L I T K
the s ta te funds.
T i e B e a v e r to n R e b e k a h Needle
R olan d Davis, Portland, advisory and Social club will meet F rid ay
c o m m itte e c h a irm a n , said the two Oct. 7 at the home of Mrs. F r a n k i e
y e ar ap p ropriation under the re­ B u tt s for a 12:30 o’c lo ck pot luck
h ab ilitatio n a c t am o unts to $33,529, luncheon.
of which $16,764 will he disbuised N K I.S U O T T C O N F K R K N C H
to the three org anizations this
Tw enty-tw o young people fro m I
year. He said th e rem aining funds
the Reedville C h ris tia n E n d e a v o r |
will not be co m m itted until next
attended the planning co n fer en ce
year, in the e vent other v e te ra n s ’
at Nelscott Chapel F r i d a y evenin g
groups besides the “big th ree ”
and S atu rd ay Sept. 23rd and 24th.
qualify for fu nd s under the act
B U S Y B E E S ’ IIAM F E E D
by th a t time.
T h e Aloha Busy B e e s served a
The
anno unced
“percentag e"
plan will m e an paym ents of $6370 delicious ham d inner to a crowd of
each to the L eg ion and the V F W about 250 S a tu rd a y evening Sept,
and o f $4024 to th e DAV this y ear 24. Mrs. Nora C arlson was in charg e
T h e fu nds will be disbursed in o f the dinner. A b a z a a r w as held
equal m onthly Installm ents.
1 in connection with th e dinner.
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