Town Notes and Local Family Visits in Newberg
A string of residents and visitors travels between Portland and Newberg. Mrs Chas EB Fuller and her young son visit family, Postmaster Hoskins attends a Woods funeral, and John O Conrad marries Lulu Kiger of Corvallis. Community events include college board meetings and a public library fundraiser featuring local performers.
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Sherwood
RE. E. Freishauer
Newberg
Portland
Live Fresh
Margaret
NP. Byers
Tillie Hoskins
Joyce George
Whittier
California
Demsey Smith
J.D. Gordon
David Johnson
J. McKowen
Los Angeles
Henry Evans
Soldiers Home
Santa Monica
John Evans
N. F. Byers
Miller. Mercantile Co
Miller
McMinnville
H. A. Hinshaw
Southern Pacific
Rev. L. A. Wells
College Board
W. C. Robertson
Lebanon
Newberg Social News From Portland to Salem
Newberg residents mingle with visitors from Portland McMinnville and beyond. Articles note travel, a new sprinkling wagon arrival, a Salem move for F A Elliotts, a pastor aiding temperance drives and a memorial for Kenneth Rolland plus a lengthy homecoming from California.
Longtime Newberg city marshal J J Woods dies at 61
J J Woods longtime Newberg city marshal and deputy sheriff died at his east Newberg home after a three week illness aged 61. Born October 11 1848 in Charlottsville Indiana he married Louisa Nicholson November 20 1873 and moved to Oregon in 1879. He leaves a widow three daughters Ida Tone and Merle and son Roy Woods all of Newberg. Funeral Thursday at the Friends church. Additional notes list numerous regional names and a firm closure notice from Lynn B Ferguson successor to F H Caldwell & Co.
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A. J. Weaver
Canyon City
Prairie City
Grant County
Oregon
Matt Henderson
Matt Corrigan
McMinnville
J. J. Woods
Kopp
C. F. Moore
California
Los Angeles
Iowa
Hawkeye
Newberg
Charlottsville
Indiana
Louisa Nicholson
Dayton
Ida
Tone
Merle
Roy Woods
Friends Church
Railroad Executive Visits Newberg in Private Car
J G Gage Traffic Manager for Lake Shore & Michigan Southern based in Cleveland arrived Friday with Mrs Gage in their private car. They stayed until Tuesday visiting Mr and Mrs C R Duer at their new home two miles from town. Gage praised the country and plans to eventually retire here while Mrs Gage hopes to visit twice yearly.
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M. H. Bowerman
Portland
Mldred Moffitt
Frank V. Rosebaugh
W. N. Brown
Dallas
H. C. Steven
Star Theatre
Alta
Canada
Marvin Blair
E. A. Newby
Frank Wortman
McMinnville
Carrie Turner
W. A. King
Myrtle Gause
Emma Dorrance
Ione Hill
Jessie Britt
Pearl Cummings
Lulu Loveland Shepard
Salt Lake
Friends Church
Shepard
Newberg
Frank Smith
James Acheson
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Post Office Department
Edgewood
I. N. Campbell
Campbell
J. W. Childs
California
Los Angeles
Chico
Sacramento
San Jose
Santa Barbara
J.G. Gage
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad
Cleveland
Ohio
Gage
Family heads to Alberta in search for new home
Peter Jensen and his young son departed the area last Thursday expecting to scout Alberta country for a possible relocation. They plan to follow if conditions look favorable and a suitable site is found.
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Peter Jensen
Alberta
Novel uses of paper across Europe and America
A French journal notes wide novelty in paper products in the United States. Roofs of paper and pulp prove successful while a Chicago firm makes paper garments from bark fiber. shelves are bound with wood and fasteners. Paper bottles and grain bags appear in Philadelphia and a cement attached paper horseshoe is claimed durable. A reinforced paper combines pulp canvas linen silk with steel wire.
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Germany
England
France
Austria
Italy
United States
Europe
America
Chicago
Philadephia
Tuberculosis Talk at Friends Church Next Sunday
Mrs. Douglas will speak on tuberculosis at the Friends church during the evening service, as the society for the prevention of tuberculosis designates the day for special consideration. All are invited.
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Society For the Prevention of Tuberculosis
Douglas
Friends Church
Quickest Run of the Ex press Pony
The first pony express run took ten days and was celebrated by citizens though unprofitable. It persisted until the 1861 telegraph completion eighteen months later, driven by hope of mail contracts. Lincoln’s inaugural message sped seven days and seventeen hours from St. Joseph to Sacramento, rider W. J. Cates recalling the rush.
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Pony Express
Abraham Lincoln
St. Joe
Sacramento
W. J. Cates
Denver
Mr. Cates
Lincoln
Arthur Chapman
Pacific Monthly
Graphic and Weekly Oregonian Subscription Rates
The Graphic and Weekly Oregonian costs 2.25 per year and the Graphic and Semi-Weekly Journal is 2.00 per year.
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Graphic
Oregonian
Journal
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Collegiate Debating League of Oregon
Grover C. Bircher
Albany
Carroll H. Woody
Victor Rees
Mildred Courtney
Wm. Courtney
Chehalem Mountain
Hillsboro
Rosco Ellis
Enos Ellis
Kruger Farm
Reagan
Kelsey
Whitten
H. H. Lincoln
Allen
Katherine Romig
Nadine Bryan
Gwendolen Stannard
Maude Gregory
May Whitten
Russell Parker
M. Ricker
Prof. Reagan
M. Lyons
S. P. Timberlake
William Kelsey
George Morris
Nelson J. Sykes
Paul V. Maris
Chester Campbell
C. J. Hoskins
George, Maude
Gladys Allison
E.S. Nelson
O. Winslow
Parker Farm
Earl Jones
The
State University
Willis Townsend
Newberg Transfer Co
F. A. Elliotts
Salem
B. R. Horton
Minnesota
George Howland
Kenneth Rolland
D. J
Jennie M. Klock
F. C. Stannard
Rose Lawn
Kenneth
Newberg’s
J.J. Woods
Imperial Hotel
Roy C. Slocum
R. T. Brookings
A. G. Harrison
C. C. Clark
B. Baughman
N. J. Blagen
R. M. Cramer
T. Ernest Oates
L. W. Martin
J. Eberhard
Earl E. Gallager
H. Kelly
F. Hughes
H. J. McDevitt
C. R
A. Dixon
C. A. Murphy
Seattle
A. M. Morris
City
H. Herring
H. Campbell
W. C. Campbell
Roy Herst
H. Scully
Bell
L. A. Wells
J.C. Donovan
M. Lavenson
A. H. Harris
A. K. Holmes
F. H. Caldwell
F. H. Caldwell & Co
Lynn B. Ferguson
Rita
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