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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1921
Page
5
Local notes report C M Ryan Prof Alexander Hull and others visiting Portland on Tuesday. The Portland Rose Festival is set for June 8 9 and 10. Footbridge work begins across the canyon from Wynooskie street to the cemetery. Many residents and visitors are mentioned with moves, visits, and illnesses.
Q. M. Kelling left Wednesday for a week long trip to Sheridan Willamina and Tillamook representing the Oregon Monument Works to place monuments at each location.
The college music department holds public recitals on May 6 and May 12 at 7 45 pm. Admission is free and the public is invited. A local note reports correction of a planter count from over 200 prune trees to 1200 on W E White’s ranch. Mrs Mary E Bankson continues to improve after illness with daily sit ups and hopes to go out soon.
Mr and Mrs Galland Mrs Steliheim and E P Dixon and family from Newberg traveled to Dayton on Sunday for a newly started Sunday school. Afr and Mrs Sears on the Portland road hosted a group of friends last week including Mr and Mrs Oliver Evans Mr and Mrs Claude Parsons Mr and Mrs Eli Evans Mr and Mrs Walker and Miss Tessie Gard.
C E Akers and Frank Taylor arrived from Albany on Saturday evening to spend Sunday with relatives, then left for Albany early Monday morning.
Ola Martin of Lad Hill district visited her brother James E. Martin on Wednesday. She then left after noon for Eugene to be with her sister Mrs. G. F. Brent.
The C. E. Akers family plans to relocate to Albany the coming Saturday and will live in quarters within the same building as the Taylor Akers Printing Co.
Ties of Eugene residents extend to Minnesota and Portland as T. N. Plank and daughter Ethel depart for Minnesota after a week with E H Burns. J W Beall and two children visit Mrs Grace Willis. Beall formerly Miss Mary Trieber. The American Legion plans a dance at Legion hall next Saturday April 30 with Nye's five piece orchestra. S W Bagley of Hollister California visits town seeking a small ranch. Bagley formerly worked as a printer in Portland.
J. R. Mitchell a civil engineer with the state highway department based in Newberg for over a year has been moved from McMinnville where he filled in for Perry Whitmore to take over work at Amity. He has not yet moved his family to the county seat.
Fire department was called to the Mrs. M. Kirkley residence on North River Street on Monday but found only a smoking oil stove and no fire.
Dan Atkinson finished planting 250 fruit trees at Springbrook and set two acres to blackcaps this spring. Combined with four acres in bearing, he now manages a sizable berry patch.
Vesta Rebekah Lodge No 76 held an initiation Tuesday evening. A splendid lunch was served by the committee in charge. Delegates elected to the state assembly at Albany were Mina E. Ames and Mrs. F. D. Eckerson.
J L Van Blaricom and wife and Mrs Catherine Van Blaricom and Mrs Emma Weed returned last Friday from Everett Washington Mrs Weed is Mrs Van Blaricom s sister and they visited another brother there J A Gilbertson supervising canyon park work displayed a piece of an old stone mortar found at the park s lily pond likely a relic from Indian days.
J. O. Johnson of Portland bought the plumbing business known as Bill the Plumber from W. W. Heanett. Johnson and his wife have moved to Newberg and will occupy quarters in the same building on First street with the shop. Mrs. Nancy Porter and daughter Edith are visiting in town from Cayuga Indiana seeking health care and may relocate here.
President Harding proclaims the week of May 22 to 28 as Forest Protection Week urging educational programs on preventing wasteful forest fires and conserving natural resources. A West Coast Lumbermen’s Association letter notes Pacific Northwest fir logs yield 17.13 dollars per thousand with a production cost of 25 dollars per thousand, indicating industry strain overall.
In the 1919 agriculture bulletin, Yamhill county ranks third in Oregon berry production, with Marion and Multnomah counties ahead. Yamhill leads in loganberries and raspberries, ranks second overall in loganberries, and holds third in blackberries and fourth in strawberries. The piece notes strong growth from The Berrians and predicts surpassing Multnomah to take second statewide in this industry.
Scott Brebner just back from Thane Alaska visited his uncle N. F. Byers in Portland last Sunday accompanied by his mother Mrs. B. Evans went to Sheridan as a delegate from Vesta Rebekah Lodge to the convention. Evans says the convention will be held in Newberg next year. Fred and Carl Wilcox of Banks were in town Monday to visit cousin Ed Wilcox and head to Salem for a prune growers meeting.
Mr and Mrs Darrell Mendenhall travel with their son and daughter from Chas Clemenson to Palo Alto California by boat after two months at Pierce sanitarium. The family reports ongoing medical care and relocation for treatment.
Mrs. Eleanor Palmer of Portland visited last week with Mrs. H. G. Crocker in the Chehalem Center district. Mrs. Palmer's daughter Mrs. Hammond and her children also visited over Sunday at the Crocker home.
C H Coe formerly with the local telephone company and Co E 18th Engineers dropped by Saturday to visit old friends and salute his pal Pink Evans. Mr Coe is C J Edwards' right hand man and resides in Tillamook.
Gus Grianopulos of Fort Dodge Iowa arrived Thursday seeking a suitable location. He is a candy and ice cream manufacturer who could establish a first class business in Newberg if he locates there.
Joseph C. Smith of Woodward Oklahoma arrived with his wife and four children to the C. D. Childs fruit and poultry ranch two miles north. it is understood Mr Childs will leave a son for Salem.
Jack Curry receives a letter from Harry Perkins detailing a recent auto crash in Arizona. Perkins says his facial muscles recover slowly but overall progress is good. Mr and Mrs R J Herrick, long in Shanghai, arrive in Vancouver aboard the Empress of China. Mrs Herrick is sister of Mrs Oliver Evans and they plan a future visit to Newberg.
Rev Coffée came back Friday evening from Seattle where he attended a Seattle Pacific college board meeting and from Everett Washington where he attended the Washington conference of the Free Methodist church. Harvey Condeaux and wife, formerly from here, arrived Friday from Montana to visit Mr Condeaux’s father who lives nearby.
Mrs. Mary E. Allen of Wenatchee travels to Salem with her son W. G. Allen after visiting her niece in Newberg. Frank Taylor sells his Fifth and Meridian residence to Mamie Crance of Toppenish with possession June 1. Rev. and Mrs. G. E. Kienle host a ninth birthday dinner for Idabell Krohn with family present. Mrs. Maud Perkins of Portland visits Newberg. traces travel through Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona and California en route to Tacoma. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs from Newberg visit Sherwood lodges. Southern Pacific opens a new electric line ticket office in Portland at Fourth and Stark with a rest room and 56 trains daily.
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