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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1916
Page
5
Locals and Personal items list visits and moves across Newberg McMinnville Portland Gladstone and Hilo. Mrs Newhouse and family in Portland while Misa Hazenburg tours relatives. Moon Hoadley wedding reported December 6 1916 near Caldwell Idaho.
Ill Mrs. Kincaid and pneumonia hit children in the Mills family while Dennis Mills works in California orchards. Springbrook eyes electric service from Yamhill Electric Co with twenty homes to gain power by February. Local revivalists Cox return to Portland. Community event features music, poetry, readings, and a busy calendar with plans for January.
Billy Allison married W E Allison and Mrs J I Brander Wednesday evening at the M E parsonage by Rev R E Myers. The bride, of Scotch birth, has been keeping house for Mr Allison for some time. Her brother J Shearer and his wife attended the ceremony.
Mrs C G Jacobson and June return from Portland visit. Mrs C L Johnson visits M P Johanson and family. Forest Staley and Frank Johnson return from Alberta for holidays. Victor Hendrickson visits sister Rosalie in Portland. News of birth of son to Mr and Mrs W L Quinn. Omar W Hodges and Robt Hodges visit from West Chehalem. Rollin Armstrong preaches at Salem church with friends. Christmas program planned for Saturday evening at the school. W C T U meeting with Mrs Mary Johnson presiding. subscriptions to The Young Crusader and Scientific Instruction Manual approved. P T A meeting includes singing America, reading Who Owns the Farm, and Hilma Hendrickson piano numbers.
Donald McLeod visits W A Parrish home while W A Parrish returns after illness. Fernwood Christmas exercises set for Sunday at the gymnasium with a pie social last night raising about nine dollars. Gill and Arthur Parrish led a lively program as the Fernwood team entertained.
Ralph Olmstead is visiting in Iowa. Miss Agnes Leslie spent the weekend in Portland. Clark Noble of Portland spent Sunday in the Red Hills. A boy arrived at the home of Mr and Mrs W J Bennett on Monday. Miss Gussie Crawford will spend the holidays with her sister Miss Ella Crawford in Seattle. Wm S Allan spent four days in Portland last week attending the Convention of County Commissioners. Mrs M F Lenox of Minneapolis, en route to Pasadena for the winter, is guest of Mr and Mrs G A Dearborn.
Mrs. Anna Sallee called on Mrs. Boyd Friday. Chas Sallee carried a veal to town Monday. Artisan hall expansion and new floor progress. Mrs. Sleeper of Mountain Top visited on the Ridge Wednesday. Mrs. Sarah Grover is poorly with rheumatism this winter. No Industrial Club this week though it does good work. Susie Evans helps Mrs. Frank Rowland. Ethel Evans is at McMinnville. Ribbon Ridge hens plan a mass meeting to boycott the Portland housewives over egg prices.
The text mentions continued price drops and a 75 percent rise in feeding costs for hens this winter. Mr. Deach is busy preparing schoolchildren for a Christmas program on Friday afternoon. Railway workers attended a basket social at Lake View Friday night and reported a fine time. Delmas Hertig returned home from a brief coastal visit, noting the region is not very lively.
A talkative man and a solemn listener debate money’s many names while a bold line about Mexico's sovereign authority surfaces in the Birmingham Age-Herald. the speaker hints at a stance on Villa or Carranza as a point of reference.
The article notes Thomas A Edison favors Wilson's re election, linking his support to a preference for things that switch on and off. It also mentions a faulty memory claim about a corrected Sharp I owe everything to my wife.
A historical note estimates 850 million tons of dust moved annually in a region, equating to about 1.44 billion miles of transport. Dust plumes travel roughly 218 miles on average, indicating large scale regional dust movement and associated transport effects.
A Cleveland business owner laments his son’s lack of aggression and prospects, recalling failed expectations and questioning the younger man’s drive. The exchange reveals familial frustration and concern over future success.
A fragment describes a student missing class or company as friends play a joke by sending a telegram wishing him well. He replies that he cannot get rid of the old folks, implying he is staying with family or obligations.
The diary entry from Columbus on November 20, 1492 records the first tobacco reference. The weed spread to the Spanish peninsula, then in 1560 Jean Nicot sent it to France inspiring the genus name Nicotiana. It likely reached England around 1586 via Lane’s colonists.
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