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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1911
Page
5
Community gossip notes frequent travelers and visitors in Newberg Oregon including births deaths and health concerns. Jesse Edwards spent the week in Southern Oregon while Mrs Hoffnell welcomed a daughter born February 6. Residents and visitors from McMinnville Salem Goldendale and Grants Pass pass along news of kin health and business.
Newberg residents visit Portland and Salem while relatives travel from McMinnville to Benton County. Asa Kelsey undergoes bladder surgery at St. Vincent hospital in Portland and Mrs. Kelsey remains in poor health. A Newberg committee visits county court seeking a berg to be built by Yamhill and Marion counties with viewers appointed for site assessment.
The Friends church holds its quarterly meeting with the first session Friday afternoon. The program lists a Friday ministry and oversight meeting, followed by further sessions and agendas.
Residents in Chehalem Valley report increased planting of walnuts and fruit trees amid improvements in fruit growing conditions. Local residents like Amoth Bros and John A. Smith plan extensive plantings while surveyors map land on the Hess place for walnuts and prunes.
A Kansas reader reports a salt method as a cure for pear tree blight. He says applying salt around the trunks before sap rise and periodically through the year, totaling at least a pint annually, saved his trees after many died or declined. He notes the approach stopped blight on limbs for five years.
The pastor leads the fifth evangelistic series in Newberg at Christian Tabernacle Lord's Day 5otto 12th nightly. Mrs Charles L Thornton directs the song service and preaching is by the pastor. Previous revivals yielded a net average gain of forty one members, many converts from these meetings. Time 330 p.m. All are cordially invited.
Last Thursday afternoon Shiloh W R C No 28 members were hosted by Mrs. Isabelle Lane and Mrs. Hattie E. Aldrich at Aldrich home on River Street. Dainty refreshments and musical entertainment by Mrs. W. Vestal and Mrs. H. P. Harger delighted guests. Attendees included Frances Woodruff, M. B. Byers, A. L. Poe, Mary E. C. Scott, Clara Patterson, Mary A. Douglas, Jennie M. Klock, R. J. Allen, Lizzie Young, J. H. Will, Jamima Randall, Sarah Wentz, Mary A. Hollingsworth, Nancy A. Dixon, H. P. Harger, Lethe Ames, T. M. Akeyson, Wm. Clemmens, W. E. Way, Margaret Thomas, W. Vestal, James Comic, Aongs J. INGLE, Press Cor.
Mrs Matilda LarRowe Hodgson died Sunday at 1 am at the home of S T Jones from pneumonia. Born in Grayson county Virginia on March 8 1824 she was nearly 87. She moved to Indiana at age twelve and married Richard Hodgson in 1844. In 1854 she went to Iowa and later settled at Newberg Oregon in 1889. Five years ago she ...
The obituary notes she was mother of two daughters and one son A Hodgson of this place who survives her She was a lifelong member of the Friends church and her life was a beautiful one The funeral was held from the residence Monday morning Rev C F Clapp officiating Washougal Wash Sun
A letter thanks White and Nichols traveling passenger agent for a box of apples praised as the finest. The writer notes apples grown without irrigation, plans to showcase them, and mentions potential travel to Oregon and Portland with spring or early summer plans and an upcoming Pacific coast special rate.
The annual Midwinter Number showcases over 200 pages with sixty illustrated pages and color plates. The issue highlights Southern California and the Southwest with photos, cartoons, and regionally themed content, arriving Jan 12 after the Times plant was destroyed by dynamite and fire.
Dr. Joseph Schafer of the University of Oregon forecasts ten year population booms similar to Illinois and Iowa as settlers seek cheap land. Pendleton promotes its Round-Up with a new race track grandstands. Oregon Rail plans double tracking Echo to Portland, boosting state transit. Pacific Northwest colonist rates to the coast run March 10 to April 10 from Missouri Terminals.
Friends and relatives gathered at their River Street home February 4 to mark the twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Guests presented numerous silver pieces and other gifts, a bountiful luncheon was served, and all left wishing the couple many more happy years.
The Dr Harrold property at the corner of First and Edwards streets was sold to Ernest Eckerson, brother of F D Eckerson, who arrived in Newberg with his daughter to occupy the residence. C J Edwards spent the week in Salem on business.
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