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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1912
Page
5
Portland visitors and local residents are listed in brief notes from Newberg. Names include E. S. Craven, W. J. Stater, Levi M. Gilbert, Edna Forsyth, H. H. Keim, Mrs. Stuart, B. A. Shaver, Gus Morris, and many others visiting family, churches, and hospitals. Also reported are railway franchise actions, construction updates, a marriage, and a library benefit with postevent surplus.
Roe Robison attends the closing week of the Farmers Short Course at the Oregon Agricultural College. Miss Bertha Reed vacations at Greenwood Otterbrook Orchard home. Dundee Fruit Growers discuss spraying. Reinhart Groth builds near Groth hardware. Cemetery hill orchard sold. new owners plan three houses on the acreage. Grandpa Keyes, visiting his daughters, attends dances at eighty one. Red Hills ladies host event. Miss Ruth Hinshaw joins as a new student. May Jenkins visits Rex. temperance address by Mrs. Bessie Laythe Scovell. Faculty rest room gains a rug with auxiliary support. Pennington speaks at State C.E. convention in Salem. Debate group forms to study arbitration of labor problems with McMinnville. Four colleges in league this year: Willamette, Albany, McMinnville, Pacific.
Mrs Ethel MaclInirney and her child visit with Mr and Mrs Elmer Walter in Portland. Mr M J Conrad surprised by about thirteen neighborhood families with ten cakes at a social evening. Mrs C H Coates visiting with her parents in Judd. Fernwood youths attend Miss Neva Ritchey birthday party in Newberg. Lillie Schick spends day in Newberg for shopping. Large crowd attends literary society despite rain with a mock trial in which J Guild is acquitted. Brouillette visit Newberg with Boyes. John Groff prepping for planting by clearing land.
Professor Hawkins attended the C E convention in Salem over a weekend. He refereed a basketball game between McMinnville and Chemawa, with McMinnville suffering a heavy defeat. Mrs. O J Sherman of Portland and Mrs. Seth Mills of Newberg visited the college on Friday. Mr. Uriah Cook visited his grandson, Leo B Kyes, last Saturday.
County education news notes two upcoming officer meetings with Governor West speaking, and a Sheridan teachers' evening program by Pacific College on February 24. We learn Willamina begins a one hundred club for perfect spelling, with Prof. Lowe promoting it, and Nos. 24 8 84 and 14 pledge for a School Fair drawing 1200 individual exhibits.
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