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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1891
Page
3
Local Newberg items report Rural Home lots selling fast with only two improved plots left. Residents come and go for weddings, church events, farming trades, and street chatter as community life continues amid marriage announcements and road improvements.
A fragmented note suggests an item about a piano course instruction in Oregon. Mentions CMNY and a practical turn or method, with references to New York and the 11C committee context. Details are unclear but indicate an educational or instructional subject.
The town reports the death of Harry English aged 1d from lung fever last night. The seminary starts its third term with many new students. Local moves include Ferguson and Olds accepting a ten month haulage contract in Portland, Joe Hustin place sold to Dr. Allen, Kay from Albina planning a spring build, and Churchiman moving to Sheridan to attend medical college. A dance occurs, minor injuries reported, Senator Gates returns from the capital, Miss Mabel McCain ill with meningitis, and Pennoyer views questioned amid local politics. La Fayette forms a board of trade and expands corporate lines.
Here is your chance 160 acres divided into sixteen 10 acre tracts five miles from Newberg on the way to Portland within two miles of Smockville. About sixty acres cleared. Elevated level well watered by spring and running creek. Panoramic Willamette Valley Cas cade Range views at a glance. Tracts sold from 2 per acre with easy terms down balance 1 2 5 or 4 years at 7 percent discounts.
Bids requested for hauling 2000 cords of wood. Contact Wright's real estate office or the Graphic office Newberg Ure for terms.
An enormous Tulare county tree, 1 mile in circumference and 120 feet tall, will be cut in sections and moved to Chicago for the World’s Fair. A 32 couple dancing platform will be built on a section while heavier limbs are similarly prepared. The work uses scaffolding and machinery to keep sections unbroken, costing about $50,000.
A tirade condemns penny pinching on farms, arguing against keeping hogs in pens and using unsharpened plows, impractical stock, and overworked horses. It urges humane management, profitable stock, and balanced labor to avoid wasteful cuts that hurt yields and well being.
Morats Mires & Co announce a public sale of a large stock of men's boots and shoes plus rubbers and accessories. The goods came from a Washington merchant, were seized by the sheriff after a failed business, and sold to the highest bidder. The sale runs thirty days in the New trick Bank building with prices never before seen.
Advert reads that System Builder is popular at C F Moore & Co drug store for catarrh of the stomach dyspepsia constipation and impure blood while credited with building up the system and praised by many users.
In cutarrh and other ailments a single preparation promises cure, the California Positive and Negative Electric Liniment sold by C F Moore & Co Tralee claims to ease neuralgia rheumatic headache sprains horns and related pains. Try it and tell neighbors where to get it.
Truckloads of seeds observed on Saturday proved to be from D. M. Ferry & Co of Detroit. Northwestern agents F. L. Posson & Son in Portland have already sold over three carloads of vegetable seeds this season. The firm offers their catalogue on request.
The Newberg W C T U purchased a large portrait of Frances Willard for the Academy building. Members met Saturday to discuss dress reform, Christmas tree plans, and health topics while sharing notes on English tea etiquette and social customs.
The guide instructs starting with a soft sketch in lead or charcoal, then laying in the general effect with burnt sienna and black thinned with turpentine, leaving lights bare. Drying precedes final painting. For a background, an old stone wall look suits many florals and some animals, with shadows behind objects enhancing depth. A suggested palette includes white, yellow ochre, a triple-nine blue, ivory black, raw umber and burnt sienna.
Tax payers are warned taxes for 1800 are due. Sheriff or deputy will be at West Chehalem on Monday Feb 2, at Newberg Thestay on Tuesday Feb 3, and at Dundee on Thursday Feb 5 to collect. W L Warinen Sheriff urges prompt settlement of taxes.
A claim that among 1597 cough syrups manufactured in the U S one is completely free of opiates. California Positive and Negative Electric Cough Cure is touted as superior for coughs colds croap and similar ailments. Sold by C F Moore & Co.
Information on rates times routes and other details is available from any agent for the dining car route with vestibulated trains operating daily to St Paul and Chicago.
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