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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1892
Page
3
A sprawling list of ads and notices from Newberg area shops and residents. Barber shops, hardware, furniture, nurseries, brick works, and real estate highlight a bustling town page with auctions, sales, and service ads. Silent on outcomes. notes include train changes, church events, and community announcements.
Forenoon events include a parade from 1039 Grand Street with music by the Band and a welcome by J Sawer and remarks on the Declaration of Independence. Afternoon features a 2 PM boys running races with prizes, sack race, potato race, a baseball game, and music by the Newberg Glee Club and Band.
A church committee adopted Pearson and Tate Des Moines plans for a 50 by 80 foot building seating about 700 in the main auditorium with a 390 seat gallery and 260 in the chapel. Heating will be by basement furnace and ventilation stressed. Foreman may be T B Cummings. land acquisition efforts by Dr Jessop and President Newlin progress well.
Letter describes a voyage previously mentioned and the Vancouver start of a continental trip by train. The writer notes scenery on the Canadian Pacific route surpassing earlier views and mentions boarding times and a sleeper car departing Vancouver in the afternoon. The tone is travelogue style with emphasis on itinerary details and impressions.
A travel diary recounts a cross country journey by train, detailing snow capped peaks in the Selkirks, canyons and passes like Kicking Horse, Glacier House, and Albert Canyon. The narrative covers stops at Medicine Hat Winnipeg and Minneapolis, encounters with Indians and a grizzly, Manitoba capital Winnipeg, and reflections on return to Oregon with memories of friends and home.
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