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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
3
All ladies oxford shoes 50c off per pair. Lawns batiste organdy summer dress goods 10c and 24c per yard. Linen crash toweling 8c per yard. Table linen pure linen 65c per yard. Table linen white 25c per yard. Limited stock advertised at local shop.
Wm Allan of the Allan Fruit Co visits Dundee on Sunday. Typhoid pneumonia brings slight improvement for Frank Gibbons. Miss Helen McHatch of Palo Alto visits Otterbrook. Families attend Thomas Brown funeral in Willamina. W A Sanderson returns from Portland. wife ill with rheumatism expected home soon. W C T U flower mission day held at John Parrett’s home with an extensive program. Fred Jannsen travels to Dayton for uncle Edward Tate’s death from blood poisoning. Notable guests from Portland Long Beach and New York visit Otterbrook. Grandfather F T Keyes visited by Frances Wall and Evelina Etzweiler. The vacant building opposite Waggoner-Little real estate office to be repurposed as a hotel. Fisher Bros start a prune diner for Graeper and Jones. Dundee hosts a large school picnic and ball game between boys and married men. men win. Lee Eddens hosts Dundee school pupils with an evening of music and games. Mrs Elwin S Greer visits Portland. Local roads crews haul gravel for county road upgrades toward East Drier. Keyes’s second team aids in absence of Jansen. Road workers boast about improvements across Old Yamhill.
A late 19th century caricature lists famous authors and composers as notably fat. Napoleon, Boswell, Balzac, Rossini, Jules, Labaoa, Sainte Beuve, Renan and Eugene Sue are described as corpulent or stout, with vivid, humorous phrases about their girth and physical impressions.
A tale of elephants employed in timber yard labor and stone construction. Descriptions include lifting logs, placing blocks on tea estates, and a Burmese captain’s account of a mother elephant rescuing and disciplining her youngster during sea bathing.
Katie of Ivania is a ten year servant in a wealthy Virginia household. Jacob admires her, watches her deft movements, and finally asks for her hand. She offers herself, and he replies that he was about to propose. The scene unfolds with humorous surrender and mutual intent.
At the observatory of Bridge England a tea party hears Sydney Smith joke about Jupiter and a bad shilling. Conversation turns to Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope to observe southern stars and the idea of changing stars and air when ill.
Lord Dufferin recalled that his happiest years were spent in Calcutta where he enjoyed the sunshine. He joked about official postings, noting Canada and St. Petersburg required harsh furs and hibernation, and India would let him hang out to dry.
By writ of attachment from the Circuit Court of Oregon Yamhill County in Geo. Hoopes vs John Chong or John C Young the sheriff will sell at public auction on June 17, 1911 at 1 pm the described personal property to satisfy 375 dollars plus interest and costs. Items include cows calves horses plows wire fencing oats sacks guns stoves tables chickens hides and jars. Sale on the HD Hulster farm northwest of Newberg Oregon. Dated June 6 1911. W G Henderson Sheriff of Yamhill County Deputy Rey Henderson
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