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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1919
Page
4
The notice indicates Newberg Graphic is published every Thursday morning with address lines for Moe Graphic Building and post office details. It notes second class matter status at the Newberg Oregon post office.
Due to weather delays and rainfall records the paper postpones three soldiers letters and an additional letter from Mrs K Hawley Jackson written en route to India.
The passing of Governor James Withycombe marks the end of an era for Oregon. He was a steadfast champion of the state and its endless possibilities as a home for industrious citizens.
The Newberg Band and its organizers gain strong community backing. The Graphic pledges free publicity to assist the group’s good work and outreach efforts.
The Graphic notes broad public support for President Wilson and a push to influence the Senate. It observes voters back home are sizing up the League of Nations issue while keeping a wary ear to political winds.
The Carlton Sentinel notes the last week of winter stays wet while a lark nearby continues its cheerful song. The piece wonders if someone has captured the bird’s music with words, recalling Gerst the bird man who would have heard lark tunes recently.
The Graphic notes that the governor will shape state interests despite past campaign actions and political affiliations. It acknowledges some inconsistencies in self designation as a Republican but predicts his governance will benefit the state as he views it.
Senator Wesley L. Jones condemns sporadic resistance to constitutional prohibition. He cites a New York newspaper’s columns as discrediting the Constitution and inciting rebellion. He recalls the Whisky Insurrection of 1794 and urges loyalty to the majority’s will in the law now governing liquor.
A community exchange notes the loss of a local citizen who sang first bass in the choir. The observer asks if a good bass can be missed as much as this departure implies, reflecting on the impact of a valued performer on communal life.
Corvallis Gazette notes a steamship drifted eight days at sea with the crew sick in influenza. A reader asks how exposure occurred and whether waves reveal the source, challenging the idea that quarantine can avert flu.
Sheridan Sun warns that killing has become a pastime for an anarchistic element bent on exterminating humanity. The piece cites a blood lust and Godless state as intolerable and suggests a second universal flood may be needed to cleanse the earth and restore safety symbolized by the olive branch.
A cautious businessman discusses his reluctance to share details with reporters, preferring to circulate thoughts among friends. The Telephone Register notes this as self protection, not a confirmed statement.
The state Senate passed a measure preventing a candidate who loses a primary in one party from accepting a nomination from another party. Alec La Follett, defeated in the Republican primary for state senate, then sought the Democratic nomination. The bill passed the Senate by a large margin.
Hood River Glacier lauds William Howard Taft for promoting a league to enforce peace. The ex president’s advocacy, begun in Portland in 1915, is presented as non political and aimed at the American people.
The Ministerial Association voted to fixed monthly meetings on the third Monday evening at 8 oclock in the Presbyterian office starting April 21. Pastors will discuss Vacation Bible School with Sunday school superintendents and report in April. Moral conditions in Newberg were reviewed. All gospel ministers are invited and asked to reserve the date.
Yale University has acquired the Noah Webster house in New Haven, a building tied to the lexicographer's early dictionary work and later used by the Student Army Training Corps during World War I. The Grove and Temple streets corner home was once Courtland T. Huntington’s property.
Frederick W. Van derblit of New York City, a 1876 graduate, is expected to donate the remaining dormitories for the SheMeld Scientific school cluster bounded by Wall Temple Grove and College streets. This follows two large dormitories already provided by him.
The writer recalls light moments from war life including a gunner in a Prince Isaac coat pushing a potato filled baby carriage and dynamite, laughing at the absurdity of cooties and lace under strain. A Austrian shell paperweight and painted scenery decorate the camp table as relief from danger.
Canadian papers discuss Japanese involvement across Siberia's maritime provinces. Agents of Japanese firms seek to buy mines flour mills brickworks sawmills and other industrial assets while expanding trade reach. Firms based largely in Vladivostok enlarge operations and scout for scrap iron hides wool bristles beans and similar Siberian and Manchurian goods.
A six foot four inch Texas rancher Charlea Noyes will be honored next spring with a bronze statue of him and his horse by Pompeo Coppini. The sculpture portrays Noyes as he lived, the horse at sixteen hands, to memorialize a fatal range accident near Melvin three years ago. Coppini also works on Chicago's heroes monument.
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