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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1910
Page
5
Walter H. Whitten and Henry Chase report Newport and McMinnville trips while Emmet Newby sells a cottage to Mrs. Victoria Hazel tine. Residents visit Portland and Scappoose. births, deaths, and moves mark a busy week with sermons set at the Methodist church.
Yewberg J W Wheeler and wife visited. Jersey sale attended. Mrs W D Belding came from Portland after two weeks with Mrs J H Ingle. C M Cummings, J Evenden and T Kirby will serve as jurymen at Portland May term. J C Keller humor noted. May 10 deadline for dog neckwear. some funeral plans. Rev John F Lyons wed Eggimann brother’s marriage in Oregon City. Dr J B Moore visiting kin. relocation talks for Modesto. Uncle Charley Miller attends Jersey sale. Chase Linton gravel and sand delivery. F C Lofland and wife from Iowa travel Coast. impressed with Oregon. C A Crabtree secures Wallowa church contract. S E B Watkins & Son as architects.
Students gathered for a May Day program despite a rain plan. Faculty skits featured President Kelsey and professors, with Weesner Reagan Brissenden and Hull among performers. A gym luncheon preceded a baseball game, Springbrook beating the college 11 to 13. Interspersed quips and notes conclude the day.
At Monday night’s meeting, 225 citizens won approval for an annual eight tenths mill tax to fund a Carnegie library. An ordinance will be drafted. The council also accepted Portland civil engineer W P Bullick’s proposal for a preliminary city sewer survey and blueprints to inform voters before a sewer proposition vote.
A collection of pithy aphorisms contrasts daily quirks with wit. It jokes about hoodo versus who don’t, skunks, starch in wardrobes, and preferences for runabout wagons over spouses while musing on riches and cosmic ideas and ending with a gag about rain day work.
Historic account describes the first authentic rock tunnel near Jerusalem to bring Gihon spring water to the pool of Siloam, about 900 feet in a complex 1,700 foot long passage dug from both ends about 700 B C. Workers faced no compass and used bronze tools while aligning the shafts by sight.
A Philadelphia hospital ward tale from Lippincott's Magazine recalls a testy millionaire whose doctors face early trouble. The old man boasts about his condition while the physician notes swelling but remains confident. The exchange ends with a quip about swollen legs.
A well known New York man walked through a Long Island village when a young girl asked if he was honest. He hesitated before replying Yes. The child then offered her doll to test him while she tied her shoe, prompting the humorous exchange reported by the New York Globe.
A garbled OCR segment mentions a magistrate and a husband accused of assault, then shifts to a theater crowd scene with lines about acting in a new play and a mob outside the Wall. The piece blends stage dialogue with urban satire and city scraps from London.
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