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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1919
Page
2
Lee Van Osdel finishes planting 14 acres of prune trees while Chas Sallee and Fred Williams prepare 17 acres of beans. Neighbors from Lake County and Newport visit. Portland guests include Mrs. M. Sleeper and family. Public notices mention a letter about funds and community chatter.
The town newspaper announces a graphic and sneak peek feature highlighting upcoming local stories. Readers are invited to subscribe to the illustrated digest for early access to happenings around the community.
The Fernwood column notes several visits among residents including Miss Della Parrish returning to Portland area schools and Grover Livengood coming home from Portland. A plant of social calls is listed with the Gill and Ross families plus Emory Jones relocation to Portland for steel yard work. A May 20 clean-up day at Fernwood cemetery is announced and a large family reunion at the M. Parrish home is described with attendees from Newberg Wasco and Eastern Oregon.
Morning workers gathered at Dundee Memorial Park to clear a road west of the park. By afternoon the area was ready for team work, with stumps blazed and rails hauled for wood. A midday picnic featured a talk on the park origin and a letter from Benjamin Craven of the American Expeditionary Forces. Attendees included Mrs. Tuttle Mrs. Olmsted G H Nelson and many local residents.
Mabel Jones visited P for Mother’s Day at the church. Prof Shambaugh will be with us at the church on three Mondays. Mr and Mrs Van Osdal spent the weekend in McMinnville visiting former’s parents. The school baseball team lost a close 4 3 game to the Boy Scouts at Newberg and will play a third game this afternoon at the school house. A school picnic is planned at the District No 10 school house next Saturday with a basket dinner at noon and a ball game and other sports in the afternoon. County officers visited the local society Sunday evening. the party included Misses Deford Wiley Cowgill and Johnson and two Haworth boys.
Mrs. Marie Tangen returns from Tacoma and Seattle while Ruth Meyer visits before returning to Portland. Local families host gatherings as the Parent-Teacher Association schedules its meeting next Monday. The school baseball team debates a game against married ladies and eighth grade graduates are to be addressed by Sept. Duncan. Teachers Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Martin receive pay raises for the next year amid flu disruptions and overall term success.
Miss Cayenne dismisses a suitor who careers through time and space, saying she cannot endure a man who travels between here and Baltimore, preferring stability over constant roaming.
The opening at 10 a m featured song and prayer led by K H Sickafoose and a sermon by D Lloyd Morgan of McMinnville. Reports from Yamhill County Churches dominated the afternoon with C F Swander of Portland presenting on Oregon Missions. Marl Childers of Albany delivered a masterly sermon on Fundamentals of the Christian Religion at night. M Kendall of McMinnville was reelected president and B L Hicks of Newberg vice president.
St Dunstan's allotment holders are praised for cheerful work and sport. E Clarke of Edwinstowe wins first prize for best potatoes and carrots at a local show. A blind allotment holder remarks he can work after dark without haste, unlike sighted neighbors.
A vaudeville bill features Phenoma lifting a man over 360 pounds while weighing 99 pounds and performing in aisles with stocking feet. The act is joined by Billie Watson singing and telling kid tales, Kelley and Mayfield in a short sketch, a seven reel program of motion pictures including Dorothy Phillips drama, and Harold Loy in a new comedy.
The Potsdam fortress Sans-Souci, famed for French elegance Voltaire ties and German satire, once bright under Frederick the Great, wanes as the Hohenzollern era ends. The Kaiser’s twilight marks a farewell to this regal, troubled seat.
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