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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1921
Page
1
Newberg hosts a friendly three sport tournament with Dayton, featuring pool, billiards, and checkers. Dayton loses narrowly but earns praise for sportsmanship. A boxing bout ends with a KO, and the evening ends with a Dayton welcome display and community cheer.
The electric siren tested by the Enberg Fire Department was formally accepted and adopted as the citys fire signal last Tuesday evening. The old fire bell will be kept for meetings or emergencies only, while the new siren will denote a fire to the public.
The Springbrook Fruit Growers Union met at Springbrook School to map marketing for this season. Haworth presided with 70 acres represented. orders totaled over 7 000 crates and projections reach 10 000 crates. C E Newhouse to market berries, plans a selling trip to Grays Harbor and western Oregon in about two weeks. Picked berries expected by May 25 with cannery talks ongoing amid Rupert Co. status questions.
The Newberg Fire Department is thanked by the college board for fire prevention ideas and prompt response to dormitory roof fire. The Crescent article criticized the fire crew, prompting this note of regret and appreciation from E. H. Woodward and John O. Mills. The Golden Rule store announces a May 21 opening.
A column notes locals praising small ads for value. Albert Clark advertised calves for ten cents and was rewarded with calves. Roy Smith paid eighty cents for a Ford truck ad four times and made a satisfactory trade, refusing a refund. A woman found a lost $50 bill via a classified ad, calling it the best spend.
The second college music recital drew an unusually large audience and showcased seventy pupils enrolled in the department. Vocalists Alma Hansen Alice Ferrell Cleole Harris Eva Miles Lena Frankhauser Royal Gettman Clifton Parrett performed, with violin solos and piano numbers by Cleta Stretch Edna James Mae Waterman Mrs. Perisha Grace Little Dorothy Leffler Lelia Seap Beulah Way and Octavia are.
The Berrians will hold a Tuesday evening meeting at the Commercial Club rooms to form a permanent organization. A Portland visitor praised Newberg publicity plans as members enroll with nominal fees within thirty days. Business leaders and farmers support the effort to boost the town and advertise Newberg statewide.
Miss Cleola Harris and Dalton W Cook wed at 5 30 in a roses arch ceremony officiated by Rev Fred E Carter with Rev Clarkson Hinshaw assisting. The reception followed with a luncheon. guests included Sebrum Harris Mable Harris Gower Weatherly and Haworth family members and friends. They will reside on Wynooski Street.
Dentists from Marion Polk Yamhill County and others gathered in Newberg for a Saturday night banquet hosted by new management at the Imperial Hotel. Dr Van Valin demonstrated artificial plates and a local surgeon reviewed recent oral surgery developments.
The seventh annual meeting of group one of the Oregon Bankers Association gathered in Newberg on May 18 with about eighty bankers from eight counties. L. L. Paget of Seaside was elected chairman and the slate included W. H. Woodworth as vice chairman E. C. Sammons as secretary and G. O. Galloway as treasurer. Discussions covered financing dairy interests and live stock loans with remarks from A C Shute M S Shrock R C Paulus and Frederick Greenwood of the Federal Reserve. The state meeting will be held in Seaside in June.
Rumors of a theater sale ended last week when F. D. Sharp of Woodburn bought both local theatres from Messie Allman and Peabody. Previously Star theatre owner Allman and Baker theatre owner Peabody had joined forces, then sold the business to Sharp.
Mrs. C A Morris hosted a Friday evening party for her niece Mary Elizabeth Balzer. Guests included Florence Lee Emmabel Woodworth Octavia Ware Helen Evans Wallace Larkin Frank Coggins Phillip Hodson Hillis Hanning and Bub Ware as they enjoyed games and refreshments.
The twentieth annual session of the West Willamette Baptist Association meets at a local Baptist church starting Thursday night and continuing Friday. Delegates from Corvallis McMinnville Monmouth Independence Yamhill Carlton Dayton Amity Newberg join speakers from Portland McMinnville College and McMinnville College mission ties for a program of addresses devotions and reports.
The city council met in adjourned session last Monday evening. A bond offered by J D Gordon for sidewalk construction was approved. W R Morris received a permit to move the house at Second and Maine to Fourth and Harrison, now owned by J L Northrup. Councilman Jesper Baes resigned and his resignation was accepted. West Fifth Street property owners seek graveling and action was started.
People from Woodburn say the moving picture man is a live wire and will bring high class cinema to Newberg.
J H Rees writes from Vermilion Grove Illinois May 11 1921 recalling leaving home forty one years ago to seek the Northwest. He describes travel from Oregon Newberg and San Francisco to California New Orleans Evansville and a Christmas Eve arrival. He notes farming life in Vermilion County and visits to Ithaca Cornell University and Washington DC with relatives and notable figures.
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