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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1890
Page
3
Wide ranging items cover Wilsons grocery, orchard plantings, naval and educational topics, and town improvements. Residents from Middleton to Portland are noted visiting, working, or traveling with families and merchants, while school terms and horticulture meetings shape the local calendar.
A local plan for a horticultural society gains momentum as 14 names are collected and more members are expected. Members will gather Saturday to hear Mills and Kees speak on proper distances for setting trees, followed by discussion.
Persons knowing themselves indebted to the oil firm of Austin and Boyse are asked to call and settle at once to save costs.
The notice warns taxpayers in Newberg that the assessment roll is priced for collection and becomes delinquent after December 26, 1890. It also advertises Mrs. Hanson on Main Street closing her millinery stock with bargains and a limited offer of a 14 by 17 portrait with every dozen cabinet photographs at two dollars per dozen. Additional items include remedies and holiday goods from various sellers, including C F Moore Co drug store and grocery-like extracts, with promotional claims and advertisements for Christmas and temperance related items.
An appeal urges shoppers to buy holiday goods locally at P.O. Drug Store noting cheaper distant options waste money. A Dayton area house fire destroys the Henry Heckman place near Day ton. tenant had just left and owner refutes having left any flames. In Oregon a long lived pioneer Win Allen dies aged 95 recalling northwest settlement, river travel, and growth from wilderness to cities and industry.
John B. Nice of Waterford, in charge of WoT Trescott's receiving station, reported deteriorating figures on sturgeon volume. The lower river catch is shipped here before crossing to Portland for processing and interstate shipment at high weekly rates. Five men remain at work.
The report notes a thriving sturgeon trade with three river establishments Trescott Waterford Booth Rainier and Wallace Kalama handling the catch. Prices run around 1 cent per pound to fishermen while Eastern markets quote 5 cents per pound for sturgeon. An estimated 1000 to 1500 tons may reach Eastern markets, marketed under various glamorous names.
The piece warns girls not to borrow brushes or combs for hygiene and social reasons. It recounts scolding older women who refuse loaning toiletries and stresses each person should own a brushed and comb kept in a linen case to protect the dresser and maintain cleanliness.
A reader warns that cigarette packs sold as "twelve for a nickel" are laced with opium and feature enticing prizes. The piece argues smoking leads to the opium habit, endangering boys and tempting children with pictures, prizes, and seductive schemes aimed at farms and shops.
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