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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1892
Page
2
The issue notes a legal holiday proclaimed by Gov. Pexxoven for Oct. 21, remarks on saloon licenses in Portland, prison conditions, and a missing Yam Hill county resident in California. It praises the Portland exposition's success, especially horticultural and mineral displays and Reeves' American band for top quality morning music.
A 19th century editorial praises Pacific Northwest prunes as superior to common varieties and calls for a two cent tariff to shield domestic growers. With rising population, authors foresee demand swelling and California now underproducing, predicting Oregon and Washington could supply half the U S prune consumption in ten years needing up to 60 million pounds.
The record notes ample room for growth in the prone business sector across the Northwest with no need for overbuilding. It highlights potential expansion while signaling measured development to avoid saturation.
The Wind River rises in Washington near Mt Adama and flows into the Columbia about five miles above the Cascades. The Columbia cuts the Cascade range forming towering cliffs and spray filled canyons. Multnomah Falls exceeds eight hundred feet. Oneonta Gorge is six miles long and 100 feet wide at its widest point. The valley around Wind River is sparsely settled with timber and ranching prospects. The land is clay loam with dense vine maple and fir forests, and winters bring heavy snow while summers run cooler than the Willamette Valley. The creek’s name reflects a rushing whistle heard at a foggy storm. The writer touts timber value, open land, and future settlement potential along the Columbia corridor.
Alden Times reports a controversial wedding between Olmstead, age sixty five, and Emma Rule, about nineteen, performed by a Eldora Presbyterian minister amid cheers and boos. The Williams Reporter notes Olmstead had followed a previous wife to the grave forty days earlier, and that his new bride is his late wife’s daughter. A mortgage sale of Olmstead’s chattels is planned. critics demand a more appropriate ceremony and condemn the union as a travesty on marriage.
A fragmentary reflection describes Livour as a quiet unpretentious place where loneliness and desolation feel vast. The narrator laments the lack of purpose and the wind battered landscape that conveys a sense of remote, bleak atmosphere.
A reflective piece praises humble village life over urban glamour urging contentment in a quiet cottage routine. It extols peaceful twilight, singing babies to sleep, and avoiding city temptations to keep a clean heart and pure soul away from restless modern life.
Fire discovered in the rear of the McMinnville hotel caused 9185 in goods and 582.59 in the building damage, both insured for 59 each. Also reported counterfeit two bit pieces in circulation near North Yamhill and a heated new schoolhouse test successful. Other items include mortgage for 250000 secured by Portland and Yamhill railway, steamer Elwood aground on Weston bar and unloading wheat, local notices on farming dinners, and Amity council approving graveling funds.
Jos Dempsy of Polk County took the premium for best corn at the State Fair. The corn was described as the old Missouri kind, so infinitesimally specky that a microscope was needed to see the premium. The State Fair funds aided Portland horse jockeys from starving.
John and Wm Palmer unearthed large mastodon remains on their marshy southern field over ten days. Skeleton parts, including a back tooth weighing 24 pounds, suggest a group death and partial mire burial. The discovery, notable for size, draws attention to the nearby exhibit at Peery's real estate office.
Oregon prepares for the Portland Industrial Exposition running September 21 to October 22, touted as the best Pacific Coast event. Highlights include the American Band of Providence, a £350,000 art collection, extensive horticultural and agricultural displays, a large mineral exhibit, a major stock department, electrical displays from Thomson Houston and Edison, and government models of ships.
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