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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1892
Page
2
A frayed, humorous verse on autumn frost and farm life appears beside notes on Naxcy Hanks as turf queen and a local business filing. The Farmers Journal Publishing Co filed incorporation papers, planning a Portland state organ for the Peoples party.
The Dalles appoints M W Sorri as superintendent and wife as matron of the reform school while Rev. W C Chattin becomes teacher. Lb N Gillbert resigns. Oswego appears favored for the government gun factory in the northwest, a move expected to bring great benefits to Oswego and nearby areas.
A recent publisher notes only eight counties have paid the state taxes owed with Vauhill among them. Washington officials who ended the Louisiana lottery aim to ban the Louisiana prize fight as three bouts of slugging are planned in New Orleans within thirty days.
Editor Patterson faces a rough fight as his paper hits the scene amid a dusty rivalry east of the Laacades. The long creek lagle era brings sharp competition and the editor's ire over the grind for fame and money in the local press.
A restless mix of local figures and reforms includes Jepp Bowman in Foasil Oregon cattle trade history, horse racing prize incentives revival, and crackdowns on alien hop pickers from British Columbia. Warnings about cholera and the Columbian Exposition mix with tax reform cries, hedge fence debates, and navy ship redeployments.
Multnomah County court records show 616 marriage licenses issued last year and 220 divorces granted. The century’s civility debates weigh marriage as a social issue prompting discussion among philosophers about its fragile foundation and potential fixes.
The piece highlights essays by De Simms on foreign subjects, a reform call for good municipal government by Richard H. McDonald Jr., and W. L Merry on the Nicaragua Canal finances. It also mentions stories by Mrs Frogeia and Dorothea Lummis, poems and reviews, with Ex-Gov Lionel A. Sheldon contributing discussions of the day. Published in San Francisco, $5.00 a year.
The piece argues Oregon and Washington should mirror California’s quarantine rules for peach trees to stop the spread of peach yellows and borers from eastern shipments. It notes Oregon’s growing nursery trade with California and warns that noncompliance could trigger California to reimpose coastal quarantine, harming Oregon’s industry.
Miss Zoe Laughary Jal Laughary and Lena Davidson arrived from Moscow with Mrs L Laughary joining them to teach local children in Oak Park. Wheat and grain yields are reported for local farms with 46 bushels per acre and 249 acres of grain planted by Wm Wills near Carlton. A court case in Squire Rhodes' court involves F D Hilary vs David Otis over a cow sold on trial. A new Southern Pacific depot is anticipated at LaFayette as passenger traffic increases.
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