Unusual Community Activity Amid Harvest Season Changes
A quiet community buzzes with the hop season closing prune time and many happenings. Visitors from The Dalles and Portland arrive to assist harvests while new electric lights, grocery wagons, and a steam-dipper arrive at local sites. Families and neighbors share visits and attend millinery openings as the Neighborhood Circle schedules its next meeting for October 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dundee Fruit and Walnut Co
Red Hill
Otterbrook
Don ts for Poultrymen
Practical guidelines from Lillian Blanchard advise poultry caretakers to prevent vermin, keep chicks warm, provide balanced rations and ample greens, practice timely culling, avoid spoiled grain, disallow late hatchings for seasonal layers, and manage flock ratios. Emphasizes diligent care and hard work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Blanchard
Doctor Reveals Fee Amid Smith Boy Case
A scrubwoman nudges the doctor about his lucrative fee from tending the rich Smith boy. The doctor confirms a good fee and the worker recalls Willie threw the brick that hit him.
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Willie
Real Estate Transfers Highlight Local Property Moves
A compilation of transfers shows Robert Bell to Emma Bell for Edwards additions lots 15 and 16. Brouillette and Held interests in Edwards additions and other parcels. Martha Chapman trustee sale of 136 acres plus a 20 foot strip. several 1 dollar and minor price transfers across Newberg and Deskin’s additions. larger parcels include 140 acres to Palmer and 88 acres to Arthur McPhillips with varied dists and dletp references. multiple buyers including Stine, Laughlin, and Atkinson involved.
Marriages Shown Between Listed Couples
Elsa Wasson age 23 wed Edward C. Henry age 25. Augusta Maritz age 38 wed George Gutbrod age 48.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsa Wasson
Edward C. Henry
Augusta Maritz
George Gutbrod
The Feminine Throw
Two girls share tea when a suitor passes. One proclaims she and Jack will wed Easter week. The other teases that she thought the engagement was broken, only for the first to admit she had thrown Jack but a girl can throw.
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Jack
Notable Quote on Happiness and Living Within Means
A witty aphorism urges contentment and prudence, suggesting joy comes from living within one’s resources even when borrowing is involved. The speaker attributes the line to Artemus Ward, framing a practical philosophy with humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artemus Ward
Aristocratic bovines bought by J. J. Hill
John C. Shaw reports from Europe on purchases for James J. Hill including twenty eight shorthorns twelve Ayrshires and a two thousand dollar bull. He travels to Aberdeen Scotland to fetch Angus cattle then to Holland and France for Holsteins and dairy stock. Shaw, former head of Guelph college and author of fifteen works, is praised as a premier American agriculturalist.
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John C. Shaw
Thomas Shaw
Europe
James J. Hill
Mr. Hill
England
Shaw
Holland
France
Agricultural
Guelph
Ontario
University of Minnesota
America
Breaking It Gently In The Evening
The Kinterbys guests hear a quiet patter from the stairs as their children deliver a bedtime message. Mrs. Kinterby reflects on reverence and the children’s near-creators, then a shrill voice reports Willie found a bed bug.
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Willie
Agin the Recall Speech Echoes in Courtroom Chat
A dialogue frames recall of judges with a judge’s remark, "I recall that face. Sixty days." The speakers express firm opposition to judge recalls, reflecting on past court appearances and stance on accountability.
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Mike
Pat
Twins dispute ends with black eye
A mother questions a confrontation between twins as the wounded party describes the assault by pointing to the twin with a black eye. No other details are provided.
Notice of Executors in Yamhill County Oregon
The undersigned have been duly appointed executors of the last will of John C. Clemenson, deceased, by the County Court of Yamhill County Oregon. They qualified and request all interested parties to present claims within six months at the office of Butt in Newborn, Yamhill.
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John C. Clemenson
Yamhill County
Oregon
Butt
Newborn
Yamhill Senne
Wis Ceonelemenson
Eutor
Azanyirix
Clarsace Butt
Aesseney
Military Marvel at Petersburg Mine Blast of 1864
Telling of the July 30 1864 explosion beneath Petersburg by Col Pleasants of Forty eighth Pennsylvania and troops from coal regions. The 12 000 pound blast created a crater that decimated Union assault forces while Confederate defenders regrouped and held the line.
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Grant
Lee
Petersburg
Pleasants
Forty
Isylvania
Keystone
E Fort
T. B. Gregory
New York American
The Snake and the Umbrella Tale
A truthful man recounts a snake story about a napper with a umbrella. Rain starts, the man wakens and opens the umbrella finding a black snake inside that had swallowed the umbrella except the handle, then the man halves the snake.
Clever remark on wives and geology turns to astronomy
A London Express quip describes a clever woman whose husband jokes that if she studies geology and fills the house with stones he cannot sit. He adds a playful pivot suggesting astronomy as a better fit since she cannot collect celestial specimens.
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London Express
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W. W. Hollingsworth & Son
Clark Noble
F. E. Nelson
Portland
Red Hills
Cornelia J. Spencer
Glenfell
William Riefenberg
Theodore W. Spencer
Fred Herring
Anna L. Christopher
Dundee
Newberg
Miss White
Eva J. Christie
Tuckwillow
Hart Robison
Mrs. Robison
Robert Bell
Emma Belliots
Edwards
Nelson
Brouillette
Christ
Catherine
Edward's
Martha Lenora Chapman
J L Murdock
Elisha Bedwell
Mary Jane Conrad
Nelson D
Fannie A Brouillette
Samuel D Snowden
Cook
Cora C Laughlin
Newby
Fred Crawford
Belle McCamey
Deskin
Lottie Crawford
Nathan
Milton A
Bertha
Palmer
Francis Holdridge
Joe Ehrhart
Stine
Longview
John Enary
D M Kirby
Samantha
Ranna Atkinson
H G Funk
Sheridan Loganberry Co
Johannes Halblaub
Leroy Smith
Christ Field & Wffe
Mary Jane Conrads
Vesta Hollingsworth
Lancefield & Wt
Arthur McPhillips
Lancefield
Belle
S McCamey
Fréd Crawford
Warren Chas McIntire
H E
Bulah Walter
Sam’l
L Parrett & Wf
Geo B Lyle
Geo C Ritchey & Wf
Ranna E Atkinson
J. J. Hill
Agin
United States National Bank
Oregonian
Mire
C.F
Kitty Plummer Gray
Robt. Tate
Oregon Mothers’ Congress
Pepe
Wm. del
Ward Wisecarver
Frank Wortman
Lula Bigelow
Washington, D. C
Duncan
Ida Mae Smith
E. H. Woodward
Newberg, Oregon
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