Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-07-16

is a clean, lively town with paved
streets and good homes. 1t gives
the stranger the impression of thrift
and good citizenship, as he passes
through its city limits. The country
about Corvallis is exceedingly beau.
tiful to look upon. From Corvallis,
the road runs mainly north over the
most beautiful hills towards the
town of Independence, another live
ly town with modern ideas, where
lives another wideawake Vermonter,
Frank Wetnerbee, whom Eugene
loaned to Independence three
yeays ago, for the purpose of evan
gelizing the town commercially.
Frank has discharged the trust i'm
posed upon him; the town has paved
streets, big hotel, and many mod
ern improvements are to be found
everywhere within the city; and
now Frank is soon to return to his
beloved Eugene; and Independence
mourns his departure while Eugene
rejoices over his return. His store
was crowded with shoppers on Sat-
urday when | went in to inquire
the road to McMinnville. Hurried
directions were given and "Betsey"
was speeding away northward. Two
miles out, we passed through Mon
mouth, the home of the State Nor
NAL School, sleepy old town where
every day of the week is Sunday.
Then onward, stili-with her nose
to the north, the car pushed through
RicKreall and Amity to McMinnville,
the county-Seat of Yamhill county.
The road ran through most beau
tiful rolling country, with big
farms on every hand and great
wheat-felds on every farm. Grain
Of all sorts is looking exceedingly
well. Barley is ripening and some
of the wheat has begun to turn"
The late rains are causing the late
sown fields to look we'll and they
promise abundant harvest. Yamhill
county is made up of valleys and
low, smooth hills with an oak grove
on every hill, and often several
groves.
Back, on the higher hills, second
growth frs are growing; and further
back, on the coast mountains is a
growth of fir timber that will as
tonish a dweller Of Vermont for the
height and diameter of the trees.
Trees twelve feet through, and $50
feet high, or even more than that,
. are not uncommon. The valley of
Willamette here is very large, and
a more beautiful country it will be
hard to find. The valley varies in
width greatly, in various places,
from to 60 miles and is about
$50 miles in length, not counting
the valleys of the forks of the
river. That section of the valley
about Independence is probably
l the largest hop-growing section in
! the United States. To Vermont.
er's mind this does not speak loudly
for the moral good sense of the in.
habitants; but this in dustry must
decline with the rise in moral sense
in the state at large. Last Novem
: Der the state put its mark of disap
, proval of the whole booze business
I on the subject of license of the
: liquor traffic, and it will not be Ions
n ere the hop yards will give place t.
;. grain fields, and the dairy business
o will prove more profitable than have
+ hops in the past.
At McMinnville we found clean
lively up-to-date little city of 400,
;, people. Here is located Baptis
college, an up-to-date high schoo
: and good graded school. Evident
: ly the people are a good lot an,
- prosperity is much in evidence
From McMinnvile the road ran still
- north, veering slightly west, througl
:. Carlton and North Yamhill, goo,
= thrifty villages, till we came t
!, Maguire's. Here we received
: Vermont welcome. A talk feast wa
, held until time to rest. Mr.. Me-
: guire since coming to this state, ha
acquired that greatest of blessing
!, a good wife. Mcguire says that sh
), is from Mo-; but evidently he wa
- able to convince her, for he has hel
and he's fortunate. In this countr
it is a common remark that ma