Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-09-16
HUBBARD NEWS

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Miss Henrietta Wolfer left for Mon
mouth last Saturday to attend normal
the coming year.
Mrs. Clyde Claggett of Salem came
Wednesday for a visit with her par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Dreher.
Miss Ida Stauffer came to the hos
pital Tuesday and suffers with a
tesial abscess in tine palm of her right
hand.
Monday in town on business connected
with the Bontrager stump puller.
Harry Stebbinger, contractor on the
large bridge over at Wheatland, spent
Sunday in town with friends.
Mrs A. Simmons and Mrs. Carl Sim
mons and daughter, Maxine, returned
to their home in Oregon City Wednes-
day, after a visit at the home of f..
J. Lankins.
The daughter of William Birtchett,
living at Monitor, is home from the
Good Samaritan hospital, arriving
Tuesday after an operation for appen-
dicitis.
Percy Calvert is this week installing
not water heating system for Fred
Scherer at Butteville in hot house to
be used for raising "garden sass, y
which he has found profitable under
this system.
Mrs. A. l.. Hopper and daughter,
Hiss Bessie, returned TO their home in
Portland, called home on account of
a. fn M
through hop picking.
Guy Clement came home last Friday
evening from several months spent in
Eastern Oregon. Referring to the Gle
ment Safety Shoe of which he is pat
entee. he said the indications were that
something of Importance would soon
be done with the shoe.
Rev. J. w. Price OF Monitor, occu-
pied the Congregational pulpit Sunday
evening and gave his sermon to chill
dren. Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Gillis and
daughter, Bertha, and Miss Ruby Me-
Key, all of Monitor, accompanied Mr..
Price.
Mrs. Hannah Hall of Spokane, Wash.
came to Hubbard Tuesday to assist
Mrs. Meinzer at the Hubbard hotel and
that evening fell and severely sprain-
ed her elbow. making 1t necessary for
her to be under the doctor s care.
Last Monday Henry Hopp and Wong
Sam had some words while working i'll
the Bents hop yard at Fargo. A dis
pute over hop picking the cause. the
case was brought before Justice Critt
enden Henry Hopp plead guilty paid
his fine and went back to work.
Tuesday afternoon Geo. Thiel and
family of Oakland, Oregon, came in
their auto to Hubbard to spend few
days with Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Ohme.
Their sons Edward and Berry were in
the party and it is the purpose of Ed
ward to remain with his grandparents
and attend the Hubbard high school.
Homer Beck went to Portland Tues
day morning to see if it was possible
to arrange for shipping a special order
of lumber to Hubbard needed in build
ing the several silos recently sold. rms
is only one of the many places where
car shortage on the S. p. has put
kinl in the affairs of tne valley.
Contractor Welton started the con
struction of Hubbard u sewer last Mon
day. although only few men were
available for the work, Wednesday
two more local men reported and that
morning Mr.. Welton arrived with flVe
of his men from Portland who nave
been with him ON other work, so that
by the time the pipes arrive for lay,
ing it is thought sufficient men will
be on the job to push the work along;
Some of the hop yards west ana
north of Hubbard have paid one cent
a pound to get their crop picked, nearer
Hubbard eighty cents was paid. A
scarcity of piclsers at any price is no
tieable this year for the first time.
Picking evergreen blackberries in many
instances has proven more alluring than
hop picking, A good many mouldy
hops are found, which added to ms
other troubles the grower nas more
than his share-Enterprise