Old Sherwood Area
Documents
by Clyde Ray List
Sherwood Oregon Historical Society
Joseph Hess Memoir 1847
On the Oregon Trail in 1843-- "There was a
scarcity of game about or near the road. The hunters had to go
some distance from the road in search of game. On one occasion
one of our hunters Bennett O'Neal a tall thin rawboned
individual got off his horse to shoot some game and his horse
ran off and left him. He got lost and wandered round until he
struck the road back of the train after being out eight days,
overtook the wagons. During the time he was lost he subsisted
on herbs, and roots such scraps as he could
pick."
Oregon Free Press
May 27, 1848
"We have been requested to state that in Champoeg the
Canadians had a meeting on Saturday last, at the house of E.
Gregoire.... On the same day another meeting was held, by the
Americans, at the Waldo Settlement.... The Canadians nominated
but two candidates, giving the other portion of the county the
selection of two more, which they propose to support, provided
their nomination is supported in turn."
Newberg Graphic
February 9, 1889
NOTE: Quoting "Fortnightly Review," a nationally
syndicated column.
"I have known a child of tender years begin by pulling off
the wings of flies, then proceed to bake frogs, and next take
birds and bore out their eyes, and later still try to injure
any child who might fall into his power. I have known such
children to kick cats and dogs to death, or set light to them,
or pour boiling water over them, the fiendish pleasure being
increased if the young of the animals were thus reduced to
starvation. The morally undeveloped child has been pointed out
to me by several devout friends as a proof of the existence of
the devil as well as of the truth of the doctrine of original
sin...."
The Oregon Scout
July 16, 1891
"Let your child read a book for three hours. Then call him
off. You may now diagnose him. He is dazed as he walks. He is
very irritable with other children. Examine his tongue, and you
will find his digestion is impaired. Put your hand on his head;
it is hot. His eyes are full, and touched with inflammation.
Sitting for a long time, he has grown weak in his back, and is
leaning in his shoulders. The boy every day is tired and
unstrung. If this is a habit, or if he is accustomed to five
hours in school, with possibly study and reading out of school,
he is already an invalid --he is on the road to a breakdown.
Mark you, I do not say he will become diseased; he is
diseased.... The factory for children under 12 is not so
dangerous as the school house."
NOTE:The author is a disciple of Herbert
Spencer.
The Newberg Graphic
Saturday, February 9, 1889
Railroad Accident. Several Persons
Injured.
One of the P. & W. V.
Railway Coaches Turns a Complete
Sommersault.
An accident happened on the P. & W. V.
railway Tuesday afternoon near Middleton, by which a passenger
coach was thrown from the track and four persons injured, none
of them, it is thought, seriously.
About 5 p.m., as the train for Portland was rounding a sharp
curve on a trestle, one of the fish plates broke, allowing the
end of a rail to spring out, and a piece was broken off. The
baggage car and first coach passed over the place all right,
but the rear coach was thrown from the track, breaking the link
which connected it and landing right side up at the foot of the
trestle.
Superintendent McGuire, who was on the platform of the car
ahead, saw the car leave the track and the brakeman on it leap
to the car in front. He gave the alarm and the train stopped
before it had gone seventy-five feet. The four passengers in
the derailed car were at once transferred to another car and
the train came on to this city [Portland]. arriving at 6:45,
only thirty minutes behind time.
Mrs. Charles Ray was conveyed to the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Short, No. 88 Mill street, where she was atended
by Dr. Strong. She was supposed to be injured internally, but
it was found that she had sustained but slight injury, the
effect of a rather severe shaking up, which will cause no
serious results.
Those taken to the hospital are: F.S.Barzee, a merchant of
Monmouth. He has a cut on the scalp which is not serious. He
will go home today. Reuben R. Gant, of Ballston, who like all
the others fell first to the roof of the car and then to the
bottom, striking on his side across a seat, but soon recovered
from the effects of the shock and his condition is not
considered dangerous.
E.A.Willey of Dayton, a harness maker, suffered a fracture
of the right leg, but no other injury of consequence.
When it is considered that the car turned a complete
somersault, falling about fifteen feet and allighting on its
side, it is fortunate that no one was more seriously hurt.
--Oregonian.
NOTE: The Town of Middleton was one mile South of
Oldtown Sherwood, where Middleton Road crosses the
rails.
1893 Oregon Senate Bill 36
(Town of Sherwood Charter)
[Section 16] The town council shall have
power..... to license, tax, and regulate auctioneers, taverns,
peddlers, brokers, hacks, carriages, wagons, carts, drays and
omnibuses, and to fix the rate for carrying persons or
property; to license, tax, and regulate barrooms, billiard
tables, theatricals, and other shows, exhibitions, and other
amusements; and to prohibit bawdy houses, beer gardens,
dance-houses, and gambling houses, and gaming;
[Section 22] The town council shall
have power to remove, repress, or prevent anything which would
be detrimental to the health or morals of the town, and to
prevent or restrain obscene language, cursing, swearing,
drunkenness, or disorderly conduct within the corporate limits;
to erect, establish, and keep in repair a town jail; to provide
for the restraint and employment of vagrants, and to provide
for working any person sentenced to imprisonment upon the
streets of the town during the term of their imprisonment.
Newberg Graphic
August 4, 1893
"The first standard guage train passed over the road last
Sunday evening. It went slowly and felt its way over the
bridges carefully but got through alright.... The coaches stand
so much higher than the narrow guage coaches that it will be
inconvenient for passengers getting on and off trains until
platforms are raised."
NOTE: The Southern Pacific Railway Company was in charge
by this time. The Southern Pacific merged with the Union
Pacific in 1992.
Sherwood Town
Ordinance #13
August 7, 1893
"In order that the town in later years may have shade
trees, it is hereby ordained that all property owners shall set
out maple trees in the parking along their property. Such trees
shall be set out not less than ten feet above the surface of
the ground, and they shall have some kind of protection around
them to keep the stock from breaking down."
Newberg Graphic
December 1, 1893
"Dock Clark is a good rustler for business and never loses
an opportunity to yank a tooth. Last Saturday while on the
train between here and Sherwood he relieved a passenger of a
troublesome molar."
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes April 2, 1894
"On Motion of Hogan it was desided to pay the Marshal a
salary of $10.00 per Month for the Months of April May &
June 1894 in Order that he might better Afford to take time to
look after those persons more closely that wer in the habit of
Violating Town Ordinances. The Vote on this Motion Stood as
follows [Meeks, Hogan, Reisner: Yes] Smock was absent when Vote
was taken. On Motion the Marshal was Instructed to procure A
Star for Depty Marshal and present Bill for same."
Friends Meeting Minutes,
May 25, 1895
"A communication was received from J. C. Smock stating his
reasons for signing a liquor license in the town of Sherwood,
and that if it was inconsistent with the discipline of the
Church he asked to be released from membership. His resignation
was accepted."
Every day some wife is mocked for seeking "...help in
keeping the saloons from selling liquor to her drunken
husband." --July 23, 1913
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes Nov. 2, 1895
"Mr. John Lamont President of the Telephone Company made
the following proposition That in consideration of the Town of
Sherwood taking 13 shairs of the Telephone Co. Stock said
Company would Run the Main Line through the town, open an
office, and maintain the same.
"Mr. H. H. Eyman moved that the town take 13 shares of
Willamette Valley Telephone Company Stock @ $10.00 per shair.
Amount $130.00. The motion carried.”
NOTE: Lamont and the $130 were never seen again! A
telephone company did not serve Sherwood until 1909.
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes Jan. 20, 1896
"On motion the Recorder's action was upheld by a unanimous
Vote of the Council in the matter of Ordering the Saloon of
John Owens closed on the 20th day of January upon the
Information made by Mrs. Anna Reisner that She believed if said
Saloon was not closed that her life was in danger."
NOTE: She was wife of Sherwood’s first Mayor as well as
Johnny Owen’s mother-in-law. The building was located on the
corner of First and Washington, where Clancy's is
today.
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes Oct. 14, 1896
"Mr. J. C. Smock was empowered to purchase Lumber and have
a platform put down over the Town Well. Platform to be 12 feet
square out of tongued and grooved flooring. 1 1/2 inch thick
with good substructure floor joists under same, also to have a
curb to rise about 30 or 36 inches above the floor 4 to 6 feet
square for two sets of Buckets to draw water, Also to purchase
Buckets, Rope & Pulleys for the same."
NOTE: Soon to be overshadowed by a fifty foot tall water
tower prominent in many old photos.
Capital Journal [Salem, Oregon]
August 7, 1897
"CLONDYKE Seattle, Aug. 7,--The steamships
Willamette and Queen are scheduled to sail today
for Dyea and Skaguay [Alaska], carrying between them nearly
1,200 passengers, of whom 800 will be on the Willamette.
Fourteen steamers are scheduled to sail from [Tacoma] between
now and the first of September. Among those who start is W. G.
Seward, a relation of Hon. Wm. H. Seward, who effected the
purchase of Alaska in 1867 for $7,500,000."
Hillsboro Independent
August 5, 1898
"John Roberts on or about the 6th of July had a row with
two unmarried women on the streets of Sherwood. The women
threatened his arrest. Then he sauced them. One of the girls
broke her parasol over his head, and the other slapped him in
the face. This one he kicked and slapped the jaws of the other
one. For these things a warrant was sworn out before Justice
Smith charging Roberts with assault and battery-- two cases
because there were two girls."
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes May 5, 1899
"On Motion M.J.Haynes was Instructed to have the Marshal
notify Mr. Parrott that he must take his horse out of town when
serving mares."
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes May 10,1901
"Pres. Smock stated that the purpose for which the meeting
was called was to take some action in regard to riding Bicycles
on the sidewalks. It was moved and seconded to revoke the
resolution to allow Bicycle riding on the sidewalk and on vote
being taken motion carried. Ordered that the Recorder be
instructed to post notices warning Bicycle riders to keep off
the sidewalks."
Sunday Oregonian
December 28th, 1902
[Display Ad:] "Marquam Grand Theater. Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday Nights. December 29, 30 and 31. The Bostonians,
presenting The New Robin Hood and the New Opera Sequal to
'Robin Hood:' 'Maid Marian.'"
Ordinance 45
"The Town Marshal shall exercise a vigilent care over the
peace and quiet of the Town and see that all Ordinances rules
and regulations of the Town is strictly observed and enforced.
He [shall] take charge of the Council Chamber and keep the same
in order, and before the sitting of any Council meeting have
the room properly furnished with lights and fire. He must
attend regularly upon the meetings of the Common council and
sittings of the Recorders Court unless excused upon good and
sufficient cause."
Approved, Nov. 2, 1903.
J.C.Smock. Pres.
J.E.Morback, Recorder.
Town Minutes Feb. 7, 1908
"Dr.A.L.Saylor having a bill on file for $3.00 account,
surgery performed on one Bud Knutson, while held for riotious
and disorderly conduct on the 6th day of Jany., and it being a
question by the council wheather the town was liable for this
account...."
NOTE: They decided they were not.
Daily Capital Journal
June 3, 1908
"The president of one of the best known cycle factories of
the east has been looking over his New York State agencles and
Is authority for the statement that his business has increased
60 per cent over Iast year. It would seem that this sort of
thlng is just as true of the west, north and south as it Is of
the cast, as a phenomenal lncrease in blcycle sales Is reported
from every section. It Is thought that the return In wheellng
interest, which was begun a season or two back, was greatly
assisted by the hard times. Thousands and thousands of old tlme
rlders suddenly awoke to the economy and healthy exerclse that
cycling offered."
Sherwood News-Sheet
Nov. 1, 1911
"Dr. Becker, Carl Schenecker and Frank Lukes went out for a
joy ride [by car] last Thursday. They headed for Portland and
claim to have arrived at their destination, but there are those
who doubt the veracity of the statement."
Sherwood News-Sheet
November 22, 1911
Regarding a criminal charge against a male citizen of
the town for insulting a woman: "If the charge as alleged
is true the defendant should be punished and that severely. If
there is anything more fiendish, more heathenish to us than
this our knowledge fails to comprehend it."
Sherwood News-Sheet
Dec. 20, 1911
"The Star Theatre has installed a Pathe Freres Motion
Picture Machine, one of the latest and best motion picture
machines manufactured, reducing the 'flicker,' so troublesome
in motion pictures, to a minimum...”
Sherwood News-Sheet
March 6, 1912
"Mr. Zimmermann is an orator, logical in his argument, and
has a pleasing and entertaining delivery. He pictured the youth
in all his tenderness, then the young man as he is taking the
first glass, following him down to the ditch and the finished
product of the saloon."
NOTE: In other words, speaking in the idiom of the
prohibition movement, Zimmermann warned about the evil effects
of booze upon America’s youth.
TEMPERANCE LECTURER
modeled after a famous
1920 cartoon by Rollin Kirby.
Sherwood News-Sheet
April 17, 1912
"Monday evening a report was circulated about town that
W.L.Peters had been killed by a bull. Peters lives only a short
distance from town and in a very short distance of time almost
the entire male population of Sherwood was on the trail for the
Peters place. The report that was circulating was that he was
feeding the bull and the animal got him down in the manger and
gored him to death. This, however, was not true, and on the
arrival of the Sherwood citizens they found that there was
absolutely no foundation to the story, as Mr. Peters had not
been near the beast at all that evening. All were agreeably
surprised and the exclamation now is: 'Who started that
story?'"
Sherwood News-Sheet
July 3, 1912
Was Struck By Train.
"Last Thursday just before the Newberg
Local struck the trestle in the south part of town James
Schonthal was hit by the engine and narrowly escaped death. He
was attended by two physicians here then put on the train to
Portland and placed in a hospital where it is said he is
recovering very rapidly. Mr. Schonthal was in the employ of
A.C.Kruger and has a reputation of being a good worker, but is
fond of celebrating the National Holiday and imbibed a little
too freely of the wet goods to be obtained in Sherwood, and had
to set down on the ties to rest when he fell asleep. He is an
unmarried man about the age of forty and a member of the
Foresters Lodge."
NOTE: The "Foresters Lodge" was probably a fraternal
health insurance society properly known as "Foresters of
America." The Robin Hood theme was addressed. See: Morning
Oregonian, "Foresters of America", May 1, 1901.
Sherwood News-Sheet
October 23, 1912
"O.A.Stillman, candidate for representative in Congress
from the first District will be in Sherwood Saturday evening to
deliver an address in favor of his party and candidacy. In all
probability the speaking will occur on the street corner of
McConnell and Hall's store.... The choir will render a few
songs prior to the address and an interesting meeting is
assured."
NOTE: McConnell and Hall was located at the intersection
of Washington and Railroad.
Sherwood News-Sheet
July 9, 1913
• "Such drunkenness and revelry as was witnessed here on
the Fourth is a disgrace to any civilized people."
• "Carlson & Sherk Store Robbed-- The robbers opened
the safe which is never kept locked because of fear that it
might be blown open. Then they sat down by the safe and ate a
lunch of crackers and cheese."
Sherwood News-Sheet
Sept. 10, 1913
 "John
Beck, who was thrown from a load of wheat a few weeks ago,
causing a partial dislocation of the neck and a large scalp
wound on the forehead, is slowly getting better. He is now able
to be out of bed and can move his head by the use of his
hands."
Town Minutes, Feb. 5, 1915
"Fire chief Fisk was present and made a report as to
finding of the towns fire fighting apparatus. Mr. Fisk reported
that the town needed chemicals to charge the engines as they
were both needing to be charged and chemicals on hand. Also the
town was without ladders, lanterns, buckets and but little
hose. The Recorder was instructed to take the matter of hose
and ladders up with the City of Portland, with the object in
view of securing second hand ladders and hose. Upon motion A.
Carlson was instructed to procure proper chemicals to charge
the engines. "
"Upon motion the Marshal was instructed to put a stop to
children running their little wagons and trycicles [sic] on the side-walks, as it was a menace to
those using the side-walks. "
Tualatin Valley News
Feb. 22, 1918
"A Prominent Sherwood Business Man was detained in Portland
over night on a business transaction. The shows were doing a
big business, so he followed the crowd to one of the shows.
After the show he went to the Imperial Hotel to engage a room.
It was full so he was steered to the Hotel Portland. A room was
engaged, and at about 12 o'clock he tucked himself away among
the snow white linen for the balance of the night. The
Prominent Sherwood Business Man was hardly asleep when he was
attacked by a regiment of as cowardly a lot of soldiers that
ever went upon a battlefield. He slipped out of bed and turned
on the light and was horrified to see the bed literally covered
with bed bugs and cockroaches. He retreated to the bath room,
where he thought the varmints would be scarcer. He turned the
hot water on. The steam limbered the bugs up and in a few
moments the floor was covered with a living carpet."
Tualatin Valley News
December, 1920 (?)
"E. J. Lawrenz has just finished invoicing his Ford garage
supplies. The checking must have been satisfactory, for he at
once commenced to build an inside office enclosure , where he
can sit comfortably in an easy chair with his feet on the desk,
a 15 cent stogy between his teeth, and draw a mental picture of
reaching the pearly gates in a Ford..."
Sherwood Valley News
1926
"Friday evening's caucus was called to order by Mayor
Morback who read the call and then proceeded to make a speech
evidently intended to reflect credit upon his administration.
He was interrupted by Councilman W. F. Young, who arose and
objected to the Mayor making an electioneering speech at a
nominating convention or primary election. The Mayor, however,
refused to quit but proceeded in a more spirited manner and was
becoming quite eloquent when Justice W. T. Hislop arose and
likewise objected. Still the Mayor refused to subside but
continued to improve his opportunity to let off steam, and the
increased ebullition of his remarks was quite noticeable. After
Hislop shouted the Mayor down, Young called for the vote and
the tally was: Morback 55, Leedy 54, Hislop 1. Leedy had
followed his scruples and refused to vote for himself. Mrs.
Leedy had not voted at all, for the same reason."
Sherwood Valley News, 1927
• "Corn from Iowa-- Carlson & Sherk have received a car
of corn from Sioux City, Iowa. Bill Fisk is standing guard over
it to prevent it being appropriated by moonshiners."
• "City Smarties Disciplined-- A couple of smarties from
Portland invaded Scholls one day last week and attempted to
demonstrate how bad men from the city manhandle humble
villagers. A couple of the humble villagers rose up and landed
on the bad men, and when they got through the bad men were
disciplined but were not very happy."
Sherwood Valley News
Feb. 28, 1929
"What is said to be the largest moonshine still yet to be
found anywhere in the North West was captured Saturday by
Sheriff Connell and deputies and state and federal officers.
Four men and one woman were arrested and a large amount of mash
together with a great quantity of moonshine whiskey was
destroyed. The plant had a capacity of 1000 gallons every 24
hours. It had been operating for about two weeks."
NOTE: The plant was located along the Tualatin
River
Tigard Sentinel
April 11, 1941
"On an April day, 1889, the Pea Vine Express, Portland to
Dundee, lurched into Smockville and screeched to a halt. Car
doors banged open, crewmen began to load and unload freight and
mail, and, as customary, most of the passengers scrambled down
the steps to get a breath of fresh air and stretch their legs
on the board platform. Among them was a sprightly young fellow,
some 21 years old. He walked the length of the platform a few
times, looking at the low hills literally spilling over with
spring color. He went back into the coach and presently he
returned with a battered suitcase. He had decided to make a
stopover.
"This April, just 52 years later, that young fellow now turned
73, is still enjoying that stopever, although the town is no
longer Smockville, but Sherwood, and he's been its mayor better
than 25 years. His name, just in case there's anyone who
doesn't already know it, is J.E.Morback."
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Letter from Superintendent of Indian Affairs Joel Palmer
to the Chiefs and Head Men of the Tualatin Band of the
Calapooia Indians.
March 21, 1854
"The whites are determined to settle on
your land. We cannot prevent them and in a few years there will
be no place left for you. Then what will you do? Will you live
in the mountains like wolves? The deer and other game being
killed off you will have nothing to eat, your women and
children crying for food, and freezing from cold; there will be
no one to care for you. I tell you this will be so. Then be
wise. Take good counsel. Sell your lands. Agree to remove to
such places as the Government may hereafter select for you,
where they will protect you and provide for your
wants."
NOTE: Palmer negotiated nine cessation treaties with the
Indians of the Oregon Territory. "He was removed as
superintendent in 1857 after being criticized for being too
lenient with Indian policy."
–Oregon Blue Book.
New Northwest
December 4, 1874
"Mrs. Duniway then took the floor, and made a speech in
which she told some rather uncomfortable truths concerning what
a certain Representative had said in the Legislature. That
Representative being present, became somewhat excited and
replied in no very gentle terms. The scene was rather stormy
for a while, but after a short time the excitement was
quelled...."
NOTE:Abigail
Scott Duniway spent a great deal of time in the Sherwood
area. This incident was recorded in Lafayette.
Rudyard Kipling
heads for the Clackamas River.
NOTE:The famous author is conducted by < wbr>two
companions he calls "California" and "Portland."
California carefully lashed our fishing
rods into the carriage, and the bystanders overwhelmed us with
directions as to the sawmills we were to pass, the ferries we
were to cross, and the sign-posts we were to seek signs from.
Half a mile from the city of fifty thousand souls [Portland] we
struck-- and this must be taken literally-- a
plank-road that would have been a disgrace to an Irish
village.
Then six miles of macadmized road showed us that the team
could move. A railway ran between us and the banks of the
Willamette, and another above and through the mountains. All
the land was dotted with small townships, and the roads were
full of farmers in their town wagons, bunches of tow-haired,
boggle-eyed urchins sitting in the hay behind. The men
generally looked like loafers, but their women were all well
dressed. Brown hussar-braiding on a tailor-made jacket does
not, however, consort with hay-wagons. Then we struck into the
woods along what California called a "camina reale" --a good
road,-- and Portland a "fair track." It wound in and out among
fire-blackened stumps, under pine trees, along the corners of
log fences, through hollows which must be hopeless marsh in the
winter, and up absurd gradients. But nowhere throughout its
length did I see any evidence of road-making. There was a
track,-- you couldn't well get off it,-- and it was all you
could do to stay on it. The dust lay a foot thick in the blind
ruts, and under the dust we found bits of planking and bundles
of brushwood that sent the wagon bounding into the air.
Sometimes we crashed through bracken; anon where the
blackberries grew rankest we found a lonely little cemetary,
the wooden rails all awry, and the pitiful stumpy headstones
nodding drunkenly at the soft green mulleins. Then with oaths
and the sound of rent underwood a yoke of mighty bulls would
swing down a "skid" road, hauling a forty-foot log along a
rudely made slide. A valley full of wheat and cherry trees
succeeded, and halting at a house we bought ten pounds weight
of luscious black cherries for something less than a rupee and
got a drink of icy-cold water for nothing, while the untended
team browsed sagaciously by the roadside.
--American Notes, 1889
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes July 3, 1893
"Ordinance #12 to prohibit riding Driving or leading
Animals or riding Bicycles Tricycles or Velocipedes on
sidewalks read for 1st first reading and on Motion was laid
over for second reading at next meeting.
"On Motion of P.T.Meeks Ordinance #7 was amended to read as
follows: That all Saloons within the Corporate Limits of Town
of Sherwood Shall be Closed at 10:30 Oclock P.M. sharp and
remain closed for the remainder of said day.
NOTE:Closure time was later changed to 12:00
"Motion to amend Ordinance #10 to read as follows All
sidewalks built hereafter shall have at least 3 to 4 X 4 sawed
stringers running length wise and shall be covered with Lumber
not less than 4 and not more than 8 in wide and not less than 1
1/2 in Thick. Motion carried."
Newberg Graphic
July 7, 1893
"The blocks have worked from under the sidewalks in many
places, causing them to shake and sway in a very unpleasant
manner. This shaking loosens the nails and in many places,
besides the unpleasant rattle of loose boards, the walks are
absolutely unsafe to travel unless one walks in the middle of
them."
Capital Journal
October 4, 1893
"...in the City of Salem a few days ago only, this writer
saw a lady tripped face fore most --and might had it not been
for the interference of good luck, so to speak, been seriously
injured by the catching on a broken off upsticking piece of
plank. This occurance causing a hard fall causes the writing of
these lines by a party visiting the capital. Shame to such
negligence."
Hillsboro Independent
August 4, 1893
"If the lessee of a livery team wants to know how the
proprietor of the stable can talk, let him overdrive a team and
bring it in reeking with sweat this hot [90 Degree] weather.
Words flow fast then. And the stable boy thinks aloud as he
walks the horse back and forth through the street. The thoughts
are not always complimentary of the man who has driven the
horse."
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes October 9, 1893
"A new Ordinance was offered by Mr. Eyman which was given
the Title of Ordinance #15 the object of the ordinance to
prohibit fighting asault or Asault @ Battery and to Proscribe
the punishment for the same. Ordinance was read and laid over
untill the next meeting.
"Ordinance #16 in regard to leaving horses out in the storm
was presented, read and laid over untill next meeting."
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes October 5, 1894
"On motion the Council ordered window shades for the
council Room windows. On Motion J.C.Smock was ordered to
procure Blinds for the windows of the Council Room, also 2
spittoons."
NOTE: Town Hall was located on today's Veteran's Park,
against the alley on Main Street.
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes Mar. 1st, 1895
"Petition of G.W.Duke asking that the Council grant the
Singing Class the use of Town Hall to hold Singing School not
Granted."
NOTE: Probably a barber shop quartet. These "classes"
usually included a keg of beer.
Hillsboro Independent
June 6, 1895
"Last Saturday evening, Sherwood, situated a short distance
from Middleton, was the scene of a very expensive
conflagration. The blaze originated in the building occupied by
the merchandise stock of Iler & McConnell, and supposedly
was caused by a defective flue. Before the flames were under
control, the store building, the large hotel owned by J.E.Smock
[Sic], the hall on the other side of the
store and owned by Wm. Scott, a few outbuildings, and a small
barber shop, were all razed to the ground. The depot was also
scorched and is nearly a total loss. The total loss of the fire
is estimated to be in the neighborhood of five or six thousand
dollars and it is a severe blow to the thriving little town.
But a small portion of the merchandise was saved. The insurance
carried on stock and building is said to be $2,000. The
adjusters arrived over there yesterday endeavoring to fix up
the losses. The fire was first discovered about 9:30.."
NOTE: The fire occurred June 1, 1895.
"One of the girls broke her parasol over his head..."
August 5, 1898
"Our knowledge fails to comprehend it."
November 22, 1911
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes April 10, 1896
"Petition of H.L.Smock and 19 others asking the Council to
Enact a Law prohibiting poultry from running at Large within
the corporate Limits of the town of Sherwood."
NOTE: Henry Lee Smock is J.C. Smock's oldest son, 25
years of age on this date.
The Dalles [Oregon] Daily Chronicle
May 1, 1897
"MAY DAY'S CELEBRATION And Some Idle Thoughts It Suggests
for One to Think.
"May Day is not kept in this country as in many others, and
yet it is of sufficient importance to cause every American
youngster at least, a desire to have a holiday and to spend it
in the woods or by the stream. It ought to be a national
holiday, for it comes at the time of year when everybody feels
the necessity of an 'out-dooring.'"
NOTE: "The Gay Nineties" are in full swing at this moment,
thanks to the discovery of gold in the Klondike.
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes July 8, 1898
"On Motion it was desided to Continue Marshal J.V.Hall's
Salary at $8.00 pr Month for the Months of July, Aug. &
Sept.
"And the Marshal was Instructed that he was Expected to be
more Vigalent in the future and to prevent by arrest of other
wise the use of Obscene Languag on the Streets Also to See that
Habitual Druncards wer Either made to Leave town or be Run in
to Jail the Last was not as a motion but general Instructions
as to what the Council and president considered to be the
Marshal's duty."
Hillsboro Independent
March 3, 1899
"Sherwood is developing into quite a manufacturing town. In
addition to a cigar factory by Gardiner Bros. the Sherwood Drug
Co. have recently commenced the manufacture of a full line of
'Family Remedies' and are meeting with good success in the sale
of the same."
December 6, 1899
Ordinance 39 forbids "...hitching or tyeing any Horse,
Mule, Ox, or Ass or any other animal to any watter pipe,
Hydrant, or Hydrant Box..." belonging to the Town of Sherwood,
by order of J.C. Smock, President of the Council.
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes Jan. 8,1900
"Upon canvassing the Returns it was found that... there had
been forty six (46) votes counted for Town Marshal when there
had been but Thirty Two (32) votes cast at the Election.
Therefore it was moved... that a new Election be held within
Ten days...."
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes Feb. 28th, 1902
"Owing to the unplesant and shabby condition of the Council
Chamber, the matter of having same scrubbed out and new blinds
put up was considered. The recorder making a proposition to
hang three new blinds and scrub the building out for $1.75 was
accepted, and instructed to proceed to do so at once and
present bill for same."
Ordinance 43, 1903
"...it shall be unlawful for any person or persons owning
or keeping any chickens ducks geese turkeys or poultry of any
kind to allow or suffer the same to run at large in the Town of
Sherwood."
(Signed) J.C.Smock, April 8, 1903.
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes August 7th, 1903
The "...poultry ordinance was read for the third and last
time, and on motion [was] adopted as read.... The matter of
sanitary conditions of the town was quite lengthy discussed,
and it was decided to strictly enforce the law in regard to
this matter."
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes Dec. 1, 1905.
"Motion to give the Sherwood - Middleton Band the use of
the Town Hall on Sunday afternoons for Band practice until the
Band can secure more permanent quarters motion carried."
Ordinance 46
"It shall be unlawful for any person or persons owning or
driveing or having charge of any animal or animals attached to
a wagon truck dray cart or any other vehicle to driv or cause
the same to be drove over any line of hose while the same is
being used for the extinguishment of fire or drill purpose this
section shall apply as well to rolling stock of every
description of the southern pacific co. while in operation
within the corporate limits of the town of Sherwood Oregon."
Approved, Dec. 4, 1903.
J.C.Smock. Pres.
J.E.Morback, Recorder.
Town Minutes
June 6, 1908
"Upon motion Mr. N.P. Jones was appointed to act as special
poliece [sic] during the FOURTH of JULY
and said evening at a salary not to exceed $5.00. The Recorder
was instructed to notify Mr. Jones and invest him with proper
equipment in due time."
Sherwood News-Sheet
October 11, 1911
"Sherwood has the distinction of shipping more onions than
any other place in the world. Great wagonloads of them have
been coming into town the last few weeks, and are being shipped
by the carload."
NOTE: An area between Sherwood and the Tualatin River is
still called "Cipole," which is Italian for
"Onions."
Sherwood News-Sheet
Nov. 8, 1911
"While driving to church last Sunday morning the team of
Reinhold Kruger took fright when a tug dropped and became
unmanageable, ran away and tore up things in general. The team
ran down through town and was finally caught near the
Congregationalist Church. Miss Schatz, who was thrown from the
rig, received a broken arm."
Sherwood News-Sheet
October 25, 1911
• "Considerable complaint has been made of late of boys who
seem to have nothing to do but gad the streets and shoot
bean-shooters or sling-shots in a careless and reckless manner,
aiming their weapons at everybody and everything that happens
along their path."
• "It is a deplorable thing that troubles in a small community
cannot be settled without the use of fists. Several of these
little bouts have come to our ears the last week, but we hope
they will not grow more numerous."
Sherwood News-Sheet
February 28, 1912
"The team of H.F.Cuthill took a dash around the streets of
Sherwood last Saturday just after the noon hour, spilling two
cans of cream that he had brought to town for shipment. This is
about the only damage they did. They were standing untied at
the depot, where the small boy was very much in
evidence...."
Sherwood News-Sheet
April 10, 1912
Attempt to Wreck Train.
What appeared to be an attempt to wreck
the Southern Pacific train took place on the Yamhill Division
road at a point just this side of Rex Wednesday
evening
It was train No.76 bound for Portland from Dallas and
fortunately was running at low speed or the entire train would
have been ditched. They had reached a point where the grade is
considerably of a downward pitch, and where the bank is in the
neighborhood of forty feet high, owing to which fact the
engineer had slowed down, when suddenly they struck something
that raised the engine into the air, almost turning it on its
side.
Several Sherwood citizens were on the train at the time,
being on their return from McMinnville, where they had gone to
attend the funeral of the late A.L.Saylor, and they testify
that when their coach reached this mark the jar was anything
but pleasant.
The train was stopped as soon as they could get the steam
off and the brakes set and the train men went back to
investigate the trouble. They found somebody had driven two
very large spikes in where the rails are coupled and on the
upper side of the track, undoubtedly for the purpose of
wrecking the train.
The train men and passengers say it was a very narrow escape
and consider themselves very lucky that the engine and train
didn't leave the track.
NOTE:"A small boy" is later identified as the
culprit.
Sherwood News-Sheet
May 22, 1912
"Tuesday was cleanup day in deed and truth. The citizens
responded to the proclamation of [Mayor Morback] joyously and
with a determination to rid the little town of its rubbish. It
was a task they little dreamed of. Nobody had the slightest
idea that people living in Sherwood were so slack. The alleys
heretofore, contrary to ordinance, were simply littered with
old boards, tin cans, old shoes, shirts, hats, bed quilts,
sacks, boxes, cooking utensils, bottles, wire, manure, and
everything unsightly to the eye and unpleasant to the nose....
It is the first time in the town's history that a real general
cleanup has taken place...."
NOTE: The Titanic sank April 15, 1912.
Sherwood News-Sheet
July 31, 1912
"Sewer Gas Complaint Explored by Council--There were five
or six in the party, each in turn getting on their hands and
knees and putting their nose with in three or four inches of
the sewer outlet, but all declaring they witnessed no stench
from the flow. The water from this outlet was absolutely clear,
much more so than was the water in the little creek a few feet
away."
Sherwood News-Sheet
April 30, 1913
"The Clarke Comedy Co. blew into town a few days ago and
put on quite a show in Buck's Hall. Some say it was good and
others say it was not so pleasing. They had a fair sized
audience, however, and managed to get out of town with
considerable money, while they left but precious little."
NOTE: Buck's Hall was the funeral parlor.
Sherwood News-Sheet
July 23, 1913
"Scarcely a day goes by that Governor West does not receive
in person or by letter the tearful petition of some wife for
help in keeping the saloons from selling liquor to her drunken
husband. They plead helplessness, and say they are mocked at
every turn when they try to save their husbands from themselves
and the saloon. The cry of hungry children and the tears of
destitute wives accomplish little or nothing, the governor is
told over and over again. The husbands continue to get
liquor.”
Sherwood Town Council
Minutes Jan. 21, 1915
"Mr. Robbins representing one of the pool rooms was
present, and asked permission of the council to allow boys from
the age of 18 up to frequent pool rooms and take part in the
games. The council advised him they were not in the law
violating business, and the mayor especially, stated that he
took an oath to enforce all the laws of the State and the Town
of Sherwood, and so long as he was Mayor of the Town it would
be his object and purpose to strictly enforce all the
laws."
Sherwood News-Sheet 1917
"Why not place your order for a Ford at once? Runabout,
$345; Touring Car, $360; Coupe let, $505; Town Car, $595;
Sedan, $645; One-ton Truck Chassis, $600. These prices f.o.b.
Detroit. Your order will have our prompt attention. --E. J.
Lawrenz, Agent."
Emil Lawrenz, Sherwood
Tualatin Valley News
April 16, 1920
"Sherwood has entered the Portland Baseball Association in
what is known as the Tri-State League, which includes the best
independent teams of Portland, also Salem, Woodburn, Astoria,
and Camas Washington. Outside of the Pacific Coast League, this
is the strongest baseball organization in the State."
Tualatin Valley News
1921
"There is no need for garages and car barns in Sherwood so
long as there is room around and in front of the News office
for every coughing, sputtering, unmuffled old car or truck to
keep blowing off all times of the night to keep people
awake."
Sherwood News-Sheet
April 19, 1928
"Charivari Party Visit Newlyweds.
Now, Ed [Rasmussen] is a modest, retiring young man and he
was loath to accept the invitation, but when he was told what
would be done to him unless he joined the musicians he decided
to participate in the festival of noise. The band surrounded
the domicile of the newly-weds and the festivities started."
The couple was escorted to the soda fountain at Sherwood
Pharmacy for ice cream and singing.
Oregon Journal
March 30, 1933
Interview of John Chapman, Blacksmith
"It looked for awhile as if horses and buggies had gone
into the discard, but now you will see lots of farms being
plowed with horses in place of tractors, and you can see an
occasional team on the road."
NOTE: Chapman Road is named after John Chapman
Sherwood News-Sheet
April 27, 1939
Semi-Centennial Address, J.E.Morback
"About five years after the [Portland Pressed Brick Yard]
shut down [in 1896] the streets got their first dolling up in
the form of a brick-bat dressing. Not having equipment to roll
them down, it made the streets so rough you could hardly walk
or drive over them. I think it was at this time that Mayor
Smock reported to the council he had to suspend the street work
on account of shortage of labor. Those must have been the good
old days we hear about."
Tigard Times
April 11, 1941
Sherwood's Quarter Century Mayor Tells of
Pea Vine Express.
"....And the Pea Vine Express is no more,
because that unballasted narrow guage line was replaced by a
standard gauge with a gravel roadbed long since [1889, when
J.E. Morback rode it into town]. But what fun and good natured
railery that wood burning midget provided the patrons while it
operated. The name Pea Vine was tacked on because the
unballasted track had a way of zigging here, zagging there,
when the rains softened up the ground-- crooked as a pea vine.
Speed was out of the question. Sometimes would-be passengers
spent most of the day waiting at the depot, watching for a gist
of fir smoke to herald the Pea Vine's approach, then went home
disgusted as choretime and no train approached. They started
calling it the Try Weekly finally-- try and make a round trip
to Portland in a week! Frequently, when it stopped along the
line to load cordwood fuel, all male passengers, at the risk of
getting pitch all over their Sunday best, turned out and helped
load."
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