The Tip Top building tipped the group that tacks plaques to historic homes and buildings to top triple digits in total tributes at a recent ceremony in downtown Forest Grove.
A Forest Grove man is critically ill from lockjaw (tetanus), city cleanup is a success, and a letter writer urges residents to put up "bird houses and squirrel dens" in 1925.
A state senator visited Forest Grove in 1925 and "literally picked the flesh from the bones" of the governor and the head of the Oregon Anti-Saloon league in a fiery Prohibition-era speech to the Forest Grove Chamber of Commerce.
A famed fire chief quits Forest Grove for Washington, the famed Mazamas trek from Dilley to find fossils, and the city plans to enclose Council Creek in the news of a century ago.
What were Forest Grove residents watching a century ago? Hoot Gibson won the all-around championship at the Pendleton Round-Up in the early days of his acting career in 1912. In 1925, he was the leading man for a film screening at the Star Theater (now Theatre in the Grove).
