iLPPLEMENT TO EAGLE VALLEY NEWS
Volume 2, IthJi'und, Baker County, Oregon, Thursday, October 22, 1914 No 49
SALEM SUFFERS
BUSINESS LOSSES
FROM DRY RULE
Store Property Rentals Drop $75
a Month in City
BANK DEPOsilOFF $300,000
Fourteen Husincss Houses Quit in Less
Than Year. School Attendance Less
CLACKAMAS AND
OREGON CITY HIT
BY EMPTY TILLS
"Dry" Regime Followed Iiy Query
las to Receiver
COT WARRMTSUNSALEABLE
Many Oregon papers liave
been loaded down within
tho past three works with
repented assurances that
"ttusiness is Fine in Dry
Towns."
The three most important
Oregon cities to become
"dry" nhi' months ago were
Salem, ("Vcrou "City and
Springfield.
If bushier n fine in thmu citica
the taxpayers and mo t of 1 ho
businrss men wouM lt? to havo
the "i'vyn" cxpht'n just what
they mean by "fne." If they
vhad said "uusiuosn h thin," then
vthcy mifc'M have been more easily
-understood.
Let them answer first about
conditions in Salem. Ex-Councilman
John D. Turner, of Salem,
art attorney, is sponsor for the
following facts about that city:
Salem went 11 dry" December 1 last,
cloning 15 saloons, .three restaurants
f.ml two wholesale houses and withdrew
liquor permits from eight drug stores
and nut off nn annual licence revenue
of $15,400. Ninety men and a monthly
payroll of $5,700 wero put out of com
mission, Most of the men have left
the city. All buildings vneatod by
those concerns nre still empty, except
six, which have been occupied by ten'
nnts who havo vacated other buildings,
fceveml of tho best building. hclng
brmrded over and used as billboards.
Morn than five hundred modern dwell
ings arc "for rent." Storo property
rentals on Stnto street have dropped
from $185 to $110 a month, but "busi
.ess iff fine,"
Fourteen other business pT4ces have
ilowl since December 1 lost, aside
from the saloons 'and restaurants. In
cluded aro three shoe stores two by
shuilff and one voluntarily; onn of the
largest drygoo'ds stores has been sued
for tho first tlmo in twenty years.
Hunren of olorlcM havo left the elty,
enuring the loss of moro payrolls to
tho city, but "burgees Is fiue,"
A reading prohloitiontit promised to
build 10 now dwellings if tho city went
"dry," Nino houses wore begun, two
havo the windows an1 doors in, but
havo novcr been finished; no work has
been done on tho others, besides their
baro frames. s
Iluildlng "permits from January to
August, tho last nine wet months of
1013, wore (338,025; from November,
101.1, to September, 1DH, tho next
eleven "dry" months, they were $120,.
000 less, or $203,100.
Tho grammar school opening day. en
rollment in 1013 was 1510; on tho same
day 1011, M09, but "business i.i One,"
Ban'.i deposits show a decrenso of
300,012 since the town wont "dry," '
oven after allowing for tho IJW,0in Q)' Council CJlsIMoH NoYembff 9
deposited this year from sale of bonds t i . n in n t.x
In Boston. Tho dcrcsse, therefore, " ij 0 LcVJ S Mllll to Pay Debts
really .should bo l10t;942, but "busl-
ness ii fine." Oregon City and Clack-
Tho attendance at. tho "Cherry omi t 'minlv nf wlilMi flwi
Fair" this year was about onehalf n yOUIltJ , Ol WlilCll Ure-
what it was the Inst "wet" year, Tho iOll City IS the COUIlty Seat,
Ministerial Association before tls cW present as lamentable a
tlcn which mode Snlom "drv." told t,- t
tho Cherry Fnlr promoter- St they "ll huSlUCSS
would make up for the donations usu BCTIFQ as i (IcflHiet COfpOl'a-
nuy mnaoDyjm.n saloons, bit u.-torly lOU flboilt.to CO illfrp
v J V l (till HI IJ IH I J "1 . I ,T''lTWr
inntCM refused fo hold that rarnlvnl ui.i- AKITCI
Tho "Chcrrians," consisting of 100 fact, a TPCCiversllif) for Ol'G-
rcnl boaters, but of no prohibitionist,,, gon Clv already liUS been
then pledged their personal member- i i
fhlp for tho necessary funds, requiring 'OUHly dlSCUSSWl by CCr-
tho payment on their part of $500, Tc lain of iLs creditors, ' and
rub it In, jho Methodists then turned Judt, Campbell of that fily
their church into a restaurant, put tho S i i S t mi
kitchen in the pulpit rod competed 3lUR Rehired hlS WllllllneSS
with tho legltimpto rrst-umnts for Kic
to dctiaro such a reeeiver-
Jlttlo bu.-liefa that t!ir pronriotor if vmol
d for ns n uoaaibln 1 ' ; . . 1
nniiunl godsond.
nati hungrily looked for as n poaaibl
HubIih-ss must bo "fine" in nny citv
were viride to him, as lie
would for "nnv hmilvvnnt
nit ' .. . r i
"Hl" uwnunig perrons, payrolls, banV Mivum-if mi '
deposits, bankruptcies, closed stores, do- C J'01 al10;1' . t.
populated dwellings, deprossed realty A Special election has
vnlues. school enrollments and carnival hfifill failed bv iho. otv for
ntotitirs oil tell o dreary a story of November 0 "to relieve the
lltoml fact. Mnybn the prohlbitionistn . . U, J l?111,
whij that tho "rltsting business" U
fino.
Tald AJvcrtheni:nt, Taxpayers & Watfe
liarncrj' League of Portland, Oregon
Miss Nettie Flower has pone to ,
Hfdfway. r
financial condition of the
city," t'io ptirioe being to
yote vW.COO o i)er cent
bonds a:nl to increase the
lax levy etht mills in or
der to take care of the new
jndebtednes.3.
Ciii ib(i nn'jfc nf fJlnekniiias
Ranchers are busy hauling their County the Coinjty Treasurer i-
winter's supply of fuel from the confronted with on empty troas
reservo. "y fo' t!,e first-time in six years.
- The Mnrn'ntr Kntcrpriso, a radi-
Eaglo Valley Cornet Band hs-ld ral proitiLiiiojast daily of Ore
their rejiuiar practice at the city yon Citj, in eyplainincr this sit
hall last night. tint ion, ays "the condition is con
sidered the result of tho amount
Mr. lubbs has juined theE. V. 0f deliniiuent taxes on tho
Band as baritone. Mr. Wil iam L. eonntv's lax rolls. County Trcas
Fiower havinglresigned. rcr rofusod tho first war-
, a 'mtH on tho general fund Mon-
Don't cverlpok the Basket So- (October 12, 1914)."
cial for the benefit of the Each -tfuninesa imiRt bo "fine" .iu a
u..n.. n,i., ,- r e n ana a county wnon mo xreasunes ui
Hall, October 31.
both uro empty becauso of lack of
monoy coming into tholr strong boxes,