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About St. Helens mist. (St. Helens, Or.) 1913-1933 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1913)
1 5 t. Helens Mist rmnuUd IMI U ! rVtfar r ho Mist Publishing Company M. K Minis, KJilor. I,., iha iu'l ol Mnh Sol. I" SuiMCttirrioa Rats I Ml u ye' - . nbiiiihtt " UcrlhliiK rste. mU known on plr cllitiea, rock, etc., perhaps had better men handling our money, and a much eaaler country to build roads in than they have. Right here it might not be amiss to say that in tho old St. Helens and Yankton district more special money has been spent than in any other one district in the county, but Coble and Clats Industrial School. State of Oregon, Department of Kducatlon Sulem. January 20, 1914. To the Kditor This department with the aid of the Oregon Agricultural College hat planned to organize in every school diatrlct a boya' and glrla' in dustrial club. We art nuw pub- kante have done almost as well, Hshing a bulletin giving full detail County Official Paper FACTS AND FIGURES." The table of figures on the first go of this issue will be found ry interesting to read by every ximver in L,oiumuiH cuumy. hese figure have been compil from the recordi of Columbia unty by Deputy Sheeilt Lake ml are the actual levies that ive ocen made by tho County urt for general road purposes i all the special levies by the iTerent districts for the period dicated. Token all together it hows a levy of more than $875, for roud purposes in the untv b r.cc rJ03. Now let us gure a little. If the roads now the county have cost ever ;00.0o0 during the past ten ears and the bond issue of two.ooo with interest at 5 run ing for twenty years will cost proximately $(U0,0U0, and the loney le spent in scientific road nilding, which will be the lieaper and get the Letter re- hilts? There can be but one nawcr. When you figure the lost of maintenance together kith the interest and principal f the road bonds for' twenty tears, with which a permanent ad system connecting all parts f the county will be built, you ill then spend less money than as been spent during the last n years. After the money lined by the bond issue has been cnt by the building of the road lystem as proposed, there will be occasion for a levy of more han r. or (i mills each year to maintain all the roads, pay the nterest on tho bonds and build ill the laterals that may be ask- Vl for and granted. You can figure that out for yourself and you will positively find it to be he case. If the road bonds do hot carry then there must of ne- ressity be a levy of from 9 to 10 liiills each year for four or five rcars to build the roads and af- er that a levy of from 3 to 5 for maintenance and building later- stU. Ask yourselves which will e the cheaper for the taxpayer. P.y using the figures taken rom the records of the county it as been ascertained how much nciney has been spent in each oad district by special levies luring that period. In district number one, Which t all the south portion of the own ty from Tide creek to Mult- lomah county, there has been pent in special taxes 80,000, hile in district number two, hich is all the territory between ide creek and Quincy, there has icen spent HlG.OOo. In district No 3, which includes 'latskanic, Mist and Marshland, here has been spent HI3.000, md in upper Nehalem 67.000. while Mist is only a little behind us Our roads in this district are in fairly good shape. We have about 20 miles of macadamized roads, which have all been built under the supervision of Jack Despain, and the fact that one man hai been kept on the job al the time instead of changing each year has had considerable to do with it. Now comes up the argument by lime of tho people who are opposing the bond issue that the assessed valuation will, from now on, decreaso every year, That n 20 years from now all the timber will be gone and the bur den of paying the bonds will then fall on the farmers and cities, while the timber men will have ceaeed operations and gone out Answering this after making close investigation and getting n formation from the most relia ble sources, it is fairly safe to say that no such condition will exist, that the timber in this county, taken off at the present rato. will last for more than 2n years by double. Uut it the timber is gone the timber own ers will still have great tracts of and upon which they will pay taxes; and the new developed country, as a result of good roads and removal of timber, will be sufficient to keep up the assessed valuation to what it shoud be anyway, mis argument or tr.e timber being gone, and the tim ber people being able to avoid paying their portion of the bond issue, is just a wild statement used for the purpose of raising a feeling against the proposition, and is without foundation. It is conceded by all that good roads are a necessity and that they must come in this county right away. There are some people who are strongly in favor of good reads but are opposing the bond issue because they do not see where a system of roads connecting the various parts of tho county can be of any benefit to the farmers and property owners back from the main high ways, but this can be best an swered by saying that the main system of roads must be first built where they will accommo date tho most people and the other roads will follow at a mini mum cost and as they are re quired. During the next week there will be road meetings in several places in the county, at which time there will be speakes who have had the experience of bad roads and good roads and some who live in a community where the bonding issue was a few years ago the same burning ques tion that it is now here. They will be able to throw considera ble light, and answer all ques tions asked. For the purpose of informing themselves in every possible way the voters and tax payers in every community should attend these meetings and dis cuss the proposition from all sides, It will be get-together meetings, and will without doubt prove educational and instructive of the plan, and shall take pleasure in sending you a copy as soon aa it I: eh the preas. r-acn ciuo la expected to take up one or more of the projects named below, the choice of the project de pending upon the work which I o greatest interest to the community In which the club ia organized The following are the Induatria Club projects suggested by this de partment for this year. 1. Hoys' Corn Crowing Contest '. Hoys tVato GrowingConteitt 3. Girl' Canning Contest. 4. Girls Cooking and Making Content. 5. Hoya' and Girl' Poultry Con test. 0. Girls' Sewing Contest. 7, Hoya' Pig Feeding Contest 8. Boya' and dills' Gardening Contest. S. Dairy Herd and Manage ment. 10. Manual Arts Contest. ihe Agricultural College haa promised to assist us further in preparing bulletins giving expert advice to the children as to how best to produce the different thingt nanieo in meae projects, auch aa bulletins on potato growing, etc., rhese will bo distributed through the cluba, and will be of value to parents aa well as to the children. Tl. . i. m .. . . incworKiu organizing me clubs will fall largely upon the county school autcrintendents working through the teachers. The Uni versity of Oregon, the Oregon Ag ricultural College, and the Oregon iNormal School have promised to end out men in addition to the field workers from this office to help the superintendents in this work. The State Fair Board has appro priated to thia department $1,000 to be distributed among the boys and girls as prizes at the State Fair. The board has also promised us $500 to be used to entertain two boya from each county for the whole week of the Fair. The boys will b under the moat careful su pervision and will make a atudy of I every department of the Fair, in eluding especially the poultry and stock judging. In addition to this wa expect to aend the ten children who aland highest in the State contest to the Panama exposition at Han Francisco. Personally 1 feel that the great suceas which the childrens' indus trial work has had in this state is due to a great extent to the encourage ment wnicn naa been given to the movement by the preaa of Oregon All ... . . nu oi ua win appreciate most sin carely your continued support helping to organize thia work, and thua make the work of our publi achoola more practical and efficient. I ahall send you from time so time copiea of all bulletins as they are published. For any editorial aup port you may aee fit to give th movement, the atate and the county superintendents will be truly thankful. Kouis very truly, J. A. CHURCHILL. Superintendent of Public Instruc tion. Card of Thanks. We winh to thank all our friend who freely gave us of their help and sympathy duting the sickness and death of our loved one. Harriet M. D.uPuis. Mr. and Mra. J. A. DuPuis iwrm A GOOD PLICC TO DO Business Columbia Gounty Bank ST. HELENS, ORE. ASSETS $17 0 000 -BOARD OE DIRECTORS Win. M. Rom, PrMidaol 1- R. Rutherford, Vic-Proa. A L Siom, Cuhior J. S. All.n, AuL Ca)ur LG. Rom iwrm So it will be seen that the dis iricls along the river from Goble.to all. whether for or ajrainst the tiown have spent considerable. proposition, nore than h this district. , . : These figures go a long ways toward answering the arguments hat we in this district have been aying taxes for years for our roads, while the fellows down tho river have been doing noth ing, and now we are asked to help them build their roads. As n matter of fact they have spent more money on their roads than we have on ours, and if we ob tained better results than others it was because we had better fa- Governor West is about to spoil all the good e fleet of his recent Copperfield exploit by en gaging in an unseemly war of words with District Attorney Godwin, of Raker County. WIN US LIQUORS CIGARS You Always Get the Best at DUKE'S PLACE IlLAKKSl.KY KUMJ. ST. HELENS, ORE. o WHITE ENAMELED WARE FOR SAMK TRICE AS CHEAPER WARE C. H.dOHN&CO. THE HOUSE OF QUALITY' Q n IT 1 I oca ICS AH .Work Guaranteed. Estimates Furnished. FOR RkNT; House, barn, chicken house and other outbuildings with half acre of land. Half mile from Houlton. George Perry, Houlton, Ore 5 ! R. CONSTANTIN Plumbing and Sheet Metal Heating Work REMOVAL NOTICE F. J. HASEEL the Houlton Merchant has completed his new store building next to the Perry Graham . store i n Houlton and has moved his entire stock of General Mer chandise into new building. 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