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About St. Helens mist. (St. Helens, Or.) 1913-1933 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1915)
ST. HELENS MIST. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1915. FOUXDKD 1881. Issued Kverjr Friday bjr THK MIST rriUJSHIXU tXMIXY. 8. I MOOKHKAI) Kill tor and Manager Eutered as second-class matter, January 10th, 1912, at the Postoftlce at St. Helens, Oregon, under tlio act of March 3rd, 1S79. . 8U11SCIUFTION KATKS: One Year $1.50 Six Montlia 73 Advertising rate made known on aiillratlon. COUNTY OFFICIAL rAPEK. PAVING, 67 CENTS A SQUARE YARD. A total of 23,930 yards of paving put clown t.t a total cost of $15,933.68, or approximately 67 cents per square yard, or $5,(HJ0 per mile for a 12-foot road bed, which price includes a royalty on the plant of 15 cents per square yard. If the 15 cent royalty were deducted and there were added a cost of four cents per square yard to pay for overhead expenses and depreciation of value on the plant the cost of paying would be brought down to about $4500 per mile. Taking the ditl'erence between the nine-foot roadbed usually laid for macad am roads and the 14-foot roadbed laid for pav ing, the cost would be further reduced to ap proximately the same as for macadamized road. The abov.e figures show that the Marion county court has been able to lay paved roads at the same price as for macadamized roads. This is the record of the Marion county court in the paving business. This year has seen the first venture of the county court of this county in the road-paving business and other county courts of the state have been watching developments of the pro cedure with considerable interest. Their in terest is easily explained when it is shown that the 2.2 miles of pavement put down this year cost less than 67 cents per square yard for a pavement 2l2 inches thick, while the Warren Construction companv is today laying pave ment two inches thick for Multnomah count v at a contract price of $1.17 per square yard, 50 cents a yard more for one-half inch less of pavement, and this is the lowest contract price vet reported for the Warrenite paving, which is most like this pavement laid by the county court on the roads of this county this year. The Warren Construction company has a patent on their pavement and this patent pre cludes all other companies or concerns using rocks larger than one-half inch in diameter in the paving mixture. The Marion county pav ers had no desire to infringe on the patent rights of Warrenite, so they used rock smaller than one-half inch in diameter and from this size down to fine sand. All road' men agree that the wearing qualities of1oth pavements are. the same approximately, though the cost . r i : ...,- . .... ui laying me nner mixture is slightly greater, about tow cents per square yard under most circumstances. While the Marion county court is pleased with the showing made this year thev are sat isfied that it can be bettered in future years because they have a lot of material on hand now that need not be replaced, and the cost of all these materials and paving machinery is included in the cost of the paving-this year. Again the hauls have been greater this year because the county court desired to try the paving on different kinds of roads. The bookkeeping of the paving business of the county this year, follows: Total expendi tures for paving including all materials, labor, royalty on plant, and all other items, $16,177 .76. Out of this the county is credited with 6000 gallons of oil used on the roads not for paving, or $147.08 worth ; 30 barrels of asphalt on hand. $77; credits for small jobs laid off roads. $224.08, leaving a total cost of all pav ing of $15,933.68. From the state fair board was received $2485.81 ; from the city of Salem, $82.08; miscellaneous, $40.55-; court house drives, $1004.96, making the total deductions $3613.40. and leaving $12,320.28 as the net cost of the paving to the county roads which was 11,000 lineal feet, or 2.2 miles of 14-foot paving, and at a cost of about $5600 per mile. The extra expense of starting, such as the ' testing plant, the 3x4 inch headers for the sides of the paved areas, and the long hauls and the small pieces of work have increased the expenses this year and with the elimina tion of the 15 cent royalty for the rent of the plant the county court considers that it la ; discovered a hard surface road at a small cosi which gives every promise of standing the test of time as well as the paving with its pedi gree registered in the U. S. patent office. The total cost this year was further increased l y the fact that the paving on the court house drives was laid four inches thick as was about one-third the paving laid inside the fair grounds for the state. That the paving has met with the approval of the residents of the road districts is indi cated by the fact that the Gervais district No and No. 19 also wish to vote a special tax for next year to improve certain stretches of road with hard surface pavement. District No i9 wishes to continue on the Rn-r Road where the county left off this vear tioMh of the coun ty poor farm and to spread hard surf.n -; ig the keizer school house, a distance of about four miles. District No. 7 wishes to contintv the paving on Pacific Highway from the .vork north of the fair grounds clear through the district. It is not probable that the county will con tinue paving without purchasing the plant upon which a 15 cent royalty per yard was paid this year. The county court considers this royalty exhorbitant, when the overhead charges for the entire season putting the ma terials for 10 miles of road would not amount to more than three or four cents per square yard. KICKS FOIt TIIK Kit K Kit. "Some men feast while others fast; Sime men toll while others shirk; Somo men smile while others moan; Some men fish while others work; Some men sign while others sing; Somo cc.rouse while others pray; Huve you ever met a mini Who has made carousing pay? "Some men dig while others dream; Some men boost while others knock; Somo men think the days are long; Somo men forget the clock; Somo meu hope whllo other men Co complaining day by day; Hava you ever met a man Who has made complaining pc.y!" Kansas Farmer. PROCEEDINGS OF COUNTY COURT I ENCOURAGE SHIPBUILDING. The laws in California, Alabama and other seaboard states which exempt vessels con structed in the home state from taxation at their ports of registry, appear to us to be just the proper thing. Ships are expensive things and in a state such as Oregon with abundance of ship-building material on hand, some inducement should be held out to have them constructed lure. There can be do doubt but what any com pany contemplating putting ships in the Oregon-Pacific coast service would place the order for their construction in Oregon if by building them in this state thev could be entered at ail Oregon port exempt from taxation. Such an exemption law would be a powerful stimulus to the ship-building industry in Ore gon, which, by rights, ought to be one of the leading industries of the state. "The City of Portland," for instance, the McCorniick auxiliary steamer nmv being con structed at St. Helens, will utilize one niillioir and a quarter feet of timber, to say nothing of the countless other accessories. It also giv.-s employment to many highly salaried men for six or eight months. Imagine, then, the results that would obtain from a law makuig it prolq able for all of the ship-operating companies .'n Oregon to build their vessels in Oregon. This is an excellent proposition for our leg islators to get busy on and the reprec'cntal'ves of the port-containing counties should see that it gets a hearing at the next legislature. '. he money the state recei.es in taxes from veels legistered in this state is a neg;.'!ve quar.ti'y compared with what the ship building industry would bring the .state if it had the impetus a ta exemption law would g!e it. Astorian. The "performances of the ,big steamships Great Northern and Northern Pacific in main taining the tri-weeklv schedules equalling the time of the limited trains between Portland and San Francisco is shown in a report from the traffic headquarters of the company. This is an averaged record for a period of time of 30 hours 21 minutes of rail and steamer time from Portland to San Francisco. The report has been made during varying conditions of title and. weather. The large volume of tourist-travelers that was routed through the Pa Hfic Northwest and down the Columbia River route by the North Hank system and thence to .he Golden Gate by the ocean has fulfilled the anticipations of the Great Northern Pa-ific Steamship companv. The hifcii class sen ice provided passengers on this rot.te liar been the cause of much favorable cor n-.cnt. oven former President Taft conipli in nimg ih Pacific Coast people upon the cntcrpr. in establishing the new route. The K ! Vei.lent was a. passenger from Portland to San Fran cisco recently and, upon being urged bv fellow passengers to contribute to the fund of enter J.amment en route, good-naturedly responded bv relating some anecdotes and said the lux ury of travel from the Pacific Northwest down the coast, as evidenced by the Palaces of the Jaciiic was in the nature of a revelation to him. f or the first time in the history of the auto mobile it has been demonstrated that a car can be started from a distance by means of the wireless telegraph. This was proved at the Inchana State hair, where the motor of a -Model 83 Overland was started every- five min utes by a wireless spark from the' Overland l eadquarters in Indianapolis five miles away What we want is a wireless or telephone that will start the kitchen fire in the morning. It is whispered around that Cel. Hofer will be a candidate for governor two years hence We heard Col. Hofer make the statement iii luigene that his ambition was to be the most talked of man in f )regon. 1 e had made pretty good headway thus far. The trouble is with he Colonel he won t permit any of the others I he editor has a gash on his left thumb about three inches long and it looks about an inch wide, as a result of splitting wood on Sun day. Warrenton News. That's what you get for working on Sunday W e read m history some place a man was stoned to death for picking up chips on Sun day. on got off easy. ,Jey- Al!tmy p'kstone. Pastor of the P.ap t.st church of Ashland, has been adopted liv Mrs. Aure ha herguson. a wealthy widow, re ported to be worth $100,000. If there is wealthy widow hereabout desiring to adopt a man. we can be found in the office most an day of the week. 1 In Covington Kentucky, ankle watches on co-eds has been forbidden. The ban no dm, was .ssued for modest reasons, but we e" hrough our i.nvatc wireless that many " Covington s citizens were becoming cross vc1 thcir endeavor to learn the time of day. The latest miracle of agricultural science is t .c production of butter from 'Vhcy" , cheese faetor.cs.-Kalama Bulletin. V .Nex thing we know, they will be making gingerbread out of the hole in doughnuts K Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1915. Fifth Judicial Day. Court came pursuant to adjourn ment. Olllcers all present. Due pro clamation being made, the following proceedings were h id: Matter of Petition of Uiwell M. Smith, for reiulsi-.ion of tux. On thl 21st dt.v of Sciitcmher. 1916, lxwell M. Smith presents to the Court his duly verified petition for remission of Fire Patrol Tax for , 1914 on NVs of SW'4 mid SVi or NWV4 of Sec. 6. In T. 5, N. of It. 6 W, In the sum of S.OO. And It appearing to the Court that I during the period of time for which! said Fire Patrol Tax was levied, said Lowell M. Smith renlt'ed continuously upon said land and therefore was not ! Ilublo for said tux, it Is ordered by the I Court that said petition bo and the: same Is hereby allowed, and the Sheriff and tux collector Is hereby In structed to cancel the same on said 1914 tax rolls. Mutter of Petition of Charles I,. I -o vol I , for remission of tax. On this day it appearing to the Court from the duly verilled petition of Charles I.. Lovoll, on (lie herein, that the personal properly agulnst which tax in the sum of fti.OO. Is as sessed against suld Charles I,. Uiv ell. "uccount of J. I. Uggmun," was tho property of said KgKmun and that fiaid Iovill did not own any personal property In Cot'lumblu County on March 1st. 1914. That suld property should have been assessed to s:;ld Kggninn, who has since removed from Columbia County, and that said tax Is not now collectible. It Is therefore ordered by the Court that the Sheriff and tax collector be, mil ho is hereby instructed to cancel said tax agalnxt salt! personal prop erty, together with all accrued pen alty and interest thereon. Matter of Petition of II. K. I.ullure for remission and rebate of tux. On this 21st day of March, 1915. It appearing to tho Court from tho records and from tho duly verilled petition of II. K. I.allure, on II In hero in, that n douhlo assessment wai made for the year 1914 on the SK1 nf SK; of Sec. 29, 7, f. wherein said uoperty was assessed to II. K. and A. I.. Lallaro and also assessed to one lohn Monner, and tux In the sum of 15.02 was carried out against sal. I property in euch of said assessments; That on the 1st day of March. 1915, suid II. E. Lallan, us owner of wild property tinder sheriff deed on foreclosure of mortgage, paid the ilrst half of all said taxes so charged It Is therefore ordered hy din Court that the Sheriff and tax collector Is hereby Inst meted to cuncel suld tux s charged to said John Monner, as ippears In Vol. 3, page 49, line 19. lax Rolls of 1914. It Is further nriliri.l l,v ii. ..... - "7 .11,7 V .fill I that the Clerk be, end ho Is hereby .nsirueinn to Issue a Ceiieral Fund Warrant In the sum of $2.51, In favor! f said II. K. Lallure. Imlng the! -mount of suld first half tax so paid i n double assessment n th name of lohn Monner. , Matter of Petition f,.r r.,,r..i Tax on Sec. 38, T. 4 N., It. 3 W. on tbls day conies on for hearing he petition of J olin I mi ru,,n ... nl I ror remission of tax on Seetion 30, T. 4 N It. 3 v representing that said Section Is held In trust by tho I'lsgtth Homo Colony Association J l;elng nn association organized for "Cliglous and benevolent purposes, -reiore not suiijcct to taxation And It appeurlng to the Court that '.aid section Is nuuoi-.uiwl in v..i...i Timber and I.m'iHn.r ,i r.r.-..n . ... , ll ntllll company has paid nil taxes thereon excepting that portion described as the NW of SW'.i thereof; Unit there Is nothing of record evidencing .ny interest held by said association therein, and the mutters brought to the attention nt tim r,,,-. i...i.. ... the effect that such Interest, If any -Ainin, HiiiHL II a ve neon ncfiu rni -..I. :eouent to the 11 rut ,l.,v ..r . . . " milieu, 1914. it Is t herefnrn r,l.r...i i... Court that said petition he, and the same is nerehy denied. Matter of Ivtlil.,. f w i r. . for remission of penally and Interest on 1909 tax. On this dav M I n,,... ... j. unions tho Court for remluul,,., .... nnd Interest In the sum of $13.10 on Dellnnuent tninu for n. ...... . . .... ;ru, jhh-j as charged ngalnst 1-4 acre In Ilroyles v .. ui.ii as assessed ror suld year In tho name of S .1 uv,i r... owner thereof, for the reason that mid petitioner nmli,, t., i , : , . . m .in, nil Klon that said tux had been paid, and nan riM-oiveii no notlco thereof. And the Court I.pIihf n,ii,iu.i i.. . .... matter. It is ordered by the Court that said petition be, nnd the sumo Is hereby denied. Matter rif t'ntll.,n t..i. . , , , .....Mi i uoiin rarr, Administrator, for nnvmnnt i, .... y to bulunce claims against estate i f W. I). Case. On this 21st il.iv t c.........i 1915. John Pnrr iwlr.,1. ,i. the cstntn of W n I'.u, m... 1.1.. .. otlon herein. n.nrnrn,,ii., ... fourt that claims tl'.ed and expense 'i miiiiiiiiHirudon m suld e-itaie nmount to the mi in ,r tuo it. ...... cash received from nil unr. i.uiuiiiiiH to l ne mini ii I9T.7 nn in.. Ing unpaid clnlms In the 'mm n $401.77. And It nntienrlnir tn 1. r..... .1.. . , , r - w u.q ..nun inni the claims against said estate are for supplies, liilior nnil w.n.... ..- ... , i ' nn liilior that all wont for the Improvement of '113 I UUI i-iirm ill Tim ('mini., .... . the funeral expenses, tho lust sickness end the costs of administration, and that the County has received full vaiun tor hucii expenses; It !h therefore nlnM.i i... ,i... ii.-. ----- -- "..- ii i. ni v ouri that the Clerk bo, and ho is hereby . niruanu 10 issue a General Fund Warrant in tho sum of $401.77 In fllVOr Of Bald John !,'.., .l.i..i...' , . - "iiuuisi.rui- or as aforesaid, to bo used by him l settling suld claims in full Matter of Clalma , i ward and N. C. Woodward,' for In jury to horses: J. T. Wonilwnnl nmi .r , . . ward hnvlnir linmi..f. '.'.., " ,,,i iiii-ii mmr respective claims against the County ror damages for Injury to horses sus tained liv ruunn ..I .1..r ii... . .. 'innn-.i.ivu iirioge across Mcllrldo Cnnyon, and the i i i ,,mvlnK herotororo relnetod uld claims, now, on this 21st day September, 191 6, the Court being more fully advised in tho matter. It Is ordered by the Court that said claims be rtvconsldorod, and agree ment being had with the parties here to. It Is ordered by tho Court that the Clerk bo Instructed lo Issue a Gen eral Fund Warrant In tho sum of $86.00. In favor of J. T. Woodward, anil a like wurrunt In tho sum ol $50.00, In favor of N. C. Woodward. In full settlement of all damage, claimed on account thereof. Mutter of Cash Account of Iaw O. Titus, Itoudmaster: On this day Leo U. Titus, County Itoad master, presents to the Court his Itomlxod statement nnd account-, lug of the sum of $100.00 heretofore appropriated as an emergency fund, accompanied by proper vouchers, showing expenditures In tho sum of $94. 78, as well as a duplicate receipt of tho County Treasurer In the sum of $5.22. And the Court being advised In the matter. It is orderod by tho Court that said account be, and the same Is hereby approved. In the matter of Deeds for Change in Portland St. Helena County Itoad: On this day It appearing to the Court that certain changes have been made In the locution of tho I'ortland (Contlnued ou page 5). AN UP-TO-DATE Jewelry Store COMPLETE STOCK OF Watches ANII Clocks EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING. VON A. GRAY Jew.l.r. ST. lirUNS PURE MILK AND CREAM FumiiheJ Daily by LONE FIR DAIRY Cad" Bto... . TfoprUtors ST. HKI.ENS. OREGON. Plume 107-6. Our fiu'llltles nnil equipment for handling dairy products enables im t Hiipply the lient grade of milk and cream, which Is strictly sanitary. Wo arc anxious to secure inoro customers ami proiiilso K'mmI set vice. hnl lf actio,, Kunrantel every resie-t. In LUNCH MASON'S RUTHERFORD BUILDING. Ht. Helens, Oregon. Headiiinrl4rs for Frank's Oimllty MF..T TltF.ATH MT. II(N)I) ( ,; VMlAM High indo f'O.VIFCTIONKIlY CKJAIIH AM TOIIM O) I.ilnch at n OUMi Str. IRALDA Rates between St. Helens ami Port land, 50 cents one way, 7S cents for the round trip. Tickets good until used. Host I..ave, St. elens 7:55 a.m. Itclu.ni,, Uves '"tl"t.d 2:3(1 p. m Arrive at St llelcM .-,3 p P ' r- I HOOCHKIRK PROFESSIONAL A. ROSS FUNERAL DIRECTOR I ire..-- Buiiiwi, rissw J I PH'S.C.ANAN08UJ Mucklt Milg, MONK t oak m ej, St. Helens . A ft A.CTUCKEk 1KNTI8T " "W.KNj.oKftj,,, M"U iltlfl. DR. L. GLRE PHYSICIAN MUIK. 0ee Hank HI1I4 j, DR EDWIN ROSS PHYSICIAN A SURCk 'Ht h IN HANK Bin St. Helens a, T. S WHITE FUNERAL 0ffttIc; Hntiltou O.t DR. ALFRED J. Fid PHYSICIAN A SURCd Hans KuiailiiS DR. H. R. CUFF -PHYSICIAN &SURW rhoiir Main 4.n a t; sittd i 1117 H.-I huii.iii.n IH.lUl 1117 Hrlllus r,(l,1l! ui iiauu,u Kit, I HA W. MMt im. nana 11. nun No Drugs '""ji iiAtiuiis OHlco Hours: 9 a. m. to III 2 P m. to 4 p.m., 7:30 lol ll fit. Heleni, Orcioi. HERBERT W. WHf ATTORNEY-ATUW St Helens Oref M. . MILLER ATTOHNEYATUVI St. Helens Orrf ST. HELENS ROUTE via Wlll.m.ll. Slouik THE PEOPLES BOAT STK. AMERII Loaves Portland dull)" (Sunday 1:30 p. ) Arrives St. Helens - (Sunday 3:30 p. o I Loaves St. Helens - ' Arrives Portland l01!' II. HOLMAN, Ai1 WW I'honos: Ml t.IAfll U FltANK WILKINH, Makes all way landings. Alder street. A-4204. .mH A FRESH SHAVE Adds tone to any man. That's why we are so busy a"1 there are so man; tony people in tins town. IS Csnts a Tss. 8. K. I-VNCH. c. wl.ni Oinon 41 J