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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1922)
"I can never thank you -I run never t«ll you wlrnt you did for me. hell«»- WOOD SAWYER Harry Scarta The Indian Drum , Automatic 611-10 M. A K. (Mathes) Martlet, 5927 »2d Bt. 8. E. Chester* e BARBER □ SHOP Now at Fiftieth and Division The asm» high-class work as always Children's halreulting specialty fly William MecHarj MATT GREENSLADE Wagon Repairing HofSMltoflnqA Gen. BUcksmlthlny h IKIVIN MY1JU AUTO REPAIRING »::27 Foster Road LENTS " DR. P. J. O’DONNELL (Continued from last week.) And for Nfa-annan. strong against stl that aasaUed Curvet, there had been always the terror of the ludlan brunt —Ute I »rum which had beat short for the Mlwaka, the bruin which had known that one was saved I That story camo from some hint which Luke had spread. Corvef thought; but Hpenr- mao. bom near by the brum, believed that the brum had known and that the brum had tried to loll; all through the years Npearman had dreaded the brum which had tried to betray blm. * So It was by the brum that. In the end. Spearman waa broken. The priest's voice bad stopped, as Alan slowly realised; he heard Sher rill's voice speaklug to him. **lt was a trust that he left you. Alan; I thought It must be that-- • trust for those who suffered by the of your father's ship. I don't k know yet how It can be fulfilled; and we muat think of that." “That's how I understand It." Alan mid. Through the tumult In bla sou! ho became aware of physical feelings ■gain, and of Sherrill's hand put upon his shoulder In a cordial, frlrndly grasp. Then another hand, small and fl rm, touched his. and he felt Its warm tightening grasp upon Ills Angers; he looked up. and his eyes tilled and hers, be saw, were brimming too. They walked together, later la the day. up the hill to the small, white house which had been Caleb Stafford's. The woman who had come to tbe door was willing to show them through the house; It had only 6ve rooms, One of those upon the second floor was so much larger and pleasanter than the real that they became quite sure that It waa the one tn which Alan had been bom. and where hie young mother soon afterward had died. The woman, who had showed them about, had gone to another room ■nd left them alone. There seems to have been no nie turn of her and nothing oi hers len here that any one can tell me about; but," Alan choked, “h's good to be able to think of her as I can now. "I mean—wo one can say anything against her now!" Alan drew nearer her. trembling. EXODONTIA Phone»—-615-10 (office) 618-18 (residence) Cor. »2d and Foster Road ■ Y. AONO Associated All kinds Gaaoline of Oils Tires, Tubes and ail Accessories. Northeast corner of B2d and Divi sion streets. ________ . « All kinds of Light Trucking Garbage Hauled B. F. COOK Auto. 614-48 10207 67th Ave. 8. E. MT. SCOTT TRANSFER CO. 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Ingalls Mr Pierce has been weeping copious tears over tbe situation or tbe farm ■r for many years without offering any remedy for conditions that tend to create tbe difficulty from which be suffers, but. on the other hand, be ba» bad more to do with increasing taxes —by bis legislative votes and by the introduction of foolish bills — than probably any other man In Oregon. Among tbe things that Mr. Pierce has prated about to farmer audiences is the difficulty that the farmer has had and still has in obtaining money cheaply enough and tor sufficient length of time to enable him to con duct the Ordinary transactions of his business affairs. One of the funds which has been created for tbe farm 'Constance I" He Caught Her. ers of Oregon, from which they might Let Him Hold Her. obtain money at a lower rate of in tercet, la the Irreducible school fund Ing In—her and tn me. no matter how We have heard a great deal about things looked. And then, coming up the sacrednees of this fund—both from here as you did -for me!" Mr. Pierce end from some of his Demo "Yes. It was for you. Alan !" cratlc allies. Mr. Pierce has been "Constance!" He caught her. Rhe very fond of thia fund tn the past— let blm hold her. much fonder than even bls earnest The woman was returning to them speechea^-tn behalf of cheaper money now and, perhaps. It was as well ; for the farmer—would Indicate. Let ; for not yet, he knew, could he ask us Illustrate Mr. Pieree's deep af her all that be wished; what had hap fection and abiding love for this source pened waa too recent yet for that. Rut of cheep money. to blm. Spearman—half mad and flee The creators of the Irreducible | ing from the haunts of men—was be school fund wished to provide loans ginning to be like one who had never for small farmers on the theory that been; and he knew »he shared thia tbe larger farmers—such aa Mr. feeling. The light In her deep ayes Pierce is (the assessed value of hts waa telling him already what her an property being $253.000 00)—ars able ' swer to him would bo; and life to take care of themselves They stretched forth before him full of love passed statutory enactment to the ef . and happiness aqd ho,«. feet that no one Individual could bor (THE END.) row from this fund aa smount greater than $6,000; nor could he get his loan If you have read the story of "The for a longer period than ton years, Indian Drum" let us know how you and he should be permitted to borrow enjcyed it It is our intention to rive It at the low rate of 4% According to the records of Union our readers the kind of story tiwy like moat and our next »election will County (Book 34 of Deeds, page 621). Walter M Pierce sold to Charles M. be based entirety on the comments Pierce, his brother, one of his tracts of of our readers. land, for the sum of $16,400.00. This transaction occurred on November 14th, 1903. Seven days later, Charles M. Pierce borrowed $6,000.00, tbe limit that he eould get from the school fund, from the State Land Board. Seven days after tbe money was borrowed op this farm. Charles Pierce Organization Formed to State sold it back again to bla Brother Wal ter. tor a consideration of $16.400.00 Opposing Side to Voters —the exact amount that he paid for It and the record states that Walter M. of Oregon. Pierce assumes and agrees to pay the mortgage. November 14, 1903—on the same Opposition on the part of various Protestant denominations to tbe pro day on which Walter sold property to posed compulsory education bill, so- hla brother Charles—he also sold an called. Is being carried on through an other farm to his sister, Minnie organisation formed la Portland, with Pierce. For thia farm he received $16,- * headquarters In the Consolidated 401'00 On the same day that Brother Sectfritles building. Its purpose is to state to the voters of Oregon the ob Charles borrowed $5.000 00 from the jections of those whom It represents State Land Board, Sister Minnie also borrowed $5.000 00 from the State to the passage of the measure. W. L. Brewster,' former city com Board—the acknowledgment of this missioner of Portland, member of transaction being taken by Walter M. the public library board and lawyer Pierce, himself, aa Notary Public in of prominence. Is chairman. Joseph Union County. For some reason or other, Minnie A. Hill, principal of Hill Military academy. Portland, a non-aectarian B. Pierce did not like the farm she had school for boys. Is esecutlve secretary. bought from Walter, any more than Xembers representing various Pro Brother Charles liked his farm, for— testant Interests Include Richard W. on December It (1$ days after she Montague. James Stapleton. Frederick had,given the mortgage), she sold the 8trong. H. 0. Thurston. F. W. J. Syl farm beck to Waits» for $16.600.00, vester. W. J. Henderson and Mabel the exact sum that she paid for it, Walter M. Pierce again kindly.assum Holmes Parsons. A statement just Issued through this ing and agreeing to pay the mortgage. November Mth, 1403, seems to have office says, briefly: been a very busy day for "Walter M."; The proposed bill Is fundamentally for. In addition to the farms that he un-American, as it undertakes to de sold to his brother'Charles and his prive certain people of the right to sister Minnie, he also sold, on the send their children to schools where same day. another farm to his brother religion Is a part of the training. George, for the consideration of $15. it would close all private schools 600.00. of whatsoever denomination or non By a strange coincidence. George sectarian institutions, such as the Hill also had to borrow some money on his Military scaddlny. newly-purshssed farm and. on Novem It la unnecessary; upsets the theory ber 23. 1903—the same day that his of our government; fosters Intolerance, brother Charles borrowed $5,000. $0 bigotry and Invites religious contro- from the State Land Board—brother versy. George also borrows $5,000 00 from the Its provisions would place on tax- State Land Board payers of Oregon more than <1,006,- Evidently brother George didn't like 000 additional taxes to care for the Xbargain any better than the other several thousand pupils now In the tires for. a few days later—to-wlt: various private schools of the state; December 16th, 1903. he gold the farm new building! would be required and back to Walter for $16.600.00, the a large added teaching staff. same amount that he paid for IL Above all. It lt> unconstitutional, and Walter again assuming the $5.000.00 harks back to witchcraft days when mortgage. This sum seems to be a burning at the stake was the fate favorite In the Pierce family—for It Is of many who believed differently than the same amount that Brother Charles others and dared to exercise their had paid for his farm, on tbe same rights; It Is Inconceivable that the day. Evidently Walter did not care voters of generous Oregon will put to show any partiality between his two the brand of religious bigotry and In brothers. It may not be of any bene tolerance upon this fair state. fit to the account of this transaof.lon^ but nevertheless it should be noted that these considerations, received by Walter for the sale of these farms to hie relatives, is slightly over three times the $5.000.00 mortgage. The State Law requires that the State land Board can make no loans from the Irreducible School Fund for mors than one-third the value of the prop erty Involved, but that Walter should always sell for thrice the limit he could borrow, may be a mere incident. November 14, 1903, was apparently a remarkable day In Walter’s Real Estate career for, tn addition to the three farms above mentioned, which he sold that day to his brothers and sister, he also sold a farm td Thomas J. Tweedy, a near friend of his, fcr tM flat consideration of $16,000.00. _ - It seems too strung to b. Thomas Tweedy, on Novemb -■ ' • the same day that other mo:t: r were made to the State Land Board also borrows $5,000.00 of the sacred PROTESTANT FORCES FIGHT SCHOOL GILL irreducible school fund. and. to make the coincidence still more remurka'ile, on December 12th, he sold tbe place back to Waller M. Pierce for $10,010.06 —the exact amount he paid for It— tbe affable Mr Pierce agreeing to as sume and to pay the $6,600.00 mort gage But this does not account for all Mr. Pierce’s transactions on that busy day. Evidently, they were having a "sell- yourfarrn" day on November 16th, in Union Coanty, for Walter on that day sells to one George W. Tate, a business associate, another one of his numerous Union County farms, receiv ing for this one $17,200.00. This amount received for this place would indicate that Walter drove a harder bargain with his business associates than be did with hla relatives. But, If November 14th was “sell- your farm-day" In Union County, Nov ember 23rd was also "mortgage-your- farm-day” for the State Land Board. FOr the records show that George W. Tate, on that day. borrowed $5,00" "0 from tbe 8tate Land Board—the mort gage note being acknowledged In statu tory form before Walter M. Pierce himself, as Notary Public for Union County. How the minds of the purchaser, of these various tracts ran "willingly along" together. Is indicated by the fact that Mr. Tate, on November 30th, seven days after he made hla real es tate deal, sold hla newly-purchased place back to Walter M. Pierce, for $17400.00—the same amount he had paid for It, Mr. Pierce again kindly agreeing to assume and pay tbe atari g*ge In spite of these large transactions In Real Estate that occurred at that time. It will be noted that none of tbe parties to these transactions made any money off each other—all of them re selling the farms bought from Waiter back to him, for the same prices they paid for them. Evidently Walter did not propose to be outdone by those to whom be had ■old hla property for, on November 23rd, the same day that the others bor rowed money from the State Land Board, Book 29 of Mortgages for Union County, shows that the future non partisan candidate of the Democratic Party for Governor, also borrowed $5,000.00 from the State Land Board, and. having assumed the mortgages of the other five farms which he had sold to hla relatives and friends. Mr. Pierce now had $30,000.00 of the State’s Sa cred Irreducible School Fund for which he was paying Interest at the insignificant rate of 6%. There were other farmers, however, in Eastern Oregon who were not so fortunate as to secure even $5.000 00. or smaller sums, from the State Land Board, or any other board, at 6%; but the records of that section show that loans were b’ ng made extensive ly at that time, at rates of Interest carrying from $ to 10 per cent In fact, the mortgage records show that John M. Lightfoot and wife, on tbe 9th day of November of that same year, borrowed from Walter M Pierce, the sum of $750.00, for a period of five years, at 6% interest! giving a mort gage on their farm therefor. Hundreds of other mortgage records show that no money was being loaned In Walter's section of the country at that time for less than $%. The state law requires that money borrowed from the sacred Irreducible school fund must not be held for more than a ten-year period. The records shew, however, that all of the six mortgages, held by Walter M. Pierce, were not paid until Septembe. L 1915. In other words, because their rela tives unloaded their mortgagee on him, Walter had $30,006 of the state's irre ducible School Fund—when he was entitled to only $5,000 for not more than ten years. Other farmers, in Mr. Pierce's section of the country, and other parts of Oregon, were making DRESSMAKING applications for loans to the State School Fund, and were unable to so- cure money because of the fact that the available money In the fend was all loaned out. The records In Umatilla County show that, during this period. Paa ter a Oregon farmers, however, were not allowed to go without money entirely —tor Walter, himself, waa sgcommo- dating a great many of them, with sums carrying up to twenty tbo-i-aal dollars and that at rates of Interest running for from $ to 10 pw cent. Tor example, on May 27, 190S, !'iry E. Cooley mortgaged 1J20 acres of land, to Walter, in the sum of $20<- 000.00 for 8%. On November 2nd, the same month la which Walter conducted his numer ous deals In real estate, he loaned to J. 8 Sbuterneal another sum of money, on a farm mortgage, at 10%. 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