Oregon City courier. (Oregon City, Or.) 1902-1919, March 18, 1915, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextUniverslt Eugene, Ore jtjitjijjijitjAjitjjfjjjAjtjJ v ,.. J J The Courier will be deliver- 5 ed for one year for $1.00 in S v advance. The Estacada Pro- 5 gress and The Courier both for J . $1.40. jl J ji Jit j jltjltjlt J J j J Jltjt J JtJlJtJt , J Jt Jt J J S J Jt Jt J v J J J j . j If you have anything to - J sell, tell the subscribers of The J x Courier about it. You are sure x J to find a buyer. - j -J CITY 'Jtjtjtjt jt Jit J J J J J Jf Jj OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1915 Number 52 32d Year OREGON I'll 13 F DEAD 11 111 MRS. ARMSTRONG DIES UNDER PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES AT ESTACADA OFFICIALS ABANDON INQUIRY Yet There are Indications of -Crime Rather than of Suicide in Mysterious Case Hw did Mrs. Minnie K. Arm strong get down the well on herhus band's farm near Estacada, where she was drowned sometime Monday morning ? Did she fall down the bore, was she thrown down, or did she deliber ately "dive in to commit suicide? A coroner's jury, inquiring into the case under Acting Coroner Sievers returned a verdict that she "came to her death by drowning from causes unknown." And Sheriff Wilson says that he beleives that she either com mitted suicide or fell down thewell, and that he will make no further in vestigation of the matter. A silver spoon was found lying beside the well. Mr. Armstrong left ,and that he knows no reason whv she should ended her life. ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME THAT "MYSTERIOUS DEATHS" WERE INVESTIGATED IN THIS COUN TY? Isn't it about time to make an honest effort to find out something about the fate of people who have died in Clackamas county under cir- satisfactorily explained? Isn't worn anhood in Clackamas county worth protecting? '? It is pretty near fourr years ago now that we had the terrible 'Hill murders at Ardenwald, and the inter vening time has seen a lot of prom ises on the part of the officials to bring the murderer to justice, but aside from the promises there has been nothing done and the promises were always made around election time. Out in the southeastern part of the county a man was killed over a year ago, and hisson was tried and acquitted. Alter ne was men u developed that the state had not pre sented all the evidence in the case that it had. and that the "self de- fense" plea that was entered might not have prevailed if this evidence had been submitted to the jury. In a life-insurance fraud case that centered in the county seat some years ago the body of a man .was utilized to take the place of the man who was supposedly dead, and no of ficial has yet discovered where this body came from or how it was pro cured. Clackamas county women and girls have been attacked by brute9, or have been chased by degenerates, until it is an old story; and practically no body has been brought to trial for it. And now a woman, married but a short time, is found dead down a well within a few feet of her home, and the officials say that they will make no further investigation of the mat ter. "The story of foul play is scouted by the authorities," says one news paper account of the last case.. Of course it is. That is what the police say in the large cities when they can not solve a homicide, or when for reasons of policy it is deemed best not to bring the culprit to justice. It is the hardest thing in the world to get the police officials to investi gate a homicide, though nobody has yet discovered why this should be so. Mrs. Armstrong was alone in her home as far asjias been discovered, from njne in the, morning until the time her body hurtled down the well. At nine she wts alive and apparently well, for J. H.K Halie, a milk-route driver, saw her at that time. He tes tified that he noted nothing unusual about her demeanor. Drivers on milk-routes get to know their cus tomers prettv well, for they see them about their household duties, and they usually exchange a word or two with the women folk. If Mr. Armstrong had been morose or brooding upon suicide he would probably have notic- ed that she "was not herself." It is safe to assume then, that the woman was in her right mind at nine Mon day morning At eleven her husband returned from his work in the fields, where he had been gone about three hours, and Mrs. Armstrong was dead at the bottom of the ' well. Examination shows that she drowned, and no marks of violence were found on her body. . On the porch, between the door and the well., a silver spoon was iouna There were no apparent signs of a strutrple. Between nine and eleven, two hours Mrs. Armstrong must have either been seized with suicidal mania, or she was hurled down the well by somebodv who had reasons for get ting her out of the way.. Maybe the reasons were robbery, and maybe there was another reason. Jealousy some times leads to murder. OUi Continued on Page 8 MORE TROUBLE LOOMS George Randall Wants to Kecaii Council if Elevator Doesn't Run George Randall, one' of the most well known men in the county, and heavily interested in Orgon City and nearby property, is out arxer the scalps of the present members of the city council if they don't get the municipal elevator in working order very soon. At this week's meeting of the Live Wires .of the Oregon City Commercial club, Mr. Randall en deavored to enlist aid in his attack on the council. . ' According to Mr . Randall, the people oj the county seat voted a bond issue of $12,000-for a public elevator some two years ago, and all they have had sincf then is litigation and promises; with a temporarily bolted together tower where the elevator ought to be. Mr. Randall blames the situation on the council, and says that something ought to be done. Other members of the organization didn't see things quite as Mr. Ran dall did, and suggested that tho mat ter be left in abeyance a while long er, believing that a way would soon be found to make the elevator work. The Live Wires are a particularly hopeful set of people.' ' COUNCIL SETTLES ASPHALTIC CONCRETE UPON CONCRETE BASE AT $1.60 PICKED VOTE COMES AS BIG SURPRISE City is Also Let in for Heavy Costs v on High Street by Filing of Many Protests .: With Councilman Long absent, the Oregon City council voted late Wed nesday night to repave Main 'street, from Moss to Second, with an as phaltic' concrete pavement prepared by the Montague-Reilly people of Portland at their bid of $1.60 per squrae yard. " The pavement is to be laid on a concrete base to be put down after the present brick pave ment has been removed. The result came as a surprise to the large number of property owners and spectators who sat through two .and a half hours of argument on the mat ter, but all felt that it was a relief to have the question settled, as it has been ud before the council in one form or another for the past two years. The vote on the matter final ly narrowed down to a question of accepting a majority report of the special paving committee favoring bitulithic pavement on a crushed rock base at $1.59 per square yard, or ac cepting the minority report prepared bv Councilman. Andrews favoring the asphaltic concrete on a concrete base at $1.60 per square yard. The deciding vote was: for bitu lithic, Councilmen Albright, Meyer, and Templeton; for asphaltic con crete. Councilmen . Corf, Andrews Hackett, Metzner and Van Auken, In the course of the two and a half hour discussion of the matter L. Char- man conducted a. very clever filibus- ter on behalf of those Main street property holders who didn't want any complete improvement of tne street and both Councilman Albright and Templeton got up and said they had taken no graft in the matter, Mr, Albright's announcement that nobody had offered him any money to wflu ence his decision in the council cham ber, for it was the first intimation made that there was anything crook ed in the proceedings. Following Mr. Albright, MA Temnleton rose, took off his glasses, and defied anybody to rise up ana say that he was a grafter, using language that would not look well in the record at the same time, ino body accepted Mr. Templeton's dare. so there was no fight. An unpleasant surprise was sprung on the city fathers early in the evening when practically every property owner on the westerly side of High street came in with a protest against the assessments laid against the lots. Complaints were made that the assessments were unjust because they did not take into consideration damaees done the property, because the street was from two feet lelow to fourteen feet above property at var ious points, and because lots that should only have been assessed for half their depth were assessed for the full depth. AH these remon- strances and protests against assess ments were referred to the finance committee for consideration, along with similar protests on the assess ments against property abutting on Jefferson, Madison and Third streets. In the case of High street the pro tests ,if held to, may saddle some $20,000 additional cost for the im provement upon the city. All correspondents kindly send in your copy early to insure publication. PAID OUESTIDN DEMOCRATS COUNTY $5010 SUPREME COURT DECISION UP HOLDS RULING OP EX JUDGE BEATIE EDGES AND HICKS WIN FIGHT Road Taxes Collected Within Corpo rate Limits of Cities Must Be Divided, Says Court Democratic office holders saved Clackamas county over $50,000 this week, when they won from the su preme court of Oregon a confirmation of a ruling made over two years ago by a Democratic county judge in the matter of the expenditure oi roaa funds collected by county tax within the corporate limits of a city. County Attorney Gilbert Hedges, assisted by B. N. Hicks, represent ing Clackamas county in the suit Bernard N. Hicks brought against it by the city of West Linn, were the two men wno won the victory; and former County Judge R. B. Beatie was the original democratic judge whom the supreme court upheld. The suit at tria was one brought by West Linn to force the county to turn over to it all the road tax money collected -within the corporate limits of the new town. The case was one of several brought in the county, Gladstone, Milwaukie, Canby and Oregon City having similar actions pending. In each case the municipal ities had held that the road tax col- lected within their borders rightfully belonged to them, and should bo ex pended entirely on highway work .within the city. The county held, in opposition, that money thus collect ed, should be divided by the county court as it saw fit, only a portion oi it eoing to the cities, and the balance being expended on general roadworK near the cities where the money was collected. The case on which the ruling of the supreme court was had was ap pealed from the circuit court, in which Judge Campbell had decided in Gilbert L. Hedges favor of West Linn. In reversing this decision and finding for the coun ty, the supreme court sanctioned and confirmed a ruling laid down over two years ago by County Judge R. B, Beatie, to whom an appeal upon ex- actly similar lines was made. Judge Beatie at that time held that the city had no right to legislate for the coun. ty how county road funds should be expended. The decision 'will save the county some $50,000 of road tax money that has been claimed by different mu nicipalities, and which would ordinar ily be devoted to county road work but which the several cities desired to have given to thera to use on mu nicipal improvements. With taxes as high as they are now, the county needs all the road funds it can con trol to keep up the main traveled highways, and while the county has always been willing to give the cities Continued on Page 8 Hi) 1 -.-it?.-. r 4 : V. f 1 'A . v 1 j V . - . . A. ft FINE RECORD MADE Many West Linn School Children Neither Late Nor Absent in Month West Linn, is a lively and hustling city, and its children have tho same characteristics as their parents. This is shown by the extraordinarily large roll of honor at the West Linn school, made up oi tne pupus wiiuso ance records for the past month were perfect The roll of honor from Feb ruary 12 to March 12 is: Emily Nixon, Frank Snow, Michael Wylant, Allen Draper, Mary Adrian, William Nixon, Margaret Wylant, Lillian Lawrence, Emma Peterson, Richard Nixon, Eileen Nixon, Gladys Wrin-ht VtoA Ttnerne.r. Joseph Nixon. Olive Howell, Chester wood, ijeon- ard Green, Erna Fisher, Margaret Papoun, Zennah Lytsell, Julia Lyt- sel . Flora Kanak, Clara KarucK, George Junker, Elmer Simpson, My ron Tobin, Charley Day .John Marco, Eva Lee. Ella Fisher, George fa.- noun. Dempsey Powell, Evanelle Hall, Ralph Guynes, Ralph McCoy, Jennie Karlik, Lavinia Kanak, Her man Taylor, Violette Ford, fern Dav. Blanche Lee, Lester Farmer, Charles Karlik, Joe Planton, Francis Junker, Joe Marco, Louis Lytsell, Florence Karlik, Winifred Humph- rys, Ruth Montgomery, ueanor m Florence May HewicK, Mae rove u, STS marco, iriayiiio ucmun, ,j gomery , iu. Z Emmett Shields, Dorothy. Downing, Fidelia Sanders, Harleigh Wright, Tom Carleton. RIVER SERVICE PROPOSED Jitney Boats" May Operate Between County Seat and Portland So successful' have been the "jit- nev misses" in rort ana ami u urc eiiWhnn runs outside of tho city, that it. ia now reported that "jitney launches" will be the next thing. Bolton, Canemah and West Linn got Last summer a launch service was together, Charlotte Huguenin of West maintained part of the time between Linn, Zennah Lytsell, West Linn, Ar Oregon City and Portland, and a reg- lie Read, of Gladstone and Lillian ular steamer service was had be- Sandstrom of Concord had the honors twpen Portland and down-river points. This vear. it is said, three con- cerns are figuring on putting in a fleet of fast motor launches to make rtia t.rin hptwe.im Orecon Citv and PnrtlnnH. with stoDs at Milwaukie and Oswego. The same fare will be charged on these boats as on the cars and the run will be made in a little nvnr nn hmir. Such a service as this should prove attractive on warm summer evenings, and on .Sundays should do a land-office business. It is said that special impetus is given the scheme this year because it is believed that there will he a large number or tourists stop over in ruy.- land on their way to the fair, and the river trip to Oregon City would attract them more than the car ride. Tf tho Ervire in nut on. Clacka- mas county folk will have a new and iooQf mnd nf t.mvfii to' the me- tropolis when they want to go down phies in this contest, tho prizes bo und sea friends or make a shopping inB (riven by F. E. Beckwith, clerk of tn. i - -. - WHY NOT TELL US? How Many of the County Seat's Coun cilmen Have Paid Their Income Tax rpu tVio Pniirior was iiio aiwiifiw v v..w -nj v, fw A a nn m in .. , ... ., . :j a. one or tne dailies tnat saiu we m- come tax was just "raising hob" with the fancy salaries that are paid nf TV C HO VCU U cm wv . r.v-j stellar calibre in this county, but we have some councilmen at Oregon Crty who are reported to "play ball" occassionally, as the saying is. jt. mo nf thfiafi councilmen have filled out their fed- j. i..! f .nugiiin nf in. ertti uciiuiDuvii - ... comes in excess ot $3,000 annually, and how many of them have paid their income tax. Of course married men get an extra thousand dojlars . .... . thm, rtnn't. nnve to pay an income tax upon but we won- man and Margaret Donnelly of Lib der how many of the city dads have eral, Mary Trullinger of Union Mills . . 1 I Tiff nHln Af IWilltMrt come across to Uncle Sam. rros- neritv ouirht to be shared with the government. BALL TEAMS PLANNED Baseball enthusiasts in Estacada, Oregon City, Molalla, Canby, West bees this week, and later in the term t..... --j i.-.y i.:- v tJthe w nners of the district bees will ijinn. ana lvuiwauMe axe nym w work up some system whereby a real Clackamas county baseball league may be organized this year, and a regular schedule of games worked out Usimr as a nucleus the teams that last vear nlaved a two-weeks' season at Gladstone park, it is pro posed to get the clubs started ear ;. ., i.. i . i4. ner irus year, anu wj nave i one game a week, if not two, between the different nines. Those who are Interested in the ..noma iw that there ia lota of irood baseball material in the county, and Int. nt interest in the national snort, and it is felt that the teams which have heretofore played in a hit-or- miss schedule, getting games when and where they could, ought to get together and frame up a regular 1nnnn.o Cmoll olmiaainna fAllll he charged at the games, so that there would be enough funds on hand to pay traveling expenses; and it is be i.'ovmI that if the Woue once rot to JJT Kcu WKcmcr anu UUV UW HIWCD vi trophy for the teams winning most games. SPELLING BEES ftTTRAGT GRIDS COMpETITIONS HELD IN MANY PARTS OF COUNTY TO FIND EXPERTS WINNERS WILL MEET LATER county oupennienueni Pleased with Result of District Tests If vour grandmother came back here and went to school in Clacka mas county she'd be perfectly at home these days, and wouldn't notice that things had changed so very much. While the introduction oi "physiology," "civil government" and some of the later things that have their wav into the schools ht surDrise her a bit, she would M u ri ht for she.d S tneggood old spelfing bee, just . , . . d th t W the spelling bee and tnuK , r"3 hn Su- wo. ? - - most of the mothers and fathers of npT-inbenueiib wwotou wi Clackamas county think he is about right. If there is anything that tne greater part of the rising generation doesn't know anything about it is spelling, and Mr. Calavan hopes to I f ciffnira in remeay uu When the schools of Gladstone, .Tannines Lodsre, Concord, rarKpiace, and thev will compose a team from .this district that will later compete for the county cnampionamp Estacada, , Springwater, George, Garfield, Eagle Creek, Currinsville, Trnoev and Douelas Kidge met in Another crrouning and hundreds of fond parents turned out to hear the contest. In this division Annen Davis of Garfield, Ernest Rynning of Estacada. and Bertha Devore and Mary Ely of Estacada carried off the honors, gfltl(iv Ridere. Sandy, Bull Run, Firw0od. Kelso,- Cottrell, Dover, Bo- hemia, Hill Crest, Marmot and Cher- ryviue made up another section in the county race for tne cnampionsnip anj at tne bee held at Sandy honors went to Louise Goger and Marie rjanieia 0f Sandy, Elta Beers of Cot- trell and Helen Moulton of bandy. Miss Beers received a gold bracelet, Und Miss Goeer a gold watch as tro- w - , . . , . , . i. thn Snndv union niKn scnoui piukd - , . Damascus. Hill View, Koc; creeu and Boring held their bee at Boring, Daisy Waddell of Rock CreeK and Leslie Oehler of Damascus getting rank in the first division, and Bertha Karlen and Martha Aplanalp tiemg fnr second honors. The latter two i - . ... unfilled throueh the entire book witn- I .,!,: crmre nnri then the oui. iuuiwub judges gave it up. , Ben Bizanz and Francis Bonn of Mp.ritlian. Ruth Barnes of Llliott Prairie, and Walter Scott of Ninety ' - t - UnJA one, won tne nonors m u between tne scnoois ox omU..., Whiskey Hill, JNmety-one anu menu ian. Hampton and Vera Fiske and Ai fred Boyles of Russelville and Ada Khermnn of Manle captured the top - . - t .1.. places in the bee Detween ueuver x Russelville and Maple Grove, Mulino, Liberal, Union Mills and Oak Grove held their bee at Mulino, i ii. 1 nnntn Unnair. 1 ana me winners weic iuwii ana mirareu . u....( Monte Cnsto, Oak Lawn Yoder and Glad Tidings competed at the first named school, and Hazel Kex ford, Edna Hayes, Dorria McRoberts and Dorris Irvin got the honors. A number of the schools will hold , ... , Ret together and the selection of the best spellers m the county will be takn up. Present lotion- are that the champions will all be girls as the girls have so far outranked the boys, STREETS ARE RENAMED . . , . Milwaukie Prepares for Future An- nexation to Portland The citv council of Milwaukie re- eentlv adopted an ordinance chang- ing the nmes of most of the streets in town to conform to the system in Portland. The former poetic names of the north and south streets were changed to numbers, corresponding with the numbers of the streets in the metropolis wrra.., I wnnld meet them. The change was made on account of the rapid development of Milwau- - kie a a place oi suuurua . xu. - Portland folk. Since .Milwaukie has . S "oTw the houses are rapidly filling the tern- a . . , , tory between the two cities. NO SIGNAL YET Farmers Wonder What Happened to Sign Templeton Promised A vear or so ago Councilman! Templeton, of Oregon City, told the council at the county seat that he had made arrangements, as chairman of the street committee of the council, to have the P. R. L. & P. Co. erect a wigwag" warning signal at the junction of the interurban line and Sixteenth street, Greenpoint. this is bad crossing, owing to the fact that houses on the corner obscure the ?fi Abernethy region have had narrow escapes from accidents at this point. Complaint was finally made to the council, and the request was made that both the Southern Pacific and the P. R. L. & P. Co., establish some kind . of warning bells or signals at the Sixteenth street crossings. Coun cilman Templeton took a deep inter est in the matter, and was going to have it fixed up at once. Now quite a number of people are wondering whether it slipped Mr. Templeton's mind, or whether it was something else ' that slipped. One thing is certain, the crossing ought to be provided with signals, especially the one at Sixteenth and Main streets where most of the traffic turns. F HIGH STREET TOO GLORIOUS HIGHWAY TO REMAIN IN MODEST QUIET OUGHT TO BE SCENIC WONDER Name of Thoroughfare Ought to be Changed, Too, So That Folk Won't Forget With Portland boosting for the Columbia River highway and for another roadway leading up through the Columbia gorge, and at the same time building parkways of its own ovenooKing tne , wummeu seems strange that Oregon City has not realized the advantages of High street as a similar attraction here. It seems to quite a number of citi- zens that if the county seats $35,000 street were improved just a little more that it would be as big a feature of local life as is the municipal ele- vator, and would attract tourists here from all parts of the world. High street ought to be a fine driveway. If some of the houses between it and the bluff were pushed over the edge, so as not to obscure the view, this thoroughfare would give as fine a sweep of the valley of the Willamette as could be desired, and would be an ideal place for pass- ing automobilists to scorch upon, or for local people to patronize on Sun- day afternoon when out wheeling the baby in the fresh air. ur course Oregon City has other streets, but it is doubtful if it has any just HKe High street which cost $35,000. Of course if High street is to be miwln a feature of the citv. its name nno-ht. to be chantred and the park- INE BOULEVARD PLAN SUGGESTED ing strips ought to be widened and up on the east side of the river all put in one place, so that a boule- and by that route they strike the off,.,. wnnld be provided. High mushy stretch of "new road" from .( ,M r,ovor An fnr the title DUCGV 1TUU1VI i.wi , nf tto sort, of a. hiirhwav that this ought to be, and it has been suggest- ed that it was called Riverside drive it would resemble (in name) New York's famous driveway that borders the lower reaches of the Hudson. iL i u ,tw he utner --Bup.o u.v. original in naming it, however, and sueireBt that it ought to be caned K ,V " rr . r..mnre. roc7way o s me7hi g UkeThZ it has even been suggested that, with one end of the elevator coming out at i . -x .hr nrnner one end of the street, it might proper- lv be called Elevated Way. Some olassy name ought to oe picuca. oui, ... . I , . J ...L for a $35,000 street, nowever ana High street sounds too prosaic, even though the street did come nign. Not being traveled much by busi npss vehicles. High street will al ways wu Z Oregon City people say that while sewe mak "I" tfS ! .. .l. or.nno rn,, The ieaturo ux tuo fau,v - street connects with the south end road by a hill at its southern end, and with the more or less Pacific Highway by a hill at its northern " 7 ! "'jx. v- i ena, anu . " " ' th 't nass all automobile routes that pass fn ffvo'r of "ailing' it Theissing Link. . Call it what you will, hdwever, Hlirl: something more than a mere private roadway for a- few houses that hap pen to have had their front yards cut off to make room for the street. Any utreet that cost $35,000 to build mio-ht to ba more than lust a com mon street, so why not make High . . a rwtit.avarvi onri incr P-ses along with the praises of pure water and the beautiful (at high water) falls of, the Willamette? HE SAID IT. ID HE GOT ROASTED HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER HAS BACKBONE ENOUGH TO , SPEAK THE TRUTH MAIN ROAD SCORED nd the Portland Papers Jumped on His Neck, but Nevertheless What He Said Was True Highway Commissioner Bowlby got his in the Portland papers last week. He dared to speak the truth and tnat is enough to get most any PuMci official roasted to a frazzle by u,8 ua"" uuw" Mr. Bowlby received a letter from some man who wanted to know what was the best way to get from Seattle to San Francisco by automobile, and Mr; Bowlby told him. He suggested that the autoist make his way to White Salmon or thereabouts on the Washington shore of the Columbia, and then ferry to The Dalles, and go south through Central Oregon. All this would have meant Port land losing a chance to sell a night'a lodging to this Seattle man and his auto party, and so Portland papers got up and roared. Mr. Bowlby in his letter, said that the man might travel down by way of the so-called Pacific Highway, through the Willamette Valley, but he added that the Pacific Highway was largely hot air, and that the main north and south roads in the Willa mette valley were pretty apt to be less good than the roads in Central Oregon. And just for that they said all sorts of things about Mr. Bowlby, and if there is a way they are going to get his goat. Apparently Mr. Bowlby answered this Seattle man's letter in good faith, and didn't think that his an swer was going to fall into the hands of some of the "boosters" down in ... So he told the stranger . . , ' pnifi. TrjhWftv was apt be in bnd sh and Buggested an alternative rout. Those of us who , . that. nnrt. nf the Pa- cifjc Highway, so-called, that lies around this neck of the woods have aU our gympathjes with tho Highway Commissioner. We know what the Pacifio Highway is all the way from Portland to Canby and then on some, n ign,t the wst road aroun( here( bu(. it ia not ft good road And th(j effortg to make it a good road are not improving it any just at this time. Making good roads is a lost art in Clackamas county, for some reason, and that is to be regretted, jjut lying about it won't do any good, an(i there is no need of inviting Seattle or other autoists to travel over it. It won't make a good im- pression on tourists, and they will be g0 busy watching the road that they WOn't see any scenery if they do go over it. part of the Pacific Highway is gajd to run up the west side of the Willamette from Portland to Oregon City. Quite a number of autoists, to avoid the mudholes and bad curves and steep grades of this road, come Bellwood to MiiwauKie, ana Biter I i i a that they have a choice of evils to the county seat. And from Oregon City south the Pacific Highway is about the roughest piece of road that we have in the county including re- cent improvements. ; Koasting commissioner nowiDy . . , ;t , .t rylol. - - ; - - ' one way to make good roads, and that is to buUd them from the bottom up. And most of the roads in this i"" hPPened' andt , ater . ? " they piled in "improvements" on the J v The .. . ... result is something with which we are all familiar. There is a milkman who has a route over part of this Pacific high way, and he uses two horses to pull a light buggy over it. You might think he had spokeless and solid wheels to -see his rig, but it is only k hat way. Some times this milkman gets over his i . WM ,,,, ,uon uQ -t,.ta at. " dawn and sometimes lw doesn t needlesa to go into further examples Commissioner Bowlby was giving this Seattle tourist some S vice when he told him to keep J rZJ peevish about it. Instead they ought I X ni..A Xlia AAmv.ic.imar nraiCA fnY - r " , "h to try and get the people wakened up so that they would remedy condiions. Sometimes the truth isn' pleasant. Swedish Service , Swedish service will be held in the Methodist church, Oregon City, next Sunday, March 21, at 3 o'clock p. m. ! um . ty 1 ft A 11 Cnt m i nnir! "irui naDDinesis. aii owh- dinavians to attend John Ovall, Swedish min- 'ister.