CITY
33d Year
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1915
Number 40
OREGON
ODD NOTES SENT
TO
ST. NICHOLAS TURNS OVER
FEW OP HIS LETTERS TO
THE COURIER TO READ
REQUESTS VARIED AND WEIRD
Jolly Patron of the Yuletide Season
Puzzled as to Best Way to Fill
Strange Ordera Sent In
Because there wasn't any late coun
cil meeting Wednesday night of this
week, the Courier staff thought it
would get a chance to go home early
for a change. The staff had just
turned out the lights and bade itself
goodnight, and was about to lock the
front door, when there was a jingling
of bells on Eighth street, and a sleigh
drawn by eight reindeer dragged it
self through the mud and pulled up
in front of the door. Out of the
sleigh jumped a portly gentleman
with a mailsack in his hand, and
abruptly pushing the staff ahead of
him, he invaded the Courier office.
"See here, you," he said, "you got
to help me with this stuff. I just went
down to the postoffice to get my mail,
and I found the queerest mass of let
tors in the box I ever saw. You read
'em and tell me what to do."
And so saying he tossed a bunch of
notes down on the editorial desk, pull
ed on the electric lights, and waited
for advice. The first letter was writ
ten on stationery bearing the emboss
ed heading of a powerful corporation,
and read as follows:
"Dear Santa Claws: We don't
want much for Christmas this year,
but what we do want we want mighty
bad. Please see that we get it. All
we want is a water-tight fence around
the falls and basin of the Willamette
and a bunch of dynamite bombs for
jitneys. Please don't fail."
The letter was unsigned. Santa
' Claus said he couldn't guess whom it
was from, and asked our help. We
looked the letter over carefully and
finally referred the good Christmas
saint to Councilmen - Meyer and
Templeton, whom we believed could
give him the information he wanted.
The next letter was written on
scented note paper, and read as fol
lows:
"S. Claus, Esq., North Pole, Dear
Sir: The undersigned respectfully re
quests you to deliver to his residence
in Oregon City not later than 1 a. m.
on the morning of December 25th,
1915, all the popularity that you can
obtain. The undersigned is going to
run for office, and needs it in his busi
ness. Aside from popularity he
doesn't require anything else, as he
can furnish his own advertising and
nerve. Yours very truly, Hon. Chris."
"Who is this 'Hon. Chris' guy,"
asked Santa Claus. We suggested
that perhaps he was the "city attor
ney" of the county seat.
The next letter that puzzled Santa
wasn't a letter at all it was a post
card, and on it was written:
"Dear Pal: You needn't send me
anything much this year. I'm pretty
well supplied with everything I need,
arid I'd rather you give any surplus
gifts to those that need them more.
Pass me up if you're crowded and I
won't complain. What I haven't got
I can get pretty easy, so scratch me
off your list. Yours fraternally,
George C. Brownell."
"Does he mean that," asked Santa
Claus. We said he usually meant
what he said.
Then in quick succession the jovial
visitor shot the folowing letters at us:
"Dear Santa: Please put me on
your private list this year, as I have
(temporarily) retired from public life.
All I want is lots of business and a
falling off in the drugless healer game.
Yours, JONES."
"Dear Mr. Claus: The fish you sent
me last year were very nice. Please
send me some more this year a whole
lot more. Yours, JACK. P. S.: You I
might leave me a couple of new nets
and twelve boats, too."
"That's a modest one, isn't it,"
laughed our fat visitor.
The next letter read: "Dear old St.
Nick: Please bring me a new toy,
the lawnmower is worn out. Do this
and I wont ask anything else. Yours
as ever, Henry M. Templeton."
Then there was a postcard, which
said: "Sant: If you want to be nice
to a good boy, give me a jail full
of prisoners. It's lonely downstairs
now. Willie Wilson."
"Dear Mister," began the next let
ter, "Please be so good as to give me
a large newspaper to print my stuff
in. John Stark."
The next letter on the pile bore a
foreign postmark, and was all cover
ed with cancellation stamps. It said:
"Hon. S. Claus, Sir: I appeal to you
as the last person in the world from
whom I may even hope to expect help.
Mankind at large seems very bitter
towards me just now. Wont you
please give me about 2,000 square
miles of territory somewhere that I
can have for my own, unmolested for
the next seven years ? Yours humbly,
The Demon Rum."
And there was also a letter written
on the official stationery of the coun
ty seat It read as follows:
SANTA GLAUS
BEATING THE LAW
Mail Order Booze Houses Find Way
to Dodge Prohl Statute
The statewide prohibition law,
which goes into effect in Oregon the
first of the year, provides among
other things that the sale of
whiskey or other liquors shall not be
publicly, advertised in the state.
Quite a number of the "mail order
booze shops" have announced that
they would dodge this law by sending
circulars through the mails to a prev
iously prepared "sucker list," and
that they would defy Oregon officials
to interfere with the United States
mails.
While this plan may work, at least
one California liquor house has fo.und
a better scheme, and has signed con
tracts with a number of Oregon news
papers for advertising right through
1916. This enterprising establishment
doesn't advertise liquor at all it ad
vertises "high grade merchandise."
Lauding itself for always carrying
"the finest grade of merchandise, such
as we have always handled," the im
porteing firm asks all readers to "send
for our catalogue." There is nothing
in the advertisement that mentions li
quor in any way but the firm name
is one. that has long been identified
with the liquor trade in the North
west, so that the "knowing ones" will
have no trouble understanding what
is meant by "merchandise." It will be
interesting to see if this dodging
around the law will work when the
state authorities get down to business.
THE MERRY JOKER
Congressman Hawley Introduces Bill
for Publicity Purposes
Even the Oregon City Enterprise.
the great Hawley organ of this neck
of the woods, didn't "fall" very hard
for the latest manifestation of activ
ity on the part of Congressman Haw
ley, and the little story they had about
his alleged gift of $100,000 to Oregon
City was neatly buried on an inside
page. That shows just about what
the thing is worth.
Hff TT ... i . . . ...
air. nawiey introduced a bill in
congress providing for the construc
tion of a federal building in Oregon
City to cost "not to exceed the sum
of $100,000." Nobody expects Con
gress to pass this bill; and probably
nobody will imagine that Mr. Hawley
thought there was any likelihood of
its getting by. It is a bill, like many
others, introduced to make people of
a certain section "feel good," and to
show that Congressman Hawley is "on
the job." It will make good cam
paign material of the "Gawd-knows-I-tried"
sort when Mr. Hawley runs for
office again.
MRS. HARRINGTON DEAD
Tax
Collector's
Operation
Wife Succumbs to
in Portland
Mrs. Ora V. Harrington, the wife of
Tax Collector George Harrington, died
Tuesday afternoon at a Portland hos
pital, after failing to rally from an
operation. Mrs. Harrington was
formerly Miss Ora V. High, and was
a native of Virginia. She was 40
years of age, and was married four
years ago.
Mrs Harrington was a trained nurse
by profession, and had many friends
and acquaintances in this section of
the county, where she was exceeding
ly popular. The funeral will be in
Portland. .
The Courier has a full line of Legal
Blanks for sale. If you are in need
of Legal Blanks you will find that it
will pay you to come to the Courier.
"To the Honorable Santa Claus:
Esteemed Sir: Whereas it is neces
sary to the preservation of the public
health, peace and safety ofour city
that this ordinance take effect immed
iately following its approval and sig
nature by the mayor, now therefore,
be it resolved that an emergency does
exist, and Oregon City does ordain as
follows:
"Section 1: For the betterment of
our city we desire a greater confi
dence in our fair community, less
knocking among our citizens, and a
spirit of co-operation and good will
among all.
"Section 2: That we further desire
immediately to come into possession of
our pure mountain water supply and
all the benefits that will accrue from
same.
"Section 3: That in order to obtain
the goodwill of our neighbors and
their trade, we hereby specifically re
quest you to give unto each and every
one of our citizens a greater spirit of
goodwill and fairplay, more real boost
ing, more development along the lines
of greatest good to the greatest num
ber, and general betterment through
out. "Section 4: We also want a public
playground and recreation center.
"Passed this 25th day of December,
1915, ami signed by the Mayor, Re
corder, and all other City Officials."
"That seems like some form of a
city ordinance, but I don't just under
stand all of it, though I get the drift
of it," said Santa Claus.
"Cheer up," we replied, "that is
quite usual with city ordinances. How
ever, if you get the drift of it, that
is the main thing."
"Yes, I get the idea," said Santa
Claus, "Oregon City wants to be a
better place all round. Well, 111 see
what I can do for all these people.
Much obliged for your assistance.
Bye-bye and greetings of the season."
FAfilfi'S WEEK
PROMISES MUCH
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE PLANS
MANY CONFERENCES FOR
BENEFIT OF PUBLIC
MEETING LIKE GREAT SCHOO
Midwinter Opportunity Offered During
First Week of January for All
To Get Valuable Pointers s
More people' than ever assembled
in Oregon to consider means of inv
proving agricultural, home-making
and related affairs are expected to at
tend the annual Farmers' and Confer
ence Week at Corvallis, January 3 to
8, inclusive. There were more than
2200 in attendance at last year's ses
sions and the majority of those intend
to return this year and add as many
others to their delegates as they can.
Also the conference idea has been
strengthened by experience and ob
servation, so that the coming con'
ferences have been materially en
larged both m scope and character.
There will be about a score of sep'
arate conferences held by those en
gaged in special phases of industry
or business in Oregon, which will call
for about three for each day of the
week. Each conference will be held
under the supervision of the College
specialist who has the subject in his
department work, and at each ad
dresses will be made by some of the
leading men and women of Oregon
and of the entire United States, in
cluding several representatives of the
United States Department of Agri
culture. A partial list of conferences
to date follows:
There will be two conferences on
rural credits and organization at O.
A. C. Farmers' Week, under the di
rection of Dr. Hector Macpherson, who
was one of the American commision
ers appointed to investigate rural or
ganization and credits in Europe. He
has just returned from an interesting
national conference held at Chicago,
in which legislation designed to reach
to the root of rural needs was recom
mended. -One conference will be on
marketing legislation of other states,
and one on rural credits legislation of
other states. The dates have been set
for January 4 and 5.
The Oregon State dairymen will
convene on January 4, at which time
also the Oregon Guernsey Breeders'
Uub will meet. The Holstein Breed
ers' Association, the Oregon Jersey
Club and the Oregon Holstein-Freisian
Club will meet on the same day. The
Oregon Dairymen's Association will
be in session for three days begin
ning January 5.
A boys' and girls' stock judging con
test will, be held at the College Arm
ory during Farmers' Week.
A conference of Oregon butter and
cheese makers will be held under the
direction of Professor Simpson on
Jan. 6 and 7. Here will be considered
many phases of handling dairy -products
in the most sanitary, economic
al and profitable ways.
Another great industry, old yet new
in its better phases, which will be
treated in conference at Farmers'
week, is potato growing, which will be
taken up January 6.
The Good Roads Conference will sit
Jan. 3 and 4, with Professor G. V.
Skelton in charge.
Professor Scudder, who is one of
the advisory officers of the "pure seed
commission, has called a conference
of seed growers to meet January 5.
A poultry show in which will be
shown the United States Government
educational poultry exhibit of the
Panama-Pacific Exposition, will be
held every day of Farmers' Week.
A conference of ministers and other
religious workers has been called by
Professor Ressler to meet January 4
and 5.
Lectures on producing, handling
and marketing fruit and other horti
cultural products will be given by the
Horticultural division, and also dur
ing the week's program there will be
conferences on pork raising, pests
that bother growers of loganberries
and prunes, home-making, public mar
kets and farm and road drainage.. The
week will also be enlivened by the
annual college horse-show, and there
will be addresses by Governor Withy
combe, A. J. Clover, editor of Hoards'
Dairyman, E. C. Schraeder, Holstein
breeder, and many others, each a well
known specialist..
Worthless Cheque Passed
Some more or less clever person
dropped into Brightbill's grocery, in
the county seat, last Saturday night,
bought five dollars worth of grocer
ies, and tendered in payment thereof
a $22 checque drawn on a Portland
bank. The grocer gave the buyer the
difference and then sent the goods to
an address which had been given. At
the address nobody wanted the gro
ceries, and it later developed that the
checque was worthless. The police
have a description of the man who
gave the cheque.
. The Courier $1.00 per year if paid
in advance. Subscribe now.
STRANGER THAN FICTION
Read
This and See If. You
Don't
Think It Might Be
They say "truth is stranger than
fiction. Now if we started in to tell
you a story about a policeman that
hunted flies because he was working
in a city where nies were few and very
far between, you'd think we were mak
ing use of our imagination. However,
we aren't going to tell you this: we
are simply going to quote Special
Agent Garrard Harris, of the U. S.
Bureau of Domestic and Foreign Com
merce. He probably doesn't exag
gerate. Mr. Harris says:
"The visitor from the United States
can not fail to be impressed with the
absence of flies in Habana. A fly
is a real rarity so is a mosquito
and screens are not at all a necessity.
The absence of these pests is simply
the result of municipal cleanliness and
care.
"Illustrating the general under
standing of the necessity to watch out
for breeding sources, Mounted Officer
Pedro Sierra reported November 30
to the chief of sanitation that he had
observed a plant in the Vedado (resi
dential district) that apparently was
a source of flies. - The plant has
fruit resembling a fig, in which, Sier
ra asserts, larvae are to be found. He
conducted some experiments himself,
becoming convinced that the plant af
forded a breeding place for the pests
then he so reported. If the expert
ments of the Department of Sanita
tion confirm him, undoubtedly an or
der will be issued for the destruction
of all such plants in and arcund Ha
bana; and, incidentally, Officer Sierra
will be rewarded.
"There is no need for fly-swatting
campaigns around the clean capital
of Cuba. The sanitarians make flies
an impossibility and confirm absolute'
ly the doctrine that municipal clean
liness will prevent the appearance of
flies altogether."
PIONEER DROPS DEAD
F. C. Miller Passes Away Suddenly at
His County Seat Home
Shortly after rising from the
luncheon table, Ferdinand C. Miller,
of the county seat, dropped dead in
his home from heart failure Tuesday
afternoon. His daughter, Miss Clara
Miller, rushed to his side, but could
do nothing to aid her stricken father.
Mr. Miller had been a resident vf Ore
gon City for 40 years, and was well
known throughout the county. Fun
eral services will be held at St. John's
church late in the week.
Mr. Miller was a member of an
Oregon City fire department 89 years,
was head millnght for the Portland
Flouring Mills company and a mem
ber of the Deutcher Verein. He was
born in Vienna, Austria, May 29,
1839, went to Cmcinnati, Ohio, with
his wife, 47 years ago, moving a few
years later to Oregon.
He is survived by three daughters,
Misses Frances, of Portland, Rose and
Clara of this city, and three sons,
Fred, of Powell River, B. C; Theo
dore, an electrician of this city, and
Otto, who is in San Francisco visit
ing.
MISSING MAN SOUGHT
Desertion of Adam N. Eve Furnishes
Fun for U. S. Marine Corps
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23: Efforts
made to locate the descendanfs to
learn what finally became of Private
Adam N. Eve, United States Marine
Corps, who deserted January 13, 1811,
from the command of Captain An
thony Gale at Philadelphia, Pa., have
so far been unavailing.
"Probably beat it back to the Gar
den of Eden," facetiously wrote an
Ohio Eve.
"Still raising Cain somewhere, no
doubt," replied a member of the Texas
branch who also disclaimed kinship
with the original Adam.
"Growing apples in Oregon. I
know him well," was the response
from another Eve who was probably
mistaken.
And now, the government agents
directing the search, are of the opin
ion that certain points in the inter
rupted military career of Private
Adam N. Eve, United States Marine
Corps, will remain forever cloaked in
mystery.
MRS. GRIFFIN SANE
Commission Refuses to Believe Charge
Made by Tennant
Last Monday noon Mrs. O. W. Grif
fin, who owns the two-story house on
Molalla avenue occupied by E. Gal
linger and wife, called upn Mrs. Gal
linger in regard to the payment of
an electric light bill. Words followed
and in the course of the discussion
Mrs. Gallinger's glasses were broken
and her lip was cut. Mr. Gallinger,
returning to his home about that time
put in a hurry call for the police, and
Chief Shaw and assistants responded.
The trouble was temporarily patched
up.
Wednesday Mr. Gallinger had Mrs.
Griffin brought before a sanity com
mission, and alleged that she had beat
en up his wife and shown other signs
of an unbalanced temperament. The
sanity commission was unable to dis
cover aything wrong with Mrs. Grif
fin, and so reported. The entire af
fair is said to be the outcome of ill
feeling between the owner of the
premises and the tennants.
The Courier $1.00 per year.
P
THOUGH GENERAL YIELD
EX-
CEEDS THAT OF 1914, RE
CEIPTS ARE LESS
OREGON FARMERS WELL OFF
Prices Offered for Products of This
State Generally Better than the
Prevailing Average in East
While 1915 has been a banner year
for crops, both in Oregon and in the
nation at large, it has not been as
prosperous a season as last year when
a general average is taken. Cron
production in Oregon this year aggre-
gates in quantity about 17 percent
more than last year; but prices for
the general run of produce averag a
trifle less than eight percent below the
1914 average, according to the govern-
ment crop report issued December 17.
For the United States Deduction
this voir no-frvocotoo in nnnnf if oiw..f
nine per cent more than last vear.
Prices December 1 average one per
cent lower than a year ago, making
total value of crop production on this
basis about eight per cent less than
last year; these estimates are based
unon croDS whose value in the lat com-
plete crop census represented 85 per
cent of the value of all crops grown,
and may be regarded as representa
tive of all crops.
How the Oregon farmer has got
ten off for the year is shown in detail
below, as far as the principal crops
of the state are concerned. The
33,000 acres of corn in the state gave
a yield of 1,160,000 bushels and the
average price on uecemDer i was oz
cents. The average price of corn for
the entire United States was 57
cents at the same time.
Nine hundred thousand nr-rea of
wheat in Oregon produced during 1915
twenty million bushels of wheat, and
the Oregon farmer got 84 cents a
hnshf-1. The natinn-widn nvArncp tnr
wheat was 92 cents a bushel, so the
Orr-o-nn wht rrnwni- . T.Bat
Venn's nr.vil!no- nrirv, fnr Droo-nn
wheat at this time of the vear was
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ve oi io.iuu.uuu ousneis, ror wn.cn
he farmer got 37 cents if he was ,n on
the December market. Wheat in the
national average was quoted at 36.1
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Barley from ldO.uUU acres in Ore-
gon. totalled 4,080,000 bushels this
year, and the prevailing December
CRO
VALUES
HI
LOWERED
price was 62 cents. The national There was no discussion of the pro
average was 51.7 cents, showing Ore- posed sale of the old filtration plant,
gon again ahead of the game. It is reported that the Hawley Pulp
During the year 414,000 bushels of
rye were harvested in Oregon, from
23,000 acres: and the Oregon nrice
was 90 cents. The average for rye
for the nation at large was 83.9 cents,
RH W5fh nntntno, w ,.
discouraged' Oregon farmers from
paying so much attention to spuds in
1915, and only 48,000 acres were giv-
en over to the tubers. Yet the yield
was fi.K2i) nnn hnnha a near v n m .
lion more bushels than in 1914. The
, ; .j
average Oregon price December 1 was
as low as last year, 60 cents a bushel.
The average in the United States was
61.9 cents.
With a reduced acreage given to
hay in Oregon this
year 850,000
acres as against 858,000 in 1914, the storm that raged over the North
crop was nearly the same, being west the early part of the week, and
,870,000 tons. Hay averaged $9.50
per'ton in December in Oregon, while livering water in Oregon City for the
the national average price was $10.70 second time since it has been com
per ton. pleted.
The December reiiort shows that
all things considered, Oregon did as
well this year as other'sections; and in
some commodities she did decidedly
better.
LEVY IS 34.5
County Seat Property Owners Get
Hit Pretty Heavily
Every property owner in the coun
ty seat will have to pay $34.50 on each
thousand that he has invested, accord
ing to the tax levy for the city and
county for the coming year. This is
20 cents less than last year; but that
is about all that can be said in its
favor. The 84Vi mill levy is made up
of 10 mills -for city tax, 6 mills
school tax, 3 mills general county
tax, 3.22 mills state tax, 8 mills road
tax and 3.28 mills county school tax.
In addition there is a little tax of
.2 mills for highschool tuition, which
is a new decoration for the tax bills
this year, and which is designed to
pay the tuition of children attending
standard highschools, but living out
side of standard highschool districts.
This wont hit Oregon City to any
noticeable extent.
Open Meeting to be Held
There will be a general meeting of
the board and stockholders of the
Canby Co-operative Cheese and Pro
duce company, held at Canby at the
cheese factory, on Wednesday, Dec.
29, 1915, at nine o'clock.
Everybody is invited.
KELLY TAKES BATH
Master Fish Warden Has Early Morn
ing Adventure in River
H. Leighton Kelly, master fish war
den, took a 40-foot swim in the icy
waters of the Willamette, just below
the falls, Saturday morning before
dawn. At the time he wore a heavy
overcoat and a pair of rubber boots
and had it not been for George Brown,
Mr. Kelly might still have been in the
river. As Brown said: "It was
lucky thing Kelly was a friend of
mine, or I never would have pulled
him into the boat."
These sentiments on Mr. Brown's
part were due to the fact that Fish
Warden Kelly and a deputy were en
deavoring to arrest Brown and Alec
Douthit for fishing with nets between
the suspension bridge and the falls.
Deputy Warden Clark, who was as'
sisting Mr. Kelly in the case, had even
a more exciting time than did Kelly.
Brown and Douthit had just rowed
in to the shore when Clark called upon
them to surrender. Before anything
else happened Clark made a leap for
the boat, and in so doing fell over
Brown, who was sitting in the stern
1 the mixup that followed Clark got
nto the water along side of the boat,
and it is. reported that Brown held
him there by his hair and at conven-
ient intervals doused him beneath the
surface. Douthit, at the same time,
started rowing out into the river,
. Fisb Warden Kelly then made his
leaP for the boat, missed it by sev
h1.6.1' and Bwam after i4' in sP'te
of the heavy clothing that he wore.
ter Brov!a fw that Kelly was the
"1"'0' y l. , iauneu out.
and Pulled h,m '" and subsequent to
lnlse arrest was completed,
Brown and Douthit will appear for
trial in Justice Sievers' court Thurs
day afternoon. The case is the first
arrest under the new Gill law, de
signed to preserve the waters immed
iately adjacent to the falls for ama
teur fishing, or for fishing with a line
only. , I i
BRIEF SESSION HELD
Oregon, City Council Hurries With Its
.. .
Rout,ne Busincs8
Oregon City's city fathers met in
special session Wednesday afternoon
at five o'clock and passed an ordi-
nance establishing the grade of a part
of .John Adama Btreet. over which a
damage suit against the city is pend-
lnf- .'A
Remonstrar. .c uu the proposed im-
provement of Division street were re.
ierrea to tne street committee, which
wil1 hold a sPecitt! meeting Monday
afternoon to consider them.
An extra weeK s pay was voted, to
vHH.A V. Wtl.B .-U kJ lit T UIO 0H."
ond week of "his vacation. Chief
Shaw Qn took j ff f Qne we(jk
,ast gu and the extra was
for the week he worked. The council
L,an vMoA t rif " ,f. ftfl.
Norrig ?15 additional for the months
of October. November and December
for the extra work of acting as regis
trar of births and deaths
& Paper company has signified its
willingness to permit the city to OC'
cupy quarters in its new building, so
that the present equipment will not
have to be disturbed. Mayor-elect
Hackett has held out for this all
a on? and wl IB Tem,t nda
stood' lt 19 said that Mr. Hackett will
lthdraw h,s Jion to the sale of
the. land covered by much of the pres-
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PIPE LINE BREAKS
Filtration Plant Put In Service to Give
County Seat Water
Oregon City's "South Fork" steel
pipe line fell victim to the heavy
early Wednesday morning ceased de-
Late Wednesday evening a report
of Engineer Rands was made public,
to the effect that the torrential down-
Pour naa wasnea away me eartn un
der a certain section of the pipe line,
permitting the big steel tubes to sag
at a joint; and that the force of the
water had blown out the lead used to
seal the ends of the lengths of pipe
where they met. Mr. Rands and a
crew of men were working on the
break, and hoped to get it repaired so
that the pipe line could be put in use
Thursday afternoon.
HOBSON SECOND CHOICE
Methodist Epworth Leaguers Don't
Think Much of Prohi Light
Richmond Pearson Hobson isn't so
much after all, if the opinion of
people who attended an entertainment
given by the Epworth League of the
First Methodist church of Oregon City
is any criterion. At the entertain
ment a debate was held on the sub
ject: "Resolved, that Henry Ford is a
more useful citizen than Richmond
Pearson Hobson."
The affirmative, defended by Elli
son Hoeye, won. The negative was in
the hands of Kent Moody. After the
debate, just to make sure of the sen
timent of the meeting, a vote was tak
en, and Ford got 24 votes while Hob
son polled but 21.
The Methodist church being a
stronghold of prohibition sentiment,
it appears that Hobson didn't make
such an impression after all when he
visited the county seat recently.
93 PER
T
CHURCH CENSUS REVEALS BUT
62 FAMILIES WITHOUT
CREED AFFILIATION
FIVE PEOPLE SCORN WORSHIP
Preliminary Returns Made by Enum
erators Show Sentiment Largely
in Favor of Christianity
Five of Oregon City's churches re
cently united in taking a religious
census of the county seat, and a pre
liminary report on the 997 homes
visited was made this week, and given
to the Courier through the courtesy of
the Rev. W. T. Milliken, pastor of the
Baptist church. There are still two
hotels and about 75 homes which the
enumerators will have to visit before
a final report can be made; but the
figures so far secured are interesting
from many points-of view.
Sixty-two families in the county
seat reported that they had no church
affiliation; and five people who were
asked to give their church leanings
said that they didn't believe in Chris
tianity at all, and that the churches .
were a lot of grafting propositions.
Out of the 997 homes visited, it
was found that 174 contained fam
ilies affiliated with the Baptist church;
and 132 families claimed allegiance to
the Catholic faith. Family member
ship in other churches appear as fol
lows in the reports of the enumer
ators: Methodist, 128; Presbyterian, 125;
Congregational, 77; Episcopalian, 61;
Lutheran,' 44; Christian Science, 41;
Christian, 23; United Brethren, 20;
Pentacostal, 18; Adventist, 12; Evan- .
gelical, 7; Latterday Saints, 6; Prim
itive Baptist, 4; Apostolic Faith 2, and
Spiritualist, 2. There is one Unitar-.
ian family, one Quaker and one Christ- .
ian Adventist.
Enumerators will go out again
after the Christmas holidays and can
vass the hotels and those homes
which either were not visited, or
where no response was had from ring
ing the doorbell. , . ,
The list refers solely to homes
visited, and the enumerators say that
each home averaged five people to a
family. Incidentally if this is cor
rect the population of Oregon City is
approximately 4,990.
Politicians will probably be glad to
itudy this church census, as it con-
ins material for a pretty close figure
on the reasonable support that may
be expected for candidates and meas-
ures. Aside from that the census is
interesting as showing the relative
strength of the different churches in
this neighborhood; and in showing
the number of people who have no
regular church home in the county
seat either because they have no
special preference, or because a
church of their denomination ' does
not exist in Oregon City.
WOE FOR CARRIERS
Rural Delivery Job Not AH Pleasure
This Season of Year
This is a good time of the year to
be nice to the rural mail carrier, and
to leave cigars or other things for
him in the tin box in front of the farm
gate.
This is the time of the year when
the rural carrier works overtime tak
ing Christmas cheer to the different
farms from the old folks back East;
it is the time of the year when the
rural carrier has to be out in all kinds
of weather, and when he has to expend
more energy than a wholesale butcher
slaughtering pigs.
This is the time of the year when-
everybody wants the rural carrier to
feel like cussing him if he doesn't
get to their house first, and when they
leave all the packages he has with
him. Try to be as easy on him as
you can, and remember that you can
make his Christmas as happy as he
is making yours if you will give him
some little token, of appreciation.
The rural carrier is working for you
all the time, and ought to be remem
bered. FRITZ PLEADS GUILTY
Belle Hotel Proprietor Admits He Sold
Liquor to Minors
Fritz Boysen, proprietor of the Ho
tel Belle, at Milwaukie, appeared in
circuit court Saturday morning and
pleaded guilty to the indictment re
turned against him hy the grand jury,
charging the sale of liquor to minors.
Mr. Boysen was fined $300 and court
costs, making the total expense of
his pleading guilty $314.20. After
paying the fine he departed for Mil
waukie. In entering a plea of guilty Mr.
Boysen not only paid into the county
treasury a neat little sum of money,
but he helped clear up the criminal
calendar of the circuit court and sav
ed the county the expense of a dto-
longed jury trial. His plea also re
flects credit upon Prosecuting Attor
ney Hedges, whose preparation for
the case was so complete in every
way that counsel for Mr. Boysen
deemed it best not to fight the issue.
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