M ATOM ((WIPWP- 40th Year THE BANNER-COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922 Number 8 MOONSHINERS CAUGHT IN MANUFACTURE OF PRODUCT Three Men and One Woman Taken In Raid One De stroys Quantity of Booze CAPACITY STILL 30 GALLONS DAILY Location Of Cleverest Kind And Equipment Most Complete Ever Discovered In County In the dense timber about nine miles east of Estacada in the upper Garfield section, Sheriff Wilson and his depu ties found on Saturday last orie of the most cleverly concealed as well as one of the largest an dmost complete ly equipped moonshine outfits ever' discovered in Clackamas county. In an underground room about 16 feet square and ten feet high the manufacture of booze was in full pro gress when the sheriff and his depu ties made their unannounced evening call. Pauch, one of the operators hav ing been appraised, in some way of the approach of the officers, was found pouring the ' finished moonshine through the floor of the room. The side hill location of the still was ideal and very cleverly concealed, the entrance being through under a log and covered in such a way as to make . discovery most difficult. The equipment consisted of pump ing apparatus for obtaining water from the nearby creek, gas burners and barrels and other paraphernalia capable of poducing 30 gallons of booze per day. 2400 gallons of corn mash, ten gallons of the finished pro ducts together with large quantities of corn and sugar were destroyed by the officers. J. E. Hager and his wife Pauline also George Walch beside Pauch were arrested and brought .to Oregon City where the men were lodged in jail and the woman released under $250 bail. On Monday the me nwere bound over in bonds of $500 each. Rose Festival Will Close Tomorrow The following is the program of the Portland Rose Show tor tomorrow, Friday, called "Floral Pageant Day", the last day of. the wonderful festival: Floral Pageant Day, 1:30 p. m. Grand floral parade, forming on Grand avenue; Admiral Henry T. Mayo, U. S. A., retired, grand marshal. Parade forms on East side,. starting from Grand Avenue. The route: North on Grand to Oregon west over steel bridge to Glisan, west on Glisan to Sixth street, south to Burnside, west to Tenth, south to Alder east to Broad way north to Oak, east to Sixth, south to Alder .east to Fifth, north to Pine, east to Fourth south to Morrison, west to Broadway south to Madison and disband. 7 p. m. Grand carnival ball at Ar mory. Finale of the Festival; entire ibuilding turned over to the festivity; continuous music in the several halls from 7 to 12 p. m. 8 p. m. Whitney Boy's chorus in concert at Multnomah field. Two thousand boys will sing. Concert re peated Saturday at 8 p. m. and Sunday at 3 p. m. Festival center. W, H. Collier Still Missing Though sheriff Wilson and party dragged the Willamette River this week in search of W. H. Collier the search yielded no results. 1 Collier disappeared on Monday from a houseboat at Busches landing. His companion left him to go to work at the mill and not finding him upon re turning to the boat notified the sher iff of his absence. The personal ef fects were still in the boat. Sheriff Wilson believes he fell into the river trom the boat and- was drowned. His parents live in Minneapolis. Jack Davis Fined Arrested on a charge of intoxication at the Saturday night dance at Oak Grove pavillion, Jack Davis was fined $25 in Justice court at Oregon City, Tuesday, this week. Davis is reported toxicated. The pavilion appears to as the aggressor in a torawl while in retain consistently its unsavory rep utation established Miss Clark Off For N. E. A. Miss Addie Clark, sister of J. F. Clark, attorney, after visiting the lat ter'a home in West Linn several days has gone to Boston as a delegate from Portland schools, to the National Edu cation Association now in session. E. T. BEVERLIN WINS OVER J. E. HEDGES IN SCHOOL ELECTION Oregon City School District's Debt increased io $i3,4u.ao is Clerk's Report E. T. Beverlin, Mountain View gro cer, with limited acquaintance outside the district where he serves his pat rons, defeated J. E. Hedges, president of the commercial club, member of the .board of "higher curricula," and director of the school board for many years, by a decisive majority of 77 votes in the annual election Tuesday in Oregon City school district. The oificiai .count gave Beverlin 540 and Hedges 463. Upon the reorganization of the board a new chairman will be seated. if the usual custom is followed and the member longest in term of service in the board is chosen, it will be O. A. Pace. The clerkship a prerogative of the "Enterprise" since the mind of man runneth ot to the contrary, will be decided also at the first formal meeting of the board.. The clerk's report shows the dis trict in debt $125,240.56. Of this tre mendous liability, $45,740.56 is a float ing debt on which six per cent inter est is paid The $79,500 bond indebted-, ness exacts five and one half per cent, interest. The annual interest on the indebtedness is $7,116.93 The cost of the schools last year, according to 'the clerk's report, was $75,126.77, with an increase in the floating indebtedness of approximately $2,000 OAK GROVE DANCE HALL IN LIMELIGHT AGAIN Complaints against the Oak Grove dance pavillion last year, character izing it as a place of moral debauch ery, finally culminated in a petition to the county court to refuse the manage ment a license for further operation. This petition represented an ijover whelming majority of the residents adjacent to the place and in Oak Grove. Two members of the court granted the license basing their action on the claim that the conduct was not worse here than at ismilar dance resorts elsewhere in the county and that the sheriff's ofice would assign a deputy to patrol the place accordingly, "Jack" Frost has been deputized for ithis work and was on the job onlSaturday night when more "fame" was added to the resort, resulting in the arrest of Jack Davis and Richard Zehfield both of Portland. Frost states that Davis forced him self onto the dance floor, drunk, and that he and the floor manager put him off and that the deputy then phoned to Wilson's office to send for him. Zehfeld was brought along with Dav is but was not held. Davis was per mitted to go his way under the tre mendous burden of $25 bail, imposed by Judge Nobel. Oak Grove residents declare that conditions at the resort are this year as last, a disgrace to the community and county and an insult to the resi dents who are forced to bear the vile language and vicious conduct of the place and its patrons. Oregon City Young Folks Return Home Among the Oregon City students who have returned from college for their vacations are: Dan Lyons, who has been studying journalism at the U. of O.; Lawrence Hull and Lot Bea trie from the department of business administration, Oregon University Mary Hathaway has also returned to the home of he raunt Mrs. David Can field and Margaret Beatrie ito the home of her parents on Washington street. Sustains Broken Leg Lucile Gray daughter of Mrs. J. W. Gray of Trout Lake, who is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Walk er sustained a broken leg last Satur day. Servers Is High Man At Gladstone Election At the annual school meeting of Gladstone district, Charles T. Seivers was chosen to serve a three year term as school director in place of Brenton Vedder who was not a candidate for re-election. T. F. Meads was elected clerk bf a vote of 142 to 60 for William Rivers. In addition to adopting the budget of approximately $12,500 for next year, the electorate authorized the purchase of more ground around the school house for recreation purposes, at a cost approximating $1,250. REPUBLICAN COUNTY COMMITTEE NAMES OFFICERS E. L. Johnson Is New Chair man Everhart Nominat ed For Treasurer PARTY LOYALTY STRONGLY URGED R. B. Cox, W. R. Logus And C. B. Ram sey Elected Secretary, Central and Congressional Committeemen At the call of the secretary, G. E. Swafford, over fifty Republican county precinct committeemen met in the commercial club parlor last Tuesday night for organization purposes. Permanent officers elected were E. L. Johnson chairman, Roy Cox secre tary and C. W. Parrish, treasurer. W. R. Logus was chosen state cent ral committeeman, C. E. Ramsey of Dickey Prairie, congressional delegate and W. W. Everhart was nominated candidate for county treasurer. F. J. Tooze, nominee for state sen ator, was called upon and gave a short address in which he outlined his stand qn public questions including anti alien laws, ship subsidy, the present primary law and rural credits and the retention of the millage tax for educa tion. M. J. Lee, candidate for the legis- iature,expressed his views on several legislative matters including alien con trol and ownership, ship subsidy, mot or laws and roads. General discussion was directed to harmony and loyalty in the party and to the nominees of the party in the coming election. A motion was adopt ed favoring the present market road law. A resolution offered by the chair man and pledging active support to all Republican nominees in this Novem ber campaign and paying a tribute of allegiance to those who sacrificed for their country in the world war was unanimously adopted. Myers Clan Meets In Hawley Park The Myers-Green annua lreunion will be held at Hawleys park Sunday, June 25. W. C. Green is Master of Ceremonies. Dinner will be served at 1:30 o'clock after which the busi ness will be transacted, and a program will be given consisting of speeches, songs and music. Mrs. Helen Myers Warre of Portland, who is the secre tary of the clan has charge of the pro gram. Col. Bob Miller will be the principal speaked. His mother was a Myers, it is the first time the reunion has been held out of doors, and a good time is expected. mt Pleasant Girl Teaches In Ashland Hiss Grace Snook of Mt.' Pleasant graduated fromt he University of Ore gon on Friday last and immediately left Eugene for the position of in structor in physical education in the Ashland summer school. Miss Snook -has taught for several years including the Mt Pleasant and Brown's schools in Clackamas county. She has accepted a position in the Salem schools for next year. After inecI5se of her work in Ashland she will return to Mt. Pleasant for a visit with her parents before taking up her new duties next fall. G. A. R. AND W. R. C. MEMBERS GO TO ENCAMPMENT Among those who will attend the an nual encampment, department Oregon J. A.R. this year are comrade Frank Moore as delegate, also the drum corps and others. , Other delegates from the W. R. C. of Meade Post this city are Mrs. Ida Adamson, Mrs. Amanda Hickman. Mrs. Mayme Bennett and Mrs. Minnie Doovan. Hawley Park . Opens Auspiciously Hawley Park was opened auspic iously on Wednesday evening last. About three hundred persons were present and enjoyed dancing the mu sic for which was ' furnished by the orchestra. Local Window Display Goes To Portland The C. G. Miller company has an un usually attractive window display this week featuring Zerolene Motor oils. Large Zerolene polar bears, replicas of the Zerolene trademark are used as the main figures, against a black ground of blue and white streamers. The Standard Oil company has asked Nea lSullivan, who designed the dis play to move it to Portland. STATE CONVENTION OF NONPARTISAN LEAGUE HELD SATURDAY Quorum Lacking At Clackamas . Meet ing Adjourned To Silverton July First The late convention of the Non-partisan Leaguers met at Clackamas on Saturday last. The meeting was attended by forty nine persons, the majority of whom were members. As it required the presence of 100 qualified members to put a ticKet into the political field, there win be an attempt to bring the attendance up to this number at an aujourneu meeting at Silverton, Juiy 1. ueneiai aiscusssion favored placing a iuu siaie ticKet in ine field this lan, C. a,. Spence being favored as candidate lor governor tnough his ac ceptance or me pioDable honor is iiououui. xiis name was urged by W. t. btaiiara ine in. P. state organizer. b'. ti. King of Logan and W. Jti. Stal-. lara ot ClaCKamas were elected state ciiairman and secretary respectively. Jb'rank Cauiter declared that the bank situation relative to the farmers' neeus could be best met by a state owned bank. J. D. Brown, formerly state presi dent of the Farmers union and non- president of the state N. P. L. declared that Walter Pierce, democratic nom inee for governor, ought to go on rec ord as to his attitude toward the league as he was one of those who advocated the launching df the League program in this state last year and mat he now claims he had nothing to do with the League. It is expected that at the Silverton meeting there will be either by en dorsements of direct nominations a full ticket named. Warner Grange Initiates Big Class On the evening, of June 15, at a spe cial meeting held for the purpose, Warner Grange No. 117 of New Era initiated 25 new members. This is one or the largest classes taken into Warner Grange in recent years. The iirst and second degrees were given to the following candidates: Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Woodard, Mr. and Mrs. Nels Melum, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chinn, Wesley Knowles Harriet Rey nolds, George Brown, Karl Bigej, Alice Chinn, Mrs. Nettie - Williams, Stephen A. Mead Ed. Mead, Herman Antnony, Delta Cretzer, Viola Dundas, Otto Dietz, Fred Hurias, Julia Lodi and Hugo Frank. After the initiation ceremony ice cream, cake an dcandy were served to the large assemblage of members and" candidates which included seven ty members in all. County Fair Fund From State Is $2002 Under the law relating to county fairs there is a levy of one-twentieth mill tax upon the property of the state of Oregon as equalized by the state tax commission. From this fund, $2002.82 will be turned over this year to Clackamas county by the state. " It is provided that no county shall receive more than $15,000 and since Multnomah's claim is $17,400,771 there is $3,400.71 excess which is . divided among all the counties. Teacher To Visit In East Mrs. Florence Moore, teacher in the Jennings Lodge school will leave Sat urday for Boston where she will at tend the N. E. A. convention. After the convention she will go to New York where she, will spend the sum mer returning in time to resume her duties1 at the opening of the fall term. 3. At his home on Logus street, this city, on Friday last there passed away in his four-score and first year J. H. Hadley. Mr. Hadley came to Oregon fifty-two years ago and has resided at Mil waukie, The Dalles and Oregon City and has been engaged in farming and merchatile business. The deceased leaves, besides his wife, R. O. and C. E. Hadley of this city; J. L. Hadley, Jacolt, Wash.; C. M. Hadley, Tilamook. A daughter, Lena Gailey. is deceased.' Fourteen grandchildren and two great grand children are left also. The funeral was held at the M. E. church, Rev. Edgar officiating. At the burial service in Mt. View cemetery, the G. A. R. and L O. O. F. orders officiated. CLACKAMAS COUNTY COURT COMPLETES ROAD PROGRAM Six Different Bond Roads Or Parts Are Included For Improvement BONDS WILL BE SOLD Bids On'Asphaltic Concrete Or War renite Bitulithic Pavement Are . Invited In The Order At the June meeting of the Clack amas County court, the road building program for 1922 was outlined and or dered. Bids are advertised for this week. In conjunction with the program of construction,' in order to obtain funds, the court has offered for sale $153,950 of Clackamas County 5 per cent road bonds. - The following roads or parts of roads are included in the court's order dated' last Saturday, June 17. Road "A" described in Bonding Act in Road District No. 7. Road "B" described in Bonding Act in Road District No. 8 Road "C" described in Bonding Act in Road District No. 8. - , A part of Road "A" from Wrights Bridge to the northerly boundary of the city of Molalla, 3.7 miles, described in. the Bonding Act in District No. 9. A partof Road "B" described in Road District No. 9 of the Bonding Act, from the southerly limits of' th City of Molalla, 1 mile. That part of the Molalla and Oregon City road described in Road District No.21 beginning at the north line of the city limits of Molalla thence south erly to the north end of the pavement as now laid. It is further ordered that the Clerk of this Court proceed, at once, to ad vertise for bids for the construction for each or all of said roads according to the plans and specifications on file with this Court and as made by the County Surveyor of Clackamas Coun ty. It being understood, however, that any contractor, desiring to do so may present a bid for a covering of as phaltic concrete, or Warrenite Bitulith ic pavement, in which case the bids are to be accompanied by a complete set of plans and specifications for the construction and completion of said roads conforming as to location and contour with the survey now made and adopted for said highways. And the Court, in order to provide the necessary funds for such highway construction, hereby orders the Clerk of this Court to advertise for and offer for sale, at not less than par with ac crued interest from July 1, 1922, $153, 950.00 of Clackamas County 5 Road Bonds to be dated July 1, 1922, due serially as follows: The advertisement, herein provided for, to be inserted' once a wek for two weeks in the Oregon City Enterprise tnd the Banner-Courier of Clackamas County and in the Daily Record-Abstract of Portland and provide that bids will be opened for the construc tion of said highways at 11 o'clock a. m. July 10, 1922, and for the sale of said Bonds at 2 o'clock p m. on the same day." Molalla Elects School Officers At the Molalla school election on Monday this week E. L. Palfrey was elected director by a plurality of seven votes, out of a total of 35 cast. G. J. Case was re-elected clerk. Mrs. R. L. Peake Is Elected Director V. At the Carver school election Mrs R. L. Peake was re-elected director and Mrs. Mary Hatten, clerk. Rosella Clark has been employed as principal of the school. Another teacher is yet to be employed. The proposition to purchase a piece of land for future school purposes was lost. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned has been duly appointed executor of the estate of J. H. Hadley, deceased, and any and all persons hav ing claims against the said estate are hereby required to present said claims, duly verified as by law required, at the office of my attorney, Earle C. La tourette within six months from the date of this notice. Date of first publication, June 22, 1922. ROY O. HADLEY, Executor of the estate of J. H. Had ley, deceased. ' C. D., D. C. and Earl C. Latourette, Oregon City, Oregon. Attorneys for Executor. BIDS ON BUILDING NEW CITY HALL OPEN TO MORROW NIGHT Structure Will Be Four Story Rein forced Concrete Modern And In Every Way Complete Building plans include: (1) main floor on level with Seventh street and includes council chamber, offices of city recorder and mayor. Two vaults and the fire department. The fire men's living quarters will be located on the mezzanine floor. The top floor will be devoted to an auditorium which will seat about 700 persons, and includes stage and dres sing rooms. The basement proper will contain the jail which will be entered from the steps leading to the top of the bluff, two emergency rooms, police of fices, city engineers offic'e and two vaults. The heating apparatus will occupy the lower section on a level with Eighth street. Construction The entire construction will be of re inforced concrete and hollow tile. Construction will be completed, it is planned ,this year. The location is just north of the steps leading from Seventh and Eigh th streets to the top of the bluff. The steps will be left intact and the struc ture so modeled as to present an at tractive appearance. It will be four stories high on Eighth street. Molalla Making Ready For The Show Of "Early Days" Molalla' is rapidly taking on the at mosphere of an Eastern Oregon cow- puncher burg. Cowboys and cowgirls are flocking into town many of them coming in high-powered cars. Two car loads of wild horses have arrived aud are in pasture, where they will be, rested and gotten into fine shape to show what they can do in the bucking iiue. Many of these are famous out- round-ups. The program, to be put n by well known riders and cowboys will consist of cow pony races, clown mule riding, potato races, bare-back riding, relay races, bull-dogging", qlick change races and bucking contests, lady rider con tests, rope spinning, trick riding, bull riding .wild horse races, and many other entertaining features. The new grand stand accommodat ing between 3000 and 4000 people, is about completed and will be ready before the first 'day of the show. Reduced rates to Molalla from all points in Oregon will be given on the Southern Pacific and W. V. S. lines for the dates of the show, July 2, 3 and 4. Dairy Lectures Scheduled E. B. Fitts, extension dairy special ist of Oregon Agricultural college, will on dairy methods in Clackamas county give a series of lecture demonstrations on the following dates: June 27, 9:30 a. m., Sunnyside, at the William Biddle farm; 2 p. m., Sandy, at the Anton Malar farm. June 28, 9:30 a. m., Logan, at the I. Tschopp farm; 2 p. m., at the A. H Miller farm. June 29. 10 a m., Clarkes, at the Clyde Ringo'farm; 1:30 p m., Colton, at the Leslie Moore farm. June 30, 1:30 p. m., Monitor, at the j. F. Lienhart farm. Newlyweds Entertained If old shoes, rice, battered tin cans and hectic noises are omens of good luck to newlyweds, then surely Mr. and Mrs. George Klemsen of Canemah will ride on the wings of . joy and pros perity forever. This was ordained Monday night when young Canemah turned out in battle array, invaded the Klemsen home and once more established the custom of making life briefly miser able for newly married people, for newly marrield people. After the youngsters had exhaused their lung power, "beaten the cans into a shapeless mass, and wended their way to the village store to squander their rewards, the old folks gathered and spent the remainder of the eve ning in dancing. Mr. and Mrs. George Klemsen were married in Oregon City two weeks ago and had just returned from a motor trip ip California. West Linn Girls Return From College Jean Moffat and Margaret Clark, students at the University of Oregon, have both returned to their homes in West Linn for their summer vacation. STATE GRANGE FILES STATE INCOME TAX Graduated Levy Ranging , From 1 to 15 Per cent Is Planned DEDUCTIONS ARE PROVIDED FOR Interest From All Sources, Dividends, 'Rentals, Wages and Fees Are included The bill providing for a state grad uated income tax initiated by the Ore gon State Grange has been filed with the secretary of state and will be on the ballot at this November election. The term "income," the bill explains. includes the following: All rent of real estate. All interest derived from money loaned or invested in notes, mortages, bonds, or other evidences of debt or any kind whatever.- All wages, salaries or fees receiveo. for services, provided that compensa tion to public officers for public ser vice shall not be computed as part of the taxable " income in such cases where the taxation thereof would be repugnant to the constitution of the state or nation. Outside Holdings ah dividends, stock dividends, pro fits or undivided profits derived from i. -fwTYi thn Tmrchase and sale SlUUA. VI iu" - - 1 of any property or other valuables ac- quied within three years or rrom any ousiness whatever. All royalties derived from any source whatever except those for which there are specific exemptions. Further, the measure provides that -so much of the income of any person residing within the state as is de rived from rentals, stocks, bonds, se curities or evidences of indebtedness shall be assessed and taxed whether such income is derived from sources within or without the state." Deductions The following types of incomes are listed, as exempt: To an individual income up to and including $1500. To husband and wife, $2500. For each child under the age of 18 years, $400. For each additional person who is actuall supported by and entirely de pendent upon the taxpayer for his support, $400. The tax to be assessed, levied and coUected upon the incomes of all per sons, firms, co-partnerships, corpora tions, joint stock companies or asso ciatio'nr, except as otherwise provided by law, after making such deductions and exemptions as hereinbefore allow ed, shall be computed at the following rate: On al ltaxable income up to and in cluding $1000, at the rate of 1 per cent On all taxable income up to and includ ing $2000, IVz per cent. On alt taxable income up to and in cluding $3000, 2 per cent. On all taxable income ud to and in cluding $4000, 2 per cent. On all taxable income up to and in cluding $5000, 3 per cent . On all taxable income up to and in cluding $6000, 3 per cent. On all taxable income up, to and In cluding $7000, 4 per cent On all taxable income up to and in cluidng $8000, 4 per cent On all taxable income up to and in cluding JbUUU, 0 per ucul. rin all tairaihle income ud to and ill eluding $10,000, 5 per cent. On all taxable income up to and i eluding $11,000, 7 per cent. On all taxable income up to and if eluding $12,000, 8 per cent. On all taxable income up to and eluding $15,000, 10 per cent. On all taxable income up to ana in-g , ..fc eluding $20,UUU, 11 per cent. - . On all taxable income up to and in cluding $30,000, 12 per cent On all taxable income up to and in cluding $40,000, 13 per cent. On all taxable income up to and in cluding $50,000, 14 per cent. On all taxable incomes that exceed $50,000, 15 per cent - ' ' Oi (z v-dvobiw. ytatatUut( iiii2.thpb Many Witnesses Called Thirty' witnesses have been sum moned to appear at the trial of Russel Hecker to be tried for the murder of Frank Bowker, Portland, Oregon, ' on the 82nd street road several weeks :o . The trial will be called in the Clackamas County court room on Tuesday next.