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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1898. CLACKAMAS COUNTY NEWS. STATE NEWS NOTES 1)0 YOU NEED ANY fc Nhubel. 811PBKI., Feb. 28 farmers around her r busily engaged putting In tlieir aprtng Herman Hanson left on Saturday for ' Eastern Oregon, 10 work, and Fred Steiner ? leave Unlay. 'Wear sorry to see them leave but, if they must go, we wish then) ; God speed, and hoi they will be successful la their search for work. Miss Susanna Uinther, of Oregon City, U : spending a few days witb ber parents, Mr. nd Mrs. Emil Ointber. flnee the burglaries committed some tTuie ago, someone ia poisoning the doxs. The singing class or the Evangelical Church is progressing very nicely under the Instruction of Emit Hornshuh Fred Moehnke haa bought a new saw for till mill and will soon begiu sawing In III earnest. Mr. and Mrs. Shocklev, or Highland, vere callers al the bom of Fred Moehnke last Sunday. Last Tuesday evening, the Y. P. 8 C. E. Cf German Coxgregatioual church met at the home of Mr. Steiner and paid their re Cpecta to their fellow member, Fred Steiner, Who leaves for Eastern Oregon today. The evening was spent in playing games, sing ing etc., by toe young folks and all were treated to a magio lantern exhibition by John Wolf, which was quite entertaining. About halt an bour before midnight all were invited to enter the dining room,! Where an agreeable surprise awaited them There, on the table, all kinds of eatables lay smiling and waiting before us; and fld eat. We laid our good manners aside Idr the time bring and literally "pitched in' md when all wis over, nothing was left but few scattering dishes; as relic of the hour's sad work. Alter prayer by Rev. KlauD, all turned their footsteps homeward, leeiing that the evening bad not been spent It) vain. Following are those who were resent; Rev. and Mrs. Weidner, Misses Louisa Steiner, Uzsie Boh lender, Lizii TPeiener, Dora and Minnie Henrecl, Lena trod Mary Seidboldt; Messrs. Fred, Willie and Henry Hettman, Fred, Henry and Fhilip Steiner. Charley Jones, John Wolf, Valentine BohlencJer, Henry and Robert Cinther. ample justice to this part of the pro gram. The afternoon was called to order at 2 p. m. The afternoon program was opened with a solo by Mrs. J. H. Strickler. Mrs. Stickler's ability is so well known that it is needless to say that the teach ers were thoroughly pleased. She , graciously responded to a hearty encore. Place (or holding next meeting was left to the decision of superintendent and program committee. "Interest and Attention" was pre sented by A. C. Strange. No teacher can be successful if they fail to have interest ana attention, rsvchology is a study that should be familiar to every teacher. Mr. Strange'a remarks were well prepared and showed that he had given much thought to his subject. A vocal solo by Howard Strickler and a violin solo by Henrietta Debaw were much enjoyed by all present. An address by Dr. Butler on the "Human Mind" was a scholarly effort and was much appreciated. The speaker presented many interesting facts. The program was closed with a solo by Mrs Strickler. A vote of thanks was extended by the Association to the good people of the district, and especially to Mrs. Strickler and ber son, Howard, Miss Debaw and Prof. Heritage for their entertainment On motion Association adjourned to meet last Saturday in March. Jennii E. Rowk.x, Sec. pro tern WALTER WILAJiD TO URA.VD JURY Id The Penitentiary Once, But Sieems to Wast to ge Buck. Nsple Lane. IIapls Lake, Feb. 28.-E. M. Ward at tended the teacher' meeting at West Ore gnu City Saturday. l rs. R. Flitcroft is at home for a short stay. Miss Liuie Meagher of Oregon City, was the guest of Miss Anns Shortlidge, Sunday. Mrs. N. W. Richards is visiting her daughter at Oregon City. A Bryant and Geo. Mauls, of Portland were the guests of A. Mautz and family last Monday. aiiss Lum Hanklns, or Oregon City was a visitor ia this neighborhood, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Mary Davies is on the tick list. I. F. Taylor, of Molalla, is visiting at the home ol J. R. Davies. Miss Mattie Mauls is visiting with ber .friends in Oregon City. W. J. Miller. T. W. Davies and C. R. Williams, accompanied by Preston Cooper, of Cams, left Wednesday for Eastern Ore gon where tbey went in search of employ ment. A. 8. Kleinsmith is visiting his parents at 'Oarkes. Mrs. Sybil Roberts is the guest of Mrs. tn. Muir. Win. Shannon, of Beaver Creek, made a abort visit at Mr. Boens Sunday. Teachers Meeting. The Clackamas County Teacher's Asso ciation met at West Oregon City on Sat urday February 26. Meeting called to order by Supt. H. G. Starkweather at 10:30 a. m. The regu lar Secretary being absent Miss Jennie . Rowen was appointed to fill the vacancy. Minutes of I he previons meet ing read and approved. The morning's program was opened Ly the Association singing "Mount Vernon Bulls," Miss Mullan officiating at the organ. Prof. Heritage made a plea lor music in the public schools. He thinks that music should be taught just the same as reading, geography, spelling tc. MuBic trains the mind as well as mental arithmetic does. Music is al ways appropriate. There is never a lime from cradle to the grave that some music is not needed. He said that it is a great discipline, giving an incident in is own life as a pedague to proye the statement. "Supplementary Reading" was a sub ject nicely bandied by Miss Dotson, of Parkplace, she said its object was to make pupils read complete works and not fragments. Many schools have no library, teachers need not be discouraged by this, every family has story books, papers and magazines which afford ex cellent supplementary work. Prof. Zinser placed a list of works on the board which would be excellent for this work. Miss Boehke, the primary teacher at Willamette Falls, gave her plan of using supplementary work. She writes the story on the board and one copy suffices or the intire class. The subject of "Climate" was dis cussed by Prof . Zinser. A very import ant subject, as all life depends on c'imate, Prof. Zinser handled his sub ject in an able manner, showing that be was perfectly familiar with it. Just at this time a pleasant interruption came in the shape of an invitation to dinner. The teachers descended to one of the lower rooms where the tables had been prepared witb good things; snd did The trial of Walter Wyland. Gilbert Wyland and August Willbrook charged by J. W. Smith of Macksburg with lar ceny was brought up Monday iu the Jus tice court. Gilbert Wyland was dismissed, and August Willbrook was temporarily dis missed in order that his ease might be filed in the county court, that Willbrook, who is only IS years old might be sent to the reform school . The same day be was sentenced by Judge Hayes to the reform school, and was taken there at once. Walter Wyland, whose case will be de cided by the grand jury, has been in the penitentiary once before. A case of as sault is also pending against him, pre ferred by John Barth of Macksburg. Last week about 10 o'clock at night Wyland was waited upon by thirty or more Macksburg citizens and ordered to leave the country within 48 hours. The result was that A. Kinney was arrested charged with an assault npoo Wyland with a dangerous weapon. The trial cme up last Wednesday Kinney was discharged. WIDE TIRE BENEFITS. Mrhool Reports. 1 T-v .1 ft. t l . un-aey, oi juoiaua, closed a very successful ova-months term of school in district No. 25, Molalla, on Friday last Report of George school for 5th month Days taught, 20; total days attendance, 413 ; days absence, 50 ; times tartly, 1 Pupils neither tardy nor absent are Annie and Willie Ruhl, Irena, Martha and Wal ter Paulsen.Carl Lins, Dora Smith, Henry Klinker, Henry Rimer. Viator during the month were, Supt. Starkweather. Mrs. Roth, Mrs. Widderholts, Mr. P. Poalsen, Miss. Paulina Roth, Mr. F. Roth. Patrons of the school arecordi ally invited to call and note our progress. Iva UoiKjts, Teacher The following is the report of Haielia school, district No. 37 for the month end ing February 25, cases of tardiness none; those who were neither absent nor tardy are: Elmer, Agnes, and Lynett Shipley, Pearl Long, Blanche and Ethel Whitten, John Long, Carroll and Milton Shipley, Leslie Whitten, Willie Nagle, Frank Childs and Nina Wanker. Visit ors present during the month were Mrs. A. Walling, Miss Adriie Whitten, Miss Maud Walling and Master Roy David son. Patrons are invited to visit the school. Alba D. Thompson, Teacher. Report of Concord They Not Only Improve the Road, but tlx Load Is More Easily Drawn. The beueciul effect of the wide tire on dirt roads is strikingly shown in tome recent testa at the Missouri agri cultural experiment station at Colum bia. A clay road badly cot into ruts by the narrow tires was selected for the test as presenting conditions least favorable to the broad tire. A number of tests of the draft of the narrow tire were made in these open ruts and im mediately followed by the broad tires running in the same ruts. The first run of the broad tire over the narrow tire ruts was accompanied by an increased draft, the second by a draft materially less than the original narrow tire, the third by a still greater decline, and in the fonrth trip the rut was practically obliterated and filled. The narrow tires were then run over the same road, witb the results that the draft was lighter than before the broad tires had been need. Alternating the broad and narrow tires on this road for a number of times resulted in a gradually decreased draft In other words, the broad tires were improving the road surface to such an extent when run but half the time as to make the draft considerably less for all vehicles. This clearly demonstrates that if even half the wagons used on dirt roads had broad tires the results would be beneficial in draft and enormously beneficial in bettering the condition of the roads. In another trial, when a clay road was so badly cut into ruts as to be al most impassable for light vehicles and pleasure carriages, after running the 0 inch tires over this road 13 times the ruts were oompletley filled and a first class bicycle path made. A careful rec ord oi the drafts shows that the draft was materially less than with the nar row tires immediately before. Thus the road would have been gradually im proved by the use of the broad tires at the same time that the farmer would have been able to transport his products over the road with greatly reduced draft She Transferred. "I want a transfer to the depot, " aid j the lady with a feather in ber bonnet "Certainly, madam; which depot?" asked the conductor. "I want it to the depot, " repeated the lady of the feather. "But I don't know which depot yon mean," replied the conductor. "Never you mind what you know and what you don't know, " snapped the woman ; ' 'you do as yon are told. You give me a transfer, do you hear?" "But" "I won't have your but Just you give me that transfer or I will report you, " And the conductor gave it to her, while every one on the car hoped he had sent her to the wrong place. -Memphis Commer-cial-AnTjeaL school, district number 28, for the month ending Febru ary IS. Pupils enrolled 32; average number belonging 81; average daily attendance 580 ; total days absence 43; times tardy 3. The following pupils were neither absent nor tardy during the month are Minerva Thiessen, Emma and Fannie Clayson, Guy, Beulah and Lucy White, Bennie Kuehl, Theodore Worthington, Roea and Emma Feldman, OttoKenner, August Tucholke, Linna Roethe and Leon Lyon. Mrs. J. S. Bradley, Teacher The following is a report of Eagle Creek school, district number 17 tor the month ending Feb. 25. Days tanght, 19; days attendance, 652; days absence, 54; times tardy, 5 ; average number be longing, 33; average attendance, 34; total number enrolled, 40. Roll of honor Chas. Wagner, Gerald Wilcox, Oren Ballon, Chas. Horger, Minta Pollard, Pearl Eoster, and Louise Wagner. Visi tors during the month were Miss Emms Doroty ; Messers. John Van Cnrren, Jas. Bell, Harvey Arfedge, A. D". Burnett. and Chas. Van Curren. Patrons and friends are requested to visit our school and inspect our work. G.T. McAbthub, Teacher. Following is the report of school dis trict number 80, for the six weeks end ing February 25th. Namber of pupils enrolled in principal's room 33; in pri mary room 26; total 50. General aver age attendance, in principal's room 29; in primary room 23 ; total 49. Those neither absent tardy nor during the Interesting Events Chronicled in an Abbreviated Form. floors, Wiioffs, Gta, lionlli OR OTHER BUILDING MATERIAL? :GOTO: C. H. BESTOW 4 CO- Low Prices. First-rlnss Hnnrte Last Frhla nvnnlno ! Pnru.HIa ITam I t.t. oeer, of Marion county, delivered Corns'" 1 1th and Main Streets, Oregon City, Oregon. an able address to the Young Men's Re publican club of Benton county. A large and enthusiastic audience was present. Henry Miley haa been appointed post master at Wilsonville, Or., vice Herman Pepper, removed . Last Saturday Justice Bullock of Port land fined Paddy Maher $20 00 for unprovoked assault on Max Shilloc newspaper man of Portland. The Salem Journal says Senator King of Baker, Senator Smith of Clatsop, Hon. Geo. E. Chamberlain of Portland, and T, L. Davison, Robert Veatch and A. Miller are being mentioned for governor on a union ticket; Hon. II. It. kincaid for secretary of stale, and Judge Geo. D. Barton for state treasurer. The Albany Democrat publishes the above as a "misfit." A GREAT MAGAZINE' 3 FOR 1 OFFER. 3 FOR 1 A shocking accident occured on the T,ie regul Bulmcription price of six weeks were Laura, Millie and Elmira Ginther, of the principal's room, and Nellie and Nora Moehnke, Hazel Ginther, Lottie and Lydia Hornschuh and Jacob Grossmiller, of the primary room. isitors present during the si weeks were Otto Hornschuh, Willi Ginther. Herman Hanson, Martin Mas singer, Christ Hornschuh, Mrs. E. F, Ginther, Ida Uinther, William Hettman Willie Moehnke and Mr. Duffy. Friday February 25 being the last day, a suit a ble program was prepared for the after noon which was listened to by quite a large audience. British bark Ross-shire on Wednesday of last week as she was being towed in over the bar at Astoria by the Relief. A heavy ben-coop fastened forward of the main hatch, broke loose with the pitch' ing ot the vessel, and the carpenter proceeded to secure It. He was just about to grasp the coop when the venae! gave a tremendous lurch, throwing him attainst the rail. At the same instant the coop struck him on the head, crush ing the skull in a frightful manner and almost instantly killing him. The un fortunate man had been with the Ross- shire's captain for over six years and was very popular. Many people assem bled on Flavel's Dock when the vessel cast anchor, attracted bv the half masted flag. Demorest's Maeazlne," 'Judge's Library," and "Funny Pictures" is 83.30 Wo will sond all three to you for one year for 32 or 0 months for $1. M DEMOREST'S MAGAZINE" la by fur Hie best family magnslne published ; were i none oi our monmucs in wtiich l ho beautiful and the useful, pleasure and profit, fashion and literature are so fully presented as In Di'tnoreal's. There is in fact, no publication pretending to a similar scope and purpose which can compare with it. Every number contains a free pattern couiHin . "JUDGE'S LIBRARY" Is a monthly magasine of fun, filled with illustrations m raricaiuie ami iepieie.1 with wit and humor. Its contributors are lbs best of American wits and illustrators. FUNNY PICTURES" is very line of it. another humorous monthly; there Is a laugh la All three of these mattiuinea are handsomely notion up. You should not miss this chance to secure them. BARUED.U1KE FEME Let Them Be Eufoned Letter. LAWS. To The Cut here and return Coupon proierly filled out. Demoret Publishing Co. ,1 10 Fifth Avanue. New York. For the enclosed 12 00 cleans arm! D.Mmin.i' 1'imltv M Library (a mauaaine of fun), and Funny Pictures for one year as per your offer. Name. Post-offlce. KeporU FaNe. On account of malicious reports hav mg been circulated, accusing Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Manning of being short in tlieir school accounts, by request the following certified copy of a letter from the county superintendent is published Ubeoos City, Or., Feb. 28. 1898. To whom it may concern This is to certify that I have carefully eamine: the sect's of school district No. 101 of Clackamas county Oregon as kept by Mr. and Mrs F. M. Manning during their respective terms as clerk of said school district and I desire to say that I have found nothing in the said acct's to in dicate that the said Mr. and Mrs. Man ning have defrauded the said school dis trict to the value of anything. Very Respectfully, H.G. Stabkwkatheb, County School Supt. Clackamas County Oregon. Steel Roadway. Secretary Wilson has given directions to General Roy Stone, chief of the bureau of good oads at the department or agriculture, to construct a sample steel roauway at toe most convenient looa. tion he can find at the Nashville expo sition, where it may be seen and studied by the visitors who will attend the ex position during the summer. Secretary Wilson thinks the steel trackwav for wagons is tne easiest solution of the good roads problem, particularly in the west, where stone and gravel are scarce, and the soil is deep and sticky. Gold Men Pleated. Japan baa received very high praise from the gold men for making ber sil ver dollars SO cent dollars. Send the Enterprihb to your friend in the East and thus give him an idea of what is going on in Clackamas county, It may induce him to locate with us. Wedding stationery, the latest styles and finest assortment ever brought to Oregon City at the Emtkbpbiss office. McMinnvills, Or., Feb. 20. The validity of the sections of Hill's code re lating to barbed-wire fences is soon to be tested. Recently a valuable horse belong ing to a resident of McMinnville was ruined by coming in contact with a wire fence enclosing a block of land owned by larahili county. In section 3459, ol Hill's code, it is re quired that "all barbed-wit fence in any of the counties west of the Cascad moontains, within the state, shall have a board not less than ons by six inches, or a pole not less than four inches in di ameter, securely fastened to post, and false post, not further than eight inches below the top barbed wire. Section 34(10 says : "It shall be the duty of all persons having barbed-wire fences to keep them in good repair." Section 3401 says: "Let all cases which stock shall be killed or injured by coming in contact with barbed-wire fences, which are not at the time of injury kept in substantial compliance with the terms of this act, the owner of the stock so killed or injured shall have the right to recover from the owner of such fence, by action of the law, a sum eq'ial to the amount of the injury bud tained bv him in the killing or injury to his slock, as aforesaid." T i t. I f ... in mis case u is cinimea me wire was lying on the ground, the necessary board or pole not being visible. The owner ol the animal has presented a bill to the county in compliance with the list sec tion of the law. If it is not paid, suit will be brought against the county. Capitalists Inmtliig. Baker Citv, Or., Feb. 28. An impor tant and much-needed enterprise is about to be launched in this c'ty. A con tract has been let for the construction of a sampling and reduction works to be located on the O. R. & N. and Suropter valley railways. The main building will be 30x75 feet and will contain an ore crusher, rolls, sample grinder and all other necessary machinery for sampling ores. In addition to the samnlinir facili ties, a roasting furnace and chlorinatlon barrel, with settling tanks, etc.. will be put in to reduce such ores as may be suitable, for rhlonnation. Ores will not only be sampled, but purchased outright, if desired. All ores suitable for chlorina- tion will be treated at home; others wil be sent to the different smelters. Sev eral attempts have been made in the ptto induce capitalists to enter this field. A good-sized bonus could proba bly have been secured by the projectors, but they prefer to act independently. Bela Kauish will be the manager. Jle one of the principal owners. Date. State. 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