OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1907. P.. o FREE I You are Cordially Invited to at tend a Free ILLUSTRATED LECTURE On the Development and Frog ress of the TELEPHONE SINCE ITS INVENTION BY ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL THIRTY YEARS AGO Illustrated With I40 Views Pertaining to Telephone Mat ters In All Parts of the Country. Lecture by W. K. MERRILL of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company . Tuesday, Sept 24, at 8 p. m. Willamette Ball, Ortgoi City An Instructive, Interesting and .. Entertaining Hour Is .. Promised You FREE! FREE! THE COURTS Say Husband is Bad Actor. In the Circuit Court this afternoon Lydia Shaw filed a suit for a divorce from Frank W. Shaw, alleging cruel and inhuman treatment They were married only 42 days ago, the cere mony being performed in Portland, on August 12, and Mrs. Shaw says they went to Tacoma to live two days after their marriage. While they were staying at the St. Paul hotel her hus band became abusive toward her in the presence of guests. She avers he Btruck her with his clenched fist on the chest and threatened to kill her. She left him and returned to her home In Portland last Saturday. She desires to resume her maiden name of Hub bell. Tried to Scare His Wife. . Jessie Courtright has filed a suit in the Circuit Court against B. E. Court right for a decree of divorce. They were married February 1, 1894, and Mrs. Courtright says she wa3 com pelled to perform labor and cultivate and harvest crops of grain and garden stuffs. Hubby is charged with threat ening suicide, whipping children cruel ly, refusing plaintiff medical atten dance, and various other bad acts. Plaintiff wants $40 a month alimony and a restraining order. Another Man Charged with Desertion Mary Dickenson has instituted suit for divorce against John Dickenson, to whom she was married September 2, 1897, at Colville, Wash., and she al leges that her husband deserted her at Trail, B. C, in May, 1904, which forced her to go to work to support herself and her child until one year ago, when she sent the child, a boy four years old, to his father. Notes. Leroy Carden, a deaf mute aged 1C, was arrested Wednesday charged with a serious crime against the person of Elsie Henke, aged 12. The charge Is that the offense was committed in Os wego. The lad's parents deposited $100 for his apearance in court Thurs day. After a hearing at that time he was bound over to court In the sum of $400. Attorney Richard McCann Friday filed a suit against George Oldrlght for $200 and levied an attachment on Oldright's homestead claim. The amount is alleged to have been due Municipal Judge Cameron, who trans ferred the account to McCann. In the Circuit Court P. J. Henne man and Elizabeth Henneman have All Fence Wires, Nails, and Farm Tools SOLD FR ANK instituted suit against Mary Jane Tor ranee et al. to quiet the title to a piece of land. C. D. Latourette has filed a suit against William Mortenson of Mar quam to secure the conveyance of the west half of the northwest quarter of section 4, town 7 south, range 2 east. Mr. Latourette alleges that October 18, 1901, Mortenson gave him an op tion on the property, agreeing to transfer it for $200 whenever It should pass to patent. Jack Barnes, who created a distur bance on an electric car at Oak Grove Monday afternoon, was taken to Mil waukie Tuesday and arralnged by Deputy District Attorney Eby. He Is charged with malicious destruction of personal property, and entered a plea of not guilty. In default of $200 bail he was committed, to the county Jail to appear at Milwaukle Friday after noon at 2 o'clock. POLLARD-RANDALL One of the events of the social sea son was the marriage Wednesday af ternoon, at the home of the bride In this city, of Dr. Wni. H. Pollard of M areola and Miss Gustena Randall, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Randall. Rev. Blackwell performed the ceremony In the presence of a group of friends In the prettily decor ated parlors at the family home on Fifth street. The bride was prettily attired in a wedding gown of creme lansdowne, with trimming of creme lace, and car ried a shower bouquet of white carna tions. Little Mildred Brown, of Mount Vernon, Wash., acted as ring-bearer. After the marriarge ceremony the bridal party and Invited guests par took of a wedding supper. Dr. and Mrs. Pollard left on the 8:30 train for their home at Marcola, where the groom is a practicing physician. Dr. and Mrs. Pollard were the recipients of many beautiful pieces of cut glass, silverware and linen. The guests present were Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Philps, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blanchard, of New Era; Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Randall of Oregon City; Mr. and Mrs. George Randall, of Oregon City; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ran dall, of Central Point; George Ran dall of Oregon City; Mrs. Johana Woods, of Tlgardville; Mrs. Nellie Godwin, of Oregon City; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Powers, of Oregon City; Mrs. J. W. Grout, of Oregon City; Mrs. Ar thur Brown, of Mount Vernon; Mrs. John Vale, of Salem; Miss Mattie Pol lard, of Portland; Miss Anna Pollard, of Tlgardville; Miss Dollie Dunlap, of Portland; Miss Grace Pollard, of Tlg ardville; Miss Lottie Randall, of Ore gon City ;Miss Bartha Koerner and Miss Sylvia Jones, of Gervals; Messrs. Allie Micklejohn and Frank Dutcher, of Central Point; Richard Thomas, of Spokane ;P. L. Crawford, of Portland, and Mrs. Dr. Vincent, of Tlgardville. MARRIAGE LICENSES. Wra. H. Pollard and Gustena Anna Randall. MARRIAGES. SIMOXTON-HALLIMAN At home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Halliman, Sept. 18, 1907, Fred W. Simonton and Miss Ethel Halliman, Rev. W. B. Moore officiat ing. POLLARD RANDALL At the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Randall, Oregon City, Sept. 2C, 1907, Dr. Wm. H. Pollard of Mar cola and Miss Gustena A. Randall, Rev. R. C. Blackwell officiating. DEATHS. LEHMAN Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1907, accidentally killed, Ernest Lehman, aged about 45 years. BIRTHS. BOY Born Sept. 11, 1907, to Mr. and Mrs. Joel B. Bowman, Estacada, a son. BOY Thursday. Sept. 19, 1907, to Mr. and Mrs. Alex Baker, of Eagle Creek, a son. GIRL To Mr. and Mrs. A. E. King of Mount Pleasant, a daughter, born Monday, Sept. 23, 1907. BOY Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1907, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Weindle, of Twi light, a son. S9ESSS5 BUSQBL j STATE NEWS, j o o The Hlllsboro Carnival committee Is getting things in ohapo for the street fair which will be held thero October 3, 4 and 5. Here's the way the Salem Journal sees It: Congressman Burton wants to break up ring rule In Cleveland, Ohio, by ousting Tom Johnson and being the ring himself. The carrier of rural mute No. 1, out of Medford. has been using an automo bile off and on for the past our months in making his rounds, with good success. The assessment for Tillamook coun ty will be over $S,00,000 this year. The assessment on acreage property amounts to $7,327.&r,0 and town kits $335,151. A Portland minister says If the Devil was to preach a sermon his ma terial would be taken from th daily newspapers, principally from the com ic sectkms, and then he proceeded to use that same topic himself. The special elect km. held In La Grande Monday upon the adoption or rejection of the proposed new charter resulted In the proposed charter be ing defeated by a vote of ISO votes for and 190 votes against. Recently some men at Kings Val ley, Benton county, burned some slash ings. It spread and burned eight orj ten miles or lences, inree cows, live or six sheep, and $1000 worth of saw- logs altogether about $2000 worth Mrs. Alice Cruzan, keeper of a jare out )f ,uck- aml frown ap- questionable resort at Marcola. thelPt ar on Teddy s brow. saw mill town on the Eugene-Wend ling branch of the Southern Pacific Railway, was fined $250 and costs m the Eugene Justice court Saturday for selling liquor in violation of the local option law. F. H. Hopkins, proprietor of the Showy Butte orchard near Central Point, has closed a deal for his crop of Winter Nellls pears at a price that probably breaks the record for that variety of pears. Mr. Hopkins has 16 acres of Nellls, and the present crop brought him $19,000, or about $1600 an acre. A. Fisk, who came to Oregon from Colorado a few years ago, and settled on a farm near Wilholt Spring, was the first man to start the production of Ginseng on a large scale In this State, so far as is known, and the re turns he Is promised for his crop this year are such as to make even the most favored of the Hood River ap ple growers envious. The way to kill off the salmon In dustry is to stock up the rivers with trout. It Is a well known fact to those who have taken the trouble to investlagte that it Is the trout which are destroying the salmon Industry, for they follow the salmon Into the spawning grounds and devour the eggs directly they are laid. But this Is not all. The trout devour the young salmon fry by the millions. Tillamook Headlight. Proprietors of Portland liquor stores that are doing both a retail and wholesale business were Monday cited to appear at the next meeting of I the license committee of the Council to show cause why they Bhould not pay both wholesale and retail Ilcens- es. At present such firms are pay- us miy "HiK.e license w me cuy, and if they are compelled to pay two it will mean a considerable increase in the revenue of the city. The Lane County Woman's Chris tian Temperance Union met in annual convention in the Eugene Baptist church last Friday, with Mrs. Eva Wheeler, the county president, In the Lv.( AM ,Kq , . . ' C ' A" th6 UnlHn8 ,n the county were re presume a except iwo. jvine county officers answered to the roll call. The reports were exceptionally the "graceful actions" and moral (?) good, financially, numerically and as (tendencies ever gleaned from our av to work done. About forty members jerago kid dances, where the dads lost were In attendance. 'sight of their urchins for the night. Stoves, Cafpets, Chairs, at REDUCED PRICES. A sturgeon weighing 610 pounds was caught near Astoria the first of tho week. The University of Oregon opened Its doors Tuesday, Sept. 24. Tho first and second days' registration shows au Increase over last year. Almost every high school and academy In tho Stale Is represented. The Oregonlan says: Twelve dol lars a box for apples sounds very ap petizing. To be sure, Mr. Vanderbllt, of Hood River, had only forty boxes of tho delectable Winter Bananas, which seem to he almost literally worth their weight In gold; but forty boxes at $12 a box came to $IS0. This Is more than some farmers can show for a year's work on a quarter section of land. F. E. Dunn, A. C. Woodcock, C. 8. Williams and George A. Dorrls, all of Eugene, have bought a 200-acre tract in the river bottom, seven miles north of that city, and will set the en tire tract to Royal Anne cherries this winter. The farm Is known as tho old "Dickie" Robinson place and Is one of the richest In the county. Royal Annes flourish In that vicinity better than any other fruit crop, and small fortunes have been made here during the last few years. The Gresham public and high school opened last week Monday with the best attendance for the first day In the history of the school. One hun dred and fifty answered to the roll call. MOLALLA. Grange Fair Saturday bring out your babies haven't any? Well, you "7 '"' J thlnK" m "haP for wln,Pr thl client weather prevails. M- Trulllnger contemplates making !vlslt u California by water next week having disposed of his blacksmith business hero to Mr. Young. C. H. B. Thomas and wife returned from Waltsburg. Wash., last Friday, where they have been spending the summer working in the broad wheat fields" of, the Inland Empire, reporting a very pleasant and profitable time. Sixteen more cases of young Enst ern trout were brought up Monday and planted In the tributaries of the Molalla river. Vernon and Bobbins took the little speckled bueautles in charge and saw them well placed. Frank Watts Is hauling sawlogs to the Prairie sawmill and by tho way. some of the "blgKest that ever went through these 'Confederate cross roads,' " as Nasby would have It. Frank Schltzman Is building an ad dition to his dwelling house. Aunt Margaret Englo and Clara are moving Into town on Oregon City avenue, having had their residence re modeled recently. E. K. Durt. wife and Elsie, made a visit to Stone last week. Several of our folks took In the State Fair. Kayler & Hermann have gone to Marquam to wind up the clover-hulling. E. A. Shaver has his new house well under way. Frank Adams being the boss-carpenter. C. W. Herman and J. W. Thomas have each purchased new seeders, having grown tired of the Aid Arm strong method of casting seed. One year ago Molalla was consider- ablv worker) tin over n oWtrlr linn . , . , , ' 'but now nine-tenths of our people do t mIn, ,,. r n gftt awako fop CUy winding the alarm to awaken herself up to a sense of duty and action one of these bright mornings. Tho last dance will take place In the school here on the evening of Saturday the 28th of September, after the Fair, the school house hall Is to be taken for school purposes hereafter which will be of more everlasting ben efit to the rising generation than all OREGON CITY OREGON NEW CITY CHARTER READY TO SUBMIT SPECIAL SESSION OF COUNCIL MONDAY NIGHT TO ACT UPON IT. The Charter Commute, composed of Mayor, Recorder, members Coun cil and ten eltl.ena, met limt evening at the Council chamber to hear a re port from the suheommltte, which has had the principal work of prepar ing n new charter In hand. The com mute of the whole, after hearing the report, accepted the new charter In practically the shape It was reported by the commute. A special meeting of Council will be held Monday even ing to hear tho new charter rend and ratify It, If It Is acceptable, and pass the proper legislation placing It be fore the people for acceptance or re jection at tho next election. Tho principal changes recommend ed In tho charter are these: 1. Election of Councllmen every two years Instead of three, as at present. By tho new plan each ward will choose two, to serve two years each, and there will be then three Councllmen In the city to elect at large, these men to serve one year ench. Instead of electing three Coun cllmen each year, to serve three years each, we will then elect three to serve two years snd three at large to serve one year, a majority coming before the people for election each year. 2. Dividing of the city Into street Improvement districts Improve meuts within these districts will be charged against all the property In the district, and not against shutting property. Many Improvements are of as much value to all the people of a given section of the city as to the property In front of which they are made. At present abutting property holders must hear one-third the cost even If the Improvement Is detriment al to their property. By this new plan one will be taxed only his proportion ate share. 3. City may build or acquire pub lic utilities, such as public wharfs, halls, railways, gas plants, etc., so as to have them under municipal con trol. 4, City required to bond Its present Hosting debt at low rate of Intercut and !hen It may not contract debts In excess of Its appropriations, and such debts shall not Iki legal: first of year funds assessed must be appropriated Into several funds for several forms of work, and then Council must make Improvements to only such amounts. As Council Is a part of the general committee, and had Its hand In the work of formualtlng the new charter, It Is believed that the new charter will be ordered presented to tho pub lic for acceptance with very few changes from those that the commit tee will recommend at the meeting Monday evening. HIGHLAND. It Is said "All beginnings are hard" so tho new school district, recently cut from the old Is encountering a tempestuous sea on Its new voyage. There Is talk of returning to the smooth and calm sea of the old dis trict; also of an Injunction on the school funds, etc. The County School Superintendent will make a personal examination of the condition and af fairs of Isith new and old districts, and after careful consideration ar rive at a conclusion, probably. The new district has elected Its of ficers, (and good ones, too) has levied a tax, has leased the M. E. church for the present and will start on Its In structing career In the near future. Wo must state In this connection that selfishness on tho part of some Individuals Is at the iKittom of this difficulty; If some people can't have a school house right under the nose they won't have any at all, Highland School District No. 33 commenced school this week with Miss Klma Blnhrn at tho helm. Theso school operations bring us to the subject of changing text-books again. It beats all how the people, like dumb-driven cattle, will bow and submit to the galling yoke of the book trust. And It beats all how our legis lators, tho people's protectors and champions, allow honesf, helpless and confiding people to bo duped, In our humble Judgment nearly nvtt-i, (Ima a .dnltni. In .... I 1 1 . .. I made, It Is for the worso and useless. ,The writer remembers very distinct Ally how ho used the school books that ? other and older members of the same family had used previously and learn ed to read a common newspaper, too, while with these wonderful new books space forbids to sny very much. In this matter of changing text books, humoring a text-book commis sion, and feeding, nn Insatiate book trust, we fool like Patrick Henry of Revolutionary fame, "We enre not. what others do," but we are decldoly in favor, of retaining; our old text books, and' letting the trust retain Its new ones, This process of bleeding the people has been In operation lonir 'enough. TICKLISHNESS. fThrr rXlala illatlnct Bppetlt fee tickling. "-I ir. Units Itnhlliaiui In Nortlk American Kevtew.) Titers Is nn rimiM that this Is trus, For silica this world hesnn "Ymi lli WIb iiim. t llcklo ytiu," Una been tlm liumnn plan. Tli" babes of not it yaor In aga Whim tickled 'nenth (heir hit! Will luiigli, si slao will th sags, Whrn poked twtwoan th ribs. In Utters wlmt s Joy It' Is When crltli-a ilo mints Their iul' snd iulrk snd sulllloh qutal Our wins to lltiliutel In (Hilltlra Imw hllaaful whim, MM acetitt of imrvmia wrack, tout writer wllh hla fountain pan loih scratch us on th back. W find It verywher ws so, In rvery walk tit Ufa, Anions tha lilac It placuit and th low, In wac ami 'rn In atrlfe, Tim beggar meekly seeking alms Itigh aoftly 'neath hi breath When nippers scratch hla Itching palms:; It tlcklea him In ileal h. Th mlllliuialr with all bis gold On tickling dote llkewlae. For sll that ha aecma atern and cold To Btihitry watching eyes. When stuns one speaks good wurila of) him Ilia spirit greatly cheer. And, while hla amll la often grim, It tickle much hla vara. And ven In th Whlt Ilmian, whar Much Btrcmioiiatieaa tlwelta, W surely tlml It mating thera Ita mnl bewitching xlla. What man la h who riarea deny Th wnmlrotia amllttig throb That dunlin In our Trtbly' ry When on aotit tlrkllah lob? -John Kemlrh k liiwtga In Ilarpar' Weekly. A Chrful Hint Among the presents lutety showeredl Bpon a Mnrylnnd bride wits one that was the gift of an elderly lady of ths neighborhood, with whom liotrt brld and groom were prime favorites. Kome years ago the tlenr old soul ac cumulated n supply of cardlHinrd mot toes, which she worked and bad frame! and on which she never fulled to draw with the grcatcNt freedom us oecaslua arose. In cheerful reds and blues, suspend ed by a cord of the same colors over the table on which the other present were grouped, hung the motto: "right on; tight ever."-Austln Carls ton in Woman's Home CotnpanUm. AfUr Twnty Ytara. Mrs. Ilurdiipplu (at 'lny-Thitt thsr leading lady looks the same ss shs did in the Inst act Mr. Hurdnpple Yes, and twenty years aro suppled t elapse between the Inst mid this one. Mrs. Hnrdapplo Do tell! And to think she didn't wnah her fnce oncs in all that time!-Chicago News, Not a Dasd Cam Sport. The Parrot-I'm .going to move If that kid doesn't step using my cage for a baseball mask. New York World. Too Tru. "I lielleve It to lie n fact." remarked the spindle shanked young man, "that persons Is-come to some extent that which they habitually feed upon," "Then why don't you eat freely of venl?" asked his elder sister. "You haven't nearly as much calf about you as you ought to have."-ChIcugo Trib une. Miiundsrstood. "Them lawyers do say awful funny things to you." "What kind of things?" "The one what cume to see mo yes terday about that there accident salt! he wanted a paregorleal nnswer to hi qaestlous." Ilnltliuoro American. Still Lingsrsd. Eva-Hertle (itinu is singing that op eratic song, "I Am Ouly a Bird." Edna Kvldently be Is not a swan. Eva Why not? tlnn Because when a swan sing It alwuys goes.-Ht. Iiuls Post-Dispatch. Not a Diplomst. "You never tell me that I look young and sweet any more," pouted Mrs. Lovelace. "No," her brute of a husband re plied, ' "I seem of lute to have lost my powers of Imagination." Cleveland Leader. Circumstantial Evldano. Mrs. Coburgger-It' Isn't right to chnrgo Freddie with tuklng that mon ey out of your pocket. Why dou't you accuse me? Ooburgger-Because It wasn't nil tak eu. Harper's Weekly. Not Even Jonah, Uncon Whether whales and dolphin ever sleep observation so far has been uaablo to discover. EgbertDo you mean to say that ron .Tonnh had no Inside lnformatltnrs "-Vonkers Slntesuiun,.