OREGON CITY, ENTERPRISE FRIDAY, MARCH 31,1 922.
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SCENE OF $168,000 LOSS IN CONFLAGRATION AT 11TH AND
MAIN AT MIDNIGHT FRIDAY WHEN BIG GARAGE BURNED
MRS. J. M. C. MILLER Correspondent
Sandy Mills Are
Busy For Present
SANDY, March 29. The Bruns mill
began running full blast this week
and will have tie contracts to last un
til April 1, but have small hope of
other contracts coming soon. .The ties
are hauled to Cottrell. J
Bartsch Bros, have installed a lath
mill at the Bruns plant and will use
up slabs into a finished lath product.
They began running last week and will
soon be turning outvlO.OOO lath daily.
This is the-second lath mill ever start
ed in Sandy vicinity.
DANCE APRIL 8
SANDY, March 29. The benefit
dance under the direction of the San
dy Women's club will be given Satur
day night April 8 instead of April 18
at the Odd Fellow's hall and a fine
time-is anticipated.
ARM BROKEN BY FALL
SANDY, March 27. Kenneth Proc
tor, son of Commissioner W. A. Proc
tor, had the misfortune to fall and
break his arm recently while playing
at school. Dr. W. H. Thompson set the
injured arm.
SANDY LOCALS
SANDY, March 28. C. L. Hensen of
- Zig Zag was a visitor in Sandy last
week, coming down to attend the Ma
sonic meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. F- D. Eason were Port
land visitors Saturday and Sunday and
attended tho opera "Thais" on Satur
day afternoon.
Clias. Scharnke is "mussing" the F.
A. Proctor home all up this week but
Proctors will have newly papered walls
a3 the result of his stirirng around.
Mrs. Miller enjoyed a luncheon with
Mrs. Eason a few days ago.
Z:lTi. Torn llaan got home the other
night ac 12 o'clock from a case at
Tre-uldale and v. as calied to Bull Run
early the next morning. "
Sirs. E. Li. Power is going to Port
land ston to remain for a month or so
with her daughter, Mrs. Steelhammar.
A woman end her son will keep house
at the Power ranch whiie Mrs. Power
is away.
Mr and Mrs. Hugh Esson and Mary
Elizabeth were out Sunday and spent
the afternoon and evening at the R. E.
E.-,on home.
Rev. Earl Cotton is having a week of
vacation from Kimball School of Theo
logy. Rev. cotton was a Sunday night
guest at the Miller home.
Al. Emily passed through town a
few days ago. Emily is working at the
Ogden mill.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Greene walked
to the Lehnfield home, two miles, dis
tant, where they visited till Sunday
afternoon.
H. S. Eddy is in our midst occasion
ally, and is fixing up a real estate of
fice near Shaw's blacksmith shop.
Of course everybody in reach of
town will "stir up" twenty cents and
come to see the "stunts," etc at the
high school show Saturday night: Chil
dren, ten cents admission.
Miss Margaret Miller went home
Friday evening to attend grand opera,
and get all the thrills of the ever pop
ular, tho tragic Romeo and Juliet. Miss
Miller returned Saturday evening so
as not to miss the Bruns dinner.
Mrs Florence Connors also
went j
home over the week end as she felt
the lure for "Thais," the opera of Sat
urday afternoon.
The Springtime vacation ha3 pass
ed for our O. A. C. students and Al
fred Meinig, Nod and Harry Mitchell,
and Raymond Murray have gone back
to school. Gertrude Meinig also left
on Monday to continue her work there
after a vacation of six weeks. Frances
Meinig will remain home the rest of the
term to help her father in the store.
Two needs of the grades are a volley
ball and a drum. Arrangements will
probably "bring them forth" soon.
The entertainment by the high
school tomorrow night will not be any
"April Fool," but those who do not
go will be fooled out of a perfectly
good time.
John Maronay had a birthday last
week but failed to tell how many years
are heaped up against him.
Mrs. Ernest Bonett is still feeling
quite miserably. The Bonnetts are still
in Gresham at the home of Mrs. Shoe
Mrs. Miller, Miss Miller, Mrs. Con
nors and Miss Lippold were all guests
at the Rebekah lodge social hour and
enjoved cream puffs and the other
good things to eat. Mrs. Duke was
hostess.
Mrs. Dave Douglass was sufficiently
recovered last week to go back to her
Cherryville home. Mrs. E. Dodd drove
iwra Dousrlass home and stayed a
couple of days to help out till Mrs. J
Douglass was stronger.
Mrs. W. Bosholm has had a relapse
Phone Day 1901 Night 99X
J. E. METZGER
Funeral Director and Embalmer
Paul R. Meinig
Sandy Agent
Gresham, Oregon Lady Asst.
Auto Tops Recovered and Repaired.
All kinds of Top Material and
Curtain Windows.
S. E. PALMQUIST
Auto Top Shop
Harness Repaired
Main St., Gresham Phone 1235
CHOICE MEATS
and has been down with the gTipf
again.
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Jackson of Gres
ham were recent visitors at the home
of their niece, Mrs. Alma Maronay. re
maining for lunch and dinner.
Miss Margaret Miller, Miss Elsie Lip
pold and Mrs. Miller had a most -delightful
time at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed. F. Bruns on Sunday, remain
ing for both dinner and supper feast.
There was music the day ' long, and
the mill boys joined in the program.
The Bruns hospitality will be remem
bered. R. S. Smith and Cyril Gray donated
a day's work on the Meinsinger lane
last week.
B. ,Nelson was in town recently and
renewed his "sub," as "B" could not
think of getting along without the En
terprise. Thomas Clarke, John Bur
meister and Ed Bruns are among the
others who recently renewed their pa
per. Willard Bosholm is going to Port
land frequently to take chiropractic
treatments for lumbago.
Hugh Devlin of Dover took his
mother to Portland a few days ago.
Mrs. Devlin was partially paralyzed.
C. O. Duke and his mother, Mrs. An
nie Duke went to Portland Sunday.
Mrs. Duke remained for a few days
visit.
Corbett failed to appear for the hoop
game at the Orient hall, but a "scrub
team" was rustled and it beat the reg
ulars by two points. Fred Junker was
one of the "scrubs."
E. Beers and Ernest Harris have
finished their work at Garfield and are
at home again.
Mrs. Hannah Nelson is feeling much
better and is not able to get around.
Emil Wendland was down from Fir
wood to attend the Masonic lodge
meeting.
j Hazel Dixon was home at Cherry
! ville all last week because of her at
j tsc-k of ear trouble still hanging on.
Pearl Dixon started to school too soon
after her attack of illness and had to
b out. again, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jayton of Badger
Butte were all day visitors at the
Lehnfield home Sunday, and with
the Greens' the "bunch" had music
and a fine time.
The J. B. Snedden family have re
covered from severe illnesses. Mrs.
Snedden fainted while she was ill
and cut her forehead badly.
Wm. O'Neil has sold his team that
Tv-as recently advertised in the Enter
prise. Harry Reed had a new barber assist
ant come out to help with the the Sat
urday night rush.
Miss Clara Mitchell, daughter of
Mrs."E. J. Mitchell was out over the
week end from Oregon City and at
tended the dance Saturday night.
The Lehnfields have been fortunate
in getting an acre of potatoes and a
quarter of an acre of onions planted
regardless of weather. The also have
early vegetables planted.
Mrs. John Mitchell drives to Pleas
ant Home every week with eggs for
Morgan Bros, and Mrs. Mitchell usual
ly spends the night with her sister
Mrs. E. E. Williams. These two enter
prising ladies have started to make
candy on a small scale, Mrs. Williams
being an expert in that line.
Adolph Dahrens was over from Cam
eron and Hogue's mill again recently
and reports the family as well and con
tent in their new quarters.
Gus Dahrens has been under the
I weather and took a few days lay off
the past week from Dwyers .
Mrs. Frank Kerr, daugnter ana maia
attended Sunday school last Sunday.
The Kerr's were out at Stronghurst
for the day.
Mrs. A. Malar and Mrs. Florence
Connors will attend the institute at
Oregon City tomorrow.
Mrs. S. J. Allen was "up town" Sun
day. The Allen, family came out to
the Shepherd place for the day. They
are all fine. , !
J. B. Johnson the cherryville smngie
mill man was in Sandy recently on a
business trip.
Paul Meinig went to the city recent
ly on a business trip and to look up
some interests in connection with the
community club work.
Amil Wendland was down from Fir
wood to attend the Masonic lodge
meeting.
Mrs. L. P. Johnson and little
daughter from Truman's were down to
do some shopping a few days ago. The
Johnsons are new homesteader's and
formerly managed a hotel in Portland.
The Richeys' of Pleasant Home were
out to attend the wedding of Miss
Olive Shaw and Manley Childs at
Dover.
W. J. Fabion, proprietor of La Casa
Monte hotel, stopped while on his way
to Portland last week and said there
had been snow on the ground ever
since the 18th of December. Mr. Fab
ion has resided up the mountains for
the "past fifteen years. Though the
winter has been very showy, there
have been a good many tourists up
that way at intervals.
Mrs. R. E. Esson had a letter from a
sister in' Kansas recently, and the
weather there has been so bad the
crops are not yet planted. .
Friends of Mrs. Kate Junker
You. can't afford to miss
the
HIGH SCHOOL
ENTERTAINMENT
Solos, Readings, Choruses
Saturday, 8 p. m. April 1
I. O. O. F. HALL
10 and 20 cents.
FAIR PRICES
As a good judge of Meats, you'll
enjoy buying here where there are
bS many luscious Steaks, Chops and
Roasts.
Quality Meats Only.
Gresham Meat Market
A. J. W. Brown
THE STRENGTH OF1 B3MKr
Tfe r . .
Member Federal
Our bank is a member bank of the
great Federal Reserve System and as
such enjoys the privilege of being backed
by the United States Government, thus
insuring conservative management of the
funds entrusted to our care and permit
ting greatly extended facilities in the
rendering of services to our patrons.
FIRST STATE BANK
GRESHAM, OREGON
Schmitz are hoping she will take up
her singing again and will lend her
talent for community affairs.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Christiansens
went to The Dalles last week, driving
Mr. and Mrs. George Wolfe home after
they had an enjoyable visit here
among friends and relatives.
Miss Calista de la Fontaine writes
from Berkeley that teaching here was
really a "rest cure" compared to the
mad rush she is in from 6 a. m. till
midnight down there. Final exams will
soon be on, however, and so it will not
be long till Calista is an "alumna" of
that great institution.
To a full house at Pleasant Home
Prof. Hertzog of Salem, sounded the
challenge of life service in his sermon
Sunday morning. Hertzog stated the
opinion of some of the greatest think
ers of today. Viz: That civilization is
doomed unless the world soon gets a
new vision of service. This opinion is
based on the decay of the American
home, and the wild desire of the youth
for dress and selfish indulgences, with
no thought -for the sacred things of
life.
Last week was the dullest socially of
any week here for a year.
The Women's Club met at the lobby
of the Sandy hotel last week and most
of the afternoon was taken up with
completing plans for the benefit dance
which was called off the next day on
account of the death of Miss Thomas.
Rev. Cotton reports the organization
of a young people's club at Pleasant
Home last Saturday night. The club
is named "Tuckabatchee," and the In
dian word interpreted means "get one,
add two and stick together." The new
venture is a singing class.
Don't forget the high school
"youngsters" will give an evening of
pleasure on Saturday April 1 at the
Odd Fellow's hall.
Mrs. L. Lehnfield was down from
Snag Camp for a short time the first
of the week and reported lots of snow
up there yet.
Mrs. Carl Wendland and Mrs. Ed.
Gesch were down to see Mrs. Katie
Koch a few days ago.
Herman Krebs is still faithfully
"pailing" the Adolph Dahrens cow.
Ed Grunert and John Granto began
making cord wood for Strack "the first
It. Kaiser a few days ago.
Henry Quam has gone to the Clats
of the week.
John Naegele was pruning trees for
kanie country and has open up a bar
ber shop of his own."
J. E. Scultz of Gresham was in San
dy a few days ago.
Mrs. R. Dittert has been housed up
the past week because of being ill.
Jim Allison seems to be the first
man to spade up a tiny patch for early
garden, and he had great temerity to
try it!
A Portland man went through town
the other day on his way to Govern
ment Camp and carried a pair of snow
shoes along.
C. W. Newman was down from Dov
er recently to bring a batch of eggs
and do some trading.
Otto Matz is working on his new
ranch, (part of Revenue place) and is
clearing up some acreage.
It is reported that the Wenzell place
has been sold again.
There is a wonderful, big t)ed of cro
cuses blooming in the Paul Meinig
lawn that is worth while to see.
Geo. Beers flitted to town again last
Monday night. George is the "busiest"
man in ten states.
Mrs. Geo. Beers is recovering slow
ly from her recent attack of the flu
but is still weak. Little Lois is around
again.
The Duncan family is up and drag
ging around again, but none of them
are well yet. They have had a hard
siege.
Generally speaking, the epidemic is
passing, and few new cases are being
reported since the "Ides" of Marcn
passed.
The floral pieces presented by Sandy
friends was a beautiful expression of
the esteem in which Lillian Thomas
was held.
Mr. and Mrs.- Frank Thomas and
family of Currinsville attended the
i funeral of their niece and cousin on
Sunday.
Monday turned off like it was a har
binger of spring but Tuesday and Wed
nesday brought rain.
Walter Krebs was dragging Main
street the first of the week which is
the first road work ventured for some
time.
Mrs. Harry Reed was a Portland
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Reserve Bank. &
visitor the first part of the week.
Mrs. Emma Thomas is still in Port
land and may.have to undergo an. op
eration before she returns to her Mar
mot home.
Edgar Powell, worldwar veteran,
has recently taken up a homestead on
top of a mountain back of Aschoff's
and is getting a new domicile fixed
up.
Otto Aschoff captured 15 bobcats
this winter without any great effort.
Chas. Delfel, the employer of Miss
Lillian Thomas was out from Port
land to attend the funeral -arid share
in the grief of the family as far as pos
sible.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bickford and lit
tle one. left Tuesday morning for tbeir
home at Toledo, Wash.
"The most important project for
years to come is the building of a
union high school for this section,"
says a man who has no children to
educate, nor any personal reasons for
adveating scool measures, "To fail to
provide proper schooling, is to drive
our young people away, and why pay
more to other counties than it will
cost to build up our own schools?"
Adolph Aschoff who has lived "at
Marmot for 39 years receives letters
of appreciation from all over the
world. Recently a letter came from a
traveller in the South Sea Islands, ex
pressing his kindest compliments and
memories to visits at- his Mountain
Home. Mr. Aschoff is 73 years of
age, drinks, two to four cups of cof
fee at a meal, but drinks no water,
claiming his health is best preserved
with the warm coffee. He goes to bed
around two or three o'clock in' the
morning and has never slept over four
hours on an average since he was a
child. He is an artist, philosopher, poet
and musician, in fact a scholarly man
in many, many lines. He climbed the
highest mountains in the United States
only three years ago.
This section may well be proud of
such a "grand old man." He says,
"My religion is that of my Master, Un
checked by dogma or creed, "Unhamp
ered by classic theology, but proven
by word and deeds."
A jolly frolic and-a-get-together of
"youngsters-oldsters" and everybody
is the object Of the entertainment giv
en by the high school Saturday night,
April 1. After an attractive program
games will bev played by everybody.
Only ten and twenty cents admission.
James G. DeShazer was up the Cher
ryville way last Tuesday to look after
insurance business.
CHAIR DONATED
SANDY, March 31. A fine chair has
been donated by J. E. Metzger of Gres
ham to be raffled off to add to the fund
of the benefit dance which will be giv
en in the Odd Fellow's hall tomorrow
night (Saturday). The chair is on dis
play in the Scales store window.
VERTERAN VISITS
W. H. Boring, prominent pioneer of
Clackamas county, whose home is at
Boring, was in Oregon City on Wed
nesday and Thursday of this week.
Mr. Boring has resided in the Boring
section for over 50 years, and was hon
ored when the little town of Boring
was named for him. While in this city
he was a guest at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Bennett, the latter being
the adopted daughter of the Meade
Post, G. A. R., of which Mr. Boring is
a member, being he is a Civil War
veteran. Mr. Boring was on his way
home from Sheridan, where he had
been a guest of his niece.
AETNA IN
ERUPTION
29. The volcano
ROME, March
Mount Aetna ia in violent eruption
and the inhabitants of the nearby vil
lages are fleeing in panic, according
to . inf ormation from Palermo today.
Streams of molten lava are flowing
from the crater. Several earthquake
shocks have been felt in the provinces
of Palermo and Messina.
Rev. Edwards, Missionary, Here
Rev. G. N. Edwards, former pastor
of the Congregational church, now
making hi3 home at Walla Walla,
Wash., was in Oregon City on Tues
day, where he was a guest at the home
of Mr. and JNIrs. H. C Stevens. Rev.
Edwards is now engaged as, a Sunday
school missionary, and travels con
tinually. -
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Top Scene of the fire, showing site
where building was burned. The en
lire structure was reduced to below
the street level.
Centei The burning remains. Fire
men are playing a hose on the bip
gasoline tank directly in front of the
flaming structure. The picture wa:
taken less than an hour after the fire
started.
Bottom The flames in full forcr
shortly after the alarm was sounded
The building was engulfed within 1.
minutes.
Photos by J. A. Webber, Orego
City. Plate, courtesy Portland Journal
Practical Tests Planned
Jbr Good Roads Cong ess
American Road Builder: .' Asso
ciation to Have Interesting
Displays at Exposition in
Chicago, January 16 to 20.
In line with its campaign to educate
the public In methods of economy as
applied to the construction and main
tenance of highways, the United
States bureau of Public Roads is or
ganizing a mammoth exhibit fur the
tlg Twelfth American Good Roads
! Part of the testing machinery
that will be shown to determine sus
taining; quality of different soils and
to measure wear and tear on pave
itnents by heavy traffic. (In upper
oval) Lt Col. H. L..Bowlby. Chief
of the War Materials Division, U. S.
Bureau of Public Roads, and Presi
dent of the American Road Build
a Association. (In lower oval)
L. Powers, of New York, Editor
-i "Good Roads" and Secretary of
the American Road Builders' Asso
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i TRACTOR COMPANY
MAKES BIG SLASH
i The largest reduction made by any
i track type tractor company has just
j been announced by the C'eveland Tr&c-
tor company through their distributor
i for the Portland district, O. V. Badley.
j In conformity with the lower tone in
! other articles the price upon the Cle
I trac model F has been reduced $255,
j making the present price $695, f. o. b.
Portland. It is said that increased pro-
dnction has made this new price pos
j sible.
j "We now have over S00 Cletracs in
j Oregon alone," said Bradley. "With
i the increased distribution planned,
! Oregon will stand out as one of the
j best tractor states in the West."
j Badley has emphasized that - the
! farmer of today can hardly ignore the
Economy in being able to play an acre
i of ground with a gallon of kerosene
! and that he has power which can work
! over an unlimited day without eating
or sleeping; furthermore that whether
the plowing is deep or shallow, the
Cletrac is prepared to do the worfc
DRY MEETING BOMBED
GREEN BAY, Wis., March 29.
Five hundred persons who had gather
ed in the Union Congregational church
here last night to hear an address by
"William (Pussyfoot) Johnson, anti
liquor crusader, were thrown into a
near-panic when a smoking bomb was
hurled down the aisle by one of four
men who drove to the church in an
automobile.
P. C. Walker, an usher, was one of
the first to see the infernal machine
as it glided down the aisle. He seized
it and put it out, but In doing so
burned his hand.
HOPE DIMS IN STRIKE
NEW YORK, March 29. casting
asid as "remote possibil;tv"the pros
nert. o settlinK their difficulties in
! time to avert the general - strike set
for three days hence, members or the
anthracite subcommittee on wage con
tract negotiations today snrded them
selves, for. a long, hard struggle over
the miners' nineteen demands.
Mrs. A. Bedgood In City
fr A. Pedgood, whose home is at
Portland, was an Oregon City visitor
on Wednesday.
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