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THE WEATHER 4
OREGON CITY Increasing
cloudiness, followed by rain, 4
southeasterly winds.
Oregon and Washington Fair
3 east, increasing cloudiness, fol-
lowed by rain west portion; east
erly winds.
3 Second thoughts are best be
$ cause they are usually less ex-
pensive.
WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1866.
VOL. VI. No. 103.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1913.
Feb Week, Ten Cents.
TAX LEVY LOST
AT BALLOTING
PEOPLE OF THE, GLADSTONE
SCHOOL DISTRICT DON'T
ALLOW INCREASE
BELIEVE BOARD NOW HAS ENOUGH
Think That the Maintenance Fund is
Amply Large and That All Ex
penses Can Be Met From
That Without More
The proposed additional tax levy of
one and one-half mills for school pur
poses was lost by an overwhelming
majority at a mass meeting of the
people of Gladstone Thursday night.
The original six and one-half mill
levy will stand just as it was granted
and the people have refused to allow
the board to make an additional levy
for the improvement and maintenance
of the city schools. "The reasons for
this refusal seem to be based on the
general impression that the board al
ready has all of the money that it can
need for the schools and that the ad
ditional amount is not at all neces
sary. The meeting was held in the school
building of the city and most of the
taxpayers of the district were present.
Out of all of that crowd, only 11 voted
in favor of the increased levy.
The question of dividing the district
and assigning part of the territory
now lying near Jennings Lodge to that
district will be taken before the coun
ty court shortly. The board was auth
orized to place electric lights in the
building 'at Gladstone.
GEORGE BINGHAM
SHOT FOR DEER
AT MEDFORD
Word has been received in the city
that George Bingham, owner of the
soda works, was killed while hunting
near Medford. He was mistaken for
a deer while several hunters were out
fogether and the shot killed him, ac
cording to the report.
No details have been received here
as to the place of the accident and
the message from Medford simply
says that he was accidentally shot
while hunting. He was 51 years of
age and was well-known in the city
and one of the most prominent busi
ness men. He has his wife, two
daughters, Mrs. Richard Durrell, of
Oregon City, and Mrs. Guy Causey, of
Seattle, and one son, Jacob, aged 15
years.
He has been in the city for the past
13 years and has been in business
since that time, coming here from
Corvallis.
WITCHES RIDE IN
SOREGHAN BUSTS INTO
RACE FOR COUNCIL
Philip Soreghan has announced his
candidacy for councilman at the forth
coming election in December. Peti
tions are already being circulated for
him and will be filed within the next
few days.
During the past Meek, his name has
been mentioned as a possible candi
date for the office, but not until Thurs
day night did he make any definite
public statement as to his intentions.
He has lived in the city for a number
of years and has been a conductor on
the Oregon Water Power division for
the past six years.
COLLEGE GRANT INDORSED
MILWAUKEE, Ore., Oct. 30. At
the meeting of the Milwaukie Com
mercial club Tuesday night a reso
lution indorsing the University of Ore
gon was unanimously adopted and the
referendum condemned as unwise. It
was set forth that the improvements
called for in the appropriations are
needed and that it would be little
short of a calamity to have the ap
propriations permanently withheld.
TOWN
TONIGH
T
NIGHT OF ALL IN YEAR WHEN
FAIRIES ROAM AND ELVES
ARE AT PLAY
FUN RUNS RIOT ALL OVER CITY
Bad Goblins Are Vanishing and New
Pranks Will Not Destroy the
Property of Neighbors
Witches Are Loose
"Upon that night, when fairies light
On Cassilies Downan dance,
Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze,
On sprightly coursers prance;
Some merry, friendly country folks
Together did convene,
To burn their nuts and pou their
stocks,
An haud their Hallowe'en
Fu' blythe that night.,'
Tonight is the time when witches,
goblins, fairies, elfs and their less re
nowned relatives hold their revels,
and the spirit of mischief is abroad.
On Hallowe'en, staid respectable gates
show a disposition to wander, milk
bottles vanish, and the bakery wagon
is more likely than not to be found
on top of the Masonic building, all due
to the influence of goblins and sprites.
On the chance that the elfs might
overlook something, they generally
have considerable volunteer assist
ance from youthful admirers, more or
less human.
Not Out of Vogue.
Festivities in Oregon City during
the week have disproved the idea that
Hallowe'en is out of vogue, along with
the passing of paper eart valentines
and autograph albums. If the pump
kins which have flourished these past
few days as jack-o'-lanterns had been
made into pie, they would furnish the
Live Wires with desert for at least
two of their luncheons; there have
been enough apples "bobbed" to fit
out a new Garden of Eden, and the
autumn leaves used for " decorations
would supply a pure Havana tobacco
factory for their special Christmas run
all this according to the bureau of
statistics.
Fairies Are Busy.
This is as it should be, and the per
son who claims there are no fairies
has something wrong with his heart.
It is true that bad fairies are about
eliminated, but we still hug our be
lief in the good little elves. There
was a time, some readers will still
remember it, when it was the height
of elfish humor to steal some poor
woman's clothes line to tie somebody
else's cow up on some other person's
front porth on the opposite side of
town. And the man who worked hard
all day and stacked his winter's wood
up for his evening recreation, was
quite likely to discover in the morning
that some witty sprites had tumbled
his wood all over the lot, or if the
sprites were particularly witty and
industrious, the wood might be on the
neighbor's lot.
Former Celebrations.
Apropos the wood subject, several
of Oregon City's respectable citizens
may remember an occasion when they
volunteered their services to help the
goblins throw a huge pile of wood
down a ravine near the Barclay school
hose. A man came along and good
naturedly watched the work, and when
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the last stick had been hurled down
the hill, he informed them that he
was a special deputy, showed his star
to prove it, and made them carry all
the wood back to the top. How any
man with so little sense of real humor
has managed to stand his own com
pany all these years and exist it is
difficult to say, but he is still exist
ingthis for the information of ama
teur goblins who may have plans for
tonight.
Healthier Schemes.
The human race is improving, as
present Hallowe'en observances show.
Instead of carrying the clothes line
filled with the family "wash" and
leaving it festooned on a barbed wire
fence, some families who are having
a hard struggle with poverty are going
to find baskets of fruit and vege
tables on their back door steps. In
stead of tick-tacking the window of
some lonely woman, she will find a
bouquet of chrysanthemums tied to
the door knob they will probably be
scraeev. short-stemmed nhrvsanthrt-
1 mums, but they will make her hap
pier than a few dozen American beau
ties will some other woman. Instead
of piling the tired man's cordwood on
his front porch so it will all crash ino
the front hall when he opens the door
in the morning, perhaps some more
husky sprite will be inspired to chop
him a supply of kindlings.
When the good fairies firmly estab
lish these customs and live down their
former reputation for iniquity, it will
no doubt be unnecessary to go to bed
with one's- clothes on and slide down
the kitchen roof after hearing pa's
first melodious snore.
Tomorrow is All-Saints' day, and,
please, amateur goblins, do not do
things to the neighbors tonight that
will make tomorrow All-Saints' day in
name only.
Open season is now for spooks, ci
dar, pumpkin pie, fortune telling and
tick-tacks, and any policeman who
can't be deaf, dumb and blind for the
occasion never was a "kid" himself.
Don't bob for apples unless the
hostess can prove that the tub full of
BOOKS STILL OPEN
The recorder's books for the new
city of West Linn are not closed de
spite the fact that such a rumor is
prevalent in that town, according to
Recorder L. L. Porter. The books
will be open for several" days and all
citizens who wish to vote at the com
ing election will be compeled to register.
WANTED!
Women and Girls
Over 18 Years Old
To operate sewing match ines in
garment factory
Oregon City Woolen
Mills
ROYAL BREAD
Five hundred quarts of milk each
day is used to make
Royal Bread
That's why it is so good. Get it at
HARRIS Grocery
Everybody to Church
Next Sunday
Every Church in the City urgently
invites the public to all of its regular
services
Sunday, Nov. 2, 1913
MORNING and EVENING
Come! Corrie! Come!
water has been boiled.
Take your front gate off tonight, or
some enterprising six-foot, hundred
and seventy-pound elf may do it for
you. i
E OF KICKER IS
STILLED IN CLATSOP
SEASIDE, Ore., Oct. 30. This end
of Clatsop county is tor good roads.
There may still be some lingering
holdbacks, but from this afternoon on
those who have protested against the
county bonding to build good road3
will do their protesting in milder
tones. Judging by the audience that
turned out to hear the practical bene
fits to be derived from the building of
good roads by men who know the
noise of the "kicker" has been stilled.
COUNCIL REFUSES WATERS
BOARD'S COMPROMISE;
BITTER WAR STARTS
With the refusal of the city council
to grant the concession to the board
of water com mission era that hnH hcan
asked and to allow the case to come
quietly before Judge Campbell of the
circuit court, the war between the two
branches of the citv eovernmpnt ia
on ia earnest:
There is now nothing left for the
old water board to do but to fight to
the last "ditch. That is just what It
plans. Into the circuit court of the
county and on through to the supreme
court of the state for final determin
ation, this case will finally find' its
way into the mazes of the legal laby
rinth until the tangles that are involv
ed are all fully straightened out.
When the new water hoard attempts
to take the records of the old and as
sumes the duties of its office, the old
commissioners plan to start the bail
rolling and to begin the battle that
may more or less tie up matters for
several weeks or months fn nam a Pnn
neither side will quit in this fight now
uniu tne court of last resort of the
state has finally determined the is
sues that are involved.
The board has retained B. N. Hicks
to conduct it through the mazes of
the courts and he will be its mouth
piece in all of the legal steps that it
takes to make the city council see the
light and conform to its wishes in the
disposition Of the water nlont Tha
case will be determinedly fought by
The issue will probably be brought
when the new board attempts to take
possession of the plant and the rec
ords of the office.
Following is the compromise letter
sent by the board to the council and
by it turned down:
"Oregon City, Ore., Oct. 27, 1913.
"To the City Council of Oregon City,
"Gentlemen: The individual mem
bers of this board have each received
' ;
a notification from the city recorder
that your honorable body has removed
the board, as a body, from office.
"Now it is hardly necessary to state
that this board will not be kicked out
of office without cause and we pro
pose to let the courts determine the
matter before we surrender the office.
Of course, this will cause a heavy ex
pense to the city that should be avoid
ed if possible.
"If you are determined to oust us
from office because we will not take
orders from you, we are just as de
termined to hold on until the highest
court decides the matter. We, how
ever, would like to avoid causing the
city any expense in the matter, and
to avoid same make ' the following
proposition for the settlement of the
controversy.
"We are willing to submit the ques
tion is the board of water commis
sioners an independent body and not
subject to orders from the council,
or is it a subordinate and bound to
obey whatever orders the council may
see fit to issue to Circuit Judge
Campbell for -his decision in the mat
ter and will consider it final, and if he
decides that the board must obey or
ders the members of the board will at
once resign.
"In case, however, he decides that
the board is independent, the coun
cil will have to leave the board alone
to run the water works in such man
ner as its judgment is for the best in
terest of the city. Hoping that this
method of settling the matter may
meet with our approval we remain.
"Yours respectfully,
"BOARD OF WATER '.
COMMISSIONERS,
"By JOS. E. HEDGES, Sec."
One good turn way lead up to hope
for a few more revolutions.
Cheapest, Best and
Most Satisfactory
Fuel Known
------ Burns in Any Old Stove
Flails Transfer Co.
Oregon City Agents Phones Main 320 A96
Office with George Young
Hallowe'en
Masquerade
Bosch's Hall, Oregon City
Friday night, October 31, '13
Bowker's Full Orchestra, of Portland
PRIZES WILL BE GIVEN
The Lady and Gent wearing the Neatest Costume
The Lady and Gent wearing the most Comical Costume
Gents $1.00 Ladies enmasqued free
Ladies without masks will be charged 25c.
Adams Department Store
THE BUSY SUIT SELLING WILL CONTINUE
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
TPHE time to buy your new Fall Suit is now.
A You have a splendid choice of fat M Q A
materials and choice at special price V tU
LADIES COATS
Dress Coats, Raincoats, Sweater Coats
A handsome Dress Coat made from fine texture
of Wool Suitings offered at special price $12.50
RAIN COATS
For Men, Women, Boys and Girls
Get Ready for the rain, buy your Raincoat, Rub
bers and Umbrellas now. ca rA ion
Raincoats from ... P OV 10 U
Children's Rain Coats from $2 to $3.75
SWEATER COATS
Just opened twelve dozen Wool Sweater a CA
Coats to be put on Sale at special price pO.)U
SWEATER COATS for BOYS and GIRLS
A very large assortment of Wool Sweater Coats
all sizes in Oxford and Cardinal rin , a a
Prices . . .... . ... 95C tO $2