' THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAy. PORTLAND, . DECEMBER 3, 1911. ll . . V FIGHT OH PAVERS BEGUN BY CLYDE Councilman Files Measure to Forbid Assessments Ex ceeding Lots' Value. "TRUST" IS ASSAILED KolBikns Filed With Auditor Say Street-Improvement Companies Kxtort Money From Own er Debate Probable. Tha flrt step la a campaign lnauru ratad by Councilman Clyaa and sup ported by a larsja number of proparty ownara, to pravant tha City Council from lattlnr contract for atraet m prorsments which wUl eoat mora than tha aaaaaaad valuation of the property which muat ba aassssad for tha lm prOTamanta, waa taken yesterday, when reeoluUona and a propoaed ordinance were filed with the City Auditor by Mr. The reeolutlona attack the "paving; troef and ask that the question of le gality of the meaaure be left to the Supreme Court and not to the City At torney who held that men an ordinance la not In conformity with the city charter. ' Councilman Clyde eay he will do hia best to get the Council to pass the ordinance, and If-ha falls will promote a campaign to have the question placed on the ballot. "Pa t la TrMt" Scar. Following are the resolutions filed: "Whereas. The propery-owneri of the City of Portland have suffered Ions; enough from the forma of legalised robbery technically known as Improve ments. which In a large degree n fit only the paving- trust, hard-surface corporations and Improvement con tractors, aa the assessments plied upon the home-owners to meet the extortion ate demands for said Improvements virtually amount to confiscation of many homes: be It ' -Resolved. That the City Council paaa the following ordinance limiting the amount of said assessments and thus give relief to the taxpayers of Portland and at the same time show our good faith to the voters of thla ctty who elected nine Councllmen. who never held seats In the Council before, upon this Issue. Be It further "Resolved. That we absolutely oppose the Indefinite postponement of this ordinance on the question of Its legal ity, as that question should be settled by the highest tribunal of Oregon, and that the passage of thla ordinance at the present time would put a stop to the confiscation of any more property until the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon shall have decided upon the question of said legality." iurannt la Uwitted. Ia Mr. Clyde's proposed ordinance It provides that no lot or part thereof -or parcel or tract of land In the city ahall be assessed for any local or spec Lai Im provement. Including all unpaid assess raenta or previously bonded liens, aa amount In excess or to exceed tha as sessed valuation of such lot. part there of or tract or parcel of land. as the same may appear en the last annual assessment roll of the County Asaeasor of Multnomah County. Oregon, except upon the express consent of the owner of said land, or his duly authorised agent, first obtained In writing, which said written consent shall ba filed with tha Auditor of the City of Portland, and shall ba recorded In a book kept for such purposes. "There Is a difference of opinion aa to the legality of such an ordinance." said Mr. Clyde. -The City Attorney holds that It could not be valid because It would' be limiting the powers of the City Council. R. C. Cook, one of the best authorities on municipal questions In the state, says the proposed ordi nance la legal. ' "I desire to see this case settled onca and for all br the Supreme Court. I feel sure that body will pass on tha validity favorably. To circumvent some of the 'artful dodgera" who mar want to quibble on the question of legality and in thla way kill the ordinance. I want to call attention to the people that when the City Attorney gave his opinion that certain ordinances like permits to street railways to operate over certain streets were Illegal, the Council passed the ordinances anyhow. If the members of the Council are sin cere, let them follow precedent. Haas Jeeaarja Fewsjfct. "1 am In favor of street improve ments when they are reasonable and just, but I am not In favor of the Coun cil saddling a debt on the property owner that he may not be able to meet and to cause his home to be put up at auction to meet the unjust claims. "Before becoming a member of the City Council I bad thought that the special privileges freely granted to big business waa ona of the worst crimes, but since 1 will say that such trans gressions are mild compared ts tha paving graft. While the former did the people at large an Indirect Injury, the latter practically takes everything from a home-owner directly. Cappers for the paving companies go around getting up petitions and In meay In stances obtaining the same under false representstlon. especially when the pros pective signer la told that he ran bond his property to par for assessments. I could relate other Incidents relative to obtaining sljrners to these petitions to show, that a large majority of th peo ple who signed were simply taken In, so to speak." Mr. Clyde Is backed by many real dents of the Skldmore district on th Kast SI. I and ty residents of outlying district where Improvements are con templated for the future. The ordinance probably will be th subject of debate at the next meeting of the Cltv Council. . are: Seniors Delbert E. Carr. Horace L. McCoy and Justin W. Ottestad. Juniors Ethel M. Beck ford. Thornaa H. Boyd. George and William Button. William P. Stevens. Francla Walsh and Horace A. Wilson. Sophomores Lois Bain, Elles IL Bean, Ben B. Bissessen. Robert Harlow. Cecil Splcer and Thornaa Relerson. Freshmen: Alice A. Autxen. Marion O. Blake, Edwin and Elmer Leader. Frederick B. Mercer. Leon O. Wlllemln and Ray C. Yeast. Medford. far down In Southern Ore gon, follows Portland In point of num ber! with three students, and it other smaller towns acknowledge one and two each, aa follows: Medford Daragh Earhsrt. Harold D. Carey and George C Henderson; Pendleton Richard Devlne and Blanche Badley; Llnnton Marshall Malone and Jerome Mann: Island City Stella Hunter and Netta McKlddle; Tracy Griffin and Hermann Anderson. The Dalles: Mo-Mlnnvllle-i-GLarence A. Argo: Newberg Elsie Andrews; Eugene Cecil P. Bell; Canyon City Jacoo M. BlanTC Wamle Sam M. Driver; Wlllamlna Klva Dundos; Roseburg Edward E. Harpham; Marshfleld Lucy S. Horton; Hood River Lottie O. Klnnalrd; On tario Alloe Mallet; "Burns Bertha Rose Murphy: Forest Grove GUda L. Murphy and Elisabeth M. Pollock: Ore gon City O. Bernard Noble; Oakland Ray Rader; Canby Earl D. Robinson: Alsea Lorena Steele; Marshfleld Nellie B. Tower. BAZAAR WEEK AT HAND CHCRCHES PLANS' SALES WITH XMAS IX VIEW. Articles Suitable for Gifts Offered. Xlne Function Planned by Various Societies. This week will mark the opening of Christmas basaara In a number of Portland churches. At all articles suit able for Christmas gifts will b on sale. At nearly all of the basaara lit erary and musical programmes will be held. Next Tuesday afternoon the Cathedral Ladles' Aid Society will hold Its. annual tea at the home of Mrs. Frank E. Dooley at 894 Lovejoy street. A musical programme has been pre pared. The women of St. Stephen's Church will have a Christmas sal In their ball at East Forty-second and East Salmon strsets tomorrow and Tueaday. A supper will be served both evenings. The annual tea of . th Fruit and Flower Mission will be held tomorrow and Tuesday at the Portland Hotel be tween 11 A. II. and P. M. The annual basaar of the Church of the Good Shep herd, at Graham and Vancouver ave nues, will be held there Wednesday and Thursday, closing with an enter tainment Thursday night. Women of Grace Methodist Church will serve a chicken dinner In the church Tuesday night, marking the close of th bazaar, which opens Monday night. The annual bazaar of the Mlzpah Presbyterian Church will be held in the basement of the new building at the corner of Division and East Nine teenth streets next Wednesday after noon and evening. A supper will be served. Women of the Betanla Danish Lutheran Church will hold their an nual bazaar next Friday and Satur day at the church. The Young Ladles' Guild of Bu James Lutheran Church will give Its annual basaar Wednesday afternoon arM evening. Supper will be served. The Women s Association of the Atklnaon Memorial Church, at East Everett and East Twenty-ninth streets, will hold Its basaar Friday aft ernoon and evening. Fancy and ussful article for Christmas and home-cooked edtblaa will ba for sale. s BOYS' CLUBHOUSE URGED Alberts Tnslneas Men Take Vp Work of Raising Funds. A movement has been Inaugurated to start th Alberta Boys' Club and at a meeting held Friday In tha Plctureland Thtr Ttlrhteenth and Alberta streets, committees were appointed to raise money tor tne purpose or a ciuo house and to make arrangements for temporary quarters. The committees will meet tomorrow 6Tve t to -own a hoome 1 ay) Afl mrne tunme .or be oepemdieirit How often have you, in your moments of serious medita tion, said this have you pictured that home your home, with prosperity reflected everywhere together with the contentment? and happiness that ownership brings about. Not just merely a house to afford a shelter, but a home with its ten orv twenty acres or more producing the necessities of life in other words, an assured life income something re munerative for your efforts. It's then, my dear friend, that real life begins when you own the land that you stand upon when you know that to morrow it will bring you and yours as comfortable a living as today. . Isn't this matter of owning such a home what you are striv ing for? Then Let That Some Time Be Now! Do you know that the opportunity to actually realize this is presented in our proposition 01 I 10-Acre Tract for $400 Red shot soil south' slope well drained sprin g excellent , for fruit, vegetables, hay, etc. . You Can Pay $40 Down and $10 Month. Balance 6 Per Cent. CIT OUT, SIOW AND MAIL. F. B. H0LBR00K CO., Portland, Or. Gentlemen: Please send me Illustrated and other matter descriptive of Columbia Acres. Name. . ...... Address. . .. .. Town. that we have made it so easy for you to become an owner of one of these orchard, farm and home tracts, 38 miles from Portland and 2 miles from the Columbia River; that nothing stands in your way, no matter what your earnings or income might be T .. iBn't this, then, just about as liberal a home-securing proposition as you have ever heard or known oft It's Just Merely a Matter of Looking at It of going right down to Columbia Acres and satisfying yourself as to its merits and possibilities of taking home a contract and deciding that this is your opportunity to realize the possession of a self-supporting home. " and now just a word or two more about Columbia Acres: It possesses every requisite essential to the making a a self -supporting home. Soil of such fertility as to adapt it to orchard and general farming purposes. Finest spring water obtainable on every tract. Abundance of fuel. Accessibility to rail and river transportation facilities over a fin macadam road. School and church. Rural free mail delivery. Every tract ideally laid out. Intelligent neighbors. Is there, then, anything licking that the seeker of a self-supporting home could wish for! OFFICE OPEN EVENINGS F. B. HOLBROOK CO. 10-Acre Tract for $500 Partly swale the balance clay loam best general purpose land about one-third of it high-grade fruit land splendid view no rock east slope creek. The Terms Are $50 Down and $12 Month, Balance 6 Per Cent. 10-Acre Tract for $600 South and west slope no bet ter soil in Columbia County adapted for anything a complete homesite easily cleared. This on Terms of $60 Down and $15 Month. Balance 6 Per Cent. LUMBER EXCHANGE BUILDING SECOND AND STARK S TREETS Main S396- Phones -A 7S07 Above are descrip tions of 3 Columbia Acre Tracts with their respective prices and terms. V - : " ..I at the residence of Benjamin Brick, 10J East Fifteenth street North, to talk over plans for another puhllo meeting next Friday at the Plctureland Theater. The project la under tha auspices of the Alberta Business Men's Club. W. J. Lundy. chairman of the club, told the meeting; of the urgent necessity for a boys' club and was followed by Actlns; Chief of Police Slover, who gave advice to both boys and their parents. Other speakers were: Georse E. Crump, Ben jamin Brick. D. C. Smith and F. Rosen steal, director of the Boy Scout move ment In Portland. OREGON MINISTERS TO BE INDIA MISSIONARIES 'Elder Qeajcge W. Pettit, of Portland, and Elder J. Mark Comer, Formerly of Cottage Grove, Will Go to Bombay. PASTOR OF CENTRAL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, WHO WILL GO TO INDIA, AND HIS SUCCESSOR. VARSITY IS POPULAR HERE , i Orrpon Students Attend Cnl icrslty of Washington. tNIVEKSITT Or WASHINGTON. Seattle. Wash- Dee. 2. (Special.) With M of her people enrolled In vari ous courses of study at the University of Washington. Oregon ranks second to the Evergreen State only In point of attendance at the big Institution. Twanty-four of thla 14 are Portland girls and hoys. Statistics given oat by the recorders' oft Ice show that by far the greater number of Oregon students come to Seattle to take the popular course In Arts and Sciences, which now offers the most valuable degree attainable since the anlverslty has beea recog nised by the Cnlted States Department of Education aa In the first class. Others are enrolled la engineering, law, foreatrr. talnlns? and Dharmacv. . ' t i ' i Ta ' i i i.mJ i I v 'Ji ' Elder Gearge W. Pettit, Rettrla . Pastar Ceatral Seveath Day Ad ' veatlat Caarch. Elder Mil tea II. ftt. Jet a, af Lee Aaaelea, Cel., Wit Saeeeeda Elder Pettit. ELDER GEORGE W. PETTIT. for a year pastor of the Central Seventh Day Adventtst Church, at East Eleventh and East Everett streets, will, with his wife, go aa a missionary to India. Elder J. Mark Comer, formerly pastor of the Cottage Orove Seventh Day Adventlst Church, and Mrs. Comer, will also go aa ' missionaries. The party will sail from New Tork City January 11. on tha Bteamer Baltic, of tha White Star Line. Their destina tion la Bombay. India. Elder Milton H. St. John, of the Lo Angeles Seventh Day Adventlst Church, will become pastor of the Central Churrh here. He graduated from Healdsburg College, a denominational Institution In California, when IS years old. and took a post-graduate course of two and a half years at Leland Stan ford. Jr.. University. Palo Alto, CaL His father, H. A. St. John, Is aa author. and was for several years associate editor of the Signs of -the Times, a de nominational paper. Elder St. John's pastoral labors have Included San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Ogden. Utah, In addition to Los Angeles. He will come to Portland this week, and will take up his new work January 1. Elder F. W. Paap. of River side, will take the Los Angelea pulpit made vacant by Elder St John. Elder A. M. Part, chaplain of the Portland Sanitarium, has taken charge of the Seventh Day Adventist Bible school at (4 Kast Sixteenth street, this work having been carried on by Elder Pettit. Daily studies In the Bible and ecclesiastical history will continue. Elder Pettit was asked by the For elgn Mission Board at a recent bien nial session of the North Pacific Union Conference at College Place. Wash., to accept a position as missionary at Bom bay. Afler he and Mrs. Pettit had ex pressed their willingness to go. they were released by the union conference and the Western Oregon conference from their work In Portland. Elder Pettit has been for five years a mem ber of the executive committee of the local conference, and for two years vice-president. Elder Comer was pastor of the St. Paul Church for nearly two years before coming West, and last Summer held a series of meetings at Eugene. Elder and Mrs. Pettit will be tendered a reception by the local church December JO, Women of Woodcraft Hall having been secured for thla pur pose. Owen J. Bowman, of Detrol, Mich., will arrive In Portland Wednesday and will take a position as assistant to Rev. John H. Boyd, of the First Presby terian Church. He and Mrs. Bowman will be tendered a reception at the realdenca of Dr. and Mrs. Boyd. Ill North Twenty-second street, next Fri day night, to which the members of the Christian Endeavor Society have been Invited. Mr. Bowman, although a lay man has been associated with Dr. Boyd In church work for about five years, working with him at mansion. 111., and at Detroit. a a a Th nuartarlv conference and offi cial board meeting of the Taylor-Street Methodist Church will bo held at the church tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock, e a a The First Christian Church Is spend ing 11000 In reoalrs. and In remodel ing the Sunday school room. Money will probably be raised later to rebuild the church. a a a The annual -business meeting of the Methodist Men's Social Union will be w -i . t..i.,i,ui xtathndlst Church uciu t mj v. - - . at 8 P. M.. December i. Officers for tha year will be eiectea. mo v-v Church Extension Society will meet at the same time. a -a a The Sunday school of the First Con gregational Church 1 laying plans to use automobiles for the distribution on Christmas eve of food and clothing for the poor of the city. The young people of the church will visit the County Poorfarm Sunday, December 14. a a Highland Baptist Church will begin evangelistic services tomorrow night. Rev. C. P. Elliott leading. Evangelistlo meetings at the University Park Bap tist Church will begin tonight, being conducted by Rev. A. C. Saxton. They will continue two weeks. Those at Highland Church will continue a week. The evangelistic meetings at Centen ary Methodist Church, being conducted by Rev. C. M. Van Marter and C M. Hadley, will close next Sunday. The cTiurch cliotr of 60 voices Is assisting in the services. - ' a a a The Toung Business Women's Club held a meeting In the parlors of tha First Congregational Church last Tues day night. About 40 attended. At a Christian Endeavor sociable held In the church parlora, last Friday night, S0O attended. a a a The Portland Sunday School Graded Union, which Is affiliated with tha Multnomah County Sunday School As sociation, will give an Institute at tha Flrat Congregational Church next Fri day afternoon and evening. At the evening aesslon eight graduates of a special course given by the Interna tlpnal Sunday School Union to fit teachers for primary work, will receive seals In recognition of their work. They, with 22 others, have already re ceived diplomaa. Addresses will ba given by Dr. Luther R. Dyott and Rev. W. F. Reagor. The afternoon programme Is: "Mis sions In the Sunday School." Rev. Al bert EhrgOtt; "Advertising the Sunday 8chool." Mrs. C. T. McPhersonj "Sur- n,iui Mrs. C X. Minton: "Grading, Mrs. G. E. Paddack; "Temperance In the Sunday School," Professor R. R. Steele; solo. Miss Milo Pennlson; "Sec ondary Division," Fred U Kelley. Tha evening programme Is: "Spe cialisation," Mrs. M. B. Meacham; awarding of seals, Mrs. H. N. Smith; "Boys," J. W. Palmer; "The Pastor's Relation to the Sunday School. Dr. Luther R. Dyott; solo, Mrs. Paulino Miller Chapman; "Cradle Roll Methods." Mrs. J. WWilkins; address, Rev. W. F. Reagor. a a a Professor William M. Wilder, who led the big choir during the Gipsy Smith campaign.' was presented .with a purse of 50 by the members of the choir the last night of the meetings. a a a Special meetings at the White Temple closed Friday night Dr. W. B. Hlnson. the pastor, reports the attendance and number of converts as large. There will be baptism tonight Thursday night and next Sunday. a a a Miss Annie T. Allen will speak at the First Congregational Church at 1 P. M. December 10. at a rally of Congrega tional young people. Miss Allen was for six years a teacher In the girls' school at Brousa, Turkey, and la In Portland In the Interest of her work. Her father, a pioneer missionary, was In Turkey 40 yeara. Miss Allen was born at Harpoot educated In America, and then returned to Turkey as a teacher. a a a At the First Presbyterian Church, Rev. John H. Boyd, D. D- pastor, a series of sermons will be given during December Sunday evenings on "Ser mons of Literature." First the ser mon In "The Silence of Dean Maltland," from the strong, terrible romance of Maxwell Grey; second, "The Priest's Sermon," from "Madame Delphlne," George Cable's greatest Creole story; third, "His Mother's Sermon," from "Be side the Bonnie Brier Bush," by Ian MacLaren; fourth, "The Christmas Ser mon." by Robert Louis Stevenson, and fifth, a New Tear's meditation on "Time Making and Unmaking Life." Special muslo at each service, which will begin at 7:30. This church wel comes all to its worship and fellowship, a a a At to last monthly supper and busi ness meeting of the Brotherhood of Hassalo-etreet Congregational Church Monday evening, which was attended by 30 men. the following officers were elected: President Frank S. Frost; secretary. George H. Nlcolat; treasurer, J. J. Chambreau. Mr. Frost was ap pointed Instructor of the Brotherhood Bible Class Just being organized. Wil liam H. Lewis gave an interesting ad dress on "Men and the Church." CHICKENS JAR NEIGHBORS Woman Is Accused of Poisoning Feed for Errant Poultry. When J. H. Wheeler saw Mrs. Charles Terwllllger throwing bread to his chickens, mindful of frequent neighborhood wrangles on the subject of errant poultry, he became sus picious, and picked up a piece of the bread of charity and caused it to be analyzed. He asserts that the chemist found that the bread had been thor oughly impregnated with arsenic, and he obtained a warrant for Mrs. Terwllllger, charging her with the of fense of "throwing arsenic to chick ens." The woman, who lives at 223 Sev enty-sixth street North, and la 89 years old. was arrested yesterday by Patrol man Post and gave ball. Post waa thoroughly oognlzant of the ease, as the litigants live on his beat and he has been oalled on several times to apportion the surrounding universe be tween the flocks of the two families. CHILDREN GIVE UP TEETH First Day of Dental Clinic at City Hall Is Success. 1 A considerable number of varl-slzed tð marks the results of the first day's operation of the city's free dental clinic department at the city Mali, ins office was open from o'clock yester day morning until 5 o'clock In the aft ernoon, and over 25 school children were srlven dental treatment Dr. Clark said he had not looked for a rush on the first day of the free dental office, and expected more busi ness than he can take care of on each Saturday In the future. The work yes terday consisted largely of pulling teeth and making small fillings. Dosens of youngsters,- mostly of the poorer class, waited their turns In the office during the day. Most of them were unaccompanied by their parents. The free dental cllnio has been es tablished for the benefit of poor school children whose teeth are neglected be cause of the Inability of parenta to pay dental bills. 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