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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1914)
TTTE SUNDAY OREGONIA. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 20, 1914. $100,000 SAVING FOR STATE IN VIEW WASHINGTON COUNTY RANKS AMONG OREGONS MOST THRIVING DISTRICTS Portland Depends Greatly on Zone for Many Products, Milk Particularly One Condensery Pays $75,000 to Farmers of Section Every Month Eoads Are Good and Prosperity Evidence Seen Everywhere. What Could Be Nicer Than One of These as a Christmas Gift T 10 Selections and' the Eclipse Legislators Consider Cancel ing Mine Bureau and Naval k'ilitia Funds. Here's a chance to get the Greatest Musical Instru ment the instrument that furnishes enjoyment and education without end and at prices and terms that every home can afford. These Special Christmas offers are arranged to enable all to have the pleasure of a Modern Talking Machine in their home this Christmas. 13 ECONOMY FORGING AHEAD 11 Vsual Appeals and Others Expected by Solons Singer Likely to Be Scrgeantat-Arnis Many Law Changes Planned. Old Uncle Eke O'Conomical scored a few points yesterday when additional ctate appropriations were placed in the list of those that the next Legislature is expected to suspend. Into the class with the Oregon State Immigration Commission and the Ore gon Social Hygiene Society have been placed the Bureau of Mines and Geol ogy, the Orejron Naval Militia and the bureaus for the preparation of hydro graphic and topographic maps of vari ous parts of the state. A savins: of approximately $100,000 a year is expected as a result of the rumination of appropriations for these various departments. It is expected that each department will be well represented at Salem when ihe Legislature meets and that each will make the usual appeal for i$s usual a ppropriation. Now that the Federal Government has given assurance that It will match ihe state's expenditure of $450,000 in the Central Oregon reclamation work, ihe necessity of the Crook County irri gators appealing to the Legislature fr further relief in that section is pre cluded. It Is probable that no appropriations for reclamation work wjll be asked for at the coming" session. But Uncle Kke will be subject to a series of attacks from several of the state institutions that are asking for money with which to make "needed improvements." The medical department of the State University wants $100,000 or so with which to build a new, medical college on the property recently presented for that purpose by the O.-W. li. & N. Company. i The Monmouth Normal School is ready to ask for a $50,000 appropriation for new buildings, and it is understood that officials of the State Hospital for tile Insane at Salem will ask for an appropriation for a new building. Joseph F. Singer, of Portland, seems to be in the lead in the race for ser " geant-at-arms of the House, and it is probable that he will be elected on the first ballot. It was reported yesterday that Singer has more than 40 votes pledged. He has the solid backing of all the members of the 1913 House who were re-elected about 14 in number and most of the Multnomah delegation, who declare he is particularly fitted for the work. Singer was assistant doorkeeper of the House at the regular session in 1909 and doorkeeper of the special ses sion in that year. He was the regular doorkeeper in the 1911 session and at the 1913 session was promoted to the office of sergeant-at-arms. It is understood that a number of County Clerks in the state will ask the Legislature to repeal the present bill Tequiring physical examinations snd health certificates from male ap plicants for marriage licenses. It is sail that the present law causes many couples to go to the Slate of Washing ton for their licenses. Kither the Leg islature will be asked to do away with the law or the State of Washington,! ..-; 1 1 v. .. i - .1 . . , i T te ftai,cu lu euuL-i similar legis lation. Miss Virginia Arnold. Oregon organ izer for the Congressional Union for -Woman Suffrage, is appealing to all suffrage supporters in the state to write o telegraph to Oregon Repre sentatives in Congress urging them to vote "yes" .on the Biistow'-Mondell .resolution which comes up in the lower House of Congress next Tuesday. De cember 22. This measure will pave the way for a. constitutional amendment that will grant Nation-wide suffrage to women. Amendments to the Bancroft bond ing act governing the method of bond ing street improvements, will be sought .from the Legislature next month. It Ms proposed to reduce the minimum as sessment for whtah a property-owner can take out bonds from $25 to $10 imd to extend the time of expressing -intention of bonding from 10 days to -0 days. A reduction in the minimum :tace value of a bond from $500 to $100 alo is proposed that small investors lfihy purchase bonds. The changes are proposed by Portland city officials. The special subcommittee of Multno- ;mah County legislators on taxation will be prepared to submit an outline of a proposed bill before the meeting of the full delegation next Monday evening. The committee recently held a. meting at which It decided to recommend that one-half of the taxes be paid on or be fore May 5 of every year and that the 'remaining one-half be paid on or be fore November 5. No rebate will be granted for payments in excess of the amount due at the first period and no penalty will attach to the remaining half if the first half is paid. A penalty of 1 per cent a month will be charged, however, if the first half is not paid in the Spring and an additional flat 'penalty of 5 per cent for delinquencies beyond November 6. This plan Is in accordance with the suggestion made at the meeting of the Multnomah delegation last Monday eve ning by Tliomas B. Kay, State Treas urer. It probably will be recommended , to the Legislature by the Multnomah delegation. A contest is certain when the Legis lature meets over the attempt to change -the law governing the specifications of ; pavements put down on road in Mult nomah County. Opponents of the Warrenite paving , interests are preparing a bill intended ito open the paving business here to Imore active competition. Under the present law, it is pointed out. Warren , ite and other patented pavements en joy a monopoly of the business, j, However, the friends of the present ;system, including various students of .good roads, are preparing to contest the proposed changes. They are act ing in apparent good faith in their con tentions that the patented pavements now In use have certain qualities of superiority and that they have the fur ther favorable feature of economy. Anyway, quite a little interesting argument is certain to develop when this paving measure comes up for pas sage ' The Republican county committee also will be represented at next Mon day's meeting of legislators for the purpose of presenting Its proposed bill to give the Governor power to remove i all appointive officers "for cause." This ; measure is intended to pave the; way j f or appointment of Republicans ta '.places in the state government now held by Democrats. xNsf? M jfn&fc '--"aaaaasaBsmm lmry " '4sB?---WMaJ- qm&J ll :t fttf-tyr ' tk VrM Ufffasm iimmHf 1 tA - -f r ' : f v, 1 , pps h I trF--'BfNs rid t BY ADDISON BENNETT. , HlLLSBORQjJhe county seat of Washington" County, is IS miles due west from Portland. By wagon road or rail the distance is something like 20 miles. Washington is one of the smaller counties of the state, only Benton, Columbia, Hood River, Multnomah, Polk and Tamhill being smaller. But In population it Is exceeded by onlv Multnomah, Marion, Linn, Lane, Jackson and Clackamas. Between 1900 and 1910 the counties of Union, Umatilla and Douglas were passed by Washington. In many ways Washington is one of the most interesting of all of our coun ties. Particularly to the people of Port land, who depend largely upon the Washington County truck farmers for their vegetables, eggs, poultry and milk, especially milk. If Washington were to be walled up and cut off from Portland many of us would have to live on short rations for some time, until we discovered other producers farther away. Coanty Gnwa Q,nlckly. The census of 1910 gives Washington County a population of 21,522. In 1900 the county had 14,467. in 1890 only 11, 972. It is almost purely an agricultural county. There are several manufac turing plants, of which I shall speak presently, but these simply work up the raw products from the farms. There are two fine little cities in Washington, Hillsboro, the county seat, and Forest Grove. Forest Grove. I believe, has somewhere around 2000 population, per haps a little beyond that, and Hillsboro a few hundred more. So you see the people generally live on the farms. Washington County is a mighty fine example of a satisfied, prosperous and intelligent citizenry. The pecple of that county may not have found time to hunt that will-of-the-wisp called com plete contentment and conditions en tirely ideal. Or rather they have not altogether reached that condition; but they come nearer approaching it than 99 out of every 100 communities in the West. Neighbors are mighty close in Wash ington. They must be for the county has an area of only 731 square miles, or 567,840 acres. So you see there are 29 persons to the square mile, or a ra tio of about 26.4 acres for each of the inhabitants of the county. If the en tire state of Oregon was as densely populated as Washington we would have two and three-quarter millions of people In place of the C72.765 we have. Roads Kept Up Well. I intend to say a good many words about the good roads of Washington. But Just now a controversy is arising between the county authorities and the road truck owners. So perhaps it is best to say simply that the county has spent a great amount of money on its roads, geep them up better than a large majority of the counties and the peo ple argue that these roads have brought them a goodly share of the prosperity they enjoy. I do not think I can do better to show the reasons, or some of them, for the prosperity of the residents of Wash ington County than to cite a few sta tistics ss set forth by the Commercial Club of Hillsboro. This is for the year 1913 and at least 10 per cent should be added to make it applicable to this year really more than that. Milk sold condensers 720,000 Butter in open market 100,000 Milk, cream and dairy products sold in Portland if.0,000 Sold to Portland bv county dairies 2O0.000 Hops. 20OO acres. J 1,000 bales 00,Ot-0 Oats. 30.000 acres. J. 800.000 bushels 700. 0)0 Wheat. 1000 acres, 800,000 bushels. IMO.OOO Barlev 15.000 Hay. 35.000 acres, 75,000 tons 60O.0O0 Potatoes. 5000 acres. 600,000 sacks 500. OOO Onions. 800 acres, 200.000 sacks. . . 200,000 Estimated sales of poultry and products 100.000 Fruits and small garden products.. uO.OOO Lok values, shinned out of county by rail 140.000 Estimated receipts manufactured lumber 2.5OO.000 Estimated sales of livestock 100.000 Total value of production for year 1913 $0,905,000 Just suppose for a moment that all our agricultural and horticultural coun ties were doing as well as that! Why if they were Oregon would be the most prosperous state in the Union. Banks Are Prosperoas. One way to test the prosperity of a community is to look into the bank sta tistics. In Hillsboro . alone there are four banks. The Hillsboro National has capital and surplus of $71,450, and deposits of $211,000. W. H. Wehrung Is president, David Kuratll cashier. The Hillsboro Comercial has capital and surplus of $77,431 and deposits of $260. 432. Edward Schulmerlch is president, Willis Ireland cashier. The American National and the Shute Savings Bank are kindred institutions, something like our Northwestern National and Port land Trust & Savings Bank, and doing business under the same roof. The American National has capital and sur plus of $62,005 and deposits of $227,252: the Shute Savings Bank has capital and surplus of $39,053 and deposits of $261. 483. A. C. Shute is president and C. Jack, Jr.. cashier of the American Na tional, and A. McGill president and W. Mahon cashier of the Shute Savings Bank. The stockholders of the two in stitutions are practically the same. There are two great milk condensing plants in Washington County, one at Hillsboro and one at Forest Grove; but I am dealing now with Hillsboro prin cipally. At these plants a celebrated brand of milk is put up to go to all parts of the world. The Hillsboro plant is now erecting a new factory 200 feet square at an expense of something like $150,000. The Hillsboro people say this plant pays out an average of $3000 every working day of the year to the dairymen of Washington County for the milk they buy. Of course, the bills are paid monthly, so it would be better to say $75,000 every month. Let soma of the single-crop advocates ponder over those figurea Hillsboro has two newspapers. The Hillsboro Independent is one of the old papers of the slate. It was established 43 years ago away back in 1870. S. C. Killen is the present owner and edi tor. It is now and always has been a mighty good paper and has had a lot to do with upbuilding Washington County. Its mechanical department is equal to a great many city newspaper offices and it turns out a vast amount of job work. But stop! In the equipment can be found the first cylinder press brought to the Northwest, the old press pur chased from the Robert Hoe Company and installed in the office of The Ore gonian away back in 1862. Just think of it! This old nress. now over 50 vears of age, is still "hale and hearty," so to speak. Mr. Killen does not use it regularly it la too slow for the mod ern weekly newspaper now. No doubt Mr. Pittock, and the Portland people in general, thought it was a marvel of speed in the early days of The Ore gonlan. During the last couple of months a chance was given the old press to test its mettle. The Independent had the job of printing the ballots for the No vember election in that county. The ballots being the size of a horse blanket the modern press would not take them. So the old Oregonian press was used and the job was well done. Mr. Kil len says after the four days' run there were a few screws, nuts, bolts and washers, also many pieces of wire and string, lying on the floor under the old veteran but nothing serious was the matter. Araras Also Good Paper. I have been figuring a little on what this old press could do today in the way of printing The Oregonian. I have said indirectly that it could be speeded up to 800 an hour. Suppose the old ma chine had been put to work on last Sunday's Oregonian of 86 pages and supposing the edition was 80,000 copies. Two pages could be printed at a time. making 43 forms. Running 24 hours a day and allowing a few hours now and then for oiling up, and slight time for changing forms, it would take five days to run each form, or 215 days for the 43 forms. If Mr. Pittock should, for old time's sake, conclude to get out a mammoth New Tear's number on the old veteran, he would have to start his press work about the first of the pro ceed ing May. The Argus is another Hillsboro news paper. Mrs. Emma McKinney is the proprietor and L. A. Long the editor. The Argus is a good newsy paper, well printed and well edited and has a good equipment. The Washington Hotel has a fine building and is a mighty well-kept and up-to-the-minute hostelry. W. C. Gif- ford is the boniface who runs it and he understands his business. I happened to drop in there for lunch and found the grill weU filled, mostly with Hills boro residents. 'It speaks well for a town for it to have a good hotel etill better to have the local people give it u liberal patronage. Then there is a brand-new hotel ECLIPSE GRAFONOLA. with 10 liberal supply of needles the price is (Payments as low as 75e per The Favorite and 24 THE FAVORITE Home. Dancing or Concert Combination, largest triple-spring motor, lat est hornless type, tone shutter control instru ment, with 34 selections and a dCQ Ofl liberal supply of needles, for 300tU (Payments of only $1.50 per week.) NOW! Right Now! Before the final holiday rush begins is the time to come in and hear any one of these you prefer let it play the sort of music you like the best select whichever type you prefer and we will deliver it for Christmas or any time you say and the payments need not start until you hava the instrument. The Christinas Records are here fine, new Christmas we will be glad to play over for Doner maae it rignt away. flDiiCD PV Mill T " yu 1,,Te uuuui w i iiinib us the kind trial. Address Ellers Music House, there. It is called the Tualatin House and across the front is the record of Its birth 1852. It is still a good build ing In spite of its 63 years of service and still does a good business. Hillsboro has a splendid residence sec tion and many of the buiness buildings are not surpassed In many cities of three or four times the size. The streets are well paved, magnificently lighted. there is a good fire department, a fine water supply. Taken all in all. it looks like a city of 5000 or 6000. I believe, by the way, they claim a population a little under 3000. I think they are entirely too modest. RECITAL HELDAT ALBINA Students of John. Claire Monteitb Perform at People's Institute. An interesting musicale by students of John Claire Monteitli took place Wednesday at the People's Institute in Alblna. Trios were sung by Miss Eva Farrell, Miss Helen Butzlaff and Miss Mabel Orton, with Miss Sue Kenney as ac companist. The harmony of the voices and the ensemble singing in "If My Song Had Airy Pinions" was particu larly effective. Miss Eva Farrell. who has a voice of sweet quality, sang a group of songs. Other soloists were Miss Mabel Risers, who sang two delightful groups of children's songs In her own happy manner; Miss Anna Priske. a young contralto just becoming known to Portland audiences, who sang for one of her numbers "Still Wle Die Nacht" in a rich voice; Miss Mabel Orton, whose trained musicianship in solo, duet and trio numbers, made her appearance en joyable. For an extra number she sang "At Dawning" (Cadman). The programme closed with a group of German carols sung by Miss Helene Butzlaff, who sings the German lieder with authority and understanding of their beauty. One of her songs was "Stille Nacht," and after responding to an enthusiastic recall an old carol was sung .Jn an Impromptu duet by Ml3s Orton and Miss Butzlaff. The programme was arranged by Mrs. Monteith, who had charge of a similar programme at the institute last year. MASONS ELECT OFFICERS Y. P. Andrns Chosen. Excellent High Priest of Portland Lodge. Portland Chapter No. 3, Royal Arch Masons, held its annual meeting Wednesday night at Masonic Temple, West Side, and elected and installed the following officers: W. P. Andrus. excellent high priest; R. D. Robinson, king; J. K. Kollock, scribe; D. G. Tom asini, treasurer; J. A. Allen, secretary; A. Lester Andrus. captain of host; B. F. Boyden, principal sojourner; Archie Nicholson, royal arch captain: J. T. Hotchkiss, master third vail; J. E. Buckingham, master second vail; Julian Coblentz, master first vail; H. D. Cham bers, chaplain; P. P. KUbourne, senti nel. Deputy Grand High Priest Clyde Evans acted as installing officer and was assisted by Worshipful Master W. C. Saunders, of Willamette Lodge No. 2, as grand marshal. After the ceremonies a banquet was served. BARTENDER FACES CHARGE Man. Held for Abusing Wife, Says He Secured Liquor While Drank. Since it was revealed in the trial of L. Gilbert, who was arrested on the complaint of his wife for mistreatment when drunk, that the defendant proDa bly had obtained liquor while intoxi This Jewel and 20 Selections selections and a dnn ng &JL.OmJ wek.) Selections The elagant true-tOTed JEWEL, with 10 selec tions and a supply of needles, a11 50 (Payments as little as $1 per week.) 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NORTONIA HOTEL and Washington Streets i t Button Record modal, with automatic eject and a llDeral sup $94.75 for as low as $2 per week.) AND ALL THE RECORDS . ALL THE TIME r.1 Talklaa; Machine Headquarter or other types by express. Tell we'll send all subject to free months of 1915. Notice has been given the liquor interests by City License Collector Hutchinson that payment of the license for the first six months of the year must be paid not later than Thursday at 5 P. M. Saloons that have failed to get their money into the hands of the City Treasurer by that time will go out of business auto matically January 1. The Council has refused to grant license renewals to eight places, which leaves a total of 876 in existence. When the present administration took: office there were 419 saloons. St. Johns Sale Hade. T. M. Word transferred to the Wil la mina State Bank three lots in St. Johns, Park Addition, and a lot in Kings Sub division for $2389. Mr. Word trans ferred in Swan's Addition a half in terest in two lots to J. Lesses for $1750. n vcyiiv