The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, January 09, 1923, Image 12

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Newspaper Page Text:!JgraLcfe Oregon ; TTTTnAY MORNING: JANUABY'9, 1923 ir t.t: n s r Hi d i: j i i I 1 i r. . ..J. M. EZELL i Here we bare another one of the few real dirt farmers who are members of the Oregon legisla ture this year. ' Mr. Ezell is one of the three representatives elected from' the largest legislative district (in area) in the United States, com prising ; five counties any one of REP. J. M. EZELL. Klamath Falls, Republican; Rep resentative, 1923, 21st Dist., Crook,' Deschutes, Jefferson, Klamath . a n d L a k e counties. rrmpr. TTnlntnin hriteHAr. - '. which Is' as large as one small eastern i state. Born 1884. on a farm in Nevada; common school, high school and university edu cation, there;; also the two years 1 n Reno law office ; married at 2 a and. with brothers purchased four - hundred irrigated . acres in the Klamath basin and at once started farming it; is president of -.'-!- r . 1 -- .- :. .. .. j the company known, as Ezell " ; Stock farm; specialize in breeding i i and sale of purebred Holsteins; If has two boys, 10 and 12; has tak en active part as taxpayer and : ' public spirited citizen in political " ' and community affairs ' of Klam- ( atn county; n as faculty 01 man- jdk larmer viewpoint ciear: ex ' pected to have J.on legislation. strong influence D. E. FLETCHER D. E. Fletcher was born on a farm, - In the State of Missouri, January 8th, 1875, and spent enough years on the farm to ac quire an Insight Into - farming, farming people and their prob lems; for six years he attended .Missouri : Valley college.' and came to the coast country in 1898, and engaged In the banking business REP. D. E. FLETCHER Independence,. Republican;- Rep resentative, 1921, 12th Dist., Lin coln and, Polk counties; Repre sentative, 1923. llta Dist., polk county. Attorney. ' , . 1 n . the state of - Washington for eight years. Law appealed to him so strongly that he forsook his banking career, and graduated from "the Willamette College 1 of Law, Salem, Oregon, In 1915, and has been practicing his profession in Independence, Oregon, where he has always been activf in all welfare movements. .He wag rep resentative during the 1921 ses sion of the Oregon legislature, but this time felt that he would rather represent his home county, that of Polk, and no doubt that we will hear many favorable reports from him during the coming ses sion of the legislature. i - "1 - - A ' ' - - : , -;:. r ; . h , ' I , ' s t X , y " v : i! vS ; 'if it. A. FORD "Father of the John Day High way", is the title which some day may be bestowed upon Represen tative Ford in recognition of the part be played in securing desig nations of that route and finances for its construction.; As president of the Grant County Good Roads association in 1916 and vice pres ident of the Oregon Roads and Development association from 19.17 on, Mr. Ford played a con tinuously active part before the legislature, the highway commis sion, and also the people of the counties now traversed by that highway. .Mr. Ford probably would vote to place the honor of original paternity upon ex-Repre- REPRESENTATIVE R. A. FORD Dayvllle. Republican; represen tative, 1923,' 27th district. Grant and Harney counties. Former County Superintendent Crook county. Farmer and stockman. sentative James S. Stewart, who might properly be called the grandfather. Both of them haunted road meetings, told of the scenic wonders that would be opened up and the agricultural re sources for which an putlet would be provided. Mr. Ford is a stockman and farmer whose home-ranch is more remote from the state capitol than the domicile of amy other member. Dayvllle Is a tiny community farther from railway connection than the postoffice of any other representative or senator. Born Tennessee: grew to mah hoood In Missouri where served four years as county clerk of Bar ton county; came to Oregon 1890; lived at Eugene; went to eastern Oregon 1902;" superintendent of Priheville schools four years; county superintendent , of old Crook county five years; removed to Grant county 1913. Active In private and public life In every movement for the promotion of the public welfare. STERLING H. GOIX Representative Goin is another one of the few real dirt farmers. He was born and raised In Linn county on the farm where he now resides, near Greene's bridge on the Jefferson-Scio road, (In the "Forks of the Santiam"). His father settled on this farm in 1864, buying a settler's right. Ed- REP. STERLING H. COIN Jefferson, Democrat; representa tive. 1923. 2nd district, Linn county. Farmer. ucated in the public schools and the old Jefferson institute; fol lowed farming, dairying and ' t - . l' .' .. - - v f wmmmmmmmmSb Aunt ' - mam ' ir i"1 niiiiil OLDEST AND LARGEST IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY For more than half a century this bank has rendered capable efficient service TO THE PUBLIC Safe commercial banking, with modern equipment, unexcelled cilities, able and progressive1 management 1.ADD & BUSH BANKERS stock raising all of his life,-with the exception of five or six years in the employ of a Sacramento fruit and produce company; has a wife and two daughters, all born in Linn county. He has made his farm a pay ing successenjoying a fine repu tation in the neighborhood where he grew up; participated actively and intelligently in public affairs; an unusually competent man who is determined to secure some tax relief and to some extent, put the brakes on public expenditure. HERBERT GORDON Few men of his age he is only 48 have accomplished more in substantial benefit for the com munities In which they reside than has Herbert Gordon for Eugene and Portland. A native of Canada, brought by bis parents to a farm near Eugene, he got a start in business there by buying a stream woodsaw with money he earned as a boy pitching in the harvest field. He sawed wood for Etfgene residents, getting some high school education in between. Helped his parents and finally got his start in the retail furniture REPRESENTATIVE HERBERT GORDON ' Gordon building, Portland. Repub lican; representative 1917-19-21 23, 18th district, Multnomah county. President Lawyers' Title & 1 Trust company, apartment house and dwelling builder and owner; former merchant. business. - A fine brick business block was built by him to house his growing enterprise. He also did other building in Eugene, keeping his money busy or rath er, his credit in a manner that gave much employment to labor and provided improvements for his home town. In 1907, he cashed in on his Eugene business and investments and went to Portland with' 845, 000 real money, buying a con trolling interest in the Lawyer's Title & Trust company, which he still operates as president and principal owner. His main bus iness activity in Portland, how ever, has been the erection of dwellings and apartment houses. Nearly all the time he has had as many as i)iteen or twenty structures under construction and on his hands pending sale. This involved obtaining large amounts of capital and he used his credit, with property aB he acquired it, to the extent that very often he was operating with several hun dred thousand dollars of borrowed money at a time. As rapidly as he neared the completion or sale of one structure, he bought lots and started new buildings. He was one of the few Portland builders who had sufficient faith in Portland and himself to keep on building all through the slow times prior to the war activity. He kept his borrowed .dollars so busy that he seldom caught sight of a dollar of his own. During the post-war depression, he kept up these activities, including the construction of a down-town. bus iness block at a time when no one else dared built it. To get capi tal he often went to Seattle, San Francisco and eastern centers. Obstacles which would have worried almost any capitalist in to utter ruin were constantly sur mounted by him with a courage and resourcefulness tht were stu pendous. Almost hy one else would , have at least tried to cash in ionce in a while, but Gordon always anticipated the possibility of cashing in by taking on still more new obligations and building more buildings, keeping himself heavily Involved but all the time providing employment for' labor and Improvements for Portland. The Rose City is dotted with apartment houses and residence buildings erected by him. With all this he has 'been ' ex ceedingly active in publicaffairs. Civic matters constantly claim a considerable amount of his time He served in three regular and three special legislature sessions prior to this one and spent several months campaigning for mayor on the high tax issue, mainly for the purpose of getting tax facts be' fore thee public. As a legislator, he was one of the busiest, usually serving as chairman of ways and means. In spite of this incessant activity he always manages to wear a smile. He does not im pugn the motives of others, but is not imposed upon. Active in church affairs; a consistent pro hibitionist; a stalwart champion of child welfare legislation; has been a powerful factor in building up "the University of Oregon. LOYAL M. GRAHAM Few men have figured more in the actual wording' of road legis lation on the statute books of Ore gon than Representative Graham. Born in Butler county, Penn., 1860; removed with parents to Delaware county, Iowa; attended country school and farmed during his youth; removed to Rock Is land, 111.; attended school at Mi lan, 111.; graduated from high school at Hopkinton, 'Iowa, and REPRESENTATIVE GRAHAM L. M. Forest Grove, Republican; repre sentative, 1923, 15th 'district, Washington county. Former state senator, Nebraska. Former coun ty attorney, Nebraska, two terms. City attorney Forest Grove five years. Lawyer. from classical course at Lenox College, Iowa, 1884, when re moved to Nebraska; taught school, farmed, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and elected to the of fice of county attorney of Fron tier county, 1889; served several terms; elected state senator, serving on important committees; chairman of committee on univer sities; removed to Oregon 1911; elected tto the legislature 1918; drafted the first $10,000,00.0 bonding bill, the gasoline bill and the second $10,000,000 bonding bill. Saved- the soldiers' educa tional bill from defeat after the adverse report of the committee to whom thei bill had been referred. and got the bill sent back to the committee and so amended that it became a law; member of school board; vice-president Commercial club; vice-president and treasurer State Land Settlement commis sion; Odd Fellow, Modern Wood man, 32 degree Mason; on com mittee to buiM the new Masonic and Eastern Star home at Forest Grove; member jurisprudence committee. Masons Grand lodge of Oregon; three daughters, two sons; one son at btate school or Mines, Colorado; one daughter at State university, Eugene; one daughter teaches. Enterprise; one daughter bookkeeper for local cannery company; youngest Bon at school, Forest Grove. PHILIP HAMMOND In the last legislature Represen tative Hammond figured promi nently In soldier legislation and proved an all round valuable and influential member. ; Born, 1890, Seneca, 111.; Clack amas county, 1898; University of Oregon, 1908-12;, enlisted in World war, 1917; discharged as second lieutenant, 1918; admit- and fa i a ii rim in i BANK i : , I '!,v. ..... 1 .:! j REPRESENTATIVE PHILIP I HAMMOND Oregon City, Republican; repre sentative, 1921-23, 16th district, Clackamas county. Attorney. ted to bar and practicing law since in Oregon City; Mason. Elk, Odd Fellow; unmarried; firnt presi dent of Willamette Falls Post, American Legion. L. M. HESSE Here's another one of the real dirt farmers of the 1923 session, and a very successful one at that. REP. L. M. HESSE Beaverton, Republican; represen tative, 923, 15th district, Wash ington county. Farmer. Operates a 200-acre dairy ranch near Scholls in Washington coun ty. Incidentally his family works with him; none; believe in loaf ing. Also, none believes that drudgery! alone is the end and object oi farm Hie, Hesse has In stalled m o d e r n improvements throughout the place, actually in eluding the house as well as barns, outbuildings, fences and drainage; has his . " own electric lighting plant. Mixes in commun ity affairs as a live- wire; has the iauuy or worKing witn otner people and is likely to be influen tial in securing reasonable legis lation intended to improve agri cultural conditions and relieve tax burdens. ! A. R. HUNTER Hepresentative Hunter is na tionally celebrated as a .. success iul horse breeder. He is a fine type of j substantial citizen for the legislature, ana Republicans of his home county recognize it, for they decline to place anyone in nomination against him. Born 1873, Island City, near his present farm home;! educated REP. A. R. HUNTER Island City, Democrat, represen tative. 1919-21-23, 25th district. Union county.. Farmer, stock raiser. Portland, where he was in mer cantile business until 1907, when entered farming and stock' raising business in Union county, be coming: largest breeder of Per cherons in Oregon; secretary Is land City Milling & .Mercantile company: president Union County Farm Bureau;, director "La Grande Ad Club. YMCA, and Country club; director several private buriness enterprises; active in war work; active in Union coun ty road bond campaign. CHARLES A. HUNTER : The largest pure-bred Hereford breeder In the west. Is with ua In 1923. 'Like his colleague and re PWted - relative, Representative Hunter has attained national rep utation in livestock circles. He has one of the finest ranch prop erties In Wallowa 'county as' the central headquarters for his blooded whltefaces, and is one of the county's largest taxpayers. He is a substantial citizen In the best ficnse and Is a distinct ac quisition to the general assembly. Born 1876v Island City. Oregon; graduated Gem City Business Col lege, Qulncy, 111.; moved to Wal lowa, 1896; in general merchan dise business 12 years: livestock biisInesB ever since; has Interests in timber and lumbering; his ranch on Wallowa river, near the juncture with the Grande Ronde, s ' St 1 V1 I Salem Salem - f.v fr x '. - . - . is"": ? REP. CHARLES A. HUNTER Wallowa, Republican, representa tive, 1923, , 2 4th district. Union and Wallowa counties. Farmer, stockman. is one of the most picturesque In Oregon and is a show place for all visiting Wallowa county "The Switzerland of Oregon." Unlike Arthur. Charles A. is a Republi can; between tnem tney comprise the best element in both parties E. X..IIURD His legislative -experience is not confined to Oregon; he was offi cially connected with the Wlscon sin legislature in 1895 and 1897, when his father, F. E. Hurd, was an influential -member. Born 1876, New Lisbon, Wis public school education; eleven years conducted weekly newspa per there; city treasurer, ten REP. E. N. HURD Seaside, Republican; Representa tive, 1919-21-23, 19th Dist., Clat sop, county. Mayor Seaside; chairman union high school dis trict; former councilman. Editor, publisher. i . years and county police magis trate; school clerk nine years; came to .' Oregon 1899; pur chased the Seaside Signal; also established a job printing plant at Astoria; in Seaside has been councilman, mayor, two terms. member water commission; chair man of the union high school df&f trlct. Married; three sons; Pres-1 byterian; active in patriotic1 drives. 4 . : THOS. H. HURLBUnt ' ;'2hi ? -; Having graduated fajciafarm ing, and once having been a banker. Representative! HurlbuTt can no longer.be classified asia real dirt farmer, but:,h icnade enougn or a Dig success .in east ern Oregon farming that , he-ia qualified to associate -with dirt farmers as well as with, bankers. business men and members .of other honorable callings.' He, 1a now a considerable property own er in Portland, besides operating I nl inr: lit -fift ft rep; thos. h. hurlburt 403 Front St., Portland. Republi can; Representative, 1923,'- 18th Dist.. Multnomah county.' 1 Bread manufacturer, landlord, " former hanker, former larmer. - i 3k 4 , f i I f ' - M I h i I I ' -m? ' V '., Water, Light Co. Power "Our Wear: The Best Only "BDTTERCUP" BDWElT "AT YOUR GROCER" Made from pure tapitai ui 0- 137 S. ComI St. Order A7ty Capital Cit 426 Oregon Bldg, Salem! Oregon ! ' Reliable Stock of Fruit Trees and Plants, in Vari eties Needed for Spring Planting. i;;::FOWERS: ' '::Ofit f Hv.ls i lo i hit's Oi .iiflir.il i:Ui l-illtV n", ha . Yi-'-'' ' -W r, 'IT nj tlit i.r.ii iiti j .'r 1,1. ;!, i J j;..:13 ' f.X.y'nil C. F. BREITHAUPT Salem's Telajraph Florist 123K-Liberty commercial bakery which man- ufactures "Blue Stem" bread. Born Rosohure, Oregon, 1879 ; when six years . iid ' moved with parents to Gilliam county: - In public Bchool at Arlington; grad uated from Portland; Business col lege, v 1900; engaged in placer mining. Alaska; until 1904; In Eastern Oregon bank in Shahtko until 1908; until 1917,. was- in general farming ' fa .'eastern Ore gon ;' sold but to Acquire Portland business -and i property: l IThw ; la his first venture Into political of fice. ' V," . 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