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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1909)
I GRRSHAM, MULTNOMAH CO., OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1909. Subscription, $1.50 a Year. STOCK SUBSCRIPTIONS ART NOW ROLLING IN Secretary Makes Financial Re port Covering Items to March 1. much to hear from all claimants al once and issue them warrants to cover their claims, if found to be correct. Financial Statement. inti van On hand at last report, Oct. 14, Its* .................................. EIM7.MÌ Stock ........................................... 4M.W Concessions. ....................... (13 30 ltd und on tickets anil pris*-« _ 23.26 Tuta! ................................ $4-'WV 20 ram oct W, it will t*e of interval to Material and buildings $2865.78 our readers to know that Ilia business of Kuiwrinlemlem-e and Clerk 29 60 last year's (air lies about all laren rloanl l-a'-ir aud hauling 3H.23 up. Tlu-r« are a few outstanding war ¡'riming ami Advertising ...... 34.26 ......... ...j. 17.75 rants that will ba met at the earliest < oiiiiniselons I’rendums and Prises.............. . IMO 36 opportunity. Money will noon be paid Miscellaneous.................................. IKK) .03 in for stock. A considerable aniount is Option on grounds ........... ..... lui.Oh being subscribed. A Soliritor will I m * in Total ................................. $4242.78 the Held thia entire month, and longer if neceseary to raise money sufficient to Balance on bend............................ *146.42 meet all bills and tiK-csaary «spend- I lure« fur the nest year. Kanyes. It was intended to publish a compisle If yon are going to buy a range it will lie tailed statement in this issue, but it was found that there were altogether too pay you to see what K. K. Carlsoa lias j to offer in this line, lie carrius two of many items (or the time and space at our disposal, so we have condensed the i the moot popular makes, the Niagara Every stove is war statement. This allows a cash balance and rmversal. on hand. There are a number of war ranted. Price« are from $20 up. Watch for the new line of decorations to arrive rants outstanding and a few small bills soon. to s«<tl<- yet. There remain two nr three premiums yet unpaid, and a few hare not yet been Dance at Orient. eent out on account of insufficient ad- There will be a dance at tbe Orange • lr... Olive Wells, G. II. Broun, Hall al. Orient, on Saturday evening, Itachrl Errirson and C. E. Wegman are March 13th. Everyone invited. naiiiea of people we would like to resell. If anyone can assist us to get the ad Howitt & Company. dressee of these persons they will center a great favor. Howitt A Company’s Cash Store will The ap|M*nded statement covers the open to the public on Saturday morning financial dealings up to March let. The the iStb. Lon't fall to attend and get present secretary of the Fair asaona- special bargains. See large ad. for some lion, II. A. Dsrnall, would like very of ilia prices for tbe week GRAND DOUBLE AUCTION SALE IN THE TOWN OF TERRY Twelve-Mile Corners, Base Line Road To reach Sale take O. W. P. cars to Gresham, or Troutdale to Base Line Crossing. Branch THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1909 10 A. M. SHARP _____ Cattle, including Registered Jersey and Dairy Stock. Swine. Farm Implements and Machinery, Vehicles, and Household Furniture, Etc., Etc. Grand Combination Sale from Merrill's Rose Vista Farms and M. Spahn, late lessee Bowman’s Farm. AT NOON HOT FREE LUNCH WILL BE SERVED TERMS-$10 OR UNDER, CASH; OVER $10, SIX- MONTHS’ TIME AT 8% ON APPROVED NOTE. 2% OFF FOR CASH. R. H. GASSWELL. Auctioneer. GRESHAM S GROWTH AND ACTIVITY TOLD IN POINTED PARAGRAPHS Ed Johnson has purchased C. L. here. Crenshaw's house and lota. Another week has passed and still no Eii Bruns, tlie globe-trotter of Sandy, j move has been made to clean out the was in town Tuesday. gulch running through town, either by the council or property owners. Why Only live fish swim up stream Mr. and Mra. Ben Wilson of Summit, this delay? The weather is not to blame 8. D., visited Mr. ami Mrs. B. W. ! this time. Think of tbe bad impreeeion Emery over Sunday. They art on a it givee to intending settlers, the men- ance to health, the danger of tires. Is trip through the Weal, it not time to act, not talk? The opening game of ball will prob No man can get rich in spite of his ably be between The Dalles high school and Gresham high school teams at Tbe wife. Clarence Browning has tbe scarlet The high school pupils are rehearsing fever and tbe family ia now in quaran a drama which they will produce soon. tine. Mias Dora ia stopping with her grandmother. H. M. Chitwood, of Arleta, was look ing up business interests here thia week. Serious Accident. Dalles. Monday evening, March 15, Mr. Fran cis McHenry, impersonator, elocution ist, singer and temperance lecturer, will give a free entertainment and lecture in the Grange hall. The entertaiament will consist of dramatic and comic reci tations, illustrated songs by aid of stere- oplicon pictures. His address will be along the temperance line. Come «od spend an enjoyable evening. Looks like new platforms down at the depot, sb? Pretty work Shepliead, The band hoys are working on a vaudeville and musical entertainment to be given sometime next month. Here’s the OPPORTUNITY! Are YOU the Man? A man offers you an opportunity today. It’s a chance to make money—but it requires the in vestment of a few dollars. Are you ready? Have you the money? Can you get the credit? If you have the money in the bank you can grasp the opportunity. A regular depositor in our bank can get accomodations from us. This bank helps its depositors. Prepare for your opportunity by opening an account TODAY. FIRST STATE BANK , GPJESI1AM._O^EJU Thomas N. Snashall Passes Away. No. 11. PUSH CLUB SECURES ROAD IMPROVEMENTS Tbe friends and relatives of Thomas N. Hnaaball, eon of H. W. Hi.aahall of Fieasant Valley, were sadly disappoint ed tbe latter part of last week to learn tliat tbe young man was not improving The Bright, Spring Days Seem to Inspire Men and Women but that be was in a very dangerous Will Also Probably Secure Rock Crusher as Result ol Better condition. Their fears were not with to Renewed Activity in All Lines — Now for out reason, for tbe disease that caused Roads Campaign. the General Spring Cleanup. his ¡lines« gained the mastery on Friday afternoon and Thomas passed swsy. The illness had existed for several last Friday a large delegation from R. II. Todd from Alberta, Canada, Mrs. Boons and daughter, of Salem, ha. purchased the places of Peter Wil are now located here and have taken months ami seems to have been greatly Pleasant Valiev went to Portland and presented themselves as a live and hust son and B. M. Roney, east of town. charge of the new millinery parlors of increased since he assisted in running a ling petition from tbe Pleasant Valley threshing machine. Hie lungs were Push Club to the County Court, in the All interested io starting an Epworth Mewlauies Boone A .Metzger. seriously affected by the dust and part matter ot ¡letter roads and the Foster League here are requested to meet at Notice has been received from the ielee of straw that were inhaled. Home road in particular. the |*arsonage Friday evening at 7:30 to United States Ijind office that Sections Mr. Berry acted in the rapacity of time ago a considerable amount of this spokesman ami asked tlial a till be consider the reorganisation of the old : 4. 5, fl, 7, 8, and 9 of Township 6 Sonth, matter was discharged from bis lungs made between Sycamore station and tbe league and to spend a social hour. All Range 9 West, has been surveyed ; that and there were great hopes of his recov Johnson ereek bridge and for tbe rock between 14 and 40 are invited. I tbe approved plat of said survey has ery for several weeks. But the disease ing of tbe Foster road from Lents to the Transactions at the First State Bank ■ been received at the land office. The had the mastery. His system was too Clackamas line. The Court readily granted the first request and the work amounted to $34,967.21 for one-dav last is ml referred to used to be in tire Tilla weak to overcome resistances and be will be done as soon as tbe brush and week, the largest days business in the mook Forest Reserve but is now in gradually sank away. ■tumps can be removed from the land cluded in the Kiuslaw Forest Reserve. history uf tbe bank. Thomas was 27 years of age, a fine from which tbe filling is to come. This The plat of this survey will be tiled in young man who bad won tbe respect cf work is being done at tbe present time. Trout fishiog is reported as very goal As for tbe rock -covering for tbe Fos the land Office on April 22, 1909, at 9 his friends ami aasoc ates throughout in near-by streams. Johnson creek is a. m., on and after which date legal ap this part of tbe county. He took an ter road no definite promise was made. Tbe Court recognized the importance of the mecca lor Bunday fisher men. plications for tbe entry o* said land will active part in tbe aocial affairs of the thia thoroughfare but stated that the Metrger and l^nls are sporting a new be received. I Valley, was a member of the Grange cost of bringing crushed rock from tbe neatly lettered meat wagon. quarry at Kelly Butte would make that The Zion Evangelical church is being and Pomona. Hie presence will be project impractical. However, they are No end to the building activity here. movod farther east on the property on deeply missed in all tbeee connections, investigating a deposit ol rock at a point Grandpa Lusted was in town Tueaday. Rolwrta avenue, where it now stands a and a host of friends will join bis rela- on the Foster road wbicb is said to be equal to Kelly Butte rock. It is a safe I tivee in mourning bis loss. Chas. Duley visited old friends here few feet out of boundary. wager that there will be a rock-crusher the fore part of tbe week. Rev. D. M. Cathey conducted the working in Pleasant Valley this season. While Sig Knighton was raising and funeral services at Pleasant Valley But the people in this Valley are not Mrs. Roper baa been on the sick list moving hie little house yesterday, it asking tbe county for everything they for the past few weeks. suddenly careened and fell with a crash, (■range hall ami from there the proces want, especially when it comes to mat The fall broke sion was led to Multnomah Cemetery, ters of purely local improvement. Tbe A number of Gresham people attend farting at the rafters. where members of Evening Star and Push Club baa undertaken and are ed the graduation nt Miss Lucy MeUger dishes and shook things up generally in side. Harry Johnson, who was assist Lenta Granges joined in conducting the bringing to a successful conclusion, tbe in Portland on Wednesday. ■ last ceremonies. There remains to bear building of a first-class loot-path from C. L. Crenshaw, tbe tinner, ia now ing him. was the only one there at the the lose, a father and mother, sisters Sycamore station to the Clackamas line, time and had crawled underneath the a distance of nearly two miles. This located in bis new shop on Powell at. j bouse to straighten a prop, when the Violet and Myrtle and brother Valentine. path follows the county road; neverthe Harry Thomas, wile and child are less, a fill of five feet for about 250 feet building fell. Very fortunately for him visiting tbe borne folks here this week. he was between two joists and was not Will Double the Subscription Price. long was necessary in one place and in another a plank walk four feet wide for The Gresham Concert Ban I has pur seriously injured. Mrs. Knighton was That very interesting magazine about a distance of 3U0 feet was built. The chased two more cornets. Guy kield- in the house and was badly frightened. cost of this improvement, about $600, is people. Human Life, which is publish being met by the live members of the house and Robert Doane will use them. The jury in the condemnation suit ing tbe story of Homer Davenport, will Pleasant Valley Push Club, partly in The entertainment and supper given brought by the Mt. Hood Ky. against I advance its subscription price to $1.00 labor and partly in caah, the former be by the school on Thursday night was J. N. Claunahan, brought in a verdict i per year. This makes our offer of Hu ing the harder to secure. In addition to individual help. Supervisor Kenney, well attended and a decided success. | allowing $1740 damages. The railroad man Life a remarkable bargain. See on behalf at tbe county has voluntarily The Band was in attendance ami ren will appeal tbe case. The suit against our ad “The Oregon Magazine Hit of I furnished advice ami teams aggregating dered several selections on the street Chas. Cleveland is now on. 1909">n another page. about fifteen days to date. prior to the entertainment in the hall. I A family by the name of Townsend The proceeds are to be used in the pay- j will arrive here about Saturday from ment of a new piano. the east and expect to make their home We are glad to see B. W. Emery on the street again thia week after a severe illness. Might have been more successful in life had they learned when young to patronize a good bank. Vol 5. The county will put crushed rock on its roads leading through town when we annex Portland—when the steamboats come up Johnson Crsek. Ed. Smith has returned from a trip to tbe Lewis River country. Tbe library social announced for to night baa been postponed one week. C. M. Swanson, one of the owners of the Oleeon Lumber Co. was very badly hurt Tuesday morning at the mill. A grab-book on one of tbe blocks gave way and caught him on the back of the leg and tore out quite a piece of flesh ; something also struck him on tbe knee, injuring tbe knee-cap. He was taken to a hospital in Portland at 1:27. Poetry Contest. Three premiums will be awarded by the Itouglaee Store at Pleasant Home for the best poem relating to the store, by boys or girls 16 years of age or under. The contest will be open to personal or mailorder customers. Special Invitation is extended to schools and patrons to interest the children. The first premium is a china closet; second premium, photographic album; and third, a book. Ask or write for particulars. Douglass Store, Pleasant Home, Route 2, Gresham, Or. Death of Martha Peterson. Tbe meeting of the young people at Martha Peterson, mother of Mrs. A. the M. E. parsonage, will be held on Bankus, passed away at tbe Bankus Friday night as announced. home, near Pleasant Home, March 5, at The Gresham Real Estate Co. has sold ths age of 79, and was buried at the nine acres of the west end of tbe < Pleasant Home cemetery on Sunday, Gedamke tract, east of Greeham, to March 7. Death was due to old age and three different partiss, for $40o per acre. she had been declining rapidly for some 8. M. Campbell and hie family, from time. She leaves seven children to; Owosso, Mich., is visiting hie parents, mourn her loss, three daughters ami ; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Campbell. four sons. We extend sympathy. Mrs. Charity Smith is much improv ed in health. It will cost only 450 for a round trip Mr. Meade, who was taken to a hos ticket from Chicago to tbe A.-Y.-P. Ex pital in Portland ia now improving. position, which opens at Seattle June 1. QUALITY ano QUANTITY Is what you get at Howitt & Company’s Cash Store. We Buy and Sell for Cash—that’s the reason our prices are so low. Compare them with your last month’s bill. Note the differ ence. The reason is that credit dealers must make enough on your bill to offset the loss of accounts he is constantly losing on others—credit buyers must pay both their own and the other fellow’s bill. Cash buyers receive first consideration and more and better goods. Motto: Buy at Howitt & Company’s Store, where ‘cash prices’ are lower than anywhere in the county. Flour and Feed Groceries Don't buy old and out of date goods w I h - u you can get fresh, choice, go<«ls here at lower price«. We have a large assortment of everything you need and our price« the lowest. Look at these ’cash prices.' Fruit Sugar, 17 lbs. for................. 11.00 Beet Sugar, 18 lbs. for................ LOO Tomatoes, 7 cans for....... .. .......... 50 Dried IVaches. fancy, 3 lb«, for.. 25c Dried Apple«, fancy, 3 lbs. for... 25c When you buy flour or feed, you want to get the la-st anti most for tile Read these prices. money. We handle the Prince«« Flour, one of the higlwet patent flours ever put on the market at $1.38 per sack. We have many other bran*Is of flour which we will sell as low as $1.15 per sack. PRICES ON FEED Seeds Shorts, per ton........................... $29.75 per sack......._........... J...... 1.15 We have bought in large quantities, which enables us to put this seed on the market at very low prices. Over Seed, No. 1, per lb......... 12Uc Clover See*I, No. 2, per lb.. llj^c Bran, per ton................................. 27.50 per sack ......................... 85 Barley, per ton.............................. 30.00 per sack............................. 1.10 WE ARE PAYING THE FOLLOWING PRICES FOR FARM Butter, per roll, Eggs, per dozen, Veal, per lb., - Hogs, per lb., - Beef, per lb., Mutton, per lb., Hides, per lb., Chickens, per lb., PRODUCE THIS WEEK - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 60 and 65c . 26c 10 and 10 l-2c 9 and 9 l-2c - 4 and 4 l-2c 5 and 5 l-2c - - 8c 15 and 16c - - - - - HOWITT & CO S. CASH STORE "THE MOST IN QUALITY AND QUANTITY" Powell Street, - - Gresham, Ore.