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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1911)
tr DOINGS OF OUR NEIGHBORS DOVER VM'-rry X nuts and lu-st wi«lu-> to The Beaver Slate Herald and all its readers. $ The ground is cover«-«! with about t*ui indies of snow, which makes grssl sh-lghlng tor Santa Claus. ^Htlx- Christmas tree mid entertainment flbtiirday evening was enjoyed by all |Meent. 3 A Tennant la spending the holidays iw Portland Get your cow Iwlla ready FAIRVIEW Mrs. J. Armond, who lab-ly under went an operation in the Good Hsmari- lan Hospital, is slowing improving. Mrs J. O. Duvl« is gradually recover Ing her strength after an injury which nearly reunited in death. Tin- acciilent happrnetl last Thurolay as Mr». Davis, Mrs. Claud»- llt-slin and Margery Mua- any, Mrs. Davis’s three year old neice, were returning from Troutdale in a buggy ill 0:110 In the evening, for some KMi K-itli» is entertaining Ilia aiater cause as vet unlearned, the horse and • mggy broke lissu- the railing on tlie at present. bridge nt the foot of the hill east of Fair Mr. and Mrs Cupps daughter and view ami all wen- violently thrown to are visiting here during the ’midchild tlie creek Isittom ten fwl Indow. .Mrs. blldays. Heelin was instantly killed. Mr». Davis Mr and Mrs. .lari of Kelso were in barely »-« ajH-d with her life ami Margery Mover Monday visiting relative« «lid was only slightly injured, Bert Inman, poking nlli-1 lbr-r -to.-k who resides In the Hun Deal Ranch Mr.ami Mrs. Keid and Clinton spent house nearby heard the child crying st week in Portland and Oregon City. an»! wrut out ami found Margery sitting A Miss Leah Morrison Imi rrturne.1 <m a rock at U h - c-lgv of tlie stream. Summoning help he recovered Mm. Da fr ui Portland. vis in an uiiconscioii« condition and «lie held Hat* was j A s | h -< ib I r«»ad meeting I with little Margery were Imrnod to tiieir rday and a ten mill tax was voted for 1 horn»- and Dr. H. P. Bitner was suiu- g)»-> irnprovtnenl of the roads j moneil Meanwhile E. G. McGaw, «e- Mr. ilerghouae, while work! ng in bi* j cretary of the Hun Deal Randi, who al- earing, was struck on the lies»I by a t so lives nearby, securing tbe aid of D, lling limb injuring him quite badly. ! <>. Dunbar went to tlie bri<lg>- with the Little Violet lieSbazer was quite sick j intention of securing tbe horar. winch was foilmI down in tiie water. OlsM-rv- |a»t week. | lug a hat which they supposed be longed > to Mm Davis Mr. McGaw attempted to : pi Ik it up aud found it piiimvl to the Mr. Huut, and daughter Ida, visited ; hea'I of a woman, whom they discover Ralph Neibauar ami family last week. ed was Mr». Ilealin. .-he was removed Mr. and Mrs J. Irkler and family I to lie- bank, her face was covered by Were guests at the Foulkes- Carlson Mr. Mctiaw witli his over coat, ami thus Wedding last Wednesday evening. ■lie wan found by her iiusliand who ar Mrs. G. Moulton and children »pent rived shortly after. Examination provral that the neck was not broken a» was Christmas with relative« in Portland tir-t su|»|»>«ed, but that Mm. Hesiin, bas l>een visiting his Mr. Hamlin being stunned by tlie fall, and unable u> daughter, Mrs. Ralph Neibauer, for raise her head from tie- waler, was several days. drowned. Funeral servier» were con- Mr Ed Hcott ami wife are visiting ducted in Finleys’ Chapel, Porti an-1, bis sister Mrs. E. E. Quay this week. ,.-imday morning, live chapel being Hchool will be closed here until alter i crowded with the many friends of tile New Years. : <iecnn»a-<l and her family. Mr* Heslin Mr. and Mrs. McClain of Gresham I was a »laughter of W. R Steele, a for- were the guests of Mr and Mr«. J. I mer county commissioner of this county, j She was married to Mr. Hesiin about Robertson last week. The X mas exercises at the school ' six yearn ago and the couple had lived bouse was well attended. The program an unusually happy and devoted life to Mrs. Keslin was 32 years, 11 Was certainly good and the pupils did gether tiieir part -veil. There was a tine tree months and 27 »lays old at the time of and many gifts as tokens of friendship, 'death, .she was leirn in Wilmington, Mr. and Mrs. Hesiin have and ear-li one present was remembered Delaware. with a large sack of camiy, nuts, and resided on the old Hesiin farm here the j»ast two years. Prior to that time they popcorn. lived in Troutdale fur several months, Mi«« Marian Robertson visited Miss both beiug employed a » clerks in the Iva Blackburn last Sunday. store of Harlow, Biaser ami Harlow. Ih-r husband, father and two brothers, remain to mourn the loss of a kind and BORING Miss Mary Bickford who has been at loving wife, daughter and sister. Inter tending high school in Portland is home ment wa.« made in Mt. 8c»»tt Park c-eme- this week spending the holidays with tary. r LUSItDS her parents Mr. and Mrs N. H. Bick ford. Rols-rt Smith and wife of Sandy loir rowly escaped serious injury last Satur day evening while driving to |Boring to attend the Xmas tree exercises. When about three and one half mile* from here their horse took fright while pass ing a pile of cord wood and shied off the plank road, breaking the front axle of their buggy and otln-rwim- damaging the rig. Cnhooking from the wreck they started on foot but were soon over taken by Garfield Duggar in another ng and driven to Boring. H. G. Knox and family of Portland arc visiting with J W. Roots ami fami ly thia week. The Xmas tree and program at the Methodist church hen- last Saturday evening was well attended, the church being tillcvl to its capacity. The church was ts-autifnlly decoratevi with ever greens and th» excellent program of 1H acts as follows: “Joy of the World" by the choir; Recitation, "The Guiding Light,” Myrtle Dodd; Recitation, "No room in the Inn,” Eva Tacheron ; Reci tation, "The Christinas Story," Fannie Meyer; Solo, "Silent Night," Marguer ite Tarheron ; Recitation, "The Christ mas Outcast," Meri Tacheron; Recita tion, "Tlie Master Cometh,” Ruby Dodd; Recitation, "What will you do without him ’” Wanl Wilinarth; Reci tation “Christmas,” Claude F. Cross; Recitation, Edwin Hiefer; Solo, Robert Wagner, Recitation, "The Road to Heaven," Esther Meyer; Recitation, "If I had lived in Bethlehem'.’" Ruth Anderson; Recitation, "My dolln-a Christmas,” Roberta Wagner; Closing song, "Tlie Wonderful Jesus,’’ by the choir. Then followed the diatributron of presents, candy and nuts, of wliich then- were plenty for all. Rev. (1. B. Calder, the local pastor, will conduct a "Watch Night" service at the M. E. Clmrch here next Sunday evening. The Epworth League will lie one hour later than usual or atSo’olock, preaching service at 7 p. m., a short re- <•«•«» at 10 followed by s|s-cial songs by the choir, testimony, prayer, and other exercises until the midnight hour, clos ing at 12: IS a. ni. Every one is invited to attend and enjoy the meetings. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Donley and fami ly, who have been visiting Mrs. Donley's mother, Mr». II M. Hliaw, left for their home in Spokane, Wash.. Tuesday. Mrs. <>. A. Masseyof Silverton, spent a few .lay* li ere visiting her sister-in-law, Mm. J. O. Davis, and her own daughter Margery Mas«ey, returning home on Tues« lay Miss Lillian Copeland was out from the city to spend Sunday with her par ent«. Alexander Robinson oi Wilbur, Wash., and Reginald Robinson, of Cor vallis, an- here ppenping the holidaya with their mother. Both young men are teai-bers. E«lgar Burlengaine ami family, and E. Williams ami family all of Vancouver Wash., were Xmaa gimats of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Green. Mrs. Nettie Bucklin of Vancouver, B. C. , who has been witli her aunt, Mrs. D. W. McKay, during the latter« illness, has gone to Portland where she will lie employed. Mr. anti Mrs. C. A. Stewart spent Christmas with Portland relatives. Rev. ami Mrs. James Burlengaine of Hood River, and tiieir «on Georg«- Bur- lengaine an<i family of Tlie Dalles, are visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Jones entertained on Xmas their sons, R. B. Jones and F. K. Jones with their families, and W. H. Manwell and wife of Boring, and F. W. Morter and wife of Seaside. Mr. and Mrs. C. Shepard entertained on Sunday their son, D. M. Shephard, wife and daught« r of Portland, and their daughter. Mrs. C. G. Fancher with her husband ami children. W. A. Townsend and wife of Monta- villa, spent Xmas with J. W. Townsend and family. R. L. Robertson and family were guests of relatives in Lents on Monday. Mrs. Kelman sn.I Mr. and Mrs. E. .loss and son are guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bent-cke. Miss Addie Burlengaine of Vancouver, Wash., is a guest al the home of her uncle Edwin Burlengaine. J. I’. Province *pent Xmas with Port land friends. The four little children of Mrs. 8« A franchise granting the O. W. P. Co. Frank, rural carrier on route 3, are quite ill with spott«*d tonsilitie. They the right to erect poles amt to furnish are under the care of Dr. P. H. Bittner power for lighting the town now swatsi tbe third reading in the city council and of Gresham. CITY GOVERNMENT BY COMMISSION that Fairview Will soon Is- lighted by electricity is now an assured fact The franchise nam«« $1 a month flat rate lor resilient lights, and the company agree to furnish 10-17 candle |siwer alrvet lights if the city will pay for tlie same : amount at the rat«- of $IA par month. C. F. Slater ami J. E. Herlam represent ed th«- company at a council meeting held last Satvrday night. fieri Juman and family and R. D. Bailey ami family wen- Xmas gue»ta of Mr. a<i«l Mrs. <’. J. Raker at Troutdale. Other guests of the Rakers were Mr. i and Mrs W. A. Williams ami children of Dayton lire., Miss Johnson of Gresh am, Mias llallis Vi-rstegg ami R. R. Bailey of Portland, Mrs. M. D. Bailey How It Rebuilt th« Town, Constructed and Ellsworth Raker. NEAR GRESHAM 20 ACRES IMPROVED $150 PER ACRE Originated In Galveston Eleven Years Ago. IES between two electric lines one mile from station of eith er line, excellent soil about 17 acres under cultivation, ring orchard, also young orchard of 100 trees, good spring Jjich water is piped through the hou-e and to bam, good hay bam 60 feet. Really worth $250 per acre. Macadamiz ed road t nd, good school. 200 sacks of potatoes, some furniture in hou H?fcUw>*h the place. Owner has left the state. L RESULT OF GREAT FLOOD. Blaine Turner is here «pending the week with his father, A. L. Turner. Blailie in a stuilent at the <>. A. C. Mis* Nancy Anderson had an Xmas giie-ls, .Minau-n Racliel ami E«iith Cook of Portland. Mias Ethel Glinen of Canby, is spend ing tlie holidays witli lu-r aunt, Mrs. F. D. Axtell. Min» Fram-is Robinson and All>ert Robinson of Portland njient Christmas witli tiieir Mother, Mrs. A. Robinson. the S«o Wall, Restored Credit and Scared Such a I ucmu That It la Now Spreading Throughout the Land. RE AT By JAMES A. EDGERTON Americans are long suffering uuder abuses, but when tbe limit is reached they go after tbe evil without gloves. Our municipal governments present a Eor generations we case in point, have stood their rottenness, luefficleu- cy. grafting and disgrace. Now they are becoming so trad we can put up The result is with them uo longer that we are eradicating the old «ys- lem root and branch and substituting tburefur the commission plan of gov CORDEL I ernment The old scheme had got Mr. If. Bates ami bride arriviii*. from past tbe mending point It bad be H< ms I Riwr Christmas night and expect come honeycombed with ward and to make their home in tlie vicinity of partisan (lolitlc«. To ourselves It was Springdale. ■ reproach, to other nations a standing Dr. and Mrs. Neaulmrer came out joke. It was a combination of Tam (rom Portland ami sjs-nt Sunday and many and Hinky Dink. Tbe expo sure« In St. Louis. Han Francisco. Xmas at tlie home of the letters brother, ' Pittsburg and elsewhere only scratch Mr. Ira Byers, for the holiday|vacation. ed tbe surface, it was time for a Mias Ethel Hinitli ciow-d her school at new deal, and tbe new deal has come. Diet. No. 3, Friday with a three act Can Now tbe cities of tbe entire land are tuta. A numls-r of visitors were pres falling over each other in their paste to try ou tbe commission system. ent. Wherever Inaugurated It has worked .'«in Irene Knapp ami |>upils rendered like a charm. Everybody 1« happy a fine school program Saturday evening over It except tbe professional politi at the s< jiool house. cians and the grafters. Tbe commission form of government Mr. and Mrs. Julien, formerly of this In America is only a trifle more than plate but now of Portland, H|s-ut Xmas ten years old. It started in 1MX) as a at their daughter’s home at Riswter result of tbe Galveston flood So stag Rock. gering was tbe catastrophe that tbe Miss Christy Burkholder of (Grealuun old form of government was unable and her brother Gills-rt of Portland, to meet the crisis Alderman McMas came Sat. for a short visit with their sis ter pro|>osed that tbe council resign th a body and call In business men and ter Mrs. Geo. Cusick. experts fo deal with tbe extraordinary The community was grieved and situation Thia was done. A commla- ahockeil to hear of the death of Jessie slonof fire was formed, two of them Ruw-ell at The Good Samaritan Hospital elected by tbe people and Wiree ap Tuesday night. Obituary will apjs-ar pointed by tbe governor. Afterward the supreme court decided that tbe next week. governor had no right to appoint, and all tbe commissioners were elected. Prior to tbe burricaue and tidal wave PLEASANT HOME. that so nearly swept her off tbe map A comra»ie of the Salvation Army, of Galveston bad tbe usual discouraging Portland, solicited vegetable« from tlie history of municipal misgovernment farmers in our vicinity for their Christ As a result sbe was in debt, ber bonds ina- donation to the needy. In regponae were below par and bcr treasury on the verge of bankruptcy. Under the they received 22 sacks of potatoes. 7 of commission system tbe city was re cabbag«- and -I of rutabaga». built tbe grade raised several feet, the Miss Quay, of Linnton, is a guest of streets repaved, a retaining sea wall constructed, tbe debt cut down, ex her brother Albert and his wife. Mrs. Douglas has rente«l her Samiy penditures kept witbin tbe revenues, city employees paid in casb. bonds house and is living here brought to a premium streets kept Mr. G. M. Marked and wife ami E. cleuner. sanitation improved. saloons Marked ami wife, of tlie city were tlie kept out of tbe residence districts, poli guests of W. E. for Xmas dinner. They tics banished front tbe city ball, public gambling abolished. civic spirit awak cam«- in on the new R. K. ened and a condition of harmony and The children of G. M. Marked are vis prosperity begun such as Galveston bad it »re over holidays with their uncle. never before known. In other words, E«i. Darnall, of Th«- Herald., and wife tbe new government did better in tbe were guests of Dale Nortbrupt on Sun fnce of the calamity than tbe old bad done in times of tranquillity. One most day. significant fact is that, despite the ex Mr. and Mrs. Gregory, of V ancouver, penditures required to rebuild, raise are visiting Stephens ami McKinnys. and protect tbe city, tbe tax rate was Xmas is over ami the children's curi- kept down lower than that of an; ousity has subside«!. large city in Texas To sbow i be contrast between tbe Mr. and Mrs. George Carpenter and old Galveetou government and the M iss 1 Ada Bramhall were among the new. public improvements bad stopped Portland visitors Saturday, under tbe former “ring rule" and Mrs. J. Stevens entertained a large public bulldlugs were deteriorating, company of visitors Tuesday, The fiuancea were going behind at an aver Fitzgeralds, Albueans, and McKennys. age of $100.000 every year, city em ployees. including even schoolteachers, were among the number. were paid In scrip, and tbe bosses, wbo Mrs. Murry is spending a few days at were growing rich, bad such a grip It Mr. T. li. Kennedy's. was Impossible to shake them loose. Mr Chas Hunter and family spent All that is now changed The float Xmas with Mrs. Cannon. ing debt haa been retired, a sinking Miss Arletha Cannon is «pending the fund started, public improvements are going forward, bills are paid in casb week in Portland. when due. and tbe political bosses Mr. Oscar Benjamin and Mr. Hobt. bare become unpleasant memories, Wixxi of Seattle visited B I. Northupa That these and other beneficent re- a few days this week. suite are due to tbe commission sys- tern of government Is proved by tbe fact that other cities adopting tbe commission plan have had a like ex perience The tax payers of road district no. 3fi Under vrbat came to be known aa tbe had a road meeting in Cottrell school Galveston plan each of ibe commit house on the 23rd Inst, and levied a five «loners took charge of some branch of mill tax for road improvement in said the city government. For this be was district. Seventy per cent for the Hood responsible to tbe commission as a View road afid the remainder on tlie whole and to tbe people So success ful was the system In the city of Its side road« in the district. origin that other municipalities In all William Booth war eleete.1 by a big parts of the land began to study It majority for road supervisor for the jwr with Interest 1912. To one who does not believe In uni 8am Barken is kept busy chopping versal panaceas and cnre-alls the grain with his mill in thia neighborhoixl. working out of the commission form of government Is little less than mar He does good work. velous It has agreeably surprised Paul Dunn and family, also Mr. and both its friends snd enemies, la It Mrs. C. H. Edwards visited friends in tbe long looked for solution of our municipal government problems? An Portland over Xmas. unqualified affirmative answer Is al Tom Boon sold five acres of land to most too good to be true, and It is Jess Spradlin. too early to go that far. yet the more T. B. Milan is hauling Wood with his one studies what has actually been accomplished nnder tbe new system two teams to Boring. My the more enthusiastic he grows Jess Hite has gone to Canada to finish own prediction is that an soon as the his time on his land. He will be gone bulk of American cities realise just what has been nchleved In the com about 10 months. mission towns there will be such s Paul Dunn had three acres of land scramble to make the experiment for cleared thia winter and he has let an themselves that It will rewn't In a vir other contract to have son j . r. ,u tual mniiirtps1 revolution cleared. COTTRELL â GENUINE SNAP FIRST STATE BANK I GRESHAM II. G. Harmon was hurt on Thursday while delivering a load of bay at Mrs. Darnell’s place in Lents. In driving into a barn door the passage proved too low and lie received a severe shock and narrowly escape-1 being crtuihed. Mrs. J. W. Lawrence entertained the •‘I Wsnt” class at her borne Thursday evening The evening was spent in music and games after which refresh ments were served. All report a tine time. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Quick, of Quincy/ «pent the holidays with Mrs. Quick*« parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey. Mr. ' Quick is taking a vacation which they are spending at Seaside. i Mrs. E. 8. Smith has gone to Granta Pass to join Mr. Smith who baa a posi tion on the Grants Pass Observer. Dr. Fred Thompson and wife of The Dalles, spent Xmas at tbe home of bis parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Erickson, of War Miss Bessie Howitt visited relative« ren, spent the holidays with E. C Lindsey’s. in Montavilla tbe first of the week. The Cantata entitled “The Great Mrs. Irwin and Mies Margaret Holli tbe M. E. T day visited at the homes of Mrs. Car Light” will be rendered be choir next Sun.iay evening .ig H the time man and Mrs. Colley Thursday. Admission will of tbe regular service. _______ The new bungalow of Emmet Kelly’« be free twit an offering will be taken to in Zenith addition is nearly completed. defray tbe extienses of the music. -Mr. Quick-all, principal of Orient school, was in town last week to ar range for an athletic field meet to be Plant an ad in these columns and watch your business grow. held bere in tbe spring. 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