No. 1. The Estacada News LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS. Hello. Estacada is having an electric light system put in. Estacada, Oregon, Friday, December 1, 1904. $1 satisfied with an occasional mosquito looked none the worse for that. A t Matt Rickman’s camp up the riverfront town there are thirty chop The park has been seeded with pers at work getting out cord wood. lawn grass and clover. Mrs. Annie Sehutte, of Lacenter, Quite a lot ofnew sidewalk was W ash., has taken a short lease of put down this week on Main street the Park hotel. She, and her two and Broadway. daughters, Bertha and Minnie, are W. F. McGilvray, of the Blake, managing the house. McFall Company of Portland, was The cut and grade on Main st. through here, Friday. that has l>een about impassable since H. F. Downing, who had charge of the electric light power plant here expects to go to Boring to work in the company’s mill at that place. the rains began has been fixed and is thought to be in good shape for traffic again. A . Havens did the work for the townsite company. Henry Landwehr, who has rented his hotel in town, will perhaps go out to his valuable claim near Clear creek, and spend a part of the win ter. A mammoth fir ended its career in the park last Sunday. Its top branches fell across the railway and tore the electric wire from fifteen of the poles. Cars, however, ran reg ularly. Chas. Ferry now owns a fine male specimen of the Mongolian pheasant birds. It is one he got of a farmer who lives near Highland and whose dog caught the bird when it was a young thing. It is not yet a year old, and will be a very beautiful bird when full grown. > Some changes of improvement in the surroundings of the Hotel Esta cada are to be made by the O. W . P. Co. A canopy structure is to be built over the walks so that guests mnv arrive from the cars and leave without being exposed to the winter raic.s or summer sunshine. Several other changes and im provements are to be made about the hotel. Mrs. Dr. Charlton of Portland, and her frietW, Mrs. Dr. Holmes of Chicago, came out from the city, Friday morning and were taken out to Dr. Charlton’s country home five miles east of Estacada where they will enjoy a two weeks' rest. They are old acqvaintences and friends of Linn Bros. Mr. John Tracy who has been Portland a short time receiving trea j ment from a medical specialist h ‘ , returned home practically a cur d man. Previous to going to Po t -1 land Mr. Tracy was considered ii a very dangerous, condition, but Dr. Smith, in whose care he was, .d- vised special treatment. After i he troublesome gull stones had be 4 removed the patient rapidly reL»v- ered. Mr. Tracy is one our most prominent citizens, and has a beau tiful country home and farm near Estacada. The winter term of the Estacada school Iregan three weeks ago and is progressing nicely .under the man agement of Miss June Oakley who is recently out from Wisconsin. A t present there are 38 pupils enrolled and the classes range from the be- giners to the Hth grade. School will continue for a term of six months. A number of pupils in the district have not yet enrolled. It is quite probable that the present school ac comodations will lie too small a year from now, and that an addition to the present school will have to be made. TOILET ARTICLES ' All kinds of stationery. Blank books Latest tablet and box writing papers. and Legal blank forms Cigars and Tobacco, p > vnt ?.& 0ILS J. B. HAVILAND, Prop. A Parlor Lamp FREE Try a pound of our 25c tea, vith every purchace you have a chance to draw for a beautiful parlor lamp We keep a nice stock of STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES F. H O W E For several days of last week a large, ripe, lucious looking straw berry, was on show parade in Reed i ' c Cooper's store window. It was E s ta c a d a , O regon grown on V. Lingelbach’s farm and .Mr. Lingelbach has quite a patch of the berries ripening. This is nothing strange for Oregon. A ny person, by a little cultivation of the plant, W. E. Wills, east of town, has Proprietor can have strawberries and cream in let a contract for 1000 cords of four midwinter. ' foot wood to be cut, and intends let Thanksgiving morning Govern ting another contract for 4000 cords. ment Forest Ranger, Weruie Ward It will take considerable labor to get and J. W. Reed started on a forty this amount of wood out, but its one AND D E L I V E R Y L I N E mile trip up the Clackamas to look of Oregon’s principle products atid •t* over some prospects they have up can be harvested any time of the All work carefully and promptly attended to there, and some they had in view. year. It is said that there is enough They were well pleased with what timber in Oregon to feed the mills tV - found, and report some quite and furnaces of the world one hun William K. Haviland, Doctor C. B. Smith, PHYSICIAN and SI »Of ON PHYSICIAN and SUHGfON. promising quartz claims. They dred years, at the end of that time Office in Howe’s store. - f atacada returned Tuesday evening. Their tlere would be a secondgrowth large Office at the drug »tore. Office hour« at f atacada, 9 a. at. to 4 0 . at. trip would have been made without enough to do the same thing over Sjght ra il« answered. Office hours a t I agle Croeh, night a & morning*. excitement had their provisions held again. Mr. Wills is also getting out Night bell at Second St. entrance ...All calls promptly answered... out, but as it was they had to V a large number of ties and pilings. \ C. W . A. JONES, , EXPRESS