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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1915)
A Municipal Report Baking Powder Week W e have a large supply of high-grade Baking Powder Prize Medal Brand which we offer SP E C IA L for this week at 45c per can A valuable prize of crockery or glass ware goes with E V E R Y can, many of them worth nearly the price asked for the Baking Powder. Every Can Guaranteed “ The Quality Grocers” W atertwy & Chapm.in Estacada, - Oregon Wall Paper Clean lip Sale 28 rolls Muray ceiling paper roll 9 45 M 71 Oiled kitchen ceiling ” ’ * Kitchen papers 63 ff ft 20c 50c 12c to 20c Flowered papers 20c to 30c Fancy bed room papers 15c to 20c New Matting Rugs Just Received Ask to be shown our furniture bargains. Estacada Furniture Co. Green Trading Stamps $2. a day. Undertaken $10. a week The Hotel Estacada Modern Conveniences On« ol the most delightful Resorts on the Coast Local and Tourist Trade Solicited Quality is Remembered W e are in business to sell Good Goods at Lowest Prices. The mail order houses neither buy your pro duce, help pay your taxes or sup port your schools. Trade At Home. Estacada Pharmacy Azalea Adair up«» u*«l m tiny, worn to escape another, but fie was one or I purse uiid drew out a dn.lur bill, a del- those despicable, routing, advertising lia r hill with the upper right li.md tor bibbers who must have brass bands ucr missing, torn in two pie« es and and fireworks attend upon every cent pasted together again with a strip of that they waste in their follies. blue tissue paper. It was one of the With an air of producing millions lie hills 1 had given the pirath-al negro— drew two one-dollar bills from a pock there was uo doubt of it. et and dashed one of them upon the "Go up to Mr. Baker's store on the bar. 1 look«*d on«*e umre at the dollar eorner. Imp.v." she said, handing the bill with the upper right hand «muer girl the dollar hill, "and get a quarter missing, torn through the middle, and of a pound of te a -th e kind he always patched with a strip «»f blue tissue pa send« me—mid 10 rents’ worth of sugar per. It was my dollar bill again. It rakes. Now. hurry. The supply of tea could have be«*n no other. in the house happens to he exhausted," I went up to my room. The drizzle she explained to me and the monotony of a dreary, event linpy left by the hack way Before less southern town had made me tired the scrape of her hard, hare feet had and listless. King Cetewayo was at his po«d the died away on the hark porch a wild shriek-1 was sure it was hers—tilled next day and rattled my bones over the hollow house. Then the deep, gruff tile sttmes out to 8dl. lie was to wait tones of an angry man's voire mingled and rattle me hack again when I was with the girl’s further squeals and un ready intelligible words. Azalea Adair looked paler an«i «‘lean Azalea Adair rose without surprise I ! er ami frailer than she had looked on or emotion and disappeared. For two ; i the day lief ore. After sin» had signed minutes I heard the hoarse rumble of the <M>ntrn«-f at S cents per word she the man’s voire, then something like an grow sj!II pal«»r and began t«* slip oath and a slight Seattle, and she re out «*f her chair. Without much tron- turned calmly to her chair. 1 e I managed t<» g«*t lu»r up on the "This Is a roomy house." she said, antediluvian horsehair sofa and then l "and I have a tenant for part of It. I ran out to the sidewalk and yelled t«> am sorry to have to rescind my Invita the «*offee c«ilore<l pirate to bring a tion to tea. It was impossible to get doctor. With a wisdom that I had the kind I always use at the store. not suspect«*«! in him he abandoned his Perhaps tomorrow Mr. Baker will be team nial struck off up the street afoot, realizing the value of sp«»ed. In ten | able to supply me.” I was sure that Imp.v had not bad minutes tie rettirne«1 with a grave, time to leave the house. I inquired con- ! gray liitir«*«I and capable man of uiedl reining street car lines and took my dne in a few wonfs iworth much l«*ss leave. After I was well on my way 1 than «*eiits each« l explained f«» him remembered that I had not learned my pn*seii«-e in the hollow house of Azalea Adair’s uame. But tomorrow mystery» If«» bowed with stately un derstanding and turned t«» the old ne would do. That same «lay 1 started In on the gr«> "rinde Caesar." he said calmly, "run course of iuiquity that tills uneventful city forced upon me. I was in the uj' fo my house and ask Miss Lucy to town only two days, but in that time give you a cream pitcher full or rrosn 1 managed to lie shamelessly by tele- | milk aud half a tumbler of port wine. graph und to be an accomplice-- after And hurry hack. I*>tft drive—run. 1 the fact, if that is the correct legal , want you to get back some time this term—to a murder. week." As 1 rounded the corner nearest my \ Tlie doctor look«*d me «»ver with hotel the Afrlte coachman of the pol.v- j great p«»lit«*ness and as much careful chromatic, uoupariel coat seized me. | calculation until lie had decided that swung open the dung«*ouy door of Ids ! I might do. peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his " it is only a « ase of insufficient nu feather «luster and began Ids ritual: trition." he said—"in other words, the •'Step right in. boss Carriage Is clean I result of poverty, pride and starvation. —Jus* got hack from a fuuerai. Fifty j Mrs. Caswell has many devoted friends cents to any’’ — who would be glad to aid her. but she And then he knew uie mid grinned will nccept nothing except from that broadly. " ’Sense me. boss; you is de old negro, Uu«de Caesar, who was once gen Turn n what rl«l out with me tils owned by her family." inawnin'. Thank you kindly, suli." "Mrs. Caswell!" said I In surprise. "I am going out to 861 again tomor And then I looked at the contract and row uftcruoou at 3.’' said i. "and if saw that she liad signed it "Azalea you will he here I ’ll let you drive me Adair Caswell." So you kppw Miss Adair?" I couclu«i "I thought she was Miss Adair." I ed. thinking of my dollar hill. said. "I belonged to her father. Judge "Married to a drunken, worthless Adair, suh." he replied. loafer, sir." said the doctor. " It is said "I Judge that she is pretty p«»or" l j that he robs her even of the small suhl. "She hasn’t much money t«» sums that her old servant contributes speak of. Inis she?' toward her support." For an instant I looked again at the ! When the milk and wine had been tierce coimlemiiice of King Cetewayo. , brought the doctor soon revi veil Azalea and then he changed back to au ex ! Adair. She sat up and talked of the tortionate old negro hack driver. beauty of the autumn leaves that were "She ain’t gvvim* to starve, suh," lie ' then In season and their height of col- said slowly. "She has reso’ces. suh: or. She referred lijihtly to her fainting she has resoVes.’ seizure as the outcome of an old palpi "I shall pay you 50 cents for the tation of the heart. Impy fanned her trip." said I as she lay on the sofa. The doctor "Dat is puffeckly correct, suh." he was due elsewhere, and 1 followed answered humbly. "1 jus* bad to have him to the door. 1 told him that it dat $2 dis mawilin'. I» oms .’’ was within my power and inteuti«»u* to make a reasonable advance of 1 went to the hotel and lie«l by elec tricity. I wired the magazine: "A. money to Azalea Adair on future con tributions to the magaziue. aud Ue Adair bolds out for 8 < ents a word." The answer that came I wick was. seemed pleased. "Give it to her quick, you duffer." ' "By the way." he said, "perhaps you Just before dinner Major Wentworth would like to know that you have had Caswell bore down upon me with the royalty for a coachman. Old Caesar’s greetings of a long lost friend. 1 have grandfather was u king in Kongo. seen few men whom I have so instan Cuesar himself has royal ways, as you taneously hated and of whom it was so may have observed." As the doctor was moving off i heard difficult to l>e rid. I was standing at the bar when he Invaded me. There Uncle Caesar's voice inside, "Did lie fore I could not wave the white rib git bofe of dem $2 from you. Mis' Za bon in Ills face. I would have paid j lea Y* gladly for the drinks, hoping thereby » "Yes. Caesar." I heard Azalea Adair answer weakiy. And then I went ¡11 and concluded business negotiations with our contributor. 1 assumed tne responsibility of advancing $50. put ting it as a ms'ettsary formality m binding our bargain. And then duele Caesar drove it«* back to the hotel. Here ends all of the story as far as 1 can testify as a witness. The rest must be only Imre statements of fa«ts. At about I» o'clock 1 went out tor a stroll. Cuele Caesar was at his ••«»?•- uer. He threw open the door of his carriage, nourished his duster and be gan his depressing formula: "Step right in. suh. F ifty cents to anywhere in the city. Hack’s puttickly clean, sun. •Ins' got back from a funeral’’ - And then he recognized me. I think his eyesight was getting bad. Ilia coat hail taken on a few more faded similes of «-olor, the twine strings were more frayed and ragged, the last remaining button- the button of yellow horn - was gone. A motley descendant ot kings was Uncle Cuesar! About two hours later 1 saw an ex- cited crowd besieging the front of a drug store In a desert where uothiug happens this was manna, so I edged my way inside. On an extemporized «•ouch of empty I Mixes and chairs was stretched the mortal corporeality of Major Wentworth Caswell. A do« tor was testing him for the immortal in gredient. His «lecisiou was that It was conspicuous by its absence. The erstwhile major had b«»eu found «lead ou a dark street and brought ny curious und eimulet! citizens to tin» drugstore. The late human being had been engaged iu terrific battle—the de- tails showeil that. Loafer ami repro bate though lie Imd been, he had been also a warrior. But he bad lost. His hands were yet clinched so tightly time bis Huge re would ifl»t be opened. The gentle citizens who had known him sto< h 1 about anil snirchnl their vocab ularies t«> rind some good words. If It were possible, to speak of him One kind looking man said after much thought. "When Cas was about fo’teen lie was one of the best s e lle rs in s«*hool." While I stood there the ringers of the right hand of "the man that was." which hung down the side of a white pine box, relaxed and dropped some thing at my feet. I covered it with one foot quietly and a little later ou I picked it up and pocketed It. I rea soned that in his last struggle his hand must have seize«! that object un wittingly and held it iu a death grip. At tin* hotel that night the main top ic of con versa thut. with the possible exceptions of politus and prohibition, was the demise of Major Caswell, i heard one man say to a group of lis teners: "In my opinion, gentlemen. Caswell was munlured by aome of these uo ac count niggers for his money. He had $50 this afternoon, which he show«*«l to several gentlemen In the hotel When he was found flu* in«»n«»y was not on Ills person " I left the <*ity tin* next morning at !». and as the train was crossing the bridge over the Cumberland river l took «Hit of my p«»cket a yellow horn overcoat button the size of a fifty cent piece, with frayed cniis of cor. r-^e twine bang ng from It. and cast it .n't of the win;» >w Into the slow, muddy waters h e lo 1 wonder what’s doing in Buffalo! T h e end. Sheep to Test Various Feeds. rhree fin ml red iambs, averaging fifty five fain,ids each and costing $6.80 per inn. or a I «out $4 each, will t>e used by the animal husbandry department of the Kansas Agricultural college this winter In an attempt to answer these quest urns: What Is the comparative fe«llng mine ot alfalfa and cowpea hay? What Is the difference between corn mil Kaffir for fattening purpose«? l!«»w «loes silage compare with dry reed ? wn.if Is the difference In feeding vaL .e o« tween ground on I whole feed?
