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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1915)
t No one seems very much inter Will light your dining or living ested in the coming Estacada city room better than half a dozen ; election, at least not sufficient to talk politics in public. There of the ordinary bulbs. may be some dark horses plan Full Stock On Hand ning to run, but to date no can- How’s Your Plumbing? I didates seem to be in sight, for Have You Any Leaky Pans? mayor or councilmen. One Mazda Lamp M trial Repairing Plumbing Saw Filing The Portland Railway Light & C. C. MILLER | Power Co., will sell $1,250,000 of preferred stock to make some Estacada, • Oregon. ____________________________ necessary improvements. It will be another case of Ore- Estacada Progress If a man had the time and the gon and especially this part of (I ncorporated ) inclination, he could probably get the state, profiting by the work- together a collection of facts re- ings of a “grabbing” corporation, Published every Thursday at garding the waste of money in Estacada, Oregon county management, that would ; ^he county health officer re K. M. Standish, E ditor and M anager prove a startler. This county is . cently closed the schools in one probably no different than any district, owing to a mild epidemic E ntered a t the postoffice in E stacada, other, but Clackamas is not prac- ° / sma" P°x- There seems to be Oregon, as second-class mail. tising business efficiency and health regulation as regards S ubscription R ates these mild diseases in schools in economy. $ 1.00 One y ear The office of countv coroner this community and at present .50 must be an expensive one, owing nearly all sections report an epi Six m onths to the length of time consumed demic of whooping cough, which Thursday, May 6, 1915 in the handling of the average was proceeded by a skin disease called impetigo. If the parents inquest. Clackamas county has about ^ takes two officers and a jury of the pupils dont kick, maybe decided not to appeal the Lev- handle an inquest, the coroner the Progress should not either. ings case, which recently result- apparently takes a back seat, There were only about a dozen ed in the county having to pay | wh'*e the clerk handles the de- new automobiles purchased in $2,000. to the detective for ser- tails, largely amounting to the Estacada and vicinity during vices rendered, on a contract labored process of writing out the April. This does’nt look much signed by two of the three mem- testimony. In a couple of recent like hard times. tiers of the county court. ! cases> fully 90 ’<> of the time con- By June 1st, our neighbors will Detective Levings states that sllmed; was taken by having to he has evidence, which if corro- j w rite in long hand this testimony, hardly recognize Estacada, with borated, would amount to a con- ^ *he coroner was, or hired a its new stores, cement sidewalks fession in the Hill murder case. ! stenographer, it would mean a and rocked roads. It is to be hoped that the county big saving of time and money. Why could not eastern Clacka- Canby is boasting of 31 new will get something for its money. In the past two weeks, not less mas have a deputy coroner, who houses built last winter and five than a dozen crimes, ranging could handle inquests in this sec- more under construction, but re- from boot-legging to assault and tion, and consequently effect fur port does not state what propor tion were hen houses. robbery, have been chronicled in i ther economy? the county seat papers. Each While Estacada has this new I Nearly every rural paper in case shows the officers of the law road grader, it would greatly add as being hot on the trail, or nar Oregon is today printing columns to the city’s beauty, if the sides on the question of Union High rates the details of the expensive Schools being formed in their of all of the streets could be run trials. It is a safe bet that not 10'« of respective localities. Many cities over and smoothed. ^ the crime in this county ema have already formed the Union Oregon City’s council finally j nates from the eastern part, but High Schools and others are adopted bitulithic paving for its , it is an equally safe bet that this working for it. Is anything be main street. Is Estacada going part of the county helps pay a ing done about the formation of to continue its present combina mighty big proportion of the ex the Estacada Union High School? tion of planks and manure for its ' pense incident to the investiga-: The new town site of Powers, Broadway paving? tion and punishing of county Coos County, has included 30 April 26th, was the form al! crime. acres for industrial locations. Es transfer date of the Oregon C ity A rural county or the rural part of a county never has to tacada has about ten acres, which locks and canal to the U. S. Gov- j spend much money for law en- they will trade for one industry, ernment. The P. R. L. & P. Co., i forcement for itself, but where a rural county maintains a manu It is to be hoped that the prom received a check for $375,000. in i payment of same, wljich is mote facturing city for its county seat and adjacent to a metropolis, it j ised Estacada "hitching-racks” monev than an editor makes in a can expect to have to pay dearly will materialize soon, or just as year. for the luxury. soon as the road work is done. , Card of Thanks May Bargains Cascade Roofing Paper $1.25 per 100 sq. ft. Cross Panel Doors 1.25 each Assortment of Windows Bargain Prices New Shipment of Feed Just Received This Week. Estacada Lumber & Produce Co. We wish to extend our most sin- j cere thanks to our many friends and neighbors for their kindness and assistance during our late j bereavement, in the loss of our beloved husband and father. Mrs. E. J. Shankland Melvin Shankland Mrs. Jennie Shankland O’Neel I Albert Shankland Your check is your receipt There is no chance for a dispute over having paid a bill, if you Pay by Check There is no need of your carrying a large amount of cash in your pocket, if you Pay by Check It gives a business tone to your financial transactions, if you Pay by Check The majority of the people of Estacada and surrounding country are now Paying by Check on the Estacada State Bank I F ROY D. W A lK fR . FHOMAS YOCUM. President Vire President IRWIN D. WRIGHT, Cashier Interest paid on time deposits. Klaetsch Mills First class lumber of all kinds. Dimension material a specialty. Prompt deliveries made from big stock on hand. Phone or call at mill, at Dodge. 0. C. Klaetsch, Owner. I Pay highest Cash on Delivery Prices For Hogs - Sheep - Cattle I shall aim to ship a carload of livestock from the Estacada Stock Yards at least every other Monday noon. Stock must be delivered at yards by 11 A. M. on shipping date. I shall spend certain days in each month buying stock throughout East ern Clackamas County, and if you have any to sell, phone to R. M. Stan- dish at Estacada and he will quote prices and give date of next shipment. C. E. LUCRE Livestock Buyer. #