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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1915)
O ^ g o tr Sac. ESTACADA PROGRESS Devoted to the Interests of Eastern Clackamas County V olume 8, N umber 48 ANNUAL PICNIC A HUMMER Sports, Speeches And Dancing Fill Program The annual picnic of the Gar field Country (Hub was held last Saturday, on the club grounds. While not as many people were present as last year, a big crowd assembled, numbering about 200, including the local people, friends from Estacada and other sections. Owing to the threshing not being finished, many farmers were not able to be present, who otherwise would have joined in the frolic. An impromptu base ball game was held on the club’s grounds between teams chosen on the spot. The game only lasted three innings and the Gutter Snipes beat the Street Arabs 5 to 3 and quit while in the lead. The crowd made its usual good showing when it came time to tackle the the picnic lunches and more than one poor chicken had not died in vain. Several tramps, including an editor and a feed store man managed to get a lib eral handout. The program was in charge of President Guy T. Hunt of the club, and while partly impromptu, was excellent, consisting of talks and speeches, interspersed with plenty of good music by the Gar field band. The principle speaker of the day was Mr. C. J. McIntosh, pub licity manager of the Extension Staff of the Oregon Agricultural College and editor of the college bulletins. Mr. McIntosh gave a good talk about the work of the O. A. C. and explained the prac tical methods ol obtaining the in formation which that institution bands out. He also called upon the people, as readers of the bul letins, which are now used as a supplement to the Estacada Prog ress, to give him new ideas for use in that bulletin, suggestions as to subjects which the readers wished to have dealt with. Mr. McIntosh was followed by Rev. Rees, who gave a good talk on general subjects relating to a better Christian growth in the community, along with the phys ical and mental development. Ed Shearer of Garfield gave a humorous talk, which included a black face rendition of “ Moze counting eggs” and was followed by the popular impromptu (?) speaker, W. Givens. Walt told some good stories and generally advertised a feed, flour and gro cery business nearby. E. W. Bartlett, in responding to a call for a speech, began “ Ladies a n d Gentlemen a n d Friends” , but as the audience was composed entirely of the two former classes, his friends over looked it. Ed gave a good talk in keeping with the occasion. In concluding the program. President Hunt introduced S. Pesznecker, sales manager of the Garfield Producers’ Assn., who outlined the work of that hus tling organization. E stacada , O regon , T hursday , A ugust 19, 1915 FORMER ESTACADA BOY KILLED POPULAR GIRL DROWNED H u rt By Dive Dies in H ospital Word was received here Wed nesday morning of the death of Earl H. Shultz at the Good Sa maritan Hospital in Portland. Shul.z who was a clerk in the Portland Postoffice, Tuesday af ternoon attempted a dive from the springboard at Windermu h Baths, his foot slipped and he struck his head with such force on the frame work of the spring board, that his legs and arms were paralyzed. He was taken to the hospital, where an examination showed a dislocation of the bones of the neck and a badly bruised head. Word of his death was »-tceived here by phone message to L. Y. Congdon. Earl was well known in Esta cada, having lived here about three years ago, and for a time worked at Howe’s store. He was best known as a baseball player, having played centerfield for Es.acada for several 'years past and took part in a game here less than sixty days ago. No announcement of the fu neral has been made as yet, but it will probably be held in Port land and many of the local boys will attend. Companion Rescued And Revived E agle C reek R n id e n t Dies Perry A. Trullinger of Eagle Creek died last Friday, August 13th at a Portland hospital, fol lowing an ope. ation for abdomin al trouble. Mr. Trullinger was 60 years old, and had resided on a farm near Eagle Creek for the past four or bve years, coming there from Portland. The deceased is survived bv his widow and two sons. The funeral services were held at the Portland Crematorium Monday afternoon. Carry A Pennant Dr. Adix of Estacada is urging all autoists to carry an Estacada pennant on the wind-shield of their cats, to show the passing public, where they hail from. This is a good idea and is a first class advertisement for Estacada. Autoists traveling along the roads will notice many pennanted mach ines, hailing from all cities of the Northwest and they indicate the proper spirit and home pride. F o rm er P resid en t H onored At the Estacada Hotel last Tuesday, a dinner was given in honor of Mr. B. S. Josselyn of New York, former president of the P. R. L .& P. Co. About twenty guests were assembled, including U. S. Senator W. J. Stone of Missouri, Pres. J. A. Edison of the Kansas City South ern Ry. and others. Following the program, races, dancing and a general good time was entered into by young and old, which ended with the dance in the evening. One of the saddest accidents that has ever happened in this community, was the drowning, Friday afternoon, August 13th of Miss Ruth Githens, youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Githens of Currinsville. Ruth, with her friends, Nina Taylor of Currinsville and Gladys Carpenter of Estacada, after din- i ner at tne Githen’s home, went to Eagle Creek to swim, going into the water a hundred feet or so above the dam recently built to conserve the supply for the trout feeding ponds. The three girls waded down stream in water about breast deep, and when nearing the pool above the dam, Nina Taylor step ped off i.ito a deep hole and im mediately began struggling and calling for help. Ruih, w h o was near, attempted to reach her and got into the same deep water. Gladys Carpenter, real izing that she could do nothing, not being able to swim, at once ran onto the bank and threw a cut sapling into the pool, towards the Struggling girls, then pro- ceeded to give the alarm, calling for help as she ran down stream. Many campers heard the cries of the the girls, but supposed it was merely the customary scream ing of the average young folks when in bathing. Perry Kitz- miller, superintendent of the trout feeding ponds, and his as sistant, Mac Reed, were the first to respond to the call and run ning back to the pool, discovered Nina Taylor unconscious and com pletely submerged in water, cling ing to the floating sapling. Mel Shankland of Currinsville, who had been working nearby, joined the rescuers, who after five min utes application of restorative measures, succeeded in bringing Nina to consciousness and she immediately asked for Ruth. In the meantime, Gladys had continued running and reached a phone, where a message was sent for a doctor, as she realized that she could be of little service in other than obtaining help. The three rescuers turned their attention to a search for Ruth and only after a fifteen or twenty minute search, was the body dis covered by Kitzmiller, who, be- Concluded on page 4 $1. P er Y ear NEITHER BOARD NOR COURT WILL ACT Revised Law Not Being Considered Some of the county seat stand patters feel that the Progress is making a mountain out of a mole hill and raising a lot of unnecess ary fuss, over the matter of the $2 )0. promised to the East < llack- amas County Fair. Woile the actual sum involved is not large, the principle con cerned is of importance, as it is in keeping with the more or less disregard that is paid to the wishes of the tax-payers in the eastern part of the county, by the “powers that be.” To date, neither the county court nor the county fair board will take the initiative and ap portion the 5400. Chairman Dim- ick of the board, is quoted in the Oregon City papers as saying that Estacada “still has a chance to get some of the money. ” Why should there be any element of chance, when the money was promised to the visiting commit tee? The main excuse offered by Chairman Dimick was that he did not wish to get the people of Molalla ar.d Wilsonville on the war-path, by giving support to Estaeada’s fair. T h e county court last week admitted that no formal application or request had I reached them for any financial help from either of these dis tricts. So that excuse is a poor one. Molalla holds an annual grange fair, but it is not a big fair as compared with the Clack amas County or East Clackamas County Fairs. Guy T. Hunt of Garfield, a mem ber of the fair board is doing his best to have that body take some action one way or the other. He is also trying to find out their status, for to date the board seems to be merely an intermed iary committee, governed by one man, which handicaps such little system as there might be. Hunt says he will resign from the board if he finds he is help less and that the board can take no legal action. Commissioner Mattoon says that he offered to apportion the $400. but the other two members of the court would n ’t let him act. It might be wise for Mattoon to take a firm stand and either have something to say about matters pertaining to his home district, or resign. When one attempts to obtain a legal opinion as to the status of the board and its powers, an ava lanche of misleading laws are quoted, and little enlightment follows. But there is one sure thing and that is if the fair board and county court pride them selves on adhering to the law in regards to their actions, it is time to call their attention to Chapter 70 of the 1915 General Laws of Oregon, amending the 1913 laws, which, among other matters, states that the County Court shall appoint a board consisting Concluded on page 2