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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1915)
ESTACADA Devoted to the Interests of Eastern Clackamas County V olume 9, N umjer 2 CANNERY m VISITS ESTACADA Considering Location here J. H. Newton of Hood River, accompanied by G. A. Cobb of Pori land, was an Estacada visitor last Saturday afternoon. Mr. Newton is a practical can nery rjjan, having been half own er, until this fall, of a big can nery at Hood River and is now looking for a suitable location to erect a other plant. Mr. Newton has promised to visit Estacada attain within a few weeks, when he will thoroughly investigate local conditions rela tive to acreage of desired fruit, vegetables, etc. He especially favors the planting of strawber ries of a certain variety and if he decides to locate here, will be in a position to guarantee, previous to the planting, a price to be paid at the cannery so the growers may know in advance what to ex pect. Mr. Newton is not a cannery promotor and prefers to own his own plant rather than to go in on any cooperative deal. This community will welcome Mr. Newton and if he means business, will find the growers here ready to help in everyway. Court Meeting Well Attended E stacada , O regon , T hursday , S eptember 80. 1915 ESTACADA WOMAN DIES SUDDENLY All Day Picnic Meeting October 8th. There will be an ail day com bination picnic and meeting of the farmers at the Garfield Coun try Ciub, Friday October8th lo discuss and consider several im portant farming subjects. Several goou speakers will be present, inc.lining such men as Prof. Boquet, nead ol tlie garden ing depAitnicnt of Oregon Ag ricultural College, who will ex plain the raising and marketing ol uioccoii, a kinu ot cabbage resemotiug a cauliflower and winch is particularly adapted to local c,.iiuie. Negotiations are under way to have u r . McX’nerson, heau of the farm marketing uepanment of the same institution, as a speak er. 1» is aiso hoped that one of the olhc.al.s ot the Portland Un ion Stock i ards will he present, to speak and answer questions relating to cooperative snipping of hogs and cattle. This later subject is of vital interest to the raisers of livestock in this sec tion at this tune and every farm er siioulu prolii by hearing this subject presented oy a practical stockyards mail. The meeting will he given over to a general discussion and ex change ot ideas on all subjects kindred to l lie farm and all siiould make it a point to attend. No iunen wiil be served by the club hut all visitors are requested to | bring a picnic lunch. About 400 taxpayers o f the Special Attention county attended the September Just before going to press, we meeting of the County Court at are advised that the contemplat Oregon City last Saturday, at ed exhibit at the Manufacturers which meeting the matter o f re & Land Products Show, to have duction of the number of road been siaged by the P. R. L. & P. d stricts was to be considered. Co., of the resources adjacent to A g.xxlly representation from their lines, has been given up. this part of the county were Owing to unforseen obstacles, present, including delegations the company has decided not to from George, Cur-insville, Eagle make the exhibit and all parties Creek and Garfield. contemplating exhibiting are If the court had previously hereby notified. The company seriously considered lessening the w ishes to thank all for their in number of districts, they ad tended cooperation and assures journed without having taken them it is with regret that the any definite action and it is not display has had to be abandoned. likely that any radical changes will be made in the districts this year, except the changing of a ner, would pay for the cost of few minor boundaries. planking and the George resi One of the main objections to dents will volunteer their ser the formation o f large road dis vices in doing the work. tricts is the losing o f the neigh The court, while too busy to borhood feeling with its readiness give a definite answer to this to vote special tax. proposition, seemed favorably The delegates'from George, disposed to granting it. Gravel headed by Supervisor Fred Lins, would cost too much at this time presented to the court a lequest and plank would last for several for $300. cash, which added to years or until the districts were the $540. appropriated in district I financially able to handle it. No. 10 for the improvement of ; This stretch of road must he fixed the George Bridge Road from its this fall or it will he impassable terminus through to Botkin’s cor- alter the rains set in. $1. P er Y ear Heart Trouble Fatal to Mrs. Bourbonia The many friends, neigh! ors and relatives of Mrs. Jack Bour- I bonia of E.v.acada, were gready | sh ickoti Monday evening to learn o f her sudden death that after noon at her home i i Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Bourbonia were . in Estacada last Sunday, letu n- ing to their home in Portl ud that afternoon. At that lime Mis. Bourbonia bad complained slightly of illness hut neither she nor her husband had considered it as serious. Monday noon Mrs. Bout bonia suffered another similar attack, which alarmed two o f her nearby friends; but within a short time feeling better, she promised to dress and join the ladies later in the afternoon in the shopping district. A t about 4:80 that afternoon, her friends returned and on visiting her room, found her dead in bed, in a position to imply that she hau lain down for a short rest while dressing. A physician who war at once sum moned, pronounced her death as having occurred an hour or so previously. While Mrs. Bourbonia had not been a lobust woman, she had not suffered from any dangerous heart trouble, although she was subject to violent headaches, which she continually treated with headache tablets and may have sulfeied from an overdose on Monday, or as the result of continued use of the medicine. Mrs. Bourbonia w a s Miss Mattie Bronson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bionson of Es tacada and was aoout thirty- seven years old. She had lived in Estacada most of the time for the past nine or ten years where she had many close friends among the younger folks, having always taken an active part in the social and religious activities. The funeral services occurred at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon at one of the Portland undertaking rooms, with Mr. Walter Givens ‘ o f Estacada officiating. The body was taken from there to her former home at Missoula, Mont, for burial. The deceased is survived by her husband, J. B. Bourlmnia, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas Bronson, and her brothers, Neal and Lee Bronson of Estacada. I 0-C Land Grants Mill Unsettled The delegates lo the conference held in Salem last week, to coi,- side ways and means of settling the present tied up Oregon-Cali- fornia land grants, seem to agree on one thing and that was to place the land in the han^s of the actual settlers for $2.50 per acre and not to put any of it in forest reserves. Those two requests or suggest ions to Congress represent the work accomplished by this con ference, called by Governor With- ycombe. Nearly every delegate had some plan to offer and fric tion occured between the rail road’s representatives ar.d those delegates representing the people of the counties, wherein the land lies. Clackamas county was well rep resented with such able talent as Schuebel, Lhmick, Spence, and others, 'this county is vitally in terested in the solution of the O- C Land Grants, as about 92,000 acres are situated within our borders and $60,000. are now tied up in unpaid taxes on this acre age. The conference went on record as not favoring conservation as pertaining to the O-C lands, feel ing that the conse. vation policy !s being advocated by the Eastern and Atlantic States rather than by the states directly effected. Conference Appoints Preacher The Methodist State Confer ence, which has been in session at Roseburg for the past week, has appointed Rev, Henry Spiess as minister of the Estacada dio cese, being in charge of the Es tacada, Currinsvilie, Garfield and Zion churches for the ensuing term. At the conference, Rev. T. B. Ford of Oregon City, father of Prof. Burgess F. Ford, former superintendent of the Estacada schools, was appointed Superin tendent of the Salem district, a successor having been appointed in his stead at Oregon City. Rev. W. R. F. Brown, former ly of Estacada was appointed to the Lents charge and Rev. Rees recently in charge at Estacada was granted a supernumerary relation.