Estacada Progress
(INCORPORATED)
Published every Thursday at
Estacada, Oregon
K. M. Standish,
>
Editor and M anager
E ntered a t the postoffice in E stacada,
Oregon, as second-class mail.
I thereafter keep extending out of • facts shown herewith, as present­
ed by Prof. Straub of the Uni­
those cities.
Such a plan wou^d meet with versity of Oregon. They are
little opposition from the so call- facts, not fancies or theories,
ed city road districts and should!
meet with the approval of the Springw ater W ins 3 8 to 6
rural taxpayers, who do their
In t h e opening basket ball
trading in the cities.
game of the season, last Satur­
S u b sc r ipt io n R a t e s
day evening at the Dodge Hall,
The Taxpayers Meeting did one the fast Springwater Athletic
¡good thing, when they recom- Club squad decisively defeated
I
mended that all county printing the Waverly Club team of Port­
Thursday, Dec. 23, 1915
| be handled on bids and among land, by the score 38 to 6.
j Clackamas county printers, in- Springwater, in order to give
Nearly two thousand years a- j stead of placing orders with fav- all the boys a chance in the game
go, the giad message of thejorites, either in the county or in used t h e following lineup: F
Christmas season, “ Peace on'Portland. If this recommenda­ Horner, E. Kilgore, J. Closner,
Earth. Good WillTowar 's Men,” tion is adhered to, the Progress Guards; S. Lawrence, E. Kilgore,
was heralded. Does it not seem may get a chance to bid anyway, Center; H. Horner, E. Horner,
a travesty on our Christian civ­ although it dares not hope to land J. Moger, E. Closner, Forwards.
ilization, that today with half of a real order.
Announcement will be made in
the nations at war that message
The Committee of Fifteen, who a few days of their next sched­
is more needed and less heeded, handled the preliminary arrange­ uled game.
than at the time of its origin?
1 1 ments for the Taxpayers Meet-
Yet, we, fortunate citizens of i ing, in many instances had a
Nature Films To Be Shown Here
the United States of America, i hard time to find any detailed re­
state of Oregon and County of [ cords in the various offices, on Among the local sportsmen,
Clackamas, can honestly pass on which to base their recommenda­ who attended the session of the
these glad tidings, and enjoy the tions for the various office ex­ Oregon Sportsmen’s League in
Portland Monday, were Messrs.
real Christmas Spirit, for we are penditures.
The different departments had Patton, Heylman, McMillan and
a people of peace, plenty and
happiness.
asked for in the budget, suffici­ Standish. The banquet at the
When we come to consider, it ent sums for their current ex­ Commercial Club that evening
is wonderful how the true Christ­ penses, but were more or less un­ with its program of nature films,
mas Spirit has permeated all able to furnish reliable records, shown by State Biologist Finley,
classes of society today. The on which they based their es­ w a s especially enjoyed. A r-
rangements are being made by
members of a family welcome timates.
Someday, Clackamas County the Estacada Rod & Gun Club to
one another with the same wish,
for a Merry Christmas and A will wake up and effect a big sav­ obtain these films to be shown in
Happy New Year, n e i g h b o r ing, by installing up-to-date bus­ Estacada within a few weeks.
greets neighbor, casual acquain­ iness methods and systems in the
tances voice the feeling of glad­ various departments, with an ac­ Among the college students
ness and even the hard headed, curate record kept of every sin­ who have returned for the holi­
days, are Miss Rachel Reed of
conservative business men, are gle cent expended.
the
University of Washington;
now terminating their letters,
with the welcome words, “ Wish­ Will you sign a petition to in­ Chester Womer and Adolph Spiess
ing you the Compliments of the voke the referendum, to force of Willamette University and
Season” or “ Wishing You a Mer­ the questioh of the purchase of Ken Bartlett of the University
ry Christmas and A Happy New the Canby F'air Grounds, onto of Oregon.
Year.”
the next ballot?
R. G. Marchbank of Estacada,
While the thoughts of the
returned Friday from a week’s
Christmas presents, good dinners
If you are attending school or stay at Hood River, where he
and festivities are always upper­ the parent of a pupil, dont fail went to obtain relief from his
most in our minds, it is a bless­ to read and meditate over the asthma.
ing th e underlying truth is,
“ PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD
WILL TOWARDS MEN.”
One year
Six months
-
$ 1.00
.50
If the legality of the two mill
road levy, for the building of
h a r d surfaced pavements in
Clackamas County is questioned
arid if the trouble is liable to or­
iginate in the cities, which are
now entitled to 70"i. of the road
tax raised in the city road dis­
tricts. why not appease the city
road districts first?
It the .$50,000. which would re-|
suit from a two mill levy, will!
Full line Good Supply
build aliout 5 miles of hard su r-:
faced pavement per year; it; Flour and Feed
would be good policy to build \
during 191»>, a mile of such pave-!
Lumber and Shingles
ment in each of the following:
Always on hand.
five cities in the county, Oregon
Estacada Lumber
•
City. Canby, Molalla. Estacada
and Milwaukie and the following I
& Produce Co.
year, build in Oswego, Gladstone.
E.
D.
Allen
-
W. J. Samson
Sandy, Boring and Barton and
cyl Eank Account
For Christmas
is a very convenient thing to have for
those who have been provident enough
to have one. Christmas cheer is never
lacking in the home whose members have
enough of thrift to lay by some of their
income or earnings for the days that draw
heavily on their resources. Open your
bank account with us now.
Estacada State Bank
IE R O V D . W A lk l R. President
IH 0 M A S
YOCUM.
Vice President
IRWIN I). WRIGHT, C ashie r
Interest paid on time deposits.
C. E. Lucke
Livestock Buyer
sf Hogs, Cattle, Sheep
All shipm ents m ade from
Estacada Stock Yards
Making It Fit
at the start is all that is required
on a job done with our lumber.
You dont need to allow for dry­
ing or shrinking for our lumber
is all thoroughly seasoned when
we send it to you. The more ex­
perience you have had with green
lumber the better you will ap­
preciate our kind.
Phone W. Givens, Estacada agent,
and advise him of what you have
for sale, and I will call and
arrange for
purchase
and s h i p m e n t .
cXnnouncement
Having taken the agency for the
W irt Nursery Stock
in this section, I will be pleased
to call on anyone wishing
Good Nursery Stock
*
Write, Phone or Call on
Sam J. Howe - Estacada