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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1916)
Estacada Progress (I n corporated ) Published every Thursday at Estacada, Oregon R. M. Standish, Editor and Manager Entered at the postoffice in Estacada, Oregon, as second-class mail. S u b sc r ipt io n One year Six months - R ates - - - - - $1.00 .50 Thursday, Feb. 10, 1916 The editor has no complaint to register, f o r h e might have known that Mr. Whitcomb would strike straight from the shoulder, when asked his written opinion of the advisibility of forming a community church. The coat surely fitted and the only satisfaction the editor has, is the knowledge that it probably fitted plenty of other young men and women too. Mr. Whitcomb’s letter is re printed elsewhere in this issue and the points which he brings out and which are substantially the same as advocated in Mr. Dillion’s letter are too true. The experiment should probably be tried out in Estacada first, the only handicap being that the present pastor of the M. E. Church is also the pastor of the three rural churches and services would have to be held part of the time away from the home church. Again, is not the condition, which Mr. Whitcomb mentions regarding the younger people taking an interest in religious work, to a large extent due to t h e present inability of t h e church to support itself a n d spend a little money on attrac tions to draw some of us back sliders? The successful theatre mana ger, or other business man. who wishes to draw the people, offers the most tempting of baits, such as good music, pleasant quarters and the like, which the local church is not able to do today, owing to having to confine too much of its attention to its finan cial survival. Notwithstanding all the plaus ible excuses, which the editor might make, the coat fitted and fitted snugly. Grant B. Dimick o f Oregon City, head of the county fair board and member of the Clack amas County Fair Aassociation, has announced that the charter of the association has not been forfeited, by unpaid dues. Judge Dimick says he holds re ceipts showing all necessary pay ments as having been made. He claims the including of the fair association among the list of cor porations which had forfeited their charters, as issued by Gov ernor Withyeombe, is an error. No announcement has as yet been made from the office of the governor, correcting the mistake, which* will probably be done, if matters are as Mr. Dimick claims and there are no other reasons, for the governor’s action. It seems odd though that this latest announcement w a s not forthcoming before, as two weeks or more has elapsed, since the governor’s proclamation. Even if the association is not defunct, charter forfeited and generally "gone to the dogs,” it is no reason why $7950.00 of the taxpayers’ money should be spent in purchasing the Canby, grounds, unless the taxpayers themselves so order and that can only be de termined by the result of the ballot. Have you registered yet? Re member, the last day for regis tration is April 18th, if you wish to vote at the primaries. Start For East Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pyle, who are making their future home In Baltimore, Md., left for Portland last Saturday, where they were joined by Walter Givens of Es tacada, the party leaving Sunday for the east. Mr. Givens will go as far as Iowa, where he will attend to business matters, spend a few days visiting among relatives in Kansas and return home about the 20th. of this month. Funeral Postponed Three Days Owing to the deranged train schedule last week, caused by the snow and ice, the funeral services and interment of the body of the late M. B. Spackman of Garfield, who died Monday, January 31st., were not held until last Saturday. An attempt was made to take the casket to the Mt. Scott Cemetery by wag on from Estacada, but the road near Boring was so obstructed with down timber, that the wag on was forc^l to return, the cas ket being finally sent down on Saturday’s express train. Is the granting o f suffrage to the women of Oregon in vain? It begins to look that way, not withstanding the clamor for the right to vote, that was evident a couple of years ago. If Eastern Clackamas County is typical of the state, the women dont care to vote, or at least they dont How’d You Like To Be care to spend much time on pol The Complaint Man? itical matters preliminary to the According to the Morning Ore balloting. gonian, Roy Meyers of Eagle Not a woman from this section Creek, of the traffic department attended t h e recent Brownell of the P. R. L. & P. Co. in Port meeting, although all were in land, acted as complaint man vited, and to date the registn - during last week’s tie up of the tion in Estacada has been at the company’s lines. rate o f about one woman to For three days and t h r e e twelve men. nights, Roy stayed at his desk, The fair sex will have a chance answering inquiries, kicks and to redeem themselves next Sat cussings, even sleeping on his urday a n d everyone of them I desk during intervals. should attend the political cau Roy’s name will probably be cus at the Estacada Pavilion, | passed down into history, along that afternoon. % ■— ■■ j with Horatius and his stand on j the bridge, Grace Darling in the Kill Three Cougar light house, and others; only Roy And Eleven Bob-Cats deserves more credit for he had Chief Forester Herman Wal to answer the phone. lace, of Cazadero, returned last week from the Oak Grove ranger Klaetsch Mill Moving station, where he has been lo cated for the past three months, O. C. Klaetsch of the Klaetsch and reports having brought in Lumber Co., of Springwater, an the hides of three cougars and nounces that by March 1st next, eleven wildcats, which, he and they will have their present mill the Perry brothers,‘ Art and Bill, thoroughly overhauled with new trapped or snot this winter. machinery in operation, in their Miss Bessie Wallace, who has new location. been keeping house for her The new mill site will be about brother at the Oak Grove station, half a mile nearer Springwater also returned to Cazadero, where than the present one. and will be she will remain until warmer located on the former Dol Wilcox j weather. place, where there is an abun Wallace reports having found dance of first class timber. three dead'deer, which had been The mill will have a capacity killed by cougars and in each of from 35,000 to 40,000 feet per instance the cougars had merely day, turning out the best grades eaten the entrails and stomach of dimension and finishing lum ber, also handling sawed cedar them in search of more deer. j posts and other specialties. 4 ^ I nterest O N SAVINGS k ACCOUNTS is what we will be paying in a couple of weeks, when we will be ready to open a Savings Department We are merely waiting for the books, forms and other matter necessary to install ; this valuable adjunct to our | growing banking business Estacada State Bank UROY O. WAlktK. Presiden! IHOMAS YUtlM. Vice President IRWIN 0 . WRIGHT, Cashier Interest paid on time deposits C. E. Lucke Livestock Buyer s f Hogs, C attle, Sheep All shipments made from „ 0 Estacada Stock Yards Phone W . Givens, Estacada agent, and advise him of what you have lor sale, and I will call and arrange for purchase and s h i p m e n t . Trees, Shrubs, Vines Order NOW Before its too Late Write, Phone or Call on Sam J. Howe • Estacada *