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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1916)
Voting Contest Standing Following is a list o f contest ants and their respective stand ing in the Thousand Dollar Mer chandise Prize Voting Contest, as shown by the judges’ count, ending Wednesday noon, Mar. 1st, the prize being awarded to the contestant, having received the greatest number of votes, during the past week, being Mrs. Mable Wooster with 42,261 votes. Parties, whose names appear below and who do not wish to be contestants, are asked to kindly advise the judges or the News. Buying Teams Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Alex Botkin and Herman Duus Hale, of Currinsville, Thursday, of Garfield are this week pur Mar. 2nd, a boy. chasing a new team of young Miss Nina Taylor of Currins work horses apiece, buying the ville recently took charge of the animals from the farm of Carl p r i m a r y department of the Duus, near Maupin, Or. Springwater school, in the ab John Duus of Garfield has gone sence of Miss Austin, who is go to Maupin, where he will drive ing to Monmouth to attend the the horses to The Dalles, from Normal School. which point they will be shipped Miss EchoGithens of Alspaugh, to Portland by boat and are ex pected in Estacada the latter part attended the Teachers’ Institute at Gresham last Saturday. of tnis week. D odge B rothers MOTOR CAR ♦ + * * ♦ + ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ + When an automobile plunges down a steep bank for fifty feet, turns over, and can then be driven to the garage on its own power— when only the glass windshield and a fender are broken in such an accident there must be a reason. The reason is Q U A L I T Y . Dodge cars are built not only for power, speed and endurance—but for hard usage in all kinds of weather. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * + + ♦ ♦ * Price for this wonderful car in Estacada is ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE. (Lovelace is still alive.) Clackamas Garage $ 880 . Estacada, Oregon W e r e Giving - - 100 cents Worth of Value for each $1, whether in Feed, Lumber, Shingles, Lath, Sand or Gravel Tile 4x12 inch Drain $3.20 per hundred feet 30.00 ” thousand ” Sand or Gravel $2.50 per cubic yard Estacada Lumber & E. D. Allen • Produce Co. W. J. Samson If You Have Any Broken Castings BRING THEM TO LS, AS WE DO A ll Kinds Of B ra zin g Give Pesznecker A Chance Plumbing Pipe Fitting Sheet Metal Work Electric Wiring Yale Lights and Stoves General Repair Work All Work Guaranteed S. P. Pesznecker Hunt Bldg. Main Street - - Estacada. Oregon I ' Mrs Mable Wooster 119,486 Mabel Keller 46,351 Lucile Jones 31,436 M E Church 32,271 Abbie Wagner 16,676 Mrs. Bittner 8,736 Mrs Theo Harders 11,702 Gladys Miller 7,303 Myrtle Looney 5,867 Erma Tenny 5,147 Rosa Trachsel 9,416 Gaye Sarver 1,771 Mrs Della Vallen 1,830 Mary Woodle 2,100 G W Morgan 1,190 Mrs Guy Wilcox 1,175 S. W. Benjamin 1,160 Veneta Page 1,140 Mrs Chas Duncan 1,085 Mrs. White 1,075 Lucy Turel 1,058 E W Ficken 1,055 Gladys Joyner 1,030 Sadie Wilcox 1,030 Wilma Kitching 1,023 Mrs R T Carter 1.025 Albert Lichthorn 1,010 Mrs. D. S. Fleming 1,005 Della Coop 1,005 The following, each received the nominating vote 1,000. Gladys Carpenter Echo Thomas Echo Githens Mrs Ed Douglass Mrs W E Cromer Mrs Frank Boyer Gladys Townsend Mrs Willis Yonce Alta Reisland Emma Barr James G Hamilton Mrs Dr Morse Mrs Archie Yocum Leta Posson Doris Lovell Rosalia Allen Roberta Reid Helen Bartlett Mrs Roy Douglass Mrs Guy Hunt Mrs J W Stevens Mrs J W Stubbs Hazel F'reeman Mrs R E Davis Annie Krigbaum Bertha Devore Mrs Lou Baker Hazel Beers Albert Lichthorn Edna Jorg Mrs B O Boswell C I C Garfield Country Club Ethel Tracy The fifth weekly prize, a Ladies’ Wicker Chair will be ; awarded the contestant receiving the highest number of votes, during the week ending at noon ■March ftth. Car Turns Turtle What might have been a fatal accident, occured to John Love lace and party last Friday after noon, when his Dodge automobile skidded on the Clear Creek Hill, rolled off the roadway, landing bottom side up forty feet below. The party, comprising Love lace, Charley Bard and one of the Bletch boys, was bound for Elwood and had reached a spot about three-quarters the way up the Clear Creek Hill, near a wat ering-trough, where the road was exceptionally slippery. In order to offset a skid of th e back wheels, Lovelace turned the head o f the car and by mistake, placed his foot on the throttle instead o f the brake, causing it to make a plunge from the roadway. Bard and Bletch succeeded in jumping, but Lovelace stuck to the wheel and managed to crawl out from in under the overturned car, which owing to a small stump, had not been able to fall completely over, although it had rolled forty feet down the can yon. Saturday morning, with the aid of half a dozen men with blocks and tackle the car was righted and hauled back onto the roadway, the only damage sus tained, being a broken off wind shield and bent fender. The en gine was in no ways hurt, Love lace driving the machine back to Estacada. ^ Alspaugh ’Appenings Contributed The Gordon & Wink Lumber Company are sawing out birds- eye maple for the Portland Chair Factory, George Kitching having taken the contract to do the log ging for them. i Two families have taken the contract to clear land for Mrs. Jack Brown on her Clackamas River place, using a donkey en gine in the work. . John Githens purchased a reg istered Chester White sow from J. W. West of Oswego last week. J. W. Dowty sold a valuable thorough-bred Short-Horn bull calf last week to W. A. Proctor of Cottrell. Mrs. Cozad is visiting her sons, Claude and Ernest, a n d Mrs. < Frank McGraw and son are visit ing her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Cozad. a Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beers and Miss Laura Beagle of Gresham spent the week-end at the John Githens home. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Als paugh and daughter Janet and Miss Edna Kennedy of Portland spent the week-end at the Als paugh home. 4