EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS
Devoted to the Interests o f Eastern Clackamas County
Formerly Estacada Progress
V olume 9,
N umber 45
E stacada , O regon ,
ESTACADA WINS LAST GAME
OF SEASON
Players Split Proceeds Of $239.00
Last Sunday afternoon’ s game
on the home grounds, against the
Journal nine, winners o f the
Printers’ League Championship
o f Portland, wound up the local
baseball season, with Estacada
easily winning by the score of
15 to 10.
The contest was worth witness
ing from a batting standpoint,
although fast, tight ball was not
in evidence. Neil Bronson han
dled the local delivery and at no
time was in danger, with brother
Lee receiving in his regular good
form.
Sunday’ s game was the last o f
the season, as many o f the play
ers are leaving for the Eastern
Oregon harvest fields.
Manager Lovelace, to whom the
thanks o f the players and fans
are due, for giving this commun
ity the best season o f baseball in
years past, has collected the ten
new uniforms, carefully stowed
them away in moth balls, until
next season and is dividing up
among nine players, the umpire
and manager, $239.00, being the
profits o f the season’ s games,
including $70. from the Chau
tauqua series.
While at first th o-e'w as some
objection to the dividing o f the
proceeds at the end o f the season
only, all players a -e now pleased
to get their share in on .* payment,
instead of getting a weekly drib
let, which would have been gone
long ago.
Aside from the Chautauqua ser
ies, the 1916 season for the Esta
cada baseball team, was a more
than successful one, with seven
out o f t e n home games won
against the best amateur teams
from Portland.
In closing tne season, the Esta
cada team has on hand ten new
uniforms, with all necessary
equipment, such as gloves, bats,
protector, e t c , which will be
ready for the 1917 team.
Sunday’s line up was as fol-
lows:—
L. Bronson
c
N. Bronson
P
1st
G. Smith
2nd
Go berg
S3
C. Douglass
3rd
Newell
If
E. Douglass
Simmons
cf
A. Smith and
J. Park
rf
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T hursday ,
J uly 27,
1916
$1. P er Y ear
MAIL ORDER COMMANDMENTS
UNION SERVICES AUGUST 6TU
P. A. L. 8 P. TO SELL LAND
Local Man Buys House
From Mail Order Firm
All Invited To Bring Lunches And
Spend The Day
One o f the News’ subscribers
this week called the editor’s at
tention to the following “ Mail
Order Commandments’ ’ t a k e n
f r o m an enterprising eastern
country paper, whose editor also
sees the constant harm being
done to the rural communities by
their own people sending their
money into foreign markets.
The all day Union Meeting of
the Estacada, Garfield. Spring-
water, CurrinsVille and Mr. Zion
churches, which is a yearly event,
in which all denominations take
part, will be held this year in the
grove adjoining the Mt. Zion
church, Sunday, August 6th.
The days program will consist
of m u s ic , sermons, speeches,
round-table and children’ s work.
The Garfield band will be there
and the vocal music will be in
charge o f the Springwater divis
ion, which is justly famed for its
service in song. Local talent will
be on the program with Dr. Tal
bot of Kimball College preachi ng
at the morning service at 11
o ’ clock, with Dr. Nugent o f New
bury port, Mass., occupying the
pulpit in the afternoon.
The theme o f the days’ meeting
and the direct subject o f the
round-table discussions will be
“ A Working Program for a Rural
Church.”
Owing to the union servicer n
August 6th, no services will be
held in the Methodist churches
elsewhere on that day. On next
Sunday, July 30th, morning ser
vices will be held in Estacada; at
Garfield at 3:30 in the afternoon
and that evening at Currinsville,
in charge o f Pastor Spiess. All
are asked to attend and to bring
their Bible, pencil and paper.
Company’s Holdings Near
Estacada To Soon
Be On Market
M ail O rder C ommandments
1. You shall sell your farm
produce for cash whenever you
can, but not to US; we do not
buy of YOU.
2. You shall believe our state
ments and buy all you need from
us, because we want to be good
to you, although we are not per
sonally acquainted with you.'
3. You shall send the money
in advance to give us a chance to
get the goods from the factory
with your money; mean-while you
will have to wait patiently a few
weeks as that is our business
method.
4. You shall apply to your
nearest city to aid you in building
good roads so you can conviently
get our goods from the depot as
we do not build country roads.
5. You shall buy church bells
and church fixtures from us and
forward the money in advance
for this is our business method,
and you shall collect from the
business men o f your vicinity all
the money you can for the bene
fit of your churches, as it is
against our rules to donate for
building country churches.
6. You shall buy your tools
o f us and be your own mechanic
in order to drive the mechanics
out o f your vicinity, for we wish
it so.
7. You shall induce your
neighbor to buy everything o f us,
as we have room for more money
— the less money there is in your
community the sooner we can put
your local merchants out o f busi
ness and charge you anv price
we please.
8. You shall look often at the
beautiful pictures in our catalogue
so your wishes will increase and
so you will send in a big order,
although you are not in immedi
ate need o f the goods, otherwise
you might have some money left
to buy some necessary goods from
your local merchant.
9. You shall have the mer-
chants who repair the goods you
Concluded on page 5
For several years past, the
Portland Railway Light & Power
Company has been considering
the sale o f some o f their land,
which lies between the Clack
amas River and the top of Spring-
water hill, extending from oppo
site the Estacada Park to below
River Mill.
Several hundred acres are in
cluded in the proposed sale, the
majority being under second
growth, with some good timber.
The work o f surveying and
platting this land into forty acre
parcels, was done under the su
pervision o f Mgr. Ewing of the
Agricultural Dept., with the aid
o f Asst. Engineer, H. S. Scupham
o f the Upper Dam.
This property would probably
have been sold to bona-fide set
tlers sometime ago, but that the
land was temporarily tied up un
der a blanket mortgage, which
incumbrance no longer exists.
W. A. Hardman Weds
W. A. Hardman o f Faraday,
operator at the Faraday Power
Plant, was married last Wednes
day evening, at Vancouver, to
Miss Myrtle Thompson o f Port
land.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardman return
ed to Estacada Friday, where
they were given a hearty welcome
b y 'th e ir many friends, all o f
whom wish them prosperity and
happiness.
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Will Return With Bride
Lee Dillon, member of the fac
ulty of the Franklin High School
o f Pori land, who has been spend
ing his vacation at the home o f
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Dillon of Estacada, left early this
week for an eastern trip, via J e f
ferson City, Mo., where he will
be married August 2nd, to Miss
Claudia Geisberg o f that place.
While the announcement of Mr.
Dillon’s plans was a surprise to
his friends here, it was an agree
able one and they one and all
promise him and his bride a hearty
welcome on their return, which
will be within two or three weeks.
It is understood that the com
pany contemplates the sale o f the
various tracts to settlers only, re
fusing to sell to any persons who
will not go onto the land and ac
tually live and improve same.
No announcement has been
made yet as to the price which
will be charged per acre, but the
price will probably be low enough
to be attractive and the terms o f
sale will be especially arranged
to make it possible for the pur
chaser to finance it, with probab
ly ten, fifteeaor twenty years to
pay for it, with added bonuses
due the buyer who improves his
or her property during stipulated
time.
The opening up and settling
o f this tract will materially help
Estacada and this part o f the
county, meaning the incoming of
twenty or thirty more families,
taking the place o f a stretch o f
undeveloped land. From the
railway's stand|H>int, the move is
an exceptionally wise one, not
only building up their surround
ing values and eliminating some
of their taxes, but each year
creating more traffic for their
lines.
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