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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1916)
Eastern Clackamas News ( f o rm e r ly E s ta c a d a P ro g re s s )__ Published every Thursday at Estacada, Oregon K. M. S tan d ish , Editor and Manager Entered at the postoffiee in Estacada, O regon, as second-class m ail. S ubscription R ates One y e a r Six m onths Thursday, August 17, 1916 $ 1.50 .75 notified all supervisors that they would expect this law to be lived up to. Eastern Clackamas County and probably th e entire county, need standardized road markers and does not need Canadian thistles, so it will be welcome news when the County Court sees to it that these two laws are strictly en forced, if necessary, hiring help to do it. KnttmwiranmntttmmwmttmKmmmimmmtmnatwarawwHtunwmwtt. i HERE is an economy wave over the land. American people are beginning to realize that they are living too fast, beyond their means. It has been the rule that the man with $20,000 a year as well as the man with $2,000 a year lives up to every penny of his income. Slowly but surely this order of things is changing. The era of extravagance and waste in business and personal expenses is nearing an end. Efficiency and economy is the order of the day. Bank deposits are growing. Jt is lip to every one to economize. The best and surest wav to do so is to place your surplus in the bank. 1/ you already have a hauk account make it a point from today on to increase it. Add to it weekly, daily if possible What is the sense of having The Oregon City Enterprise is laws upon our statute books, if taking upon itself considerable they are not enforced and not self narrated glory in claiming the largest circulation of any likely to ever be enforced? The moral effect on the state’s newspaper in Clackamas County, and county’s officials, as well as despite its adjacency to the City upon the citizens, is lessened to of Portland with its big daily wards all legal restrictions, just papers. The Morning Enterprise truly so soon as the enforcement of deserves much credit, but still many minor laws is neglected. Oregon laws read very strictly any paper which can carry on its on two subjects of vital import paid subscription lists, all of the ance to this county, one being politicians in Clackamas County’s 7K vor HAVEN’T A BANK ACCOUNT DE the enforcement of the law reg political machine, ought to have CIDE TO OPEN ONE TODAY. ulating the destruction of noxious a big circulation, coupled with a weeds and especially the Cana few nearby farmers. mutttitn _■ Just as a tip to editor Brodie, dian thistle and the other making Ask us for one of our H om e Savings Banks it compulsory that all road super let us state that if he would re visors have guide boards or simi frain from prostituting his pap lar road markers, placed at inter er and its county seat daily news sections of roads in their districts. to the Portland papers, it might i The Oregon law reads that materially increase the home “ Supervisors shall not be paid value of his publication. Thomas Yocum, Vice President Leroy D. Walker, President It was formerly the custom of until guide boards are erected at Wright, Cashier Irwin D. the Estacada newspaper to earn cross-roads. ’’ The following is the full law a few dollars per month by send ing the local news into the Ore covering this point:- the question, unless for some un- Who’ll Get The Appointment? "Supervisors Not to Be Paid gon City papers; but under the forseen reason something was to With the resignation of George Until Guide Boards Are Erected preseni management this service be gained by allowing a. locaj M. McBride last week, as joint at Cross-Roads. Every super- was done away with, consequent- j man to hold the office. state senator, representing Mul visor shall erect and keep up at I ly the people of Eastern Clacka Already the names of several tnomah, Clackamas and Columbia the forks of every highway and mas County, look to the Eastern politicians from the pulpy city counties, the question arises, es every crossing of public roads Clackamas News for the news have been mentioned in connec pecially among the politicians, as within his road district a guide from this section, knowing that tion with this coveted job. but it to who will be appointed his suc or finger board, containing an in the majority of same cannot be looks now as though even the cessor. scription, in legible letters, di obtained in advance from any mighty Oregon City pull, will be Senator McBride resigned in recting the way and specifying other medium. of little avail against the Portland order to run as an independent the distance to the next town or candidates. candidate for county judge of public place situated on each Complaints have been received Multnomah county, o p p o s i n g Because of a slight hitch in the road, respectively; Provided, that here of the present condition of planking on the approach to George Tazwell, the Republican workings of our reporting depart the road supervisors shall not be the Estacada bridge crossing the nominee. ment, the news of the good times paid after submitting their re Clackamas River. These plank It is not likely that Multnomah recently had by the members of port to the county court until are now badly worn, with many county will allow Clackamas or the Priscilla Club of Currinsville, they have shown to the satisfac holes in the flooring, large enough j Columbia counties to obtain this were not received until this week. tion of the court that the provis . to injure a horse or cause a bad accident to a vehicle. valuable appointment for one of This organization a week or so ions of this section have been This bridge needs new plank its men, and if Clackamas was ago held its regular’August meet complied w ith.” ing and when the new planks given the privilege, there would ing at the Garfield Country Club If the Clackamas County Court are laid they should be well be no chance of its ever going out and the following Saturday even lived up to the full intent of. this spiked down, as the former ones of the ranks of the Oregon City ing tendered a party to the hus law, are there many road super were poorly fastened, allowing political bunch. bands, sons and brothers of the visors who would be drawing many of them to break loose and So Eastern Clackamas n e e d members, which was thoroughly their salaries in this community '.' cause a constant rattle and bang ing. enjoyed by all. waste little time worryirg over Fin thermore, complaints would not be of regular occurence in this county by tourists and auto- A dvise Me W h at You H ave For Sale isis, against the lack of road markers. It is not the fault of the road supervisors, all of whom are working steadily in the more im- IHirtant matters of building good roads and who unless the court enforces the road-marker law, and let me know as far in advance as possible. are not to blame. NO TE:- A "Top Ho*” , which is the one that brings the best profits to the grower, The road supervisors are also should be fat. in good condition and ...........................‘ weigh from 166 225 to pounds. expected to enforce the law to eradicate the Canadian thistle and the county court has already Estacada State Bank LIVESTOCK GIVENS, estacada The Man Who Has Helped To Build Up The Lx-al Livestock Industry.