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.
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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
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"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.