EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS
D evoted to the Interests o f Eastern
V olume 9,
N umber 52
WASH THE BABY’S FACE
AND COMB ITS HAIB
Old Fashioned Baby Show
To Be Feature OF Coming Fair
A busy meeting was held last
Monday by the directors o f the
East Clackamas County Fair in
Estacada, at which time many
features o f the work were ar­
ranged for and many committees
and individuals selected to help
in making the coming fair eclipse
all former attempts.
It was decided to feature
a regular old fashioned baby
show, to be held on Juvenile Day,
Friday t h e 6th at 1 o ’ clock.
Prizes will be awarded the best
looking baby boy and baby girl,
under one year o f age, and simi­
lar awards for the best looking
children between one and three
years o f age.
The staging o f such a feature
by the committee represents a
great deal of courage, as such
shows have been known in other
places, to end in riots among the
dissatisfied mothers. But t h e
members o f the committee are
amply safe-guarding themselves,
by allowing the ladies o f the
Civic Club to select competent
and disinterested judges.
How’ d you like to be one o f the
judges? While the rules govern­
ing the baby show have not been
definitely announced, it is under­
stood that the judges will be
brought to Estacada under guard,
kept in a cage dining the ju d g­
ing and harried to he county jail
for .-.ale Keeping, and the awards
will not be made known until the
judges are safely esconsed be­
hind die bars.
T h e mothers o f contestants
wiil not be allowed to carry con­
cealed weapons, such as rolling
pins, hat pinsor bricks. In fact,
this baby snow is going to be a
hummer, as not less than 100
handsome babies should be ex­
hibited, with not less than 100
adoring mothers accompanying.
Political Day, October 5th, will
be a novel attraction,'with every
politicai candidate in the county
and state invited to be present
There will be but two leading
speakers, one Republican and one
Democrat. The committee will
not announce the names o f these
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Sunday School Rally In Estacada
Everyone is invited to attend
and take part in the coming Sun­
day School Rally and promotion
exercises to be held next Sunday
morning, at 10:30 o ’clock at the
Estacada M. E. Church.
Invitations have been sent to
all nearby Sunday Schools and
many are expected from the Cur-
rinsville, G a r f i e l d and Zion
churches. The program promises
much good music and many good
talks by local people.
E stacada , O regon ,
Clackamas County
T hursday , S eptember 14, 1916
CLACKAMAS CLAIMS VICTIM
Portland Fisherman Drowned
Near Dog Creek
Much excitement was created
in Estacada last Sunday evening,
when a Portland fisherman,
named Fred O. Wahlgren, asked
for help, both local and from
Portland, in an effort to find his
companion, Ivan G. Gulovson,
who he feared had been drowned
in the Clackamas river.
Parties from Estacada and
Portland, spent all o f Sunday
night in the search and soon aft­
er noon Monday, Ray Hamilton
o f Estacada and Lester Hale o f
Currinsville, discovered Gulov-
son’s body in a deep eddy, about
a mile and a half below the River
Mill dam.
In the mean time the searchers
had been joined by the aged fa­
ther and other relatives o f the
missing man, who remained in
the vicinity o f Estacada until the
body. was brought in by Tom
Rhodes and A. G. Ames.
The unfortunate fisherman,
who had fished that part o f the
Clackamas for a number o f years
past, had probably attempted to
either cross the river, or had
waded out into too deep water
and been carried away by the
rushing current.
The remains were taken to the
Chapman undertaking chapel in
Estacada and later transported to
the family home at 1248 Maryland
A v., Portland, for burial services.
The deceased was 24 years old,
single and a book-keeper in a
Portland department store, and
is survived by his parents, and a
brother and sister, all o f Port­
land.
Although Coroner Hempstead
and Sheriff Wilson o f Oregon
City came to Estacada, it w as de­
cided unnecessary to hold an in­
quest.
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Road District Changes
September 15th
As designated by law, Septem­
ber 15th is the day set by the
Clackamas County court to con­
sider all petitions favoring change
in the county's road districts.
There are at present about six­
ty road districts in this county
and as Judge Anderson and oth­
ers, who make a study o f road
building, favor fewer and larger
districts, it is likely that any
petitions asking for the uniting
o f districts will be favorably re­
ceived.
CBANK SHAFT
SEBIOUSLY INJURES DRIVER
Mike Niedenthal
Taken To Hospital
With Many Bones Broken
It is getting to be a common
superstition in Estacada that ac­
cidents go by threes and last
Monday’s record was no excep­
tion.
Late that evening, Mike Nied­
enthal o f Estacada, who is in the
employ o f Klaetsch's Mill in
Springwater and who operates
the big Avery motor truck, used
in hauling lumber into Estacada,
brought the machine into the
Cascade Garage for repairs and
while working over the front of
the car, became entangled in the
extension o f the crank shaft, re­
sulting in being violently whirled
by the revolving shaft and seri­
ously injured.
The truck’ s main shaft extends
out in front o f the car, for use in
furnishing outside belted power
and being turned by the power­
ful engines, proved a dangerous
instrument. Niedenthal was fi­
nally extricated from the shaft
and on examination it was found
that one leg was broken in three
places, possibly necessitating its
amputation and the victim also
suffered numerous other injuries
to head, body and arms.
A fter Dr. Adix had rendered
first aid, the injured man was
t a k e n to a Portland hospital,
where it is hoped the amputation
o f the broken leg will not be
| necessary.
Garfield Youth
Dies Saturday
On Saturday morning. Septem­
ber 9th, Emil Miller, died at the
home o f his parents, Frank and
Annie Mi.ler, following a pro­
tracted illness.
The deceased was born at Beav­
erton, Oregon, January 31, 1896,
where the family had lived for
twenty years, prior to their re-
[ moval t o t h e Stokes-Wooster
ranch in Garfield last Fall.
Besides the parents, two sisters
and two brothers mourn his loss;
being Mrs. John Bonando and
Mrs. Percy Allison o f Portland;
Edward, o f North Plains and
John, whe resides in Garfield.
Funeral services were conduc­
ted Sunday afternoon by Rev.
Spiess o f Estacada. with inter­
ment in charge o f undertaker
Chapman, occuring at Zion Cem-
1 etery.
$1. P er Y ear
CURRINSVILLE WOMAN HURT
Auto Driven By Beginner
Turns Turtle O ff Road
Monday last, was a day o f
thrills for Estacada and local
people, for following the finding
and bringing to Estacada o f the
body o f the fisherman drowned
in the Clackamas near River Mill,
word was received about fi 'e
o ’ clock o f an automobile accident,
which had occured on the Cur-
rinsville road, i n which Mrs.
James Linn o f that place was
injured.
Mrs. Linn and her friend, Mrs.
Plus Cahill were proceeding north
on the Currinsville road, with
Mrs. Cahill, who fs a novice with
automobiles, driving.
The car ran off the road and
turned on its side down the em­
bankment on the hill near the C.
R. Lovell property. Both of the
occupants were thrown out and
Mrs. Linn received serious cuts
on her leg, which necessitated
the services o f a physician, the
cuts probably being caused by
the broken glass in the wind­
shield.
Aside from the bending o f an
axle and minor injuries, the Ford
car was not seriously damaged.
School Rates To County Line
Since the News reprinted part
o f the special school rates traffic
schedule o f the P. R. L. & P. Co.
for students attending the Esta­
cada schools, several parties re­
siding between Barton and the
Multnomah-Clackamas c o u n t y
line, have asked relative to rates
from their respective stations.
This office took up the matter
with the railway people last week
and changes are being made in
the present schedule, which will
allow o f the same per mile spec­
ial rate between all points this
side o f the Multnomah County
line and Estacada.
It is hoped that by a special
dispensation, the railway com­
mission will grant this change of
schedule without its having to go
through t h e regular routine,
thereby allowing same to be e f­
fective by the time school opens
on the 13th.
Court Appropriates $200
For Boring Hill Road
As a result o f petitions duly
presented to the county court last
Wednesday, asking for aid in im­
proving the Boring Hill Road and
the “ Devil’s Washboard,” the
court appropriated $200. to be ex­
pended by Supervisor Myers o f
Boring on the former road.
It is also promised that the
county will begin active work on
the latter road, lying between
Barton and Eagle Creek, at once.