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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1916)
NEW ERA Eastern Clackamas News ! Tillable land, $50.00 to $100.00 per acre. Non-tillable, $20.00 to $50.00 per acre. Published every Thursday at OREGON CITY Estacada, Oregon R. M. Stanilish, Editor and Manager Tillable land, $60.00 to $200.00 per acre. Non-tillable, $30.00 to $100.00 per acre. Entered at the postoffice in Estacada, PARK PLACE Oregon, as second-class mail. Tillable land, $60.00 to $200.00 per acre. Non-tillable, $25.00 to $100.00 per acre. S u b sc r ipt io n R a t e s One year . . . $1.00 SYCAMORE Six months - - - .50 Tillable land, $75.00 to $500.00 per acre. $35.00 to $250.00 per acre. Thursday, September 21, 1916 Non-tillable, Respectfully submitted, J. E. Jack, County Assessor.” The News is often in receipt of of suggestions from subscribers At considerable expense, the and other taxpayers, asking that News has this week installed a proper investigations and public for the addressing and ity be given to certain phases of machine mailing of papers. county government and the like. This device all automatically Sometime ago, the News inter the labels on the papers, pastes each ested itself in the investigation label showing the name, address of alleged irregularities and un and date of expiration. fairness in th e respective as any time, a subscriber may sessed valuations of cleared and see At when or her subscription uncleared land in various parts of expires, the his figures denoting the the county. moi ti, day and year, in the or The matter was taken up by der printed. the editor directly with Assessor this aid, it. is hoped that Jack, who immediately prepared all With subscribers will wish to renew the following letter, showing the by the time their subscription respective valuations. A perus has expired. al of same indicates that the as The News costs only $1. per sessed valuations seem to be fair year and like any other real live and equitable, allowing for the newspaper magazine, lives up values in the various parts of the to the postal or »-egulations county and their adjacency to the to all subscriptions being relative paid in larger markets: advance. •'Oregon City, Oregon, publisher has been unjust September 5, 1916. ly The criticised by some subscribers Mr. R. M. Standish, for stopping their subscriptions Estacada, Oregon. at expiration, th e subscribers Dear Sir: In reply to your letter of the 1st, feeling that the action implies an inst., in reference to the assessment of unwillingness on the publisher’s farm lands in different parts of Clacka mas County, will say that 1 have com part to extend credit for the piled the following prices as per your small sum involved. Such criticism is not fair, as request. You will note that the prices in all the publisher is merely striving instances vary considerable, which is to issue a first class weekly news accounted for from the fact that you paper and conduct the business wanted the prices from one to five miles from the center of the several along up-to-date lines, complying localities. 1 have not included any with the postal requirements. timber land in this list, and have o- If for a few days or weeks mitted small acreage tracts lying in is asked, we will gladly and near the towns. The $70.00 per credit extend it, as it is not always con acre land at Eagle Creek consists of only a few tracts and are the most venient for the rural subscribers choice farms adjacent to the town. to pay the dollar when due. In The $500.00 per acre land at Sycamore a case of this sort, if we are no includes land near Milwaukie, and in that the subscription is to cludes the Scott place and several other tified tracts in that vicinity. The Scott place be continued, we will gladly do consists of 286 acres with 186 acres in so. But consider the publisher’s cultivation, and the entire farm as position, if he continued the sub sessed at $122,100.00. scription without being notified, GEORGE he could neither legally nor mor Tillable land, $20.00 to $30.00 per acre ally expect to receive payment, Non-tillable, $5.00 to $8.00 ” ” unless the subscriber wanted to GARFE1LD Tillable land, $40.00 to $50.00. per acre. settle. Non-tillable, $10.00 to $15.00 per acre. EAGLE CREEK Tillable land, $45.00 to $70.00 per acre. Non-tillable, $15.00 to $20.00 per acre. Tillable land, Non tillable, Tillable land, Non tillable, SPRINGWATER Tillable land. Non-tillable Tillable land. Non-tillable, $10.00 to $45.00 per acre. $10.00 to $15.00 per acre. SANDY $35.00 to $50.00 per acre. $10.00 to $15.00 per acre. MARgltAM $46.00 to $50.00 per acre. $10.00 to $20.00 per acre. MOLALLA $50.00 to $60.00 per acre. $10.00 to $25.00 per acre. CANBY Tillable land, $60.00 to $75.00 per acre. Non-tillable, $16.00 to $25.00 per acre. YSTEMAT1ZE your household expenses by opening u hunk account for your wife. Give her a check book am! teach her the use of it. Pay the butcher, the groeer, the baker, with u check. Then at the end of the mouth you’ll find out just how much it costs you to run the home. When payment by check is made there never is any doubt a> to whether or not a bill is paid. The check is u receipt. Besides, a checking account will give your wife u business education. The number of ordinarily bright women who know absolutely nothing of banking is sur prising If you are a husband, father, brother, you cannot tell when death may ovenake you, and it is well that yout wife, daughter and sister know soine- tlsng of banking MAKE Cl1 v o rn MINI) TODAY TO GIVE vom w ife 14 i A CHECK BOOK. Kiitwia Ask us for one of our Home Savings Banks Estacada State Bank Leroy D. Walker, President - Thomas Yocum. Vice President Irwin D. Wright, Cashier The News is striving to print all of the news emanating from Eastern Clackamas County and if items are not published, it is because this office has not been advised of same. You can help make your home newspaper a better an d more readable one by phoning or other wise notifying this office of any news that may originate in your home or neighborhood. We want to publish it, you probably want it published and your neighbors want to read it. Have you prepared your exhib it yet, for the Eastern Clackamas County Fair? Remember the fair opens on October 4th. Clyde Inglish of Garfield, who is now in the U. S. Navy, left September 5th on the transport Sherman for the Orient, and be fore returning will visit China and other foreign countries. County Fair Ends Tonight The 10th annual Clackamas County Fair, which opened Mon day, ended its four day session on Thursday night, September 21st. and from all reports the fair was the best ever staged. Few residents of the county were able to attend, owing to the rush of harvesting and other farm work, but those who were pres ent thoroughly enjoyed the ex hibits and the racing program. As has occured in former years, few copies of the County Fair premium list were mailed to peo ple in this part of the county, and many have asked at the News’ office for same, but as but one copy was received here, it could only be used for reference. Jack Tucker and wife of Brook ings, Or., spent a few days in Estacada and vicinity last week visiting among friends and rela tives. Advise Me W hat You Have For Sale LIVESTOCK and let me know as far in advance as possible. NOTE:—A "Top Hog” , which is the one that brings the best profits to the grower, should be fat, in good condition and weigh from 165 to 225 pounds. GIVENS, estacada The Man Who Has Helped To Build Up The I^ocal Livestock Industry.
