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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1916)
legislators than their rural breth- ern. These Portland sportsmen are now agitating several radical changes in the laws; one toshort- i en on Chinese pheas Entered at the postoffice in Estacada, ants the and season one to lowrer the daily Oregon, as second-class mail. ! catch of trout to 35. instead of 75 S ubscription R ates and to increase the minimum One year - $1.00 length of a fish, which may legal Six months - - - .50 ly be taken, from six to seven Thursday, October 5, 1916 , inches. These same sportsmen l a s t t spring advocated the closing of In explanation of a complaint Eagle Creek its tributaries that has been made, that the | to fishing for a and or two and !•: greatest bulwark ncainst the indigence of News has a tendency to give up have fostered year many other game old age or the financial drain caused by a too much space to advocating a law changes.' SB protracted illness is a bank account. If you limited few measures, with con With all due respect to our Mg arc a business man making big profits; if stant repetitions, instead of cov neighboring lovers of the rod and you are an employee with a tine salary, plan ering a wider range of subjects, gun, they must consider the po to lay aside a certain sum weekly. Then both sides of the question should sition of the rural sportsmen, if the rainy duv conies along it will find be considered. who, owingtolong hours of work you prepared. The News is primarily devoted and lack of means, is only able to In times of stress you’ll find that your bank account to the interests and development fish and hunt in his home territo is votir friend. You can look the world in the eye. of Eastern Clackamas County. ry; not being financially able to The man with a bank account looks better, feels better, Only a limited amount of news Hit from one choice hunting or is better than the man without a bank account. We originates in this peaceful, law- fishing ground to another, when transact all kinds of banking business. abiding community and then sel the law prevents his enjoying dom of a sensationai n a tu re . SEE US ABOUT AN ACCOUNT TODAY. sport. This being a home-loving, rural home Allowances must further be district, w here taxes, roads and made for the fact that the rural | agricultural subjects are the main sportsman often owns the land on items of interest, naturally the which the game or through iwnna» ear.-i.tr home-newspaper deal s largely which the streams lives flow. with those subjects and possibly In the case of many of the Port Ask us for one of our Home Savings Barks proves uninteresting by t he i r land sportsmen, a change in the repetition. game laws effects their pleasure Our people are not asking for but little, for if the pheasants are much, but the few reforms which protected, of them can en they seek are essential to future joy as much most or more sport hunt happiness and prosperity, conse ing duck, geese or shore birds, quently if a reform or measure shooting l a r g e l y on privately Leroy D. Walker, President - Thomas Yocum, Vice President is worth advocating, it is worth owned preserves. repetition. One stroke of an axe As a suggestion, let the Port- j Irwin D. Wright, Cashier never hewed away a bothersome land sportsman thi3 season con- , stump, but steady hacking away fine his efforts to hunting ducks, usually clears the path. and shore birds, allowing As to the larger, state, nation geese the rural to hunt the al an d world-wide questions, pheasants. resident Such a plan would these subjects are ably present guarantee fewer an d ed in the daily press and the cur fewer birds killed, hunters especially Is Headquarters For rent magazines; but as these ¡ the city sportsmen is usually as a ; larger questions are really of no better m a r k s m a n , owing to|, more vital importance to us, than of trap shooting, coupled : some of our county and commun months with the services of fine bird dogs. ity ones, the home paper has to But what those of us who! light the little homely community reside in the can hill mountain | battles, and try to reflect the parts of Clackamas and Of All Kinds County do. if sentiment of its readers. the pheasant season is cut short?! no alternative but to j There should a law, making a put We our have guns back in the cases; ballot invalid, which i s cast, let the dust settle Standard and Fancy Groceries our ammu-; where so called "single-shotting” nition and return to on further read ] is done in the voting for only one ing of the sporting magazines, Vegetables and Fruits In Season candidate, where more than one containing alluring accounts of office is to be filled. fishing in distant This practise was current in! hunting and finding our ultimate re several localities in this county pastures, ward and a realization of our For Canning Your Fruit during the primary election and dreams only in the Happy Hunt it each district is going to “sin ing Grounds Use our Wide Mouth Se'f Sealing Jars hereafter. gle-shot” its respective candidate for the coming legislature, why The A. D. Schmidt family of not make three representative moved to their new districts in the county and be Springwater home in Sheridan last Sunday, done with "Vote for Throe"? joining Mr. Schmidt who had proceeded Estacada, Oregon There is no doubt but that moqlhft. them by s e v e r a l many changes are needed in the state fish and game laws, espec ially relative to the protection of' Advise Me W hat You Have For Sale Chinese pheasants, which birds during last winter’s s e v e r e weather, suffered heavily. During the coming legislative session many changes will be made in the game laws, but be fore it is don», the legislators should stop and consider t he view point of the farmer and the rural hunter, before adopting the sug and let me know as far in advance as possible. gestions of the Portland and oth NOTE:—A ‘Top Hog” , which is the one that brings the best profits to the grower, er cite sportsmen. she ,Id be fat, in good condition and weigh from 165 to 225 pounds. The sportsmen of Portland, by being organized along both fish ing and shooting lines, are able e s t a c a d a to present more pressure on the j The Man Who Has Helped To Build Up The Local Livestock Industry. Eastern Clackamas News Published every Thursday at Estacada, Oregon R. M. Stamiish, Editor and Manager 0 Estacada State Bank 0 h a p m a n ’ s V E A T S A T S L. A. Chapman * * LIVESTOCK GIVENS, 0 I