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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1917)
Eastern Clackamas News Published every Thursday at Estacada, Oregon R. M. Standish, Editor and Manager Entered at the poatotfice in Estacada, Oregon, as second-class mail. S ubscription R ates year . . . Six months . . . O ne $1.00 .60 Thursday, May 17, 1917 It may sound slightly unpatri otic for an editor to comment on or criticise the Government or State system of disseminating free advertising matter, through the the daily and weekly country newspapers but many publish ers have already expressed their ideas on the subject and largely along the same lines. During these times of war and war needs, the newspapers are daily flooded with appeals of one sort and another, asking for free publicity — the majority of ap peals being of a public and pat riotic nature and to some extent of news value. If the small weeklies were to attempt to reproduce all of the matter received during a week, they would soon go into bank ruptcy, for the actual cost of set ting up the type would deplete their bank balances, not to men tion the added paper stock need ed for the printing. The Government, the State and the general public seems 'to for get that all a newspaper manu factures and has to sell, is its ad vertising or similar news space— and when asked to give unlimited free publicity, it not only loses the sale of that space, but is forced to go to an added expense to reproduce the matter. Neither the Government, the State, nor any governing body would think of asking the steel manufacturers for free rails or bridges, or the ship-yards for l ive boats yet, they never seem to consider the impropriety of asking the publisher to give free gratis, the only thing that he manufactures and has to sell, and too often not even “thanks” accompany the requests. The newspaper man is just as patriotic as his fellow men and is striving to do his just pro|>or- tion and then a little bit more— but as a rule they are not on a financial par with the steel cor porations nor the shipbuilders. There is still a lot of Estaca- da’s vacant cleared land with no signs yet of its contemplated cultivation. This condition is probably due to all local people having a suffi cient amount of land of their own for gardening - still it seems wasteful to have this land un used. Possibly some arrange ment might be made with Port land men to cultivate these pieces, if the condition was made know n to them. Whenever the county seat pa pers run a little short on news matter and about that time when Eastern Clackamas is busy at tending to its own business, those metropolitan editors can always pump a story out of our neigh boring friend Noah Stingley of Eagle Creek—and in the current issue of the Enterprise, Noah discloses the 1917-1918 Cascade County plans. Since Noah has tipped ’em off about the Cascade measure ap pearing on the ballot at the Nov ember '18 election and as usual credited Estacada folks with be ing the instigators and only en thusiasts — we might as well abandon all further hopes of hav ing a county of our own. Yet- as a tip to the Oregon City papers--they might just as well have that little Cascade County story set up in plate form and run it every week—for it will always be live matter and will never become obsolete, until Cas cade County is formed. As a suggestion—it might be a wise move to give friend Noah a job at the East Clackamas and George Fairs, as Official Judge of the Horse Racing—then he might join the ranks of the Cascade Countians, for Noah knows a lot more about horse racing than he does of the sentiments of the people of this part of the county and his present job on the Can by circuit would not be interfered with. Nothing would look more like true Agricultural Defence, than to see the right-of-way of the in- terurban lines of the P. R. L. & P. under a state of cultivation. There are portions of this right-of-way, especially through the Eagle Creek and Currinsville bottoms, that offer many fertile acres, well adapted to the plant ing of long rows of potatoes. With the influx of more and more fishermen each year along the upper stretches of the Clack amas Rivei— attention is called to a dangerous condition existing on both sides of the river, near the so-called “ Upper Dam” — where test pits, of from fifteen to forty feet deep, are lying open, being partially obscured b.v the overhanging vegetation. These typical pit-falls can be closed over or filled up by the railway company, on whose land they are located, for a fraction of the cost that a damage suit would entail and an accident is bound to occur sooner of later. No longer can Estacada find fault with the scarcity of work, for lal>or is at a premium. All available men are now working in the building of the high school and cheese factories, with gard ening and farming jobs awaiting laborers. W e Strive To Please \ ] \ Our prices are kept as low as can be made and our service the best we know how to give. We can get cheaper merchan dise but we do not believe in sacrificing quality for quantity— but try to live up to our motto “The Best Is None To Good For You” L. A. Chapman E stacada, O regon A Few Of The Things We Still Sell At The Old Price Aluminum Ware Sweat Pads Brushes Hinges Corks Screen Door Hinges Tinware some Granite Roasters Furniture all Glass Ware stock Wall Paper Towels Talcum Powder Ties Socks Linoleum Pipes Honey Walnuts Flowers Seeds Handkerchiefs Tooth picks Tablets Pencils Matches Stove Polish Shoe Polish Lamp Chimneys Lantern Chimneys Box Stationery Hooks Washing Powder Envelopes Paper Plates Spices Toilet Soap Wringers Tooth Paste and Brush Pocket Knives Tooth Powder Clothes Pins Peroxide Patent Medicines Cotton Hose. Park & Closner Broadway at 2nd - Estacada, Oregon Chevrolet The new 1917 sturdy car $625. Dodge Cars The Car of No Regrets $880. Chummy four passenger Six Roadsters and Saxon S ix’s $965. CASCADE GARAGE S. P. P esznecker - - Estacada, O regon