Eastern Clackam as News
Published every Thursday at
Estacada. Oregon
K. M. Standish, Editor and .Manager
Entered at the postoffice in Estacada,
Oregon, as second-class mail.
One year
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Thursday; .July 2f>. li>17
Hilly Sunday, the well known
evangelist, in the course of his
remarks last Sunday at the (¡lad-
stone Chautauqua, handed one of
his characteristic, scathing hot­
shots at the small town practice
of gossiping, even suggesting all
manners of extreme punishments
for the man or woman who joins
in that supposed small town di­
version.
While we do not disagree with
Mr. Sunday’s condemnation of
the gossip habit, we wonder if
he has ever lived in a small town;
for small towns and gossip go
hand in hand.
Our city neighbors deserve no
special credit for not practicing
the gossip habit, for in the larger
communities, that close, personal,
social and business relation does
not exist among the inhabitants,
as in the small town or country
district, where every man knows
his neighbor, his neighbor’s fam­
ily, his neighbor’s business and
bis neighbor’s faults and virtues.
In the larger cities there are
hundreds of outside diversions to
occupy the mind and conversa­
tion, out in the small town the
tendency towards gossip is ten
fold greater ami tin* man or wo­
man in the latter who refrains
from gossip, deserves more credit
than Hilly Sunday or any of our
Ing city neighbors imagine.
While gossip is a pernicious
and dangerous habit and one to
be shunned, it is that ever pres­
ent danger of being the victim of
gossip, that often keeps all of us
following a straighter path than
we might pursue, if we lived in
the congested districts, where no
man cares or is interested in our
business or our morals.
The tanner should not find un­
due fault with the present ten­
dency towards the high-cost-of-
living. for he is one of a very
few classes w ho is not solely de­
pendant on outside markets for
his food supplies, nor is he di­
rectly subject to the big increas­
ed »»»si of production at tin* same
time that his products are com­
manding top prices.
While farm labor is from 20"»
to 40"» higher than a year or two
ago and farm machinery and
livestock cost more, those vital
elements of agriculture; namely
the plant food in the soil, the
rain and the sunshine are as free
as ever.
This enviable condition is not
apparent in most lines of manu-
faeture or merchandizing, for in
the manufacture of goods, de­
pendant upon materials man­
ufactured by others, every fea­
ture of the production is subject
to increased cost, with the ulti­
mate p r o f i t proportionately
lowered.
The merchant today is making
no greater profit on the sale of
his flour, sugar, hardware or
other supplies than during ordin­
ary times, when he bought and
sold at lower prices and the
newspaper publisher likewise is
making no bigger if as big a pro­
fit on the sale of his manufac
tured product, when every arti­
cle entering into that manufac­
ture is costing him from 25% to
400 "6 more.
If newspapers could be pro­
duced from the free use of the
soil, sunshine and rain, with but
an added element of increased
labor hire, the publishers would
still be maintaining their former
subscription rates and the News
would remain at $1. per year
but it cant be done and so after
August 1st, 1917 the subscription
price has to lie increased to $1.50
per year and we hope our read­
ers will realize that this move is
an honest and necessary one, be­
fore accusing us of boosting the
price without good and sufficient
reasons.
Mad fire started in any build­
ing in Estacada within the last
two weeks, or even up to date,
it is very doubtful if it could have
been extinguished or controlled,
owing to lack of pressure in the
city’s water mains.
This lack of water pressure at
this time of the year is due to
two causes, one of which can be
controlled to a large extent, pro­
viding the water users will un­
selfishly economize in their water
eoiTsumpt ion.
At this time last year, investi­
gations undertaken by the city
council showed that it was the
custom of many water users to
keep the water running 24 hours
of each day. This practise being
employed largely inside of the
houses, where milk, butter and
o her foods needing refrigerating
were kept under a running
stream.
It is this practise, along with a
disregard of the ordinances gov­
erning sprinkling and other wat­
er uses, that has brought about
the present scarcity in the city’s
mains.
At times last week, there was
not sufficient force to ha ve
thrown a stream from a fire hose,
to a second story window, with
some faucets refusing to even
trickle.
This condition can only be rec­
tified by each individual water
consumer exe r c i s i ng a fair
amount of unselfishness for the
common good: even suffering the
« 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.
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We can get cheaper merchan­
dise but we do not believe in
sacrificing quality for quantity
but try to live up to our motto
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L. A. Chapman
“ The Best Is None To Good For You"
Estacada, Oregon
When you considering the twelve improvements in
The
New
CHEVROLET
At
$
710 .
Sloping wind-shield, improved radiator, water-pump,
new type oil-pump, dust-pan, (front and rear.) one man
top, foot and robe rail, protecting pad at each of front
seats, demountable rims, extra rim ami carrier.
The car is really less in price considering these
improvements. The same wonderful engine.
C A S C A "The D place E for expert G service" A R A G E
S. P. Pesznecker
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Estacada, Oregon
iTVIarvel Junior Vulcanizer
No flame to burn your tube.
Small enough to put in your
pocket. Large enough to
quickly and permanently
vulcanize any puncture.
No gasoline or alcohol.
Light a match to the
chemicalized disc anti
in 5 minutes you have
a permanent repair.
Cascade Garage • Estacada, Oregon
loss of having the milk sour or
the butter melting, which incon-
venience is slight as compared
with the loss that will result from
exhausting the city’s water sup-
ply at this dry time of year, when
danger from fire is great.
Naturally the city’s water sup-
ply. from the creek Mowing from
(iarfield. is low during these hot
days and add to this a waste of
the supply and it proves a dan-
gerous condition. Furthermore,
from a drinking standpoint, the
using of a maximum amount of
the water at this time results in
roiling up the sediment in the
stream and reservoir and good
drinking water is vitally essen-
tial during these summer days,
Ken Bartlett of Estacada, w ho
for the past few weeks has been
daily expecting a call to join his
ambulance corps, has temporari-
ly quit waiting and is leaving
for Eastern Oregon to work in
the harvest fields.