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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1917)
Eastern Clackamas News Published every Thursday at Estacada. Oregon K. M. Standish, Editor and Manager Entered at the itoHtoffice in Eatarada, Oregon, aa aecond-elasa mail. SlIRSTKirriON One year Six montha - K atbs • • • • - $].50 ,7ft f As to gettin g this news to those boys, we are going to do o1 r best and i f Uncle Sam and the postal authorities will follow directions and forward the N ew s to “ Some where in France” or elsewhere, w e ’ ll do our share. And i f the laiys do receive the paper, if they will send us their latest address”? it will sim plify matters. W e Strive To Please ¡ii j i < A few weeks ago, when we conceived the idea o f presenting the home newspaper to our sol dier and sailor hovs. we did it merely feeling it would help .in a small way to cheer up some o f our homesick boys, and expect ing that a dozen copies per week would fulfil the mission. Now we have come to a reali zation that we have tackled a real job, that is, in seeing to it that the News really reaches each and everyone o f our tw enty-five to thirty enlisted men, scattered in all parts o f the world. Without intending to compli ment ourselves in the least, we had fa r from realized the value o f the home newspaper to those boys, until we liegan receiving letters galore from all parts o f the country, thanking us many times over for the paper. For instance, at Charlotte, N. C., one soldier boy carried h is c o p y o fth e News several miles to a distant part o f the camp, so that another Estacada boy could read it, but now both boys are gettin g a sep arate copy. Hut now we are up against it, for we intend that our boys shall receive the N ew s regularly, but we dont know their present ud- dresses in many instances, for the recent troop movements have scattered them to distant camps and countries. Chester Womer o f Estacada, in a letter from Camp Mills. N. V.. under date o f Nov. (>th, writes that by Thanksgiving time, he expects lo be either in France or enrollte across the ocean. He al so mentions Hob Ewalt o f Esta- cada ami Lerov Caul and says he expects other home boys will reach there in time for trans porting. From the expressions o f thunks \\ Inch we have received for our small donations, we feel ashamed to think that more home news was not published in every issue, if for no other reason than to cheer up our lioys. So we are now appealing to everyone o f our people to help make the home pa p e r * little more newsy, by seeing to it that it contains all o f the home doings. Phone, w rite or in son**way notify this office o f your hoop* and neighborhood news, if fo r-n o other reason than to do another little hit for our boys who are lighting our tight and a lo n g ways away from home, friends ami lm %*d ones.«- •- The follow ing clipping is in re butial to the N e w s ’ recent com ment on the w ay some o f the county seat papers “ handle all o f the news o f Clackamas County” . ■*t'h«* Eastern Clackamas News, Esta- cada, last week wasted space in bab- bl.ng about mistakes in The Courier’s report ol an automobile accident. Edi tor Standish knows as well as we do why newspapers sometimes fail to print proper names correctly. We wanted to comment U| k > ii the Standish effusion, but alter a thorough seareh of our ex change table have resolved that his lit tle paper must be buried somewhere beneath a copy of the late lamented Sandy N ew s.” W e have to laugh at the way Editor Robey comes back at us. for it reminds us o f the kid who couldn’t lick the school bully, but was w illing to bet him two marbles that their cat had more kittens than his. Corporal Sam Harr, o f the Quartermaster s Corps at A m eri can Lake, spent the week-end at his home in Estacada. * > Our prices are kept as low as can he made and our service the « » j Thursday, Nov. 15, lfilT A movement, now underway in a distant part o f this county, to oust our County Agricultural ist and do away with that office entirely should not receive any support from fair minded farm ers and taxpayers. I f for no other reason than the fact that the value o f the work cannot be ascertained at this early date, Mr. Werner should be retained, for the re sults o f work o f this sort cannot he determined or hardly realized short o f a year. Up to a couple o f weeks ago, lime for off e,tin g soil acidity, was being sold to the farmers o f this portion o f the county, by un scrupulous salesmen, at a p t ice o f from $12. to $liJ. per ton and many farmers were buying at those prices. Since then, Coun ty Agriculturalist Werner, with the assistance o f Frank E w ing o f Estacada,- Agriculturalist fo r the P. K. L. & P. Co., has shown the farmers that lime for this purpose can he obtained at a price o f less than one-half that asked by the private concerns. Already many farmers have placed their orders through these agriculturalists and are thankful to effect such a saving. Now, if at the end o f the first sixty days o f County A gricu ltu r alist regime, a saving o f many hundreds o f dollars has been e f fected, why listen to talk o f do ing away with that office and o f ficer, until a thorough trial has been given them? • • if ! best we know how to give. * > <;< < il We can get cheaper merchan ¡i dise Ni hi but do not believe sacrificing quality for q u a n tity - hut try we in to live up to our motto ) 5 L. A. Chapman “The Best Is None Too Good For You” E s ta c a d a , O re g o n -T * « ♦ Undertaking and Embalming + ♦ ♦ ♦ L. A. Chapman + * * \ » Estacada Licensed Embalmer * * * * * * * ♦ Operating Hearse and Morgue Phone Store or Residence * ♦ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * + + * M. J. KERKES Buyer For The Albina Dressed Beef Co. of Portland LIVESTOCK of all descriptions PURCHASED % If you have any for sale - phone Henry Githens, Currinsville.