Vancouver Prune G row er
Buys Springwater Farm
Everybody
Happy New Year
♦
♦
Oar
♦
♦
♦
+
♦
♦
1918
Calendars
♦
*
+
♦
♦
•*
♦
♦
Are Now Ready.
♦
♦
+
•»>
♦
♦
♦
♦
♦
♦
♦
+
♦
♦
+
+
+
Call And Get Yours
Estacada State Bank
m
+ + + ♦ + * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
+ ♦ ♦
T. I*. McAuley o f Vancouver,
Washington,
an
experienced
Clark County prune grower, last
week purchased the 42acre farm
in Springwater form erly owned
by S. E. Wooster o f Estacada,
the deal being handled by Mi.
Wooster, who is in the realty
business.
This ranch contains al>out ten
acres o f young prunes and with
the coming to this section o f
such an experienced prune cul-
turalist as Mr. McAuley, it will
give an added stimulus to the
prune business'of this section.
The consideration o f the deal is
reported to have been $6,000.
Miss Dora Currin o f Currins-
ville is home for the holidays, ex­
pecting to return to the U. o f ().
soon a fter New Years.
Under
the chaperonage o f
Lew is Jones o f Estacada. Els-
mere Devore, Arnold Lovelace,
Stanley Beltils, Ray Tibbies, Ed­
die Fleming and Bill Earls, with
a full assortment o f guns, camp­
ing equipment and ammunition,
spent two days last week camp­
ing in a cave on the banks o f the
Clackamas above Estacada. Dur­
ing that time, they successful!/
resisted all Indian attacks, kept
the cougars and wolves away by
maintaining bright tires at nights
and finally arrived home safe
and sound.
George Kitzm iller has pur­
chased a span o f mules which
w ill be used on his farm.
Otis Wagner o f Estacada is
now able to be about and is well
on the road to good health again.
Since his return from the Van­
couver Barrack’ s Hospital he has
put on many pounds o f flesh,
probably largely due to the re­
sults o f mother’s cooking.
O. B. Coldwell, General Super­
intendent o f the P. K. L. & P.
Co. and T. W. Sullivan o f Ore­
gon City were Estacada business
visitors Sunday.
Dances are scheduled to take
place at C ogsw ell’s Hall in Eagle
Creek on New Years Eve and
Saturday evening, January 12th,
the latter atfair being under the
auspices o f the W. O. W. with
all invited.
For Your Pigs’ New Years Dinner
feed them our
GROUND WHEAT AND OUTS HI S3. PER 100 LB3
A re you able to keep your land drained these rainy
days? If not, call and see us.
DKA1N TILE — that is one o f our specialties,
and we always carry a stock o f 4 and 6 inch tiling.
The price on this is right, but greatly lowered in quantity
lots, especially where several thousand feet is ordered.
Now is the time for draining, so let us figure on your order
for tile.
E stacada Feed & L u m ber Co.
L. S. BRONSON
Estacada,
M. D. EVANS
Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ahl-
berg and Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Lasswell o f Estacada were din­
ner guests at the Frank Ewing
home in Viola on Christmas.
Considerable interest is being
taken by Ford auto owners in a
demonstration o f the “ J. R. In-
tensifiers” for lights, to be held
at the Cascade Garage next Fri­
day evening, December 28th, at
8 o’ clock.
John Osborne and T. J. Rea­
gan have been awarded the con­
tract for the
cement
walks
abutting the Ruby property on
Main St. and the plank walk in
front o f the Beary property on
Main St.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jorg and
family o f Estacada spent Christ­
mas Day with relatives in Port­
land.
BOB’S PUCE
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bartholo­
mew o f Heppner were dinner
guests Christmas day at the
Tannler home in Viola.
Dover
Doings
Contributed
Following the 'program
and
entertainment in connection w ith
the Christmas tree festivities o f
last Saturday evening, w hen a
good time was had by all, Bruce
Schminky, who is on his vaca­
tion from O. A. C.. gave a rous­
ing talk in behalf o f the Red
Cross Drive, ending by the secur­
ing o f twenty-one memberships.
Bruce Schminky, who is at­
tending O. A. C. is spending his
holiday vacation at home, where
he will remain until January 6th.
An agent o f the Northwest
Furniture Company was in this
district recently taking orders
for school furniture, the Dover
School District No. 82 purchas­
ing eight new desks, which will
be installed during the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Mert l^ee and
family o f Knappa, Wash, are
spending the holidays at the
home o f her mother, Mrs. S. A.
Updegrave.
Jacob and Grandville Cooper
o f Portland attended the Christ­
mas program here.
High water last week seriously
interfered with the duties of
Rural Carrier George Sawtelle,
who was unable to cover the Ex­
on or Eagle Creek road.
Mr. and Mrs. W alter K itzm il­
ler, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DeSha
zer, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Udell
and Web Roberts were Portland
auto visitors last week.
The News is this week in re­
ceipt o f an interesting letter
from H. W. Kitching o f Currins-
viile, whose address and title now
reads
No. 2487415 Canadian
Forestry Corps, Secteur Postal
164, Armee, France.
H arry’s
letter was largely one o f thanks
for the home newspaper, which
he is receiving, lie sends re­
gards to all friends at home and
apparently could add nothing
more, ow ing to the strict censor­
ship. the letter and envelope
bearing evidence galore o f its
having passed through several
censors.
Headquarters For
Soda Water • Soft Drinks • Lunches
Cigars and Tobacco
R. G. Marchbank
Estacada, Or.