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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1918)
Walter Givens Editor In Chief Fred Bartholomew Outside Man The Weekly OOSTING January 17, 1918 Vol. 1 No. 52 Back Again Well folks, ye Editor in Chief is back a^ain and hard at work, rettardless of any reports which mittht have been circulated to the contrary, and mighty glad to get back and meet our many friends once more. While we believe that sugar will always draw more flies than vinegar, we are not after flies but business and some times good business demands that something be done which would not be considered good business ethics. It has been our policy in times past to keep sweet regardless of any outside conditions which might exist, and if we were trac ing legitimate and clean business competition we would not turn aside from business to use the pages of the Bo« s ing Spirit as we are going to at this particular time. Our position here is that lying and gossiping and insinua tion has no part in legitimate business and should not be toler ated by fair thinking people. While away for our Holiday vacation; und engaged in a cause with which we are proud te be associated, there was syste matically circulated from one particular source in this town, and fostered by one or more par ticular individuals the false and malicious and insinuating reports that the Editor aad chief had quietly and somewhat mysteri ously disappeared. That his friends need not look for him back, that he was ‘‘Somewhere in France”, or gone to parts un known. In fact several s t a t e m e n t s which the parties in question did not themselves believe, but were simply the expressions of a mind and heart so full of infamy and corruption that we feel that the statements should not go un challenged. Not because of the injury done us, for there has been none, but because this same party, to our knowledge has al ways been very prominently identified with every choice bit of gossip and scandal that has been circulated in this town since we have been here, and dearly loves to be part and parcel to anything that resembles a skunk. If there was any good and suf ficient reason why any individual should desire to get away from Estacada it would be because of the town being infested wdth a few of these ‘‘Gutter Snipes” and ‘‘Sewer Hats”, who like the buzzards dearly love every thing that smells of corruption and de cay. rather than being able to see something good and noble in every individual. This is the third or fourth time that ye Editor and Chief has beed lied about and scandal ized from this same source and notice is hereby given that it had better be the last, for the very next time that any false report, whether great or small, comes from this source we are going to give some real publicity to the source, giving both the name and address. We are here trying to transact a legitimate business and at the same time be of some benefit to the community, and while we feel that there are a few, who from competitive reasons would wish us elsewhere, we are going Devoted to the stimulation of civic and community pride • the patroniz ing of home industries • and the boosting of the Walter Givens Co. PIRIT Estacada, Oregon to remain here until we feel that our real friends no longer desire us to remain, and if business continues in the future as in the past we should be able to stay at least until tne Kaiser is licked, maybe a hundred years more. So friends we invite you to still make our store your head quarters, bring us what you have to sell and let us sell you what you have to buy and we both make money, because we always have the right prices both in buying and selling. A Hoover Counter of Real Bargains Beginning with Friday of this week and continuing indefinitely, we are going to conduct on Fri days and Saturdays a real Hoov er counter. That is, on this counter will be placed staple art icles of real value which will be sold at bargain prices, and one whg.“h our customers will save real money with which to help Hoover Kan the Kaiser. No ad vance information will be given as to the articles to be Hoover- ized, no information will be giv en over the phone, no delivery of Hooverized articles, and they are sold for cash only. We guarantee that the prices will be sufficiently lower than regularly to warrant any one vis iting this counter on these days, and so article will be Hooverized two weeks in succession. So come in, prepared to take advantage of these bargains, as they may be gone in thirty min utes, for we may only have a dozen cans or packages of the saaae article, or we may have ten cases. We make no denial of the fact that our object is to in crease our trade and at the same time decrease the cost to you. Remember the days—Friday and Saturday. The Walter Givens Company, Inc. ESTACADA. OREGON L