I \ OUR SLOGAN: Community Cooperation Devoted' to the Interests of Eastern Clackamas County V olume 13, N umber 2 MAYOR BSSTLETT IffiES HIGH FLIGHT ( E stacada , O regon T hursday O ctober 2. 1919 Market Road Secured J. W. Reed S. E. Wooster, T. C. Jubb and H. C. Stephens went to Oregon City Monday, where in cooperation with like delegations from George and Dover, secured the designation by the County Court of Market Road No. 2 run ning from Estacada up Wilson Hill, past Zion Church, over the George Bridge and thence by the most feasable route through Do ver to Sandy. This will give a hard surface road through a well settled community and connect the towns of Estacada and Sandy to the great benefit of both. Market roads are established uri der an act of the 1919 Legislature whereby the State furnishes one mill of tax to such counties as levy a like amount for the pur pose of building permanent hard surface roads. In this County such tax would furnish not less than $58, 000.00 annually and by securing designation of this road as Market Road No. 2 because it assures work on the road at no distant date, provided the bond issue is carried. The Court made it plain that, if the bond issue failed, then the Market Road money would be diverted to the construction of roads in other portions of the county. Our esteemed city executive went to Salem last week to take in the State Fair and in doing so took in more than he at first had anticipated, for he had the op portunity of emulating: the ex ample set by the Governor of the state, in taking: a ride in an aero plane. In his young:er days, the mayor was noted in the courts for his flights in eloquence as an advocate, when warming: up to his subject in defence of his client’s cau§e and it may be that he has taken some high flierhts in other ways. Rut while he is not so venturesome now as form erly, yet he is not averse *t6 a genuine thrill, so although he mhy have been up a tree more than once and in the air in some of his arguments, yet he had never been up in the clouds, ex cept metaphorically. It is not surprising then that he eagerly seized the chance to take a gen uine flight, up aloft, far above the maoding crowd and sail through th«' empyrean, to know what it feels like, with a 'dew to the future. The experience proved most exhilarating as up wards the sky pilot and his pas At the New Stand senger winged their flight. S. Resznecker is now in nis There was no unpleasant motion, new shop and auto livery garage. occasionally striking some cross He is equipped to do all kinds of air currents the going became a plumbing, tinning, electric wir- little choppy like going over a i ig, repairing with supplies of all rough road, and once in a while kinds. He is agent for the they pitched forward, as when a i Mazda lamps, electric motors for ship encounters some swelling sewing and washing machines. waves, but most of the time it It is superfluous to add, as he is was like floating • * through the at- so well known, that his work manship is of the best and that mosphere. As the mayor stud he guarantees perfect satisfac ied the clasics when at college, tion. Look up his new ad. and no doubt he recalled that famous call on him when you want any description by Virgil, of the work in his line, a drive out in flight of a dove through the air. the country or some truck haul ing done. beginning “Qualis columba. ” As it was his first experience Card Of Thanks the pilot did not venture to loop The library association wishes the loop, as that is reserved for t> express its heartiest thanks to those whose heads have become Mrs. R. Morse for the generous inured to the various sensations gift of a hundred volumes of fic attendant to high flying. tion to the library. SCHOOL NOTES The high school enrollment has now reached eighty-two. Bertha Burns is a new member doing post graduate work with the sen ior class. Lester McMains has entered the sophomore class, bringing credits from Fairview, and Ralph Mark wart has return ed after a year’s absence. Thh Juniors entertained the rest of the high school with the first party of the year given at the high school building, on Tuesday evening. The affair was a decided success. The football team will play Camas on Friday, at Camas. The football game Saturday, between Estacada High and the Hill Military Academy of Cort land, resulted in a score of 13 to 7 in favor of the latter. Out- boys played a creditable game but were outclassed in weight and experience by their oppo nents. A little more pep boys! Mr. Burns spoke to the boys and girls of the grade school Thursday morning. It has been arranged that all grades meet each Friday morn ing for opening exercises in the assembly room of the grace school. Albert Belfis and Ray McKen- ny entered school the past week. A number of boys and girls from the grade school expect to attend the Clackamas Co. Fair, at Canbv Friday. A Correction In the report of the telephone meeting on increased rates, in the last issue of the News, v\e are sorry to have made a serious error. The new increased rate of fifty cents for switching is in force and is to continue for six months trial, and not the former i twenty-five cent rate, as stated in the article. Reception To Teachers The annual reception to the teachers will be field in the High School on Friday evening. There should be a good attendance es pecially on the part of the par ents $1.50 T er Y ear AN EXCITING CONN BE Wednesday of last week, four half grown coons started out to see the world. They got as fai ns the yard of Jack McGraw of Currinsville, when they encoun tered a dog, which pre mptlysent them up a tree. Mr. McGraw hearing flu* commotion came up, and seeing the cause, sent for the assistance of three expert coon hunters, who were within hail, Drs. L. A. Wells, R. G. Mc Call and Millard Sarver. When they had arrived on the scene, the coons were still in statu quo, with the dog on guard. The problem was how to dislodge them. As it was desired to take them alive, neither bullets nor poison gas could be used, so as Dr. McCall was formerly an ex pert with the lasso, he determin ed to see if his hand or arm had lost its cunning. Gracefully en ding the rope around his head, he threw it towards the coons, and succeeded in knocking two off their perch. One of these got away, while the other closed with the dog, and getting the worst of it, took to the brush with the deg and the doctors in full cry aftc r it. Alter a valiant and exc.t ng chase of half a mile thru the brush, in which the hunters lost some of their own hide in their endeavor to get that of the coon, they finally cor ni-red it, and smothering it with sacks, shut it up in a box. The remaining two coons had in tin- ‘ meantime held tln-ir position, where the hunters on their r e turn found them. Again Dr. McCall swung the lasso and the two little coons were dropped to earth, with a thud that knocked the wind out of them, as they f< 11 on their s< lar plexus. While they lay gasping for breath, a tin tub was put over them. Thus of the four coons which so gayl.v set out that tine morning, only one returned home to tell the • tale. The others are on exhini- ti >n at the home of Dr. McCall.