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Devoted to the Interests ot Eastern Clackamas County V o l u m e 17, N u m b e r 12 E s t a c a d a , O r e g o n , T h u r s d a y , D e c e m b e r 27, 1923. EVENTS OF 1923 PASS IN REVIEW -p\R. W. W. RHODES ^ O S T E O P A T H IC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Lichthorn BMg., Estacada, Happenings at Home and Abroad During the Twelve Months That Have Just Closed. r \ R . G. F. MIDFORD ^ P H Y S I C I A N and S U R G E O N , X R a y E q u ip m e n t — G l a s s e s f it t e d OFFICE and Rosidence Second and Main Strsets j Estacada, Oregon—Telephone Connections PRESIDENT HARDING’S DEATH J M L CHAS. P. JOHNSON D E N T IS T EVENING W ORK BY APPOINTMENT Estacada, Oregon. D R. W. S U WALLENS R G E O N D E N T IST For over 20 years at Springwater, Ore. ALBERT t . elott A T T O R N E Y A T LAW RESIDENT LAWYER ESTACADA. - - OREGON W M . G. D U N L A P A T T O R N E Y A T LAV/ At Estacada, in the office of Woodle Realty Co., on Saturdays—Portland o f fice 1524 Yeon Building. Q I) EBY. A TTO R N E Y A T LAW . General Practice. Confidential Ad viser. Oregon City, Oregon. TV/TcGU IRK & SCHNEIDER 4.VA A T T O R N E Y S A T LAW . At Gresham office —Tuesdays, Thurs days ana Saturdays, 293-5, Withrow building. Portland office, 721 Corbett building. S # E. WOOSTER Real Estate, Loans, Insurance, Rentals, Farm Loans a Specialty. Telephone Estacada, Ore. •vvv V • • • • ^ Y To All and Every One W e Wish a l jt. H appy Mew Year May each ol its 366 days Bring You Prosperity l _ ____ __________________ Futile Attempt« to Settle German Rep arations Problem— France Occu pies the Ruhr—Turkey's Diplo matic Triumph—Terrible Earth quake in Japan—American Prosperity and Politics. By EDWARD W. PICKARD With the exception of Germany, ruined by her own acts, and Japan, »flattered by the forces of nature, all the world was better off at the close of 1923 than at its beginning. This Is especially true of the United Stntes, Italy, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Tur key, and probably Russia, though the Information coming from the land of the soviets has been so colored that It wus difficult to determine true con ditions there. Economic recovery of the world was retarded, as It was during the previ ous twelve months, by failure to settle the matter of the German repa rations and by the steady decline of Germany toward the point of absolute collapse. The occupation of the Ruhr by France and the resulting disputes with Great Britain brought on re peated crises each of which seemed to threaten the final disruption of the entente cordiale. Several proposals tot commissions to determine Germany's capacity to pay were made, but each of them re quired the participation of the United States and each time the American government found unacceptable the restrictions insisted upon by Premier Folncare of France. As the year drew toward its close, however, the reparations commission wus preparing to appoint two committees of experts to help work out the problem, and President Coolldge approved of the ap pointment of Americans on these com mittees. Turkey gained power and prestige through the Lausanne peace confer ence and the resulting trentles with the allies and with the United Stntes. Late In the year she added herself to the list of republics with Mustapha Kemal Pasha as her first president. Under the leadership of General Primo Rivera and other army officers and aristocrats, there was n house- cleaning In Spain that resulted In the turning out of the crowd of politicians that had for years been battening on the spoils of islsgovernment. The so- cnlled democratic government was overthrown and a dictatorial council substituted. President Harding’s death In San Francisco threw all the United States —and Indeed all the civilized world— Into heartfelt mourning. Vice Presi dent Calvin Coolldge, succeeding to the chief magistracy, carried on In general the policies of his predecessor. Mr. Harding had been considered the certain nominee of the Republican party In 1924, nnd his demise threw open the lists and made the political contest intensely Interesting. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Y The Rexall Store German reparations nnd complica tions resulting from the failure to pay them occupied much of the attention of European diplomats. Early in Jan uary the allied premiers held a futile conference In Paris, nnd France pre pared for separate action to collect from Germany. About the same time Secretary Hughes announced the Unit ed States would not consider Berlin's proposal for a four-power European pence pact and also Informally ad vised France not to occupy the Ruhr. France, however, was determined, and the reparations commission gave her the opening by declaring Germany In willful default In coal deliveries. Ger many formally protesting and Great Britain not approving, the French on Jnntiary 11 began the occupation of the Ruhr, seizing Its most Important cities one after another. President Harding expressed his disapproval by recalling the American troops from Germany. Chancellor Cuno, with the support of the reichstag, declared a ''moral war” of passive resistance and ordered all state employees not to obey the French. The mine owners and later the Industrial magnates fell in with this program and for months the French were balked In their efforts to get any considerable revenue from the region. They seized customs, bunk funds and railways, and arrested many Industrial leaders and officials, but the passive resistance was not broken un til late in September. The occupa tion was assisted actively by Belgium and passively by Italy. Great Brit ain, though she did not actually ham per the French, gave them no help. On May 2 Germany made a new reparations offer of $7,300,000,000, $1.50 P e r Y e a r X BARTON. - LO C AL ITEMS S P R IN G W A T E R N E W S QUIET OBSERVANCE Mr. and Mr. Wm. Still and For Watch Work see A. N. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wilson children went to Portland Mon and little daughter are guests of Johnson. 5-10-tf day to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Wilson’ s father and broth Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Stephens Chas. Masson and Mrs. Boyce. er, Fred McCracken. j were county seat visitors today. They returned home Tuesday. The Christmas celebration be F. J. Devine of Lexington, Phil Marquam ate his Christ gan on Sunday with appropriate Mrs. S. N. Kilgore has been Ore., was a Barton visitor Tues | mas dinner with relatives in enjoying a visit with her broth services in the local churches. day and Wednesday. Portland. er, Emil Schradieck from Manila. For days previously the mer Miss Hazel Gibson, who is at Miss Irene Saling is another of P. I., who arrived last Thursday. chants were busy with their nu tending the Benson Polytechnic j the 0. A. C. students home for He leaves today for a visit with merous customers who were school is spending the Christ | the holidays. loading up with presents and his mother in New York. mas vacation with her father Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Shibley provisions for the great festival. Harry Reid of Portland spent and brother, Harvey and Frank Christmas with his father W. R. had a family reunion on Tues The quantities of mail which dai lin Gibson. ly arrived at the postoffice, were day. Miss Alice Hansen went to. Reid of Garfield. indicative that this year’ s cele J. Neitzling of Columbia Falls, Portland, Saturday, and will Mr. and Mrs. Irving Smith are bration would be the record one Montana, visited with his sister, spend her vacation there and at taking a Christmas holiday with it proved to be. Mrs. W. Wallens, one day last relatives at Roseburg. Sherwood and Salem. The night of Christmas eve week. Miss Alice Hansen of the Bar was very stormy, with wind and The P. L. & P. Co. had a crew ton school and Miss Linea Young working here yesterday, putting rain, but a lull set in by morning. A Shameful Attack of the N. Logan school, with in new poles and wires. The day itself was quietly kept A malicious, mendacious article their pupils, gave very enjoy in town, as most people were Mrs. Margaret Kilgore and lit purporting to be an interview able Christmas programs at their celebrating at home or with their tle daughter Alice spent Christ with an Estacada man, was pub schools, Friday afternoon. friends, as was proper, because mas Day at Willamette. lished in last Sunday’s Oregon Christmas Day is strictly a fami Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Stone and Miss Francis Hassell, who is City’ s Enterprise. It was direc ly day. Nearly every home was children are visiting relatives in teaching at Wapinitia in Wasco ted against Co. Supt Vedder for decorated with Christmas greens Portland, where Mrs. Stone and the stand he took at the school county is home for the holidays. of fir, holly and miseltoe, and it little daughter are ill. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bartholo meeting last week. As a reply was a pretty sight to see the A. M. Clagaard has been mak mew entertained a family party will be made, further comment wreaths hanging in the windows ing his home at Barton for sev is withheld for the present. of 25 for Christmas dinner. tied with scarlet streamers. eral days and driving to a sawmill This is an old and very pleasing Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Marshall near Estacada where he is in Community Club custom, which with that of a entertained at dinner Christmas, stalling the machinery. The regular monthly meeting family Christmas tree, should the Rev. B. F. and Mrs. Clay. Miss Rose Wilson of Portland of the Community Club will be Un Mr. and Mrs. Upton H. Gibbs held in the lobby of the Estaca never be allowed to lapse. visited her brother Ernest and fortunate indeed are those who were Christmas guests of Mr. lamilv last week. da hotel tomorrow evening at 8 on this day have no children with Edith Ferre), who is attending and Mrs. H. W. Morgan of Sell- o’ clock. County Judge H. E. whom “ to gather around the a business college in Portland, is wood. Cross will make an address on Christmas tree.” But for those Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Lawrence the road situation. spending the holidays at the who have, the years slip off them home of her parents, Mr. and took dinner with their son Syl and they become children again vester Lawrence and his wife of Mrs. W. P. Ferrel. State Grange Chaplain Passes themselves for the time being. Portland visitors Monday were Springwater, Christmas. T. R. Sellwood o f Milwaukie, While the past year was not as BORN—At Currinsvllle, De and one of its oldest residents, good financially as some others, Harvey Gibson, Mil burn White- head, Mr. and Mrs. C. Christen cember 17, 1923, a son to Mr. died Wednesday morning. He yet there was an abundance of sen and daughter Martha and and Mrs. Arthur Smith. Dr. G. was chaplain for years of the gifts and good things for every son Emil, and Mr, and Mrs. Geo. F. Midford was in attendance. State Grange, and also! a promi one. Certainly there was no in W. Turner. The funeral stance of distress in town or any Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Gates had nent Odd Fellow. Mr. and Mrs. F. Gnffnut were as Christmas guests, the brother will be held Saturday afternoon, where around. But if there had passengers to Gresham, Monday. of the former, Theodore Gates at 2 o ’clock, presumably from been, and it became known, re the Episcopal Church of which he lief would have poured in from W. L. Summers has returned and his family, of Portland. all sides. from Long Beach, Wash., where Among those who are attend was a life long member. At night the streets began to he has been for several weeks. ing the 0. A. C. from Estacada, Attention Fruit Growers fill up with cars, which brought The Misses Esther and Mabel and are home for the holidays, those from outside to attend the The meeting of the Oregon Erdman o f Portland, and Mr. are Miss Pauline Rose, Clyde show at the Gem theatre and the Fruit Growers advertised for Fri and Mrs. Lester Irving and lit Kimmel and George Harken ri Artisans’ dance in the park pa day January 4, has been post der. tle son of Boring, spent Christ vilion. Altogether Christmas of mas at the D. L. Erdman home. Neil Weir son of the Rev. V. poned to Monday, January 7th. 1923 was a day long to be re The Sunday callers at the For A. Weir of Springwater, return membered. man home were Dr. H. H. ed home for the holidays, Satur Is Your Name Written Here? Hughes of Gresham, James day afternoon, from Portland, Those subscribing for this pa Smith and son Walter of Eagle where he is attending the Ben per recently are: Max Sagner, MAY SU PPLANT M ORSE CODE Creek, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pesz- son High school. James B. Linn, H. M. Duus, Ed Army Officer Said to Have necker of Vancouver, Wash. Mrs. Upton A. Upton and son Steinman, E. W. Bartlett, H. American Devieed New Alphabet Su Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Wallace are here from Pendleton, where Swerner. Mrs. V. J. Hillyard, perior to That In Uee. and family, and Mrs. S. E. Rob she is teaching school, to spend Mrs. Annna Mikulecky, S. J. A vlstn for the extension of com inson spent Christmas in Port the holidays with her husband. Howe, John Stormer, Mrs. L. E. munication by radio, land lines nnd Her sister, Mrs. L. S. Dobson, Marrs, A. H. Fraley, W. P. Fer cables has been opened with the an land. nouncement of the Invention of a new M. A. Nelson took a load of accompanied her as far as Port rel, C. S. Allen. universal alphabet by MaJ. Oen. George land. hogs to Portland one day last O. Squler, the chief signal officer ot the Eugene Good from Gladstone week. Mr. and Thomas Yocum of army. The new alphabet, hailed as the was over Saturday afternoon and Miss Evelyn J. Walker of Mil Garfield, entertained at Christ greatest advance In the science of waukee, Wisconsin, a trained called at this office. We knew mas dinner, their daughter, Mrs. communication in many years. Is 2.03 nurse who has taken care of each other years ago in La J. B. Jones, her husband and times faster than tho International Morse code now universally used. It George Forman, left Monday for Grande, where his father was a daughter of Portland, their sons Is designed to supplnnt the latter, well-known hotel man. Lloyd and Archie with their fam which was Invented eighty years ago. Portland. Mr. Forman is very Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Price and ilies, Mrs. E. T. Jones and W. The Morse code. General Squler said. slowly recovering and is able family of Carson, Wash., arrived R. Jones. Their daughter and Is entirely out of date nnd tinsulted to to sit up a little each day. telegraphy as known and practiced to Christmas to spend a few days family returned to Portland yes day. Discuss Local Top'cs <vith Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Dyke terday. The principle upon which the new al phabet Is baled Is that the dots and man. The two ladies are sisters. A group of people of Estacada Attention is called to the ad of dashes occupy equal lengths of time have met regularly every week f Mrs. Lena Underwood with and no consecutive signals are of the for the purpose of discussing so her son Lester, spent Christmas A. S. Masse who advertises his same sign, nnd the limit of legibility cial problems. Such topics as a , Day with her nephew, George well known Old Scotch Liniment for each letter of the alphabet Is prac tically uniform. Living Wage, Proper Living Con Walthers, who is at the Good for rheumatism, and other reme General Squler’s other lines of re dies for which he is agent. search have developed remits of pro ditions, and Public Health have Samaritan hospital. found Importance In a technical, non- been considered. In each case The Misses Gertrude, Anna, The Rev. H. W. and Mrs. Mort spectacular way, and other nations the discussion has c e n t e r e d and Ruth Dillon entertained on went to visit Mr. Mort’ s parents have recognized his scientific eminence around local conditions and there Christmas their brothers, W. W. at Goldemla'e, Wash., ytseerday. with a bundle of honors nnd decora tions. He Is a fellow of the I’hyslml fore been of practical value to: and Lee Dillon of Portland, with Society of London nnd a member of all who attended. The aim is to their families. Altogether they the Royal Institute of Great Britain, a Knight Commander of the Order of have all groups and all interests numbered fifteen. St. Michael and St. George, and, at in the community represented Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Morgan home, a member of the Nntlonal Acad and to have a free expression of besides their daughter-in-law, emy of Sciences, a Distinguished Serv ice medalist nnd a frequent winner of opinion from each. The next Mrs. Harry Morgan, and their j the Franklin medal.—New York meeting will be held at the Meth little granddaughter, had as, Herald. odist church, Thursday. January Christmas guests, Mrs. Morgan’s) 3. at 7:30 p. m. At that time sister and her husband. Mr. and Prises Slightly Mixed. Free heir cuts for twelve months Public Amusement will be dis Mrs. M. E. Williams of Gresham. I and a pint of ‘‘home brewed” on en< h cussed. The discussion will be visit w it won by ■ young woman at a Mr. and Mrs. -A. E. Sparks followed by entertainment and Wiltshire "tombola." A pair of silk had a houseful for Christmas, as! stockings was won by a man. refreshments. All are welcome, they entertained Mr. and Mrs. Use fer Russian Paper Money. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Starr and George Morrow, Mr. and M rs.’ To our many friends, whose pat Street hawkers In Geneva, Switzer little son. o f Molalla. are guests J. C. Micheltree, Mr. and Mrs.! land, are pushing their sales hy wrap- ronage we heartily appreciate. of Mrs. S ta r r ’ s parents, Mr. and Frank Morrow and Walter Mor- i t u e n r a |)i c*c C t C (T A n c P*ng customer's purchases In Russia* row, all of Portland. Int rtOP Lt 3 C. & C. STORE j paper money. Mrs. B. 0 . Sarver.