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Devoted to the Interests ot Eastern Clackamas County
V olum e
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
ESTACADA, OREGON,
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OREGON NEWS ITEMS
OF SPECIAL INTEREST
THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1925.
BANK ANNOUNCES
CONTEST WINNERS
$1.50 P er Y ear
COUNTY SCHOOL SUPT.
ADDRESSES CLUB
EFFORTS OF SON SAVES
PARENTS FROM FLOOD
Harrisburg, Or.— Vern B. Smith-
The officers of the Estacada
ley and parents did not take into
State Bank have been giving,
account a foot or more of over­
■p\K. W. W. RHODES
night rise in the river where thev
Klamath county's annual fair will during the past few months,
O S T E O P A T H IC
The regular meeting o f the East- attempted to cross Burdock slough
be held from September 3 to 5 Inclu­ talks in the local schools on the
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
subject Of Banking and the re- ern Clackamas Community Club north o f here Wednesday in a light
Office in Licjithorn Bldg., Estacada, sive.
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was held Thursday, June 4 at 8 P. wagon. The wagon box was lifted
Fire chiefs of the state held their lation Of the banks to the com- M > jn tbe high schooi auditorium. from the bolsters mid stream,
annual convention at Forest Grove
■P)R. G. F. MIDFOKD
munity. This is in line with the County
School
Superintendent drifting with the current as the
^ P H Y S I C I A N and S U R G E O N . : this week.
program of the Educational Brenton E. Vedder discussed the team swam ahead.
X R ay E quipment — G lasses fitted
The University of Oregon medical Committee o f
the American proposition o f forming a union
The box sank, tipping the three
OFFICE and Raaidance Second and Main Strset» school, Portland, will graduate 45 stu­
Estacada, Oregon—Telephone Connection!
Bankers Association and under hiFh 8chocl district in the eastern Smithleys out. The younger man
dents this year.
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n part o f Clackamas county.
Mr. swam with the current, one arm
State and county traffic officers the supervision of Mr. Percy P. * edder told of the union high supporting both parents until shal-
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from all sections of Oregon held their Caufield o f Orogon City, membei school districts already in opera- l° vv water was reached, when they
semi-annual conference In Salem.
of the Committee for Clackamas tion in the county and stated that waded to safety. The horses landed
EVENING W ORK BY APPOINTMENT
The Wheeler Lumber company now County. The talks in the High With such an organization many safely with the front running gears
DENTIST
Phones: Office, 315; Residence 4712
la operating a small box factory In
Estacada
Oregon. connection with the sawmill at Wheel­
er.
‘ Announcement of the erection this
d r . harry l . C handler
CH IROPRACTOR
year of a new Masonic temple and a
535 MORGAN BUILDING
labor temple in Eugene has been
BROADW AY AND W ASH.
HOURS
PO RTLAN D, O R E G O N
1 0 A .M .t o 6 P . M made.
The McKenzie pass is expected to be
opened by June 20, according to G.
D. EBY,
E. Hoffman of the bureau of public
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a tto rn ey a t la w .
roads.
General Practice.
Confidential Ad­
Bench land farms In Umatilla coun­
viser. Oregon City.. Oregon.
ty have received so much rain re­
cently that spring planting work has
been delayed.
The public service commission has
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Issued an order reducing the mini­
M asonic B ldg .
E stacada , O re .
mum rate on electric service In the
city of Banks from $1.50 to $1.
Dr. J. P. Wallace, 73, Albany’s old­
W . A- heylm an
est physician, and a practitioner for
* ATTORNEY AT LAW
41 years, died at his home in Albany
Insurance
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Collections
after an Illness of six months.
Real Estate— Loans
See Heylman About Insurance j Mr. and Mrs. William Davidson of
Brownsville, who crossed the plains
to Oregon in the early 50s, celebrated
their 58th wedding anniversary.
§ E. WOOSTER
Governor Pierce issued a commis­
Real Estate, Loans, Insurance,
sion to Edgar 8. Piper, of Portland,
Rentals,
appointing him a trustee of the state
library for a period'of five years.
Farm Loans a Specialty.
An old bridge that spanned the Uma­
Telephone Estacada, Ore.
tilla river at Stanfield collapsed re­
cently. It was constructed In 1883.
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No one was on the structure when it
fell.
Hearing requested by the House­
wives Council of Portland, In connec­
tion with the fight for lower fares on
London Lancashire Fire Ins. Co.
lines of the Portland Electric Power
company, has been set for June 23.
Keep your policy in our Fire
Proof Vault, free of charge.
A special election has been called
for June 16 by the Ashland council
H. C. S TE P H E N S
for a vote upon the question of Issuing
$18,000 In bonds for the purchase of
A gent .
a site for the southern Oregon normal.
Milo Strohm. an old-time resident of
Dayton, was shot and seriously wound­
ed by Sheriff Green of Columbia coun­
ty when Strohm sought to prevent the
officer searching his house for liquor.
Warning to residents of Portland to
investigate carefully before accepting
so-called "free lots’’ from unlicensed
real estate agents, was issued by Will
H BLOCK SOUTH OF P.O.
Morre, state real estate commission­
er.
ESTACADA, OREGON
Construction of a park at the pro­
montory overlooking Memaloose is­
land, on property donated to the state
by R. D. Chatfleld of Mosier, Is pro­
posed by the state highway commis­
Have the sole* sewed on
sion.
The United States battleship Oregon
your are** shoe* with a
started on Its last cruise Tuesday
when three boats took her In tow at
HOT W A X M A C H I N E
Bremerton, Wash., for Portland, There
she will be turned over to the staU
as a relic.
Robert J. Tatro, 30, a transient, wag
shot and mortally wounded by a gro­
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PORTLAND’S MOST REAS­
Falls when, according to the police,
ONABLE EATING HOUSE
he was attempting to break into the
Lewis grocery store.
Philip Metscham of 444 East
Twenty-second street, Portland, was
named by the war department as
213 FIRST ST., Near Salmon
Representative Crumpacker’s first ap­
Our Motto:
pointee to the United States military
' Price, Quality and Quantity.
academy at West Point.
Joseph Jefferson, about 38 years
of age. an employe of the Clarke &
GROW3 TALL WHEAT
Wilson Lumber company, was burned
to death In a fire which destroyed
J.P. Woodle, Sr." brought into
the Wancoma hotel, a frame three-
the New* office last Tuesday two
story building at Linnton.
samples o f fall wheat which had
been grown on the J. W. Howlett
J. K. Ely reports the sale o f an
donation
land claim now owned
and farmed by Ray Woodle. The acre o f ground to Clyde Shock and
wheat is a fall variety and meas- one to Dave Es^Jeman.
O
W IL L IA M WALLACE SMITH
FIRE INSURANCE.
BOOT and SHOE
REPAIR SHOP
Neat, Durable work
Guaranteed
A. R. DAHLKE, Estacada
SUITE-EMM
urea six and one-half feet. Eight
Mr. arid Mrs. A. C. Van Houten
acres were sown last fall and Mr.
and two
children recently from
Woodle states
that
about
five
California are now located on the
acres has a stand o f .grain meas­ Theo. Carpenter farm in Garfield.
uring from five feet to six and
one-hatf feet in length.
The attractive stickers adorning
the windshields o f the many auto­
The strawberry
festival under mobile* in this vicinity call the
s direction o f the Ladies Aid o f attention o f all that Estacada will
e Christian church will be held have a celebration on July 4th.
iday, June 12. at 6 P. M. in the Plan to spend the day in your
O. O. F. hall.
Remember the home town.
te and the hour.
The Misses Francis and Florence
home
Monday
rhe degree team of Portland will be Hassell returned
Estacada. Saturday evening to pot evening from a visit with their
the Golden Rule and Royal Purple brother. Vernon Hassell and fami­
trees for the Eetacada Encampment., ly at Aberdeen.
Sehnnl ivprp crivpn hv
Mr
Ktpn. apparently difficult
problems
had while the wagon
e e g en oy
.o p
worked ^
otherwige
hens and in the Grade Sehooj Ly seemed impossible. He had com-
Aliss Dillon.
piled a number o f statistics which
Pri2es were offered by the aided greatly in clearing up many
iocal bank for essays on the var- o f the problems confronting those
ious topics covered with the re- , interested in this matter.
Mr. Vedder stated that it would
suit that Miss Ruth Day won the
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. improve present school conditions
fust prize in the high school and and ¡ncrease the present power of
Lucile
Saunders, first prize, the high school
In discussing what Estacada
Ethel Hayman, second and Eu-
box
wheels drifted a haIf
and
mile
hind
down
stream.— Oregon Journal.
The Smithleys were for many
years residents o f this community
owning a farm in the Springwater
country,
LOCAL ITEMS
The regular monthly meeting
of the city council was held Tues­
day, June 9 at 8 P. M. in the
city hall with Mayor II. C. Step­
hens presiding and councilmen J.
F. Lovelace, U. S. Morgan, T.
Morton and J. Osborne present.
The regular order of business
was followed and the votes cast
in the special election canvassed.
The result o f the vote as canvass­
ed in the territory outside of the
city limits being 9 ballots “ for
annexation ” and 17 ballots
against annexation ” it was
declared that the annexation
measure had been defeated.
The result of the vote in the city
being 60 “ for ” and 46 “ again­
st ” the proposed annexation.
The bills presented were pass­
ed upon by the finance committee
and a motion made by J. Love­
lace, seconded by T. Morton that
all bills as passed be ordered
paid, carried.
The cost of the special election
was about $ 120.
The principal discussion of the
meeting was the repairing of
several important streets and the
matter was referred to the pro­
per committees for immediate
action. The question of the
opening of the road along the
boulevarde was taken up and a
new plan was suggested for this
street.
Mayor Stephens named the
following committees: Streets,
U. S, Morgan, J. Osborne and T,
Morton; . Fire and Water, J.
Osborne, U. S. Morgan and R.
Wilcox; Finance, J. Lovelace, T.
Morton and J. Osborne; Ordinan­
ce, T. Morton, J. Lovelace and R.
Wilcox; Health and Police, R.
Wilcox, U. S. Morgan and J.
Lovelace.
Recorder Dale reported the
water collections as $ 248.8,5.
A motion for adjournment was
duly made and carried.
Pointer’s for Paints, Wall Paper
ar|d Window Glass
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orunio Diif-iiii third in thp c r u d e would gain, he said that this dis-
Estacada Wood
yard 16-inch
school
trict would lose absolute control len g th -a lso hauling
or moving.
of the present high school since the For quick service call H. R. Stubbe
school law provides for five direc- Phone 24-3, Estacada, after 6 P.
tors in such district, with no two i
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elected from the same district.
Ernest Rynning has accepted a
Mrs. L. W. Fox was called to
-phis WOuld prevent any district P08’ ^ 011 as Eord salesman with the
Fresno, California, Sunday, on ac-
from being in control. The grade Cooke Motor Company,
count o f the death o f hersister.
school in each o f the several dis-
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Trapp visit­
W. R. Reed and Mr. and Mrs tricts uniting in a union high dis-
ed
Salem and Albany over
the
I. Tucker were Portland visitors, trict would remain the same as be-
week-end.
Tuesday
^
fore and f uncti0n in matters per-
Mrs. J. B. Robertson entertained taining to the grade school only,
T. P. McAuley and Thomas Y o­
the Skip-a-W eek Club, Tuesday.
The centralization o f population
cum were Portland
visitors
last
A fine business meeting was held and weaith by
forcing
students
Tuesday.
followed by a social hour at which t0 attend the union high school
time the hostess served an appe- whose residence district is in this
Rember the annual school elec­
tizing lunch.
Mrs. W. R. Reed unjon cannot be overlooked and tion and budget meeting called for
will entertain the club June 23.
since the new law allows any high Monday evening, June 15.
The 52nd Annual session o f the school district to charge interest
The Cooke Motor Company re
State Grange was well represent- on current warrants, transporta- ports the sale of a new Ford truck
ed by Garfield Grange. Those at- [¡on and
depreciation
of
their to C. A. Looney of Currinsville.
tending were Mr. and Mrs. H. B. plant jn addition to the regular
Davis, Mrs. Minnie Eash, Evelyn charges in computing tuition, it is
Carl Duus of Maupin, Oregon,
Davis and Mrs. M. G. W eatherby; evident that the tuition cost will 1 visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
from the Juvenile Grange; Lenard ( be greater than if a district were C. Duus last Tuesday«
and Irene Davis, Edith De Moy, a part 0f a high school or a union
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Alice Hicinbotham, Janet aud Gil ; high school district. The fact that
H’ B’ Snyder, W. A. Heylman
bert Gilgan,
; a district is not a part o f a union and Ernest Rynning were Portland
Mrs. L. Kimbal came from Cal- j district
causes it to pay a tax visitors last Thursday.
ifornia to spend the summer in
without having a possible repre-
Jim
Abbott
left
Wednesday
Garfield,
sentation while if it is a part of
morning for Salem where he ex-
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kelley have j such a district it has a say in the
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pects to visit with relatives for
moved to their homestead.
management of jsuch a district, was ; severaj daySi
Mrs. J. O. Bodkin entertained , ^ e general notion conveyed to the
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several ladies at luncheon in honor j audience by Mr. Vedder.
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Peto Malzinini o f
River Mill
o f her m others (Mrs. Hussick(
A number o f districts were rep- spont a short vacation at Bandon,
birthday.
Pink and yellow tulips resented and many questions were Oregon, recently where he has
were used in the decorating.
answered in Regard to various property interests.
Robert Duncan and family were phases of the work.
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“ THE AIR HAWK”
out from Portland, Tuesday, bring
Following this a short business
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wilcox,
ing Lillian
Duncan home
from meeting was held and the question Miss Mabel Wilcox and Miss Ger-
Striking a new note in thrilling
school.
o f preparing a float for the Rose trude Fink motored to Eagle Creek action pictures, “ The Air Hawk,”
Garfield grange will meet Satur- Festival
parade
was
disclosed, i on the Columbia highway last Sun- first of the Van Pelt productions
day, June 13, at 10:30. The Ju- ■ Upon motion duIy carried the fol- day.
starring A1 Wilson, coines to the
venile grange at 12:30.
[lowing committee
was appointed
Liberty Theatre Tuesday and Wed­
Located in My new place, easy nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Stephens by the prosident; Miss Ruth Dil-
Wilson, long known thru-
and son Roy, visited at the .J. B. Ion, Mrs. H. C. Stephens and Mrs. to find, 25 feet north o f the old lo- out the nation as a stunt aviator
Robertson
Sunday
ibertson home,
nome, sunoay.
i 0 . E. Smith to consider the possi c a tio n .-D o fft
forget
we serve whose intrepid exploits in the
mers Sundays for
A strawberry Ice Cream Social ! bflftieB of » float and if the support «**<*«• dinners
50 clouds have thrilled thousands, ap­
W. E. LINN.
will be given by the Skip-a Week
pears for the first time in a dra­
and response seemed sufficient to
Club at the Garfield Grange hall,
plVns for one to be entered
matic picture, and he proves a rev­
Mrs. J. F. Lovelace, Mrs Helen
Wednesday evening, June 17. A 1
elation in acting ability.
Nothing
by the city of Estacada.
Lovelace,
accompanied
Mrs.
Lera
program will also be rendered.
more sensational has evor been
Dale and daughter to Oak Grove
A Cooked Food and Apron sale
screened than his flight on the wing
last Tuesday for a visit with Mr.
will be held at Morton’s store in
o f an airplane, circling thousands
and Mrs. Jas. Smith and family.
Estacada, June 7th, by the
o f feet above the earth. Changing
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Estacada,
Saturday, June 7th, by
Jake Looney is reported to be
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Currin of j plancsin miduir is child's play for
the Skip-a-Week Club.
improving at this time.
Currinsville, accompanied by Mrs. Mr. Wilson, and the story give*
J. H. Kitching is still in ill health c urrin's Mother, Mrs. G. B. Linn, him a score o f diflcult feats to per­
NOTABLE CAST ACTS
‘ ‘SMOULDERING FIRES” but with the warmer weather it is left today for a two weeks visit form. Virginia Brown Fair is cast
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! hoped that he may gain rapidly.
wjth their daughter, Mrs. Don A1 in the role of the leading woman,
Frederick end LaPlante Head
the Lindsay Hale is improving rapid- |en and husband at SusanviUe, and Bruce Mitchell has given the
picture astute direction.
Cast
ly. In fact is a surprise to his California.
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I friends how fast he is gaining.
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“ Smouldering Fires,” Universal-
Mr and Mrgi R- jj . Currin left
Mrs Clara Hicinbothem and chil-
AL Cooke o f Portland is visiting
Jewel-Clarence Brown jlroduction j be n t h for a two weeks visit dren, Mrs. Ed.
Steinman,
Edith hi* brother, Bob Cooke this week,
coming to the Liberty
Theatre their daughter in California.
DeMoy and Janet Gilgan attended
Thursday and Friday, ha* a
par- ,phe c urrjnsville
grade
school the State Grange
convention
in
ticularly notable cast for it co- | team crossed bats with the Esta- Dallas last week.
On their re­
stars Pauline Frederick and Laura ) cada grade school team last Sun- turn trip they visited the many
La Plante, has Malcolm Me Gregor day and won with a score of 23 to state institutions at Salem and
as leading man, and Tully Marshall, _
Qn tbc
j ^ h they will meet report that this alone was worth
Wanda Hawley and Helen Lynch i g pringwater 0n the Estacada field, the trip. The Juvenile grange put
in prominent parts.
Mrs Tinie s arver 0f Estacada on the degree work at this meet
Further prominence is given the wfcj / Currinsville last Monday ing for the first time and proved
cast by the fact that one o f the |ookjng after her property with a that they too are well prepared,
necessities o f the story is a shop
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. selling it.
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committee, and while the members
„ and Mrg jq g Linn and
M'ss Nellie
Abbot o f
Belling-
o f this committe do not have much famil_ are Comfortably housed in ham’ Wash” county superintendent
to do they are almost as wellknown th# Albert Kitching hou, e and are ° f Whatcom county, accompanie.
as are the stars and leading char- rtudying
plans for a new home by two younK ladle*’ v,,"*ed f o r .
acters for they have been in motion
w J they will build in the near short time last week with her sis-
pictures for many years. They are
ter. Mrs. Harry Smith. They had
Bert Roach. Billy Gould, Rolfe Se-
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A]b<>rt Kjtching and Wilma l U8t returned from a meeting o f
dan, Jack McDonald, William Or- were
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.t school
superintendents In eastern
in Currinsville u
last
Washington and came down the
lomond, Robert Mack and Frang Monday
loot far rhuusntn Green
Columbia River Highway.
end mule st
Newberg.
U *a!rrt \. .filltn>«r>4let
DORCAS SOCIETY TO MEET
J^bn Marshall o f Springwater
The proprietor o f the hotel is too
»our engine decide
The Garfield Ladies Dorcas So- met with an accident last Tuesday modest to say so in public but he
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ciety will meet with Mrs. Henry while working on his place which wishes the person who
purloined
Anders. Thursday. June 1«.
might have cost him the loss o f his lawn mower
from the front
Mrs H D. Trapp, Sec. an *>’*• *n "trikinga 2x6 either a lawn of the best hotel in the coun-
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sliver o f wood or a piece o f steel ty would return said hand power
ESTACADA, OREGON
Mrs. C. W.
Wanzer o f
The flew off striking him in the left machine to it* proper place before
Dalles returned to Portland. Tues- eye close to the eyeball. A fter an he is compelled to swear out a
day morning after a short visit examination it was found that the search warrant and place it in the
with Mr. and Mm. A. W. Botkin o f object was not in the eye and it hand* o f an officer and request a
Garfield. Mm. Botkin accompanied is supposed the sight will not be return to be made.
The grass
her as far a# Portland.
effected.
needs cutting.
GARFIELD ITEMS
CURRINSVILLE ITEMS
ED’S SERVICE STATION
Clean Power
Full Mileage
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