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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1926)
\ PACK 2 - J' - . EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER lß, 1926 - tank stock, ready made houses, floor blocks and furniture. Portland is the home o f the second largest fur Entered at the postoffice in Estacada, niture manufacturing plant in the United States. By far the larger Oregon, as second-class mail. portion o f the output o f this and ¡other local plants is taken up by the Published every Thursday at domestic trade. Foreign shipments 1 however, are contiually being made lüstacada. Oregon, to South American countries, and «■ a by the with improvements in the steamship ESTACADA PUBLISHING COMPANY, service a much larger increase (A CORPORATION.) should be shown during the coming year, according to the weekly sum DOUGLAS JOHNSON mary issued by the Traffic Depart Managing Editor ment, The Port of Portland Com mission. ■ S u b sc rip tio n R a t e s : Eastern Clackamas News ! r A TREE FOR EVERY KIDDIE PROFESSIONAL CARDS. This is the season when critics voice their opinions about the great \ _ waste o f trees. They write to their — papers, and talk to their neighbors, W. A . HeylfBan Wm. W. Smith about the great need o f conserving ATTORNEYS AT LAW our forests. The reason for this is that the trees for Christmas are now We will take care o f any legal business you may have being harvested and it is no unusual sight in the large cities to see car- Insurance, Loans and Collections. loads o f them offered for sale. To the uninformed it is a natural supposition that here is a great and needless waste. That such is not the case is claimed by forest officers. All sales o f Christmas trees are made from dense stands o f young One Year . . • • U .f* AMERICAN INDUSTRIES growth and the thinning o f these ,76 Six Months • * ■ * ARE COURAGEOUS stands is a distinct benefit to the remaining trees on the area, and The agricultural industry has had wjjen properly spaced and opened up MAKING CHRISTMAS SANE many problems to meet. But so has they show a decided improvement in There are two bits of advice which every other one of our basic indue- L.rowth, Millions o f seeds are me trics, such as mining, oil, timber, etc. | kUre<j annually. These are scattered It is folly to ignore in this season. The one is “ Do Your Christmas Shop Taken as a whole, neither of the four an£j sowed by the winds, but only a industries mentioned is making a re- very small proportion of them ever ping Earlv,” and “ Send Your Christ- , . , , , p turn on its investment which would germinate. Still, under normal con mas Mail Early” is the second. Fools satisfy a banker, manufacturer or ditions, there are more than enough heed neither, but if the observance merchant if he was earning a like io restock the area and the result is o f both is proof of rare wisdom amount. that only the fittest survive. then the world is becoming wiser. The oil industry has gone quietly In thinning stands for the Christ It was but a few years ago that the major portion o f the Christmas about bettering its condition by mas demand the forest officer des shopping was done during Christmas every efficiency method it can de ignates for cutting only th ill formed week and the Christmas rush in the vise. The timber industry is start tree, the supressed or diseased or mails did not begin until the eleventh ing in right from the growing of the otherwise damaged tree, leaving on hour. The result was that unfavor tree, to place itself on a permanent the area the most symetrical, sturdi able shopping conditions and» con and substantial basis in the future. est o f trees. These are spaced as near by every to the ideal as possible. The forester gested mails ruined Christmas day The mining industry, method known to chemistry and en follows a silvicultural plan in his for countless thousands. gineering, is reducing its cost of pro work and always plans for the fu How much saner and how much duction as the most permanent ture. more satisfactory for all concerned method o f increasing its profits. If every person cutting trees are the modern practices o f starting Probably no branch o f agriculture would cut only the poorer trees and the gift-buying season in November and o f starting the gifts through the has had more handicaps to contend refrain from waste o f timber by mails in ample time to insure their with since the war ended, than have cutting out tops o f the large trees, the silver producers. Not only has always remembering that trees of punctual delivery. Whether one looks at the question ' silver been low in price since the scenic value along our roads should from the selfish or impersonal points war, but it now faces a crisis, due to be left, and that he should respect of view the arguments are all in fa- the fact that India, the world's great- his neighbors property and not cut vor of early shopping and early mail- user o f silver, has been consider- trees from privately owned land ing changing its monetary system without permission, there is no rea Ing. from silver to gold, and dumping its son to believe that we will not have Early shopping gives one the pick , . . , ., a perpetual supply of Christmas o f the new and undepleted Christ- ' * mas stocks, leisurely selection, more Instead o f lying down in the face trees. I am sure that the conserva satisfactory service and less jostling, o f such a prospective calamity, west- tion o f timber in this, the land of Early mailing is a guarantee of time- ern miners are redoubling their ef- prodigious waste in industry, has ly delivery and minimizes the dan- forts to find new ways to use silver, not yet reached the stage where the gers o f damage and loss in transit, and thus maintain production and kiddies must be deprived of the an Should there be any to whom these payrolls in their mines. As the ticipations and joys o f the trees at arguments are unconvincing let them j United States produced about one- Christmas. Many city children, es give a thouught to the merchant fourth o f the world’s silver in 1925, pecially in the congested centers, and his sales force and to the postal j the problem o f maintaining our sil- ook forward to Christmas as the employes whose one desire is to ver mining, just as the problem of one outstanding event of the year, please the public, but who are power maintaining our timber resources, and a Christmas without a tree to less to help those who wont help our oil, production and our agricul them is about as good as no Christ tural pursuits, becomes on of na mas at all, themselves. tional and interesting importance, Proper conservation o f timber in this country means care with fire INTERESTING "A D S " and less destructive methods o f log FIVE CITIES RANK ging. A carelessly dropped match We have been reading proofs of the Christmas shopping "ads” of Es Interesting comparisons are ad or neglected campfire can do more tacada stores that will appear in the vanced in a statement just issued by damage in a few hours than the cut- News today. the National Industries Conference ing of trees for Christmas ever will. They are as interesting as any Board, which cites tax rates in sev Give the kiddies their trees. There a tree fo r every kiddie without thing that one may peruse these eral o f the principal cities o f the days for they speak not only o f the country with direct reference to depriving anyone o f a foot of me- approaching yuletide, with all that municipal ownership o f utilities. The hantable timber, either now or in means, but they illustrate as well the fact that the people o f Oregon have he days to come. rapid growth o f the city and its de only recently voted on a state wide velopment. ¡ ] measure involving the broad princi- The Bear Creek Philosopher * Sometimes we are apt to think of ! pa* of government operation lends particular interest to the figures is the modern Estacada in terms only sued by this board. With a given _____________ ^ Grandpa Grimes slipped and fell o f _ population and of _____ public improve- ments— street paving, parks, public ■ index number o f 100 per cent as the I on his left hip on the sidewalk in playgrounds and a dozen other items : average o f the United States with front o f the postoffice yesterday o f the kind. \ re8Peri to living costs, it is stated He escaped being cut by the broken But the real earmark o f the pro- officially that five cities are the glass but was severely burned. gressive city is its stores. most expensive in the country to The real badge o f prosperity is live in at present, and their ratings The new milliner at the Boston the type of retail stores a city boasts, follow: Store who went to Chicago to attend The advertising columns o f the San Francisco, 112; Cleveland, the opera came back disappointed. newspaper o f today demonstrate the 113.4; Jacksonville, 115.6; Detroit, She says there is not enough sex in fact that Estacada has stores o f 118.1; Seattle, 123.8. All o f these the sextette from Lucia. which any city may he proud and us cities have been pointed to as ex metropolitan as those o f many boast- amples o f successful operation of Grandma Gaines says she wishes ing larger population. And the utilities, and San Francisco, which they hadn’t started the Falls-Dohen- stores themselves are as interesting has the highest rating of all of them, y trial until after the New Bruns ss the "ads. owns a street railway system along wick case was finished as fine news i with the famous Hetchy-Hetchy wa print is getting to be hard on her WOODEN PRODUCTS SOLD ter power development. eyes. IN FOREIGN The Marquam White Leghorns (Tr»pne»ted continuously for ten consecutive years.) OUR STRAINS: Hollywood, Tancred and Improved European. State Certified Baby Chicks, Hatching Eggs and Breeding Stock for 1927 delivery. \\ e sell only what we produce ourselves , and since the supply is limited, suggest that orders be placed early. A good many orders are already in so do not delay, if you desire good delivery dates. DR. W. W. RHODES Osteopathic W e specialize on large, white eggs o f good shell texture. All eggs set in our incubators weigh from 24 to 30 ounces to the dozen. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Lichthorn Bldg., Estaradn OREGON CERTIFIED BREEDER. Member Oregon Accredited Hatchery and Breeders’ Cooperative Association (under the super vision o f the Oregon Agricultural College). DR. G. F. MIDFORD Physician and Surgeon Xx-Ray Equipment Glasses Fitted Office and Residence Second and Main Streets, Estacada, Oregon. Telephone Connections The Marquam Poultry Farm BREEDERS OF W HITE LEGHORNS t DR. CHAS. P. JOHNSON One mile emit of Estacada, Oregon, on Garfield Road. Dentist Evening Work by Appointment Phones: Office 315, Residence 5061 Estacada, Oregon r = JERSEY 0. D. EBY MILK AND CREAM Attorney at Law GEORGE LAW RENCE & SON Phone No. 37-3 The only milk sold in Estacada from Federal accredited Tuberculin free cows leneral Practice. Confidential Ad viser. Oregon City, Oregon S. E. WOOSTER Real Estate, Loans, Insur ance, Rentals Farm Loans a Specialty. Telephone Estacada, Oregon C. D„ D. C. end E. C. LATOURETTE A Safe Piace to Put Your Money ATTORNEYS Practice in all Courts. First National Bank, Oregon City, Oregon. AMERICAN LEGION AND A M ER IC AN L E G IO N A U X ILIA R Y Meets First & Third Mondays I. O. O. F. HALL.. Third Street and Broadway Estacada, Oregon, LAWRENCE WEBBER, P. C. This Company has invested over $77,000,000 in this territory. It has 90,000 light and power customers and serves a population of over 400,000. Its business is growing steadily every day. Prostate, Kidney, Bladder, Rheum atism, Constipation, Loss of Vitality, etc. Call or write for booklet on re-cnerglzing the glanda without an operation. W e offer you an opportunity to invest your money in this successful and well-managed business D R . H. Z. T H A R P C l a n « S p e c i a lis t «as P ltto c k ■ le e k at 6.67 percent interest. P o rtla n d . Ore. Let us tell you more about it. Courtin’ Orders Our leafy, green alfalfa Is surely hard to beat. Our timothy for horses, To them is such a treat. INVESTMENT DEPARTMENT 820 Electric Building Our straw is baled so neatly And just like threads o f gold. The barley is so luscious For stock when it is cold. Portland Electric Power Company Our wheat, it is the finest And always clean and dry. So lei) us fill your order; To please you we will try. PORTLAND, OREGON COUNTRIES The rending public is familiar with the experiences o f Seattle and De Portland is taking a promiftent troit with their municipally-operated place in the manufacture o f articles street railway systems, wherein made of wood, a notable feature o f promises o f low fares before pur which is the increase shown in the chases o f the systems not only have movement o f these products to for not been fulfilled, but fares actually eign countries. The export movement have been increased and taxes have o f doors to foreign markets during mounted. On the other hand in the present year, to date, have thirteen other large cities o f the reached a total o f 502,232 doors, United States where the operation weighing 10,. 16 tons as against 7,- of electric, gas. street railway ana 216 tons duriny the entire year of telephone utilities is a function of 1025 or a gain of 3.209 tons or 45 r< and when compared with the move regulated private companies, living expenditures run below the average ment o f 3,278 tons during the year 1024, the increase amounts to more for the United States, with percent than 2207r. The United Kingdom ages ranging from 98.8 to as low at 84.8. trade take* by far the larger portion o f exports, which, during the year, •mounted to 162.633 doors, other RADIO K O A C— 280.2 METERS ihipmente being made to European countries. Australia, New Zealand, Monday, December 20 7 :00 p. m.— Campus new». Africa and South America. :16 p, m.— Boy»' and girl»' club Large increases are also shown in the movement o f box ahooka and new». barrel staves shipments during the 7 :30 p. m.— Agricultural situation current year having reached a total reports, o f 3,852 tons as against 1,722 tons 7 35 p. m.— “ Sugar Beet Possibil during the entire year 1925 and 571 ities in the Willamette Valley,” j tons during the year 1924, Australia Prof. G. R. Hislop. anti United Kingdom taking the lar 7 :45 p. m.— Timely agricultural, ger portions o f the foreign move- topics (a) •Peach Leaf Curl Con - 1 ment. Large quantities are also trol," Prof H. P. Bars» taken up by the domestic trade. 8:00 p. m.— "Principles of Prun Many other items manufactured ing, No. 1," Prof. W. S. Brown. o f wood move in smaller quantities 8:15 p. m.— “ The Psychology o f K> 0 i* si »-hub * r * broom hand:**, Basketball, H & Huger. Henry Martin says that ever since their pet family cat was lost this fall he has been afraid to buy kinned rabbit. BARTHOLOMEW BOB S and LAWRENCE Phon« 601 AND MARCEL SALON Eittcidt, Ore. STRICTLY The Gem Theater did its biggest business o f the season Saturday night. The title of the film was Purple Passion," but it wasn't up o expectations. Mrs. Sylvester Lawrence a n d daughter Louise, went to Portland Tuesday morning. Mrs. Ben Tannler o f Viola, went to Gresham on Tuesday to have her tonsils removed. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Smith o f Stay- ton. are here on busineas concerning the telephone company. PIPE and FITTINGS Get oar prices before yoa buy Dryer Pipes Made to Order For Sheet Iron work, repairs, soldering and plumbing, call at the AM ES SHOP MAIN STREET. SANITARY S AT ISF ACTION H a irc u ttin g 3 5 c MASONIC GATES' FUNERAL HOME BLDG. GUARANTEED o h a v e 15 c ESTACADA ART. SMITH, Propr. L Gresham 2471 ED ¿INN, AT LINN'S INN. AGENT Estacada, Ore. Phone 543 E ST A C A D A TRUCK LIN E J. E. CATES DAILY TRIPS FROM E STAC A D A YOU WILL N EED CLOTHES LEAVE TO PORTLAND ALL FREIGHT AT WAREHOUSE In ordering your freight sent through us you receive personal ser vice both in Estacada and Portland that will save time and money and in buying WILL WANT TO SAVE MONEY PLUMBING BARBER SHOP L C. R. JOSSY PHONE 15-12 Call and Deliver Serrie« t can meet your needs by selling ( you Comer Suita, “ All Weather Coats," Overcoats and Women’: Coats mad« to order. Prices $9.95 Municipal Terminal, Sixth and Salmon St*.— Phone Main 7733. to $18.60. LINN S INN, Estacada, Oregon. Comer guarantees a fit and sat DAILY isfaction. “ You will get what yau A. M r M. P M •* . M M ,;P M P.M buy". n ». Portland 2:00 6:20 Lv. Estacada 8 :00 4:30 8:30 Let me take your measure end Clackamae 2:30 6:50 Eagle Creek 8:15 4:45 8:45 send for what you want. Carver 2:40 7:00 Barton 8:25 4:55 8:56 Barton Yours for economy and satis 3:05 7:25 Carver 8:45 5:15 0:16 Eagle Creek faction. 3:15 7:35 Clackamas 8:56 6:26 9:25 Ar. Estacada . n i J :S® 7 50 Ar. Portland 9 30 6:00 10 00 B. F. CLAY. Comer Representative - otMy. « H v n a v yi Sljnd*y (A ) Saturday Estacada. Oregon. SUNDAY— Leave Portland 10 A. M Leave Estacada 4 30 P. M. : IPORTLAND-CARVER•ESTACADA STAGES