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Eastern Clackamas News
EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, ' 1927
GOVERNMENT COSTS
ARE STAGGERING
Entered at the postoffice in Estacada
Oregon, as second-class mail.
Few people realize thnt the cost of
all government in the United States
reaches the staggering total of 11 14
|
billion
per year*— nearly
Published every Thursday at
The school children had a three The Neighborly Club meets with one-sixth dollars
Estacada, Oregon
of
the
entire
annual income
day vacation last week owing to the
,
!
of
the
country.
by the
illness of the teacher, Miss Gregg, Jlrs- ilard aext ^ ednesday.
M:. and Mrs Archie Howell enter- This cost is not only enormous, but
ESTACADA P libLIS nlN G COMPANY,
nber of friends from , is growing at a rapid cate. In 1925,
" Mrs"a\Y. Jones gave a party for tained a number
(A CORPORATION.)
government cost more than 12 times
DOUGLAS JOHNSON
,hh iol^*Salurday e Z i n l ^ £ H S i ^ . n d ^ ^ h n Park and child- ¡as much as in 1890. The increased
Managing Editor
school batur ay
®nd delicious ren
Sunday visitors at the Carl cost of government in these 35 years
old games ivere played and del.cious
[outstripped the growth of population
Subscription Rates
refreshments
s^erve^
^
pregbyter_
The
Ain.
Dodson
familv
were
here
! by more than seven to one. In 1925,
$1.50
One Year
we spent for government nearly one-
ian missionary, will preach in our during th* week-end and packed half
value of our railroads.
Six Months ......................................... 76 church
Sunday evening at 7:80.
their household goods and moved In the
the
five years ending with 1925,
U. N. Beckley entertained friends them to Washington, where they are the cost of
running the federal gov­
from Silverton Sunday.
llving for a time.
The CLACKAMAS RIGHT-OF-WAY Almost everyone who owned a Mr- and Mrs* Cogswell of Eagle ernment was decreased by cne-third.
But at the same time the cost of run­
“flivver” went smelt fishing on the Creek were Sunday visitors at the ning
the state and local governments
For the past four months, in the Sandy last week and those who did Madden home.
than doubled.
meetings of the Eastern Clackamas not were well supplied by their Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Tenny and more
The
greatest single item in the cost
children
of
Viola
were
Friday
even-
Community Club and the Greater
of government is the public payroll.
Union of Clubs of Clackamas County Mrs. George Brown, who lias been ’n£ call«1-* at the Moger home,
people are now supported by
and in the papers of the county, at the Good Samaritan hospital for Mr. and Mrs. James Closner and So many
government that for every ten
there has been a discussion of th. some time, is now staying at the children, of Estacada were guests at the
employed in other than gov­
danger of granting the Portland E home of S. B. Brown.
the Ed Clo8ner and Walter Strunk people
ernment
work, there is one person
lectric Power Company a permanent Fisher brothers have moved their homes on Sunday,
by the government.
right of way up the Clackama families into the M. A. Henderson Mrs. Ed Aycock has been visiting supported
During
the
past five years our state
river from Estacada to the Oak house to reside while they are work- relatives in Portland for a few days and local governments
have put us
Grove project of that company.
ing on the Market road.
I recently,
deeper
into
debt
at
the
rate of
The forest service has had, and Mr and Mrs. Otis Vallen and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Swanson $3,300,000 a day. During 1925,
this
daughter
Mary
visited
Mrs.
Vallen’s
have
mpved
to
Garfield,
where
Mr.
should have, a complete jurisdiction
rate
wag
increased
to
$3,800,000
Swanson is working at the Yocum day— more than ten times as much a
over the roads and trails through brother Walter Cox and wife of I Sawmill
for a while.
the national forest. The power com­ Sandy, Sunday.
Callers on Mr. and Mrs. Moger as it was 25 years ago.
pany sought to have this jurisdic­
were Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Shibley on We are finding it hard now to pay
tion set aside insofar as their use oi
DODGE
NEWS
j
Sunday evening and Mr. and Mrs. only the interest on these immense
the right-of-way is concerned and to „ . , , , 7 ~ . 7 . . . . . .
debts our state and local govern­
,
William
Bard . on . Monday
have their project placed solely Friday
last being
the birthday
of
. . . in . evening.
. this section
,. ments are pilihg on us. What are
7
,
,
.
,
,
The
many
fnenus
under the control of the federal our estimable school teacher, the ol­ of T. P. McAuley were grieved to [ we ffoing to do when the time comes
power commission, to which commis­ der pupils celebrated by hav- hear of his death at his home in Port- to P*y tfie mortgage?
sion the power company is now an­ ing a social in the schoolhouse in the land Sunday.
Everyman’s Almanac
swerable for their use of the water evening. A pleasant time was spent Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Hansen and
power. It is said by officials of the jn games of various kinds.
son Edison were Oregon City visitors
company that having to keep their Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Keller paid a on
Rattlesnake's Rings
records so that two different bran­ visit to Mrs. Keller’s two sisters at Monday.
The rings on a rattlesnake do not
ches of the government are satisfied, Wilsonville on Sunday. Mrs Keller
tell exactly the age of the snake. The
is asking too much. No doubt this is in her 74th year. Her sisters are
biological survey says that the rattle-
CURRINSVILLE
shake acquires from two to four rings
is true. Most of us know what a 71 and 81, respectively. Mrs. Kel
mass of red tape must be wound and lev’s mother was 90 at the time of Friday, April first, was enjoyed by a year, Usually three. Under normal
unwound at endless expense and ex­ her death.. They have a brother in the Currinsville school and will long conditions ohe ring is added each time
snake sheds Its skin. The young
asperation to satisfy the swivel- Florida who is in his 83rd year. be remembered by pupils as well as the
rattler is provided with a single but-
chairs of the government. Still, it Guy Keller drove them to Wilsonville teachers.
who are not child- ; tob at birth, and within a few days It
seemed to those who studied the mat­ and home again, ail having a pleas ren enjoyed Some
the
day
of sport even if sheds Its skin and commences feeding
ter that accounting difficulties did ant time.
we
did
not
go
to
answer
a phone call In about two months It sheds Its sldn
not make a sufficient excuse for Douglas Johnson was at Hillock- or missed our stage to Portland.
for the second time and then the first
licensing the power company to burn again on Sunday and took away Mr. Grace and family, of Port­ ring of the rattle Is uncovered or
maintain a railroad permanently Frank Narus and Frank Miller, two land visited Mr. and Mrs. Ward added. Tills has been growing under
the old skin, nhd Its pressure was ap­
upon a right of way owned by the men who have been doing some work
Sunday. Mr. Grace is a parent
In the swollen nppearance of
public. There had been much dis­ there. So Henry Warnock is again Douglass
brother
of
Mrs.
Douglass.
satisfaction with the service the pub­ in sole charge—a good old standby is Mrs. Sarah Webber, of Nebraska, the tall at the base of the original
button. The last seven or eight ver-
lic could obtain over the line. The Henry and one in whom confidence and Mrs. W ebber, mother of Law- j tebrne
fuse together shortly after birth
clubs, too, had every right to know can be placed.
Webber, of Garden Home, i and form a composite bone known as
what was to become of their interest Mrs. Whitsett, who has been help­ rence
and her daughter Hazel and son [ the "shaker,” and It Is around this
ing at Mrs. Lacey’s for several Frank, spent the week-end with Mr. hone that each cap or ring of the rattle
in the road.
A resolution was passed which set j months, has been called away and Mrs. Lawrence Webber.
forms.
la.
forth the demands of the public sick with pneumonia.
J. A. Kitching, W. M. Wade, and
Meanwhile, the federal power com­ The “flu” has left Dodge. It Floyd Hale are moving road graders
Little Sermon
mission and the forest service held seems like everyone is rid of it and to Garfield this week where they will Lo. the young Intellectual I
conferences in Washington, and as glad of it.
do quite a lot of road building this He Is esthetic.
a result, new restrictions are placed
summer.
He dwelteth among his kind and
upon the power company in their use
talketh confidently of his art. Ile let­
C.
R.
Lovell
made
the
round,
of the right of way, which are all UPPER EAGLE CREEK trip to Portland Tuesday with Lloyd teti! his hair grow long and dlscotirseth
of Freud. He shaveth not. hut he un-
that fair-minded people could ask.
Mr. and Mrs. Kay Woodle, Lesli< Ewalt.
derstnndeth the futuristic. He laugh-
In the first place, no permanent Woodle,
The
Currinsville
Ladies’
Aid
met
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Douglass with Mrs. Victor Leon Wednesday. eth to scorn the conventions and
right is given the company to oper and children,
. , _ . ,
.
, some f]ustrv
prateth of free love. He derfdeth tn
Mr. and Mrs. K. B. Gib Atlee
ate a railroad on the present location son were visiting
delivered
the home of Wnl nice hogs Erickson
The permit now being offered the ter Douglass last at Thursday
to Pres Ferrel last week, j And yet, being hungry, he buyeth
company, if accepted by them, will Mrs. Douglass asked them to evening
Mrs. J. H. Kitching has a birth-1 sustenance
with money which his
come
ir
demand that they build a trail where
day Wednesday, April 6th, and al- father hath earned. For he remain-
honor
of
Miss
Edythe
Peters,
whost
the secretary of agriculture shall birthday they were celebrating.
though it was not learned which one eth esthetic only so long ns he Is coni­
designate unless they become a com­
it was, she has repeatedly shown form hie.
mon carrier or grant adequate Mr. and Mrs R. B. Gibson wen !hat she is a real 100% woman. | So we mock him, knowing In our
Dover
visitors
on
Sunday,
calling
or.
transportation facilities to the public
Her care of her long sick husband hearts that we. too. would he esthetic.
and Mrs. Charles Updegrave, and while
she herself has been a suf­ But for the absence of rich fathers.
, In addition to these requirements, Mr.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
II.
11.
Udell.
ferer
for
long years shows what a —Kansas City Times.
the secretary of agriculture may at Mr. and Mrs. Walter Douglass, ac
any time demand that the rail» b< companied by Mrs. J. H. Denning what a real mother is. As her birth­
removed and the highway restored and Mrs. I). M. Marshall, made a trij day comes on Wednesday, the day of , Beaten Path Monotonous
the Ladies' Aid meeting, they will Our associations are greatly respon
to its original quality and service­ Oregon City on Monday.
give
her a surprise, and it will be a sihle for our lives Happiness or oth­
ability or, if desired by the govern­ to Mr.
and Mrs. George Douglas; pleasant
one., nnd all are wishing her erwise follows upon the heels of our
ment, the company shall pay the were dinner
of Mr. and Mrs. many more
companions. The mighty help its to
birthdays.
difference between the cost of Roy Douglass guests
Sunday.
prevail. The great create an atmos­
instructing a forest highway H. S. Gibson sold a ccoupl«. of Mrs. Bowen was remembered by phere
for ns. Train the heart and
ihe
Ladies'
Aid
Wednesday,
the
oc-
of a standard satisfactory to horses
mind
to
be at home In the great places
last
week.
the secretary of agriculture, lo­ Mr. and Mrs. Ray Woodle, Leslie ,asion being her birthday, which and to live on the broad plains. The
cated on the right of way of Woodle, Mr. and Mrs. Will Douglass came on the eighth.
superlative alone rnn give us cheer
R. S. Coop says that the rain is not Get away from the hUmdum and regu
said railroad, and the cost of such a and
Fred
Hoffmeiater
and
family
highway located elsewhere along the motored to TroutdAle Sunday aftei all that is holding his farming back, lar. Sometimes have courage to de­
lie left his team for a few minutes part Into the country unknown. Re
Clackamas river. Reduced to simp­ smelt, but got none.
ind they turned around and tore member. If a rolling stonp gathers no
ler terms, the new permit leaves
moss, a flxpd one gathers little else
both handles off his plow.
verything to the discretion of the
KUMOR IS DESTRUCTIVE
If you have a news item, please It Is earthbound.—Exchange.
secretary of agriculture. He may
force the company at any time to
turn it in.
abandon the right ef way or he may The Oregon Voter, in its issue of
The Misses Maloney, Mr. Grant
ask that they pay for «he coat of April 2, in an editorial on the
EAGLE CREEK
Test, and Herbert Suter motored to
clearing, cutting and tilling and grad­ liquidation of the Northwestern
Portland on Tuesday.
ing another road up the Clackamas National Bank, does not mince mat
The community social evening Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Spilde and little
on a location he will designate, ters in regard to the source of tlu sponsored
by the Ladies' Aid of the daughter, Margaret, motored to
E\ery interest of the public is pro- unfavorable propaganda which led
Tided for in the new permit.
to the wrecking of this great finan meal church on last Friday night portland Monday
These stipulations should be rial mstitution.The finger is point- was a decided success. About 50, \ Junior A u d u b o n Society
heartily endorsed by the Greater *d to a great store Just across th persons enjoyed the hospitality of ha(l been organized by pupils of the
Union of Clubs and if approved by »treet from the bank. It is stated the Burnett home. Games were Primary room of the Eagle Creek
twelve members.
the power company and lived up to federal investigation will be made provided for the young folks, puzzle
Mrs. Arthur Cogswell, in companv
by them, no obstacle should be placed and the responsibility may be fixed solving, radio music, and social visit
in the way of the largest develop Wherever the responsibility lies, v , ing provided for the older people with the Madders, from Springwa'et
ment of the water power resources hope it anil h# located nnd th, Toward the midnight hour, partners motored to Portland Wednesday.
in the M t. H o o d N a t i o n a l guilty duly exposed and punished were selected, and all partook of the Mr*. Katie Paddison and Mrs. Jane
Akers were Portland vivsitors Wed­
forest. More than that, the public Fh* editor of The Y oter commend ielicious refreshments served.
evening was church nigh nesday.
should cultivate a greater interest in the heroic action of officers of the at Monday
th* Eagle Creek church. The
the problems of this large company bank, entailing much personal sac purpose
was to elect new church and
The fact that a million dollars worth riflee, which enabled the brnk t Sunday
school officers as well as to
of stock is owned by its employees satisfy all depositors without any
plan definitely for the new year.
Out nearly 3.000 people in thi loss.
$1.35
Rev. Mr. Kirkwood presided. There Mill run ’80«
territory are financially interested in
Robed
Oat«
S I.60
it, and that it is our largest taxpayer, The publie is easily taken off iw was considerable discussion as to th. Corn M«a! (Com paro this) $2
50
wiring
of
the
church
building
ft
feet
and
made
panicky
by
persist­
entitles the company to our consider
SI
00
ent rumors. A bank is one of the electricity. After the business af pkg« J«r»ey Cornflake« for
ation.
2!e
The forest service is taking can most sensitive institutions on earth. fairs were dispensed with, the form; 3 Potato#»,
per
l*
J
lb«
$1
50
of the public interest. If the time is A rumor may start a run on a bank j business meeting was adjourned
No. 2 potato#«, per 100 lb«
SI 25
the
remainder
of
the
meeting
wa-
which
is
perfectly
safP
and
sound.
ripe for n road up the (Tarkanius
arden Seed». Pkt» ...................... 5c
The law provides severe punish­ 'Pent socially. The ladies served G Lipton’«
let’s ask them for one.
Coffee, per lb
58c
ment for the person or persons who light refreshments to all.
Come ia end get price« on Shoe*.
start a run on a hank. It is Eo-.ti r Meyers 'otoicd home fro. H»t«.
for Spring and Sum ­
The city of Portland will spem despicable to start or help spread Corvallis to spend the week-end. r mer. Drygood»
W*
have
a new line of Ladiee
.urning
on
Tuesday.
a
rumor
that
may
wreck
any
legi­
’0,00 on fireboats and harbor fire
Silk
Hoi«
just
in—
Price thorn I ..........
Homer Glover hae installed a ne
, i
equipment in the unmediu.« timate institution.
—Gresham
Outlook
(
radio
act
in
hi«
hoipe.
GIVE
US
A TRIAL
future.
Sandy; H. C. Kanne, Canby; and
¡J.
C. Kraft, Canby. The cows in
Varieties of Bread
these herds averaged respectively,
Generally speaking the difference 57.
46.5, and 40.3 pounds butterfat.
between whole-whenl bread Hnd gri-
hnm bread Is that there Is less coarse The three high grade herds belong
bran In the so-enlled whole-wheat | to J. L. Lienhart, Woodburn; C. E.
bread than In graham bread. True Kraft, Canby; and G. A. Plieth.
graham bread Is made from graham
flour. Dr. Alexander Graham was the Cows producing over sixty pounds
first to advocate milling the entire of fat belong to W. F. Fischer, Sandy
wheat, adding nothing and subtracting Luscher and Son3, Boring; Buxton
nothing. In some mills the whole­ Bros., Molalla, and C. E. Kraft.
wheat Ilnur Is a product of the whole
wlieut pat through a process to take The good records made by the cows
out the coarsest bran. Bakeries' gra­ n the association indicate the reason
ham bread Is made from a mixture of for the popularity of Clackamas
pure graham flour and white flour, County cows in Canada and in neigh­
proportions varying—sometimes being boring states.
half and half.
GRIMM SEED RECEIVED
Easy to Fix Clock
A romtnerrinl traveler staying fit a
small hotel wished to entcti mi early The County Agent’s office recently
mornlhg train, and asked the pro­ received a shipment of certified
prietress for the loan of an alarm Grimm alfalfa seed. This variety
clock.
been found best for Clackamas
She produced the clock and re­ I has
County
conditions and is being dis-
marked :
“We don’t often use It. sir. and jtributed to growers planting an al­
sometimes It sticks a hit. hnt If It falfa acreage in 1927.
doesn’t go off Just touch the little
hammer and it'll ring all right”—
London Tlt-Blts.
PYROTOL NEARLY GONE
CLACKAMAS COWS MAKE
The sixth car of Pyrotol ordered
A STRONG SHOWING since September will be ready for
The report of O. K. Beals, tester
for the Clackamas Cow Testing
Association, shows that 521 cows
were tested during the month of
February, stated John J. Inskeep,
County Agent, yesterday.
The three high testing purebred
distribution the latter part of April
to those ordering. This is the last
car to be ordered before fall.
The U. S. department of agricul­
ture has notified the Oregon Agri­
cultural College that no more Pyro­
tol will be available after Christ­
mas of 1927.
I T ’S A P R E T T Y GOOD SIGN
that We Have the Right Price on
Fertilizers
WHEN OUR TRUCKS ARE KEPT BUSY
MAKING DELIVERIES — LEAVE YOUR
ORDERS AT
BARTHOLOMEW & LAWRENCE
Headqarters for Swift & Co.’s “Red Steer Fertilizer”
BROOKFIELD BUTTER—48c
Saturday Special
HEAVY SUGAR CURED BACON..............33c
SALT PORK............................................... 25c
ESTACADA oMEAT COMPANY
Pay Nothing Down!
ON YOUR EASTER OUTFIT
Six Months on the Balance
CLOTHES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
Girls’ Dresses and Coats
$16.00 up
Misses and Women’s Dresses and Coats
$19.50
Boys’ 4 Pc. Suits (1 long, 1 short)
$11.50
Student Suits ( 2 long)
$16.50
Young Men’s and Men’s Suits (2 pants)
$34.50
YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD HERE
Regular employment, permanent location, and
moral responsibilty are the only conditions.
TRANSPORTATION PAID ON PURCHASES OF
FIFTEEN DOLLARS OR MORE
COME EARLY!
C urrinsville Store Prices
Upstairs
Oregon City
Beaver Bldg.
Look For CLOCK Over Entrance