C LACKAM AS COUNTY
PROFESSIONAL
CARDS
DR. H. V. ADIX
Physician and Surgeon
Physiotherapy— X-Ray
Radium
Tel. 5961
Gresham, Ore.
Dr. H. A. Schneider
DENTIST
Tel. Sandy
151
Sandy, Oregon
O. D. EBY
Attorney at Law
General Practice
Confidential
Advisor
Oregon City, Oregon
S. E. WOOSTER
Real
Estate, Loans, Insurance
and Rentals
Estacada, Oregon
Tel. 77-3
Dr. Thomas B. Carter
Veterinary Surgeon
Tel Gresham 210
Gresham,
Oregon
Cooper & McAllister
Attomeys-at-Law
Tel. Gresham 262
Powell Blvd.,
Gresham, Ore1
.
C. DON PLATNER, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Clackamas County Bank Bldg.
Sandy, Oregon
O ffic e Hours, 2 to 8 P. M.
Evenings, Saturday and Sunday
by Appointment
Tel. Sandy 441
PANKRATZ
Paint
&
Wallpaper Store
Sign Painting
Picture Framing
Gla.s
Gresham, Ora.
Tal. 4678
Richard Sponhauer
Agent for
Northwestern Mutual Fire Ins. Co,
Aetna Fire Ins. Co.
Estacada, Oregon
Tel. Estacada 84-1
S. E. LAWRENCE
Licensed E lectrical Contractor
H O T P O IN T MAJOR
E L E C T R IC A L A P P L IA N C E S
Rt. 2, Estacada, Oregon
Tel. Estacada 97-3
L. A. CHAPMAN
M O R T IC IA N
Estacada
Oregon
Call« attended Day or Night
Tol. 56-7 or 56-61
DR. C. E. STEWART
Chiropractic Phydaiaa
Specialising in chronic and » • » —
t o w diaordara o f tha Stomach
and lo t ..t in . I Tract
X-RAY SERVICE
Office Hour* 10 a. m. to f p. m.
Orta.ham O ffica,
U
Phone I M
W . la * Street. Qreahaw
DR. H. M. KRAMER
D E N T I S T
Phene E .taca4a 2-18
C o aip lato
X-Ray
Bldg.,
Equipment
Estacada. Ore.
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MACK MACKENZIE
G ene r al Carpentry, Repaira,
__ PtombTn, and Painting _
Uphoiatoring and F ornita re
Ran
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Clackamas
County
NEW *
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THE TOBACCO ROAD
OF THE NORTH
F R ID A Y ,
JUNE 27,
1941
tainsides they exert themselves more
stienuously than they do at any othei
time during the year and all the men
women und children turn out to strip
the bushes bare.
Immediately they descend upon the
valley towns before the berries spoil.
The men walk first like good Indians
empty-handed,, and the women and
varicolored children tia il along be­
hind at a discreet distance, loaded to
the eyes with their baskets and their
blueberries to sell. One excursion
gcneiall|y nets enough cash fo r .4
whole year’s living back in the hills
h 'ov and then a little group have
moved o f f the mountains. There is a
Jackson White settlement at H ill-
burn, one at Sloatsburg, Ramapo,
Torne and Ladentown as well as In
Suffern itself. Occasionally the men
get work In factories but the first
week’s pay looks like such a fortune
to them that they go on drunken bats
lasting fo r days. As fa r as the fam il­
ies are concerned relief is a much
more effective means o f support. A l­
most every Jackson White who has
heard o f that institution is now on
relief.
;ee the Jackson Whites as they ar'
Liiduy and as they live in the incredi.
j.e p. imitiveness o f their own homes.
Thirty miles fiom the roar o f the
iuu can do it no other way. You
world’s greatest city lives a dull-
-ake the mountain road as fa r as 1
minded, moral-less and lawless tribe
goes, until it seems to give up witi
o f mountain folk who make the chai-
a sigh o f re.ief in a thick tangle o>
acters of Tohacco road seem cultured
mountain laurel and scrub oak; thei
and e ffe te by comparison. A novelist
you branch out on your own initia­
in search o f earthy material would
tive, following a way thru the undei-
find more perhaps, than he bargain­
orush that looks as though it ha<
ed for among this degenerate lot who
teen trod by a good many feet. Ar.d
have succeeded in staving o ff theov-
suddenly in a shaft o f afternoon sun­
ertures o f civilization while sky.
light pe.haps, you’ll see the homes of
On the outskirts o f one little North
scrapers have mushroomed almost
the Jackson Whites growing oblique- Jersey town theie is a colony found
within sight o f their mountain clear­
,y out o f the mountainsides like un­ ed some years ago by two DeVries
ings. They are the Jackson Whitest wholesome fungi.
brothers. The colonists live in shacks
who sullly the blue Kamapo Moun­
Closer inspection shows them to o. made o f packing boxes in a wooded
tains today with the same jerry-built shacks, shanties, lean-tos what yo <
hollow
known
appropriately
as
squalid communities that have been will, consisting o f two rooms at th
“ Skunk’s Misery.” and the taxpayers
their haven since the Revolution.
most, ,but usually one, and made ou o f the town support them. Their chil
Little has been written about o f every conceivable bit o f materia dren are subject to rickets and tu­
them. Among the many legends of the builders were able to steal. berculosis. They go to the public
their origin some are conjecture, oth­ Sheets o f corrugated tin serve for school b,ut seldom get beyond the
ers contain fact. That their family roofing while the three sides (the fourth grade. They consort w ith ne­
tree is romantically wild and con­ mountain makes an adequate fourth) groes and whites alike and as they
glomerate one glance at a family are apt to be patched up with old are completelly unmoral by nature
plainly shows. Negro blood is appar­ washboards, barn doors or bed slats their squalid little hollow is a lewd
ent in the complexions o f most Jack When the shacks approach the final threat to humanity.
son Whites, and Indian too in many stage o f discrepitude they are prop
So there you have the Jacksoit
eases. But iwhen you see a white, fair | ped up by long poles driven into the
Whites as they are today But their
haired one, and you comment upon ¡ground and wedged ugaiinst the side
tragic, savage history, the devillish-
it you are invariably reminded o f j walJs to keep them fabm falling
ness and the desperation and the de,
the English Women.
’ ’Prostitutes” j down. In the dooryards you will cei
generacy which went into their bloot’
people tell you. “ It was a mean busi- I talniy find a weaitn o f broken whis-
years ago is well worth examining.
ness.” You are referred to Mr. Johr key bottles, a curiously flatened out
It may help to explain them.
Storms o f nearby Park Ridge, N old shoe, the ribs o f an old umbrel­
The official records o f the state o f
J., who is an authority on the Jack* la and a number o f very ancient chi­
North Carolina show that in 1711 a
son Whites as anyone. It was left to cken heads decaying in the sun.
tribe o f bloodthirsty' Tuscai aiwtaa
him to unearth their sad secrets and
A white slattern with faded blue were exiled from Southern soil after
to trace them back to their dark be­ eyes may be sitting on one o f the
massacreing an entire settlement o f
ginnings in five countries and three crazy steps holding a sepia-tinted
white people and were driven north­
continents.
And yet their history baby in her lap. And around the
ward by a regiment o f British sol­
because o f the very nature o f it, coiner may appear a gaunt, dark
diers into the mountains near the
still lurks behind a curtain o f mys­ man with a shotgun who hates a
great Hudson river. One can only
tery, a surly and devilish sort o f white valley snooper with bitter vio- speculate at th e' purpose V h “ nd 7 he
mystery if there ever was one. Not
T
7 " r t0
^
Stran* e trcaty ^ i c h resulted in trana
all o f It probably can ever be told. w anly
and with some deference. Thts piantinff the Indians from Qne
I f you ware to leave Suffern, Nev is^the heriditary land o f the Jackson o f mountaina t0 another s;x hundre*,
York on some afternoon in spring be Whites and here he is Indisputable
nu.es away'. A t any rate they lived
fore the foliage on the trees becomes king just as he was a century and a
up to their agreement and set up
too dense bear into the foothills o| half ago. Time often stands still in
their tepees in the Ramaposo where
the Ramapos, desert your car and the Ramapos.
they lived peaceably wtih the na-
walk fo r miles then perhaps you may
These people do not observe th
ive Ilagingashakies.
least o f the human decencies. Th
Some sixty years later in England
miserable shanties you will see about
a gentleman by the name o f Jackson
house ten or twelve o f them with a
hit upon a lucrative scheme. He pre
many shades o f skin, all sleeping in
sented his idea to George the Third
a room seldom larger than ten by
and it met with approval. Jackson
fifteen feet. Marriage laws are no
by the terms o f a contract was en­
Yes we sell farms and we have
more obeyed by them than any othei
good business opportunities some
gaged to collect, transport and deli
laws. When anyone wants to marry
that pay well located in various
ver 3500 women to the p oit o f N ew
he or she simply moves in with the
places and various kinds o f bu­
York fo r the gratiification o f the
sinesses.
other fam ily as long as the notion
British soldiers quartered there. N ew
lasts and in the course o f natural
York was largely a T ory city and one
events another handful o f l'tckety
slip on the part o f a British soldier
little Jackson Whites comes into the
W e Have a client who has a good
might have a disasterous e ffect on
BINDER, Complete at
$25.00
world.
local opinion. So Jackson’s plan to
DOUBLE C U L T IV A T O R , $15.00
The wild Ramapos seem tainted protect N ew York womanhood was
They have been under cover
and spoiled somehow. Even the moun welcomed ironically enough and he
and you will find them in good
condition. Inspect them and put
tain air is polluted with too many was promised a generous sum for
them to use.
Lisst your farms
odors. There is too much rotteness each woman he could deliver.
fo r sale with us.
and filth lying about in the sun.
But Jackson now met with d iffi­
And there are too many dark-skinned
culties. Women o f the proper sort
renegades with surly faces stamping
approached in the proper places nat­
thru the mountain laurel. Your heart
urally mistrusted his proposition. The
will indeed be a stout one if it does
perils o f the ocean voyage and the
not jump about a little before the
colonial wildness were not much in­
leers o f ten or twenty o f these gen­
ducement.
Theie were some who
tlemen who had undoubtedly been
would go. But all this took time and
L. L. JONES & SONS
watdhing your every step up the
Jackson had to work fast fo r his for- j
mountain. Is this logical you ask,
tune. And so i f one can believe the
yourself, that here so close to Times
tradition that persists today among
Square several thousand people like
Monument and Marker Display
the people o f New York and north­
these live and have their being? No.
ern N ew Jersey, began perhaps the
opposite new Postoffice, Gresham.
it isn’t logical at all, it’s 100 yea r
worst wholesale kidnapping in the
Roy Bohannon, Mgr,, Tel. 245.
and actoss the world.
annals o f European crime. The eyes
The Jackson White probably pos­
o f Jackson and his men fe ll on isola-
sesses the most potent ego west of
tel cottages on lonely moors and
Broadwuy. He is satisfied with him­
downs, on highways where darkness
self and is well contented in his way
found belated travelers still abroad.
o f life. He scraps with his brothers
Women were siezed right and left,
Notary Public
usually over the purloining o f hi-
ami Jackson rushed them to the ves­
Agent for Aetna Casualty and
women or the theft o f his frightful
Surety Co..
sels that lay at Plymouth waiting to
corn liquor and deals out juctice a f
Capitol Fire Insurance Co.
transport them. He had no intention
ter a fashion. It is significant that
Accident and Health Insurance
o f returning to England and ran lit­
most o f these people carry knife
T e l. 97-3.
Estacada, Ore.
tle risk once his sorry fleet had set
scats somewhere about their dark
sail fo r the conolnles.
persons and occasionally though not
During the long voyage the wret­
so often as one mignt think, a maif
ched women had barely enough food
vanishes completely a fter some fla ­
and water to keep them alive. Many
grant offense. You don’t ask ques­
died o f pneumonia, dysentery, ter-
tions o f any Jackson White, ever
about such a disappearance. He may ron and broken hearts. And Jackson,
seeing body a fter body pitched into
Eye* examined
not like it at all.
Glasses fitted
The men hunt and fish all year the sea. perhaps began to believe that
Broken lenses duplicated
round and the women do n lacka­ God was not with him in his enter­
Eyeglass frames repaired while
daisical sort o f gardening. During the prise. When one o f his vessels sprang
you wait.
winter months they weave 9 plint bas­ a leak and sank in the ocean losing I
W o invito comparison of service,
kets, really quite beautiful baskets' all on board he must have certain o f
quality and prlco
part o f the splints are dyed with the it. Still he was a man o f resource
W e do our own grinding
juices o f bark and mountain berrie and remembering this his contract
and are woven Into the tintni ’ wood contained no stipulation as to the
to make symmetrical designs. They color o f the women he was to present
O ffico on Powell Blvd, opposite
carve bowls, ladles, spoons, forks am« to the army he sent an emptied vess.4
Gresham Thaatar
an assortment o f other household ut­ to the West Indies. It returned with
Toi. Gresham 217, ar
ensils with considerable skill. When a load o f great gleaming negresses. [
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the blueberries are ripe on the moun
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•
’ o w e ll B l v d .
NOW THERE’S
» A A « I X
G
EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
at
Btlue I.ake
P a rk
4 miles north o f Gresham on Fairview Road.
Saturday night at 9, Sunday night at 8 o’clock
Music by Brannan’s 7-piece orchestra.
Dance prices lowered to 30 cents.
BASEBALL!
League baseball every Sunday.
Softball every Monday, W e d ­
nesday and Friday nights.
CANOEING
BOATING
PICNICKING
MONUMENTS
DR. L. W. GRIFFITH
A complete optical service
3. Heat-saving Heat Trap.
4. Cold Water Deflector.
5. Adjustable Automatic Thermostat.
I n v e s t i g a t e t h e Economy T o d a y
The MEYERS SERVICE
GRESHAM, ORE.
Evelyn M. Lawrence
1. N E W Cost Cuttsr Calrod Unit.
2. Genuine Rockwool Insulation.
Swim
Every day and evening in beau­
tiful Blue Lake Park under su­
pervision o f qualified life guards
Bring your picnic lunch where there are tables,
stoves and other conveniences. Admission to the
park, 15 cents.
Highest Cash Prices
r a id
fo r
Loganberries, Black Raspberries, Cuthbert
Raspberries, Youngberries, Blackberries, Boy-
senberries, and Currants.
Gresham Packing Co.
R. I. Maclaughlin
& Co., Owners
Telephone Gresham 277
Gresham,
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