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About Beaverton times. (Beaverton, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1921)
V0L1M O. ' ik.: BEAVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1821. hUEBCBK (BtR 10 EE HELD WlltED OF, "(EtfflHBEl FOBIUD VOTES DSI CHA1AUP IS HELD HEARING 1 HUBER : BONDS iO 19 TO BE HELD -tatOMEHISES rUNXED FOR ALOHA AT FACIFIC THUTER fm An 111 pv Month for Ford, ml $15 for Heavier Cere Three t Mtv'UfMs Ordered. The way 1b open for jitney service, to Portland If the -two men who made Mtinlication for franchises want to tackle the job under the terms pro vided by the council. Monday night applications came before 'the council irom James Anderson, who drives sevenpassenger Hudson, 'and from Mr. Grady, who pilots a Ford. Both are from Portland. Grady waB pres- nt and Judge Kent, of Portland, was mesent to represent the men. Ihe council showed Its willingness to give '. them a chance. The fee was fixed at f 10 per month for the Ford and 816 per month for the Hudson and When the eouncil meets again on November .15. the terms of the franchise will be made known and the men will be ready to answer whether they want to es- ' tablish service or not. L Several speeches enlivened the dis- cussion. The judge proved a clever bargainer but he had an equal In , .Councilman Woodruff. Mayor Erick son told them frankly that there was not much demand for jitney service here. J. A. Hopgood expressed his opinions freely on the subject. He declared that the additional Bervice wa not needed and that he desired any competition with the railroads should be on the same terms and asked that unless the drivers of the cars were willing to provide regular schedules, commutation tickets, wait ing rooms and other essentials of ade quate service that the council rescind its action and refuse to grant a fran chise. But the motion by Mr. Wood ruff that the franchises be granted at the rate of (10 per month for the j Ford and $15 per month for the Hud son, was seconded by Mr. Alexander and passed without a dissenting vote, An application from Harry Barnes for a franchise for his two-ton truck was laid on the table until the next meeting. . G. W. Stltt appeared before the council and asked that a light be placed at Second Street and Angel Street. Mayor Erickson backed up his plea and urged that another light fee placed at the intersection of Erick son Avenue and Second Street Engi neer Garrow endorsed pleaB and stat ed that a third light was needed along the new paving. So it was decided that three lights should be placed on the new paving, one at the high point between Watson Street and Lombard Street, near Franklin Avenue and the other two at Angel Street and Eriok- on Avenue, respectively. The council recessed until Novem ber 15 when the matter of remon trance to the assessment of Eaat East Street will be considered. G. Murl Gorden Divorced Again Elsie Gorden Wednesday morning received a divorce by default from G. Murl Gorden, local aviator. The de gree was grantedd by Presiding Judge Stapleton, of Multnomah County. Mrs. Gorden, 25 years of age, said her troubles began when she married Gorden. He had promised many things for her, she said. He prom ised to take her around the world in n airplane. He told her he had lots of money. r "He said he was 85 years old when he asked me to marry him' said Mra. Gorden. "Later I found he waa 51." i Mrs. Gorden said her husband gave clothes to other women, but not to her. The Gordons were married April 18, 1921. . r I Regular Meeting Beaverton Commercial Club Wednesday Might, Nov. 16, 1921 This is an important meeting as will be discussed Everybody You are urged to come whether a member or not. If you ap prove of our efforts, join us. Swenson's Office, 8:00 o'clock November 21 la Date for Naatag Candidates for Town Election , December 6. , ..' Tuesday, December 6, is town elec-' tion day in Beaverton. There are a mayor, a recorder and two council men to elect. But before the election comes the caucus and in order that all may be In readlnesB for the town, election when it comes, the towncoun oil at ItB meeting Monday night named Monday night, November 21, ae a fitting: date for the first of the caucuses to nominate city officials. The caucus will be held in Pacific Theatre in order that all citizens who desire may attend. ' The terms of the mayor and re corder are one year only.1 Council men serve for two years but the -terms of Councilmen Rossi and Alexander' expire this winter, bo the call 1b lor a mayor and a recorder to serve one year and for two councilmen to serve for two years. - i . The council named Mesdames J. E. Summers and Guy S. Alexander as clerks of election and MeBBrs, G. W. Stitt, Walter HarriB and Rev. G. A. Gray as judges of election. ' NEW RULING MADE ON DANCE ADMISSIONS An important change has just been made bv the Bureau of Internal Rev enue in the regulations concerning the tax on admission to dances. The . regulations heretofore have held that where the admission for men was $1.00 and women were ad mitted free, $1.00 wbb the established Ice of admission and women who were admitted free were required to pay 10c tax the same as men. Where the admission price for men was 50c and for women u&c, it was new tnai the tax on both men and women was 6c. , By the ruling dated October 23rd it is now held that women are not ad mitted to a dance under the same air cumatances bb men, and that, there fore, in the case of free admission of women to a dance where a charge is made for admission of men, such free admission shall not be taxable. Where men are charged 60c and wmen 26c admission, the tax on men will be 5c and on women Sc. PROHIBITION PROFITABLE SAYS GOVERNMENT REPORT The following article was handed to us by a W. C. T. U. worker: Government report shows Prohibi tion valuable Bource of revenue. Fines exceed costs ten times. iBrewers alone have paid into U. S. .Treasury in fines over $1,000,000. Prohibition enforcement instead of being a drain upon the United States treasury has actually proved a good source of revenue for the government. During the year 418,987 gallons of distilled spirits were seised, besides the wine. Let the good work go on. This is copied from a government report by one who is interested in ing the law enforced . UNION OIL STATION OPEN FOR BUSINESS The new station of the Union Oil Company, just east of Beaverton, has opened for business. Regular truck service is maintained from Beaverton to the surrounding territory. Elmer Stipe underwent an operation last Thursday for the removal of his tonsils. The operation was success ful and Elmer is getting along nicely. plans for the coming year year Welcome Council Will Decide Next Tuesday If Yon Have an Idea, Tell Them Now, Don't Kick Later. The publisher of this paper has def inite ideas as to what the terms of the franchises to be granted to the jit ney drivers should be. He has put these ideas before the members of the town council. And in the hope that other citizens will also express their ideas regarding the same subject, re gardless of whether these ideas agree with my own. I am siting down here, the salient points of those ideas. The town council will meet next Tuesday night. At that times the terms of the franchises will be Bet forth and if the applicants elect to accept them under the terms then set forth, any amount of kicking or objection will be of little avail after that date. I believe that the charges establish ed Monday" night by the council are fair and juBt. I believe that they are as low as -may fairly foe charged in justice to the people who live here and are dependent upon city revenues for their water, lights and streets. The contention that the jitneys cannot pay these charges and live is beside the question. The council owes nothing to the outside driver who would come I here and compete with established forms of transportation. Its duty is to the people who live here and If these drivers of for hire cars succeed in their project, railroad service will be reoucea m juBt tr.e proportion m which j they succeed. If they finally succeed ! vmtng tne "iron horse" out of the i w u"iiy ana xne siate are entitled to a commensurate return for the loss in taxes and the wear and tear on the highways. But over and above this, the people who live here are entitled to a contin uous, dependable service. They are entitled to commutation fares, com fortable waiting rooms and the assur ance that cars will be available at con venient stated times to take them to and from the city, Therefore, I be lieve that the franchises granted should contain provision that these cars will run regularly, that they will maintain service each day in the year, that they will inaugurate commutation fares equally as favorable as those now in force on the railroads, that they shall establish and maintain com fortable waiting rooms for the ac commodation of passengers, and that they shall bond adequately for the protection of passengers in esse of accidents. If they can do this, they are entitled to consideration as a means of trans portation and if they succeed in re placing the railroads they will have provided an equivalent service in its place. It will tcke more than 150 Fords or more than 100 of the larger cars to replace the service now afford ed Beaverton by the two railroads. To serve the adjoining communities will require even more. This number of cars under the terms set forth by the council Monday night will provide a substantial revenue to the town of jury to residents here and will depre But anything less will work an in jury to residents here and will depre ciate property value. Property here has its worth because of its proximity to Portland and the ready means and low fares which exist between this lo cality and the Oregon metropolis. If the jitney does not provide an equal service, it has no right to compete. All passengers carried by the jitneys on any other basis will reduce our train service by just that much. The worth of our property, the conveni ence of living here, depend upon eco nomical, convenient, dependable and frequent transportation. Let us hold on to what we have and miss no op portunity to improve it. The jitney, as an institution, has come into being with the paving of our roads and the development of the au tomobile. It cannot be escaped or ig nored. It must be regulated. And in that regulation the welfare of the community is the first consideration. The citizen of Beaverton must not be robbed of the value of his property as a place to1 live in order that an itin erant driver may live from the eream of traffic from a community which he has not helped to develop and over roads which he did not help to build and which he does not help to main tain. , ...... Improving Watson Street Through the efforts of Martin Gleeson and C. W. Allen, a subscrip tion of $160 has been raised and work is under way for the improvement of Watson Street from the Methodist Church south to the city limits. The I county road from there south to the Shellenberger place has just been resurfaced. Remit Will Be Watched wit Interest by State Fate of Exposition Hangs on Outcome. ' ' Beaverton and the rest of the state will watch with interest the outcome of the bond election, to be held in Portland, November 19, when the fate of the Atlantic and Pacific Highways and Electrical Exposition will be de termined. Upon the vote polled there will depend in large measure the out come of the later bond election to be held throughout the state. Should Portland fail to give an almost unani mous vote in favor of the fair, the re sult will be harder work to get a favorable vote in the spring of 1922. But we are looking forward to the most favorable answer ever given by the people of Portland. There should not he a dissenting votev Portland has the opportunity that may never come ag'in. No other state ha the scenery and Attractions for tourists which Oregon possesses. ' For ages these have been inaccessible. But to day .paved roads have opened the win. ders of the state to the tourist. Words and pictures are but feeble ins of telling of the wonders of the outdoors. It must be seen to be ap preciated. The fair will bring people here and once they come they will see more of the state. One visit will not be enough. The tourist will come again and again and he will tell his friends. The stream of tourists, once begun, is never-ending. Tourist trade is the most profitable and enduring of any trade which a city or state may have A unanimous vote Is an invitation to the world with a guarantee of matchless Western hospitality and the world will not mistake the terms of the invitation. Portland, it s up to you. , i :1 SILVER TEA 11 SCHOOL IS POPULAR Thirty Ladle Listen to Words of Miss Walker and Mrs. Dunbar and Evince Interest A silver tea was held at the high school Monday afternoon under the auspices of the County Health Asso ciation of which Mrs. H. L. Hudson is the local president. Thirty ladies were (present and much interest was manifested in the work of the asso ciation. An effort will be made to call at tention to the work of the County Nurse and to secure favorable action on the item when the county budget is con.vdered. - Among the speakers at the meeting Monday were Miss Clara Walker, County Nurse, and Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, president of the Oregon Anti-Tuberculosis Association, and Mrs. L. W. Hyde, df Hillsboro, county pres ident. . . . ; BISHOP BROS, 10 QUIT; BIG SALE IN PROGRESS Well Known Dry Goods Store to Close Business in. Bearertoa An nenaeement as this Paper. Bishop Bros., the well known dry- goods firm with stores here, in Port land and at Gresham, have decided to close the beaverton store. For the next ten days they are offering to the People of this locality a wonderful bargain opportunity, full particulars of which are given on the last page of this paper. Buying out the Cady-Pegg Co. stock of drygoods and groceries nearly three years ago, they continued in tlie general merchandise business until last year when they closed out the groceries just before opening the ttore at Gresham. The present sale will be a quiet turn-ove- of the high grade merchan dise which they have gathered in the past few months and their offerings , are real bargains. j Hnber-Aloha School to be Made Ac mslble by Improvement of Dirt Road Connecting Towns. The Huber-Aloha school Is to be made accessible to automobile traffic and residents on the old road between the two towns may use their cars throughout the winter If plans tn Road District No. 8 material iie. The old dirt road south of the Southern Pacific tracks ' which connects the towns of Huber and Aloha by way of the school house, and which was the only means of egress for the Aloha people prior to the construction of the highway, was along a private road and unimproved. It is still uninprcved, but on September 15 the County Court was induced to take It over as a coun ty road and a meeting in Road Dis trict No. 8 is scheduled for Wednes-; day night, November 80, at Aloha Hall to vote a ten mill tax for thb purpose I of rocking this road from Aloha, past the schoolhouse to Blanton's corner at Huber and then South patrt Norton'i place to the old Hfllsboro road. As a part of this road is in District No. 10, if the election is successful, the Co operation of the other district and the County Court will be sought. No one oan deny the need of the people living on this road for a means of egress. For years they have been forced to leave their cars a mil or more fiom home throughout the winter and the absence of electric service has made their efforts at development rank with those of other pioneers. The attendance at meetings in' the past has been limited and this la be lieved to be due to the fact that many residents of the district are commuters and cannot attend meetings held ia the middle of the day. For this teat son it is proposed to hold this meeting at 2:00 o'clock as usual but instead of passing on the tax at that time to take recess until 8:00 o'clock and re-convene in the evening when all can be present. Every woman in the dis triet is urged to attend this meeting at Aloha Hall, November 80, at 2t0u o'clock and to vote for a recess until 8:00 o'clock. BUDGET LAW APPLICABLE TO ROAD DISTRICTS The budget law enacted by the state legislature at Its last session re quiring that estimates of the budget needs for the ensuing year be ap proved by the tax levying body before being submitted to a vote of the peo ple, applies to road districts as wall as to all other municipal corporations according to Attorney General Van Winkle who has so informed E. 8. Tongue,, district attorney for Wash ington county. The levying board in a road dis trict, the attorney general points out, consists of all of the legal voters of the district, because they and they only have the power to levy a special tax on tne aistnei. STANDING OF THB CONTESTANTS TO DATE The following is the standing cf the contestants in the Beaverton Diamond Queen contest: - Charlene Fredricey, 829. Noreen Nelson, 801. Myrtle Davia. 214, Irma Berthold, 200. J. a KAYS PASSES J. B. Kays, of Be ho lis, died at nil home there Sunday night, aged 66 years and 2 months. Paralysis was the cause of death. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Mountain View cemetery, Reverends Coleman and Reed officiating. Funeral arrange ments were in charge of W. E. Pegg, local funeral director. Mr. Kays came to Scholia eight years ago from Illinois. He Is sur vived by his widow, Mrs. Ida Kays, of SchoIIs, and by one daughter living in Illinois. FOOTBALL THIS AFTERNOON Beaverton high school football boys will try conclusions with the second team of the Lincoln High School of Portland, on the local ball grounds this (Friday) afternoon at 2:80. Hers is a good chance to see the boys lit ac tion, RECEPTION FOR TEACHERS A reception will be given for the teachers of the Beaverton school at the High School Auditorium Monday night, November 14. The public is in vited. Souis Ambrosch, teacher of Violin, and Violinist of Portland Symphony Orchestra will be at Beaverton, Thurs day afternoon, No. 17th, at the studio in the Cady BldgH to receive pupils on the Violin, Those wishing to study, please call. ' .t 46tli attend Year ef Ellison-White Appear ance Here Marked by Good Pro grams and Large Attendance. Beaverton Chautauqua came to thu close o a five-night program Wednes day evening and the results are most gratifying to the committee, Not on ly were the programs presented by the Ellison-White Lyceum Bureau of Portland of the highest character, en tertaining and elevating, but the turn out of Beaverton people was all that could be expected. Each evening tho spacious high school auditorium wan filled with appreciative people who gave the closest attention to the num bers presented. Contrary to the usual custqm, the first evening's performance wai not, in the opinion of many who attended,, the best of the series. Much .'ess fav orable comment was given the violin ist and singer than greeted the ap pearance of those who followed. The work of the magician on Satur-1 day night was more than the average! sleight of hand. He did a gruat many 1 things that defied even the most ex perienced of his auditors to explain. The treat of the series was anally jttnd their serviea into a rural commu the negro singers who appeared Mon- ally. While the justice of sueh a ml day night. Their program was varied 'mg li generally accepted, there is ho and pleasing throughout Even the re-1 auch ruling In existence snywfere In citing of Prof. Gamer wai received with the most sustained applaune and encore after encore greotej the per farmers. , Tuesday night's le?f m was claimed well worth tlio price of the course. The old-fashioned girls In mus i numbers for the closing night full sustained the high standard sot fot them by the previous performers. The performance has paid financial ly and this year there la no deficit, which is assurance thatAhe effort will be continued and become a permanent feature of Beaverton's community life. HORTICULTURE SHOW . ATTRACTS AT O. A. C, By Eva Bchultx The 5th annual O. A. C. horticul ture show, displaying fruits, vege tables, nuts, and canned goods, was recently viewed at the college gym nasium by hundreds of students, townspeople and farmers. A huge pyramid mads of 6000 ap ples, a small alsed building mads of cans of fruit and vegetables and a dis play of chrysanthemums, some of which were thirty Inches tn circum ference were some of the spectacular sights of the show. Sub-tropical fruits and vegetables attracted the eye and made the mouth of the audience water, Pears from the college experiment station, which has European, African, Asian and American; collections wen shown. Twenty varieties of filberts, forty kinds of walnuts, varieties of the pistachio nut, the midget cocoanut, and the pandits nut were exhibited. Tapioca fruit, a mystery to most peo ple, wss displayed. A similar horticulture show Is dis played each year for educational pur poses and Is free of charge. Drs. Graffis Locate Here Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Graffis, of Port land, haw taken up their residence In Beaverton In the house recently purchased from W, C. McKell and formerly occupied by A. Lehner. Both Dr. and Mrs. Graffis are osteopathic physicians with office at their resi dence here on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Ther announcement appears In this issue. Drive slow In town. Drive careful lltf everywhere. Football Game Today Friday, November 1 1 "' 'at '2:30 ' Beaverton Lincoln High Seconds BALL GROUNDS Batlmatea of Coat of Extending Light and Power Facilities Varies Wide ly. Nearly 200 Users, A hearing Is promised within the next two weeks at the Huber Commer cial Club rooms before the Public Service Commission of Oregon when the people of that district may show why electric service should be extend td along the highway from St Mary's to Keedville and the North Coast Pow er Company will be given an oppor tunity to present their aide of the case, for mori than three years el forts have been made to induce thu company to extend Its lines into this territory. It is asserted that the com pany has expended more then $000 in an effort to gather data and that thu cost of making tuch extensions will be about 23,l)W). Estimates gathered by U. A. Norton and his committee show that the extensions can be made lor 7,500. Mr, Norton has been at work with the commission for soma time in an effort to get a ruling which wilt Jet forth the exact conditions under which ( public utility ran be forced to ax I the United States. Another ruling which he is urging is a joint user clause for telephone companies and electric light and power companies whereby one set of poles may serve both purposes. The census committee of the Hu ber Commercial Club has ascertained that there will be 110 potential users in the neighborhood of Huber 98 at Aloha and 81 between Aloha and Reedville, with possibly more in the near future. Each of these users will be solicited and when this census Is completed tha committee will know exactly how many will order electric service as aoon ai available and then the exact oost of installation can be ascertained. -. . - Mr. Norton now estimates that the investment required of each user will not exceed $60 and his plant include the incorporation of Huber and tha formation of a bond district which will reduce the Initial payment to a met fraction with a small yearly or month ly payment which will be within ta reach of everyone. He believes that the service, once installed, will soon prove profitable and that the user who invests will realise an adequate return on nil investment long before hii finsl payment ia mads. Another plan is to pool the instsl- tation of the necessary Wiring In the homes there and thus reduce the eost of this work to the Individual sub scriber to a fraction of the usual eost Full notice of the meeting when held will be given In tha Beaverton Times and by tuch other methods of publicity as may be available. PACIFIC THEATRE PROGRAM Saturday and Sanday, Neveatof 12 and II. The Barbarian, starring Monroe Salisbury and Jane Novak. A good comedy and the Screen weekly, The seventh episode of the Diamond Queen. The Barbarian" Is a drama ef the woods. It mingles red-blooded1 ad venture with tender romance and breathes the marie of the open spaces with the acts of men strong both physically and mentally , Guy S. Alexander has returned from a trip to Rritisn Columbia where he was sailed by the Illness of his mother. 1 ri