Aurora
Published Every Thursday
VOL. XI.
OREGON CITY DRUNKS
TRY AURORA CITY JAIL
Two Oregon City young -men giving
the names of W. J. Wilson and C.
Richardson spent Saturday night and
part of Sunday in jail here, having
absorbed too much moonshine. They
created a disturbance at the dance and
were promptly “ pinched” by the city
marshal. They were released, how­
ever, Sunday forenoon, and left at once
for Oregon City. One of them was hat­
less and coatless, and both were
“ broke” . Others in their party were
equally hilarious but left town when
ordered to do so by the marshal, Wil-
son and Richardson seemed to court
the marshal’s hospitality—though the
next morning regretted their choice.
NO.
AURORA. MARION COUNTY, OREGON. MARCH 31, 1921
An O pen Letter To The
Voters of The Hubbard
School District
FORMER MISSOURI MAN
MAY ORGANIZE BANK
C, E, Wales and Robert R. Rankin
of Portland were here Friday from
Portland looking into the matter of
organizing the Liberty National Bank.
Mr. Wales has been in the business a
number of years. He was once a resi­
dent of the county in which Bethel,
Missouri, is located and recognized
many of the names of people who came
from Bethel. At one time he was edi­
tor of a newspaper of that county.
With others interested in the pro­
posed bank, he took an automobile trip
through the country around Aurora.
He did not indicate when, he left
whether he would take part in the or­
ganization of the bank. It is expected
that, if he does, he will be the cashier.
There is considerable speculation as
who will head the institution as presi­
dent.
HOP NEWS
GRANGE DEDICATION
Reports from California state that
The dedication of the new grange
there are still 24,000 bales of Sacra - 1 hall at Butteville will be on the fourth
mento hops unsold. A few lots wOrq Saturday in April—the 23rd. An error
sold last week at 20 to 22 cents.
jin last week’s paper made the date
— ——
j April 4.
| The master of the state grange will
The yearly Importation of German
be present. The forenoon will be de-
hops into this country before prohibi­
I voted to the business of the grange,
tion days was about 29,000 bales. Last
year the guantity jumped to °1 000 but ^be a^ ernoon W*N be open to the
’
i public which is cordially invited to at-
bales. Before prohibition came into
force American hop consumption was j tend.
The Grange will also have a dance
about 225,000 bales. Now it is esti­
i early in May of which further announce­
mated at 50,000 to 60,000 bales.
ment will be made.
DEAR VOTER:-
The statement is being spread abroad in the Hubbard
district that signing the petition to call a special school
Yakima hop buyers, who some weeks j
meeting to vote upon the organization of a union high
ago were reported to be doubtful about
ASSESSED VALUATIONS
school district “is equal to voting for the proposition".
making advances on ^their contracts \
with growers there, are now said to be j
This of course is not true. Signing the petition simply
The assessed valuation o f the school
making ready to advance such culti- j
gives the people a chance to vote upon- the matter. Re­
vation funds as their contracts call for districts which it is proposed to incor­
porate into a union high school dis­
GRESHAM FARMER BOOSTS
fusing to sign the petition is denying the voters the right
April 1. Growers were discouraged by
the previous reports. But it is now be­ trict, is given in the list Delow:
FOR UNION HIGH SCHOOL to vote upon the question.
425,960
Butteville____________
lieved lhat the crisis is past and hop
Union
Hill.................
...........
248,190
We believe in the courtesy, honesty, fairness, and
growing in the Yakima Valley be nor­
Barlow....... .............................
230,177
C. J, Johnson, a farmer living in one sincerity of the people of the Hubbard district, and we ask
mal attain this season.
A
u
r
o
r
a
.
.
.
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466.000
LITTLE
STORY
CARRIED
STING
of the Gresham districts, writes the
I Meridian ..................................
51,515
Observer under the date of March 28, them to believe that the friends of the union high school
154,271
The ball game Friday between th e ' Marks Prairie.......................
that the story that is being circulated plan are equally fair, honest and sincere. They have noth­ Must Have Shown to Readers the
Hubbard and Aurora school ball teams j Needy____- ______________
137,724
Neglected Industrial Possibilities
here that the farmers are all opposed ing to conceal, and you have nothing to lose by signing
106,945
of the South.
resulted in a score of 5 to 2 in favor of Whiskey Hil
to the Gresham union high school is
93,160
Hubbard. The game was a seven-in­ Ninety-One
wh >lly untrue. He says, “ If the far­ the petition.
D. A. Tompkins, the father of the ning affair and was an excellent game White_____
415.000
mers were against the union high
In fact, you have everything to gain. Belonging to a cotton-oil industry, who built his for­ as shown by the score.
632.000
Hubbard__
school we should have had none, be­
on his inextinguishable faith in
397.000
union
high school will reduce your school taxes. The tune
cause we are in the majority. We
Edward Green, who was here last Donald.........
the industrial possibilities of the
have had no protest from the farmers. records of your school, on file in the county superinten­ South, wds fond of quoting this little week to visit his mother at her home
But there was a dot of jealously be­
about a Georgia funeral, says his at Boones Ferry, has returned to La
Mrs. Lewis Keii of Union has been
dent's office at Salem show that it costs $116.05 each to story
biographer, Dr. George Tayloe Win­ Grande near which city he is teaching. seriously ill the past two weeks. Her
tween the little towns of the union
The aver­ ston, in “A Builder of the New Mr, Green was formerly a teacher in I many friends will be glad to learn that
high school district, but most of them educate students in the Hubbard high school.
have or will finally come in. Our tax age cost of the local district high schools, figured in tax South.”
the Aurora school.
she is now somewhat better.
“I attended a funeral once in Pick­
has never been above 7.6 m ills.”
levies, is about 8 mills. When your district loses its out­ ens county, Georgia. It was a poor,
‘one-gailus’ fellow. They- buried him
side district pupils, with the tuition they bring, the Hub­ in
the midst of a marble quarry ; they
Pullets Lay at 3 1-3 Month
bard high school will be still more expensive to maintain. cut through solid marble ±o make his
and yet a little tombstone they
Wallace Dibble of Meridian has three
The large assessed valuation of the union high school grave,
pût above him was from Vermont.
Plymouth Rock pullets, hatched Decem­ district reduces the tax levy necessary,
Below is given a They buried him in the heart of a
ber 15, 1920, which began laying March
pine forest, and the pine coffin was
tentative
budget
for
the
union
district:
25, when they were 8 months and 10
imported from Cincinnati. They bur­
days old. They have laid several eggs
ied him within touch of an iron
Principal’s Salary________________ .____.$ 2000
since then. They are still running with
mine, and yet the nails of his coffin
and the iron in the ..shovel that diig
the mother hen, which still attempts to
Two teacher's at $150 per mo. (9 mos.)__
2700
ht/i grave were imported iron* Pitts-
hover them. Mr, Dibble could scarcely
Three teachers at $125 per mo. (9 mos.)__
3375
h n r g h . T h ey b u ried him by th e . sid e
credit it when he found them laying,
R P S J ? b e st sh e e p -g r a z in g 'c o u n tr y on
Janitor, 9 months at $8Q per month. ----- *»**720
but is positive that they have begun to
i> and y e t the wool 4n the coffin' ■>
lay regularly at that tender age. The
___ u p 400
bands and the coffin bandé- th e m s e lv e s
A’ n e w sh ipm ent o f.triim m ed hats, for ladies,* Misses
eggs are very small—like the pullets
were imported from the North. The
Water,
light,
incidentals_____________
400
South did not furnish a thing on earth
themselves. He had pullets before
and children have just arrived. The assortment is
Insurance________ _________________
125
for that funeral but the corpse and
that began laying at 4£ months, but
the hole in the ground. There they
large, the styles are heat and up-to-date, the values
these the 3£ month birds have the
Clerk’s salary -----
100
put him away and the clods rattled
record.
are better than ever. ;
d.own on his coffin and they buried him
Transportation _________ ^ . - 2 ------ - - - - -
3500
in a New York coat and a Boston pair
Total_____ _____________ ._____$ 13320
of shoes and a pair of breeches from
EASTER SERVICES
It is the part of wisdom to look these creations over be­
Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati,
Income from tuition_____ ,$1000._____ $
leaving him nothing to carry into the
fore paying high prices for hats at the millinery shops.
next world with him to remind him
From State Voc. Bd____________________ 1900
Easter services at the churches of
of the country in which he lived and
this section were all well attended.
Net cost_____________*■— ------ $ 11,400
for which he fought four years but
You are cordially invited to look over this stylish
The beautiful weather added to the en-
the chill blood in his veins and the
The net cost of operation for the first year, $11,400 marrow
j jyment of the occasion, and the con­
in his bones.”
assortment of trimmed hats.
gregations greatly enjoyed the ser­
will
be
more
than
covered
by
a
4-mill
tax
on
a
$3,000,000
mons and programs.
Rev. Weller preached the Easter valuation.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
sermon here both morning and evening.
There will be no tax to cover payment by bonds and
W 1 L L -S N Y D E R C O .
The morning program was given by
THE STORE OF MERIT
Young Jersey cow and calf. Gives
the children, and was exceptionally interest, as the Aurora district will have to pay these: in
over
3
gallons
per
day.
Cone
place
\
good,
any event.
5
At Wilsonville Rev. Ralph Thomas
The cost of equipment has been conservatively esti­ mile West Butteville Station,
delivered an appropriate Easter mes­
Mrs. Geo. Galbreath, Misses Nettie
sage, the children sang and recited,the mated at $6000, which will provide everything necessary and Edna Galbreath and Albert Foster
choir sang two anthems, and Sher Sete- to equip the school for the first year, and perhaps for 2 or were the guests of Mrs, Loftie Foster
ley rendered a baritone solo, before a
3 years. The big Gresham union high school has acquired for the week end. They returned to
large congregation.
Portland Sunday.
At Tualatin the S u n d a y school only $9000 worth of equipment in nearly seven year's
Wm. Welch has planted out a nice
children furnished an excellent pro­
growth. The following is the budget for equipment:
field of loganberries and some straw­
gram whidi was heartily enjoyed.
berries on his place just south east 'of
Assembly room____ ________ ______ ___$ . 1500
Aurora on the Meridian road. He is
Rev. H. P. Blake will preach his
Class rooms____ ____________________
500
improving his tract rapidly.
“ birthday sermon” at Tualatin, Sun­
Commercial room_____ _ ____________
1000
A. J. Zimmerman, executor of the
day, April 2. He is 88 years old. Dr.
estate of Christian Zimmerman, and
Chemical room____ -________ ____ ___
1000
John D, McCormick of the Kimball
Ralph Zimmerman, his attorney, went
school of Theology, at Salem, will be
Domestic S c i e n c e ---------
600
to Salem Monday, when the final ac­
among the visitors. Dr. McCormick
Shop
--------- —--------------- -
800
count of the executor was filed and
will preach at Wilsonville next Sunday
We hope not, but you will admit that a fresh
settled, and the executor discharged
evening.
Miscellaneous__________________
600
dainty Voile Dress will go a long way toward
from further dutnes.
Total
_____ $ 6000
making her more attractive.
Voile has
The band temporarily brought to­
come
to
the
front
as
a
smart
fabric,
correct,
A 2-mill tax will cover the cost of all necessary equip­ gether by Grover Giesy for the big
becoming and girlish, and is holding its own
union
high
school
meeting
recently,
ment. Thus a 6-mill levy (not 10-mills, as union high consisted of the following: G.C.Giesy,
among sheer fabrics for afternoon frocks.
school knockers claim) will cover the cost of operating and W. C. Grim, Earl Grim, A. W, Keil,
Lester Cole' of Aurora, Clarence Bev-
equipping the school.
ens, Clark Will, Chas. Will, Mr. Brown
Let us show you the exquisite patterns, just
A large district with a large assessed valuation is the and Elton McLaughlin of Hubbard, and
newly arrived, and are now being displayed.
only solution of the problem of high costs for high school Mr, Newman ot Portland.
education.
Alfred Campau is preparing to plant
out
a considerable acreage to logan­
The Hubbard enterprise says, “unless Hubbard voters berries
and strawberries. He already
really wish to send their children to another district for has a rice field of the latter. Ultim ate­
THESE VALUES WE TERM
their high school education, the petition should not be ly he will have from 30 to 40 acres in
berries. He is putting his ground in
signed.”
EXCEPTIONAL
shape now with a case tractor belonging
It would be truer to say:“If the Hubbard voters real­ to his father J. F, Campau.
ly Want a ( really first-class high school at less cost than j While plowing recently on his place
it is possible to maintain a one-distriet local high school, at Meridian Mr. Pratt uncovered a
c ig a re tte . Flavor is
.
... . . |
....
, , „
.,
> j * winter supply of spuds which the gop-
they will sign the petition, and vote for the organization hers laid by last fall, The pockets in
sealed in by toasting
of a union high school district with a building at Aurora which the potatoes were stored were
proyided with a drain below, and were
where a $25,000 structure and site will not cost the union covered
with hard-packed soil above,
----- ------ -T H E BEST FOR THE PRICE— ----------
high school district a cent. Signing the petition is simply which kept the tubers dry all winter.
These
little
animals,
in
laying
up
their
giving the people an opportunity to express their wishes—
R. & G. CORSETS
IVANHOE GLOVES
food supply, apparently did some real
simply a square deal. Let us be fair!”
planning.
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DO CLOTHES MAKE
THE GIRL!
LUCKYSTRIKE
SADLER i KRAUS