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Five Rural Routes, City
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Published Every Thursday
YOL. X I.
SCIENTIFIC
A U R O R A , M A R IO N C O U N T Y , OREGON! A P R IL 21, 1921
Here’s a Real Argument
For Philippine Independence
Contract Qn Road
To Be Let Soon
OUR TOW N
According to State Highway Engineer
H. S, Nunn, failure of Marion and
Clackamas counties to get together on
a definite plan of action looking toward
: the construction of the inter-county
I bridge at Aurora, threatens to forestall
' completion of improvement work on the
i Facific highway belt ween Salem .and
Portland during this summer, ContrhcC
for the new paving
Aurora-Cab
by section of the Highway is to by Ht
in the near future and it is expe'cKd
that this stretch of road will be hard
surfaced by the end of the summer,
wi;h the exception o f a short stretch
of road between the Aurora bridge and
the- Barlow crossing, which will* be
graded and prepared for paving next
year.—Canby News.
NECESSARY
Union High School
Can Succeed If Self -
fish Motives A r e
Eliminated .
The chief effect the union
high school movement upon
the Hubbard district has been
Celeb.
First
Una Temp
o f .Aurora, c
twenty-first
night. The
inembers ar
from Portia
event will long
banquet enjoyed
fine. The Pytbu
how to arrange a
of this kind,
lodge in Aurora,
Among the >
present were
Cora M. Davis,
J. Clark; GitasfW
Seal, Walter
Chief, Barbs! i P l l
Wright, editoq
fflÊÊk
I i I Í R
Jolly Time Had By
The Literary Society
Aurora i
1
1 (When Folks want .Anyth lug Dope, they
the development of the bump
go to J1. Fuller Pep, for he’s a Ninety
iffp !
o f utter selfishness— both in
Horse-Power Booster and Liberal with
The United Str.tes isn’t the only
kis Time1 and Money for anything to
The
Philippine
government
Is
encour
dividual a n d community. country that has homesteaders—those
aging the immigration of Filipinos
Tuesday evening, April 12, the Live Better the Town. Ole Hezefeiah Use
The
Hubbard Enterprise! enterprising pioneers who leave thick from the thickly populated sections in Wire Literary Society of Hubbard high less allows as how J.. Fuller is trying to
On Friday eve
ly populated districts and take their
(usually a fair and honest! families into virgin territory to create to Mindanao. This is the second larg school gave the Kappa Delta? Phi Liter % n Things, byt if Folk§,,wer§ all like bard High Sqhoti
Ilez, this would-Be a H of Sketch of a the Hubbafd City
sheet)and the Hubbard busi- ! ^omes for themselves. The Philippine est c f the islands of the archipelago. ary Society a moonlight picnic, On ac n w n ! am
drama in four actl
It
is
still
sparsely
settled,
although
count
of
the
wet
weather
it
was
,
held?
,
'
,
,
islands have thousands o f thrifty home-
I
neSS men have made the cry | steaders.
ie Rose.” Every!
it is one of the richest and most pro on the school grounds in the play shed.
and see the “ hem«
The above photograph shows a pic ductive islands in the world. Many In the absence of the moon i large.bon
of “ wolf” and “ liar” their
ture of a Christian Filipino homestead Americans have established planta fire was built just outside the shed.
Car
W
recked
the Aurora pupils |eA
main arguments. They have er and his family r.ear Pikit, Cotabato tions there and become rich.
Everyone had a wonderful time in spite
knocked the movement for a province, Mindanao, P. I. Five years Filipinos are using the stories of the of the disappearance of the weenies
A complete wreck was that oh -th e
ago he was a cab driver working for many successful Filipino homesteaders
union high school at Aurora, low wages at Cebu, a thickly populated as an argument for independence. They which were to be roasted over the bon highway south of town Saturday night, Improver)
city. He. went Into the then wilderness make the point that a people that can fire and eate"n with the buns. Dry buns
because they desire such an of
Mindanao, planted hemp and cocoa- go out into a tropical wilderness with didn’t look very good when everyone and a mericle that no one was hu rt.
institution at Hubbard. They nuts, paid for his land and has be no capital save their patience, perse- had been planning on piping hot ween The three Fry Brothers . were in their l i f e «
come wealthy. Thousands o f similar
belittle Aurora’s offer Oi instances could be cited. One Mindanao verence and energy and win homes \>r ies, Wednesday morning found ween Ford truck coming to town when' a big
r J i&
s t r r
themselves, have the necessary stamina ies all over the assembly hall,on books,?
I Ì
Studebaker Six car ran * into them
homesteader is worth $200,000.
$25,300 for building and site
to run their own affairs.
behind pictures, in desks, and every broadside. Four wheels and the frame dressed up” 'fa t C '
— yet Hubbard has absolute
where imaginable. So everyone ate of The Ford were broken and the front that is a better c ^ ote
i l oí
tìSì
and which improves t^V, tot«** o f the
weenies.
It was rather late xefresh- axle and parts o f the other ear.
ly nothing to offer. N ot on tricts must vote favorably
building
wonderfully
Let9s Pull Together j meats but they were thoroughly en
ly mis-representation, but and a majority of all the vot
joyed.
TheJtelephohfftfffifie.and. home of R.
co-ercive financial and family ers of all the districts must
Every writer op the High School I
E. Keefo^er has bêen
re
Recovering
Froin
f
l
u
'
influences, were brought f^o also bejnffavor of creating
painted and papered in r^ " nd
j question who is opposing a unio.n high !
bear upon varm js eitizewi th ii
decorated, this w e e k q ^ v .; re r
i
[high
schools—BUT. now it every one” Although the odds wore against the for the last month. fexpectr
n.eiteïieUa vri-T"
been pÜifitèd
known to be favorable to the
it
published
any “ half- j believes in good school and Would like
on the oùìside and is,. a\ beautifully if0f-
Aurora nine when they played Wood- that neighborhood sometime” .
Aurora project, to prevent
proyed home on main street.
truths” . Probably correct; to see good schools, why not give and
the signing of petitions, to
for some of the statem ents 1 take on the arguments and boost for a
of Mrs. Geo. Wurster
call an election.
The arti were not even “ quarter! good big, umon high school, of course
Killing The Prohibi has The just residence
been entirely re-painted on
, „
jail our opinion are not exactly alike,but
cles written and published
outside and improves the appear
tion Amendment the
tr U th 3 .
! we can settle difficulties and iron out
ance of that street.
by Hubbard people who de
The whole attitude of | creases as we proceed. Our offer of
cline to sign the articles are
The residence property of E. J. SBy-
Hnhhard
business men and !$25-000 * * the Aurora distrjct is better
Prohibition will be effective in two
most excellent examples of E lU D b a ra DUSineSS m e n d-HU j than wil, ever be made again. Suppose
der now looks fixed-up for summer, as
years,
and
bootleggers
will
then
be
an
the Hubbard Enterprise has j the building, the furnishing and total
the art of abuse, but are al
extinct race, was the opinion expressed the painters just finished a good job
been that of the “ knocker” , I equipment for gem, etc,, comes to $50,-
by U. S. Attorney General Dougherty there.
most devoid of truth, fair
the pessimist, the dog in til©' .ancj from all this subtract $25,000 burn last Friday the little chaps put up at a meeting with Washington news The Aurora Meat Market is another
ness or common honesty.
manger, ” and the day w ill! that Aurora will raise. Its the school a plucky fight. At the end of the nine paper men today.—News Item,
place being newly painted this week.
The writer of the article in
Gues again Mr. Dougherty.
fourteen
Painters are busy in all parts of town.
come when every unkind ^we a11 wantandforthellfe of us’ we innings the score was four to
One by one the bars are being let
I cant see why any would oppose it.
last week’s Enterprise signed
in favor of.Woodburn,
down,
even
this
early,
so
that
the
ac
word, every misstatement,
Practically every lawn in town has
“ school patron” reveals abi-
cumulation of them if allowed to con been trimmed up, new flowers planted
e v e r y misrepresentation,
tinue and remain in force for two years and the beautifying of property ie going
litity in the use of “ fish
Some Egg
Conditions Are Good
every down right untruth,
more will leave prohibition less effect merrily on.
wives” English which is at
ive in 1923 than it is now. It is certain
originating
there,
will
prove
utter his position and train
Speaking of big eggs, D. E. Pratt ly disconcerting and discouraging to the
While
times
are
close
right
now
over
ing. g u t it is quite evident a boomerang returning to every section of the country it is a fact living near Aurora, brought m an egg, thousands and millions of good * rural
that the pinch is being felt les3 right this week, layed by one of his Wyan- people who have fought the rum traffic
that the truth is not in him, pierce.their authors,
here than almost any where else. dott hens, that weighed three ounces in this country during the last fifty
for he insists that a “ major
Sofriehow the Willamettee vaUey with and measured 7 inches around the cen years.
Let’s see how effective the prohibi
ity of the districts” O N L Y Questions For The Hubbard its great variety of income is able to ter and 8J inches around length wayB.
H. K. Ghormley who succeeds W. P.
tipn amendment is becoming.
surmount all financial depressions with That’s about the record.
“School Patron” and
is required to form a union
(1) Almost any big liquor dealer Walter as Secretary of the . Marion
out working any serious hardships to
“ Enterprise”
high school district. State
whose wet goods are siezed by the en County Y. M.C. A. arrived on the field
its people. There is no country where,
forcement of agents can get a court this week. Mr. Ghormley assumes his
when the necessity comes, that people
superintendent Churchill last
order for their return on some techin new duties after three and one-half
W h at are your Hubbard can “ get by” at less expense than they
week at Molalla said, “ It re
cality or other, Aayway, in the cities. years' service as City Boy’ s Work Sec
can here. It would be quite possible
quires two
majorities to teachers costing?
A seizure of $250,000 of wine and spirits retary o f the Spokane Y. M. C. A,
to throw a wall about this great valley
had hardly been made in one New York During his college days Ghormly was
and the people subsist in comfort with
form a union high school dis
Of special interest to fruit grower« joint this week before the government
active in debating, student Y, M. C.n.
out
aid
from
the
outside
world.
In
What kind of a high school
in the Aurora neighborhood is the An officials themselves had taken steps to work, and in all forms o f athletics.
trict, A majority of the dis-
fact, if our people would think more of
do you want, and where do our own wonderful resources and ap nual meeting of members of the Ore investigate the legality of it.
A fter supplementing his regular col
ply themselves more assiduously to de gon Growers Cooperative Association,
(2) Not long ago the U.S. Attorney lege course with a special snmmer ses
you want it?
m
m
1 ^
Tigers Are
New Secretary As
sumes New Duties
Fruit Growers T o
Hold Meeting
LUCKY
STRIKE
CIGARETTE
veloping them, we would be immeasur
ably better off. Too many of the pro
W h at has Hubbard to offer ducts we use are those which smoother
aside from grade school, tradesmen than we are have introduced
into our own territory, thus handicap
which you can’t offer? ‘
ping our industries and building up
their own.
W h at does Hubbard high But in spite of all handicaps we are
getting on quite well thank you. These
school equipment cost?
times have brought no real worry with
us and everybody is plodding along
W h y would the union high with every confidence in the world/ that
school be so much more ex when the year ends there be a hand
some balance on the right side of the
pensive then others?
ledger.
| Leastwise this is the Harrisburg
W h at is wrong with the spirit. There isn’ t the slightest let-up
union high school idea, out- on the farm or in our own town. On
the contrary there is a general move
side of the fact that you ment ahead, and if we can judge from
want it at Hubbard?
rumors this paper will have important
announcements to make in the very
near future of giant strides among our
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank the friends and business men in developing this hwi a
neighbors for their kindness to us dur- refti httle city,—Harrisburg Bullet*;,,
ng the death of our little son Gerald. | The above applies to Aurora as well
Mr. and Mrs. Preston
aa Harrisburg and our town is getting
and family,
publicity,
to be held Tuesday morning, April 26,
at the Masonie Temple in Salem.
At this meeting, R. C. Paulus, mans
ger of the sales department will tell of
efforts made to sell fruit the past sea
son. Reports will be made from all de
partments.
Of special interest to members will
be the full and open discussion of plans
for the coming year.
More Observer
Friends Call
General decided that no liquor in tran sion at Illinois University In “ School
sit could come into the United States o f Athletic Coaching” he returned to
and that the ship carrying the cargo his Alma Mater Monmouth College,
could be seized. 'The Customs Depart Monmouth, Illinois where for three
ment has decided to ignore this decision years he served as coach and athletic
for fear of international complies director. After four years o f school
tions,”
teaching in Kansas, Ghormley entered
(4) The Justice department recently the Association work as membership
decided that it was legal to make beer Secretary o f the Y. M. C. A. at Sioux
For Medical Purposes,
Now three City, Iowa,
hundred breweries have filed demands
After two years in that position he
for permits to make beer. Two or accepted a call to this field of the Spok
three breweries would be able to make ane Boys’ Division. "Marion county
all the beer needed for legitimate medi is exceedingly fortunate is be^ng able
cinal purposes in this whole country.
to secure a man o f Mr. Ghermley’s ex
These three facts can easily kill pro perience to follow up and carry forward
hibition. But there are many minor the splendid work Mr, Walter has
loopholes that ad to the same effect.
started during the past eighteen
And it begins to look as though the months was the comment of Henry L.
majority of the people who voted down Bents who represents this community
intoxicating liquors have come to the on the County Committee.
conclusion that they voted wrong,—
Stay ton Mail.
When one’ s subscription expires to
Since our last week’s paper we have
received encouragement in the way of
the year’ s subscription price from:
N. E, Cole, A. McConnell, John Stauf
fer, E. M. Grim, Otis Morris, P, O.
Ottoway, Victor Berg, Lewis Keil, R.
O, Jack, Wm. Krous, D. C. Thoms,
H. L. Mills, G$Éh Brewer, Dr, B. F.
Giesy, S. A. Miller, Webb Moulder,
“ Confession” at the Canby City Hall
G. C. Giesy, M. Dolson, Otto Knorr,
Juilus Stauffer, Geo. X, Gooding, C. C. Sunday will portray a wonderful story,
Oldfield, Henry Neift, W, H. Asquith, interesting to all classes, especially
Adam Burkholder.
Catholics.
the Observer, the paper will stop going
to that subscriber. This will do away
with a few (there are]always such) who
let the paper run 6 months or so, then
want it stopped without paying up.