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W EEK
G resham O utlook
VOL 5, NO. 90
RURAL JOB
IS WAITING
FOR CHANGE
GRESHAM
REMEMBRANCES OF
OTHER GREAT STORMS
The rem iniscent editor of the Out
look recalls that It has been nearly
three years since there was enough
snow in this part of Oregon to find
a coon track in.
His recollection
goes back a little further and it Is
There has been considerable spec remembered that four years ago
ulation as to the reason tor such a yesterday the great sleet storm
known as the "silver thaw" spread
long delay in appointing a carrier to
itself all over the northwest, doing
fill the vacancy on route three from
more damage than a Kansas torna
this office. Some rumors have been
do.
floating around, a carriers’ exam ina
That occasion was a thriller for
tion was held, a sub appointed to car
many people, but to none more so
ry the route over four months ago
than the rural letter carriers
One
and there the matter stands People
of them, from the Gresham office,
are wondering where they are going
was out fourteen hours that day and
to get off at.
had to use hot water to unhitch his
It is known that som e experim ents
horse when he got home. All the
Wljll
being made in other places with
others had wierd expenriences and
an autom obile service on a 50-mile
so did everyone who was caught out
route. One of these is in central Ore
that day.
gon. and Is said to be a success so
The greatest damage was done to
far. So it is believed that the delay
the telephone lines and fruit trees.
in appointing a carrier here is the
I Many of the latter were totally
result of “ watchful waiting" and
ruined and the others show signs to-
that there are going to be som e radi
1 day of having been badly broken.
cal changes when the department
Going further back it is remem
gets a good ready on to make them
bered that eight years ago next Wed
It has been rumored that eventual
nesday the rural mail service was
ly all of eastern Multnomah west of
suspended for a week. The snow
the Sandy river will be changed over
drifts were anywhere from two feet
into two autom obile routes from
to twelve feet deep, the latter depth
Portland. Two sifeh routes could
having been found at the Gresham
serve all the people o^ that territory
gravel pit. That was the only occa
easily and they would be scarcely
sion that the Gresham rural service
more than fifty m iles each; or possi- i
has been interrupted since its begin
blv there might be three routes. In
ning nearly 15 years ago
any event the plan Is feasible.
There Is sm all likelihood of the
The postoffice department is said
storm this winter being as severe as
to be getting many com plaints about
those mentioned, but nobody knows.
readjustment of rural mail routes
If the elem ents “ keep off" for ten
and Is going slow in m aking new ap
days more there will be no backbone
pointments. The government is try
left to the winter, for the records
ing to extend the service without in
show that after the 20th of January
creasing the cost. That means re
there is a return to the Oregon
arranging the routes so as to take in
1 weather we are all used to.
all the territory possible and not em
ploy more carriers
It Is a hard GRAND ARMY VETERAN
problem to meet all the conflicting
jg LAID TO REST
demands from localities and persons.
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When the service first started the j Funeral services were held over
carriers got only about $300 a year. | the rem ains of Orlando Thomas, at
Here, in Gresham, the first salaries hi3 late residence, on Wednesday
were $5 00. Now the carriers have forenoon, Kev. E. A. Leonard of
become an important body of more ficiating. A male quartet rendered
than 45,000, and the salaries are al appropriate songs, the singers being
most averaging $1200 a year. As Dr. Earl Clanahan, C. E. Rusher
they have to furnish their own teams Jackson Jones and Rev. J. C. Tib-
and vehicles that sum is not too bits.
much, but with the tendency of gov-
The pall bearers were Adolph
ernment jobs to be soft, the depart- ABchoff D M RobertB> George W.
ment im agines the rural carriers’ Job Kpnney_ Alpt. w uk ln son. H. M Mil
lo be a soft one and is seeing to it ,pr and L L Kldder
that it gets a full day’s work In every
p ,ora, trlbutp8 wprp numproug
MULTNOMAH
COUNTY.
OREGON.
FRIDAY,
JANUARY
7,
PERTINENT PORTLAND POINTS
SHOW ALL ANGLES OF VARIETY
1916
A WOMAN MASTER
AND LEAP YEAR BALL
TU ESD A Y S
AND
F R ID A Y S
$150
PER
YEAR
CITY COUNCIL
REORGANIZED
HAS MEETING
Rockwood grange Installed officers
on Wednesday evening, the new mas
ter being Mrs
Ida Burgess. The
overseer is Mrs Lewis Jensen, the
PORTLAND. Jan «.— Evidence of oe great, It is stated. This plan wi'l lecturer is. Mrs. William Rowan, and
wasteful and unbusinesslike methods ' e submitted to the council for con- the treasurer is Mrs Piatt.
The only offices held by men Is
in connection with the handling of ti'ueratlon by City Engine*.* la te r .
The Gresham city council was re
Beatrice W illiam s and Alice Fort that of secretary. Lewis Jensen, aud
Portland's public school supplies and ner brought suit today for $500 each I ,h o ,e of »«»ward, assistant steward
organised on Tuesday evening when
school business is cropping out in tgainst the Alder Hotel company and ! “n<* gatekeeper
This is the first
two new counctlmen took their seats
various wavs and attracting atten 3. E MeDougal, manager of the ho H™® that Rockwood has elected a
and the standing com m ittees were
tion
The extent to which many .el. charging that McDougal had 1m- I w",na" »» roaster
g ra,'k** decided to have a leap named for the com ing year.
schools are over Supplied. with ma prisoned them In a room and had j
Mayor Stapleton was unavoidably
forcibly
taken
thetr
clothing
aud
•
T
*ar
,,a,u'e
0,1 S»’urday evening. Jan-
terials and the apparent waste that
absent and hts place waa taken by
jewelry
in
an
effort
to
collect
an
al-j
uar'
,o
*'*lch
the
public
is
In-
is going on were pointed out in an
leged room rent bill for $21.50.
vlted
It was decided to give the Councilman Kelly, acting pro tern.
article in the Journal yesterday.
_______
i young women of the grange full con- The one new member, William
School m aterials have been sold
Minors are prohibited front pool- trol, and they will have to pay all Thom; and the two re-elected. Geo.
and effort to find record of the money
rooms under an ordinance passed bills as well ns collect the money. The F. Honey and Ray H Todd, were
having been turned into school
with an em ergency clause yesterday. regular order of things will be re sworn in.
clerk's office has been fruitless. In
In naming the stauding com m it
Formerly the ordinance allowed boys versed, as men will be admitted free
another Instance the boys of Jeffer
between 18 and 21 years of age In and the women must buy the tickets tees the only change over last year
son high school were buying sawdust
poolrooms until 10 o'clock at night The men will not be allowed to ask was the placing of William Thom in
for their athletic field and the school
All boys under 21 years of age are for dances except when It is "gentle the positions held by Joe Paten-
officials took the matter out of their
eaude, who was tendered a vote of
now prohibited from entering the men's choice."
hands and paid to another company
The admission has been fixed at appreciation after serving four years
places
for sawdust a price nearly four times
The com m it
7 5 cents for all women or girls; with as one of the council
as high.
The Current Events class, of W est 25 cents a plate for supper. A good tees as they will stand for this year
Other instances of wastefulness minster Presbyterian church, held a
Portlund orchestra will be secured are as follows:
and lack of business methods are round table discussion at the meet-I for , bp occasion and the grange girls
Ways and Menus Ray II Todd. S
coming to light.
| 3. Thompson, William Thom
ing held Sunday afternoon and plans, will bp floor managers
for a year
of
activity were :
Streets and Public Ways George
"I shall expect to see at least five
considered
It was found that the FAREWELL PARTY TO
F. Honey, C M Zimmerman, E II.
of those here present married during
get-together program of the past
MR. and MRS TURNER Kelly.
the coming year, or there will be no
year, by which every one attending
Mr
Mnl. , )gn Turnpr w||1 |pavp
Public Property—C. M Zimmer
more banquets "
the class was made acquainted with
man.
Ray H Todd, 8. 8. Thompson
That is the statement made by
next week for St. Helens where they
all the others, is working out well
Health aud Police E 11 Kelly,
Rev William A Daly, pastor of the
and will be continued through the will take up their residence. Abou S. 8. Thompson, C. M Zimmerman
Itnniaeulate Heart of Mary church,
ensuing year. Arrangements are be- twenty of their neighbors brought
Fire and Water William Thom
to the choir, ushers and Sunday
iug made by which the leading busi their dinners with tioui. today an I George F Honey, Ray II Todd
school teachers gathered in the
ness and professional men of the city gave the Turners a farewell surprise
Fluauce- 8. 8. Thompson, George
church clubhouse Tuesday night for
Those present were, Mr. aud Mrs F. Honey, William Thom
will discuss live topics before the
the annual feast.
•lass duriug the year. The first John Palmquist, Ray Palinquist. Mr.
An extension of the water service
"The church has been the scene of
speaker In this class will be Franklin and Mrs S F. Pitts, Mr and Mrs H was authorized on petition of J. H.
only a few nuptial ceremonies the
r. Griffith, president of the Portland C Wthlon, Mr and Mrs J O Down Sterling ami W R Johnson
The
last two years, there having been a
Railway. Light a . Power company, ing, Mr. and Mrs C. M Oliphant, council will furnish 600 feet of ;wo-
tailing off of nearly 80 per cent from
next Sunday, and it is hoped to have Mrs Bertha Sutton. Sidney Baker i.irh pipe foi Wallula rvenue, tretu
the previous record
Timidness and
P I. Campbell, of the University of and Mrs C. E. Rusher
t i e present n i l of the pipe to Dr i
unpreparedness are the chief reasons
Oregon the Sunday following
C. E.
sit.n
street.
Sterling ami Johnson
for the slump in Cupid's business,’
Cochran Is president and Hugh TUESDAY STUDY CLUB
.» reed to lay it nt their own ex
says the pastor. There were twenty-
TO MEET JANUARY 11 pense and continue with the sam •
Henry the secretary, and the attend
six present Tuesday evening
ance average about thirty-five men.
The Tuesday Study club will meet size pipe to their properties w est
ward on Division
The agreement Is
All the property owners of Hudson
Portland's national banks record at the ItbrAry on next Tuesday even
addition, have signed up an agree a gain of nearly $6,500,000 in depos ing, Junuury 11, at 7:45 o'clock. Mrs that when the revenues shall reach
ment for the replattlng of that addi its over a year ago and an increase In Clanahan will conduct a parliam en « per rent on the coBt the city will
take the extension over as a part of
tion. At the present the streets arc resources of nearly $4,000,000 by the tary drill.
in a tangle, strating nowhere and same comparison. Loa us aud dis
The follow ing pupers will be given: the city system.
The
treasurer's
report showed
ending nowhere. In one case the counts show a decrease of nearly "Public Institutions of Oregon," Miss
addition overlaps on a street a dis $12,000,000 for the year and over Durst; "How do the Laws of Our $1037.03 In the general fund
There is a deficit In the water
tin c e of 18 feet. There is no con $300,000 for the two months Cash State Protect W omen,” Mrs. Good
formity of the streets in this addi and exchange makes a gain of over win; "How are Our Taxes Collect»! fund of $312 66
Bills were ordered paid, us rol
t'OB with the streets and plctting jf $5,000,000 in the same period.
and Paid Out," Mrs Kern; "The Ore
other districts, and the pla i is for
gon System," Mrs McCormick
Al lows:
James McKinney
l ì o . on
Arthur
Laugguth,
well
know women are Invited to come.
H e property owners to pQrmit the
1 » ,M Roberts
30 00
■ acatlon of all streets and the re Portland attorney and state senator,
J H Metzger
15.25
First
M
exican
Invnsion.
has
been
selected
as
municipal
Judge
I ettir.r of the property.
f i l s will
Outlook
7.25
ca»e -
and suitable. Interm ent was made
to
take
the
place
of
John
H.
Steven
mean
the
reallotm
ent
of
lots
in
th>
P.
B
I,.
A
P.
Co.
50.00
It must be enorm ously difficult for in , hp Grpgbam cen)Ptery.
The tirat invasion of Mexico by a
Water
Board
son. who has resigned The position
90.75
addition, but it is thought that th
men in an office at W ashington to set ,
______________
foreign power reached its successful Labor and material
45 07
1» the only way the tang'? can be aC was tendered to him by the council
down at their desks and arrange ev
The Ways of Queens.
conclusion sixty-eight yeurs ago,
Justed’for the benefit of ail the ov> u this morning and formal appointment
Gasoline
at
nearly
20
cents
seem
s
erything in a practical way. A route
When General Scott and the Ameri
may look perfectly good on the map,
The pride of birth in strong among • rs. Just what the exp-m s; will be will follow at a special session of the can army entered the City of Mexi to mean that John l> has some peace
but it may be composed of roads so the women of. royal and aristocratic » ill be known later, bu. it wi.l not council this afternoon.
co. The conquest of Northern Mexico notions hlmiielf. When people can't
rough or hilly as to be impracticable. European households. It is rare that
had been effected before Scott march afford autos on account of (he price
THIRTY FIVE ACRES
Such is not the case here, however, ' they do not give preference to the IS NOW PROPOSED
ed
on the capital. He lauded at Vera of gas, Henry Ford will not sell so
TO DEDICATE GORGE
TRADED FOR 700
which gives color to the idea that house and country from which they
Cruz In March with an army of 13, many, and therefore will have 1« s i
som e radical changes are to be m ad e. 1 come rather than to those Into which
C. C. Colt, president of the Port
Frank H Ansparh has traded his 000, and the follow ing month began money to pay for peace missions
No one wants to be at the tail end ¡ they have entered,
They
land Chamber of Commerce, yester 3 '-acre farm near Rockwood for a the advance into the Interior
of a route and get his mail late in ' "The queen of Belgium alone, a
were confronted by a strong force of PROHIBITION START8
day
sent
to
Chief
Forester
H
8
700
acre
wheat
ranch
near
Walla
the day. Few people like to get their ■ Bavarian princess,” says Le Cri de
BUTTERMILK DEMAND
Mexicans In the strong Paas of Cerro
mail from a route running out of a Paris, "shows absolute loyalty to Graves a telegram urging that when Walla. The new owner of the Rock Gordo, but defeated Santa Ana's men
When the people of Oregon and
distant postoffice, as they have to the people over whom she has been the national dedication of the Co wood farm is a man named Zesk, and pressed onward. The port of
W ashington voted for prohibition
give an address different from the called to reign. The queen of Greece lumbia River Highway is made dur living at Halsey.
Perote and the city of Jalapa sur
town in which they live. But in this I b plainly much more proud that she ing the com ing Rose festival, the
Mr Ansparh Is about to announce rendered without resistance, and in they voted thousands of dollars Into
county, or at least this part of It, we is the sister of the kaiser than that ceremony be also extended to a dedi an auction sale of all his other be May the vlstorious Americans en the city of Oakland. As a result of
the heavy demand for buttermilk, us
are all going to be a part of Portland she is the wife of King Constantine. cation of Columbia Gorge park
longings. which will be held on Jan tered PueblR
There the army rest
President
Colt
extends
to
the
for.
a
substitute for the prohibited beer
Some
years
ago
these
words
of
a
som e day and a rural delivery from
uary 31
He will then move his ed until August, when the advance
there would start from the city lim young prince of a reigning family ester the thanks of the chamber and family to M ontavllls, as he cannot was resumed, and the Mexican army In the northwest, an Oakland factory
its, so we are not so very far from were quoted: ‘When the enem y is of the Oregon public for his Interest get possession of the Walla Walla Of 30,000 was defeated aud broken Is rushing work on pasteurizers aud
victor, papa is sa d ; when the enemy and enthusiastic support of the proj ranch until after harvest
the big postoffice after all.
It Is now- up by a force of a third of lt> num butler machinery for Oregon ami
ect to set aside the 14,000 acres of in wheat of which he will get one-
W ashington creameries
An auto delivery could easily make is beaten mamma cries.’
ber.
The hattlem ented hill of
"The people of our part of the
"We have known several times in forest and adjoining the highway as fourth. the tenant holding the re Chapultepec, overlooking the cap’tal.
fifty miles and start at a reasonable
country ure going to drlng butter
hour. If a carrier starts too early he French history the m isfortune of a park. He asks that the dedication mainder.
held out until September 13, when
misses mall that he ought to deliver: having a queen who us^d her influ be featured by the presence of Mr.
Mr Ansparh and his family are the Stars and Stripes waved over Its milk for want of beer,” declared F
Graves
and
a
representative
of
the
if he starts late the patrons grumble ence to the profit of the country of
well known in eastern Multnomah shattered castle, and on the fo llo w >. Courtney, manager of a Heattle
department of agriculture
at the delay. They should keep In her birth "
and have many friends who will ing day Scott entered the city. In creamery, who arrived In Oakland
Bayle says in his dictionary: "The !
mind the enormous cost of the serv
miss them when they are gone
1843 another foreign army mart l.ed yesterday and will return tomorrow
Cost of C ollege A thirties.
ice and rest in the belief that the gov fatality that accompanies the French
from
Vera Cruz to the city o ’ Mexi with an installing engineer for the
Freedom of speech for professors,
S u iisG iu te for G asoline.
any other
ernm ent Is doing all it can at long monarchy, more than
co, the French under Bazaine cap machinery he has ordered
but no freedom of purse for stu
"The demand has already been
range. Even if the lonely farm house country in the world, is that the
The invent'on of William A Hall, turing the d ty . In which the Austrian
dents. That seem s to be the college
felt.
It became evident the day pro
gets its mail late in the day the gov queens always bear a foreign heart
new thought.
an American, called inofor spirit, de Archduke Maximilian set up hts hibition took effect. We intend to
ernment is still rendering it a won and are the usual instrument made
short-lived
empire
A conspicuous Pennsylvania col signed as a substitute for gasoline, is
meet the demand."
use of by God to hum iliate and chas-
derful and incomparable service
lege levies an assessm ent of $10 upon meeting with marked success in Eu
ten the nation."
A Ixindon railroad station has been
every boy, but all the money is
Cartl of Thanks.
Quit pens were made in the fifth
rope
British governm ent Is using equipped with penny-tn-the-slot ma
From
Carrying
Place
Ontario,
the
turne<1
° v,“r ,o ,he »‘“dents for their «,000 gallons a day
century. There is no record of their
Fuel is pro chines to sell tickets to persons who
We wish to thank our friends ami
earlier use Theodorie, the Ostrogoth follow ing letter was received at Rich OWB affalni An<1 how ta ,ht“ raon*y duced cheaply, and according to Prof wish tc, accompany friends to trains
neighbors
who so kindly assisted us
mond,
Va.,
addressed
to
the
"Con-
distributed?
king, is said to have been illiterate
during the illness and death of our
Out of each $10 bill $7 goes for Charles F Chandler, founder of Co
N
otice
I
and unable to write his own name. federate States of America:
"Con-
lumbia School of Mine«, one gallon
and
father,
Orlando
“ t o ~ '° ,hp collp«p p,,>pr of motor spirit does the work of from
On account of the high advance In husband
A golden plate was made with the federate States of America: Gentle-
Thomas
Also
for
the
beautiful
and
a
50-cent
piece
is
devoted
to
the
leather
prices.
I
am
compelled
to
ad
letters of his name cut through it. men— You will find inclosed a Con
1 18 to 1.34 gallons of gasoline Mr vance on shoe repairing
floral offerings
This was placed over the document federate $10 bill I received It from Y M C. A. Lucky thing that salva Hall's plant In England was taken
GRESHAM SHOE SHOP.
tion
is
free,
as
"B
illy”
Bunday
told
Mrs Harriet Thomas and Family
Can I get my money
he was expected to sign, and he Fresno. Cal
Carl Dahl, Prop
over by government and he is now
us, because fifty cents will hire no
traced his name through the open ' for It, or Is it just counterfeit?"
"Shocked Into speech" was the
taxis to speed along the straight seettlng up works In other parts of
One man plans building 2,250 new
spaces with a quill.
Great Britain
Raw material for the
word
at a recent banquet of electri
and
narrow
way.”
houses on a new Philadelphia sub
M ate School .Money.
uel Is gas oil or petrollte.
cal engineers at Ran Francisco, the
Apparently
football
coaches
come
division
Dr V K W ellington Koo, the new
toastm aster having attached to the
Arthur Langguth, financial agent higher than religion in the ratio of
Chinese m inister to the United States,
Friday Night, January 14.
An occasional coat of Ix>we Bros chairs of speakers a little device
of
the
state
school
fund
for
Mult
14
to
1,
while
the
college
paper
edi
was graduated from Columbia uni
wagon paint will save yo*ir wagons , which caused them, when he pushed
You are Invited to attend a grand and
versity in 1909.
Less than thirty nomah county, «tales that there is tors may starve and be jolly thank
farm Implements from rust and I . ,
now
available
money
to
loan
on
farm
ful
the
athletes
permit
them
to
have
hall
given
by
W
Wilkinson
of
the
decay.
It la in eip en slv s and will i a button, to arise promptly and with
years of age. he is credited with be
Easily ap- great enthusiasm .”
Bridal Veit Amusement club In Iteg- save you many dollars
ing one of the youngest men ever property at 6 per cent Interest His a tenth of their own $10 notes
plied
We’ll tail yon how Metzger
addreaa
la
«05,
McKay
building.
But
is
it
fair
to
compel
a
student
I
ners
opera
house,
Gresham,
Friday
sent to fill such a diplomatic position
A u lo I urtaine K e p a im l
iros Adv.
Portland.— Adr.
to give $7 for sports when he might ; night, January 14 New music Good
at Washington.
with celluloid windows, etc
8. E
prefer to devote that sum Io paying management
Everybody come. 90
Milk Rerord Blanks
Palmquist, Gresham Harness Shop
T a llo n e <
The Royal Astronomical society i
his own salary as a journalist’ In
Month's record of milk produc
■yes tested and g li
The law office of D. C. Lewis is
fitted.
has just had it» charter amended so For men and w o m a n c le a n in g , the memorable words of Bryan, mast
tion for about 1$ eows Just what Dr. Oso Inglis.—Ad*.
now
located
In
room
317,
Board
of
that women are eligible for election pressing and repairing dons e s il every college student be crucified
Trade Building, Portland
Phones you need to keep track of your herd
as fellows and associates
Peter Lsnard Powell street.
j upon a goal post?
Maia $«$7; A-3972
Convenient and shoap U ntlook.
90
Read the Want Ada.