Gresham outlook., February 28, 1922, Image 1

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Vol. 11, No. 105
G resham O utlook
GRESHAM,
GRANGE PLAY
FRUIT GROW ER ROCKWOOD
EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD
CALLS NORTHWEST
U.S.’ BERRY PATCH
MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OREGON
TUESDAYS
AND
FRIDAYS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1922
DEMOSS COMPANY KNOWN HERE
‘ SPIZZIRINCTUM " SOCIAL
JUST FOR A GOOD TIME
LETTERS IN OMAHA
PAPER INDUCE MAN
TO TRAVEL WEST
The Rockwood Grange benefit play
±i
This week, Saturday evening.
that was given in Metzger's hall last
March 4, 1922, is the date. For what?
Saturday night was unusually well
The ’“Spizzirinctum" social at the
given. All the players v/ho took part
Gresham Grange hall. The Grange
(there were 21) carried them out to
will open its rooms for a general so­
cial for young folks and those that
“The northwest has become the perfection.
Several of the actors were excep­
are older. This is to include high
Mr. and Mrs. Phelps and their
berry patch of the United States” are tionally good. The two lady imper­
school
folks.
It
is
to
be
a
communi­
family
of three children arrived here
the words of J. O. Holt, manager of sonators were “perfect ladies.”
ty get-to-gether party just for a good Sunday from Omaha, Nebraska. They
the Eugene Fruit Growers’ associa­ Widow Smythe was a demure little
time and everyone is invited.
tion in an article in the Orogon Grow’- lass in spite of her six feet height.
The Union High school orchestra first heard of Gresham through a
She
was
somewhat
vain
but
no
more
er. He also adds “Ldon't know where
will be there. The Girls Glee club newspaper printed in Omaha. It is
than others of her sex'-. The suf­
will
give an interesting number, the custom of this paper to keep in
one would find a larger body of land fragette juryman saw to it that she
We’ll all Join in some community touch with all former residents of
beginning Just out of Salem, run­ always had the last word. The Irish­
singing with 11 W. Strong as leader, Omaha by exchanging letters The
ning north as far as Forest Grove, or man, the stutterer, the lawyers, the
The next on the program will be letters were then printed in the
paper.
farther, and sloping to the east, tak­ man with epileptic fits, the darkies,
something that will make the diction­
One of the families who formerly
ing in Gresham. It is fit for all kinds the hair-lipped juryman, the hay­
ary a book of charm, with Principal
seeds, the deaf one, caused many
C. M. Quicksall giving it a good push. lived in that city is J. C. Staley who
of berries.”
laughs for the audience. The judge
The De Moss family who will ap-
The De Moss’ have appeared in con­ There will be games and readings and owns a farm about two and one-half
There is no reason why the Gresh­ himself and the poor Mr. Smith who pear at the Gresham Theater, Friday
miles east of Gresham. Mr. Staley
cert in Gresham several times and a stunts.
am district can’t raise berries that burled three wives must receive their night. March 3, under the auspices of
in
his letters to the paper, told about
large number of people remember
“Eats?”
Well, the Gresham
are at least equal to those grown share of praise for their parts in the j the Bethel Baptist church.
the Gresham country. He described
them pleasantly.
Grange
will
furnish
the
hot
coffee
and
anywhere else. The soil is here and play.
.
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trimmings Each couple is to come the soil and the produce raised here.
so also is the sub-soil that holds the
The Rockwood ladies turned their
He also described the climatic condi­
armed,
with a "Duplex luncheon" tions.
moisture which is so important in talent to the making of candy for the
consisting of two sandwiches, two
the growing of berries.
candy sale. In the future everyone
Mr. Staley did not intend his let­
cookies or two pieces of cake, pickles
The four varieties of raspberries who tasted some of it knows where
ters
to act as a booster for this com­
and two pieces of candy or fruit.
grown are the Cuthbert, Antwerp, to go to get good candy.
munity but that was the effect they
When
It
is
time
for
hot
coffee,
per­
King, and Marlborough. Of the four
The weather was unusually cold
haps Judge Stapleton or someone else had. The Phelps family, upon read­
varieties, the Cuthbert is grown the so there was not as large an audience
By CYRUS H. McCORMICK
will tell you about cooperation in dis­ ing the letters, became very enthusi­
most extensively. This territory is as was expected. The cold epidemic
astic about the advantages and better
posing of the lunch.
The importance of agriculture In
specially adapted to that variety. The probably caused some to be absent
conditions here as compared to Ne­
Folks
whom
you
like
are
going
to
Cuthbert has the best flavor and is who would otherwise have been Its relation to the problems of re­
help to make a good time for all so braska. They would have come to
foundation of real prosperity is
liked best by the canneries. It pro­ there.
come
and lend a hand. It is expected Gresham immediately if it had not
more fully recognized today by the
duces a heavier crop in this district
that the Grange hall won’t be large been for their property in Omaha.
nation as a whole than since the
than the other kinds.
MULTNOMAH GRANGE
enough
but, If it isn’t, everyone will Then, too, they wanted to make some
In growing berries, the rows
PROGRAM INTERESTING middle of the last century. This
adjourn to some place that Is large arrangements as to where they would
recognition should make possible the
should be about eight feet apart.
live after they reached Gresham.
enough.
The Multnomah Grange held its solution of some of the farmer’s
The Puyallup Valley only allows sev­
Mr. Staley kept watch and when-
Saturday problems which in the past have
en feet but the foliage is somewhat regular meeting last
A.
L.
MAYBEE
RECEIVES
Iever
he heard of a house to be rented
heavier here and for this reason About thirty members were present been understood by few except those
VISIT FROM OLD FRIEND he wrote them about it but the prop­
actually
engaged
in
farming.
eight feet is not too much.
The program was not as large as was
erty In Omaha was not so easily dls-
The agricultural problem, how
A good plan in planting raspber­ expected on account of some, who
Alph. L. Maybee of Cedar District I I'OHpd of and the houses would be
ever, is deeper than is indicated by
ries is to run out a furrow six inches were to take part, were ill.
was given a delightful surprise last rented before they could get here.
current
discussions in the press and
in depth so that the root system is in
The lecture hour was filled by
Saturday by a visit from his old
They finally sold out, however,
the ground four to six inches deep. Mrs. G. W. Allder. Rev. E. B. Cot­ elsewhere, which treat it purely as a
friend, Walter Bohna of Tillamook, and arrived in Gresham last Sunday
The cane should be cut off so that it ton gave a talk on money gained present emergency.
who spent the night at the Maybee morning. The Phelps family are all
In my Judgment, the root of the
is only one or one and a half feet from taxes. Ninety per cent of the
home.
well pleased with the climate In spite
high above the crown of the plant tax money was spent for destructive trouble is in the fact that America’s
The two were schoolmates and p f ‘be fact that the cold east wind
The plants should be set firmly In the purposes during the last war. If it farmers have not received adequate
seatmates when attending the old Kreeted them upon their arrival. This
ground about 30 inches apart. Be had been spent for constructive pur- compensation for their effort, as
Union school near Damascus, but weather must be mild here compared
sure that the ground is well firmed poses instead, wnat a difference It compared with the compensation in
they had not met for thirty t0 Omaha. The farming facilities
around the crown of the plant.
would have made. The benefit It other vocations.
years. They recalled many hap- bere also received their utmost ap-
The accumlated wealth of our agri­
Trellising is not done until the could have done for social life tvould
penings of the old school days. O ne|proval-
CYRUS
H
McCOKMIUK
cultural classes largely represents
plants are two years old, but they have been great
amusing incident happened when W
Mrs. Boughner has some rooms for
enhanced land values rather than Chairman International Harvester A. Hobble was teacher. Bud Sharp rent over her notion store and the
should be well cultivated from the
Company.
start. The canes usually grow to HOMEMAKERS CONFERENCE the earnings from their labor or the
chopped the ax onto a rock. The Phelps family have moved In there
about three to fouf feet tall, and will
DRAWS NOTED SPEAKERS profits from their Investment. The not visionary to consider the possi­ punishment was a "caning,” but un- untl) ‘bey c®n make other arrange-
farmer should have a fair return for
have three to five canes about that
fortunately, Walter Bohna paid the ments.
In making good the slogan. “Bet­ his services as compared with the bility of a food shortage.
height by the end of the first grow­
penalty
and would not tell who the
America
has
repeatedly
been
an
ter Homes for Oregon,” college and earnings of any other class, and If
ing season.
real culprit was.
f CORBETT CAMP FIRE
importer
of
wheat
in
the
past.
The
we exclude the item of enhanced land
After setting the plants, continue home join forces.
Both Mr. Maybee and Mr. Bohna
GIRLS HELP NEEDY
indications
today
are
that
while
the
The leading elements of the Im­ value he has not received this return
the cultivation about once in three
1921
crop
was
sold
below
a
fair
bave
watched
with
interest
the
at-1
.Pll„
,,K
I.
,, ,,
tempt to rename the old district » d L ? “ ™ “ .
F‘re G,rlB
weeks until about the first or the proved home— household administra­ even in better times.
price,
the
surplus
going
abroad
at
Perhaps the most serious aspect of
middle of May, and cultivate once in tion, the child, food, clothing, enter­
both agree that the old name should „ndel.
J “ H, M
'aHt
less
than
the
cost
of
production,
it
J under the guardianship of Mrs. Floyd
two weeks or ten days during the tainment, and equipment— will be the agricultural situation is that the is possible and even probable that 8tand
Reed, are doing excellent work as
growing season. About August 1 featured in lecture, exhibit, and dem­ farmers' fixed expenses, which the we shall be Importing wheat in 1922.
11 M having good times together.
cultivation should be discontinued. onstration at the homemakers confer­ manufacturer would call overhead Aside from the question of food sup­ American Legion State Executive
Committee to Meet.
They now have about twenty mem-
In the fall plow towards the rows. ence, O. A. C., March 20-25. If the or burden, are now much higher than ply, these facts constitute a powerful
ever
A meeting of tne state executive be™-
This is chiefly for drainage purposes. women students find that any import­ they
, , have
,
. . been before. The argument for a better system of crop
committee of the American Legion
La8t raonth the following officers
The fine soil that is thrown toward ant factors are in danger of being single item of farm taxes in many marketing
is
higher
today
than
the
!
.
the plant or hills keeps down the overlooked they may remedy the mat­ localities
will
be
held
In
Portland
on
March
4.
were
e,ected for the coming year:
. .
.
I Under such a system the farmer
would have could
_ u avoid . the
.v necessity of . selling
,,,
Selection of dates for the 1922 con - A*atha Harding president, Mary
weeds between plants and hills and ter themselves through questions, as rental on the same farm
“
,ow a pr(c), vention at The Dalles; approval of l,avl8 8pcretary, and Luclle Wood-
the dead furrow in the center serves the question box will be one of the been a comparatively short time ago undpr prpg8Urp a,
Again, especially with the younger and the world.g greatP8t graln grow. the Anti-Japanese bill drawn up by „ ard ‘r,>a8urer-
to carry off surface water from heavy means of exchanging ideas.
Among the noted celebreties of farmers, land has been acquired dur- ,ng natlon would bp 8pared (he pcQ. special committee of the legion which
Ih,s year ,hey hopfi ‘° accomplish
fall rains. This fall plowing is usual­
ly done about November. The ground Oregon contributing to the work will ing recent years at a high valuation. nom)c absurdlty of | raportlQg wheat will be placed upon the ballot through more than last, since they under-
the initiative next November; a re- H'and thelr work better. At Christ-
is left around the plants until Febru­ be Mrs. Ida B. Callahan, president am present crop returns cannot to meet |tg domestic requirements,
ary or March and it is then plowed Oregon Federated Womens clubs, meet the taxes and Interest charges why Not |nsurp A(ClUnM Hhort>ge? port of the state legislative chairman DlaB tlme they rollec‘«d and filled
Mrs. J. F. Hill, president Oregon Par­ These overhead or fixed expenses are , ______
Natlong ___
and _____
muntclpalltleg
away from them.
____ „„ pro _ on committee activities and many | W° ba8ket8 tor ‘be Portland needy
ent-Teacher
association. Miss Cor­ beyond the farmer's control, and 1 vide g)nking funds against future other matters of importance will com and also K»ve a few useful articles to
In thinning out the young shoots,
enough should be left to produce a nelia Marvin, state librarian, and Ann constitute a problem that is more j contingencies. Any well managed ' before the body. The meeting will “ "eedy faml|y in their own vicinity,
serious to him than the difference business builds up reserves in pros-j call in George A. Godding of Med-
. 1 fal* ab°ut nine of the girls
good stand. A stand of six or eight Shannon Monroe, author.
Dr. W. J. Kerr, president of the col­ between the values of what he sells i perous times against such a period ford, vice commander, a national ex tO° k lh“ Wood Gather’s Desire,”
shoots about 18 Inches high Is consid­
ered good. In a three or four year lege, will give the address of wel­ and what he buys.
of strain as the present. Why, then, ecutive committeeman, George A whlch ,8 ‘hfl first rank. Several of
< u rtailm e n t O nly Recourse.
should not we make an effort to pro- A. White of Salem; B. F. Pound of th<*® 7 111 "«on be ready for the "Fire
old plantation 12 or 13 shoots is the come, and a large staff of specialists
« on y recourse of the Amerl- v,dp a regerve as insurance against Salem, Fred E. Kiddle of La Grande, Maker B tteaire.”
usual number. They should be thin­ in homemaking and related lines will
can farmer in the current period o f ' hortagp 0, the P88entlal8 of life, George R. Wilbur of Hood River,
At pre8ent ‘h«y are working on a
ned down to six to ten new canes assist in the instructional work.
s ress s on< t at he and many wben such provision would in a great Oliver B. Huston of Portland, ex- play <,nt,‘led- “Hiawatha," which
"hich is enough for the next year’s
Arem e Club Gives Card P a rty .
others have employed before—that mPagurp stabilize the value of thP ecutive committeemen and Rev. th”y b° pe to pre8en‘ ,n a few weeks.
fiop. Two or three extra canes Is
A card party will be given by the
left over and above the six to ten in Areme club Thursday evening, 8 eaty curta lment of buying. farmer’g crops and also would pro- Frank James of Dalles, Chaplain and | Al,bough their guardian, Mrs.
case some are injured in some way. March 2, in the Masonic hall. Re­ Karmer. Purchases were far below tpct tbp who)fi ppople agalngt thp di„ Prescott W. Cooklngham of Port- ,teed’ |R very 111 at ’he present time,
her efficient assistant-guardian, Mrs
A trellis is put up when the plants freshments will be served. Everybody normal in 1921, and they remain at tress that inevitably would follow land, Department Finance Officer
low
Meanwhile the prices of any g(,riou„ shortage in the world's
Clyde Dunlop, who Is a Corbett grade
are two years old. Four wires aro is cordially invited to be present.
practically everything the farmers food productlonT
W illow G row ing Started Here
teacher, is taking care of the work
used in most cases. They are fast­
Much gtudy and congfderable tlme
The Bank of Gresham pays 5 per buy have been constantly working
The growing of willows to be used | fn a v,>ry pncouraglng way
ened to cross pieces on the posts. If
the 10 inch post is used the cross cent interest on time deposits.—Adv. lower until we now find that the sin would be required to put such a plan , ^or ‘b® making of furniture is one of
pieces are not necessary. The posts aid in holding canes in nlace but with gle Item of increased cost of trans­ into operation. Immediate relief for j ‘b® latest forms of agriculture. It MULLENHOFF COW
RECORD CORRECTED
are placed two rods apart in the double wire Interweaving, it is not portation almost, If not wholly, rep­ our agricultural classes might be bas not been taken up to any large
resents the reduction of the purchas- found in better financing—-In the extent In this territory yet but
rows.
necessary to use four wires.
A misprint in the article entitled
If a six-inch post is used with a
Still another plan is just to carry ing power of a given unit of farm making available of sufficient funds neighboring districts are adopting it
cross piece, the wires will be 14 or the canes instead of weaving them to produce today, as compared with the , at reasonabl rates, and thus enabling to quite an extent. It promises a Mullenhoff Wins Championship”
This Increased the farmers to "carry on” until the dpl(‘ f°r development In the future, written by A. H Burns which ap­
15 Inches apart for the trellis. Use a wire and tying each Individual cane pre-war period.
peared In the Outlook on February
number 14 wire for raspberries. The with a string. The objection to this transportation cost decreases the conditions Improve. There are ample
The willows are planted and cul-
price
of
what
the
farmer
has
to
sell
funds in the country seeking invest- ) ‘lvated much the same as nursery 25, caused the figures on the test Just
canes are then woven on the two form Is that It requires so much band-
and also increases the cost of what ment and there could be no safer ‘rees- The twigs are cut and boiled, completed to be entirely wrong. The
wires on two sides. Put the wire work.
figures for the test Is an fol­
he must buy.
about four and a half feet high. If
basis of Investment than the credits ‘ben the bark Is stripped off. It is correct
The old canes are usually cut out
lows:
While the farmer has endeavored of the American farmer.
the wires are put too high the berries In the fall after the crop has been
then made into baskets, chairs and 1 One d
to meet the present situation by
can not be picked so readily.
Immediate financial relief should other articles of furniture. In some pound8 bpt;er ’ pounds milk, five
harvested. In some cases, however,
By weaving, divide the hill, carry­ it is thought that more winter dam- temporarily buying less, he cannot in not be considered solely as "first aid” cases it is made up on the farm and
Seven days, 859.7 pounds milk,
.
..
.
that way escape the burden of fixed treatment. If funds were more read­ the completed product slipped away.
ing half the canes on one side and _.
age is done if they are trimmed out
,
.
charges, based on enhanced land ily available in emergencies at more Others ship It to factories or other 34.22 pounds butter.
half on the other. The canes are all than if they are left as the
old ones
* met retard-
Thirty days, 3,680.66 pounds milk,
be
pulled on the outside of the wire, car­ protect k the young shoot«. . It i« al«o value«, which munt
o
.
. . equitable rates of interest, the neces- places where it can be utilized. The 128.32 pounds butter.
. ear- *** of . the Pr»ce he obtains for
hl« sity for forced marketing of crops penitentiary and insane asylum at
ried up over the wire, down and on thought that cutting them out a In
One year, 32.465.5 pounds milk,
the near side, then tied with a string ly rail encourage« the growth of
would disappear and the marketing Baiem are laying quantities of It
1,243.0 pounds butter.
snrifora
i
^
ne
solution
of
the
problem
that
when
the
weaving
is
started
at
would
be
done
more
systematically,
with
which
the
inmates
make
many
a
.
1 BucKer« and makes more work a s . . .
a
.
the end of the row. After that .no ! they have worse winter damage when
,U?,f ” * b*‘,er ' y',te^, for with a consequent gain in the aver- articles.
NEW POSTMISTRESS TO
I
tying up is necessary the entire they do not cut out the old canes n“ rkeM“« '“f® Products. The de- age price received.
TAKE CHARGE MARCH 1
In some of the older countries thinking that our agricultural prob-
length of the row. The usual way Is until spring.
j v‘"‘ng
' * ■ • *ygt’‘m would pre-
grain
crops
are
not
rushed
to
market
to take about three canes, carry them
if , he training is done In the "ent ? Ore dimcu,tU‘" tha» ‘hose that
lem will be solved if the farmer is
Miss Elisabeth Johnson, who was
in any such brief period as with us, restored to the relative position he ppolnted postmistress of Gresham
up over, down under and tie them; spring. In February, just before the ,„,7*^**" “T 1
co-°perat,Te
take three more, carry up over, down bud. start, the cane, will bend with- ' / h *, v";,ou’ «ro’ er" a-oHatlon. but are stacked In sheds or under occupied before the war. The farm-1 the first of the year, will assume her
under and under the cane. Ju.t ahead, out breaking.
! of c a,l‘orni*' but they are not In- other cover and are threshed and er cannot hope through future years new position on March 1. Her moth-
superable. If foodstuffs can be car­ marketed throughout the year. With to obtain in the enhanced value of «r. Mrs. Marlon Johnson will act as
very similar to the manner of wearing
If the canes are to be cut out In
ried over when there i. a surplus, better storage facilities and flnanc-1 farm lands the reward for hl. heavy her assistant. Miss Johnson has been
baskets.
the fall, it la a good Idea to cut them
The weaving can also be done just off two feet above the ground, leav­ that not only will stabilize agricul­ Ing the American farmer could, by a toll. This may occur In lome locall- employed In civil service work In
on one side, the other would then be ing a .tub Then In the spring, break ture. but will provide Insurance similar proces., avoid some of the
tie., but In the main that condition Portland but gave It up to take the
merely to hold the cane, in place. them off clear down. The reason for against a possible food shortage In loss Incurred by throwing almost the bas passed and the farmer must now Gresham postofllce so that her moth
The objection to this plan la that It is this Is that the canes are not entire­ the following year.
entire grain crop upon the market i receive a better and more depend-
could be with her
Ffswl Shortage Not Impoeeihle.
within a short period and thereby able return for his efforts than In the
apt to crowd th . cane.. If you hav. ly dry and will be Injured If broken
Even though crop, are now sell­ depreMlng the price.
past If he or the rest of us are to en- WANT®D—Clean cotton rags
No
-plenty of wire, the lower wire, will off too close
1«» real
-„.i prosperity
___
‘ stocking, or heavy garments
ing below cost of production. It Is
garments, five
Let us not deceive ourselves Into Joy
in the ____
future
cents a pound Gresham Outlook
Farmers Need Cash Returns, Not
Land Values, to Revive Prosperity