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About Gresham outlook. (Gresham, Multnomah County, Or.) 1911-1991 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1922)
GRESHAM OUTLOOK. FHIHYY, OCTOBER 37, 1922 CORBETT SCHOOL IS BEING CONSTRUCTED W ork is now under way on the new Union High No. 1 which is to replace the one th a t burned during the sum m er months. Seven acres have been purchased on the south side of the Columbia river highway a short distance west of Corbett for a new building site. C. H. Rice of P ortland was aw arded the contract for the work. The building was supposed to be com pleted by F ebruary 15 of next year but the scarcity of cem ent is causing so much delay th a t it will be impossible to com plete it w ithin th at time. The cost is estim ated at $30,- 000. The plans were draw n by Freem an & Strubble of Portland. The school is to be patterned after the modern one- story types th at are so popular at the present time. The demand for the one-story buildings is increasing. T here is less danger of the pupils be ing trapped in the building in case of Are and it is also more convenient when all of the rooms are on one floor. The one argum ent against the erection of this style of building is that it covers too much acreage but there is an unlim ited am ount of land in the west. T here will be tw elve rooms on the main floor counting the eight class rooms, a large assem bly hall which will be 24x70, a domestic science room, a chem ical laboratory and a splendid gymnasium. The gymnasium will be 82 x 46 and will have a 19-foot ceiling. The building is to be built in the form of an H w ith two wings. The plans call for 14,000 feet of floor space. The front of the building will m easure 170 feet. The outer w alls are to be made of hollow tile with stucco work finish. The basem ent will be under one half of the building. It will be partitioned off into play rooms, individual shower baths tor girls and also for boys, and boiler rooms. L. E. Inm an of Silver- ton has been given the c o n tra ct for installing the furnace. The building will be heated by steam . An efficient w ater system is to be Installed. A large w ater tan k will be erected near the building with a ca pacity for holding 30,000 gallons. B u v a v Z b z Y /- andSpend the difference z i/. -" /L c e rZ -. *380 etojb ^ D E T R O IT Hundreds of Thousands of users in practically every line of business are cutting haulage and de livery costs with Ford One-ton Trucks. Let us show you why and how. No obligation. Terms if desired. RAKER & SON GRESHAM OREGON Bargain Rates on the Portland Dailies Taxes and the Governor 109, and he has given his public approval on numberless occasions of measures passed since he was returned from the legislature causing taxes am ounting to $1,020,804. making a total of state taxes approved by Pierce of $8,564,038, or 92 per cent of the total 1922. There is no telling how much of the rem ainder he might have approved if he had had a chance, and it may be significant th at the state taxes have decreased over 11 per cent since Mr. Pierce was retired from the State Senate. M r Pierce has always been a consistent tax booster H e voted against only three per cent of all the appropriations of the 1919 session of the legislature and voted for all the appropria tions of the 1920 special session. In 1917 Mr. Pierce introduced a bill to exempt money, notes, m ortgages and accounts from taxation. Yet he poses as being anxious to take the burden off real estate! H e voted for submission of $400,000 bond issue to build a new penitentiary. Mr. Olcott, at no TA X expense and with prison labor, has fixed up the old penitentiary in excellent shape for another 25 years. Mr. Pierce voted against accepting road m a chinery from the government. T hat machinery now am ounts in value to $1,800,000. G O V E R N O R O L C O T T ’S R E C O R D T he above are but a few of the extravagances of Pierce. Mr. Olcott, on the other hand, has conducted the business of the state in an eco nomical, sane and business-like manner. H e has saved the state thousands of dollars because of his level-headedness and his intim ate knowl edge of state affairs. H e built a new Boys' Industrial School Building by diversion of a millage fund, and therefore, without a single cent additional tax. H e has insisted upon devel opment of the various state farms connected with the state institutions until the present year «hows the unprecedented income from this source of $491,511. He is no talker, no politi cian, no idle prom iser and is not seeking re-elec tion under false pretenses nor catering to preju dice. but is going to the people on his own splendid record, confident that if he can but get that record and Mr Pierce's record before the voters of Oregon that he will be vindicated on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 7th. Vote for Olcott for GOVERNOR REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE C. E. INGALLS, Secretary. W A L T E R L T O O Z E , Chairman Paid Adv UR forefathers fought for their rights. Many of them gave their lives that we O might enjoy freedom. In the Declaration of Independence they recorded those truths that have so safely guided our democracy. <-*i They have written that men are endowed by their Creator with certain “unalienable* rights, and “to secure these rights govern ments are instituted among men.” And now these rights are attacked. The School Mo nopoly Bill (called on the ballot Compulsory Education B ill) proposes that we surrender a God-given right- the right of parental control—the right of a parent to say in what school his or her own child shall be educated. Maintain your right to control your child through the education you feel it is right to give it Do not be led astray by fine phrases. Look into this dangerous bill. You will find the vital principle of "unalienable” rights is at stake. Vote 315X NO on the School Monopoly Bill Called on the ballot Compulsory Education Bill Thi» advertisement U paid tor bv the Non-Sectarian and Protestant School» Committee. known as cem ent and w hite enamel. One of the attractiv e features about the planning of the rooms on the first floor is the placing of the break fast room or second dining room so th a t it is accessible from the back porch. Evans Home Nearing Completion. The Ward Evan's new home south Men coming in from the field can en west of-Corbett is nearing completion. te r the dining room w ithout having to It was designed for a model farm go through any other p art of the home and comes as near to being house. All of the usual built-in fea one as any other house in the Corbett t u r e s have been added. The upper district. It is a one and one-half llart of the house is given over to story building and is 36 feet wide and sleeping rooms. T here is one sleep 42 feet long. It contains nine rooms ing porch and there is also a sewing and a bath. The floors in the living room. The basem ent is full size and room, dining room and den are of equipped w ith a furnace. C. H. Cham berlain is building an ash. The kitchen, break fast room and bath room are finished in w hat is addition onto the east side of his store which is to be used as a feed room. Mr. Cham berlain is doing the work him self during his spare time. When a candidate for the high office of governor bases his candidacy on certain claims and promises as to what he will do if elected, the public is entitled to have his claims analyzed and examined. In this campaign, W alter Pierce has gone about the country melo-dramatically tearing tax bills in two by way of illustrating w hat he will do to taxes if elected. T he voter, then, should analyze the tax mat ter to the extent of becoming informed as to just w hat p a rt.th e governor plays in imposing o r reducing taxes. In the first place, th e voter should know that the total levy in O regon for 1922 is $40,473,906. This is a reduction of over $1,500,000 from last year, so that it will be seen the high cost of governm ent following the w ar is already reced ing. Of this 1922 levy of 40 million, over 31 mil lion was for county, city and school district purposes, over which the governor could have no possible control whatever. Of the remaining 9 million for state purposes, only 354 million are taxes over which the legis lature has any discretion, and of this amount, only 2*4 million are for the actual expenses of state governm ent and might, therefore, in even the rem otest degree, be charged to the methods employed by the governor in adm inistering the state’s affairs. In passing, it should be noted that this state levy is an increase of 41 per cent, since 1916, and not several hundred per cent, as stated on various occasions by the democratic candidate. It should also be noted that less than half o f this 41 per cent occurred during Mr. O lcott's adm inistration. T his ability to keep down the cost of the state governm ent to so small an increase, when living expenses in the ordinary home in the same period increased over 100 per cent, is a m ost creditable showing. MR. P IE R C E 'S TA X REC O R D I t is proper at this point to examine Mr. Pierce’s own record on taxes and see if past actions as a legislator square w ith his words. Of the $9,376,289 of state taxes for 1922, which include the millage taxes. MR. P IE R C E S P E C IF IC A L L Y HAS A P P R O V E D O F $8.564.039, or 92 per cent. H e had no chance at m ost of the other 8 per cen:. O f the 1922 state taxes. Pierce introduced bills accounting for $1,429,128, or 15 per cent. In addition to this, he voted for tax bills introduced by others to the amount of $6,114,- Don’t Surrender Your Rights! Honest and economical adminis tration of all estates in the inter est of the beneficiaries. VOTE 37 X G. F. ALEXANDER FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE Bept. No. 7 PROBATE DEPARTMENT 17 YearB Successful Law P ractice Square Deal fo r A ll IMPROVEMENTS OX ltO ( K W O O O ItO A I» A. J. Stone is building an addition to his house on the hack part. It is 12 x 36 and will be partitioned off into a kitchen and two bed rooms. When th is p a rt has been com pleted, the house will contain seven rooms, a din ing room, living room, a kitchen and large pan try and th ree bed rooms. The home of P. Burgess, Sr., on M artin avenue, was repainted a short tim e age. The new tw o-story barn is now in the process of construction on the W. H. H eustls place on M artin avenue. Mr. H eustis is doing the work himself. BAI It USUALE RESIDENTS HAVE BEAUTIFUL HOMES the richest th a t can be purchased with money. The rugs In the reception hall are all imported and are of exquisite design. The furniture, through the house, is of dark mahogany. Mrs. Johnson returned home last fall after having spent the past four years first living in New York and later in California. The former home was on the same grounds a sh o rt distance from the place where the present one now stands. I t was torn down when the new one was built. Mrs” Johnson says she has come home to stay and she was determ ined to have her home a work of a r t and she has succeeded if one’s eye can be a judge. The en tire house is completely equip ped with electricity and a drilled well gives a w ater Bupply equal to th a t In homes In the large cities. Mrs. Johnson has 38 acres of land, 17 of which are in apples. It is her dream to sell off a part of her land In sm all tracts to persons who will erect beautiful homes. Anyone desiring to see two beautiful homes can do so by driving about two and one-half miles north of Gresham to Bairdsdale station. The first fine is ju st a sh o rt distance beyond the sta tion. It was built last fall. Many changes have been made since then but it is now complete. T his home is owned by Mrs. Marie D. Johnson who has owned the grounds there for sev Railroad Man Builds Fine Home. eral years A p rettier home Inside and H. J. Stirling, retired a u d ito ro f the out can hardly be imagined. As one Union Pacific railroad has recently drives up the broad brick driveway, moved here with his family from one is impressed with the large stately Omaha, Nebraska, and Is building a appearance of the house with Its green beautiful home Just north of Bairds- shutters. It is patterned after a south dale Place. Mr. S tirlin g was auditor ern mansion and has been so cleverly for the O. R & N. railroad in Portland built th a t the deception is complete. during the years of 1905 and 1906. It is impossible to properly describe When he returned to the coaat this the in terio r of the house. The large tim e M r.-Stirling was accompanied by draw ing room is 20 feet wide and 34 his wife and his two daughters, the feet long. The hardwood floor, the fire Misses M argaret and Isabel S tirling place and the beautiful walls combined The new home Is Just In the process the rich furnishings makes th is room of construction. It is 38 feet long and a work of art. 34 feet wide and two and one-half French doors open from the recep stories high. Three dorm er windows tion hall into the Colonial hall with fiave been built out from the roof. Its wide stairw ay and mahogany ban There will be 10 rooms In all. The isters leading to the upper rooms. The draw ing room is 17 feet wide and 26 walls and woodwork are In old ivory feet long. The two sun rooms, one up enamel. A nother set of French doors sta irs and one on the first floor are to lead Into the diningroom which also be enclosed In glass The one down j has the old ivory wails and ceiling. The stairs will be covered with a m ansard breakfast room opens off from If with roof. The full basement Is to be equipped ! French doors and is finished in the , same exquisite way. There are five with a fru it and vegetable room and a , sleeping rooms on the upper floor work shop.' The ceiling Is unusually j They are ail 15 feet wide and from 15 ! high causing the house to l>* raised up i to 16 feet long. There are five windows > for a num ber of feet from the grounds | in each room and they are all finished i The ten windows will flood the base In old Ivory. The kitchen has all the J ment with light. bui't-in features and Is finished in light J One of the beautiful features about gray enamel. this home is the many windows, some A model home is thia Colonial man of which are of enorm ous size. The sion on what is known as the Balr'ls- large library windows wll be beautiful dale place. The furnishings are all of plate glass transparencies of western scenery. There wll h I bo be oak floors throughout the house. All of the rooms will be finished In old ivory enamel. Doors will he of the French design. The house will be painted a cream color. The large chimney for the fireplace will have a letter 8 es- cutchloned Into a cream diamtind. The new home has been named “ E asterling’’ which is the original fam ily name. It is the plan of Mr. S tirl ing to have Just a beautiful country home. He has severed his connections with the railroad and will devote his tlm c to the beautifying of the grounds which will all be laid out by a land scape gardener. Much care is to be taken In th eir arrangem ent. Two large urns will act as sentinels at the gate way as one enters the drivew ay and passes on through the porte-cochere. FAIRVIEW HAS M 11 HOMES A four-room house Is being built on the corner of Cedar and Sixth by Jas. Burlingame. The outside of the house has been completed and the In side will soon be ready for plaster. When com plete there will he a living room, a kitchen and two bedrooms. The Wilcox home on Cellar street has had the roof re-shingled recently. Other Fairview Buildings. "Muck" H unter is building a new four-room bungalow on his property on Second and Main streets which will be connected with the sm all house a l ready on the lot, the new p art bejng to the front. R. E. Brooks moved his house to a new location, thoroughly remodeled It and has added two new rooms, m ak ing a com fortable five-room dwelling. The Brooks family Is already occupy ing It. The house on the Hiram Stone place has been remodeled and Improved and is being occupied by Cedric Stone and family. NEW SERVICE STATION BEING CONSTRUCTED A new service station is being built on the corner of Base Line and F air- view rouds by the Arm of McCrate & O verroedder of Portland. The land was rented from Andrew Brugger. Work of constructing the building Is progressing rapidly and is expected to he ready for occupancy by November 1st. The main w alls are already in place. The work is being rushed as much as possfble.
