04 Sep 1913
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Newspaper
Oregon City Courier
Location
Oregon City, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1913
Page
1
The Big County Fair approaches its ninth edition with plans for record attractions and events. Organizers promote a larger midway, enhanced competitions, and new exhibits to draw regional visitors and boost local tourism.
The 1918 Clackamas County Fair begins September 24 with gates opening at dawn. Hubbard and Redland bands perform while Judge G B Dimick gives the welcome, followed by M J Lee of Canby and other fair officials. Oregon City Day and German Day highlight Thursday and Friday with Elks, goats barbecue, juvenile exhibits, horse races, and extensive livestock displays including Lazelle Jersey and Guernsey cattle. Special bands from Mt Angel, Aurora, Hubbard, Molalla, Redland, Estacada, and Marquam perform. The fair grounds feature a large pavilion, varied exhibits, numerous concessions, and reduced rail rates to encourage attendance.
One of the handsomest houses in the city nears completion for Joseph E. Hedges on Adams Street and Fifth, featuring up to the minute details and ample, commodious design.
McMinnville Reporter notes the Oregon City Courier editor M. J. Brown has been indicted by a Clackamas county grand jury for criminal libel. It mocks that only the great are indicted while Brown runs a live paper and speaks his mind.
The Enterprise repeats its belief that the city water is the purest in the state. The mockery hints Portland may abandon Bull Run to tap sewer water, arguing Portland would favor such a claim of purity.
A Brownell & Stone law office displays GEO. C. BARNELL, LAWYER, with only the O to mark the former name. This occurs three weeks after a recall election, reflecting a drastic personal branding move amid many deaths and injuries linked to the event.
The Courier editor Brown campaigned to recall county officials in Clackamas after alleging they failed to keep their post election pact. A large majority voted the officials out, showing strong public trust in the editor and his charges.
An editorial tirade denounces Willamette River water quality and state boards while criticizing local boosters and newspaper ties. It mocks claims of purity, notes treatment processes, warns of cost and influence from private groups, and urges independent reporting. The piece mentions Eugene and Canby and comments on typhoid history.
The piece argues news business is run for profit and may bow to political pressure from influential lineaheads. Editors face demands to push favored content to please financiers and patrons, risking reader trust and financial loss.
County officials inform readers that a law change moves the Board of Equalization meeting from October third Monday to the second Monday in September. The notice, previously hidden among legal notices, is requested to be published as a news matter so taxpayers may read it.
Eighty six delegates from Oregon counties met in this city for the eleventh annual Oregon Rural Letter Carriers convention. Monday’s session included a luncheon at Gladstone park with city officials as speakers. The group endorsed a statewide good roads plan and urged county courts to fund winter split log drags. Bourne highway plan praised. McMinnville chosen for next convention. Officers elected: Maxwell president Willetts first VP Whiteman second VP Boyd secretary Squires executive committee member.
A picnic party at Goodwin station Oswego was struck when a freight car load of slab wood broke loose from a high speed run and toppled onto bystanders. Mrs. John Kelley, 36, was killed instantly. several others were injured. Coroner Wilson conducted the inquest Tuesday.
Six steel saws were slipped through a jail door to Vergin Perrine, a Milwaukie bank robber, Saturday last. One saw caught in the door, leaving a danger of a jail delivery. A quarter inch hole allowed passage. one saw stuck and was found by Sheriff Masa. Mass recovered the saws hidden beneath the jail floor after a search of the prisoner and the jail.
The removal of the fire bell from the city building to the bluff tower silenced the curfew briefly but it is in place again and will be on the job.
A letter to the editor argues typhoid outbreaks stem from Willamette water and a dairy, disputing claims of pure state water. It cites State Board of Health data, condemns hypochlorite filtration as only temporary, and questions Portland’s Bull Run water, urging cleaner sources and scrutiny of water safety.
Liberal financial support accelerates the Clackamas Southern project from Mt. Angel to Monitor, with crews at multiple segments and ballast operations from the Willamette river. Oregon City and Portland businessmen back the effort as stock purchases grow, signaling the railroad’s near certainty and county control by Clackamas men.
Constable Jack Fros halted a Canemah Park dance after the Forresters of Portland held an afternoon and evening event. He ordered the orchestra to play Home Sweet Home and closed the pavilion, serving notice that no more public Sunday dances would be permitted. Jurisdiction lies outside city limits and amid public complaints over the dances.
Prof. F. J. Toore and Deputy Stipp appeared before the state railroad commission in Portland on Tuesday to protest P. R. B. L. & P. Co. charges. The issues cited include rate fluctuations, excessive charges, arbitrary rulings on service extensions, and high power rates. A decision is expected soon.
The city plans an elevator on Lively Street near Seventh, expected to serve over half the residents. Traffic will funnel to and from the end of Seventh, shaping daily life from mornings to nights.
Godfrey Marquardt of the Henry Jones farm near Clarkes yields corn six feet tall and used 60 pounds of twine to tie 13 acres of wheat. He demonstrates impressive farming vigor and resourcefulness in the field.
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