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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1911)
THE TIMES ¡ I > it A V L V .V A V A V .V A V .h V .V A V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V .V . Ca , ( 3 3 I DONT BE A HORSE'S ¡ A SUBSTANTIAL COLONIAL. ---------- Deslan »63 . b y G lenn L. S axton. A rch ite ct. M ln n esp olls. M in n . am 1 — Troy ENEMY DO YOUR SHOPPING EARLY Laundry LATE HOURS MAKE SLEEPY DELIVERIES FETRIGG CENTRAL Join the ROGUE R iv e s B 7118 ^^1 ___ valley OREGON *• See, Phone or Write PH ILIP S. BATES Sec., 215 Oregonian Bldg. J? IThls m utter must not be reprinted with out special perm ission.! •; 201 East Water Street .•V.V.VV.V.VVVVV.V.V.VV.V.V.V.V.V From foot to block a hog loses ap proximately one-sixth In weight, tie- pending upon type, condition and feed ^ J v iT G H E N c^C U PB O A R D A MODEST AND COZY BUNGALOW. Design 854, b y Glenn L. S a xton , A rch ite ct, M in n ea p olis, M in n . Dynamite is a mighty good agency when used with caution in the clearing of stumps from land, hut it has lately beeu demonstrated quite conclusively that it is a woefully iuadequate means of settling disputes betweeu capital and labor. A very good plan for a small fam ily. It has one large bedroom, and It can be arranged to have one room In the attic If desired. In this plan the dining room Is brought forward, mak ing an arrangement such as we put in very expensive homes. A small cel lar under kitchen and bedroom por tion. Size, twenty-six feet wide by thirty-four feet long. Rooms nine feet high in the clear, birch floors through out, Washington fir finish. Cost to build, exclusive of heating and plumb lag, $ 1 . 000 . Upon receipt o f $1 the publisher of this paper will supply a copy o f Sax ton's book of plans, entitled "Ameri can Dwellings." The book contains 240 new and up to date designs of cot tages, bungalows and residences cost ing from $ 1.000 to « 6 . 000 . u. s. j strips, into slices or Into fancy forms and used. Any of the vegetables left over from dinner can be made into u luncheon salad with beets. Peas, beans, beets or asparagus tips are excellent for this purpose. Tomatoes, lettuce and cucum While the early genealogy of the rat bers require only a few minutes to pre is shrouded in some obscurity, the ro- pare Add cold meats diced with nuts, j dent seems to bave originated in Cbi- celery or cabbage. All of these can be I na. It is said to bave made its first ap dressed with mayonnaise. pearance in England in 1738. in Paris Egg and Beet Salad.—Beets in thin iu 1750 and iu California in 1849 It slices may be alternated with slices of scatters the germs of bubonic plague. bard boiled egg on a base of lettuce I cholera, hookworm and pellagra and leaves and dressed with mayonnaise. in spite of all the warfare waged Use of Beets. against it multiplies prodigiously. Beet Pudding.—Boil new beets until they are tender, then peel and cut In Whatever the size or shape of the dice. Take a pint ot milk to a pint ot hog house, provision should be made beets, two or three beaten eggs, salt for letting in a generous amount of and pepper to taste and grated nut light. It is very desirable If the ar meg. Put these into a baking dish and rangement of windows cau be such bake until tbe custard has set. Serve that light will shine on some portion hot. of the floor o f the structure during the Beet and Celery Salad.—Cut up a greater part of the day. Sunlight is a boiled beet Into thin slices and steep In first rate germ destroyer and is a great vinegar, pepper aud salt. Prepare In aid in keeping the hog house dry and tbe same way some potatoes, a few sweet and healthful. celery roots and. if liked, a few mush rooms. Season with salt, pepper, oil According to figures lately compiled and vinegar and a little chopped pep Texas produces more turkeys than per and tarragon. Drain and pour any other state in the Union The muyonnalse over It. high prices that have prevailed during j Latticed Beets.—Take the cutter used the past two or three years have serv for latticed potatoes and cut slices ot ed to greatly increase the raising of beets Into lattices Combine these with these big birds. From some points in chopped celery and 'Ut up olives. Lay southwest aud west Texas from 3,000 on lettuce leaves and dress with may to 4.000 birds are shipped to northern onoalse and slices of hard boiled eggs. and eastern points daily during No vember and December I'hone Main 5645. The Portland Heights Club feels J that the residents of that district | are entitled to a better and more sanitary school building than the , Ainsworth school building is, and ¡no one can doubt it. The danger- i ous unsanitary conditions there I prevailing were made known to | the School Board recently by the Parent-Teacher Circle of the Ains worth school, and it is probable that the district wlil get what is i desired. v / A r t h u r D . M o n t e it h Civil aud Hydraulic Engineer 587 E. 15th St. N. Portland, Ore. General Surveying, Landscape En gineering, Construction Superinten dence, Reports and Estimates on Proj ects, Water Supply, Irrigation, Sewer age. Now Lumber Exchange Bldg. Your business should be repre sented in T H E T IM E S. We in terest ninety-two and one-half per cent. T H E T IM E S will give you the best run for your money you ever had. Figure it out with us. ¿U tiu ^ { l 4L0-74_>' From the standpoint o f the mainte nance of soil fertility—and this, after all. is the only true basis for deterinln- ing whether a given type of agricul ture is good or not—it can only be However, assessors and viewed as a misfortune when, as is his taxes. the case Just now. beef and pork are treasurers are but human, and it is a A three-months-old steer, owned both so low that the feeder does not j good plau to look into the charges by A. B. Hiiiin. o f Wapato, Wash . which a fellow has to pay for living feel like running tbe risk o f feeding j was slaughtered by the Union them high priced corn, but Instead ; In a civilized and orderly society. Meat Coni puny, which breaks ¡ill markets bis grain in the raw. The animal One who keeps close tab on the but previous records. A fellow has a good prospect of grief ter situation states that within tbe past weighed, alive, 2100 pounds, and and disappointment ahead when he few weeks thousands of tons of this when dressed, stood at 72.14 per swaps tbe old farm, whose productive commodity, bought during tlie summer cent. We do not have to go East capacity he is sure ot. tor a stock of of 1910 and held through the disas for good beef. trous slump which came a few months merebaudise. a hotel or livery barn of later, hove been put on the market at decidedly uncertain value and of the prices ranging from 28 to 30 cents or | Mayor Rushlight is so certain conduct of which he knows little or about 8 cents below tbe price paid for that there has been wholesale nothing. We have known of Just such western extras. grafting by employes in the city cases as this where In the windup the j i water department, of department victims didn't own anything except That tbe average floek of hens do not supplies and material, that Im pro their clothes and with so little credit have the dust bath privileges that they I poses a thorough investigation left that they could scarce get trusted would like Is plainly indicated in the for u week's board ♦ avidity with which they will get on to | shall he set on foot, and the guilty a pile of ashes or pick out a dry spot | parties disndssed and punished. One of tbe Interesting as well as of mellow earth in some sheltered spot quite remarkuble fruit records of 1911 most any time during the winter With Nathan B, Harvey, of Ar- was made by a 1.200 acre orchard of months. This dust bath is one luxury itc'iwald. under arrest as the sus seveu-year-old Elbcrta peach trees lo- tbe hens should not be denied. Is east conted In Pike county. Ark The gross ly provided snd will do much toward ! peeted murderer of the Hill film lily, and Leond Lot-hard in the grip returns are placed at $300.000 and ex keeping them free from vermin of the law as the suspected miir [tenses at $ 100 . 000 . leaving n net profit of $ 200.000 from a tract of land that President Taft helped stow away a derer of little Barbara Ilol/.rnan. was bought for $5 an acre eight or nine fifty dollar prize pie that was present I the poliee show eommendable ac years ago The tract In question was The circumstantial evi ed to him by a Indy friend eigbty-fom tivity. a cut over timber tract, the surface years old This is how It was made: den ce against both men is almost soil being gravelly loutn and the sub- Two pints ot apples cut In squares, | perfectly convincing. roll a red clay The season's output of half a pound of sugar, a pint of water |ruit was 230 cars that averaged $1.500 and a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg per car The police are showing excel- J» The crust of this prize winning cullna ry creation was made of two pounds lent arilor in their efforts to stay jj The other day a Minnesota fanner of flour, a pound of butter and half a the wave of hold-ups now going 1»? who for some time prior had not had pound of lard Do you notice that on. The crooks thus far seem to any confidence In the stability or have ‘ ‘ stacked the deck,” hut the soundness of hanks as places of safe shortening? ! ! That there is still a good sized nig ger In the wood pile somewhere In the transit of apples between producer and consumer Is shown In tbe prices paid growers In central and eastern states for apples the past season—In some cases as low as 37 cents a bushel—and the price now being paid by the chap who eats ’em—from 3 to 5 cents apiece Any one who will locate this Ethio plan and chase him out o f the wood pil« will confer n f a v o r o d bis fellows. Res. Phone E6185. Allen Voick invested $3 in a | marriage license permitting him to wed his heart’s choice, Miss Alice Vera Swanson, of 250 Twelfth street, hut she was whisk ed off East by her parents. Voiek V A V A V A V . V . V . V . V V . V . V . '. t S tried to “ cash in ” the license at I County Clerk Fields’ office, hut | failed to get it. You can quench your in Charles W. Jones, former cash ier o f the Hotel Oregon, who de ward fire with just as good faulted in the sum o f $4000, has "h o o tch ” at the following ÎJ returned to Portland and made full confession. It is reported that OPEN SHOP bars, and not the warrant out for his arrest will be withdrawn. The funds ab have the enjoyment les stracted, it is alleged, were used sened by a big union card. by Jones in church and charitable work. These life-saving stations Wednesday night the safe in Station A. the I'nited States anh- postoffice station at East Alder j and Fnion avenue, was broken j It’s a pretty good citizen that never open by robbers, who took $150(1. makes a kick when he comes to pay Vo clues. deposit went upstairs In his house to get some $1.800 which be had worked hard to accumulate and which be bad concealed Just beneath the floor On removing the piece o f floor he found not the bills that he had placed there In the past with such a feeling of se curlty. but a nicely rounded bunch of greenish white fuzz and scraps Inclos ing a cozy rats' nest This fellow naa learned bla lesson, but by mighty ex pensive Instruction. COR. EAST YAMHILL Laundry Company oJ PERSPECTIVE VIEW—FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. EAST M The postotlice department at Wash ington seems to take au entirely rea sonable and consistent attitude when it holds that patrons uf rural mail routes shall not be given service un less they show some inclination along the line of keeping the roads in passa ble condition, which the rural carriers have to traverse iu getting to their places. Upon receipt o f $1 the publisher of this paper will supply a copy o f Saxton’s book of plans entitled "American Dwellings." The book contains 240 new and up to date designs of cottages, bungalows and residences costing from $ 1.000 to $ 6 , 000 . PORTLAND At its meeting Tuesday, the 63 Water Board fulfilled the rumor reported by THE TIMES in a re cent issue, by deciding to cut the M A K IN G B E E T S P O P U LA R . ANY families do not care for water rate (Hat) for dwellings, 25 beets because they are always per cent all parts of the city on served to them in tbe old fash January l. In compensation, ioned form of boiled beets dressed with probably, the rate to ¡ill districts butter. There is no reason why they outside the city will he increased should uot appear iu a dozen different 25 per cent on this date. If the styles. Moiled beets are often spoiled by cut Portland Gas & Coke Co., the Port 180 Grand Avenue ting them wben they are peeled. Boll- land Railway, Light & Power Com lug cut or scraped beets destroys their pany, the Home Telephone Com PORTLAND flavor and color. pand and the Pacific States Tele Only tender beets should be selected phone Company would be kind for cooking, a tough or stringy beet be enough to give a reduction like C . J. W I L S O N ing hopeless. You can't boil it tender wise on that date for gas, electric F or the Table. light and ’phone service, every- Y'oung or tender beets nre the only body would feel very Commercial Artist grateful. kinds to boll. They may be sliced for I Come to think of it, if the meat the table, dressed with butter and pep and meat, per aud salt or cut iu dice and dressed j markets, while cutting would also cut the prices a little, with white sauce. Cartoonist Pickled beets are spiced and served I that would help the high cost of with vinegar. They make a nice rel living. And there arc others, like 348 MARKET STREET ish. the fuel men, for instance, who Beets may be cut into dice, into could help out this way. Some idea of the prolificacy of the rat tribe is got from some figures that were kept in a campaign that was waged against them some time ago on an English estate of 2.000 acres. Dur- j ing a given period 31.981 rats were . killed, but notwithstanding tills kill ing there were plenty left to Insure the propagation of the species __ In this house the living room and parlor are divided with a wide columned opening. 1 would suggest, if any one desires, this space can all be made into one large living room, and the vestibule can be left out entirely or can be built the entire size of same on the piazza, thus leaving the living room with regular lines inside. The dining room in this residence is finished in quarter sawed oak, with a beamed ceiling and a large sideboard across the rear. This room Is made very pleasant by a projecting bay window, back of which is a small conservatory which can be used for a den or sewing room. There is a combination open stairway to the second story, also a rear entrance to the basement leading from the entry. The ice can be put in the refrigerator in the pantry from the outside. This house has a grand piazza covering the entire front and part of one side, which is ten feet wide, and if any one desires there can be n sleeping porch or sun room built across the eutlre rear over the first one story part. The second story has four good chambers and an un limited amount of closet space, large bath and a hall. There is a full base ment under the entire house. The finish in first story is planned for oak throughout with oak floors, second story pine to paint or Washington fir. First story is nine feet high, second story eight feet, these heights being in the clear, and there is also space in the attic for two or three rooms. The size o f the house is 2(3 by 30 feet. Cost to build, exclusive o f heating nud plumbing, $3,850. • •••••••• *ä* • i LITTLE LOCALS While it takes a lot of them, the Eng lish sparrow makes an excellent potpie Indirectly, too. putting sparrows iu I pies is an aid in safeguarding other useful birds about one’s premises. PERSPECTIVE VIEW—FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. O IT ip c in y !; Portland Horse-Owners Association :• CCRRCSPÛNPEtjCC s o L ic ir e o officers are trying whole duty. to do their are classed as not being fair by labor publications. W eb ster says fair means “ pleas ing to the eye— beautiful.” We claim that these places qualify according to W eb ster' Hof brau 128 6th St. Lotus 127 6th St. Louvre 4th and Alder Perkins 5th and Washington Schultz 5th and Washington Quelle : 6th and Stark A farewell dinner was given at thè Arlington Ululi Tuesday evo ning to l’erey Blvth. K L. Jreland V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.M BJyth and J 1’. Robinson, who will sail frorn New York on thè Olyrn- llie per capita wine consum p pie. Among thè speakers were J tions of both the United States I). Wilcox, F)r. and K. A. J. Mac- and the United Kingdom are sur 1 kenxie. prisingly small. !