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OREGON
*• See, Phone or Write PH ILIP S. BATES Sec., 215 Oregonian Bldg. J?
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From foot to block a hog loses ap
proximately one-sixth In weight, tie-
pending upon type, condition and feed
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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and Fnion avenue, was broken
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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
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PERSPECTIVE VIEW—FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.
EAST
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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!; 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.
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