WANT “ADS" Them In B-61111111 Only One-cent a Word Subscription, $1.00 a Year. 1ÏÎL ^rott lïeralù LENTS, MULTNOMAH CO., OREOON, THURSDAY, August 5, 1915. COUNTY FAIR PROS­ LtNIS PEOPLE SEE fAIR OVERLAND PECTS IMPROVING WHEN A FEL l ER NEEDS A FRIEND. LENTS MAN RETURNS FROM MEXICO Vol. 13. No. 31 CONCRETE ROAD BE6lJN MONDAY Several laute people have seen tbe Tbe happiest woman in Lente today is | ______ California Fairs recently, going over­ Mrs. R. M Yeager Tue*iay forenoon, First Actual Knrfye DOWD land in their own cnnveyencee and re- she was around town desperately dis­ Monday. Preparations Now Com­ i turning by the same way. F. 8. Gates consolate. Site had had no word from plete and Work to be Pushed to and wife and eon, M. L. Deaton, wile her husband for weeks. Ha might tie the End, and daughter, and T. P. Campbell and «lead, a prisoner, of eome Mexican fac­ It la gratifying to have an optom 1st wile ol Plaaaant Valley, have all seen tion. She never stopped to consider The first actual work was «lone Mon­ at lbs head ol the County Fair, tor such the sights to tbe south of ua by machine that he might have risen to be General day in laying the concrete on tbe sur­ Freeidenl Lewis surely la. He ta just this summer. Mr. Deaton ami family of some victorious army. In the midst face of tlie Foster road. Preparatory bubbling over with ezpectations for the just returner) last Friday. They left tbe of her grief in walked Mr. Yeager. He work ha» been under way for some time. approaching exhibition. He got so full first of July and saw tbe city of San had not heard from her for some time Culverts liave been put in at Sycamore of enthusiasm, or something elae the Franciaco thoroughly, spent several for be came home by way of New York store and across the two ravines near days at tbe Fair, went on to Loe and that requires several weeks. I-eav- tbe Kelly place. Theee ravines will be latter part ol tbe week that he pro­ Angles, Han Diego and all the other ing Mexico now on a freighter is alow filled and surfaced as soon as they can ceeded to call the various |>apers of The work of surfac­ California points, Iwar bee and eome ol work, for a vessel haa to spend consid­ get to them now. tbe county Mondav and toll them all the scenic wonders. They returned by erable time picking np a load as there ia ing will be finished thia way from John­ about bia prospects. tn tbe first place way of Central California, saw all the very little being sent out of tlie country son Creek bridge to Lente Junction. A he eaya the county ia going to 1« good wonderful farms and orchards of tbe now. Several [xirte have to be visited good part of this roa«i has been torn up before enough can lie collecte«l to tiegin now and it will be leveled «town and to tbe fair again thia year. There will upper Han Joaquin valley, and the scenery of the upper Sacramento. About a voyage. He got on at Tampico but rolled, after which the concrete is laid. be about four thousand «toilers available A good part of Foster Road east of th* only thing to complain about was visited Vera Cruz, and several other from thia source and moat of thia will Lente ia off the line. This involves tbe the water oo the return trip. Of course places before they headed for New York. go into premiums. The Fair Aaeocia- building of a new base. Thia ie built it was pretty warm part of tbe time, Mr. Yeager has been in the midst of Uon haa taken over tbe racing program out of tbe atone in tbe present road particularly on the return trip. But things in Mexico. He says that more and will handle that end of it them- bed. but it retjuires more moving. The going down they went the coast route than half you hear about things down aelvee. They have begun to aign up and It was very pleasant. Mr. Campbsll there are badly exaggerated. Most of cement is being hauled from Gilbert horses for the varioua races ami there ia marie much tbe same trip except that Tveo OVT, tbe uwttlee we hear about are mere station, as is also the cnu«hed rock and a probability that bettor races will be he wont a little further, going over into »kirmisiiee. The reports would indicate sand, altho meet of the sand tan come rma , abown than ever before. The concrete œ Twe Mexico and seeing a Mexican fair in that whole regiments bad been slain. out from town in trucks. Tbe grounda are in bettor ahape than N ms TM A mo HI& is mixed with a power mixer, anil dis­ operation. They are all back borne and tOO». MT OS»T. When the citizens go out to bury the at any previous time. Considerable tributed over the road bod direct from glad to be Oregonians again. dead they find four or five. The war ­ now decorative featuree have been add­ fare is little iietter than robber warfare. tbe machine. It is in a semi-fluid con­ ed and the roads have l«en laid out dition which is shaped up with a edger Most of tbe fellows who go into it are different from former yearn. Tbe build- Does Civilization CivMze Men which leaves it with a two inch crown. 1,1 W — —........... destitute, and virtually naked. Shortly mgs will not be changed much except Following this several men smooth it Contemplating tbe present war in —ft* ggs »n New York Triburw. after joining tbe warring elements they that the machinery hall will be boarded down and broom it crosswise, leaving it a Europe, tbe first thought that comes to are found to be well clotbed and sup ­ up on the aider ao that exhibits may be comparatively uniform surface, rough plied with money and growing fat. mind is: “Itoes civilization civilise bettor protected. Friend's Church Builds Class Room enough to give a good footing for horses Alfred Grow at Rest. In the meantime Mr. Yeager shows one feature that will be new will be man?" For sometime the accomodations at that he has bwn getting the worst of or vehicles. After an illneaa for seven or eigii an exhibit from the Agricultural Col­ When tbe Goths, visi-Goths, Vandals Every man on the job seem» to be lage. They have promised their regular and Huns swept down upon southern years, Alfred Grow, aged 58 years, war the Friends Church have been very exciting times. Tbe nervous tension in­ enthusiastic over tbe prospective road. laid to rest on Monday last. He die­ limited, especially tbe Sunday School cident to guerilla warfare has told on They are impressed with the effort the exhibit, which will occupy a floor apace Europe some centuries ago, they were clareroonm.» On Tues-lay tlie members his physical appearance. The Missus tlie company is making to protluce a of MO or MM) eq uare feet. It will in­ at two a. m.. Saturday morning. Tl had just reason for doubting his identity. clude a lot of instructive features, be- after plunder. They wanted rich lands, funeral was held Monday and he w. of that church commenced the building perfect piece of road work. They al) His is not exactly a shadowy form yet. more food and all kinds of personal of a nice, commodious classrom in tbe sldss some of the atudent products that seem proud of the way it ia being pre­ buried in Mt. Scott Cemetery. but there has been a remarkable ap ­ rear of the present church. The labor will tend to develop an internet in the adornment. They bad different gods pared, and feel sure that it will be tbe Mr. Grow had lived near the Alvord is all being donated, and while tbe men proach to it. He may not be seen be« road in tlie county. Unless some that they prayer! and sang hymns to, school aroumi town for several «lays, as lie Several granges have signified their but instead of that religion causing home, 45th Ave. ami 70th Street, for a are wedding hammer and saw tbe unforseen circumstance arises there will will have need of assuming a retiring inteattons of putting in exhlbito and it them to respect any property righto; long time. His weakness seemed to be women fo*a undertake the problem of be no occasion to change the view. The attitude while his clothes are being ie probable that six or eeveu or them they held In their convenient religions his heart, which finally grew so uncer­ feeding them. Tlie building of the ad­ big thing after tbe concrete ia laid ia to shrunk to accommodate themselves to will make tbe customary effort to ahow that their gods would especially bless tain in its function that he required ditional room at this time has onlv been keep it wet down and prevent its being his altered circumference. But he is all what their sections of tbe county can their biggest fighters and biggest constant care. Mr. Grow was a mem­ made possible by the generosity of some diaturbed until it has seasone«! and ber of several lodges and societies, in­ of the local lumber men and merchants. right. He will be in Lenta for quite a crystallised into stone. do. There grange exhiblto have been thieves. Home of them were converted to cluding the Oddfellows, Rebekahas, The membership of the church ask that while and we will all have a chance to leading (eaturee of the fair. Iasi year People throughout the county are Christianity, returned home and they Grange, Order of Yeoman. He was a public recognition of this kindness be hear first hand stories about tbe way very much interested in the work on they were more than half of It. Now they are doing things across the border. thia year they will have eome competi­ and their descendents have made up mem tier of Pike’s Peak lodge of Colo­ given and especially mention tbe Miller- this roatl. Tlie contractors, Montague Mowrey Lumber Co., Clyde E. Sager, several of the Christian nations of rado Springs. Col., I. O. O. F.and of the A O’Rielly, have come nearer to meet­ tion. G. A. Morrison Lumber Co., Lenta Heveral fartnera have signified their Europe. They have marie vast ad­ Evening StarGrance. ing the wishes of the peoole in the vances too in learning in the arts and Hardware Co., Coleman Lumber Co., He leayee a eon, Kenneth, a young intention to make their individual farm handling of their «-ontract than any exhlbito. It these exhibit! are up to sciences and in reducing their thoughts men eighteen years of age, who is a Mr. McKinley the cement man, Mr. otlier of those to whom swards were ma«le. In the first place they are using standard they will hold tbe Granges a to a literature which it is a perpetual stenographer and ty;>ewriter, employed Heyting, Kateky Bros., as well as many by the Portland Gas Co. He haa a | who have given cash donations. clone second in importance. Indeed charm to peruse. local labor more than any of the others. Mrs. Maud Keatch is the Superinten­ They have discarded their pagan gods sister, who haa lieen with him for the Rev. Thomas Schildknecht, for the Over half of tbe work that has been eome of tbe farm exhibit« in the part past four and a half years pastor of the done on Foster Road haa bten done by have been better than aome of the for the living God, to whem they hold past fuonlh. who is at home at Dawson, dent of the Sunday School. German Evangelical Church of Lente, people living along the road or at I«ente. grange exhiblto, and that ia saying a themselves responsible, and in rever­ North Dakota. Mr. Grow will lie remembered by has been offered the principalship of The instructions of the company to its good deal for theee have been equal to ence for whom they preach truth, Gamp Fire Outing Scotland Academy at Scotland. Booth foremen were that they should use local many of the county exhiblto at the mercy, charity and all around righteous­ numerous friends who will recall his The Willamette Camp Fire girls of ness. cheerful disposition and active assistance Dakota. men if possible. Of course they cannot atate fair. But, suddenly, last year they sprang in whatever goo«! work he was able to Arleta returned Saturday last from a The members of his congregation pre­ give everytwdy a job. The contract is There haa been an active disposition three days camping party at the home sented him with a loving cup at a meet­ not large enough for that, but they are among conceeeion people to get space to arms on the flimsy excuse that one aid. The men are being paid 25 tbia year that baa been exceptional and little power in southern Europe would of their guardian, Miss Ada C. Mc­ ing held last Thursday. Mr. Schild­ doing well. there ia promise of feature« for one or not make reparation for the murder of Laughlin, near Milwaukie. They re­ knecht will be greatly missed by his cent» on hour for eight honrs. That is Mrs. Belle Williams Dies congregation iu Lente which has had a good wages for plain labor. For men more evenings. M. H. Squires ol The a prince and princess by eome coarse Relatives of Mrs. Naoma Belle Wil­ port a delightful time riding horse Up to date perhaps three steady growth under his care. But their who have been getting 40 or 50 cents as On Ju haa lieen engaged to make a tine assassins. liams were called to mourn her loss hour as mechanics that seems low, but display of fireworks. Thia will be millions of men have lieen killed and as Bunday morning at 12:30. Mrs. Wil­ back, wading tbe creeks, and riding on best wishes go with him. they realize that the same class of work worth going miles to see and should many more so maimed that they will liams and her husband receutly re­ the hay wagon, besides many lesser de­ «an be done by men who are accustomed make the moat successful evening ever be a charge upon society for the rest of turned from Idaho and stopped in Lents lights. They held »heir first ceremonial John Egglman Marries. council meeting around a huge bon-fire their lives. And the killing is going on to get from a dollar and a half to two seen at that fair. enroute to Benton County. While here in the woods. They say their first Announcement is made of the wed- dollars a day, an«! men who being ac- After the show is over Mr. Lewis ie at an apparently steadily increasing visiting Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams, camping trip will be remembered for a custome«! to handling dirt anil stone planning to take much of the exhibit to rate. brother-in-law and sister of Mr. Wil­ long time to come, and they hope to go ding of John W. Eggiman and Miss During tbe centuries vast improve ­ work, and who probably wcnld handle Salem. That will give Multnomah Esther Kuenze of Oregon City, at the liams, she took sick and died after a more dirt in the name time with let« County a part in the state fair. The ments have been made in the means of lingering illness of typhoid pneumonia. back next year for a longer stay. The German Church in Lente, last Sunday effort. There are tricks in all trades, county need to have an exhibit at the destruction, but the last news indicates The remains were shipped to Benton girls are looking forward to a busy and happy winter. that the armies where the heaviest at two o’clock, Rev. Schildknecht con­ hand..' g dirt and rock as well a» other state fair but as the fair came before County in charge of A. D. Kenworthy, ducting the ceremony. Only immed­ ciasHc» of labor. The man who is used tbe county fair present plane were not fighting is going on, have come down to Monday morning, and the funeral held hand to hand fighting such as the old to handling a spade becomes more or tried. As the county fair comes first iate relatives were present. After the Birthday Surprise Tuesday afternoon. this year the exhibits may be collected barbarians indulged in. ceremony the friends and relatives went less exfwrt at it. Mrs. Williams was twenty-two years Moreover tbe fighting is for the same Mrs. 11. D. Murray, teacher of the to the bride's home and a dinner was A few of the men have been laid off. at Gresham and forwarded to Salem at purpose that Atilla ami Alaric fought— of age. She 1s a ncice by marriage, to King’s Daughter’s class was take - by Some of them took this to mean a great advantage. serve«! them. After th«*se festivities the Mr. and Mrs. E. I.. Rayburn of Lento. surpri«* on Wednesday evening when for land and loot. The facte were that at bride and groom went to Newport for a permanently. The question is, “Does civilization about twenty of the members and w«*ek ami tlien they will sfiend a month the time work wsh teuqsirarily east Lente people have been ♦*- Mrs. Darling, whose maiden name wax home at the corner of 49th avenue and after th»* first of September. Lente ac- plans. in mbn than Paganism did?" MinnieS. Bronson, was born June 20, 89th street, 8. E., to help celebrate her quaintane«« of the grootn extend a con­ pt*cially fortunate in having the fore­ If civilization has done anything for 1876, at Belle Plain, Iowa, and moved birthday. The affair was planned by gratulating han«l and wish them mucii man of tlie work a resident of tbe town. DISTRICT ONE men except to make them more adroit with her parent» to Almena, Kansas the young ladies and was a complete happiness and prosperity. W. R. Smith, who is a well-known fore­ Ijenna Johnson.................... *............ 111300 murderers than their Pagan ancestors alsmt 1878. She was married to Em­ surprise to Mrs. Murray. The evening man, well known by most of the big Eay Klineman...................................... HfitWl were, it is not visible to the ntked eye. mer Darling at Norton, Kansas tn 1895. was spent in games and contests of contractors of the coast, is a lamts man Clara Clark ....................................... 44200 —Goodwin's Weekly. Monthly Conference and wlien th«* <*ompany’s oScers in- To this union four children were born, various kinds. In a contest entitled,"A Hilda McTaggart............................... .37200 The monthly workers conferenc»* of structe«l him to employ local men as two of whom have died, and two are Love Affair in a Gardeix," in which a Irma Fish............................................. '1 l(l® I living. Thoi living are Oiville and list of questions were answered by using the Millard Avenue Presbyterian Sun­ much as possible he was gla«l to follow Card of thanks names of plants and flowers, first honors day School was held at the horn«* of instructions. Della Pitta.............................................. #^*’ Mr. Smith s»«ems to tie We wish to thank our many neighbors j Chester. After a lingering illness she were won by Harry White. Following Mr and Mrs. C. K. Butters. 4938, 72-1 the man for the job. Cora Valentino ...................................... .V»«i0 He is all over it, died at 6528-87th street, Portland, Ore., Opal Woodworth.................................. .>000 and friends for the kindness and atten­ August 2, 1915, at the age of 39 years, the presentation of tokens of remem­ street. 8. E. Monday evening, Aug. 2, and he is well liked. tion given ns during the illness and brance and best wishes to Mrs. Murray, Liiah Clark............................................ fiooo The meeting was calied to order by Handling the matter in this way 1 month an***1 The funeral was held at Holman ’ s Emmer Darling Lunelle Kearney ................................ .4500 Undertaking Parlors and she was buried Ellton Shaw assisting the hostess. asked Mr. Williams to act a« president money. Experiem-«*«! men on road Orville Darling Those present were: The Misses Lois pro-tern in the absence of Mr. Ellton* work might have saved them eonsider- DISTRICT TWO j beside her son at Eugene, Oregon. Chester Darling Bnreh. Claire Burch, Mildred McIn­ Shaw, who, with his family, is spending ahle, but they will have the satisfaction Lois Burch ............................................446