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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1915)
Phone us your new» Item»—-they are al ways welcome This is a good time to re new your subscription to the Herald. / . ____________________ ____________ LENTS, MULTNOMAH CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT., 7, 1915 Subscription, $1.00 a Year. EVENIN6 STAR HAS FORMER LENTS 6000 PR06RAM WOMAN KILLED FireCbiaf J. W. Stevens talked on Tire space devoted to playing up tbe Mrs. R. E. Thomas of fiflth avenue new« in regard to cross continent wire has returned home from California fees telephoning suggested that long dis where she has been visiting her sistars tance wireless was something entirely and sight seeing. 8be visited the Ban of Mrs. Pete Parker, Formerly a how necessary it is for everyone to 1* very careful about Ore, matciie», etc., ML Scott Woman. new. He also told of luotiier, Mr. and Mrs J T. Soloman, live near the former Parker home in lent«, at Nickel and Herstel Streets. There are also «even brother« and five ■istera remaining of her faller’s family. Mrs. Parker wa* born in Illinois thirty-six years ago She came with her family to Oregon settling near Pitta bu rg, Columbia County, where she, Myrtle Soloman, met and married Pete Parker in 1HH5. They lived near Pitts burg until about four year« ago when they came to lente and lived here until last spring Mr. Parker thinks lie will dispose of bis Clark County property ami return to Lents to make his home. Revival Meetings Revival meetings at the Friend's Church begin Sunday. Oct. 10. Eliza P. ttidfey of Salem, Ore , formerly of Kansas, will be the evangelist She is a strong woman and has done mucn sue- cureful evangelistic work. A cordial in vitation i" extended to al). Services will be held every evening at 7 -45. Sir William M. Ramsay, of Edin- burgh, tiie great archaeologist, fias written an appealing letter to the Moody Bible institute of Chicago, ask ing for a new D. L. Moody to lie sent over to the other side. He thinks that not only the soldier», but other» are having their eyes opened to see the spiritual world and tbe Divine nature and power as never liefore. | i Advertised letters for week ending | Ifeelt-r, Mrs. Norman; ! Oct. 2, 1916: Clint, Mrs. Mayl; Tnche, Mrs. Myra; i Harlow, Mrs.; Holt, Mrs F.; Irwin, Trivial Annc/ances. Mrs. J. B.; Kemp, Henry , IJnsky, Joe; ft 1« surprising how trivial are tbe Havage. Baddie D.; Sorenson, Henry. Geo W. Spring, Postmaster. tnnoyances which suffice to make some men miserable. A lump of soot fall ing on a man's linen, a beefsteak over Th« Historical Bluebsard. done, losing a railway train by forty Bluebeard was a historical iieraonage seconds after running himself out of whose name was Giles de Ret*. He breath, a visit from a bore when be was nicknamed "Bartie Bleue,” from is overwhelmed with care«, tbe rasp having a beard of a blue black shade. ing of bls nerve« by a band organ Persuaded by an Italian alchemist tbat when be is weary, inclined to bead bl« strength could be restored by bath ache or trying to sleep; even tiie want ing In the blood of Infants, be bad many children entrapped for this of a pin or a shirt button flying off at hideous purpose Into his castle of an unlucky moment, as when be la Chamtoce. on the Loire, tbe ruins of dressing for a dinner party and has which are «till to be seen. At last tbe scant time in which to do it—all these horrible suspicious of tbe country folk are annoyances which sorely try a as to what was going on were proved, man's patience and chafe and vex and the monster was burned at the many a person more than a serious misfortune. Alexander Smith goes so •take at Nantes In 1440 far as to say that If during thirty years all the annoyances connected The Color of the Eye. with defalcating shirt buttons alone The color of the Iris is not uniform could be gathered Into a rnnss and en in any eye. Borne eyes have spots, others «tripes, still others blotches of dured at once it would be misery equal York white, green, blue, yellow and black, to a public execution.—New Telegram. and the eye takes Its color from the Advertised Letters predominance of one hue. An eye Water and Pur« Wat«r. that Is considered gray will often be Pure water 1« notblng more or less composed of black and 'yellow. An eye that Is thought to be brown will than a chemical curiosity. Even when be very dark red with spots of yellow distilled It cannot rightly be considered perfectly pure. Mineral matter la the or blue. moat common foreign substance found In "Adam’s al«." This 1« largely ow Cressing the Strait. Talking about fuuny typographical ing to the fact that all water passes errors, tbe Christian Register recalls through rock and «oil at some time or bow once upon a time a clergyman, other. In moderate quantities these writing of his tra vela in that paper, mineral salt« are quite desirable, as was made to say that be had crossed they are particularly needed for our the straits of Menatila **ln twelve bone« and muscle«. When water is dis hope.'* It should have been "twelve tilled tbaae mineral substances become detached; hence distilled water 1« use- hours.” Isw for drinking. But if more than a hundred grains of such salts as magne Deean’t F««l Rut Out. Tes»I broke my engagement with alum or sodium sulphate are contained klas bacause he wouldn't glve up to in a gallon of water it should then be báceo. Jasa—Tben be la an oíd flame regarded as a mineral beverage rather of yoursJ Teas—Tea. and lie's ■Uli than a good drinking material. Tbe importance of water can b« well real smoking. ised when we consider tbat tbe very Selfishness la that detestable vice elasticity of our muscle«, cartilage« which no on« will forgive in other« •nd tendon« is due to th« amount of water tbat these tisanes contain.—Pear and no one 1« without In blmeelf •on's. But that is untrue. Tbe Federal Diego and Frisco fair«. Rhe spent some Company operators of the plant on time at Bantelle visiting her sister, Johnson Creek near Irentajmy they have Mrs. G. W. Cook, who wa« in tbe been talking—telephonically—by wire restauzant bomness in Lents for some feat with a nation on Puget Sound for time, then sold out and went to quite a while. They have recently in stalled a DeForest ultra audion, which Bantelle where Mr. Cook passed away clarifies the tones and reduces tbe buz last Thanksgiving day, after being sick zing sounds that interfere with distinct only four hours. But be had been in transmission. A person can stand sever failing health tbe past few years. al feet from tbe receiver and yet under I While at Santelle Mrs. Thomas stand tbe messages quite cleariy. visited tbe National borne for soldiers One of tiie wonderful things revealed of tbe American armies. The farm is that the message* sent from station« consist« of several thousand acres in New Jersey by wireless, are received There is walnut, peach, apricot and at the Leuts Station Thia ¡«explained prune orchards. There is four thous when we understand that wireless im - and and sixty buried in tbeir cemetery pulses are transmitted in con<-entric with a plot set aside for soldiers and waves, somewhat like the movement of their wive«. There is a funeral every water when disturbed by a pebble day and many times two. Many are thrown into it. Thus only a very small buried without a single relative to at fraction of the impulse sent out is tend. To stand and look upon all of utilized by a receiving station, or rather those white marble markers and an tbe station to which it is directed American flag on every grave is a sail When we know what a relatively small sight and more so when one realizes electric flash starts this message, we can what it meant and what it still means get some notion of intensely delicate for our country and flag — true "sense” of the machine that must re patriotism. There at the present ceive the force of that flash subdivided time IfeOO on the roll cal). The main millions of times. dining room seats eight hundred and A runaway terminated the life of .Mrs. what tire fire department is doing to Pete Parker, until laat February a resi I prevent fires Mr. Claude McCullough spoke on dent of Mt. Scott, just outside of tiie city limits, near Ismts Junction, a “Water Power Iregialation,” ami told of iiow such natural reaources »lionld lie couple of blocks north of Foster road, mwle to be of use lo tbe present need« Since February tiie Parkers have been ot a country and Mil) not fall into the living about seven miles north of Van hands of «peculator» and forever he lost to tiie public. couver. Mr. W H. H. Dufur, Master of Mm On laat Thu relay afternoon Woodlawn Grange, tuade some remark» Parker, her infant son and 'laughter i along tiie mibjnct of “Water Power." Montia visited some neighbor« and on A. R. C. McKenzie of Woodlawn tiie way home, about five o’clock, while Grange aang two Bcoti-h song» Little going down a hill «track a i>«>ard which Kafhryn Pickford gave a piano aolo. scared the horse and a runaway ensued. Mire Both Behmuckli and Mrs. Leia J. Elliott remiere»! vocal «olos and pleas Mia« Parker handled the horse while ingly re»j>onded to em-ortw. the mother threw the baby to one side. Mrs. Parker then attempted to jump Lents Baptist Church to save herself but in striking the ground ' ^uniti^'ira^in’^'T^k of frerl Tire church held its annual meeting Hupper was hsad Bhe iwver regaii»^ ron«t-toue|MJh;’^^_^w**,k,' . “ | served at 7 o ’ clock to a large proportion nere. Mis« Monita was laat to attempt Responses wen- to save herself and tweaped with some ' of tiie membership. small bruises. Dr. Chalmers of Van- j made by tlioee present, and other mem rouver was called and then th»-y called tier» resident and non-resident, who Dr. Fawcett of Lanta but it was decided were not present, responded in writing that Mrs. Parker wastoo weak to under to their name* when th»- church roll go an operation. She lasted till about was called. Tiie following officer* were electedt eleven o'clock on Friday night wlien death overtook Iter. Tiie funeral was Trustee«. W. M. Barker, M. K. Merritt, held at lent* on Monday afternoon at H. H. Arthur, R. Irewi», J. R. Swart i out. Deacon*. R Lewis, W. M. Bar '.he Kenworthy undertaking parlor» Rev.Nelsou of the Lents Baptist Church ker, J. R. Bwartout, H. J. Arthur. Deaconneese*. Mr* Ella, Mr«. R. Lewis, preached the funeral. A large number <>f relative« and (rlen<ls were in attend Mrs M. K. Merritt. Clerk, Mias Fay ant*. She was buried in Mt. Scott Hickox, Treasurer. G. R. Greenwell, Financial Secretary, Mrs. Ida Warnock, Cemetery. S. S. 8uperint»-n<fent, G. R. Greenwell, Mr«. Parker leave« to mourn her loss, Irer husband, Pete Parker, daughters, Elmo Heights Superintendent, N. G. Montia and Connie, and an infant son Wilcox, Auditor«, M. K. Merritt, W. T. of IS month« of age. Her latirer and Barker. No. 40 I IMS WIRELESS I ALKS WITH SOUND CITIES Runaway Accident Near Or ¡tiie subject of ‘‘Fire I’rotectiun" at He told chards, Wash., Results in Death Evening Star Grange, Oct 2. and about the house. Vol. 13. fifty and they have built a new dining room which seats one hundred and THE RURAL SCHOOL fifty. They have tbeir own hospital AND RECREATION and at the present time there is three hundred and eighty patients there. “Play” in a rural school cannot be Co. L. has it« own dining room and does ita own cooking. One company of too forcibly emphasized. It is an I old men, seme of them blind, and have •ential in tbe life of everyone, but pccially in his play is the child being to be taken to and from their meals ami trained for future experiences in life beds anil some cannot feed themselves. and in his or her relation to the com Little Manilla, as it is called, is a part set aside for the Philipine soldier« munity—“the larger home.” The greatest community interest They have their own doctor and nurses with which the child com«« in contact, who do not have anything to do in re Olson-Helse Wedding Pastor's Farewell i« tbat received at the rura) school. For gards to taking care of the other pa These soldiers are dreadfully I want to express my appreciation of I Oscar E. Olson and Mire Norma J. perhape the first time in his life, be tients. tiie cooperation and goo»l will of the | Heise were unite»! in marriage Sept. 26, comet in touch with differing interests, afflicted with various diseases which with outside ideas, with tbe earliest they contracted while in the Philipine people of Lents during my stay of most at tbe home of the bride’s parents. Mr. problems of community life and how Islands. Home have rheumatism, some seven years in your town. I could not and Mrs. H. G. Heise, 6747 87th street. beet shall he adapt himself to these the 8t. Vitus dance, and others tuber have accomnlislied the good work at my Lents, in the presence of numerous rela problems? Just a "book school” may culosis. They are kept by themselves post liad it not been for a loyal church tives anti friends, the Rev. G. Krause of teach educational needs, how to read and not allowed to use the books in the and friendly help of the business men i Portland officiating. Mire Muriel Hall and write and «pell, bow to develop library. One poor fellow was poisoned of Lente. I shall not forget the many acted as bridesmaid and Mr. Ed Nordin the mental side of the child, but a while there and had hie two legs taken happy greetings of my brotlier pastor» as best man. The room« were beauti “sourd mind in a sound body” ought off at tbe knees and recently had one ami our straggle« together against sin fully decorated with flowers. Delicious to convey more to the parents and the hand removed and it is expected he will refreshments were serve«!. Tbe brule school board« than it does. and wrong doing. A strong, soon loose tbe other. Poor fellows, all We want to thank the people of Lenta, was the recipient of many tieautiful and active, responsive human body can of them, as one can see, young men. the .Meth'»list Church and the official useful presents. Tliey use fifteen hurdred pounds of I never receive its just due ot rightful ; Amid showers of rice and itootl wishes exercise and pleasure on a dirty, »hade- beef a week and three hundred pounds board for their vote of appreciation of tiie service« we have rendere»! during i the happy couple departed by auto for less, unequipped ground, surrounding a , of butter; l>ake six hundred loves of our stay in Irenta and assure them they the Aico apartments where they will be school building which in itself needs > bread every day and use sixty sacks of will always have a warm place in our at home to their many friends. potatoes a week. They rai.se their own , much remedying. ■ ■ ' - ....... - " ■ —~ — heart.—W. Boyd Moore. The country child is brought up as ; squashes. cucumbers, tomatoes, water an individual. He does not learn in melons, sweet potatoes, beans, orange« Lents Grange his youth tbe larger I msou of sacrificing and lemons. They have beautiful gar I a - u U Grange will meet a» usual Satur De Champion Athletes Die Young T his individuality for the “good of the dens and lovely fig trees. They raise a day, living the secontl Saturday, and at- From opinions collected from men team.” The country child need not be few apples but tbe climate is not good prominent in tbe athletic world, among teml to the regular or»ler of business. denied this one ereeetial that makes for them so near the beach, it being only them several doctors and surgeons who There will be some initiatory work and more than any one thing, for a strong, ' five miles from Ocean Park and Venice. have given tbe subject special study. * a good afternoon lecture program. I visited a cannery at Pomona which cooperative, harmonious community “Teaching a Boy How to Save and It may be concluded tbat tbe average is a new plant equipped with all the man can play baseball, tennis and bas j Training a Giri to Help in the Home” spirit. Only through games can the latest facilities for handling and canning ketball with safety until be is forty. will b»> handled by Rev. llornschuch. of child learn thia most valuable lesson— only through games taught and prac- j peaches and apricots and other fruit. It After that age these more vigorous the l^ents Evangelical church. Mire labels one thousand cans every six gdrnes become a little dangerous, even Elsie Bright will give a vocal solo, and ticed and played. to the man In good physical condi Every country school could have ita minutes and cans sixty thousand a day. • Milton Miller of the Internal Revenue tion. At forty-five, most of tbe experts play-ground—some place for the kiddies They are not touched with the hands agree, golf, croquet, bandball, volley Service will make a short address. It is to play; and gradually, as tbe need after being pitted by the women and ball aud medicine ball are more Otting hope<l that a larger attendance than arose and the interest increased, girli-. The goods are put out by the 8. and. certainly, safer pastimes. Tbe usual will be present a* th«*«- talks are equipment could be addeil and much R. Armsby Company of Lo« Angeles. Unite»! States imbllc health service dis to be of unusal interest. We rode into the orang»- and lemon could be done for the betterment of the countenance»* some of the more violent groves for miles. Lemons sell at five children of the rural school. With the forms of s|>ort. such as rowing, for In The Voracious Cormorant. proper teacher (or perhaps a neighbor cents a dozen and they cannot give the stance. even for yoimg/nen Long dis How a cormorant dlvea for sea trout tance running, jumping and |M>le vault and gets them is 'told by a writer-. "1 hood volunteer a day or so a week) oranges away as they are out of season ing also are considered extremely ex- trad the cormorant under observation games could be added to the regular now and the packing houses have closed bauatlng by Ita experts It declares, io only for tbe space of four or five min school program, and who shall say that down for the season. abort, tbat ''champion athletes die ute«. and during that «bort period It tbe boys and tbe girls are not each We visited San Gabriel Mission, Red young."—Boston Herald. had captured four sea trout all of con learning through their games and play land, and other places of interest and siderable size, After living under wa the most valuable lessons in citizen met many congenial people, but did not A Short Lived Island. ter for a few seconds the bird would ship and their future work in the locate a grange or G. A. R. Circle as it In IStlT a new sbottl was discovered reappear with u sea trout wriggling in is al) Relief Corps in tied part of the world? lu the group of tbe Tonga o.' Friendly Its MIL Rut But In I spite of * the " - —‘-*2 victim'« country. Islands lu 1877 smoke was seen desperate efforts to escape It was deft over the shoal. In 1885 the sboMl bad ly swallowed, and after a few gulps Eugene will soon have Coos Bay coal. become a volcanic lalnnd more than the cormorant would resume its Ash The Advertiser—N. B. J. A. Heavy will erect a $211,000 tlieatre two tulles long and 240 feet high, and ing operations. One of tbe sea trout The constant drop of water wears in Springfield. a fierce eruption was taking place w ith gave It considerable trouble, however, Away the hardest stone; tn It. In IBHti tbe island bad begun for the fish , struggled violently for The sacrifice of one cigar or one drink The constant grow of Towser to ahriuk in dimensions. In 188!» Ita •ome moments, but win deftly placed a day would mean enough saved for a Masticates the hardest bone; height bad diminished one-half, and so tbat Its bead pointed down Ita cap- good life insurance policy. Th»- constant cooing lover car tbe ocean close around It was more tor's throat, and thus ita own strug than a mile deep. In 1892 tbe island ries off the blushing maid ; The Veal Chair Factory at Albany gles assisted tbe bird to swallow It*' rose only about twenty-six feet above has changed from an eight to a ten hour And the constant advertiser sea level, and In 18ML under tbe action Is the one who geti. the trade. day Early History of Rubber. of tbe waves. Its complete disappear Rubber io first known to history as s nnce was reported. plaything. It was during Columbus' J. C. Butcher will establish a large las. Leatcb of 88th street, a clerk in second voyage that Herrera observed spray factory at Hood River and manu the Portland postoffice is taking a week’s Ths Safety First Critic. that tbe inhabitants of Haiti played a "Brown Is a very careful critic. Isn't, game with balls "made of the gum of facture arsenate of lead. vacation and spending it with his fami ly with his wife’s parents at Dallas. Ore. a tree." Even as early as tbe begin "I b what w«yT' ning of tbe seventeenth century, how Coos County has been experimenting ”H« always manages to take tbe ever, the Spaniards used rubber to wa with roads planked lengthwise and re sting out of his nufavorsble com terproof tbeir cloaks, but tbe fact at Daily Mail» sults are highly •uo'eaaful. tnent." Mail« at tire lent« poetoflice arriva tracted no attention In tbe old world, "For InstanceF' and départ daily, except Hunday. as fol and It was not until tbe eighteenth "His bride made him a sbortenks century tbat the rubber industry be Roseburg citizens will donate a site for io w«: the other day. and when she asked gan Early writers mention an oil ex the big new mill of Kendall Bros. A Arrive Depart him how he liked It be replied. 'It tracted from rubber which was takes town which has shown the enterprise of 6:00 A. M. 7:15 A.M. isn't as good a« your mocker used to medicinally with cocoa. Roseburg in going after this big in- 12:50 P. M. 12:»P. M. tuaks.’ "—Detroit Free Press dostry is «feeerving of a bright future. 8:» P. M. 0 90 P. M. h.r