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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1915)
Iferalò This is a good time to re new your subscription to the Herald. LENTS, MULTNOMAH CO.. OREQON, THURSDAY, DEC. 30. 1915 s ES CARRANZA HAS DECIDED TO ESTABLISH BASEBALL AS A SPORT IN MEXICO AS A MEANS OF PROMOTING PEACE. Busy Lents Corner Ruined by Early Friday Morning Fire Caused by Burning Oil Stove. Comparison of Reports Show Carelessness. Long Felt Want Met by Attempt to Assart» That Reclamation Service la Handle Charity Wort la Systema tic Manner, Avoid Duplication of Effort, and Unworthy Appeals. Friday morning at seven o’clock tbe worst fire to visit lent* fur over two years laid the southwest comer at Foster thing The I la itioa, ritual :ulab- léala. lurch ch ta cities t the »part on 1» int of matb- il to >w to •stivo ■ boat rntng arket ao aa most ducts ■o-op- ijecta ed to i that Some lamed might -atlon very iu (Mir th Uif vrong ve In enter, n uae sat It aome- elvea. he au a gle na HS id. Ite gor thaof Ity, to pati», ement upon la thè Bi tic h id wa d and quali- ira. ao :e you f man tea d. not nmsnt 'enofili ■osai f id feel latone a that opefnl qnar- » now Road and Main Street in ruins. The story of the fire was told before night in two prominent Portland papers. These stori«« are repeated tiers by way of com parison. If you want the facte read the kx-al paper. Tbs fire bad its origin in a little restaurant near the corner of Main and Foster Road. The restaurant was being run by E O. Hodge and was opened this morning by Wm. McDowell, who started the Are in an oil stove, under tlie coffee um. Shortly after this B. H. Gamer, helper in the restaurant, entered the room and found tbe burner unduly active. He attempted to shut it off but tlie fire spread to the other burner*. He called McDowell from an ad joining room to help him. In the me* Rime the firs extended to the Aoor •nd the wall. They tried to put it out with wet sacks but it spread too fast and finally when it reached the coal oil tank it drove the men out of the room. Flames soon shot out of the doors *n<l windows and spread to the buildings on each aide. The Eggiman Brothers meat market occupied the next footn to the south; Hodge and McDowell were running a vegetable market in the next , room to tbe north and tlie next building north was oocupied by A. M Gardner’s Jewelr). Nothing was saved from tlie Eggiman building, nor the restauranL McDowell lost probably ISO worth of goodi and Gardner’s jewelry last several ■mall article* probably aggregating 125 or |:W. Tl>e goods and moet of the ■helving and tools were removed from McDowell’s and Gard Deri ■ places and ' aside from tbe inconvenience of having | to straighten things out tbe damage was | slight. They were both ready for busi- j neas again by noon. But not so with Eggiman Bros, and 1 Hodge. Eggiman’» had just stocked up with a large amount of beef, mutton, pork and poultry ready for the Christ mas trade. It was all lost togetlier with their tools and apparatus, probably over a >1000 worth and tlie building was es timated as being worth |1200. Their insurance was found to have expired a short time previously and so it was all a clear loss. Hodge lost all of his kitchen outfit and several fine musical instruments. He had a violin which he valued at |20O, a •65 ixnjo, a |2U cello, and several other articles which would have cost 125 or ISO. Hodge’s loss would run close to |35O or |376. He had no insurance and neither had Gardner. K. P. Tobin was one of the heaviest losers as he owned the buildings occupied by Hodge, McDowell, and Gardner. The buildings were not insured. Just what they would be valued at would be difficult to esti mate. , Injury to the Duke Building, occupied by the latite Har 1 ware Co., will prob ably amount to |60 or 176, due to injury to awning, cornice, and brick work. None of the buildings were burned down but they were ruined. The loeaee were largely due to a defect in the Are alarm. An effort was made to ring the alarm from the nearest Are box but it failed to work. After a <v.n- siderable time was lost th« call was ef fected and the local volnnteers turned out an<i did very effective work. They had the fire well under control when the Kern Park crew arrived and helped to put on tlie finishing touches. Work has been begun already on clear ing the wreckage away. The intention Is to put up a one story brick structure with a 54 foot frontage on Main street and about 70 feet depth. This will af ford a lengthy frontage on Foster Road and will be a fiifs addition to tlie town. Christmas turkwye, geese soil half a buffalo were destroyed, together with several business eatablishinente at Ix-iita thia morning, when a Are started from coal oil in a restaurant. The lose totals about 62730, of which 11000 represents the two-story building in which the various firms were sheltered The Are started in William HodgM* restaurant. 6917H Ninety-second street Southeast. Hodgee uses an oil stove for hie restaurant and in Alling the stove some oil was spilled on the Aoor. Thia caught Are and destroyed the eat ing house with a lose of |60. The Eggtman Bros., meat market had a lose of >1200, of which *600 was (continued on paire four) ¡LOCAL ASSOGIA TAME THE RIVERS TION FOR CHARITIES LANE SUGGESTS I —Berryman in Washington Star. GRESHAM REPORTS WATCH YOUR SNEEZE” VICIOUS ASSAULT IS CRY IN N. Y. SCHOOLS Apparently one of the worst crimes Twenty-four cash prizes have been awarded to pupils lu elementary schools for poster de»l*ua to be used by the bureau of public health and hygiene of the New York Association For Improv ing ths Condition of the Poor In ita “watch your sneeze" campaign. There were .*XX> contestants for the prises With tbe slogan. ~8neesee spread diseases; coughs fill coffins; use a handkerchief." tbe health poster con test was initiated as an opening wedge in a novel educational cam paign against the menace of unguard ed sneezing in the transmission of res piratory disease*. Delicate pastels, strong water col ors, charcoal, crayon. Ink and pencil suggest tbe versatility of tbe youthful competitors, while lu tbe drawings sur prising originality was shown. It is in the lettering for tbe posters that the youthful Ingenuity of tbe school children was most apparent. Typical captions to be read were "A Sueeae Behind (a handkerchief) Saves NLne.” “Block That Sneeze! I interference Does it Use a Handkerchief." “Smother Your Sneeze In a Handkerchief." “A Careless Sneeze Will Spread Disease. Use a Handkerchief, if You Please." Philip S. 1’latL superintendent of the bureau, asserts that in recent yean sanitarians bare come to place mon and more importance upon unguarded sneezing and coughing as a serious factor In th« transmission of colds, pneumonia, influenza, diphtheria, tu berculosis and other respiratory dis eases This is particularly true, he states, in any crowded city with its extreme congestion of transportation at certain houn, and It was very largely tbe health menace of close con tact of this kind, with ita attendant sneezing and coughing, that prompted tbe health department last winter to undertake the control of overcrowding on certain of the clty’a transportation Mrs. Rachel Lewis Dead lines. If a handkerchief were placed Mrs. Rachel Lewie, aged 82, paraed in front of every sneeze In New York away at tier home on tbe Base Line city the spread of these diseases would road, near Ruaselville, Wednesday be surprisingly reduced. The most ef morning. Rhe was one of the old fective posters in the contest will be settlers of tills part of the state, coming used In the proposed campaign. to Oregon in 1872, Sbe bad lived on the I*wis home for over forty years. F. A. Alvord Loses Son The funeral will be held Friday after Chester Alvord, son of Mr. and Mrs. noon at 1:30 at the East Side Baptist Church, East 28th and Ankeny. Mrs. F. A. Alvord, died Wednesday evening Lewis was a widow, lier husband hav about 11:20. The immediate cause of ing passed away fifteen years ago. She his death was a diseased heart. He had leaves several sone and daughters, lieen a sufferer for Several years of leak namely. Inander, Herman, Ess, and George Inwis; Mrs. Sarah Bell. Mrs. age of the heart but was gradually over Lulu Milla, and Mrs. Fred Davis, the coming it. During a recent scarlet fever outbreak he was attacked and never was latter of Centralia, Washington. able to overcome it. For the part week Rebekahs Will Entertain he han been in a dangerous condition, Members of I/»nte Rebekah Ltx ««• gradually growing worse, the end com will entertain on Friday evening, the ing last night. Chester was nine years of age. a 81st at Oddfellows hall. A program of music, games, refreshments and soaia- bright, Ane looking little fellow, dear to bility has been planned by the commit all the members of the family. Tlie funeral will be held on Friday at tee, that ought to make a full evening 2 p. m. at Kenworthys. on even the last night of tlie year. Mr. and Mrs. Alvord have the sym One of the feature« of tlw evening will be the admission fee. A pair of old pathy of numerous friends who appreci rubbers will be required of every one ate what the loss means to them. who attempts to pass the door. It you haven't tlie rubbers the price will be Mr. and Mrs. Coyt Dozier, of 8S6 24th Ave cents. A noCher feature will be the St North, well known to numerous giving away of a Ane comfort to Che I*enta lodge people, are receiving con moot fortunate person present. Hew to know whether you are tbs fortunate one gratulations on the arrival of a ail will be determined after you come. pound eon on the 26th. ever perpetreated in the county was enacted on Tuesday afternoon near four o’clock. Mrs. Mabel Meyers, wife of O. H. Meyers of Gresham, was brutally mistreated by an unknown man, who met tier near Cleveland Avenue and the Section Line Road. She made a good Aght, and after attempting to drown her three times be shot her through the breast, carried or dragged her to a near by cabin and left her. Just hero the mystery deepens. The cabin was occupied by E. B. Kemp, a farm hand. According to a note that Kemp mailed to Sheriff Hurlburt at 5:4b in Portland, and received by the Sheriff by special delivery at 6:10, Kemp re turned to hie cabin and found the woman. He intimates that be would be implicated and that he was going to leave the country, suggesting Canada. From appearances in the cabin some one had apparently collected a few ar ticles in a hurry and left but whether the criminal or Kemp, the latter only can tell. According to Kemp he heard a shot and Mrs. Meyers’ screams, went to her assistance and shot at the tramp several times. He thought he shot the tramp and suggested he might be dead. He claimed that he had done all he could for Mrs. Meyers, urged that the sheriff render her assistance at once, and said that be did not want the blame. The sheriff found the woman attempt ing to go to her home. Her clothing was torn from her, she was half con scious, and unable to walk, and had drawn a blanket about lierself for pro tection. She was taken to the hospital where it was fouhd the bullet had entered the right lung. Now Working on Problem at Keeping Water Until It’s Needed and Loading It Into Poaeofwl Faths of Useful* neee Methode of Raising Fund«. “Taming the Rivera’ la a subtitle In An organization was effected on Mon day evening which baa for its object the Secretary Lane's annual report. Sec retary Lana has a way of making Ala more Intelligent handling of various report something more than dry de- charitable undertakings, in the district tails, and be has not failed to attract east of 82d stmt, in southeast Portland. attention thia year. When I m speaks Tliis year particularly, there have been of "taming tie rivers" be means to numerous cases where assistance seemed make uae of tbe water of tbe country. And be does not mean waters merely necessary but it was evident that some that are need for Irrigation piwpnees, of the needy were being assisted by dif but the floods of tbe Mississippi and ferent persons, while possibly others tbe rivers of tbe Atlantic slope. Ho were in dire want. The effort to ass nr i- would have all tbe water of tbe coun ate ail the relief work was begun two try utilized when thia can be accom weeks ago and was finially agreed upon plished. He wants tbe government to Monday evening. The essential plan of go into the business on a large scale. the organization provides for committees At one point In bia report, speaking ut three from each of the religious and of wasted water where it could be use social organizations of the locality, to ful. be says: gether with the Parent-Teacher Club, "We need to catch that water when which committees shall constitute the it is young, soon after It baa been born general relief association of Lents. from the snow* There, tn mountain There is no intention of going into a valleys, it should be kept for a time general charity work but it is recognized and. as needed, led Into tbe peaceful paths of usefulneea. And on that prob that a certain amount of relief work lem the reclamation service la work must be done and that this should be ing. Tbe difficulty is to find large ree- done systematically. It is qlso admitted ervotr arena** that a considerable number of those who Mew to Raise the Money. are asking assistance locally, and down Like President Wilson. be does not in the city are not entitled to it and an propose to spend large sumo of money effort will be made to sort out these without suggesting a method of raising parasites and see that the relief goes to It He means that the country ought to issue bonds and make future genera worthy places. Mrs. O. N. Blair of 10019 Foster Road tions pay tbe coat of building these has been chosen as secretary of the great work*. Secretary Lane says: “How these great works can be car association. A meeting of the whole ried on calls for constructive thought body of committees will be held on the not merely on tbe engineering side, but evening of the 8th of January. All or more Immediately upon tbe financial ganizations desiring to participate in the side, as to those ways and means by movement will be entitled to send a which tbe lands reclaimed ah nil be committee ot three to participate in this made to bear in some degree tbe bur meeting and get in touch with the or den of tbe expense. Aa to tbe funds ganization. In the meantime if there which will be needed, they mount Inks such figures m to be staggering And are persons in extreme want, they may I can see do hope that this work will be reported to Mrs. Biair., If anyone be adequately undertaken without the has any donations to leave for the needy, government advancing Its credit and they may be left at the HERALD Investing directly some of ita own office, and due attention will be given to fund*. We are conducting this gov their proper uae. It is hoped that a ernment from day to day out of cur- ’ considerable amount of clothes and rent revenues. Only tbe rlcbevt or peo ple could pursue such a policy No other necessities will be offered for this private enterprise attempts ft. No rail purpose. road system has been built that way Mrs. Blair may be reached at Tabor But few of tbe states now cuitstnnt 1788. tbelr highway systems out of tbe year’s revenues. The permanent Improve ments which the whole fmople under Mt. Scott Mental Culture Club take are a legitimate charge against The Mt. Scott Mental Culture Club capital account not agatnsi mainte entertained at dinner Thursday evening nance. A commission to devise tbe ways and means by which the states in honor ot tbe husbands of the dub and private landowners and tbe nation members. The borne of Mr. and Mrs. al government can co-operate in paying James F. Huggins was beautifully deco for the work done seems to me a more rated with poinsettas and ivy, and the needed body than one which will re same inotii was repeated in place cards port upon engineering methods" and the center pieces of the three long dining tables. Mrs. J. J. Handsaker WOMEN IN A WAR PRISON. was detained at home by illness and Mre. 8. F. Ball presided. Mr Ball re Wives of Two Garman Officers Refused sponded earnestly as well as amusingly to Leave Them. There is one war prison in France to the toast “At Home”; Mrs. R. R. Howard voiced tbe praises of "Our which has women and children among Husbands” and Mr. LeRoy spoke brief the fighting men wbo constitute tbs ly of "Our Kiddies.” Mrs. Blanche majority of its Inmates. It la the Ger man officers’ prison at Le Puy. in ths Thureton's toast was to "Christmases province of Velay—a sequestrated Ro of the Past,” but sbe preferred the man Catholic orphan asylum which has Christmas of the present, when one has been converted to tbs uses of war. A learned to give to the little ones and to correspondent of the Journal de Ge the aged, rather titan to receive. neve. wbo visited It recently, tells the After dinner each guest and member story which explains their presence. The two women are the wives of was allowed to select a string which hung over the edge of a huge "Christ German officers wbo surrendered to a mas Pie” ami draw therefrom bis or her British force In Togo la nd. German Western Africa, with the stipulation present. Tbe barking toy dogs, bounc that they should not be separated. The ing balls, kewpiee. and jumping jacks two couples were at first Interned tn which were drawn forth, made fun for Africa, but later they were removed to all. A brief and enjoyable musical pro France, and it was proposed to send gram followed. Mre. Belle Ober and the women to Germany. The wives, Mr. L. A. Dillion sang and Miss however, insisted that thi lr captors should faithfully observe the terms of Katherine Ball playod. The guests were then divided into two the surrender and refused to leave gronpa for the International Olympic tbelr huabonds. The French government has accord games. Mr. Ball captained the Irish tngly Installed the two women, with and Mr. Dillion the 8we<i«e. Mr. Oberg their two children—both boys, born and Dr. Stout won the horse race for the last July, the eleventh month of their Irish. The Swedes came out ahead in parents’ captivity—tn a cottage on the the shot put and Marathon but lost to prison grounds, where the two officers tbe Irish in the relay race and Areo- are allowed to s|>end two hours a day plane flight. Mre. Dunbar and Mr. with their families. Huggins won the lightweight champion* ship for the Swedes. Mr White and Advertised Letters Mr. Howard tied hi the hurdle race. A Advertised letters for wsek ending Alp of a coin, decided in favor of Mr Blauvelt, L. F. ; Car White, which gave the Swedes the high Dec 29, 1916: E. ; Easton, Tad ; est number of points. Mr. Dillion rico, Rev. John gracefully accepted the cup (a china Fleming, Sarah ; Gillis, W. A. ; Hutch mug) in behalf of the Swedes, AU inson, Mrs. Will; Murphy, J. F. ; Mil entry» took part in tbe home run. ler, Mr.; Neda, F.; Smith, Mrs. K. Daily Mails Elmo; Stones, Mr».; Van Zettin, Derr Herr. Mails at the Lent* postoffice arri*« Geo. W. Spring, Postmaster. and depart daily, except Sunday, as fol lows: Arrive Depart C. H G-waett IS building a new honto 7:16 AM 64«) A M. 12:6OP. M. 12:30F. M. on Powell Valley Road east of Buckley »60 P. M. Avenin. 8:80?. M. •r