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Phone us your news Items—-they are al ways welcome 4ML Lents, Multnomah County, Oregon, January 13, 1916. Subscription, $1.00 a Year LINTS GROWING SHORT AND TRAGIC FACTORY CENTER Career of the First Submarine Fireworks, Brooms, Patent Medi cine, Trunks and Stove Polish, Produced in Section near Lents, îïeralîi City of Shanghai SHE WAS BUILT IN MOBILE. A PUZZLE FOR A WHITE MAN. Old folks Celebrate Wedding On Friday afternoon, the 7th, several of Shilo Circle, No. 19, and one lone Comrade of Reuben Wilson Post, No. 38 of Lenta, attended th«* fiftieth anni versary of wedded life of Comrade and Sister Parker, somewliere near St Johns. They took the Mt. Heott car at Ijents to Alder street, then took the St. Johns car at Fifth and Washington •treete to Arbor Lodge, where they got off. It was ten or twelve blocks from where they landed to their destination. There wa» a blinding »now falling and a deep trackless snow to wade through. The ljulies of the G. A. R. Circle t<x>k the lead and with their dainty shoes clad w ith rubtiersand their skirts sweep ing away the deep snow they mad»* a good trail for the lone comrade to walk in. They arrived at their destination in lime to celebrate the fiftieth anni versary of weddifil life of comra«Ie and sister Parker. They found about twenty mon* Circle Ladies there and Comrade I*arker’s eon and a son-in-law. To say they had a good time is put ting it mildly. They also had a fine lunch. About everyone ha«i congratula tions to offer Mr. and Mrs. Parker. After saying good-bye they started on their return trip. Snow had continued falling so they had to make a new trail. Two of the stalwart ladies of the Circle took the lead, ordering the lone com rade to follow, and the rest of the Cir cle came as rear guard to see that the lone comrade didn't scatter or fall oat. They got to the HL Johns car track and took the car for down town. One of the lathee acted as guide and told them where to get off. But behold she had an optical illusion and «'ailed them off seven blocks too soon, but she, being well versed in the city, guided them safely to Second and Yamhill where they took a Mt. Scott car. Comrades, it you want a gotwl time go out with the Shilo Circle. A dollars worth of fun is worth a dollar and a quarter in cash.—Schni«ler. OREGON NEWS NOIfS A. J. Sigman of Boston will build a $100,000 summer hotel at Port Orford. it takro 716 freight care to ship the annual salmon pack of Oregon, valued at $6,820,987. Ths British Government has asked the Portland mill» for bids on 12,000,000 ft. of lumber. Reports state that the big Rrookings mill at Gold Beach will soon reopen. Tbs Oregon Power Co.. of Marshfield has spent more than $40,000 in Improve ments on Coos Bay in 1916. J. C. Penny 4 Co., of New York will open a new dry goods store in Eugene. Shipping rabbits from I«akeview to San Francisco is a new industry. No. 2. THE CHINESE WAY EXTREME WEATHER Taking a Street Car Ride In the STRIKES PORTLAND THE EUROPEAN MAGICIAN. And Many Other Articles. we all prosper. Vol. 14. Used In Real War. Constructed •• Beiler Iren and Crude Ordinarily people fail to understand j In Design, She Was Operated Against the Federal Ship Houeatanio With U«e poaaibilitlea of Lanta a» a factory Diaaetrous Raeulta. center. Yet we hare all the prospect» for a good future. Within U m * pa»t Il Is a fact that a submersible boat month the Columbia Fire Work» Co. did actual service In the war between Inc., ha* bought pft>|M*rty in tin* E m M the states and was perhaps lbs first edge of Mnte and will open up a bti»i- practical submarine used In actual ties» that will give employment to 26 or warfare. So people a considerable part of the The boat was built In Mobile In 1864 tiros. Thi» businesa is certain, and by two men named Hundley and Me work on the factory building will ba ba- j t'llutock II was of boiler Iron, sharp gun within the next month. at b*>th cud» and was a tout thirty feel Win. Porter of Ninety-fifth street' long, five or all feet In leurn aud five is employing himself in making up or all feet deep. It was profiled by a • ohm * trunks lie intends to continue •crew. Ilia »haft of which ran bort die businrwi and enlarge It. The trunk ton tally along the bold, almoat from business is one that is always good am) stem to ateru aud waa turned by eight that can I m * developed indefinitely. ■lieu, who sal four ou each side of the Kamples of Mr. Porter’» trunks are shaft. guaranb-rs of his workmanship. He The only hatchway, placed well for think» a trunk factory out lM*rt* can ward, was two feet In diameter, aud It conroete with down town production» was closed by an Iron cap that worked and his reasons are good, ciieap rent, ou a binge aud was airtight. In the plenty of lielp, convenient delivery. in forward part of the cap there waa a fact it doesn’t e<»*t much more to get clear glass bullseye, through which the K<* h I s delivered from iiere to city points pilot could see. The boat had water than it doro down town tight compartments, by filling or empty P. T. Kirppcr of Liberty Heights Ing which It could sink or rise. A bal has invented a stove polish and will pro lust of Iron rails waa placed outside the cess! to manufacture it at borne. He is bull, and by means of keys they could also interested in the production of t*e detached so that the boat could rtee hi» tan Uy If necessary. "Kiemit” a candy cathartic dial is besides s rudder, the boat bad aide commended very highly by all those who paddles, or flu», which could be used have tried it. Either of l I msw products to guide It up or down through the wa will reach a national sale and should I* ■ ter. encouraged. The boat could go perhaps four knot» O. Pearce has opened up his tinning an hour It could remain submerged •hop on 92d »trert. Besides all sorts of for half an hour or an hour without ordinary tinning he is turning out a lot serious Inconvenience to Its crew, and of useful metal utilities. His sanitary ones It remalued as long as two hours n. der water without actual Injury to water cans, grit aud feed boxes for them. poultry, and garbage cans are all very A floating torpedo was fastened to practical conveniences that ought to aril the boat by a Hue 100 feet long, aud l<> an eager trad«* His bnsiness has the the Inventor proposed that the boat quality for development. should dive Iteneatb tbs keel of the Nor should we overlook the Portlami enemy's vessel aud haul the torpedo Broom Company, located at 86 th street after tier. The triggers or ■eiialtiie •nd flOth avenue. This company is pro primers of the torpedo would press ducing »rvrral grsdes of fine broom». agnlnst the ship's bottom, explode the torjiedo and »Ink the vessel Supplying the local merchant» is a l'he boat was sent to I'linrleston to »mail part of their trade. Tlu*y an* ■ operate agnlnst the blockudim: fleet buying broom corn in car load lots and I General Beauregard hud the torjie. selling brooms by dozen and grros lots. . fastened to the bow It terminated ti. Their business gives employment to front with n sharp lance head. *<> tli i Lents people and everylssiy in ls*nt» when the l*>nt wa» driven against u should uk * Portland Broom Company •hip the lance head would !>«■ for brooms. Ask your denier (or them. Into the ship below the water line u.i the torpedo fastened ngaln»t the side Their goods are all right. The Herald The iwiat was then to ba*k off and e* lias tried them and guarantees their plode the torpedo by a lanyard qnality. General Beauregard called on tta Tliere are quite a num tier of vacant Confederate fleet for voluuteeis. atio buildings and room» in Lents where Lieutenant Payne, u Virginian, und manufacturing of these sorts could be eight sailora volunteered On the even started It would be wisdom on the tug fixed for the expedition the crew part of their owners to offer the space bad embarked, and the boat was sut* merged until only the combings of bet free for a while in order that thing» of hatch wore above water. Lieutenant this nature may get started. To guar Payne was standing in tbs hatchway anlee our faith in the matter The when ths swell of a passing steamer Herald will, invite consideration of rolled over tbs boat, and it sank in these suggestions, on space it has to stantly with bar eight men. Lieutenant Payne sprang out of the hatchway a» offer. the boat sank, and bo alone was saved In a few days sbs was raised, and Government Extravagant again Payne volunteered and with him Senator lane of Oregon has given out eight more men. Tbs embarkation for ths second attempt was made at Fort an interview severely upbraiding the Sumter, and. as before, all being made government for extravagance. He says ready. Payne, standing at bis post in that from 30 to 40 cents of every dollar tbs batchway. gave orders to cast off. spent goes to waste, and asserts that if when the boat careened and sank in busin«*»s efficiency and winomj were stantly. Payns sprang out, two of the men followed him. and the other »lx applied to the government's affairs it went down with the boat and per would la* no trick at all to save $300. ished. 000,000 to $400,000,000 a year out of the Again the tioat was rnlaed. and her money now lieing expended. If some owner. Captain Hundley, took her for one could compel the government to an experimental trip to 8tone river, practice economy, he think» there where, after going through her usual would lie no need for emergency or evolutions, she dived into deep water and disappeared. After a week's search other special taxes. No one will quncrel with him as to the she wiib found at an angle of forty d«*grero. her none driven into the deep, truth of his statements and there is no soft mud of the bottom. room for a division of opinion on the Her crew of uiue men were stand •object Everyone knows the govern tag. alttlng or lying about In her bold, ment is run on a fiscal plan that would asphyxiated. Hundley bad died at bl» bankrupt a private enterprise before it post with a candle in one baud, while •ven had time to get started. Economy with the other be had been vainly try is a word that is known only in political lug to unttamp tbs batch. The angle at debate and efficiency lias never yet been which tbs boat bad gone down bad jammed tbs keys so that tbs men could made a scienee in our government. not cast off the Ire» ballast that held The men who make up the govern them down. ment of the United States confine their Again the ill fated veaeel was proper views on economy to criticism of the sd for action, and volnntssro ware opposition party and to statements called for. lieutenant Dixon of the given out for consumption by the voters Twenty-first Alabama volunteered and at home. eight men with him. The ship Housatonic waa selected Thera is a moral in the above that ought to convince anyone of the folly for attack and on a quiet night tbs of expecting too much relief from brave crew set out from Charleston. Lieutenant Dixon guided tbs boat government ownership propositions. straight to the Housatonic, and tbs ex plosion tore open tbs ship'» side, so Eleven large railway systems have that she went down with al) bar crew placed, or are about to place onters for Douglas fir with, the Northwest milk according to reports. When ths rail roads start bpyingk sawmills prosper and This is a good time to re new your subscription to the Herald. Lowest Temperatures and Heaviest Snows of Fast Nine Tears Will Make 1916 a Record Tear. Grew ing Colder. Experience of en American Tourist Who Made a Bluff at Appearing to This lias been a year of extremes in Know All the Ropes—A Patient Con Oregon. The dry eat fail, the wettest ductor and an Interested Cargo. winter, and the coldest January in six Writing of his adventures In the ChL to ten years, wiU not be forgotten in a neae city of Shanghai. Homer Croy, in few months. Probabilities are that the Leslie's Weekly, telle of the experi winter of 1916 will be remembered and ence be had there in taking a ride on recalled for w-veral year» to come by a street car: “old timers” a» the "coldest winter The car was full of Chinamen, with and biggt-ft snows they ever seen in not another white aoul aboard, all sit Oregon.” Really this section of Oregon ting there in their skirts, their faces is making some record for snow. The as expressionless as the beads of two or three »che» that fell New Year’s drums, but as soon as I came In their eve hail bung on with occasional addi faces began to fill with lntereat. one tions, in a moot unusual way. It was nudging another until the whole car practically all gone from the roods : was looking at me. Tuesday night when the weather began I felt that something was wrong, but to thicken again. Tuesday was the 1 could not figure out just what I knew that It shouldn't create that coldest day in the winter up to date, much of a sensation for a white per but it wae not unpleasant, being clear But toward son to get on a car In Shanghai, but part of the day, and still. still they were looking at me as If I evening the snow began to fly. Wednes could be signed by a circus. I Strug day morning saw a temperature varying gled to look unconcerned, but I knew as to locality, from 12 to 20 degrees, and that my cheeks were backfiring. freezing rapidly. The wind was vigor The conductor. In bls suit of blue ous, seemed to come from everywhere, Jeans, with a satchel over hie shoul It came der. came up and said something to but principally from the east. me. while I nodded with earnest care- intermittenUy throughout the day but I lessness and handed him a twenty cent by night there was six inchen or more piece, knowing that be could get snow on the ground and stUl snowing. enough out of it to satisfy his wants The wind continued to rise and the "Mun »tau ciiong du?” he asked. fallen snow piled up in drifts waist I nodded again and held out my hand high. Wednesday morning was easily for the change, plainly »bowing that I —Lemon in St. Louis Post-Diepatch. the snowyeet morning in years. Traffic made the trip on the line twice a day. "Mun stau cbong du faing katag on the streets was pretty quiet and most •hon da f be asked with more feeling, of the auto deliveries were out of com Ashcroft Home Destroyed Indeed there pointing down the street with one mission until near noon. Fire played havoc with the home of hand. was very little of any sort of travel un A. F. Ashcroft, 87th street and 64th “I didn't catch the drift of bla re til afternoon. avenue shortly before one o’clock Sun marks, but I wasn’t going to show him The car service was disturbed. Sev day night. Mr. Ashcroft was ill and that f wasn't an old citizen and tax eral cars were late, but on the whole the was nnabie to help himself. He did payer. so I shook my bead thia time company kept things running pretty exceedingly well to escape. The house and nestled back In the seat as if it well. On Thursday the rural mail car was ruined and practically nothing were all settled. But the conductor rier made bis morning trip on foot. became more excited than ever, draft saved The fire was probably due to an Some of his route was impassible for the overheated flue. Patrolman Drapeau ed the other hand and gurgled: “Mun »tau chong du t'alng kaing ng. discovered the fire and called the de »bon da feab da tau sz wboo peh Main Street, north of Lents, had partment. The Lents Volunteers were i quong?" some big drifts. The cut at 35th avenue delayed first by failure of the alarm to So I waved in the other direction and 92d street wa« impassable, drifted work. Then when they got down in and tried to nestle again, but the con to the top in several places A big oil Fifth avenue, 87th street, the apparatus ductor came back with another round truck got stuck in it in the morning and of monosyllabic re-enforcements. With mired down and they were unable to could get neither way. reach tlie fire. The Kert* Park boys that his fellow men In the car came to Indications were Thursday afternoon his help with an artesian of words, reached the fire in got si time and each one thinking that be could make that there would be atlditional snow assisted in controlling it. it plain by raising his voice just a bit and continued low temperatures. The property was worth about $1860 higher than any one else. and it was insuretl with the furniture Reaching In his satchel, the conductor for $2600. offered me a slip of paper spoiled with How to Care for That Beit Chinese’writlng. I took It and started The slipping of belts is a great an to stuff It uoncbalantly Into my pocket, Hammerlynck Sues for Damages but.he betame more excited than ever noyance, but it is not always remedied As a result of the vicious assault made and came back with another string of by tightening the belt. Ordinarily, if «.n him on the 21 of November, Louis empties, while 1 put the slip back Into the proper-sized belts and pulley are Hammerlynck has sued Bert Donnely his band as if It made not the slightest used and properly put in, there should for $6000 damages. A fellow by the bit of difference In the world to me be liule or no slipping at all. Often the whether 1 kept it or whether he had name of John Gerlach is named as a It—I would leave the details of the trip slipping of a belt is due to the overload partner of Donnely in the suit. The to him carried by iL There is economy in affair happened just after dark when The conductor need bls bands some using wider belts than is the usual prac Hammerlynck stepped ont into the more and then turned and signaled for tice. Many a three-inch belt is made to yard. Donnely assaulted him with a somebody from the car ahead. Anoth do the work of a four-inch belt, much knife. He excused himself by saying er man in blue jeans with a aatcbel to the annoyance of the operator aad over hto shoulder came and listened for the ruin of the belt. they bail got the wrong parties. a few blocks while my conductor ex However, when an immediate remedy plained. A Chinaman can never ex is needed, a small quantity of powdered plain anything In a sentence or two: " Mrs. Martha Gox Buried be has to go Into details and go whiting, sprinkled on the inside of the Mrs. Martha Cox of 7720, 67 th through hto whole selling talk before belt, is very good and is the least harm avenue, Woodmere, died Saturday the be feels that the other has grasped the ful ol any similar application. Sth of January, of cancer of the liver. general drift of thought. The use of beeswax, rubbetl cm the in She had been ill for a long time. The The other man bent over. He was side of the belt or on the pulley io a funeral was held at ten o’clock Tuesday, evidently a master of English. “How very good remedy in «-area of emergency. Rev. Cline giving the address and A. muebee far you goee. mister? You Many people use powdered resin on a D. Kenworthy conducting the funeral. payee how far you lldee." slipping belt but this is bad practice be Then I understood. When you get She was bnried at Mt. Scott. Mrs. Cox on you have to tell the conductor bow cause it soon dries the leather andcaiwes leaves three daughters in Portland, and far you are going, aud he chargee you it to crack.—W. E. E. two brothers and a sister in Spokane. for just that distance. But even after my fare was nettled the natives on the OrJinary stove pipe wire, or any soft ear kept looking at me aud pointing That’s Different. iron wire about eighteen or twenty with their chins, as is their custom. “I know her father does not like me. When I went to get off 1 saw several gauge makes good belt lacing. Punch He wants me to go to work In bls fac other white people piling off, Ost they small holes about one-half an inch tory.” "Well, why don’t you prove your were all from the front end of the first from the ends of the belt, lace with a wortb by going? Then there will be car. Then I looked at the markings double row of wire and twist the ends on the car and saw what was the mat together. Place the joint on an anvil wedding bells and n happy ending.” "I don't know about that! It's a ter—I bad been riding tn the third or a pulley and pound the lace into the dynamite factory.”—Loulavllle Courier class section with the coolies! belt AU the Shanghai street cars are dl Journal You can lace large belta this way and vlded up Into c la a ees first, second and third. The white j*eople all ride first they will be practically noiseJse» aad Definition of a Drop. class, the better to do Chinese eecond. last a long time.—R. A. B. In tbs new British pharmacopoeia a while no one ever ventures third ex “Irop” to defined as coming from a cept the cooltea tabs of which the external diameter to Advertised Letters exactly three milUmetora. twenty such Advertised letters for wook eadtag drops of water at 16 degrees C. being Allen. J. ; Ancteoa, Mre. ; anvironmoat akte pootry, but Base Jan. 8, 1919: equivalent to eno mUHfitsr er ««Me not areata It Nature to the grand Bowdish, Mre. Irene; Clark, Bten; ceuttmetsr. agent In inching poetry, and poetry to Cummings, Mre.; Crawford, Efate; present whosever nature to. It spar Dean, Claude L. Mre. ; French, Mr. Nicely Flavored. kies on the eea. gtowe tn the rainbow, Newlywed (at dinner» This lettuce flashes from the lightning and the star, and Mrs. Abby ; Gambie, IMM; Han- Is something fierce! Did you wash it? peals in thunder, roars la the cataract sen, Henry; Hull, Adron; lrwia, Mre. Alice M. ; Johnson, Mr. aad Mrs. FMI ; Mrs. Newlywed—Of course I did! And •nd sings tn the winds. Poetry to Kelly, Mrs. Kate; Linaky, Mre. Aaa; I used perfumed aoop tool—Judge. God’s Image reflected In nature as In a mirror, and nature to pr—ent wher Mann, C. G. ; Moan, Hany; Maaagll, DailyMails Lena; Santbworth, Mr. aad Mre. WIN; •ver maa to — Retorted. Watson, ieeter O. ; Wrfabt, A. J.j Mails at the Lenta poetoffice arrive and depart daily, except Sunday, as fol Hubbard’s fine new school house i» Werner, Mise Anna; Welob, Laanu lows: nearly completed. Portland citisens found street ears were a pretty good thing during the re cent snow storm. They ran on schedule Arrive time, gave employment to hundreds of • XMi A. M. extra men, while ths jitney was con- 12MP. M. $130 P.M- Depart Reports state that the Geo. W. Moore 7:16 AM 12:8OP. M Lumber Oo., of Bandon will soon oper- Every aawreUl ia Liam OttflMÿ flB- 6:10 P. M. pecta to bo raaaiM Uy M**