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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1916)
e Phone us your news Items—they are al ways welcome This is a good ¡time to re new your subscription to the Herald. Subscription, $1.00 a Year EXTENSION WEEK PROGRAM OUT Lents, Multnomah County, Oregon, Dec., 7. 1916. f dlr Of Heers Elected The annual stockholders masting and election of Officer« for the Multnomah County Fair wus held Monday afternoon al Gnwhain. The Board of Directors Annual Fanners Meet at Corvallis choatm coualxts of Theodore B rugger, January Second to Sixth. Pro F. 11. Crane, R. W. Gill, E. H. Jen ne, ! J. J. Johnson, A. J. Kreuger, C. M. gram for Women New Feature. I Lake, 11. A. latwia, A. F Miller, H. G. I'rogram» an» now out for Extension Mullenhoff, W. A. Proctor, R. P. Rao- Week ut the Oregon Agricultural Col mtuM'U, John Hlerit, E. L. Thorpe and lege -Lmiary t to fi, inclusive. A I J. W. Townsend. The year’s receipt« special aim 1» taring tuade to intereat tlx* amounted to >6684.42, Outstanding women of the state, particularly rnctu- ! claims amount to >878.72, and notes ag lH>ra of Women's Uluta). There will lie a gregating >8576. 19 with unpaid interest Farmer«’ Conference at the name time. i of 45£6.<X>. Th« Fair hope« to receive The information aaya: hi tter treatment from the county next •‘It 1» very important that each club year and if ho will lie able to make a lie represented by delegate« at tliin Con : better «bowing ail around. ference, and it I« tlierelore «uggvwted that you take action very soon in the Parent-leachcr’s Meet friday Night ■election ol these delegate«. Especial inspirations will lai brought lantte Parent-Teacher’s regular meet to 11« by women prominent in the Held ing will be held in the assembly hall on of Home Economic«. Theae women will Friday evening at eight o’clock. The supplement tile lecture« and demon- association decided early in tiie fail ■tratioiui given by the faculty of the that every other meeting be held in tiie College. evening, so that more fathers might at Your reaponse to our queetionalre haa tend. A very suitable and good pro enabled u« to more fully meet your gram has beenprovitied. Mrs. Fraw-lie, tMvxl« Other suggestion« are weloumed chairman of the Pure Literature Com The following special subject« have mittee of tiie Parent-Teacher’« Council been «elected: will «peak upon "Good Books For Home Economics: a. Household Children." Her talk may suggest what Decoration and Furnishing—considering to buy in the way ol books for children the appropriate and beautiful with Christmas books. The Franklin Male reference to service and eiprnditure. Quartette will prenent several numbers b. Appropriate Drees — consisting of and Miss Edith Turner will render a the selection of design, color and violin solo. Everyone Is Invited. material beet suited to the Individual, and occasion for wear. c. Healtl. of Lents Grange Meets Saturday ■ he Family—the importance of and the ways of preserving some. d. The Tiie Lenta Grange will meet in ail day Prevention of Infectious Diwaar«. ■raeion at 10:30 o’clock Saturday morn e. Serving—the "maidleas” meal as ing. The usual morning routine work well aa the more formal dinner, luncheon will be taken up. The afternoon ses or tea. f. "Left-Over«" — nutritious, sion will begin at two o’clock. A short, attractive and palatable, g. Food but very enjoyable program haa been Values—including discussions on tiie arranged aa much of the aiternoon will user o| food In the body and the right tie devoted to the election of officers. selection of food« to meet tliese needs, One of the attraction« of the afternoon h. Laundering of Woolen Goods, will tie the presence of the Girl« Glee Renovation of Laces, Silks, etc., at Club of Franklin High which will ren home. der several numliers. Misaes Katzky General Subjects of Interest to All: and Stiulenburg «rill play a duet and a. Moving Pictures and Playgrounds. Mias Mattel Sweet will favor the Grange b. Social Mfe in the Country or Small with a vocal solo. Miss McLucas of tiie Town Community, c. Art in Daily Lents Library will tell a Christmas story Idle. d. landscape Gardening, Vege ■nd speak of books for children. A cor table Gardening, Dairy Problems, dial invitation is extended to the public. e. Household Accounting, f. The legal Problem—relating to deeds, wills, etc. Vast Deposits of »alt. g. Marketing Poultry Products, All over the “sink" are vast deposits A new feature haa I wen added for the of salt. left behind by the- vanished benefit of tiie Federated Clute, Mothers’ sea. Mo|lu«can shells and other ma Congress, and the Granges. Two lec rine remains bear witness that Its sur tures per day—one under the super face at no remote period was covered vision of tiie Domestic Science Depart by the Waves of ocean. One great salt ment and one under the Domestic Art ben ring formation In the western part fa thirty mile« long by twelve In width, Department—will be given. and 20.non camel loads are extracted These lectures are to tie given for the from It annually. So frightful a desert purpose of training leaders in Home Is El Juf that no caravan ever ven Economics club work and will deal not tures to cross It the route pursued only with the subject matter but with skirting around Its borders. The old sea channel north of Cape the problem« of organisation and leader ship. It will be helpful to those having Juby. known today as the Great Mouth. these lectures in charge if each or Is an opening two snd one half mile« wide betweon two lofty heights, with ganisation will send outline« or year cliffs rising |<erpendlcularly 200 Heel books for the coming year in advance above the sea. It Is blocked by the Accommodations may be obtained for sand bar aforementioned. In stormy all women In the women'« tialls and in weather waves break furiously on tho rooming houses near the College. Rate« bar. A strong current setting continu al the halls will lie per week. The ally toward the shore baa caused the rates outside will also be reasonable. accumulation of sand which long ago Those desiring reservations in ad separated El Juf from the Atlantic. vance and further information should A few miles Inland there la a range address R. D. Hetzel, Director of Ex tention Division, Oregon Agricultural of high mountains, running north and south and parallel with the coast, but College, Corvallis, Oregon. there to a wide gap in tbs range through which the channel passes. Thus, aa viewed from the ocean out Msoreaay’e Caustle Reply. side. the entrance to the ancient “gulf* A s<s|H-grace baruu pawned the cor of El Juf 1« picturesquely obvious and onet lie hud worn at the coronation of striklhg. Froth tbs coast the channel Queen Victoria. Having a slight ac (Its bed thickly lncruated with marine qualntance with Macready, the trage salts) broadens out and can be fol dian. he wrote to the actor offering to lowed for a great distance into the sell the pawn ticket and suggesting desert basin. It forms a valley recog that the redeemed Item of headgenr nlxabl« as the northwest arm of the would be an Interesting theatrical gulf that used to tie. In some place« “property." Macready replied with the banks of the channel rise to a characteristic sarcasm that If the height of BOO feet, with vertical walls thing had been owned by a nobleman and overhanging cliffs. of mark who had got Into straitened Now. Africa posses««« rivers of great ctrcumstancea be would have favor magnitude, the most Important of ably considered the application. But them l»elng the Nile (which Is the tens ho did not think his stock of “proper ret river in tho world), the Niger and ties" would bo Improved by the addl the Kongo. But none of the mighty tlon of a gilded coronet that had lieen streams of the dark continent can be worn by a numskull anil pawned by a 'used as a highway to the Interior on profligate. account of cataracts and other ob structions to navigation. The Nile hi s Lion Sign« In England. six cataracts and the Kongo alxty-two Lions have always been and nfe now cataracts and mphls. very favorite signs In England—lions The flooding of the Sahara by the white, black, red. brown, golden, yel moans hero described will provide a low-red being the most common. navigable highway for the commerce Probably the lied IJou originated with of the world. It will open up the the badge of John of GaunL duke of heart of Africa, develop Its enormous Lancaster, who married the daughter potential resources, which as yet have of Don Pedro, king of Leon and Cas hardly been touched, and Incidentally tile. and who adopted the lion ram do away with what remains of ths pant gules of Leon to represent his slave trade | claim to the throne. Under Richard and John Ilona became the settled Cuts Throat and Save« Choking Man. arms of England and wore generally New York.-Dr McCullough of St used by those who could find any John's Riverside hospital saved George claim.—London Mall. Leak of Yonkers, who was choking to death. A piece of meat stuck In Irak's The milk of human klndnesa would throat. Unable to loosen IL Dr. McCul be much richer If It wasn’t skimmed lough made an Incision In the throat so often.—Chicago News. ■nd extracted the meat. AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS CHARITY.” Johnson Re-elected at Evening Star Evening Star Grange liad election of officer« at its meeting on Dec. 2, which resulted aa follows: Master, J. J. John son for the fourteenth time; Overseer, S. fl. Covell; Lecturer, A. L. Keenan; Steward, E. J. Spooner; Assistant Steward, H. E. Hall; Chaplain, Mrs. W. W. Arnburn; Treasurer, Wills Buckman; Secretary, Mary R. Geb- hamt; Gate Keeper, A. H. Nicols; Ceres, Ethel Arnburn; Pomona, Dana Small; Flora, Irene Elliott; Ijidy Assist ant Steward, Mr«. Josephine Pickard; Executive Committee, H. L. Johnson and S. II. Covell; Pianist, Bernice Elliott; Assistant Pianist, Clara Smith; A beautiful memorial tribute to the memory of Brotiier I- H. Wells, who recently pawed away was read by J. D. Lee, and then the charter draped in mourning. Prof. F. 8. Ball led the audience in singing a number of the familiar grange songs. Mrs. E. A. Nibiin read a very inter esting paper on the subject, "Keeping Public Places Clean.” Mr. John W. Whalley was the speaker of the afternoon, and his talk to the grangers and farmers was well worth listening to, as be spoke from a varied experience of a farmer, and also a busi ness man. J. G. Kelley spoke of the good work done by the county farmer the past year, —••rrymin m Washington 8t>r. and hoped that Mr. Hall would be re appointed this next year. The high co«* of living was discussed and a committee appointed to meet with similar committee« from the Woman’s Club«, etc., at a meeting to be held doned operations until next April, Saturday evening, Dec. 2, at the Library. This committee consists of A. L. Keenan, when the work will be resumed. The Mosaic league, a society having Mrs. E. A. Nibiin and Willda Buckman. for Its purpose the creation of public CalamitiM of Authors. sentiment against profanity, was or Homer was a beggar; Plautus turned ganized at a union meeting of the a mill; Terence was a slave: Cervantes, congregations of Pendleton churches. the author of “Don Quixote,” died of Examinations for state teaching hunger; Bacon lived a life of mean certificates will be held at the county ness and distress: Raleigh died on the seat of each Oregon county December scaffold; Spenser, the charming, died In 20, 21, 22 and 23, J. A. Churchill, state want; the death of Collins was through ^superintendent of public instruction, neglect, first causing mental derange ment; Milton sold his copyright of fas announced. Following the diacovery of two cases “Paradise Lost” for £15; Dryden died of infantile paralysis at Looking Glass in poverty and distress; Otway died Dr. David N. Roberg, state health of prematurely and through hunger; Lee died In the gntter: 8teele lived a life ficer. ordqged the schools of the Look of perfect warfare with bailiffs; Gold ing Glass district closed for a period smith's “Vicar of Wakefield" was sold of 11 days. for a trifle to save him from the grip A system of wholesale bootlegging of law; Savage died In prison at Bris in Bend is believed to have been un tol. where he was confined for a debt covered by the arrest of a man named of £8: Butler lived a life of penury and Wyatt and two associates, who are died poor: Chatterton, the child of charged with having peddled liquor genius and misfortune, destroyed him self. ,’or several weeks. The application of Arthur S. Beede Naming th« Gerrymander. fc Sons of Drewsey for the construc Th« gerrymander was christened in tion of a reservoir for the storage of 1813. although It must have been In op 3800 acre feet of water for the irriga eration long before tbaL A stanch old tion of 1595 acres of land has been Federalist, Governor Elbridge Gerry, approved by State Engineer Lewis. controlled through bls legislature the According to the report of the com redistricting of Massachusetts under missioner of internal revenue, the to the census of 1810. In th« office of tal Income taut paid by the comforta Benjamin Russell, an ardent Repub bly-fixed and the well-to-do of Oregon lican editor, hung a map of the state as newly subdivided by Gerry and his aggregated 8118.437 for the last fiscal men. Gilbert Btuart's ready pencil year, and was paid by 2421 men and whimsically added to the outlines of a women. grotesque district the wings and tail of A "fifty-fifty” agreement between a dragon. Warden C. A. Murphy, of the Oregon “Ha!" he said when he had finished. state penitentiary, and the convicts “How'« that for a salamander?” The Republican Rusaell growled. housed in the institution, has tacitly been reached and under its terms the •Better call It a gerrymander." And American politicians have taken his men and the prison administration advice. each agree to give the other a “square deal.” Barley Water. Sometime« the doctor orders barley A «ovfM to apple packing lap Oo especial benefit of grower« who«« eh er oatmeal water for baby. When each is the case prepare as follows: chard« are Just coming Into bearing Add two tableepoonfuto of washed will be one ef the features of the win pearl barley or of oatmeal, as the case ter short course to be held at the may be, to a quart of cold water. Boll Oregon Agricultural college from Jan this down to a plnL cooking slowly for uary 8 to February 2. about two hours. Then strain while The biennial report of the state land hot and add a sufficient quantity of board for the period ending Septem cold boiled water to make a quart of the fluid. Keep cool tn a covered jar. ber 30, 1918, shows that in the period the state has sold 11,509 acres, of Jellyfish. which 10,722.63 acres were school The bay of Naples abounds in me lands. 240 acres agricultural college dusae, or jellyfish, often growing as lands and 547.15 acres tide lands. large as two feet In diameter and Longer winter days for chickens weighing fifty and sixty pounds. Some mean more winter eggs, according to of them shine at night with a greenish F. W. Riggs, a poultryman of Klamath light and are known as “noctiluca" Falls, who runs a summer schedule (night lanterns: by the natives. on his hens by means of electric Ths Limit. lights over the roosts and claims that “They say old Closeflst has still got the experiment is working out very the first dollar he ever made." successfully. “Yes, and i’ll bet he has still got the Details of plans for highway lm first umbrella he ever borrowed.”—St provement authorised by the passage Louis Post-Dispatch. of a >260,000 bond issue at the recent About. election are being worked out in Was “What did your baby cry about last co county. An advisory committee night T’ asked the man next door. representing different sections of the “About five hours,” replied Mr county has been appointed by the Youngpop.—Exchange. county court. Governor Withycombe has express Don't ever worry about what yon ed the opinion that the passage by cannot help. the people of th« 6 per cent tax limi So You Can. tation, amendment nullifies, to all Mis« Green — Of conrs« you can't be practical intents and purposes, the act lieve everything yon hear. Miss Gad- of 1913. which created an emergency leigb—Oh, no. but you can repeat it— board and he believes that the duties Boston Transcript 0RE60N NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Five Linn county cities held munic ipal elections Monday. Secretary of State Olcott la In Chi cago to visit his slater. who Is serious ly ill. The older boys' conference hel< its 11th annual meeting in Corvallis last week. The Rogue River Valley Berkshire association was organised at Granta Pa«« laat week. Dallaa churches and lodges wil^ unite this year In a municipal Christ mas tree and program. Affidavits to import liquor Into Multnomah county totalled 33,800 dur ing the month of November. Medford high school won the foot ball championship of southern Oregon by defeating Ashland 10 to 0. The Clackamas County Anglers’ as sociation was organised at Oregon City with a charter membership of 45. A Bleeping cow on the tracks be tween Coquille and Myrtle Point wrecked the Coos Bay limited pas senger train. According to figures compiled by Insurance Commissioner Wells the fire losses In Oregon in November to taled >172,525. The snnusl show of the Central Willamette Poultry association will take place In this etty December 13 to 18, inclusive. The Sslem Junior Commercisl club, which will be sn auxiliary of the Sal em Commercial club, was organised with 21 members. A bill giving to Insurance Commis sioner Wells power to appoint a fire marshal, will be introduced at the next legislative session. The Oregon Agricultural college football team defeated the University of Southern California eleven at Los Angola« Thursday 1« to 7. More than 500 delegates are expect ed to attend the sixth annual Oregon Irrigation congress, which will con vene in Portland January 4, 5 and 8. The annual meeting of the State Association of County Judges and Commissioners will open In Portland December 12 for a four days’ session. Polk county -Angora goats are In such demand by eastern and southern breeders aud stock raisers that local breeders are finding difficulty in fill ing orders. Governor Withycombe Monday re appointed Harvey Beckwith, of Port land. as a member of the industrial accident commission. The appointive term is for four years. With a total of 1822 entries, not in cluding turkeys, ducks and geese, the eighth annual show of the Oregon Poultry & Pet Stock association open ed in Portland Mondsy. Mrs. G. H. Robbins, wife of a Hood River orchardist, finds profit in rais ing China pheasants, which are sold at fancy prices to breeders in differ ent parts of the northwest. The Farmers' Educations! and Co operative union, with delegates from Oregon snd southern Idaho, Is to gather in McMinnville December 5 to 8 for its annual convention. The cruisers in charge of the work of classifying ths Oregon and Califor nia railroad srant lands have aban Vol. 14. No. 49. CONGRESS BEGINS RAILROAD INQUIRY President Proposes to Better Con ditions of Carriers. Present Sys tem May be Changed. Washington. Nov. 20.—Ten members of Congress, five Senators and five members of the House of Representa tives. Itegan here today an Inquiry into the subject of public control and su- l>errtelon of railroads that may lead to the revolutionizing of the whole scheme of governmental regulation of the coun try's tran«i«>rtation lines. Incidentally th- committee is to look Into the ques tion of government ownership of rail ways, telephone and telegraph lines and express companb-s. The mem Iters of the committee which* will conduct this Important in vestigation are Senator Newiands of Nevada, chairman: Senator« Robinson of Arkansas. Underwood of Alabama. Cummins of Iowa and Brandegee of Connecticut, and Representatives Ad amson of Georgia. SI ma of Tennessee. Cullop of Indians. Esch of Wisconsin ■nd Hamilton of Michigan. The In quiry was recommended by President Wilson In his mesaage to Congress lu December of last year. He described aa it« purpose to determine what could be done “for bettering the conditions under which the railroads are operated and for making them more useful serv ants of the country as a whole.” Prominent Man ae Witnesses. In order to obtain the views of all interests affected by the operations of the transportation lines the committee has Invited prominent shippers, bank era, representative« of commercial or ganisations. railway executives, econo mists and others to appear before them. The first to be heard are railroad commissioners of various states who began their evidence today. Their testimony to directed chiefly to oppos ing any enlargement of the federal authority over commerce that would detract from the powers now exercised by state bodies. They will be followed shortly by officials of railway labor organizations who are expected to reg ister their opposition to the increase of governmental authority over wages and conditions of labor. Chief interest in the hearings cen ters in the proposals that will be put forward by representatives of tae rail roads, for It is reported that they will advocate an extension of federal au thority over rates and securities to the practical exclusion of state control of these matter«. It to understood also that they will go on record in favor of fed eral Incorporation of all railroad tinea. Legislative Pregram of Railroads. From an authoritative source to ob tained the following outline of the leg islative program which the railroads F will ask the committee to consider in Its investigation: They will endeavor to demonstrate to the commission that one of the principal defects tn the pres ent system of railroad regulation to the lack of coordination resulting from the simultaneous and conflicting regu lation by the federal government and by the 48 states. They will, therefore, ask that entire governmental control of the rates and practices of interstate carriers, except purely local matters, be placed in the hands of a federal body so that interstate traffic may be regulated without reference to state lines, leaving to the state commissions jurisdiction only over local matters and local public utilities. As a part of this plan, a compulsory system ef federal incorporation to to be recommended, accompanied by federal supervision of railroad stock ami bond issues. A reorganisation of the Interstate Commerce CommKlon will be asked. In order to enable the commission prop erly to exercise its increased power«. It to also proposed that the preparation and proeecntion of cases against the railroads shall be delegated to some other agency of the governmenL possi bly the Department of Justice, so that the commission may devote Its ener gies to its administrative functions. With the commission thus relieved of some of its present duties and equip ped to handle its business more prompt ly, the railroads will urge that the pe riod during which the commission may now suspend proposed Increases lu rates he reduced from ten months to 60 days, with provision for reparation to be paid to the shippers if the ad vance shall be declared unreasonable. They will also ask that the commis sion be given the power to prescribe minimum as well as maximum rates so that in meeting complaints of dis crimination the commission may order the advance of’a rate which it consid ers too low. One of the most Important recom- mendat'ons for which the railroads will ask favorable consideration to that the commission be specifically authorized to take into account in rate regulation the effect of rates upon total earnings in tbe light of ax- Mis Invitation. “I'm digging a well for exarctoe." “How ar« you getting onF “Fine! Drop in on me Mme 4ay.**— L?*«