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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1917)
= countries have for year« practiced in Kendall. tensive farming, a system that is only The Harmony Improvement (,’lnb just Is'ginning to prevail in this country, i Instead of being merely an experi-' held a social and dance at Bell Saturday ment, intensive farming should Iw the evening. rule. Nothing mon* fully demoiiNtrates The Kendall Base Ball Club is to the truth of this statement than a glance start activities with a dance at Bell at the re«iilta obtained by the many corn Saturday night. clulis of the country. From all direc 2 size« : 5 Washings, lb cents ; 10 Friend« and neighltor* of Mr. and tions come reports from these organiza washings .’fl cent« <«uarai)l« < <! : To wash virati in 10 tnln Mr«. Hudson ol the Sunnyside road are tions, where the enormous yield of 200 Ulva without rubbing Not to llijurr the »*it»at delirate fabric« To remove ali «pota bushels and more per acre has bean at sorry to learn they have gone away, atl<l alallia Nut to burl the I I I« I tained. Not only this, but the rejmrts having traded their farm home for a contain no Injurious ch* mica la BAMHI ► rRKK a «I». ia! offer wv will -L coming from all sections of the country larger one near Crabtree, but our loss ■Jia’ order« to rvaldrnla of Uulu are proof that almost any of our soil is will lie the gain of the community of Home Products Co. susceptible to just such improvement. their new location. The new occupant Then then* is another important fea i" a Mr. Dickain. ture to these big corn yields. It has Friends of Mr». Mile« will tie glad to been shown that they can lai prrsiuced know she is home from the hospital at a sulsdantia) profit over and above where she went the first of the week the cost ol preparing the land for their expecting to lie gone a week or more, production. Careful records have i»een but the ailment was not as serious as kept of all expenditures, and ill almost expected. every instance the proceeds have much Your corresjiondent is endeavoring to mon* than paid the cost of bringing the increase the patronage of the Herald in soil to its present state of fertility. thia locality. Farmer* will find it well If these results can lie obtained from worth the sul*cription price. Those go (Hurcruuora to M S MAPI.FR] Possibilities Of Our Soli. an acre, or two or three, why not from ing to other localities will wish to keep ten, or fifty, or a hundred acres? If in touch with their home community. We want to say to the farmers of this Art at your service. Tabor 5542 community that no feature of present they can la* obtained from We formerly lived at Jefferson and still PLUMBING and GASFITTING day education is more potent for g<ssl to why not from a field? Why continue to take the paper from that Complete line of Plumbing Future« and this country than that now living ac all fields? town although it is seven years since we 1 Suppile« al way« on hand complished by the various agricultural I The deplorable truth is that too many left there and the sutiscription price is •chisils and ex|»*riment«l stations anil of our farmers an* “necessity” farmer*. 50 cents a year more than that of the They ask themselves, "How much do I Herald. farms. Twenty year« ago the "book farmer” need?” and then proceed to satisfy that was hsiked upon as a visionary by a large need, and no more. They should rather (Too late for laet issue.) per cent of our farming population, ami ask, “How much can 1 get?" and then The beautiful enow (nit) is with ua is even yet »o regarded by some, though get all they can. Il has lieen estimated that America rather late. happily their number is small Now the man who intelligently studies could feed the world if all her soil were The Ladies’ Aid meets next week Fri his soil with a view to determining its made to produce to its full capacity. day, March 2nd, at Mra. Adamson’s. What that capacity is, we are only They will aleo hold a social and «upper need« i* coming to the front a* an authority on matters agricultural. And just tieginning to discover. and “get together’’ time on Saturday of Tabor 3614 thia week at Battin school. WHITE WIZARD WASHING COMPOUND im k o Repair Work a Specialty Miller & McGrew sing a good deal, too.” “But what aleiut selecting the eggs from euch a hunch of hens? Aren’t the egg* all alike?" “By no mean«. Home have the exact ■ize, color. iha|>e and condition of «hell that Indicate good hatching of a «train that will fill the egg basket next winter with mighty attractive egg«. Prol. Dryden, ol the O. A. C., Experiment Station, from whom 1 got rny founda tion stock, considers that the «ize, color, and ihaja- of «hell are probably hereditary, and 1« himself selecting one strain of Barred Rock« for a white- «helled egg. 1 am after a tyjie with a livautiful |warl-pink «hell, and am throwing out all «peckled «hell. Per- ha|Mi thia 1« only my fad, but without a fad a back-yard poultry fan is apt to lie a failure." •‘And say," he concluded, “if 1 can't get the hatching all done by the first of April I «hall think I have but llttlf* chance of getting winter layers." NEW METHOD LAUNDRY QUICK SERVICE FIRST CLASS WORK Newsy Items from Nearby Towns Mr. Pyle has a brood of young chickene, nearly ready to fry. The earlieat we have heard of thia season. Mr. Vrooman is building an addition to bia house and improving the interior. It waa one of the former ho nes of the the young mother* and their problems, little station settlement of four, only Tremont. Kern Park, Arteta. and her chief aim is to help such in one other remaining to the present Little Hazel Wigan has been confined these meetings. lime, Mr. Carsons having bought and to her room for the past week with a Mrs. Ward Swope will give the improved one of them for a home. case of measles. Franco« W illard day addrees before the Some of our citizens are anxious to Master Carl Jensen has been kept out Albina W. C. T. U., Tuesday. the 27th. have Pacific phones installed, but it ’ of school this week on account of having Mrs. Mary D. Russell, State Cor- his tonsils removed He is recovering res|icnding Secretary of the W.C. T. U., seems difficult to get over the Clacka ! nicely from the operation and will lie in i< quite ill at her home, Hope Gardens, mas line, this district being served by the Milwaukee phone. school again the first of next week. near Troutdale. This is good weather for grip and Mrs. .lenuie M. Kemp, state presi Mrs. A. Wan! ami son Eugene, of rheumatism, on the wrong side of the i Roseburg, is visiting her sister, Mrs. dent of the W.C. T. I'., ha* returned from Salem, where she *»< in attend ledger, for those who have to be out Etta Montgomery. it. ance at the legislature. The Mountain View Rels-kah Club is A great drawback to this district meeting this afternoon with Mrs Ihslgv. the 10 cent car fare, although being mile nearer Portland from the 5 cent Cherryville. The many friends of Mr. Shoemaker, limit on the Mt. Scott line. Snow bound all right. I especially in Odd Fellow mid Rebekah circles, will regret to lenrn that he is Snow fell here last week to the depth still at tin* Good Samaritan Hospital mid of nearly two feet. Grays Crosslnq. is not improving as satisfactorily as had < flic of our weather prophets predicts Mrs. John Howe and daughter. Ruth, | Iss'ii hiqs-d. that with the changing of the moon the The house at the corner of 79th street last day of February, better weather of •'2nd street have gone to California to spend a few months with Mrs. Howe's and 1.5th avenue, formerly occupied by i condition* will prevail. sister near Long Beach, when* it is Mr. mid Mrs King, who conducted a Big fall of snow nt this time of the ho|w*d by friends ami family that Mrs. I small grocery has liven purchased re year means protection to grass and cently by Mr Metcalf mid improved by grain, a* well as fruit, especially huckle Howe may regain her health. A recent letter from them stand she is improving. him until In* has quite a pretty, iiKxli'rti berries on the mountains. They also said that was a country for home among the trees. Mrs. Freil, the landlady at the hotel, hard rains. Mr. W. T. Wood and family. former will move to Portland soon, where her Mrs. Pugh of 82nd street has recovered | ly residing on Tilth street, but fur the husband has a home ready for her and from a severe attack of sickness. past year living on a farm, have re the family. The bond will be taken I turned to the city and taken the house over by C. W. (Dad) Miller ami wife, Mr- Wright of 82nd street has been at the corner of 48th avenue and 73d who will run it in connection with the , I on the sick list for two weeks. , street. Mr. Wood says lie has had store. The Millers run a first-class hotel Woodmere school is preparing for an farming enough to last him for n long in every respect. We are sorry to lose entertainment on Friday night, Marell time. Mrs. Freil as »lie is a good neighlsir and ! 2nd. in the school auditorium. Come Mrs. E. K. Shaw, who lias spent the ready and willing to help everybody in along and help the Scouts. Woodmere winter visiting relatives in the middle time of sickness and trouble. always gives something g<xsi. Admis west returned to Portland, Monday. The H ih ’I i iioys. one mile west of sion 15 cents. Mr. Dickson and teach Mrs. Bhaw visited a sister in Lincoln, Cherryville on Ce.lar Creek, grid U)0 ers always give the public a cordial wel- Nebraska, and later accompanied by sacks of potatoes last week to a Portland | come and a good program. her sister spent a month visiting rela party for $3.10 per sack. These potatoes Mr. Blything is home from California tives in south central Iowa. Mrs. Shaw were grown on less than otie acre of where he has ls*en building some houses says she is very glad to get back to ground. Potatoes have been grown here blit had to quit on account of seven* Portland. She experienced some real at the rate of 400 sacks to the acre. winter while in Iowa, seeing the mer With the ground yielding abundantly cold weather. cury drop from 10 above to 28 degrees and the ocean teeming with fish it seems Mrs. F.lmer Woods of 66th avenue is below zero within a period of twelve strange that there is so much hunger home again front the hospital when* she hours. She reports all kinds of pro and poverty in the land. has been very sick the past two weeks. visions very high. Onions which an* a Gen. Fred. Funsten, in one of his last Ralph and George Howe an* sure good luxury here were^elling at 317.00 per statement« said that it was inconceive- i rustlers and every one wishes them sttc- sack in Lincoln. Nebraska, when she able that we allowed a few greedy mon- cess in their courageous undertaking of left there the last ot the week. sters to nail down the larger part of our their late father’s business. George is Arleta W. C. T. U. friends will con wealth ami pass it on to their degenerate a gissl cook and Ralph can just handle fer a great favor if they will bring all sons, and said further that something the dishes. old magazines and papers not wanted must be done or we would travel the Everything is quiet around the Fire by themselves to the meetings of the same road to destruction as old Greece House these days. W. C. T. U., held the first and third and Rome. Mrs. Tibbils, of Rayburn avenue, who Tuesdays of each month at the I.uckv It is all very well to say that Billy has been seriously ill for the past two Cottage, near Arleta Station, 64th street. Sunday only take« a voluntary contribu weeks is now somewhat improved. Community Mother« Meetings, are to tion for his services, but the ushers are (Continued on Page 4.) be held twice a month nnder the warned at the iwyctiological moment anepicee of the Arleta W. C. T. U.. tak bow beet to proceed to the beet advant A DEPAKTWEN’T (’oMH (TED BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS Chester’s Barber Shop Up-to-date Hair Cutting X'elvet Shave«, Razor Honing S|iecial attention to children Conveniently located FOSTER RD. and MAIN ST. CICARB AND TOBACCO Come in and enjoy the music from our Edison \mberol« MATTRESSES, CHAIRS, PARLOR SUITS, Etc. Upholstered Right Here at Home lliirness Mnkim ami Repairing. Horse Blankets, Whips, etc. Some see.nid hiind Harne— HENRY JEAGER Lents Foster Road For RELIABLE SHOE REPAIRING call at the CASH SHOE REPAIRING SHOP fltMtNIiirty mccoid I Ht . near Woodstock Ave. ■X N. N. NYGAARD Dealer in Ladies' and Gents Fine Shoes REPAIRING A SPECIALTY 9133 Foster Rd. I.ENTS, ORE. We (tvs "R A H” (irceli Trading Stamp* Waiting Room Barber Shop (Under New Management) Shave 10c 4 Yonr Patronage Solicited ing vital everyday topice for diecuMion. age. Your correspondent reported one No wonder tome men are always eua- Mrs. Geo, Merry, president of the of bia meetings for live weeks for a pieiona of other*. They know them W. C. T. U., is especially iatenaud ia newspaper and knows his methods. es! res. = Free Plans for our Customers Hundreds of the 1917 prize designs to choose from. Homes, bams, churches, silos, sheds, hog and poultry houses, creameries, elevators, etc. We make it our business to help you get what you want at the lowest cost. Copeland Lumber Co. Quality First, Service Always. Tabor 1371 9418 Foster Rd. THE THINGS YOU EAT Make for Health or DI Health Eat PURE foods, even if they do sometimes cost a fraction more. Your health is priceless. But good health can never result from eating inferior foods. We are located on “the hill” for your convenience. We will appreciate your trade You need our goods. H. C. CARVER, the Upper Main St Grocer, We call and deliver Tabor 3292 (Successor to C. J. Holway) Anything in Galvanized Iron that Can Be Made STOVE-PIPES, elbows, stoves, furnace repairing. CHICKEN SUPPLIES, such as Sanitary Fountains, Grit and Shell Boxes, Hoppers and Troughs. GUT TERING and Roofing. No job too small or too large. A. S. PEARCE; The Tinsmith, Foster Rd. (Opposite P. 0.) IN BULK AND PACKAGE FOR FIELD AND GARDEN Wizard Commercial Fertilizer GROCERIES AT LOWEST PRICES IN LENTS L. E. WILEY 9040 Foster Road Tabor 1708 GOOD EATING IS HALF YOUR LIFE That living the case, it should have your closest attention in order that you eat RIGHT. But von CAN’T eat right without the RIGHT EATS. And that is where we shine. We have a wide reputation for FINE MEATS FOR THOSE WHO CARE. Our pride is centered in our quality. If you CARE, come to the store that caters to THOSE WHO CARE. EGGIMAN’S MARKET 5919 92nd Stnet LETTS, OREGON