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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1917)
Mt. Scott Herald A Weekly fxprr devote«! to the betterment of Mt irott and adjoining rural dUtrieU rubhabed Kerry Thur*.lay at knu, Oreson by Tas Mt So’n PVBUMins Coarasv J. HANGKR FOX Managing Kdltor. MlNNIKtrtHWKNOUGH HYPS. Neva Kdtlor J. ALLBN PPNKAK. AaaooUU (Reatdrnce. Long Roach, Cal.) Knlcrrl a* MOOBd-claM mail matter Febru ary 14, 1014. at the post office at lienta, Oregon, tinder act of to ng rea». March S. 1N79 Suharriplion prier - *1 ■ year, in advance I Hossa. Taaoa 7KH, D *1. given out, as some seem to think. Unde Sam has still seven hundred millions of homestead lands left. As an inducement to settlers, Congress has reduced from five to three years the length of time that a person must occupy a claim before he can get a patent on it He need actually stay on the place only seven months of the year, and cultivate only ten of the one hundred and sixty acres. SAVING OLD MAIL BAGS. Rough Usage Mak«« Their Repair Big Task for Uncle Sam. The repair and pro|H>r mnhitetiance of uiuil bags niv In hn establlsliiiient at Washington, and the uuuilier repair ed and placed In good condition In the last year was a uillllou. Oue of the difficulties connected with thia repairing process was the accu mulated dirt and dust which attached to these bags when returned from the service. A system was Anally adopted consisting of large tumbling barrels, each having a capacity of several hun dred bag«. Driven rapidly by electric power, the dust confined to a tightly constructed room and carried off by blowers and lodged tn Immense can vas receptacles, resembling a dirigible balloon when Inflated, this process was found thoroughly suitable. Four thou sand a day are treated by this process. The life of a mall bag la about six years, but tlie rough usage to which they are exposed makes many bags un fit for repair. 8ucb bags as still have good material make what are known as "pieced bag«.'' Many are thus re claimed and returned to service. The advent of the parcel poet made It necessary to enlarge the repair shop, because at times It was found Impos sible to obtain bags from the con tractor tn quantities sufficient to meet the demand. A manufacturing fea- turn was therefore added.—New York Sun ZEPPELIN AIR CRAFT. ’ Aluminum Girders and Hoops Those Monoter Balloons. * Line The techulcal details In the construc tion of Zeppelin air craft are explain ed tn a Journal named the Aeroplane. ■Tbe visible exterior imri of the Zep pelin la merely the cloth or fabric cov ering of tbe framework, which consists of sixteen girder» made of very thin aluminum Tbe girders run from end to end of tbe ship, parallel for moat of their length and turning Inward to meet one another at noae and tall. Tho cylindrical body of tbe Zeppelin may therefore be said to have alxteen sidee on account of the alxteen girder« To keep these longitudinal girders, or "etringsra." in position there are tbwartahlp girders. which run like hoops around the ship and act like tbe riba of a boat. There are generally about eighteen hoop girders, spaced an equal distance, one from another, and they are braced across and across in- aide each hoop to the next by wire bracing, so that they cut up tbe whole skeleton into a succession of compart menta. each of which—except the end compartments— has flat ends and teen aides. In each of theas compartments bag standing on Ita edge Idea la that If one gas bag springs a leak or la punctured by a projectile only that one bag collapses, and tbs weighting of the ship ta so arranged that even If four or five gas bags are entirely deflated those that remain will float the ship after all ballast, ammuni tion and other nonessentlals have been tbrowu overboard.—Ixtndon Standard A MIND AT REST It’« a priceieM pomieMion. It leave« you free to center your mind on the big prob lem« of life. You can have that re«t of mind when you The Mail Ordei Menace. Food Prices Of 1917. i If we could forecast the future One of the large mail order even for the space of one year I houses of Chicago recently de- ahead, we of this country would dared a dividend of $2 a share, no doubt make some amazing being a 25 cent increase over discoveries. I that of last quarter. This puts One piece of information, how- the stock on an 8 per cent basis, ever, is being forced upon our The capitalization has been in attention without our being creased from $60. (XX). 000 to gifted with any extraordinary $75,000,000. The director« have foresight. It is that during at been authorized to distribute as least the next twelve months a stock dividend on April 2nd there will be no material reduc the $15,000,000 new common stock on the basis of one new tion in the cost of living. Already we are experiencing share for each four now owned. war prices for foodstuffs witn- This is the story of but one of out being at war. What the the many mail order houses and HIS PERFECT TRUST. situation will be before another represents a fraction only of the crop is harvested is a matter to millions of dollars which are H« Showed It In tho High Compliment He Paid His Good Wife. be pondered with misgivings. taken annually from the tills of Tills story Is not contributed, though KNEW TOO MUCH. Should this country become en the rural and small town mer It concerns h contributor. It came to tangled in the war. the situation chants of the country. These us by devious paths, but It arrived, Tennyson'« Father Had to Fly For HI« It is a true story. will not be improved. mail order houses pay no taxes and Life From Ruaaia. It came to pass that In the course of But even with prices as they and contribute to the better years Contributor Ablntra arrived at Shortly after the asHasslnatloti of Paul of Russia. Tennyson, the are now many grave questions ment of no community. A dollar bls thirty-first wedding anniversary, Emiwror and that was on a day recently. And father of the po«L «lined with Lord St i are confronting us. Take, for sent to them is gone forever, In the morning at the breakfast table Helens, tbe British aml>a««ador. tn instance, that of seed for plant whereas, if paid to the local1 he expressed himself thus from an .Moscow Several. Ituauian officers of high rank whose names he «lid not ing. With potatoes wholesaling merchants it passes from them overflowing heart "Well, we've been married thirty or snow were also guests During dinner at from $2.50 to $3.00 per bushel, to the “butcher, the baker, the forty years today And. my dear. I » guarded reference waa mad«« to the can the potato raisers (or will candlestick maker” and very want to hand you thia tribute while I sm|>eror's death. they I afford the enormous out- | , often finds its way back to the think of IL In the presence of theso "Why do you apeak ao gingerly and grandchildren I wish to a trout a matter so notorious?" cried lay necessary to plant an acre original owner in the course of children etate that during all these years never Tennyson Impulsively, leaning across age sufficient to surpass the crop a few weeks. once have you l*en guilty of the rep I bls neighbor, a Russian whose breast of 1915, or even to equal it? If Very often the same goods rehensible habit of going through my was rovered with orders. "Wo know pocketa for money after I have retired very well tn England that the Emperor the crop is not increased we can purchased from the mail order at Paul was murdered Count Zoboff night” hardly look for a reduction in house can be secured just as “That Is true.” acknowledged Mrs knocked him down, and Heunlngseu and Count Pahlen strangled him!" price —unless the government cheaply of the local merchants Ablntra. "but how do you know It?" I "How do 1 know It?" cried Ablntra. was a strained alienee; then I jails the unscrupulous food and with much greater satisfac "Why, 1 have never once forgotten to tbe There amtrassador abruptly changed the speculators. tion. Both the merchants and count my change carefully night anJ i subject As the guests filed out Into an I adjoining room Lord St Helens drew Will the usual acreage of the purchasing public are par morning." Plain I Tennyson aside tm«t! — Cleveland Perfect Don't go Into the spring wheat and oats be sown, tially to blame for the state of Dealer. next room.' ' he whispered, “but fly for with these grains at their pres affairs which exists. The mail . your life. The man next you. across Zero. ' whose breast you leaned, was Count ent almost prohibitive prices? order houses, through their What is the Abaolute absolute zero of tempera Or will the farmer figure that he catalogs and by means of the ture? The zero of thermometers is Pahlen. and Zoboff was also at the ta- I ble.” can clean up enough profit on a • rural free mail service, conveys purely conventional. The inventor of He gave a few hurried dlrecUona. the centigrade simply took for zero tbe and Tennyson rushe«! off. threw his smaller crop? all the advantages of the city coldest temp«‘ralure known In his day. Into a portmanteau and fled be Even the good housewife’s. department stores into the re while Fahrenheit had even less ground , clothes hind fast hor.es to Odessa, »till in onion patch is in danger of motest country hamlets, while in for his selection. Absolute zero Is a evening garb, though the col<! was In shrinking, owing to the enor-| many instances the rural mer point fixed by nature and may be ar tense He lay hidden for week« and at in a variety of ways. All at last, tn the disguise of a servant. mous rise in the price of this I chants are not putting forth the rived iras«*s expand or contract equal was smuggle«! on tmard an English odorous vegetable. effort they should to meet these amounts for every degree of heat—the frigate. To make the situation more changing conditions, and are not amount of 1-273 of their volume for degree centigrade If. then, a A Wisa Provision. serious still, the indications are sufficiently alive to the value of each gas is cooled down continuously It ___ _ Did ____ you _ ever notice when a man that southern farmers are pre modern advertising ideas. Pub must reach a point at which fun her smites his thumb with a hammer while* paring for a record crop of cot licity is the only effective weapon contraction is , lmiiossible ir n gns putting down a < arpet under his wife's 1-273 of its volume at each down su|«ervisl<«n how qub kly he thrusts tbe ton. The agricultural papers with which to fight the mail loses ward degree of centigrade, then in 273 bruised and throbbing nirmlier Into bls and those connected with the order business. —M. G. H. degrees it would exhaust this power mputh? People think It Is bei-ause the and become a solid; hen>*e minus 273 application Is «»’thing But the move- agricultural departments have I C. 1« the absolute zero of temperature 1 merit Is purely Involuntarily, like wink been insistent in their advice to They say that gasoline is go This answers to minus 4fil F. Rig The man cannot help It. Tbe farmers to reduce rather than ing to be higher on account of fact Is that nature knows what a man la apt to say under aueb circumstances increase the cotton acreage. But the scarcity of potatoes. That. China's Dried Persimmons. and so has provided him with an auto per- China has devc|o|>ed a seedless 18 and 20 cent cotton is intoxi excuse is as good as any other.; Whenever he hits his slmmon of exqBisite flavor for drying matic stopper cating. and it is doubtful if the and incidentally is as good as the purjioses. The dried i«rslmmon Is thumb hard enough to hurt-and it southern farmers can be pre excuses that are being given for said to resemble a dried fig tn looka doesn't take « very hard blow almost kill a man when he la doing some vented from letting go every many of the products which and taste and Is heavily coated with to a layer of fine grape sugar. When the thing he doesn't like to do—by a sort thing else in order to make a have been advanced in price. fruit Is ripe, but before It begins to of interlocking aystem his thumb flies killing on cotton. Such a course soften, the peeling Is stripped off. and into his mouth, and for the critical would have the effect of reduc If corn, having ears, everhears the fruit is hung on sticks to dry tn moment speech la cut off the sun and wind., The sticks used are ing the south’s production of of the high price that potatoes strips of bamboo pierced through the The Mistake of His Life. foodstuffs even below normal, are bringing, you can imagine center of the persimmon Several Buffers-What's wrong today? Yoa thus further complicating the what an ear of corn will cost. weeks are devoted to the drying proc look blue. ess. after which the persimmons are Bluffers—I'll never forgive myself. I food situation. .covered with matting and allowed to kicked a caller out of my bouse Inst It could be remedied, however, ( The 1917 Ford is said not to be “cure, during which process the grspe night "Hub! 1 kicked many a one. Young if our people would get one idea so noisy as the 1916 model. The sugar is formed. fellow. I suppose ?" brass band .has been taken off firmly fixed in their minds, that "No; pant middle age.” Sw««t Voiced Frogs. our lands must be made to pro- ( the radiator.—Selected. "Well, these old codgers have no In Japan there is a kind of frog very celebrated for his sweet voice. buslnesa coming round aparklng young duce more, and more, and more . I kicked out one of that sort fie Is called kajikl. and people pay as girls It i« the age-old law of supply , Potatoes have eyes, but can much as 310 for a pair of these marsh last week." and demand which, barring the not see. Help the blind—$4.00 musicians. A poet tn Japan keep« "Yea. but Tvs found out that thia «cores of singing frogs at bla home, man wasn't after my daughter, Ha activities of the price boosters, per bushel. and be sometimes gives • party to bls was after my mother-in-law.” always works to maintain an friends, when, after listening to th« equitable balance. That the You may count that day lost music, every guest la asked to write a WOMAN SWIMS FORTY MILES. scarcity of an article enhances when a dead one doesn’t knock poem In honor of the frogs. Mies Elieneky Circle« Manhattan Island its value, is a law as immutable a live one. Aeafetida. In 11 Hours 38 Minutes. as those governing the seasons. Sheep have a fit of Joy earing the Around Manhattan Island, forty Dr. Neubauer says people who young asafetlds plant and Persians miles, in 11 houra and 35 minutes is It should be the first and go by don’t buy.-Sunnyside Ga and other oriental races relish It as the new record swim for a woman, greatest duty of every citizen of much as sheep The Juice of the asa- made by Miss Ida Elionsky. zette. this country during the coming fetlda plant when fresh Is so strong Accompanied by her brother Henry, year to see that every available that a teaspoonful turns out more the noted swimming expert, she left foot of land under his control be The business man must push smell In a house than a hundredweight the Battery at 4.'. went ngaln«t the of drug store asafetlda. East river current to Hell Gate, fought made to produce some crop. or be pushed.-Exchange. the undertow and heavy tide there, Food crops are preferable, but Cautious Father. passe«! through Rpiiyten Duyvll creek Secondhand Goods- The Aspirant—Sir. mny I count npon entered the North river nt 12:05 and SOME crop should be raised. Mother earth is calling to her Your position in society is determin your support? The Father—That de- reached tbe Battery at 0 40 slightly in penils. young man. you running the lead Ml«n Ellonsky'a principal re children to come and partake of ed by tbe sort of secondhand goods for office or are you Are asking for my liance wan the Australian crawl and you buy. her bounties, and we will have Perhaps you think this is a Joke, but daughter's hand?-Puck. the one arm trudgeon. only ourselves to hold respons it isn't Think it over. When a man There are more than 4h,0(X) sawmilla Suitable Reward. is poor be patronizes a secondhand ible if we refuse. in the Unit««! States, anil their output Sandy McNab (to porter who haa put Conservation and increase of clothing merchant When he gets very all the heavy luggage Into the van)— of waste in tho form of sawdust, shav rich be patronizes a secondhand furni Mon. Ar con«ee-der ye've t>een very ings, slabs and other wood refuse is food crops is the only thing that ture dealer. Only tbe middle class obleesln. Will ye tak' a pinch o’ estimated at MOOO.O ii O cords a year can relieve the situation —except shuns both secondhand stores. Thia is equal to 4.500,000,000 cubic feet snuff«— I-on don Today. to jail the speculators. And tbe very poor and tbe very rich of waste, which Is the capacity of a Public lands have not yet meet at a secondhand Cleveland Plain Dealer. bookshop — t rfo that cannot obey cannot com mand-Benjamin Franklin bln one half mile high with a bane covering a forty acre lot. - — ■ ■ , Bank With Us You know, absolutely, that your Having« are SAFE. And you know that they are EMPLOYED, too, a« we pay 4 per cent on all time deposit«. MULTNOMAH STATE BANK Lents, Oregon When you think of a tender Steak or a Good Roast, think of Morterud’s Market NOTHING BUT THE BEST R. D. Kenworthy and Co. Inc. TNRtral Directors, TWO ESTABLISHMENTS PHONE TABOR B2ST MM«4 o’isd STRUCT S. B. 4MB both St.. Cor. I OS II.R ROAD IN LENTS ARLETA PHONE TABOR BBSS Fini Cia» itorvlc« Given bay or Night. «•low Proximity to <‘«m«tsrtvfl Enablas Ü« to Furnish Funrrala at a Minimum Kaprna«-. While Waiting for the Car make yourself at home in the Waiting Room Confectionery UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT We serve Light Lunch«» J. I). WILLIAMS, Prop 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.O.) 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