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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1918)
ffîî. Scott fierald PnblUbcU Kverjr Tkuraday at Lent*. Orrgon by Tat M t . tkvrr Prwi uwniii C iäpamy A H BARKIS and Fl'" MVRPHBY Knter*4 a* aecottdda»* mail matter Febru ary 14. Itl4. at the poM-office at l*nta.Oragon under act of Cougrvaa. March 3. !#?♦. iubacriptton price ! honk *: • 31 *o a year,tn advance Tanto* *>2t. I' <1 tier, banana and orange skins into the streets. If your store front is dingy*, paint it. Nothing will do more to improve the appearance of a town than the liberal use of paint If there are unnecessary, un sightly sheds in your back yards, tear them down. They detract from the beauty of your home and the town. Open spaces and fresh air are bett<w. If your walk is an eyesore to those traveling over it. repair it or build a new one. > W- L-H-LH'HH+i- W M-++ HrHr ♦ 4-Í-* THANKS! A. H. Harris, a newspaper man of ability and much experience, is in control of the Mount Scott Herald, a weekly publication at Lenta. It seems natural to have a Harris on that paper. R. A. Harris, later State Printer and now Y. M. C. A. Secretary for. Foreign Service, started it years ago. The Harris now at the helm will keep it up to the stand-1 ard. Oregonian Editorial. T r •V Why Go to the City when You Can Get All Your Auto Supplies from Us? . ■ *r T V - e FROM OVER IHF SIAH The otiti, >-»k furan abundant walnut • • - This paper has erdis'ed with the government in the cause of America for the period of the war............. Î n- •r Goodyear and Goodrich l ires Monogram Oils and Greases Gould Storage Batteries Columbia Dry Cells Spark Plugs Automobile Lamp Bulbs Spot Lights and hundreds of other needed for motor car appreciation KEEP EVERY DOLLAR BUSY AT crop is unusually promising m the viriti- i ity >>f Ballas. HOME. *r f T t T T T Î The law s of nature cannot be The plant of the North Bend Shingle Mill was entirely destroy«*! by tlro^Sun- violated with impunity. If one day. The lo«s is ÿlO.tkk). takes out of life more than he Present irdications are ttiat this year's puts in. if he tears down his phys i crop of cberH«*« will lw about om*-haU ical strength faster than he builds of th»* production of last year, or 'J<W> to CAN THE CAN! DO IT NOW it up. he must eventually pay. ¡ 2.W0 tons. It is time to remove a lot of What is true of the laws of I The river an 1 l.arlgvr bill, providing campaign signs and disfiguring nature is equally true of econom for the iinprovem-n’ of tho Crescent litter from the buildings in ic laws. The people of a com City harbor, as a war measure, has Lents. The need of a bit of work munity may for a time tear down passed die Unite«! States Senate. cleaning up is apparent, and the commercial structure of a Al Sheridan a prune-dryer with 30i«i somebody should lead a drive for town faster than they build it up trays and a largo warehouse requiring SO,000 feet of lumber to c nstruct. will * a week or two of real community without meeting disaster, but it Iw erected immediately to la* ready for ■c cannot be continued indefinitely. the fall crop. dressing up. T And, why not paint up a bit. In the end they must pay. f cooperating wi' h the Growers too. Nothing freshens the ap The person who makes his liv Roseburg m d* I» »ug'r.s County 'fer 1“ •r :i to -upport C j : i ii i-i<« pearance of a building so much ing in a community, receiving chant«' A » o ami Incr*»a«< 1 to-uat in that - ct : vr. the money of the community for as paint, and nothing cheapens ■u We recharge and repair Storage Batteries. a street more than windows clut his labor or the products of his string bt-an • * ,1 V i* ‘ \ tered with cheap advertising de laboj, and then spends his in Three carload«i of chcv''»* W't'h' «hipp»1»! ■r We Vulcanize Casings and Tubes. •r vices- Lents needs another drive come outside of this community is from Marshfield t*> Seattle this The C om and Curry Counties Cb»«-««* y •V We do Acetylene Welding. — for a new. or at least a clean helping to exhaust the resources Association plans to «l ip tw-> cars »««•«• •r of the community just as the ly during the next there in >nths. front. We Bum Out Carbon with Oxygen Civic patriots in more than man who expends his energy The Knight.« of Pythias Ijslge of 4 T 7,000 towns and cities found, through dissipation or overexer Prineville was the highest bolder in the V T last year, that their efforts in tion faster than he builds up, state for the tw > pounds of wool from -r local Clean Vp and Paint Up is exhausting his physical re the White House dock, which was re T cently auctioned off tor the tranetit <»f campaign work made their com sources. •r th- Re I Cross. Their bid was i-H'1- One man may do this, of course, i munities safe for the babies, Indications Are that ths Ibis prune besides protecting grown - ups without noticeably affecting the ! crop will be about the same as that of r ALEX. K1LDAHL, Plop. economic strength of the com ' 1917. Southern Oregon districts suffered t* from disease. I T munity, but when a dozen men They learned that the removal maierially from frost injury, but the T 8919 Foster Road Tabor 3429 D 61 or women do it, the effect be- Willamette Valley crop is considerably of rubbish from attics and cel f lars. sheds and barns, back yards . comes noticeable, and when a better than last year •r and vacant lots, materially re hundred or a thousand do it, the One of the most widely awake com - I duced fire danger, vastly im resources of the community be munities on the Coast, if reports ol plan« and accomplishment« is a gauge, proved the looks of private prop come exhausted to the point is Wheeler, Tillamook county. Govern 1* 1- Irlr frinir ir P 1-x’ h P P H4 P P P P P YPPH-1LL PPnP erty and public thoroughfares, where collapse is inevitable. ment spruce cutting, ship building and increased house and land values, Those who are responsible for lumber industries generally have con unsatisfactory at wasnington t am stirred up the pride of the prop this situation may think that spired to set the town aud countrywide hoping that the people of the state CLEAN UP PAINT UP ON FARM buzzing. __________ * erty-owner in his holdings and they have profited individually will exceed this estimate by a gener According to report«, the prune aphis, by their actions, but they have Well-Kept Rural Home It Appraised ous margin. The county admlnlstra the pride of everybody in the at Higher Value and Adds to At tors have In band the full details of not realized that in the end they which have been doing serious injury to looks of the town. tractiveness of the Community. the plan for saving wheat in thia way the foliage, have now attacked the fruit. They learned that small re must pay. for the needs of our fighting men. and Prof. Lovett says groweis are advised to There are some persons who spray immediately with a solution o' The Incentive to Clean Vp and Paint one wishing to personally contrib pairs to buildings of all kinds, to Freewill Offering of Excess any l'p which is stirred In the breast« at ute wheat flour should get In touch at seem to be able to get through black leaf 40, at the rate of three-quarters fences, etc., saved big repair tho townspeople Is «hared by the su^ once with tho F<x><! Administrator of Stocks Is Requested. of a pint to 100 gallons of water, with life without exerting much ef bills and much more work and rounding rural district«. The Ohio the county In which he or she lives the addition of four pounds of tishoil board of agriculture l««u<-d n bulletin The wheatsavlng plan announced trouble later on. And they learned fort. There are some who live soap. He also says that the same solu urging the removal of mmslinckl« by Mr Ayer Is a national one. and It that a bucket of paint and a tub on the theory that the world tion will also stop the attacks of bud MEN OVERSEAS NEED GRAIN Is now operative In all the states farm building«. tile painting of those I The states of Washington, Idaho anil that remain, trimming hedges and of whitewash will do more to owes them a living, and they worm« and twig miners. trees, spraying shrubbery mid clean* Plan Oevlaed to Save Transportation Oregon are now cooperating in an prevent rot, rust, vermin and proceed to collect it. They take and Time—Local Oonationa to Be effort to make a big wheat saving rec Ing mid painting tools and muchluerj Many Will Claim Spitsbergen. dirt accumulation than anything all they can get and give nothing Secretary W. W. Flminiigmi, of the ord for the Northwest Federal Food Retold Locally But Release Equal else—not to mention the pleas in return. Such persons, how More than 800 years ngo. In Iff!4. Administrators R. F Bicknell of Idaho federal farm loan board, says: "It James I of England, formally claimed Amount at Atlantic Seaboard For and Charles Hebberd of Washington hnrdly needs any urguuient to con ing change in appearance that ever, are not very numerous. Spitsbergen. The Muscovy company, Immediate Shipment to Alllea and join with Federal Food Administrator vince anyone that a well-painted, well- Most of as must pay for every a British concern, was ordered “to up paint and whitewash gives. W. B. Ayer for Oregon In the follow kept home or barn would naturally Ira Troops. It is not to be disputed that thin? we get. Some may have hold the king’s right to Spitsbergen” ing announcement, which gives In de appraised at a higher value than <>ue by an order In council. That claim tail the plan of handling the returned not so renovated." the material environment influ to pay more than their share, was allowed tn lapse In the same man Opportunity Is now offered, through wheat: and these are carrying the bur ner In which the Russian claim lapsed, Federal Food Administrator W. B. ences for good or evil the spirit "Mr. Hoover has wired all Federal ual inner man. Household sani-! den of those who get more than the Britons Interested in the country Ayer, for Oregon families and manu Food Administrators that the excess facturing firms using wheat flour, to stocks of flour hold by public eating I Paint Up Goes Hand in itation and personal sanitation they pay for. The fact remains say. I With the end of the war old data make a voluntary personal sacrifice places, bakers, dealers and consumers • i I that, as a general rule, one can Hand With a Clean Up are twins. The toothbrush is will be dug up, with record« of rom- for the benefit of Uncle Sam's boys In may be voluntarily surrendered for ■ merely the smaller brother of! not have much worth while with paratlvely recent times, to bolster the the Army and Navy. Mr. Ayer has the use of the Army and Navy and tho • i 1— Because n clean up with I contentions of the various claimant«, announced that any family, public eat i Allies. This action has been prompted the paintbrush in this family of | out paying for it out n paint up Is useless and i. as Spitsbergen 1« «tire to occupy a ing place, or factory using wheat flour, i The merchants of any commu prominent plnce In north European af such as bakeries and cracker factories, by the many voluntary offerings from nbsurd. Houses that are un- spiritual uplift Conversely, the different parts of the country. I pnlnted eyesores are made ug Uncle Sam Is happily out of the now has the privilege of directly con scrub-bucket is the little sister nity are the backbone of that fairs. J lier an<l more conspicuous when 1I "The practical method of handling matter because of the sale by the Arc tributing to the flour blns of the Army community, so sar as its prosper such returned flour will be through of the bathtub. Laundered linen only «treats and grounds are tic Coal compnny, although Judg and Navy by turning back to the gov local merchant, who is hereby re cleaned up. and varnished woodwork are kin ity and progress are concerned. ing by precedent It never wns likely ernment, at the market price, such the i quested to receive all such flour and 2— Because the painted sur i that this country would go so far ns portion of their wheat flour allowance folks. The new spring suit or Individually there may be some to i pay the holding consumer the actual desire to exercise suzerainty over as they will patriotically refrain from face, Inside mid outside. 1« wash- i cost of same, ami then re distribute It millinery outfit dovetails with the ! of them who do not exert them the Innd. Such n course was urged consuming able nn<l therefore can be kept i i themselves. without any additional charge to the clean and snnltnry. 'Taint— i clipped lawn, the painted fence, selves to boost their community, In America In 1912 and 1913. Such gifts of wheat flour, while not ultimate consumer. Whore merchants paint yonr walls, floors nnd cell « but collectively they are the men going directly to France for the boys accumulate more than their thirty the clean window and the swept « « Ings often," says Or. L<“onnrd overseas, will be turned into the gov days' supply and nil hotels, bakers, 1 upon whom the prosperity of The German "Officers’ Mess.” street. Keene lllndiberg. A. IL, M. A., Hugh Gibson, who was secretary to ernment commissary at the nearest that have an ezeess amount that M. D. (John* Hopkins univer The annual loss through lack 1 every person in the community the American legation In Belgium when point, and will release an equal quan- etc., cannot be disposed of locally, they sity), In bis "Why It'« Cheaper of painting is greater than the depends. The success or failure the war broke out. can pack wit, hu tity of wheat flour on the Atlantic should Immediately communicate with to Keep Well—Prevention the Immediate shipment Seaboard for of an individual merchant may mor and Irony into a single paragraph Mr M. H. Housor, Grain Commission annual loss by fire. Cleaning Way.” Under this novel plan "over there. ” and still keep it short. He visited a er of the Food Administration, Board and painting is a long step to not be of particular concern to Belgian house that some German offi when a patriotic Oregon family goes of Trade Building, Portland, and he ■ t I 3— Because, as Prof. H. H. King, of the Knnsas Stnto Ag ward fire prevention. This rids the people of a community, but cers had occupied and Inter evacuated on a wheatless diet for a week or a will arrange for the transportation to rlcnltural college declares, nf month, or longer period, the wheat the seaboard. All flour returned to homes and business houses of ac the success or failure of the mer- when their army retired. "Over the flour ter several year’s experience In they save and turn back to the door, ” he writes, “ was tho Inscription, the merchant that Is resold to the cumulations of rubbish that are i chants as a whole is a matter of •Officers’ Mesa.' It was Certainly the government actually repreyent^ iy, consumer conducting (minting tests for that should be reported to Mr. i the very greatest concern. state: “Tlie annual loss through liable to start fires and are men most complete me«« that I ever saw. equivalent of wheat flour three thou Houser, In order that an equal amount Every vacant store building is Until then I had regarded tho expres sand miles away, which Immediately may be released for shipment to the • I lack of painting Is greater than aces to a community. Remem the nnnuul loss by fire." starts to move forward to the fighting Allies a sign of distress- community sion, ‘An officer and a gentleman,* ber that all fires are the same Many cities In Europe and 1 forces This arrangement has been redundant. I no longer think so. ” — "The whole object of the above ar South America require regu made In order to save transportation rangement Is to provide a channel size at the start. At the same distress. Every business failure Youth's Companion. lar (minting. In prescribed col across the continent. time, fences and sheds should be is a sign that commercial aphis through which all ezeess quantities ors, by city ordinance.—-Augustn, "I am hoping for a splendid wheat of flour may reach the Army and Navy is sapping the community life. Brought War Into Home. ■1 i ■ repaired, vacant lots should be saving record In Oregon” said Mr or the Allied armies as a voluntary ■ I Gn. Herald. i The beginning of hostilities between cleaned and tin cans, paper and Every “For Rent” sign is| a Italy Ayer the other day, “For I believe offering of the people of this country." • I and Ausfrin was the rause of alm vWWWIWWWWWWW skull and cross bones telling a liar activity In the household of An when Oregon families and public eat weeds removed Yas Mcrale bead. story of community poisoning thony Sokellc, say« hl« wife, formerly Ing places in the state know that the If you have a food conservation plan And «o jrremonm rm y is nere ayetrv. Here are a few good sugges flour they save will go direct to the going on somewhere. Every fam Barone«« Blanca Alessl, In her divorce boys of the Army and Navy they will or recipe pass it on t<> your neighbors and we lift up oar «yea and behold the tions for community service: complaint, filed at New York. and your friends—be In the service.” boats gathering all over thia land and Take away all the ashes and ily that “starves out,” peddles "He 1« a Croatian,” «he alleges, not hesitate to respond in the usual marching to the «orneterie«. They are patriotic Oregon way. I had a tele trash from your back yard im the cry that the town is a dead “and I am an Italian baroness. He gram from Mr. Hoover today tn which ft la nil right for women to wear bringing flowers— wmth« and plllowa has been n raving maniac since our one. bffurented overall* when they work, anil crosses. These are tokens of a mediately. respective countries got Into war. I'm he asked me for an estimate on what Every dollar spent in Lents but there la no such thing its a woman nation's love and emblems of a na I thought Oregon could be relied upon Burn all rubbish that will bum. through.” tion’s gratitude. We honor the North looking well In pants. to save under the new plan. I wished helps to make this town a live Clean your vacant lots. ern and the Southern dead today, and to be conservative, and I replied that Million« of Men Involved. with one hand pat a w roa th on the Make your street and parking one. my estimate would be 30 to 35 per Ono way to mnke the use of substi Ferlerai, while with the other we put When pence wan declared the num cent of the normal wheat flour con look as trim and well kept as tutes for wheat more general la to ace a similar wreath on the Confederate ber of troop« engaged had mounted to Aerial Package sumption. This is a much lower es 2.T72.4O8, of which the North furnished possible. Father—Well? timate than other states had marie, that they don’t coat any moro than gr«ve«. r’hrlstlnn Arivnoafe something '/ver two million. Refrain from throwing old pa-. Johnny—Who Mailed the rain? anr^^reallze that it will probably bo I the wheat. Lents Garage ; 11 PEOPLE ASKED FOR FLOUR DONATIONS