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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1918)
V Of 0 UW* Hrralii iïït. .Subscription, .$ 1.50 a Year » TELLS SOLDIERS' LETTER this little <»1<l buck lot called France is not sinh u lure«' place after all, and you arc »lire to meet one another, if one keep» km eye» open, sooner or later. I got a letter from Lulu Lent one day this week telling that Paul and ante* and the Rayburn twins and “Curly” Forbes were, with their division, safely landed in France. Well, as it was raining, like it can rain only in France, I went to the captain the next morning and told Inin it was too wet to work and the whole dam family was in the —— - division camped near here and would the captain let me go and look them up. sir? Well, the captain said, “all right; keep your nose clean and don't get your nice new clothes dirty, sonny." So I put on my raincoat and started out, and I walked and walked and walked, and it rained and rained and i.iincd, und then by and by it rained sonic more, and my feet got wet and the water ran right through these — ——rag» that they call caps in this man's army, right down the back of my neck ami right down my forehead and nose and chin and right down the front of my neck and over my manly bosom into my shoes and my feet got wetter. Then about the time they were beginning tt> get wettest along came a captain in an automobile and said. "Well, little boy, where arc you going?“ So I told him all Illy troubles and lie was a good, nice, kind captain and told me Io hop in and rule; so I did and in about three or four minutes we were at the village, where the boys were supposed to be camped. Hut my troubles were not over yet. I stopped where an M. P. (military police) was stationed ami asked him where the — ambulance was sta tioned and he said, “Climb up the hill to the top and turn to the left." And 1 di<l, and inquired of another M. P. .uni I k - -.. ik I "go back to the bottom of the hill and turn to the right." So I walked back down the hill and turned to the right, but couldn't find them there. Then I asked an ambulane« driver and he told me to right fkee and walk four blocks to my right, go through a hide in the stone wall, walk around a barn and I would find them camped in an orchard. And I did, but they weren't there. Then sonic one tidd me to counter inarch up the hill again. So back I plodded in the rain and mud and asked again. Just then someone from the organization I was looking for came along ami told me to go down the hill .(but in a different di rection) until I came to a watering trough, th <-n look in an old orchard back of the trough and 'I would find them there, sure. So I clumped and splashed down the hill and found the trough and there were some pup tent» in an old orchard l>ack of it anti I asked a soldier if the - ■ ambu lance corps wa» there and he said “No, it was not," and I was “argufy- fying" with him when I saw James Lent coming down out of the or chard. So I got right in his way and he never recognised inc until he was almost on top of me. Well. I have taken up so much space describing my search for the boys that I won't have much room left in this letter to tell about the im portant part of the trip—the boys themselves. James was going on a detail after water when he saw me and after he got over his surprise and became ra tional lie toisl the non com. to go chase himself for this was his old uncle, so he got excused and we went back and found Paul and Forbes and Frank Rayburn. I did not get to sec Fay, as lie was out of camp on a de tail. The boys arc all looking fine, and it sure was good to be with them as they arc the first ones from the old home I have seen since 1 marched away. I visited with them until nearly night and then returned to camp. That evening they started for the front or somewhere up nearer the front. Well, here I am in Chalies Les Eaux in the French Alps near the Italian border, and having the time of my life, as the kid would say. I am on my vacation and expect to be here seven days altogether and wish you could be with me. but as you can't 1 will try and write a full account, as follows: Chapter I—Dim trails in the Alps, tramping through wet brush; buried ruins. Arrived at Chalies Les Eaux Sun day evening about 3 o’clock. The day had been slightly rainy and I im mediately started to negotiate Mt. St. Michaels, behind the town, but gave it up before I started, as the Irishman would say, which was a wise derision for the next morning I started up the mountain, got about quarter way up, got all wet, lost the trail, gave it up for a bad job and came down in time to join a party from the Y. M. C. A. that were going to Myans to visit an old church that was buried by a great landslide 800 years ago. I said I got down in time to join them but they had left an hour before I got off the mountain and I hot-footed it after them and caught up with them after they got there. Well, we had lunch at a cafe and then inspected the church. Eight hundred years ago Mt. Gra- nier toppled over on the town of Myans, burying 5,000 people in the town two mile« away. The town still remains buried except the church, which has been excavated in the in terior. A new church has been erect ed on top of the old one. The old tower extended upward and by going down the steps in Hba entrance you can inspect the old edifice. Chapter II.—Lusty legs loping o'er long lanes to the lake. • Tuesday a partv of us, led by two girls from the Y. M. C. A., started out to visit a mountain lake, anil no one need ever tell rtie that a woman can’t walk. It was about eight miles out and we made it in about two hours walking—did I say walking? Run ning or flying would be more ap propriate. One of the girls took the lead, walking like mail and I and one or two others took after her, trying to keep up. We left the rest far be hind. We would first walk, then run, and then gallop, one trying to get ahead of the other. And, by gosh, when we yot there she was still half a length in the lead. We went so darned fast that I didn't get a chance to look at any of the scenery going out, so I took a different route com ing back, a longer way. took my time and beat them all home after all. Chapter 111.—Chapcile de'l Annon- ciation. Wednesday I was so tired from my journey to the lake that I only took a short walk of about eight miles. I went to the Chapcile de'l Announci- ation, and the ruins on the hill be yond. then across the valley and back home by the way of Myans, which I visited last Monday, and today — Thursday—I am going to climb Mt. St. Michaels or bust a shoestring. No. 43 DRIVE FOR WAR WORK ORGANIZATIONS COMING He was also well known; BRIEF NEWS NOTES of LENTS - TheJfoilowinK letter« from Ser geant William M. Anderson, of Ixmta, tell a most interesting atory of life near the front: VOL. XVI. LENTS STATION, PORTLAND, OREGON, OCTOBER 25, 1918 There will lie no meeting» of St. I University. Paul's Guild until further notice. in lodge circles and was the only grandson of a son of the American Revolution in his county. St. Paul's Church and Sunday School will be closed until further notice. Mr. Peterson, of the Lents Phar macy, received a telegram .Wednes Mr and Mrs. Wh eelock. of Silver- day stating that his son in the marines ton, are visiting Mrs Wheelock's sis had returned from France, having left New York August IL ter, Mrs. J. (3. McGrew. Mrs. Samuel J. Allen has moved Mrs. Hazel Dupurtis, who died at from Fifty-sixth avenue to Eighty- Vancouver a few days ago, was a sis- second street ami Sixtieth avenue, merly of Lents. Rev. Frank Jasper is rnerly of Lents. Mrs. Frank Jasper is Miss Helen Gentry is home from at present in the Y. M. C. A. service her school, near North Plains, on ac at Vancouver barracks. count of the school being closed by order of the State Board of Health. Mrs. Samuel J. Allen received a telegram, Tuesday, from New York, Mrs Leila Lent-Wimberly is spend announcing another death in her ing the week with her parents, Mr. family. This is the second death in and Mrs. O. E Lent Mrs Wimber the family inside of a week, her ly’s school was closed on account brother having died last week of in fluenza, leaving two children. of the influenza epidemic. Mrs. Samuel Allen received a tele gram, Saturday* of the death of her brother. Prof. Crary, of New York. He was a nephew of Judge A. M. Crary, who visited Lent» in May, and was a well-known educator, a gradu ate of Normal College and Syracuse Letters from boys overseas, indicate that a number of those from Lents have been assigned to drive motor trucks near the front. The original formation of the Lents group has I h en broken up and the boys scat tered in different sections of France. Z--------------------------------------------------------- \ WATSON ani/KENDALL| BELLROSE - GILBERT —j J. Nordbcrg has sold his up-to-date residence and acreage to Mr. Ham mond fon»$IO,500, and has built a fine house on Thirty-fifth street near Di vision. The Hammonds are settled in their new home on Eighty-second street, near Sixty-seventh avenue. In houor of Cortes Valentine, a soldier boy in France, a number of Bclrose-Gilbert folk gathered at the home of J. L. Johnson last Sunday. A letter—a neighborhood letter — was prepared and forwarded to the young man. who stood well in the commun ity while he lived there. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Phillips, with J. L. Johnson has been ill, but is their children, recently from Butte, recovering. Mont., are living in R. F. Love’s con crete store building <<n Seventy-first Mrs. Dwight Davis is recovering I am still at Chalies J xs Eaux, but avenue, with a view to buying the from a bad attack of la grippe. Mrs. will return to camp Monday. Yes property Nellie Van Blaricom is also recover terday I made the ascent of Mt. St. ing from a week's illness. Michael, to the little church on the Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Morrison, from summit, and then descended on the Ogden, Utah, and Mrs. Morrison’s A baby boy came to the home opposite side ami walked home mother. Mrs. Lottie Moore, a gradu of Mr. and Mrs. Bush, of Lenox ave around the mountain. It was not ate nurse, recently from Salt Lake nue. a week ago last Monday. Mother much of a climb, probably about 2,400 Cifl*'. arc staying temporarily with and baby are doing splendidly. feet high, but very steep unleas one the Phillips family. knew the trail. There is a good view Mrs. Armpriest was h me from Sa from the top. One can see Mt. Blanche 1. N. Fletcher, 8742 Seventy-first lem for a short visit. and the Swiss Alps in fair weather; I presume, hut it was too hazy the avenue, has a satisfactory job of car day 1 was up. I got back to the hotel pentry work in Linnton. His four- There is no improvement in the tcen-year-old son lias gone to work in time for lunch. for the Multnomah Lumber & Box condition of Mrs. Farnsworth. She This forenoon we took a trip to Company at $2.75 with a promise of is reported as being very low. Lcyssc and visited the cascades and a raise if he makes good. a pa|g*r mill beyond. The cascades WHITMAN AVENUE were not much aftef seeing Multno Mr. and Mrs. Louis l.a France have mah Falls. I saw them make paper moved from 8832 Seventy-first ave ami inspected the first concrete nue to 8<>22 Sixth avenue, near Sev A motoring party consisting of Mr. bridge that was ever built at the ce entieth street. Mr. La France is and Mrs. J. H. Jones and daughter ment works near by. The only other night watchman for the John Deere Francis. Mr. and Mrs. James Wise point of interest on the trip was a Plow Co. man. Mr. and Mrs. Ellton Shaw, sons stone bridge erected by Princess Harold and Paulus, and daughter Blanche 450 years ago ami a road Mrs. Jane Cone, who occupies Con Jeap. made the run to Horse Tail falls built in memory of her being rescued ductor Coffee's residence, which he Sunday, where a camp fire was made, from drowning. Mr. Kohn, a French- purchased last summer from John a splendid dinner cooked and served American hanker of San Francisco, Amberson of Newberg, has just re »teaming hot. Officers along the accompanied us on the trip. turned from the Good Samaritan I route estimate that there were at Hospital after an operation for ap-1 least SIMM) automobiles up the high Well Known Druggist Passes. nendicitis. Her daughter. Winnifred i way during the day. J, M. Volk mar, for many years a Farley, has gone back to Minneapolis The atmosphere was clear and a well-known druggist of Oregon City, to keep house for her father. splendid view of the Washington side died at the home of Mrs. Webster. Frank Harrow. Sixty-seventh ave of the river could be had. Traces of .<488 East Seventy-second street. Portland. Friday last. He was aged nue, near Eighty-second street, has frost could be seen along the lower <>8 years. The funeral was held at resigned from the military police and highway, the vines being cut. expos the Hall cemetery on Sunday. Mr. goes to Kalisnel, Mont... his former ing the pink squashes and yellow Volkmar is survived by his widow home, where he expects to get em pumpkins in great numbers. Many ployment with the United States of the farmers are digging potatoes and daughter, Mnbel. timber workers. Mrs. Harrow and and the fields of kale show very large babies will remain here for the pres yields of milk producing feed. More Sugar for Canning. Sugar permits for 10 pounds to be ent. United War Work Drive used for canning purposes will be re Seven organizations serving the Mrs. Otto Schaffer's new bungalow newed until November 1. according to W. K. Newell, of the Portland food porch is finished except the painting, American troops will make a united is lighted by electricity and one of drive for $170.500,000 November 11 to administration office. 18. the perttiest in this section. THE YOUTH S COMPANION is worth more to family life today FOOD CONSERVATION MADE POULTRY RAISERS PLAN than ever before. Today, those who STATEWIDE ORGANIZATION VEHICLE FOR FRAUD are responsible for the welfare of the family realize the imperative need Poultry raisers of Lents are inter of worth-while reading and what it Women of Portland are warned means to individual character, the against fraudulent agents selling ested in the organization being home life ami the state. Everywhere books on food conservation which formed to be known as the Oregon the waste and chaff, the worthless they state are issued by the United Poultry Producers’ Association. The and inferior, arc going to the discard. States government. The book is be plan contemplates a strong statewide The Youth's Companion stands ing sold for as high as $4.75 in some organization, led by the poultry de first, last and continually for the best cities. Government pamphlets and partment of the Oregon Agricultural there is for all ages. It has charac propaganda books arc given away College. A committee of three members has ter and creates like character. That free of all charges with the excep is why. in these sifting times, the tion of government textbooks, which taken up the question of mill feed family turns to its 52 issues a 'year are sold under contract with publish prices in Portland with the federal full of entertainment and suggestion ers for a price ranging from 20 to 50 food administrator. This committee and information, and is never disap cents. Portlanders are asked to re reports that it has already secured pointed. * port to the Department of Justice recognition entitling it to a just share It costs only $2.00 a year to pro any agents with books purporting to of mill feeds for poultry. The co-operative marketing of eggs vide your family with the very best be issued by the government. and poultry will be taken up as soon reading matter published. In both a* the membership is sufficiently quantity and quality as well as in va BIRTHS large to justify it. Still later, co-op riety The Youth's Companion excels. erative purchase of poultry supplies Don't miss Grace Richmond's great serial, Anne Exeter. 10 chapters, be To Mr. and Mrs. Nick Lattanzi. will be conducted by the association. ginning December 12. Lents, Ore., Oct. 11, a daughter. The following special offer is made DEATHS To Mr. and Mrs. John Shetka. 6829 to new subscribers: Sixtieth avenue, Oct. 9. a son. 1. The Youth’s Companion—52 is Robert H. Rray, 1195 East Grant. To Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jttnor, sues of 1919. Oct. 21). 27 years. 1785 East Ninth, Oct. 11. a son. 2. All the remaining weekly issues Stephania L. Began, 1421 East Sev To Mr. and Mrs. Alexander P. Hay, of 191«. 3. The Companion Home Calendar 611 East Fiftieth, Qct. 16, a daughter. enteenth, Oct. 19. 31 years. for 1919. To Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Barbour, —TS?------------ All the al^ive for only $2.00, or you (>‘>1 East Seventy-fourth, Oct. 11, a Sunday School Convention Postponed Because all public gatherings are may include son. 4. McCall's Magazine — 12 fashion To Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Hett- forbidden by the regulations of the numbers. All for only $2.50. The two man, 4808 Sixty-third, October 5, a Board of Health, on account of the Spanish influenza, the Sunday School magazines may be sent to separate son. convention which was to have been addresses if desired. Tr. Mr. and Mrs| Corroll D. Bush, held at the Lents Evangelical church, THE YOUTH'S COMPANION ' Sunday. October 27, has been post Commonwealth Ave. 8i St. Paul St., Lents, Or,, October 14, a son. To Mr. and Mrs. Glen Allen. 5810 poned indefinitely. The date and BOSTON. MASS. New subscriptions received at this Fifty-eighth avenue, October 19, a program will be published in these daughter. columns later. office. . The next call which the war makes upon Oregon residents is that of the United War Work cause, except for the Liberty Loans the greate-t move ment yet conceived as a means of backing up the American soldier boys. At the direction of President Wilson, the seven big organizations which minister directly to the soldiers and sailors have joined hands in the na tion-wide drive. The war work bodies participating in the campaign are the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A.. Knights of Columbus, Jewish Welfare Board, Camp Com munity Service, American Library Association and the Salvation Army. Oregon is asked to provide for the going fund of these bodies the sum i of $770,000. In this state, as else-; where, the week beginning November i 11 is set aside for the fund-raising ef-' fort. Under supervision of'Orlando W. i Davidson, state director, and his as-1 sociates, extensive plans for the cam paign have been made and a strong organization built up. Prevalence of the Spanish influenza hampers the preparations and may set at naught any attempt to have a general speak ing campaign. In this event the needs of the combined causes will be put before Oregon’s generous citi zens only through letters, the press and the canvassers. "Since this is a cause exclusively 'for the boys over there,’ and since Oregon folks have always shown a royal willingness to do their full share for our boys I haven't the least doubt that quotas will be promptly made up despite all the obstacles,” said one of the state leaders. “Less meritorious causes might need the accompaniment of speeches and pa rades and public pleas, but I'm con fident they will respond voluntarily to this call for the boys fighting their battles,” he added significantly. Lutheran Chuches Plan Consolidation On Thursday, November 14, repre Church in the South, have voted sentatives of more than three-quar singly and severally in favor of this ters of a million of confirmed Lu move. A joint ways and means com therans will meet in New York form mittee has been at work for over a ally to organize the United Lutheran ' year in preparing the legal and other Church in America. The Lutheran | details for the consolidation. it is estimated that there are 8,000,- church is a very old one in this coun try, dating back to 1619 in Canada, iKK) baptized Lutherans in America 1639 in Pennsylvania, but its members i and of these about 5,000,000 are gath- are of such a liberty-loving and con ! ered into congregations. The sec gregational type, and their original tions where the followers of Martin blood has come from so many Eu i Luther are specially numerous are ropean nationalities, that they have l Pennsylvania. Ohio, and the central been slow to see the merits of cen and north middle west. In Wiscon sin. Minnesota, North and South Da tralized organization. Their first Synod was organized in kota there are more people of the 1748, and new Synods have been form Lutheran faith than all other Pro ing rapidly ever since. A Synod rep testants taken together. The large resents the congregations of a state majority of these are found in vigor or part of a state. A general body ous congregations, but there are still covering the United States was or a large number, especially the young ganized in 1820, another in 1867, and er people who are using only the Eng a third in 1886. These are the three lish language, that need to be cared general bodies now coming together. for by the church. As is well known the Lutheran For the last year and a half they have been carefully preparing for the com church is composed of the descend ing merger, and next month will see ants of European stock and the forty-three Synods of the United American Lutheran church has for about two centuries been carrying States and Canada joined together. Every one of these Synods, and the forward a patriotic work that is not three general bodies, the General excelled and probably not equalled by Council of the Evangelical Lutheran any agency. The church has diligent Church in North America, the Pen ly gathered the people of its faith erai Synod of the Lutheran Church coming from other lands and made in the United States, and the United of them enterprising and loyal Amer Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran ican citizens. Books Help Soldiers Of the $170.500.000 to be raised in the united war work drive in Novem ber, $3,500,000 will be spent by the American association to supply books to the soldiers. Need Doughnut Money Salvation Army doughnuts in the front line trenches are possible only if the people help in the united war work drive for funds November 11 to 18. LIBERTY BONDS BUILD TANKS This ts one of the light tanks which played such an Important part tn the recent allied drive on the Montdidier-Amiens front. Known in the British army as "Whippets”, they are also In use by the French. No American communique has mentioned their use as yet. The “whippet” is said to be able to outspeed and ontmaneuver a man. Their greatest use has been in crushing the machine gun posts which the retreating Germans left behind to hold off pursuers. The enormous bag of prisoners was due to the "whippet’s” ability to drive lanes through all obstacles, evade hostile artillery fire by their speed and maneuvering ability, and even force the surrender of artillery. , A large part of the Fourth Liberty Loan probably will be needed for the building of such land "destroyers". “What are those Verdampft Yanks yelling about now?” said Frits Ju'Pa rade. "The Schweinpigs have Just heard that the Fourth Liberty Loan was oversubscribed fifty per cent," the Sergeant in Special Charge of Baby- Killing said. The Cyclops has no more completely disappeared than would Freedom from America if the Hun conquered. Do your part in crushing the Hun by buying Liberty Bonds today. Parry the Allied punches as he will, there will be one battle from which the Kaiser will reePback whipped, bls The German sergeant and Sixteen power forever crushed. As you would men had just reached safety after a have eveiy ounce of your muscle aid glorious retreat of 3.7 kilometers from ing such a blow, buy YOUR limit of the Alsne. FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN BONDS. "What made that Yank so mad when he couldn’t catch up with us?” It is not the slse of your subscript inquired a corporal when they had re tlon. but its proportion to what yon covered their breath. I can honestly afford, that will mark "He was all hopped up with a re when the FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN port that the Fourth Uberty I-oan was is past whether or not you are 100 per way oversubscribed.” said the ser I cent American. And it you are not geant, who had been in the United 100 per cent American yon are lug States and knew how those things per cent Hoche. worked. 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