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RED CROSS ROLL
CALL NEXT WEEK
Everything i> in readiness for the
Rrd ('rot* membership drive, which
begin* 1 >i < enilirr 16 anil end* Dc-
crinb'er 23
Oregon i* preparing
once more to go over the tup and
the alate machinery built up by
Stale Manager II. E. Witham, a*-
*i*trd in every toiinly by the local
chapter* of the Red Cro*«, will be
act in motion next Monday morning.
I here will be no luturc drive* o(
the Red ( rua* lor war funds. The
<«>ininK <1 rive it for number »hip and
it h the desire of the organization
to li.iv« every man and woman in
the Nation hold a member #hii> in
the great society which will go down
into history a» an unparalleled hu­
manitarian institution.
Throughout
the nation it it the wish to enroll
memfierv in the • oming
drive.
ThR i# more than double
the number listed in the ( hrixtmas
roll «all of WI7 (22.000,000), and it
mean# that all who became members
last year should renew their incm-
bershin* and those who were over-
I. ...kt <1 at that time *hotil«l join
now.
Ihe official preliminary will he
Rrd (rots Sunday. December IS,
when every pulpit in Oregon will
deliver th« message
This depart­
ment has been arranged by Mrs.
Saidie Orr Dunbar, state secretary
f«»r the National Tuberculosis Asso-
<iati<m. which is cooperating with
the Red Cross.
With the signing of the armistice,
the work of the Red Cross has not
ended. The Red Cro## will continue
its work abroad until the last of
the American troops are returned
home, and the society already has
a big peace time program to carry
out, a program which will be as vital
to the nation and it# people a« that
lucted on the i»ai treffeMs <»f
F urope.
The Red Cross does not give
charity, but supplies that helpful
neighborliness which is due every
fighter from the entire American
;< • i I-
Another work undertaken by the
Rr<l < ross for the transition from
war to peace is the re-education of
inutil.it« d soldiers and non combat­
ant* in trades, which will enable
them t<> be self supporting.
A heart and a dollar arc all that
is necessary in the membership
drive of the coming week.
BELLROSE - GILBERT
Saturday. December 7. Mr*. Minnie
(>. Hyde came from Clatskanie to
attend to l.usine,* in the city and
paid a flying visit to her old friend
, at Gilbert and Bcllroie. They Hath
ered at the home of Mr.. Bateman,
near Wilton Station.
Meeting and
greeting Mr*. Hyde were: Mr. and
Mr*. Ilimebaugh and Mr*. Johnson,
| of Chicago; Mr
Henderson and
daughter. Stella, Mr. and Mr*. Field,
Mr. and Mr*. Casey and *on, Mr*.
England, Mr. and Mr., J. L. John-
...n, Mr« A A. Kindle
The gath­
ering al*o was held to greet a
nephew of Mr*. Bateman. Mr Bettv
hone, from Duluth, Wi*.
Refresh-
menu were »erved. A genial even­
ing wa* »pent.
T.
B. Davi* i* reported tick.
Mr and Mr*. Charles Buchanan
are both ill with influenza, while
their ton is tick with it, too, and it
being cared for by Mr*. Buchanan,
hi* grandmother
The many friend* of Mrs. M V.
Bristow will be pleated to learn
that the i* in Arkansas; is well; al­
though the "flu" it very strong
there at present
She »end* greet»
ing* to her old home friend*.
Telephone Charge*
Reduced
The Pacific Telephone A Tele­
graph Company ha* announced that
the arbitrary charge* of $5, $10 and
$15 for installation uf telephones
have been reduced to $.150. with an
additional charge of $1.50 to be im­
posed if a patron changes address
or name in the telephone directory
or if the name in which the account
it kept by the company it changed.
The reduced rate became effective
December 1. to if the increated rate
ha* been collcted from any patron
for change made since that date a
refund will he made.
Hoad
Grange
of
Honored.
C. E. Spence ha* been appointed
by Governor Withycombe as a mem­
ber of the State Board of Forestry
to succeed Austin T. Buxton, of
Forest Grove, deceased. Under the law
the Governor shall appoint a mem­
ber of the board on the recom­
mendation of the executive com­
mittee of the State Grange.
"Oregon
Boy* in the War.”
“Dad” Gives Timely Advice to Men Who
Failed to Reach Front Line Trenches
Somewhere in America,
Sometime in November.
To Sergeant William Tibbs, Some*
where in Luxemburg-
Dear Bill: Your old friend Will
McAdoo ha» resigned hi# position,
to get one more lucrative in a law
office sonn where.
1 never could
#cc how the Government expected
to buy iir»l-clas* brains for ribbon*
clerk salaries, but the Government
ha» been grttin* away with it for a
good many year*, h expect# a fel­
ler to work for a dollar a year, rat
himself and furnish hi# own laun­
dry. It seem# as though the Gov­
ernment ought to pay a feller a#
much for directing the railroad# a#
it does to the kid who direct# the
envelope# in the outside office. Of
course, there is a lot of honor ,in
it. but a feller can starve to death
on that stuff. I tried it once my­
self.
When 1 was elected consti-
btilc of our place I made two dol­
lar# the first year, which was a
hundred per cent better than di­
recting the railroads, but it wasn’t
no princely stipend, at that.
Will
McAdoo made enough for a good
haircut
every year, whether he
needed it or not.
We thought for awhile the Demo­
crat* was going to starve the Re­
publicans to death by givin* them
all the dollar-a-ycar jobs, but here
and there a Democrat crept in and
drawed one of them.
Lafe Higgins is puttin’ the old
town pump in order. Everything is
going dry on July I. I have always
believed that what makes any lo­
cality go dry is lettin’ fellers vote in
the morning. Every feller that votes
in the morning votes for prohibition.
If all the elections was held in the
evening there wouldn't be a dry spot
in these here U. S.
Old Calc Prouty, our village phil­
anthropist. sent to the mail-order
house for a full set. upper and low­
er teeth, but they were a couple of
sires too large and they kept him
groinin' all the time. Old Aunt Jane
Tibbitts is suffering from knittin*
gitis. They went and told her some
time ago that the war was over, but
she couldn’t stop knittin’. They took
A uniuue new book, “Oregon Boys
Wednesday, December IK, is the in the War." containing a series of
The American Red Cross pro­
letter*
similar to that published last
ting day for the quarter­
vided oue out uf «¡very Leu soldiers
year,
again
ha*
been
compiled
by
ly session of Multnomah County Po­
in France with a corn cob pipe.
mona grange. J. J. Johnson is mas­ Mrs. Frank Wilmot, a Portland
writer, who arranged for the little
ter of Pomona Grange.
Ihe meeting is to be held at Rus­ booklet of last year which was sold
Seven hundred portable houses
sellville, the visitors to be guests for the Red Cross.
for various uses were sent to France
of Russellville Grange.
by the Red Cross.
Pomona
Grange
VOL. XVI.
LENTS STATION, PORTLAND, OREGON, DECEMBER 12, 1918
Subscription, $1.50 a Year
Meat ing.
Livestock Show Marked Success.
h< r yarn away one day and she well
njk-li went crazy, so they thought
they might as well let her keep on
knittin* for the next war.
hope they win.
I see somebody
dropped a bum on the castle where
the Crown Prince i
stayin' and
knocked off a corner of the tower,
but didn't get him. What is needed
over there i, more intensive trainin’
in bum droppin’. The next guy that
drop, a bum and mittes out ought
to git fired out of whatever army
he is in.
Woodrow is getting ready to #et
sail lor Europe and 1 suppose he
will look you up as soon as he get#
<ft < r ♦here, seeing as how you won
ihi> war for him. But I never could
fig er out why any man takes his
to Paris. Seems as that is one
Deacon Stubbs has named his
tbun a lit re a feller would want to mule Hyacinth, after hi* wife.
cut loo r. We expected to have a
tpikty for Thanksgiving, but de-
Lettie Binks, who left here six
cj<i(-d to buy a Victrola instead.
months ago to git a job in the
chorus in New York, drove through
l\°ur old *idc-kick John Ryan has here last week in her Rolls-Royce
fTm-ncd as head of the airship limousine on the way to her new
board
Air is all right to fly in, country estate. The city is the place
Kit it is difficult to live on it. He to make money.
is interested in coppers.
I could
Mrs. Amos Hanks got her teeth
igo-r get much interested in any of stuck in some peanut brittle that
th« coppers 1 have seen, no matter her husband brung her from New
bos* handsome the uni fem r. I sup- York and can’t pry 'em apart. Seven
po <• Tom Marshall will be purty men in our village have sent to
middlin' busy while Woody is away, New York for a box of that brittle.
lie will have to sign the payroll
uvtry Saturday night and will have
There ain't much news to write
to run the business every day that you. Bill. We are just waitin' for
th< cable ain't workin’.
you to come home. By the way you
are stickin' around there it look,
Now that the war is over, this like you intend to stay for the next
country has started in with its re- war. Don’t bring back none of them
cr»n*t ruction work.
Ren Bink# is fancy things the gals here knit for
threatenin' to patch up the hole in you. It wouldn’t be good taste. 1
hi* kitchen roof, which has been know you ain’t used ’em. You can
there since before the war — the just slip 'em to some Luxemburger
Spanish war. Ren says he has al­ on some dark night and he won't
ways been on.the point of fixin* it. never know who did it. Your mother
but when it rained he couldn't fix expects to buy a cannon and put it
it and when it didn't rain there was in the back yard and dig a hole out
n< use of fixin' it. Food is going there for you to spend your nights
up by leaps and bounds, because we in. and we will take turns gettin’
luq- got to feed the soldiers.
I up and shooting it off. so you can
often wonder if the soldiers didn't get your nights* sleep as usual.
«at anything before the war started.
It teems to me you always had a
You might begin shippin' your
purty good appetite before the army medals back now. two or three at a
Broke out. I never imagined there time, so you won’t be all tired out
wa* two million guys in our midst luggin’ em all home at the same
who wasn't eating anythin’.
time.
Take care of yourself, old
boss, and don't fall in love. Sher­
It beats all how society keeps man described war. but he couldn't
:<*in’ here in our midst.
Mr. and find no word to describe love, hut
Mr*. Abijah Totten sold their cook- you know what I mean. Sherman
•tovc last week to buy a new tire.
had a scant vocabulary. When you
go to the boat to meet Woodrow,
I never wished the flu microbes give him my best regards.
any luck, but now that they have
With a heap of love.
got after William Hohenzollern I
Yours, DAD.
Every American prisoner in Ger­
many received a big food parcel
every week from the Red Cross.
Thirty-two thousand school chil­
dren in the schools of Paris were
receiving regular lunches from the
Red Cross during the past year.
BIRTHS.
The seventeenth annual exposition
of the Pacific International Live­
To Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Lewis, 5416 stock Association opened Tuesday
Thirty-seventh avenue, November 14, at the stockyards in North Port­
land. A large number of entries of
a son.
fat cattle, hogs and sheep and many
To Mr. amt Mrs. Clarence G. choice exhibits of full bred stock
Mounce. ,182*i Fifty-fifth, November arc being shown.
23. a «laughter.
HERE IS PHOTO OF ONE OF THE WAR’S EARLY TRAGEDIES
New Design for License Plates.
To Mr. and Mr#. Clyde (). McCul-
Chrome yellow background and
inch, 6516 Fifty*»evciith, Novcmber
black figures will be the colors of
29. a son.
automobile license plates for 1919,
offering a strong contrast to the
To Mr. and Mr*. Benjamin H.
gray-ldue background and black fig­
Carr, 4251 Fifty-eighth. December 1, ures of the 1918 license plates.
a daughter.
To Mr. and Mrs. John H. Eng-
berg, one-half mile cast of Lents,
November 26, a son.
City
Water
Rates
Unchanged.
Waler rates for 1919 have been
fixed by the council on tile same
basis as the rates for 1918 on recom­
To Mr. and Mrs. Takuichi Inruka, mendation of Commissioner Mann,
3715 Sixty-third, November 29, a son. of the Department of Public Utili­
ties.
To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Bring-
<»lf, 5‘XM Forty-first avenue S. E.,
Grange Association Meeting.
December 4. a son.
The Masters’, Lecturers' and Over­
seers' Association of the Grange will
DEATHS.
hold its regular meeting with Lents
Grange, Saturday. December 14. at
Albert Meyers, 4133 Sixty-seventh I 15 P. M. All Grangers are invited
to be present.
S. E., December 6, 31 years.
Mabel F. Bringolf, 5004 Forty-first
avenue S. F... December 5. 29 years.
MARRIAGES.
Alfred Prideaux, 170 Fourth street,
Helmer S. Nelson. 5917 Woodstock and Edith Neal, (>¿06 Fifty-second
avenue, December 7, 29 years.
street S. E.
I Hen T. Nelson, 5917 Woodstock
avenue, December 5, 26 years.
I Men Louise Stuart, 4639 Sixty­
fifth street S. E., December 8. 16
years.
Ola May Clary, 762 East Sixty­
fourth, December 6, 16 years.
Funeral
of
Edwin
Stewart.
The British nduiiralt.v Ims Just imide Its first official report of the loss of the battleship Audacious,’which sank
lifter striking a mine off the north Irish const on October 27. 1914. The loss of the battleship was officially kept n
secret nt the urgent request of the cotnmander in chief of the grand fleet. The photograph shows the Audacious as
It wits sinking. Destroyers are close to the doomed vessel rescuing the sailors.
BRITISH WOMEN WORKERS IN A GLASS FACTORY
Hans Andresen, .1823 Sixty-third
street, and lliilda Olson. .1823 Sixty-
third street.
Parent*
Io
PROBLEM CHANGES
In view of the proposed increase
in street car fares, the following
letter is of interest to every citizen
.of the Mt. Scott district. The let­
ter was written in 1910 by F. I.
Fuller, then vice-president of the
Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company, to the city council of St.
Johns.
“Portland, Oregon, August 23, 1910.
—To the President and Members of
the Common Council of the City
of St. John,. Oregon. Gentlemen:
Answering the inquiry made by some
of your members in my office this
morning, i beg to state in regard to
the rumor that it is the intention of
this company to charge an additional
5-cent fare between the city limits
of Portland and the terminus of our
line in St. Johns, that as far as my
knowledge and that of the other of­
ficials of this company there is no
intention to make any such addi­
tional charge and that the matter
of changing the rate between Port­
land and St. Johns from a 5-cent
fare has not been under contempla­
tion by this company.
Regarding the position that the
city of St. Johns would be in should
they grant a franchise to us per­
mitting a 5-cent fare to be charged
within the city limits of St. Johns,
would also state that this would not
change the present conditions. As
we understand it, we have that right
at the present time and have had
the same for years. On account of
the advice of our legal department
it would be absolutely impossible
for us to accept any franchise car­
rying with it a binding contract to
carry passengers from the city of
Portland to points beyond its city
limits in any direction for a 5-cent
fare.
In regard to the position under
which the city of St. Johns would
be in case a franchise was granted
to this company which permitted
them to charge a 5-cent fare within
the limits of the city of St. Johns,
in case your city was brought into
the limits of the city of Portland, I
beg to advise you that under the
Oregon code section 2096, laws of
1901, page 23. section 2, that it would
be a criminal offense for this com-
?iany to charge more than a 5-cent
are anywhere within such extend­
ed limits of the city of Portland and
that the provision o< the franchise
regarding the 5-cent fares inside of
the city limits of St. Johns could not
in any way allow ns-to charge more
than the fare prescribed by the law
above mentioned, viz.: 5 cents.
As the matter of the Fessenden
street opening and improvement and
tts accompanying conditions and ar­
rangements have been brewing so
long and have been once knocked
out by the passage of a state law
during the working out of our first
agreement, and as the matter of the
improvement of Jersey street is con­
templated by your city authorities,
which if taken up without a fran­
chise right .on said street which
would enable us to make a legal in­
vestment in the same, would require
further negotiations and delay, I
sincerely hope that the whole mat­
ter will be closed up at this time,
believing as I do that the plan now
under consideration works no hard­
ship or unfairness to cither party
and leaves matters in such shape
that both the Fessenden and Jersey
street improvements can be carried
along without further delay.
Yours very trulv,
F. I. FULLER.
Vice-President.”
CRITICISE PRINCIPAL
George Jorg. 18. 758 East Eighth
street N . and Lillian P. Williams, 17,
892.1 Fifty-sixth avenue S. E.
Lanls
STREET CAR FARE"
GRADUATES OF SCHOOL
Henry Grohs, 5otD Forty-eighth
Mary Elizabeth Thorne, 274 East street S. E„ and Lucille Mayea, 774J4
Eighty-fourth street, December 7, East Ankeny street.
41 years.
The funeral services of Edwin
Stewart were held at the family
r«,sidrnce. 3809 Sixty-eighth street
S. E.. Wednesday, at II :30 A. M.
No. 50
Meet.
The regular monthly meeting of
District 45. Parent-Teacher Asso­
ciation, will be held at the Lents
school house at 3:15 o'clock Friday
afternoon. All members are urged
to attend.
MRS. W. E. BATES. Secretary.
I.ents parents are interested in the
controversy which is disrupting the
Benson Polytechnic School. A num­
ber of students live near Lents, and
several graduates spent years in the
I.ents School.
Following an open discussion of
the policies of C. L. Cleveland, prin­
cipal of Ben*on Polytechnic School,
in dealing with students and teach­
ers employed under hint and his al­
leged general lack of interest in
affairs started by the students, the
Alumni association of the school
has passed a resolution condemning
Cleveland’s action
and
especially
his attitude toward E. F. Williams,
former instructor at Benson Schol,
who recently was discharged.
•
Cleveland especially was con-j
ikmncd by the alumni for his al-,
leged lack of interest in the service)
flag, which the association helped,
to present to the school in honor)
of boys who enlisted. It was said
that Cleveland not only refused to,
look up the names of those students
who had entered the servici. but.
stood in the way of those who had,
been appointed to do the work.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors who kindly assisted us
in the hour of need. Words cannot
express the gratitude we owe to the
Scneuneman brothers and the min­
ia« era
MR. ANb MRS. RIENECKER
AND FAMILY.
—wJ------------------
The American Red Cross sent 3000
tons of condensed milk to the chil­
dren of prisoners ni Archangel. Si­
beria, and 2000 pounds of powdered
milk to the children of France.
Bqy less-Serve fess
Eat only 3 meals a d^y
Waste nothing
Ybur guests will cheer­
fully snare simple fare
British women glass workers aro to be very useful In the reconstruction period In Europe.
women glass factory workers removing the glass tliat baa come from a broken pot
Photograph shows
Be Proud to be
a food saver