Subscription, $1.50 a Year LENTS STATION, PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1919 VOL. XVn. No. 17 11 LENTS GARAGE IS TO HAVE NEW BUILDING PROF. BOYER WILL DIRECT SINGING AT SCHOOL MAY 16 G. W. HOLLIDAY DIED LENTS MERCHANT MONDAY MORNING ROBBED SATURDAY WILSON REITERATES NEED OF HOTEL IN THE LENTS DISTRICT LENTS SCHOOL WILL GIVE PROGRAM MAY 2 _____ Memorial Service for t^ents Suggests Lowering of Rent Company Now Ix>cal Agent Son in Navy, Unable to Get City Detective Department Part of Entertainment Will Alumni Heroes to Be by Owners of Vacant for Dort Motor Car Home Before Death Be in Afternoon and Investigating but Fail Held That Date. Store Buildings. Company. of Father. Part in Evening. to Find Money. Plans are just b«*ing comphded for the vrection of a building adjoining the !<enta garage on the went, to meet the requirements of thia live- wire concern for additional »puce. The new building will be of cement ami tile contil ruction. Mix 100 feet, and with the present building will give Mr. Kildahl a floor .pun* 100x100 feel. Mr. Kildah! hex just secured the local agency for the popular Dort automobile, manufactured by the Dort Motor Car company, of Flint, Mich., and it is the nvcexnary room required to properly di.play these machine, aa well a. talcing care of the increasing buaineaa in the ma chine .hop and repair department that make, the new building impera tive. One nrw Dort la already in Block and more will follow as rapid ly a. room can be made for them. The liort automobile ia a grace ful, well-proportioned machine, hav ing the popular atreamline body, and ia atrong, roomy and comfortable. The engine ia the four-cylinder type, l!»8 horaepowcr. In the hand, of an energetic and »uccofiaful buxine», man of Mr. Kildahl*. caliber there ia no question about the car having an exten.ive Mile in thia part of the City. The front of the building now hou.ing the garage will be uaed a. a aalea room and th« back part, which will be cloned off with a glaaa parti tion. will be utilized for storing ma chines. The repair department will be moved to the rear part of the aew building, leaving the front part for a sendee room, where there will be ample room for driving in for k»e and m> without dlffteufty. The gas station will be in the center of this large room. BIRTHDAY DINNER GIVEN BY SHILO CIRCLE PLEASING Birthdays of Members Oc curring Second Quarter to he Celebrated. The birthday dinner given by the ladies of Shiloh Circle No. 19, G. A. R., was well attended by member, of the Post and Circle. The tables were beuutifully decorated with cut flow ers and a bounteous repast was nerved to which all did ample justice. A large decorated birthday cake, donated by Mrs. Emma Rush, was enjoyed by all and pronounced most delicious. The .ick members were not forgotten, each one being .ent a box of dainties and a bouquet of flowers. At the next meeting, May 8, they will celebrate the 'birthdays of all member, having a birthday in the second quarter, at which time they expect to have a number of the de partment officers present. Lents Ladies to Take Part in Odd Fellow Anniversary Mrs. Mamie Cox, Mrs. May Bluhn and Mrs. Orah Highmiller will be representatives of the Eureka Re bekah Ixxige No. 178 drill team at the Odd Fellows one hundredth an niversary celebration to be held at the Auditorium Saturday evening. Mrs. Cox will be dressed to repre sent a Belgian girl, Mrs. Bluhn as an Italian and Mrs. Highmiller as a French lady. They have been drill ing for some time under the direc tion of Prof. Crone. Dr. Atwood to Move to Yott Building May 1 Dr. A. G. Atwood has leased and will occupy the rooms in the Yott building now occupied as an apart ment by Mr. and Mrs. R. Gabel. He will move about May 1. The doctor will have the rooms re-decorated and finifihed and will have one of the most convenient and comfortable dental parlors in town. W. II. Boyer has consented to give a community sing at the memorial exercise* in honor of the Lents boys at the twnts school on the afternoon of May 1«. Iwnt. is fortunate in getting the best leader in the United State, for thia event. ® Mrs. Unru to Address Parent-Teacher Circle This Afternoon (25th) ls»nts Parent-Teacher association will meet Friday afternoon, April 25, in the school auditorium. Mrs. Adah Wallace Unru will speak ut 2:80 o'clock on the "Evil That Beset Young Girls." Every mother is urged to hear this interesting lecture. New Series of Dances To Begin on Saturday Evening at Franklin The community «lancing clans, un der the able directorship of Prof. George E. Levc at Franklin high school, completed its series of 10 les son. last Saturday evening, and no popular have the dances been that a vote was taken to continue them. The vote wan unanimous anti a new series of dunce, will begin next Sat urday evening. There has been an averag«* attendance of 400 at the dance, and they have been the moans of bringing the parent, und ’young people into closer social contact. ’(Jo and take your children and learn to dance with them. Woodmere School Has Girls’ Basehall Team The girls’ indoor baseball team of the Woodmere school has th«* follow ing personnel: Captafti and pitcher, , Lucile Davidson; catcher, Mildred Sutton; first base, Nellie Horner; second base, Myrtle Lewis; third base, ixili, Holmes; first short stop, Ixirna Spooner; recon«l short-stop, Murgaret i Spooner; left field, Marguerite Blair; right field, Dorothy Korns; center field, Madeline Smith. C, w. Holliday, 4824 Sixty-sixth street, died at 1 o’clock Monday morning, April 21, after suffering for many month, with chronic neu ritis. Mr. Holliday was 49 years of age. He was born at Dowagiac, Mich., May 13, 1870, where he resided till h<* came to Oregon to make his home. He was married in 1894, ami to the union was born one son, Nor man Holliday, who is in the navy, on the torpedo boat Hannibal, a mother convoy of nub chasers. He is ut present somewhere off the coast of Spain and unable to reach home. Besides the wife and son, two sisters also survive Mr. Holliday, Mrs. Ix>sh- baugh, of Portland, and Mrs. Hungi- ford, of Dowagiac, Mich. Funefal services will be held today, Friday,‘at 1 p. m. at Kenworthy’s chapel, under the auspices of tlje M«slcrn Woodmen, of whi^h order he had long be«*n a member. Father Salu officiated. Besides the sorrow ing relatives Mr. Holliday leaves a host of true friends who will miss liis cheery .mile and pleasant word. The family has the deepest sympathy of the entire community. W. E. Goggins, proprietor of the sh<»<- and gents’ furnishing store at 5935 Ninety-secorul street, was th«* victim of a theft to the tunc of $300 last Saturday. H<- drew the money out of the bank about n«x>n Saturtlay to be used in cashing pay checks during the evening, and absent-mind edly left it in his coat pocket anti hung the coat in the rear of the store. About 6:30 when he needed mor«- cash he remembered leaving it in his coat, but upon going to get it found the money gone. The police department was notified and detec tive. were assigned to the case, but so far no trace of the money has been found. Mr. Goggins says a stranger, about 60 year, of age, ap plied for a job at the store about 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon, and upon Mr. Goggins coaaidering the matter favorably he promised to re turn Monday to begin work, but fail«*«! to put in an appearance. De tective made a s«-arch for him but without results, and the theory is advanced that if he was the thief he probably got off the Mt. Scott car on the east side and took a train for some out of town point. MOTHERS’ MEETING PRIMARY ROOMS AT AT GRAYS CROSSING WOODMERE SCHOOL VERY SUCCESSFUL GIVE PROGRAM 25th This evening, the 25th, at the Woo«lmere school the primary grades, consisting of seven rooms below the third grade, will give an entertain ment of drill., musical numbers and other feature, representative of their work. The teachers who have charge of these rooms and who are active in promoting the exercise, are Mos- dames Florence, George Brown, Lida Wilson, and the Misses Queenie Swanson, Edna Galbreath, Clara Lan don, Helen Thompson and Sadie Mc Innis. The funds derived will be use«i for local school purposes. Survey Made for Sidewalk on 92nd Street Wednesday A mothers' meeting was held Tues day, April 22, at the chapel at Gray. Crossing. The house was well fill«»d with mothers whose first <ieep con cern was the welfare of their sons and daughters, and each went away 'teeJTng a new duty and responsibil ity, ami the sacre«l privileges of her own radiant spirit, clear-fac«*d motherhoo«i after listening to Mrs. Edith Whiteside, *as she delivered her beautiful message, backed up by and annointed trust in God. She spoke largely from her own personal experience with her own family and dwelt on how she could not afford “to spare the rod and spoil the .child.” We are sorry that every mother in Lents could not have heard her address. Mrs. E. M. Russell fa- vored the audience with a beautiful solo. Mrs. Ebbert sang “My Mother’s Bible,” accompanied by a guitar. It is the purpose to continue the moth ers’ meetings once a month. The date set is the last Tuesday of each month, at 2:30 p. m. Every mother is cordially invited. MRS. RHODA WALLACE. Surveyors from the city engineer’s office were locating the property line aroursi th«- building occupied by the FRANKLIN TEACHER Donaldson grocery preparatory to putting in a cement walk in front LEAVES TO TAKE UP of the building, both on Ninety- WORK ON HER FARM second street and on the north .ide along Woodstock avenue. Ninety- second street will be paved in front Thursday evening, April 18, the of this property as soon as the city ladjes of the Laurelwood M. E. begins it. paving contract on this church gave a dinner for the mem street in the near future. ber. of Miss Mary E. Bott's Sunday school class in honor of Miss Betz, who left that evening at 11 o’clock for her ranch up in Umatilla coun ty. Covers were laid at the table for ubout 25, anti a delicious threc- FOR A SHORT TIME ’course dinner was served. At the con clusion of the last course a leather correspondence set was present«»«! to Miss Betz in behalf of the class by Ray Mollett. A short speech of ap preciation of the work and influence of Miss Betz in the loiurelwood M. E. Sunday school was made by the pastor, Rev. A. C. Biackenbury, an«i special music was rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Dunsmore, revivalist sing ers, then assisting at the Laurel wood M. E. pre-Easter aervieea. The function was concluded in time for the evening service, which was one LESS THAN ONE CENT A WEEK! of the closing ones of the Lenten season. Miss Betz has been connected with This extraordinary offer may not last long—don’t the Franklin High for the last three or four years, and her leaving has delay or you may be too late. Bring or send in been a source of regret to her stu your 50 cents and get all the local happenings of dents, who have found in her a rare combination — a teacher who com your home district for a whole year at less than bined humor, sympathy, good sense and ability. Miss Betz is a Stanford one cent a week—mailed direct to your home. girl and a worthy representative of her alma mater. She has bought a DON’T WAIT! DO IT NOW! ranch about a mile gut of Umatilla. Ore., and concluded her work this early in the Franklin High that she might superintend in person the spring work, aj^i al^y tjiat she might rejoin her Wrs. "Sibylla Betz, who is up at the ranch. The many Phone Tabor 7824. D-61 friends of Miss Betz wish her all good luck in her agricultural under 5812 Ninety-second Street Lents, Oregon taking. The Mt. Scott Herald One Year For 50 CENTS Mt. Scott Herald Lent«, April 22, 1919. Editor Mt. Scott Herald: Your editorials are evidopce that you are doing your “bit” in boosting the Lents district. Your article about the ne«*d of a hotel backs up what I said in a former letter. We com«? in contact with people almost every day who reiterate the same opinion. The lack of a good hostelry of the kind is a detriment to the «Jevelopment of this part of the city as well as to the value, of property. There are “agitators” and “agi tators.” Let us all agitate until we •see this part of our city equal in at tractions and accommodations to any other part of Portland’s suburbs. I was a citizen of Vancouver, Wash., for six years and was one among other agitators for a bigger and bet ter city. The result, are in evidence. So boost for a Lent, hotel. Another detriment to the rapid de velopment of the Ixmts district is the number of vacant store buildings, al) along the car line from Anabel to Ninety-third street at Lents. From Anabel to Tremont there are over 60 —that give, a stranger bad impres sions and prevent, investment in real estate. But worst of all is the 17 vacant store buildings on this delect able Sixtieth avenue between Grays Crossing and Ninety-third street, in clusive. Some of them have been vacant for five years and are likely to remain vacant for the next 75 years unless their owners come down with the rents. Wouldn’t it be better for the owners to have these build ings occupied either free or for a nominal rent for a limited period than to allow their property to run down and remain vacant? If this were done there are people who would be glad to start a little busi ness of some kind, and after taking time to build up a patronage would be able to pay more rent. But, oh, shucks! what’s the use? Some own ers would rather have the luxury of paying taxes on unprofitable prop erty than see anyone else make a dollar. So we will have to plow our way along Woodstock avenue through 16 frog ponds and past 17 unoccupied store buildings. W. AUBREY WILSON. Wilson Clark and Nelle Turpin Wedded Saturday Wilson Clark and Miss Nelle Tur pin were pronounced man and wife at the Evangelical parsonage last Saturday evening, April 19, Rev. N. Shupp officiating. They will reside at 6405 Ninety-fifth street. Following is the program for the entertainment to be given at Lents school on the afternoon and in the evening of May 2. This entertainment is under the auspices of the Parent-Teacher circle and the school. Howard Shroyer, re cently returned from France, has promised to show his trophies and tell his experiences to the children in the afternoon of the above date: Program for Afternoon and Evening Portland Grammar School Orches tra—a. b. e. Song—Room 6. Recitation—Etna Moore. Motion Song—Room 3. Recitation—Room 18. Piano Solo—Dorothy Hess. Hoop Drill—Rooms 1 and 2. Recitation—Room 9. Folk Dance—Room 5. Recitation—Room 1. Flag Drill—11 and 12. Song—"Ring, Lily Bells, Ring,”— Room 7. Recitation—Desmond Stanenko. Calisthenic Bird Drill—Room 10. Song (Boys)—Room 16. Violin Duet (Afternoon) — Donald Updike and Edward Kaufman. Violin Solo (Evening)—Miss Edith Turner. Recitation—Room 19. Piano Solo (Afternoon)—Mis. Mc- Nawten. Song in Character (Evening)— Room 13. Wand Drill—17 and 19. Tattoo—Room 8. Grays Crossing Man Was Married on Wednesday A. R Worden, of Grays Crossing, and Miss Lumena Bonneau, of 869 Garfield street, were quietly married in Portland Wednesday afternoon. Following the ceremony a reception was tendered the couple at the bride’s home. Parents Hear From Son First Time in Over Year Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Tillman, of 6236 Ninety-fifth street, received a letter from their son Mearl, who is on the U. S. torpedo boat Dowens, stating that he arrived in New York April 15. This is the first word they had received from him for over a year. He has been at a port in Cuba where he could not send mail out, nor could he receive any. E. D. Savage Now Sole Owner of Restaurant Faith Wallace Entertained Little Friends at Party E. D. Savage, who has been asso ciated with T. W. Conlee in the Mt. Scott restaurant, south of the car line-on Ninety-second street, has pur chased Mr. Conlee’s interest and will continue the business alone. It is not known what Mr. Conlee’s inten tions are as to the future. Mrs. Frank Wallace, 6111 Eighty fourth street, made the hearts of several little folks happy last Satur day when she entertained them in honor of the birthday of her little daughter Faith. The kiddies spent a most enjoyable afternoon playing games, and- especially enjoyed the dainty refreshments served. I^ents School Defeated by Woodmere Four to One Son Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Kenworthy April 18 Last Thursday, April 17, Wood- mere played Lents school on the Ix*nts diamond, the latter being de Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Kenworthy, of feated by the score of four to one. 1122 East Morrison street, are the happy parents of a nine-pound boy, Woodmere Parent-Teacher bom Friday morning, April 18, 1919. Association is Entertained The most recent function in con nection with the Woodmere Parent- Teacher association was that held on the last meeting day at the Wood- mere school, when the primary de partment under the direction of Miss Mina Johnson entertained the ladies with a series of songs, drills and rec itations. Mt. Scott Bakery Building . Up a Successful Business Since J. Rosenau became proprietor of the Mt. Stott Bakery, 9139 Foster road, the first of the year, it has deservedly become the most popular bakery in Lents. Mr. Rosenau gives his personal attention to the bakery department, and his home-made bread is even more uniformly good Student Body Gives Dance than the bread “mother" makes. Tonight at Franklin High When it comes to pastry, a lady who recently purchased a wedding cake of the Mt. Scott Bakery aptly ex The student body of Franklin will pressed it with the statement that it give a dance in the school gym was the most perfect piece of bakery nasium thi. evening, the 25th. goods she ever saw.