- ... tea U o* 0 Library Subscription, $1.50 a Year LENTS STATION, PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 2 1919 MRS. DAVIS PASSED AWAY LAST FRIDAY LOAN CONTEST A very interesting meeting was held at Gilbert school last Friday evening al which County School Su­ perintendent Alderson and Miss Calk­ ins, county Industrial club organier, were present and an illustrated lec­ ture on the club work of Multnomah county was given. Following this was the contest in four-minute sjM>eches by rrprescnta- tivea of five county schools on the Victory loan. Murcella Gill' rcpre- Rented Ruszelville school, Winnifred Tegart represented Rockwood, Earl Olson represented Pleasant Valley, Robert Holter represented Rivera and Kenneth White represented Gilbert. Kenneth White won the prize for the best speech, the prize being a |li war saving stamp. His speech on the Victory loan follows: Yes. .the greatest and most ter­ rible war of history has stopped for the first time in four years. The armistice was signed on vember it, 1918. And now the United States launched the Victory loan beginning April 21, 1919, to raise the immense sum of four billion dollars. Once more old Oregon ia called upon to do her part for tho government; will she respond 7 This la Oregon’s an- fwer: As in the past each person, each household and each institution with a spark of patriotism, of pride, of gratitude will go over ths top. Oregon's quota is 25 million dollars with Portland’s quota 13 million. 1 ’ -.W T This is the lust time round. This ia yt v 1 r V the final liberty loan. Thia is to pay k • 1 ' m *1 . * ñv . the bills and to bring the boys back. This is to bind up the wounds of the injured and provide them with an­ other start in life, America has not begun to bring back her woundod, her shell-shocked or her gassaed. and there are hun­ dreds more who have not felt the HIS GOLD IS ON THE SERVICE FLAG -WHERE IS YOURS? KEEP FAITH WITH HIM affects of the gas yet. The worst feature the men had to contend with was the mustard gas. The mustard | ia the war over. They have paid the , gas shells were thrown over with the ' price in full. rest of the shells but they don’t ex­ To countless other thousands of plode; they just separate and the > these boys returning home maimed ! gas escaper, and the men can stand I and broken in mind, the war will still I to work in it from eight to 12 hours go on; they will be paying the price | and then only know they were gassed the remainder of their lives. by beginning to got bilious and their Can we who stayed al home care­ •eyes beginning to get sore, and the lessly anack and let the other fellow do Men and women . of Oregon, the know how much money there is should be rewarded.” it because the government needs imprint of fame upon the name of Mayor Baker says: “There is no available for such purposes for this every cent it can get. Nearly a our fair state will turn into a stain question in my mind that the labor­ year, it will be held in abeyance. million and a half are in Germany of shame if we do not meet the ob­ The most insistant requests for a ers are entitled to more than they Miss Ethlyn Fitzgerald, Mrs. Darnall, and they next clothes and food ami ligation the Liberty loan represents. are now receiving. The scale is too Mrs. H. P. Trask. Bay City, Wash.; Saddler Bulk also enclosed an­ money to keep them in perfect order. You arc face to face with a real test raise in salaries comes from the com­ low when the cost of living is taken Miss Thelma Kennedy, Miss Francis other clipping with the following mon laltorers, who are now paid $3.75 Ixmn every -ent you can spare of citizenship — true Americanism. into consideration. The city should Droste, Dorothy Hess, Richard Hess. comment: for there are hundreds of men who Ix»t this test find you measuring 100 a dhy. Most of these men have fam­ not only give them an opportunity to This clipping was taken from the ilies anti they claim that owing to are lying in base hospitals in per cent loyal. support their families but also to Camp Dodger, the 88th division pa­ the continual advance of prices in France, England and even in the The government bond is the par save something in case of emergency, per. The 57th artillery brigade is United States who are hovering be­ ent bond of all bonds. Back of our foodstuffs and wearing apparel they such as sickness or accidents in the comprised of the 119th, 120th, 121st are having a hard time to make both tween life ami death, and their fam­ government bonds are all the assets family.” and 147th field artillery. A and B ilies worrying about them, nnd they and all the resources that supply the ends meet, to say nothing of provid­ Commissioner Bigelow is also mak­ 147th field artillery is from Portland ing their wives and children with the themselves do not know whether they value of all other bonds, all other ing an investigation which he will and we are hoping to be in Portland comforts of life and a bank account will live or die. zcc’ii itics nnd all other investment». present to the council at the time of soon. for a rainy «lay. There are not only the wounded The Victory Liberty loan bonds the hearing. “The 57th artillery brigade has the There aro also many employes in men, the shell-shocked and the will bear the attractive rate of in­ City Commissioner Mann, who has The noon lunch at the Lents school distinction of'not only being the only gassed. but there arc many ships to terest, and together with all other various departments who are under­ charge of the Municipal Water Bu­ has been in charge of Mrs. E. J. four-regiment bridage in the A. E. be raised, and that will coat millions. desirable elements, when compared paid and are making strenuous ef­ reau, has announced that free water Hess for the past two years. She F. but according to official orders, it forts to have their salaries raised to It will cost millions to build up dev­ with other investments as to col­ will bo furnished by the city for all keeps her account books open for was second in the consecutive number astated France, which will all be lateral, strength and returns have a living wage. Commissioner Perkins Victory gardens planted on vacant inspection, at any time, by the pa­ of days spent in action, first in the says “that to adjust city employes’ counted in with this loan, and if the no equal. property, but will not be given for trons of the school, and urges that number of shells fired on the boches, salaries properly there should be a government does not get enough Americans, all lend your all for gardens on lots on which buildings they come to see the kitchen and how and had more ground won by the money and the people will not sub­ the hoys who have sacrificed their general standardization of wages are now erected. City Auditor Funk she makes the good, warm soup. infantry in front of it with fewer scribe they will put a tax on the lives that this country might be safe made by a board of disinterested has a list of properties which are Mrs. Hess buys her vegetables persons. With such a plan in effect vacant and are now available and is from farmers at wholesale pricesand casualties than any other artillery people, and then they will not get to live in. unit in F rance. ■ ach employe would be paid accord­ desirous to have all owners of lots tries to keep other expenditures any interest back. “When the members of the 57th The interest on them» bond» is 4M Former Lents Girl to Visit Czlifornia ing to his or her worth, while at who are willing to allow citiaens to down to a minimum. She knows, by artillery brigade leave the 88th to per cent. Miss Ruby Ixrve, n former well- present many employes are greatly plant gardens on their property to the aid of the teachers, through a rejoin the 32nd division, it will look Invest and help some poor soldier known Lents girl, will leave on the underpaid. In my department I system of ticket-selling each morn­ like a doughboy outfit ready for the send in their names and locations. boy who has been on the western steamer Rose City on May 6 for San ing in the rooms, just how many trenches. All material will have been -A- front and has been wounded. Arms, Francisco. She remain in San bowls of soup she is to provide; and turned in and hiking with full pack legs or hands blown off. Some of Ffancisco a short Tlme'and will then last Tuesday she used three tables will be the fashion. you may have a son who has been go on to Ix>s Angelos, San Diego and to seat 55 children. “Turning in of the equipment on the western front and has been the Catalina Islands She expects to The teachers have been comparing started last week when the escort wounded or gassed. If he is wound­ spend a month in^k' llifornin, making the afternoon working capacity of wagons went back to the 88th di­ ed loan, your little "saving may save the return trip by train, Miss Love Addie M. Root died at her home, into the Christian church in 1914 and .the children who have the warm vision. Soon after the motor show his life. If he does not get help in now employe«kby wl Gary Coast 10332 Sixtieth avenue, Friday, «|ini April was a faithful worker in the church. lunch with those who eat the cold, on March 28, the horses and motor from home and the Red Cross had Agency, Inc., pi Portland, as ste- 25, after a short illness with influ ­ She came to Lents with the family and they have come to the conclusion vehicles will be turned over to the not had money he might have died. nographe r. • enza. Mrs. Root was born in Little thus far, that the warm-lunch chil­ 88th division and the three- and six- from Mosier, Ore., about six months Many of our boys died. dren do better work than those who inch guns will be taken to the army First Lieutenant IE Steiger Rock, Ark., May 9, 1881, and was ago.' They gnve their all forever. have cold lunches. married to Elmer L. Root . .. _ in _____ 1902. artillery park at Toul. Funeral services were held at Ken­ You lend a little for a while. has returned home from Camp Hola- Three sons were born to this union: It is to the interest of the children “Upon returning to the United worthy ’ s undertaking parlors Satur ­ Sixty thousand of our American bird, Baltimore, Md. He has been Eugene, age 16; Howard, 18, and that the school is looking in pro­ States it is said that the 32nd divis­ day, April 26, Rev. Smith officiating. hoys lie among the poppies in Flan­ serving in the transportation division Amos, 7, who with the husband and Interment was in Mt. Scott Park viding this lunch convenience, and it ion will parade in Milwaukee and ders fields in France. To them only of the army. is most earnestly desired that the Detroit before the men will be mus­ father survive her. She was baptized cemetery. parents look into the matter. tered out of service.” L ’. r- V!' LENTS SCHOOL LUNCH POPULAR WITH KIDDIES MRS. ROOT VICTIM OF INFLUENZA APRIL 25 > GEN. PERSHING PRAISED 32ND Mrs. Edith N. Davis died at her home at Bell itose at 6:40 o’clock p. m. Friday, April 25, 1919, at the age of 65 years and 15 days. She was bom April 10, 1854, in McClane , The following clipping from the j Daily Mail was sent by a Lents boy, | county. Illinois. At $he age of six years she moved SaMdler Charles Bulk, battery A, I with her parents to Miama county, 147th field artillery. Saddler Bulk’s ■ Kansa.’, where she was later married artillery brigade fought through the I to B. T. Davis. To this union were war with the 32nd division, men­ born five children, four of whom are tioned by General Pershing as the 1 living. object of his warmest approval. At the age of sixteen years she General Pershing inspected these was converter! and joined the Cum­ troops, most of whom come from berland Presbyterian church, in 1890 Michigan and Wisconsin, during his she with her husband and family recent visit to the army of occupa­ moved to Rooks county, Kansas, tion. It was that visit which called where they joined the M. E. church, forth his letter, which reads: In 1911 the family came to Bell “My Dear General Lassiter: Please Rose, Oregon, and she became a extend to the officers and men of member of the M. E. church at Ben­ the 32nd division my sincere compli­ nett chapel, of which she was a ments upon their appearance and member when she passed away. upon the splendid condition of the ar­ Mrs. Davis leaves a husband, B. T. tillery and transportation at the re­ Davis; two daughters, Miss Minnie view and inspection on March 15. In Davis and Mrs. E. J. Shotwell; a | fact, the condition of your command son, W. Davis, all of Bell Rose; and was what would be expected of a di­ a son, Roy L. Davis, of Riverside. vision with such a splendid fighting Cal. She also leaves a brother, J. record. M. Mannen, of Paola, Kan. “After training for several months, Funeral services were held at Ben­ following its arrival in February, nett chapel Monday morning at 11 1918, it entered the line in Alsace o’clock, Rev. Patton officiating. The and held this sector until the time remains were laid to rest in Mount of the Aisne-Marne offensive, when Scott Park cemetery. it mover! to that active front. On July 30 it entered the lines on the Ou req, and in the course of its action captured Cierges, Bellevue Farm and the Bois de la Planchette. The at­ tack was resumed on August 1, the division pushing ahead until it crossed the Vesle and captured the town of Mismes. On August 28 it most enjoyable evening was again entered the line, and launched spent at the O. A. Hess home last attacks which resulted in the capture Saturday by numerous friends of Dr. of Juvigny at the cost of severe cas­ and Mrs. Hess, the occasion being a ualties. “During the Meuse-Argonne of­ surprise party in honor of Mrs. Hess’ birthday anniversary. The surprise fensive, the 32nd division entered the feature was a complete success, Mrs. line on September 30 and, by its Hess having no inkling of the affair persistence in that sector, it pene­ trated the Kretmhilde Stellung, tak­ until the guest« arrived. Being a surprise party, Mrs. Hess ing Romagne and following the ene­ had no opportunity to exercise her my to the northeastern edge of the well-known culinary ability, so the Boise de Bantheville. On November guests brought refreshments of sand­ 8, the division took up the pursuit of wiches, cake, etc., but an immense the enemy east of the Meuse until birthday cake was also enjoyed by the time when hostilities were sus­ pended. those in attendance. “Since the signing of the armistice The evening was spent in playing • cards, Mrs. C. P. McGrew and W. S. the 32nd division has had the honor to act as a part of the army of oc ­ Sanders winning first prize and Mrs. F. O. McGrew and C. P. McGrew- cupation. For the way in which all ranks have performed their duties in winning the booby prize. this capacity I have qnly the warm­ Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Barstow, Mr. and Mrs. Walter San­ est praise and approval. The pride ders, Mr. and Mrs. Chester McGrew, of your officers and men, justified by Mr. and Mrs. Finley McGrew, Mr. such a record, will insure the same and Mrs. J. C. Howe, Mr. and Mrs. high morale which has been present Otto Katzky, Mr. and Mrs. Leo in the division during its stay in Katzky, Mr. and Mrs. E. Snyder, Mr. France. I want each man to know and Mrs. Thomas Weddel, Mr. and my appreciation of the work he has Mrs. M. K. Hedge, Mr. and Mrs. H. done and of the admiration in which L. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Ken­ he is held by the rest of his com­ nedy, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Droste, Mr. rades in the American Expeditionary Forces. and Mrs. Clyde Sager, Mr. and Mrs. “Sincerely yours, John Hanken, Mr. and Mrs. Roy “JOHN J. PERSHING.” Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Foster, SDRPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR MRS. HESS I VOL. XVn. No. 18