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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1919)
mt. Scott herald THE SPECTER OF OWL ISLAND Published Every Friday at I^nta Station. Portland. Oregon. J. E. UPDIKE - C. W SMITH - Proprietor Manager ■ BURKE’S - GARAGE Tomorrow is the ■ :■ Fourth of July By ELMER GUY BO AG 7135 Ftfty-mreath Avenue. S. E. Entered as second-claae mall mat ter February 14. 1*14, at the post The wind was dolefully moaning office at Lenta, Oregon, under act ot and howling through the city atreeta. Congress, March 1, 111*. carrying a light rift “of snow and rain. 1 felt miserable—perhaps be Subscription prie« - . $1 SO a year cause I had been working on a grow some story plot all the afternoon, or Phonaa: Tabor 1414, D*1—1111 possibly, insufficient frosh air—so I Sill NinetyXK'Ood Street left my typewriter and hurried down 3E= the somewhat deserter! street toward the Louvre. As I reached the door I MICKIE SAYS met Roy Beeman, a young journal ist. He, knowing it was about my "ouat ast «Mv-Lta ir» lunch time, was there to see me. As vor» o' jo*woau, the check boy took our snow-covered TVicaa »st SMi-vaa > k hats and coats, I noticed a gleam of JJ OVtNVN o* nos , tmsms sat a>sM-vts enthusiasm in Roy’s eyes such as 1 don’t fail to have your auto ready for the in wkiti-KHiao subsea i had seen but once before—when he tHtYAM SMi-vtS was ’ writing "The Haviland Murder." trip you contemplate. Come today and se 'N MICH HtSitS OQ COVM the biggest scoop of the year. We cure the Dry Batteries, Plugs, Horn. Tools, ordered dinner and 1 let! the way to Lamps or anything else lacking in your car’s a table. “Al,” he said, as he leaner! for- equipment. »You’ll find here all the right want, elbows on table. “I am going things at the right price. Our auto supply on a .little secret mission tonight. service is unequalled. Like to go along?" “What is it, Roy, another Haviland murder?” “Great stuff, Al. great stuff!" he answered. “Listen! As I passer! Pat’s bar not more than fifteen min utes ago. a husky came running down AXEL K1LDAHL, Proprietor the street, brushed me aside, and rushed up to the bar. I followed him in. The bartender ignored him, and I: Tabor 3429 Home 1)61 S919 FOSTER ROAD he turned to me, trembling and out of breath. “ ‘Excuse me, pard*. he stammered, as he glanced at his shabby clothes and mopperl his ashen face with a greasy, dirty hand. ‘You know where Owl Island is. don’t you ? The amuse ■ ment park?’ “I assured him that I did. “ ‘There’s a good “jungle ground" THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE near this end of the bridge, and the To elucidate the motive of her boys usually hike across and find a Band of Mercy work, Mrs, Bernal, of good place to flop on the straw and Woodmere, submits the following excelsior that the concession men THEY COST NO MORE from the Humane Education Press pack their dishes and things in. But tonight we couldn ’ t find a thing to AND ARE SO MUCH BETTER Bureau: The hope of our cause is in edu sleep on. Shorty spied a two-story cation. We do not like the prose frame building just over the brow o’ cuting and the punishment side of the hill. We beat it over and walked the work. The teacher, the Band of right in. Shorty was over in the Mercy organizer in the public corner looking for something to make schools, is preventing a hundred a bed of, when he let an awful yell prosecutions in the future, says our out of him. I tried to get out ahead “Dumb Animals.” She is doing -it of him, but he knocked me down and also without engendering bitterness, out he went. See that blood?’ He without taking any money from vio indicated a red splotch on his sleeve. lators of the law or giving them a ’That’s off’n Shorty’s hand! There’s I court record. It’s one thing to go been murder in that house, sure! 1 into a field and cut out foul and Say, pard, stake me to another drink i noxious weeds, and another to reap and I’ll be trying to find poor | a golden harvest from a well-culti- Shorty.’ ” When Roy finished his tale, I ■ vated and well-seeded piece of laughed. “You surely don’t believe | ground. Give us the children to train; let that bum’s story, do you?” “Why not?” he snapped. us teach them the claims of all life “Why, he just framed you for a upon them for justice and kindness, and in the years to come there will drink!” Roy’s face flushed a little, i be little need for prosecutions—the and I added quickly, “but if you I field will be yielding a bountiful crop want to go, I’ll take you in my road of goodness where otherwise one ster.” We left our dinner untouched and would have to root up cruelty and hurried to my apartments. After crime. Today we must prosecute. There providing ourselves with electric are men who refuse to listen to per pocket-lights and guns, we jumped suasion, who have no compassion on into the car and headed toward “the their animals, who deliberately put house of mystery.” Our course led collars on raw sores and work the us south about three miles along the poor horse till someone discovers the river, across a flat to our right about a mile; then just across the bridge cruelty. Used Furniture as Good as New for Half Price. There are men who will starve was Owl Island. As we neared the Highest Cash Price Paid for Used Furniture, Etc, their cattle, neglect them for days bridge a gust of wind whistled de risively through the little trees and at a time, leave them exposed to the Lents, Oregon 9213 Foster Road wildest weather. These men have they nodded their snowy tops at each no fear of anything but the law— other as if joining the wind in its some of them not much fear of that. hearty laugh at us. We drove past Yet even these, as children, might the amusement park and into a r have been taught the lessons that clump of small firs, As we left the would have changed their whole at car we noticed that there was no snow falling and the wind had died, titude toward animals. If we had a million dollars we be The trees were silent and motionless. lieve that nowhere could it be made like sentinels watching us. The stars PORK VEAL BEEF MUTTON to yield such returns for character, were shining and cast a ghastly hue SMOKED and SALT MEATS and good citizenship generally, as on the snow-whitened house and devoted to training the children of shrubbery near by. The whole atmo FISH an POULTRY our land in the principles for which sphere of the place was unpleasant, our Humane Education society stands which brought to mind the tramp’s HIGHEST Gl ALITY—MlWESl i ,J, and which it has been spreading story. We walked across the open lot, to broadcast now for a quarter of a the house, and stepped onto the century. Tabor 2573 5919 Ninety-second Street Occasionally some one finds fault porch. Roy put his hand somewhat with another because he has given reluctantly, I thought, on the door V. largely to our work. “Animals,” he knob, then suddenly turned it, and says, “how can any one give for walked in with an air of confidence. SECRET THE PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN “Oh, I guess there’s nothing to it them when children go uncared for!” who in Nnccemful burr niml.u himself with But humane education is first for after all,” he said. “Of course, it every availabb modern devise for saving does make one feel a bit shivery; the child and second for the animal. his time and mom y. The but*in«*tfa man It is for the inner and better life of but I don’t think there’s been any who fails to use an AUTOMATIC TEL tens of thousands of children who m-u-r—God! What’s that?” EPHON E Himply »■.*•».- <- h hi« eatabliahinvnt It seemed that the house dropped are not hungry or naked or home to thousands of ponnibk* customer, lie less, but who are to be the citizens straight down into the earth; as may never know thu teal reason for his of the future and who, growing up swiftly and noiselessly as an elevator failure in biirineN< THINK IT.OVER. we dropped, the faint starlight being humane, just, fair-minded, kind, will change many of the conditions which completely shut out as we sank in Ixinjr Distance Everywhere now bring misery to- childhood and the darkness. “Of course, there’s nothing to be untold suffering to animals. CALL A 6221 afraid of; but I just feel a little bit faint, ” Roy babbled weakly. 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