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LENTS STATION, PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1919
VOL. XVH. No. 47
FIRE PROTECTION TO BE
MRS. BLUMAUER SPOKE
WRIGHT DAVIS BUYS OLD
PROGRAM TO “MOTHER”
FRIENDS SURPRISE MISS
SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS.
AT GILBERT P.-T. A.
GIVEN AT WOODMERE
ISIS THEATER BUILDING
TERRELL ON BIRTHDAY
DISCUSSED MONDAY EVE.
SHUPP SHOCKS FRIENDS
Question of Disbanding Lenta
Better health as a means to
The following program was
Wright Davis, of near Gilbert
Members
of
the
Friends Funeral Services Held in the
Volunteer Firemen to be put station, east of Lents, has pur­ better citizenship for the rising given by Mrs. Forrester's class church slipped into Miss Ter­
Evangelical Church Thursday
up to Business Men and Home chased the old Isis Theater generation was the subject that Thursday, November 18, at the rell’s home and surprised her
and Body Will be Laid to Rest
building of E. P. Tobin, and is occupied much of the attention Woodmere school at the regular
Owners of District.
at Old Home.
last Tuesday evening, the oc­
A meeting w»» held Munday
evening by the lx:nls Volunteer
Fire company to discuss the
question ns to whether or nut to
disband and allow the city to
lake over the entire responsibil­
ity of furnishing fire protection
for the lanls district. The fire
buys have become somewhat
discouraged owing to the fact
that the Isis building has been
sohl and they now have no place
to keep the fire apparatus.
A committee consisting of A.
I). Kenworthy, William Eatchel,
F. it. Peterson and Marviu
Hedge was appointed to curry
the matter before the city au­
thorities. They will ask the city
to furnish a fire station for hous­
ing the apparatus, which the
people uf this district feel is the
very least the city should do in
view of the excellent protection
th< local firemen have given this
part of the city since its organ­
isation several years ugo. Thou-
saials of dollars worth of prop
erty has been saved through their
valiant work during this period
and it is the opinion of every
property owner Interviewed that
the fircinc n should la- given cvcrv
« nrotiragi incut ami assistance
in continuing the organisation.
Ill order to place, the matter
before property owners of the
community it a as decided at the
meeting Monday night to hold
an open meeting next Monday
night. November 24. in the Odd
Fellows hall, to which the pub­
lic is invited. This is a matter
that every business man nn.l
every home owner in Lents and
vicinity is vitally interested in
and there should be a full at
tendance.
The nearest paid city fire
company is at Kern Park. This
company has a large territory to
cover and in case of fires in
Lents the boys here often have
them out or under control by
the time the Kern Park firemen
makes the long run. Then, to«»,
if a fire should break out here
while the Kern Park firemen
were responding to a call from
some other part of their terri­
tory we would be totally without
protection.
Come out Moiidav evening
and get behind the boys in their
request that the city furnish a
fire station for this district.
The Lents company at pres­
ent is composed of W. E. Gog­
gins. chief; William Bolan, Wil
liam Wrisley. Matt Bolan. Wm.
Eatchel, Sr.. Harry Burnham, E.
Webb. Joe Webb. Loll Roland.
William Eatchel. Jr.. Merle Till­
man, William Smoke, C. S.
Ogabury and I’. J. O'Donnell.
92ND STREET WALKS
ONE NOTCH NEARER
The red tape in connection
with tilt* building of the aide-
walk on »2nd street seems to
lie slowly unwinding, the latest
statement
from Commissioner
Barbur's office being that con­
struction work will begin with­
in (tO days.
The county commissioners re­
leased th«* sidewalk area to the
city Tuesday and the order for
th«* construction of the sidewalk
passed the council Wednesday
morning. It now only remains
to do the usual advertising for
bids before work on the walks
is started.
GILBERT SCHOOL.
The Junior Red Cross cam­
paign is bring carried on by the
teachers and pupils of the school.
A number of buttons linve been
sold already.
There will be n meeting at
Gilbert school Friday, November
21, at 7:00 o’clock fo*r all the
boys over twelve who are attend­
ing til«* school. Mr. Bowman, the
principle of tin* school will talk
about the organizing of a Boy
Scout troop in this district.
There will be a game of indoor
base ball and also a volley ball
game. After the games the boys
will inakt* candy.
If a troop
can In* organized it* will be a
great help to the boys of th«*
community.-
remodeling it for a garage.
Work was begun the first of the
week. The old stage is being
torn out, the front is being turn
out to be replaced with a new
one, and the flooring is being
removed preparatory tu putting
in a cement fluor.
This is one uf the most im­
portant real estate deals in
Lents for several months. The
building was built for a moving
picture house and .used as such
several years ago, l»ut has been
used as a fire station by the
Lents firemen fur some time.
The building is part brick and
part concrete construction, SO
feet wide nnd 85 feet lung, and
has a suite of office rooms on
the second floor in front. The
back of the building is one story
in height.
Mr. Davis intends to do gen­
eral auto repairing and will also
have storage space to rent. He
«■xprets to be ready to operate
in about three weeks.
DAVID RUSSELL PHANEUF
PASSED AWAY ON NOV. 14
David Russell Phaneuf, 648"
83r<! street S. F... passed away
November 14. The funeral scr
vic«* was conducted at th«* Ken­
worthy chapel Sunday, Novell»-
her 16. at 2:30 p. m„ Rev. E. A.
Smith, of the Lents Baptist
church, officiating. Mrs. A. E.
Kenworthy ami Mrs. Herbert
Orton sang two of Mr. Phan
euf's favorite songs, “My Father
Planned it All," and “Shall We
Gather at the River?” The in
terment was tnndc in Multnomah
cemetery.
Mr. Phaneuf was Imrn in Ver
mpnt February 1, 1844, his age
nt time of death being 75 years
nine months nnd 14 days.
He leaves t«> mourn his loss
his widow; a son, Roy Phnneuf;
four daughters, Mesdames Ina
Porter. A«ln E. Bryson nn«l Car-
rie Bryson, of Portland, and
Daisy Kunsninn. of The Dalles.
OUTLYING DISTRICTS TO
BE BETTER GUARDED
Chief of Police Jenkins on
Tuesday issued orders to divide
the second night shift into two
sections, one half of the relief
to go on duty at the usual time
ami the other half to report at
8 o’clock ami w«»rk till 4 o’clock
in the morning.
This will
increase th«* force about 35 men
during the hours that holdups
are most active without adding
to the number of men in the de­
partment. The extra men will
be distributed to various parts
of the city in ail effort to give
the outlying districts better pro­
tection.
Motorcycle policemen
will also he stationed at the fire
stations, so that when a call
comes in an officer can be
rushed from the nearest fire sta­
tion.
Under this arrangement
th«* city will get the best police
protection it has had in years
nnd should put a curb on the
present wave of crime which has
been sweeping the city for Sev­
ern! weeks.
Last Monday evening a little
house on 84th street near Stith
avenue*owned by the Weinhardt
Estate was burned nearly t«> the
ground and seriously threaten-
c«l th«* residence of J. E. Haw-
ken nt 5640 84th street. Had
it not been for the timely help
of neighbors and the subsequent
assistance of the fire depart­
ment that side nearest the burn­
ing shark would also have burst
int«» flnmes. As it was, the blaze
only twelve or sixteen feet away,
crncked th«* windows an«! dam­
aged the siding.
Opal M. Sating anti Samuel
F. Simms were mnrried by Rev.
E. A. Smith at the home of the
bride’s stepfather, Sydney Ham­
ilton, 6628 93rd street, Satur­
day evening. The young people
after visiting here n couple of
weeks will make their home at
Albany.
,
of mothers and teachers gath­
ered at district 45 school at the
local Parent-Teacher association
meeting last Friday afternoon.
There was a large attendance
and pupils of Miss Arendt’s room
helped to entertain.
Mrs. S. M. Blaumaur was one
of the speakers, her particular
topics being “Modern Health
Crusade.”
She made an earn­
est plea for general
physical
training in the public schools.
A succesful teacher, she main­
tained, is one who is capable of
teaching health and in the
school can promote all things
that nuikt* for health.
J. Carl Bowman, principal of
the school, gave an interesting
talk on health and the import­
ance of encouraging and culti­
vating whatever contributes to­
ward making life healthy and
wholesome, in the schol and out
of it.
He Intel stress on the
practice of th«* genera) prill
ciplcs that develop strength of
h<xly and cleanliness of mind,
ami as an effective aid in this
direction he commended the
Bov Scout movement as one that
is working infinite good for the
boys of America.
Th«* n^xt meeting of the asso­
ciation will be held <hi the after­
noon of Friday, December 12.
K ASCH-ST AT ER WEDDING
SOLEMNIZED SATURDAY
A quiet wedding .ceremony
was celebrated at the home of
Mrs. A. Stater, 3808 66th street
S. E., Saturday, November 15,
at 3:30 p. m., the bride being
Miss Juanita E. Stater and the
groom Ervin Jypsch. The wed­
ding was private, the only wit­
nesses' being
Mrs.
Winters,
mother of the groom, and Mrs.
Stater, the bride’s mother. The
ceremony was performed by
Mrs. C. P. Blanchard, in a set
ting of white, snowy curtains
guarding the windows and a
handsome, large white cake
gracing the table.
The newlyweds will be at
home after Thanksgiving to
their friends at the residence of
th«* bride’s mother.
Mr. an«l
Mrs. Kasch are building a new
home on 71st street, to which
they will move as soon as it is
finished.
BIRD LECTURE AT THE
LENTS BRANCH LIBRARY
W. E. Elliott will give his lec­
ture on the common birds of
the Portland district at the Lents
library Friday evening, Novem­
ber 28, at 8 o’clock. People of
the community are Invited to
attend; children under fourteen
must be accompanied by their
parents.
BIDS ASKED FOR ROCK
MACADAM ON 70TH ST.
Commissioner Barbur Tues­
day called for bids on sewer
construction and paving which
amounts to approximately $866,-
000, the first unit of the three
and a half million dollar im­
provement program for 1920.
Included in this budget bids
were asked for on a crushed-
rock macadam road on 70th
street S. E., from Foster road to
45th avenue amounting to five
thousand dollars.
A. E. Kenworthy has traded
his private car, a Winton seven­
passenger, for nil Oakland five-
passenger machine, in order to
have a lighter car for run-about
purposes.
Comrade Walrod, Comrade
Tussy and wife, Comrade Ham­
lin and wife, Mesdames Melvin
an«l Woodworth agreeably sur­
prised Comrade Baker and wife
last Tuesday afternoon for a
farewell visit. Comrade Baker
has recently sold his property
on the corner of 85th street and
67th avenue and expects to leave
for California soon. The best
wishes of the comrades and the
Ladies of the G. A. R. go with
them to their new home in the
sunny south.
November meeting of the Wood-
mere
Parent-Teacher associa­
tion. After the program light
refreshments were served by
the mothers of the class:
Chorus, "Mother Machree,” by
boys and girls of 7b and 8a.
Declamation, “A Wonderful
Thing is a Mother,” three boys,
Clyde, Edwin and Ernest.
Reading,
"My
pothers
Hands,” Hazel Gilman.
Chorus, “The Hand that
Rocked My Cradle Rules My
Heart,” girls of 7b-8a.
Recitation, “Rock Me to Sleep
Mother,” Sly via Hobson.
Declamation,
“Faithful
to
Mother,” two girls, Clara and
Florence.
Recitation, “Dinna Chide the
Hither,” a Scotch ballad, Molly
Budin.
Chorus, “Dearest Mother
Mine,” girls and boys of 7b-8a.
The Woodmere 7a clasn, with
Mrs. May me Hogue in charge,
visited the Lents library Thurs­
day afternoon to receive instruc­
tion in the use of the card cata­
logue.
After school on the same af­
ternoon the Woodstck soccer
team, accompanied by Professor
Pridcaux, played Woodmere on
the Woodmere field, the score
resulting in two to nothing in
favor of Woodmere. The team
is composed of the foilwing:
Captain, Rudolph Clark; Hai^ld
Repp, Charles Strader, Quinton
Fletcher, Russell Quintali, Billie
Cox, Charles Miller, Noysms
Nixa, Paul Haynes. Jake Segal,
Orville Johnson. Earnest Mann,
substitute.
LENTS PARENT-TEACHER
ASSOCIATION MEETING
The Lents Parent-Teacher as­
sociation will hold its regular
meeting at 2:30 o'clock Friday
afternoon, November 21.
An
exceptionally good program has
been arranged. Special features
are:
Music, Lents school orchestra,
led by Miss Chapman.
Solo, Nova Hedin.
Vocal duet, the Misses Ears-
ley and Crabtree.
Song, “Gray Donkey.” Miss
Lawrenson’s class.
A conference will follow in
which the parents will discuss
their connection and relation to
the school.
The parents’ viewpoint will be
presented by Rev. A. F. Lien-
kaemper an«! Mrs. Myra Smith.
The teachers' viewpoint will be
discussed by Miss Stella Smith,
Miss Ida Menzies, Miss Mabie
Train.
Miss Ethel Mitchell will speak
on the Girls’ Reserve movement.
LADIES OF G. A. R.
ENTERTAIN OFFICERS
GILBERT ITEMS
Mrs. S. A. Douglas, of near
Fairview, was a Lents visitor
Monday. Mr. Douglas, formerly
lived east of town on the Gil-^
bert road, where Mr. Douglas
had a model berry farm.
At a recent election at district
45 Mr. Calkins was elected di­
rector to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Mr. Mc­
Culloch.
Mr. Calkins is well
qualified to fill the position, hav­
ing been director prior to Mr.
McCulloch’s election.
The garage belonging to Mr.
Nelden, proprietor of the store
at Gilbert station, was burned
last Wednesday evening.
Mr.
Nelden sent a boy in to get
some gasoline. The gasoline ig­
nited from a lighted lantern the
boy carried, causing an ex­
plosion. The boy in some man­
ner escaped injury.
The ma­
chine at the time was out of
the building.
^farol«! E. F.varts and Iris
Gullikson of Gresham were mar­
ried at St. Helens November 1.
No one here was in the confi­
dence of the young people and
the wedding was not known of
here until this week. Mr. ami
Mrs. F.varts spent a week in
Vancouver on a honeymoon trip.
They will be at home to their
friends in Portland as soon as
suitable apartments are found.
casion being her birthday.
A
very pleasant evening was spent
in conversation and singing. Mr.
Thomas led the singing in a most
acceptable manner, and Mrs.
Tainplin rendered a piano solo,
the compliments concerning both
performances being many and
varied.
In order to learn the age of
the pastor, Miss Terrell, a game
of “Tell Your Age” was played.
Each one was given a number
and when their number was
called had to stand and tell their
age, or pay a forfeit, the one
calling the number judging as
to tlie correctness of the age
given. Needless to say several
forfeits were paid.
Murray
Hunt won the applause of those
assembled by arising with great
solemnity and stating that his
age was 31 years 10 months, S
days and 6 hours. Miss Terrell
had help in the defense of her
exact age in the person of Mrs.
Lamb, whose birth occurred on
the same date and who seemed
as determined that n«» one should
know how young she was. How­
ever, wher Miss Terrell told the
story of her birth and the place
where she was born, and men­
tioned 44, we all knew at once
that she had been born in 1844.
that making her 65 years old;
she doesn’t look it, though.
As refreshments, some of the
best cakes ever baked in Lents
were served, along with hot
cocoa.
When the people left
there was as many pounds of
“eats” in the pantry as there
had been persons present.
At a late hour the following
people bade the pastor good­
night and started home in a
downpour of rain: Mrs. Phillips,
Mrs. Lock and two daughters.
Mrs. Littlefield. Mr. Hunt, Mr.
ant! Mrs. Heacock, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler,
Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, Mrs. Ers­
kine, Mr. and Mrs. Mann. Mrs.
Taniplin. Mrs. Barker.
Last Saturday evening the
Ladies of the G. A. R. enter­
tained
Past National Junior
Vice-President Mrs. Ella Himes,
of Portland. Past Department
President Mrs. Valeria Benvie,
of Portland, Department Presi­
dent Mrs. Williams of Milton,
Department Inspector Mrs. Sim­
ons of Portland, and Department
Inspector of the Post, Comrade
Morris of Portland.
Also the
G. A. R. quartet, which came
out from Portland to help en­
tertain by singing. All present
enjoyed the session very much.
Comrade Waggoner was obli­
gated into the order by Past
National Junior Vice-President
Hi m e s.
Refreshments were
served by the "ladies of sand­
wiches, cake and coffee and at
a late hour all started for their
various homes expressing them­
selves as having a most enjoy­
able evening and a cordial in­
vitation was extended to the
quartet to surprise them quite
often in the future.
LENTS SCHOOL NOTES
Why are Portland school su­
pervisors like Portland street
cars? Because they all come in
bunches.
Mrs. Shillock, mus­
ical supervisor; Mr. Wesco and
Mr. Poore, writing supervisors;
Miss A. E. Watkins and Miss
Schafer, substitutes under Miss
Wcist. art supervisor; Robert
Crone, athletic supervisor, and
Miss Edna Groves, cooking su­
pervisor, all made their appear­
ance at school this week. Mrs.
Shillick. music supervisor, is
very enthusiastic over the work
and says there is much latent
musical talent among the chil­
dren which should be developed
outside of the schools. She vis­
its the Lents school Thursday
and Friday of the fourth week
of Jhe month.
To the many friends of Mrs.
N. Shupp, wife of Rev. N.
Shupp, pastor of the Lents
Evangelical church, the news of
her sudden death came as a
great shock. Though seriously
ill for two weeks with a compli-
tion of diseases, she was appar­
ently convalescent, but on Tues­
day morning at 9:80 the spirit
departed.
Mrs. Shupp was born in De­
Kalb county, Indiana, February
9, 1848. At the age of 18 she
dedicated her life to the service
of God, becoming an earnest
worker in all branches of the
church activities. In 1869 she
was married to Rev. S. S. Al­
bert and in the position of min­
ister’s wife her sphere of Chris­
tian work was much broadened.
For 12 years she was state pres­
ident of the Indiana Women’s
Missionary society, later serv­
ing for 11 years in the same Ca­
pacity in this state.
In 1908
she was married to Rev. Noah
Shupp, coming at that time to
Oregon to reside.
Surviving her and deeply
mourning her loss as wife and
mother are Rev. N. Shupp; two
sons, C. Jerome Albert of Berk­
eley, Cal., and H. H. Albert of
F.lkhart, Ind.; and one daugh­
ter. Ada D. Albert, who for the
past three years has made her
home with her mother.
The funeral services were
held at the Lents Evangelical
church yesterday at 2:80, the
Rev. F. B. Culber of Bellingham,
" ash., officiating. The remains
were shipped last night to Elk­
hart, Ind., for interment.
LAF-A-LOT CLUB GUESTS
OF MRS. CONE AT DINNER
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Cone en­
tertained the
Laf-a-lot club
with a dinner at their home on
77th one evening last week.
Covers were laid for Mr. and
Mrs. Burgett, Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. Diller
and daughters, Helen and Jane,
Mr. and Mrs. McCord and son
Linwood, Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Sanders and daughter Elizabeth.
Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Cone and
son Lester, Mr. and Mrs. Clar­
ence Cone, Mr. and Mrs. Chester
McGrew, Mr. and Mrs. John
Howe, Raymond Cone, W. C.
Smith, and the host and hostess.
Needless to say those fortunate
enough to be present enjoyed
both the excellent dinner and
a delightful evening.
SILVER TEA GIVEN BY
THE M. E. LADIES’ AID
The M. E. Ladies’ Aid held a
silver tea at the home of Mrs.
J. P. Strahl, 6517 88th street,
last Wednesday afternoon, about
40 being present. Although Mrs.
J. C. McGrew was greatly
missed she had prepared one of
her excellent programs for the
occasion, among the features be­
ing a duet by Mrs. Jasper and
Mrs. Sells; two poems composed
by Mrs. Orton and read by Mrs.
F. O. McGrew; recitations by
Virginia Miller, Esther McGrew
an«l Masters Raymond and Fin­
ley McGrew; solo by Mrs. Jas­
per. Mrs. Jasper and Mrs. Sells
sang as solos “Angel Land” and
Home, Father,” and "Oh, It Is
Wonderful,” and Mrs. Jasper
sang as solos “Angel Land and
“Sweetheart.” Refreshments of
wafers, sandwiches, cookies, tea
and coffee were served by Mes­
dames Alma Lord, J. C. Mc­
Grew, Finley McGrew and Nel­
lie McGrew, G. F. Rowley and
others.
CHAUTAUQUA STUDY
CLUB MEETS NOV. 21
The Chautauqua Study club
will meet at the Lents branch li­
brary Friday afternoon, Novem­
ber 21, at 2 p. m. All ladies of
the community are cordially in­
vited.