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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1920)
®rntt Hi'talîi Subscription, $1.00 a Year LENTS STATION, PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1920 LENTS SCHOOL PUPILS LENTS GRANGE FAVORS TO BE PROMOTED TO BUYING FAIR GROUNDS HIGHER GRADES JAN. 23 Promotion* In the Lenta school will be made .Inn 23 on the general Mtaiuling of tin- pupils which Im» been BHcrrtaincd l»y th< teacher* by weekly tests. Pupils who have proved their fitness for promotion by a gen eral attitude of genuine Interest mid wlllingnc-»' for work are speeded on tlu-ir upward way with a feeling of gratification on the part of the teachers. Just nt present the athletic activities art in abeyance, tile winter season forbidding any definite or ested rd plans. Physical exercises for twenty minutes each day supply in part the luck of formal sports in the open air. Manual training cooking anil sewing tinsses arc belli on Tuesday of each week, the cooking anil sewing work being given on alternate days. Four essays on the life of Roosevelt were displayed last Tuesday on the bulletin board at the downstairs central entrance They were the work of Olive Ash, Erwin Mackey. Bessie Al len ami Mary I lew ill. Olive Ash anti Erwin Mackev belong to the graduating class of this term and their essays are given below : What the l.ife of Theodore Roose veil Means to Me The life of Theodore Roosevelt solves for us the problem of success He was born in New York in 1858 He was a very frail boy and sftei years of exercise h<- gained strengt) by horseback riding, fishing and hunting. it shows to us that things can lx accomplished if we are patient. He wanted everything done fair. He led a life that was respectable and honorable and he mnde his lift a success. He loved birds and animals and he loved to fish and hunt. He pro tccted the forest by making national reserves and he also protected bird and aniinuls from destruction. We surely appreciate what he has done for our country. OLIVE ASH. What the Life of Theodore Roose veil Means to Me Roosevelt was a man who always believed in a square deal. He was a good sportsman, he took defeat good naturedly, and would start ut the beginning again, deter mined to win next tim.. He always loved to climb moun tains anti go on long hunting anti hiking trips. Ho loved the birds anti animals While he was in the presidency he did all he could to preserve the for ests, birds and animals. If all the people of the United States would try to live up to hi.- principles it would make the United States the leading nation of the world. I appreciate all he has done for us and our country, and his whole life has meant something to me. ERWIN MACKEY. MUCH STREET IMPROVING IS PLANNED IN ARLETA Plans are being pushed in the Ar- leta district for the hard-surfacing and macadamising of certain streets. The contract for the hard-surfacing of 72nd street from Foster road to 65th avenue has been let and the work is to be done within 60 days. The hard-surfacing of 72nd street from Foster road north to 45th ave nue is to be completed in May. Within sixty days the hard-surfac ing of 71st street from Foster road to 45th avenue is to be started and at the same time the macadamizing of 70th street from Foster road to Powell Valley is to be begun. By March 15 the work of hard-surfacing 67th street from Foster road to 43rd avenue and of macadamising it from 43rd avenue to Powell Valley is to be finished. Foster road itself is to be hard- surfaced during the year 1920. Plans have already been drawn for this improvement, and the business men of Kern Park, Arleta and the other stations are expecting preliminary wol-k to be started soon. Mrs. S. A. Douglas, of Fairview, came down Tuesday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Jesse Morgan, of 45th avenue, and make the acquaintance of the new baby boy bom to Mrs. Morgan last Sunday. At a recent meeting of the board of directors of the Multnomah Coun ty Fair Association u motion was carried to sell the county fair to the county of Multnomah. As the three county commissioners were elected members of the I m > uh < they asked the privilege of resigning in order that they might not be hampered in th<* efforts of the directors to make such a transfer if it could be brought about, Their resignations were ac copied anti their successors will be named at the next meeting. The rale of the fair to the county Is earnestly desired by practically every person of eastern Multnomah county who desires a better fair. The commissioners have full author ity to take over the property but are waiting public sentiment before tak ing action. The nine granges of the county are taking the matter up with a view to having the county become the owner of the fair and conduct it as a pub lic institution, I n accordance with this i<Ma the following resolution wks adopted by Ix-nts Grange at its regular meeting last Saturday. It was Introduced by Wilson Benefiel and was adopted unanimously. “Whereas, the fair held at Gresh am Is a source of good service and should not lie in any way discouraged. In a county with as much wealth as this county is possessed of, this fair as it has been conducted in the past docs not fully represent this part of the state and community. Therefore be it “Resolved, that we recommend and request the county authorities to take over the fair and make appropriations I from the funds of the county to properly maintain the same as bene fits so important a matter.” VOL. XVin. No. 3 MOVING PICTURES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME SAYS P.-T. A. PRESIDENT PROMINENT GRESHAM MISS MULHERON TALKS FRIENDS ENDEAVORERS TO GILBERT P.-T. Â. ! MAN MOVES TO CITY ENJOY SOCIAL EVENING Last Friday evening the young E. L. Thorpe has sold his three-acre, modern poultry ranch people of the Friends church held a , on Johnson creek to C. S. Kil- business meeting and social in the ' len, who has been for the past annex of the church. The usual rou year on the D.N. Donaugh farm tine of business having been finished, at Bairdsiiale station. Mr. and a pleasant social hour was spent in Mrs. Killen are moving today. games and refreshments. Emile Swanson, who returned from (Jan 18) and Mr. and Mrs. France on Tuesday, was present. He Thorpe, who are storing their goods in Gresham for a short spent a year in the reconstruction time, will move soon to the town service of the American Friends ser vice committee, which is doing relief property recently purchased in work in a number of the devastated Sellwood.-—Gresham Outlook. countries of Europe. Mr. Swanson Mr. Thorpe is well-known gave a very brief talk Sunday on the among the public spirited men of condition of the refugees on return Gresham having been on the ing to their homes in the war zone Gresham fair board ever since the after the armistice had been signed. fair was started, and having ser He promised a more extended de ved three times as its secretary. scription of his experiences later. He has been a member of the Another feature of the social was Gresham • Grange for eighteen the presence of J. Sanger Fox for a years. By previous training few minutes. He was passing through and experience he was of that Portland from Greenleaf, Idaho, sort including several years as a where he was in attendance at the member of the Oregonian staff. I convention of the Ministerial Asso- For that paper he once reported eiation of Oregon yearly meeting of the national grange and eight the Fnends. Mr. Fox reports the times the state grange. work at Quilcene, Wash., where he is located, thriving. He thinks the peninsula west of Puget Sound ideal NORAH E. DORSEY DIES in climate, fine for fish, deer, moun FOLLOWING OPERATION tain lions, and other game. He says it is a fine place for camping by Norah E. Dorsey, daughter of the salt water, the lakes, or in the Mrs. J. P. Dorsey, 4912 86th mountains. He urges any one look street, died at St. Vincent's ing for a home in a rural district to hospital January 9 following an investigate the Quilcene district be operation for perotinitis. Miss fore buying elsewhere. Mr. Fox de- Dorsey was born in Oak Park. parted on the 11 o’clock train for Wash, in 1900, and resided there Seattle, thence for home. till eleven years ago. when she came here with her parents. BIDS ASKED FOR PAVING She was a graduate of the Lents 71ST STREET BY COUNCIL school and was of a kind, gen erous disposition, beloved by all Pursuant to a resolution of the w'ho who knew her. She is sur vived by her mother, her father council, notice has been given invit having passed away a few ing bids for the paving of 71st street months ago; six brothers. Wil from the north line of Foster road to liam, Harvey, Ennas, George. the south line of 45th avenue. The pavement in the center 18 feet Laurence and Carl, and one sis ter, Carrie. The funeral ser of the street is to be asphaltic con vices were held January 11, in crete pavement No. 1 on crushed terment being in Multnomah rock base, asphaltic concrete pave ment No. 2 on crushed rock base, cemetery. concrete pavement No. 1 or concrete pavement No. 3, as the council shall Delors Ellis determine. Bids must be filed with Little fonr yeat old Delors the auditor on or before 10 o’clock Ellis died at the home of her a. m., January 21, 1920. mother, Mrs. Ellis, 1001*2 60th avenue, January 8. Funeral ser Shiloh Circle Meeting Saturday vices were conducted at Ken Shiloh Circle Ladies of the G. worthy’s chapel Saturday, Jan- uary 10. She was laid to rost A. R. will hold the first business meeting at Odd Fellows hall. in Mt. Scott cemetery. Jail. 17 at 8 o’clock. The new officers would like to have the Frank Burdick * members all present to respond Frank Burdick died at the to their names at roll call. family home, 68rd street and 65th avenue, January 9. The Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Scheuerman, body was cremated in the Ml. who started on an extended eastern Scott Park crematorium Satur trip April 9, 1Q19, left Indiana Wed day, January 10. nesday on the return trip. They will visit in Florida and California before Last Sunday Mr. anil Mrs. F. coming home. O’. McGrew 8729 56th avenue hail ax'guests Mr. and Mrs. R. Mrs. Lloyd Hodge arrived in Lents spent Saturday and Sunday with her C. Prince, Mr. and Mrs. Swcrtx- Thursday of last week from Calvary, Dr. Annabel Fromm, of 1005 45th sister. Mrs. Alvina Darnell, 5422 92nd man, Mr. and Mrs. .Mrs. Claridge Alberta, Canada, to join her husband avenue, visited in Woodland, Wash., street. She returned home Monday Himes and Mr. and Mrs. Fred who came here about four months last Saturday and Sunday. | afternoon. ago. Ellen. At the last meeting of district 15 Parent-Teacher association, held at the schoolhouse last Fri day afternoon, Mias Anne Mul- heron, of tl«e Portland Public Li brary, gave an interesting and TO CULTIVATE CHILDREN illuminating talk on “Recrea IN GOOD LITERATURE tional Reading," dwelling on its purpose-—getting out of one’s Parents of children win» at self—-and showing how best to tend school will be interested in attain the desired end, avoiding the following lists. They com the damage that so often come prise the hooks suggested for from mis-dlrected and ill-advised home rending by the official reading. course of study of the city In the course of her talk Miss schools. Seventh a ; Little Women. Mulheron read a variety of se Story of Roland, Hans Brinker, lections to illustrate the points .lai-knnnpes. Stories from the made in her discourse. She pro Iliad. Stories from the Odyssy, tested against the reading of Heroes, Blue Poetry Book. Tales "frothy literature in general, for >f the Greeks. Prince and the recreation or for any other pur- Pauper. Seventh b: Story of ' pose, but admitted that at Siegfried, Rob and his Friends. times such reading was permis- Pilgrim’s Progress, Don Quixote, snldc, though not good food. Story of a Short Life, Nights A feature of the afternoon’s with Uncle Remus. Tnlcx of the program was the drill given by Homans, Stories from the Aen the boys of the sixth, seventh and < i<l and Golden Numbers. Prof. eighth grades, under direction Hershner would be very glad if of Mr. Bowman, principal. the parents would co-operate At the business session of the with the teachers in cultivating association there was further dis in the children a love of good cussion of plans for getting the literature and an ability to se Boy Scout movement started in lect their rending wisely. Those the school. Mr. Bowman, as grownups who have not read Scout Master, is taking an active these books might be genuinely interest in this project, and its surprised to find what delight success now is assured. ful reading matter they contain. Members of the association are preparing for a "shadow social,*’ Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hoffman, 3524 to be held the evening of Feb. 13 63rd street, celebrated the fiftieth and the indications are that it anniversary of their marriage Janu will be a big event. ary 8 at a dinner given for them by Mrs. Hattie Ix*mbath at her home at Hershner Endorses Plan 3327 66th street. Those present to Professor Hershner heartily compliment the guests of honor were endorses the plan of the council May and Florence Hoffman, grand of the P.-T. A. to have evening daughters of the golden wedding meetings of the local organiza- pair, and Mrs. Hattie Ix>mbath and tions once a month for the ser- her son Arthur. Mr. and Mrs. Hoff ious consideration by parents en man arc the parents of the man for masse of the serious problem of whom Hoffman (now Kellogg) school juvenile delinquencies. He alsa was named. wishes that all the parents, so fnr as possible, who are patrons Mrs. A. R. Rogers, of 3729 67th of this school be present this I street, received a letter recently from (Friday) afternoon at 2:45 I at her son, Sheridan J. Rogers, who the regular P.-T. A. meeting. sailed on the steamship Balenstine the first of September. He was in SHUPP RESIGNATION Manila at the time the letter was IS NOT ACCEPTED written and thoroughly enjoying him self. He says the sea is the life for him. I The district superintendent, Rev. L. B. Culver, after consult The Edison Phonograph company ing with the official members of has rented the Yeager theater for the the Lents Evangelical church evening of March 8 and will hold an and hearing their pledges to Edison tone test concert. Miss Marie stand by their pastor, Rev. N. Morrisy will sing with the instru Shupp, in his broken health, de ment. Invitations will be issued by cided not to accept his resigna the Mt.. Scott Drug company. tion as pastor, since there are •: ’ but a few months remaining of J. 0. JLoake, tenor in the Baptist the conference year. Rev. Shupp choir, is convalescing at the Good has been in poor health since the Samaritan hospital, where he under death of his wife, but is slightly went an operation for stomach improved. ’ trouble. Mr. Howard is leading the choir during Mr. Ix'ake’s illness. Mrs. M. J. Powell, of Verona, Ore., Mrs. F.il Palmer, president of the city P.-T. A. announces the following results of the grade teachers amendment to their bill, already passed, providing a do mestic relations court. The ap pointment of Professor Mellendy of Franklin High as chairman of the P.-T. A. legislative board; a resolution providing for one eve ning meeting once in each month of each local P.-T. A.; and en dorsement of the bill to make the state responsible for the state wards. The bill for the do mestic relations court, originally proposd by the grade-teachers association provides that such a court be established in counties of more than 100.000 inhabitants. Inasmuch as the bill has been at tacked at various points, the a- mendment which have just been indorsed by the city council of the P.-T. A. have been made with the idea of rendering the bill absolutely above criticism as far as its constitutionality is con cerned. The interest which is thus evidenced by the grade teachers association and by the P.-T. A. council in matters of a- dtill and juvenile delinquences has grown out of an alarming situation shown by the police court records. Mrs. Palmer as serts that the influence of th:: moving pictures is responsible for much of the crime among boys and girls, and that the wave of evil conduct has taken in mostly those from fifteen to twenty years of age. A plan is on foot to ask the moving pic ture people to present only such films on Friday evenings as are fit for children to see As the solution of this prblem is a most difficult one, it might not be out of order to suggest that an an cient Chinese mode of dealing with juvenile crime might be used with good effect: that is the punishment of those respon sible for the training of the young people, which would in clude not only parents but day- school teachers, Sunday school teachers and ministers. HIATT HOME ROBBED BY THIEF IN DAYLIGHT When Mrs. D. L. Hiatt of 5734 84th street was visiting her sister Mrs. Hunsaker at Tremont one afternoon last week, her home was visited by foot-pads, and on returning she saw the wardrobe showed evidences of an intruder. Upon investigation she found her gold wrist watch, a silver meat fork and a silver handled carving set were missing. Evidently the intruder was fright ened away as there were other articles of silver very handy to those taken. A man was seen by a near neighbor to rap at the front door and getting no responce he went to the rear door. Shortly after he was dis tinctly seen in the house. At first the neighbor thought it was Mr. Hiatt but upon second thought it was a much smaller man. The description given tal lies with that of a man seen about the same time of day to leave a machine on Foster road and go south on 84th street, re turning to the machine by way of the rear alley, attention being attracted to him by his peculiar actions. The police were noti fied but as yet have not taken the trouble to come and investi gate. If ladies cannot go from their homes in broad daylight after locking the doors and feel that things are safe and secure when can they go ? The ladies of the St. Pauls Guild will meet next Wednesday afternoon, the 21st, at the home of Mrs. E. J. Boatright, of 5616 39th avenue. These ladies made such a hit with their bonneted bumps dollies during the past holiday season that they are al ready considering going into an order business on a larger scale for the next year. Mrs. Fred Hogue of 89th street, and Woodstock avenue is suffering from an infection in one of her hands which re sulted in blood poison.