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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1920)
m i Scott fierald LURE OF THE CITV. AN OLD STANDI)’’, An «verenge good Missouri mule »ell» for $309. This sturdy animal Ueeps on It» surefooted way regar*- leas of multiplying aulomoblles and tractors. The sternly demand for mules Is mainly from the farina, a -ood sign of speeding up production where most needed. In horse breed ing also the situation 1» favorable, but choice animals are wanted. Pre dictions of n horseless ora are no tour er heard. The menace seemed moat serious nearly thirty .wars ago whin prices generally were at the loweat ebb. In some places In the North- west horses were turner! adrift nn not worth feeding through the winter. At farm sales a slmep might bring but 25 cents. An alleged remedy widely supported, and defeated sever al times politically. was silver Infln- tton. Prices have certainly advanced without regard to nostrums of that kind. Twenty five years ago It was charged that gold had been cornered tn Europe. We have now the largest stock of gold on record. There 1» dearly a sound business expansion when the demand grows for mules and horses as well as all kinds of motor vehicle« and Improved farm machinery. More production 1» the cry, and It Is heeded. Breeders of all farm animals have accepted a new and higher standard A thousand dot Hr hog is no longer a curiosity. The price of bacon suggests It. Among the many things r»>*|Hm»lble for the unrest and disturbed condi Published Every Friday at I-enta tion of affairs In thia country the lure Station, Portland, Oregon. of the city, which has been effectively J. 2. UPDIKE .... Proprietor working upon the men of the emer C. W. SMITH .... Manager gency army and navy and their fam Entered as second-class mail mat ilies, Is responsible for a very ooneld- ter February 14. 1814. at the post erable portion. The men who left office at Lenta. Oregon, under act of the farms and rural sections for the Congroaa. March *. 1(7*. war camps and later went to I- rance Subscription price • - $1.00 a year or at least spent a year or two In the vicinity of some large city got a taste Phones: Tabor 7*34. of city life and formed ideas about what was necessary and what desir THE BUZZARD’S SERVICE. How many times in your life have able that could uot be altogether for you found a dead bird, mouse, suake gotten when they went back home, Lots of or some other form of wild life? May says Florida Times-Union. be half a down times, hardly more the farm and country folRs did not go than that, unless your eyes are un- , back to the country, and the result Is usually bright or you spend a eon- ' a scarcity of people on the farms and siderable part of your time in Just I in the small towns, aud an over-sup rambling about. And yet there are ( ply of people in the cities. W ar de millions of birds, millions of snakes 1 partment records show that the ma and no doubt billions of mice. " hy . jority of the men from the rural dis don’t we pick up these dead creatures tricts went home It Is true, hut a every day? They cannot all be the ' whole lot of them decided not to stay; victims of the rapacity of some larger ( and the cities have gained in num creature. A considerable number of ■ bers but not always tn Just the nor them must die a natural death. mal and reasonable Increase that Where do they go? Ask Mr. Buzzard comes from the demand for various If he knows, and see him blink a tell kinds of workers. It is likely that in tale eye. says Ohio State Journal. the course of a year or two thousands Don’t you know that Is what he is for who are now making a scanty living —to keep the earth cleaned up of car in the cities, contrasting the excite rion? He doesn’t sail and sail, hour ment of surroundings with much less after hour, just to keep you wonder comfort than they had enjoyed In the ing If he never flaps a wing. No: he small towns or on the farms, will re is keeping a watchful eye on the turn to the life they left when the whole countryside for carrion. With war called them Into the service of It should be nolcxl that tlie rank« of his telescopic eye he sees the dead their oountry. t he armed cntnpnniee which iiarmle animal, or when he rises far Into the streets of Berlin with rifle*, are- A Japanese province has placed a ■miles and machine mins are filled the storm clouds out of human sight, he is keeping an eye on the neighbor tax upon a great variety of articles with former noncommissioned officer» ing buzzards to see that they do not called luxuries, among them being of the German army. These men. hav have a feast without his presence. walking sticks, gold rimmed eyeglass ing tasted of a little authority, are re The buzzard In flight is a noble sight, es and even the bridal couple’s extra luctant to turn to useful productive The Japanese may have labor. The former privates, on the and his status in nature Is a useful < suitcase. and important one, but. like the i heard of America’s tax on children’s contrary, seem to have had enough. pariah, he is neither admired nor re soda water and ice cream cones, and There are said to be some 700.000 men received inspiration therefrom, says now under arms in Germany. At the spected. Detroit Journal. At any rate, those same time the cry of hunger ami the of us who felt rather cockily that all plea for »uiwr grow louder, say» Bos The part of the United States that lies east of the Mississippi river had the tax-levying geniuses of the world ton Post. The first fact undoubtedly a diminishing fraction of the farm and were concentrated in our country will helps explain the second. Germany range cattle of the United States until have to admit that Japan has a few has yet to learn the lemon that a na soon after 1900. on account of the w izards of her own. tion that will not work shall not eat. growing numtier of farms and the in It seems altogether unlikely that creasing utilization of ranges west of Soy beans are growing In favor n* a Austria. Italy. Hungary, Bohemia. crap In this country, a» their oil HHll that river. The country east of the river had 44 per cent of the farm cat Poland, and the Balkans will be able oil cake are In import*. The crop of tle in 1880. 30 per cent in 1890. and to quiet down until spring. Lack of 1917. as estimated by the bureau of 26 per cent In 1900. By 1910 the food. fuel, and clothes must lead to ■rap estimates, was 2345.000 bushels tendency toward relative loss of cat intense dissatisfaction with all gov of threshed beans and that of UHR tle east of the river was reversed, and ernments yet. and strikes. Insurrec was IJMl.OtM) bushel». Soy-bean oil by W19 the Increasing fraction had tions, possibly revolutions, will be the was imported to the extent of 163.- reached 31 per cent of the total farm order of the day everywhere. OoO.OOO pounds In the fiscal year 1917, 337.000.000 pounds in 1918. ami 237.- cattle of the whole country. When a person comes into your of 000.000 pounds In 1919. Soy-bean oil If there is no law properly to pun fice to bust up your business you kick cake, left after the extraction of most ish the spreading of seditious and law him out without much ceremony, «avs of the oil. Is a feeding stuff practl- less'literature. there ought to be, and Philadelphia Press. When an anar illy appreciated enough to cnn<e the congress is strangely remiss in its chist comes Into this country to bust Importation of considerable and In duty of protecting the public If this up the government there ought to be creasing quantities. omission is not promptly repaired, no uncertainty about what to do with says Baltimore American. It is un him. or hesitation in doing It. Kick The frequency of fires Just speakable that the lawmaking powers him out. calls attention to the greater need of of the nation should be paralyzed caution In this respect. A» the A marine corps quartermaster Is weather becomes colder, the danger with Inertia, while so dangerous a poison is working its way into the authority for the statement that the Increases, but It conld be reduced to nation's vitals and threatening its size of the marine foot has been In a minimum If ordinary prudence Is creased a whole size on the average observed. The education of the pub peaceful existence. as a result of pursuit work in France. lic In fire prevention Is not yet hr First-class diamonds are now rated But it is to be observed that there thorough as could he wished, though at $1,000 a karat, which reminds us has been no change in the average ordinary common sense ought to sug- that we have managed to connect with size of the caps worn hy the corps. gest many of its principles. » a great deal of happiness during our The French now have time to build How long It «wms to take It to journey through this vale of tears without having to dazzle the visual or barracks to accommodate the flood of get around to the ear» of the retail gans of our friends with a blazing tourists who wish to visit the battle meat deniers when the market drops shirt front, says Houston Post. While area, but of course the doughboys un $19 a hundredweight, as It has In the bacon descends, let the cost of dia derstand that most of the tourists are case of pork. Whin the market goes people who made enough money out up $10 a hundredweight, the news monds soar, say we. of the war to buy better shelter than travels much fuster. When a few individuals or groups ; Is afforded by a mudhole. of men through the accretion of pow Brorsen’s comet, not due until 1922. er that vested wealth gives- come into a position where they are able to con has wandered back Into mortal ken B trol the necessaries of life, the food, three yehrs ahead of Its schedule. If B B the fuel, the clothes, then government the heavenly bodies have caught the B B to be of the people and for the peo fever of trying for new records, ple must become more autocratic that there’s no telling where we're going ■ to land. it may be more utopian. HARD-TIMES SOCIAL AT THE MILLARD AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 11m hard-time» »ocial at the Mil lard Avenue Presbyterian church Tuesday, January 27, whs a positive success. Moat of the guests came representing some song or book and some were especially remarkable, George CoIvey and Charlea Demetier were handsome ladies, Mr. CoIvey in a tan creation of lace and silky fabric with a striking yellow trimmed hat, and Mr. Demetier in white middy suit and green-colored headgear, both representing a popular melody called “Jazz Baby." The fairy story "Snow- white ami Rose-red" was imperson ated by Mrs. O. H. Gilbert in snowy middy suit and snowy hair bow, and Mrs. W. P. Eastwood in u rich, bril liant red frock, and with two wonder ful'black braid». W. Lee Gray, the pastor, in ftennul shirt and work trousers, with rake and hoc, made a fine looking "Harvester" (Gene St rat ton Porter), and Mrs. Gray in bright red skirt, lavender house-jacket, red | shoulder shawl and red head dress, with double-loop, gold colored car1 drop >, made a handsome ‘‘Foreigner” (Rilph Connor). One of the most I puzzling of the book symbol» was that of a loose heel (“Lucile," by Meredith) worn bv Mrs. Frank Price. Others were very attractive and en tertaining but space forbids indi vidual mention, Laurel» ood Congregational Church At the Laurel wood Congregational church last Sunday morning a Chris tian Endeavor service was held in honor of the general C. E. work. The meeting was conducted by Hazel Wells, president, assisted by Mark Bradford, vice-president, M in Nor- ma Bicknell, accompanied by Mias Lpis Handshker, sang. Tho county worker», Including MI m Edna Reh wait and Ned Erwin, and Fianklin Roberts, of the flying squadron, were visiting speaker». Millard Avenue Presbyterian Church Rev. W. Lee Gray, pastor, will sp«ak at 11 a. nt. on “Temptation," and at 7:30 on “Lincoln’s Religion." V The first thing William Hohenzollern did when he took possession of his estate at Doorn. Holland, was to raise the wages of the gardener from $T>.60 to $6. He should have u care or the government may get after the garden er for profiteering. The new Austrian republic has closed its first year with a big def icit. Running a new republic on the ruins of an old empire is hot the cheapest of experiments, hut the em pire was even more expensive, as it proved. Five German officers accused of looting in France and Belgium dur ing the German occupation have been arrested to be held for trial. At last, retribution Is beginning for the crim inals of the war. ■ French sclen’lsts have organized an International Institute of metaphysics In an effort to solve th» nry-rtffy of death. The rest of ns will go along, however, trying to solve the mystery of how to live. I ■ B- K ■ ■ ■ Offhand—Just like that—It Is more ■ ■ or less puzzling how Europeans who ■ ■ Army officers are said to be near must be fed by other nations find a de sire to carry on a war a full year af ing corsets to give them a rounded and beautiful figure and we Just won ter they might have quit and gone vi il der what some of those doughboys back to work. ■ ■ would say if they suddenly came upon w Champagne, says Paris, will be a M a dashing captain adjusting his stays. I« thing of the pnst owing to .the war’s H The house of lords has rejected the effect on French soil. Tn this coun N■ proposal to admit woman peers, but try that can be scheduled under the W ■ ■ this will not afTeet those whom the h'-ad of useless Information. ■ supporters of Lloyd George during the ■ The proposition of turning your old K war on the dukes described as “the suit Inside out Is a Joke, say the tail old women" In the upper chamber. ors. Not always. We knew a man N Dandelion leaves are commended hy who found a $2 bill that way once. a a physician as a means of prolonging A dentist says entirely too many ■ life. Scientists are often absent- ■ minded. The suggestion comes at a teeth are being pulled out. Well, time when dandelions are hopelessly Just what would be the proper num N ber. doc? out of season. R. D. Kenworthy s Company Tuerai Directors < » II First-class Service given Day or Night Close Proximity to Cemeteries Enables us to hold Funerals at a Minimum Expense 5802-4 92nd St. Lents Sta labor 5267 NONCOMMITTAL Eggiman’s Meat Market FRESH AND SMOKED MEATS AND FISH Vegetable«» and Fruit« Butter and Kun« Phone Tabor 2673 5919 Ninety-second Street “There are dozen» of ¡»reparations on druggists’ shelves that contain a higher percentage of alcohol than whisky. If a person only knew what they were,” “Maybe you are right,” replied the citizen with a thirst, "but I seem to be out of luck. I drop tn to see my favorite druggist every day and engage him In casual conversation, but he never tel!- me anything. Birmingham Age-Herald. I s ■ I Safety i Deposit Boxes Everything for Your Baking Needs Good home made bread, biscuit and cookies always make And they’re tic kled when you bake a kiddie* delicious cake. If you are not getting as KINDLY CALL FOR YOUR MONTHLY BANK STATEMENT Multnomah State Bank good results as you would like to have, why Our new Boxes have arrived and we are now ready to serve you with Boxes. . $2.50 per year and up a “hit’* with husband« and not consult with u* about the flour you are using We have handled many different brands of flour and meal and know just which are giving the best aati» faction We invite you to profit by our experience. Lents Mercantile Co Phone: Tabor 1141 5805 92nd St 7 Lents Station Portland, Oie The Herald does all kinds of Printing