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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1920)
K A EUGENE, Ogg *♦* ! I 4 —- Utt. Subscription, $1.00 the Year : 4 t On Friday last the Lenta Play than in needlework und kindred ground girls defeated the Kenilworth cupations. Robert Wulf has superseded Park girls in a game of indoor base .Southwick, as male instructor at ball at the home grounds In la*nta. Ix-nta Playgrounds, the lutter having The score was ID to 11 in favor of the been transferred to Sellwood, where l^nta girls. The game occurred at he lives. Mr. Wolf, the new man,' 0:30 p. m. Virginia Andgreesey was was swimming instructor last year at Peninsula and Sellwood parks, and captain of the lamts team. Next Saturday at 2 p. m.. ML Tabor seem» to have interested the boys here Park team will play the l^*nta Play from the start. The last »tory hour at the Play- ground girls at the lent* grounds. M ground brought out about sixty per- An exciting game is looked for, lioth teams are in good form, and thc | eons. Last week, however, the rain prevented. Each Wednemtay from 3 game will be hotly contested. A pageant will be put on at the to 4 p. m., mothers are asked to send l^nts Playground some time during the children or bring them, as the the coining month, when it is expect story-teller never fails to interest the ed there will be a fine programme. little ones. The l^*nta Playground boys will Folk dancing and other amusements are promised for the occasion. It is join in a hike to Oswego lake on hoped that the pageant will be ready Thursday and Friday, July 29 and on the date of the band concert, which 30. They will leave Sellwood ferry- on the east side at 1 p. m Thurs is August 13th. The lady instructor states that day and return Friday afternoon at good progress is being made with the 6 p. m. Ages from 10 to 13. Par raffia work, but the girls seetn to be ents permission must first be ob morednlerested in the athletic sport« tainod by those wishing to go. Hrralù — LENTS STATION, RORTLAND, OREGON, JULY 30, 1920 [~j[ BAND CONCERT AT LENTS PARK ON EVENING OF AUGUST I3TH Over on the road to Mt Howl, in Clackamas county, a country of hills and fertile valey, cozy farm houses, berry tracts and vigorous orchards, about midway between the little ham- let of Sunnyside and the village of Damascus, lives John W. Minto, one time Sheriff of Marion county, later Postmaster of Portland, and still lat er Warden of the Oregon Penitenti ary. Mr. Minto and his wife have a village of White Leghorns on the hil ly side of his 60 acre tract, and just back from the road is a pretty little farm house, with berries, orchard and meadow outspread. Here, the erstwhile politician and federal office holder works daily at what seems most vital to the business of the f THE ♦ MATTER No 29 ranch. On the shady side of sixty, Mr. .Minto is strong, active and alert, typifying the sturdy qualities of the Caledonian stock from which he is descended. About him, in the pretty neighbor hood, are other Portland men who are enjoying the quiet of country life amidst the cherry orchards, almost under the shadow and in view of the monarch of the cascades—Mt Hood, it is just 14 miles from Mr. Minto’s ranch to Old & King’s store in Port land, and only 45 minutes drive by auto from his farm to the heart of the big city. After all, leaving out the question of arbitrary eity boundaries, it is hard to say where Portland’s suburban districts begin and where they end. All roads lead to Portland LET THE PUBLIC RUN THE SALARIES OF CO. EMPLOYEES PUBLIC UTILITIES A WHILE ARE RAISED BY THE COURT We don’t know whether William D. On acount of the high cost of liv Bennett, Democratic nominee for ing, the Commissioner’s Court of should seriouslv consider thr question of the formation of a i public service commisioner, will get Multnomah at its last meeting made live Community Club. Other stations along the Mt. Scott line very close to the goal in his cam substancial raises of salary in the paign for election, but we do know case of county employees. The raise and in other parts of jhe city have already taken the step, and NO PERSON UNDER I« FOUR KELLY BUTTE PRIS- that he is rendering the people of takes in all the departments of of they are getting result« in many ways. If we expect to <et CAN DRIVE AN AUTO ONERS ESCAPE: 3 CAUGHT Oregon a very good service by init ficials and labor, and was deemed iating a measure to b<- voted on at neccessary for the above reason. improvem^Hs as a community p art of life great city of Portland, The first pf the motor vehicl« Four prisoners at the Kelly Butte the Fall election to amend the pub John Courier, a blind man who was drivers*» licenses arc being received we muni first have an ORGANI ZATION, and not depend upon rockpile, just north of Lents, made lic utilities act so “that said com ruled off the streets by the city, as ■ break about noon last Friday and by Lenta auto drivers. Although rig individual effort to get the things we need, and which mission shall not have authority to a pencil vender, was allowed $25 a succeeded in getting away. One was nl enforcendtht of the provisions of alter existing rates, tolls, charges, week for the support of his family. should come to us because of lheir necessity. It is the old recaptured before he had gone fifty , the law is being temporarily «uspend joint rates or charges where same The contract for wiring the new question of the «ingle »tick an d yards, and two more were brought i ed pending the issuance of licenses on f bundle of sticks, When have been fixed by franchise or county hospital north of Lenta, was back after they had been out about ! the applications which have been filed contract or which may hereafter be let to the Jagger-Struffe Co. for we ask for anything, we shuul d ve an organized citizenry two and a half hours, and one of with the secretary of states’ office I so fixed and further providing that $46,815. Roadmaster Eatchell was reTjnlw. prepared to back it up with vim behind hie and vigor, the men was still at large Saturday thqt section of the act which specifi the commission shall not have au authorized to have the towers of cally forbids the operation of motor So long as morning. we remain quiescent and lake just what the city thority to fix rates, tolls, or charges the Hawthorne bridge and the top of The men tunneled their way to vehicles by persons under 16 years of in cases where right to fix and es the Broadway bridge re-painted and chues r« to giwe, just so long will be in the we “ long-felt want ” freedom beneath the shed and fence age is now In full force and effect tablish same has by legislative grant other bridges are to receive atten column. Consider the matter, citizens and later on surrounding the rock crusher, where and «rill be enforced to the letter, ac or by people’s vote been vested by tion where needed A new bridge they were out of sight of the guards. cording to a statement recently is- | < harter in any municipality.’* when the seasonable time comes, let us all be prepared to take across the Willamette river at St. Clifton Anderson, Ralph Stark and sued by Secretary of State Sam 11 is inconceivable that the public, Johns was petitioned for at this ses hold of the idea of thr organisation uY a live Keser. It will require two or three Community club. Harry Gardner were the three who i w&f permit a condition to prevail sion of the Court. It may receive escaped. Anderson and Stark were weeks yet in order to clear the decks and then go after the things we need as a growing and import which a public utility, which has attention in the next annual IniAgst. - of applications for the licenses and all captured on »2nd street, near the agseed to perform service at a In addition to the budget apropriat- ant part of the City. The old s criptural idea of “Ask, and ye Powell Valley road, end Gardner,' who have failed to apply so far are given rate for a certain period of ing $2600 for improvement of the - shall receive,*' is ail right, but in these days of Go-get-it-ism we who is still at large, had almaet com -1 urged to do so at once as failure to time, can at its option appeal to a Boone Ferry road, a further allow pleted a four months term. Walter possess a license when the local peace ■ public service commission and the ance of $3,400 was made for a first need an organized force of taxpayers and insistent citizens and Long was found hidden in the brush officers and the state field deputies ! latter at its option may nullify an class macadam highway. business men back of the request, to make it effective.. A live begin to round up violators will not near the rockpile. , agreemenL contract or franchise and tie regarded as an excuse. Community duh will solve thr problem. I allow a raise in rates. Of what HAPPY VALLEY BERRY KING It is expressly provided that no EMPLOYS 75 PICKERS DAILY GRANGES AND COMMUNITIES , good is the agreement, contract or person whether or not the owner of franchise anyhow? TO COMPETE AT COUNTY FAIR a motor vehicle who is less than 16 J. D. Hutchinson of Happy .Val If an individual or firm bids to years of age or who is mentally in ley, just southeast of Lents, is en i ! perform a certain work at a certain The Multnomah County Fair and competent or physically incapacitat NEWLY BURIED LOT TIN CANS ; rate, they must carry out the con- titled to be called the “Mt. Scott thr Manufacturer’s and Land Pro ed as defined in the act shall operate CAUSES POUCE HURRY CALL : tract duly made whether it is fi- Berry King. Mr. Hutchinson has ducts Show will be held at Gresham or drive any motor vehicle on any | -ancially profitable or not and for been in the berry business practically October 4 to 9 inclusive, and both Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Gulledge of public highway in this state. James H Jackson, railroad man, ! he protection of me public they are all of his life, which thus far can be shows promise to be a big attraction. was Moro than 125,000 applications 7221 Foster Road reported to the who lived in a little shack at Ix-nta, required to give a bond for the faith summed up in 43 years. “I The premium list is said to be the have been filed but it is not believed police last Monday that they had dis died November 8, 1918, jeaving two ful performance of the contract- Why raised in a berry patch,” said Mr. largest ever offered. A change has that all of the licenses will be in the covered woman's clothing in a house adopted daughters, one in the asylum, last Monday while in I is a public utility any better than Hutchinson been made in the grange contest, and mails before the middle of AugusL which they had ocupied that day, al and the other a young woman of 22 I^nta, “and have followed that busi is a public the individual? Why award of 3100 will be made to each Mr. Koxer predicts that between so a mound of fresh earth under years, who had taken care of him utility allowed to ride roughshod ov- ness up to the present time and like grange or community which puts in 150,000 and 200.000 applications will •tome bushes in the back yard. They for the last two years of his exist- ly will continue it the remainder of a creditable exhibit, and an addi er the people like an outlaw when- therefore suspected foul play and tence, in her home. be received at his office my life. My father used to raise Why not ever it chooses to do so? tional 31 for each point which the feared some one had been buried on berries on a large scale forty years Roth girls were adopted by the old I let the public run the public utilities exhibit scores over 75 points. A SHERIFF OF UMATILLA SLAIN the premises. Police Inspectors aft I ago at the old farm down on 60th man for kindnesses shown him, when for a while instead of the public util score of 65 points must be received BY ESCAPING PRISONERS er digging in the hot sun, unearthed he had fainted on two occasions in and Division street- All of the old to entitle the exhibit to an award. a large cache of old tin cans, and the candy shops in Portland. Long after ities running the public?—Polk settlers knew him. Considerable community interest it County Post. Til. Taylor, the well known Sheriff excitement subsided. Mrs. Gulledge Mr. Hutchinson has next to the is expected, will be aroused by these of Umatilla county, w killed by a said she had once lived in a bouse the first adopted daughter had been largest berry farm in Multnomah sent to the asylum, Jackson met the DORT CARS WINS FIRST awards. half-breed Indian last Sunday at where a woman’s body was found in second girl, who ministered to him AND SECOND IN CONTEST county, the largest being near Gresh Pendleton, when six prisoners broke the yard, and was suspicious in this am, and which is known as the Cot during a fainting spell. No will was TRIMONT FIRE} DEPARTMENT jail, and obtained Winchesters A case found when Jackson died, and when Dort cars won first and second ton farm. The Hutchinson tract OFFERS PRIZES TO DANCERS deputy was first overpowered, when the girl in the asylum, through her places in their class in the Sacra consists of 35 acres, and the whole Taylor and another deputy came in OLD TIMERS RETURN HERE guardian, E. E. Feike, made her mento-Lake Tahoe reliability and tract is set to berries of various The Tremont Volunteer Fire Com and closed with the escaping priso AFTER A LONG ABSENCE clam for the property, amounting to economy run of June 25. Authorities kinds. pany has a good attendance at its ners. In the struggle Taylor was $1481.07, the claim was contested. state that this was the most strenu Each morning trucks come to Edward H. Knauss and family ar- Saturday night dances. Their «pen fatally wounded. Taylor, it will be This week Circuit Judge Stapleton ous road contest staged in California Lents and depart for the farm filled air dancing pavilion is 40x80 feet. remembered came to Portland and rived this week from Fairbault, Min decided the case in favor of Mrs. Har with very hot weather prevailing and with berry pickers. Each night the Union music is employed and good moisted the police in running down nesota, and have rented the old Tyler vey, who is now in posession of the I much traffic to contend with. pickers are brought to 92nd street, The order is maintained. Next Saturday the murderers of Burges and Per- home at 6303-92nd streeL after the day’s work. Thus far this estate, to which she is indebt«! for The route was one of 260 miles night, July 31st, four prizes will be ringer, who were killed last winter Knaussce lived in Lenta 17 years ago her kindness to an old man. over the high Sierras, with grilling year Mr. Hutchinson has sold to the and have come back to remain per- given away. For the best waltxer, at the Claremont Inn. grades reaching an altitude of 8000 canneries in Portland over 3,000 , manently. Mr Knauss worked for I. a larga wall picture given by the A number of Lents stores closed feet from a start at sixty feet crates of berries, and two auto trucks MERCHANTS CONVENTION ' F. Coffman, 15 yean ago, when the Wednesday last to enable the own Mish Furniture Company, 188 First There were twenty-four representa- are engaged in carrying the berries TO BE HELD AUGUST 9TH latter a brother of Edward Knauss. street, value, |10. Second best, 3 lb. ers and clerks to attend the Grocers tive cars, entered, and twenty-one daily to the markets. The amount works. Ben. Knauss and family, the Picnic- The boys no doubt appreciat box candy- by the Swetland Candy receiver per pound is 25c. Pickers The Pacific Northwest Merchants , made the run. Company, Morrison street« Hiird Convention will convene in Portland latter a brothe of Edward Knauss, ed the respite from tying up high The first Dort averaged 2Pi are now working on Blackcaps and best, a pint .thermos bottle by the August 9 to 14 inclusive. Portland accompanied the latter and family Price sugar and other out of-sight to'the gallon of gasoline; sec’- Red Raspberries. In about ten days out here, and has bought the old commodities. Northern Pacific pharmacy, corner -------------- j »-, _ As c tass are a class they will entertain this body of business ond Dori, 18 2-3 miles. The finish- a tract of ten acres of Lawton black 3rd and Morrison streets. Fourth men. Over two thousand merchants Harding place in Happy Valley, and overworked, and the relaxation for iing third averaged nearly three miles berries will be attacked by the small best, 2 lb. box candy by the Portland in Oregon have accepted the invita will specialize in chicken raising. a day did them good. army of pickers, who are making less to the gallon. Chocolate Shop, 245 Morrison street. good wages. The work will last for a perfect tion to be present. Alaska will be The first Dort made C. B. Norblad, propietor of the The dance is open to all. The Fire represented, and merchants are ex F.M. Allen and family, who used several weeks. 997 ^points score, second Dort scored Sixth Avenue grocery left Thursday, L----- ■ - Company assures all of good order pected from Wyoming, Minnesota, live near the Catholic church three accompanied by his mother for South out out a possible 1000. Except at and a good time. Colorado and other states of the years ago, in Lents, arrived here this Bend, Wash., where the mother will official I controls, neither Dort FARMERS HOLD FIELD DAY r.. NEXT SATURDAY, JULY 31 week from eastern Nebraska, satis Rocky Mountain district. The com stay for a while visiting with rela stopped its wheels». CHAS. MASON NEARLY SEVERS mittee of arrangements will have fied that Oregon is the best place to The Dort car is handled at Lents tives. Mr. Norblad will visit Seattle Farmers will hold their Field Day END OF FINGER FRIDAY "high jinks" for the men and theater live. The trip was made in a Font and Tacoma for a couple of days be , Garage. See Alex Kildahl for dem- meet at Gresham, tomorrow, July 31. oc auto — three in the family — and parties for the ladies; also luncheons, ' onstration. fore returning to Lents. The program begins at 10:30 a. m. Ne While working at his trade in the excursions, etc., te gonclude with an cupied only 9 days from Omaha, and will last all day. In the fore on« braska. Pretty good time, if any Canneries in Oregon will not pack BIC. LABOR DAY PICNIC TO Eagle Garage last Friday, Chas elaborate banquet Uf the visitors. noon, Senator Geo. E. Chamberlain should ask. BE HELD AT MT. SCOTT PARK. any surplus of fruit this year, and Mason accidentally cut the end of the and Judge Stapleton will speak. Wheat is ripening»'itest, and har while fruit may be cheap, the house fore-finger on his left hand, nearly Music will be provided by the G. A. The instructor at the ML Scott and Dr. C. S. Ogsbury and wife wife will not buy high price sugar severing it He was driving a rod on vesting is a question of days not Park is busily engaged in drilling a R. quartet. In the afternoon, the a ring on an auto shaft, when the rod months. Some of the finest wheat sons, left the first of the week for a to preserve it? The trusts seem to t large number of children in stunts to county granges will put on comedy slipped, the finger coming in contact the writer has ever seen in Oregon two weeks outing near the foot of be in the saddle and the government be demonstrated at the Labor Day stunts, and there will be a commun with the sharp edge of the steel ring, is now ready to cut in Northern Mt. Adams over in Washington. This powerless to stop it. picnic. A ball game will be one of ity sing, and various sports. Field with the above result. The wound Clackamas county, and there seems is the first vacation the Dr. has tak the features, and thirty-five prizes day will be held at the fair grounds Ettrick & Cline, contractors, have en for four years, and the Ogsburys bled profusely before a physician to be quite an acreage this year. Oats just finished sanding and smoothing will be distributed to successful con at Gresham, and there will be no could attend to it. At last accounts are also ripening and the stand is are looking forward to the trip, charge for admission. A number of Oregon will have bumper which is being made by auto, with a 77th street, which has greatly Im testants A fine program is in there was a good chance to save the good Lents people purpose attending preparation. Watch tor the posters. proved that thoroughfare for travel. great deal of pleasure. crops thia year. While it is a little early in I he sesMtii for organization Lents t t V ol . XVIII. 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