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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1921)
mt. Scott herald Lents Furniture Co 9213 Foster Road 1 T 1 Garden 1 OOIS Geo. A. McArthur................ Proprietor *t Today’s Wholesale Prices-while they -ast DEAL AT HOME Subscription Pries See Us Before Trading in Your Old Furniture $1 50 a year tilt Ninety-esoon d Street Phone 622-2S WE SAVE YOU MONEY Our Prices are Right, Regardless of Cost NO ROOM FOR CRITICISM In the city of London there are hundreds of thousands of people un employed—five million of them in Great Britain. Empty stomachs arv as numerous as the leaves upon the trees 6702 Foster Road . One section of Ixrndoa is gaunt Residence Main 3369 ! and filled with misery. There » no NONES Business AuL 610-79 work, no money and but little bread In another section -the section of IIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll aristocracy and fashion — gavety ! reigns .supreme. Immense sums of money* are spent on the pleasures of a single night. It flows continual! v I in the production of social excite ment. There is no want, no hunger, no ' lack of bread there. But are we Americans in a position to criticise England’s aristocracy for I its frivolity in the face of unemploy- j ment and misery* We are not Millions of people are out of cm ployment in this country. Our cities swarm with homes where the larder- : are empty ami little stomachs arc more to. Yet in Atlantic City a prise fight is to be pulled off soon between an ' American and a Frenchman—betwee' . Dempsey and Carpentier. High-salaned writers fill the col umns of the daily papers with gush land guff about the color of Carpen I tier’s socks and Dempsey's pet poodl, I dogs. Men will journey from every state I in the union to see that fight. They I will pay from $10 to $1.000 a seat to j see two men beat each other up. A broken no«-' smeared with blood I Au elicit no »cel'"g of pity or con- W ran Savp | cem—only renewed howls of joy or chagrin. There will be no empty stomachs I at that fight. No little children cry • mg for bread will witness that gorv ! contest of brutality. The money spent for the privileg-- I of seeing that tight would furnish a royal. feast for all of the people i:i the United States who now hunger ! for bread. Instead, it will not allay the suf I ferings of one No. we are in no position to criti | rise the English, or any other nation In the Center of Lents—Phone 633-68 : of people, so far a.« squandering our .«ubstance and neglecting our unem ployed are concerned. f P. LARSEN, Real Estate, Insurance REMEMBER We handle New and Used Fords and Chevrolets Talk with Us, if You think of Buying. You Money and Give You Service Right at Home. Eagle Garage ON THE HIGHWAY Auto Repairing, Grease and Oil COLUMBIA BATTERIES BY COLkY ! |’ m GOING TO P resent MV’evss* with a FULL SET r you buy hvr Ä DIAMOND' T GRIBBLE BROTHERS CRESTON GARAGE SO th and Powell Valley Road Phone 616-62 T“' MAPLES GARAGE AND AUTO REPAIR SHOP SCíMPíX . E ARE A SALE AND SERVICE STATION for Diamond Tires and Tubes; also Fisk Fisk Tires and Tuber, with New Stock of all sizes to fit your car. We guarantee our tires and give all service possible. W OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT Phone: 614-48 L. L. CAMPBELL, Prop Successors to Myers Garage and Machine Shop SECRETS WILL OCT The 4 Fs Films, Foto Supplies Finishing and Free SQUARE DEAL CANDY STORE CANDIES MADE DAILY SATURDAY SPECIAL SNOW BALLS, 30c per lb Lents The joy of life is like a weed In the garden. No matter how much we stamp it out, it creeps right back again. 1. Films—Eastman and Defender. 2. Foto Supplies—Paper, develop er. hypo, etc. X Finishing—The equal of any and superior to many. 4. Free—Each day our dark room will select the best negative appearing during the day and make a 10-inch enlargement free of charge. Bring your foto work to ÌL rJj FISK TIRES by dealer s b?. give tire mileage at the lowest eost in history 30x31 CORD RED-TOP NON-SKID $15.00 $22.00 $27.50 Reduction on all styles and sites A New Low Price on a Known and Honest Product ROSE CITY VAN MOVING We Can Move One Way from Portland to Leals You Out of the Muddy Street M22 Foster Road DR. A. C. LUNDBERG CHIROPRACTOR FORDS Ä1 let Mj Mett ted Im Beset Phone 614-31 Yott Bldg. PboM 612-6» ___ COAL »247 Footer Road Mattataci km Guaranteed. OTTO HECKEL, Cor. 55tb Aw., S E A 1111* SI CWoidd uou. unitea far voids, fa ¿5,000? Curreys Pharmacy Grays Crossing its sll right or your money back Hart & Klauder Everlasting Concrete Fence Posts All Designs Abo Clothes Line Posts 8009 36th Ave., S. E. Near 82nd St and Powell Valley Road Phone 62517 5228 72nd St S. E., Portland, Or. IF YOU WANT DRY WOOD CALL US MILLARD AVE. FUEL CO. O. M. Butler L. C. Pullen Ice, Wood. Coal and Feed Sand and Gravel A new use has been found for I ether, and the criminal element of our population is not pleased. In time -.heir uneasiness may develop into a , panic. It has been demonstrated by prac- ■ deal experiment that a small amount l of ether adfinistered to a person—an Garden Plowing and Excavating amount sufficient to plaee him under Prompt Service its influence and yet leaving him con -wious—will cause that person to I respond readily to any question, to babble his inmist secrets. Just what effect information se- I cured in thia manner will have in law Slab and Block Mixed is unknown, as its admissibility is I yet to be ascertained But the fact Delivered in b'KCrt HE remains that this opens up a possible truck loads, approxi- JkU /*J i way of detecting crime and of solving mately 1 H cords. ... Y many of the mysteries that now ba? the police of the country Phone Tabor *644 Then, too, if employed in ferreting out violations of the prohibition law Leave Orders at 6104 Mth Street there is no limit to the consternation ■ it may create. It mav even cause half of the population of the United J® decamp for parts unknown. Gosh! , FOR ............................... Mill Run Wood 10004 Foster Road and Darrin Avenue SI14 Ninety-second Street Have you been out on the highway these bright and sunny days, when Oregon is at her best, and watched the processions of motor cars shoot ing back and forth over the pave ment ? If you have, and ambled along on foot, you probably have noticed ho« some motorists differ from others in road manner». There is the city wise driver, who knows the rules of the road and observes them, no mat ter where he goes; there is the sel fish motorist, who wants the whole thoroughfare and takes about two thirds of it, Then there are the wo men drivers, who take their friend,. out for an afternoon spin and gossip as they drive, thereby endangering the life and limb of fellow-motorists and pedestrians, for when they get interested in some choice bit of new« they forget everything else. They are all there, just as we find them m business life and the home The stroller along the highway sees them all; good, bad and indifferent. The big Pierce-Arrow slip« past him. utterly oblivious to his exis tence; the Buick or Dodge shoots by with a derisive toot of the horn, of tentimes driving the wayfarer to the along the side, while the lit- tie old Henry usually rattles up with a clatter and a bang and the driver ipen the door and cheerfully ■O Gama open ¿ays: ‘ Going far? Better jump in.” i rhe more ancient the Lizzie, the 1 is that the owner will stop '«». he will say, “I always pick a | fellow up and carry him as far as I 1 ,an many weary mile^ myself before I got this old boat ” And somehow, you feel that you 1 ‘ pl>ce* «fMi ride in that haughty Pierce-Arrow anyway. And | when you thank him at your jour- ne.v s end and he tells you he is glad to have helped you on your way. you know he meant it and was as pleased over helping you as you were to ride. A writer in one of th* 'or I land HOW THE WORLD dailies, in commenting upon the num LOOKS SOMETIMES ber of worn, n who have disposed of undesirable husbands Via the slaugh Then» is no one man that resides in a ter house method. evpresaM the opin ion that he would rather be a live community that inadvertently makes bachelor than a dead husband Tut! more enemies and fewer friends than If he tut! brother not all the ladies are the publisher of a newspaper ... .... . ................ so .................... rowdyish. ....................... The mon- ladylike and is true to his convictions ami tells refined patronise the divorce court» one-half the truth regarding the Io- Of course if they haven’t the price cality. he becomes just about as pop or are unable to wait, that’s differ- ¡liar as a polecat in a parlor bedroom cot. And you're no gentlemen no- The lawyer ran aide-step his error» how to interfere with the ladies' pas- with technicalities; the physician can bury his mistakes and the minister times. atone on the cross, but there is no A Portland woman accepted a ride salvation Jar the poor sucker that in a passing automobile the other day prints a newspaper, tells the truth But why ami was forced to leap from the mov ami shames the devil. The writer, al ing car to avoid disagreeable conse should we worry ? though guilty or owning and conduct quences. Use the street car», ladies they mav be leas convenient but Ing a bakers’ <ioien of "journalistic they’re safer. Ami if an irate hus- endeavors" in the last past nearly band or two used a shotgun, who half a century, has never, ns yet been able to print one that fully sat would blame him? isfied himself; so why try to plea» A newcomer from the east re the populace? Our hide has becom marked to the Herald recently that he es that of a rhinoceros ami our inner hadn't heard a frog croak since he moat feelings seered ami indifferent arrived in this locality. We inAirmed to criticisms as an Egyptian mummy. June 24 is our birthday and the him that there were so many other croakers here that the frogs had left foregoing is about the way we feel the country in disgust. Besides, dur- toward a lot of pussy-foot peats that mg the rainy season many of them make it a business to sneer ami criti cise the errors of one’s utmost endea- drown. vurs to maist in the upbuilding and Portland is getting frmous, with betterment of the condition of the two movie queens as guests in a sin community to ths limit that our gle month. If only some enterpris strength, capital, capability and good ing genius will secure the presence intentions will allow. We arv going of Mrs Stillman and "Little Black to start the new year of our existence Bear" ,.>r WM ' brinin') MV cup .'f by telling the truth, steering clear happiness would be filled to over of fawning sycophants, and let the devil take the hindmost, whether we flowing. wind up as presiilent of a (sand) bank or the inmate of a poorhouse. A woman in Ruffalo. N Y., drew up P. S. - Probably our readers will the plans for her own house, did the carpenter work herself, and with excuse this tirade when we explain that generally, heretofore, we have slight assiatnnee installed the heat been able to celebrate the anniversary ing and plumbing systems. Rut there isn't a ghost of a show, fellows of our birth in a manner befitting the occasion; but the fellow that prom —she’s married. ised to produce the “wherewith” for the celebration failed to connect— Watch your step. In the United hence the condition of mind and in States last year 65.000 girls disap clinatain to believe this good old peared without leaving a trace. Pit world a mighty cold one on very spe falls are numerous ami yawning, sad cial occasion»—so, who wouldn’t be a always obscured from the view of the grouch, under existing conditions' unwary. P. S. No. 2—Since writing these few lines above, just before meal Race and blood tell the story. In time. we went home and found a din J upon then- is one divorce to every ner fit for a king, prepared by friend seven marriages, while in England wife that the neighbors had brought there is only one divorce to •vrry in, and at the time of going to press ten thousand marriages. we have a kindly feeling for all the world and the people in it “God Y’es. then* will come a time when bless our home.” flying is safi- for many people, Gab- riel will fumi«h the wings. A woman’s instinct is so keen she can invariably detect flattery from Genius is the master of simplicity, the genuine article, but it often keen* but a genius is not necessarily sim a fellow guessing to know which she ple. prefers. 1 11 ----- ■ Where, oh! where, was our George when Clara Kimball was muchly photoed? It’s the first chance he ever missed. Phone 633-60 WT AUL It is a good idea to smile sweetly! A. C. CONLEE. Prop. on a cloudy day. You thus supply s i NTN IfT CA Lents, Ore the sunshine that nature withholds. LLNTb ILL LU. Enter Me Edison's *10,000 Prize Contest Mr. Edison spent 3 million dollars in developing a phonograph of such absolute realism that its R e -C reation of music cannot be distinguished from the original music. Mr. Edison wants a phrase of not more than 4 or 5 words that will differentiate this instrument from all other sound-reproduc ing devices and emphasize the fact that it is an instrumentality by which the true beauties and full benefits of music can be brought into every home. If you are not a New Edison owner, we will gladly loan you a New Edison on Three Days Free Trial Then you >u can learn for yourself youraelf ju»t just what distinguishes diitinguiahet the New Edison Edi»< from phonographs and talking machine». Then you can teat the famoua life-like reahtm, and experience what mu»ic will do for you. > Mail or bring th« coupon to our »tore, »nd we will deliver a New Edison to your home, without expense or obligation to you. Also ask us lor folder giving full details of the *10,000 Prise Contest. Act quickly, because ire have only a few instruments to loan. '/ / Near Car Une V.