Community Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of The Mt. Scott District Hit. ^rntt iwralu Subscription, $1.60 the Year. More than 3000 Readers Peruse This Paper Every Friday Morning VOL. XX, No. 6 LENTS STATION, PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEB. 10 1922 4 Over Million Dollars To Be Spent in Mt. Scott FOSTER ROAD IMPROVEMENT < ONTRAtT LET, TO START WITH •GOOD WEATHER; LENTS TRUNK HEWER BORINGS COMPLETED EVANGELICA^ CHI RUH NOTES Jununry 30tli our pastor conducted the funeral of Mr. Ash, father of William Ash, formerly of 1-enta; Feb­ ruary 3, that ot the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Martan Murphey, who reside on Foster Road; and at Dun­ ning's undertaking parlors on Satur­ day, the funeral of Harold Paul, for­ merly of l-enta, who died from the effects of exposure during the late war. Mr. Paul enlisted in the 162nd Infantry and served in England. Mrs. Armstrong is night nurse at the home of Prof. Hadley, caring for Rev. Shupp who has been ill with Inflammatory rheumatism for 19 weeks. Miss Marion Culver sang at the Sunday morning s ervice and she and Mrs. Paul Culver sang “Abide With Me” in the Y. P. A. Miss Mildred Raney ia staying with Mrs. Coffman since her people moved to Oregon City. The house which had been occupied by the Raney fam­ ily on 92nd street, is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Sheuer- man. The young people’« business meet- ing Friday night waa well attended. Re fresh meats were served to those pree-nt by William Anderson and wife. The Prayer Band has been invited this week to the home of Mrs. Mor- terud on 93rd street. Mrs. Ernest Trenary has been missed from her accustomed place in the services for the past three weeks, owing to illneas. Mrs. Plowman, mother of Mrs. Loomis, was a visitor in our midst Sunday morning. The young ladies will hold their class meeting Friday night. The annual day of prayer of the W. M. S. was obeerved in our church Sunday by a special sermon on prayer in the morning by the pas­ tor, and a prayor meeting led by Mrs. Fanknauser, in the afternoon. the Ixmts trunk sewer. Mr. John- son stated that, should this district come into the assessment the cost j>cr lot would be around $25. If it did not, the coat would be around $40 per lot. This difference is caused by the larger or smaller territory which is assessed. The assistant city commissioner says that if the outside property owners refuse to bear a share of the burden they probably will find that within a few years they will want sewer connections and then they will have to build a sewer of their own to the Willamette river, whereas if they come in now they will hsve sewer with which to connect. Det si Is of Footer Road Of the estimated cost of the Foster Road improvement the street railway will pay $81,900 for their share of the work from 50th street to 72nd street. Multnomah county will pay $57,000 towards the work from 50th street to 72nd street and $8000 as its share of the improvements from 72nd street to 82nd street This leaves approximately $67.126 for property assessment. About 2,- 200 lota will bear this burden. Roughly, the district to be assessed ia: midway between Powell Valley Road an,! Foster Road; one-half block south of Woodstock avenue be- tween 72nd and 80th street and be- tween 72nd and 6lni streets as far south as 55th avenue; from 63rd to 62nd streets, the district boundary zigzags and crosses 52nd street at 45th aveiue. Th« details of the improvement follow: the streetcar company will occupy the central 19.S feet which will be macadamised between inter­ ST. PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH secting streets and at intersections Solemn Requiem services were held will be hard surfaced. On either side the streetcar tracks will be a 201» for the deceased pope and were well foot hard-surfaced roadway* and Lhc attended. Mrs. E. Fleming and Mrs. H. Lane sidewalk on either side will occupy 17*4 feet of which six feet will be are to be congratulated on their sidewalk, 9*4 feet outer parking and rapid recovery from major operations. two feet inner parking, Between the The latter attended church Sunday. Mrs. Olive Blanchette of Happy roadways and the streetcar tracks will be a curb, level with the roadway, Valley, who died in St. Vincent’s hos­ making it possible to cross the street­ pital after nine weeks confinement, car tracks at any place. Between waa buried from the church Monday .’2nd street and 82nd street this plani morning. Interment was in St. Jos­ will lie varied. Here there will be eph’s Catholic cemetery. She leaves but an 18-foot hard-surfaced road- to mourn her a husband and a sis­ way. Tb* municipal paving plant al- *"• Auclaire, recently of Happy ready has been awarded the contract Valley. To them our sympathy goes for this part of the work, to cost 1 ouL Mrs. Darcy, formerly of Eugene, is $7,806.60, and good weather alone is the remaining necessity to start the recovering from serious illness at her daughter’s home on 83rd street. work. . Al Beland, our right hand man, spent a few days in bed with la- THOUSANDS OF COUPLES APPRECIATION HERALD grtppe, and his younger brother, Mat, MAY h U i in i : n I sited EDITORIAL followed suit. IN CANADA UNLAWFULLY We are glad to see so many fam­ ilies released from quarantine, as we 9956 55th Avenue S. E. missed many faces for weeks. Montreal—(By N. C. W. C.)—Dis­ Feb. 4, 1922. —J. P. O. Flynn. covery that thousands of couples Editor, The ML ffcott Herald: have been married by clergymen who 1 uur article in today's Herald is LENTS BAPTIST CHURCH were not British subjects, ns the law one of the moat beautiful and truth- of 1829 required, has led to the ques­ ful that I have ever read in any tion of the legal validity of these nvwspapcr or magazine. “The Heart Mr. Bentley, state evangelist, marriages. The number of these le­ of a Child” appealed to me, when I closed the special meeting Thursday gally questionable marriages in the thought of all of the hundreds of night, The meeting has been a very last 100 years is problematical, but dear little earthly angels, in public successful one. About 60 persons it is believed to be considerable. homes, hungering for someone to love have confessed Christ as a personal Many persons have died without once and caress them, for we all realize Savior and about 40 have united with suspecting that there was any legal that while they get the necessary at­ the church. A large percentage of flaw in their nuptial contracts. tention for their little bodies, those those uniting with the church have The test of the old law came when in charge do not have the time (as been adults, and most of these adults Rev. Sydney B. Snow, formerly of much m they would like to do so) to are the heads of families. Mr. Boston, and now pastor of the Uni­ hug and kiss those poor cast-off bun­ Bentley will begin a campaign with tarian Church in Montreal, applied dles of “little hearts,” who are starv­ the Baptist church at I^banon next for a register for the pn-sent year. ing for love, mother’s love. Sunday. These registers are used as means of Sunday school next Sunday at 9:45. I lost by death a dear little girl gathering statistics respecting mar­ in my early married life, a twin to Good music and classes for all ages. riages, births and deaths. As Rev. a son, still living—and yet feel her Preaching service at eleven, Paa- Mr. Snow is an American and not n Iocs, and my heart almost stope with tor’s theme, "Obedient to the Hesv- British subject the question of his anguish when I allow myself to enly Vision.” right to perform marriages was think about her. Junior rally at three. raised by an official who investigated Young people’s meeting at 6:30. If I were not so far over the hill, the law and found the old statute. and so near the base, I would surely This will be a welcome meeting for It is announced that ths Quebec take one or more “little hearta" from new members, and the president and psrliament will remedy the situation one of the “homes,' »» to love the bal- cabinet want every member present. by adopting legislation at its pres­ ance of my life, as I love all small Baptizing at the beginning of the ent session. service. Song service, 7:30 to 8. Pas­ children. Allow me to say that the Herald tor’s subject, "I Am Not Ashamed of seems to grow i more interesting the Gospel." New Books at Lente Library Mrs. Estella Mathews Ironspiker*s with each issue. class of piano pupils will give a ro- ADAH L. CONINE. citai in the Baptist church Friday New books added to Juvenile col­ evening, February 17. This will be Veteran Given Military Funeral lection at Lenta branch library are: free but an offering will be taken to Sue Orcutt (Vaile); Tommy Tink­ meet the expense of advertising and er’s Book (Blaisdell); Old World The funeral of William L. Garner, light and fuel. All other proceeds Wonder Stories (edited by O’Shea); Northern Diamonds (Pollock); Tink- 26. waa held thia week from Rigdon’s will be donated to the church. There ham Brothers’ Tide-mill (Trow- undertaking parlors with interment will be nearly 40 children in this re- bridgs); Black Arrow (Stevenson); in City View cemetery. Mr. Gamer cital, with solos, duets and trioe. German Household Tales (Grimm); was a corporal in the late war and BUILDING PERMITS As the Goose Files (Pyle); Book of hia body waa paid the honor of a mil­ Charles Arato — Repairing rosi- itary funeral. He attended school in Nursery Rhymes (edited by Welsh); Through the Farmyard Gate (Pouls- Salem but lived in l«nts for ten dence, 5131 E. 52nd, builder same. son); and for the adult collection, years prior to the time of hie enlist­ $500. Jones Muckel — Erecting ■tore, ment in the service of his country. Outline of History (H. G. Wells). Ho is survived by a father and 6435 Foster Road, builder H. W. mother, two brothers and one sister. Werth. $8000. Patronize our advertisers. In two public improvements the city of Portland plans to expend over 8I.OUO,000 in the ML Scott district this spring and summer. The estimated cost of the Foster Road extension and improvement is $214,026. The estimated cost of the proposed Lents trunk sewer Is $800,. 4)00. Both projects are well along to- wards final settlement. Plans for the Footer Road eaten* sion and improvement, from 50th ami Powell Valley Road to K2nd and Fos- ter Road are now going through the 20-day period of appeal. When this time expires next week, if no per­ son has appeared before a court to try to stop the improvement! then the city council will ask for bids, Thereafter about six weeks must «lapse, for the advertising for bid* and the month's period for remon­ strance, and then lotting of the con­ tracts will take place. This would mean, that in the ordinary course of «vents the contract would be let some time in April. Sewer Borings Completed Borings along the proposed route *rf the lent« trunk sewer have been completed and the plana will be filed, bide advertised for, the remonstrance period obeerved and the contract granted within the next two months. Contractor» will be permitted to bid on two routes for the sewer; one to follow the bed of Johnson Creek to the Willamette river and the other to follow the creek bed to Harney avenue and then tunnel to the river. A. G. Johnson, assistant to Commis­ sioner Barbur, stated to the Herald this week that the route would prob­ ably follow that one which the con­ tractors could do most economically. A meeting of the property owners front outside the city limits but adja­ cent to the proposed l^nta trunk sewer has been called for February 17 in the city hall. At thia time the matter of the site of the proposed sewer will be definitely settled. To Decide Site of Sewer Mr. Johnson stated that one of two plana would be followed, decision to be made upon the completion of the property owners’ meeting. Either the sewer will be made large enough to allow drainage for thia district out­ side the city and the property owners will agree to pay assessments for the sewer, or, the property owners’ refusal to agree to pay assessments will mean the sewer will be made smaller and the district will not be allowed to connect at any time with LtNIS NLbLEGIED I MT «COTT CACHE ; N HOLDS MUCH LOOT Income lax Return Must Be Filed Betöre March 15 Ideatificat.on of about $5000 worth AT M E E T I N i) W EDN END A Y of hardware and delicate instruments COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO taken from the attic occupied by LOOK AFTER DISTRICT’S Warner Gerrick in his father-in- PERTINENT INFORMATION ISSUED BY COLLECTOR FOR OREGON POLICE PROTECTION law’s house, 3531 65th street last FOR ALL WHO ARE SUBJECT TO LAW Saturday morning, began Saturday afternoon when business houses Taxpayers who filed income tax that sum yielded him a cent of pro­ At a meeting Wednesday night in which had suffered from rc<-ent bur, Tillman's restaurant an organization glaries sent representatives to the returns last year need not write for fit. To illustrate: A received from of Ixsnts business men was effected, sheriff’s office to inspect the arti­ blanks for making their returns this his business and other sources $5000 year. The necessary blanks for mak­ during the year 1921, but his deduc­ to look after Lenta police protection cle« recovered. ing 1921 returns will be mailed by tible expenses for the year aggre­ as an immediate necessity. It was Gerick was in the county jail on a Clyde G. Huntley, collector of inter­ gated $4500. His net income being decided to hire C. N. Anderson as a blanket burglary charge. Two truck special policeman, his salary to be loads of instruments, bicycles, rifles, nal revenue, to every person who less than $1000, A would not have paid by assessment upon 1-ent* busi­ cloth and the like were taken from filed last year, as soon as these to pay an income tax.. However, he blanks are received from Washing­ is required under the law to file an ness houses. the attic. By evening the Chanslor income tax return if his gross in­ At the same time it was the em­ ir Lyon company had identified $800 ton, probably early in February. come was $5000, or more, regardless phatic expression of many present worth of motor drills and accessories Every individual who had a net in­ of whether or not he realizes any that I^nts, though in the city of as stolen from them Ne- • Year’s day. Portland and the citizens of which Other articles were discovered to come of $1000 or more during 1921, profit. are taxed for fire and police protec­ have come from the Archer & Wig­ if single, or if married and not liv­ The new income tax law allows the tion, has not received this protection gins company, Park and Couch ing with husband or wife, must file following exemptions: Single per­ an income tax return not later than and must now, after nine years in streets, which was robbed January son, or married person not living March 15. the city, revert to its independent 22 nd. with husband or wife, $1000; head of stfctus of nine years ago and hire ita Identification Difficult a family, or married person living If unmarried with a net ineome of own protection, It was pointed out Identification was hindered by the $1000 or more during the year 1921 with husband or wife, $2500, unless that nine years ago a volunteer fire | removal of numbers _______ on different _ ar- the net income is in excess of $5000, department was stationed within tho I ticles and the placing of other num­ you are required to file an income tax return. Failure to do so makes in which case the exemption is only That volunteer fl»* bars. town of Lents, the delinquent taxpayer liable to $2000; for each dependent under the department provided protection on When Mrs. Gerick, young and good age of 18, $460. the ground while now the nearest looking, was taken into the attic by heavy penalties. This also applies fire station of the efty of Portland Deputy Sheriffs Christoflerson and to single persons claiming exemp­ tion as head of a family. The 1921 income tax law requires is some miles away. Schirmer, who made the rrid, she that a single person claiming ex­ Committee Appointed to Study looked at the loot casually and said Although the new income tax law emption as the head of a family Situation ■>he was sure her husband hadn’t At the outset of the meeting Wed- ,t0]en He always told her when increases from $2000 to $2500 the must file a return if hia net income nesday night, F. R. Peterson was he brought anything in t th ___ rT" exemPtion of a married person whose is $1000, or more, notwithstanding B , * net income for 1921 aggregated $2,- the fact that as head of a family, elected chairman and Dr. C. S. Ogs- bought it and paid for ¡L she e 000 and did not exceed $5000, every he is entitled to an exemption of $2,- bury, secretary. In quick succession ■ dared. married person must file an income 500, as well as $400 for each de- motions were passed that it was the Arrested Once Before tax return if hia net income was only pendent under 18 years of age. consensus of opinion that Lents Gerick, in jail, wouldn’t wanted police protection and that whether or not he was a burglar by $2000. If the net income of a mar­ Every married person, living with Special Policeman Anderson was sat- professibn. He has a record ried person last year was in excess isfactory but that an organization having been arrested in the Meier * of $5000, he is allowed an exemption husband or wife, in order to claim of only $2000. the exemption of $2500 and $400 for was needed which would superintend Frank store, May 13,1919, for shop- each dependent minor allowed In the his activities, give him orders, and lifting. At that time considerable Every head of a family who had 1921 income tax law, must make a see that he was paid for his work A stolen property was discovered in his a net income of $1000, or more, dur­ return although his actual net in­ committee was appointed by the | home. chairman and secretary, upon autho- Gerick then had the name of “W. ing 1921 must file a return, although come for 1921 may have been only rization from the meeting, consisting W. Gierke.” He was bound over he is entitled to the same exemption $2000. of F. R. Peterson, Dr. C. S. Ogsbury, to the grand jury and when he came of $2500 allowed married persons, “Don’t forget to distinguish be­ Roy Davis, Elmer Morterud, and Ben before Circuit Judge Gatens sentence providing his net income does not ex­ ceed $5000. The head of a family tween net and gross income in mak­ study the needs of Lents in I was postponed indefinitely. Wire, to ................... ........................ police and fire protection, take what Gerick was in the basement when under the law is defined as a per­ ing out 1921 income tax returns,” ad­ action was deemed necessary, call an- the deputies appeared and demand­ son who supports in one household vises Clyde G. Huntley, collector of other meeting of the I^nts business ed that they be taken to the attic. one or more relatives by blood, mar­ internal revenue. “Every taxpayer who had a net income of $2000 or a men, and classify and solicit Lents Gerick led them upstairs unwillingly, riage, or adoption. gross income of $5000, regardless of business ms houses for the support nec- where they found a combination ar­ A new feature of the income tax the net income, must file a return. essary to have police protection con- senal and hardware store. tinued. Besides his wife Gerick has two law requires that every person who This is very important and the tax­ had a gross income of $3000, or more, payer must govern himself accord­ Thank Mr. Tillman children. A motion was carried unanimously, Gerick has confessed to six of the for the year 1921, must file a re­ ingly or he will be liable to heavy thanking Mr. Tillman for the u«o of ( robberies. The confessions were not turn, regardless of whether or not penalties. his restaurant as a meeting place. I forthcoming until the loot was identi- Good suggestions came from Mr. fled and traced to specific robberies. CHAS. E. KENNEDY DEAD GRAND MASQUERADE DANCE Wing, and it was discovered that he “I wa8 out of work and had to Fairview Hall, Saturday nighL was the only man in the place who make a living for my wife and chil- Pioneer ML Scott Real Estate Man Three prizes. Gents 75c. Ladies was satisfying the inner man while (