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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1922)
S SMALL TENT CITY Western Oregon Camp Meet ing to Open Tuesday. SEVEN PAVILIONS READY Stores, Bookshops and 300 Fan . ily Tents Provided; Prominent Leaders Will Speak. The western Oregon conference of Seventh Day Adventists will open Tuesday on the camp ground at East Sixteenth, and East Glisan streets, west of the Benson Tech high school. The campmeeting will continue un til Sunday, June 25. With its "seven large pavilions, its display of tents for the various departments, its 300 family tents, its stores and bookshops, the camp meeting is in reality a miniature cltv. The main pavilion is 93 by 138 feet and has a capacity of from 1600 to 2000 persons. The other pavilions are 60 by 70 feet in size. In one is housed a cafeteria, which will supply vegetarian meaig to -the campers, as the Seventh Day Ad ventists teach and quite generally practice vegetarianism. . inference Territory l.arite. The western Oregon conference comprises that portion of Oregon lying west of Gilliam and Wheeler counties and north of Lake, Klam ath and Lane counties, and In addi-, tion takes -in Skamania, Clarke, Cowlitz, Wahkiakum and a part of Pacific counties in Washington. In this territory the denomination has 3264 members and employs 15 min isters and other laborers. G. A. Roberts will preside at all the business sessions. He succeeds H. W. Cottrell as president of the conference. Several tents of uniform size will contain the exhibits of the various departments. Portland sanitarium, which recently opened its new hos pital at East Sixtieth and Belmont streets, will have a tent where doc tors and nurses will be in attend ance at all times. The educational department, in charge, of Professor I. C. Colcord, will have a display of the work done by the children in the church schools of the conference, which have an enrollment of more than 1000 students. Pavilion I Provided. Not only a display tent, but a large pavilion is provided for the missionary volunteer department under the care of Miss Minnie E. Dauphinee. This department deals with the devotional and missionary activities of young people. The Sabbath school department, in charge of Miss Edith Starbuck, has its display tent and two pa- j vuions where sessions will be held twice daily for the children of kin dergarten and primary age. This department also .conducts the large Sabbath school each week. The department of home missions, under the direction of C. E. Olcoot, is concerned with training church members for helpful Christian serv ice in their own neighborhoods. Still another department is that headed by R. E. Keller, which has to do with the colporteurs of the denomi nation. Many of the young people in the academies and colleges earn their scholarships each year by the eale of books and magazines. For the benefit of those who can not readily understand the English language, services will be held daily in both German and Scandi navian. Among the well-known speakers to be present are Arthur G. Daniells, world secretary of the denomination and for 21 years president of the world conference; R. D. Quinn, field secretary of the world conference; C. A. Russell and F. H. Westphal,' for 26 years a missionary in South America. FUEL PUNT DESTROYED EARLY MORNING FIRE DOES DAMAGE OF $12,000. Occupants of Rooming House Forced to Flee in Night Garb When Alarm Sounds. Fire which started in the garage of the Western Fuel company, 285 East Morrison street, destroyed the company's plant and spread through the Bridge apartment and rooming house at 3 o'clock yesterday morn ing causing damage estimated by fire bureau officials at approxi mately 112,000. The fire had sained such headway before it was discovered that the garage, containing four motor trucks and onie touring automobile, was totally destroyed. Considerable wood also went up in Haines. Nearly a score of occupants of the rooming house were forced to flee In their night erarmenta when the landlady was awakened by the smoke fumes and sounded the alarm, tiome of the guests saved a part of their personal belongings, but for the most part their property was a total loss. A loss of about S2000 was sus tained by the Farm Utilities com pany through damage to gas en gines and other farm machinery. The loss of the fuel company was partially covered by insurance, as was that of the apartment and rooming house. Three alarms were sounded, bring ing fire apparatus from both sides of the river. Both fire boats also responded and did considerable work in combating the flames. Sleeping Sickness Reported. The ajxth case of lethargic ence phalitis, or sleeping sickness, was recorded for the year, when Dr. Otis B. Wight yesterday reported to the city health department that Andrew Norgard, 28, had been taken to the sanitarium at St. Vincent's hospital, suffering with this disease. Xorgard resides on the Barnes road. His condition was not' critical at last report. Three deaths occurred among the five recorded cases pre viously reported , this year. Collector Leaves foe. China. SEATTLE, Wash June 10. Henry Blackwood, special deputy collector of customs for the district of Wash ington, left today on the steamer President McKinley for Shanghai, where he "will Bit as an associate member of the commission on it riff revisiun in China. IfEISI BUILD Here Are a Few ' of the Clever New Models Included in This Sale! . THE CLAYTON a snappy three-button single-breasted model with three patch pockets its clever long lines recommend it to the discriminating;. 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