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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1911)
LENTS LOCAL NEWS Here is a puxzle that puzxles every body : Take the number of your living brothers, double the amount, add to it three, multiply by five, add to it the number of your living sisters, multiply the result by ten, add the number of deaths of brothers and subtract 150 from the result. The right figure will be the number of deaths, the middle will be the number of living sisters aud the left will show the number of living brothers. Try it and see. Buy your holiday supply of candies at the l-adie- Bazaar which will be held at Woodmere hall Dec. 5th Mr. Slewd of Nebraska spent a few days this v^ek with Dr. Boardman of Gilbert Awe. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Woodrow. for merly of this place but now of Canby, spent a day visiting friends here re cently. H E. Pease. Embalmer and Funeral Director. Lents. Oregon. Emery Webb and Billy Boland left. for Salem Monday where they will be employed for some time, Billy says he sure likes that ‘‘Noodle City” too. All kinds of nice “fixin's” at die Ba- xaar, Dec. 5th. Lee Carman returned to work again Monday after a few days illness. FOUR GREAT UNIVERSAL KINGDOMS Mrs. Mary Hill, of Weston, Neb., is Subject to be Explained at Lents Sev visiting her sister Mrs. Bryant. enth Day Adventist Church. Sunday evening. Dec. 3 will be the Seventh Winifred, third daughter of E. P. Chapter of Daniel. Smith of North Main street, was very ALL ARE INVITED TO ATTEND sick the first of the week with what threatened to be an attack of appen THIS IMPORTANT LECTURE dicitis. ( Get a cake or pie at the kBazaar Dec. i Each Sunday evening there is a very im portant Bible subject explained at the 5th. Woodmere. Seventh Day Adventist Church one block east of Grange Hall. Lents. H. E. Psase— Undertaker. Phone The subject next Sunday evening will 3311. be the Seventh Chapter of Daniel Plans are being made to move out of w hich show« the rise and fall ot the Four Great Universal Kingdoms of the old school house the last of the week the world. and the first week in December will see the new building come into full use. The present attendance will fill Come and Hear This Subject Explained every room and still require the use of one bungalow. The condition will be C. J. CUMMINGS. Pastor much relieved when the new Weston building at Woodmere is completed. Admission free. The Catholic school will also be ready p. m for use before the school year is out, 15c. All invited. so another year will probably find this c. 1*. BriKtks, of Montavilla. has end of the district comfortably house d. his pri-jierty then- and bought a home Ladies Bazaar at Woodmere hall, IH-C. in L>-nts. Mrs. M. Kendall and grandaughter of 5th afternoon and evening. Mr. Ober Surveyor) is platting a Seattle, has been visiting with her belt of land owned by W. G. Grabel daughter. Mrs. F. .1. Ralst >n of Liberty and others, north of Firland Station. Height« the past week. A very fine Thank«gi\ing dinner was This property is all cultivated and will be sold in lots on very liberal payments. served at Mr«. Adiliue Eliott at Midland A successful entertainment, basket Acres to a few relatives and friend«. The big turkey exhibited at the Iz-nts and ice cream social was held by the teachers of Harmony school last Satur Hardware Co. store was won by J. If. day night. The proceeds were $25 Kaz, who guessed 2*' lbs and a ox, Mis« which will be used to pav an install It. C. Meyer« w inning the chicken. The combined weight of the two was 29 He. ment on their piano. .More than 2.0(8) people have called 8 oxs. Much intere-t was aroused by at the Undertakers office to see the the contest. The mask ball given Wedrn •sday night big chair made out of marbles. The directors of the Mt. Scott ceme was a social and financial success, and a tery have purchased a strip of land 10 good crowd attended. The entertainment given by the local feet wide, from Mr. Long, which lies between the County Road and the G. A. R. Poet assisted by the Circle Stevens 18 acres. It will be used for and .«ons of Veteran« on Thanksgiving evening wa« a great thing a- attested to business property. by the large number attending. Fine paintings and fancy work at Ba Mr Wood and family sj>ent Thanks zaar, Woodmere, Dec. 5. giving at the home of Henry Page and Mr. Beard is doing a good work for wife. the town by building homes on liberal The lecture given at the Seventh Day terms. Adventi«ts Church last «unday evening Mrs. Kiff and family will settle in the state, possibly in Portland. They are was well attended and a very important now visiting at Clarks, south of Lents. | prophecy of the bible was exblained. At the Methodist church, Sunday, Lents people were heard to say that they were thankful for the new street Dec. 3. at 11 a. m. a quartett consisting lights. That's one Thanksgiving item j of Mesdames Daniels and Sells and Messers Anderson and Bleything will anyway. sing ‘‘Christian in the Morn.” Ladies of St. Pauls church. Woodmere The Baptist church on First Ave and invite attention to their Bazaar, to I* Foster Road has begun special services held at the hall at Woodmere, Dec. 5. immediately following the Gipsy Smith Mrs. Ed Florschuty visited relatives j meetings. These services will be co n in Lents Sunday. ducted nightly by the Rev. H. S. Black, The Reynold Estate at Laurelwood pastor of the Immanuel Baptist church, Station was appraised by W. G. Heden, Portland. Ore. L. E. Raymore and R. B. Crabill Mon I^nts Court No. 8, Tribe of Ben Hur day. Mr. Warfield was appointed ad will meet at tne Grange Hall Dec. 4th, ministrator. The estate in real and at which time E. L. Hiberly, State or personal property was rppraised at ganizer, will be present. A full at 32223.04. ■A tendance is desired. Notice the new electric sign of H E. Avoid the rush. Do your Christmas Pease the shopping at the Woodmere Bazaar, UNDERTAKER Dex:. 5. Good opportunity at Lents for branch ' ‘‘The Helpers,” a class of the Evan implement store and warehouse. gelical Sunday school will give an en Boost the annexation, incorporation tertainment next Tuesday evening, CESTUI POWJ and isolation campaign. It is watched Dec. 5th at 8 o'clock in the Evangelical R00UE RIVER with great interest by the Federal tele church. No admission but a free will VALLEY graph and other large companies, who offering will be taken. OREGON contemplate ¡mediate investments in i There will be a bazaar at the old CORRESPONDENCE and near Lents. Don’t wait to do it SOLICITED Davis Hall in I^ents, December 8th, by reason of our being forced to it. given by the Ladies Aid of the Evan- Let’s ask for police and fire protection gelical-Lutheran St. Johns Church of (This matter must not fie reprinted with from city or local source. out special permission.) Grays Crossing. All kinds of nice and The big Bazaar at Woodmere hall. useful things will be on sale. There l>ec. 5th is all the talk now. will also be a fish-pond in the evenihg There Is nothing that gets second C. J. Cnmmings, formerly from the for young people and a picture show. band and out of style faster than an eastern part of the state has been ap- A supper will be served by the ladies automobile unless it Is a woman's hat pointed and entered upon his duties as for 20c. Admission fre«-. Everybody of the current mode. _ pastor of the Seventh Day Adventists invited. Corn and alfalfa are the keystones Church here. Phone 3311, of success, not only in the production Mr. Hiberly. organizer of the Ben Hur Get your Christmas gifts paintings of beef and pork, but in the produc court, is e«|j>ecte<l down from Tacoma and fancy work at the Bazaar. Wood- I tion of butter fat. Wltbrever the two this week. mere, Dec. 5. crops will grow there prosperity la The Women of Woodcraft will give a The amount paid into the McNamara «ure to t« found bazaar and chicken supper at the Grange defense fund is less than 1200,000 by j hall, December ti. Bazaar open after 10,000 instead of 1,000 as asserted! Some one who has triad It racom mends putting a cupful or more of noon and evening. Supper from 8 to 8 Kirby, Otis A Co. wnn ORCHAMjdz dHb —. GAMO F.ETRIGC. 4 salt into the cistern to purify ami titled to even more sympathy than the sweeten the water. This causes im- woman pudties to separate and settle, when Some one fond of statistics In the the clear water on top may Is* dipped Inrge has found that the Russlnn uses or pumped off. on an average two pounds of soap The fall thus fnr han been Ideal for per year and the Englishman twen the securing of a supply of need corn ty one pounds, but since he uses cold nnder the most favorable conditions water he Is not any cleaner than the If there is any man whose seed corn American, who uses seventeen pounds falls to germinate next spring it will a year with warm water The French be his own fault—because be in lazy man uses fifteen pounds of cleanser and the Corman ten pounds. or careless or both. Anthracnose, a plant disease that does much damage to t>oth apple and pear trees, can be kept largely In check by spraying the trees ns soon an the leaves have fallen with the bordeaux mixture. A thorough treatment at this time has been found to give excellent results. Not a few boys and girls who go wrong In life and fail of anything worth while got their «tart when their parents aided with them wrongly as against the teacher at school. This Is not a theory, but a condition that enn be verified from the experience of teachers everywhere. The good Txird apparently knew what he was a)x>ut when he ordained that men and women should unite their efforts In the making of a home Either sex makes a pretty bad me«« of it when they attempt to go It alone ) Of the two the man seems to be eti While next May Is the time to make the rose bed. it is a good Idea to be getting the material ready for It now Among the heat recommended Is a mixture consisting of one part of broken blue grnss sods and one pnrt of well rotted barnyard manure. As much of this as will be needed should !>e con>|>o«ted this fnll and nllowed to decay until the time for making the bed In the spring, when to the mix ture should tie added and thoroughly mixed one-half as much rather stiff The chief advantage of the cement clay soil. Rotted leaves may lie used floor for the poultry Iles In the fact In pnrt In plnce of the manure and that It is rat and skunk proof. The will give excellent results. tendency of the floor to gather damp ness at certain seasons of the year The way some folks hang on to the can bo overcome by a thin coverlug almighty dollar or almighty penny of earth or a generous scattering of would lead one to tielleve that they litter For the siqierstrurture -wall»- not only thought shrouds had pockets of the henhouse no material excels clay but that caskets anti sepulchers were hollow blocks, which Insure both dry provided with teles,open and gunny ness and warmth. -acks for the reception of coin earned In life. Thin, however. In a mistake A lady friend who Is a reader of The coin that miserly people hoard 1« (he«e notes reduced her Jelly operations nil left for heirs to squabble over, and to a minimum during the hot weather In some cases no more Is wanted on by bringing her fruit Juices to a boll funeral equipment for the licensed and canning them She will make her thnn the law allows. In view of thl" Jelly as she wants It during the com somewhat untoward situation It Is a Ing months. thereby saving herself n pretty sensthle Men to curb this miser lot of discomfort from the heat and ly tendency, to loosen one's pnrer Incidentally saving quite a bit of fuel. strings anti not only get some enjoy More thnn thin, she claims that the ment out of life for oneself, but If Jelly has a better flavor If made but. possible to make fife brighter and a short time liefore being used, and more worth the living for others wo shouldn't wonder If she were right