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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1912)
Subscription, $1.00 a Year. I ENTS, MULTNOMAH CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1912 I HUGE BLAST STRANGLER SMITH IS SUCCESSFUL 1(1 WKtMll Mini BRUTE ATTEMPTS RECEPTION TO BE PUBLIC CHRISTMAS TREE OUTRAGE ON CHILD GIVEN AT SCHOOL BEST EVER GIVEN HERE Catches Little Nine-Year New Building Open Entire Over Thirty Thousand Yards Will Meet Oscar Gustaf-, Old Girl on Way Home Day to Inspection By Res of Stone Moved by Six-Ton »on for Pacific Northwest; Ildll Crowded to Its Capacity and Good Will and Good Championship Monday and Drags Her to Lonely idents—Good Blast at Kelly Butte Program Night. Spot—Child Escapes. Witnessed by Many. Cheer Abound everywhere—Old Santa There— Prepared. Children Receive Many Presents. In answer to Htranglar Smith’» chal Another outrage on a little child waa Th* large blast tired Saturday, I tec. Flan* are being perfected for a big attempted by a brute in man’s clothing house warming or reception at the new 31, at Kelly Butte Quarry, wa* the lenge alter hi* victory ov*r Jepeon last last Wednesday eve, when a man of achool house in Lents on the twelfth of largest attempted by the county author Saltmiay night o*car Gust'ason, cham Beside* this each child waa presented j The public Christinas tree given by about 40 years of age. wearing a black thia month. A large reception commit ities as well ss ths most sucoeustul pion middle weight wrestler <>t Hweden with a complimentary ticket to the Isis Hom« thirty thoussnd yards of stoue and claimant of the Pacific Coast cham the Lent* Improvement C nb at the theatre, where they received the treat bat and grey overcoat, stopped little 9- tee baa been selected and the following pionship, »al<l quickly: ”1 accspt.—-1 Grange hall last Friday eve was a pro I year old Florence Farnham near the pereonal invitation ia being eent ont to were moved of their live*. school house on Main street and asked many of the parents. All however are For some time past Quarry Hupt. W. have lieen trying to get a hold ol you for nounced success and wa* attended by The grown-ups too, were not forgotten A. Eatciiel lias bad a squad of prisoner* a long lime, but each time you aeemeii over 300 people, of which 200 were cbil- ■ and the deserving poor received pres her if she wanted a little puppy. She invited to be preeent:—You ar* invited attempted to pass him but he seized her to a Public Reception and House Warm driving the long tunnel and laterals to toalipby me ” Well, say» Hmilh "you ' dred. ents of groceries, clothe*, provision* and dragged her underneath the old ing Friday P. M. Jan 12, 1912. Thia receive the charge of el plosives necee haven't tried very hard and any way Promptly at 8 o'clock old Hants's bells grauiteware etc. school, now nearly torn down. eary to move the above quantity of you had better get in aud dig sow.” will give all th* patron* and friend* of were heard tingling on the street and H you did not see the tree with it* | John Berg, champion light heavy The child screamed and fought and the Lenta Public Schoo) an opportunity stone. The tunnel, or Coyote hole ss it . . . ... . / toon I m » made hia entrance, bringing present* before they were diatributed, . 4 .. . *. I. after a tussle succeeded in eecaping an- to inspect the fine now school building is usually spoken of, waa of standard weight waa preeent and barked (lUeUI- L. the plea«ant smile of expectation to the > yoifsan not imagine the co ntless Mm- hurt but terribly frightened. ■Its for this type of work and one buud- »on, a protege of his, for $RM) against host of little onee preeent. In explain tier Oiere were. provided by the school board of Port She ran home, which ia one block land. Thia new building is the pride of red and fifty-five feet long including Smith. ing his delay be »aid that he had struck All were given by contribution* The east and one block north of this place, Lenta District and we want all to in The match i* <o lie pulled off in the 1 lateral*. mud when he came to Oregon the 25th. principal donor* were: A. Geisler, E. The material co*t of driving the tun <• range hall .Monday Jan 8 commenc I and had to wail until it »nowed (it will L. Raj burn, Mr. and Mr*. E. W. Miller where she reported the affair. Her spect it. Tbe teachers will be glad to fatEier and brothers, angered, and "up meet the parents of tbe children attend nel waa th. lowest >n record for this Ing at 8:30 p. M. lie rem etn lie ret I a light snow fell that Mr*. T. Bright, Multnomah State Bank, Two good preliminaries are announe- I in arms,” set out to find the brute if ing their respective grade*. A program section, being 36 cent* |*r lineal foot of day.) He then announced a short mu McNiel Bro* , Thoma* Bro*. fjents tunnel driven In the tunnels were ■■d, one lor the championship of Mount‘ sical program which was under tbe di Pharmacy, lasnts Hardware Co., Egge- possible. A than answering the child’s will be given daring the afternoon con placed *iz ton* of special Red Cross j Hcott. This will 1« lietwren llilley Al-1 rection of Prof Morton. This was well man Rros., Mt Scott Bakery, MeierA description of her assailant waa spied by sisting of vocal and instrumental se one of the boys but succeeded in mak lection* and school drill* by the pupil* Quarry powder, divided in several I len and Frank H. Wilson. rendered ami given a go<xi hand. Frank, Portland, A. Bohna, A. Mor- ing his get-a-away. The mam event is for 75 per cent of charges all connected up with electric in the assembly hail. Visitor* will have After this Santa and his assistance tend and Grange store. The condition* Constable Hall was notified about an a chance to see the school work in tbe esplodera to be tired with a battery by the gate red pts. commenceil the distribution of the hun Those who rendered valued assistance leading sires run over the hili one agreed u|xin by both men : Two best of dreds of toys and gift*. Each child re in preparing for the fete were Mrs. T. hour after the affair and he and Sid variona rooms. There will also be an three falls, pin fall« ouly to count, Price scoured the vicinity, but to no exhibit of drawing, sewing and manual thousand led from the bleat ceived some present,—the boy», a toy Bright, .Misses« Elsie and Hazel Bright, After the Galvonoineter test had "trangle holds are barred. The referee ship, a harp, a game, a horn or a book, Mr*. E. W. Miller. Mr*. McNeil, Win avail. training. Children are taking great in Crimes such as these have become all terest in this day and we hope to see shown all tl>* connections were |>erfect, | ! is to tie chosen at ring aide liesule« candies, nut* and orange*. Tbe Anderson, Mr. and Mr*. D. M. Simon The side betgjf $100 ha* lienn |xi»tcl too frequent the past months and a . you preeent. an<l the large number of spectators, in Th* School Board and girl*, received dolls, doll furniture, a sen, Mr*. I.. H. Additon, Prof. Morton cluding Ilia County Commissioners, and Ixith men are training hard, game or souietliing that delighted their 1 and other* whose names we did not se vigilant watch should he kept for the School Superintendent* are invited to fiendish perpetrators. County Road Hiiperintendent and Coun j Smith at tbe Policemen'* gymnasium little heart*. be preeent. For further particular* see cure. ty Surveyor, who had gone out to see i ’ with Demetral and Gustafson with I Program. A. F. Hershner, Prin. Lent* the blast tired, were stationed at a con- | j Berg. School. Both will weigh in *t 7 :30 at Mac's veuleul location, the word waa given, Tbe program will be as follow*:—1:30 the battery pulled and in less time than I pool hall, the weight of each to ba 145 to 2p. m inspection of building; 2 p. m. it take* ro tell II. a dull roar was beard, It» Smith though being oldest of the march by pupil*; 2:15, program in as the earth all arouud shook like a quake, two, has the advantage of experience sembly hall; 3:30 meeting of mother*’ the whole surface of the quarry, over ami wind. for organising Mother’s club. -Music Th<iee who have seen both work *ay The per capita wealth of Kansas i* and gymnastic exercise* .will be a part and around the charge of powder, vi brated. raised and fell outward with a however that it will lai a battle royal By A ddison B ennett in Sunset —the ; age for fire, sprinkling or domestic use greater than that of any other state, of tbe honr'« program. The exhibit of o- —•■->- ' Gresham has splendid streets, over and it ia the farmer that has the money. school work will be in the class rooms. Pacific •* Monthly. deafening roar, the stone lieing ground form «tart to finish. three miles of cement sidewalks, and The Hwedisli champian i* no novice Kansas has a population of 1,686,647 The drawing and boys’ wood work in up *o that little work will be required HT1HREE of the best wagon marls in much more soon to be laid; two strong and the fact that he offstood the on men, women and children. Tbe total hall, and tbe girls’ sewing in tbe office, to get it ready for the crusher. the state lead east from Portland. The thirty thousand yard* of atone slaught of Jspson tor one whole hour ia Two of these, the Powell Valley and banks, many stores with as fine stocks assessed value of all real* and personal short talks will be given by visitor*, blasted down in till* shot waa al a cash a great Item in hi* favor. During thi* the Section Line, pass through Gresh - I as you will find in the ordinary city of property is $1,777,073,762.' This gives a members of the school board, and prin co*t !<>r material of I 6 cent* per cubic lime he worked ou the defensive all tbe am, twelve miles out, and the cele ' 10,000. There are now being built or per capita wealth of $1.646 31. cipal* and other school officers. I just completed over 40 residences and Carrying out the per capita figure« yard for the rough stone. Tills includ time, neither man going to tbe mat. brated Rase Line highw ay rurs one and ten business block*. The place is as Reservetl seats are on sale at Mac's for tbe different counties of the state it ed the coat of material for driving the one half miles to the north, with a AN EDITOR'S REPLY tunnel a* well a* for the powder and ex (dace now. Interest is running high splendid road running down to the well lighted as any city in the country. is showu that the farmers could cuh in their property (or more than tbe dwell ploders used for the blast. The ¡almr of and thi* match bid* fair to arouse con town. All of these made are kept in | and as cheaply. As a dairy district there is none in ers in the cities. driving the tunnel wa* done by the siderable enthusiasm. The tnanage- perfect repair and well oiled, making An Iowa editor was asked. "Do bogs Cherokee County is the poorest in prisoner* under the direction of Quarry i meiit says that this i* absolutely guar them dustless. By any of these mads 1 Oregon that surpasses the Gresham pay?*, He replied "A good many do Hupt Eatchel, the item of saving on anteed to be a clean wholesome athletic the trip between the Gresham and > country. The low freight rates and tbe state, there being only about $745 not; they take the paper several years driving the tunnel alone ezceeded five go and ladies are cordially invited to Portland postoffices can be made by splendid service of the O. W. P. Co. for each person in that county. But and then have the postmaster send it hundred dollars. The work of placing witne«a it. No rowdyism, profane lan auto in twenty minutes, or even less, enables the dairymen to ship their milk there is a large foreign population there back marked "refused’ or ‘change of to Portland at a large profit The veg that works in the mines and owns little the charge of powder, a* well as gorg guage, or smoking will betolerated. address.” between the city limits of the two etable gardens and berry patches there or no property. ing and connecting up the electric wir places it is less than five miles. about are money-makers almost beyond Clark County, away out in the south ing, wa* done by Hupt. Eatchel. The extension of the Portland street belief, for these products can reach as W. S HOHN LAID 10 west corner of the state, once a part of There wa* enough rock moved by this railway, the O. W. P. Co., has an elec REST IN Mi. SCOI! tric line leading through Gresham, the good a market as there is in the coun tbe Great American Desert, is where the blast, when crushed, to build fifteen try in an hour. real wealth is, showing $3,372 for each mile* o| standard macadam road, and trip being made in less than an hour, A long chapter could be written of peison in that county, the largest "per it will keep the crusher plant at the W. R. Bohn, son of W. G. Bohn, well the fare being 25 cents, and as low as quarry running for more than a year. kpown lumberman of Division street, twenty cents by commutation tickets. tl.e small landowners who are making capiter ' in the state. Crawford, leav Those In position to know the econ passed away at his home, 1391 Division This road runs 30 splendid trains a day. toward a competency, people who have enworth, Wyandotte and Osage all have omy in doing thia work complimented street,' Dec 17, and waa buried at Mt. The new Portland-Mt. Hood electric bought only recently. As much could large mining or industrial populations Fails to Throw Gustafson Mr. Eatciiel on the Hplendid execution Soott Park Cemetery Dec. 21. A large also passes through the town with six be said about the present low prices of and consequently small per capita valu land, thus offering inducements not to ation*. Wyandotte has $1,045,.79 for of the blast, a* it showed m every way circle of relative* and friends paid trains each day. In Hour—Match was for a comprehensive knowledge of doing be duplicated in the Northwest. But out in the central part of tbe So Gresham is a suburb of Portland; their last reaped* to thia w«>ll known thi* type of work. Three Times in That A lovely, moral, progressive home state is where tbe big per capita valu man. and the floral offerings were many yet the little city of nearly a thousand town; fine churches; the best schools; ations show up. Saline hss $2,079.86, people relies upon the resources of its Length of Time. and beautiful. surrounding country for its support, every modern improvement to make Reno, $2,021.81; Cloud, $1,771.78. There life worth living; practically in a large isn’t a county in Central Kansas that a and thia is the very cream of the choic city and yet not of it; away from the does not come close to the $2,000 mark Nels J epeon lost his handicap match a est agricultural section in Oregon. For a fruit it cannot be excelled in the world. hurly-burly of the crowded streets of a for each person in the county, and prac with the Swedish champion, Oscar Gus a The famous Webb orchards which have great metropolis and yet within instant tically every county in the western two- tafson, staged here Saturday night at a the Grange hall. made the Itoyal Anne cherries so cel touch with all its market, social and thirds of Kansas exceed* the average The match was all that waa said for it amusement features. per capita for the entire state ebrated. lie about two miles to the and intensely interesting from the word Such is charming Gresham, lying in Journeys to Arkansas to north; many of Oregon ’ s prize-winning Nearly 2>X) kiddie* were extend fo- apples were grown in the surrounding the heart of Multnomah county like Patronize Herald Advertisers. Wed Sweetheart of For- ed an Invitation by Santa Claus orchards; Krom the start it was evident that "an apple of gold in a picture of sil the strawberries shipped last Friday night to enjoy the Gustafson, despite bis lighter weight, ver"; and her citizens invite any good, mer Days--Bride of Old e ahow extensively from there are the most at the Isis Theatre, conrteev was too quick and long winded for his industrious people who want a home to luscious that ever touched the lip* of Southern Family. eeeeeeeeeee**eee* of the management, Messrs opponent. Three times J epeon bore come ind investigate the opportunities Helms and Rix-kweli. To say a human; the peachea, pears, apricots, here offered. him almost to the mat and as many a prunes and cane fruits are equal to any that they enjoyed it, is to put it a times did Gustafson break his hold. When Attorney Kollo (’. Grosbeck grown in the world. a a extremely mild. In the hour. Jepson was to throw came up missing about December l«th. | The land as a rule is cut up into • Patronize the Herald Flocking to the front, as chil • him three times, but failed to down some little anxiety was felt for hi* safety dren do, they were all eyes and a small tracts, hence the environs are e a him even once. a* to hi* when« about« Home Wondered I thickly settled. A dozen rural free de- Some interesting comparsons a ears for about an hour. Then lit Strangler Smith refereed the match e why he should take ‘French leave" but all livery routes traverse the surrounding M. E CHURCH. are shown by Government figures tle hands dap|>ed with rapture and gave general satisfaction. John were set atease last Week when The Her Preaching at 10:45 A. M. Subject: on Oregon’s population, just glean e Berg, champion light heavy-weight was whenever any particular thing a country, four of them from the Gresh ald announced that ii had not only dis-1 conyered hi* whereabouts but the re*- , ed from the last census by the e present and acted as time keeper. amused them and it was more a am office. And the patronage of this "Friend of the Chnrch.” Evening: "A • office has so increased that the salary Woman's Care About Many Thing*; Not «on for the sudden journey, and here it I Department of Commerce an La fun for the grown-ups present to a The pelimenary between Johnson and is:—On December 27 RolloC. Grix’abeck , of the postmistress is now $1,500 pet More Important Than Sitting at the bor. The number of people-o the watch the little ones than it was Christenson was declared a draw but of lz,ntx, On-., led to the alter of matri- i year; in 1900 her stipend was less than Feet of the Master.” Parente, vour square mile from 4.3 in 1900 to 7 to wat’h the show itself almost. mony Mix* Mary L. O'Bryan of llotl those at the ring side declare Johnson, $20 per month. It ia the model third- children will find a cordial welcome to a in 1910. The drift of population Springs, Ark., the ceremony taking The children wish to thank the the lighter of the two, an easy winner» a place at the home of the bride'« brother class office in the country both in equip »11 these service*. Don't let him go off managers heartily for this " beet The referee failed to see the tisrt fall a during the decade was toward at Little Rock Ark. ment and management with "Jack ” to the park, rink, nickol- est of all treats ” and they say Johnson secured and instead called him a the cities and away from the e The groom is too well known hero to Gresham has the first call on Port odeon, or pool room, for "Jack" will a farms. Ten years ago the percen e down when only one shoulder touched nrod any further intnxhiction but a word that they never shall forget this alxiut Ila* bride inay lie in order. She i* tage of people in cities of 2500 or land's famous Bull Run water supply, take him from the pool room to the kindne s. the mat. This took 7)^ minutes. John a daughter of an old-time-aoiithern fami more was 32.2 and on the fat ms a a son came back fercely and pnt hie man the two 48-inch mains, being tapped in rock pile, or make him a public menace. Many of the children never ly of influence and wealth and i* herxell n [ 07.8; In 1910 this was changed, a down in 31» minutes. Then for 19 min* the town and the water distributed I insist on hi* attending the service* of very Ix-autiful and an accomplished mu a were in a theatre before and to with 45.6 in the cities and 54.4 in a utee they wrestled, with "tfrrisll; ’he through a system of ten-inch cast iron the church, for men who give up the sician. Hlie i* an active church worker I them it certainly must have lieen aud has a host of friend* at the home rural Oregon. Harney, ixkke and a referee calling the bout a draw. At the pipes. No other small town in the cultivation of their moral nature, grow a treat, for those shows are a a «lie left. treat to those who attend them • world has as tine a water-supply or as wild, betray trust, and make "undesir a Malheur counties average lees than a close of the main event Strangler Smith The newly wed* have not decided |u*t I able ” citizens. "No man is too old to one person to the square mile. good water; and no matter how large two or three time* a week. a where they will reside but it will probs-1 a challenged the winner, who accepted. a W. Boyd Moore, Pastor. oeeeeeeeoeeeeeeee a the town grow* there will be no short- learn.” bl y be in lent*. *•••••••••••••••• • Details in another column. WHERE KANSAS Gresham Apple of Gold WEALTH IS in a Picture of Silver JEPSON LOSES HANDICAP BOUT ATTY GROESBECK ••••••••••••••••• KIDDIES ENJOY IHE ISIS SHOW SEVEN TO SQUARE MILE IN OREGON