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■____ . ** » 'J 1 \X ç S a - • , W- F J ; Subscription, $1.00 a Year. * j^^YRYFp/ty. A io x, LENTS, MULTNOMAH CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1«, 1012 Ixmts was the storm center of a host of Multnomah county candidates last Saturday evening, at which time local voter« were given a real taste of the tenseness of the present campaign. Grange Hall, Isis Theatre and Mac’s pool room were the principal headquart ers and in theae places the candidates poured fourth volumn« of oratory in the interests of their candidacy, and mingled with the people in the good old fashioned manner. At the Grange Hail speeches were delivered by Walter H. Evan«, candi date for district attorney, W. A. Car ter and others who then joined other candidate« in «peaking at the lai« and Mac's pool room, where large crowd« had assembled. Candidates Stevens, Dr. Slocum, Sweeney, Upton, North, Hyland, Hollingsworth, McArthur and representatives of others were in at tendance at the big rally. Great in terest ami enthusiasm attended the va rious meetings and the candidates were well satisfied in meeting «many voters Monday evening a number of auto mobiles carrying McAllister banners and loaded with speakers visited the city ami held forth on the street. Allen R. Joy was also represented in the par ty, which made their presence known by a fife and drum corps. Lest we forget—Lenu candidates were in the swim, too, Saturday night. Price, Klineman, Steven« and others wore on the job. Various other office seekers have been keeping the trail hot during the week. Tonight marks the close of the cam paign which has been one of intense interest ami characterized by heated s|>eechea and hitter denunciations IlUt for the wireless teh'grapl y the Titanic might have sunk nt s< < mid th« world always have been Ignorant of her fate It was the wlrele • call which s«nt the liner t'arpathla to the Kens In time to save many of those aboard. Out of nearly 2200 people that she carried reports Indicate that only about 875 were saved and moat of these were women and children. They were picked up from amall boats by the t'unarder Carpathla, which found, whan she ended her des perate race against time, n sea strewn with the wreckage of the lost anil the bodies of drowned mon women. Women Number About 500. There were 325 first cabin passons era on the Tltnnlc, of whom 128 were women and 15 children. In the sec ond cabin there were 285 persons. Including 78 women and eight child ran. and In the steerage the comple ment of 710 was divided almost equal ly. It Is believed, between women and men, with a amall percentage of child ran. The numbers arc enough to Indlcnte that If the women and children were saved, very few men could have sur vived the disaster, as there were al most enough women anil children aboard to make up the survivors. The crew nunii «'red 860, bringing the total of those I nown to be aboard up to 2180. but '. Is understood that at the The Brooklyn Grays defeated thejla'nts lari nilnut ■ before sailing several oth Giants here Sunday afternoon in a game ers got al- mrd, making the total up characterized by errors, |«a>r battery to n full 3200. work and l<awe fielding. Many Notables Aboard Although it was the find game of the The punaetigi r list ia a notnble one. season the work was Hitch as to allow Among th«« 1320 pn:-<<'nr*rs of the that then' will have to l>e a general giant liner were Colonel John Jacob shake up ls*fon' a g<ssl article of ball in Astor and bls wife. laador Straus, produced This, manager Al. Boland Major Archibald W. Itutt. aide to promises to do -, and aaye that he will Prvi.ldent Tuft; George 11 Widener soon have a team that will hold and Mrs. Widener, of Philadelphia; their own with all cornera. comers. No game Mr. mid Mrs. Henry 8. Harper, Wil lias bet'll arranged for the Giant» for liam T. Stead, the lamdon journalist next Sunday, but announcement will be and many more whose nntnes are made later. known on both sides of the Atlantic. Wealth aggregating something like 1500,000,000 Is represented by seven W. II. Congdon, a well and favorably of the passengers on the Titanic. If known business man of Gresham, was the fortunes of the first class passeng a Lents visitor Tuesday. Mr. Congdon ers alone were plnce.l together they is the owner of the Congdon Hotel, a would easily make $1,000,000.000. Fore well conducted hostlery of his city. moat In point of wealth Is Colonel John Jacob Astor. trophe that she could not sink. The great ahlp was the laat word In mod Little Direct Newt From Titanic. After the first calls of the Titanic ern «dentine con«tructlon but she for help had brought steamers for | unit the ocean floor almost as quick hundreds of miles around speeding to ly a« a wooden ahlp. On her maiden trip the Titanic, built the scene, what seems to have been an Impenetrable wall of silence was and equipped at a coat of 110.000,000, raised between here and the steamer. « floating palace, found her graveyard. The liner so far as advices appear Swinging from the westerly nteainahip went to her fate without so much as lane at the south of the Grand Bank« n word of what must have been the of Newfoundland to take the direct scenes of terrible tragedy enacted on run to this port, «he hurled her giant bulk agatnat an Iceberg that rose from h«r decks. an immense field drifted unreasonably No Craft Invulnerable. The White Star Line believed that from the Arctic. Running at high the Titanic was practically Invulner «peed. Into that grim and allent enemy able and ln«i«t«d until there was no of seafarer«, the ahock crushed her doubting th« full extant of th« catas- how. NEW SCHOOL HOUSE LOR EAGLE CREEK Vol. 10. No. 15 NEWS NOTES OF STATE BANK OREGON TOWNS EXAMINER HERE State Bank Examiner, Wm. j Excursion To Oregon Agri cultural College Import Wrighet, Finds Lents Bank in Excellent Financial ant Feature—Commercial Condition. Clubs Active. Of More Than 2,000 People Candidate« Almost Swamp I Le n ts-S| >eec he« De I i vered on Board, Less Than 800 to Big Crowds at Differ Saved.—Worst Disaster in ent Places. History. — Wlralsas Gives News 7 I r LENTS STORMED TITANIC LOSS GREAT DISASTER SATURDAY NIGHT New York.—The moat appalling marln« disaster In history occurred Bunday night when the mammoth White rttar liner Titanic, the largest vessel afloat. collided with nil Iceberg off the Newfoundland Hank« and sunk with approximately 1200 of her passengers uud crew In leaa than four hours after the disaster. The Tltat-lc'a Aral "8. O. 8.” mw sago wus received by the Allan liner Virginian, which, according to the pc., Ilion given by lhe Titanic's operator, was nut more than I7o mile« away. The captain of the Virginian nt on< < started his boat at full speed for the scene of th<* disaster, announcing to bls brother officer on the bridge of th*' Titanic that the Virginian ah mid reach him by 10 o'clock Monday n orn Ing. The Titanic’s accident happi d In latitude 41 44 north, longitude 85 1 west Thia point Is id-out I! nil- due east of New York City und t miles south of Cape Race. N. E., wb.* less station » I t State Bank Examiner, Wm. Wright,1 Portland, Ore., April IS— Requests was in Lents the latter part of the for reservations for the Oregon and week and made the regular examination Portland Business men’s Excursion to of the financial condition of the Mult- the Oregon Agricultural College, at nomah State Bank. Corvallis, are coming in at a surprising That the local institution is in tip-top rate from all parts of the state. The shape and in the best of condition is communities at which stop« will be substantiated by the fact that at the made en route are maxing great pre close of the examination Mr. Wright parations for the entertainment of the informed a local business msn that the excursionists. The McMinnville Com financial condition of the Multnomah mercial Club has arranged to take the State Bank was far above the average party to Sheridan in antoa, and the and in first class shape. He added: Sherdian Commercial Club has planned “I see no reason why your local bank an auto trip into the near-by hills. The should not receive the entire patronage Dallas business men bsve aroused the of Lent« and the outlying districts. intereat of their entire section, and the The bank deserves it. It is conducted Thursday evening meeting will be in along highly conservative lines and their charge. merits a business double that of the All day Friday will be spent at th« present." college. In the evening the Corvallia This «peaks volumns for the stability Commercial Clnb will entertain. The of Uie Lents bank and for the officials excursion will leave Portland Thursday, connected therewith. The deposits of April 25, and return to Portland early this bank have been rapidly increasing Saturday morning. since its organization, and that, to The Roseburg Commercial Club i • gether with the fact that it is managed planning a gala time from Mav 14 to 18. by capable and substantial men insure« On the 14tb, 15th and 16tb it will en that it ia destined to become one of the tertain the members of the State Grange strong financial banking firms of East- at their annual meeting, and on the 16th, 17th and 18tb will bold a straw Friday. April 19, 1912 ¡8 a day on which every citizen of Ore em Multnomah county. A statement of the financial condi- gon is privileged to exercise hie right as a citizen, and aid in nom tion of the bank will be issued at an berry festival and rose carnival. to own a five story fireproof of inating men for public office both in state and nation. Will you do early date and will show in detail the fice A plan building that will provide them your duty? The answer rests with you as a voter. If every voter healthy and growing condition of the with a permanent home baa been sub exercises his right of franchise and casts his vote according to hon same. mitted to the members of the LaGrande Commercial Club. It will be financed est convictions he performs his duty as a citizen, and governmen by issuing «hares of 1100 each to be tal affairs will be the better tt'wrefor. taken by the members of the Club. If the voter fails to go to the polls through lack of interest he ■ ■■ n N III 11 a n The Improvement League, an disfranchises himself and becomes a position equal to that occupied VI V. ft. . oqpmixation of th« women of Burns, by the heathen and the illiterate, Failing to perform this duty -------------- has been formed for bettering the sani- paves the way for unsatisfactory conditions and poverty among I wish to announce through The tary condition of the city. It will also Beaver State Herald that Memorial co-operate with the Barns Commercial common people. You are an American citizen. You have the God given right to Bunday, the 26th, of May, the Grand Clab and the Merchant’s Association. The I^banon Commercial Club has Army will attend Divine Service at the a voice as to whom shall be nominated and elected to serve you as , Friends church at 11 a. m. and all ex- just published a splendid booklet adver- a public official. Do your duty as an American. If you do not | the G. A. R , Circle and the ' tising Lebanon and Linn County. The you are entitled to live in a land where crooked office holders loot Sons of Veterans are cordially invited ; motto of the book is: “Lebanon,—the public treasuries and where the wealth of the land is in the hands to meet with us and go in a body to the Strawberry Center of the Valley of th« t | «kuwek church Qaata Seats v«ll will Vw* be riiaiirvnJ reserved (nr for us. I Santiam Santiam Rivne River." We will also attend services at the Meth- A consolidation of the Woodville and odist church in the evening. We will Evans Valley Development Leagues has not form at the hall but will go direct to been effected under the name of the the church where seats will be reserved Woodville < ommercial Club, with the object of the rapid development of the for us. On the 30th. of Mav will be Decora Evans Valley. tion day and if any who are contemp The Commercial Club of Portland's In the presence of aisiut 350 mem :s Beginning next Monday evening the an«i friends, Rev. and Mrs W. B Moore lating a picnic or ball game on this day Garden has been organized with head curfew law will he enforc'd in la-nts, a celebrated their 25th »editing anniver will kindly postpone their games during quarters at Schaols, Washington Coun movement that has Is-en under consider- . sary in the M. E. church of which Rev. our services, it will be greatly appre ty. The immediate object of the Club Moon' is pastor. is to build a tunnel under Council ciated. «lion for some time. Mrs Irwin Sells sang “O Promise Forty-seven years have successively Crest, uiaking possible quick transpor The curfew bell will lie lolled at 9 . Me" To the strains of the wedding march come and gone sinre the rankc from tation between the Tualatin Valley and o'clock each evening, and after that played by Miss Helen Hansen organist, which the Grand Army can be recruited ' Portland. hour all children under 15 years of age the wedding party entered the church, were closed for ever. As an organisa Waldo Hills, Fernridge and Victor will la* compelled to keep off the streets, - Rev. Milligan leading the march, follow tion we have nearly reached the summit Point have joined with Sublimity in ed by the bride on th«'arm of the groom. unless going on < rrands for their par- i Mr- Hollingsworth attended the bri«ie, of our life and shall soon lie marching fosining .the Sublimity Commercial ents, or ace iinpained by a parent or re while Rev. Hollingsworth ably sup|>orted with cea.-eless tramp, but ever leseuing Club The purpose is to advertise that tread, down the slope towards the land sectmn and to construct gixxl roads in the groom. sponsible parties beyond, where the waves of eternity’s - Marion County. The briib* was dressed in white, and ocean are beating upon the sand and The intent of the mit'iorties is to keep The Lakeview Commercial Club re children off the streets and no effort will carried a shower bouquet of white carna shingle of the shore. Let us strive to so cently raise«! ri<50 with which to publish be made to interfere in their personal i tions strewii with silver. Under a wed- fulfill our duty to ourselves, our country lo,0H0 copies of a pamphlet giving in liberties so long as they have a reason «ling Is'll of white and silver, Rev. Milli and onr God that when our last battle formation about Lake County. able excuse for lieing on the street after gan rea«i the marriage service he used has been fought, our last march ended, To advertise its advantages as a sum 1» o'clock. Nightwatch Fish will look 25 years ago, when he united Rev. and we may join the Grand Army of peace mer and winter resort, the Newport Mrs Moore in marriage in Jackson Co. in their shining tents upon the eternal to thy enforcement of the law. ('ommercial Club has joined with the The tin1 tail will lie used as a curfew. Oreghn. camping ground above. i Southern Pacific in a community adver- Before the audience was given an op- i Parents an* urged to assist in seeing that JOHN WALROD, ' tising plan. the law is complied with. It is a mat portunity to extend congratulations R. Commander. I At the annual meeting of the Grant« ter of vital importance and the law A Brown and 8. K. Toon in behalf of the j Pas« Commercial Clnb, Secretary An- assembled company, presented the bride should Is* strictly adhered to. i drews reported a membership of 325. amk groom with a chest ot silver, a small — purse of money, and individual pieces of EVANGELICAL CHURCH silver by Sunday Bchool classes. Sunday School at 9:45 a. m. Sermon A short musical program was rendered Ila. m. Subject “Money: It’s Nature by the choir; light refreshments were' ———— and Power." served by tlie ladies; and all departed J. H. Upton Republican candidate for Junior Y. P. A. 4 p. m. V. P. A. 7 p. amid hearty hand shakes and goo« I U*gisl attire, in a young man well quali m. Sermon S p. tn.Subject: "TheGo« wishes. ’ fied for the position to which he «.«pires. pel Feast." Last week’s issue of the Mt. Scott He is a rising young Attorney of Port Bulletin was considerably curtaled, but P. CONKLIN, Pastor. land, and through local connections i> in offering an excuse therefor he said: hound closer to Lents than any other “The editor's home was made glad by RECEPTION man on the ticket. His Lents friends, the arrival of a nine pound baby girl on Th« Mother'« department of the of whom there an' many, assure that if Thursday morning. Evangelic«! church will give » reception Upton ia nominated and elected, Ia*nts "It is not every week that a new mem next Thursday at 2. p.-rn. ■ We wifi will have letter direct representation ber arrives in the family, and we trust welcome your friend«. Improvement of the Sandy road from in Gregor, legislature than «lie ever has— that you will overlook the apnearance MRS. P. CONKLIN, Supt. Troutdale to Rose City Park has com this Upton promisee "to do. Hen'to- of this week's issue. We had to divide menced. The road will be mscadam- fore Lent« has never been directly repre our time between the office and the Mr. and Mrs. Hartung returned this ixe«i the entire distance with crushed sented in the legislature. Vote 104 X home, and the office antlered." week from their honeymoon trip to rock from the county rock crushes lo-. J. H. Upton. Pd. adv. California and are visiting at the home rated near Igktourelle Falls. Fifteen Remember our Advertisers when in of her parents in this city. They will teams are ¿nTptiiyed and about 50 men The Drake home on 5th Ave vas sold need of goods mentioned in these col leave shortly for Montana, where they The surface will be rolled and top- I umns. dressed with fine screenings and sand. this week for $650. will make their home. VOTERS, DO YOUR DOTY! BERS Of G. A. R. WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CURLEW LAW IS DULY CELEBRAIED 10 Bt ENFORCED J. H. UPTON fOR IHf LEGISLATURE EDITOR GIVES REA SONABLE EXCUSE STARI IMPROVEMENT OF SANDY ROAD