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LENTS, MULTNOMAH CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 1912
COLLEGE ASKS EOR LOCAL NOTES
FROM GRESHAM
APPROPRIATIONS
THE REMARKABLE DISCOVERY'S OF THOMAS EDISON. JR
Vol. 10.
No. 46
OREGON RESOURCES PROF. LOWE WRITES
FILL NEW ALMANAC INTERESTING LETTER
Government Will Aid State Finds Southern Europe Ex
in Survey o f Deschutes
tremely Beautiful. Finds
it Very Difficult in Order
Valley — Lecture Course
in Meals.
for Oregon Schools.
Oregon Agricultural College Brief Notes Of And Alxjut
People In the Growing
Asks for Less Money In
Proportion to Growth Than Town of East Multnomah
County.
Two Years Ago.
hrneat
LI DAGO,SWITZERLAND. NOVEM
Secretary Fisher of the Interior De-
BORE—To Mt
Oregon Agricultural College, Corvel-
Hchwedler,
a
laughter,
l*ec.
7.
BER
10, 1912 —I left Lucerne Frxlay for
1
partinerit
has
taken
up
the
proposition
li«. Oregon, Dec. 7.—Far lew money is
Ed. Goderey, of Portland, visited
Bellinzona.
It is not on a lake fora
made
him
to
work
with
this
«late
in
a«ked ot thr legislature by the Oregon
the home of P. Michel last Bunday.
wonder,
but
is celebrated for its old
making
a
complete
survey
of
the
De
Agricultural College thia year, in pio-
Mrs. R. W. Kern and little eon, Le
purlieu to the growth of the institution, roy, epent Monday in Portland.
schutes Valley to determine both its ir- castles perched high up on pinnacles,
than was appropriated in 1911. The
Lloyd Gedauike, of Portland, vieited
: rigation and wat«*r power possibilities. the view« from which art- worth going a
regents have cut all estimates ■ own to Harold Kern last week.
, He «late« the Government will do its long ways to see. The trip was intense
th«* extreme minimum, and will call lor
ly interesting every moment of the way.
The tea which the Lathes' Aid of the
■ share of this work.
$<H,50<> lee« for increased maintenance, M. E, church held at the parsonage
As usual, I had a whole section to my
The importance of the undertaking ' self (one advantage of traveling at this
buildings, repairs, etc., than the legis Tuesday, was well attended.
may be understood from a statement! season of the year) and you may lie
lature tif two years ago granted.
The girle of the Chemistry claee of the
made hy a local official of the Reclama- i sure tie-re wasn't much passing on either
When the college budget ia presented, Gresham High Bchooi gave a “spread"
tion Service, who said: “There are I side of the train that I didn’t see. First
the state will be asked for $249,000 for Tuesday In honor of Mrs. C. B Wood-
500,000 acre« of public lands in the De- ' a beautiful lake down hundreds of feet
building«, equipment, repairs, improve aril's birthday. Mrs. Woodard is the
echutes Valley that could be irrigated ' on one side, and then a snow capped
ments, books amt periodicals ami for Chemistry teacher.
anti more than 1.009,000 horsepower mountain hundred.« of miles (?) high on
an increase of $50,000 a year for main
School was c I jmhh I Wednesday lor the
running to waste down the river.
tenance durtng the next two years. < >f remainder of the week on account ot
the other; next a series of tunnels that
these amounts, $107,090 ia for addition teachers’ institute living held in Port
twi.«ted around like a corkscrew ami fin
A school lecture course has been ally brought you out at almost the
al building«, $Oo,txx> for equipment; land
ztart< d by Superintendent Alderman identical spot you started in at, only a
$35,Ot<) for repairs aud improvement«;
Qtleen Esther Missionary Circle will
that is designed to reach every school few hundred feet higher. I never sup
$11,1*00 for reru-'tieliug science hall; give a tea and bake sale next >aturday
in Oregon. More than 100 speakers posed there wen- so many tunnels in the
$21.900 for extension of the heating afternoon in the Regner building next
I have already been enlisted. These men work! before. 1 don’t see where in the
plant; and $21,(00 for books and peri to Lindsey's store.
j are prominent in various lines and it is name of Providence they ever got the
odicals.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
thought the plan will arouse greater material to make them of. If they keep
But one large building is requested, Heel Fux last Friday
that for the home economics work, now
The
Cojieland
Lumber
Company
is
Altbought
the
Potato
Crisp
Company,
interest in die schools on the part of on at the pate they’re going now, the
Ed. Rusher has accepted a position
divided between the crowded girls’ dor in Woslell’s store.
busy this week relocating its offices a manager! by Mr. and Mrs. Maffet, of parents and will help along the move world will be nothing but one vast hole
mitory and the agronomy building.
Miss Mina Gilbert visited relatives in block nearer .Main St. The old location Lenta, has been in operation for several ment to make schoolhouses social cen before long. Well, presently, we cafae
ters.
to the father of all of them. St. Gothard,
For tins, aflOo.uOO appropriation ia ask Portland the first of the week.
held by the E. W. Miller Co., and later weeks in Lents, it is not generally
9 1-4 miles long. The old engine kind
ed. When this is built and proper heal
.Mrs Jas. Sterling spent Monday in
occupied by the Wiltx-rg Company had known that we have right here in our
Harriman railroad directors have au- of snorted and shriked a little, but a few
is given the stock judging pavilion and the city.
midst
one
of
the
meet
useful
new
busi-
thoriied
the expenditure of $3,000,000 vigorous prods from the fireman ca’-'4
larm mechanics building, it will lie nec
to
be
vacated
and
a
place
was
taken
B. F. Bauer and family, ot Montfort,
.
. .
,, .
for improvements to the O-W. R. A N. her to plunge boldly in. We uiatie
essary to put $21,090 into extension of Die Wn., has located in Gresham and has further up town. The aim is to move nesses ..
that ever came to town. Rotate ,,
,
,
....
I line between Portland and Spokane. run in just 15 minutes. Wasn’t t ut
healing plant, installing an additional purchased 8. C. Knighton's barber (bop. some of the buildings and construct new
(
Heps
is
the
product
and
w
hen
you
betterments
will
be
made
during some speed though a tunnel though?
boiler, anti enlarging and lengthening
Miss Minnie Sbriner visited friends
ones in front, and build a new oftic*. l.ave tried a box of these new dainties ' t),e coming year,
It takes 25 minutes going the other way
the conduits. The rebuilding of the at Corbett last wsek.
The new firm came into Itents with a you will pass judgment that the pro-
(up grade.) Well, after passing the
livestock building will take $5,000, and
Miss Marion Robertson, of Senic,
$■’,( 00 i( needed for a small storage speut a couple of days last week visiting lot of faith in the town and there are prietors discovered one of the finest ■ This is a time of Poultry «hows. Al- main tunnel there was the same twisting
many reasons why men of their exper tbings ever placed on the market.
bany anj Astoria have just held very and curving through shorter ones to get
structure lor inflamable materials ami Gresham friends.
ience should not succeed. They will Is*
Potato
Crisps
are
something
like
|
gucceseful exhibit« of aristocratic feath- down to the valley again. Now, this
supplies.
Mr. and M.s. Chas. Oliphant enter found ready to meet their customer»
>.«ratogo chips, only better. They are ;
fow] an(j Portland is next. Orenco may seem like a little exaggeration, but
Heience hall was built for agricultural tained Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Rusher and
within a few .lays in the new location
up in ten cent packages and are he- ' jieople, lielieving that chicken raising is if any one can exaggerate the truth con
instruction, but is now used for rhe family at dinner last Sunday.
ing placet! on sale at all the groceries I a means of grace, held their first show cerning those tunnels lie’s a dandy.
chemestry and pharmacy work. The
Miss Pearl Flemming is «(lending her
and on all ’rains. If the business con last Friday in the basement of a church.
Came down here from Bellinzona this
ltii|>erative need of more laboratory vacation at her home in Portland.
tinues to grow as it has the appearance
evening and what little I’ve seen of the
space and the present unfitness of the
Misses Mattel and loiura Shipley left
of doing, we anticipate the rapid devel
rooms available make remod. ling, Wednesday morning for their home at
Oregon’s apple crop this year is worth plate is surely wonderfully beautiful.
opment of the plant necessarv to handle ! $7,000,000. according to the estimate of Shall tell you more about it tomorrow
which will cost $11,0 JO, absolutely nec Corbett where they will spend this
essary at once. The college is in great week'« vacation.
the output. The original exploiter of ! W. K. Newell, chairman of the State evening. I have another neat room for
Saratoga chips made a fortune in a few Board of Horticulture. He says the 2 f. The same would cost at least $1.75
need of a library building, and the liest
II. A. Samuel returned Saturday from
years am! Potato Crisps have an equal production of apples has at«>ut doubled in Portland and I am stopping at one of
care of the health of the students would Morgan. Oregon where he went to finish
Saturday, December 7 was electi n | ly good opportunity for public favor.
demand « gymnasium, but in view of up his business and to sinp his automo
the largest hotels in the city at that.
I in this state in two years.
day at Evening Star Grange, and there'
appropriations of more urgent necessity, bile to Washougal where he will engage
The weather is getting warmer now. al
wa>
a
large
attendance.
the regents have decider! not to awk for in the furniture business Mr. and
The election for the comiug year re- I
Louis Sivers, who has an onion farm though my overcoat felt very comforta
tlum this year They wish to relieve Mrs. Samuel have been visiting at the
in the Rogue River Valley, grew onions ble this evening. Everything is Italian
suited
as
follows
:
the pressure on the state treasury, and home of the latter'« mother, Mrs. Shoe
Master, J. J. Johnson; Overseer, E i
this year ranging from one to tiiree here. (being so near the border) and
are doing all they can, though the rupid maker, for a few weeks.
J. Spooner; Lecturer. Mrs. Marion Nel
pounds each in weight. He hail less I’m just getting luy first introduction to
growth of all departments warrants a
John Palmqiiist is doing jury duty at son; Steward, W. W. Green; Assistant
than one acre in onions this year but the language. It wa« ludicrous in the
much increase*! appropriation for the present.
Steward, J. E. Nelson; Lady Assistant,
produced almost 90,000 pounds, selling extreme to see me ordering some lunch
work of the next two years
this evening. I wanted some bread,
Miss Elizabeth Halliday win a Port Mrs. Ivy Hickey; Chaplain. Mrs. E. A.
Die Lents Grange meets Saturday at the crop at 2 cents per pound. This
"Amounts estimated necessary for land visitor the first of the week.
I makes the income from this small tract butter and tea, but the girl in attend
Kelly; Treasurer, Mrs. Emma Spooner; 10:90 o’clock in an all day session.
It'
support of the work of the various de-
ance didn’t know any more about
C. W. AI tier tson has sold Ilia farm and Secretary, Mrs. Jennie C. Smith; Gate will be a busy day for the Lente grange at least $1.600.
pertinents are greatly in excess of the will move to Idaho.
English than a hog knows about Sum lay,
Keeper, Andrew Holm: Ceres, Mrs. E. as it is the day for election of officers and .
total appropriation requested of the
so
after various futile attempts to make
A. Niblin; Pornana, Mrs. Leia Elliott; the dav for conferring the third and
The Oregon Almanac, the booklet myself understood, 1 walked over to a
legislature, but careful investigation
Flora. Mies Ossa Davis; Ex.-committee. fourth degrees.
State
Master,
C.
E.
being published by the >tate Immigra
shows that the needs of the different
E N Emery and 8. II. Covel; Pianist. Spence of Oregon City, will be present tion Commission, will be out this week shelf and put my finger on a loaf of
departments are so great that the esti
Miss Minnie Altman; Assistant Pianist, f *r the first time during his term of of and will lie distributed widely. It con bread. Thai was the entering wtsige, I
mates are very conservative,” said
reasoned, and supposed tliere would be
. Mies Clara Smith.
fice. The following program has been tains accurate statistics and reading
President Kerr tliis morning. “How
The lecture hour hour program was arranged for the afternoon session to matter about Oregon's resources and no further hitch in the negotiations.
ever, the needs of the college are in
She understood, but there being no but
The lxuits I’arents-Teacher’s Club I as follows:
which the public is invited :
products. Indeed, never before has
creasing so rapidly that it is Impossible
ter in sight to point to, it seemed as if
will meet December 2**th in the audi
Recitation, Miss Marie Robinson.
Song...................................... By the Grange there l>een such an exhaustive report on
to meet them. Notwithstanding this
my diplomacy would come to naught
torium of the Lenta school. The presi
State lecturer H. A. Darnall talked Instrumental Music
Alfred Nygaard what this state has to offer to the set
the regents, when making up the
dent, Mrs Body, has prepared the fol Ion Road Construction, telling what was “A Better Crop of Boys and Girle" tler, An edition of 290,009 will be and that I would either have to eat dry
budget, reduced the amounts asked by
bread or go hungry. But in my mo
lowing program which will l>egin necessary to make and keep good roads, ......................................... Mrs. Flora Lyons printed.
each department to the extreme mini
ment of desperation a happy thought
I also about the roads in diff rent parts A Japanese Song............. Six little girls
promptly at 3 o'clock :
mum with which the institution could
struck
me anti 1 pointed to the bread
Alfred Nygaard—piano solo.
| of the country and state, and about the Instrumental Mu«ic................ Geo. Jones
do work at all reasonably efficient.’
again imitating as I did so the act of
Mrs Hayhurst— Widows’ Pension road laws, past, present and future.
Song “Stare of Summer Night".......Girl
The report of the registrar shows
spreading butter by drawing one palm
J. D. Lee recited Old Dog Tray
Chorus
enormous increase in both the regular Bill.
over the other Again, the enlightened
The topic, Labor Savers in Farm and
Mrs. Additon—Oregon Laws for Wo
State Master Spence will speak upon
and special courses, but the instruc
look on her face led me to hope that she
Home was dicussed by Bros. Nichole, Road Legislation compared with (boun
tional force has not kept pace with this men.
understood anti I drew a sigh of relief,
Mieses Turner and Gething—Violin Green, Kelly, Keenan, Mrs. Kelly. Mrs. ty or State.
growth iu attendance. Registration in
supposing
the remainder of the task
Niblin, and Mrs Gould.
>
. The lent« Grange ranking 5th in the
agronomy, lor instance, is 69 percent solo.
would be easy, so I said ‘ tea" and imi
Mies Eade—Talk On Playgrounds.
Mrs. Nelson read a Christmas story Lecture contest will be awarded a prize
The choir of the Evangelical church tated the motion of drinking. Sure,
greater than two years ago. but the in
—
for the children.
to the value of $5.(X>.
an* preparing another musical treat she understood that and ran into an ad
structional force but 38 per cent more,
Miss Julia Spooner read a lengthy I
This year they are to render Carrie B. joining room and brought me out a
and In the division of horticulture the Rf -ORGANI/AI ION Of lilt
and most excellent paper on the sub
Adam's cantata “The Angelic Choir." bottle of wine, but I shook my head and
work has nearly doubled, with only 18
BRIGHT REALTY COMPANY ject, Better Crop of Boys and Girls and
There are 35 voices in the chorus and motioned it away, so she ran back and
per cent increase in instructional force.
the Grange and the Rural Schools. It
they are working faitnfully. It is the gen brought me uUt another of a different
These esses are typical of practically all
!• a pity that more parents and children
l*eople
of
this
vicinity
will
lie
inter
eral opinion that this year’s music will color, but didn’t suit me either, and af
departments, and indicate the necessity
did rot hear this pa|>er and then profit |
surpass even the big success of a year ter she had displayed at least a half doz
for increase in mainte'-ance appropria- est«^ to hear of the re-organization of
by its atlvice.
the
Bright
Realty
Company
of
Ia*nte
ago. It is to be rendered Sunday even en brands, all to no purpose and we
tions.
Remarks along these same lines were
ing Dec. 22 at 8 p. m.
The rapid growth of the home ami Portland. Mr. Harvey who up to
were both getting pretty desperate, she
Multnomah County Ponoina Grange
made by Mrs. Somerfeldt and Mr. Lee.
economics classes and the pressure of thia time ha- had an ini|>ortant part in
rushed into the kitchen and presently
will
meet
at
Gresham
on
the
18th
of
There
were
many
visitors
present.
other departments needing the class- the management, has sold his interests
out
waddled an elderly woman whose
LENTS
GRANGE
WINS
December.
There
will
be
a
number
of
Some of them making remarks were
rooms in the agronomy building and to Mrs. J. H. Stacy and Mr. C. C. Dun-
avoirdupois would easily register 300
important
marters
to
be
taken
up
—
.Mr.
Black
of
Woodlawn.
Mr.
Krudder,
FIVE
DOLLAR
PRIZE
the space in the girls’ dormitory (there can. The new firm will continue to
net, and then commenced another pan
of Lenta, Mr. Cook, ot McMinnville, Forth coming road legislation will be
were 150 girls who could not be accom maintain amottice in Lents and at 202
tomime in which I called into requisition
given
consideration,
the
biennial
election
Mr.
Miles,
of
Oswego.
modated there this fall), force the re Hamilton Building in Portland.
all the dishes on the table at the immi
of otficers will be held. There will
Lents (ifatigj- captured one of the ten
gents to ask for a home economics
probably be several changes in the of prizes offered last year for die lieet lit nent risk of breaking half of them, and
WOMEN OF WOODCRAFT
building.
• THE RANCHMAN.”
ficers. Mr. R. W. Gill asserts that he erary work to be given during the year. after an exhibition of juggling that
No library Ghilding is asked at this
The latest presentation ot the Lent«
will not be a candidate tor Master, so The records show that lente was fifth in would have caused a professional to turn
time, although the 22,090 volumes and Dramatic Club will be “The Ranch
some other person will surely lie select the competition. This will entitle it to green with envy. I Anally succeeiied in
35,000 pamphlets are now handled in man," a drama that will require over
ed for that petition.
Mr. Black, of a five dollar prize, perhaps of books or convincing her that there were ocher
five classrooms in the oldest building on two hours in presentation. The Club
Woodlawn grange has been favorably of grange apparatus of some sort. The things in the world to drink besides
The Women of Woodcraft will have a
the campus, and are cauwing the floors is now busy in its preparation, it is
wine. As soon as this fact found a
mentioned tor the place
Black is a
to settle under the weight of the books. expected that it will be ready before partv on Thuradav, the 19th. The early good man and be has time to devote to members of the grange have many rea I od gemant in her benighted mind, a
sons to congratulate themselves on the great light dawned upon her, as it were,
Since 1908 the number of Itooks in the Abe holidays, though there is some talk part of the evening will be given to a the position.
standing they attained in the contest. and presently she made a bolt for the
whiet
party,
and
the
dance
will
begin
library has increased three times, anti of bolding it over till afterward. The
Thera are over 190 granges in Oregon kitehen, nearly taking the doorjamb
the student body has doobled, but the usual run of characters will be present at 9 o'clock «harp. Galichio’e orchestra
Mr. E. C. Jose, of Ivanhoe, was a and to rank fifth ia quite a creditable
■belt room is but one-third larger, and ed and the setting will be equally effec will furniah the music and ata unusually
Lents visitor Sunday.
showing.
fine time ia expected.
tive.
(continued on pnge Foor)
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