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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1913)
BEAVER STATE HER a LD Subscription, $1.00 a Year. LENTS, MULTNOMAH CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY I 1913. WORK BEGUN ON RE-UNION OF OLD ODDFELLOWS BLDG. TIME MELODIES GOOD PHYSICIAN TO CONSULT. No. 18 BENEFITS OF COM MILWAUKEE ROAD TO MISSION GOV’T. ENTER PORTLAND A Herald Correspondent Sees *The Line Via Lents Is Probable Entrance Advantages in Commission Gov To City. Would Put Lents in ernment Over The Present Form. Direct Touch With East Would Some Instances Cited. Open Up Fine Farming Country. Irish Bros. Awarded Biggest Single Mr. Freeman, New Manager of The Isis Intends Staging a Playing Contract Ever Let In Lents. Will Contest Among The Pioneers of be oIRe-Enforced Concrete. Finish The West. ed by August 1st Among the mem tier» of the older Monday noon wa» the time set forihe awarding of th« contract for the now generation, the lathers and mothers building for Mt. Scott Ixxlge, I. <>. O.F. uncles end aunt», of the generation The building ha» boon under contemp passing by, how many who have enjoy lation for soma time but up to y«ster- ed a dance or a quadrille on the pio day the figure» lookad big. Irish Bros, neers puncheon lloor can recall the had presented a plan that wan accept rollicking s*-e-»aw “lunes of long ago?" able aiui made an «»thnal*- on tlx- coat. Not many can call offhand the old Th.* plana wire put up for bids, but only tunes, unwritten, but carefully pre one firm made an otTer, besides thrm- served “by n»te” and treasured in old m-lvea, and that offer exceded •s.(NM), er memories with recollections of good So the building waa awarded to them tunes and the early days It is due to for |7,500 It will lie of reinforced the *dd tiddlers, now almost extinct, concrete, 43x80. and the outside walla that the old, old tunes are preserved;! will be 37 fi-uOhlgh, over a »ever foot aoou they will perish witb their creat basement. The first floor rooms will or». But what a novel and delightfully bo 14 feet high There will be two doors entertaining affair is a reunion of the on the west front and one store front o 1 old-|imers, the pioneers, exchanging re- the north aide, la-side th*- hall entry miniscenie» ami renewing their youth which will lie from that side The front in the -trangely moving melodies will be plate glass, as will also the north wrought by the old-fashioned fiddler. front. Why, It is only by the strongest effort The second floor will contain a hall that you can call up some of those old Sixteen feet high, 43xth> entered bv two tunes—“Rosin the Bow, ’ “On the Old doors. In the rear of the hall will be Kentucky Whore," "Joe Bowers,", locker rooms, waiting rooms, dressing I ’'Turkey in the Straw," “Old Dan rooms and entries. The plan of these Tucker," “Arkansas Traveller," “The rooms allow free movement in all direc Girl 1 Left Behind Me,” “Over the tions; and is one of the most complete Garden Wall," “Money Musk," “Lit plans that was over utilized. A men’» tle old Log Cabin in the Laue,” "Oh, smoker 14x18 will lx-one of the features Su*anna, Don't Y’ou Cry," "Fisher’a Thi» floor will have an ttfoot ceiling, and , Hornpipe,'* "Little Brown Jug," “Cap above it will be a large dining room, 30x tain Jinks." “Old Cinnamon See*I Ke 43. out of wich will be cut a kitchen lOx ren»«-,’’ ‘‘Beaux of Albany," “Leather 12. in the south east comer, and the Br«MH-tu-»," “Burning of the Robert E. stairway. It will make a fine room. late," -‘Oh, Johnny, Hold My Tatar," The kitchen will lie fitted up with cup anil scores of others. boards. tables, sink, ami ga» *-onven- Mr. Freanan, the new manager of the ienc*. The building will l*e lighted by | Isis, is plahuing to get just the parti electricty ami will be prepared for fur arch» of the fiddle and bow of this sec nace heating. tion togettier in the near future tor a The window» will be of the latest style, playing conte*t. Mr. Freeman is ac all double. Those in the rear hall floor quainted with scores of the first settlers will be smaller, but there will be two and wax the first amusement promoter seta, one for the locker room floor and to get them together In a reunion about another for the dining room floor. fire years ago at the Oaks. Twenty-five The building will be a very tine ap assembled and there was one woman, a pearing structure, ami will be the best Mrs Anderson among them She was yet in Lenta, and will be ready for oc "6 years of age and as active as at thir cupancy about the first of August ty. None of the players were under flo Work was begun on it Thunday morn- years of age. The keenest interest was lug Most ol the orders for material manifested in the playing. Not one of have already been let. the players ever read a not«* of musi«- in To say that Lenta Oddfellows are his or her life and all airs were play«**! jubilant over the prospect is putting it according to memory. The players en mildly. And not the ' least to be con- joyed the contest as much as the very gratuluated is the committee- that have large audience that gathered. Medals had it in charge for the past two months, and prizes were given. Messrs Tussy, Coffman. Peterson, Ray As soon as the uames of the old fiddl burn. and Kenedy, nor should noble ers of this section are known all eastern grand, Goggins lie overlooked. They Multnomah county is invite«! to send have had all aorta of problems to meet, talent. A date will be arranged and somejcrinicism, and more commendaton. entertainment provided for the players. Bnt tht ont come has lieen satisfactory At the Seattle exposition Mr. Freeman tn nearly all* and it is evident that all invited the pioneers of fiddle and bow that has been done ami said has b*-en tog«-ather and one of the prizes was won with the beat intention by a man eighty years old. Although slightly atffcted with the palsy the players' hand had not lost its cunning. Who shall say. indeed, that there was not a world of melody in the old tune«? Thirty old timers assembled upon that occasion and some of them came a hun Again the Lente Giants came off vic dred miles to renew acquaintances. At torious in the Sunday game. By a score the height of the performance, a man of 5 to fl. in a very fast game, the Gianta, . in the audience who had croeaed the in a game of nine inhings. gave the plains cried out at one of the players, Ernest Grays a sample of their la-xt “Why, Hello, Joe, is that you? I work Sunday afternoon. have'nt seen yon for forty years—that The features of the game wen- the old lune brings back everything to me." timely hitting of Nagel for the Grays All old fiddlers, sixty year» young, ami of A. Boland for the Gianta and of whose hearts are still responsive to the Ila- catching of tlie Giants' centerfielder. charm of the old songs, should send in Whitstone. Hits off Ball, Donaldson 8, tbelr names and addresses. Plana for of Filzgerakl 7; errors for Grays, 2; the reunion in the near future will be Giants, 3. fully outlined in the Beaver State Her Next Sunday the Giants play the Ori ald, from week to week. oles the fastest tea-n in the country. — Emery Webb is b«-k home and he will la- situ on the firing line for th«- Giants MISSIONARY SOCIETY ANNOUNCES MEETING Vol. 11. In listening to discussions upon the j Recent movements of President Earl proposed commission form nt govern - i ing of tlie Chicago Milwaukee and 8t. merit, the thonght becomes established Pkul, seem to indicate that he is con in the mind» of the interested listener templating and invasion of Oregon, that right now is a good time to become fjeaving 8«*attle recently, supponedly to inform«»!, a» io case the “ropoeition is , go east, it was just learn«! that he luul ¡defeated at the comi.ig election, the gone to Eastern < Iregon with a party of ; friends of the measure will proce»«! at capitalists and they have »[«ent a week or once to present another. It is really a two looking things over, quietly seeing waste of time to vote against the com - all tlie good a-id some of the bad, and mission plan. Let us have it, test it, ' sizing tlie future possibilities of this part and know for ourselves whether it is of the state up pretty fully. The full the reform we most need. list of his travelling companion» is With the charts exhibited by Mr. M. known and there is every reason to be - 8. Lepper at the discussion last week, lieve that the trip was for in vestigating it appears that the financial affairs of the country. the city are virtually in the hands of The Milwaukee would make the third the mayor at the present time. Those great railway system to enter tlie East who resided in Portland during the ag ern [»art of the state. There seems to itation proceeding the adoption of the have been an intention of making the charter under which the present mu entrance into Portland from this direc nicipal affairs are managed, can readily tion for several years. There was con recall the great central thought at that siderable talk about three years ago, but time. “Give us a responsible bead’ the movement seems to have died down. cried the reformers of that day. “Con Probably too much publicity. It was centrate the power now dispersed in then suggested that the O. W. P., an*I the hands of several irresponsible per Portland Railway belonged to the Mil sons, deve*t this po.*er to the mayor waukee. About that time the Mt. Hood and hold him responsible to the peo road got active, anil the Milwaukee talk ple.” So the matters of finance were •topped. Now that the Mt. Hood road BRIGHT SPOTS IN A SMALL BOY’S LIFE taken from the members of the city is well in hand, the Milwaukee may council, and placed in the bands of the well begin operations again’ for it prac financial board, the members of which tically has that outlet all to itself. board are selected and appointed by the 1 With three possible roads entering mayor. What does it give us? A pon Portland it seems probable that the derous, slow working machine; really a Milwaukee would be able to make ite double council in that all matters pass own choice. It can now come in by way first through the bands of the council of Troutdale, Mt. Hood, or down the and then through the hands of the fi Clackamas. nancial board with frequent "referring In either event the line would pans baulk” proceedings from one to the through Lenta. We would then be im- other, delays and shifting of responsi-: mediat/.ly in touch with a transconti bility. nental railway and ite various brandies | The new plan, by some called the { «■U'ctntiwl. leading into Portland. This short ballot, place» the entire business would put ns in touch with Eastern of the city in the hands of five men, Central Oregon in less than a half day’s one of whom is designated as mayor time and would beat the O. W. R.&N., witb certain limited powers. Each of or the North Bank either, in time or ex these five men are responsible for the j pense in reaching the various important conduct of all municipal affaire coming j points East and 8ooth of Portland. , under his division. All are subject to ; Just what this will mean to this part recall. The preferential ballot which is l of the city is not well foretold. Of one made a part of the new system, does thing we may be sure. The important» away witb the manipulation of political j of the development will depend very parties in mu icipal affaire. Consoli- largely uoon the attitude of the people d tee the primary and general elections i in this part of the city. What the road into one election in which the voter really wants is a terminal in the city. names hie first, second and third choice If the <i. W. P. and the Milwaukee are for each one of the five positions, and really identical, the road now has all the saves to the commonwealth the cost of terminals that it really needs. It has the unnecessary primary el«?ction. practically everything in the city that it Under the present system the trans wants and further developments will be action of business moves slowly, but made elsewhere. the emptying of the pockets of the tax payers proceeds swiftly. The new me tho! works in opposite direction, where Louis J. Rossiter and Miss Mamie Wester Wed. it has been established. The business of the city pror eeds speedily and the «»in in the pockets of the tax payers Louis J. Roesiter of Vancouver, has time to accumulate. Washington and Miss Mamie H. We»- Whan th» Fumaos In the Church Smokes and th» Congregation la Oi»m*»»»<L The great tidal wave of 1M00 which ter of Weston, Lents, were nmted in —Webster m Chicago Now». brought distress and disaster to the marriage at the home of the bride, people of Galveston has peen turned in April 27tb, bv W. Boyd Moore, pastor to a tidal wave of great good to the of the M. E' church. The home waa whole con5try, as out of the distressed tastefully and beautifully derorated condition of Galveston, the new form of with art and evergreen. Fifty-eight government was evolved. It wrought guests witnessed the service and par an economic and stable government for took of the wedding lunch served by that distressed community. See if it the genial hosts. Lenta Commençai Club held its ap Parent-Teacher's Club will give a I will not for ns. After the usual congratulations, the pointed meeting on Thursday evening Benefit program at the school house, bride and groom took their departure with a good attendance Several per Tuesday, May 6th. at 8 p. m. The pro for a short honeymoon. Their host of RUSCH TAILORING CO, friends and acquaintances concede that sons addressed the Club, C. C. Chapman ceeds of tlie fund raise*! will lie held in REPORT BUSINESS GOOD they were happily mated and sav it i» of the Portland Commercial Club mak trust for emergencies. The program is ing on«- of hia customary inspiring ap as follows, subject to additional features all right and hope for them much hap- peals. Mr. Skulason, of Portland also, being added: That business has not been dull for all • piness ami prosperity. gave a short talk during which he laud- Piano Solo.......... ......... Lillian Woo* Ison the people in the town is eviden««! by ____________________ ed Oregon cliamte, and Lent» ns a de Daisy --ong________ ____ 12 small girls . the Rusch Tailoring Company. This LONE TREE MINE sirable location for resid«-nce and bus Wand Drill...______ _ .6 and 7 grades I company has been ,-stablished in Lents TO BE EXPLOITED iness enterprises. Several business Recitation___________ Miss Siegnor less than a year, yet it has come to be .............. Ramon*! Stanh 1 recognised as one of the established matters were disposed of. The Oregon Violin solo Male Quartette rendered several very- Indian Club Drill_______ 8 and 9 grades i houses of the town The business they LENTS SCHOOL TEAM “The Lone Tree Mine" a p'ay with Vocal Sol.» ........ . Dr. < >gle interesting selections. The next meet Recitation _____________ Miss Snyder ' have been handling has l«eenquite satis fifteen characters, a lot ot special scen The next m«*eting of the Missionary LEADS ITS SECTION Society of the Baptist church will be ing will fall on its regular meeting Playette........ Six Cups of Chocolate factory for tlie M-quantance that has ery, a live donkey, right on the stage I been possible in such a short time, o> e with four leg* and real donkey ears, helti witb Mrs. Hurlburt, Firland. The night Tlie Lenta Grammar School Ball Team i This is largely due to the excellent ser a church choir, and special features, all date set is May 21, At their last meet- FIREMAN’S BENEFIT SUPPFR has won five victories and lias had no vice offered and the exceptionally good ot which will require over two hours I ing, the members of the Society pre-1 MOUNT SCOT» 0. E. S. defeats to its credit. With KMMt pointe BY WOMEN OF WOODCRAFT stock of goods handled by the firm. : sented a veiy prettv silver berry spoon »nd a half, will be put on at the Isie HOLD INTERESTING MEETING. and ite competitor 333 Is-hind, it looks I While they do not attempt to carry an Theater the 28th and 29th of May. It to Mrs. Hurlburt, as a small token of like an easy walk away The scores in The women of Woodcraft will give a ' exhaustive stock, they do try to handle promises to be the livliest big thing yet the love and esteem in which they hold all their gam«-» have run well in their her. She has been a tireless worker in Mt. Scott O. E. 8. met last Thursday < supper in thè Grange hall, Wednesdav , goods of quality and style. Some of the attempt«! by the Mnts Dramatic Com favor while their opponents have been all departments of the church work, be- evening and pr<x-e»ded to have another i evening, May "th, for thè benefit of thè j l«est dress«»! people of the town thank pany, and the participant» sre all work held down to a minimum The record iug Vice Presiilmt of the Missionary very successful meeting The attend i fire company who are out of Chemicals ! Rusch for the interest and effort which ing like Tragans endeavoring to get for th«- entire group of schools in thia | .Society, 8. 8. teacher, Junior Superin anee was very good and tlieie were a and need thè money to pnrcbaee them. lie has displayed in suiting them their parts down to that criticism will w-ction is as follows: tendent and a member of the choir, and number of visitors, among whom was The public is invite»! to assist both by lie out of question. The play will be W. t. Pct the W. G. M., Mrs. Maigaret Hayter. « oiitribnting to thè »upper and attend put on io co-operation with the local EVANGELICAL CHURCH. Lents' ..4 0 loro now that-abe h-avrs ns for another field ili» Sup|«er from 5:30 nntil 7, to be I Cllntan Kelly 1 1 .«7? we feel that our own loss is certainly Tlie degree work waa heartily commend Bunday, May 4. Preaching 11 a. m. G. A. R , and there will be songs by the ed by Mr». Hayter, who said that very I fuiliiwed by a dance. Hrllwoo<t 4 3 their great gain. and 8p.m. Themes: “Paul’» Atheni old soldiers, sod special features be rarely indeed did she see wen su old Richmond ..................................... * 3 lodge do the work so well she «as al an Sermon,"and "Christ the Bread of tween all scenes and acts. Arista........ ............. 33 40,1 Mrs. Lawrence, better known as Life." This will be the last service Mrs. John Rowifflffe, of Eagle Creek, so surprised to see a class of six candi «ilsncos j3 3 '’'<in the annual conference, Woodlawn.................................................. '» ’ 4,10 visited last week at the home of her dates taken in one evening. Th«- lodge Mother Lawrence to the Pisgah home proceeding Rev. W. Boyd Moore attended tha has over twenty candidates in waiting, which convenes at Salem May 8, Bishop Creston .......................... -.............. 1 3 3Si' men. has moved from 9th Ave., tooth parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. 8. CfcrmaiL state Sunday school convention at Sprertg presiding. and the next meeting promises to be Weston ' • -«® another interesting one. Av«-. P. Conklin Pastor.| Oregon City, Friday of last week. Routh Mount Tabot 0 6 OSS of B9th street. GIANTS WIN CLOSELY CONTESTED GAME. PARENI-IEACHFRS TO COMMERCIAL CLUB HOLDS MEE1ING GIVE BENEFII PROGRAM.