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BEAVER STATE HER Subscription, $1.00 a Year. I BNTS, MVLTNOJUAH CO., OREOON, THURSDAY, JUNE 26 1913. Vol. 11. No. 26 SCHOOL GARDEN CONTEST SUCCESS LENTS MAN VIS ITS GETTYSBURG Display Was One ot Best Ever Held at School. Geo. Wamsley Wins $6.00 in Cash. Many Other Prizes Awarded. John Walrod Among Old Veterans That Go To Famous Battlefield. He Recalls Many Incidents of the Battle of Gettysburg. The garden and floral exhibit put up The-enlisted man of our army-waa by the Lents schunl children last as a rule a soldier of splendid courage, Friday in the school auditorium was a full of vim, energy and preeervanee. notable ons. There waa a tine display Those who entered in the service in the ot products of all sorts, potatoes, beginning of the war did so without turnips, radishes, lettuce, lieets, any incentive except that of patriotic onions, and similar vegetables, The duty. They were young men wbo did flowers I m , re a similar range, but sweet not wait for commission nor delay un pesa predominate«! Alsnit seventy-five til large pecuniary considerations were pupils made exhibits and they recieved offered in the shape of bounties, but at a lol of praise. the first call promptly enrolled their Prises were »warded lor the general names as private soldiers, resolved to exhibit« as follows: first prize, Geo. do all in their power to preserve their Walmsley, five dollars in eash ; second country undivided, and their flag un prise, Cyril Fleming; third prise. Chas. sullied. Kerns; fourth prise, Ralph Walmsley; What a brave lot of men they were. and Julia Kellaher won the capital Full of vigor and life, bow they would prise in the girl's garden contest. cheerfully face tbe foe and bow courage Grace Geiaey won first prize In the ously they would die tor their country sweet pea contest. Several minor 1 and the flag, is indelibly stamped up prizes were given on general floral on mv memory. Fifty years ago the exhibit«. first of July 18ft;, I, as a beardless boy, T) m > billowing Lente people con- ' fought in the ranks of Co. A. 7th Wis., tribute«I to th<- prizes: Clyde Bager, Infantry, waa wounded and taken potato hoe ; Rayburn «It Hous, handker- 1 prisoner. Then my hair was as black chief; Norden, vanity purse, Lenta! as tbe raven's wing, my step elastic, HOE FIELD IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY Hardware Co., fishing pole; Mrs.' and I was full of life. I do not go to Bright, cash, $1.60, Thomas Bros., ice I Gettysburg with the implements of cream; otu> Katxky, 21.00; L. H. war now, but to smoke the calumet of Carter, 26 cents, W A. Hall, 26 cents; peace that we may be in perfect har- Optimist, one year stilierription; John tuoney. Manz. $1 00; C. C Wiley, 60 cents, I am writing and my mind reverts lente Grange, $2.00; Mt Hcott Drug back to those days. I seem to fee! the Co., trail l>at; Foraen, Bender A Butts, | lawt Saturday evening the Tremont This ha.- lieen one of the most success cold chills going up and down my $1.00; Modern Shoe Repair Factory. Volunteer Fire Department dedicated ful years in the history of Lents spinal column And as I prayed to the Wool sale» at Condon aggregated whlch has charge of the annual county pair of tennis shoes; Hawkins Barber , their new hook and ladder truck schools. The attendence has been Lord to protect me, reminds me of an 700.000 pounds, rt prices ranging from fair to Multnomah county. Shop, two hair cuts; Duke Bros., ball This was probably tbe most important 10% to 14 7-8 cants. Arguments were beard in the su larger than ever before. Interest has old darkey of Charleeton, 8. C-, when and bet; L. E. Wiley, picture; O. E. never been better and tbe work of the tbe earthquake there some years ago event of the new department. The Thieves broke into the clothing preme court in the suit brought by lent, (LOO; F.ggiman Bros, $1.00; schools lias been carried on with a gave them such a shaking up. He truck was purchased from A. G. Ixing L. H McMahan, a Salem lawyer, to store of John Anderson in Forest Klineman. fifty cents; and five dollars A Co. of Portland, through the efforts Grove and made away with about 50 restrain Secretary of State Olcott and limited amount of disturbing influences said, “Oh Lord come down and help us unnainoi from Lenta business man. State Treasurer Kay from expending and more than ordinary harmony. An in this great time of trial. Don’t send of the Tremont Volunteer Firemen, the suits valued at over $700. A numlier of Portlaud firms also $450.000 appropriated by toe legisla unusual interest is being developed in your Son but come yourself, dis am no aaruste.1, namely, Honey man, GUI, Keventy-Second Street Social and Im Tbe farmer» of Ashland have per provement Club, and Councilman fected a producers' association, and tors for the reclamation of lands In the practical things of life. .Manual place for boys.” Meier A Frank and WixidwardA Clarke. Ere this will be published. I will be training and bout work and gardening Allan R Joy. The truck has some : the queatlon of establishing a public the Columbia Southern project No longer will producers be able to have received additional recognition well on my way to that famous battle special features and is secon«i to none > market there Is being canvessed. market their traits In Oregoa under from many more pupils ttian usual and ground ot Gettysburg. And from there in the city. Accused of tying a bunch ot straw Despite the l«d weather about1 to a horse's tall and setting fire to It, misleading label«. If the efforts of the prospect« are favorable to an in I will give you an account as it seems to me now. John Walrod. seventy-five people gathered at the ; at Bt. Johns. Otto Russell was fined State Dairy and Food ixMnmiaaloner creased interest along these lines. The ninth grade class of tiie year has fire house to dedicate the new truck. $10 end costs for cruelty to animals. Mteckle avails. This official has be- been a large one and thirty-seven mem An address was made hy A. G. Ixmg Judge M. C. George waa elected pres gun action to eliminate this bad fea A class of ten were initiated into the in which he set forth the benefit of a ident of the Bona and Daughters of ture of the trade in an effort to aid bers of the class liave complied with the Eureka Reliekaiiaa Friday evening. well organized and equipped volunteer Oregon Pioneers, at the annual meet the grower wbo puts up an bonaet standards and received their certificates'’ for the completion of the work. This pack. There were in addition, a large number fire department to a community. He ing at Portland. Oregon is likely to become the center Lizzie Clark has brought suit at entitles them to entry into any high of visitors present. The drill team took up tbe relative positions of the Jay H. Vpton, of Portland, was elect of a great fishing industry within the from Columbia Lodge came out in full paid department ami tbe volunteer de- ed department commander of the Unit Hlllaboro against Hare A Gllkeraoo. school in the city of Portland, so far as educational requirements are concerned. sawmill men of Manning, to recover near future if the investigations of the force ami there were visitors from pratments in regard to their relatione ed Spanish War Veterans and Salem Montavilla ami Rose City Lodges. to the public. In tbe course of bis re was chosen »» the place of next meet $15,000 damage« Th« plaintiff Is a One of the striking things in connec government confirm» the report of ex cook, sad complain« that «be was tion with this class is the reduced age The installation of new officers will marks he presented the Tremont De ing tensive halibut banks off the coast of at which the work has teen completed. probably tie held the third Friday in pertinent with a beautiful service By an oversight In enacting a new burled In th« debris of a tree which Lincoln County. A large number of July. A team from all the lodges in speaking trumpet. Battailion Ghief law dealing with conditions that were the defendant«' workmen failed aoroee Only a few years back it was considered the city will have charge of the installa Stevens was next on the list of | disclosed by Portland's vice clique a oookbou«« which «he occupied 9b« pretty good if a boy or girl completed launches are now being fitted out at ■ peakers, His remarks were es;>ecia)ly scandal the defendants In these cases alleges that «be waa permanently dis tiie eighth grade, the equivalent of tbe Newport, on Yaquina Bay, for the tion abled. and may lose her eyesight as city’s ninth, by the time they were six purpose of exploiting these recently educating and encouraging to the will go unpunished. teen or seventeen. This elasB probably discovered banks, and those which a result of her Injuries. volunteers Capt. Zeller of engine The county court has appropriated S. P. & S. F. TO BUILD To make a study ot the mineral re runs considerably under fifteen as an have already started operation are re thirty-one at Kern Park, then took $750 to be used tn defraying the ex RAILROAD UP OREGON COAST occasion to express his appreciation of pense of assembling a creditable ex- sources of Oregon and induce capital average. The following members of turning to port with capacity loads of splendid fish. The extent of the banks the volunteer firemen. M. 8. Hazen bibit of Douglas county product« at to develop them. Is ths object of a bill the class completed tbe work: Margaret Boland, Harold Bradford, is stated to be sufficient to supply the Under s Joint agreement of the of Ix-nts Fire Company made a short the state fair at Salem In Beptmber. passed by the legislature creating the Southern Pacific and Sant« Fe rail talk on the volunteer firemen an«i on A Wallowa county grand Jury has Oregon Bureau of Mines and Geology, Catherine Butterfield, William Calla Pacific Northwest with fish for yean and the prediction Is made that it will han. Nancy Caplee, Marion Cheever, to come. roads, it is announced that a railroad the subject of the district tournament reported that two drug stores in the of volunteer firemen. L. Roesell was "dry" district at Enterprise have tilled increase the elemental wealth of the Fred Collins, Margurite Cooper, Harry will be built along the Oregon coast, there with a report of the Gresham during 10 months 10,700 prescriptions state by millions of dollars, for esti Currigan, Opal Davis, Janies Duncan, construction to begin at the present Tournament, and his usual boost for I tor Intoxicating liquors, or an aggr«c mates place the value on the importa Mabel Emerson, Francis Ewoldt, Freida northern terminus of the Northwestern tions of clay products alone at $6.000,- Folkman, Ivan Hamcrlynck, George Tremont. Mr. Foote the genial grocer gate of over 2000 gallons. Pacific line at Sherwood, Cal. The 000 annually, and the importations of Jones, Luzelle Kearney, John Kearns, of Tremont recited some tales of tbe the «tate According to a report of road will be built up the coast to About thirty of tbe members of railroad engineers difficulties in life. market inspector filed at Roseburg. cement, building stone and other Marjorie Kellogg, Lillie Keidahl, Cecil Myrtle Point in C- mm County, and will Mr. Arnold of Tremont then made a the Oregon Soldiers' Home scored 97.6 building materials also run Into mll- Landon, Winifred Leurs, Ruby Love, Lents Grange visited the grange at then pr«x-e >1 up the valley to tbe Florence Luu, Garrett Maul, Geraldine Eagle Creek last Saturday, including very fitting address. out of a possible 100. The Inspector lions yearly. Rogue River, connecting with the A synopsis of the game and fish MaxMeyer, Howard McElvain, Montia At this stage of the game all attempts says this la the highest score recorded Southern Pact he's main line at Grants laws of the state of Oregon has been Parker, Leslie lipper, Marie Rathkey, the lente Grange Drill team. Tbe at speech making was abandoned as by any state institution in Oregon. Pass. It is stated that work will be Issued by William L. Finley, state fish Elsa Schmidt, Edith Schram, George team put on the third and fourth de tbe ladies served ice cream an«i cake, Guarded by three forts and strings gin this present summer. and game warden. The pamphlets Simmons, Bertie Taylor, Alta Wood, grees with the drill. All report an ex and no one was able to do any more of electrically controlled mines which cellent time. Eagle Creek Grange is talking. Chief Weiser was proven to extend from the Oregou to Washing will be distributed among the gun Lucy Wood worth, Fred York. stores throughout the city and state. one of tbe strong granges in tbe state Water Rates to Take Tumhle. be the best man with the edibles. ton shores, defenses at the mouth of and they had invited Bpringwater Notice was »ent out this week that The visitors, led by Mr. Long, then the Columbia are considered as good Will G. Steel, who will take up the of Fell Down Stairs Grange to he present, so the attendance water rates in this portion of the city ran the new truck into the engine as any which protect the harbors of fice of superintendent of Crater Lake The eight year old son of Mr. and Mrs. was excellent. Park on July 1. will work in conjunc Would take a tumble the first of July, house and gave three rousing cheers the United States. Near of 8th Avenue and Center Street, and consumers received n rebate on (or the Tremont volunteers. The Oregon Banksrs' association tion with Mr. Finley in making Crater Then after going upstairs Saturday evening to their regular rate» to apply on the next after three cheers for the visitors by session at Corvallis, elected W. L. Lake Park a big game refuge as well Kelley Klan to Meet retire leaner! over the bannister to month’s supply. This will be a wel tbe fire laddies, the meeting was Thompson of Peiftlleton as president as a place of scenic beauty. An effort The Kelley Klan, descendents of the listen to the close of a birthday party come clipping from the regular list of adjourned. for the ensuing year. The bankers will be made to get a number of Euro below. In some manner he lost his Kelley family of Oregon and Washing family expenses. When we consider decided to cooperate in the movement Pean bin’s Into the park. balance and fell striking on his face, ton will hold its annual reunion at 663 that this comes off of every family in toward securing large tracts of land PORTLAND MAN HEADS driving his upper teeth up under tiie Williams Avenue Saturday, at the home the newly annexed territory it will for colonisation purposes. nose. Several stichee were taken in tile of Mr. and Mrs. A. B Manley. Most M. E. CHURCH ASSOCIATION OF NURSERYMEN amount to quite a saving. This will Governor West has appointed Ernest lower lips. He is still confined to his of the Klan are descendents of the Ore In the morning, pulpit will he eu p- nearly offset the additional taxes which Ringo, a Salem lawyer, special agent gon pioneers, Clinton, Gilmore, Albert, bed but is doing nicely. may be expected by the annexation To ths Pacific North we t goes the and prosecutor for the governor's of plie<l by committee of the Christian and Archon Kelley, who settled in th" process. honor of providing a man to head the fice. under a law passed many years Citizenship Conference and tickets vicinity of Portland. There are about BAPTIST CHURCH. American Association of Nurserymen ago. A law passed at ths last session will be handed out to those desiring to 200 of these people who make it a cus The pastor will preach Sunday mom- tom to attend these annual reunions. for the coining year. The convention appropriated $1000 • y«ar for the attend. Preaching at Bennett Chapel ML Tabor Line Extended at S p. m In the evening the pastor ingon the subject, “Can God Heal the Besides a big banquet, there will be a Not everyone known it but the Port of th" association held in Portland last work. will preach and conduct evangelistic Sick,” ami in the evening on, “The program, a prominent part of which will wan week was the first meeting of the or A solid gold nugget worth $1500 land railway is extending Its Mt. Tabor service. These meetings are always Gther Nine.” The Junior B. Y. P. IT. be a record of events connected with line from the Reservoir to 82nd street, ganisation ever held west of the Rocky panned by George Armstrong and helpful. We shall be glad to see a will meet as usual at 3:tM)p. m. The the family during the past year Mies making a turn south from the Rvnorvoir Mountains, and at its final bnsiness Richard Staurton on their Dutch Gulch large attendance of those who are Elmo Heights Sunday School convenes Agnes Kelly is secretary of tbe Kian, to a point about a fourth of a mile a<>uth session Friday morning, J. B Hiking- placer claim three miles from Susan at 2:30 p. m. We invite your attendance and Miss Nellie Fawcett is historian. earnestly seeking the better life. of the Section line road, and thence east, ton of Portland was unanimously rille and 60 miles from Baker It Is at the services of this church. W 1 OY-D MOORE Pastor. to 82nd St. Thia will He a great advant elected president. The 11114 meeting thought to be the largest nugget «ver Rev. J. M. Nelson, Pastor. age to people in thia vit inity, and par- will he held in Cleveland, Ohio, At found in the northwest. EVANOELICALJCHURCH, Tbe first apportionment made by ticulary to the membura of Evening Star that time a strong effort will he made Mrs. Coon, who has liven speniling W. C. Bryant visited his sister, Mrs. Sunday, June 29, 11a. m. Sermon to bring the association to San Fran the state under laws passed by the the past two months in Eastern Oregon, M. B. Hogne, last week on his way to by a ilelegate to the World’s Christian Grange. Inst legislature was received by Coun has returned to her home on Sth Ave. Monmouth to he present at Uie com cisco for its meeting in 1916. Citizenship Conference. 8 p. m. sermon ty Treasurer l^ewls. Th« apportion Mr» Coon’« daughter-in-law, Mrs. Bud mencement exercises at tho Oregon by the pastor Special music at each Mr». Pearl Horner and eon Durward Mr. Woods of Tenth Avenue who him ment amounts to $10,173.46 and la to Coon, of Gnu*» Valley accompanied her State.Nornial. He is a member of the service. an' visiting with Mr». Daniel» on Mt. be used bv th« agricultural society home. Scott Avenue. been quite ill is Iretter. board of regents. P. Conklin Pastor. NEW fIRt IKUCK REBEKAHA LODGE INITIA1ES TEN I 37 GRADUATE FROM STATE NEWS NOTES LENTS PUBLIC SGHOOL IN BRIEF FORM