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Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Greatest Scenic Roadway in Ameri-
July ah i visit«! some of the pi««-«
Ca IS NOW a Possibility. Funds in ln ,l11" vity where the water flooded ti e
eight, Right of Way Open, Grade «Ry *» »•>• w» flood • short time ago
The load up the Columbia »«• lw i of property destroyed.
Lents Volunteer Fire; Department
Again Saves a Home.
Excellent
Work by the Local Fire Fighters.
Loss Merely Nominal.
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The A. G. Smith home on Johnson
in
Creek, south of the Foster Road, about
well done by now bad it hut developed < another direction which was similar to
a half mile east of Lenta Junction had a
that thsre were several points where! the first.
narrow escape from destruction from
gun two years «go.
It would have Iweti ■ again visit«! the
On'the fitii
fi<>od«l district
July 7th I took in the city proper.
that there was scarcely room for a | Fort Wayne has a |»>|>iilation of eighty
thousand and is a fine city, has many
wagon road and the railroad occupied !
fine building« and fine parks. I visited
that space. The county could not buy Fort Wayne's »1,000,0011 court house
out the railroad and the road would I u jH the finest court house 1 ever saw.
■the bluffs were «> close to the river 1
not vacate.
As a vonsequem-e the ; Il is finisbsd in cloudml marble and tile
work etopp«l
Developments
this! rt«°" Tn» wall« are band painted and
week have made it possible to continue ¡•’»•tythmg >s just out of sight.
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the work. The railroad has agreed to visited the Packard Piano plant where
lay Ila line forth« r from the bluff in they employ ?50 men; a beautifnl
oue or two places, necessitating exten plant.
Fort Wayne is tbe county teat of
sive fills. One of theae tills will come
at Oneonta gorge. Here the road will Wayne County.
On July 10th 1 visited what it left of
bavo to make a fill of one hundred and
fifty leet, and to a depth of ssvsnly- Fort Wayne. All there is to see where
the fort once was is a cannon mounted
five feet.
< »n« of lbs good features of the plan on an elevation of masonry, pointing
Is that the wagon road will not have to across the river towards where they
crow the railway in any case through (ought tbe Indians in an early day.
out the distance from Portland to Hood This city was named after General
River. It will keep on the south side Wayne, who fought tbe Indians here.
I will now skip dates to July 16tb.
of the track the entire distance. There
We
wiil be one or two tunnels to pees I left Fort Wayne at 4 p. m.
passed
thru
a
fine
farming
couotry
and
through ami one or two elevations to
towns, and arrived at
climb, but in th« latter case« tbe some fine
Chicago
at
8
p.
m. At 10 p. m. I left
gradee will be very (light, and even
heavy tranapartation will find it an Chicago for LaCrosse, Wit. This being
a night ride. I could not see the
easy haul.
that we passed
To on« who has never been over th« country or cites
through.
road from Ijitourelle to Hood River
John Walrud.
except on the train, or boat, there will
fire on Tuesday afternoon about 2:30.
Alarm was turned in at Lenta and the
TH' T J. ROTTER-LE'DING COLUMBIA RIVER PLEASURE BOAT
A STUDY OF. THE EURO
PEAN PUBLIC MARKE!
It
ia hardly true to say that
tbe
I
torhouwi» attached thereto. These Mt. Scott W. C. T. U. too« price« at the
London nsturaily rerve* as a »tartlng
wlaughterhou«ea
are
not
regarded
as
a
portit for a tour of E»r<>i»eun inventlga-
tion.
The British capital has. Indeed, remunerative concern, but are provided Front (hautauqua meeting at Gladstone,
features that render It comparable In a because they afford hygienic methods, but several of its leading meml>ere par-
peculiar degree with New York.
The and private slaughterhouses in London 1 ticipated in a literary contest and took
population of both. Including their outer e»e decreasing rapidly. Last year 37.470 j some valuable prices. The Mt. Scott
In cattie. 101.<44 sheep. 11.722 calves, and
ring of suburbs, I» over &.0VS.O0«
W. C. T. U. had charge of tlie contest.
each case there is access to the o|>en S4.0S1 serine were slaughtered there, the
The topic, Industrialism vs. Purity
sea. by ineaiis of a noble waterway over charges being 30 cents a head for cattle,
which ¡»MMSCM the commerce of the seven 4 cents for sheep. 8 cents for calves, and was the topic up<>u which the contest
Mainly on account anta wrote. Those enterting the contest
seas.
Itallroad» supplement the water 12 cents for hogs.
borne cargoes with home-gruwn produce of the extensions and Improvements, were Mrs. Inec Richardson. Mrs. Lillian
this market is not being run at a profit
fresh from the farms.
Clark, and Mias Edith Train. The
Ixjndon'N markets du not afford the at preeent. but its public utility is held
unbroken example of municipal control to Justify the outlay. Nor does the L>ept- judges said the contest was a very close
that they would if a new system were ford cattle market of 34 acres, main one and that it was very difficult to tell
lie a new world to view when the high
to l»e created at (he present day
Prece tained on the banks of the Thames to to w horn the awards should go, as all
way is opened The road will probably
Lents Firemen Visit tbe Mayor
dent looms large in British administra deal with live cattle Imported from
procee.1 along th« Haw Line over the
Cap. Haxen and a number of I^nta tion. and even now there are only two abroad, pay Its way. But there has were excellent. The medal was silver,
white ribbon bow. with
upper Handy River bridge and from firemen President Strowbridge of the ways of establishing a market—by par- been a serious decline in Imported stock enameled
there to Latonrelie where it
will Tremont Volunteer Fire Department, Hameotary authority and royal charter. i In late years, especially from America. silver [pendant, and with the word
At thiM narke< extreme precautions are ‘‘l-rotherho<d” across the
pendant.
descend to tbe Columbia level and will and Mr. Woodburn of the Kern Park King Henry 111 covenanted by charter
with tbe city of London not to grant ! taken ty rev ent the entry of cattle dia- This medal wa- made erpix-'sUy for
follow tbe railway from there on.
Station visited tbe Mayor on Saturday permission to snyone else to set up a * ease tMi might spread Infection to
Prom the time it drops over the 1 morning to discuss some of the needs market within a radius of seven miles British flocks and herds. All animals this department by the National Con
bluff at latourelle it will enter famous ,,f thia portion of the city.
The del« of the Guildhall And this privilege was Sanded there nnist ba slaughtered within test Department of the W. C. T. U.
scenery, latourelle Falls will be the gatiun want«! first, to secure the eon- subse<iuently confirmed by a charter ten days and are submitted to rigid in- The Mt. Scott Union is a pi meer in
All hides and offal are im
i spection.
first object of interest
It ie now -ent of the authorities to have an granted by Edward it Ilf in 132«. But of mediately disinfected, Five hundred this branch of labor work. The first
'ate years the city corporation ha»»
visited by hundr«!* each year.
A electric fire engine stationed at Kern waived its right« and allowed market» | rattle can be unloaded from vessels at place was won by Miss Edith Train.
well construct«! roadwaj will permit Park. The Lanta memlmrs spoke for to I m * e» taldishe»! in various district », t>eptford in 20 minutes. Last year 104,- Two other members of this Union
ha
l-eer 1251 animal» a-ere killed, the meat l«eing have won nedals previously, namely:
wherever n re’il necessity
thousands to enjoy the rights.
Pass-! * lot of new hose and for a siren to
!n fart, tbe ma kete oi -ent for sale to Smithfield and White- Mrs. Ward Sw- pe and Miss Minnie
show
’
ll
to
exist,
ing on. the roml will pass between the counected with fire headquarters in tbe
txmdon have grown with the clt . keep- I« ha pel.
' Chapman. It is probable that a gold
“Ne«llea" at Bridal
Veil.
Th,«e city so that a fire warning sent into Ing pace with it» re<iuirements,
Famous Pish Market.
ne«lles were- formerly pierced by the tbe city from any part of the Lents
Billingsgate, the famous fish market medal contest will be held in the near
There remains, however, the fart that
al’-'» administered by the future, cr as soon a- a couple more
railroad, but iu shortening its curves a«'tion may l>e turned hack to Lents. certain corporation markets and Covent f I.
Garden markets serve as great whole c ; poration. Its records cover over 60v medals of this degree are given out
the r«m<l was thrown riverward and
The Mayor has promised that they
am. It Is hampered by narrow street
sale terminals, connected mure or less
now the deserted right of way will be' will make an inspection of this part of
unofficially with the numerous local mar I approachen» but a very expeditious sy»-
Utilised by the highway. The Needle, the city soon and see what its needs kets in the outlying districts.
1 tem of direct delivery of fish from the
Thames side of the market building
are mammoth natural stones which are, ami that an effort will be made to
Immense Municipal Market.
CAMP FIRELESS COOKER
Chief among the corporation market» . r natdes the licensed auctioneers to dis
rnske ideal gateposts, forming an en comply with the requests of the dele
♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
is Smithfield, covering about eight acres
trance to what ie one of the finest gation aud to supply other nsoMBary
♦
and costing altogether SI.400.000. There ♦
What camper hss not wished up n
natural parks in the world.
I Bridal j apparatus as soon as it can be pro- are to be found wholesale meat, poultry 4
Everywhere in Europe the pro 4
leaving camp for the day with the
Veil falls is not visible from the high-' yided.
and provision markets, with sections ♦ vision of adequate terminal mar
ket« under municipal control is ♦ meat, Iwsns, and other slow-cooking
for the sale, wholesale and -it-’.i, of
way but it ie only a short walk over
vegetables and fish. In the last twenty ♦ !>ointed to an a powerful aid in ♦ camp foods just coming to a boil, that
tbe hi'.ls to a good point of view.
Be- '
years the development of cold-storage ♦ keeping food prices down. There ♦ he might return and find them done,
Giants Again Winners
yond Bridal Veil you skirt the bluffs
processes has lowered the quantity of ♦ is a lesson in that for New York ♦ and tender and hot, exactly right to be
Th» l^nta Giants added another
and pass numerous little waterfalls
home-killed meat and remarkably in ♦ and other American cities.
♦
♦ served? That very thing may be pro
which at some seasons of the year are i.mo to their long list of victories Sun- creased the Importation of refrigerate«! ♦
Then .lay when they took Dingles Orioles in supplies. I»SMt year the wholesale mar ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ vid«! for by following this simple di
plainly visible from the road.
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Boland, the Giant's ket disposed of 433.7X3 tons of meat, of ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ rection taken from ‘’Camp Oookery,
Falls,
Oneonta to camp 6 to 2.
Multnomah
comes
which 77.2 per cent came from overseas. ♦
just
off
the
prees
of
the
Extension
♦
Gorge, Ht. Peter’s Dome, The Pal- slab artist, was entit)«! to a shut out,
Ten years ago the United State» sup ♦
Mrs. Elmer Black, member of
ieade«, Castle Rock Wind Mountsin. but for the home run of Manager plied 4! per cent of the Smithfield meat, ♦ the advisory board of the New ♦ division of the Oregon Agricultural
The home run was ma-ie I but now these supplies have fallen off ( ♦ York Terminal Market Commis ♦ College: •‘Use a box similar tn one
Bonneville and Cascade Ixicks. beyond Dingle.
possible
by
the l«|| becoming lodged in enormously, and the last report of the ♦ sion. has prepared an excellent ♦ I holding two five-gallon cans of nil,
which tlie scenery becomes milder but
some
boards
near the fence.
ttyroni- market committee says. “The United ♦ report covering an extensive in ♦ made stout with extra nails and as
none the lees beautiful.
States, in (»articular, for domestic needs,
nous
and
Rogers
form«l
the
battery is within measurable distance of be ♦ vestigation Into European mu ♦ nearly air tight as possible with strips,
All along the line a considerable por
♦ nicipal market conditions and ♦
tion of the abandon«! railroad grade for the visitors ehiie Boland and coming a competitor with England for ♦ management. While the article ♦ and nail a strip J3« inch thick and 3
the output of South America.”
South ♦
Jorgensen
work«!
for
the
Giants.
was prepared with the primary ♦ inches wide around the inside even
will be need. It will be necessary to
America and Australasia are Indeed the
Line tbe bottom and
broaden it an.Uresurfaee, hot the tact Hyronimous walk«! 2 and fann«i 6, ■chief producers today for the British ♦ purpose of facilitating the estab- ♦ with the top.
♦
i sliment of a much needed ter ♦ s des with paste board, such as from a
that a grade has l>een turn«! over to while Roland walked the same number I market.
. ♦ minal market In the city of New 4
cracker box. and pack the bottom tight
the county will 1« of great advantage to and whiffed 15. The batting of Al j This has developed a great cold-stor- ♦ York, the information contained G
with excelsior. Place the vessel to be
subsequent constructionists.
Another Boland, the fielding of Webb, and the age business in London, All told, Lon- * therein, obtained after much 4
used in the center of the box and pack
base
running
of
Forte
were
features,
of
don
can
accommodate
3.032.000
carcasse-
♦
painstaking
effort
and
visits
to
4
feature of the road which will appeal
¡of mutton. reckoning each carcass at 36 ♦ all the large municipal niprketa
the ex' e)sior[as tight as poyible around
to all of us is that for a considerable the game. Next Sunday the Clackamas pounds. Over 41 per cent of England’s ♦ of Europe, ought to be more
♦ it, remove the vessel and line the
part of the way the road will run over team will lie here for a game at two i imported meat passes through Smith- ♦ readily available to the > producers ♦
opening with paste board, cutting a
thirty
sharp.
At
this
writing,
the
Held
and
railroad
acce»»
is
arrange«!
to
♦ of the country, ar well I as to the
the old military wxy laid out by Grant
The Great I '♦ municipalities which
hole in the top strip to fit the vessel.
Clackamas
team
has
not
met
defeat
soiihe
heart
of
ibo
market,
represent
♦
and Sherman in the fifties.
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Labor ♦ Take a strong lioard for the lid and
We hope to tell a | Northern Hallway Company has a lease ♦ the consumers, hence the
A good part of tlie work will Is, done far this aeaeoa.
. from the corporation on 100.000 feet of ♦
P’-ess publishes the report in ♦ line it with packet) excelsior cose’ed
.lanagvr .
works under the meat market. ♦
by convicts from the state penitentiary. : different story next week.
full.
♦ with cloth. Or a pillow or cushion
[ Forte ia strengthening the Giants with hydraulic lifts to the level of the
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may be used under the lid, which is
wherever nectsssrv an<l next Sunday | market hall and Inclined roadways for j ♦
♦
♦
♦
♦
♦
♦
Save Spoiled Hay
made as nearly air tight as possible.
i von will see at lea«t two new players i vehicular traffic.
■SO of supplies very quickly.
Steam
I
—
■ailing on Commission Flan.
Attention has recently l>een called,
I* thick
carriers collect the fisli from the fleets The top padding should
Most of the tenants at Smithfield are
by the Oregon Agricultural C ollege, to
round the coast anil deliver them packed enough to make it difficult to close the
I commission salesmen, who pay weekly
J.
F.
Ward
Turns
Druggist
the fact that many farmers who are so
in ice at Billingsgate every night. Bil- lid, which is held down bv hasp and
! rents lor their shops and stalls at space
Grays Crossing is to have a new I -ates. nil tl>e fittings being supplied. I tigsgate market has coat the city 11,-
unfortunate as to have hay injur«! or
hinges, or leather hinges with a
««0.000. Stand price» are high, but there
spoiled by rain, are making a mistake drug store located in the best room of l-ast year these rents brought tn *427,-
boulder on top to weight it down.”
J. F. Ward of 200. There In a toll of a farthing on is keen competition whenever a vacancy
of either burning it in the field or the new Lent building.
occurs. LaM year the receipts amounted This little pamphlet may be obtain«!
every
21
pounds
of
meat
sold,
which
to
allowing it to rot in piles. It is stated Lents has taken the place and will
to *132,455. The auctioneers dealt with free of cost by addressing tbe Exten
He has gether with cold storage, weighing, and 134.477 tons of fish .of which 120,905
that spoiled clover or alfalfa hay is open it up in first elms style,
sion Division, O. A. C. Corvallis, Ore
other charges ,amonnt«l In the same
worth »6.50 to »10 per ton as fertilixsr bought a lot of the finest fixtures and period to *241.(35. The meat sales are were water borne and 72,572 land borne. gon.
The city profited to the extent of 140.000
if evenly spread over the fields ami furnishings in town and is now having entirely wholesale, except on Saturday on thia flah trade.
afternoons, when there In a retail "peo
them
installed.
He
will
serve
ices,
plowed under, and that every ton of
On the entire municipal market enter
That the dairy business in the coast
ple's market,”- where thousands of the
prises of the city there la a profit of
hay so worked into ths soil is approxi and soft drinks from a fine marble- very poor buy cheap joints.
counties
has been establish«! on a pay
2I5S.OOO. The markets are regarded with
mately
worth four tons of fresh topped soda fountain. The addition of
The inspection Is very strict; every
especial Interest by the corporation, and ing basis is evidenced by the fact that
such
a
fine
drug
store
to
The
Croesing
precaution I, taken to Insure cleanliness,
manure. A ton of clover hay contains
the committee which regulates them Is the
Clatsop County
Co-operative
(0 pounds of nitrogen, ft lbs of phos will practically settle its success as a and breaches of the reghlatlonn are pun consider«! one of the moat Important
Cheese Aaeociation has recently been
ished by fines or Imprisonment. All con
suburban
center
for
they
have
nearly
in the whole administration of the city.
phorus and 30 pounds of potash, which,
demned carcasses are sent to a patent
paying 7 cents more per pound for
if purchased in the open market would every other necessary institution of 1'odewell deetructor. to be reduced by In order to keep abreast of the times butter fat than the market Drice.
most of the profit la expended on im
local
convenience.
eteain pressure and rolling to a powder,
coot the farmer about »10.80, and an
Tbe average amount of milk now being
provements an dextensions.
which is disposed of as an agricultural
clovsr and vetch is yielding about 2),
Covent Harden, London’s great fruit, received is nearly 6,000 pounds per
fertiliser.
Miss Alice Foster has been compelled
tons per acre this season, the plowing
flower and vegetable market, la own«! day with a prospect of greatly in
The corporation alno controla a great
creased suppllee In the near future.
under of the spoiled hay adds a ferti to give up her work as telephone opera live-cattle market at Islington, cover - by the Duke of Bedford, whose family An ice manufacturing plant will bg in-,
have
held
It
for
hundreds
of
years.
In
liser value of not less than »25 to each tor on account of the danger of losing Ing 75 acres. Over *2,500.000 have been
stalled before tbe advent of
hot f
spent on thin market, and the modern
weather next season.
her voice.
(continued on pate 4
how ; to ; make f a
acre.
tire department responded in quick
time. Dr. McSIoy happened to be in
position to run bis auto in in front of
the fire apparatns and it was taken to
the scene of the fire in double quick
time.
On arriving there the boys
fonrd a bail I y frighten«! woman striv
ing to prevent the destruction of her
home. The fire bad caught the wood
box back of the stove and had [eaten
into the floor and the wall.
She bad
tried to chop through the wall and
drown* out the fire.
The chemicals
soon did the work and before half of
the crowd was there the fire was out
and there was nothing left to show for
it but some scorched wall and a well
soaked bedroom floor.
Undoubtedly
the boys saved tbe boose and the
Smiths have every reason in the world
to feel their gratitude for the way in
which the volunteers responded and
handled the blase.
As it is the home was practically
saved., | There will be some lose on
furniture, rugs, and about a vard of
wall to replaater.’ Considering the
day, tbe extreme heat,(and th* condi
tion of tbe hon«e it ia a wonder that it
did not go up in smoke in short time.
‘ • MaxMeyef-Pearson
JIRiehardXMaxMeyer and Miss Mavette
Pearson surprised [their Portland and
Lenta friend« bv returning from a trip
to Clarke Comity, Washington, an
nouncing they were duly wedded.
Richard and his brother have decided
to try farming in Clarke County and
intended to ‘‘batch it” till fall when
their mother and sisters would join
them. But batching grew depressing
in less than a week and as a result a
hasty hunt tor a cook,
The new
family will reside on their eighty acre
farm about twenty miles north of
Vancouver.
Portland acquaintances
wish them a prosperous experience.
Local Dealers Discriminate
The fact that onions from Texas,
potatoes from California, and egg« and
poultry from points outside of Oregon
are being received in Portland in car
load Iota while the farmers in the im
mediate vicinity of the city, as well as
those tributary to the railroads lead
ing to this market, cannot find a
market for their produce at any price,
has led the Portland Realty Board to
actively take up the qneetion of estab
lishing public markets where gardeners
and farmers may dispose of their pro
ducts direct to the consumer with
great benefit to both. It is stated that
the (act that farmers cannot sell their
own crops in Portland without a li
cense. and the further fact that the
commission men will not buy from him
except at their own prices, is causing
many farmers to allow fruits and vege
tables to go to waste rather than dis
pose of them at a lose.
Making Berry Juice
The following simple and effective
way of bottling berrv ju>ces was em
ploy«! by Professor C. I. Lewis in the
laboratory of the Oregon Agricultural
College, and ia a sure way of saving
loganberries at a good profit on the
rainy day:
Heat the berries to as
nearly the boiling point as possible
and strain out the juice,
Mix juice
with one-third its measure of sugar,
heat as before, pour into steriliteti
soft drink bottles, shove the cork
about two inches within the neck of
the bottle, and pour melt«] parafine to
tbe top.
This process preset vee the
flavors and aromas and keeps the
product indefinitely.
Diluted with
four time« its measurement of water
it ie a delicious drink.
Shiloh Carrie L. G. A. R., are request
ed to meet at Woodmere Station at a
quarter before four o'clock on Sunday,
July 27th, where they will inarch in a
body, forming in order of officers, led
by the President and Senior Vice Presi
dent, to St. Pi.sla Episcopal Church.
Rev. Taylor will preach hia Annual
‘Sermon to G. A. R. Hone of Veteran»
and Women of G. A. R.