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About Gresham outlook. (Gresham, Multnomah County, Or.) 1911-1991 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1913)
DECEMBER 16, 1913 Síótínc M adonna. i The road supervisor has had team s Mr. and Mrs. Chas Hunter. Mr. hauling gravel and rock from the de and Mrs. B. C. A ltm an attended the pot to the Pow ell Valley road all International stock show in Portland ; se e k , and has made a great lmprove- last week. ’ ment. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover were gu ests Mrs. McAlpine was a Gresham vis of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H unter last itor on W ednesday. week. T he Parent-Teachers' m eeting was O. E. Jam ison was a gu est at the held in the school on Friday. There Altm an home Sunday. He left Mon was a large attendance. A Portland day for San Francisco where Mrs. lady addressed the m eeting. Mrs. Jam ison is now visiting. McAlpine and Mrs. Johansen had Mrs. Al. DeHave nspent a couple of charge of the tea. days in Portland shopping and visit- A ustin Buoy, a land ow ner here, ing her daughter Ellen, Busiuess but who stays east of the m ountains and pleasure com bined. has been in the d istrict for a day or Mrs. Geo. Bauder and little son, two. Edgar, were Portland visitors a Mr Northrup has left for his place couple of days last week. . north of Urays Harbor, and has lea s Mr. and Mrs. Peterson visited Mr. ed his place here to Messrs. N elson & and Mrs. Oust Larson In Gresham Johansen. Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. K night, who have Mis E lizabeth Steur, of Portland, NONTiAND NM JHT been for the last year in the McDon was a w eek-end guest of Miss Hilda M K » U « H T AND N O N IN CO, ald place, have moved Into Mr. N orth Beyers. r m t* NONTLAMDONC rup's house. Mr. and Mrs. Gust Peterson were !N T L ffU ftBAN U N IS Roy W alters and Mrs. W alters visitors at the Gust Carlson home Sunday. were Gresham visitors on Saturday. plant. F inancially the country is C harles W heeler is cu ttin g cord- Elm er and Carl and Miss Hilda prosperous. wood for John Nelson. B eyers and Mrs. Theodore Linster W. E. M arkell, Denny & Knowl- 1 Land clearers are at work In the and daughters were very pleasantly ton and L F. Shinam an are In the Robert Smith place behind the school entertained at the home of A. R. m ercantile business. Three separ and are m aking a good show ing, Goger Sunday evening. ate stores, all doing w ell, a chop Mr. Waidrip's son Is now hom e for A number of the band boys met at E m erging from a back woods cat m ill w hich is patronized by the farm the w inter and helping his father the hom e of H. G. M ullenhoff a few tle trail, with corduray plank on the era; one restaurant, one bakery, with the janitor work at the school evenings ago for practice. C onsid highw ay and the steady ox team m ak tw o blacksm ith shops; a laundry. Quite a number of children are ab- erable progress has been made and a butcher sent from the school with colds ing the trip to Portland to get our operated by a woman; the m em bers feel greatly encour Mrs. Johanson and daughter Mabel aged. m ail and buy a few necessary grocer nearby, a church and large hall to accom m odate the public. T he cow were visitors In Gresham on Satur- Wm. Beyers, Jr., was a Portland ies, etc; and taking som e vegetables trail is broken up, by horses. Every day. visitor the first of the week. to m arket, a few dozen eg g s and sev where you look houses have been T. H araguchl, on the Roork place The little friends of Freddie Erz eral rolls o f butter, topping off the reared. We are driftin g tow ards an has bought cow s and is going into the tendered him a surprise party in Every toiler is dairy business Everyone would like honor of his lo th birthday Saturday. load with a few thousand sh in gles to incorporated town. w elcom e to our m idsts to help in to see Hara make a success of it, as He received several nice presents. com plete a load for the city in building up an honest com m unity; since coining to the district he has R efreshm ents were served and all change for oth er com m odities— only where all can live on their own lot shown h im self to be an honest Jap, enjoyed a d eligh tfu l afternoon. the early settlers can relate the d is or acre and enjoy th eir ow n vine and not im bued with the lying and advantage of hew ing out a home in and fig tree. G reater p ossib ilities thievery propensities so common in DEATH OF S. W. FISHER the tim ber, such as were conditions are before us, the com ing years will som e of the others. AT SACRAMENTO in those days. No luxuries those only echo what were the early s e t Mr. and Mrs. Sm ith, of Eagle days, only n ecessities, to keep soul tlers visions. A telegram from Sacram ento on Creek were lu the district on Sunday and body together. The men folks A nother feature that has m ade It T here is a report that a new road 1 b Sunday morning last conveyed the made hand-m ade sh in g les rainy days easier for the few rem aining pion- j proposed to P leasant Hom e, going Intelligence that Solomon W. Fisher and when it was fair cleared land. eers is the electric system that cross through the C line place here. It had died there early that morning of The w om en len t a helping hand by es the country where they toiled and would be better If the com m issioners an exploded appendix. An operation putting the baby in the wash tub and traveled by ox team s in the years Instead of m aking new roads that are was performed for its removal on the by help of the husband carried their agone. They have replaced the trail , unnecessary would devote their atten- 8th. He was 40 years of age, sin gle precious first born to the clearing; and the footing and the new com er tion to repairing the Pow ell Valley and was a brother of Mrs. Mary F. where both were stren u ou sly at work finds a wonderful change in the road from E lliott's store to the Crane living on the Sandy road. He day by day, burning the huge trees m ethods o f travel, not only on the coOnty line and which they prom leaves two other sisters and six to m ake ready a country we today en trains but over the many fine thor ised would be done to a deputation brothers. joy. The real log sch oolh ou se stood ou gh fares where the auto is seen The body has been shipped to from here nearly tw o years ago. on the hill w here the M ethodists had speeding its way every day. And Bert Cline and Clarence Jackson Portland and is expected to arrive preaching once a w eek ,if only a class the rural letter service should not be are loading wood at P leasant Home. there tom orrow. The funeral will m eeting. N othing was thought of forgotten— it spans the distance and be held at the Pow ell cem etery upon going to church w ith a sun bonnet in as many hours as it took w eeks in Real Shaker Sw eater Coats, the its arrival. a n d calico dress to adorn the body. th e days of fifty years ago before the eigh t dollar kind, for $5.50, at Shln- R ather than puzzle m other's mind postotfice was brought to our very W eekly Oregonlon subscription o f am an's. P leasant Home. fer extended. w hat to do for dressing the children doors m aking the home brighter and (fo r there were many large fa m ilies) the tedious days more endurable for m other w it would m ake a good the patient settlers who have taken pair of trousers and coat from dad’s th e h eritage won for them by the old cloth es and sh oes also were made early pioneers. by m other from old boot tops and MR8. J. A. STEPH ENS. sad d le girths. T hat was real inven From All Stations on the tion. As a careful observer we see where If people would be taught how to save the little th in gs, there would Miss Lizzie H unter of Oregon City, be no cry to high cost of livin g visited over Sunday with borne folks. K eeping pace with the sty les is m ak Mr. and Mrs. Ju les C ollins, of Port ing shipw recks of many who can ill land, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Otis afford it. But we are a progressive Sunday. EALE DATES FINAL people. It's in th e air. We have Mrs. Lennartz, of Sandy, and Mrs. Dec. 18 to 24 Return Limit outgrow n ou r form er cloth es. W e Lansdown of this place were business 1913 1914 m ove on, have modern hom es, tele callers in Portland Thursday. Jan. 5th phones, auto. Our clubs and teas, Minnie Shriner, of G resham , v isit our very being is absorbed by that ed at home over Sunday, leading the which o ft tim es brings no real hap Epworth L eague for the young peo piness to th e fireside. It all costs ple in the evening. to m aintain these luxuries. Are we Lydia Saettler and Frank K now l financially able to endure them ? If ton were Portland visitors Saturday. TO so well and good. The farm ers in L ittle H ortense M cLaughlin had th ese parts realize the only regular the m isfortune to be scratched In the cash in sig h t is in the dairy business eye w hile playing with a cat on e day The First Time in the History of the Northwest All are building up good herds, up last week. Mrs. M cLaughlin is hav to date. T he soil Is th e very best ing to m ake regular trips with Hor Thai Holiday R at«, have been In effect— Take advantage of for raising an yth in g you w ant to tense to an eye doctor in Portland. the Low F ares and spend Christm as and New Year with friends It Is feared her vision w ill be affected- Ask Particulars of any A gent of the Mr. and Mrs. Lovel accom panied the pastor to Iliff Sunday. Mrs. W. E. Markell w as callin g on friends in Gresham W ednesday, also atten d in g the m issionary m eeting.. The finance com m ittee are busy so licitin g money for the children's treat for Christm as. Any on e w ishing to SM tribute may band the sam e to the chairm an, Mrs. Hale. PIONEER DAYS ARE RECALLED R EPRESENTINO the Virgin, not was his last .Madonna, although ha as a mother, but as the all painted others prior to this time. The powerful queeu of the beat Madonna was the favorite theme of ens, descending from clouds painters In the renaissance era In Italy, which are themselves com|s)sed of startiug with Era Angelico, Era Bar thousands of cherubs, Raphael's Ma tolommeo and others of the first paint donna di Saa Sisto, more commonly ers in this period and reaching its known as the Slstine Madonna, ranks, height with the completion of the by universal consent, as the greatest Slstine Madonna by Raphael. painting 1* the world. This Madouna was painted as an altar In the Virgin's arms there is the piece for the church of San Sisto at Christ Child, whose thoughtful eyes Piacenza, in 1754 It was purchased by make it appear that he is fully con the elector Augustus III. from the scious of his destiny as Saviour of the Benedictine monastery and is now the world. On either side St. Sixtus II. property of the Royal gallery at Dres and St. Catherine kneel in adora- den. tlon of the queen of the heavens and Raphael, the artist, died of a fever at the Christ Child. St. Catherine Is Rome when but thirty-seven years old. looking down at the two cherubs, which He was the son of an artist and studied form the base of the picture and which at one time under Peruglno. In ISO* are familiar In popular reproductions. Raphael went to live In Florence, where Sixtus II. was bishop of Koine from most of his Madonnas were painted, 237 to 258 A. D. and was martyred un ills fame rapidly spread until he was der Valerian. called to Rome to decorate the Vatican Kapbael Sanzlo or Santl was born Toward the end of his life, about the in 1483. and this picture, his master i time the Siatine Madonna was com- piece. was completed two years before pleted. the artist developed his own his death In 1520 Thus the artist was style and did his greatest work. Aside thirty live years old when the greatest from his ability to paint Raphael was picture of all times was completed It a talented architect Rockwood little son, Horace, Jr., were In Port- land Saturday. .Mr. and Mrs. L instead moved a few w eeks ago to Portland for the w inter. F it His Case E xactly. "W hen father was sick about six The two Olson brothers have rent j years ago he read an ad vertisem en t ed the Linstead place for a year and I of C ham berlain's T ablets in the pa- I tiers that lit his case ex a ctly ,” w rites moved their fam ilies there. I Miss M argaret Campbell o f Ft. Sm ith, Mrs. Frank L eise and daughter Ark. "He purchased a box o f them have returned from a visit to Mrs and he has not been sick since. My sister had stom ach trouble and was Leise's mother. also benefited by them ." For sa le by Mr. and Mrs. H. H. N icholls and Gresham Drug Co. and all Dealers. H O L ID A Y Pleasant Home FARES Oregon-Washington, Railroad & Navigation Co. 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