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About Gresham outlook. (Gresham, Multnomah County, Or.) 1911-1991 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1917)
GRESHAM 1 J À 1 * OUTLOOK MID SCENES OF LANG SYNE I pew he church u attended and th* ¥ery Tweed's time Here is a proposition io which he sat. Grant's tomb that I have bad put up to me. and Continued from pax« 1 and the caskets in which General the surface lines, the subway t r a m s and Mrs. Grant lie. St. Patrick's ut seven coaches per train, and the I Cathedral on Fifth Avenue the larg elevated trains, also seven-coached est and most beautiful church in Atu- each, all malting a desperate effort 1 erica, costing three million dollars. to handle the crowds. These trains The place where the Stokes and Fisk run every one half minute and stops tragedy occurred, and Madison square at stations consume only eight sec roof garden where Harry Thaw be onds. Each train carries fourteen came infamous. I could fill columns hundred passengers or two thousand of the Outlook with descriptions of eight hundred per m inute on the the highly interesting things I've elevated railroad alone. The sub seen, but I want som ething left to way does even more and the many talk about when 1 return. By the surface lines are crowded to over way, I intend to furnish to the guests flowing There are more passengers of Hotel Congdou for one month a f carried daily in New York City thau ter I arrive home, a real New York there are inhabitants in Wyoming, McAlpin dinner free. The only con Colorado, New Jersey and Delaware dition there will be is that each combined. If my friends will im ag guest pay an admission fee of one ine ten trains between Gresham and dollar, more or less, for the privil U nnem ann Junction carrying four ege of entering the dining room to teen hundred passengers each with see the magnificent five hundred dol one half m inute headway, he will lar oil painting that 1 have had paint get some idea of the passenger traf ed of myself from life, by one of fic on one line alone in New York New York's foremost portrait paint City. The greatest treat for me was ers. my visit to the most wonderful art In my trip by special motor boat, gallery in America, and ere long it and In circling the entire city via will be the greatest In the world. 1 East river, Harlem river and the was spell bound as I saw for the first Hudson, I saw many places that this time in my life the master pieces of wonderful city has made famous. the greatest painters of all times. I Who has not read and longed to see was surprised to find that these the great bridges that span the East great works of art held me in perfect river? One alone cost seventy m il awe, and only by a second visit lion dollars. Ward's Island with its could I content m yself to leave this thousands of insane, Blackwell's Is place of gems. The collection of Mr. land where the city prison and work II. Altman, the m ultim illionair mer houses are located, also the new In chant of Fifth avenue, costing him dustrial Farm of Henry Ford, which fifteen million dollars seem s to me adjoius his mammoth new assemb a greater collection of modern art ling plant. It will interest Mr. Lat- than those left by the late J. I*. Mor ourell to know that on this farm Mr. gan. Many of the latter collections Ford will raise nothing but squir are reputable because of the great rels. The squirrels will be educat am ount of money the Shylocks of ed (A la Ford Institute) and each Europe succeeded In extracting from purchaser of a new Ford will be pre Mr. Morgan The Altman collection sented with two squirrels to pick up contains a wonderful sixteenth cen the nuts along the trail of the car. tury salt celler made of solid gold, 1 tried by all kinds of red tape and pearls, diamonds, sapphires and ru wire-pulling to have my name en bies, costing two hundred and fifty tered at the "Hall of Fam e.” I o f thousand dollars. This is the only fered to pose in the act of making article in the museum that is hon one of my celebrated "German fried” ored by being locked in a vault ev but was told that there would be ery night. The museum of Natural nothing doing before the year two History bad a special attraction for thousand, I couldn't wait. O. J. me, for 1 had anticipated seeing Brown, you’re next. there the original Bull Moose of my Riverside Drive Is in my estim a name Bake "Teddy.” Of exceeding tion the finest ever, and mind you I Interest was the m eteorite of solid have seen Columbia River Highway, iron found by Explorer Perry in the too. Along this Riverside Drive are frozen north and weighing thirty-six the homes of many m ulti-m illion tons, the Dinosaur, meaning the aires, and here lives Mr. Adams, the Great Lizzard, measuring sixty-six maker of the Pepsin gum. 1 saw feet, eight inches in length and Adam in the Garden just in the act weighs forty tons. Also interesting of putting some "pep" In his gum. I was a collection of ring stones sets was unable, however, to meet Eve for a ring. Each stone is different, because, as the servant said "She some were inlaid with diamonds and is not dressed, the leaves have not sapphires, rubies and other valuable yet begun to fall.” I have been at stones. They were owned by a Ger the favorite rendevouz of the "gun man gentlem an of the seventeenth men” in the notorious Becker case century; each stone was worn in his and stood upon the very spot where ring, being changed daily. It was Rosenthal was shot. I wandered purchased and presented to the Mu along the Bowery. seum in 1873 by Samuel T. Avery. "But they do such things A Japanese long tailed rooster with And they say such things I’ll never go there any more." feathers nine feet long. Some tale, 1 have climbed to the top of the Eh? A finn-back whale sixty-two feet long— but then if I were to Statute of Liberty, went up into the describe a hundredth part of what I head three hundred and sixty-five saw, the Outlook could not contain feet above the water and looked up It, and my friends might not believe on the world through the very eyes of this wonderful statue which was me. The Grand Central station is a a gift to the United States, from "la belle France.” city in Itself, covering sixteen blocks, While riding up Fifth Avenue on sixty-nine acres, the exact size of my top of a motor bus, a fine buxom old Gresham-Butte farm. If Gresh damsel suddenly, very suddenly, am possessed as many business hous planted herself on my lap. The bus es, as are contained in this railway jerked, turned and ran so fast that station alone. Gresham could afford she could only blush and apologize, to be proud of her growth. It Is the but 1 assured her that it was quite largest and most costly station In the all right, I being from Gresham was world. It has thirty-one m iles of perfectly neutral. I remained in the tracks for handling two hundred city much longer than 1 originally trains and seventy thousand passen intended, because Tammany Hall gers each hour. There are forty-five was neglecting many important con The mayor asked me to put tracks for suburban trains in con tracts course, twenty-five feet below the a new wull around Wall street, a new handle on the Flat Iron building city streets. Now don your Palm beach suits and a new pair of hinges on H ell’s I could have had the contract and Join me on a tour in the city In .Gate. . a motor car, with the pleasure of of putting a new cone on Coney seeing noted places in history, the Island, had I not been so Infatuated palatial homes of America's most by the seven hundred and fifty thous I famous m illionaires and modern bus and bathers in the ocean surf. iness palaces, and here are Borne of came here to do this old town to see the things I saw. B. Altman A the Great White Way and things not Co., the largest dry goods store in so white. New York is the hub of the world, and the only store that the am usement world, and yet, the displays no signs. W ashington’s opportunity for making big money is headquarters during the revolution, here today as much ax It was In Boss New Proprietor GEORGE DIETL ha« taken over the Sani tary Market in The Regner Building Where he will be pleased to meet all its former customers and the public generally. Beef Cattle, Hog«, Sheep and Wanted for Oaah HI0HE8T PRICES Poultry PAID TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, PAGE 1UÍ7 TROUTDALE MELROSE AND VICTORY, I H»'.El Liver Trouble " I a m b o th e re d w it h liv e r ' Some of the friends of Mrs. Arthur An Ice cream social will be given | I ma> organize a stock company as a b o u t tw ic e a y e a r , " w r ite s Joe D i.i ut the Victory schoolhouse next Sat- i Van DeW alker gathered Thursday soon as I arrive home: m a n . W e b s te r C it y , lo w u " I lt ; , u The object of this company is to evening at the home of Z. G. Schunck. urduy evening, August 11. by the p a in s in tny s id e a n d h a c k a n d a :i l operate a large cat ranch in or near where she was staying the night, to Embroidery club. A short program a w f u l s o re n e ss in tn y n o n i u h h e a rd o f C h a m b e r la in 's T a b le ts . n I Gresham where land can be pur bid her farewell on the eve of her de will be rendered, after which ice j t r ie d th e m By th e tim e 1 h a d used chased cheap for this purpose. To ! parture. A pleasant evening was cream and cake will be on sale. The h a lf a h o ttie o f th e m I w as G e li . start in with, we will collect about, ' spent and daiuty refreshm ents were proceeds will be for Red Gross work fin e a n d h a d n o s ig n s o f p a in . " O b say, one hundred thousand (1 0 0 ,0 0 0 ) [ served. It was a farewell also to the It is hoped that a large number will f a lt ia b le e v e ry w he re . cats. Each cat will average twelve [ Schuncks, who were leaving Trout be In attendance from this and sur B a rg a in s i l l th e W a n t A d s rounding districts, to help a worthy (1 2 ) kittens a year. The skins run dale. Mrs. Van DeW alker has made cause. Local ladles are asked to many friends during her short resi from ten cents each for white ones. ' f N bring cakes. to seventy-five cents for the pure dence among us, and we sincerely re gret her departure. She left Friday The next meeting of the Euibrold ' black. This will give us twelve m il lion skins a year, to sell ut an aver for u visit in California, after which ery d u b will he with Mrs. Grace age of thirty cents (3 0 c) a piece, she will return to her former home Erltz on August 15 Note the change . in Kalumazoo. Michigan. in date and place of meeting making our revenue about ten tbous- The usual services will be held at I and dollars ($1 0 ,0 0 0 ) a day gross. I We lose good citizens In the de parture of Mr and Mrs. Schnuck, Iliff church next Sunday forenoon A man can skin 50 cats per day who moved Saturday to Oregon City, The hour for Sunday school Is It) j for two dollars (* 2 ). It will take where Mr. Schanck is employed In and for preaching II o’clock. 100 men to operate the ranch, the the paper mills. net profit will therefore be about The fourth quarterly conference 1 Mrs. Jay Bailey and children re nine thousand eight hundred dollars of the Iliff und Pleasant Home charge turned last week from a visit to her I (* 8 ,8 0 0 ) a day. bus been announced for August 16 | father In Florence, Colorado. und 17 ut Pleasant Home. These 1 We will feed the eats on rats, and G. 1. Thomas returned Saturday will be two all-day services with I will start a rat ranch next door. The from a week's visit at Newport, basket dinners. Pastors und people rats will multiply four times as fast Columbia Beach is the Finest where he left Ills daughter Elizabeth from neighboring charges are Invlt- ' as cats. If we start with one mil Romping Place for "Kid with her aunt, Mrs. T. H. Halleck. Members of tile lion rats, we will have, therefore, Mrs Thomas left this morning for e<l to take part. dies" in the Northwest. quarterly conferences are urged to four rats per day for each eat. which Newport for a short stay. have their reports written for the is plenty. Mrs G. 1. Raker went to Olympiu Take tliein out any afternoon. Now, then we will feed the rats on last Wednesday for a week's visit meeting the carcasses of the cats, from which with her niece, Mrs. L. M. Rose. Rev. Peterson, Seventh Day Ad Take them out every Saturday. the skins have been taken, giving preacher of Portland, Is Owing to the prevalence of whoop ventist each rat a fourth of a cat. holding Bible readings at the Victory i ing rough and so many summer va P a ck f lic f a m ily lu n c h h u s k e t a nd It will thus be seen that the busi cations, the Troutdale Sunday school schoolhouse each Sunday afternoon, ness will be self-supporting and au will have a vacation during August, Io which all are Invited. s p e n d a ll d a y S u n d a y th e re . tomatic all the way through. The meeting again the first Sunday in I I . D. M c D o n a ld o f D a lla s , is v i s i t cats will eat the rats and the rats Seplem ber. in g h is m o th e r , M rs . S J. M c D o n C h ild r e n u n d e r 12 i i d i n i f l e d t r e e . will ea, the cats, and we get the Mr. and Mrs. W alter Shirling and a ld , a n il h is s is te r, M rs . A le x . T h o m p skins. two children departed last week, af so n . M r M c D o n a ld Is t a k in g In B u y Best b ath in g beach in Oregon. How does this proposition appeal ter u most delightful visit with rela e rs ' w eek in P o r tla n d i to you Mayor Stapleton? Mr King tives here, for their home In Mont I lancing every evening ami all T im Ih-M L a x a tiv e . next! Martre, Saskatchewan, Canada. They day S unday. T o k e e p th e b o w e ls r e g u la r th e It being one hour past high twelve, are so pleased with the country that 1 will call from labor to refresh they are planning to return and make best la x a t iv e is o u td o o r e x e rc is e . D r in k a f u l l g la s s o f w a te r h a lf an ments. Just wait boys until I get their home here In the future. Take Vancouver trains at Sec h o u r b e fo re b re a k fa s t a n d c u t an home, I’ve got some stories for you Mr. and Mrs. Luntsden had quite a u b u n d a ile e o f f r u i t a n d v e g e ta b le s , ond and Washington. that wouldn't look well in print gathering at dinner Sunday at the a ls o e s ta b lis h a r e g u la r h a b it a n d be Sincerely, Sun Dial ranch The guests were Mr s u re I h u t y o u r b o w e ls m o v e o n ce each day W h e n a m e d ic in e is n e e d W. II. CONGDON and Mrs. Morris McGinnis add daugh ed ta k e C h a m b e r la in 's T a b le ts . T h e y ter, Curl Dumgard and Miss May Bur a re p le a s a n t to ta k e a n d m ild a n d nett of Gamas, Wash., Miss Miriam g e n tle ill e ffe c t. O b ta in a b le e v e r y V, j TERRY w h e re . Inglis, C. I. Raker and Ellsworth. Mrs. T. H. Larwood and sons, Don Mrs. Annie Swank, of Fairview, ald and John, and daughter Helen, spent Sunday with Mrs. Goons. Mrs. Pelton and son, Henry, front of Eugene, were visitors Sunday at Sellwood have been visiting at the the G. I. Thomas home. Mrs. Lar- I wood cam e to Portland to bid good home of J. W. Goons and wife Mrs. E. M. Waldrip and Mrs. J. bye to three of her sons Donald, : W. Coons made a business trip to W alter and Leonard, who have all answered their country’s call Portland one day last week. Mrs. May Hanning was a caller at SCENIC the borne of Mrs. Goons last Wed nesday. Mrs. B. G. Altman is visiting her The funeral of Miss Olive Fancher sister, Mrs. Alice Wolters at Auburn, was largely attended by friends from Washington. near and far who came to pay their Recent callers at the Delluven last loving tribute to one they had home were Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Chase I so dearly learned to love. and son, Harry, late of Los Angeles, I Mrs. Helen Cady of Hastings, Neb., I THE HIM SANDWICH. and Chas. Dake of Los Angeles, Calif. ■ Miss Ellen DeHaven, who has been | One of the greatest attractions at having some eye trouble, visited an tbe county fair is the bam sandwich eye specialist in Portland and had a counter. Everybody gets hungry and slight operation. The eye Is som e the ham joint always gets patronage what improved. I loin of pork YOU'LL FIND IT A TREAT when other places are passed up. Mr. Bell, of Sandy Ridge, was a Just how favorably they will show OR PRIM E Rip.' caller at the Duncan borne one day to visit this meat market. When . ,T) R o t t - E O up this year Is getting to be a sub this week. you become ncquuinted with our ject of deep concern, for there’s j / oo ll T i NOA i TREA. sanitary methods anil learn of the Mrs. Mary Zingsbiem, of Portland, nothing that shows the effect of the visited her sister, Mrs J it. Duncan. I _5ERNED double barreled Inspection our withering band of war like tbe ham h o t or several days last week meat undergoes before we accept sandwich; and watching it dwindle It you'll know that this Is the into a mere shadow of its former self meat store de Luxe PLEASANT HOME has been one of the most interesting The Shining Light class of the studies of the war. Who don’t remember tbe plump, Baptist church has bought fifty-three A J W BROWN, Prop. glistening five-cput sandwich of a few Bibles to send to soldiers at differ (IKE8HAM. OREGON years ago? The buns or two slices of ent places A party of girls went for a picnic bread were full sized and bad a beau tiful finish. They were buttered in a grove near Pleasant Home. They with real rich yellow butter, and the spent the afternoon in eating water bam between was home boiled, pink melon, playing games, and all had a and sw eet and fringed with fat as fine time. SUCCE88OK8 TO Mr. Egbert, of Hood River, spent white as snow. There was no attem pt to cut the a couple of days with Mr. and Mrs. H O S S ’ T R U C K S E R V IC E ham to fit tbe bread. It was cut F. Gaddy. Office with Commercial Delivery Co. The W illing Work era society of thick and carelessly and portruded 229 Pine Street Between First and Second • lie Cottrell community church will with reckless abandon on every side But the five-cent ham sandwich bus meet with Mrs Lizzie Radford all ALL KINDS OF HAULING BETWEEN ORESHAM AND shrunk, und Its shrinkage Jias been day Friday. Mrs Radford will give PORTLAND so gradual and cunning that we’ve a lea in the afiernoon G resh a m » it . rt . P ortland scarcely realized it. P h o n e 7®» AlDCft EKStrOfll 11« o a d w a y 2ON2; A-2O7N W e H ave T hem Now. The first alteration in the five-cent Those Milk Record blanks. Print bam sandwich to be brought about by tbe European conflagration was ed on durable cardboard, suitable for the substitution of undyed oleo for 16 to 18 tows, jlist the thing for Will save many times butter. Then the bog prices began your dairy. their coat. 10c each, or *1.00 a to soar on account of exports, the bam grew thinner and conformed dozen. The Outlook, phone 7 0 1 more accurately to tbe bread or bun Tailoring area. In fact you couldn't tell a bam For men and women— cleaning, ! sandwich from a one-leaf lettuce pressing and repairing done well | Rustic, all patterns and grade«, dry. sandwich until you lifted the lid. Peter Lenard, Powell street All kinds of dry finish lumber and mouldings. Then with the advent of the ruth Bring your baby carriage wheels ! less submarine campaign and the Oood supply of flooring 4 and 6 inch, all grades. to the Hardware store to have them awful loss of wheat at sea, flour went retired. Sheeting, common and cull. up, and the first to suffer was th« Cedar posts, split and sawed. Everyone has som ething to buy i five-cent sandwich A sm aller bun was necessary if tbe great sandwich or sell. Try an Outlook want ad. industry was to live, so the war bun follow ed —a poor, undersized, Bal- low excuse for the buoyant, robust peace bun with a hardware finish, i The present day bun has no lustre. { Phone, Sandy 46. We Deliver The Farmer«' Mutual Fire There Is som ething cold and clammy Re tef Association about it. It's hard and unyielding, and when made into a five-cent sand or r o » T iix x , oxxxox wich, it opens and d o se s with the Invltae all farmers «h o have no rattle of an old, dried out tobacco 1 Iuauranea on their farm buildings box. to Ineuro with us This associa tion lx the cheapest and xafeet in Even the splatter of oleo has d is HKTWKEN the state. It inauree only aountry appeared from the five-center, the property and has over H .tO e .M O PO R T LA N D AND O RESH AM bam is worth fifty cents a pound, and insuranoe la foree. when you buy one and lift the top Office w ith P ion eer An to Truck Go., 22M Ash Nt. Write er phene off to aee what you've drawn, the In P h on e B roadw ay ENM H. W NNASHALL, Prm . terior wears a brazen expression and seem s lo wink tbe other eye. We ex The Farmer« Mutual Fire Relief Association pect to keep one of them as a sou venir to show our grandchildren Grtmhani R ou te No. 8 Phone NA B W. EMERY, Prop. Res Phone 173 Oreahain, Ore. what we bad to eat when tbelr dads Notary Public R eal E state were fighting for liberty. N_---------------------------------------- ---------------- — ---------------------------------------------------- Thousands Have Found It Out Gresham Market Ekstrom’s Truck Service For Quick Disposal A ttention! SANDY FIR LUMBER CO. 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