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T W IC E W EEK VOL. 8, G resham O utlook NO. 101 PLEASANT HOME FIGHTER EVADES BOCHE GUNNERS GRESHAM, MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OREGON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1319 First Camera Click in the Great Paris Peace Conference $1.60 PER YEAR LOCAL W. C. T. U. OUTLINE PLANS FOR THE YEAR Following art* parts of letters re im p o rta n t am ong the w eek’s events cently received by Mrs. L. C. A rm was th e m eeting of th e W. C. T. U. strong from her son, F rank, who is Held in th e public lib rary on T h u rs with Co. H , 322nd In fantry In France. day aftern o o n . T his was th e first m eeting of the We are located in a sm all village by the name of Blsse La Pierre, some society since th e election of officers where about the center of France. in D ecem ber, au d a full o u tlin e of the Have been here since the first of the y e a r's u n d e rta k in g s w as discussed m onth; dont know how long we will and decided upon by th e m any m em be here yet but hope It won’t be long. When I was in the states, I was anx bers present. ious to see F rance; now I am just T he able p resid en t. Mrs. G eorge F as anxious to see the good old U. S. Honey, who is serving h er second More. I have seen a good share of this y ear in the office sta rte d th in g s mov country and wouldn’t give five acres in the United States for all of it. ing in a sp rig h tly fashion by con d u ct You wanted to know if I have seen ing a quiz on the ratificatio n of the any German prisoners yet. Yes, I n atio n al p ro h ib itio n am endm ent, have have seen so many that I never b rin g in g o u t th e facts of th e forty- pay any attention to them at all any T his scene pictu res one of th e most im p o rtan t g ath erin g s In the tlie ch airm an 's place u nder th e clock P resident Wilson (indicated by more. T hat was the first thing we saw fo u r s ta te s ’ action in its favor, and w hite arro w ) is on th e right heading the A m erican com mission. Lloyd history of th e world It is the first p ictu re received In th e United when we landed in England, and you George and the British com mission are on th e left. In th e cen ter, file Oregon vote of fifty-three for and S tates of th e opening session of th e g reat peace conference in France. will find them anyw here you go, here standing is an English officer— In terp reter— reading IPoincare’s th ree ag a in st th e m easu re; also the In France. This meet wras held in the fam ous clock room in the P alais d ’Orsay, spt i-rh in English. The black arrow indicates P rem ier Clem enceau at Well, 1 guess H erbert was too late fact th a t th e G resham women are Paris. P resid en t P oincare of F rance has Just finished speaking from tin* head of the F rench com mission to see the big show before It ended, well inform ed oil iegislaive m a tte rs but at that he was lucky for, take It pending a t Salem. T he Christian cit from me. It was no fun. If nobody izenship co m m ittee of th e local club likes it any b etter than I do, there will never be any more war. bus alw ays k ep t tlie m em bership up As you have asked me so many tim es on th e ir toes in ull legislative affaira to tell you w hat I have seen, I w ill try th a t they m ight vote on them in te l to tell you p a rt of it. ligently. We first landed a t Southam pton, E ngland.; was there only two or three At th e re g u la r business m eeing a days when we sailed for F rance; we T he D epartm en t of A g ricu ltu re at 1. Elf teen h u n d red b u lletin s on it is tlie plan of th e D epartm ent to . tarm ers may m eet occasionally for new office was created y esterday, then 1 auded in Cherbourg, stayed use this g ro u n d th is year for the fol I discussion of a g ric u ltu ra l and eco Mrs. E. A. L eonard ta k in g th e posi th ere about a week. T hat is a very Union H igh school is th e new est de various su b jects. p retty co u n try ;it is north of P aris p a rtm e n t of th e school. Classes in lowing purposes: noniic su b jects u n d er th e d irectio n of tion of financial se cretary , to lighten 2. T w enty books on special a g ri and is in Normandy. W hile I was 1. Ideal home g ard e n fu rn ish in g i ‘he In stru cto r of vocational agrlcul- th e lubors of th e reco rd in g and co r c u ltu ra l topics. T he school library there I saw an old castle th a t was vocational a g ric u ltu re , u n d er the T he tre a t- tu re and o th e r In stru cto rs connected responding se creta ries. built in the year 892. It covered over S m ith-H ughes Act, w ere sta rte d fu rn ish es m any ad d itio n al books for vegetables the e n itre year. u rer, Mrs. IL L. W ostell was a u th o r with th e F ed eral governm ent o r O re th is d ep a rtm en t. an acre of ground and was all built of 2. Showing a good crop ro tatio n . ized to pay th e local u n io n 's county stone ¡there was even stone chipped in about th ree m onths ago and, a l gon A g ricu ltu ral College. 3. Bgloptican w ith electrical and 3. M aking v ariety te sts on p o ta th in pieces. though th e re have been many in te r mid s ta te ap p o rtio n m en t from funds T he school hopes soon to own its When we left there, we went south ru p tio n s on account of th e closing acetylene atta c h m e n ts for visual in toes. cw’ti p rin tin g p lan t when It will issu in th e treasu ry . stru ctio n at th e high school and o th e r We then stoped at La Gace, near In th is D ep artm en t of th e school p la n t and anim al p ro ject bulletins An innovation in th e form of a Bourges; stayed there a little over ban ag a in st S panish Influenza, the schools in th e vicinity. as in th e otliVr d ep a rtm en ts of Home and o th e r a g ric u ltu ra l new s of vital F ran ces W illard M em orial evening is a month. T hat p art of France is a w ork Is now progressing nicely ami 4. A g ricu ltu ral tools necessary for Econom ics and M anual T rain in g , s tu level country and quite swampy, and prom ises to become an im p o rta n t fac im portance in th e colum ns of its planned for th e n ea r fu tu re , instead seems to be populated w ith a poor class to r in th e school. A bout tw enty-five tillag e of the soil on o u r own plots. dents are ta u g h t to “ count th e co st.” m onthly m agazine. T he A rgus. of th e usual aftern o o n exercises. In of people. Many of the villages are 5. H ot beds and cold fram es for Profit and loss accounts are kept in All of o u r boys have hom e project th is way it is hoped to bring to g eth er alm ost deserted. The one we stayed boys are ta k in g work in P la n t H us all p roject an d o th e r w ork, since th e work u n d er direction of th is d e p a rt a rep rese n tativ e g ath erin g of G resh In was filed up w ith refugees, and bandry and A nim al H u sbandry, the o u td o o r lab o rato ry . many of them did n ’t have anything tw o divisions of th e subject. 6. Many free ex h ib its from differ Euccess of farm life is m easu red to a m ent. The In stru cto r visits th e ir am 's citizens to honor tills noble only w hat was given them. Two double periods of ninety m in en t p a rts of th e co u n try show ing In a g re a t ex ten t in d o llars and cents hom es occasionally and m akes su g woman and to ac q u ain t them selves From there I was tran sferred into a gestions. Tlie work is n ot confined to m ore fully with th e work of th e different division. On th a t trip we utes each a re given to class w ork in p ractical way a v ariety of com m odi show n as profit. travelled as far south as Lyons and th e forenoon of each school day and ties of in te re st to th e boys. C h ristian T em perance The work of th is D epartm ent and the Union d istric t, since m any of th e W om en’s then traveled north to Tout, and as d u rin g th e aftern o o n of each school 7. Seeds of d ifferen t v arieties to M anual T rain in g a re closely related . boys live In F airview , B oring, P lea s Union. N otice of till« m eeting will far as Nancy. At Toul there was a large Red Cross camp where they could day th e in stru c to r advises w ith th e be fu rn ish ed by seed com panies of At th is tim e boys in te reste d in both ant Valley, Rockwood, L usted and a p p e ar sh o rtly in th e O utlook. At a recen t executive board m e et feed a thousand men in th irty m inutes boys concerning hom e p ro jects of P o rtlan d a t w holesale prices for ed u d ep arem en ts a re m aking dry feed o th e r o u tsid e d istricts. Toul is a fortified town and has seen which m ention will be m ade la te r In catio n al purposes. C om m ercial fe r hoppers fo r p o u ltry , cem ent tro u g h s T he pro jects vary w ith th e in c lin a ing held a t th e hom e of Mrs. J. N. many battles in the past, but the Ger th is article. S tu d en ts ta k in g voca tilizers will be fu rn ish ed free by seed to r hogs and dairy m ilk record sheet tion of th e stu d e n ts T hey Include: C iauahuu th e follow ing d ep a rtm en t m ans never got th a t far Nancy is su p e rin ten d e n ts w ere elected fo r th e boards. It is th e purpose of these 1. P oultry. quite a large place and was pretty tional a g ric u ltu re m ust carry at least 'co m p an ies for field tests, y ear: Mrs. J. H. M etzger, official 8. In c u b a to r loaned fo r tn stru c- d ep arem en ts to loan th e hog tro u g h 2. Pigs. badly torn up. When we first reached two sub jects in th e re g u la r courses there, things d id n 't look very pleasant; of study, w hich is in accordance w ith ; tional purposes. p ap ers; Mrs. Mary S hoem aker, 3. Sheep. form s to farm ers d esirin g the sam e. but it soon got to be a common thing to th e Act u nder which in stru ctio n is evangelism and lite ra tu re d e p a r'- 9. Milk te ste r and full eq uipm ent Many o th e r p ractical devices for farm 4. D airying. see buildings blown to the ground luents; Mrs. E. Duvidsou, flow er m b - 5. Crops, principally potatoes. From there, we went to St. Die. T hat given in high schools. It is g ratify - ' for te stin g w hole m ilk, skim milk p ro jects are being w orked out in the sio n ; Mrs. R ichard Beadle, m edical 6. Rabbits, etc. was the first I saw of the war. T hat ing to see the co n stan tly increasin g ! and cream . in te re st of com m unity life on the front has seen some hard times. in te re st of th e boys in th is subject. 10. Many m aps, c h a rts, etc. ranch, in th is way th e school hopes T his D epartm ent desires to work tem p eran ce; Mrs. B. W. Em ery, chris- When we left there, we went to Verdun We believe th e “ Back to th e F arm 11. A rtificial gas. oil b u rn ers, to become m ore closely connected In cooperation as far as possible with tiaii citizenship uud red le tte r days; and was there at the wind-up. Things were pretty in teresting there M ovem ent” will find a solution in the chem icals, etc., for m aking ex p eri w ith th e hom e life of its p atro n s. A the County A gent and County Club Mrs. E. A. L eonard, cooperation with little la te r classes for a d u lts will be L eader, since all w orking for a com m issionary w ork; Mrs. H. L. W ostell, but we had the Dutchm en on the run vocational a g ric u ltu ra l schools of the m ents and tests. ju st the same. in stru c tio n ; country. 12. O ne-half acre of gro u n d ad- form ed, and n ig h t classes If desired. mon o b ject,— b e tte r farm in g — th " scientific tem p eran ce Co. H. had one village to our credit O ur equipm ent at p resen t Is as f o l- ! jo in in g school buildings for an ideal It Is th e purpose of th e school to be- best resu lts will be o b tain ed for the Mrs. Mux S chneider, soldiers and sa il at the end. o rs; Mrs. J. N. C lan a h an , m o th e rs’ ¡hom e g arden. come a real com m unity cen ter w here people of th e com m unity. Before we left there, we visited the low s: m eetings; and Mrs. E lm er F. Good city of Verdun. T hat is a very strongly fortified place. I think you rem em ber AGRICULTURAL AGENT win, sy stem atic giving. These wom COUNCIL PROVIDES LIEUT. E. P. THOM SAYS MASONIC JE W E L the hard battle ¿ h a t took place in 1916, PLANS BUSY YEAR WORK ADDITIONAL LIGHTS NO NEED TO FEAR FOR J. C. SCHULTZ en a re p lan n in g a series of in te re s t if I rem em ber right. It is built in ing events d u rin g th e year. the side of a m ountain and a good p art S. H. H all, M ultnom ah county a g ri T he city council m et in special ses- F irs t L ieu ten an t E. P. Thom, son of At a well atten d e d m eeting of th« Tlie officers of th e local union ure of it is under ground. The whole town is enclosed with a high wall, with a c u ltu ra l agent, has re tu rn e d from th sion on T h u rsd ay m orning to c o n s id -’ Wm. Thom and son-in-law of Mr. and G resham Masonic lodge T uesday ev Mrs. G eorge F. Iloney, p re sid e n t; an n u a l conference of county ag en is high entrance. Mrs. W. B. E m ery, vice p resid e n t; From there we travelled on foot to a t C orvallis full of en th u siasm for e r th e m a tte r of stre e t lighting. They Mrs W. C. Burch, of Gresham , recent- • ning tlie officers elected III Decem- our present location. Were ftfteen days th e y e a r’s w ork to be in a u g u ra ted en tered into a new five-year co n tract ly discharged, Is quoted In the Portland ’ her were in stalled by P ast M aster Mrs. J. N. C lan ah an , recording se c re on the road. T hat w asn’t a very pleas w ith th e P. R. L. & P. com pany on Telegram as saying th a t there need be I W. H. Congdon, of Oregon City, who ta ry ; Mrs. W. F. H oney, co rresp o n d ant trip, but nevertheless we got here. th ro u g h his office. ing se c re ta ry ; Mrs. E. A. Leonard T he w ork th is year will be co n d u ct th e name term s as th e one now in ef- no fear of radicalism on the p art of cam e over with a d eleg atio n from financial secreta ry , and Mrs. II. L. fect- those soldiers who got as far as the I W hat home will be to one who has ed on a p re-w ar basis, th e need of Several new lig h ts will be Installed, fjerm an boundaries, or Inside of Ger-1 th a t section to atten d th e g ath erin g . W ostell, tre a su re r. been over here for awhile. Any tim e em ergency w ork in speeding up pr > A p leasan t fe a tu re of th e evening In connection w ith th e action of duction being of course less u rg en t ¡one on F’irst stre e t h alf way betw een many. L ieutenant Thom fu rth er says; L . I can plant my feet on the soil in old I was the p resen tin g of a handsom e th e O regon le g isla tu re in ratify in g U. 8., I will consider myself at home. now. T here will be m ore d em o n stra Main s tre e t an d th e C atholic ch u rch , "* “ of * those • "I ' know " the sp * irit boys over i past m a ste r’s Jewel to J. C. Hchult? th e n atio n al pro h ib itio n am en d m en t I would ra th e r spend the rest of my two on R oberts avenue betw een F ifth there, and I know when a few ’red’ tion work on b e tte r practices in fa rm days In the arm y In U. 8. than as a by Maxwell Schneider, In behalf oi w ithout a unanim ous vote th e fol civilian in France. W here I first ing. Of p a rtic u la r im portance will stre e t and th e Mt. Hood depot, while radicals in th is country say th a t they the lodge m em bers. Mr. S ch n eid er’s low ing reso lu tio n s w ere adopted: th e sm all light on South R oberts ave landed was in England. Then I said. be the te sts of new varieties of g rain , can depend on the retu rn ed soldiers W hereas, The sta te of Oregon “The front lines can be no worse than potatoes and corn, and tria ls of d if nue and Pow ell stre e t will be changed to put th eir stu ff over on the Amer p resen tatio n speech was in happy i vein ami bespoke the regurd and h o n adopted p ro hibition by a vote of over this,” but the next was still worse, to M etzger av en u e and R oberts ave ican people, they are lying. and every one was worse than the feren t fertilize rs on corn and p o ta o r in which Mr. Schultz was held or 36,000, and, one y ear la te r defeated “No man can pass though tin* section a proposed wet am en d m en t by m ore last one, until the war was over, and to crops. T he farm ers o[ th e com nue. Ills b ro th ers in th e o rder. th an 54,000; and, A tten d in g th e m eeting w ere M ayor of Belgium th a t the 346th artillery it was then I found a man never knew m unity have been pooling th e ir o r T he newly Installed officers a re W hereas, S tatistic s from all p a rts w hat he could stand, and I don’t know K enney, Councllm en C harles Cleve went through, and see the evidences W. R. Burke, w orshipful m a ste r; V,’. of Hie sta te , show a decided Im prove yet, for I have traveled until I thought ders fo r lim e, with the resu lt th a t lan d , D. G. Geddes, J. G. M etzger, W of German atro cities w ithout feeling I was ready to fall many tim es, but Mr. H all lias alread y forw arded an K. H am ilton, sen io r w ard en ; II. J. m ent financially uud m orally, as a re after ten m inutes rest, was ready to o rd er for a carload to th e s ta te lime C. M etzger and K arl A. M iller, r e hound to give America every bit hi! i I’ulfer, Junior w ard en ; Ja m es E lklug- su lt of th e dry law, and, W hereas, As show n by th e recent corder. go again, and am still well and fat. p lant at Gold Hill. has.” ton, tre a su re r; Wm. M etzger, secre leg islativ e vote, ” R atificatio n ” was Those front lines aint so nice as they In the n ear fu tu re com m unity ta ry ; W. R. Johnson, sen io r deacon; opposed by th re e rep rese n tativ es: m ight be either. Those Dutchmen PARENT TEACHER CIRCLE MESSENGER SERVICE D. C. Lewis, Kubll and M cFarland, of were out for meat. They would ju st m eetings will be held ab o u t th e coun MAY REORGANIZE BY OREGONIAN CARRIER A. H am m ar, ju n io r d eacon; J. B. M ultnom ah county, th u s d ep riving play a tune with th eir m achine guns ty. C om m unity lead ers will b§ elec t R obertson, m a rsh a l; L. L. K idder, o u r fa ir sta le of being listed on th<* and use artillery for bass, and they had ed, who will In tu rn , o rganize ¡»'farm i ■ F. M urdock, of P o rtlan d , has ch a p la in ; Jo h n C annon, sen io r stew ho n o r roll of “all w hite" states. Be At th e close of th e p ro g ram at th lots of bass too. W hat I mean, is th a t the whole thing sounded like the devil bureau for the exchange of sugges g rad e school on W ednesday P rin cip al tak en th e O regonian ro u te from a rd ; E. W. A ylsw orth, ju n io r stew It R esolved, T h at w hile we are g r a ti •was there, but I guess they heard tions fo r b e tte r ag ric u ltu re. All th is S kirvin called a m eeting of all m em He will a rd ; J. C. Schultz, tyler. fied tiia t the wet s tre n g th Is reduced music th a t d idn't sound good either, is In conjunctio n w ith th e n ational bers and p atro n s of th e G resham G resham east to Sandy. F ollow ing th e re g u la r session a so from seven m em bers In the last legia- for they had to do the hollering. farm bureau. P aren t-T ea ch e r association. T he ob m ake th e trip by a u to tru ck , leaving cial h o u r was enjoyed, sev eral m em la tu re , to th ree m em bers in the p res Hope you had a good tim e Xmas. Some in te re stin g experim ents in ject of th is m eetin g was to discuss P o rtlan d a t one in the m orning, bers and g u ests responding to calls e n t le g islatu re, we th e m others and We had a good tim e here; the only th in g m issing was the women. It alfa lfa along th e n o rth ern slope of th e recent child w elfare driv e In P o rt dropping off p apers along th e main from W. II. B u rk e, with sh o rt speech sisters of th e d efen d ers of o u r coun try feel th a t the confidence of the has been so long since I heard a woman the county will also be u n d erta k en land and to ta k e steps tow ard reo r-I road and a t cross roads, es and snappy stories. Among those M ultnom ah county electo rs has been speak English, th a t 1 am afratd it will i year g anizing th e local circle. ' As an ad d itio n al accom m odatlo i who co n trib u ted to the fun were W m isplaced, an d th a t It Is the d uty of scare me out when I get back. All the ] 1 lie sm all a tte n d a n c e and absenc | io th e farm ers he will in a u g u ra te a H. Congdou, Maxwell S chneider, B every loyal citizen, in th e fu tu re , to can say is __ ____ “non compre." Nevertheless, they are METHODISTS TO HOLD ol officers left th e m a tte r undecided. i m essenger tervice to and from 8 a r- F. C am eron, J. C. Schultz, P rincipal select only rep rese n tativ es who are all rig h t In th eir way b u t th e ir i PUBLIC RECEPTION A notice of a m eeting for th e form u- <ly and w estern points, whereby one Q uicksall of O rien t school, C, V. know n to favor th e en fo rcem en t o ' th e pro h ib itio n law. way do n 't su it me. P lans a re now In full sw ing to hold Iatlon of plans fo r th e work w ill ap-1 may for a nom inal ch arg e, have a Cogswell, and L. C rasw ell. So far, we have had a very mild the reception which was announced li ', a r Hh o rtly In th is paper. T he In- pack**« w eighing up to 30 pounds E d u catin g F u tu re V oters, w inter here. Have had no snow yet for | aiit o ct„ber, but w blch was in-1 ,erPI” of al1 Pa r ' ' n' 8 *» g reatly rie- delivered In record tim e. The following announcem ents are “ We hope to receive much valuable except Just enough to w hiten the ro o fs , , „ , , sired. ____________ made concerning services a t the Bap- inform ation In fu tu re issues for our of the buildings a few hours, but it definitely postponed on account of th e Many of o u r disch arg ed so ld ier I t,at ch u rrh «>««* Sunday: The Bible class in Civics," says Elmer F Good never stops raining for m ore than a influenza epidem ic. T he reception Mr and Mrs. George Honey, Dr and few hours at a tim e will be held a t th e church on th e ev- boys are finding em ploym ent with school will m eet a t 10 o’clock, the win, P rin cip al of th e Union High •Mrs. H arry Ott and Fred Todd were hg , treM r a „ way (.om pany N()l pastor, Rev. A. J. W are, will preach School of Gresham , Oregon. . in T the United J , a States . 1? before °r a at great enlng " of , F riday • . ’ F eb ru ary , 21. All among the Gresham people who en « m p t we gU d we d id n ’t o ppon. . six- b‘,th «"'’••ning and evening. T his statem ent comes as no su r while, but don’t have any Idea yet m em bers and frien d s of th e church 1 joyed the Irvin 8. Cobb lecture in (,en( f a r e ? prise to us for from the class of when we will s ta rt th a t way. Guess are Invited. 'T h is reception, w hich Is ' _______________ L ieutenant In lan d Moore, who Is practical, well balanced and up-to-date I will ju st have to be satisfied with planned by th e L adies’ Aid society, ! j P ortland Tuesday evening. They did ' not resent the classification “soft and It Is tim e G resham was sta rtin g a home on a pass from Camp Lewis and th in k in g graduates which th a t Union T hings are going on very well, and and " esp«,cla" y honor of teach ers rip*- as an oyster, and w ithout a shell,” ; move to secure from G eneral P ersh -i Is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs High School is each year tu rn in g out. jr I have nothing to com plain of. T here ° f 'h e school and new com ers id- arc a gn at many boys over here who ----------------------------------------- ------ ------- Mr. Cobbs classification of the Amerl- ing o r M arshal Foch one o r two W. U Moore of Pleasant Valley, vls- It is evident th a t the study of “dead the tim e bed need to go home before 1 do, for If I tria ls that had as long aa they d id , an nation at we declared sm all ca p tu red G erm an cannon to j Ited In Gresham yesterday with Her languages” does not constitute the e r to had gone through with some of the 1 think I would want to be first myself ; war on Germany. place on th e city hail plaza. 1 gcant Floyd Metzger. en tire curriculum . Oregon Voter. s ta rt >d V. PRINCIPAL GOODWIN OUTLINES EXCELLENT COURSE IN AGRICULTURE AT HIGH SCHOOL