The Sentinel
TWENTY YEARS AGO
people are also undergoing a change.
Government is laying stress on the
need of various vitamins and endeav­
oring to educate the people to use
a balanced diet. In brief, food sup­
plice being purchased for Britain
gives a general idea of what com­
modities are highest in vitamins.
In the little valley, lying safe and <Jeep
Where the mountain’s shaggy arm clasps it safe and steep,
Up and down the corn-rows, hoeing side by side.
Milking in the old barn at the evening-tide,
Quiet inquiry has been started in
the northwest to find garage me­
chanics who know their business and
are ready to go to the Burma road
to repair trucks constantly being
broken down while hauling, muni­
tions to China through the back door.
The Chinese can not make repairs
and when a truck is down it stays
down, whereas a mechanic would
have it rolling again in a few hours.
The importance uf maintaining the
transport system on Burma road is
so pressing that the government is
trying to round up enough garage
men to meet the situation. There are
a few Americans now at shops along
the highway but they are only a drop
in the bucket compared with the
number required.
Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Branstetter, who
intend to move back to their old home
in Humboldt county, California, by
thè first of the year, will hold an auc­
tion sale of their household goods
The Southwestern Oregon Daily and all the farm implements on the
News suspended publication last ranch in the near future.
Monday and T. T. Bennett, who holds
a mortgage on the plant, has taken
possession.
J. Arthur Berg and O. Russell
Morgan have former a partnership
and next week will open a law office
in the Farmers & Merchants Bank
Hop marketing
agreement
by
which hop mien of the three Pacific
coast states do business with brew­
ers is about to expire. The agree­
ment la said to have worked so sat-
¡«fgftprlly with the hyp men that they
are asking for its renewal. Com­
panion bills, one in senate and the
other in house, have been prepared
and will be introduced. The west
coast produces practically all of the
hops raised in the United States.
Estimate of the nut crop of the
northwest is placed at 4,500 tons of
filberts and 5,500 tons of walnuts
this year by the department of ag­
riculture. The department also says
there is a brisk demand for pickers to
harvest the nuts. Owing to war
conditions, the tonnage will be con­
sumed in this country.
Back and forth tlie talk floats, casual and free:
Talk of yawls and fishing-boats, and of storm at sea.
Mornings, it’s of sailing ships, schooner-rigged or square.
Afternoons, uf Cocoos, and the treasure there.
Up and out at four o'clock, doing up the chores.
. . , . Olaf climbed a palm-tree once, on Marquesan shores,
Lars remembers how among the islands of Japan
Sampans scuttled from the path of the merchantman.
"Beans is growin’ wonderful: there’ll be a bumper crop.
"Boy, but how the gale blew, in that mizaen-top!”
"Got to get the hay in: it’s blowin’ up a rain!"
. .. : “Say, do you remember? .... off the coast of Spain ...
"We should spray them peach-trees: leaves is gettin’ curled.
"Hurry Pidgeon built a boat that sailed around the world!
Firs just right for slup-masU growing on the hill,
Rolls of thumb-worn blue-prints on the kitchen sill.
“Thirty feet is plenty long.” "Myrtle-wood for knees.”
"Shall we see the Orkneys first, or the Hebrides.’”
“Some day, some day, we’ll build our boat and go,
But weeds is ttuck as dogs’ hair: today we’ve got to hoe.*
Frances Holmstrom
Coquille, Oregon
The above poem was written
some years ago, on her farm at
McKinley, before her adven­
turous son, “Buzz,” had begun
to translate his dreams into re­
ality. This poem is one which
will be included in Mrs. Holm-
strom’s new volume, “Rich
Lady,” which is to be published
by Binfords & Mort, Portland,
and should be off the press
about Nov. 1. Mrs. Holmstrom
would appreciate advance or­
ders from her friends.
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OPM has notified a timber con­
tractor in the northwest that he must
produce heavily of spruce for air­
planes in December, January and
February, the worst months in the
year for logging. The operator is
now seeking lend-lease funds, as
the spruce is to be used by the Brit­
ish, to cut the logs before bad
weather starts. No funds are yet
available, and the operator is becom­
ing anxious.
NOW is the time to choose your
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place.
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