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About Halsey enterprise. (Halsey, Linn County, Or.) 19??-1924 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1920)
The Halsey * Enterprise ‘’oneorw i,h ,he °f hi"d separate Iabor * I It m tn iv iy be in two or more seoarate An Independent Newspaper ___ u n d r me m a n i ement I tracts, but it is ail one farm if it is ail | Th ra are otber q . liions but llic THVRSDAY ahove w ule o( , h t luost mportant. Study up on them so as to lie able to answer them readily. CHAS. BALLARD. Editor PL'HUISlIEU EVERV 1 uer sim ultaneously w nn me reappeur- r '.-colored gentleman from the form er freight house. Tom saw th at he w as now carrying a small, round, covered basket of odd shape. Not until then did the engineer seem ♦ • •— wbi<‘h Eunday morning when ye edito • . . c. > f iho was going to church both his feet slipped from under him and he went DOW N ju s t like Georgie Hackett said he went UP in a balloon. How was that did you «ay? He said "h e went up, up. ¡p ju s t like a thousand o f b ric k ." A bruised shoulder and arm and a s t if f neck has been the re s u lt o f it. tn<* little nruwu lilU ll KaSkA »— . S. «9 . 4 U lV S tawny for either a Mexican or an ra dian. His coal-black hair, large, luminous brown eye», and general appearance of Intellectuality w ere unusual, but of fered a strange co n trast to a certi in hum ility of manner, W illiams thought ra th e r contem ptuously. Buck scanned the card while the w aiter brought the meal his vls-a-vis had previously ordered. The mining m an’s in terest in his fellow passenger Increased as he noted th a t his meal consisted wholly of vegetables and th a t he drank nothing but nallk. The limited w as snorting up the grade tow ard S epar when his own dinner w as brought In. W illiams ate voraciously, as onlv an American can whose life Is spent in combat with the apparently sterile and antagonistic country which they were traversing. He glanced curious'y over a t his traveling companion. T he brown eyes seemed to tuke on a half melancholy, brooding look, as If the owner w ere peering into a fu tu re pregnant w ith s events. He laved his hands In the silver fin ger-bowl, wiped them carefully, and, while w aiting for the check, drew from his pocket a sheet of paper and begun to peruse It. “Traveling far?” queried Buck, w ith the bluff heartiness of the West. “To New England, sar,” smiled back the Utile man. “You don’t belong In these parts, then,“ laughed the miner, scrutinizing the brown atom of hum anity with a half-humorous, half-pitying expression, him, and even as he w aited the s ta rt ing signal he leaned from the cab win dow so fur. as he followed the stranger S PNews Entered as second-class m atter Octolier w ith his eyes, th a t Mahoney feared he 3, 1912. at the post office at Halsey, Ore would full out. The S I’ has put on all extra passen gon. under the Act of March J, 1879. As he turned to look across the cab ger train between Portland and Sail at the flremun D avenport did not have Francisco th at will he known as 2nd Id J W Moore from B row nsville the appearance of a man who is still Devoted to the material upbuilding of It will reach Albany at 1.05 a m and possessed of cu rio sity ; hut w hat he Eugene at 2.25 a til. Anyone from here llalsey and surrounding country and dropped in on us Monday morn- liiul seen he evidently had no Intention Linn county generally. Subscription wishing to take that train w ill have to lin g . He reported that he had of revealing. take it at Albany or Eugene as there i , ” . ’ . rate tt.DO per year in advance. “Give her the gun. Paddy," said he . . between, . been appointed census enum er are no stops in it harsh, unnatural voice. “We’re ator fo r East and West Halsey The -1676 employ ees of the S Prailroad fift cn m inutes late now. and If we New Year’s Greetings. (lines north of Ashland) by making a d istricts and that he would begin don't w ant to he dancing on the carpet O bless our ('.oil, ye people, and make clear record without a single reportable counting noses on the 2nd o f Jan In the super's office In El P aso we've the voice of his praise to lie heard, casualty lo an employee during the N i uary. He has only 30 days . got to make up that tim e if we burn which lioldetl, our soul in hie. and suf tional Railroad Accident l’reventi n which to fin ish his job and lie out a crown sheet to do it." Mr,honey nodded as he reached fur fered! not our feet to lie m oved."— i’s Drive, October 18 to 31, have plac -d themselves not only at the top oi t ie would like fo r the farmers espe the liriug-valve and shot another pow 66: 8, 9. "T hanks tie to God that his grace 1 is list among railroads in the Northwe t- cially to post upon th e ir business erful je t of oil ag ain st the shies of the “w rinkle-belly” firebox, while he preserved and kept us from falling" ern region, Imt by virtue of being the a few o f the im portant questions opi ned the blower to Its fullest capac largest single railroad under Pederal through another year; th at so many of they w ill be culled on to answer ity. He w as debuting vvhat had come us are of one heart and one mind in re control which made a clear record, they w ill be found in another column. over his phlegniutlc sujterlor. spect to Ills word ami its service' When have won first place among all the rail T he thick, black sm oke roared out Give him all the assistance you we reinembei that the adversary is to be roads in the United States, and further of the short stack as Toni leaned again can, and you w ill be helping U n perm itted to tiring “Strong delusians" bellied materially to place the N orth from the window, w ondering why lie did not got the startin g signal. The upon the laird's people for the very pur western region at the top of all other cle Sam. conductor was standing expectantly on pose of sifting out all not truly his, (2nd regions. A fine record was made during the en H l» » » » » » » » » » » » » » » » « Tliess 2: 10-12), it should surely call a ä - the platform fidgeting with Ills watch. Im patiently the engineer was reach- | “ "7 forth our thanks to God that the oyien tire first ten mouths of th is year, tin- lug for his detention enrd to note the 9 ing of another year finds so many that record for January 1 to October 31 lie-) I ne.v loss of tim e as a partial measure 9 sre standing last,—appreciating His mg * of self-protection, when a tall, lithe*, 1918 1919 Word and in full accord with the Divine athletic young man rushed across the 9 appointm ents by which he lias kept us "I nm front Bombay, sar,” was the 9 platform anil leaped up the steps of Employ ees killed 6 from falling. th e Pullm an. Sim ultaneously the air- polite reply. Employees injured “Oh, India. I w as w ondering what 183 » 14» w h irl - lunded, anil Tom yanked his 9 country you hailed from. May I ask 11 6 ItemH From Brownsville O utsiders killed 9 tliror.le-lever w ith obvious d isg u st ) your nam e?” < Outsiders injured 42 21 9 Clipped From The "I am called Jallslngrno JItendi'R, H e was now eighteen m inutes be 9 hind his schedule, and his whole run sar.” he said In a low voice, but sin- Times. Total casualties 242 9 By FRANK BLIGHTON was over one of H ip worst railroad di i gularly clear. “And yours?" t 1 tecrease 69 9 Bursting water pipes changed the I il- visions In A m erica—so difficult. In “Buck Williams,” sm iled back the This record was made in face of an in f r ii» » » * * » » - » - » » » » » » » 5 » »** sey E nterprise from the dry column to fact, that the crew s covering It had ; stalw art chap across th e table. "Sorry creased number of employees and m ul I'm leaving at El Paso. 1 should Ilka dubbed it the "Stormy." Copyright the wet in the Course of the freeze-up. tiplied hazards at crossings on account The Pacific Lim ited trailing behind to talk with you about your country— Mr and Mrs W i l l C urtz of Portland, CHAPTER I. of increase in the number of automo- him—crack train of the great trans- some day I hope to visit it. It must are spending the holiday season here. mobiles since last y ear. ! continental system —w as usually a six- he very Interesting, from w hat 1 have Mrs Courts is a daughter of Mrs Alex The W reck o f the Lim ited. The S P is justly proud of this record, Tcm D av en p o rt- furiosity overcame car affair. Today It w as seven, nnd j heard.” Kirk. as they should lie. and it is of course a his discretion, lb- jum ped from the all Tom D avenport's finesse as a loco "Yes.” The monosyllable suggest Van Francis Bailey of Knox Butte, source of satisfaction to the public to cab of the giant A tlantic-type locomo motive engineer hail been called upon ed more than m ere acquiescence, espe died Satur lay m o rn in g . know that the company is taking every tive and ran over tow ard the disused to m ake Lordsburg with only a q u ar cially when combined with the enig The C hristm as shipm ents to Poitlaud m atic smile which tilted over the possible precaution to reduce the num freight shed beside the Lordsburg sta ter-hour delay. from the Hazelwood cream ery of this Up to Mescal he hnd climbed from O riental's intelligent face, then van tion. Five m inutes before he had been ber of casualties to the minimum. city last Saturday were MS dressed tur an Irreproachable, well-poised railroad Tucson, then dropped down a terrific ished, leaving his features emotionless keys, am ounting to 899 pounds, at a cost passenger engineer; hut the susplrioua grade around “Dead M an's Curve," save for nn expression of polite i- Halsey News Items of 1395 56, 15 live turkeys. 15 live geese. oft-repeated trip s of a dim inutive, Into B enson; up again the sharp qulry. “I’ve heard some wonderful stories 1 veal, 1 M'ixip of chickens, 2 cases of M r and Mrs D w ight Smith sepia-colored man carrying milk he- r. cent Into Dragon, then dow n th rough about India,” observed the mining mnn egg» and 28 cans of cream. The cream c_ „ v iir i » i «. i-n flu ■ • i. • uranl and tli« Cochise and San Simon upon the only „ ()ltch ,, few miles of straig h t track the entire reflectively. “Some of them strongly was furnished by Claude Smith of from Vancouver Wash, arrived ol(1 | resembled conscientiously told trlple- Wednesday fo r a v is it w ith .Mrs rules, regulations ,md i n n dem erits division boasted. Brownsville. plated lies; hut they w ere indorsed by Once more D avenport set his teeth counted for nothing. S m ith ’s parents M r and Mrs E S T here was som ething peculiarly fu r ns he Jammed the cot-off lever fa r persons who I knew were usually con H ow ’s This? Marsters. M r Sm ith was a fo rm tive mid w ary about the little brown down In the corner anil nursed his i' servatlve. For Instance, Is it true Hint We offer Ona H u n d re d D o lla rs R e w a rd Halsey High m an's stealth y look around—a mysterl- train tip thrc<gh S tein's pass, over the in your country people can disappear to r a n y case o f C a ta rrh th a t cannot be er student o f cured by Hall's C a ta rrh M edicine. | on», unexplained a ir of w atchfulness— summit, and (sown again into Lords and reap p ear alm ost instuntly miles School. H a ll's C a ta r rh M edicine has been ta ke n [ aw ay?" M r and Mrs Isaac Estes left 1 *f, 7 ' lng ” ‘7 7 ' " n ature burg. by c a ta r r h aufferera fo r th e past th lrty - Jltendra's answer came hesitatingly. lie hnd still one hundred nnd forty- . o , . , " b " h D avenport could not imn glne. Ove years, and has become know n as the , “T here a re many things, sahib, most relia b le rem edy fo r C a ta r rh H a ll's last Saturday for Kansas City, “Why *imui<i that ¡mnd y-i«... eight miles to go In two hundred nnd Why should sneaky-looking C a ta r rh M edicine acta th ru the Blood on fourteen m inutes, besides m aking up which I may not discuss save with th e M ucous surfaces, e zp e llln g the Pot- Mo, to visit th e ir daughter Mt'S 111,1 d<’v!1 11,1 Carrying milk Into that those who have prepared them selves eon fro m th e Blood and h e a lin g th e dis Elva Bristow. They live at pres shed?” Turn asked him self at the first th at lost eighteen, to m aintain his by the Hntha-Yoga or the Ragah Yoga. eased portions I trip. “Why don’t he drink it In the schedule. A fte r you ha v e ta ke n H a ll's C a ta rrh ent at Eugene but they form erly , restaurant i f l u ’s so nil fired fond of The grade w as not so nerve-racking The wisdom of our people Is old—very M edicine for a short tim e vou w ill see a I It, o r go bark In tlie d in er mid guzzle into El Paso, nnd once a t Separ, the old. T heir ways are not your ways, re a t Im p ro v e m en t In vour general lived at Halsey. S e nlth S ta rt ta ilin g H a ll's C a ta r rh M *d l- Miss M ildred Stew art from It down until he bust»—if th a t's his sum mit, Tom calculated on the long, vahib, and what they practice Is for -tn e a l once and get rid o f c a ta rrh . Send I game?'* fo r tastlm ontnls free gradual drop down through the valley some purpose which we a re taught 1s Portland and her sister Marie F J. C H K N E t A i*O . To ledo, Ohloi The second Journey betw een th e tw o of the Rio G rande to Hie term iuus to right nnd in necessary prepurutlon for Sold bv alt D ru ggists. 7Se from Eugene, and Miss Fiorene I points was even more m ystifying to aid him in considerably exceeding the our next relnear—" H is unfinished sentence was Important Farts About th e Morgan, a student o f Behnke I the engineer. As the door to the r.mt- usual running tim e o f a mile in a m in | sh ark ,c stru ctu re closed behind the ute and a third, which was the average drowned in a horrible, grinding m ar. W alker Business College spent milk-hearer Tom Itched to follow him. Census. of his p articu lar schedule for the en The dining car, directly behind the 'T il het a 'iliibe dollar to a centavo tire division. sw aying engine, seemed to re a r up In The Census is tor statistical piirp ise» the holidays w ith home folks in he ain 't drinking It him self,” he g ru n t and around Halsey. only. Buck in the swaying, lurching Pull- the front and fold hack upon Itself, ed. sliding from his seat to the room y Buck W illiams caught sight of the The census inquiries are defined by Last Saturday evening afrec»p- gangway between the boiler and the m ans a realization of the unusual calm, untroubled face of Jlleudrn speed began to comm unicate itself to act o' Congress, tion was given at the home o f J tender. “But somebody's drinking It peering over the top nf the table above The information gathered is (tri fly M Porter by the C E in honor o f —th a t's a cinch. He a in ’t buying milk the minds of the passengers, now him. Rlmultaneously he was cata p u lt stream ing forw ard to the dining e ar In confidential, made so hv law. down In this desert country to spill It tn rUgk flee* CM*If I ed backw ard to the rear o f the ear. Census inform ation van not under Claude M cKern who lately ca ne around promiscuous like. But If he The roar died down Into n sickening, •riii.uiiia. » „ o s ; “ urrtM any circum stances lie used ns a bast for ho lie from the service a fte r sev ain 't drinking It himself, who Is? And slithering crash, as the balance of the rush ncross the platform a t T-ords- taxation, nor can it be used to harm any eral trips to France. The eve If somebody else is drinking it. why cars tn the rear Impinged against the burg hud enabled him to make a con person or his property. wooden end of the diner, crushing It ning was spent in games o f va r Is he hiding out In th at old shack? ' nection which saved an eight hour de The stolen! figure w as padding back resIMlessly against the heavy steel It liar nothing w hatever to do itli ious kinds and a most enjoyable lay, stopped in the vestibule of the again tow ard the restau ran t, evident tender of the locom otlie In front. detection, arrest, prosecution, or ; un. diner to puss Ids ticket to the ron- tim e was spent un til a late hour. ly Intent on procuring still more lac dnetor. In the first moment of u tte r silence ts h iu e n t i f any person for any violation except for the hissing of th e Ipvlnthnn There were present about fo rty teal fluid. Then it was that Tom ■ a any law ' Some class to this,” he chuckled as dropped lo the ground and shot over to of steam now quivering, hut stationary, Each person will lie asked his huth- guests. he tempered the hit of pasteboard. "Do ahead. Buck ph ked him self up from the disused huihling. you think w ell make El Paso on place as well as tlie birthplace of lather lie popped Ids head Into the open the vestibule of the car. Miss M attie Lusby, a sister of and mother. door and withdrew It with a celerity time?" "God bless the man who Invented “W ithin a few m inutes of If." smiled steel platform s." he w hispered to him Each head of a family will be asked M rs Frank Isom, who has been which would have made Ids train on a wlu the I his home is on u n i or rented, nursing at Eugene fo r a while, straightaway two-per-cent down-grade hark the other reassuringly. "Tom self as he contem plated the wreckage D avenport's tip ahead, and he hates to it owned, w hether the home mort | stopped off last week for a few reaemhle a handcar climbing a hill pro make explanations at eith er end of In front. Then he leaped through the pelled by a Ione section Hand. gaged or free of debt. ppen space to the Pullm an behind and days visit before re turning to I Ills fireman. Patrick Mahoney, from the division. Going to Chicug«, tum bled to the right of way. Each occupant o f a farm will lie asked Buck?" the oppo-dte ship of the great machine Front the front of the diner, which how many years, it any, he worked on a her home in Portland. She is a observed D avenport's action « Ith pro "N o; Mexico. Trouble down Cttlla- 1 farm lor wages, as a tenant; or ss att graduate nurse from St Vin- found nmaxement. It w as not only can way. A nother revolution; nnd was tw isted and doubled hack upon It- self, arose an agonized screech. 1 ho owner cent’s hospital. / against the rules—It was unprecedent ■very tmin in ntv mine, 7 suppose, ta negro cooks and w aiters, penned In or Total value of farm’ Total vain e of out trying to make him self president close beside th e tiny kitchen, were P M Nash, Principal th. ed. unheard-of. "W hat s m atter?" dem anded M r . with a shotgun instead of using a di shrieking for aid —such as them aa building»? Value of im plem ents Hid school at C raw fordsville, m op honey, as his obese chief climbed hack rect prim ary to get the nomination. still rem ained alive. machinery on farm? ped in on us Friday and had i i Into th with a s|a*etl as n ian el- Wish they'd settle down. The El The locomotive stood h alf sidewise W hether farm is mortgaged? It nil« m « nnv Tigre Is beginning to pan out b i g - on the em bankm ent, the broken driv chat. He was on his way to. the amount of mortgage? hut we need men to work it." ing-rod which had caused the d isaster ' Expenses for feed, fertiltter, and la- Portland where ho h .,s a , r e "Some mine, that El Tigre, accord driven fa r tn the earth. The desert t L bor in the y ear 1919? io make at the State Teacher^ j pale. He did n r look tow ard hi« ru n ing to the talk of the hoys coining out wind sw irling around the curve of the Ntitnher of cows, horses, sheep, chic,:- m e e t i n g on the "Cause o f Re 1 ning m ate—inntend. hl» horrified gnxe of th at section." hill dropped a piece of paper of "F air." draw led Ruck, w ith a whim strange tex tu re a t Buck W illiam s’ e»», and other domestic annuals on the tardation in the Public Schools.' | might be M id to ItRve been frozen to the door of the old freight shack, a l f»r»u January I, l4>.\p M r Nash has been teaching ii lowing, of course, for the lilts n cuing sical smile. “She paid out more than feet. a half-tnilllon last year, and we've only Involuntarily he picked It tip and Quantity anti acreng» of all crap»' the state fo r tw enty years an distance. scratched her hack so far. W alt until rend, draw n hy an Im pulse which tie- be , should be well quahtied- to mak, hed the return of we get down to the tire-hand red foot could not fath o m ; 1 vegetable»? atom of hum anity level and drift. Then w e'll make “B eloved: a very interesting address on ween ap|»rehi*nst'>n Johnny Rockefeller’! wig take on a Q uantity of m ilk and butter sold off ' t ntll long a fte r I had crossed the h ei that subject. Incidentally ht tliti intently as m arcel-w ar» effect.” the (arm during the year 1919? sacred w ater of the < ¡ 1 4 1 ,fal the tumlde-diiwn He swung Into the diner and seated burden of true believers pr. has been connected w ith news s F am s D ip i n r p . d time. hlm-ielf In the only m e a n t chair. Op- 'h eir I! VI In. un.nP.n; A farm lor purpose, of the census in paper work and we were able to I ueige.1 front the po-ite sa t a small, dark, unobtrusive among th • people ef this far-off e -un. cludes all the land cultivated by a sin talk shop in a very aatisfa -hlng a train or- man whose akin wan a trifle ton try. I ne-, or understood the moaning I r tartutr either by lu» u s a labors tory manner to both of ' Swami Ram’s Reincarnation I »•crtfii.es t >r ni< I t,< iieve 1 ,j0.
