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ALSEY ENTERPRISE
HALSEV. LINN COUNTY. ORBGON
VO L. I X
Jots and Tittles
Short Stories of Happenings in Linn County General),
and in Halsey Particularly
Ercell Sneed spent Wedneeda
X A McCann am i wife of Mc
Coy paid H a l-*? a vi it Monday in Albany.
serkuin » location for business.
Mrs. George Hayes journeyed t
T q 6T went on to Eugene in the Albany Tuesday.
afternoon, expression an intention
B. I. Carey left on WednesdavV
to interview R A M cC ully ab ut
train for Ix>weU to visit one of bis
bis building.
sons and faintly.
Mrs M 'ld re d Sm ith of K lam ath
M 's . R E . Cox left on Tues
Falls, daughter of E. S. Marstera, j a v 'f train fur Eugene, to spen<
with two children, arrived lu e s - several days visiting friends,
day morning tor an indefinite visit
Field Editor Henry E. Brow
with her pareuts.
of the Breeder’s Journal was a $ ed
Profe-sor Brown, a teacher of ne-day caller at the Enterprise o'
Ione, ami Ida wife, accompanied fice
by her sister. Miss L i.y Marster«, 1 Miss Erm a Keen returned frm
arrived Monday evening at tin a two-weeks vacation at Seatti-
Martters home for a short visit Va. cotiver, B C., and Poril»'
with the uncle and aunt of the Wednesday.
ladies
Miss Marsters is on her
G tlb er' M ille r returned Thtv
way to her home a t P ix le y . Cal
d»v from a few days' visit w
I
Miss Janet Boggs, who lives six his friend, Richard G vrnjo bst.
miles west of town, e n te rta in e d a Brownsville.
number of the yn un g -r set last
Editors of exchanges in otln
Tuesday afternoon w ith a jo lly
towns which told about the il*
taffy pull.
Those favored were
■truction of “ the’’ big warehoii*
Misses Nora, Pearl and Grace
in Halscv ought to see the stri"
P -h rs s in Merle S traley.
eraldine;
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Pehrssm,
traley, G
Geraldine
Cook D t’nu . Robertson and H a z e l, " f
come dal y'and un-
aud Isabel G u lifo r d of Portland
” K"°"U
S k ,rv '" ’
M r and Mrs B J M arquis,
Probably Postmsster Speer will and two sons arrived from New
be more * keerful'* of Ids money port Monday night and spent th>
He has been in the habit of taking idght with M r, and M r’ . L C
it from home to the olfi e and leav M erriam of this place. They lef'
ing it on a table for hours.
Las' on Tuesday's
m r-cu«. - tra
,< in for their horn.
Sunday, while his back was turned, „t Rogue River
Roy Creasev picked up the sack '
containing 1143 82, and n ude off
M r. and Mrs Frank Porterfield
with it.
He divided with K “n-1 end two sons o f Eugene were call*
nelh Riggins and they spent 111 ol era on the Wheelers Tuesday, on
the money, which they have re- their wav from Cascadia, where
funded. Creasy was arrested Tues*- they
h
d be*n
a week.
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dav and the rest of the loot re- p rterfields were old neighbors of
covered.
Speer is postmaster a' t.b e Wheelers when they lived in
Tangent.
Eugene.
<2f
Lower Prices
N o t S p e c ia ls o r
R ee
D u c tio n s b u t
lo w e r p ric e s fo r m an y S ta p le s a t
m ar
k e t p ric e s :
Good grade Bulk Coffee, 4
lbs. for
-
-
$1.00
Bulk Macaroni, 12 lbs. - 1.00
Libby Pork and Beans, 2 for .25
M. J. B. Tree Tea, 1 lb. for .50
Pie Peaches, 21 size, 4 for 1.00
White Soaps, 20 for - - 1.00
Tomatoes, solid pack, 2]s,
1.00
6 for
Extracted Honey and Jar,
3 lbs.
- •
- .70
Snowflake Flour
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* 1-75
A good Broom
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Work Shirts
- -
- .75
Bib Overalls
- -
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A ll
less 5 p e r c e n t fo r c ash
M. V. KOONTZ
CO.
N O . 52
SEPT I. 1»«
“eto lined to represent a constituency
of over .•00.0*1’• But there la no au
then tie reeved of tbe number fo r tbe
early year», tbe Insurance propoaal.
eentalntng an estimate. It to thought
and the 18*7 estimate •'elng regarded
nm
as tbe number of Union soldiers liv
.MiM Genevieve W o lf and M » ing in the turtsdlcrton of the state de
luth Richards, both of Seattle, ar- partmen is represented at tbe coevee-
iced on Thursday's train gn rou'e H».n For instance tbe adjutant gen
era l’s report at tbe 1R7O encampment.
o Brownsville, where G v ,rfPS W o f
e *e n there were 39 departments, aays
• seriously ill with pneumonia.
It to -abeolutely Impossible for me to
j
Th'S issue completes Volume 9 furnish anything like a correct report
j f the Enterprise
See t.«w m a n y of the present membership.’’
: .»w subscribers you can induce tv
Dscttns Constant Sines 1990.
‘ommeuce with volume l t f Rver»
In 1890, however, reports laken is
dollar received belpe to make s autheetlc state that the membership
was ere. 488 tbe highest mark record
better newspaper.
fcd
From 1878 to 188« the growth
We have not
received tbo-e was rapid, being from 12.000 to 85.000
^en ty-tive requests for the publi- annually Since 1880 the decline has
ation of the weekly Sunday- been constant except fo r a 3.1XO gain
- -hool lessons. If you want to »e- In 1900 said to be due to prospects
liein, say an and help make up of favorable pens!.« legislation. Sub
sequent enrollment figures from the
he tw enty.five.’
time tbe G. A. R reached Its senlth
When you buy an article that to the pvesent time fo llo w :
Prole-sor B ik e r of the Browns
ill« h gh seb mi and fa m ilyflro ve
er fr on Brown-ville today, ae
on ps lord by Mrs. Bea-’ ie Porter
i Albany, sb o baa been V to ltin g
ou have seen advertised in this
aper you w ill do a f»v*W to lb"
'u b liti er and also 'o th • adve -
iser it you w ill m u t o n ba»
ng seen the advrrlisen.eu'.
Th
ornier w ill be pleased lo have tic
ict mentioned th at you read tb.
dvertisement, an I tbe latter w ill
■e glad to know wh n his adver
isement bring« e-ults
I t is told ol a Halsey busine-
aan that, after granting
long
redit to a '•m tom «r. he lo-ned th -
ante man money with which t<
.ay the fre g h i on a shipmen'
rom a m ail order house of goo,I
bich he wou d have been glad
imeelf to sell for the cash ib a
cut to the b'g city for them
m you im agine a m ore perfe.-
monatration ol geueruut a llru -
iii ?
M any a young man ha*, by in
islry and in teg rity, f om a sm»
-ginning built up a succe.'fu
laineas
Such an attem pt is tw
ig ma<i* in ih “ watch and jewrel'v
ism.«“ in H«l«ey
YoR can g-
watch or clock to your b ’m
nenät the price a m ail o rle
! iiuse asks for th« saw» article
,d th - small profit the seller re
ives m ikht quite as well remain
ere to he used for improvements
'Contiooed oa page 5)
4,445 POSTS III 48 STATES
Ohio Haa tha Largaat Queta. W ith
Pennsylvania Second and New
York T hird — O raanlatd In
Illinois in Sprin« of ’ 88»
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The
1821» national
encampment
v«te4 to meet every year as long as
a single member survived. Brig Gen.
John I - Clem, address Arm y and Navy
4finb. Washington. D. CL, claims him
self the voungest O. A. K member
He to thought by the G. A, R officials
here to he seventy-one veers old. bav-
tng enlisted a t a drummer boy at t.ie
age of eleven years.
The question of
i « h o Is the oldest member always
| brings up hundreds of claimant» end
no reliable record ha« been obtained
ITALIAN MURDERS
FORTUNE TELLER
Believed Spell Had Been Cast
Over His Family by Woman—
Commits Suicide.
Homeseekers’ Tour
Halsey Ou<ht to Show These Cash Buyers Some Great
Bargains in Farms
Jay W Moore returned from the must ba prepared to «end
Meeting of the repiesentalive« of 1
* A lbany or
•
vifle, depending on which
in c ^ j lng
p U ce.
l. nn county c m m u n il.e s w,U.
••cretary Quayle of
the state
‘iBiuber ol commerce at Albany
ith p lan t for one of ibe htfMeet
’♦oau im aginable for tbe Haiaey
x n itry .
The meeting was to discus-
Jans for the reception of th*-
' a in load of homeseekers who are
oming to in-pect Oregon farms
The train w ill be loaded w ill
nen who want to locate iu Orogo*
-.id who have the money to b’i
>>mes. Not one of them w ill h ive
ss than 15,000 in ready ca«h to
nveet, which fact strips the ex
ireiou uf a ll semblance of a p a rti
f sightseers a tt acted by special
tes of fare and »tamps it as a
und business proposition.
The parly w ill detrain at O ntar-
Or , and from there w ill view
ye country at cloae range from a
l-e t of autos.
I Each
b a C ll W
U ilU U U ltJ
lo
V
community
is
expected » to
irnish transportation to the ex-
irsinnists from tbe last stopping
ace. s . if Halsey wants th»m to
«.sides the claim * of this section
a location for h >mes our people
then shot him self dead.
The’ tragedy occurred In Mm» Btan
cha’a "studio." The woman was found
lying on tbe floor w ith her face and
neck deeply slashed.
Cerreseno had been laboring for
«ome tim e under the belief that the
fortune teller had bewitched him ahd
Indlanapolto. — W hen
the
Grand
Army of the Republic holds l»s annual
reunion this year more than 10,000 of
the O r l l war veterans who attended
the encampment of 1920 w ill be count- I
1 ed among the missing, as the ranks
nave be«n depleted to thl» extent
through the last year.
The total membership of the G A.
R. today to 93.155. while Ita member
ship In 1920 was 108^58.
The total membership to scattered
among 4.445 posts In every state. Ohio.
' vtth 10-241. has the la rg e « member
ship, with Pennsylvania secooil with
9.122; New lo c k third. 8,795; Illinois
f o r t h . <5.888; Indiana fifth. 5.94»;
Massachusetts sixth, 5.356.
No other
state has M H o og more members.
Property owned by a ll posts 1»
valued at 82.075.027. Including » a t
estste worth «02.841
Members In the old Corfederate
Matea total ai«pcoxiroetely 2.200
T be G. A R. » a t organtxed In Il l i
nois In tbe spring of 1888
W ko Its
originator» « e re to a m atter o f tra d i
tion. rather than of record, says the
report made to the national encamp
tnent In 1889 by K . P Chipman, then
adjutant general of the national or
ganisation.
F irst Post I" t « * -
—There ran he no doubt that thq
late Col B F Stephenson of Dec«,
Beqan Stabbing Vletsusly.
fu r 111, was one of the prune movers."
aays Chipm an’s report
"Being rerog- other members of the fam ily several -
olned as such, he organlxed the first of whom have been 111 of late
post at Decatur. III."
H e walked thto the Blancha place,
By July. 1886. there » f t 40 posta whipped ont hla raxor grabbed the
woman and began stabbing vtdnealy
In ruinóla, representatives of which
t In m n ren tlo n and organized the at her head. She struggled In his arms
te department.
Stephenson waa to a window and began screaming
state
Policeman n t r
hy common consent the provisional fra n tic a lly for help
eomman-ler In chief, and pests were gerald rushed op and found her lying
organize,! Io other state«, te-n ltfng In helpless under the window w ith the
the first national en< atupment being salesman standing above her prostrate
held at Indianapolis. Noverobqr 20. form.
A fte r the Indlanapolto raeven
1*88
Fltxgerald arrested Cerreaeuo and
lion tTilpm an record« that "posta seem then harried down to summon an am
to have sprung up as If hy magic In hulsnce When he returned !>» found
al! parts of the North " hu» «RTadda Cevrereno’a lifeless body stretched
there was no record of progress
Ten alongside that of tha woman on tbe
state» w ere represented at the In floor
dianapolis encampment. 21 «tafea In
1887 24 In 1Ó88 8T U> l« 8 A -h a v lB g
Marked W ffaraoea
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I t i so hard ta spread a gaod H
At the 1889 encampment » mutual
community,
»» —
easy
m iin in n /. • and
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life Inaura nee scheme was. proposed through a ra
__ belT< said th a t the O *
R had spread m eaal«* mump«, smallpox.
tt
240 one member». In 1887 It had been 'h lc k e r,-^ -! \ n d llo».— Atchtoo* Globe
« )d
tilt
the
«’ »te
dejsH m ents
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will«» Sweet Home and Lebanon is
made from the county seat
Prob-
ably Ihe olher towna named w ill
be eimted drat, ao th a t the neat
lap of the tr ip w ill be from here to
Harrisburg.
M r. Moore lays stress on the
fact th at Halsey has stronger in
ducements lo offer homeseekers
than almost any other spot in the
state. W ith soil and clim ate un
surpassed is tha ad dition al fact that
while all over the state prices of
farms have been g reatly advanced
in recent years, here in the Halsey
region they are s till offered a l just
aixiut the former figure«, n o tw ith
standing the (act th a t we are on
the main lines of railroad and on
the paved auto road th a t stretches
from
northern
W ashington
to
southern C a lifornia.
I t cannot be imagined th a t the
community
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miss thia oppor-
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tu n ity to show thia attractive see-
lion to these Im m igrants who come
with money in th n r hands seeking
to purchase homes and help de-
velop our wonderful resources.
onnto Lauria.
C a tc h S o a k s In M o u a s T r a p .
Annie L au rie was the oldest o f the
Middletown. Md —John W. Slglsr
three daugb ecs o f Sir Robert L au ria
‘-aught a copperhead snake In a mouae
home in L«cuat V a lle ,. \< * M ax w .lto o , U> lhe cou nt, «N K irk -
trap a» h it
G-siilHMsphr AL.'sWlanri
ih r our«
'cudbrlght,
Scotland. In lTtlfe
170» she
m ar
southwest of M iddletown
ried James ’•'erguwu, of Cralgdarm ch,
T h e r e p t ile m e a s u re d b e tw e e n 2 H
and the was the mother o f Alexander
and 8 feet In length
M r. Sigler also
Ferguson, the hero of Burns' song.
killed a black snake near his horns “T b e W histle.” The song of “ Annla
which measured 5 feet 9 Inches In l-aurte" was w rttts a by W illia m D o u r
length.
las of n o la n d . In tha stew ardry o f
Kirkcudbright, hero of tha Bong "Wto
ll« Was a W antoo W ag .”
New York — Coder the delusion that
a «pell bad been cost over his house
hold by tbe woman. Pietro Cerreseuo. a
-alcsman and fath er of four c h lld im
’attacked w ith a reaor and killed M ary
E
Blsncha. ifcowu as "queen of
H u h ir r y street fortuna teller»." and
A
about a
Browoa-
way tha
Brow.».-
W ake« Up. Finds Auto
Hanging on Bed Post
Delaware. O .- How would you
like to be suddenly awakened by
a crash and find an automobile
hang'ng on your bed post!
Such was the e ip e r le n c e
l,evt Nackel who resides three
miles northwest of Ashley on
the old Mansfield road
Na'kel was »ranted hy the
noise of the automobile crashing
through the w all of his resi
dence and Into hl» m om loomed
and glaring headlights of the
a u to -’oblle.
The car collided
with the bed upon which Nsckel
was sleeping and shoved It
across the mom to the opposite
wall
Nackel’s housa Is located at
the end of n short detonr road
from the state road to the Mans
field road
The men failed to
make the turn at the end of the
road and crashed through the
w all of Nackel’s house. No ooe
was hurt
Several Birds W ith Ona
A Virginia editor threatened to pub
lish the name of a certain young man
who waa »een hugging and klaalng h
girl In the park unless hla subaenjh
tlon to the paper waa paid up Ih a
week.
F ifty Bine young m «_
and paid up tha next day. while
even paid a year In advance.— Tha
i
[a h o r C ia rte * (San Tran n ac o ).
gseeto Oreeew
A young Greek, whoae home to la
Athene, was a visitor io 'h e caplt’d.
and after making the round« of tha
different apartm ent» end d ew in g tha
beautlea of tbe nave he «aid he had
seen al* tha flrast buildings In hla ha
d e * country, hut nous of them could
compare with K e n t u c k y a capltcl tor
beauty and Megnnce o f c o r.s tru c tio n .*
F ran kfo rt State Journal
Remember There's a L im it.
"Every man to In tltle d te hla ow*
opinion," »aid U a d a Eben
"B ut d ar
sin any use o’ your p u ttin ’ yah own
Idea of what de tim e o’ day ought ta
be sgln dat of de gemman d at’s ta n
nin da ral oad Irate."
THE
HALSEY STATE BANK
H ALSEY, O REG O N
Capital and Surplus $34,000
Interest paid on time certificate» of deposit
We invite your banking business
II. KOONTZ, Pres.
D. TAYLOR. Vice-Pres.
B. M. BONI), (’«shier
The First Savings Bank of Albany .Oregon
‘WHERE SAVINGS ARE SAFE’
r » ! place to depos.l »our savings. 4 percent in le re . I on m v.ngs
Is s
account, that run three m ooliin.»«» . math» oe a year. I a tercet paid
sem i-aanually.
*
Smith Bros.’ Market
Fresh and Cured Meats Always On
(Hand. Also Other Meats in Season.