was taiklhg with great animation; and
she wae a graceful thing, thus gesticu
lating. In her long, slim fur coat with
the white snow frosting her brown fur
cay. Uanisey had his hands deep In
his overcoat pockets and his manner
was wholly that of an audience.
Fred murmured to himself. " ‘What
did you say to her?' ‘Nothin'. I start
ed to, but'—” Then he put on
burst of speed and passed them, sweep
Ing off his hat with operatic deference
yet hurrying by as If fearful of being Í
thought a killjoy If he lingered. He
went to the “frat house." found no one
downstairs, and established himself In
a red leather chair to smoke and
ruminate merrily by a great Are In
the hall.
Half on hour later Ramsey entered
stamped off the snow, hung up his
hat and coat, and sat himself down
defiantly In the red leather chair on
the other side of the fireplace.
“Well, go on," he said. “Commence!"
“Not at all I” Fred returned, ami
ably. "Fine spring weather today
Lovely to see all the flowers and the
birds us we go a-strolllng by. The lit
tle bobolinks—”
“You look here! That's the only *
walk I ever took with her In my life.
I mean by—by asking her and her
saying she would and so forth. Thai
other time just sort of happened, and I
you know It. Well, the weuther wasn'l
just the best in the world, maybe, but
site's an gw fui conscientious girl nnd
once she makes an engagement—”
“Why, of course," Fred finished for
hint, “she'd be too pious to break It
just on account of a mere little bliz
zard or anything. Wonder how the
weather will be next Sunday?"
“I don’t know and I don't care,"
said Ramsey. “You don't suppose I
asked her to go again, do you?”
"Why not?"
"Well, for one thing, you don’t sup
pose I want her to think I'm a perfect
fool, do you?"
Fred mused a moment or two, look
The Woodchuck
ing at the Are. “What was the lec
ture?” lie asked, mildly.
(By G. R. Walker)
(R egular correspondence)
“What lectu rer
Old Mister Woodclruclc went to ted
Andy K ir k was at Portland last
“She seemed to me to be
”
And very wise is he,
“That wasn't lecturing; she was Just week closing up a deal (or Hie last For long before the winter snows
Fall on the ground, yotf'ïée,
, *
b it of Portland property he had.
Wise old codger is asleep
“Just what?”
It was a cash deal and M r K ir k This
And never blinks -an eye
"Well, she thinks war for the United feels pretty good that lie could dis Until
the wintei's' ittmOet gone * - a
Stales Is coming closer and closer—" pose of the property.
And spring is drawing nigh.
“But It Isn't."
T. A. Powell and Guy Bramwell But just before the springtithecoures,
“Well, she thinks so, anyhow," said
Or So the story goek.
Kmnsey, “and she’s all broken up about got together on a property trade
woodchuck givés a lazy yawn
It. Of course she thinks we oughtn’t the latter p a rt of the week
Mr. The
Then sneezes; blows his nose.
to light and she's trying to get every Bram w ell gets the Powell place of He opens up his steeply eyes
body else she can to keep working twenty-seven acres just south of
And rolls upou his. bed
against It. She Isn't goln’ home again the c ity lim its , and Mr. Powell And wonders how thé weather looks
Thqn goes to see, 'tit said.
next summer, she's goln' back to tlmt- rakeg
Brnn)Wej| sixty.seven
settlement work In Chicago and work
It
is upon the secoud day
acres Jtist east of Halsey.
I t was
there among those people against our
And in the second month
at
even
swap.
M
r
and
M
rs.
F
’ow.
goln' to war; and here In college she
The chuck's supposed to waken up
wants to get everybody she can to talk e|l w ill inovp to Halsey and Mr.
To do this funny stunt;
Bram w ell w ill occupy bis newly- So up he gets to' stretch himself,
against It, and—"
And then to take a peep,
"What did you say?” Fred asked, acquired property.
And if the chuck his shadow sees
hik I himself supplied the reply;
For six weeks more he'll sleep.
Mrs.
Fred
H a m ill
arrived
“Nothin'. I started to. hut—”
East But if the sky be overcast
Ramsey got up. “Now look here I Wednesday evening from
With clouds that stay all day.
You know the ‘frat’ passed a rule that Cleveland, Ohio, to join M r. H am
If we broke any moie furniture In this i l l , who came several weeks ago Then Mister Woodchuck's sleep la o ’er,
Anil he ia out to stay;
house with our scrappln' we’d both be They w ill make th e ir home w ith Now
if this tale is really true, "k
fined the cost of repairs and five dol Mra. A, S. H a m ill.
It alway seemed to me,
lars apiece. Well, I can afford five
The woodchuck may be very wise
A n d y K irk expects to move to
dollars this month better than you can,
But acts most foolishly.
!
O u r Second
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page I)
Bert Clark and W, H. K ir k were
in A lb a n y Thursday.
Great Reduction
Aluminum Sale
* Teakettles..............................$1.19 f
f Double Boilers
............... 1.19 £
^R o asters.................................I t ) 4
I Nest of 3 Stew K ettles...... Í.19*
$ D i s h p a n s :........................... 1.19 f
f Convex Kettles....................... 1.194
f Percolators............................ 1.19*
F. M. F ra n k lin lost his lawsuit
w ith A. M. le tu p ,v m n .
Damon Waters and wife ol
Brow nsville have a baby boy.
F. M. Stone was in A lb a n y
Monday and stayed over nig ht.
M ary Jane McLane and Fannie
G rubb nf A lbany are ou the new
grand ju ry list.
R A. M cCully. now in the real
estate business in Eugene, was in
Halsey Saturday.
Mrs. Mary Arnold of Shedd was
given a surprise party F rid a y,
which was her b irth da y.
B R O W N S V IL L E
Watch for our next sale
Brownsville Briefs
m i l l —-"
“I take It back!” Fred Interposed,
hastily. “But you Just listen to me;
you look out—letting her think you're
on her side like that.'*
“I don’t—”
“You don't?"
Ramsey looked dogged. "I’m not
goiu' around always urguln’ about
everything when arguin’ would Just
hurt people's feelings about something
they're all excited about, and wouldn’t
do u bit o' good In the world—and you
know yourself Just talk hardly ever
settles anything—so I don't—”
“Aha!" Fred cried. "I thought so!
Now you listen to me—“
"I won’t. I—”
But at this moment they were Inter
rupted. Someone slyly opened a door,
and a snowball deftly thrown from
without caught Itamsey upon the hack
of the neck and head, where It flat
tened and displayed Itself as an orna
mental star. Shouting fiercely, both
boys sprang up, ran to the door, were
caught there in a barrage of snowballs,
ducked through It In aplte of nil dam
age, < liarged upon a dozen liesweatered
figures awaiting them and began a mad
battle in the blizzard. Some of their
opponents treacherously joined them
und turned upon the amhuahers.
In the dusk the merry conflict
waged up and down the snow-covered
lawn, and the combatants threw and
threw, or surged back and forth, or
clenched and toppled over Into snow
banks. yet all coming to chunt an ex
temporised hat tie-cry In chorus, even
as they fought the most wildly.
"Who? Who? Who?" they chanted.
“Who? Who? Who saya there ain’t
goln' to be no war?”
(To be continued)
C c. BRYANT
ATTORNEY A T LA W
201 New F irs t N a t’l
Bank
B .d’g.
A lbany, Oregon.
F. M. GRAY,
Drayman.
A ll work dona p ro m p tly
reasonably. Phone No. 269.
•nd
Peter Bither of Brownsville,
over 80 years old, has just had a
cataract removed from his eye.
Hom er M ornhinweg came home
from Shedd F riday to have D r.
Barnum exercise bis s k ill on him
The "o n ly oak t>ee in the v ic in
it y ’ ’ was cut down in Brownsville
the other day and th e sn n u H lrin g s
showed it to be over 100 years old.
The H arris! urg high school a th
letic as.-ociatiou protiled about $2-5
from the moving picture show,
"J u liu s Caesar,” furnished by the
U. of o.
Mrs, Marcella K ir k , a nurse in
Good Sam aritan h o s p 'til, P o rt
land, arrived here Sunday for a
v is it w ith her parents, J. J. Cot-
eoran and wife.
H arrisburg levied a local tax of
14.4 rut I Is and now as to reduce it
to 10 m ills on account of the legal
Lim itation. Citizens who h ive a l
ready paid the 14 4 arc entitled to
a rebate.
£
\
r
fo r the Baby
Genuine
Trimble
Kiddie Koop
complete with Mattress. Net,
Wheels, etc.
Special for a short time, only
$20
£ Save money by buying your House £
1
Furnishings of us
BARTSCHEFk
Halsey Garage
Heating STO V E
Webster’s . w
International
Dictionary
Practically new. $8
Words of the
World War
F O R $12
(EN TER PR ISE OFFICE
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(Continued on page 4)
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Exchange i
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415-421 W est First at.,
Albany, Oregon
«
Sweet Thoughts
When vou pass the Stewart & I’riea
Confectionery think of how appreciative
yonr sweetheart or wife, mother or sis
ter would lie if you sent her a box of
strictly fresh chocolates or a mixed as
sortment of fruity sweetmeats.
You'd
have cause lo thank us for the suggestion
because we know how it has worked iu
other cases.
Stewart & Price Confectionery
1922 iS a y s:
Here I am with a grip full of everything that goes to make up life.
Some will make the most of ms. They will b i ths Savers, and in re- ! 1
,urn will reap Comfort. Happiness and Plenty. Others will waste me and j ‘
eventually pay in Regret, Want, Misery.
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W e w ill H e lp yo u S ave
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T h e F irst Savings Bank of A lb a n y, O regon ! i
‘Where Savings are safe ”
ALSEY
GARAGE
331 W. P in t street, Albany.
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Send us your baby's name and birthdiy (if less than a year old) to -’
gether with your name and address, and we will tend the baby something
nice.
P. A. Pehrsaou believes in w ell-
bred stock. He has ordered a lot
of eggs Ol the famoiiB Oregon breed,
created by 0 . A. C., of which there
are not a few but many hens that
have la id 300 eggs in a year.
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K a rl Bram w ell, A. F. Robnetl,
D eputy Sheriff Lee W a lto n, J. W.
M ille r aud Doug T aylor, a ll prom
in e n t Halsey residents, were A l
bany visitors when the E nterprise
want to press last week.
H arrisburg early
next m outh,
where he is arranging to open a
second-hand store.
There being
no business of this description in
H arrisburg, Mr, K ir k feels th a t it
w ill be a good placs for something
of the kind.
M r. K ir k plans to
Branches at
purchase his second-hand g >ods in
A few m inutes after F. M Sher-
Brownsville, Phone 37C15.
Portland, where he th inks he can
man, a farm er near Lebanon, had
Halsey
Phone
166,
Prank
Kirk,
Mgr
buy a better grade at less price
left his wife and a neighbor w ith
than locally.
___ whom he was w orking on the foun
dation of his house, Saturday, a
M n K rug was here from Silver-
shot was heard, and i t was found
tou last week, m aking some re
th a t lie was dead w ith a gun by
pairs and otherwise looking after
his side and a great gunshot hole
his residence property im m ediately
Prom pt & efficient in bis breast. I t is thought the
aoulh of the Calapooia bridge.
weapon was accidentally
dis
autp repairing
— a •
In the early '80s a brickyard was
charged wnen Sherman picked it
operated on a portion of what is Fisk and Goodyear Tire» and -Tubes. up to shnot rats.
Before buying trees be sinz-aud
now the B. T. K u m le r place in
For ita agreement to ca rry on
investigate our prices
east Brownsville, and "B o b ” W hite,
its work in accordance w jh the
a well-known citizen, was one of Ford parts & accessories always on hand approved plans of those bodies a
two young fellows employed to off-
charter has been granted to the
bear the brick.
W h ile resting at
Waterloo, Garden club signed by
the noon hour one day the bo>a
Secretary W allace, secretary o f
Foote
Bros.,
Props.
each wrote his name and address
the U nited States departm ent of
on, a newly-molded b iic k , won
a gricu ltu re , J A- C h u rch ill, slate
dering if they would ever again see
school superintendent, Paul V.
them after they had gone th ru the
FOR SALE, $ 1 5 CASH““ “ M aris, d iie cto r of extension work
k iln and e ii'e re l the marls of trade.
at O. A. C., and H. C. Seymour,
Large. Handsome
• '
A year a, o the late John Gross
leader of state clubs.
remodeled me large K irk house on
A rum or tra v e 'e l last S aturday,
K ir k avenue and in the process
with zinc. Will butn.eoal or wood.
as rumors sometimes do, u n til a
removed the o rig in a l fireplace,
M/s. Wtn. H. Wheeler,
call of Dr. M arks at the B 'am w ell
when, the brick w iih M r W h ite ’s
Postoffice Building,
home grew in to u report th a t J. C
signature upon it was um-artbed
Bram w eli w»« d ow n w ith such a
bv B W Loucks and returned to
severe
case o f influenza th a t no.
the one whose tradem ark it bore.
body could be adm itted lo the
house for fear of spreading the in
’ The Bank of Brow nsville is in
fection.
O blivious of it a ll M r
stalling a burglar alarm system lo
Bram w ell continued to carry the
provide belter protection for itse lf
m ail and walk the streets a» usual
and more security for its patrons
and be denies th a t he is bedfast or
I t is an expensive improvement
2342 pages
near it.
but the officers of the bank feel
•100,000 vocabulary terms
that the security abtained w ill ju s t
A B row nsville dispatch o f the
6000 illu s tra tio n s
ify the outlay.
Jesse
12.000 biographical entries 8th to the Oregonian says:
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geographical
subjects
Mrs. Charles S tnll, Seattle, was
v llle Tim es and a d ju ta n t of the
called to Brow nsville the latter
legion post here, has receive I a let
part of the week by the serious i l l
ter from H an fo rd M acKider, na
ness of her m other, Mrs. A. S
tional commander, congratulating
H a m ill.
or the new edition, with all him on his work at Astoria against
d islo ya lty and his work at Browns-
the new
v il'e in fu rth e rin g the cause of the
If you h ive friends they
com m unity building here. When
should have your photo«
M r H inm an went to M inneapolis
graph.
to the convention of legion men in j
that c ity he became personally ac- ?
quainted w ith M r. MacN'ider.
PAl.lt 3
G et
N otw ithstanding the fa c t th a t
m anjr people were too tired after
the three weeks of revival meet
ings to attend, the high school
glee club took in $38 85 at the
concert Saturday night.
Pete Beebe, at the insane asy
lum , has made a ‘ ‘confession’’ that
he kille d the elder Painter when
the la tte r drew a gun on him in a
drut
ruukeh brawl and then kille d
Pair nter’ s son to destroy his e v i
W R I G H T & P O O L E dence.
Peter’ s counsel and the
LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTORS county prosecutor hovh declare th a t
HARRISBURG
LEBANON
hia story ia contradicted by knoton
Phone 35
' Rhone 15
facta.
Clifford’s Studio
1IALSEV ENTERPRISE
X +•+'*'+ +’+•+«.+ T T T Y J t-Y '-tf + + f f f t f f X
\V, J. Lane came over from
Brow usville Sunday in his auto.
I T his sale commences Saturday, M a r c h 4
f 18, and closes Friday, M arch 2 4 , if th e £
hold out that long.
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i goods
is a real bargain sale and the brand J
» is a T his
good one.
THE WHITE HARDWARE
THE WINCHESTER STORE
march 16. p>;2
Jots and I ittles
Pour per cent and no worry.
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HALSEY STATE BANK
HALSEY. OREGON
Capital and Surplus $35,000
Intorost paid on time certificates of deposit
We invite your banking business
If. KOONTZ, Pres?
hT A Y L O B , Vice-Pros.
B. M. BONI), Cashier
H a rd w a re
Spring is the tiine|toiiiake everything bright olxnit your
home. We have the materials, and our prices are right
If i t ii r o u The housewife is as much entitled to modern
l l C n c t l IV ctlIJit'n equipment as the grain grower.
I n m n a A good light will make your eyes last longer an,I
A ia /X ia J x i u i p s c , Ve letter service.
Paint Up.
Granite and Aluminum W are
kitchen pleasures.
C ross & W h ite
Pulverizers
Panning Mills
'Plows
Tractors
Wagons
Cream
Disc Harrows
Separators
Springtooth Harrows Orders taken for Harness
Manure 8preaders
<L Special prices for Binders if taken soon
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