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HALSEY ENTERPRISE
▼ OL. X
HALSEY, U N S COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, APR. » , 1922
Jots andTittles
NO. M
PROPER SOIL AND LOCATION FOR
SEED BED OF BIG IMPORTANCE
1 Suusel:
Short Stories of Happenings in Linn County Generally
and in Halsey Particularly
T. J. Skirvin sent two carload* many autos at once the other day
of oata to Portland last week.
aud banged luto one. His 6-year-
Halsey Christian Church
old
son got a gash over his left eye
Mrs, Mornhinweg came home
from broken glass that several
from
her
Newberg
visit
Friday.
Church Announcement*
stiches were taken to close.
That Dever ghost story, like
C hristian: , 7
Ted Porter
was in Albany
most other ghost stories, was a
10, Bible school.
Saturday.
hoax.
11, Communion service.
Ser­
mon, “ W inning the Crown.”
The fivhiog season opened Satur-
The Brownsville W . C. T. U. i i
6:30, Christian Endeavor.
trying to have the cigaret law dry, but the fish were waiting for
7:30, Evening service, Sermon, obeyed.
Winter to quit that lingering.
“ Not Far From the Kingdom.”
Dairy produce is being shipped
Tobin & Pierce got the contract
Lester Jones, pastor.
from Brownsville to Portland by Friday for two concrete bridge
auto truck.
,
Methodist:
spans on Albany-Tangent section
of the Pacific highway.
Sunday School, 10.
The county promises to prosecute
Preaching, 11.
Adjutant General White, Sena­
anybody found dumping rubbish
Junior League, 8,
tor Norblad and other notables are
on a public road.
Intermediate League, 6:30.
to speak at the Brownsville woolen
Epworth League, 6:80.
August, brother of Gustavs Mitz- mills opening tonight.
Preaching, 7:30.
ner of Halsey, died Friday at the
A t a banquet of the South W il-
Prayer meeting, Thursday, 8.
home of his daughter in Albany,
lapiette Dental association at Eu­
aged
7
l.
Rev, C. T . Cook, Pastor,
gene Saturday a feature was a
Pine Grove Church:
Sunday School, 10.
Prayer-meeting, 7.
W e H ave
EVERY THING
O ptical
E Y E S T R A IN
Is the Cause of Many
HUMAN ILLS
I f your eyes give you trouble or
your glasses are annoying
SEE US. We can Relieve You
Bancroft Optical Co.
t
<J13 1st St. W. Albany, Phone
Brownsville already senses ex­ demonstration of dental work on a
pansion due to the woolen m ill patient by Dr. Barnum.
activities, A new boarding house
Rev. J, J Cañóles, the Catholic
has been opened.
priest who has been stationed at
Irene Quimby's school essay Lebanon tor years and is famed in
leaves us entirely in the dark as to Oregon through his church achive-
the doings of that mouse after be nients, is going east to reside and
study.
appeared at the teacher's toe.
Farm Bureau funds are so low,
W . W . Poland of Shedd was owing to deliquency of subscribers,
unable to attend the meeting of the that the maintenance of the boys’
executive committee of the Farm and girls' club leader may be dis­
Bureau at Albany last week, owing continued. This would be a real
to continued illness.
loss to the community
Mrs. K. E. Gormely, Mrs. O
In a summary of “ executions by
W . From and Mrs. Bert Clark Bolsheviki” printed in the Iasi
have been elected delegates to the column of last week’s Enterprise,
grand lodge of Rebekahs Which 'ha use of a wrong figure gave 100
meets in Eugene a few weeks hence vears too much time for tho»e
H . Farrell of Shedd met too murders. They all occured during
and aince 1917,
J. C. Shedd of Shedd, W . L.
Wells of Halsey and J. R. Cart-
vright aud J. J. Cramer of Harris­
burg are among those summoned
to report in Portland April 24 for
federal grand jury duty.
Sp ring Fashions
and Fabrics
TAe colors and styles
that suit you best
T he loveliest new fabrics have ju s t come in.
O ur counters are piled w ith b rillian t ginghams
and linens, th e charming new printed cottons,
dotted Swiss, crepes o f cotton and o f silk, in
every summery color, crisp organdies, delicate
voiles. Com e in today and see them . Select
materials in interesting color combinations for
your Spring frocks.
Five hundred designs fo r the
axe at the pattern counter
Y o u eaa m ake any
ooe o f these becoaninc
new dre es c s like a pro­
fessional, for oycry new
B u tte ric k p a tte rn has a
D e lto r enclosed.
T h e D e lto r giver you
th e e w ilt, economical cat­
tin g o f an expert, the
d e ft p u ttin g together o f
th e c le v e r fin is h in g
toucher th a t epell Parle.
I t Is a ll th ere In pictures
a n d c le a r d ir e c tio n s .
W ith I t yo u ran m ake
like ■ professional dresses
you never dared a t­
te m p t before.
Butterick Patterns
with the D e lto r
D « ii|. JA4I X
D««i<«
refe e n d f i t t e r - .
r / f » r s ie sk e d
sUrrts tneke this
fr e tk esferieU y
is ehnest
stfy shts dfrmg,
this ene is
eesy f nehe,
here the Deber te guide
yen.
M. V. KOONTZ CO.
To open the Pacific highway
thru disputed ground at Alford
condemnation suits
took from
Laura Burkhart for 12,000 a piece
of land for which she asked $8,759
and from Chester and Della Cur­
tis for $8,000 a piece for Iwhich
they aked $6,419.
The Southern Pacific company
owns Saddle butte, from which s°
much rock is being taken for Ih*"-
county roads, and the county own*
a rock crusher there and crushes
the rock it uses.
The railroad
co'mpany is preparing to ja r some
more stone loose sooa by exploding
a little cache of 15 tons of powder.
I f you hear a noise don’t imagine
it an earthquake.
The Democrat tells of a man
ho sent an order to a mail-order
house for a brooder and gat up
nights to keep a lot of baby chicks
warm t ill it should .arrive. Then
be got word that it would take
thirty days to fill the order. Then
be went to the Murphy seed comp­
any of Albany, which has adver-
tised incubators and breoders in
the Enterprise, found the same
brooder in stock and bought one
for less mouey.
A. G- Hawkins has traded his
farm three or four miles southeast
of town to V . C. Domm,- who
with hisfamilybas moved thereoi ,
while thelate owner has gone iu
Portland, the place he got from
M r. Duram being near that city.
Mr, Domm evidently wants to he
in touch with doings in the vicinii
of his new home, for he won the
respect of the Enterprise for bi*
gm»d judgment by coming to the
office and paying a year’s sub­
scription.
We have essays in this issue
from high school students in Eng­
lish 1 aud English 4, but there is
one heavyweight English student
who has not been heard from in
jublic, however much he may be
>eard in private.
He arrived at
the home of High School Principal
English on Easter Sunday and
weighed 11
ponnds. It is ex­
pected that be will toon begin to
master the English language and
other phases of knowledge. Hi«
name is Alfred Allen English. His
mother is doing nicely. Mrs. L il.
lean Howe of Brownsville is the
nurse.
(Continued on page J)
School Essays
(By Grace K irk, English 4.)
A maiden fair leaned on
So large a maple tree.
Gazing into the west.
The sun sank in the sea.
Pale clouds Boating o’er head
Suddenly changed into
A riotous mass of color.
Could you find such a hue T
These colors «»tended
Over the western sky
W ith an azure colored
Roof in the eastern sky.
This brilliancy being
Reflected in the sea
Gave a golden path for
The waters of the eea.
Such a picture could well
Hold any one spellbound.
No words can ever tell
Of that beautiful scene.
(By Irene Quimby, English I . )
When the Garden Is to Be W orked by Horses, the
and Straight.
Rows Should
Bo Long
Practical Punishment:
In
a country
school
not
far
(Prepared by the United State« Department
for planting seeds In a hotbed, cold away a buxom young
matron
It Is a good practice to reserve a frame or bed In the garden, except reigned supreme over ten or twelve
that
the
rows
should
be
farther
a
purl
small corner of the garden for a
Hoys and girls of various degrees
seed be J. Hare, through special prep­ than In the window box. Ry planting of stupidity. There were the cour­
aration of the soli It Is possible to pro­ In straight rows the seedlings will be teous boy, the timorous girl and
duce better plants than could other­ more uniform In size and shape, am, the dear little seraph commonly
wise lie secured. The gardener can thinning and cultivating will be more dubbed ‘teacher’s pel ”
In all case*
transplant from the seed bed to the easily accomplished.
The day was sweltering.
The
garden, thus making the plants more where the soil of the seed bed Is not
stocky. The location of an outdoor too wet. It should be well firmed or air seemed fraught with impending
fate. Our benumbed minds refused
seed bed should be such that It may
io concentrate. To reason was
be conveniently reached for watering,
iiipossilile.
and It should be naturally protected
from drying winds.
At an auspicious moment, while
Good soli for a seed bed consists
the teacher was at her desk, a little
of one part of well-rotted manure, two
nouee appeared at the toe of her
parts of good garden loam or rotted
-hoe, and as I realized what would
sods, and one part of sharp. One sand.
oappen should the little fellow as­
The manure should be thoroughly
cend for further exploration an ex.
rotted, but It should not have been
plosion of spontaneous laughter
exposed to the weather and the
scaped me.
strength leached out of It. The addi­
G ood T y p s o f H o r s e C u ltiv a to r ,
The teacher's cowl aud forbid­
tion of leaf mold or peat will tend to
W ell Suited to Qardsn Uss.
ding look failed to abate the ripples
inaks the soil better adapted for seed­
bed purposes. Mtx all the Ingredients pressed down before laying off and if mirth that rather increased at
marking for sowing the seeds. After the maneuvers of the little mouse,
the seeds are sown and covered, the which I hoped would take refuge
stirfssa should again ba firmed by
in the teaoher’e skirts.
meuna of a smooth hoard. Lima beans,
All at once I realized that the
melons, cucumbers and other garden
A ll
crops may be started In berry basketa, npending fate had fallen.
on sod or In paper bands Indoors, and eyes were upon me. I felt abashed,
the whole transferred to the garden nut neither the apprehensive atti­
when the weather permits, thus gain­ tude of the pupils uor the vindictive
ing considerable time. Thirty to fifty look of the teacher could stem the
hills of extra-early potatoes may even Hood of laughter that overwhelmed
be had by starting as many seed pieces me.
In a tone that presaged ill,
in a box In the living room or In a hot the teacher ordered me to walk to
bed and subsequently handling the
the road, which was about twenty-
A 8 ms 11 Hand Cultivatsr; • Dsslrablt plants the same as tomato plants.
five feet away.
I went.
Still
Addition to the Qardsn Equipment.
Depth of Planting and Distance Apart.
laughing, but conscious of that
No general rule can be given with
together In a heap, stirring well with
tone, I returned immediately, half
a shovel, after which the soil should regard to depth of planting, as differ­ expecting to see the teacher stand-
ent
kinds
of
vegetables
and
different
be sifted and placed In boxes or In
soils necessitate different practices on her chair or desk, and possibly
the bed ready for sowing the seed.
I met
The smaller the seeds the shsllowei with her hair turned grey.
Seed Sowing.
Garden seeds should always be the covering should be. In heavy soils the amused glances of the pupils
sown In straight rows regardless of the covering should be lighter than In with a burst of laughter.
Needless to say, I straightway
where the planting Is made I f a flat light soils. The following table gives
or a window box Is employed for the depth of planting of the various returned to the public highway,
starting early plants In a dwelling, the vegetable seeds, as well as the quan­ where I took up a solitary vigil.
soil should be well firmed and then tity of seeds or number of plants re­ This time I stayed till fresh air
laid off In straight rows about 2 Inches quired for 100 feet of row and the dis and meditation had restored my
apart. The same method holds good tance apart for the rows and the plantr
quilibrium
Just an hour later I
in the rows:
o f A g ric u ltu r e.)
was escorted back to the school-
Qardsnsraf Planting Table.
room by my euperflously reproving
Quantity of seeds and number of plants required for 100 feet of row, depths
teacher,
a docile and utterly
of planting, and distance apart for rows and plants.
In sta n c e apart
K in d
R equired
for 1Û0 fe e t of row
Seed
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Corn, »w est
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200 to 260
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fe e t.
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2 to A i fe e t
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244 t o i
14 to 24 Inches
1 to 4
2 to 2H 11 to 2« In ch es
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to 1» 4 to 5
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7 to
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P la n ts In row
chastened sinner.
I t is sad but true that never
again have I dared to laugh as
tong, as loudly, or as heartily as I
have desired.
Shedd Shots
14 Inches
a to 4 lach os
« to to inches
i to < feet
« to 0 Inches
14 to 11 In d ie s
• to 4 Inches
14 to I t Inches
4 to 0 Inchoe
14 to 14 Inches
10 to 12 Inch««
IB Inch««
W to M Inch««
8 to 10 Inch«*
0 to 10 Inches
Uhrilla, l i In.
I H ill«, I f««t
j t>rUI*, Z-> ft.
I HUI«. 8 fe*t
I fe«t
1 to 4 inch«*
8 to 4 Inch««
8 to 4 Inch««
I to 4 Inch««
1 Inch
Mrs. A. D. Elder has procured
a large brooder aud expects to
raise poultry on a large scale
this summer.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Farwell, Mr.
ind Mrs, W. Y. Shearer, M ' \
Mary Crawford and George
D:in-
nen were guests at the A. D. Elder
home Ea-ter Sunday. A fine din­
ner was served and a good time
enjoyed.
Mrs. George Dannen and son
W illard are visiting with friends
' and relatives in Halsey and vicin-
| ity-
A baby girl arrided at the home
of O. M . Thompson F riday.
What was formerly the meat market
Z% f e e t . . l i t to If Inch««
• f « * t .... 14 to If Inch«« has been built over into a store by F .
IB ln ch «* l Inch
Ackerman. Meantime J, B. Willoughby
If Inch«« 1 inch
If ln ch « * il to 2 inch«*
i is running a fine meat business.
I D rill«. 14*1 »*
4 f* « t....... (H ill* . 4 fe*t
J D r ill* . X-f f t
M artelle Towers.
W f« « t..
I Hill«, f r««t
A round masonry tower designed to
f f « * t .... 2 to 8 f««t
form a part of coast defense Is railed
If Inch«« 2 to f Inch**
The seed bed should never be allowed to become dry, but great rare should
be taken that too much water is not applied. Plants require the action of air
upon their roots and an excess of water In the soil « ill exclude the sir. Toe
frequent and heavy waterings will reuse tbe damping-off of tbs seedlings.
a Martello tower, being so nsmwl for
Its Inventor. The original L’ srtello
tower was situated In the Oulf of Sen
Florenso,
Corsica.
Thi-se became
popular shout 1800, hut their use has
In most esse* been discontinued long
ago, as they were found ta be of
Give the editor any news you know, little
practical value,