fiW iBxrKisis
.»in I
A /44
W H E R E Y O U R T A X E S GO
work some of them produce we down the road. He looked very
can believe him. Sometimes the ired.
When be was about ready to open
inspiration doee not slop short of
was a man, his shoe' w eie bad,
toe gale, he glanced up and saw There
H e had no work, his face was sad.
delirium tremens.
the advertisement. He was so sur­ He fonnd a jo b ; the boss said : “ No,
prised that all he ciuld say was, I e a a 't take von when you look so."
The man then had his shoes resoled
“ W al, I do declare!"
H i t pants be pressed, he felt more bold
Opinion Is Everything.
But bis surprise soon wore off H
e harried back the boss to see
Consider that everything is opinion
into anger. It made him so angry And talked and smiled in different key
9n^ opinion Is tn tliy power. T ak e
!
then, when thou chooaest. thy to thiuk that anybody should play ‘‘ Job’s yours,’’ quoth bosa. w ith air
sublime.
Ilflfflfitri
iaflrt IlWn
m mnelnn.
opinion, and
like a
mariner who haa such a trick upon him, when he had
A smile and N E A T N E S S w in each
doubled the promontory, thou w ilt never done any harm to anyone.
time.
find calm, everything stable, and a He sat down on a box ourside the
waveless bay.— SI a reus Aurelius An­ yard to try to think it aU out, and
toninus.
see if he could think of the guilty
one.
The resignations from the govern­
School Essays
It was about six by this time,
& /ite G ■o
o s n tre
fe c e tii
ment service are chiefly from the su-
tio n e ry
thought he had better
jiervlsory and most highly paid posi­ (By Louise Robuett, English 4) so Jamie
129 Broadalbin st.
E V E R Y T H IN G BY T U R N S
T H E R E IS NO PEACE
burry to bis hiding place. He was
tions and from the very lowest grades.
▲ {.B a w v
OB EGON
I sit alone in the moonlight
running along—he believed in go­
Pete Beebe was indicted for the T he men at the top, tf they have any
The Oregonian summarizes:
I t you are hungry when in Albany
Gazing
at
the
velvety
sky.
In itia tiv e or ab ility or ambition to
ing early to avoid the rush—and come where tor a very little money you
murder of two men. On his trial make a name fo r themselves, are of
There is civil wsr in China.
My thoughts stray from this and when he got to the gate he can
get the best lunch or d in n e r’ p ,e-
earthly world,
Japan is fighting boltbevists in in one charge, fearing he would fered private employment at doublt
nearly ran over Mr. Hanley, the pared by th e best cooks, and eat it amid
pleasant surroundings A few items ?
Siberia.
-scape by the plea of insanity, the or treble or more what the govern­ Aud soar up where the stars are dejected bachelor.
curled.
Gr< oks are fighting Turks in Asia prosecution argued that he was ment can pay them. The people In
“
Oh-er,
I
beg
your
pardon,”
................................................................
the lowest grades leave fo r private
Miuor,
I think of God and his love,
stammered Jamie.
sane. He was acquitted on the employment when opportunity affords
Spain is fighting Moors in the
And how he is waiting above
“ Beg your pardon nothin’. I p**,d * ................................ 5, 10 and 15c
because in too many instances they
ground of Insanity and the prose
Rif district of Morocco.
For all who will accept of him, know
you, you youug rascal. c
actually cannot keep body and sou'
i k
e
..............- } £
Irish fight Irish on the island cution, to prevent bis gettitg out together on th eir government pay.
Obey his commands and do his What do you want, anyway?”
Chicken
dinner
evey
Sunday”
" " ” 40c
work.
which a poet has called “ a tilth in bail, had the other indictment
I t is the people in the middle clast
roared Mr. Hanley.
O ther prices sim ilar,
bit of heaven.”
who
stay
on
the
longest.
T
he
whole
And
my
soul
yearns
for
that
Jamie
stared
at
him
for
a
mom-1
dismissed and sent him to the in ­
constant process makes fo r a steady
coming time
Hindus aud Moslems riot in
E D S T O R T Z Prop.
ent, when suddenly an inspiration
sane asylum, though the superin­ deterioration In the quality of the
When I shall go to dwell with him entered his much bewildered head.
India.
tendent there protested that the government service and tends to re
on high.
‘‘Dad sent me down after your
The treaties entered
tain the mediocre In public employ
man was sane.
b'g pipe wrench,” Jamie said in a
ment.
Wa«hington are already
Now,
to furnjsh some more
The civil service commission, through
(By Grace K irk , English 4)
very mannerly way. “ May J have
tre.iiod as' ‘ ‘scraps of
amusement at Court, he is reindicted which the great bulk of government
it, please?"
employees are brought Into the serv­ Mr. H an ley’s New Fence:
Japa n is building forts and increas. and is to be brought hack for trial
“ Why, sure, come right along,”
G O O D R IC H ,
ice, Is acutely aw are of this condition
ing her armies in Siberia, in direct on the theory that he is sane
Pretty little Mrs. Osborne sat on replied the now calm Mr. Hanley G O O D Y E A R and F ISK
Its reports give emphasis to the diffl
violation of her engagements at And if another ju ry acquits bin. cully constantly experienced In secur the large, cool, vine-covared front “ I wonder who was down here this
I t sure does look
T IR E S
W allin gto n . She is evincing no those who are tryiug t^proye him Ing and retaining competent employ porch of her home mending stock afternoon.
funny.”
W e w ill be open evenings from now
logs
As
she
rocked
aimlessly
to
ees.
T
he
rotation
In
office
has
become
inte ition to get out of Shantung sane will probably try as hard
“ Oh, thsnk you very much for on during the summer months.
Increasingly frequent and vita lly im
and fro, she thought of Jamie
this summer, as she promised.
pairs the efficiency of the service.
prove him insane.
the wrench, Mr. H an ley.” said
Please do not call Sunday ualess neces-
who was always into mischief.
During the w ar there was a lower
Dtvid I,. George, prime minister
Just then she heard the click of Jamie taking it from him.
Such is law and such are lawyers
“ ry-
Yours truly,
rate o f turnover in the mechanical the front gate.
The “ innocent" lad then de­
of E igland, says:
School had been
forces than In outside establishments.
dismissed aud Jamie was here. parted, very happy to think that
The fool free seed clause was re T he proposition of separations, how-
America could exercise an influ-
He was coming up the flower- he had "pulled the wool oyer his
encj no other country could com­ dored to the agricultural appropri­ ever, Is excessive In clerical, profes­ bordered path, whistling a tune. eyes" so easily.
sional and technical positions. In
mand. She could come here free ation by the senate after its com­ which the rate of turnover sometimes
Jamie was a
pug-nosed, red­
A . C- J E N K IN S
and disentangled and with the pres-
mittee had cut it out. The vote amounts to a third of the force In a headed lad of about twelve years.
W e make f a r m
t'g i which comes from her io .
year.
A cap adorned bis shock of towsled
dependent position she would come in the senate was 30 to 31. Thai
n s for oue of
During the nine months preceding hair.
In one band he carried a the largest e a s t e r n in L s oa
u r a n c e c o m pa ­
with the voice of peace. Russia does npt mean that nearly half of the armistice more than 00,000 ap book and in the other a bucket of
n ie s and are prepared to give you a n y
a i I Germany combined contain the senators voting put common polntments were made In the civil red paint. He seemed greatly k in d o f a lo a n you desire. Low in
BALTIMORE BUILDING
nv ir two-thirds of the people of buisness sense into their legislative service and about 28,000 separations elated over something.
terest rates. Long term, and preoay- Cor F irst & Lyon its., Albany, Oregon
occurred- that la, fo r every two ap­
E irope. Their voice will be heard
‘‘Now won’t I just fix that old ment privilege of >100 o r m u ltip le on
a id the Russo-German treaty is work. More likely the controlling pointments made one person le ft the man? He just thinks he can do any- any interest date. W rite
service.
For
a
period
of
sim
ilar
length
Peterson & M cC ully, Eugene, Ore.
tiie first warning of it. I wish argument was “ you vote for my follow ing the armistice only 00 per hing. W ell, I ’ll just show that
A merica were here I
We want graft and I ’ll vote for yours
cent as many appointments were made, poor old fellow.
Won’t he rave
attorney a t l a w
America because she excerises n The amount iuvolved was onl> but there were nearly 33 per cent more when he sees it? It will be about
Peculiar authority. Her very aloof­ <360,000, which je insignificant separations. In this period almost as ihe biggest joke they ever had on
201 New F irst N at’l Bank B ld’g,
Fifty-gallon ; brass faucet; >3.
ness gives her the right to speak
many positions were vacated as were him.
H a l ba!"
compared with what our lawmakers filled.
Enterprise office.
Albany, Oregon.
“
Why,
Jamie,
dear,
what
under
When the nations met at Ver- waste in other ways
The exigencies of the w ar required
are you talking about?
a great expansion of the clerical the sun
s titles the United States was held
FO R sA bE
forces at Washington and elsewhere Oh I. just know that you are going
Amor A. Tussing
in such esteem by the other powers
So many influential people are and thia was accomplished by a labor to gel into some kind of trouble.
One nearly brand-new w iggle-tail
of the world that its representative
LA W YE R AND NOTARY
being sent to jails for endungeting turnover several times above nornyal You don’t realize how much I
T he percentage of declinations o f ap
io the supreme council was able to
worry over you.” said his poor
other people's lives by violating polntments among eligible* on the civ
overcome the selfishness of tli the traffic law that there is likely II service register Increased In manj mother.
B rownsville , O regon
‘ ‘Ma, what do you want to worry
others to the point that justice in­ to be a movement for more comfort­ instances from 80 to more than 50 per
N, T . S n e e d
»bout me for? Don’t you think I
cent— that la, more thaq h alf the men
stead of might was recognised as
Practical Shoe
able jails. These people are like and women who successfully passed am old ’nough to take oare of my­
the hnsis of international settle­
Repairing.
w
.
G
.
C
A
R
T
E
R
S
self?
W
h
y
,
I
’m
twelve
years
old
the Cornish miners who, when civil service examinations and were
ments. W orld pesce came nearer told about hell and that they were offered Jobs under the government re and goin’ on thirteen. Now ain't
Fine
fused to take them. It is estimated I a big boy?”
to being assured then than in the
headed
there, planned, when that more than 950,000 of those who
“Jamie, Jamie, when will you
Dress Shoes a Specialty
ages that had passed. And then,
they should arrive, to “ run a met the test were appointed during evnr quit using that word ain’t?"
by a majority of the one <160,000
is ready for orders for all kinds of haul­
remonstrated Mrs. Osborng.
du n« in and make tne ------ piece thut time.
» 1 Lyon st., Albany, Oregon,
Phone 116
T he civil service commission says
vote of Newberry, the senate comfortable."
W ell, I guess this is a free ing. M oving a specially,
fla tly :
country," retorted her sop.
scrapped the league and the way
F O R SALE
"Those fam ilia r w ith
the federal
Jamie theu left the porch, taking
isopen for another world war with
service
at
Washington
know
that
the
President Harding has the sound
bis bucket of paint with him,
service Is now hampered by the re
Germany and Russia against the
tense to discountenance the ‘‘day­ tentlon of Incompetents whose re­ slammed the little gate and dis­
W IL D E Y LODGE NO. 6-5.
world and with the outcome doubt­
Hs then
light saving” fad. Setting clocks moval Is rendered difficult by Influences appeared from sight.
ful.
Regular
meeting next Saturday
made straight for” th« house
wro tg will not increase the amount which are Incompatible w ith the effl
(P h o n e 26 night,
deucy o f the service.
Preferences which
belonged to Mr. Manley One j ear old.
of daylight a particle, and anyone and exemptions Increasingly clog the
A H . Q U IM B Y
A H E A D OF T H E T IM E S
A new fence had recently been
who is not too lazy to get up early departments with persons who, no built about the house.
The Associated
Industries of
in the morning can do so just as m atter how Inefficient, are difficult to
‘‘0 b , now, won’t I just fix you?
S'cgon, 702 Oregon building, Port
remove, and whose retention tends to
! well without pretending that 6 destroy the discipline o f the service." Next time you won’t try to spank
Office 1st door south of school hquse
land, is more than on time. It
We make a
me; if you do. I ’ll just knock your
'o’clock is 7.
Among these Inefficient*, of course
■
,
Halsey, Oregon.
sendt out an optimistic booster
old block clear off. Just yon wait
Specialty o f
are the superannuated and the phys
I Dealer in Real Estate.
sheet of short items regarding Ore-
Ically incapacitated.
T he bureau o f and see, you old prune."
Friendship^,
The primary law is being opposed efficiency estimated, before the pass
By this time be was about ready
Handles Town and Country Property.
gon indcstries for the use of the
on the ground that the winning age of the superannuation retirement to begin work. On the nice new
G ive him a call and see if he can fix
Engagem
ent afld
newspapers of the state. Here is
J J»» up.
candidate is sometimes the choice law, the number o f employee« in the white fence Jamie painted in large
W edding
a sample received by the Enter­
civil service o f the United States sev
red staring letters:
of
only
a
minority
of
the
members
prise:
enty years of age and over as follow s:
Rings
of the party. Under the old con- _ ..
Big Circus in Town, Boys
Num ber
Orders for woolen fabrics have
R a ilw a y po stal c le r k s .............................. isn
M . F r e n c h a S o n s
AU Animals Known There
been booked far ahead by the vention system a still smaller R u ra l le tte r c a rrie rs .................................. gp
ALBANY
OREG.
ity le tte r c a rrie rs ................................J” jj,.
Bring Your Gal, Boys
I Electric Haircutting. Massaging
Brownsville woolen mills, which minority— two or three big bosses C
Poet office c le rk s ................................... e, gj-
Admission
15«,
25c
recently reopened
after several of the party — usually selected (be M echanlce ................................................gjj
and Shampooing.
G eneral em ployees. D ie t. C o lu m b ia ..l.« t
years of idleness. Reopening of o tndidate.
Cleaning and Pressing.
Ha!
ha
I
Now
won’t
ha
ju
ft
G e n e ra l em ployees els e w h e re ............... i.iu t
the plant was marked by elaborate
Sen.
-torm around? I ’ll bet the roof
ceremonies.
It gave immediate
TotB> ...............................s.esi on his old house blows oJT. Gee!
The prohibition party is the only
employment to more than 100
The commissioner of pensions sup
hut that sure is a good trick on the
people.
one with more female than male plies the following compact statement
or Oregon C ity
old man.”
' 1 Ï 7 A R C H IE C O R N E L IU S
We note a few inaocuraciee here; voters, and the females are more of the age o f the employeea In the pen
Trying to cover up all things by •’ormerly Brownsville Man
No orders have been hooked lor than 2 to 1. T h a t indicates what slou b u reau :
which he might be traoed, Jamie
Number In the classified civil serv
fabrics from the mills. They have the pouplar vote will do with pro­ Ice, 874; age o f the oldest em ploy.,, departed in a very happy mood
K apert
workmanship. Watches
and
clocks a specialty.
not recently reopened. The reopen posed constitutional amendments elghty-elght; number over eighty years H ad ’nt he completed hia task?
But
he
began
to
wonder
what
Mr.
HALSEY
OREGON
ing did not give employment to to make the prohibitory law more of age, M ; nunitwr between sixty five
Hanley would do when be come
That law was passed with and eighty, 200; based on age of sixty home from work.
UK) people nor to any. In fact, lax,
live, number eligible for retirement,
there ieuo woolen-mill machinery only men voting.
W h y , the best part is yet to
292: percentage of employee» eligible
for retirem ent, 83.4; »vernge age of all come," thought Jstnie. “ Let’s sse ; Honesy, efficiency and economy, w ith
at Brownsville, solar as we know.
employee», July 1, 1919. fifty eight.
th irty per cent redaction in
where can I hide? Let m ethink.
About a week after the célébra­
I t is pleasing to read that Lenine
maintenance expenses
These old men and women hear the
it was announced that two carloads had a bullet extracted from hi» burden of the adm inistration of the There's the attic and it has a win­
guaranteed
dow. No, I don’t like that very
All work done promptly and
of machinery had arrived at the body tbe other day because the complex. Intricate and Involved p ra well. How many rooms are there
cedure
under
the
pension
laws
having
reasonably.
Phone No. 26W.9
m ill and twelve loads more were news item also records that he ha*
in the house? Aw no, I don't
to do w ith the disbursement of >222-
<>n the way from Bandon, where carried that bullet three yeare, 159.292 In 1920 to «00,900 and to u t- want to be in tbe house! 1 want
to get out behind that big tree in
W R IG H T & PO O L E
Mr.
Bowman purchased them showing that h jg o t an installment odd beneficiaries.
the yard aud be won't find me there.
L IC E N S E D F U N E R A L D IR E C T O R S
from the ewnere of a m ill which on what was due him as long ago
Ob boy! that sure am a swell place.
H A R R IS B U R G
LEBANON
had closed down. Otherwise the as that.
On» Lunger is a form id shin esn Now he don’t come home until six
Fhooe 35
Phone ¡5
news item is correct.
didate for the state senate front o’clock, so I ’ ll wait until after sup­
Branches at
per to hide theis. I can hardly RED STAR Oil Stoves
We hesitate to use any of (be
Brownsville, Phone 3 7 0 5 .
An exchange calls the shri ukage Yam hill county. W hat would he
wait until he comes home.”
Halsey P h o .,
FniBk K lrk MjfT
other industrial items sent us by of railroad milage iu the pa(t year do i f he had two sound lungs/
Jamie had forgotten that this
the associated loduftries, fearing a "curious fact," It is no more
was Friday and that M r. Hanley
have an
• hat some prejudiced reader may curious, with one auto to every
always
got t f f an hour earlier on Other Oil Stoves
a rtiG e . no longerjueeiled“
Joseph Pennell, one of the great,
think we prevaricate.
Friday
than
uaual.
two families, thsn was tbe shrink- est American illustrators, deplores
oy better (met. which Borachody would
About 5;16 Mr. Hanley, a large,
At the great celebration which age in stage-coach business when
the
up h k t to obtain. An advertisement
iverusement the
prohibition and »ays that drink tall bachelor of about fourty-five,
tiae of thia, coating 25c.
c, m ig ht find a
tsslified Biownivtlls’s p y at tbs • tbe railroads çaœe.
who
detected
children,
cam«
iloirly
j
"
w
’S
oregc
buyer and covert what
tuspirss artists. Judging from tb<-
LOOK tfTER TOUR SOLE!
HALSEY ENTERPRISE
prospect that the mills may be
(by Edward G. Lowry)
An independent— N O T neutral— news­ opened by September next Mr.
paper. published every Thursday,
XV.
Bowman, who owns the property,
by W i i H . & A. A. W H E E L E R .
said:
INCOMPETENTS
ARE KEPT
Win. H. W h r k i .KK Editor.
T h e ani.ual turnover In the govern­
Mas. A A. W h r r l k b Business Manager
The woolen mill
is now hut
and Local News E d ito r.
ment sen ice Is something almost in­
No business corporation,
— . —!■.------ _------------------------ near ready to be dedicated. In credible.
fact, we are just beginning to re- however
uuww ct
airongiy established,
esiaDiisiteu. could
strongly
Subscriptions, >1.50 a year in advance
nodel the old buildings hut I can long endu-e the heavy annual drain on
I
V
e
t
r..
w/i
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■
I
I
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.
■ __
Transient a Ivertising. 25c an inch; per
«ssure you that, when they are Its resources. Hundreds
o
f __
men
leave
nianent, 20c. No discount for time
the
government
service
d
a
ily
;
and
finished,
with
new
windows,
new
or space.
roofs, new floors, and several new new, untrained people have to be taken
In “ Paid-for Paragraph»,’ ’ 5c a lin e .
N o ad vertisiiiu disguised as news.
ouildings and all of them painted on and taught to do the work. This
white, they w 11 look quite différ­ costs money, as every employer
s
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„ ...........................................................
know s.
ât from what they dotonigbt.
llA L S K Y , Linn Co., Ore. M ay 4, 1922
Nave ’em fixed at Jewett’s
H
ALSEY
GARAGE
t»>
Foote Bros.
Money to Loan
ARCHITECT
C .C . B R Y A N T
Metal Oil Barrel,
Corn Cultivator
1 Horse Corn Planter
A. Peterson
Delivery Truck
Registered Short­
horn Bull.
I. 0 . 0 . F.
W.
J. Ribelin
BARBER SHOP
THOS. F. RYAN
E. C. M IL L E R
W RTCHMRKER& Jeweler
STATE
TREASURER
F. M. GRAY,
Drayman.
E. L. Stiff
FURNITURE EXCHANGE
$30 to $75 FARMERS
$15
»¿CASH
fo w only trash into good