AUG . 17, 1922
f t * M n d o w . AgulnsT tbe eastern 's ly ,
HALSEY E N T E R PR ISE
PAG E 3
The* face" was huge, big and gannt
already wan aud pale from the en
of tame; and particularly one would
croaching dawn, the long ridge o f a year, as the same conditions are
notice the mouth. I t would tie noticed
niountuln stood In vivid and startling reported in adjoining stab s,
even before the d ark , deep-sunken
silhouette. The edge of It was curi
eyes.
It was a bloodhound mouth,
Frank Bond will move into the
ously Jagged with many U tile upright
the mouth of a man of great and te r points.
T. P. Pattou house. M r. Patton
rible passions, and there was an un
There was only one person who has bought the Baptist church
mistakable measure of cruelty and
would have been greatly amazed by property and will build a fine resi
savagery abo.’t It.
But there was
that outline of the rid ge; and the dence there.
strength, too.
No eye could doubt
ever seen in lia is e ; is on dis
years and distance had obscured her
tlint.
But It wus not an ugly face,
The district attorney ie p-oceed.
long ago. This was a teacher at an or
play at the store of
for all the b ru ta lity of the features.
phimnge in a distant city, who once ing against J Frey tag of Thomas
■It was even handsome in the bard,
had taken a crude draw ing from the for violating the state law by de
mountain wav.
One would notice hands of a child. H ere was the original
livering less than 128 cubio feet of
straight, black lia lr— the man's age
at last.
I t was the same ridge, wood to Mrs. L. Ward and o b lig
w ith b righ t porcelain
and
wns about thirty-nine— long over rather
covered w ith pines, that little Bruce ing her for a cord.
shining nickel which need no
dark ears, and a great, gnarled throat. had drawn.
polish. Up-to-date cooking ap-
T?ie words when he spoke seemed to
at J. W. Seaver's Yard
The name of W- A. .Volletedt ap
X -* r— a I f— r - > * ■
.
P»r»tns; latest improvements.
come from deep w ithin IL
pear#
in
place
of
M
r.
S
kitvin
’s
ou
(To
be
continued.)
"Come in. Dave," he said.
one tnlle south of Corvallis, ou or
the Tangentse d wareboces. What
In this little rem ark lay sciaethlng
ha#
that
to
do
with
the
Volstead
O ur prices are made with the object
n . k ng À
e f the man's power. The visitor had
act?
come unannounced. H is visit had been
W ill pay 50c per box
A protest has gone tip against j
unexpected.
H is host had not yet
Good camp ground
seen his face.
Y et the man knew,
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the prosecution of those negroes at
before the door was opened, who It
Good water
The Mayberry family were iu Shedd for gambling because it is
excursion w ld t this prospective parent
was that had come.
Sawed store wood
town again Sunday.
their custom and they play for
homelike
In
It
to
little
Bruce.
were extrem ely dim and vague, lie
The reason went back to a certain
Straw for beds
small
amount#.
The
law
ought
to
'
The
other
lasting
memory
was
of
did not know to w hat city he went,
II. A. Renninger waa t t the
quickening o f the senses that Is the
One table for each camp
be impartial. Iu thia case the '
nor had he any recollection whatever i Linda. She represented the one liv- peculiar right and property o f most county seat Saturday.
1 Ing creature In all tils assemblage of
demand is that it be stretched in '
Store on place
o f the people he met there. But he did
men who are really residents of the
Frank K irk and Glenn Chance favor of a race which more often
M eat delivered every day
remember, w ith rem arkable ciearneas, ’ phantoms— the one person w ith whom wilderness.
This muu was the son
W ill meet tram s and carry
the perplexing talk that the man and lie could claim real kinship. H e had of the wild as much as the wolves that visited the county seat Saturday. suffers fro«! that process.
pickers in, and out alter p ic k
the superintendent o f the Square done a bold thing, a fte r Ids first few ran In the packs.
Soft though It
We
got
enough
rain
Thursday
to
, Deer season
opens Sunday, j
years with the Duncans. He planned
ing i t over, free
house bad together on bis return.
was, he had heard the sound of ap do some good aud mighty little
That is as good a day as any to
It long and carried It out w ith Infinite
" Ila won't do,” the stranger had
proaching feet in the pine needles. harm.
1 3 0 acres, on high trellis
care as to details. H e wrote to Linda,
kill a man for a deer.
Nobody
said. “I tried him out and he won’t
As surely as he would have recognlxed
Clean yards
in care of the superintendent of the
S. G, Simon is spending 14000 wants to do that on any day. Sea
fill In In my fam ily. Aud I ’ve fetched
the dark face of the man in the door
Please register early. W rite
orphanage.
him back.
way, he recognized the sound as on improvements ou his faim near what moves the bushes before you
T he answer only deepened the
Shedd'
W. L. BUTLER, box 277,
shoot. If you hunt, get a good
Dave's step.
" I believe in being frank, and I tell
mystery. Linda was missing. W hether
T he man came In, and at once an
you there's something vicious In that
Corvallis, Oregcn,
she had run away, or whether some
Dr. Barnum and Sidney Smith gun and shoot straight. Don’t let
observer would bave detected an a ir
boy's nature. I t came out the very
the wcunded deer get away and,
or phone 7F2
one had come by In a closed car and
and
fam
ilits
spent
Sunday
at
C.
of
deference
In
his
attitude.
Very
first moment he was In the house,
suffer. Good guns are advertised
eorrled her off as she played ou the
F. Stafford's.
plainly he had come to see his chief
when the Missus was introducing him
in the Enterprise.
lawns, the superintendent could not
He was a year or two older than his
to my eight-year-old son. ‘This Is lit
H. Zimmerman and wife and
tell.
They had never been able to
Foote Bros, arc so fond of being
tle T u rn tr,' she said— and this boy trace her. H e had been fifteen then, host, lees powerful o f physique, and |une Layton have gone to C#-cad-
called up at night by autoists who
his eyes did not hold quite so stralghL
sprang rig ht at him.
I'd never let
i* for a stay of a week or so.
a tall boy with rather unusual musen-
want gasoline that th e y had a tele
T here was less savagery hut mors
little T u rn e r learn to fight, and this
!ur development, nnd the girl was
Dr. Marks and wife got home phone connected up to their home.
d i a l l i n g In Ills sharp features.
hoy was on top o f him and was pound
eleven. And In the year nineteen hun
He blurted out his news at once. Monday from their vacation trip S till, ;f you need gas it w ill be as
ing him w ith his fists before we could
dred and tw enty, ten years a fte r the
“Old E lm ira bus got word down to
pull him off. I didn't understand it
well to get it in the day time,
(lung the Oregon seashore.
reply to his letter, Bruce had heard
the settlements at last,” he said.
at all."
.
no word from her. H e had given up
D. I I . Sturtevant ai d wife got
There was no muscular response In
Andrew Brown has taken em
N or did the superintendent under! all hope of ever hearing from her
home from Portland and "buyers’
the larger man.
Dave was plainly ployment at Turner.
Mrs.
Brown
stand; nor— in these la te r years—• again.
"M y little sister," he said
disappointed.
H e wanted his news went with him as far as Shedd. week" Saturday.
Bruce, either.
softly to a memory. Then bitterness
to cause a stir. It was true, however,
H e was quite a big boy, nearly ten. — a whole black flood of it— would
A rainstorm th it struck Albany at
Attorney A.
A. Tussiug of
when he finally left the Square house. come upon him. “Good Lyrd. I don’t that his host slowly raised his eyes.
noon Saturday overflILd sewers,
Brownsville is home from a trip 11 llooded street« anil nade late# of
And there was nothing flickering or even know that slip was my sister." Dave glanced away.
"W h a t do you mean?" the man de a month through thecentral part of
dim about the memory of this occasion. But now lie was going to find her
is a strain on tlie eyes, but if you
in’ersrctlons. Six miles eastward
manded.
Canada.
A tall, exceedingly slender man sat and Ills heart was fu ll of Joy and eager
wear glasses especially made for you the
no raiu fall.
“Mean—
I
m«an
Just
what
I
said.
W
e
beside
the window— a
man
well anticipation.
strain is entirely eliminated.
Mr«. Ilelspeth of Eugene, n oth
should have watched closer.
B tU -
J. C M iller has been appointed
dressed but w ith hard lines about hts
We grind lenses to your prescription,
er of Mrs. W . L. Wells, cann in
Young
B
ill,
I
mean—saw
a
city
chap
mouth and hard eyes. Yet the superin
administrator of the estate of Id illa so they w ill be as required. Don’t n eg
CH A P TE R III
Just In the act o f going In to see on Saturday’s train, btiuging htr
tendent seemed p articu larly anxious
A. McDonald, which consists of an lect your ej es. Let us examine them
her. H e had come onto the plateaus twin babies.
to please him. “You w ill like this
T here had not been tim e to make In
merest in the estate of A. W . Stan- today.
w
ith
his
guide—
Wegan
was
the
man's
sturdy fellow ," lie said, as Bruce was quiry as to the tand Bruce was going
J. C. Bramwell and wifu went to ird, valued at $1500.
name— and BUI said he stayed a lot
ushered In,
to.
H e ouly knew one tiling— that
longer than he would have tf he hadn’t
he
county seat last week Mond ty
T he man's eyes traveled slowly from it was the wilderness. T h e fact that
Obituary
taken a messnge from her."
and A. D Cornelius tossed the
the child's curly head to his rapidly he had no business plans for the fntnre
"How long ago was this?"
nail
bags
around.
P.
C
D
n
i
Ison, an old-time resi
growing fe e l; but no gleam of In ter nnd no financial resources except a
“Week ago Tuesday.”
dent i f Brownsville, pav ed awav at
est cun,e into the thin face. "I sup few hundred dollars that he carried
“And why have you been so long
Last week the Enterprise said. his h< me in gulem Aug 9 at the
pose lie’ll do— as good ns any. It was In Ills pocket did not m atter one way
In telling me?”
“ Let ns pyay for ra in .” And a ■ ce of 07 years. He leaves his
the w ife ’s Idea, anyway, you know. or another. H e wus w illin g to spend
When Dave's chief asked questions plentiful rain
A L B A N Y ! O A tB .
c a u io before the
W h a t about parentage? Anything de all the money lie had; a fte r It was
widow, Mr#. Auiney V. Dividgon,
lu this tone, answers always came papers were all printed.
Harold Albrn.
cent nt all?"
gone, he would take up some work In
one daughter, Mr#. Mary E Pish
quickly. They rolled so fast from the
T he superintendent seemed to wait life anew.
Manufacturing optician.
mouth that they blurred and ran to
About thirty people went to the op, both of Silent, and one son,
a long tim e before answering, L ittle
He had a moment's wonder at the
gether. “Why, Simon— yon ain't been Station and saw the outside of the Rupert. Davidson of this place.
Bruce, already full of secret conjec effect Ids departure would have upon
where I could see you. Anyway, there
Mr. Davidson was an bonnrel
ar
iu
which
Vice-President
tures - ms to his own parentage, thought the financial problem that had been
was nothin’ we could have done."
mender of Calapoois Grange No.
tliu t some key might he given him nt
tils father's sole legacy to him. H e
Joolidge
rode
through
Ilalrey.
“There wasn'L eh? I don't suppose
4 '4 , recently tr m fs .-r iig from
last. "There is nothing that w-e can laughed a little as he thought o f tt.
Office 1st door aouth of school house
you ever thought that there's yet two
Douglas Taylor and Guy Brain- Liberty grange, rear Salom, where
tell you, M r. Duncan,” he said at But the Idea that others also— having
months before we can clinch this well and fam ily, Grant Taylor
Halsey, Oregon.
last, "A woman brought him here— no business relations w ith his fath er
be waa a charter member, that
thing fo r good, and young Folger
.w ith an In fan t g irl— when he was — might be Interested In this western
<nd
Ed
Warmoth
were
dinner
tieing
one
of
the
first
granges
m ight—I
say might— have kicking
about four.
I suppose she was his Journey o f his did not even occur
H andle* I'own and Country P roptrty.
about somewhere In b it belongings guests at George Taylo t’s Sunday. organind in Oregon,
m other— and she didn't w ait to talk to him.
The f im m in ily extends #yn • G iv e h im a call and are if he can hx
the very document we've sll of us
I I . C. Davis went to P u tlan d
■to me. The nurse S |k l tliut she wore
But the paths men fake, seemingly,
you up.
p ith y to the bereaved fin tily .
been
worrying
about fo r twenty
outlandish clothes und had plainly had w ith wholly different alms, crisscross
Sunday night with a earned of
.years.” Simon cursed— a single, flery
a hnrd time."
and become Intertw ined much more
oath.
“But we are yelling before fat cattle, twenty of his o »n and
than Bruce knew. Even as he lay In
“B ut she didn’t w a it— ?"
« ( 'r s hurt. It Isn’t worth a cussword. ■even belonging to Dough s T i vlor
“ She dropped her children and fled
his lierth, the first sweet d riftin g of
Like as not, this Wegan w ill never Mr, Davis' animals averaged 1220
A cold little smile flickered nt the sleep upon him, he was the subject
take the trouble to hunt him up. And pounds each and be gnt 17 40 a
o f a discussion In a far-distant moun
man's lips.
“I t looks rather dam
If he does— well. It's nothing to worry hundred for them.
Last year they
tain h om e; and sleep would not have
Seven-room house, Ia r g e la 'n , 8 lots, plenty of fru it. A bargain if
«bout, either. T here Is one back door sold for 15.
So much hay lias
fallen sh easily and sweetly I f he
taken at once. See
(J ■
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that has been opened many times to been shipped from this section,
had heard It.
let his people go through, aud It may after a short crop, that it is likely
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easily be opened again."
many cattle will be sold and the
It might have been a different world.
Dave's eyes filled w ith admiration.
Only a glimpse of It, Illum ined by the Then he turued and gazed out through price depressed,
with tho result,
moon, could be seen through the soiled
probably, o f higher pi ices next
aud besmirched window pane; but
that wag enough to tell the story
There were no tall buildings. lighted
by a thousand electric lights, such
as Brace could see through the w in
Bereaved friends com m itting t > my c irc for prepiration and hartal —
dows of his bedroom at night. The
the remains of beloved ones may feel assured of the same respectful and
lights that could he discerned In this
E very 3
tender treatment I would wish to be given m y own dear ones.
strange, dark sky were largely nn-
--
wish carried out in detail and prices guaranteid to satisfy, Best of ag
fa in llla r to Brace, because o f the
equipment and complete stock.
smoke-clouds that had always hung
above the city where he lived. There
were Just stars, hut there were so
many of them that the mind « a s un ^LIC EN SE D M ORTICIAN AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR §
able to comprehend tbetr number.
There was also a moon that c a ft a
L E B A N O N , O R E.
little square c f light, like a fa iry j Ce Day or night. Phone 9
Lady attendant 3
tapestry, on the floor. It was not such j
a moon as leers down red snd strange
through the smoke of cities. It was [
vivid and quite white— the wilderness
moon that times the hunting hours
of the forest creatures. But the patch
that tt cart on the floor was obscured ,
In a moment because the man who
i!
had been musing In the big chair be
Ü
aide the empty flreplac* had risen and
"But I ’ll Taks the L ittle Beggar, Any
lighted a kerosene lamp.
w ay."
T he light prevented any furth er
li
nahle." he «aid significantly. "B ui I ’ll scrutiny o f the moon and start. And
w hat remained to look at was not
take the little beggar, anyway."
And thus Brace weut to the cold nearly so pleasing to the spirit. It
fireside o f the Duncans— a house In was a great, wblte-walled room that ’
i* great and distant city where, lc the would have been beautiful had It not .
years that had passed, many things been for certain unfortunate attempts ;
T here waa a atone j
scarcely worlh remembering had tran to beautify It.
fireplace, and certain massive, dust1
spired. It was a gentleman's bourn—
as far a t the meaning of the word covered chairs grouped about IL But
We tell
usually goes—ami Bruce had been a f the eye» never would have got to
these. They would have been held and
forded a geullenian's education. There
fascinated by the face and the form
was also, for a while, a certain amount
of the man « h o had Just lighted the
C I f you have been d riftin g along—spending all, saving nothing—stop
o f rather doubtfnl prosperity, a worn
. _
and think.
an who died a fte r a few months of lamp.
Come in and hear it play
No one could look twice at that mas
casus I Interest In him. and many.*
You must realize that i t cannot go on forever. O ne’s earning days are
sive physique and question Its might.
A ll phonograph records aud needita.
many hours o f almost overwhelm'ng
numbered. Now, w hile yoar earning power i t the greatest see to it that
He seemed almost gigantic In the yel
jooellncss.
Also there were many
each payday pays S o m s T r im o toward your futnre InDxeewDXMCR,
low lamplight.
Io re a lity be stood
A question that is easily answered is
thoughts such as are not especially six feet and tlm o rt three Inche«. and
what to offer your lady friend in the way
W e w ill velCMSa yoor account and help you save.
goo.1 for the spirits of growing hoya. his fra m e waa p e rfe c tly In proportion
of refresh men ta. Just bring her here
T he place where the Duncans lived
and treat her to some of our delicious
He moved slowly, laxity, and the
ice cream
She w ill appreciate your
v as a house, hut under no liberal In- thought fin died to tome great monster
thoughtfulness and generosity.
terpretatlon of the word could It be of the forest that could uproot a tree
' Where Savings are safe ”
ro
u
r
per
cent
and
no
worry.
Pour
celledv'a home. T here was nothing f lU i # b l o w . ------- ---
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Cold drinks
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The moat enticing
line of
Wanted!
Hop
Pickers
KITCHEN
RANGES
HILL & CO.,
o a , k Ì Ì o NE.R AL h a r d w a r e
P A IN T S and O IL S
F U R N IT U R E
about Sept. 5
Jots and Tittles
Doing Fancy Work
O p to m e tris t.
W. J. Ribelin
Dealer
in
Real
Estate.
F O R S A L E IN H A L S E Y
Jay W. Moore, Realtor.
N. C . L O W E
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Automobile Insurance
Fire, theft, collisicn, property damage and
personal liability. Protect yourself against
loss.
C. P. STAFFORD, Agent. j
Be Honest With Yourself
ET SOMETHING that is stout, that is,
C A B L E , in place ef rope -stro n g er
and lasts a lifetimo.
V\ hen jo u buy m achine oil don’t think
any old grease ¡soil. Wo have a heavy red Ü
E N G IN E OIL, host that can bo bought, at
5 0 a gallon. Try it. T W IN E is here.
G. W. Mornhinweg
the Claxtonola
The First Savings Bank of Albany, Oregon
Clark’s Confectioner)