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«A L S Z Y
HALSEY E N T E R P R IS E
AUG. 31. 1920
E N T E R P R IS E coojpanies want to keep faith with
the men who have been promised
those right« if they remained at
work. The striker« want to be
able toeay, wheo they «trike again:
" ' '
¡ ‘ H you go to work in our placer
■ubacriptio na, 51.1«
. n i»ch;
companies will betray you and
T ra n a ie n t ad verttsins. 25<
25c an
Inch; p.r-
pe r- Jthe
,
,#c 1,0
t r ,d e 3 w , y > ° nr r i8
_ h t»
- to u«. at
In “P a id -fo r P arag rap h »,” 5c a line.
they
did
before.”
N o a d v e rtis in g dtegutaed a» new».
A n ta*4ep«nd«Dt— N O T n e u tra l— new»*
P»««a. publlahed ev ery Th ured ay,
by W M H and A A . W H E E L E R ,
W m M. W h ee ler. E d ito r.
M r». A. A. W h ee ler. Nueine»» M a n ac er
and Ix ic a l News E d ito r.
opens on Tuesday, Sept 19
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T H E PARTY DID IT -N O T
The 35 Inglewood (Cal ) raiders
were tried at Los Angeles and ac
quitted on the grouud th at the
raiders were oliicer« of the law.
It is apparently correct form at
Los Angeles for officers to go
masked, without a warrant, and
yauk the male and female mem
bers of a family from their beds
and elam them aronud like rats.
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î Ranges & Heaters
You should not miss this place if in
need of a new range or heater this fall.
We have the largest assortment of
each in Linn county and can supply your
wants at a
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Reorganized Departments of Instruction
Classical and literary coarse« leading to degree. Bachelor of Art»
Complete coarse» ia Business Aminislration and Commercial Law.
Special arrangement of courses articulated with technical and graduate
ourses in other institutions :
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The Halsey Enterprise is author
President
ity tor the statem ent that ‘‘the
Albany, Oregon
purchasing power of the farm er’s
income is 25 to 40 per cent less
than it was before the w ar.”
The Underwood tariff did rane
havoc with the farmer in the fall
of 1920 and, to a less degree, in
1921. When the war ended sod
commerce regaioed the eeas, the
Twer Portland women were killed
United States was made the dum p and a man injured so that he was
ing ground for all kinds of South taken to a hospital when their car
American, Australian, New Zea
land and Canadian farm products. ran off the road ten miles north of
Eugene Friday. They were going
— Albany Herald.
at
terrifio speed and hootch was
The American farm er’s grain is
found
in the wreck.
No further
marketed all over the world—wher
Author of TheVoice of the Rack"
explanation
is
necessary.
Two
ever people are able to buy. In
many places they are dying of causes were combined, either of
Illustration* hy
starvation because they are not which would have been sufficient.
Irw in Mgertf
thus able. How much would
In an effort to make automobiles
higher tariff have added to the
price the farmer gets for it?
pay for road bonds the price has
I, the Underwood tariff fixed the been hooeted until in many ol the
price of cattle in 1920 and 1921. smaller towns in the state no li
Copzjnqht by Little. Brown, and Co
was it the same tariff that enabled censes a t all are taken hy ji‘,ney
CHAPTER V II
and~lie could see the wumau's eyes
C hut Davis of Halsey to sell his drivers. It will be an ttphill job
Brurp couldn't mistake the cabin, At Then be understood.
cattle for 17.40 a hundred iu Port to pay for the through roads whioh
They were set deep behind grizzled
flip end o f the trail be found It—«
land the other day, after getting have been built and (he market little shack of unpointed honrrtr with brows, but they glowed like coals
There was no other word. They were
|5 in 19217 Ho got an extra 1500 roads, which might develop the a single door and a single window.
H e stood ii moment In the sunlight not the eyes of one whom time Is
orsn. If the tarilf does all good state, will come harder etill.
about to conquer. H er bodily streogth
fie could not guess what wus his des
or bad things th a t happen to the
was gone; any personal beauty that
tiny behind that rude door. It was
m arket it did that.
The compulsory education hill n moment long waited; for one of the she might have bad was ashes long
Listen to the pettifoggers of one is likely to be defeated because the few times In his life he was trembling and long ago, but some great fire
burned In her yet.
party a n l you will hear th at his K. K. K. brand has been stuck with excitement. He felt as If a key,
She blinked In the lig h t “Who Is
long
lost,
was
turning
In
the
doorway
party a few years ago
ItT ’ she crooked.
upon it. Nevertheless we believe of understanding.
, Bruce did not answer. He had not
Raised the price of the fanner's
ibo state would be improved by its
He walked nearer nnd tapped with
I prepared a reply tor thia question. But
Wheat not to the i t he had been
hla knuckles on the door.
adoption,
j It was not needed. The woman leaned
dreaming of for years but Io #2.
A. M. WILLIAMS,
Iron Beds
Springs
Mattresses
Dressers All at
The Strength
Of The b9 Pines
N ew Low Prices.
BARTCHER & ROHRBAUGH $
ALBANY
., $..a.
Enabled every second family in
Oregon to buy an automobile.
Doubled aud trebled the number
ol phonographs Iu the homes of la
boring men.
Etc., etc., etc.,
Liatsn to tho fake patriot of the
the other party. Ho claim« th a t
his party
Well—is just getting ready to:
Keep tile home fires burning by
in I ii mg coal.
Keep the locomotive fires burning
rod run the railtoad trains.
Build up our merchant marine by
allowing it to make a profit selling
tioozc and by shoveling dollars out
of the public treasury as subsidies.
Raise the price ot everything
anybody has to sell.
Reduce the price of everything
anybody has to buy.
Etc , etc., etc.
I f the forests have one nll-pervad-
lug quality It Is alienee. What sound
Work will soon bo completed nn there Is curries far and seems rather
the Big Torn, a slough in the Lake out of place. Bruce could picture the
Creek district, that is being deep whole of the little drama that followed
ened slid widened in connection Ms knock by Just the faint sounds—
with tho drainage project there, Inaudible Iu a less silent land—that
Recording to ¡information received reached him fpora behind the door. At
by county agent A. C. Hvman. first It was Just a s ta rt; then a short
The county agent reports also th at exclumatlon In the hollow, half whis
the deepening and widening of the pering voice of old, old age. A mo
Robinett slough in the Shedd dis ment more of silence— as If a slow-
trict is about to bpgin. This proj moving. aged brain were trying to
who stood outside— then
ect, including lands situated upon conjecture
th$ creaking of o chair as some one
branches of the slough, consists of jrose. The last sounds were of a
2,000 acres, which will, when the strange hobbling toward him— a rustle
project is completed, he redeemed of shoes Isilf drugged on the floor and
lor farm ing.—Albany Democrat. the Intermittent tapping of a cane.
The fHce that showed so dimly In
th« shadowed room looked Just as
You name yonr salary.
Bruce hud expected—wrinkled pa«t
belief, lean anil hawk-nosed from age.
The liund thjit rested on the cane waa
like a bird's claw, the skin blue and
should you become disabled by any ac hard and dry. She stood bowed over
cident or any sickness. See
her cane.
D IC K W R IG H T . Hotel Halsey.
Yet In that first Instant Bruce had
North American Accident Insurance Co., an Inexplicable Impression of being In
the presence of a power. He did not
have the wave of pity with which one
and Oliver
usually greets the decrepit.
And at
Gant Plow,
first ho didn't know why
But soon
he grew accustomed to the shadows
W e pay it,
Bull Tractor ΠHlow
$200
Young Mare $50
The writer of this article saw
l i -•» hogs selling at 6 and 7 c.mts
a pound. That was when d e v e 5 years old. weight 1500 pounds, broke
FRED ROGGA, R. 2, Harrisburg
lan I was president, <ln*.itig what
the Herald calls a democratic p an
FOR SALE
ic. Later he raised and sold bogs
until under s républicain «dru i tu ti
tration, the price went down to
3 cents.
Then he quit railing,
hogj, but has no idea that the
E. F. PRUITT
party in power (or the olher> had
Anything to do with Gxiug those
prices.
#
FOR RENT
Mr. W ibon had a facility ol
getting what he wanted trim co n
gres«. He was l«m|iCM>ned for I Fzir building«. Three miles from
even trying to do so. Mr. Hai | Il.ilte i
iling tried hard to t m the machine I
W J. RIBELIN
without getting into the same
rut, but ’it vgiti. H-, ¡a now in
the rut and is trying his level best | B A R B E R S H O P
lo ,.-l Ibe .10,01, « , ,„ I B , , . Io U,e I E lm ,ic H oircouiot. b i o u n o
m n o r a a t l r v i i a l b a -a ll^ a
congressional ball« to q m . t 1 playing
sud Shampooing.
horse anti go lo arork. Let us hope
Cleauing a id Pressing.
twajr succeed 1
E.
C
. M IL L E R
B ut not until we nil can raise
ourselves by our bootstrap! will
C. C . B R Y A N T
«n all get rich ixtrriugb a customs
ATTORNEY AT LAW
»•riff. The •( «el | rust and a few
"I its like liAVe d o n e so, but tl.e
Cusick Bank Building,
common people never d,d, s li d
Albany, Oregon.
the most of m at e just common
people.
FOR SAI 8 —*a horsepower
2 Jersey Cows
1 D riving Horse
400-Acre Farm
Ib e nub of the seniority ques
tion, which preset Is striking shop-
men from going U ck to work in
the railroad shop»
ia thia;
The
Electric Motor
Used very little
$30.
Enterprise office,
Halsey, Oregon.
forward, and ■ vivid light began to
dawn In her dark, furrowed face.
1 Even to Bruce, already succuinhed
to thia atmosphere of mystery Into
which his adventure had led him, that
dawning light was the single most
startling phenomenon he bad ever lie-
held. The wltchltke face teemed to
gleam with a whjta flame.
And
Bruce knew that his coming was the
answer to the prayer of a whole life
time. It was a thought to sober him
No small passion, no weak desire, no
prayer that time or despair could si
lence could effect such a light as this
1 “Bruce," he said simply. It did not
even occur to him to use the surname
of Duncan. I t waa • name of a time
and sphere already forgotten. “I
don't know what my real last name
F U R N IT U R E E X C H A N G E
Albany
E d ison M a r s h a ll
Raised the price of berries to 10
and 13 cents,a pound.
Raised the price of cattle, sheep
and Ilogs until there was danger that
breeding stock would l»e sold out und
a shortagecreated that would last tor
years.
Raised the price of liny from 15 and
H> a t in to $JO and $40.
Raised wages from a co-.iple of dol
ls a or less a day to »5. $8, $lo and
Chiffoniers
Bedroom Sets
Dining Room Sets
Oregon
$
\f/
such evil ns would cast her to hell
such a cry as this could not go un
heard. The strength seemed te go oat
of her as water flows. She rocked on
her cane, and Bruce, thinking she wat
about to fall, seized her shoulders
“At last—at last,” she cried. “You’re
come at last.”
She gripped herself, as If trying tc
find renewed strength. “Go at once,
she said, “to the end of the 1’lne
Needle Trail. It leads from behind th«
cabin.”
He tried to emerge from the dream
like mists that had enveloped him
’How far Is It?" he asked her steadily
“To the end of Pine-Needle Trail,'
she rocked again, clutched for one ol
his brown hands, and pressed It be
tween hers.
Then she raised It to her dry lips
Bruce could not keep her from It. Anti
after an Instant more he did nor at
tempt to draw It from her embrace. Ir
the darkness of that mountain cabin
In the shadow of the eternal pines, h«
knew that some great drama of humor
life and love nnd hatred was behind
the action; und lie knew with a knowl
edge unimpeachable that It would b«
only Insolence for him to try furthet
to resist It.
Ils meaning went toe
deep for him to see; but It filled him At the End of the T rail He Wou'd
Find— Linda 1
with a great and wondering awe.
Then he turned away, up the Pine
needle T rail. Clear until the deepet
forest dosed around him her voice still
miles from the cabin. The hour was
followed him— a strange croaking Ip
•bout six-thirty; In two hours more
the afternoon silence. "At Inst," h«
It would be too dark to make his way
heard her crying. “At last, at lust
at all.
n e examined the mud about the
spring, and there wag plenty of evl-
dence that the forest creatures had
In almost a moment, Duncan wat
passed that way. Here was a little
out of the thickets and Into the blj
triangle where a buck had stepped,
is."
■ timber. As far as he could see then
and further away he found two pairs
| “Bruce— Bruce." the woman whi»- wss nothing but the great pines climb
of deer tracks—evidently those of s
■pered. She stretched a palsied hand Ing up the long slope of the ridge. Thej
doe with fawn. A wolf had stopped
to him as If It would feel his flesh to stood straight and aloof, and they wen
to cool his heated tongue in the wa
reassure her of Its reality. He saw very old.
ters, possibly In the middle of some
the exultation In her wrinkled, lifted
He fell Into their spirit at once. Th« terrible hunt In the twlllgnt hours
face. “Oh, praises to H it Everlasting I half-understood emotions that hat
Then he found a huge abrasion In
Nam e!“ ah« cried. “Oh, Glory—Glory
flooded him In the cabin below diet
I within him. The great calm that is the rood that puzzled him still more.
to on High I"
At the first he couldn't believe that
And this was not blasphemy. The after all, the all-perradlng quality ol It was a track. The reason wss sim
words came from the heart. No mat
the big pines came over him. Bruc« ply thnt the size of the thing was In
ter how terrible the passion from ' was rather tremulous nnd exultant at credible— as If some one had laid a
which they sprang, whether It wai
he crept softly up the trail.
flour ski k In the mud and taken (t up
It was the laat lap of his Journey again
Ha did no( think of any of
1 At the end of the troll he would flnd- the modern-day forest creatures as
; Linda I And It seemed quite flttlnt being of such proportions.
It was
very s ale and had been almost oblit
that she would he waiting there,
erated In many days of sun. Perhaps
where the trail began, In the wildest
he had been mistaken in thinking It
heart of the pine woods. He wss
an imprint of a living creature. He
quite himself once more—carefree,
delighting In all the little manifesta went to Ida knees to examine It.
But in one Instant he knew that he
tions of the wild life that began to
stir about him.
had not been mistaken.
It was a
track not greatly different from that
His delight grew upon him. It w is
nf an enormous human foot; and the
a dream coming true.
Always, It
to
separate toes were entirely distinct.
seemed to him, he had carried In h it
It was » bear track, of course, but
mind a picture of thia very land, a
1 illakook C ountv B rachts
N' iw post ry - thb -S ba
such, size that the general run
sort of dream place that was a real rtB*
C rater L akr N ational P ark
O rbcow C avb S N a T' i . M onumbnt
" f little black bears that Inhabited
ty at last. He had known Jnat how
O regon ' s F orbst , L a ««, R ivbb and M ountain R bsort »
the hills could almost use It for a den
•t would be. He had aiw.ya known
S hasta M ountain R esorts
Y oikmitr N ational P are
of hibernation!
how the pine shadows would fall
He got up and went on— farther
across the carpet of needles. The
toward Trail s End. He walked more
trees themselves were the same grave
swiftly now. for he hoped to reach
companion, that he had expected, hat
the end of Pine-Needle T rail before
hl« delight was all the more because
nightfall, but he bad no Intention of
of his expectations.
nltlng In case night came npon him
A» the trail climbed higher, the
before he reached It. He had waited
sense of wilderness became more
pronounced. Even the trees seemed too long already to find Linda.
Another hour ended the day's sun-
la rg e r and more
and
Bflht. The shadows fell quickly, hut •
glimpses of the wild people •
more frequent
The hlrds stopped » was a long time yet until darkness.
their rattle-brained conversation and He yet might make the trail end. He
and to
«are no thought to fatigue. In the
« •re d at him with frank curiosity
The grouse let him get closer before
“«I place, he had stood op remark
ably well under the day's tramp for
took to cover.
no other reason than that he had al
dlitm
™
tr* "
dimmer. Now It was Jnst a brawn ways made a point of keeping In the
»« re n t in the plao needles, colling neat of physical condition. Besides.
■"•nethlng more potent than
ra i,
lo » *I every 1 er*
t of It. It dipped down to a little » • r e physical strength to snstsln
, he ^ , 1 1 ^ , , ^
stream, of which the blasting sun of "im now. it
' Oregou Outdoors," ’ ‘California for the Tourist " and other beauti
the nearing end of the t r a ll - a kaowl-
ful folder» w ill he mailed FRBF. ON REQUEST.
of tremendous revelations that
of shallow pools Yet the water was
would coma to him In a few hours
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And M kn~
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For fares, reiervatioas and other particulars, Ssk agents
little brook trout—waiting until the mow.
.B rains should m .k . . t o r ^ t w
rvest truths were taking
• mpe in his brain; he only needed a
y
,n *1 tbu’
«"«le sentence of explnm.tl«,. to .on-
dra^k?’ * *
M hl” wUlb h* ■ect them all together He begaa
JOHN M. SCOTT,
General Passenger Agent.
By a queer pounding of his blood to reel a growing excitement and I to-
Bruce knew that be was In the Met. pBtlcare.
CH APTER V III
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in travel coats thia year
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