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hQme
FLOOR C O V ERIN G
Congoleum and Lino
leum in rugs or by
STOVES and
the yard
RANGES
O ur prices are rtiade with
the best makes
the object of selling
goods
See our stock and prices before you buv
&Co.
OCT. 1», 1922
HALSEY BN TSR PR ISfi
and hi» own huge flats struck oat. ' *
RAGE J
Theo he saw the
pause, and it
If Bruce's blow had gone straight seemed to him that words, too faint i T L
A 1, A
,
home'where It had been aimed, Simon for him to
seeratary and Mrs. George Laubner,
understand, raachad him
i i would have had nothing more to nay aero»* the moonlit
treasurer. American literature is the
space*. Theo ooe j
main topic this season.
for a few moments at. least. The leap of the party turned off toward the '
G ussantikd W o mx
hud been powerful and swift .vet whol ridge.
Hall's Floral and Music shop, A l
¿AUMDBY
ly inaccurate.
And the reason w Ug
bany, last week advertised a floral
He guessed that It was Simon. He
Just that bis wrists and ankles had thought the man was riding toward
service
which nobody in Halsey is
C lxanino and P iissim o
been numbed by, the tight thongs by Linda’s home.
ready to perform. Flowers for par-
D D R IB E L IN . Prop.
tiaa, weddings, funerals, etc. This
which they had been confined. Simon
week the same company tell about
met the leap with a short, powerful
(To be continued.)
phonographs, records, sheet music,
blow Into Bruce's face: and he reeled
ate. I t w ill pay you to read the ad
backward. The arms of the clansmen
vertisements in the Enterprise every
alone kept him from falling.
week.
The blow seemed to daze Bruce; and
All
kinds
of
id
season
at first his only realisation was that
At the county fa ir Brownsville,
Lebanon and Lacomb and
tw o
(Continued from page t)
the room suddenly rang with harsh Quarter« of B E E F
for canning
granges,
Mountain View and Sand
and grating laughter. Then Simon's
The Ringos visited Salem Sunday. Ridge, made the largest agricultural
words broke through It. “Put back purposes at canning prices
Mrs. Joseph Hardcastle of Browns displays, while F. M . French with his
11 varieties of winter apples had the
ville is 96 years old.
lrrgest individual exhibit. On com
S. G. Holve of Seattle w m a busi munity exhibits the awards were as
ness visitor here the f i r s t of last follows: Mountain View grange of
week.
Benton county*, firs t: Lebanon com
W. F. Carter is selling meat at the munity, second; Sand Ridge commun
ity, third; Brownsville community,
old stand, having succeeded Falk
fourth; Lacomb community, fifth .
Brothers.
flit
|||g OlQ Stand B^rfaSF SflOP
Fresh and Cured Meats
Jots and t ittles
F IS H
W. F. C A R T E R
Before buj ing autom o
bile supplies of any kind
it will pay you to come to
flinching.
— --------— — |
“Everything is tolarable d ear to as | jest that In a moment all would ~uim
John Standish sometimes paints
James Drinkard sports a new
derstitod. "Insteud of tilling you full
W illys-Knight auto which he got 'at pictures, among his other diversions.
already," Simon sold, “except your I
and get prices.
of
thirty-thirty
bullets,
as
better
men
He left some w ith a friend at Yaki.mu
Portland last i week.
sentence.”
We handle G O O D Y E A R . F IS K and
tlmn you have beerffilled and what we
who paints and sells pictures and
“1 want you to know that I refuse
G
A
T
E
S
T
IR
E
S
and
are
able
to
sell
The
Brownsville
Pythian
Sistfrs
who writes that of John’s productions
ought to do— we're Just going to let
you a tire at almost any price you wish have pledge<l $40 tbwards the new,
to be impressed with this Judicial atti
he has sold a 12x16 painting and a
you lay out all night—in the pasture
to pay.
tude of yen and your blackguard fol
number of pencil sketches for a good
—with your feet tied and your hands
Automobile repairing. W illard bat community bnilding.
lower«,” Bruce went oo. “This gath
price to a Mrs. McKitchen of Spokane.
behind your back.”
tery service.
Mrs. Russ Kneeland returned Sat The painting is a landscape and
ering of the group of you doesn't
No one relaxed. They listened, star
urday
from
her
visit
with
her
blind
among
the sketches is a series de
H ALSEY G A R A G E
make any evil that you do any less
aunt in Portland
ing, for what would follow.
picting various episodes in the life of
FOOTR BROS., Props.
wrong, or the payment you’ll have to
"You may get a bit cold before
Mrs. J. Curry and
children of a range colt. Including the anim al’s
Phones 1 Shop 16x5
make any leas sure. I t lies wholly In
morning," Simon went on, “but you're I
Philomath visited M r.
and Mrs. J. ( first news of the world, its first
I Residence, 164
your power to MU me while Pm sitting
C. Curry, over theweek-end.
I meeting with a calf, breaking to sad-
warmly dressed, and a little frost !
here, and I haven't much hope but
e r, _
, _
. die, life on the range, meeting the
won't
hurt
you.
And
I've
got
the
place
!
S.
P.
Barger
of
Brownsville
passed
’
- - - its - friend
- -
that you'll do i t But lat me tell you
calf -- when
grown up, pulling
his 86th birthday last week, and it out of the mud where it had become
th ia A reign of bloodshed and crime all picked ou» for you. And we're even [
was on Friday, the 13th. W hat luck! mirsd. ete.
can go on only so long. You've been going to move something that's laying j
there so It will be more pleasant.”
President Holt of the Eugene F ru it
kings up her«, and you think the law
(Continued on page 4)
Again he paused. Bruce looked up.
growers’ association is considering
can't reach you. But It w ill—believe
“The thing that's lying there is n
the building of a cannery at Browns
me, it will."
dead yearling c a lf half ate up.
It '
ville next spring.
“And this was the man who was go
was killed last night by the Killer—
We have lots of good
ing to renew the blood-feud—already
Thirteen tons of prune« were dried
the old grizzly thut maybe you've
in Jlalsey this year. Much fru it went
hollering about the lew ,- Simon sold
beard of before.
Some of the boys
to waste for want of a market or
to his follower* He turned to Bruce. were going to w a't In trees tonight by
means of preservation.
“I t ’s plain that Dave Isn’t going to the carcass and shoot the Killer when
on hand and are getting more ever» day
come. I'll have to be the chief witness he comes back after another m e a l- Simon Stood Up and Bruce Sprang
T. J. Jackson of Lake Creek will
myself, after all. However; Dave told something that likely won't happen un
From His Chair Lika a Wildcat.
probably have a wheat field to be
me all that I needed to know. The til about midnight If be runs true to
proud of.
He got certified w ln tir
to $92
whffe seed from O. A . C.
first question I have to ask o f you. Pol- form. But It won’t be necessary now. the thongs,” he ordered, “and go get
ger, Is the whereabouts of that agree We're going to haul the carcass away your horses.”
Used ranges $20 to $40. Very good
W illiam Templeton of Brownsville,
Bruce was dimly aware o f the fall
ment between your late lamented fath —down wind where he wou’t smell it.
couditon. All atfbargain prices.
whose illness became alarming
ing
of
a
silence,
and
theu
the
arms
of
er and the late lamented Matthew And we’re going to leave you there In
422 West First st.. Albany, Oregon.
week or two ago and who was sent to
r . M . FR E N C H & SONS
Roaa, according to what tlse trapper Its place to explain to him what be strong men half carrying him to the
Dr. Kent at Salem, is improving.
ALBANY
OREO.
door. But he couldn't see plainly at
Hudson told you a few dqya ago.1
came of IL"
Mrs. J. C. Standish is home from
first He knew that the clan had
Bruce was strong enough to laugh
FOR SALE
Portland and those
two
amateur
Brnce felt their glowing eyes upon brought their horses and were waiting
In his bond* “Up to this time I have him. Exultation was creeping over the j
housekeepers have lost their job, but
given you and your murderou* crowd clan; once ipore their leader had done for Simon's commuud. They loosened
are shedding no tears over the fact.
the
ropes
from
about
his
ankles,
and
credit for at least natural Intelligence,” himself proud. It was such sugges
George McCart was attacked and
be replied, -but I see I was mistaken tions as this that kept them in awe of two of the clansmen swung him on to from 1 to»3 years old. Big, fine ewes. some of his bones broken by the head
the back of a horse. Then they pussed
—or you wouldn't expect an «newer him.
of his Holstein herd on his farm
a rope under the horse's belly and tied
to that question.”
near Harrisburg Wednesday of laat
And they thought they understood. his ankles angw.
W ILDE Y LODGE NO. 65.
“Do you mean you don’t know its Thay supposed that the night would
registered. Or will let out on shares 25 week.
Simon
gave
a
command,
and
tha
Regular
meeting next Saturday
whereabouts T'
old
ewes,
or
st
$2.50
per
heed.
A. W. Metzger, long advertising
be of the utter depths of terror to the
" I won't give you the satisfaction tenderfoot from the cities, that the strange file started. The night air dis
manager, window decorator, salesman night.
of knowing whether I know or not. I hear would sniff and wander about pelled the mists In Bruce's brain, and
grade
and stockholder in the Blain Clothing
full realization of oil things came t6
comnany, Albany, has withdrawn to
Just refuse to answer."
biro, and perchance the man's hair him agalD.
to freshen this fall.
go into business for himself. E m
- I trust the ropes are tight enough would be turned quite white by morn
One of the men—he recognized him
ployes of the company gave him a
about your wrists.”
ing.
But being mountain men, they
I W A N T TO BUY
dinner a t the St. Francis Friday
"Plenty tight, thank you. They are thought that the actual danger of at as Young B ill—led the horse-on which
LAW YER AND NOTARY
night.
he rode. Two of the clanstneu rode In 1 Carload
cutting the flesh so It bleeds."
tack was aot great. They supposed front, grim, silent, Incredibly tall tig
The weather clerk was kind to the
"How would you Uke then» some that the Inborn fear of men that all urea In the moonlight. The 4malnder
B rownsville , O kkoon
birdies Sunday morning and lent a
tighter?”
animals possess would keep him at a rode Immediately behind. Simon him
dense
fog that thwarted those blood
“Pull them till they cut my arms distance. Aad, If b y ' any unlikely
thirsty hunters who had planned to
self, bowed In his saddle, kept a little
off, and you wou’t get a d m answer chance the theft of the beef carcass
ba out before day, prepared to slay
to one side. Their shadows were long
out of me. In fact—” and the man's should throw him Into such a rage that
R. B. M AYBERRY,
and grotesque on the soft gross of the
and spare aot.
.
eyes biased— T a tired e f talking to he would charge Bruce, no harm In
ATTORNEY A T LA W
meadows, and the only sound was the 477 West Eighth »treat. Eugeue, Ore.
The new officers of the Ladies*
this outlaw crowd.
And the sooner particular would be done. The man
soft footfall of their mounts.
Study
club
are
Mrs.
Raleigh
Temple
Cuticle Bank Building,
you do what you're going to do, the was a Folger, an enemy of the clun.
A full mile distant across the lush
ton, president; Mrs. J. W. Moors,
better It will suit me.”
and after once the telltale ropes were | fields the cavalcade halted about a
Albany, Oregon.
vice-president; Mrs. C. P. Stafford,
“Ws'll come to that shortly enough. removed, no one would ask questions grotesque shadow In the gross. Bruce
Disregarding that for a moment—ws about the mutilated, broken thing didn't have to look at It twice to know
understand that you want to open up that would be found next morning In what It was: the half-devoured body
the blood-feud again. Is that true?" the pasture. The atory would carry of the yearling calf that had been the
Bruce made no answer, only gazed down to the settlements merely us a Killer's prey the night before. From
without flinching into hla questioner's fresh atrocity of the Killer, the last | thence on. tlfelr 6i>erntlons became as
Send orders to W IL M E R K YLE,
and greatest of the grizzlies.
face.
outlandish occurrences In a dream.
Winsnt, Oregon.
But they had no realization of the They seemed to know Juffw hot to do.
“That was what my brother Dave
led me to understand,'' Simon went full dreadfulness of the plan. They They took him frorp the Raddle and
on, “ao we've decided to let you have hadn't heard the more recent history bound his feet ngaln. then laid. him In
your way. It'« open— It's been open of the Killer— the facts that p inion the fragrant grass. They searched hla
7 *? purpose of the compulsory publie school attendance hill It to Insure
sine« you cam« here. You disregarded had Just learned from Dave. Strange pofketp, taking the forged note that
the Instruction of all Oregon children of grammar school age In a common
the warning I gave—and men don’t and dark conjecturing occupied Si had le<$ to Jilt downfall. “It saves ma
.T-’î f v ’ .’ x ' . r 5?“ “ ° " h,; to7 •" « common Ideals, to the end that American
disregard my warnings twice. You mon's mind, and he knew—in a mo a trips” Simon commented. He11 saw
?utlon. p.rpriuaP¿.O
dm
Am ,rlc» n
« ri.in e rd ed and American tosti-
threatened Dave with your rifle. This ment's thought— that something more two ° f them lift the lorn body of tha
than
terror
and
Indignity
might
be
j
anlflia,
to
tl,p
b#ek
of
,jf
th(?
1
la a different land than you’re used
to, Bruce, and we do things our own Bruce's fate. But hla passion was ripe hornes* and he watched dtdly ns the
„
” ¿ , * ¡ 5 l ' . f r°J î? r<’ bM‘ UM ” • «uppori«« believe that only by universal-
way. You've hunted for trouble and for what might come. The few signif hope *lungod‘ nnd wheeled under the
âcMevèd0 ° 1 ° Uf ch dr* n ü0 »Und»r<l «nd uniform Unas eau (hese things b*
5
1
and
J.
5
0
per
c
w
tj
now you've found M. Tour father be icant facts that they did not know unfamiliar w eight
”
fore you thought ho could stand were merely that the Killer had al
R A LPH M cN EIL. Hslsey,
Simon spoke-ID the silence, but his
ready
found
men
out,
that
he
had
against us— but he's been lying still a
words seemed to come from far sway.
of t h V ^ ^ / T ' " Bo.r* 1,« lon» restrtotlons It contemplates no lim itation,
learned
In
an
Instant's
meeting
with
long time.
The Roesea thought eo,
or tbe right of the parent to teach religion to hla child In hit own way and
"Quiet thut horse or kill him,” he
Hudson
beside
Little
river
that
men
according to h l. own belief. It r o l . . . no ta.ua of retlglSuadifference
;
too. And It le part of our coda never
said softly. “You can’t drag the car
to take bock a threat—but always to were nor longer ta be beared, and cass with your rope—the Killer would
worse, that he was raring and deadly
make It good."
»,lbIT bl* M L ?
• B,eMur« »« Insoro that all children by attending thoi
trace It If you did and maybe spoil tbe
Bruce still M t with lowered head, from the pain of the wound that evening for Bruce.”
fha.1 r t S n’t .
L
b* U u ,h t , ll k ' dU,ln« lh ,lr
" h°" ' ri»<A .O'
Bruce’s
bullet
bad
inflicted.
outlook for tbe common weal'
seemingly not listening. The clansmen
All work done promptly and « i‘ Zb. K ? * k m ,y ? *? * to b" •
Strong arms SawM f t the bits, add"
The circle of faces faded out for
and for their country and Ils InM IlultoM -
gazed at him, and a new, more deadly
.the horse quieted, trembling. For a reasonably.
Phone No. 26V.9
spirit was la tbe room. None of them both of them as the eyes of Bruce aad
moment BruCe saw' their white moon-'
nulled now; the whole circle of faces Simon met and clashed and battled In lit faces as they stared down at him.
of our raiideJ? »J1< » *rie » a nation we mnat have all-Amariean Im truM loa
iJ— i
children along racognJead standard lines. Ignorance of American
was dark and tataoL their eyes glit the silent room.
“What about a gag?" one of the
those w h l
'* “ *•
“>•>»»“ “ » them, becauao
tered through narrowed Uda. their llpe
men ayked.
tnose
who
do not understand them properly do not support them.
i
set. The air was charged with
CHAPTER X X I
"No. Let him shout If he likes. There
Office 1st door south of school house
pens«. Ths moment of crisis was near
Is no one to heor him here.”
Halsey, Oregon.
Sometimes tbe men glanced at their
Then the tall men swung on their
“I
f
Shnon
Turner
IsD't
a
coward."
leader’s face, and what they saw there
horses and beaded . baclq across the
filled them with a grim and terrible Bruce sold slowly to the cion, "he will fields. Bruce watched them dully. - Handles Town and Country Property.
F. S MALCOLM. IS",
eagerness. Slroow was beginning to give me a chance to fight him now."
Their forms grew constantly more dim, Give him a call and see if be cas fia
Infpoctor Oeneral In Oregon,
The room was wholly silent, and tbe the sense of utter Isolation Increaa
run true to form. Bis dark passions
you up.
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rito,
were slowly mastering bins. For a mo dan turned expectant eyes to their
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ent!
ment they all aat as If entranced in leader. Simon scowled, but he knew
His eyes
a communion of cruelty, and to Brnce Ye had to moke answer.
they teemed Uke a colony of spotted Crept over Bruce's powerful body.
rattleeaakee ouch as sometimes bold “There la no obligation on my part to
their communions of hatred on the fnswer any challenges by you,” he
S m U m Champions
said. “Y'ou are a prisoner. But If you
sun-blasted cliff*
AU at once Rimes laughed— a sharp, think you can sleep better In the paa-
•
hoarse sound that had. In Its over ,<ure because of It, F11 let you have
tone* a note of madnee* Every man your chance. Take off his ropes."
« a
in the room started. They seemed to
A knife slashed at his bond* Simon
have forgottew B rae * They looked hi stood up, and Bruce sprung from his
their leader with a curious expectancy. »
E 7E .000 hs F ro m i«« »i — BoW sa d D a iry
They seemed te know that that wild chair like a wildest, aiming hla hard
B roode -H orses. Swiers. Sheep and G o a «
Is ugh betokened but ooe thing—the en«» knorkles straight for the leering
W estern W in te r P ou ltry end Rabbit Show,
Impact ef some terrthle sort of inspi Ups. He made the attack with aston
W estern D airy Products Show— Manufac
ishing swiftness and power, and his
ration.
.
turers and Land Products Show —
Aa they watched, they saw the Idea Intention was to deliver at least ooe
N ig h t Horse Show,
take hold of him. The huge face dark- terrific blow l>efore Simon could get
his
arms
up'to
defend
himself.
He
edvd H lFeyee teemed to amoider as
he sradlad his huge hand«. "We've had given the huge cion leader credit
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decided to he mareifeL after all.* he for tremendous physics I strength, but
said slowly. Bht neither Brace nor the he didn't think that tbe heavy body
FAR.FS O N
cMnmnM mis and seer nod him er were could move wttb real agility. But (be
A tL PAILUOADS
Avert red They ralY knew that these great muscles aeeme-1 to tnsp Into
teuslon,
the
bend
ducked
to
on«
aide.
words were simply pert. e f a deadly
H a lse y G arage
E. L. Stiff
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