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FACE 2
H /iL S E Y E N T E R P R IS E
IU L Y Jfc 19*21
ths pruducars
t h /
\
I
the .-list speculator*
use to hold back success of the
In Union is Strength organization
and often break i t
HALSEY ENTERPRISE
. J. SKIRVIN
When fanners will learn the
-» O T » m ir a i— B e n i-
»HKD MMSCUAMT
Co-cperation May Save lessun th a t big business has a o !
»•*•!•■»« tn»rr I'b u rsS n r
F W » . H . W H E K I KR
many times given them — th at
A ll kinds of Feed
the Farm er
controlling m arkets is th e only
New and second gram
Halsey, Oregon
sacks.
Sack twine
notions, ti.e e a year la advance.
Sucessful farm ing cannot be way to fix selling prices—then
Clover seed.
Chop
will
there
be
fair
profits
to
Advertising, 20c an inch ; no discount
ping done to suit.
done without brains. She same growers. Loyalty seems to be
lor tim e or space ; no charge lor com-
C A P IT A L
A N D
SU RPLUS
$35,000
Prices right.
oust tion or changes.
is true of successful marketing. the first necessity.
Sa “P aid-tor Paragraphs," Ic a lie n
FLO UR
A man may be a good farm er
advertising disgu ised as news.
Commercial and Savings accounts Solicited
Golden Loaf___ $2.00 and such a poor m arketer th at
Sunday before last 837 cars
W hite M ountain 2.15
he
goes
bank
~
pt.
A
successful
crossed the W illamette on the
HALSEY. Lina Co.. Ore.. July , 197.1
m arket m anager m ight go bank H arrisburg ferry.
rupt trying to carry on a farm.
MAKE
THE PRICE OF WHEAT
Every man to his trade, there
Finally she gripped the child’« shoul
are men between the farm er
der, whirled her about, and forced
The price of wheat has entered
and the consumer who under
ber Into a chair. "You sit there.” she
stand their business.
They
into partr politic« and has made
hissed. "Don’t you move. You’re a
profit
at
the
expense
of
both.
lun’tlc. We’ll have you put In a ’ey-
a beautiful me«« of the situation.
Co-operative m arketing ap
luns.”
Your Next Goal
When we were at war Europe
pears to be the only hope of the
Lettie glared steadily back at her.
could gat no wheat from South
The grip on her thin shoulder bed con
farm er today. But there are
You have finished high school
America and Australasia beoause ol
vinced her that physical resistance
as many chances of failure as
and, like all wide-awake grad
was Inadvisable, but she was serene In
of success in co-operative m ark
tbe German raeuaee to transporta
uale», are looking to college.
the knowledge that she was not a lu
eting.
At
the
head
of
such
an
tion from those place«. She could
The state of Oregon offers you
natic.
enterprise w hat is needed is not
tbe best of training and a col
get non« from Ruaiis because in
“I want my little brother.” she re-
a good farm er but a good m ark
legiate degree in the leading
peated, with diplomatic calm.
dustry there wai paralysed. The
eter. Where properly managed
A tide of color surged into the wom
pursuits and professions, ss
United Slat«« must feed tbe allies
co-operative m arketing is a suc
an'« face. She looked as I f she were
follows.- J
cess, and the more co-operation
or they would starve and the Ho-
strangling. "Ain’t nobody here," she
Engineering, Agriculture, C om
snapped.
the greater the sucess. A good
henzollern egotistic»! madman
A terrible fear clutched Lettie's
market m anager can command
merce, Forestry. Home Eco
would become the ruler of the
heart. W het If Thad really were not
a good salary. The most ex
nomics,
M
ilita
ry
Science
and
world. We were not producing
here? She bad been so blindly certain
pensive thing on the m arket is
Tactics, Mining, Pharmacy, V o
of bis presence that she bad not faced
enough to do this. Our govern
brains, and it is the most
the opposite possibility.
cational Educationand Music.
ment, to stimulate production,
profitable thing th a t can be
"Please— ”
oowvwksmt a, aeoaoe m . doaam cdhbaw Y
bought.
Student life at the college is
guaranteed ■ good price and as a
“ Shut up.”
rich in opportunities for lead
0. E. Bradfute, president of
The woman sat down across from
(Continued) *
result American farmers raised the
ership and personal culture.
the
American Farm Bureau fed
table— a rich woman. She wag count Lettie. They glared savagely at each
wheat that fed the men who woe
eration, announces a gigantic
ing her money and patting the green other. The shade« were drawn down
CH APTER X X
the war.
below the wi» .ow-sllla, so that aot a
FALL TERM OPENS plan to boost the price of this
Now Russia hss wheat to sell
ray of light could penetrate outside.
year’s
crop
of
wheat.
Lettie on the Firing Line.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1823
Ho bars Argentina aud Australia.
. No one would dream that a little
W ithdrawing
200,000,000
Lettie’s plan was definite, but only
girl was a prisoner In this house, dark,
For information write to
The seas are free again for them
bushels of surplus wheat from a child would have formed It. Her
deserted, for all that a passer-by could
to send their grain to market,
the m arket and storing it on suspicions were red-hot, but only a
T H E R EG ISTR AR
tell. . . . The room was dose and fear-
child
of
ten-second
Impulelven«
farms is proposed. It is estim at
Amerioa has more than she can
somely silent. The gas spurted up
Oregon Agricultural College
would
have
acted
upon
them.
The
ed th a t $125,000,000 of the
now and then with an angry sizzling.
sat and nobody else will buy the
was a great deni of Inflammable mate
Corvallis
Lettie’s frightened glance traveled
5660,000,000
made
available
un
sarplus at a price th it will pay
around the bare room, seeking for
der the new interm ediate credit rial In her n a tur a and no one could
the cost of raisiog it.
some means of outwitting the woman
act will be ample to finance the tell what chance spark might aet
before her. Nothing occurred lo her.
On the first page is a quota- J stored grain.
off. The evidence that had recurred
Senator Brookhart, represents
Suddenly she heard a sound thet
to
her,
under
the
stress
of
Mrs.
I'en-
tion
from
L
uther
Burbank
on
to
the farm bloo, presumably, and
Good farm wheat bins would fleld's suffering, was slight even un
was like a feint moan. I t seemed to
be proposes, as a ours for overpro- bacco. But there is no tobacco be designated as regular United reliable, but her Imagination had, In
come from a distance. She heard It
HALSEY STATE BANK
0. A. C.
Custard Cup
Florence
Livingston
States bonded warehouses and thus
duction, that we repeat the course,®'*1 tlurban k.
provide bonded warehouse re-
which produced increased produc
....
m u j-
, . .iceip ts to be issued against the
tion before—government guaran.
When Mr. Harding protested piain stored on the farm> Jlc_
again. I t might be In the basement.
vested It with integrity.
Again! She was sure It was below her
From Mrs. Sanders' living-room
somewhere.
window she had caught the merest
"O h!” Lettie started to her feet. " I
glimpse of a man with a child In his
hear him. I t ’s Thad. Let me— “
tee of a minimum limit of price. I against the “farm bloc” in con- cording to the bureau plan. arms, hurrying out of The Custard
The woman pushed her back Into
He is a political homeopothist. I gress it was a cloud no bigger The
grower could borrow Cup. Looking from a lighted room
her seat ’You fo o l! T a ln 't nothing
He thinks like cures like—that en -I than a mans hand.
Now it I through the intermediate credit iRto the deepening tw ilig h t she had
but cats."
seen neither clearly and had net
Lettie struggled to free herself. “I t
couragemeut and continuance of I looms up as a tempest.
system up to three fourths of thought of recognizing the man or the
Is, too. I know It’s Thad. Leggot
Ih .
U
I
.
U.
I
________
the
m
arket
value
of
his
stored
child.
But
when
she
had
found
that
.
. c
0 U ib t,
I grain, enabling him to withhold
Leggo! Darn It all, leggo!"
Thad was missing, she had Jumped
"Shut up. I got ways to keep you
I rices down will bring them up I I* rancisco
\ ilia slaughtered I ¡¡is wheat until prices advanced to the congenial conclusion thet she
still.” She seized the child's arms end
I without mercy. Now he ha? to the point where it would be had seen Frank Bosley carrying Thad
twisted them back with a swift
eway. Why Frank Bosley? Chiefly
advisable to sell.
wrench.
Lettie gasped; she turned
because
Lettie
disliked
him,
distrust
which could be revived with good | - H e th a t’ ta k eth up the" sword
An immediate and tremend-
faint with the pain. But when the
ed him, and because in build he was
first agony had passed, she wee filled
not unlike the man she had seen. The
ihe
with renewed defiance. I t flashed Into
fket that Frank Bosley could have no
her mind that the woman was waiting
«„,1 i, . . uai» i
, I t
"
storing of this grain in farm
wheat, sad it prohibited the raul-
Lane county has compeltsd the bins kept safe under lock and poeslble Interest In kidnaping a Cus
for something. Lettie wished tt would
tard Cup child, did not occur to dis
come. Whatever It waa. surely she
plication of that profit by reside. I market road from Coburg to the I key.
turb her conviction. True to the Im
could—
The Capper lew against trading Linn county line. This strength-
C. E. Spence, state m arket
pulsiveness which was the keynote of "What Are You Doing Hara?” Sha
The moan struck her ears again, a
la futures could be strengthed end eua competition with the Harris- I
says.;, ,
her nature^ the had jumped to a con
Demanded.
long wall of human suffering, the des
better ...forced for the farmer’, burg bridge -the bridge what ain’t. L There will »» a bum per po- clusion.
I t was several blocks to the Eve- bills Into different piles. There waa olation of a child that Is spent with
good. When the miller pay 11.50
_____ tat° Cr° P , n .Ore* on’
farm-
ridge
street house, but Lettie covered wrapping paper on tbe table, a ball of crying. Lettie's fingers worked, but
, „ _ ,
. . ..
L
n.
..
ers are wondering w hat to do
cord, a «tick of red wax.
ahe held herself «till. Perhaps the
them
rapidly. There was no light In
tn May lor wheat that the grower From the roar that arises when with it.
They a re wondering
There was no child In the room. woman would go to sleep after a while.
any window, but she rang the bell.
■old in September for 90 cents and Mrs, Poindexter etirs up the ani-1 if the price they will get will
'T U begin decent," she thought to her Having glanced around to make sure, Nobody could stay awaka always. . . .
the board of trade graindealer tu*l» at Washington with a tiny w arrant the harvesting.
self. She was sure that queer people Lettie tried to withdraw quietly, but The gas shot up at one side, sank
|
There is a wonderful grain came here, and somehow she didn't the doorknob «Upped In her hand. It again with a dismal gurgle.
makes half a million dollars in a pen point we infer that if she hud
clicked sharply. The woman turned
Presently
there
was
a
sound
outside
yield
in
Oregon
and
the
north
expect
them
to
do
anything
so
mild
year the farmer gets too little or been in either house of congress
—faint, momentary, like a step. Let-
west and growers are wondering ss to respond to a bell. Giving them with a violent start, sprang up.
the poor men's bread costs too in the place of ro.ue of the old
“What are you doing here?” she de tie's heart gave a bound of relief. But
if the m arket will give them the chance was her way cf discharg manded.
evidently It was not the eonnd th at tha
women we have sent there tbe Con wages and cost of seed.
much, or both.
ing her formal duty.
Lettie shivered at the sound of her woman had been watting for. She- sat
The financing of farmers in gressional Record would have
There
was
no
answer.
Lettie
set
her
Many growers are stampeded
voice. It was low hut harsh, cold, as stralghter In her chair, in an attl hide
holding 200,000.000 bushels of bean more interesting literature.
by stories of great surpluses teeth and proceeded to business. different as possible from Penzle’s_ of alarmed listening. The «mind rame
"Thad’s In there," she thought stead
and lack of transportation. They ily. “and Tm going to have him.’’
wheat in storage, which the farm
Uke voices she had been accustomed again. The woman sprang up, tnined
will conclude th a t they had bet
to In those lean years before she came off the gas, and went out quickly to
bureau he* helped to bring about,
Quietly she circled the two-story
ward the front of the house.
Into The Custard Cup. W ith a Jerk
ter
sell
before
the
m
arket
is
house.
I
t
had
a
high
basement.
as narrated in another column, bas
Instantly Lettie dashed the o tte r
completely glutted and while There was s basement window toward the woman had covered her money
uot the enthusiastic approval of
LAWYER AND NOTARY
there is a chance to get tra n s the vacant lot, but It wae fastened. with one of the papers. She turned on way, through a door which ahe had
tbe board of trade.
portation. It has ever been thus. Immediately she reflected that if alie Lettie with eyes that glittered, previously decided mnet lead to tha
H
ulsey , O regon
The officials of Northwest got into the basement, she would threatened. H er face had a ahut look. kitchen. Groping her way around tha
HANG MORE* MUR DEREKS |
“I want to see M r. Bosley," Lettie
wall, she opened a door Into anoOisr
W heat Growers’ Association are probably want to get upstairs and ■oundered.
room, and then one which opened Into
ro t scared by this speculators’ might find herself locked away from . T h ® woman gazed at ber coldly. spare— the stairway.
main floor. She knew that the
The best place for a deliber
HALSEY
propoganda, but the grain glow the
She plunged recklessly down tha
key wee not likely to be on the base "Ain't nobody here by that name."
ate m urderer is under ground.
er on the outside has not their ment side. Tbe windows on the first
“He comes here.”
dark stairs, her nerves keyed high by
source of crop and m arket in floor were all closed—except one on
"He don’t, neither.”
One of them, convicted in Mich
the fear cf pursuit. The moaning was
"Tea, he does," Insisted Lettie dee-
formation. If three-fourths of the other side from the vacant lot,
igan expressed his delight at
(To l-e continued)
Cash paid tor
the grain of the northw est was probably the bathroom window. Thet l'* rately- “I ’ve seen him.”
his good fortune in having chos
"Tou
haln't,
neither,”
retorted
the
Cream, Poultry, Eggs and, contracted to thfis association, wee raised e few Inches. I t was very
en for his scene of operations a
woman with vehemence. She came
these stampede stories of sur narrow, but so wss Lettie. Mentally forward,
“rou get out—” She broke
FOR SALE
state in which the penalty of Veal. M . H S H O O K .
plus yields and car shortage she pounced on that window
She called upon her wide experience off in the midst of her intensity and
would have little scare effect.
m urder is relatively light, says
glanced back at the table, as if con
If there was a state-wide m ar In prowling to help her. In the beck sidering how much the unwelcome
the Oregonian
yard she found an old box; la other
keting association to handle 60 beck yards she found other boxes. visitor had seen. “How’d you get In?"
“ If they give nte life, I’ll I*
percent of the potatoes of Ore She borrowed four of different sixes,
“Through the window. I wouldn't place in Albany.
Paying big.
Stands
out in sixteen years, anywaw,”
gon, fanners would not be won and with every Intention of returning na, done It If you’d answered the belL” investigation. For tale on account of
"What did you come for?”
other business.
Inquire Enterprise.
he said. “I'm going to be good
dering if their potato fields them. No one knew better than Let-
“My little brother. Please let me
when I get in.”
All work done piomplly and reason*
would be worth digging.
tie how Important a piece of personal
The prisoner pictures an even
The state co-operative egg property an old wooden box may be; have him— quick.”
woman’s brows drew together
ably. Phone No. 2b*>
less unhappy prospect. “ You
association of California, Ore and in spite of her acquisitive ten to The
a horrible scowl. "There ain’t no-
dencies.
she
had
a
rigid
reaped
for
«•ops. he is quoted as saying
gon and W ashington, under a
body here but me. Pm alone-and I
furth er "would not be surprised,
merger, do not fig+it each other prior claim«.
been alone all the time, too. What do
She
placed
the
boxee
on
end.
by
way
would you, if the judge let me
Second st., opposite Halsey Garage
for the eastern m arkets—they
making them reach. Then through you mean, yon little devil?'’ She made
off with two to th irty years tie-
do not all dump on and demora of
* diva at Lettie; then paused. I t was Short orders at all hours up to 11 p. a .
WILDE Y LODGE NO. M.
acquired agility and with the help of
cause I'm confessing?”
“Of
evident that she conld not make up
lize the same m arket.
nails thet bed once fastened a vine to
Regular meeting next Saturday
course,” said one of his accom
Any successful co-operative the well, she climbed within range of her tqlnd what to do with the Intruder.
plices, “when you go out on a night.
m arketing association, large or the ledge, pushed ap the window
stickup job. you intend either to
small, cuts ju st th a t much out softly, squeesed her thin body
, through.
___ ....
et the bird’s money or to shoot
of the prefits Of the speculator ! ’'ruB< downward With her wiry hand«
un, you know."
—profits th at are by all rights ir*»P|n< the «111, and touched her feel
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ulli T
The reason the restoration of
Exchange
the death penalty in Oregon has Li L i
failed to reduce the number of
Fei t end largest tine of
m urders is th a t in spite of the
law we don’t hang enough of
tham.
Heedqnsten for C a m ping O u tfit«
Used F u r n itu r e ,
Contempt of a contemptible
judge it not naceaaarlly contempt
• f the court he disgraces.
iTood aatd r w u i T J A R S 3OC a dozen
whit« .he, last
* - • " * < ifirsl st.. Albany, Oregon
the producers. It is but a mat- j f0 ,he floor
She w s. inside
With the exuber
ter of co-operative loyalty and
efficient management to merge ance of Ignorance, she felt thet her
wss nearly accomplished She
and extend these associations. quest
stretched out her hands tUI she dle-
But the great drawback of or <*overe<! the door: then went through
ganization is the growers who —Into Inky blackness, she groped
stand back and say they will Hong tbe wall, tried a door, found it
not co-operate until they see locked; tried another, found It also
how the movement works o u t locked; tried « third. The knoh
She turned -----------
It carefully
Usually there are enough of |
» . and
these to hold back a m ajority j
18,0 * rno™ ,a wb,<* « ga» j n
of the output. .And these are !
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