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H A LSEY E N T E R P R IS E
/ M ì k ,
VX. A
SEPT 20. 1923
It transpired that when seven
T. J. SKIRVIN
United
States destroyers wars
M E D MEECBAMT
HALÄEY ENTERPRISE
Of co-operation State Market
Good quality, 12 feet wide'____
yard
wracked in a fog in southern Cal.
A ll kinds of Feed
»«■Irai— MW«
pector 3?t.i) i aayi :
VfcaraMay
Good quality. 6 feet wide
iforoia, with the loss of nearly
g e e and secoad grain
yard
With the twu-thirdi middle ex-
• r W a . ■ . WUIUCLCR
sacks.
Sack twine.
twoscora lives, four more vessels
PrjceaY
50'
16
Simmon«,
all
cottton,
$17
___________ jease cut to the barest necessary
Clover wed. Chop
ping done to suit.
rlotleoe. »16# a year la advance 1 ddl,r*. ai«J *ith perhapi both pro- were damaged. If a Heat can do
Prices right.
50-lb Simmons, all Cotton, $16 valui for
Advertising, 20c an inch ; no discount | tlacaM »« d coasutnere being their as badly as that when it is trying
for lim e or space ; no charge for coni- own middlemen, price control no I to bs good what would happen if
FLO UR
auaition or changea.
2-inch posts, seven 1-inch fillers, only.
ihs pari of the farmer to tliej |it started out to “ treat ’em
Golden Loaf— -$2.00
■ "F eid-fo e Paragraphe," Sc a liâ t
W hite Mountain 2.15
xtent of a fair return for bit labor, rough "T
See us when in need of
’• advartlalng dlatrulaad as new a
vou Id not add to tbe high retail
jriees against which the homes
guees I'd tike to look him op when I
HALSEY, Linn Co.. Ore.. Sept. 20, 1923 «re now protesting.
¿ Illllllllllllllllllllllfin U tlllfU lilflflin ilU f get back.’ I (lnn't know h l. address.
We can save you money
_
§
I can write to Nurse Edith for It If
J. B Neff, the veteran Califor 3
you like.’ I thanked him. TDon’t say
FARMERS’« CO-OPER ATION nia walnut-growing expert, now
who it Is wants it. I'd like to give
retired, writes to tbo California
415-421 West First street
Albany, Oregon
him • little surprise.’
The farm bloc in congress it but [Cultivator :
“That was aboot ell I could do for
one manifestation of a spirit that | wheat is now below >1 per
tbo moment. O f course. If the girl ly relinquished the Idea of appealing
“Well, without prejudice, then, if I
was really W hittingtons niece, she to Sir James Peel Edgerton. Indeed,
has long been working, but work lUshal in Chicago with a large j
had a young sister forced to earn her
might be too cute to fall Into the
she bad gone so fa r as to look up
ing eery slowly, amoag the farm ;rop in sight that has cost the
trap, but It was worth trying. My his address In the Red Book. Had firing, I should not like to see her In
iarmer $1.25 per bushel to grow
Mrs. Vandemeyer’s eervlex I t fa do
•ra of tbe country.
foot soon got ell right. I said good- be meant to warn her that day? I f
place for a young and Inexperienced
aid get into the elevator at the |
by
to
the
little
doctor
chap,
asked
Unions of employes and uuiour railroad. When the freight to
so, why? Tuppence decided, with her
him to send me word If he heard from usual shake of the shoulders. It was girl. That la all I can tell you.”
of employers bad been in exist- Chicago is deducted from the Chi-
“I see,” said Tuppence thoughtfully.
Nurse Edith, and came right away worth trying, and try it she would.
once before the grange movemeut |eago price the farmer will receive
bock to town. Say, Miss Tuppence, Sunday was her afternoon out. She "Thank you very much. But I ’m not
really Inexperienced, you know. I
you’re looking mighty pale?”
started, away back near the mid not more than 80 cents a bushel
would meet Jollux persuade him to knew perfectly that she was a bad lot
“I
t
’s
Tommy,”
said
Tuppence.
her point of view, and they would when I went there— as a matter of
die of tbe last century, but it was for his wheat. The immediate
“ What can have happened to b lm r
:auae of this seems to be the Isrge
beard tbe lion In his den.
fact that’s why I went— ” She broke
claimed that a union of farmers .-arry over from last year and the
“Bock up; I guess he’s all right
When the day arrived Julius needed
really. Why shouldn’t bo be? See a considerable amount of persuading, off, seeing some bewilderment on the
waa impossible. They would not •villingnees of Europeans to grow
here. It was a foreign-looking guy ho but Tuppence held Arm. “I t can do lawyer’s face, and went on: “I think
“ stick,’* Their unions would (heir own breadstuff*. This con-
went off after. Maybe they’ve gone no harm,” was what she always came perhaps rd better tell you tbe whole
iition is not likely to improve, as
crumble,
abroad— to Poland, or something like back to. In the end Julius gave In, story, Sir James. I ’ve a sort of feel-'
iiiiiiiim iiiiiiiiiiiiiiin iiiiiiiiiiiii
lng that you'd know In a minute If I
that?"
Tbe grange came, and for half the tendency ef foreign nations
and they proceeded In the car to didn't tell the truth, and so you
(Ccpzrtabt Dvdd, Uwd A Campan?)
seems to be to return to I be pro
Tuppence
shook
her
head.
'T
y
e
Carlton
House
terrace.
a century it has been a power in duction of their own bread and
might as well know all about It from
I seen that man, Boris something, since.
The door was opened by an Irre the beginning.”
(Continued)
the laud. It grappled with the meat. Wage, of almost everyone,
I He dined with Mrs. Vandemeyer last
proachable butler
Tuppence felt a
"Tee, tell me all about It,” said Sir
• night.”
biggest economic problem io Amer except tbe iand-owning fanner,
little nervous. She had decided not James.
“Well, luckily for me, I pitched
“Mrs.
Who?”
are almost at the highest peak of down Into a good soft bed of earth—
ica—that of transportation.
to ask I f Sir James was "at home,”
Thus encouraged. Tuppence plunged
’’I forgot.
Of course you (don’t but to adopt a more personal attitude.
Into her tale, and the lawyer llatened
RailroeJ corporations claimed recent years. Coal ehovelers are but it put me out of actio n .fo r the know all that.”
“W ill you ask Sir James If I can with close attention.
that
wo power
nn_ . , could
.
i
ii
$7 50 carp,
for eight
hours’
that no
legally
curb i |8 elli
lh# Dg
»minM
*
|a to |2 work
26 time, sure enough. The next thing I
T in listening,” said Julius, and see him for a few minutes? I have
knew. I war lying In bed with a hos
“Very Interesting,” fce said, when
their policy of charging “ all that [an hour, i lasterers $1.76 Ito $2 an pltal nurse (not Whittington's one) gave vent to his favorite expression. an Important message for him.”
she finished. "A great deal of what
“Put me wise."
The
butler
retired,
returning
a
mo-
you tell m x child, Is already known
the traffio would bear." W b a tp our- while the farmer has, in on one side of me, and a little black-
Tuppence thereupon related the meat or two later.
to me. I ’ve had certain theories of
ware called “ the grauger laws ’’ ," ” t ca,eg’ beeo workin8 »t » *O4i bearded man with gold glasaes, and events of the last two days. Julius*
“ Sir James will see you. W ill you
my own about thia Jane Finn. You’ve
. I for the last three years, although medical man written all over him, on astonishment and admiration were step this way?”
done extraordinarily well so far. but
. .P
•]* “*t,r ,t,te his labor ie surely worth as much the other. He nibbed his hands to unbounded.
He ushered them Into a room at the
It’s rather too bad of— what do you
aud io oengraaa, and were carried La unskilled labor in other mar gether. and raised his eyebrows as I
“Bully for you I Fancy you a me back of the house, furnished as a know him as?—Mr. Carter to pitch-
stared
at
him.
'A
h!’
be
said.
‘So
our
through to the courts of last rs- J kets. This is a condition Ilia* I
fork you two young things into an
young friend la coming round again. nial. It Just tickles me to death I” library. The collection of books was
sort and the grangers won. Rater [cannot loug exist, for if the Capital.
Capital. I think that’ll do Then he added seriously: “But say, a magnlflceut one, and Tuppence no affair of this kind. By the way, where
now,
I
don’t
like
It,
Miss
Tuppence.
ticed that ail one wall was devoted
lor fares aud freight, and even the
«• a claas arB kpP‘ °'->l <>» for the present, slater,’ and the nurae
did Mr. Hershelmmer come In origi
I sure don’t. These crooks we’re up to works on crime and criminology.
«..mu.
i
. •
I k 1“ w
® ujurket
buyers
because
wage, of employes,
are .«eject
priceg o, as , h,
jr orop%
# |J of left the room In a sort of brisk, well- agslnst would as soon croak a gtrl as There were several deep-padded nally? You didn’t make that clear.”
Julius answered for himself.
trained way. But I caught her band
leather arm-chairs, and an old-fasb-
today to control by stale and na- J grorkers will soon ahve their own ing me out a look of deep curtoalty a man any day.”
”l'ra Jane's first cousin,” he ex
“Oh,
bother
m
e!”
said
Tuppence
loned
open
hearth.
In
the
window
plained, returning the lawyer's keen
tion. Henry Ford has even be« u I warehouses full of unsold good? as she passed through the tleor.
Impatiently.
"Let’s
think
about
what
was
a
big
roll-top
desk
strewn
with
gate.
‘‘That look of her« gave me an Idea.
denied permission to reduce rat«»|l‘nd must **• i,lle-
“Ah 1”
‘Now, then, doc,’ I sold, and tried to can have happened to Tommy. I ’ve papers at which the master of the
house was sitting.
on the road ha owos and coni pa
“Oh, Sir James,” broke out Tup
alt up In bed, but ray right foot gave written to Mr. Carter about It.” she
Roy Qarduer, a robber who be- me a nasty twinge as I did so. ‘A added, and told him the gist of her
He rose as they entered.
ulaa have been forbidden tc build
pence, "what do you think has be
letter.
“You
have
a
message
for
me?
come of Tommy?"
USW br.uches when tbsv wish. 1 to C‘ œeMher0 in th® e7*a of gome
slight sprain.’ explained the doctor.
Julius nodded gravely.
Ah”— he recognized Tuppence with a
I psople
ttannla i in Oregon
.. —
_ J elsewhere
___ 1- _ . I ‘^siYfhlna?
_
"H ’m."
The lawyer rose, and
Nothing io?Inna
serious. Vccn'll
You’ll U*
be about a . s In
and
"
I
guess
that’s
good
as
far
as
It
do so. The Southern Pacific has
a couple of days.'”
paced slowly up and down. “When
when
he
made
several
sensational
goes. But It's for us to get busy and
Just finished a ten-year legal fight
you arrived, young lady. I was Just
“I noticed you walked lame,” Inter
do something. I guess we’d better
packing up my traps. Oolng to Scot
for the right to run the Central, •acapst from oftkers of tbe law, polated Tuppence.
get
on
the
track
of
Boria.
You
say
land by the night train for a few days’
Julius nodded, and continued.
although it owns the property out want south and committed some
he's
been
to
your
place.
Is
he
likely
fishing. But there are different kinds
"•How did It happen T I asked
more
crimes,
including
an
inde
to
come
again?"
right and submits to government
of fishing. I ’ve a good mind to stay,
“He might. I really don’t know.”
•gala. H e replied dryly. «You tell,
and see If we can’t get on the track
control of fare«, freight rates, cent assault on a woman. Ha with
" I see.
Well, I guess rd bettor
a considerable portion of one of
of that young chap."
was
sent
to
prison
on
a
new
sen
wages and other condition!.
my trees, Into one of my newly plant buy a car, a slap-up one, dress as a
“Oh 1” Tuppence clasped her hands
chauffeur and hang about outside.
ecstatically.
Latterly tbe grange h i. failed to tence ei 75 years and is a gray, ed flower-bed.'
Then
If
Boris
cornea,
you
could
make
"
I
liked
the
man.
Ho
seemed
to
"All the somx as I said before. It’s
expand as fast as the country has headed and kroken*dowu convict have a sense of humor. I felt sure s o « j kind of signal, and Pd trail
too had of—of Carter to set you two
grown and there hrs arisen au- uow. Elmer Bartlett was a hero that lie, at least, was plumb straight. him. How's that?”
babies on a Job like this. Now, don’t
“Splendid, but he mightn't come
•iber organisation of tbe farm e l last wsek in the eyes of aome of 'Sure, doe,' I said. T in sorry about
get offended, Miss—er_" .
for weeks.
"Cowley.
Prudence Cowley.
But
ement—the farm bureau. It does the dime-novel-reading class. H# the tree, and I guess the new bulbs
"W e'll have to chance that,
will be on me. But perhaps you'd
I ’m
my friends call me Tuppence.”
ie
an
Oregoo
boy
burglar
and
he
uot supercede the grange. Il sup-
Uke to know what I was doing In your glad you like the plan.” H e rose.
M l ?’ T u p p * nre ' m » « l •» rm
escapes.
Friday , «ardenT ‘I think the facte do call
“Where are yon going?”
o
, made
. several
..
,
plejtuuts it. It is respousible for had
certainly going to be a friend. Now,
'T o buy the car, of course,” replied
about this young Tommy of yourx
the fact that the farmers of the rortland police polled him from I ,or explanation,’ be replied. ‘Well, to
I ’ll be round In It
under a bed w here he was h id in g I be<lB with. I wasn’t after the spoons.’ Jullun, surprised
Frankly, things look bad for him.
country have stored one-half of
In half an hour.”
He
a been butting In somewhere where
•Tou're awfully good, Jullua. But
the year's wheat orop in warehouse . . d
he wasn't wanted. Not a doubt of I t
out don t give up hope.”
wbarg It is available as security heroic 1 Uoye, d o n ’ t you w ent to J°u ere an American, are you not? I can’t help feeling that It’s rather a
"And you really will help us?
follow
bis
example?
1 tolrt him my name. 'And yo u r ‘I forlorn hope. Pro really pinning my
for loans and those of them in
am Doctor H a ll, and tills, as you faith to Mr. Carter. By the way, I
ere, Julius I H e didn't warn me to
need of a little ready caab will not
come, she added by way of explana-
In «he lo, eresi of on. of on . of I X u * ’
h<* forgot to tell you of a queer thlqg
that happened this morning."
be fotoed to sell for the low price
the noblest branches of its service , “I made up my mind In a flash,
I HH n i’ M ld th* I * wJ*r, favoring
And she narrated her encounter
that always prevails at harvest
Julius with another keen glance. “And
to
humanity
the
Salvation
Armv
"
h^’
?o5tor’’
1
aald-
T
»»«•«
I
**•!
with Sir James Peel Edgerton. Julius
Il mt.
why was that?’
bas in advertisement in this paper to "et yoi/ku'Tt X t ’ iT w iw t toe was Interested.
" I reckoned It w c-jd be no good
The Chicago grain gamblers de
“W hat did the guy mean, do you
He Arose as They Entered.
’ 'or’7*n< you with a petty little busi
clare that the holding back t addressed to unfortunate girls. To| 8111 Sikes business I was up to.' Then think?” he asked.
ness like this:”
I went on and mumbled out something
" I don’t quite know,", said .Tup
wheat can have no effect on the change despair to hops is the| •bout a girl. I trotted out the stern pence meditatively. “But I think smile— “It's you, la It ? Brought • .«.J. ’ **
Ha Paused • moment.
message from Mrs. Vandemeyer, I
grandest work mortele can do.
guardian business, and a nervous that. In an ambiguous legal, without
•This petty little buatneex as you call
market. They wish it wouldn’t
suppose?”
breakdown, and Anally explained that
It. bears directly on a very big busl-
lawyer’s way, he wae
The wish is father to the thought
The , attorney general says there | f had fancied I recognised her among prejudlcelsh
“Not exactly," said Tuppence. “In
trying to warn roe.”
^ 8t l bi<T r P* rh* > * “ ».n either you
fact, I ’m afraid I only said that to
The day this is written tbe Ore is no la w a u th o rin g th e use of the the patients at the home, hence my
or Miss Tuppence know. I f this boy
"W hy should be? See here, we
be quite sure of getting in. Oh, by
L ' - ’ ; , b* m ,r haT* ' • T valuable
gonian heads a Chicago mat kt I n avy a g a in s t ru m runners and it is noc,urBal adventures.
don't want any lawyers mixed up In
the way, this Is Mr. Hershetmmer, Sir Information to give ux Therefore, we
this. That guy couldn't help us any."
diapatoh: “ Lack of (Selling reported th a t C o o lid ge will net ask
James Peel Edgerton.”
wm
must find him. There’s on. person
“W
ell,
I
believe
be
could,”
reiter
Pressure on Whiat io Chicago ’g, congress to remedy the defect. O u r|m a n c x ’ he said genially, when I d
“Pleased to meet you,” said the quite BM r at hin<, wbo )n r1|
ated Tuppence obstinately.
American,
shooting
out
a
hand.
ability knows where he lx or at all
If the country’» wheat orop can navy ia an expensive ornament.
finished. ‘Now, Doc,' I went on, ‘will
"Don’t you think It. So long. I ’ll
“Won’t you both stt down?” asked
you be frank with m et Have you be back In h alf an hour.”
events where he Is likely to b e - M r x
be kept out o, the hands of specu
Sir Janies.
He drew forward two Vandemeyer.”
Thirty-five minutes had elapsed
The one caramendable thing in had here at any time a young girl
chxlrx
lators and passed to the oven and
called
Jane
Finn?
He
repeated
the
when
Julius
returned.
He
took
Tup
“Yex but she’d never tell ux”
Str James,” said Tuppence, plung
aud the dialog table with only tbe connection with Hie prise fight name thoughtfully. ‘Jane Finn7* be pence by tbe arm, and walked her
'* wh*r* 1 com*
r |
ing
boldly,
“I
dare
say
you
will
think
think b , nlte , , ke , y fh > t j ghaU
to the window.
legitimate coat of that transfer, which fools piid a million and a sold. ‘No.’
It lg most awful cheek of me coming able to make Mrs. Vandemeyer tell
half dollars to see last wyek is
‘T wae chagrined, and I gums I
T h e r e she lx
there will be left to the producer
here like this. What I really want to
allowed It. ‘You are surer ‘Quite
me what I want to know.”
"Oh I” «eld Tuppence with a note know Is what you meant by what vou
that
the
United
Stales
got
$160,000
j
or the consumer, or divided be
sure, Mr. Hershelmmer It Is an un of reverence In her voice, as she
”How?> demanded Tuppence, open- '
said
to
me
the
other
day?
Did
you
in taxes on the eel« of tickets,
tnr ber eyes very wide
J
common name, and I should not have gazed down at the enormous car.
tween them, the sums that other-
—
.
mean to went me against M rx Vsnde-
been likely to forget I f
"Oh, Just by asking ber quee-
Friday
aud
Saturday
passed
un
wise would go to the pockets of
Having spent,in resisting French
meyer? You did, didn't you?”
“Well, that wae flat. It laid me eventfully. Tuppence had received •
’•Tbl’»-. »^ PUM W r J* mea *aaDy
' My dear young lady, as fa r as I
speculators.
attempts to collect promised repa out for a space. I ’d kind of hoped brief answer to her appeal from Mr.
T h a ts the way we do IL you k n e w *
recollect I only mentioned that there
end. T hat's Carter. In It he pointed out that tho
W' th Wg
* •
All this will not be achieved at rations, enough to have paid those I "7 T**rch w”
were
equally
good
situations
to
be
ob
e la im s o n In 1097
, h ,t ' 1 aal<1 at ,a’
1- 'Now,
"ow , ineres
tablx and Tuppence felt again the In
last.
there's Young Adventurers bad undertaken
tained
elsewhere.”
ooe stroke, so there is used for the sis n s up to 1D27. Germany ae- another matter. When I wee hugging
tense power that radiated from the
the work at their own risk, and had
Tex I know. But It wee • hint
Di an.
darned branch I thought I rec- been fully warned of the dangers
continuance of the grange auj th m i t i t h a t resist a no« is * fa ilu re . I
wasn't I t r
—-
—.I—
"And If she
ognlzed an old friend of mine talking I f anything had happened to Tommy
bareau and tbe bloc.
"Well, perhaps It wax" admitted Julius suddenly. wont toll?” asked
Mayor Baker of Portland is a to nno of your nureex' I purposely be regretted tt deeply, but he could
Sir
James
gravely.
A fair price for his products will candidate for the United States dldn - mention any name because. of do nothing.
”T think she will. I have one or
13 ell, I want to know more. I
nut be sufficient to right the farm
_ .
Thia was cold comfort I t seemed
lB
want to know Just why you gave me unlikely event, there Ie gun-
i,
always tbe
quite different to the girt th a t for the Arat time, she a hint."
er’s wrongs. He and the rest of publioan party on a knowuothing J down here, something
but the doctor uns» ere,! i realize,? the sinister character of the
possibility of bribery ”
Sli James smiled at her earnest- ,
ue pay loo niueh for many of the platform.
at once. 'Mr. Whittington perhaps * mission they had undertaken so light
" ' L . ’* " d that'a where I come
That's the fellow,’ I replied. ’What a henrtedly. It had begun tike a page
i.n
fried Julius, bringing hie fist
products of labor. When plaster-
If an eueniy'a navy should he doing down here? Don’t tell me of romance. Now. shorn of Its glamor.
•rs get from $10 to $20 a day rents
his nerves are out of order?
It seemed to be turning to grim real
will be too high. When anthra damage ours as much as it dam
"Doctor H all laughed. ’No He rnrne ity. Tommy— that waa all that mat
aged Itself In southern California down
T h ere A r e T w o
to see one of my nurses. Nurse tered
cite coal posses through the heads
Many times In the day Tup
the other day ,h9 enemy would Edith, who Is a alece of his.’ ‘Why, pence blinked tbe tears out of her
of four wholesalers, each tnekiug
teucy th at!’ I exclaimed.
Is he still eves resolutely.
celebrate victory.
Kinds of Sweets
" U tile foot" she
a profit, before tbe retailor gets it,
here? •N<\ he went back to t««n would apostrophise herself, “doot
It eoste too much. Federal invest-
■ u g s n e D ib s says tbe poor g o | a,nK** Immedtetely.’ ’W het • p ity ’’ snivel O f course you're fond of him
he kind you cas be sure coetaies tbe
Linoleum
Alattress
IVOry Bed
$1.10 •
_ 75C * *^uart
$12.50
11.50
. ..$11
F U R N IT U R E
Bartcher & Rohrbaugti Funuiure Company
The Secret
Adversary
«¿‘¡T
, k ,..
tgatora found such a condition ex t« w a r and the rich s ta r at home
D ..X _
v
T .
nome,
isting.
r«thap a be excepts noh O C
* *Ja™,a,* ‘’
Bu‘ Erhepä I wuid
You’ve known him ell your llfx But
there’s no need to be sentimental
about I t "
B e rg d o ll.
I
“But the doctor shook hit bead
In the meantime, nothing more was
_
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T m * fr ,id that*
,a lupoewi x , ___________
_
. He
. . ,.,u
seen of Borlx
did um
not come to
G o v ern o r Pierce fa ile d lo please N’Dr»* E<$t»h left with a patient to. the flat, and Jnltns and the enr wait
, peak
h„ Dl#ce_ N n rw
you say her name was?
For a ray of light on the sub-
Jeet of profiteering read an aiticle
oodar tbe head : “ Why the High
the pie hunters aod »hey are after
u
i ___ with
,.v —
. ..
L'oetf ’• io thia paper.
h i____
i. scalp
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