Image provided by: Joanne Skelton; Cottage Grove, OR
About Halsey enterprise. (Halsey, Linn County, Or.) 19??-1924 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1923)
LI ■~L) i, L \ V > HALSEY ENTERPRISE VOL XII JO T S A N D T IT T L E S Brief Chronicles of Happenings in Halsey and All Over Linn County. Albert Hayne of Peoria han been Mr. beeus’s brother aud family at released from the state insane Molalla, asylum as cured. Mrs Andrew Brown visited her Editor Morgan of the Harrisburg parents at Shedd Tuesday. Bulletin was here Tuesday even- Another 100,000 young trout iug getting lasi-trinute signatures (cutthroats) came to this couu y to the bridge petition. trout th a M e K eu g le h atch ery It is suspected that Rulie John, eon, wanted for trial for the mur der of Sheriff Dunlap, is one of tne Siskiyou murderers. The final account of J. p. Schedtler, as admini*tra'or of ibe estate of his deceased wife, ha« been filed in court and Nov. 19 set for it» hearing. The valuation is 13,152 57. The new county bridge between Shedd and Tangent was closed to travel yesterday for the finishing construction touches, which will require several days. L- C. Downing aged »hour 25, was killed and two o’her loggers were injured in a logging accident at Mill City. Mrs. Frances E. Gray cam“ down from Cottage Grove yester- dav to have a look at her farm. With her came Harry Metcalf and Mrs Poe. Mr. Metcalf and a Mr. L illy, from the same oity, Wi re here Sunday for a hunt. La t evening the following offi cers were elected by Vine M *p e circle; P. G. N., Adda V. Ringo ; G- M-, Amanda Hill advisor, Mae Miller ; clerk, Della Mornhin. weg ; banker, Edith Robnett; managers, Sadie Robertson, Mag gie B essler and Agnes Brown; magician, Louise I'aylor ; attend- ant, Laura Bramwell ; inner st-nti- del, Delilah Miller ; outer senti nel. Elizabeth White j'captain of guard, Ada Corcoran ; musician. Donna Robertson ; correspondent, Louise Robnett. Refreshments were served by the committee. Vernon, youngest sou of Prof. Frank Maxwell of Tangent, fell while playing and broke an arm a few days ago. Mr. and Mrs. W. H Reene and son Allen spent the week end with »>» -a.-«», a - w .-»-» * N O .tl HALSEY. LI NN COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. OCT. 18, 1923 -ta » « « » -. »W. Wk H ave EVERY THINQ O ptical E Y E S T R A IN Is the Cause of Many HUMAN ILLS If yeur eyes give you trouble« or your glasses are a-'noymg SEE US. We can Relieve You Bancroft Optical Co. 313 1st St. W. Albany. Phone M en’s Underwear Oh boy I A good bath, a glowing rubdown. And then slip into one of our union suits. We carry the following brands: lliree Season $1-75 Beaverknit $2.00 P- Q- A. $3.50 An vises, an weights, Separate garments too lik e the price*. all fabrics. and yo u'll H e r f 'l a g o o d h e a lth tip — ¿/re th e organ a a n d m u sc le s a r o u n d y o u r aralat-H ne free p la y hr w ssr in g P r e sid e n t S u sp en d ers. L et u s sh ow KOONTZC GOOD GOODS th is week. ' We have been having April weather—laughter and tears— these October days, a fte r a glorious Indian Summer. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Tussing went to Wolf Creek, in south ern Oregon, Friday, the a tto r ney having business there. They were home early Monday. Mis. May Huston left for Co burg Friday, to spend some time with her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Templeton, and family. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Koontz were Albany visitors Thursday. E. R. Cummings and daugh te r Aletha of Albany were Sun day guests a t th e E. E. Gourley home east of town. C. R. Evans of Lake Creek purchased a Fordson and plow from the Howe garage at Brownsville last week. Mrs. H. O. Dissmore of Cor vallis was the week-end guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Walker, south of town. Mrs. Lee of Springfield spent Monday w ith h er parents, Mr. and Mr». U. R. Walker. Mrs. M argaret Starnes re turned from Marion Thursday and is visiting a t the home of her son E. A. Starnes, south of town. She will leave in a few days for Marshalltown, Iowa, for a visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. A. C. A rm strong was in Albany Monday on business and shopping. Mr. and Mrs. E. Hanson and daughter G ertrude and Mrs. H. Y. Spence and sons Wendall and H arry of Eugene spent Sunday a t the C. P. Stafford home. The ladies, who are sif ters, are cousins of Mr. Stafford. H. F. English and family spent the week end with the professor’s m other and sister in Eugene. L. E. Walton left Monday for Idaho with a carload of milch cows which he had purchased in this vicinity for resale in th a t state. While gone Mr. Walton wijl visit Ontario, Ore., also. Mrs. Nancy Jacobs of P ort land was the guest of her cou sins Mrs. F. M. Gray and Mrs. O. R. Bond, a few days last week. Mrs. Jacobs is in her eighty-fourth year and is one of the few survivors of the W hitm an M assecre a t Walla Walla. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Skipton of Albany were visitors a t the A. C. A rm strong home last week. J. P. Aylward of the Magneto Electric company, Albany, was in Halsey Monday afternoon. His firm specializes in repairing electric apparatus and solving electrical problems. The E nter prise had an electric m otor th at refused to “m ote.” An electri cian had declared th a t it needed new brushes. Mr. Aylward thought the brushes were O. K. He took a few turns w ith a screwdriver and the machine whizzed a<ain as gaily as ever. The company gets a good Hal sey patronage. It is in our Al bany directory, page 3. At the M ethodist church next Sunday, in the eleven o’clock service. “The Church” will be the subject for the sermon. The services in th e evening will lie in keeping with the Law En forcement program . Mr. Tuss ing, the attorney, of our town, will give an address on our Pro hibition Laws. There will also be a short address by th e pas tor. You will receive a hearty welcome st the»* aarvict» Pastor. (Continued gaga 1) Brownsville Briefs Shedd Snapshots O R E G O N N E W S B R IEFS (By Ralph Lawrence) Bv Anna Pennell! Bruce and Jim Burson, Frank Newland and Marion Harrison returned Saturday from Alsea with 200 fine salmon. Mr. Sompii of A storia was here a few days last week a t th e home of his parents-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Crum, in north Brownsville. Most of the business men watched the unloading of th e new electric oven being instal led in the new Snyder building to be occupied by the Dawson bakery. Prof, and Mrs. Starr, with uncle Frank Darling, motored to Independence Friday evening, returning Sunday. Helen Essex of California visited friends in Brownsville last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harrison left for Riddle last Saturday, to be gone over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Hoffman of Prineville, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Carson, Mrs. Velesta Nelson and small son of Seattle, M. C. Carson of Baker, W. A. Carson of Post, Ore., Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Carson and son Rosco, Izee, Grant Co. Ore., R. D. Carson, Niles, Calif., Mrs. D. B. Bonhan, John Day, Ore., all relatives of Mrs. Lyman Coates, enjoyed a family reunion in Shedd last week. Mrs. Vera Sprenger spent Wednesday a t the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Por ter. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kendall have moved to Albany. i W estern Newspaper Union’s Gleanings Outside of This C junty Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spauld ing of Portland were week-end visitors a t the Jack Dannen home. * Mr. and Mrs. William McDon ald of Portland spent the week end a t H arry Sprengers’ hunt Word has been received here ing. th at Rev. M. S. Woodworth will Mrs. Rud McElvain came up fill his place in the B aptist pul Wednesday from Portland to pit next Sunday. visit her husband. Marvel and Ralph Lawrence Mr. and Mrs. Henry Free-k- have rented rooms in the house occupied by Mrs. Tevepaugh sen were Albany visitors Mon and will do light housekeeping day. for the rem ainder of the school Irvin Rogers has a new Ford year. roadster. The interior of Lane’s jewel Mrs. A1 Nelson and daughter ry store is receiving a new coat Aldha drove to Longview, of paint. Wash., to visit Mr. Nelson. The initiation of the fresh T. Nelson of Canby and L. C. man class by the sophmores Pennell came up Monday to was given last Saturday night, work at the Saddle Butte quar for the benefit of all the S tu ry. dent-body. All the Freshies Merle Pugh of Corvallis spent were “electrocuted.” Dr. W altz the week er.d a t home. did the work. Mrs. Rich of Newport was in W hy the High Coast? town a few days last week, looking a fte r business interests. Apple growers state th a t the Mr. and Mrs. Tindle were In-. price they receive is b^*«w what it cost them to grow rite fruit, dependence visitors Friday. but a t the same time single Clara Hasset enrolled for apples on Fourth street in P o rt post graduate work in high land retail for five cents each. school last week. She graduated A Gresham gardner reports th at from Lebanon high last year. he received from 12 to 15 cents She is taking teacher’s training, per dozen for com which the Eva Miller having dropped her Portland restaurants resell a t work, leaving a vacancy. from 15 to 25 cents per ear. Some weeks ago the Yakima Valley News stated th a t new potatoes At Saturday’s election all were retailing for 10 cents per three measures subm itted were j pound, or $200 per ton, and the adopted. They provide for price the fanners got was three Ixjnds to make the w ater sys cents per pound or $60 per ton. tem adequate, for a reassess Portland business man, who ment of the costs of the paving A has a home on the River road, th at has been done and for an five miles out of Portland, has increase in the city tax levy hundreds of sacks of apples this year. th a t he gives to those who will ^ e v a Albert of Brownsville come a fte r them, but for which and James F. Blake of Portland he cannot get enough on the Portland m arkets to pay the were m arried Monday. experse of picking, grading and The famous Kirk walnut tree sacking. Too many profits were yields 500 pounds of nOts this added to these products.—Mar year. ket Inspector Spence. Leonard Lerwill has been commissioned a captain in the reserve officers training corps nt Eugene. Alex Howe, Charles Sterling’s ■ight-hand man in the store, and wife celebrated th eir golden •vedding recently w ith a gather ing of about sixty people at the c eorge Coshow home. They were m arried in Brownsville. Mrs. L. D. Vidito celehrated her 76th birthday last week Tuesday. Her sons Cleve and (ohn Corbel’, R. R. Crah*'" Halsey Church of Christ Church A nnouncements and Mrs. B. R. Forbes were Church of C hrist: among the guests. H er husband, Ixtn Chsmlre, minister. L. D. Vidito, is one of the old Bible school, 10. W. H. Roltart- est veterans of the Civil w ar and commander of the local G. ton, superintendent. Morning worship, 11. Lord’s A. R. post. supper every Lord's day. Christian Endeavor, 6:80. Evening service, 7:30. The ohurch without a bishop, in the country without a king. Mrs. Ruffli of Crawfordsville, If you have no ohurch home who went to Portland a fte r a come and worship with us. Somebody broke into the gar age and stole a tire belonging to Editor Loomis of the Times. serious automobile accident, was found to have a broken leg, Methodiet: Robert Parker, pastor, a broken shoulder bone and a flundav School, 10. broken bone in her face. She is Preaching. 11. recovering. Grandma Overton, over SO years old, is recovering from pneumonia. Intermediate League 6 30 Ep worth League. 6:30 Prayer meeting Thursday, 7:30, Preaching, 7:30. SUverton la to have a new railway bridge crossing Silver creek. The enrollment of the Gaston schools shows an Increase over last year. Drilling for oil Is under way at the Crane farm, four miles from Scap poose. The Community church of Brook ings, Curry county, has been Incor porated. Building permits Issued in the atty of Marshfield during September num bered 27. A shortage of cars for the shipping of livestock exists tn the eastern part of the state. Fire losses in Oregon, exclusive of Portland, for the month of Septem ber aggregated *402,750. More than 50 per cent o f’«ho can ned goods put up tn Oregon Is pro cessed in Marlon countj. A reward of *2500 each was placed on the heads of the Tunnel 13 train robbers by the Southern Pacific sys tem. Aotlng postmasters have been nam ed for Oregon as follows: Arthur C. Wahl. Banks, and WllUs L. Cady, Beaverton. ’ Fire destroyed the prune drier and sixteen and one-half tons of prunes belonging to O. P. Bond, four miles east of Salem. Portland’s wheat clearances last week totaled 1,522,138 bushels, a rec ord for any similar period In the his tory of the port. The First Presbyterian church of Portland ranks sixth in site in that denomination in the United States, with 2663 members. George P. Euston of Prineville was appointed deputy state bank examiner to take charge of liquidating the de funct LaPlne State bank. More th>n *600 was contributed by Vw! »«rutty of Oregoa faculty to Japanese relief, ronowtng the ap peal from the Red Cron. City Manager k ra is appointed Har ry Butlers as chief of the Astoria po lice department. Entlers has been aot lng chief tor several months. Fire completely destroyed Finnish Socialist hall, a three story frame stru- ture which was the largest building in the Uniontown seotlon of Astoria. W. A. O. Handford. Corvallis den tist, was severely shocked and burn ed when he touched a live wire while repairing X-ray apparatus In his of- flea. General Joseph Haller, commander of the armlee of Poland, will be a guest In Portland October 24 of the American Legion and the Polish so cieties. The report of Chief of Police Jen kins of Portland for September shows that 1446 arrests were made by his men during that month, all but 160 being men. At a meeting of the Silverton oity oouncll John Porter, a retired farmer, was chosen city mayor to succeed Mayor L. C. Eastman, who resigned a few days ago. Petitions are being signed at North Bend asking the school board to sub mit to a vote of the people a proposi tion to float a bond Issue of *36,000 tor a permanent school building. a prem ature blast near Shaniko killed Robert Hodge and Charles Rogers, workmen employed on the Cow canyon section of The Dalles-Call- fornla highway. The explosion threw both men 100 feet in the air and mangled tbelr bodies beyond recogni tion. Hodge was a former sheriff of King county. W ash, while Rogers was a Portland ui«.a The cltlsens of Beaverton voted 138,- 600 water bonds for Bull Run water at tlfc special election. The water will be piped from Portland, and a big reservoir built Immediately on the hill one mile east of town. The city of Astoria tax budget, aa submitted to the county tax commis sion totals 2579,285 against *331,140 46 provided In the 1936 budget, its final adoption would raise the city tax from 16 09 mills to 34 64 mills. District Attorney Rawles Moore of Jackson county has filed with the supreme court an application In a quo warranto proceeding to test the con stitutionality of the law under which the governor Is authorised to appoint special prosecutors. Wayne Whealdon of Portland was elected president of the Funeral Di rectors' association at Its convention In Portland. Lloyd Rigdon of Salem was chosen vice-president, Fred Walk er of Springfield secretary, and Carl Whitlock of Klamath Falls treasurer. Claude W. Barrlck of Tillamook was elected grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Oregon at the grand lodge, in session in Portland. Jay Upton of Prineville, president of the state senate tn the last session of the legislature, was elected grand vice chancellor. A tight is to be waged against goiter tn the Roseburg schools. A canvas of the schools of the county Is in prog ress to determine the number of pupils affected by goiter. As a preliminary step, Dr. Houck examined 22 Roseburg high school students and 1* of »2 ^ 8 examined had goiters. Complete abolishment of the preaagg parole system, as it affects the state penitentiary, and repeal of the law providing for indeterminate sentences probably will be requested by Gov ernor Pierce when the legislature con venes in 1926. according to announce ment made by friends of the execu tive. Johnson 8. Smith, who was removed by Governor Pierce as warden of the state peniteutlary, was presented by prisoners and guards of the peniten tiary with a silver service, and Mrs. 3mith was presented a neoklaoe, when Smith turned over the affairs of the prison to his sacceasor, A. M. Dal rymple. There are 92.761 registered voters In Multnomah ooanty who will be en titled to vote at the special election next month, aooordtn* to figures Is sued by County Clerk Beveridge. This number Is much lower than that tSS the election last year, when them were approximately 112,000 raglsta» ad voters. The deer season Is district Ma. % including all territory in Oregon wag* ' the Cascades, will dose October M i le same as last year, due to t* > Injunction Issued recently In Marla* county restraining the game coinmM slon from enforcing Its recent ruling undqf which the season would have closed ten days later. Registration of aon-rssldsnt motor vehicles In Oregon during the period May 24 to September 30, 1911, aggre gated 82,6*7, according to a report prepared by the secretary of state. More registrations were made at the Medford station than at any of tha other registration booths maintained In the state. Portland registrants ranked seoond and Waism third. W. P. flartel, director of thu bureau of public service of the interstate com- morce commission, with headquarters in Washington, has telegraphed the Oregon public Servian commission that ’it will not be possible to restrict tbs use of refrigerator cars in thia stats to the transportation of the more per ishable products. The request was mads by members of the public serv ice commission because of the appar ent shortage of refrigerator cars. Deputy Sheriff A1 Huggins of Bake* was instantly killed and "Dad” Grif fith died as a result of a shooting scrape at the Central hotel in Baker. Huggins and Chief of Police Waldo Vaughn, called to quiet Griffith, who was shooting around the hotel lobby, threatening to dean up ths police force after the arrest of B. M. Grif fith. son of "Dad,” and his wife, who were jailed an a bootlagging oharga. Griffith shot Huggins as be entered ths lobby, and Vaughn then shot Grif fith through ths abdomen. Griffith raised himself ready to aim, and an other shot from Vaughn's pistol took effect in the old man’s forehead, but hs lived three hours afterward. Despite ths fact that the Jordan vs4- ley Irrigation district recently author» ired ths lasuanoa of bonds in tha smount of *700.060 lor development work, act sal construction of the pro ject will be delayed until Rhea Luper, stats engineer, oan make a thorough i Investigation. A decision to defer de finite action pending further Investi gation of ths project by ths stats engt- | Beer was reached after a lengthy die- cussion by members of ths state ir rigation and drainage securities com mission. rsostpt of statistical Informa tion from prominent residents of tha irrigation district, and esplanations by tha prosptotlva contractors with ra> 1st ion to the eharactar of ths Improv» menu end ths cost of the varioaa S