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N O V . 1S. 1723
tween San Francisco and Portland.
Turnlng to latch the gats, ha saw
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1 through the dusk the white dress un-
HÀUBXY ENTERPRISE
th e r* are tu itio n s in i t in every
Monday was the fifth anniversary der the tree and drawn by the greatest
*t— n o t a e n m l—«»"«■ A^e of the world
of the signing of the armistice. Gyr
attraction known in nature, had re-
»abllsh»» every
rkursSsy
i r
j
..k u ,i j i
. .. . eotered the Woodruff grounds and
eral Ludendorf, who had declared that strolled back
•v
H . W H IC K LB B
The Junction City Times referring
the German army had not been defeat |
a brief hello betrayed old ecqualat-
ance, and that social equality which
o r lp lio a a fl.4 0 a y e a r la advance. to the promptness with which the vote ed, wasn’t celebrating this time.
still persists In theory between the
Advertising, 20c an inch ; no discount was announced calls that the fastest
lor lim e or space ; no charge for com
work people on the American farm
city.
Twenty or th irty yenrs ago,
Although it cannot be found in and the family of the employer. A
position or changes,
when saloons and houses of vice Webster’s dictionary, the word ’ got desultory murmur of voices ensued.
ka “P a id -fo r P arag rap h s." le a lias,
■ a a d v e rtis in g disguised as news.
Jim Irwin set down on the bench—
flourished more in Oregon than they ten” has gotten into increesingly gen
not too close, he It observed, to the
do today, railread men used to say eral use and the Oregonian’s “ English pique skirt , , . There cam« Into
Otfiee h o u r * t to 11 a n d I Io 0 C M I p‘ |
Junction City was the fastest town be- Quiz” admits it as an English word.
Mondays and Friday forenoons.
,h* voices » “ft« of deeper earnest
ness, betokening something quit« aside
from the rippling of the course of true
H A L S E Y . Linn Co.. Ore.. N ov. 15. 19231
j love running smoothly. In the man’s
voice was a tone of protest and plead-
I lug. . . .
W H Y T H E H IG H PRICE?
" I know you ere," said she, “but
after all tbese years don’t you think
O fficial statistics fo r 1922 show
Tbu should be at least preparing to
that consumers paid 22 1-2 billion dol
be something more than that?”
lars for farm products, exclusive of
“What can I do7" ha pleaded. “I'm
tied hand and foot . . .
I might
cotton, tobacco and live stock.
01
< have. . , ."
this total the middle interests receiv
M h l Run
.......................»34 V ton r Scratch................................... »2.50
c w tJ
“You might have." said uh a, “b u t
Molasses Heed
------- . . 34 > ton Bone M e a i . . . . . . ____ __ ______ 13.20
ed 14 1-2 billions for getting it to the
Jim, you haven’t . . . and I don’t
Capital M ixe d H e e d ..— . 33
ton Poultry Bone__ . . . ___________ 3 30,
| Capital M a s h ------------ $2.50 W cw t Oat G ro a ts ....................................... 3 2 0
see any prospects. . . .”
consumers and the fanners received
i Egg Builder
2 60 $4 cwt. Eastern S h e ll................................... 1.40J
’1 have been writing for the farm
7 1-2 billions.
Such a condition will
I Soy Bean M e a l_______ 2.75 V c w t, O il M e a l ...... .................................... 3.003
papers,” said J im ; “bat , . ."
Cocoanut m eal................... 1.60 W cwt; Beat Hard W heat F lo u r............... 1 90 J
break any industry.
'But that doesn’t get you anywhere,
.Fish Meal
. . . . . . 4 75 V c w t
Valley F lo u r-------1.......................... j.5 0
The department of
agriculture
i you know. . . . You’re a great
deal more able and Intelligent than
states that two million people left
Ed. and see what a fine position ha
the farms last year because they
has In Chicago. . . ."
could not make a living, and thou
“There’s mother, you know," said
halsev
Jim gently.
sands more would no doubt have left
“You can’t do anything here," Mid
i f they had been able to sell or rent
Jennie. “You’ve been a farm-hand for
their land.
fifteen years . . . and you always
will be unless you pull yourself loose.
There are 33 1-2 millions of fa m
O u r C a n r lv
E t* d a ^ rl caB make • PIaca tor her-
v /u i v a m p
ge)f ,f ghe doegn.t marry an(J )gay#f
folks engaged in producing food fo.
aving secured the exclusive sale
of the Cherry City Milling com pany’s
feeds and flour, and a carload of feed
being duo Nov. 15, I announce the following
p rice s:
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Keep these prices in mind
T. J. SKIRVIN
^
A Child May Eat
the nation and there are 19 millions of
without any injurious effects, for it is the farm. You’re twenty-eight years
i l l fresh and made of the purest mate old.”
“Jt's all wrong I” said Jim gently.
rials. The p u rity and freshness of our
confectionery has slwsys be,u
our “The farm ought to be the place for
strong point, and it has always found the best sort of career—I love the
soil I"
ready favor with the candy eating pub
’T va been teaching for only two
lie. Just try a box and be convinced, as
years,
and they say I'll be nominated
it is the best candy m id«.
middle folks concerned in distributioi
of these products to the homes.
The
results are that the middle interest
fix the price so low to the farmer
that he cannot get cost of productioi
on many of his products, while th;
price to the homes is so high tha'
Clark’s Confectionery
normal buying is greatly reduced.
i f this keeps ucurring long enough
the increased number of city residents
w ill reduce the price of their work
and their products and the reduced
supply o f farm help w ill raise the
price of farm work and products and
W in te r !
Yes; it is almost hero. #That
means
even things up.
Some producers of special crops, a
wheat, loganberries and a few others
in Oregon have been hard hit, but no!
enough to justify any general cry of
"hard times."
We do not hear anj
wails from owners of herds of prop
erly tested Jersey or Holstein cows
H e a tin g
Stoves
See our
new and
complete lino
ot Heaters
and growers of diversified crops are
prospering.
\\ e solicit your stove Repair business.
Col. Sudtell, the leading auctioneer
of this region, reports the most sue
H IL L & <§.
cessful sales year in his experience
Bidders with cash have been plenti
ful and prices good.
The railroads all over the country
and especially in Oregon, are carry
¡ng more freight, month after month,
than ever before, and freighl move
We do not indorse the plea of some
farmers for a loosening of the re
straint on
immigration of
laborers
Relief from low prices will not come
from overfilling the farm labor m ar
ket.
Wages for such labor, though
too high compared with the price of
whe.-.s are too ridiculously low com
pared with wages of trades in the cit
ies and towns
I f the cost of skdl
a good job of hod carrying, and it
ought to command as good pay.
The taxes have been heavier than
l*»t year, but there is less delinquency.
"Every day, in every way," times
“ are getting better and better.”
Don’t knock, rejoice and be exceed
ingly glad.
Our Brownsville corrasp.on lent
It right in thinking people ought
to be “ pretty su-e of themselves ’
before leaving one cried for an-
other. No nuubt, however, thes»
believers in modern divine heeling
feel quite as sure of themselves a-
Ahrshtm di.I when he left th»
eburob of Ur. or Paul wheh h<
left the church (synagogue) of ,e -
rusalem, or Luther when t e lof>
the ohureh of Ron», Wesley when
he left ths church of England or
Roger 'Villism w het be went out
from the Puritan chureh end
founded the Baptist denomination
It ie a perpetual prooeasion and
morse for their male victims, and so and doughnuts wens served. A t a late
Jennie slept very well that night
hour all left wishing M r. and Mrs
Jim Irwin was bony and rugged and
.
homely, with a big mouth, and wide I St tto
mt,I,y happy days in their
ears, and a form stooped with labor. I new "old home.”
He bad fine, lambent gentle eyes
Those present were: M r. and Mrs.
which lighted up his face when he
I Chas. Holloway, M r. and Mrs. W. C.
smiled. He was not ugly. Jim Irwin
possessed charm. That la why little Templeton, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Kuni-
Jennle Woodruff had asked him te ter, M r. an’d M r i. George McKinney,
help with her lessons, rather oftener
Mr. and Mrs. Rebhan, M r. snd Mrs.
than was necessary. In those old days
t Harry Thompson, M r. and Mrs. J. D.
In tha Woodruff schoolhouse when
I Cain, M r. and Mrs. Joe Hume, Mr. and
Jennie wore her hair down her back.
Mrs. H a rry Park, M r. and Mrs. A. W.
But In spite of thia homely charm
Lawson, M r. and Mrs. B. E. White,
of personality, Jim Irw in was set off
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Morse.
from his fellowa of tha Woodruff
neighborhood. Ha w at different In
local parlance, be was an off ox. He
was as odd aa Dick's hatband. He ran
In a gang by himself. He bad always
liked to read, and bad piles of liter
ature In his attic room which was
good, because It was cheap.
B e it ayd largest line of
Very
few
> « < / le
w people
p e u p ie know
s u o w that
u w i cheap
cn m ip t W T
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literature la very likely to ba good, be-
causa It Is old and unprotected by
. **>
copyright Jim had Emerson, Thoreau, | Pull lice ot
an Encyclopedia of English Literature,
Heavy
soma editions of standard poets In pa
D P R IN T L IN O L E U M
per covers, and a few Rusklns and
Carlyle»—all read to rags.
$1 per square yard.
In fact, Jim had a good library of
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West
First
st..
Albany, Oregon
publications which can ba obtained
gratia, or very cheaply—and he knew
their contents. He had a personal
philosophy, which w bllt It bad cost
him the world In which his fellows
lived, had given him one of bis own. In
which ha moved as lonely as a cloud,
and as untouched of the life about
Efficient Service.
Motor Hearse.
him.
Lady Attendant.
By every test of common life, be
was a failure. His family history was Brownsville_____________ _____ Oregon
a badge of failure. People despised a
man who waa so Jncontestably smarter
than they, and yet could do no better
w . L. W R IG H T
with himself than to work In tha fields
Mortician & Funeral Director
alongside the tramps and transients
and hoboes. 8s-e for hla mother and
,
Ilalsey and Harrisburg
their cow and garden and flock of
all D. T a y l o r , Halsey, or
fowls and their wretched little rented
W, L. W r i g h t , Harrisburg
house, he was a tramp himself.
His duties, his mother, and his dead
father's status as an outcast took
away his eltlzenshlp In Boyvllle, snd
drove him In upon himself, and, at
first, upon hla school books and later I can make both F A R M and C IT Y
upon Emerson, Thoreau, Ruskin and L O A N S at a very row rate of intn est
the poets, and the agricultural reports From 5 to 10 years. W rite me for par
and bulletins.
trculars.
G. W . I. a f l a r .
All this degraded— or exalted—him
Salem, Ore.
410 Oregon Bldg.
to the position of an Intellectual farm
hand, with a tense of superiority and
a feeling of degradation. It made
Jennie Woodruff1« “Hum phl” potent
to keep him awake that night, end
We are m akin g five-year loans on
eend him to the road work with Col- Linn;eotlnty farms at 55i% plus commis
oeel WoodruflTs team next morning sion. Call on
B e a m L a n d C o .,
with hot eyes and a hotter heart.
If
Li
I QTIff Furniture
L i u IIIT -Exchange
II figfl
F U T n iL llF P
Universal Heaters
D ELB ER T STARR
Funeral Director and Li
censed Embalmer
FARM LOANS
FARM LOANS
133 Lyon St., Albany, Ore
Amor A. Tussing
LAW YER AND NOTARY
H
alsey ,
O
ricoos
F. iyi. GRAY.
DRAYM AN
A ll work done prom ptly and reason
ably.
I ’bone No. 269
Dad’s and Mani’s Restaurant
products and farm labor must come
to do a good job of plowing as to do
and congratulated M r. Stratton on his
coming to be one of us again
A f-
. . . ,. . , .__
.,
. *_
ter a
^)een sal^’ a ^unc^ of coffee
(Brownsville Times)
On the evening of November 3
I about tw enty-five business people and
"T h e legion gave notice that it did
not propose to act as a judge in d e
termining the patriotic status of any
Second st., opposite Halsey Gsrsge
body of citizens in relation to charges
such as are often made against the Short orders at all hours up to 11 p. in.
klan.
The legion in effect said:
e condemn any individual, group or I
organization which promotes racial, j
at their high level, wheat and other
I t takes as much trains and muscle
tated thrust which might easily have
hurt too deeply so sensitive a man as
Jlm Irwin. But girls are not usually
so made as to feel any Very bitter re-
for county superintendent If 111 take
It. Of course I won’t—it seems silly—
but If It were you, now. It would be
a first step to a life that leads to
•omethlng.”
“Mother and I can live on my wage«
—and the garden and chickens, and tha
cow," said Jim. “A fter I received my
teacher’s certificate. I tried to work
out some way of doing the same thing
on a country teacher’s wages. I
couldn’t It doesn't seem rig h t"
Jim rose and after pacing back and
forth sat down again, a little closer
to Jennie. Jeanie moved away to the
extreme end of the bench, and the
shrinking away of Jim as If he had
been repelled by soma sort of negative
magnetism showed either sensitive
ness or temper.
"It seems as If It ought to be pos
sible," said Jim, “for a man to do
work on the farm, or In the rural
schools, that would make him a llvell
hood. I f he Is only a field-hand, it
ought to be possible for him to save
money and buy a farm,'
“Pa's land Is worth two hundred
dollars an acre,” said Jennie. “81x
months of your wages for an a c r e -
even If you lived on nothing.'
“No," be assented, "It can’t be dona,
and the other thing can't, either.
There ought to be such conditions that
a teacher could make a liv in g ”
“They do,” said Jennie. “I f they
(To be continued)
can Uve at home during vacations.
do.”
“But a man teaching in the country C L A IM S M IS R E P R E S E N T A T IO N
ought to be able to merry.”
H a rry E. Nelson, adjutant of the
“Marry I” said Jennie, rather unfeel Afberican Legion in Oregon, writes
ingly, I think. “You marry I” Then from Portland:
after remaining silent for nearly a
“ I was surprised to read an article
in your paper of date of October 25th,
relating to the recent American Le
gion national convention at San
Francisco, in which you state that the
Oregon and Oklahoma delegationn
voted solidly Ku Klux.
This is not
true.
ed labor and its products are to stay
up to meet it, instead of going lower.
I residents of this city drove out to
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I O r,n ,tratto° • oIJ P'“ce to weleoiue
i h*m ^ack 10 ** an<^ congratulate hint
on winning the suit and getting pos-
_—
u
4esslon 8t once'
Mr and Mra Strat-
•10,1 move<l in Saturday last in the
evening.
A ll responded to acting-
I, . .
-
„
”
toastmaster> E - E - W h ites invitation
I
ments cannot be lively when business
is dull.
¡CONGRATULATED
that quiet rummer night under the
linden—It was Insupportable.
“Good night,” M id Jias— simply be
cause be could not trust himself te
M y more.
“Good night," replied Jennie, and
M t for a long time wondering Juet
how deeply she had unintentionally
wounded the feelings of her father’s
field-hand; deciding that If he was
driven from her forever, It would
solve the problem of terminating that
old childish love affair which still per-
listed In occupying a aulte of rooms
all of Its own In her memory; and
finally repenting of the unpremedl-
H e r b e r t Q u ic k has been such a busy
m an In v a rio u s lin e » o f a c t iv it y t h a t
th a w o n d e r la ha
haw found tim e to
w r it e books: b u t
not o n ly baa ha
fo u n d
th a
tlm a ,
b u t haa bean v a ry
•u c c e s a fu l
ns
a
w r it e r
The
B ro w n M ouse' haa
becom e a e o rt o f
te x tb o o k In a g r i
c u lt u r a l
c olleg e»
a nd baa bean aa
w id e ly
re a d
by
te a c h a r t a n d
fa rm e rs , p ro b a b ly ,
a» a n y o th e r » to ry
aver
w r itte n
I l i a " V a n d a m a rk 'a
F o lly ” la n y o f
th a v a ry auccaaa-
f u l hooka o f th a
peat
tw o
yea re
an d h r aaama to
h a v e scored even
H » r W r l Quick.
m o re h e a v ily w ith
w
k la r a r e s t novel.
T h » H a w k e y e ” T h e lis t o f hla novels
and s h o rt » to rle a la a Io n a on» and
In g e n e ra l e xc e llen ce w o u ld do c re d it
to a person w ho ha d d e voted a ll hie
tim e to lit e r a t u r e
T h ia a u th o r w aa bo rn on a fa rm n e a r
s te a m b o a t K-»ck. Q ru n d y c o u n ty Io w a
r r .- m
fa rm in g « • lu r n « 4 Is aehrewt-
t» « r h ln « >n4 w h l | , y r l n c lp - l of a w a rd
In M s -o n C it y
s lu d ls d la w
I t l o r h » ln g a d m itte d to th « b a r ha
p r a r t lr e d In Sioux C ity and d ra t r a m i
In to pro m ln an o a aa m e m b e r and eoun-
«•1 fo r th e C ltla e n e ' c o m m itte e trh le h
croaeo tile d ho o d lera
l i e w as th ric e
n o m in a te d a nd onoa a le rte d m a y o r of
Sio ux l i f y and la t e r w aa n o m in a te d
fo r s u p re m e le d g e
H e w a a onoa aneo-
c la te e d ito r o f Ix k F o lle ttr 'a W e e k ly at
M adison . W la a n d la te r e d ito r o f F a r m
A F ire s id e . S p r ln t f lr ld . O h io
H e ra -
als n e d a m e m b e rs h ip In th a F e d a ra l
LV™
t-0 * "
b u re a u . W s a h ln g to n . In
till
C u r ln e a p a rt o f th a w a r ha waa
c h a irm a n fo r th « F a r C ast o f th e
A m a rtc a n Red Proa«, w it h th s r a n k o f
colonel
S evern) r e a r « a go he m oved
»0 . ntrKeJty
Sertpr« . Wy«t Vlfgtala.
ano is n o w rec o g n is e d as on« of thb
la a d ln c c ltla e n a o f t h a t s ta te .
" T h e B ro w n M ouse" Is p ro b a h lv the
a re a te s t e xe m p llflo a ttd n a v e r pro.tne»«
o f th e ro m a n c e a nd fa s c in a tio n th a t
can be m ade to attack^ to th e occiipa*»
tlo n e o f . te a c h in g an<T f a r m in g
The
■ to r y te so c h a r m in g ly
c o n a tr o r tfd
th a t It pleases people o f a ll clasaes
and 1» re lla h e d by c h ild re n a» w e ll a i
a d u lt» ; and th e p r a c tic a l Id ea» w h ic h
It c o n ta in s h a v e ' a w a k e n e d e o m m u n h
tie« a ll o v e r th e w o rld
T h e Id eas have
» •c n adop ted In hu n d re d s o f pin e »* »n
p a r t o f th e r e g u la r school w o rk and
p a r t o f th e le g it im a t e a d v a n c e m e n t o f
f a r m in g science.
CHAPTER I
A M aiden's “ H u m p h I"
Jim brought from hla day'a work all
t h . fragrances o f next year's meadows.
He had been feeding the crop« All
things have opposite poles, and the
•cents of the farm are bo excep-ton
to the rule. Juat now, Jim Irw in pos
eeaaed In his clothes and person the
olfactory pole opposite to the new-
mown hay, the fragrant butter and
the «rented breath of the lowing Line
peesplratlon and top-dressing
He waa not quite so keenly con
eclous of this as was Jennie Woodruff
HsiChe been so, the glimmer of h«r
white pique drees op the bench under
the bssewood would act have drawn
him back from the gste. He had come
to the house to ask Colonel IVoodruff
about tha farm work, and having re-
eelved Instructions to take a teem and
join In tha road work next day. he had
gone down the walk between the beds
of four o’clock» and petunias to the lane.
Square Meal, 50c
creed or class hatreds.'
This reso
lution was supported throughout by j Barber Shop ?? Baths
the Oregon delegation.”
-The Oklahoma and Oregon delega
tions were the only ones, we believe. I
wkich voted unanimously against a
"You Marryl Humphl"
minute, the uttered the eyllable—with
out the utterance of which this narra
tive would not have been written.
“Tou m arryl Humph I”
Jim Irw in rose from the bench
tingling with the Insult he found is
•her tone. They had been boy and gtrt
sweethearts In ths old days at the
Woodruff schgolhouse down the road,
and before tha fateful time when
Jennie went "off to school" end Jim
begin to support his mother. They
had »ven kissed— and on Jim's aide,
lonely as was his life, cut off as It
ueceaaertly was from all companion
ship save that of hla tiny home and
his fellow workers of the field, the
tender little love-etory wag the sole ro-
B*acea oi hla llfa- Jennie's "Humph I"
thla r°®»n«s from circulation,
. If *hc'’re<J contempt for the
.
of hl* marrJrtB«- H relegated him
to a sexless category with other de
fectives, and hedged h la with the celi
bacy of a sort of Twentieth caatury
monk, without tha honor ot tha priest
ly vocation. From another ggrl It
T “ ®1? b ,T * beMI ba<î “ ^ f h . but from
1 ¿ 'b o le
Woodruff—< a d
eepadally
an
resol: tion
name.
denouncing
the klan by
WHY or
COVR8B.
•he:
After
w t are married
I shall he boast
He: And be
fore
we
are
married—
• he
(later-
ruptngl! I shall
he boast
H 8 W AS A T HOMC
Loud ringing of the telephone
brought the man of the house on
the run. A strange feminine voi«
hailed him. “Why don't you come
home, you wretch?”
, 'Madam,” replied he "I’ll admit
I m a wretch. But for on « Pm
home. You have the wrofig n u m .
h i.”
First-Class Work
Agent fox Eugene Steam Lanadly
Sent Tueadavs.
J . W . S T E P H E N S O N . Prop.
Fresh and Cured Meats
Quarters of
BEEF
ior canning
purpose» at canning p n e e s f
C . H. F A L K
C . L. F A L K JR
ADalntlTBATOa'I NOTICE
of Hearing of Final Account
Notice is hereby given that the final
account of J. F Schedtler, as adminis
trator of the estate of M ary E. Schedt
ler. decease), hat been filed m the
County Court of Linn County. State of
‘ Iregoo, and that the 19th day of No
vember. 1923, st the hour of 10 o'clock
«. m . has been duly appointed bv said
Court for the hearing of objections to
M id final account and the settlement
thereof, at which tim e any pertbo in ter
ested in M id estate may appear and file
objections thereto iu w ritin g and con
test the same.
Dated and first published Oct. IS, 192J
J. F SCHIDTLBB
Adm inistrator aforesaid.
A m o * A. T v m iw c . Atty, for Admr.