« > T I l A LS è » ^ $ J fE R P R IS F PAUE-2 N O V . 1S. 1723 tween San Francisco and Portland. Turnlng to latch the gats, ha saw « * « -----------_ 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: H 1 1 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 1 13 • . 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 422 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 ..................... , , 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 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