Frank Merrlwall and Daadshot Dick.
is& ay by "other boys, but had re­
formed. Jim Irwin had a dlatinct
feeling of optimism.
Newton had
quit tobacco and beer, casually stat­
ing to Jim that he wag “In training.”
Blnca J ia had shown his ability to ad­
minister a knockout to that angry
chauffeur, he seemed to this hobble­
dehoy peculiarly a proper person for
athletic confidences.
Newton's mind seemed gradually
filling up with new interests Jim at­
tributed much of this to the clear
mountain atmosphere which surround­
ed Raymond Simms, the Ignorant bar­
barian driven out of bis native hills
by a feud. Raymond was of the open
spaces, and refused to bear fetid
things that seemed out of place In
them.
As the reason for Newton's Improve
ment In manner of living, Raymond,
out of bis own experience, would have
had no hesitation In naming the
ichool and the schoolmaster.
"I wouldn’t go back on a friend,”
said Newton, seated on the stomp
with his traps on the ground at his
feet, “the way you're going back on
me.”
"You got no call to talk thataway,”
replied the mountain boy. "How'm 1
goln’ back on you?”
“We was goln' to trap all winter,"
asseverated Newton, “and next win­
ter we were goln' up in the north
woods together."
“You know,” said Raymond somber­
ly, “that we caln't run any trap line
and do whut we got to do to he’p Mr.
Jim."
Newton sat mute as one having no
rejoinder.
“Mr. Jim," went on Raymond, “needs
sll the he'p every kid in this settle­
ment kin give him.
He's the best
friend I ever had. I'm a pore Ignerant
boy, an' he teaches me how to do
things that will make me something.”
“Dana it all 1" spld Newton.
“You know," said Raymond, “that
you'd think mahgty small of me, If I'd
desert Mr. Jim Irwin.”
“Well, then," replied Newton, seis­
ing his traps and throwing them
across his shoulder, “come on with the
traps, and shut u p ! What'll we do
when the school board gets Jennie
Woodruff to revoke his certificate and
make him quit teachin', hey?”
“Nobody'll eveh do that,” said Ray­
mond. "I'd set In the schoolhouse do’
with my rifle and shoot anybody tbat'd
come to th'ow Mr. Jim outen the
school."
"Not In this country," said Newton.
"Thia ain't a gun country.”
“But It orto be either a Justice ken-
try, or a gun kentry," replied the
mountain boy. “It stands to reason It
must be one 'r the otheh, Newton.“
"No, it don't neither," said Newton
dogmatically.
“Why should they th'ow Mr. Jim
outen the school r Inquired Raymond.
“Ain’t he teachin’ ua right?”
Newton explained for the tenth time
that Jim had done to many things that
no teacher was supposed to do. and
had left undone so many things that
teachers were bound by custom to
perform, that Newton's father and Mr,
Bonner and Mr. Peterson had made
up their minds that they would call
upon him to resign, and If he wouldn't,
they would “turn him out” In some
way.
"What wrong's he done com m ittedr
asked Raymond. “I don't know what
teachers air supposed to do In this
kentry, but Mr. Jim seems to be the
only shore-enough teacher I ever see I"
"He don't teach out of the books
the school board adopted," replied
Newton.
"But he mnkes up better lessons,'
urged Raymond. "An' all the things
w e do In school he'pa ua make a
livin'."
"He begins at eight In the roomin',"
said Newton, “an' he has some of us
there till half past five, and comes
back In the evening. And every Sat­
urday, some of the kids are doln
something at the schoolhouse."
“They don't pay him for overtime,
do they?” queried Raymond. “Well,
then, they orto, lnstld of turnin' him
out I"
“Well, they'll turn him out 1" prophe­
sied Newton. "I'm havin' more fun
In school than I ev er-a n ' that's why
I'm with you on this qulttln' trapping
—but they'll get Jim. sll right!"
“I'm having something betteh'n
fun.” replied Raymond. “My pap has
never understood this kentry, an' s t ­
il l has had bad tlroea hyeh; but M r.
Jim an’ I have studied out bow I can
make a betteh livin' next yesr—and
pep says we kin go on the way Mr.
Jim aaya. YU work for Colonel Wood­
ruff a part of the time, an’ pap kin
make core In the biggest field. It
seems we didn't do our work right lest
yesr—an’ In a couple of years with
the increase of th» hawgs, an' the
possibly use la his business."
"It’s a fine thing,” said Mrs. Bonner,
coming to the aid of her fellow sol­
diers, “to work hard for a lifetime, an*
raise nothing but a family o l farmers I
A fine thing!"
“They will be farmers anyhow,"
cried Jim, “In spite of your efforts—
ninety out of every hundred of them I
And of the other ten, nine will be
wage-earners In the cities, and wish to
Ood they were back on the farm ; and
the hundredth one will succeed In the
city.”
The guns of Mrs. Bonner and Mra.
Peterson were silenced for a moment,
and Mrs. Bronson, after gazing about
at the typewriter, the hecktograph,
the exhibits of weed seeds, the Bab­
cock milk tester, and the other nn-
scholastlc equipment, pointed to the
list of words, and the arithmetic
problems on the board.
“D o you get them words from the
speller?" she asked.
“No,” said he, "we get them from a
lesson on seed wheat"
"Did them examples come out of an
arithmetic book?" cross-examined she.
"No," said Jim, “we used problems
we made ourselves. We were figuring
profits and losses on your cowa, Mrs.
Bronson I”
“Ezra Bronson.” said Mrs. Bronson
loftily, “don't need any help In telling
what's a good cow. He was farming
before you was bom I”
“Like fun, be don’t need helpt He's
going to dry old Cherry off and fat­
ten her for beef; and be can make
more money on the cream by beefing
about three more of ’em. The Bab­
cock test shows they're Just boarding
on us without paying their board I"
The delegation of matrons ruffled
like a group of startled bens at this
Interposition, which was Newton
Bronson's effective seizing of the op­
portunity to Issue a progress bulletin
In the research work on the Bronson
dairy herd.
"Newton I” said hla mother, "don't
Interrupt me when I'm talking te the
teacher 1"
“Well, then," said Newton, "don't
tell the teacher that pa knew which
cows were good and which were poor.
If any one In this district wants to
know about their cows they'll have to
come to this shop. And I can tell you
that It’ll pay 'em to come, too. If
they're going to make anything selling
cream. Walt until we get out our re­
ports on the herds, m a !"
The women were rather stampeded
by this onslaught of the Irregular
troops—especially Mra. Bronson. She
felt a flutter of pride In her son, but
It was strongly mingled with a moth­
erly desire to spank him. The depu­
tation rose, with a unanimous feeling
that they bad been scored upon.
“Cows I” scoffed Mrs. Petersim. "If
we leove you In thia yob, Mr. Irwin,
our children will know nothing but
cows sod hens and aolla and gndns—
and where will the culture come InF
"Culture!" exclaimed Jim. "Why—
why, after ten years of the sort of
school I would give you If I were a
better teacher and could have my
way—”
“Don't bother, Jim," said Mra. Bon­
ner sneerlngly, "you won’t be teaching
the Woodruff school that long.”
All this time, the dark-faced Cracker
had been glooming from a corner,
earnestly seeking to fathom the wrong­
ness he sensed In the gathering. Now
he came forward.
"I reckon I may be maldng a mis­
take to say anything,” said he. “f r
we-all la strangers hyeh. an* we're
pore; but I must speak out for Mr.
Jim—I must I Don't turn him out.
folks, Fr he's done mo* f r ns than
eveh any one done In the world!"
when Mr. Jim began talking school to
us, we was a pore ao-'count lot with­
out any learnln', with nothin' to talk
about except our wrong*, an' our ene­
mies. and the meanness of the Iowa
folks. You see we didn't understand
you-all. An’ now, we have hope. We
done got hope from this school. We're
goln* to make good In the world.
W ere getting education. We're all
learnln* to use books. My little sister
will be as good aa anybody. If you’ll
Just let Mr. Jim alone In this school—
ss good ss any one. An' I'll he'p pap
get a fann, and w ell work and thtnk
at the same time, an' be happy 1”
(To be continued)
Cigarets and
Forest Fires
The Ptcifio log­
ging congress at
Spokane 0 ? t. 21'
passed strong re •
olutions on tb<
danger from fir’ ’
that lias in th-
careless use of c’g
arels in thewooi s
District Forest
er Cecil writes tt
the
Enterjri»
from the Pur l md office that cig­
arets are said to he the main caus>
o f the 184 sm okers’ fires occurring
in 1923 in the national forests of
Oregon and W ashington.
Cigarets
are
responsible for
m any fires, both in city and io
forest.
All tb“ leading manufacturers
of the U nited States have been
asked to include some sort of fire
caution in cigaret and tobacco
boxes, but so far only one of tb m
has seen tit. to com ply.
The W. C. T. U ., which sprang
up h a lf a century ago in Ohio, d*
m anding prohibition of the liquor
traffic, and was laughed at as vis.
ionary and idiotic, hat lived to
see its vision em bodied in the fun.
d am en tsl law of the greatest na­
tion on earth. Now it is turning
its attention to Ibe next moat
colossal waste of substance and
energy by the American people.
Ralph Lawrence, writing to the
Enterprise last week from Brow ns­
ville, reported :
At the Presbyterian church Sun­
day evening Rev. Mr. Orr read a
petition, circulated by the W. C. T.
U. and signed by the people of
B row nsville, asking the counci'-
men to prohibit th ” display of
advertising of toi,u C • and cigarets
on signboards of our city.
Now if t h • officials will get busy
and prosecute every dealer who
violates the cigaret law we shall
have fewer fourteeen- and fifleeu-
year-old lads sm oking the vile
stuff to the detrim ent of their own
health. Let the good work go on.
id /ew «/w er —C on tin u ed
^ /^ Íb a n y j'/X e c to r y
aldo Anderson A Son. distrib­
W
utors and dealera for Maswell, Chai*
mera, Esses, Hudson A Huptnobtle cars.
Accessories. Supplica 1st A Broadalbin.
T in » ia gou«l advice; “ 11 you live
in Albany, trade iu Albany ; if you live
Satisfaction guarantee«
m aouie other town, trade in that town." Phons 312 V
Price »3,50
Hut in these automobile day» many re­
dding elsewhere find it advisable to do
F R E D B- J O N E S
it least part ot their buying in the
larger town. Thoae who go to Albany
io trail sue t business w ill find the firms
ALBANY
lamed below ready to fill their require-
nents with courtesy ami fairness.
Tiano Tuner for leading music stores in
Piano Tuning and Repairing
Albany
A lhatiy Bakery, 321 Lyon street, New
-X Best oue-pound loaf of bread made.
5 cents.
Wedding cakes to order.
A lb a n y
Electric
Store.
Electric wiring.
products
ta ts
Only One Manufacturer
Cares W hat Burns
G L aS N W lLLAXD
B E N T. S U D T E L L
Phone 7o-R, 123 N. Broadalbin s t, Albany
Cut flower»
and plants.
Floral art for every
and all occasiona
Flow er phone 458-1.
LBANY
L
FURNITURE AND
FARM MACHINERY
bought, sold and exchanged at all tunee
Delco l ight
W H . HÖFLICH.
lbany Floral Co.
A
and
used
R adio
GARAGE.
Why Butter from
headache ?
Have vour eyes
examined
S. T . F R E N C H
• ' S tu d e-
b a k e r” and “ S ta r'' automobile«.
Cenerai repairing and supplica.
T, Hockensmith.— Lloyd Templeton.
Optometrist, with
lue Bird Restaurant, 309 Lyon
B
street. Eat here when in Albany.
Open from 6 to and 5 to 8.
F. M. f r e n c h
Mas. B lovnt .
Albany, Oregon
^5 AA*
PHONOGRAPHS
at
W O O D W O R T H 'S
aven p ort
D
FARM LOANS
M usic H ou se for p i­
anos and player pianos Some good
We are m aking five year loans on
farms st 53£% plus commis­
sion. Call on
buys on M to n d hand pi*no»
W « han d le the B aldw».1
Linn'coiinty
in« o f p ian o i tb« b«»t n»on«y c *n buy
P ram L a n d C o .,
r . c . ficq
D
133 Lyon St., Albany, Ore
DENTIST
Albany, Oregon
Amor A. Tussing
312 West Second street
asthurn Bros.— Two big grocery
E
stores, 212 W . First and 225 South
Main, flood merchandise at tlie right
pricea.
ilm s
d evelop ed
F
printed,
and
to you.
We mail them right back
bi
Woodworth Drug Company, Albany, O r­
egon.
^iret garage going north.
Tires, tccessories, oils, gasoline,
repair work.
W. H. H u l b u s t
F or C H R IST M A S
Your photograph
Clifford's Studio
3.13 West First street
^l)RD SA L ES AND SH R V iC E
Tires and accessorie»
Repairs
K i r k -P d l l a k M oto « C o .
CVirtmiller Furniture C o., furni-
E
ture, rugs, linoleum, stove» langes.
Funeral director». 427 4.13 west First
street, Albany, Oregon.
a ll’s Floral and M usic
H
Shop
Good service and prompt delivery
on cut flowers and floral designs.
Albany
'
Phone 1661
H olman & jackson
Grocery—Bakery
Everything in the line of eats
Opposite Post office
H
M _______
M
LA W YER £A N D notary
H alsey ,
ïTrlf)
to ^ P o r tla n d b y b u y in g a
Round Trip Ticket
“We Object to the Way the Teaehln’a
Being Done.**
mute. Mrs. Peterson Interposed her
attack while Mrs. Bonner might be re­
covering her wind.
“We people that hare had a hard
time," she said In a precise way which
seemed to show that she knew exactly
what abe wanted, "don't want our
children taught about nothing but
work. We want our children to learn
nice things, and go to high school, and
after a wlilla to the Junlweralty."
"Aren't your children happy In
school, Mrs. PetereonF
T don't send them to school to be
happy. Yim," replied Mrs. Peterson,
coiling him by the name most famil­
iarly known to all of them ; “I send
tnem to ¡earn to ne nigner people than
their father and mother. That's what
America means!”
T h ey 'll be higher people—higher
than their perenta—higher than their
teacher—they’ll he efficient farmers,
and efficient farmers' wives. T heyll
he happy, because they will know hew
to use more brains In farming thaa
say lawyer or doctor or merchant can
Week-end Ticket saro on
sale Fridays, Saturday«
and Sundays, return limit
following Tuesday.
15-Day Tickets are on sale
daily to stations in Oregon
¿Take th e ¿ T ra in /
(Continued from page 1>
qaret Boyd, who is able to combine
educational value with interesting
presentation of her subjects. It will
pay every high school atudent, and
everybody else, to read these sketches,
one or two of which will appear its
theae columns every week for months
to come.
Read the whole series.
Have you noticed the discussions
of "High School Classics," that have
been appearing in the Enterprise!
These arc copyrighted by Mrs. Mar­
in criticizing the Salem chapter of
the Red Cross for paying a commis­
sion and utilizing school children in
the membership drive, and for send­
ing funds to Japanese earthquake
sufferers from the chapter fund, In­
stead of raising tha money by solicit­
ing Miss Nell Halsinger, field repre­
sentative of the national organiza­
tion, adds: “When a ca e was referred
to me by the Tacoma associated char-
trust the Investigation to the Salem
office.
I was compelled to refer the
Investigation to Miss Forrest of the
"
„
Linn county chapter»"
' « a r r , Witman of Lebanon ha. tan
acres of red raspberries and five of
Lawton blackberries.
His Cuthbert
r#(j ra, pj,errje l have been ripening a
fall crop, of which he has sold 76
boxes, and Lebanon people had fresh
red raspberries for thanksgiving.
—Ask agent for fare« and
other information or write
JOHN M. SCOTT,
Aesistant Passenger Traffic Manager.
Port lard, Oregon
Southern Pacific Lines
is to have a fifth paid ffre-
iller Motor Sales
M
F.arl Gooch and J. L. George war«
indicted Friday for burning a build­
ing In Shelburn for the insurance.
orton A Speer Service Com­ Next day they pleaded guilty and
¡Judge Kelly sentenced them to two
pany
Headquarter» for good tires
years in the penitentiary but paroled
Oakland and Jewett cart
Supplie» and acceaacnes
First and llaker Sta.
Albany, Oregoa
M
Phone 65
first and Lycu them during good behavior.
urphy M otor Co. Bttick and
We got our first killing frost Sat­
Chevrolet automobiles. Tires and
urday morning, December 1.
accessories
Albany. Oregon, Phone 2«0.
M
An apple a day keeps the doctor
Money to Ioan. A ll away, the epigrammatists any. Good
kinds of insurance written.
apples are cheap and abundant in
C all on J. V Pipg,
Halsey this year. Good bye, doctor.
Albany State Bank Building
eal estate.
R
OSCOE AMES H A R D W A R E,
The use of the new farm explosive,
the
»odatol, will be demonstrated on
WINCHESTER STOKE
! Klger island next faturday afternoon
.122 ,v . First st.
______________ _ at two oclock
R
g
a.
G I ¿BERT
& SON
T’he county fair board proposes to
apply thia year’s surplus to the pay-
Chinaware and gift shop
Atbany ment of the old debts.
330 West First
S
IE N h fi.H U B R U S , groceries,
fruits, produce, 2.15 Lyon Street.
We »«Il groceries »nJ
Regardless of weather, it ia safe,
eum foitahle and dependable.
,
O rioom
Jots and Tittles
busy. Make your dollars work in
our savings department. A l b a MV S t s T I Albany
H a n k . Under government supervision
on y o u r
* S o n s
J E W E L E R S — ORTICI A N S
B r u n s w ic k
__ .
.
The Warehouse law of Oregon re­
quires every warehouse taking in
Noon lunches.
grain to be bonded and to operate un­ II Home made candy and ice Cream.
, ,,,
. . |. _
der a license obtained from the grain
uh Cleaning Works, Inc.
inspection department, to safeguard
Cor. Fourth sad Lyon
farmers storing their grain.
The li­
cense ia merely a receipt that bond
--------------------------------------------------
“What do you meanF asked Mrs. has heen furnished to , show to the
A U N E IO ELECTRIC CO.
Peterson.
public that the warehouse is operated
All kind» of electric ap p aratu s^
“I mean," said Rajmond, ~*‘that
paired. Conservative pricea
All
according to law.
119-121 W . Second.
A few warehouses in the state have fully guaranteed
not yet complied with the law.
en and money are best when
Save $3.12
face j
HALSBY BNTPXARISE
DBC. 4. 1»2J
land we ltln get under filo»' . . .*
It was still an hour before nine—
when the rural school traditionally
“takes up"—when the boys bad stored
their traps In a shed at the Bronson
! home, and walked on to the school-
j house. That rather scabby and weath-
ered edifice was already humming
with Industry of a sort. In spite of
the hostility of the school board, and
the aloofness of the patrons of the
school, the pupils were clearly inter­
ested In Jim Irwin's system of rural
education. Never had the attendance
been so large or regular; and one of
the reasons for sessions before nine
and after four was the Inability of the
teacher to attend to the needs of his
charges In the five and a half hours
called “school hours,”
The day passed. Four o’clock came.
In order that all might reach home
for supper, there was no staying, ex­
cept that Newt Bronson and Raymond
Simms remained to sweep and dust
the schoolroom, and prepare kindling
for the next morning’s fire—a work
they had taken upon themselves, so as
to enable the teacher to put on the
blackboards such outlines for the mor­
row's class work as might be required.
Jim was writing on the board a Hat
of words constituting a spelling exer­
cise. They were not from textbooks,
but grew naturally out of the study of
the seed wheat—“cockle," "morning-
glory,“ "convolvulus,” "viable," "via­
bility,'’ “sprouting," "iron-weed” and
the like. A tap was heard at the door,
and Raymond Simms opened It.
In filed three women— and Jim Ir­
win knew as he looked at them that
he was greeting a deputation, and felt
that it meant a struggle. For they
were the wive» of the members of the
school board. He placed for them the
three available chairs, and In the ab­
sence of any for blmself remained
standing before them, a gaunt shabby-
looking revolutionist at the bar of
settled usage and fixed public opinion.
Mrs, Haakon Peterson was a tall
blonde woman, slow-spoken and dig­
nified. and Jim felt an Instinctive re­
spect for her personality. Mrs. Bron­
son was a good motherly woman,
noted for her housekeeping, and for
her church activities. She looked
oftener at her son. and his friend,
Raymond, than at the schoolmaster.
Mrs. Bonner was the only one who
shook hands with Jim, but he sensed
In the little, black-eyed Irishwoman
the real commander of the expedition
against him—for such he knew it to
be.
"You may think It strange of us
coming after hours." said she. "but
we wanted to apeak to you, teacher,
without the children here."
“I wish more of the parents would
call,” said Jim. “At any hour of the
day.”
“Or night either, I dare say,” sug­
gested Mrs. Bonner. "I hear you've
tTie scholars here at all nours, Jim.”
Jim smiled his slow patient smile.
“We do break the union rules, I
guess, Mrs. Bonner,” said he; "there
seems to be more to do than we can
get done during school hours."
' ‘•What we came for, Mr. Irwin, is
to object to the way the teaching
being done—corn and wheat, and bogs
and the like. Instead of the teamin'
schools was made to teach. I can see
an' the whole district can see tla t It's
easier for a man that's been a farm-
band to teach farm-hand knowledge,
than the learoln' schools was set up
to teach; but If so be he hasn't the
book education to do the right thing,
we think he should get out and give
a real teacher a chance."
“What am I neglecting?" asked Jim
mildly.
Mrs. Bonner seemed unprepared for
the question, and sat for an instant
Huy cresi«
s
Seth Mills and wife visited Mrs.
Mills’ parents In Salem two weeks
ago.
W. A. Carey and wife visited
Phone 26 R the , gme c)ty the same day.
TIMBON 1 HE BHOK DOCTOR
Notwithstanding the stormy night.
Second street, opposite Hamilton'» (tf)e pup||a of Miss Bond’s room at
store
school were greeted by a good house­
Sudden Sereice
ful of Halsey people Wednesday night
at tha opera house and gave an en­
tertainment that brought applause.
X | The proceed» were »27,80, and after
2 paying for their hall there will be a
surplus to be devoted to other needs
------- -
.T .' of the room, some of them of a
SERVICE • strictly educational nature.
■ I Shoes that cost lees per month of wea J
(Continued on page 4)
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