í D E C 2a IWJ HALSEY B N T E R F R IS S PA C E » BALMY IHTMIPW M w tro i h E example the Americana set ndarly *«<*» a oenlury and a h a ll ago. ------ ja A * --------- Who said wheat sowing was to be reduced to raise the price? Moro notion«, |1 . I * a y«ar In advano«. winter wheat has been sown thia fall Advertising, 2l)c an in c h ; n o d tw o n n lor üm c or space ; no charge lor com in tho. northwest country than ever oustUon or ebsuges. before. In “P a id -fo r Paragraph«." Sc a line, as« advertising disguised an n « * a I t is said the German government proposes to announce that it is bank­ OCiee lioors, 9 to 13 and 2 to 6 aacapt rupt. That would not be news. I t Mondays sad Friday foraaooas. would be an old story. D A N C E! will be held in the South B ro w n s v ille First Class Auto Repairing NELSON MOTOR CO. HALL . Fisk and Gates tires sod tubes. Complete line of automobile accessories Ford parts W illard battery serv ice When ia need of anything for the automobile give us a call, as our prices are right and service is prompt Trouble calls and wreck jobs given prompt attention. CHRSITMAS EVE. DEC. 24 HALSEY GARAGE Telephone 16*5 Music by the famous O. A. C. Band-Orchestra A good floor, and a good time assured F O O T E BR O S. Prop«. OLAF NELSON, Manager WOMAN’S WORK. Will wonders never cease? The A few Oklahoma senate passed a bill, 27 to W hat ia woman’s work? years ago a man who thought himself 11, making it illegal to wear a mask the greatest, ablest and most power­ in publie. ful men in the world was wont to as­ sert that woman’s place In life was Hiram Johnson has a campaign “ kinder, kirche und kucken”— chil- manager, but his name is Dennis a l­ * dren, church und cooking. He had ready— Bruce Dennis. an unconcealed contempt for women In North Dakota H iram also ran. outside of those spheres. Today he is a refugee in one of the few mon­ Two and a half million pounds of butter is shipped from Oregon year­ ly. The western Oregon climate is his retreat und he declares that he not excelled for dairying. , cares not, for he knows no other archies existing. woman. Its monarch is u She forbade him to leave place that could afford him a safe fairest, The al'ird astioas deiuaad his surrender for tria l for high offenses against mankind, but the same woman refuses this request. The late “all highest” is content that the country which he deserted grants him tb< a upty til'.« “ Frince * f Praaai«. The idea of the inferiority and aub aervlency of women to men, an ides which came westward with migrating humanity to be dissipated by westert light, still prevails in vast regions o tho orient, its birthplace, but on oui side of the world we find women do mg everything that men can do am w ine things that they can’t. Mei can't bear children. "Do Rats Talk to Each Othor?” Asks Mr. M. Batty, R. I. " I tot five cakn oí Rat.Saa| map and threw pieces arouaJ feed store. Got about _ half a docea deed rata a.day for two solid weeks. Suddenly, they to t fewer. Now we haven't any Wh T b • told them about Rat- ‘ Soap.'* " Rats«* R a ti dnr op to d leove oo auaeiL Thus 35c, 65c < .< 1 2 5 . Sold aad guanAtaad h r R IN G O D R U G STORE 0 . A. C. SHORT COURSES Appraisal.......... ............... Jan. 7-Jan. 12 past generation remember the birth of the W . C. T. U. We can remem ber with what ribald hilarity the first reports of the ’ ’praying women” in Agricultural Economic C o n ference........................Jan, 21-25 Fur further inoruiation regarding any course addre.b The REGISTRAR Ohio ware greeted throughout the OREGON A G R IC U LTU R A LC O LLEG E Corvallis, Oregon, country That was a very small stijrt, but, like a grain of mustard seed, it grew until the fowls (and fouls) of the air were m ightily affect ed by it. D ELBER T STA R R Funeral Director and Li* censed Embalmer Tho firs t praying band jeemed as FfReient Service. Motor Hearso. I.adv Attendant but the wavelets set in motion by that Bravraarill«.................................... Oregon} insignificant as a pebble in the ocean pebble have extended to the fartheet confines of the world. Prohibition which they were so visionary as U W - L. W R IG H T Mortician A Funeral Director Halsey and Harrisburg hope for, has became not only the la * but a part of the 1 'undamental law of the greatest nation on earth. I t 1» preached and predicted in the most rum-cursed countries, and who shall Call D. T avto x. Halaey. or W. L. W miomt , Harrisburg FARM LOANS tell what the end will be? I can make both F A R M and C IT Y L O A N S at a very row rate of inteicst Meantimo “ woman’s sphere” has From 5 to 10 years. W rite me for par broadened. Grudgingly bat iaevitably frcnlars. G. W. I.artaa, woman are being granted equal right» Sslain, Ore. 410 Oregon Bldg w ith men in one activity after an- other, la the courts, is politic», in churches, women are coming to stand on an equality with men. Even in Turkey, the "new woman" movement has a foothold. F. M. GRAY. DRAYM AN All work ilonejprouiptly and reason- ablv. Phone No. 269 I t is fittin g that the first of Laura M ille r’s seventy-two sketches of small town women who have achieved m ark­ ed success which appears in this issue of The Enterprise should be one deal­ ing with Georgia Hopley. A mar A. Tnaainf L awyrr > nd notary II alskv , O rkoox She is one of the seven in the second gen eration of W. C. T. U . Hopleys of Ohio who have made their mark in the world. news Bucyrus was often in the dispatches In the natal and swaddling days of the W. C. T. V. and the "prohibition agent, construc­ Why suffer from headache ? Have your oyes examined ». T . FR EN C H Optometrist with tive information bureau, prohibition unit,” of the treasury department at F . M. f r e n c h a, s o n s Washington J E W E L E R S - O R T IC IA N S words: Ohio." has on her "Home address, cards the Albany, Oregon Bucyrus. , ' “'M iV v A S A iV w W W v S W W *, The Entarpiiss from week to week You will find them full of human in ter Mt. The republican form of govern mant grow* more fashionable daily. The republican« carried the Grdcian elections the oth«i day. Then they suggested Hint King Gecrge take a walk. Ha «allied. Now Greece io a republic eaee more. That «as a contagious Hay is worth ju st as much in storage a : you might get for it in case of fire. Th ? ^American Eagle Fire Insurance com panf, Iwill pay you 85% of the cash value in ease! of loss by fire. C. P. STAFFORD, Agent ♦♦4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦**♦♦♦<• ♦ ► ! M ary S u cceed s on M ain S treet " IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH Ü their children seven are now active newspaper men and women. The eighth, Georgia Hopley, has graduated from newspaper work Into a Job that combines the ambitions of both mother and father. She writes on the letterhead of the United States Treasury department and signs "Gen­ eral Prohibition Agent, Constructive Information Bureau. Prohibition Unit," and with a flash of humor re­ cently added, “That's all.” 8he Is sold to have been the first woman In Ohio to enter active news­ paper work. In 1900 Governor Nash appointed her representative of Ohio women at the Parla exposition. She remained abroad for majiv months and has since made frequent trips to England and France. As women have become more and more active In poli­ tics she has given much of her time to political publicity campaigns. Whatever else Miss Hopley’s busi­ ness cards say they always have In the lower left-hand corner. Home Ad­ dress, Bucyrus, Ohio. “It Isn’t civic pride alone that makes up my loyalty to the old home town,’’ she Insists. "Bucyrus is always on the map 3“ A large part of her work for the prohibition unit consists In public speaking. Reporters who have fol­ lowed her meetings are astonished Into commenting on the fact that she Is broad minded, with all her enthusi­ asm for prohibition. She comes with official power, they say, but she Is con­ tent to let the question rest with the public. She Is spending her time Just “telling folks about It." She tells them what the enforcement forces are doing. She tells them what great ob stades have been thrown In the way. She pictures those which are used ma­ liciously end those used by the unin­ formed and the unintelligent. Controlling the malicious wet forces Isn't the part of the Job that this skilled newspaper woman Is Interest- etoa«tee«l r t k iB w . C m n U y f o r o M ; no tote- f w ith ocher inode. C ats and ck rs w en t teh It . R ate d ry u p aad lea -e no s n e ll I Th ree e iM e : Ifie fo r m e m o w ; M e fo r • e r chicken t a r 1 ; | l 2* f r her s a n d S ta rt lullin g rate today. 1 M d a a d G a a re a te e d b y ■ n m s ra R IN G O D R UG STORE j I i a BROWN M O U SE 1 By HERBERT QUICK = ñ iiiiiiiiiiiin iii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin r (C e p rrlg h t by T h e Bobbe-M errlll Company) (C on tin ued ) CHAPTER X fi Facing Trial. A distinct sensation ran through the Woodruff school, but the school­ master and a group of five boys and three girls engaged In a very unclass- llke conference In the back of the room were all unconscious of It. The geography classes had recited, and the language work was on. Those too small for these studies were play­ ing a game under the leadership of Jinnle Simms, who had been promot­ ed to the position of weed-seed mon­ itor. The game was forfeits. Each child had been encouraged to bring some sort of weed from the winter fields— preferably one the seed of which still clung to the dried receptacles— but anyhow, a weed. If nay pupil brought In s sperlixrn the name of wtdrh he himself could not correctly give, he paid a forfeit. I f a specimen was brought In not found In the school cabinet— which was coming to con­ tain a ctvislderahle collection— It was placed th »re, and the task allotted to the best penman In the school to write Its proper label. All this caused ex­ citement rmd not a little buxz— but it ceased when the county superintend­ ent en ter»! the room. For It vies after the first of Janu­ ary, and Jennie was visiting the Wood­ ruff school. The group In the back of the room went «in w? h Its conference, oblivious of the enj rance of Superintendent Jennie. Th elr work was rather ab­ sorbing, bet ng no more nor less than the compllnl ion o f the figures of a cow census of th e district. "Altogethi r." said Mary Talcott “we have H the district one hundred and fifty-tin-ee cows.” “I don’t ;make it that." said Ray­ mond Slmus«. " I don't get but a hun­ dred and t l trty-elght." “The trouble I a " said Newten Bron­ son, "that Mary's counting In the Bailey he vl of Shorthorns." "W elt 'Jhe r’re cows, ain't they?" In­ terrogate! Jfary. "Not ltor this census,'' said Ray­ mond "Why not?" asked Mary “They're the pm ttlest cows in the neighbor, hood.” "Scvtch Shorthorns." eald Newton, and run with their calves ” "LiB v» them out,” said Jim. "and tomorrow, r want each one to tell in the lamraage class. In threw hundred words or Ass, whether there are enough cows In the dletrlct to Justify a co-operative creamery, and give the reason You'll find srtlclss In the farm ’papers if yon look through the card Index. Now, how shoot the cen- sus k j the adjoining districts?" T?nere are more than ywe hundred with} n fonr miles on the roads lead­ ing ’ wrert" said a boy. ^Iy father and I countiM op about C k in dred beyond no," j aald Mary “But I couldn’t get the exact num­ ber.” “Why," said Raymond, “we could find six hundred dairy cows in this neighborhood, within an hour's drive." “Six hundred!" scoffed Newton. "You’re crazy! In an hour’s drive?” " I mean an hour's drive each way,” said Raymond. “I believe we could,” said Jim. “And after we find how fa r we will have to go to get enough cows, if half ofstbem patronized the creamery, we’ll work over the savings the business would make, If we could get the prices for butter paid the Wisconsin co-oper­ ative creameries, as compared with what the centralizers pay us, on a basis of the last six months. Who's In possession of that correspondence with the Wisconsin creameries?” “I have It," said Raymond. “I'm hectographing a lot of arithmetic problems from It.” “How do you do, Mr. Irw in I” It was the superintendent who spoke. Jim’s brain whirled little prismatic clouds before his vision, as he rose and shook Jennie's extended hand. “Let me give you a chair," said he. "Oh. no, thank you!’’ she returned- "I'll Just make myself at home. 1 know m.v way about In this school- house, you know n “A formal complaint against you for Incompeney,” she replied, "haa been lodged In my office, signed by the three directors. I shall be obliged to take notice of It." "And do you think,” queried Jim, “that my abandonment of the things In wblcli I believe In the face of thia attack would prove to your mind that I am competent? Or would It show me Incompetent?” Jennie was silent. , " I guess," said Jim, “that w e ll have to stand nr fall on things aa they are.” Jennie bad drawn on her gloves, and stood ready for departure. “Unless you resign before the twenty-fifth,” said she, " I shall hear She smiled at the children, and went about looking at their work— which was not noticeably disturbed, by reason of the fact that visitors were much more frequent now than ever before, and were no rarity. Cer­ tainly, Jennie Woodruff was no novel­ "Unless You Resign I Shall Hear tho ty, since they had known her all their Petition for Your Removal.” lives. Most of the embarrassment was the petition for yOur removal on that Jim's. He rose to the occasion, how­ date. I bid you good evening'” ever, went through the routine of the "Incompetency!" The disgraceful closing day, and dismissed the flock, word, representing everything he had not omitting making an engagement with a group of boys for that evening always despised, rang through Jim's to come back and work on the for­ mind as he walked home. He could malin treatment for smut In seed think of nothing else as he sat at the simple supper which he could scare» grains, and the blue-vitriol treatment ly taste. Incompetent! He was In­ for seed potatoes. competent. He picked np a pen. and "We hadn't time for these things," said he to the c A n ty superintendent. began writing. H e wrote, “To the “In the regular class work—and It’» Honorable the Board of Education of the Independent District of ------------ " getting time to take them up If we And he heard a tap at the door. His are to clean out the smut In next mother admitted Colonel Woodruff. year's crop." "Good evening, Colonel,” said Jim. They repeated W hittier’s Corn Song In concert and school was out. 'Take a chair, w ont you?” Since that Christmas afternoon when "No,” replied tin* colonel. "I Jennie had undertaken to follow Mr. thought I'd see If you and the boys Peterson's advice and line Yim Irwin at the schoolhouse can't tell me some­ up, Jim had gone through an Inward thing about the smuf In my wheat. I transformation. He had made up his heard you were going to work on that mind that he would marry Jennie tonight." Woodruff. He saw her through " I had forgotten!" said Jim. clouds of rose and p in k; but she " I wondered if you hadn't," said the looked at him as at a foolish man colonel, "and so I came by for you. «ho was making trouble for her. I was waiting up the road. Come chasing rainbows at her expense, and ou, and ride up w ith me." deeply vexing her. She was In a cold The colonel hail always been friend­ official frame of mind. ly, but there was a new note In hla ■Jim," she said. " I want you to give manner tonight. He was almost defer­ up this sort of teaching. Can't you ential. He worked with the class on see It’s all wrong?’’ the problem of smut. He offered to ."No,” answered Jim, In much the aid the boys in every possible way In manner of a man who has been their campaign against scab In pota­ stabbed by his sweetheart. “I can't toes. He suggested some tests which •ee that It'« wrong. It'« the only »ort would show the real value of the I can do. What do you see wrong treatment. The boys were in a glow In It?" of pride at this co-operation with “Oh, I can see some very wonderful Colonel Woodruff. This was real things fa IL" kald Jennie, "but It can't w ork! Jim and the colonel went be done In the Woodruff district. It away together. I t had been a great may be correct In theory, hut It won’t evening. work In practice.” “Jim,” said the colonel, "can these ’Jennie,” said he, "when a thing kids spell?” won’t work, It Isn’t correct In theory. " I think," said Jim, "that they can But my theory 1« correct snd It outspell any school about here." works." "Good," said the colonel. "How are “But the school hoard are against they about arithmetic and the other It." branches? Have you sort of kept "The school hoard elected me. them up to the course of study?" They stood by and •» « the contract “I have carried them In a course signed." said Jim. "and— yes, Jennie, parallel to the textbook»," said Jim, I knew I am dealing In sophistry! I “and covering the same ground. But got the school by a sort of shell- It has been vocational work, you know game, which the board worked on — related to life." themselve«. But that doesn't prove “Well,” said the colonel, "If I were that the district Is against me. I be­ you. I'd put them over a rapid r » lieve the people are for me, now, Jen­ view of the textbooks for a few day» nie. I really do!" — say between now and the twenty- Jennie rose and walked to the rear flftli." of the room and hack, twice. When “What for?" she spoke, there w » i decision in her "Oh, nothing—Juat to please me. tone— and J ia felt that It was ho» And say. Jim. I glanced over a tile decision. communication you have started to “As an officer," she «aid rather the more or less Honorable Board ot grandly, “my relations with the dis Education." trict are with the school board on the "Yes?" one hand, and with yonr competency "Well, don't finish It. . . . Anif ss a teacher on the other." sav. Jim. I think I'll give myself th» Ha» It come to th at? ’ asked Jim. . luxury of being a wild-eyed reformer "Wall, I have r«»h«r expected it." for once.’’ His tone was weary. The Lincoln­ "Yea," said Jim. dazed. ian droop in hla great sad. mournful “And If you think. Jim. that yon'v» mouth accentuated the resemblance to got no friends, Juat remember that Tna the M artyr President Poaalhly his for you." feelings were net entirely different “ Thank you. Colonel." from tho«e experienced by Lincoln at "And we'll »bow them they're In a some erlaU of donbt, miennderstand horse race." Ing and depression. "I den t see . . ." M id Jim. 'Tf you can t change yonr methoda.” » "You’re not aunpoaed to aee." asld aaid Jennie. “1 suggest that you r » sign." "Are you to he railed upon ta aug- I gat thatr aakad Jiat ______