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HALSEY ENTERPRISE
VOL. XII
HALSEY, LINN COUNTY, ORHGON. THURSDAY, FEB. 14, 1924
HALSEY HAPPENINGS
ANO COUNTY EVENTS
Short Stories from Sundry
Sources
Did you get a valentine?
, Mr«. S. J. Smith has been suffering
with the grip.
Jess Safley and family were Albany
visitors Thursday
Glenn Stevenson of Beaverton was
in Halsey Sunday.
Gilbert Carey was an Albany visit
or the first of the week.
Mrs. J. S. McMahan drove to
Brownsville Friday evening.
W. A. Carey was a business visitor
to Cottage Grove Saturday.
Mrs. A. A. Tussing was a Scio visit­
or the latter part of the week
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Davidson were
both on the sick list last week.
.
and took possession a week ago to­
day.
Shedd Snapshots
C. H. Koontz was an Albany visitor
Monday.
By Anna Pennell;
Douglas Taylor
Thursday
was in
Brownsville Briefs
Mrs. Charles Pugh was in Corval­
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Albany lis Saturday.
J. W. McCumber left for Portland
Miss Ida Mitzner came home from Monday.
Albany Saturday.
Harold Shedd was a Salem visitor
Mrs. L. C. Merriam was a passenger Wednesday
to Albany Thursday
Lyman Pennell left Monday morn­
’Ih e O. A. C. boys are all spending ing for a visit at Forest Grove.
the week end at home.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Pennell spent
Miss Gladys Willbanks was visit­ a few days in Portland last week.
ing in Albany last week
Harold Troutman has returned to
Mr. and Mrs. Newt. Cummings were his home in Shedd from Marshfield.
Halsey shoppers Wednesday.
A crew of men are at work repair­
Mrs. Adda Ringo took the early ing the steam shovel at the A. D.
morning train for Salem Thursday
Kern quarry.
Mrs. Edith Thompson of Yoncolla
The Shedd high school presented the
has been visiting at the C. P. Moody-
play “Putting it up to Patty” in Tan­
home.
gent Friday night and took in $42.80.
Alonzo Neal of Brownsville visited
Dale Lamar of Peoria, who has
with his parents, 0. F. Neal and wife.
been attending Shedd high, has left
Wednesday.
this school to attend in Corvallis.
Mrs. M. B. Southern and her daugh­
E. E. Aubry of Tangent was
ter, Mrs. George Hayes, went to Al­ Shedd visitor Monday.
bany Saturday.
Mrs. G. G. Hockensmith came from
Albany Saturday.
She had been to
consult a dentist.
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Miss Inez Trefry, who has been ill
After a week's wrestle with the grip
for several weeks with typhoid fever, Eldon Cross threw the critter and is
is slowly improving.
back on hi? job again.
Mrs. Fred Taylor of Eugene was
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bramwell spent
the guest of her father, J. C. Standish, Sunday at the home of Guy Bramwell
several days last week.
and family of Brownsville.
W. J. Ribelin has been teaching his
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lowrey of Port­
land were guests'of the latter’s par­ flock of hens so carefully that: he is
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brock last low selling eggs by the case instead
the dozen.
week.
D. H. Sturtevant, Eldon Cross and
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Walker returned
the last of the week from a visit with W, F. Carter have been appointed ad­
' their son, S. I .Walker, and family in ministrators of the estate of the late
Mrs. Gormley.
Portland.
Mrs. D. F. Dean returned from
Mrs. W. H. Beene and her brother,
visiting in Portland and Oregon City
W. A. Allen, motored to Corvallis last
Monday.
The report that she had
Tuesday, where Mr. Allen consulted
returned to Bandon was an error. .She
Dr. Garnjobst.
is still visiting with her dau fh tir,
3. W. Drinkard attended the mer­ Mrs. C. P. Stafford, and husbani.
chandise shoot at Corvallis Sunday,
The train which goes at U.-;f7 car­
and, as usual, succeeded in bringing
ried a man in the baggage coach by
home the bacon.
the name of McNitt of Centralia, who
W. F. Carter has bought back the was suffering from a fractured skull
He had gore to
Halsey meat market from the Falks and broken hip.
sleep while driving his auto. I t pays
to keep awake sometimes.
NO. 29
(By Ralph Lawrence)
J. C. Harrison made a business trip
to Sweet Home Saturday.
Bessie Howe is confined to
; home oq account of asthma.
her
Hazel Moyer was called to Eugene
Sunday afternoon, returning the next
day.
.
The Burson children are back in
school after a month’s absence on ac-
count of measels.
Word was received here last week
of the marriage of Frank Newland,
but we didn’t learn the name of the
bride.
It has been reported that Jess Bow­
ers has traded his farm for the Mill-
wood ranch. This gives Mr. Bowers
a fine modern country home.
! his brother, W. A. Cummings, and
1 wife Sundav.
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Homecomng day at the church
proved to be a great success. Rev H.
age, was present a 11 gave two splcn
did idi'itsses . A large congr*g«ion
end a bountiful liir.t.'i added to the
d a j's enjoyment. Those from a dis­
tance attending were Mr. and Mrs.
Dave Pierce and daughter of Albany,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Logan of Spring-
field, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Cummings
of Corvallis, Mr. and Mrs. James of
Peoria, Mrs. Brock of Halsey, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Rickard and sons of Al­
ford, Mr. and Mrs. M. Rickard of
Junction City and Roy Farmer of
Halsey.
Lincoln's Birthplace
Abraham Lintoln was bom Feb. 12,
Friday” night Brownsville negative 1 1809> in 6 *°B cabin with “ door and
team, consisting of Elaine Woodworth : no proper window but instead a place
and Katherine Starr, debate the Leb- in the same wall with the door, the
anon afirtnative team on ‘TThe Sever- south, which could be opened or clos-
Tax." It is a triangular d e b a te /od according to the weather. This
tBrowtavilleln affirmative going to 1
Albany. There
There i is . no
„„ admission
adm l..lm char- I ' house was 0,lce torn dow". bu‘ the
»Hi ui ppq buiaq aiaqop aqi aS | lo«s were Preserved and the present
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i owners in 1805 rebuilt it as it form-
high school auditorium
. Come
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x . . a. er*y stood and inclosed it with a
(E n tc rp rla a Correspondence)
and see what has been taught in the fenct?
R sUuds on the fiig gouth fork of
Lee Ingram and family called at schools the last four years,as .11 the
the J. II. Rckard home Saturday even- debat‘ng team arc aeni°™- The other Nolin creek, in Hodgenville, LaRue
¡n„
) two debaters are Edna Boggie and county, Ky.
The county and town
j Fay Proebstel.
were named for the Hodgen and La-
Frank Kropf and family spent Sun­
Friday night was “ children's Rue families, oous'ns, who were the
day at the Jake Roth home near Har­
night" at the special meetings being first settlers there. John and Mar’’
risburg.
held at the Baptist church. The choir LaRue of Halsey are relatives of
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Isom and Mrs. consisted of children, and the sermon, those families and treasure a news­
J. F. Isom went to Eugene Monday by Rev. M. S. Woodworth, was especi­ paper picture of the old house, accom­
afternoon.
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ally for the children. Sunday after panied by the following lines by Gar-
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brock and noon Rev. Mr. Cain preached to the ■ rett New kirk :
daughter Doris of Lake Creek called children’s choir from the Methodist ' A house of logs, low, wndowless and
at the Chester Curtis home Thursday. pulpit. Sunday night Rev. Mr. Orr
small,
preached to a full house on “Be Sure
Freplace of atone and clay,
J. N. Burnett and wife and son Ed­ Your Sins Will Find You Out." The
win and Oliver Ingram and family meetings all this week are to be held Stick chimney, queer, one southward
open door,
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Friday
were afternoon callers at the Lee In­ at the Methodist church
Alford Arrows
For lig h t and cheer of day,
gram home Monday.
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OREGON OCCURRENCES
RECITED FOR READERS
'K paom e Of Eventa in the
Beaver State
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Pine Valley la considering ereettng
a new school building
J
Thomas 0 . Hawley was nominated'
for postmaster at Multnomah
Student reglelration at Oregon Agri '
cultural college for the college ycari
now totals 417«.
Wheat shipments from the Columbia
river to all porta for the cereal
eon reached 12,322,796 bushels.
At a meeting of the Newport city
council, Jess Frey, councilman, wai
elected mayor to succeed Carl Ryck
man. resigned.
City ordinances prohibiting minors
from frequenting pool halls and th<
curfew ordinance are now being en­
forced In Eugene.
The Roseburg Elks lodge has voted
to proceed Immediately with the con­
version of Farquhar island Into a city
park and playgrounds.
Establishment of
naval base at Tongue
ored In a resolution
Monmouth Commercial
a government
Point was fav­
passed by the
club
The first carload of broecdll to be
sent from the Umpqua valley thia year
was shipped from Roseburg by the
Umpqua Broccoli exchange.
Charles Colvin, a Beaverton young
man, was killed Instantly when east-
bound Southern Pacific train No. 1(0
struck a “bug" he was driving.
The Madras flour mill was destroy­
ed by fire starting from an unknown
cause. It was feared for a time that
the entire town would be burned.
A vigorous campaign to prevent
overloading nt trucks operating on the
highways of the state Is to be started
under the direction of the state traffic
department.
Nearly ISO dlffer-jut automobile« of
29 different makes were displayed by
night is to be “children's night’’
again, with a special sermon, and A slender woman, young, in homespun 21 leading automobile dealers of Port­
Mr. and Mrs .Chester Curtis and Sunday afternoon another sermon for
land at the ISth annual automobile
garb,
children visited at the home of their the children.
show In that city.
A
man
child
bending
over,
uncle, Jack Curtis, at Peoria Sunday. [
There was a total of »22 accidents
Within a lowlv cradle gently rocked
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Whitbeck were
Vitz Ramsdell is to hold a public
In Oregon industries during the week
Upon the earthen floor;
afternoon callers a t the L. H. Straley sale at the Millwood ranch next Sat­
ended February 7, according to a
home Thursday.
urday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ramsdell ex­ A cradls rude, God's basket, like the report prepared by the state Industrial
pect to make their fdture home in
arlc
Little Horst Ruehling, 2 yjare old,
accident commission.
Alvin and Orie Kropf and Herman Portland.
This leaves a vacancy in
W e H ave
That lav among the reeds
who was the only survivor of the
Maurice E. Crumpacker, well known
Smueker
were
Sunday
afternoon
call­
the Ash Swale school board, as Mr. Upon the Nile, filled with a nation'« attorney of Portland, has announced
.EVERY THING
twelve partakers of the Gerber dinner
ers a t the Lee Ingram home.
Ramsdell
was
elected
a
member
last
hope
who was alive when last week’s E n ­
O ptical
his candidacy for the republican nom­
J. H. Rickard end family attended June.
And promise of great deeds.
terprise went to press, and who n t
ination for representative of the third
the church services and basket din­
E Y E S T R A IN
first was expected to escape, took ill
congressional district.
Elaine Woodworth, who has been
ner a t Lake Creek Sunday.
Is the Cause of Many
after all the others were dead and diet I
The Chester-Fisher l-ogglng com­
staying
with
Mrs.
Moyer
all
the
The
Study
Club
HUMAN ILLS
Mrs. D. I. Isom is staying in Eu- school year, has changed her place of
pany hat filed with the public serv­
Sunday. He had had a sip of Ihe
II yeur eyes give you trouble or
Mesdames Bert S. Clark and L. E. ice commission application to estab­
juice from the beans, though he took | cene at the home of her dau« bter’ abode to Mrs. Id a H art ¡son's.
your gUsses are annoying
Walton were joint hostesses at an in­ lish a logging railroad over the Ne­
SHE US. We can Relieve You
Mrs.
Rova
Robnett,
this
week.
Mr.
the bulk of his nourishment from a
Belle Burson drove up from Leban­ teresting meeting of the Study club halem highway near Astoria.
Isom has been moved there from the
B a n c r o f t O p t ic a l C o .
bottle.
on Sunday to visit her folks north of Thursday afternoon a t the Clark
Ijgrspital and is still improving.
313 1st St. W. Albany. Phone
The Astoria hoard of school direc­
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Chance visited town, but because her brother, Bruce, home. Mrs. T. I. Marks, vice presi­ tors has decided to dispense with the
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dent,
presided.
Thirteen
members
at *he John WiPbanks home Sunday. is still confined to his bed, she did not
services of the school health officer
iMiss Esther Starnes is sick with
go into th e house hut visited from responded to roll call with answers to after the first of the coming month,
questions from the Americanization leaving the health department in
sfcx’e.'e cold.
tiie car. They are all better at the
questionnaire.
charge of the school nurse
present writing and returning to
In compliance with a request from
All northbound traffic over the
school this week.
T'le mayor of Herrin, 111
the Oregon Federation of Women's Southern Pacific railroad waa held up
was l.ireman of a coroner's
clubs, an art committee was appoint­ by a landslide In Cow creek canyon.
Brownsville will reassess March 3 ed to provide art in some form on all
jury investigating a murder the
Tho slide buried the tracks for a con­
other day when he was arrested for the pavements the city is enjoy­ club programs, further the teaching of siderable distance, but was discover­
ing
The
original
assessment,
undent
for t be crime * That is an inci
art in schools and encourage the beau­ ed In time to prevent a wreck.
dent such ss frequently vary the which a considerable amount of money tifying of the city and highway by
Wages of Lane county road laborers
has been collected, has been declared the abatement of unsightly billboards
monotony of tliat little sheol,
In 1924 will range front 22 M a day
invalid.
Tho lesson, which covered the Tros- for common labor to 412 a day for
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Wt J. Lane, the jeweler, has a nice sacht and Glasgow, and a reading men with large tractors, according to
display of Confederate bills in his from Scott'a “Lady of the Lake," was e schedule agreed upon by the mem
window.
Among these are bills is­ given by Mrs. Ruth Clark, Mrs. A. A. bers of the county court, to be et I
lus-s
tectlve March 1.
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sued in Richmond and Vicksburg at Tussing and Mrs. B. M, Bond.
Miss Georgina Clark played two
George Pendleton, farmer living In
tho time they were under siege
piano selections, which were much en­ (be vicinity of Broadaerae In Merlon
by the union troops.
joyed. The refreshments were served county, was killed when an automobile
truck In which he was riding was
by the hostesses.
OR years, mothers of boys and girls
struck by a southbound Oregon Elec­
'.ho
next
meeting
will
be
at
the
have looked to us for hosiery strongly
home of Mrs. J. W. Drinkard, Febru­ tric train at a crossing north of the
fnade; to stand the wear and tear of the
Broadseras station.
ary 21.
(By an Enterprise Reporter)
S c h o o l S to c k in g s
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school playground. For as many years
we have recommended.
A lle n A
/S e a ^ X . C a £
Hosiery
O u r lines of children's hosiery include every style or
quality jfou are ever likely to want. Stockings for
school, ‘dress-up” or knockabout wear, made with
reinforced heels, toes and knees, for sturdy boys and
girls— all rightly prtctJ. See our special School D is ­
play thyi week.
K00NTZC
GOOD GOODS
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Halsey Ch urch ol Christ
Church Announcements
Church of C h rist:
Lon Chamiee, minister.
Bible school, 10, W . H. Robert-
son, superintend* it.
Morning Worship, II, Lord’s
supper every Lord’s day.
Christian Endet vor, 6:80.
Evening service. 7:30,
The church with out a bishop, in
the country wit hoc t a king.
If you have no church borne
come and worship w ith us.
Methodist:
Robert Parker, pastor.
Sunday School, PC.
Preaching. i i .
Intermediate Lei .gue. 6:30.
Epworth Lea g u t 6:30.
Prayer meet in» IT ’bnrsdav. 7:30,
Preaching, 7.30. .
Lake Creek Locals
Leone Palmer is ill at her home.
The worst menace to good govern­
Wl L. Smith of Halaey is doing car­ ment today is partisanship. Just be­
penter work for Thomas Ardry this cause one party promotes an issue is
week.
not a sensible reason for the opposite
party opposing It. All this juggling
Rev. Francis Nugen and wife were
M rs'*Nu'én *nd b,oclt*nli in our leg>»l»tur*s *» j” **
at the church Sunday,
- ' as bad ss to throw a monkey wrench
and little son arrived recently from
into the workings of any other piece
Idaho.
of machinery.
Congress is too big
Lucile Herndon spent the week end and unweildly. If the whole system
were abolished and a board of a few
visiting Edith Smith of Halsey.
Claude Cook and family visited men similar to our supreme judges
Claudels sister, Mrs. Roy Owen, Sun- were elected to make our laws, we
day.
would have better and more sensible
laws.—Junction City Times.
Mr. and Mrs. Char.dler and Agnes
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
of Pine Orove spent Sunday at laike
Creek; .Iso Mrs. R. K. Stewart a n /
Nelly has granted a tempor-
granddaughters Helen and Jennette. ar> restraining rfrder preventing the
public service commission from en-
Bert Miackly and wife mingled with I forcing its orders reducing the freight
old friends at Lake Creek Sunday.
, ra»e nn farm produce until the case
N. II. Cummngs and family viaited ,^ato been tried in court.
Jndge Weatherford, In an address
before the Albany chamber of con-
morce, urged that body to start a
move
among
like
organisations
throughout the state to get a law
passed to tax the government-owned
timber lands In Oregon
One-twelfth of the roads built un­
der federal aid since 121« are In Ore­
gon, according tb a report from the
secretary of agriculture. Of approxi­
mately jg.ooo miles completed in the
United 8tates under Joint agreement,
2147 miles are In Oregon.
ft R. Thompson, who wae elected
president of the permanent organisa­
tion of the Oregon Export Comnris-
slon league. In a meeting at Arling­
ton of officers of the various county
organisations, left Sunday night ter
Washington. D. C., to lobby for the
McNary-llsugheu blU.
(Ccntinuedon page 4)