march
? W e h a v e th e b e s t
s to c k o f
* e v e r s h o w n in H a ls e y .
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home town (or the »am« price?
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HALSEY BNTl’RARISE
Linn county had 7729 children of K/Aarn/ S
«chool age in 1922 and only 7586 last
year.
of
)
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F L O R A L & M U S IC S H O P
tir e s •
•
bany _£/)irectory
We grow our own cut flowers
Gold banded, Rubrum and other hardy
lily bulbs now on hand.
Nice geraniums every Saturday,
HALSEY GARAGE!
Telephone 16x5
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HALLS'
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C o fd ,
W e a ls o h a v e o u r b e tte r g r a d e s
a ttr a c tiv e ly p ric e d .
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A L B E R T FO O T E Prop.
Phone M2 Y
Satisfaction guaranteed
T his is good advice; " I l you live
Price 93,90
in Albany, trade iu Albany ; it you live
F
R
E
D
B-
JO N ES
in some other town, trade in that town."
Hut in these automobile days many re
terT am more In lioive' with yon Than the first time In years; the war was siding elsewhere find it advisable Io do
ever." she had written. "My father on. Up until this time tobacco raising at least part of their buying in the
ALBANY
larger town. Those who go to Albany
was pleased with tt. He thinks that In the South was a poor-paying propo to transact business will find the firms Piano Tuner for leading music stores in
sition
for
anyone
except
the
big
plant
all cause of complaint will be removed.
Albany
named below ready to fill their require
Until It la I do not ask you to be a ers who owned from 75 to 1,000 acres. ments with courtesy and fairness.
The
small
landowner
and
the
tenant
Tory, but only to be patient.”
FURNITURE AND
Jack and Solomon were the whole seldom made more than enough to buy
day getting their horses across Van their pork and corn meal. Then came A lbany Bakery. 321 Lyon street, u .« i
(Continued from page 2)
FARM
MACHINERY
moren twenty notches on the stock Deusen's ferry and headed eesfwnrd those two amazing seasons when even
Best one-pound loaf of bread made
many women using thorns Instead VI o’ my rifle an’ fourteen on my pelt, an' In the rough road. Mr. Blnkus wore the tenant farmer had money to spend. 5 cents.
bought, sold nnd exchanged at all timet
pins and knitting one pair of stockings my name Is Solomon Blnkus from Al his hanger—an old Damascus blade In After he'd spent It he borrowed all he
Wedding cakes to order
with the ravellngs of another. They bany, New York, an’ If you'll excuse herited from his father—and carried could scrape together, even mortgag
B E N T. S U D T E L L
were also flossing out their silk gowns us, we'll put fer hum as soon as w t his long musket and an abundant store ing his future crop to plant plenty of A lbany Electric Store. Radio
«W sets. Electric wiring. Delco i ight Phone 76-R, 123 N. Broadalbin a t, Albany
and spinning the floss Into gloves with kin git erwa.v convenient’’
of ammunition; Jack wore his two pis acres for 1020.
products
In the morning they learned that tols, in the use of which he had be
The acreage w as the largest in years,
cotton. All this was to avoid buying
G lenn W illard
W m . höflich
three men had been killed and five
the
crop
the
heaviest.
Tobacco
fann
goods sent over from Great Britain.
come most expert.
ers
felt
sure
of
a
good
return,
although
The meeting over, Jack and Solomon others wounded by the soldiers. Squads
A lb an y Floral Co. Cut flower«
They came to wagon roads Improv
went on by stage to Boston for a look ! of men and hoys with loaded muskets ing as they approached towns and vil they hod no control over the m arket;
and plants.
p
Floral art for every
were
inarching
Into
town
from
the
as
always,
It
was"
In
the
hands
of
the
and all occasioni.
at the big city.
lages. In the first of which they began
buyers.
country.
_________Flower phone 458-1.__
They arrived there on the fifth of
selling the drove. When they reached
Jack nnd Solomon attended the town
Suddenly, almost overnight, tobacco
Iue Bird R esta u ra n t, 309 Lyon
March a little after dark. The moon
Boston, nearly a week later, they had
street. Eat here when in Albany.
was shining. A snow flurry had whit meeting that day In the Old South only the two horses which they rode. became a drug on the market. Buyers
wouldn't take It for the giving. The
Open from 6 to and 5 to 8.
ened the streets. The air w as still meeting-house. It was a quiet and or
The trial had Just begun. Being ar
Shoes that cost less per monili of wear
M rs . B lount .
mid cold. They had their suppers at derly crowd that listened to the dent Whigs, their testimony made an warehouses opened for sales, closed,
the Ship and Anchor. While they speeches of Josiah Quincy, John Han Impression. Jack's letter to hts father opened and then closed again. The
R U N S W IC K
were eating they heard that a company cock and Samuel Adams, demanding says that Mr. Adams complimented tobacco that was sold went for less
PHO NO GRAPHS
than It cost to produce it. For the
of British soldiers who were encamped calmly but firmly that the soldiers be them when they left the stand.
Halsey Happenings
at
first
time
the
tobacco
farmer
began
forthwith
removed
from
the
city.
The
near the Presbyterian meeting-house
There Is an old letter of Solomon to think of the gelling as well as the
W O O D W O R T H 'S
famous
John
Hancock
cut
a
great
(Continued from page I)
had beaten their drums on Sunday so
Blnkus which briefly describes the production end of farming.
that no worshiper could hear the figure in Boston in those days. It Is Journey. H s speaks of the "pompy'
D U N G A I .O W S
in Albany for
A. M. Hammer, manager of tha
Try
Co-opsrstlon.
not
surprising
that
Jack
was
Im
“ sale. Would exchange (or farm Blain Clothing company, at Albany,
preaching.
men who examined them. "They
The co-operative movement was the properly,
"And the worst of it Is we are com pressed by his grandeur, for he had grinned at me all the time an' the ol'
has bought the big store building for
Davenport Music House.
polled to furnish them food and quar entered the meetlng-liouse In a scarlet big wig Jedge in the womem's dress reault. One year later there were five
$45,000.
great
co-operative
marketing
organi
velvet
cap
and
a
blue
damask
gown
ters while they Insult and annoy us."
got mad If I tried to crack a Joke,
ast burn U ros.— T w o big grocery
said a minister who sat at the table lined with velvet and strode to the he wrote In hla letter. "He looked like zations In the United States, each
Deputy assessors are out at work.
stores, 212 W. First and 225 South
growing n particular type of tobacco,
platform with a dignity even nbove Ills
After supper Jack and Solomon went
he had paid too ranch fer his whistle and composed of 200,000 tobacco farm
A ssessm ents will be on the same basis
Main. Good merchandise at the right
garments. As he faced about the boy
out for a walk. They heard violent
an' thought I had sold It to him. era, selling two-tlilrds of the entire prices.
I as lust year except that sheep will
did not fall to notice and admire the
talk nmong people gathered nt the
Thought he were goln' to box my ears American tobacco crop.
be higher.
white satin waistcoat and white silk
iling
developed
and
printed.
street corners. They soon overtook a
John Adduras Is erbout as ahi rp as a i When the price slump came In 1020
stockings and red morocco slippers
We
mail
theru
right
back
to
you.
noisy crowd of hoys and young men
razor'. Took a likin' to Jack an' me. tobacco farmers were on the verge
The city of Albany started the fund
Mr. Quincy made a statement which
carrying clubs. In front of Murray’!
I tnl' him he were smart 'nough to be of ruin. Everywhere there was bitter WoodWortli Drug Company, Albany, O r for a preliminary survey of the Clear
egon.
stuck like a bur In Jack Irons' memory
barracks, whore the Twenty'ninth regl of that day. und perhaps all the faster a trapper.”
Lake water prospect with an appro
ness. Co-operative marketing was pro
inert was quartered, there was u clint
The two came back In the saddle posed as a wuy out. But the hurley U ir s t garage going north.
priation of $450.
because he did not quite understand It.
terlng crowd of men and boys. Sonif The speaker sa id : "The dragon's teeth and reached Albany late In October.
Tires, accessories, oils, gasoline.
tobacco growers of Kentucky had tried
of fliein were hooting and cursing at have been sown.”
repair work.
Automobile tires are advertised in
a sort of co-operation back In 1900
W. H. H ulburt .
two sentinels. The streets were light
• t.dsey at as low prices as arc quoted
and 1908. It had resulted In those
The chairman asked if there was any
(To be continued)
ed by oil lamps and by candles In the citizen present who had been on the
never-to-be-forgotten night rides. They P>URD SALES AND SERVICE by mail order houses. Why not keep
windows of the houses.
knew that It was useless to co-operate
scene at or about the time of the shoot
as much money in circulation at horn«
Tires and accessories
In Cornhlll they came upon a largei lng. Solomon Blnkus arose and held
to control production; that's what they
Repairs
as you can?
olid more violent assemblage of ‘hi up his hand and was asked to go to
K irk -P ullak M otor Co.
had tried before. To control the mar
same kind. They made their way the minister's room and confer with
Grant Reynolds has taken over the
keting of their crop was an untried
Lj\ir 1 miller Furniture Co., fitrni- Portland Journal agency and his
through It and saw beyond a captain the committee.
field. They hesitated.
• ‘
n corporal nnd sis private soldier;
Then they got the story of the sue A ture, rugs, linoleum, stoves rances. daughter Elsie is delivering the pap
Mr. John Adams called at the Inn
Funeral directors. 427-43.1 west First
standing face to face with the crowd that evening and announced that he
cess of co-operation In California. street,
ers to customers. She is an efficient,
Albany, Oregon.
Men were Jeering at them ; boys hurl was to defend Captain Preston and
California farmers were prosperous
sunshine-radiating newsgirl.
lng abusive epithets. The boys, af would require the help of Jack nnd
“
olman
&
J
ackson
and contented. The farmer and hts
■sr-
-------
they are apt to do. reflected, with sonn Solomon as witnesses. For that rea
Grocery—Bakery
family were well Brassed They had
Henry Brock, marshal o f Browns
exaggeration, the passions ‘ of theli son they were detained some days In
hank nccounts nnd automobiles. Judge Everything in the line ol eats
ville, brought in a copper still this
By G LEN N G. H A YES
Opposite
Postoffice
elders. It was a crowd of rough fel Boston and released finally on the
Robert Bingham, publisher of the Lou
nfternon which he captured neat
Iowa—mostly wharfmen and sailors promise to return when their services <S«Xi»iXS(W!XiX»SX4<S®<S®^
isville Courier-Journal, took a trip to
ub Candy Co., First street, next Brownsville.
He reportn the still
(©.
lt>4.
W
estern
N
ew
spaper
Unlen
)
Solomon sensed the danger In the situ were required.
California In 1921. He saw for him
door to Blain Clothing Co.
was
found
In
a
barn
where it hns been
at Ion. He und Jack moved out of tin
self
what
co-operative
marketing
was
They had a hearty welcome at the
Noon lunches.
Jeering mob. Then suddenly n tlilnj. little house near the King's Arms Plan of Marketing Immense
stored without the knowledge of the
doing for the West. Judge Bingham
Home-made candy and ice Cream.
happened which may have saved om where they sat until midnight telling
man who owned the barn.—‘-Herald.
asked Auron Saplro, the co-operative
Tobacco Crops.
or both their ll.es. The captain drew of their adventures. In the midst of
ub Cleaning Works, Inc.
lawyer, to meet with a group of barley
Miss Millbanks, who has been en
Ills
swonl and flashed a dark llghi It Jack said to his father:
Cor. Fourth and Lyon
tobacco growers to outline a co-opcrn
««TT AIN’T each a bad crop. Ought
gaged
to make n health survey of the
Master
Dyers
and
Cleaners
upon Solomon nnd called out :
live
marketing
plan
like
the
one
use,’
A to bring 'round $600," Jeff Clay
“I heard a speaker say In Boston
Made • T o - Measure Clothes
"Hello. Blnkus! Whnt the h—1 dr that the dragon's teeth had been sown.
pupils in all the schools in the coun
In California.
mused as he loaded hts four-acre crop
you want?"
Under t ic Lialcni -by t — .b
What does that mean?”
IT you have friends they should tv, was here Saturday looking over
of hurley tabacco In the square, flat
“Who be ye?” Solomon nsked.
the situation.
She will inspect the
"It means that war Is coming," said baskets, piling them high on his great Clay and his neighbors sold theli I have your photograph.
“Preston.”
Clifford's Studio
John Irons. “We might as well get wagon.
crop* (be grower knew scarcely anj
Halsey pupils before long.
"Preston! Cat's bipod nnd gunpow ready for It.”
3.1.1 West First street, Albany.
His heart was full of dreamt of a thing about the grading of tobacco
William Hoflich of the Albany
fieri What's the matter?"
These words, coming from his fa
fat wallet and a paid-up grocery bill They seldom knew the grade of theli
rvin’s Oarage— Next to Commu Electrical company has been awarded
Preston, an old comrade of Solomon ther, gave him a shock of surprise. He
as he waved good-by to the four little own stuff. The new plan which Anror.
nity house. Exiile Battery distrib
said to h im ;
began to think of the effect of war curly heads lined up on the doorstep Saplro brought to Kentucky was en
utors for Liun county. Repairs made one of four medals awarded by the
“Go around to headquarters and tell on his own fortunes.
tirely
different.
It
proposed
doing
Delco Light company to salesm en in
of his one-roomed shanty.
on all makes of batteries.
them we are cut off by a mob and lr
Solomon sent Ills furs to market and
“Yes. suh, I'll buy them kids some away with the old auction system. Li
the northwest.
He sold about forty
a bad mess. I'm a little scared. 1 went to work on the farm of John shoes." The big wagon zigzagged across was a plan to get the hurley growers
A ( i N ETO EL ECT RIC CO
light and water plants that yielded
don't want to get hurt or do any hurt Irons and lived with the family. The
Official Stvomberg carburetor serv
the country toward the greet ware to sign a contract to turn their tobacco
$15,000 to the company.
lng.”
house In Lexington "And maybe. Jest crop, every leaf of It, over to the co ice stalion. Couservstive prices. All
work guaranteed.
119-121 W. Second.
Jack ^nd Solomon passed through
“The Interdenominational Church
operative
association
for
six
years.
maybe, I kin get the little woman a
the guard nnd hurried on. Then therr
When 75 per cent of the growers had
drese^-a silk drees."
en and m on ey nre best w hen of the Four Square Gospel of A l
were hisses nnd cries of "Tories'
busy. Make your dollars work in bany, Or." has been incorporated by
Two hours later Jeff stood anxlona- signed the contract would become ef
Rotten T ories!” As the two went or
our savings department. A lbany S tats
eyed In the long, brightly lighted ware fective.
its trustees, H. N. Cockerline, Roy
they heard missiles falling behind their
Later the South staged the first big B ank . Under government supervision.
house where thousands of baskets c f
W. N utting, C. H. Leonard, W. W.
and among the soldiers.
drive
for
members.
In
a
little
over
a
tobacco Were lined In rows waiting the
iller
Motor
Salts
Crawford,
R. I . Patterson, H. A. Mc
“They’s goln’ to be bad trouble thar,"
month 55,700 tobacco growers, pro
auction Mock.
Oakland and Jewett cart
said Solomon. "Them lads ain't to
Kean, F. B SchoeJ, J. A. Drake and
The auctioneer was Hunting the ducers of 76 per cent of the 1920 crop,
Supplies and accessories
blame. They’re only doin' as they're
bids. It Was Jeff’s crop. His whole had signed a contract.
First and Baker Sts.
Albany, Oregon Paul Miller.
commanded. It's the pesky king thal
A hoard of directors was elected and
year's work was at stake—In a few
Dr. Charles S. Price, evangelist, will
orto be hetehelled."
orton A Speer Service Com-
minutes It would ba sold, sold to the James C. Stone of Lexington wa»
come
to Albany for a fifteen day ser
They were hurrying on. as he spoke
pany
highest bidder. He could hear the made president and genera! manager
and the words were scarcely out of
ies of meetings beginning on Sun
Headquarters for good tires
monotone of the auctioneer's deep bass Then the tobacco board got busy. Ken
his mouth when they heard the com
First and Lycn
voice. He ceuld see a blurred mass tucky had no co-operative marketing Phone 65
d a y , March 9, and e n d in g S u n d a y ,
mand to Are and a rifle volley—then
of sharp-featured buyers. The auction law. To save time they Incorporated
urphy Motor Co. Bniclt and March 23, according to announcement
loud cries of pain and shrill curses and
eer's voice pounded In his ears with under the co-operative marketing law
Chevrolet automobiles. Tires and made today by Russel P. Rothgeb, his
running feet. They turned and started
of North Carolina. But they didn't
dull. Insistent monotony.
scces sones
back.
People were rushing out of
"Fourteen ’n a quarter, a quarter, have any trouble getting a marketing
Albanv, Oregon. Phons 200._ secretary and campaign manager.
The m eetings will be held in the arm
their houses, some with guns In their
a quarter, fourteen 'n a half, a half— law passed In Kentucky, once the leg
oscoe amks hardware , ory, for which Mr. Rothgeb signed a
so ld i-
Islalure met.
hands. In a moment the street war
the
Providing Warehouses.
Jeff's knees trembled. Barely there
fulL
contract late this afternoon.— Albany
WINCHESTER STOKE
The warehousing question wasn't w>
must ba a mistake. Bul he had heard
i "The soldiers are slaying people," s
Herald.
.122 ,v . First at.
It with hla own ears. He turned heart simple. There had to he warehouses
man shouted. "Men of Boston, frt
Another burglary of LaMar & La
sick. His whole crop had brought less to receive the tobacco, but there was
must arm ourselves and fight.”
S. l i U i K R l A SO N
than $800. He conldn't take anything no money or time with which to build
It was a scene of wild confusion
• Atldiftg a line of builders' hardwire Mar’s store at Peoria was attempted
home to the little family. He couldn't them before the crop would be read.«
Old customer* are invited to call and Friday night, and like the one last
They could get no farther on Cornhlll.
even pay hla debts—but tse had to sell. to move. Aaron Saplro had thought see the new stock.
The crowd began to pour Into side-
r i^ e othbw t a v T s w ,
fell brought the crooks to grief
about that. He had provided a plan
It never did any good to hold off.
streets. Rumors were flying about thal
was t r j > m a r u a u t /
through
a burglar alarm.
Stanley
T
IM
HON
T
H
E
SHOE
DOCTOR
That was In 1920
which allowed for a subsidiary corpo
MARS TO T K t B O Y .
many had been killed and wounded
Second street, opposite Hamilton's Thompson of Creswell and Warren
ration to be formed for the purpose
drawers Saw the Light.
An hour or so later Jack and Solomon
store.
Wilkins of Eugene were caught nnd
Somehow or other Jeff managed to of buying warehouses to be paid for
were seized by a group of ruffians.
"Sudden Service.*'
boy returned to school. After the hay
over
a
period
of
six
years,
the
pay
a lot of - loot, from other stores in
stay In the tobacco-raising business.
“Here are the d—n Tories 1" one of had been cut and stacked In midsum
aldo Anderson A Son. distrib- i the valley, it is supposed, wan found
them shouted.
mer. they were summoned to Boston Indeed, there w as nothing else he ments being deducted from the pro
ceeds of the growers' tobacco. At the
utors anil dealers tor M axw ell, Chal in their car.
“Friends o’ tourderers!" was the cry to testify In the trial of Preston. They could do.
Though from fins
mers, Esses, Hudson A IftipiHobile cars.
In 1921. however. Just one year Inter, end of six years the warehouses would
of another "Let’s hang 'em I”
fam
ilies,
both
bovs
have prison rec
left In September, taking with them
Jeff received an average price of 21 % belong to the co-operative growers. Accessories. Snp"l>e*. 1st ft Broadalbin,
Solomon Immediately knocked the a drove of horses.
ords.
rente
a
pound
for
hie
entire
crop.
And
Each
grower
would
own
a
share
based
man down who had called them Tories
"It will be good for Jack," John
Members of the Shedd Jersey stock
and seized another and tossed him so Irons had said to hts wife. "He’U be the price wasn't a bit of sheer lock on the amount of hla deliveries. This
this time. He w as a member of the plan was proposed to 117 warehouse
club
stock judging were presented
far in the crowd as to give It pause.
W rite for booklet describing our 20- I
the better prepared for hla work In
Immediately the association venr Rural Credit Amortized loans j with medals nt a community m eet
Burley Tobacco Growers' Co-operative men.
"I don't mind bein' hung," he shout Philadelphia next fall.”
association. In Kentucky the auction took possession of more than <6,000,000 1 lie loan pay« out in 20 payments, re- , ing nt Shedd Saturday.
ed. "not If It's done proper, but no man
Awards
Two Important letters had arrived
kin call me a Tory lessen my hands that summer. One from Benjamin block was gone. A new system of to worth of property without paying a tirin g the principal. Cheap rales. No ! were given by O, M. Plummer, mana
bacco
marketing
bad
made
Its
way
cent
In
cash.
delay.
are tied, without glttln’ h u rt An' If Franklin to Joan Irons offering Jack
ger of Pacific International Livestock
IlKAM I.A Hl) Co ,
Where to get the money for the
my hands was tied I'd do some hol a chance to learn the printer's trade Into the Southland a system that was
exposition. Members of the team are
l.U Lyon SL, Albany, Ore
stabilizing the whole Industry. Jeff first advance payment—that was the
lerin', now yon hear me."
In his Philadelphia shop and board and was Just one Of the 56.000 tobacco biggest problem. After the first pay
Edith Pugh, Clifford Cornutt an<l
A man back In the crowd let out a lodging In hla home.
farmers who had made a fair profit by ment had been met It would be easy.
Ralph Matson.
In addition to her
laugh as loud as the braying of an
The other lett/r «as from Margaret Joining the Mg co-operative.
The cost of doing business would be
medal Edith Pugh was given the O.
ass.
Others followed his example.
In 1920 tobacco grower« all over deducted from the proceeds of the
The danger was passed.
Solomon Hare to the hoy, In which she had said
M. Plummer scholar ship to O. A. C.
at lowest rate of Interest.
that they were glad to learn that he the United States raised a bumper growers. It was at this particular
shouted:
summer school. She is the high scor
Prompt
service.
Courteous
treatment.
I
"I used to know Preston when I were end Mr. Blnkus were friends of Cap crop of the golden weed; 1018 and time that the banks offered their as
ing individual of that contest.
1019
had
been
splendid
season«;
their
sistance.
Louisville
and
Cincinnati
tain
Preston
and
Inclined
to
help
him
WM'
B
ain
,
Room
5,
First
iSsvings
Bank
,
a scout !• Amherst's array flghtln' In
crop» had brought enormous prices for
(Continued on page 41
,
juns an’ French»«®. which they« In his trouble. "Since I read your Jet
(Continued on page 4)
bullmng, Albany
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