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 . J Heavy Harness* • W h y s e n d to m a il o __ ________ i l ______S ' ;w S e e it a n d le a r n p ric e s : •U N IV E R S A L c art o o k u“ in g h c “‘ o n v "orJi" e n ie n c e i a n d e f f ic ie n c y •ST O V E S and W e h a v e th e b e s t lin e < i o f th e m e v e r s h o w n < • RANGES in H a ls e y i 30x3* Cord, $ 9 .0 0 • L ° \ 3 ! F a b t ic ' home town (or the »am« price? 3 2 x 4 HALSEY BNTl’RARISE Linn county had 7729 children of K/Aarn/ S «chool age in 1922 and only 7586 last year. of ) J —Continued 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 FAO t HALLS' 1 4 .9 5 • 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 . 8 -5 0 * «, t«« f’hape ifeej______ 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 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