Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927, April 01, 1925, Image 1

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    ENTERPRISE
A g rc u ltu re
H o rtc u ltu re
L iv e s to c k
\ \\ oekly Chronicle of Local Events and Progress on Linn Countv L aih I
Halsey Happenings
and County Events
Btow nsville were in Halsey M on-
day.
E. E. Carey has a new Ford
tractor.
j HISTORICAL ADDRESS
Large and Small Events
Chronicled in Brief
Paragraphs
Miss M erle Straley was in
*a n y Saturday,
A l-
Jess Saflev and fa m ily were
bany callers Saturday.
Al­
J
W. A. C arey was in
Monday.
M r. and Mrs. A . E. Foote drove
to the county seat Saturday.
Corvallis
•
White.
*r' '"”h al h<me Notes From the
week
Mrs. Stone of Twin Buttes is j
Halsey Schools
very sick at her home with !
heart trouble.
, A P r o b a b y F a ta l B a s e b a ll
Ralph Lawrence has gone to
G a m e L e tte r s in
Toledo, where he has work in
A th le tic s
the lumber camps.
al the Methodist Church
by the Pastor
John Blain has purchased a
• From the records of the old Calapooia circuit,
is busy hauling lumber.
I English II has for its them®
Bruce Burson got tired of h is ) “Idyls of the King” and Eng-
own eooking and moved back lish III has under consideration
home again.
He has been "Coverly Papers.”
• Harrisburg, Lake Creek, Peoria and other points
• were a part.
to
Enterprise.
Mesdames T. 1. M arks and C.
M r. and Mrs. J. F. Scbedtler of
W olf Creak are here visitin g the ’’ Stafford went to A lb a n y S it-
ird ay, retu rn in g in a new Ch v.
Tastings.
rolet coup» which Mrs. Marks is
The eooked-food sale given by now d riv iu g
the Standard Bearer class yielded
Miss Beulah M ille r
returned
about $13.
Sunday from W ashington, where
John Salaab and J. A. M c W il­ she had spent the w inter w ith her
liams attended the aboot in E u ­ sister, Mrs. M ark Brandon, aad
gene Sunday.
fa m ily.
Mrs. Fred T aylo r of Portland
Next week W . J. R ibe lio w ill
spent Sunday w ith ber father, J. advertise an auction sale o f per­
C Standish, and wife.
sona! property. He expoets M r.
Irvin L. Wolfe, an ex-service and Mrs. H offm an to take posses­
man, died at Lebanon Thursday sion of the home M ay 1 on a two-
from poisoning and there la year lease.
A special invitation i t extended to the early settlers.
"Rem em ber the days of o ld .” — Dieut. 32:7.
•
baching at the M illw ood ranch.
Brandon Bits
Alford Arrows
(E n te rp ris e Correspondence)
(By an Enterprise Reporter)
'
Lester Greene of Brownsville
M r. and Mrs. Seth M il!» were
is visiting at Curtis Veatch’s.
callers at A. E. W h itb e ck’s M on­
Clarence
Wagner, who is day evening.
spending the week end with his
Lee Ingram and Emery Rickaid
parents, is visiting at Curtis i went to A lb a n y Monday.
Veatch’s.
George Dannen and fa m ily of
Ray
Proebstel,
from
Beattie, Shedd called at E.
Monday afternoon.
Wash., is at Curtis Veatch’s.
Curtis Veatch arrived home
Sunday from a short visit in
Eugene. •
Fletcher McGee of Shedd and
Glenn Walton
spent Sunday
with the former’s sister i. Mrs.
Glenn Chance.
Glenn Walton was in Salem
Friday.
Wanda
Veatch visited at
Byrd Wagner’s Sunday after­
noon.
Mr. John Veatch of Cottag®
Grove was at Curtis Veatch’s
Tuesday buying cattle.
Glenn Walton
expects to
bring a bride home pretty soon,
spent Sunday with their mother
Hen ry and Mabel W e g • r
at Brownsville.
A.
Starnes’
Mrs. E. A. Starnes and Mrs.
E. D. Isom visited the school
Friday afternoon.
George Godwin and family
of Buena Vista spent Sunday
at John Rolfe’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Landis Philpott
doubt whether it was a case of
Of only six counties rep-
of Harrisburg visited at Ches­
suicide or a murder.
re; ?nted at the state convention
ter Curtis’ Sunday afternoon.
There are rum ors th a t Prof. of the W. C. T. U. at Portland
English, school p rin c ip a l, intends Thursday Linn was one.
Mrs. George Workinger and
to leave us before another term
little
daughter called on Mrs. A.
The Harrisburg bridge is to
and th a t P rincip al Thomas DaVis
E.
Whitbeck
one afternoon last
of the Jefferson schools may he bis be floored w ith 2x6 cedar aQt on
week.
successor, but the school hoard edge and covered with asphalllc
is n 't ta lk in g fo r p u b lica tio n .
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Chance
paving compound. That ought
and
niece, Miss Laverne Hof-
to
be
durable.
Pan! Paprnau, who has bought
lich visited John Willbanks*
the Halsey garage from A. E.
Through a misunderstanding
Sunday.
Foote, is a m achinist w ith fifteen at the publication office the En­
years’ experience w ith a ll makes terprise failed to go out on the
M'rle, Lloyd, Ruth and Ray
of ears and tractors.
For seven
■RroVf took dinner with their
Halsey
rural
routes
Thursday
years he traveled in western C all­
teacher, Miss • Lillie Rickard,
morning. It will probably not
ed* rep airin g machines fo r the
H ira m
B ie rly to®k Annette Sunday.
,
occur
again.
In te rn atio na l Harvester company.
Long
home
Sunday
afternoon.
M r nnd M rs. J. W. D rin ka rd
He has the best of recommenda­
Ellsworth Curtis and family
Annette Long, who is teach­ spent the day with Mr. Curtis’
tions from J he biggest shops in went to Eugene Sunday for the
Portland, where he has been w ork­ shoot sod Mr. D rin k a rd topped ing school in Alsea, spent the sister, Mrs. Alice Allen, and
ing the past six years.
He ex­ 'be shooters for the day. Betting | week end with her aunt, Mrs. family at Halsey Sunday.
Quimby.
pects fooo to b ring his fa m ily to 99 birds out of 100, and having an
unbroken run of 98. C. P. Staf­
Halsey to reside.
Mrs. Cecil Quimby, Mr. Hiram
Claude S>n ith
and wife of ford and wife accompanied them Bierly and Mr. and M:s. Paul
and -Dent the day w ith cousins in
Bierly spent Sunday at the
Eugene.
Quimby home.
Alba n v ’s
Leonard L e rw ill of Brow nsville
o ly
was a caller at th is office Monday. J About 29 people from Charity
visited the Creswell
M r L e rw ill studied to be a news- 1 grange
Grange
Saturday.
paper man and he is one, though
unattached at present. He carried
Enid Veatch of the U. of 0.
on the e d ito ria l departm ent of th e 1 spent the week end with her
Cottage Grave sentinel d urin g the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Veatch.
late session of the legialature, while
E V E R Y T H IN G O P T IC A L
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Chance
E d ito r Bede was in Salem. Leon­
ard is a rather re tiriu g man.
He were in Albany one day last
did not give us any of the above week.
313 West F ir|t street, Albany,Or.
in fo rm a tio n , but i t ia true.
EXCLIIS ■
OPTICAL PARLORS
Bancroft Optical Co.
(Continued on
page 6)
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Cum­
mings were Corvallis callers
Saturday.
M. V. Koontz Co.
DRY GOODS
CLOTHING
Men measured for dandy made-to-order
dress suits
Boys’ suits, ready to wear
Rain clothing
hoes
for the little folks
HOES for the big folks
S
“ I f your A h t h u rt, come in .
a p air of E d w a ^ w ’ Foot F itte rs .
We can relieve you w ith
Our goods give satisfaction because they
are
I f 00NTZG
GOOD GOODS
Church of Christ
Sunday School,
10.
Preaching, l l .
C hristian Endeavor, 7.
Preaching. 8,
The meeting* closed Suo day, a
great succeae in every way. 1'here
was greet interest -hown th ro u g h ­
out.
The visible results were
eeven confes-ions,
There were 98 on lim e in the
Snnday school Sunday m orning.
We ere expecting a good attend-
next «Sunday, and Kester Sunday
w ill be another record day.
C lifford CareV, pastor.
M. E. Church
Robert Parker paMor.
Sunday school, 10.
Preaching, 11.
Junior League, 3,
Interm ediate League, 7.
Epw orth league, 7
Preaching, 8.
Prayer-meeting Thursday, 8.
The Halsey baseball team went
Mrs. George Stone is visiting to B row nsville F rid a y . Two in ­
and helping care for her mother- nings were played and the game
in-law at the Stone home at was called off on account of th®
Twin Buttes.
rain. The first inning resulted
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Harrison en- * 3 to 1 in Brownsville’s favor
tertained Mr. Woodworth and and the second 11 to 1. Carl
Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison at Isom made the one point. The
dinner Thursday.
field was soft and the Halsey
George Howe, teacher at boys had smooth shoes, while
had the benefit of
Ash Swale, took Cecil Gamble Brownsville
. .
home with him, to spend the, eat3,
Lester W alker, of the Browns­
week end in Albany.
v ille team, was h it on rhe head by
The infant son of Mr. and a nail d urin g the game and at last
Mrs. Darrel Sawyer is very ill reports remained uucouaciout and
with complications following an i t was feared the in ju ry would ba
attack of flu and pnuemonia.
fa ta l.
Little Blanche Gustavson has
(High School Reporter)
been
very
sick
w ith
the
epi­
demic of “child flu” that has
been going around, but is bet­
ter now.
Rev. M. S. Woodworth, pastor
of the Baptist church at Ash­
land,
was
shall lug
hands
w fih
The awarding of letters to our
pupils for participation in ath­
letics is now a permanent duty
of the student body. In order
to win one of these letters in the
form of block “II” for boys and
fancy block “H” for girls the
student must play three whole
Karnes in contests with high
schools that are members of the
athletic association. Those who
receive letters in this school
usually play in almost every
friends in town Wednesday and
Thursday.
Jim Calloway of O. A. C. was
home for vacation last week.
His brother Warren, who has
been employed in Portland; da game. The g ir ls ’ basketball
team this year played seven
also at home. .
games and all bat one of the
Mr. and Mrs. George Grume, girls receiving letters played in
of Salem are visiting this week at least six games.
at the home of Mr. Crume’s
Before an assembly of the
mother, Mrs. Sara Crume, In students Mr. English presented
North Brownsville.
letters to 12 players of this
Mrs. John Jackson, who h a s’y e ^ ’s basketball teams: Helen
been quite sick at the hospital . Carter, Agnes Chandler, Will-
Guests at A. fi. Starves’ S' -U from a nervous breakdown, was mina Corcoran, Agnus,Hayes,
day were Jake Dannen. wife able to return to her home in 5 Grace Pehrsson, Majorie Walker,
Helen Williams, George Cross.
and son and Miss Hattie Dan­ Ash Swale Saturday.
F ra n k Koon is, W ilb u r N orton,
nen of Shedd and Mr. Ralph
Sheppard of Turner.
Robnett and Philip
Marcb 24 was tha
hottest Truman
Tussing.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rick­ March day ever recorded at
The members of the girls*
ard and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Tay­ Brownsville—65 degrees.
baseball
team of ’24 received
lor and two children of. Bruce
With .her new and efficient
letters at this time. Those
and B. E. Cogswell visited at water system and 500 to 900 i their
^o whom they were presented
Michael Rickard’s Sunday.
feet of usable old fire hose, were; ¡ona Albertson, Agnes
M r. and Mrs. Louie W allet and Brownsville has bought 500 feet Chandler, Willmina Corcoran,
M is- E tta Godwin of Buena Vista more and proposes to be ready l Agnus Hayes, Helen Williams
aqd Ecf W ill» and fa m ily o f W alls to fight fires effectively here- ’ an(j Rena Walker. Others who
visited at John R olfe’s Sunday and after.
The city has been a tWere not present to deceive
Monday on th e ir way to C alifo rn ia, heavy sufferer from fires here- th, irg wa # Pan„ na Hardin' a„d
where they are going t® reside.
tofore-
Ruth Frum.
Mrs. C. E. Mercer, Mrs. Peggy
Eight
years
ago
Elias
Hale;
After ensuring one singing
Newme®. Mrs. A F. Robnett and
lost
a
gold
watch.
Monday
of
i
period
accompanied by an or-
daughters D eE tla and Dofis of E u ­
gene and Mrs. D. I. Isom, who is ' last week it was plowed up in ’ *a n , borrowed from one of the
v isitin g them, ell came down fo r a
day at Mr?. Isom ’ s home and in
Halsey M onday.
Is prepared, in 1935, as ever, to serve custom­
ers frem a complete stock of fresh goods
Latest styles in dainty things for ladies’
wear
Work garments for workers
Notions and novelties
Underwear for men, women and children
The English I class is study-
• ot which th e c h u rc h e s a t H alsey, B ro w n sv ille,1 new Ford truck and trailer and ing “The Lady of the Lake.’’
Mrs. D. T avlor and her eister,
Miss Anna D rin k a rd , were A lbany
visitors Saturday.
•
Miss Id a M itzn e r was home
Plan to attend the silver tea and A
from A lb an y over the weak end.
food sale Saturday, A p r il 11, and
W. L. N orto n and W. A . A lie n
thus help the public lib ra ry .
drove to C orvallis Monday.
This is all fools’ day, dedicated
Mrs, G. T. Ray of Eugene is th e
guest of bee sister, M rs. W . F . to people who do not take the
Mi»« M a ry S m ith returned
ber work in A lb a n y Monday.
S
this i
N e x t S u n d a y ,( A p r il «"», a t 11 o ’c l o c k
•
D a iry
P o u ltry
W ool
th . Roberteoo orenard in Browns- K™«« J ™ " 8’ t h «
, ,
, . ,
v.lle, on land worked by Mr.
Hale when it was lost. The
case was in good condition but
the internal department of the
timepiece was badly demoraliz-
ed.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jenks and
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Jenks and
two children of Tangent, Mr.
and Mrs. R. G. Rickard and
Letha and Retta Taylor of
Bruce and George ilouseholdei Halsey Anti-Saloon P|edQO«
of Roseburg and Mrs. Michael
Portland, March 31,
Rickard were Sunday afternoon
Io reply to your In te r w ill state
callers at J. H. Rickard’s.
th a t we secured 181 50 In pledgsn
Jim Thomas, who broke his coverin'» a two-year period in the
,a t Halsey, March 19lh
leg some time ago, is still in meeiiiig your
item in the Enterprise
the hospital at Eugene and on 1 I wi read
h considerable interest.
Of
Wednesday of last week a crowd course, you understand th a t though
of his neighbors met at his H»leey never bad saloons th a t ss-
home and plowed forty acres of loons st A lb a n y or any neighbor-
ground for him. Those taking mg c ity m ig ht have been quite as
part in the plowing bee were: great a menace. I was very much
Beryl Kizer, Orval Upmeyer and pleased to note the very great in ­
Wilfred Thomas with tractors, terest in our meeting in your com­
and John Willoughby, August m u n ity.
W. J. Herwig,
Sperling,
Sam Green, Orval
Sup’ t. A nti-S alo on League.
Schmucker, John, Levi and Joe
Kropf, Homer Drinkard, Bill
Cooperation of shippers and
White, Ed Nichswander, Emery
Nichswander, John Yoder, Isom railroad employes has resulted
Alford, Jay Scott, Waiter Long, in a 35 percent reduction of loss
Champ Payne, Lee Ingram, and damage to less-than-carload
Chester Curtis and Oral David­ freight handled by the South­
son w ith teams.
ern Faoifio oempany since 1921.
»tud ea tp de-
cided to move the piano from
the d ty ha), to ¡b
r p|ace.
There were no hesitating fresh-
men
thig tim i The puilish.
ment ministered previously to
Carl
and Eliaa Robin, suf.
ficed to indicate that seniors are
not dignified when the frosh
begin to shirk. At toast very
little dignity was exhibited in
the race led across vacant lots,
muddy roads and other equally
uninviting places which ended
in capture and consequent pun­
ishment.
Clifford Carey, pastor of the
Church of Christ, and Ross
(JuiMy,
e va n g e list, addressed
assem bly o f s tu d e n ts fo r a
short time Monday morning.
College students home on
their vacations seen in or about
the school were Kenneals Van-
n ice,
K reel I
Sneed
and
Musas
Nora and Pearl Pehrsson.
Butb tha
boys’ and girls* hasa.
ball teams of the Shedd high
school have games scheduled w ith
the school here A p r il 8
Miss DeEtta Robnett, student
of U. of
O.
visited
tha
high
school Monday. She is remem­
Mrs. Cecil Quimby and little bered to haVe been an excellent
daughter left Monday for Mon­ student when she started her
»KMerprlaa Oorraapondeiwa)
roe after a visit with her par­ high school career as freshman
ents.
A. W. Dykstra and wife.
The Beatty sisters, who at-
(Continued on page 6)
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