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Franklin «xperilutnlltig on ways to
uu 11 cicurn •»* j
185 Acres of Land
G L O B E ALBANY
Ben Franklin Solved the
Service Problem
Sunday—Munday
April 12— 13
LEW IS .F L O R E N C E
STONE*
VIDOR
“ I f y o u w o u ld h a v e a s e r v a n t t h a t y o u
lik e, s e rv e y o u r s e lf /' s a id B en F r a n k li n ,
and a gr«*t cant in
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By g o in g o n w ith h is e x p e r im e n ts h e
s ta r te d th e e le c tric a l b a ll ro llin g sc th a t
th e h o m e m a k e r s e r v e s h e r s e lf s im p ly a n d
e a s ily w ith h e r e le c tric w a sh e r, iro n e r,
v a c u u m c le a n e r m id o th e r e le c fr ic a l a id s.
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Don't tniss this
« “ M U R D O C K "
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the famous W hite M ahatm a
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com in g soon
F r a n k lin w o u ld a p p r o v e o t th ia n ew
o r d e r o f th in g s b e c a u s e it is th r if ty . E v e ry
e le c tric a l d e v ic e y o u u s e m e a n s th r i f t o f
m o n e y , tim e a n d la b o r.
Halsey Happenings
(Continued from page 1)
Let us show you the electric
W asher you need
Mr«- Marcella Kirk is no better
Mr«. Bert Claik ojulinues to im
prove slowly-
Frank Kirk was home Sunday
from his work near Monroe
Mountain States
Power Company
Delrna W»hl went under a sur
geon's knife for appeudlcitia at
Albany yesterday.
The Ladies’Aid ef tb* Sbedd
Metbodist eburcb cleared SCO at a
social Wednesday.
The food and apren sale for the
benefit of the library bas been iir-
delimtely postponed.
Henry Crawford ef Turner has
keen growing flax for ten years
and say« it is bis most profitable Mr*. T I. Marks »ud Mr«. J. W.
crop. more and more frequent T Drinkard
were Eugeoe callen
besoming
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was
here
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"eeaay.
vieitora
at Halsey
Traveling
moving _ pictures are
last evening.
Mre. Ned Calloway of Browns-
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Freerksen j ’J F J 1
1*1 °” Mni Maro*H» Kirk
were dinner guests of Mr. and ' Ur
Mrs- J. C. Gerder of Albany
Mrs. Preeton Newton of Port.
Sunday.
land is the guest of her parent«,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Muller Mr' *nd Mr' P- J For' t ,r -
entertained a t Sunday dinnet
Mr. Ribelin’s auction eale of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Odell and furniture ia next Wednesday after-
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Muller and n"on «nd w» expect Hoffman will
family of Albany.
.spread half a thousand obioken«
R ia lto T h eater
B R O W N S V IL L E
F rid ay
I.
JU N C T IO N C IT y
S a tu rd a y
^^Withtheworidu
greatest rodeo
,JL, . (U/ifitt
t c en ts efU u tknll-
úui 1934 Ptnsilcto*
, «ud a cow over that six acre» the
J. W . Rector has been under first of May.
the weather a couple of weeks
The largest moonshine still ever
with flu. His granddaughter, tuken in tbie oouoty was taken to
Grace Wallace of Portland, visit he courthouse Saturday night
ed him and Mrs. Rector Sunday. from its eite in the woods four
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Seller« and
G. Mesaman and wife of Albany
were guest» at W. A. M uller’«
Monday.
Governor Walter M. Pierce will
he the principal speaker at a meet
ing of the farmers’ union and
grangers of Linn county next Sat
urday at the Riverview scbool-
bonee on the Sanderson bridge and
Scio road north of Crabtree.
A
big basket dinner at noou is plan-
ned. The farmer, have invited
the governor to speak on the is-
euee at the last legislature. — Dem-
oorat.
A poster In the postoffice win
dow announces th« presentation of
‘‘ The Ixret Battaltou” at Rialto
hall to-morrow night, but does not
say whether it refers to the hall of
that name at Junction City, Har-
lieburg, Brownsville or Halsey
The sponsors for the affair might
'have had a free line in the Enter
prise but perhaps did not think it
v.orth while. It would have been.
miles above Holley.
was taken with it.
R. Summer«
A good many elderly people,
ind the usual number of younger
o h m , were at the Methodist ohurch
Sunday morning, when M r. Parker
stirred up memories by going over
the early history of the Calapooia
circuit.
Somebody broke iato tbs post
oflice
night—
. in Halsey the other —
°‘ KI,M , ,n ‘h* front
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said any
body went in that way, but it will
cost Mr. Bramwell more than a
ft w cents to replace the glass.
Friday's game between the Sbedd
and Halsey baseball team» was
postponed on auoount
of the
«rather.
A six-inning practice
game on the Halsey grounds Mon
day was won by Shedd, 4 to 2,
Mrs. Mary D. Moss of Lake-
view, president of the Oregon Re
bekahs, and Miss Myrta Janies of
Newport, vife president, are the
gueats
of Mre. Mildred McMahan
The Southern Pacific has grav
eled a strip at the west side of the and will be at the Rebekah meet
lot north of the depot where there ing this evening.
A south-bound train
rashes
through Halsey about 6 o’clock
every morning, dropping several
aat'lcs of mail without elaoking
At W . J. Ribeliu's, first door speed.
Sometimes one of those
aoutb of the Halsey school house, sack, rolls back upon the track
W e d u c M tlu y , A p r i l 1® , and is ground, contents and all,
into obowder. That is what hap
at 2 o'olock p us., the following pened to tbe sack containing the
property will he offered to the Oregonians Monday morning,
highest bidders :
M r.. M artin Cummings was
3 Bedsteads and Bedding, wool hostess at a regular meeting of the
Mat'resses and Covers
Study elub April 2. Eleven mem
1 Sewing Machine
bers
prsseut and beard a most
1 Dresser and Commode
interesting lesson
Mrs. H. F.
1 Secretary
English reviewed “ In God’. Out-
1 Sight-day clock
of Doors,’’ by W illiam A. Quayle,
1 Sanitary Coach
aud Mrs. T . I. Marks talked in
Itoekere and Dining Chairs
structively on furniture for the
Carpets and Rugs
home. 1 he table wee made at
Dtuing and Center Table«
tractive with wild spring fiowsrs
Pictures and Franse
sud Easier favors.
The hostess
2 Kitchen Companions
wa. assisted by Mrs. Stafford.
1 Sale
It is asstsae re »»pert sweet fora,
K|tcheu Furniture and Dishes
lomatoec. the stain crop of etrtaw
About 160 Andalusian and white
hsana, cahfcaree. cauliflower. taralps
Legherà Hens and many other sad other aaqal garde* crape to floor
artieles it would be tedious to lo t to sh ad y garden*.
s e e
mention.
T E R M S —Sums tinder >20, cesh;
The herder tfikrs are the greater
920 or over, six montai' tune oa the advantages sf the »srj beet ffcrae-
rrs ever the vary peer, for the w aste
bankable paper at 8 per ceot.
ful aaorhoda of the i-oer farmer «she aM
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W. J. Ribeba, Owner
Col. Ben T Sudlell, Auctioneer e t the snail pro««« naultlng frees low
Public Sale
O re g o n ’s ow n fa m o u s R o d eo
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The Enterprise
one year for
one dollar
T H c P a pe r W ill S to p C o m in g
at the end of
Will continue to improv« as fast
as receipts from its patrons make improvement poa-
sible.
will
continue
to be given prominence. Every farmer cae learn
something from some other farmer under similar con
ditions of eoil and climate that it will be profitable
for him to know.
.
In O th e r Lines
K. A. Mullsr and fam ily, E.
O d.ll aud family, R. W Gott and
i family and G.orge Campbell and
wife, all of Albany were guests at
VV. A . M uller’. Sunday.
The weekly discussion of the
in .
tarnations) Sunday school lesson, discontinued about
three years ago, when misfortune crippled the floaoeei
of the Enterprise, will appear regalarly. The paper
will also carry
More than twioc as much local news and good-natured
goeeip as can be funnd elsewhere
Oregon news in brief paragraphs
Daddy*, evening fairy tale.
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Raybestos Hi-speed Brake
Service Station
212 East First it. Z.lbany, ne*j
the skatinr «
Phon • « »
Contracts for the construction of
the proposed new state training
scheol for boys at Salem were award
ed at a special meeting of the state
board of control. The cost of the
plant will be (216,939, exclusive of
■furnishings. The general construc
tion contract was awarded to Setter
gren Brothers of Portland for $154,500.
All details preliminary to l i e cen
structlon or a $1,350.000 gen eril medi
cal and surgical hospital for III and
disabled veterans at Portland, soon
will be cleared up. Brigadier-General
Frank T Hines, director of the veter
ans’ bureau, will Immediately order
an engineer of the bureau to go to
Portland from southern California and
make an examination of the proposed
hospital site.
Practically all of the principal rail
roads of Oregon and Washington and
the Gilmore 4 Plttsbnrg and the Pa
Codperation History
cific 4 Idaho Northern were made
The history of agricultural co-opera defendants In a proceeding brought
tion In the United States runs back to before the Interstate commerce com
the Otvtl war. Records of the United
mission by the Cattle and Horse Rais
States Department of Agr culture show
that the first co-operative cheese fac ers’ association of Oregon, the North
tory was established In 1863, and the western Livestock Shippers' league
flrst organization of fruit and vege and the Portland Livestock exchange.
table growers In 1878, Two organlza Certain rates charged by the carriers
lions of grain growers were formed In on livestock are declared to have been
1887. followed In 1890 by an organise unfair and reparation Is asked.
tlon of live str<|, mlaers. The co op
Oregon received $1,490.600 for Im
eratlve movement has developed slow
provement
and maintenance of Its
ly while other pioneers were putting
rivers and harbors during the fiscal
their theories Into practloe.
year beginning July 1. according to al
Doa t keep scrub and Inferió.- stock
locations of funds made by the board
they are wasteful of feed.
of army engineers
Allotments are
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as follows: Columbia and W illamette
Soil conservation I. th, most
rivers betwooa Portland and Van
metertol problem now before the hu
man n e t
u couver. $633 000; Columbia river and
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tributaries above Celllo falls. $6000;
Coquille river, $16.000; Coos b ar
for sale
$750.000; Coos river, $3000; Clatskanie
river, $7$00; W illamette river, above
Furtland and Yamhill river. $17,400.
Also dry fir and ash
iwossorrny Fle(, * for
Washington. D. C .-J o h n Van A.
McMurray, assistant secretary of
state, has been selected by President
1rs A. Miner.
Coolidge to succeed Dr Jacob Gould
Schurmin,a« minister to Pekin.
16-inch Wood
JJ. M. Bond, C<erk
Reconditioning Shop
H A L SE Y R A IL R O A D TIME
North
South
Two new oat varieties. Keystone
sod Patterson, promise to be tbe best No. 32, 3:20 a. tu. No. 17, 12:09 p m
18, 10.48 a. m.
33, 7;11 p. m'
Pennsylvania grain growers have yet
34, 4:25 p. m.
31, 11:34 p.
had. If yields to date are any indication
of their abilities. Both varieties were No. 14, dne Halsey at 5:02 p, m.. stop,
let off passengers from south of
developed at the Pennsylvania State to
Eugene.
college experiment station where they
Nos. 31 and 32 stop only if flagged.
have averaged for the past ten years Nos, 31, 32, 33 and 34 rnn between Port
ueurly ten bushels per acre more than land and Eugene only.
Sixty Day, an early variety, according Passengers for south of Roseburg should
to C. F. Noll, experimental agronomist take No. 17 to Eugene and there transitr
No. 15.
of the station.
Halsey-Brownsville stage meets trains
These two varieties have been
18, 17, 14, 34 and 33 in order named.
known In the past as 53-11 and 63-11.
The former has now been named Key
stone. for the state where originated,
and the other is called Patterson, in Outgoing Mail
llonor of tbe late William ' Patterson,
A t the Halsey postoflice mails
superintendent of tbe college farm for
close going north at 11:50 a. in.
many years.
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In many other parts of the state aud 5:20 p. m. -
Going south, 11:10 a. m. and
ihese varieties have been grown in
demonstration plots for several years 5:20 p. no.
To Brownsville, 6:20 a. in. and
with very satisfactory yields. Approxi
mately eleven hundred acres of tlie 12 in. Morning stage to Browns
two varieties were grown last yeur, so ville goes on to Crawfordsville,
five or six thousand bushels of seed Holley and Sweet Home.
will be available for distribution. The
demand was greater than tlie supply
last spring, Noll reports.
Tlie two varieties are almost alike N e w s N otes F ro m
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in height, in type of grain, and in yield
ing capacity, but Keystone Is about two
A l l O v e r O regon
days earlier than Patterson. Tlie grains
are yellow and rather small. They
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have a thin hull and the percentage of
kernel in the grain la usually higher
than In the larger-grained varieties.
“These oats are best adapted to
Confident that the petition to th<
thoee sections of Pennsylvania where
interstate commerce commission foi
early oats do best," soys Noll. “There
permission to build a road frop
they have proved much superior to
Sixty Day, or Kherson, the most com Sprague river east to Lakeview wil
be granted, the Oregon-California A
monly early grown variety."
Eastern Railroad company has order
ed a survey and location of thia pre
Value of Potatoes
jected extension.
Potatoes contain more dry matter
Governor Pierce, at the request of
and have a greater feeding value than
any other vegetable. Instead of hav a large number of water users In the
Hood River district, ordered the at
ing 90 per cent water, the percentage
usually ranges between 70 and 80 per torney-general to intervene In a suit
cent, the extremes being 65 and 85 per involving certain water rights which
cent, according to flgures given by Pro is to be appealed to the United States
fessor Fraser of Cornell In his book, supreme court by the Pacific Power
"The Potato." Potatoes contain more & Light company.
dry matter than carrots, mangels or
A full grown coyote walked through
'bugas, which have always been exten
the business section of Caaby and
sively used for feed.
then went back to the timber unmo
lested. Coyotes have become quite
Cull All G rain Seed
numerous In the section and because
Cull your seed Just as you cull your of this fact the Union Hall farmers
chickens and dairy cows, 1« the word
have organized a “coyote club" with
crop« extension specialists st ths Ohio
State university pass along to grain a view to exterminating the pests.
A. N. Mosh berger, the station agent
farmers. It Is good policy to have
crop« grown from carefully selected at Monitor for the W illamette Valley
seed because It pays consistent dlvl
Southern railway, was killed, hls-wlfe
deuds. Wheat should only be grown was seriously Injured and an adopted
from seed clean and free from weed son, 3, was slightly hurt when an
seed and from one of the dozen vari
Oregon Electric car^westbound out of
eties proved to be best.
Woodburn, struck the family automo
bile on the Salem-Butteville road.
oat «nd vetch Baled Hay
Brief statements of important world events
TORRANCE
Two New O at V arieties
of Excellent Q ualities
Trees should he broad and spread-
in« to be able to rarcy a Urge crap of
fruit which can bo «Manualcully cared
for mail harvested. They must also be
strung enongh to stand ap under the
load of frntt. Their branches cannot
be again and again “benched off" at
laterals In vain effort« td produce
spread. The natural and economical
way to secure this spread Is through
the weight of the fruit. Build the
branch In such a way that the poll of
the crop will all be In one geueral dl
rectlon The spreading will be gradual
as the trees come Into hearing, and the
Branches will strengthen with each
successive crop as they come down
The breakage will be very aronll. Keep
the branches loosely built, with the
bulk of the bearing surface on tbe out
er side, and broad-spreading trees will
result
Those whe have farmed fifty years have learned seme-
thing every year. None of us knows it all. Every Linn
county farmer is invite«! to tell the Enterprise of any
worth-while experience. Some of these make suggestions
worth more to you thau several years’ subscriptions.
L in n C o u n ty F arm Features
W . M Burbank
S h .ll Service Station, Halsey.
Profitable F ru it Tree
Ia Broad and Spreading
tbe term unless the subscription is renewed. The
money will be used in making a better paper for the
subscriber d uruig_the Jife of the subscription, not in
improving it for the benefit of somebody eise tbe next
»ear.
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