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A \\ eekly Chronicle oi Local Events and Progress on' Linn County Land
HALSEY, OREGCr,
H a l s e y H a p p e n in g s
JULY I. 1SJS
Chenoweth, and her small grand
son, returning to their home after
a three-weeks visit here.
(By Special Correspondent)
Tbe Methodist Woman’s For
eign Missionary society will pre j Lloyd Simon and family drove
sent a program next week Friday.
to Waterloo Sunday.
The Oregon supreme court, with
Charles Munger was a visitoi
Pipes out and Belts in, has reversed at J. Suitaris Sunday.
a former deeisioo and rules that
where liquor is smelled a search i There is e shortage of help to
handle the hay crop.
warrant is justifiable.
Many of our people expect to
Delos Wesley and his son Arthur
have been enjoying a visit from spend July 4 e-t Peoria.
their son and brother, Scott Wes
Mrs. J. W. Evans entertained
ley of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Letha the L. C. and B. club this week.
Binger, niece of the latter Wesley.
Lake Creek Locals
a n d C o u n t y E v e n ts
Doings of Our Populace
Chronicled in Brief
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Hot days batch flies. S w at’en..
Diptberia i'a epidemic in Al
bany.
A C. Armstrong was io Albany
Bunday.
Mis* Grace Pekrtson ia helping
Mrs. English.
Walt Smith is working on the
big new Penland barn.
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Mrs. A. . J. Hill hit been crit
ically ill, but li better.
Now they are picking the bonee
of the old Heury barb.
Louie Davis ia seriously ill at
tba Byerley bom o in Albany.
Hill & Co. have the largest ad
vertisement in tl.e Enterprise ibis
week,
Tbe supreme cpurt sustains
governor Pierce's veto of the spe
cial election bill.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Spreuger
visited their daughter, Mrs. Com
mons, Sunday.
Horace Armstrong and family
called eo R. B. Iogold and wife
Friday evening.
Mrs. A. C. Armstrong and
Helen called at the WbitbecR and
Wilbanka homes Saturday.
T. J. Skirvin has acquired W.
H. Beene's wagon scale and in
stalled it near his warehouse.
Mrs. B. M Bond bas been en
joying a visit from her old Trout
Lake schoolmate, Mrs. B. F- Wed
dle, and family,
Tbe new shingles on the north
roof of tbe Koontx store have taken
the vail. They are covered with a
black roofing compound.
Color pictures portraying the
mythology of India are expected
from Bombay as on exhibit at
the county fair. __________ _
Horace Armstrong and family
drove, to Oakland Sunday. With
them was the lady’s mother. Mrs.
Albany's
only
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OPTICAL PARLORS
E V E R Y T H IN G O P T IC A L
B a n c ro ft O p tic a l Co.
313 West First street, Albany.Or.
Prof. English, who put in last
year’s vacation at hard work oo a
farm, is selling vacuum cleaners
sod washing machines in Lane
countr for the Mountain States
Tower company.
Miss Livick’s cement sidewalk
is in place. Keep off it a few days
and then it will stay where it ia a
long time. Mrs. McMahan's new few days.
half block was in first. J. J.
George
Corcoran built them.
The Baker process was used on
350 barrels of strawberries shipped
from Albany, and 1200 barrels
from Lebanon for use fresh in big
cities and the Albany operators
could have handled the erop from
150 acres more.
Rufus Bamford ia running the
meat market while the Hoffmans
are at home with flu.
Mr. Hoff-
unn was first taken down with so
injury to iiis leg received in a fall,
which was poisoned by the use of
a cigaret paper placed ou the
wound for protection. Tobacco
sometimes is a disinfectant for a
wound, but nobody can tell wbat
ia in a cigaret or its wrapper now-
a-daya.
When you report a case of
turgery, if the victim hail his
thumb or his ear cut off say so.
Surgeonj are a secretive Pot.
They report two classes of oper
ations—minor, for which the fee
is liberal, and major, for which
it is more so. And don’t mention
the surgeon’s name. He thinks
it unethical to advertise.
Glenn Chance and wife visited
Independence Sunday.
Albany high school atudants cost
the district 174,94 each during the last
school year.
The logging camps of the Hammond
Lumber company, located at Mill City
and Larson, closed down June 30 for
ten days to give their employes *
chance to celebrate July 4.
Whether or not the Albany school
district shall Issue 335.000 In bonds
to provide funds for the pnrehase of
the old Albany college campns will be
decided at a special bond election to
be held July 18.
.Ledgerwood spent
some time last week at Riddle.
He was helping his brother set
out broccoli plants.
Lyman Palmer, who dislocated
his shoulder, is improving, al
though it will be some time be
fore he will be able to use his
arm.
Mr. land, Mrs. Martin Cum
mings and Russel and Lucile
spent Sunday near Bellfountain
visiting Alfred Clefnens and
family.
John Bosserman had his hand
badly cut while working with
his wood saw one day this week.
A part of one finger was cut
and another finger injured.
Henry Brock drove to Belknap
Springs Saturday. Sunday he
came home, bringing Mrs. Brock
and Miss Helen Williams. Mis.
Brock is much improved in
health.
Next Thursday when Manley
Spores of Springfield comes here
to get his bride he will take from
us one of the most popular
young ladies of the . neighbor
hood—Miss Sarah Williams- Sat
urday evening a large number of
friends gathered at the home ot
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Williams to
wish the young people much
happiness. Many beautiful and
useful gifts were presented to
the bride-to-be. The marriage is
a culmination of a romance
which began when the parties
were attending Milton college.
They will make their home on a
farm near Springfield.
B ro w n s v ille B riefs
(E nterprise Correspondence)
: Preferred Stock ;
: Canned Goods :
“ Preferred Stock” means all that the name<
implies—the choice of the pack.
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When you buj Preferred Stock goods you (
have wisely chosen incomparably the best, se-<
lected for size,, flavor and quality.
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Make the test yeurself. Compare Preferred ,
Stock with other brands and it will meet withi
your discriminating choice
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Preferred Stock goods are not packed to m eet,
a price. They are sold only to those who ap- <
preciate first quality.
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It is true some bran'ds are sold cheaper, but,
they arc sold solely on price appeal.
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We are distributers o f about thirty varieties,
of Preferred Stock goods.
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M. V. KOONTZ CO.
HALSEY, OREGON
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O l d E a r t h S ta g e s
the famous Jackson's Hole region was
K ir k Q u i p s
permanently changed by a gigantic
A D a n c e o f D e a th landslide, forest officials say. The
(B y an Enterprise Reporter)
Gros Ventre valley above the natural
dam. formed when tbe north end of
Hiram Bierly went to Alsea
Sheep mountain crashed Into It, is des for the week end.
tined to become a lake more than a
There have been a number
mile In width, six to seven miles long
and nearly 200 feet deep. It will take ; hauling wood this past week. Hi-
four weeks, it is estimated, for the ‘ ram Bierly was finishing as W.
About a do«“'- persons lost liver to fill the Jake. The tilde was R. Kirk began-
preceded by earth tremors.
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Alice Jones plans to enter a
(brtv lives, hundreds were Injured rnd
A section of the Teton national for
enormous property damage was caus est was smashed to splinters, several Eugene hospital this week and
ed by a series of earth tremors which herds of cattle Bwept away and many remain a few days after a sur
gical operation.
rocked Santa Barbara and surround buildings lost, the advices said.
ing territory early Monday.
Gertrude Gengenbach and
Miss Wilma Owen of Harris The quake reduced sections of Santa
Mamie Falk called at their
burg has been visiting on the Barbara to ruins, according to the In-
P i n e G r o v e P o in ts
cousin Pearl’s home on her
creek.
formation. Buildings were demolished,
birthday, Tuesday.
pavements uprooted and the collapse
(B y an Enterprise Reporter)
Mrs. Lee Lowery of Oregon ot
W. A. Carey took his wife to
Gibraltar dam near the city un
City, who has been visiting here, loosed a torrent of water which flood
Mr. and Mrs. Will McLaren Salem to visit a few days with
returned home Saturday.
parents. Saturday
ho
ed the city, adding to the panic and were Albany visitors Saturday- her
brought her home again-
Walter Baumgartner, who hat sufferlhg.
Mrs. Albertson, Earl and Iona
The quake was general throughout
Mrs. J. H. Nemchick, with her
been working on a steel bridge Southern
California but apparently were Albany visitorsThursda.v.
son Roy, visited Wednesday
at Oregon City, is home for a centered at Santa Barbara v ' - *
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California, Montana and
Wyoming Feel Its
Power
Another tremor, less violent shook
Santa Barbara at 8:30 a. m , spread
ing further terror among the Inhabi
tants.
Buildings were demolished « Mon
tecito, millionaire resort; ' ’
There are a number ot tall buildings
in Santa Barbar’s business section,
and It Is feared many persons lost
their lives when they collapsed.
State street, leading thoroughfare,
was completely undermined, and Its
shops, some of the finest in Southern
California, are In ruins.
At Montecito, a colony of mill-
iocaires near by, a number of
•legaDt residences were wrecked.
Tbe property loss at Santa Bar
bara is eitimated at 33,COO,000 *
Tbs wire and water systems were
wrecked and there was some lots
by fire. Tbe Southern Pacific ie
hauling a supply of water in tank
care.
Montana Shaken up and
Damage Suffered
Butte. Mont.—The entire northwest
nountatn district was shaken Satur-
lay night by earthquakes of more or
ess serious proportion which came In
•hree distinct shocks.
The disturbances, while centering In
Montana, were felt In parts otj Wyom
ing and Idaho.
Thvee Forks, Mont., was the hardest
hit. Tbe telephone building, a bank
and a schoolhouse were all shaken
ioWn there.
Two mile« east of Lombard a North
ern Pacific passenger train was stall
ed unharmed with rock slides cover
ing the track both ahead and behind.
West of the main slide a Milwaukee
passenger train was similarly penned
In with another Milwaukee train held
up but In the clear two miles farther
west.
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The quakes were felt more or less
severely In Billings. Anaconda. Mis
soula. Livingston, Great Falls. Boze
man and Helena.
A hotel wall In Great Falls was
cracked. Electric light wlrea swung
freely.
At Livingston witnesses said a high
building swayed back and forth, while
several watchers, panic stricken, faint
Mrs. Cynthia Blann and son
drove to Corvallis Thursday.
Mrs. Nora Cutsforth of Riddle
is visiting relatives in town this
week.
Mrs. Emma Harrison was a ed. At White Sulphur Springs the court
Corvallis visitor one day last house, Jail and poolhall were coniplet-
week.
ly wrecked.
Mrs. Henry Tevepaugh under Fall of two towers and the de
went a surgical operation at the molishing bf an unoccupied cottage In
the quarters for women was reported
local hospital Saturday.
from the stale Insane asylum at Warm
The wedding month is nearly Springs.
gone, but just the same the wed South of Three Forks, where dam
ding bells are getting ready to age was heaviest, schools and
ring in July. Just you listen!
churches throughout the Gallatin val
There is to be a Sunday school ley were destroyed at a loss estimat
picnic in the park July 4. The ed from 360,000 to 3200,000.
council of Christian Workers Helena. Mont. — Montana trembled
sponcers it. Everybody is invited. again Monday as the earth’s inward
Marvel Lawrence was operat convulsions continued for the third
ed on for appendicitis at the successive day.
local hospital Saturday night. It Helena folk were awakened at 2:20
was quite a serious affair, the o'clock Monday morning by a sharp
appendix having been ruptured, tremor that lasted for seven seconda.
but Marvel is getting along No damage, however, was reported.
Great Falls experienced Its fourth
nicely.
quake In leas than 30 hours at 2:30
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harrison o’clock when buildings were shaken
and little daughter Hazel Jean for several seconds
drove .to Lebanon Sunday to at It was a whimsical earthquake. No
tend the golden wedding anni one waa killed. Nearly a score of
versary celebration of Mr. Har buildings cracked and fell. There were
rison’s uncle and aunt, Mr. and a half dozen landslides A crevice ez
tending at Irregular Intervals from
Mrs. K. Arnold.
Manhattan to Three Forks, a distance
R. Hughes sod wife have an SI- of 10 miles, remains as one of tbe
scars caused by the quake.
pound boy, bora Sunday.
Veneta came down and got Geography'of Jackeoo’p Hole Region
Permanently Changed
heated at baseball Sunday.
_ JaelM»». w « - —The geography «1
Mrs. Floyd Nichols was shop- afternoon at the home of her
ping in Albany Saturday after daughter Mrs. Henry Falk.
noon.
Blanche Steinke spent Friday
Earl and Iona Albertson and with Harlie Rike. Harlie is mak
Ruth McNeil spent the week end ing an extended visit at the
home of her grandfather, G. J.
at Salem.
Rike.
Miss Agnes Pugh visited her
Fred Kreiger and family from
sister, Mrs. George Chandler,
Albany
spent Sunday morning
last week.
at Henry Falk's ; than all joined
Rev. Mr- Plunkett, an evange in the family reunion at the old
list who visited the Chris Egle home.
family and held meetings at
Mrs. Jessie Templeton was an
Pine Grove church about five afternoon
at Everett Car
years ago, expects to preach at ey’s. The caller
Ce-reys have been on
Pine Grove next Sunday.
the sick list this week, but are
Mrs. R. K. Stewart and Helen convalescing.
Settle went to Eugene Thurs
Kirk district is noted for ita
day, returning Friday.
bumper crop of girls. They are
Pine Grove people met at the showng their superior qualities
schoolhouse Tuesday evening by helping harvest a bumper
and plans were made to decorate . crop of hay
a float Mr the 4th of July par
ade at f’eoria. Miss Nora Pehrs- I Mr- Thompson and family, of
son and others of the committee ¡Thompson Mills, Shedd, were
are busy preparing Pine Grove’s ’ early Sunday evening callers at
the home of Henry Seefeld. Mrs.
pait of the program.
Sophia Thompson, mother of
Tin tnlsaionsrv society me Mr. Thompson, stopped to chat
with Mrs. L. E. Eagy Thursday I with Grandpa and Grandma
afternoon. Miss Nora Pehrsson Falk.
had charge of the lesson, after
Over fifty attended the family
which Mrs- Eagy, assisted by i picnic at the old Falk home Sun-
Mrs. Floyd Nichols, served ice (day. Some group pictures were
cream, cake and lemonade. Mem J taken to. remember the pleasant
bers present were: Mesdames day. Four generations were pres
H. R. Tate, George Githens, N. ent on this occasion. C. L. Falk
E. Chandes, Grace Wade, I/eigh- Si., Mrs. Henry Seefeld, Mrs.
ton Bayne, George Bayne, Olive Alice Jones and her daughter
Brattain. Alice Dunn, Kate Fry, Doris.
Floyd Nichols and E. E. Ho ver.
Visitors present were: Mes S. R. Falk’s family spent
dames W. G. McNeil, Bert June 23 in the Spoon River
Haynes,and W. D. McLaren and strawberry patch and the next ,
Misses Nora Pehrsson and Ruth day the reward of their day's
labor was being put away for
McNeil.
future use. It is broadly hinted
that a fine patch of pew pota
Church of Christ
toes balanced fortunje in their
direction.
Twlatar
Sea how rapidly yon ean repeat
the following without getting it
twitted io your mouth :
When a twister, a-twietiag, will
twist him a twist,
In
Sunday School, 10.
Christian Endeavor, 7.»
Preaching, 21 and 8
Endeavor topic, “ What Makea
a Nation Greal? ” Look up your
United Htatea history .and see what
a baud God bath had in onr eoan-
try'i dot inj. Coma prepared to
talk-
Our goal waa reached in railing
the $50 required to anatain a na
tive evangelist in the field in
Africa the coming year. Thank*
to th ose who made our eucceea
possible, not forgettSDg Him who
ruleth over all justly.
Rally day ie the next special day
observed in tbe Sanday school—
tbe first Sunday in October. Let’s
be thinking about it.
Clifford Carey,paatoJ,
M. E. Church
Hubert Park r p ’"i'>r.
Hund lv school, 10.
Preaching, 11.
Junior j<eague, 3,
Intermediate League, 7
Epworth deague, 7 "
Preaching, 8.
Prayer-meeting Thursday,
twining his twiat ha three
twinea doth i nt wist,
But if one of the twines at the
twist doth uatwiet
The twice that uatwieteth untwist-
eth the twist.
Earwigs are being mercilessly
persecuted in Albany- In thous
ands they sought refuge at thft
seat of justice, the court*house.
They hid from their onemieR in
chinks and crevices. T^ie sun
shine last Wednesday roasted
those in the south wall until
they left their refuge and at
tempted to escape, but they per
ished and the cement sidewalk
there was carpeted with their
dead bodies that day. Unfortu
nate earwigs !
Mrs. Frances E. Gray came
from her Salem home Wednes
day with Claire Wilson, who had
taken his sister, Mrs. Hyde, and
two children to their home in
Portland after a visit of a month
at the Wilson farm. Mrs. Gray
visited and looked after husiness
here for a few days. ,
E. B. Penland is (Wilding a big
new barn-
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