E nterpri
Halsey Happenings
and County Events
Doings of Our Populace
Chronicled in Brief
Paragraphs
Cleoua Smith is at Corvallis for
mediesl treatment.
W. A. Allen’s residence property
near the north end of First street.
Allen will probably occupy the
premises on Second streei, where
W. H- Beene lived last year.
J- B. Wagner and family
started Sunday for a stay of
indefinite length in southern
Oregon.
Partial List of Contents
News of Halsey......................... P*gr 1 Great Outdoors—Farm Item s ...
Brownsville $.
A lfo r d ......
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Pine Grove.
K i r k ............
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Lake Creek .
All Oregon.
Church Announcements______
Serial sto ry______________, _
Sunday school lesson...............
Editorial comment . . . . . . . . . . . .
Waste in Government_______ r
Kitchen Cabinet.......... ............... “
Traitorous Officials........ .............
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Quack and other reme­
dies for farmers* ills.
Camping at O. A. C . . . .
Hogging Off Soy Beans
Chiaa a M ixing P o t ....__
Oldest Fish M arket.....................
The Sandman ____
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Dr. and Mrs. T. I. Marks at­
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tended a reunion of 75 member,
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Ruth Sturtevant is home from
the Marks fam ily at Colman
Tapeworm Lore...................
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her Lebanon visit.
Marks’, at Aurora, Sunday. Rev.
Superstitions...... .........
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4 Illustrated Fashions_________
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Cement is being pouaed for the W . Marks of Pasadena spoke at
J Fairy T a le ....................................
the
Aurora
schoolhouse
in
the
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walls of Burbank’s garage.
7 Uncle Sam and China________
afternoon.
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George Manning, 63, dropped
5 Rich Diatomaceon» E arth ..........
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Preston Newton, who attended
dead at the dinner table in Leba­
Nine Billion Dollars Due U. S—0.
the Behnke-Walker business college
non Sunday.
in Portland during the winter, is
J. W- W iley lost his left hand
now a bookkeeper io tbe Ashley.
in a M ill City shiogla m ill last Rumlin bank there. M r,. Newton
week Wednesday.
ear W ilm etta, daughter of M r.
G. Hoffmao, who was apparently and M.-g. P. J. Forster.
(By Special Correspondent)
O. G. Coldiron loaded a car of
convalescing, took a serious turn
Thresbermen In Linn county have
hay at Tulsa last week.
lor the worse yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Knighten
Lake Creek Locals
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Pine Grove Points]
decided upon a standard wage scale
Alford Arrows
Brownsville Briefs
(Enterprise Correspondent)
' Bnternrtoe Correspond»»»»)
Velda and Alice
___ Curtis
______ spent
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Marvel Lawrence was dismiss-
Sunday afternoon with Thelm a'ed from the hospital Monday.
Ingram.
Mrs. Nora cutsforth of Rid-
Fritz Dannen spent several I die spent the week end with her
days last week with Aaron■ sister, Mrs. Alvin Williams.
Starnes.
J. C. Harrison was a Port­
Mrs. A. E. Whitbeck called on land caller Friday. He expects
Mrs. D. I. Isom Thursday af­ to start his threshing machine
this week.
ternoon of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harrison,
Hattie Starnes visited her
cousin, Dorothy Dannen, several Marvel and Ralph Lawrence,
George Harrison, Guy Burson.
days last week.
Miss Lillie Rickard is report­ Mrs. Pearl Merritt and Clyde
Sympson spent the week end at
ed getting along nicely after her Cascadia.
recent surgical operation
Mrs. C. E. Mercer of Eugene
is helping care for her mother,
Mrs. D. I. Isom, who is ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Spreng-
er and Mrs. Ralph Dannen and
three children visited at E. A.
Starnes’ Thursday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brock
and daughter and Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Allen and children were
Sunday afternoon callers at
Chester Curtis’.
Little Mita Blanch* Gustation
was hurt quite badly, but not
seriously Sunday when she was
run down by a car in the street
in North Brownsville. She has
a badly bruised leg and a cut on
her face.
Mrs. John O’Keefe was seri­
ously hurt while weaving in the
local woolen mill. She was tak-
on to a hospital at Eugene,
where she was operated on Fri­
day. At present she is getting
along nicely.
Mrs. Bob Allen visited relatives went to Cascadia Sunday.
Arch M iller ard family of H a r­ for this season. Common labor will
risburg visited Arch’s father, A l­ be paid $2.50 per day; sack sewers, in Lebanon last week.
I. C- Heinrich aod Miss Sophia
bert M iller, here Sunday,
>3.50, and man and team $4. This in­
C. 8. Williams and wife at­ Heinrich were Albany callers Fri
The blare seen southwest of cludes meals. This is practically the tended tbe poaltry convention at day.
town Thursday evening destroyed same scale as was in force last year. Corvallis Tuesday.
Mrs. Anna Stringer is visit­
the residence of J. R. Marts.
Mrs. George Ledger wood will ing her sister, Mrs. Mary John­
Recent thefts around Cascadia
Mrs. J. D. Pittman and ohild were taken from the mystery col­ eutertaiu tbe L. C- and B. sewing son, at the J. A. Johnson home.
and her father, M r. Barber, three umn Monday when Russell Baker club Wednesday.
The
Pine Grove orchestra
generations, visited Albany Friday, and wife, who were camping near
Miss Myrtle Tobey of Eugene went to Brownsville Sunday and
Glenn Chance Is working on the by, were caught with some of the spent the week end with brr played at the Odd Fellows’ pic­
They were ar­ mother, Mrs. John Gormley.
0 . W. Frum farm and he and fam ­ stolen property.
Last Saturday Alvin Williams
nic.
ily are making their home there. rested and taken to Albany and
of Lebanon and Mrs. Emms
A. W. Windom aud son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grant of
Baker confessed.
Harrison of Brownsville were
Brownsville finished painting M ar­
J. H. Rike and Mr. Meyer, who
Siena Madre, Cal., visited at L.
'married at the Baptist parson­
tin
Cummings'
house
Tuesday.
moved from here to A ltea, propose
H. M and I. E. Burbank and
E. Eagy’s and R. K. Stewart’s Washington. D. C. — The nation's1 age in Albany by Rev. M r. Oe-
C- S. W illiams, Themas Ardry Tuesday.
to change again, thia time to their wives attended the funeral
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total foreign investment, Inclusive of I ,
Reedsport.
of the gemlemen’e sister, Mrs. and Luther Brock and families
Mrs. Williams is one of
amounts owed the United States by ‘ good.
The Ladies’ Missionary soci­ foreign
drove to the Mohawk river Sunday
governments, is estimated by * ,
1 honored pioneers o f
Mrs. M. M. Ward visited at her Gladys Burbank Steptoe, at Pedee,
ety of the Free Methodist church the department
soo-in-law's at Brownsville Sun-! northwest of Philomath, Friday. and ¿pent the day with Mr, and
srtment of
n Swale and is loved and re-
_. commerce at a little , .
met with Mrs. W. G. McNeil more than $9,500,000,000.
day. Her daughter, Mrs. Albert I Mrs. Steptoe had been under sur­ Mrs. Manlee Spores.
I spected by all who know her.
geon*’ knives three times in efforts
M r. and Mrs. Frank Logan of Wednesday afternoon.
M iller, was with her.
The par value of foreign securities ’ Mr. ” illiams is one of Lebanon's
to save her. She left a daughter 8 Springfield visited relatives here
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Johnson publicly offered in this country during I most respected citizens. They
Mrs. Grugett, sister of Lymao days old.
over the week end, Accompanied are visiting Mrs. Emma Knigh­ the first half of 1925 amounted to expect to make their home in
Paimer, who is ill with pueumooia
We congratulate
Recent temperatures here have by M r. aud Mrs. Roy Owen they ten and other relatives in Al­ $551,591,000 as compared to $379,700.- Brownsville.
at her home in Corvallis, is re
000 for the corresponding period last this
happy couple and wish
bany for a few weeks.
not
been suggestive of woodpiles spent Sunday at Brownsville.
ported worse and not likely to re­
year.
them many more years of hap-
and heating furnaoos, but our
M artin Cummings and family
cover.
W. G. McNeil and family,
Europe was the largest borrower piness and
schoolhouse has both and last drove to Eugene Saturday even­
usefulness in thia
Pete
Settle
and
A.
F.
Albertson
Mrs. Leonard Niohola and two week Janitor Forster and an
Both are 64 years old.
ing, spending tbe night with Mr, and family attended an all-day during the first half of the present world.
ehildren, from Pendleton,
and expert ovehauled the furnace and
year, the gross volume of loans Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Harrison,
aud Mrs. C. R. Rowan.
Sunday
mother, Mrs. Hale of Brownsville, made it ready to give comfort to
Latin son and daughter-in-law of the
they picnicked on the McKenzie mooting at Ingram,« ¡»land Sun­ amounting to $237,<00.000.
were visiting at E. S. Manter» the pupile by and by when chill­
America was second with $161.0$l.- bride,
day.
river.
were witnesses to the
yesterday.
000 and Canada third with $131.910.- ceremony. | Mrs. Nora Cuts­
ing blasts come out of the north.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
L.
E.
Eagy
went
A party of ten motoring from
000. Asia, which led last year with
Cutworms are nearly taking the Said expert was from Albany.
California have been visiting their to Corvallis Sunday afternoon to one loan to the Japanese government forth, Mrs. Jack Gamble, Miss
country this year.
They com­
Lduis Wil­
Arthur Wesley and family got relatives. M r. and Mrs. J. S. Nice- call at A. F. Grugett’s. Mrs. of $125,000,000. romea fourth thia year Belie Burson and
pletely destroyed a fine 40-acro home Inst week Taesday from wood and family. Here they sepa­ Grugett, a cousin of Mrs. Eagy,
liams were guests at the wed­
with only $31,000,000.
crop of clover for S. J. Smith and their outing, which took them at rated, some going to Canada and is very ill.
ding. One amusing incident
everybody who has a crop is suf­ far as Vancouver, B. C. PoiDte they returning boms by way of Yellow-
The Pacific Coast Association of during the day was that the
A number of Pine Grove peo­ Nurserymen, with delegates present bridal couple drove down the
fering from them.
Miss Jennie Nioe-
mention as having been visited by rtone park.
ple attended
the community from all parts of the coast and some highway and all over Albany be-
wood
accompanied
tbe
others
on
a
them
include
mount
Rainier,
S
e­
Mrs. Either O. Rike has bought
meeting
at
Oakville
Friday possibly from the east. Is being held fore they noticed that they had
attle, Bremerton, Longview, Sea- drive over the Columbia river high­
and heard Governer In Portland.
tide and Paciflo City. Longview way, after wbioh they returned to evening
a lal>el on the back of their car
Pierce speak.
is the big oity built to older by their home in San Diego.
Albany’s
which read "notice: w ears just
the Long-Bell lumber oompany,
only
A business meeting of the School Loans Aggregate $<,912,219 married, look.”
instead of having ” jest growed,”
Pine Grove community club was Salem. Or.—Common schoel fund
like Topsy and like most cities.
held Wednesday evening. The loans on July 1, 1925. aggregated $<.
Charles Sterling aod wife are
Now it is being doubled in lire.
term of officers was changed 912,219.43. according to a report pre baviog a vaoation at Tillamook.
(By
an
Enterprise
Reporter)
sented by George Brown, clerk of the
The Long-Bell lumber p'ant covers
from three months to one yea» state
T h t Oriental Oddfelhws had a
land board. Rural credit loans
30 acres and the Weyerhoueer
and
the
following
officers
elect­
Esther
Seefeld
visited
Nellie
totaled $432,033.03.
big picnic at tbe park Sunday,
syndicate, wbioh has 500 acres of
ed: President. Georgia Hover;
coming from all surrounding towns.
E V E R Y T H IN G O P T IC A L
timber there, is expeeotsd to put in Falk Wednesday afternoon.
vice president, George Chand­
The Pine Grove orchestra furnished
one of equal aise. Mr. Wesley's
Harllie Rike spent Saturday ler; secretary, Beryl McNeil; Church of Christ
Bancroft Optical Co.
musio. J. K . Wetharfard dellv-
brother and party, from Cclifornia, visiting her friend,
Sunday School, 10.
Blanche treasurer, Jessie McLaren. It
cred
an address. Harrisburg beat
went
oast-
Endeavor, 7.
Stienke.
313 West First street, Albany.Or.
was decided that there would be Christian
Wcndliog by one point in a good
Preaching,
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and
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(Continued on page 8)
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Bierly and no more meetings until the first
All regular services aa usual baseball game. I her* were sports,
two sods were at Henry F a lk 'i Friday in October.
July 26. A speoial number will eats and a general good time.
be given in tbe Sunday school
Tuesday evening.
They Hush If Up
promptly at 10 o'clock.
Grace K irk went to Portland
Mis« Harding of Eugene gave a
Californians are not telling ail
very interesting talk at the close of
about their earthquakes.
last week end to visit her cous­
tbe morning service io tbe interest
in, Isabel Gulliford.
Tbe second recent heavy one at
Washington, D. C.—An official com of the girls* junior college,
Christian Endeavor tepic, "Tbe Santa Barbara was reported as
Several of the neighbors from munlcatlon giving a clear and com
i this vicinity are working on the plete statement of the Washington Progress and A ch ievem en ts of tbe light, but people who were there
government's attitude regarding Chins Negro in Am erica,”
' new road at “Diamond Hill.”
declare that it was heavier than
has been cabled to Paris tor the In
Clifford Carey,pastor.
the first and did more damage.
Harvey Rike came over from formation
of French foreign office of
, Alsea Friday and with Charles flclals.
San Francisco rsporlsd that no
I Straley spent Friday evening at
damage was dona there by the
Disclosure of the contents of the M. E. Church
! G. J. Rike’s.
»bake last week, but (Stanley Sle
communication was withheld. It con­
Robert Parker pastor.
venson of Eugene, druggist and
Roy Nemchick and Miss Edna tains Information, however, that Sunday school, 10.
son of J. A. Stevenson of Halsey,
, Sherrill of Harrisburg, were j Washington officials hope will remove
Preaching, 11.
was there with bia wife and talla
visitors at H. J. Falk’s Wednes- any possible misunderstanding be
Junior League, 3,
tbe Eugone Register he aaw where
tween
the
American
and
French
gov
i day evening.
Intermediate League, 7
the front wall of an apartment
emments.
Epworth league, 7.
Miss Grace Kirk passed the
house bad bean shaken down by it
The communication la the first re
Preaching, 8.
sod knew of much other damage
teachers’ examination and ex- gardlng Chins to be sent directly from
Prayer-meeting Thursday,
that it did.
pects to teach at the Hulbert Washington to any of the European
Nine Billions is
Owed Uncle Sam
Kirk Quips
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implies—the choice of the pack.
When you buy Preferred Stock goods you
have wisely chosen incomparably the best, se-
lected for size, flavor and quality.
Make the tost yeurself. Compare Preferred
Stock with other brands and it will meet with
your discriminating choice
Preferred Stock goods are not packed to meet ,
a price. They are sold only to those who ap-i
precíate first quality.
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It is true some brands are sold cheaper, b u t,
they arc sold solely on price appeal.
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We are distributers of about thirty varieties,
of Preferred Stock goods.
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M. V. KOONTZ CO.
, HALSEY, 0H JP90N&
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U. S. Would Do
Justice to China
; school, near Albany, the coming
•lnr” th"
•»ua«"’»
I arose. The decision to send a dis
' year.
patch direct to Paris was reached only
Henry Seefeld drove to Eu­ after unofficial reports had reached
gene Tuesday and brought his Washington that the French did not
daughter, Mrs. Alice Jones, consider this a propitious time for ne
i home from the hospital. She gntlatlons for revision of foreign ex
tra-territorlal privileges.
j is recovering nicely.
Sunday visitors at Henry Harvesting of wheat Is generally
' Seefeld’s were Mr. and Mrs. under way all over Um atilla county.
Carl Seefeld and children, Velma Reports Indicate that yields are slight­
and Irvin, Mr. and Mrs. Everett ly less than farmers had expected.
j Carey and little daughter Mar­
garet, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Falk Feoneh F orest H sartsned by Pstaln.
sr
and granddaughters Gen-1 Rabat —The arrival of Marshal Po-
trude Gengenbach and Nella tala and the news of forthcoming large
have greatly hearten
Raster, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Rike relaforcemeata
the Fvefffh- forces facing Abd-El
and Harllie Rike, Mr. and Mrs. •d
Krtm. Rlfflan preteflierjtoythe Moroc­
Clifford Carey, Nelliff and Peafrl. can
sultanate
Falk and Louise Seefeld.
Methodist Church Notes
Rev. Mr. Gillette will preach
at the Methodist church next
Sunday both morning and even­
ing.
The Sunday school attendance
has been very good this sum­
mer. The average attendance
for the month of June was 100
and for the first three Sundays
in July it has been 97.
The Epworth League insti­
tute will be held at Cottage
Grove August 10-17. Some
Leaguers from Halsey are plan­
ning to attend.
The pastor has been granted
a two'-Weffk» vacation. It will
l«d spent at the Methodist camp
meeting at Cottage Grove.
D. T. Lawton of Medford,
state inspector of weights and
measures, was officially here
and at Brownsville last week.
He met E. Russ and sister and
asked Ed if he knew him.
Your name used to be Law-
ton,” replied Mr. Russ. Eigh­
teen years had passed since
they had met.
Harry Park was over from
Brownsville Saturday, looking
years younger than last year.
He was laying pains to take a
party of people on a vacation
outing that wquld take in Cra-
ter lake and other Oregon scenes
of grandeur.