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About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1925)
(A o A g rc u ltu re H o rtc u ltu re L iv e s to c k NTERPRI, A Weekly Chronicle ol Local Events and Progress on Linn County Laud HAL8EY, OREGG.-v Halsey Happenings and County Events Doings of Our Populace Chronicled in Brief Paragraphs o c r i t i?:s the call was intended for members o ily. The Hsleey garage has taken on a new color. Preston Newton and wife (W il- metta Forster) have bought their own home in Portland. While playing in a boat Saturday evening Leila Gansle fell and broke Grant Taylor hag a new «¡da* her arm. She is a patient little walk. patient, and is going to school H . L- Straley and wife were in regularly. Albany Saturday. L ast Sunday Virgil Peacock fired Twenty-two men are working on at a supposed deer before he saw its horns and shot Clifford Forney the Santiam pace road. through the lungs while they were The Lake Creek South Methodist hunting in the Cascadia section. church nas a new roof, The pheasant season opens tomor Mrs, Pugh is running Dad's and row and farm ers who have fed and M am ’a restaurant again. fattened good flocks of the birds qre Rev. Mr. Gillespie of Peoria is putting up “no hunting” notices to seriously ill at his home this week. protect their fences, th e ir crops and Velva Hadley is staying with their supply of birds. Mre. Eliza Brandon thie school Mesdamss J. W. Moore an d L. E- term. Walton were here from H arrisburg Mre. J. W. Huseey has received Thursday. notice that her mother died in her 1. C. Russell, SO, a Mountain North Dakota home last week. States Power lineman, while making The Harrisburg bridge will repairs after Thursday morning’s probably be open for travel very fire _ at Shedd, ____ r ________ accidentally touched a ?°.On’ , , en good by to th e old high-power wire and dropped dead, i «-tak in g ferry. A fter the ghed<| Thursday A. A. ru ssi ng of the law Arm of morning, Halsey was without elec- T u a .m g A ru s a .n g ex p e cts to p u t trie current all day, but ju st as , r « 0" ' V lh# darknMa was dosin* dow" ‘he firm’s Brownsville office and most , of the afternoons here. , everlng the flow of julce came back' The L .k e Creek Buceyelub met B.Tbe S,h<dd f araf en owned1,by E- at Mrs. Lyman Palmer’s Thursday! ®helby’ formerly of Brownsville, was afternoon. An enjoyable time w a s , destroyed’ wltb ha,f a dozen auto- enjoya mobiles, Friday morning by a fire had by the ladles in attendance. M r. and Mrs. Levi Oleman of supposed to have resulted from some Meumoutb, M r. and Mrs. Joliu fault in the electric wires. Loss Evan« and son W ilbur and Mis: $6000 or $6000, covered by insurance. M aria Evans of Lake Creek were Mrs. Annie Bailey of Eugene ad dinner guests at C. R. Evans’ dressed the women's missionary so Sunday. cieties of Halsey, Crawfordsville, Last week we stated that we Sweet Home, Brownsville and other omit such expressions as*’Everyone localities a t a meeting at Browns la invited to attend ” from notices ville last week Wednesday and on we publish of religious meetings the wr.y home called on her aunt, because they merely state what Mrs. William Wheeler, at Halsey. everybody knows. In the item Ole T. Oleson and his crew have following this atatement was a been busy the past several weeks notice of a religious meeting in cutting, hauling and loading poles which that very expression nas for the market. We are informed used. That wae on) of tho*« ca*-ee th a t Mr. Oleson, Jack Gamble and where "th e exception proves the Smoke Dawson loaded out two cars ru le.” The notice in question of the long poles for the Japanese was of a meeting of a newly m arket. Cleve Harrison has also fromed organization and there might be some who would thihk b te n h e lp in g a t L in n sta tio n . T h ry have loaded fourteen cars, and these are the big boys th a t one man doesn't handle by himself.—Browns N o lic e ville Times. After October 16, 1925, I will be located at 3701 S ta te street, S A L E M . O R E . Bancroft Optical Co. Dr. H arry Bancroft, Mgr. After running through the entire fire season safely, with no fires ex tending over more than one-fourth ot an acre, lightning set a fire which spread to an area of between two and one-half and five acres on Blowout creek, above Detroit, Supervisor C. C Hall of the Santiam national forest reports. (Continued on page 3) Partial List of Contents News of Halsey_____ _______ page Pina G rove______________ Kirk.......................................... Alford . . . ________________ All Oregon_______________ Church Announcements............ "Truth ia Meats” ..................... Trucks Fight C as Tax............... School Notes ______ __________ Atrocious Cruelty to a Dog____ Gypsies Rob Halsey Restaurant ferial Story................ ................ Fashions . . . ________ ________ “ Preferred Stock ’ means all that the nam eg implies—the choice of the pack. • When you buj Preferred Stock goods you have wisely chosen incomparably the best, se- ® lected for size, flavor and quality. • Make the test 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-® predate first quality. • It is true some brands are sold cheaper, hut ® they arc sold solely on price appeal. ® We are distributers of about thirty varieties of Preferred Stock goods. ® g J J M. V. KOONTZ CO. • H A L S E Y , O REG ON • 1 Markets..................................... 1 t State Rules for f o u l t r y _____ I 1 Banker Complains of Criticism Testing thickens and Call) e Alfalfa Hurt by Nurse Crop . 1 Harnessing Tide for P o w e r....... 1 1 1 2 Early Man m Gobi Desert____ San day School Lesson_______ Column of Fun_____________ Luther Burbank to Relax.......... 7 ju n g le S to ry ________ ________ Step-saving in K itc h e n ............... 1 Fatal Oregon Train Wreck___. Value of Carrots for the Table- Editorial Comment___ ______ ” Heretic ” Bishop T alks.____ Federation Fights Child Labor. 3 A rm y and Navy Kxtravagance. 4 Czncho-Slovak D ebt_________ H Reclamation Promises by U. S, 8 New American Legion Head__ Prudi iu Meats” A B E R D E E N -A N G U S S T E E R " Q U E E N M E R E 2 4 T H ” G rand C ham pion P a c ific In te rn a tio n a l L lveatock E xposition, 1424. Bred, fed and e x h ib ite d by Conpdon and B a ttles , Y a k im a , W ash. At the Pacific International Live- from the packer to the retailer. Farth- stock Exposition to be held in Port- er down In the refrigerator, will be land this year, October 31st to Novem shown the regular wholesale cuts of ber 7th, It Is proposed to give a demon meat usually sold in the trade. These, stratlon which will carry out the idea too, will carry their proper pricing as of “Truth In Meats.” , regards the various grades. Assisting In this work will be the! Finally, In a counter will be seen Department of Agriculture, colleges of all the retail cuts from these various Oregon and the Pacific slope, packing-1 packing house lots; they In turn show- house people, stock yard officials i nd ing exactly what a choice cut from the commission men, and retailers aa well, choicest animal should sell for; bear- Six to eight live animals, nicely bed lng In mind all the time that the over- ded down and properly cared for, will head In the retail store is Just as be graded from prime to common, and, much, pound for pound, on a common over the head of each will be posted1 animal as It Is on a choice one. the price on foot at which Its kind is, The purpose of this entire demon- selling in the stock-yards that week J stratlon will not he to prove that the Directly back of them, in a refrlgera-1 retailers are getting too little or too tor, will be shown carcasses from anl-I much for their meat, but rather to tnals of a similar lot. These car- show the relative value of prime as casses will also show the selling price | compared with common meat. Alford Arrows (By an E nterprise Reporter) E. D. Isom and family visited a t A. F. Robnett’s in Eugene Sunday. Chester C urtis and family visited a t Ellsworth C urtis' Sunday evening. Bird Ingram and family o f Bay City spent the week end at Lee Ingram ’s. Mrs. Lee Ingram and daughter Thelma called on Mrs. John Rolfe Saturday afternoon. Alice Curtis spent the week end with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Tandy of H arrisburg. ;• Preferred Stock : Canned Goods : 1 Great Outdoors— Farm Items . urkey Reported Preparing for W ar. Rome.— Reports of great exrttement and warlike preparations are being re ceived here In a roundabout way from roBrtantlnople. These developments era claimed to have arisen because of the Anglo-Turkish dispute over .Mosul. Hindenhurg te Ssnd Delegates to Meet Berlin.—President von Hindenhurg decided Germany would accept the al lied Invitation to a ministerial con ference In Switzerland next month at which the tilled-German security pact w ill be discussed for final solution High-Proof Liquor Returns to Russia Moscow.—After 11 years of partial prohibition Russia Sunday became completely wet. Whiskey, brandy and liquors containing «0 per cent of a! cohol and vodka cf 48 per cent alcohol again appeared In *be cafes, restaur ants and stores Heretofore the gov eminent kae maintained a monopoly of the manufacture and sale of spirit- nous liquors but under the new order private Individuals will be permitted to make and sell liquors B'rmieghsm Man Head of Bankers. Atlantic C ity—The American Bank ers' association elected Oscar Wells of Birmingham. Ala- as Its new presi dent and adopted resolutions urging perpetuation ot the federal reserve system. • • • Torkeye are seed and Insect esters and do not thrive on sloppy mashes. » Pine Grove Points (By Special Correspondent) John McNeil Sunday. was in 1 ) a i r y P o u ltry W ool Happenings in Public Schools Corvallis (Halsey School Reporter) The first event of the school year John McLaren skipped Lis hogs was a highly entertaining party giv Saturday. en in honor of the freshmen by the Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Knighten were sophomores. Perhaps the freshmen felt th a t they had been too highly in Albany Tuesday. honored, as the first two hours of Mrs. L. E. Eagy and son Lyle were the party were devoted entirely to Corvallis callers Frida®-. their entertainm ent. A fter the ini Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Albertson vis tiation all played games. About 11 ited the Dinwiddie family in Benton o'clock refreshm ents were served and j the assemblage broke up. county Sunday. At all high school p a rtie s thia Mr. Cadwallader, father of Jean year two parents will be Invited as and Elmer Cadwallader, arrived from ratro n and patroness and all parties Indiana Thursday night. will be dismissed a t 11 o’clock. The high school girls held a m eet R. K. Stew art of Pleasant Hill visited at E. E. Hover's from Tues ing a week ago Tuesday and elected Agnes Hayes manager for the bas day until Thursday. ketball season. Raymond Blood met with an acci The subjects offered this year are: dent last week which resulted in a English 1, II, and III; algebra I and badly injured arm. III; plane geometry; Freheh I, II, and III; biology; American history; The Women's Missionary society economics; general science; world met with Mrs. Will McLaren T hurs day afternoon for the business meet f iito r y an d g eo g rap h y . Some of the classes are handicap ing. Those present were Mesdames J. S. 1-aMar, J. W. LriMar, George ped, as the hooks have not yet a r Bayne, George Githens, Alice Dunne, rived. Grace Wade, N. E. Chandler and E. E. Hover. School Pyogram Changed Truckmen Ask Gas Tax Refund N u llific a tio n Sought By F re ig h t Bus M en in S uits F iled in F e d e ra l C ourt. Mrs. Geer announces that Ore gon history will he taught in the sixth grade hereafter, instead of the eighth. Students aow iu the sixth or seventh will get non» of it, but there ie no Jaw against their reeding about their own elate and we advise them to tegin with Horner’s “ Short History of Ore gon.” There will be, in the eouniy and outside of Oregon, 5 eenteete each iu spelling and arithmetic, and lhe pupil making an average of 95 per oont in the former or 9fl In the letter will be exempt from takiag the etate examination in them. In reading, tho pupil who com pletes the required course and the reeding oircle work at home will be exempted from the elate exam- inatiou. Portland. Or.—Nullification by the United States court of all of the Ore gon state gasoline tax laws, and re- fund of $6 000.801» la taxes collected under these laws, la asked by a group of automobile freight bus operators. In a suit filed In federal court here against Sam E. Kozer. secretary of state of Oregon. Injunction la further asked against the secretary of state to prevent him frum further enforcing the gasoline tax laws against the freight bus oper ators. Sam S tarfas of Portland has a p The complaining operators base their Immunity on the federal highway pealed from a conviction and sen act, under which the state of Oregon tence to six months in Jail and $500 has collected large sums In Joint high fine for cruelty to a dog. He first (By an Enterprise Reporter) way construction and reconstruction hanged the animal for 16 minutes Cecil Dawson is working for R. In past years, and which the complaint with a strap around ita neck. Fiad- holds, prohibits the levying of tolls on ing it still alive he tied it behind E. Bierly. the highways so developed. his i'.utomobile, dragged it more than Henry Seefeld was in Albany two miles and threw It into a ditch Tuesday. Tacoma, Wash. — Owners of auto with the skin torn off its ¡.idea and Roberta V; Jin ice was in Salem freight lines, attacking the state gaso its ribs protruding. line tax on the ground that It Is un Saturday. An unknown man, hoping to end constitutional. and demanding $2,250,- its misery, shot a bullet into its head, Kenneth V jiN ice, with his sister 000 In damages, which sum, they as but it was found alivo next day by Edna, went to Salem Saturday sert. the state has Illegally collected officers of the humane society, who A. M. Snodgrass ¡.nd family were from Washington motorists since 1221, killed it. brought suit In federal court here at Henry Falk’s Tuesday evening. S tarfas said th a t he thought the against State Treasurer Potts. dog was dead when he tied it be Mr. and Mrs. Harding are the The complaint charges that the parents of a baby boy, bom Friday. plaintiffs “have been compelled to hind his car, but witnesses testified Mrs. R. .E. Bierly and son Kenneth pay such taxes solely as a tribute or that, they saw it trying to run fast enough to keep up with the cry and were at William Pence’s Wednesday. exaction for passage by their said motor vehicles on said public high urged S tarfas to untie it, b u t in C. L., W. A. and J. B. Falk have ways, to-wlt: A toll.” The federal stead he put on speed and dragged three more days’ wood hauling before government, It Is pointed out, by the it away. finishing their 300-cord wood con act ot July 11, 1918. already provides Here's hoping he gets a new trial tract. aid to states In the construction of an,‘ has the penalties doubled, highways. This act was amended , , November 9, 1921, to read: That “all ¡ -S lie - G y p s y R o b b e i'S 12.COO.OOO Dodging Income Taxes. Washington, D. C.— More than 12,- highways” constructed or reronstrt,ct- 000,000 persons are violating the law ed under the provisions ot the act by not making Income tax returns shall be free from tolls of all kinds. After the recent cerouatiou of a and at least 10,000.000 of them are The state gasoline tax. It la asserted. new gipay king iu America it wae Is being used In this state to con subject to heavy fines, according to announced that he would put a istlmates by treasury experts. With struct and maintain highways. stop to the migration of bands of the high wages paid mechanics, car his people and t ie race would penters. bricklayers, plasterers and G ERM ANY TO JOIN LEAGUE «ettle down to life in bomee. E i even laborers, treasury officials be ther the ukase failed or eome lieve the vast majority of the 20,000,- Agreement Reached at Locarno Con bands of thieves are passing ae ference Upon Admission Tarma. 000 employed In “gainful occupations’* gypeiee, are making more than $1000 a year. Locarno, Switzerland — Agreement A g ang passed through Halsey was practically reached Monday on Friday. Two women entered the Mrs. W ilson to Represent Red Cross. the condition of Germany ! entrance R eyno.de re s ta u ra n t, w h ere a Geneva—Following a month's study Into the League of Nations and the ta i , t a ta b le, in a tc h s d hie of the functioning of the League of Na Iclegat»« to the security conference «teak an d [sem e b read a n d left, tions, Mrs Woodrow Wilson will begin now hopefully predict the aoccesa of T h e eu sto m e r fled also. her first International activity the conference Having found that there were next week as a delegate to the 12th The allies have perfected a solution no men arouad, nine or ten of the International conference of the Red of the German league membership sit ■tags then came, grabbed the con Cross Geaersl John Kerr la tha uation. which Chancellor Luther and tents of a k o ttlro f boiled potatoes other American delegate. Foreign Minister 8tresemann hope and some other plunder end made will satisfy German pnhllc opinion sod off. at the same time safeguard the friend M ^ E . Church I t ie regrettable that Mre. ly relations of the relrh with Russia Reynold! didn’t have an open can Robert Parker pastor. One btg Issue remains unsettled— ol red pepper at band and pat it Sunday school, 10. France's guarantee for Poland, and where it woeld do the meet good. Preaching, 11, this was discussed privately and with Junior League, 3, pregreaa by ?l Brlaad. Dr Stress Epworth league, 6 30 Hope Hasse/ and Velva Hadley main and Count Skrzynekl. the Preaching, 7:80. French. German and Polish foreign went to the Standard Bearers’ con Praver-mceting. Thnrsdav, ":30. ministers, prior to the plenary tee vention at Salem Saturday with Ken Bible Study Tuesday, I;30 . «ion of the conference. neth, Ellen and Roberta Vamitc«. Billy ¡Sunday Tells of Plaoe for this Fellow Kirk Kinks Operate in Halsey