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A gJeat love is sometimes a blee-1
ing in a man’s life. In .Senator
Staufiold’e it was a cures. H is I
■ 7 W«. M
at Baker was for women and |
wine. Instead of facing the evi
|1 a year la advance
dence when accused of beiog drunk
Arrearages. 12^»c a inontq
and disorderly he forfeited hie bail.
AdvertiM og, 20c an in c h ; nodiacoun
lor lim e or apace ; no charge (or com No efforts be oan make now will I
poaiiar>n
changes.
win prohibitionists’ votes in the | Linn
l a "P a le-fo i Paravrapha,” to a llaa.
primaries or anywhere else.
* • a4vartiam g dlaffulaad aa nawa.
RUSAL ENTERPRISE
25
The Great Outdoors
ja *• 1»g»«i1>r*—Not neutral—nawa
paper, published e»eiy Weduesday,
W here Bread, Meat, Clothing, Health and Vigorous Hum anity are Produced
the W orld s
Farm Credit Unions
U. S. May Juggle
A Coast Success
Pay Income Tax
Price of Surplus
Strawberry Center
In Co-operation
PARADISE RESTORED
“ You can’t make people
Washington, D. C.—National agri-
good by statute,” sneers the Fresh-flavored F ruit Can
Washington, D. C.—The administra-
cultural credit corporations have been!Uon.g Urm rellef program wI„ be
anti-prohibitionist. No, but a
Be
Had
at
Any
Time
held subject to income taxation in a broadened to provide for some ma
statute can make a murderer
ruling by A. W. Gregg, solicitor ot in chlnery for handling surplus crops.
of the Year
stop being bad if it succeeds
ternal revenue. When the information
Just what form this new aid will
in hanging him. And statutes
leaked out observers saw it as a new take has not been determined but both
have made many a town a BARRELERS WANT 400 TONS element
in the rural credit problem.
President Coolidge and Secretary Jar
good place to live in which
The ruling held that if the agri dine have reached the conclusion that
A representative of Baker,
was a "hell hole” before we
Kelly and MacLaughlin aws in cultural credit corporations were en surplus crops present one of the
had prohibition.
titled to exemption at all this must |
Albany Wednesday to contract! come under section 231 of the act. dominating problems of agriculture
and that some governmental step
Albert B. Fall got into the cab- |f ° r 11,500 barrels of berries and then asserted:
must be taken to afford relief.
"National agricultural credit cor
net and Teapot Dome was stolen I from that section next year on
Tremendous pressure has been
porations
are
not
exempt
from
Income
hrough government by party.
a three-year contract at prices taxation under section 231 of the brought to bear recently on the ad
ministration by the congressional farm
that will insure the growers a revenue act of 1924.”
„ _ ,
t
, bloc and western agricultural leaders
good
profit.
Stanfield Works for
Attention
called
, -
, commission
, ,
...
. . . . . . was
.
,
' in the ruling' to create a federal
with
that section 231 specifically 1
. ..
...
.
Mr. Stenberg, the local man to the fact
Big Grazing Grab
..
v
■ powers to direct the disposition of sur-
carried the revenue act exemptions
(January Sunset Magazine)
. ager, has more than 100 acres to certain forms of mutual and govern- , plus farm crops in a way which would
enable the producers to at least get
They are at it again. The big
raw berries in the vicinity mental agencies of finance. It was sug Ithe
cogt Qf productloD.
Houge bag
fellows among the ci Itle and sheep 101 Albany. He wants 200 gested a . significant that the provi-1 Heretofore the
men of the far west, counting on I «'ores more planted this coming
? T T a th? for“ ation| been silent on the subject, bu, after
agricultural credit cor-
K a
.
the wave of conservation and I year it possible. The company of the national
.n ...
...
¡the President had conferred with Sec-
,
.
,,
.
reaction sweeping round the world, is making five-year contracts poration failed to mention the ex -' I retary
Jardine, it was disclosed that
onsider this a propitious time to I on not less than five acre emptlon from taxation which had been the administration was prepared to in
granted to federal intermediate credit
ry to take a large slice out of the yards
dorse conservative legislation foster-
people's most valuable property,
The company reports having banks, federal farm loan associations Ing the sale of surplus crops in the ex
he national forests. At the Salt signed a contract recently with and federal farm loan banks as ap port trade with a government com
ake convention they decided to one of the largest preserving plicable to the newly authorized mission as a directing agency.
isk congress fora law wheh would companies in the United States agency.
The Issue was brought to a head a
ake control of the grazing in the to furnish on a three-year con-
(ew hours before the departure for
Sweet peas blooming outdoors at Des Moines of the Iowa congressional
i.t.onal forest from the »crest tract 5000 barrels of straw-
One ef the most favored spots
on earth, agriculturally, is Lion
county. Already it has achieved
nation-wide recognition aa the
home of registered Jersey and
other cattle and Kizer's sheep havi
taken the cream of the prizes at
eastern shows. Frank
Portei
takes a few of his red polls to fairs
up and sown the coast every fal
and brings home the bacon.
A co-operative creamery at our
county seat made a record at the
national dairy show this year and
Schere’s corn, from Brownsville,
won Oat at the state fair.
Flex experts tell us that there ir
more soil in Linn county adapted
with the elimate, to producing th»
choicest fiber, than in any equal
area known,
Now it has been demonstrated
that the queen of fruits, the royal
strawberry, can be preset ved, with
its full fresh flavor, for years, ard
enjoyed at any season of the year,
3000 b
,
™
and the demonstration haa beer erv.ee and hand it over to these berri
tock men now having revocable rasnb
j
9n(m u
,
made here in Linn county. We permits.
Under the legislation
2 ° ° ° barre Sr ° f
cannot long monopolize it, but tl e
»roposed these permits not only i
» -P, err’t S and 1500
call for 400 tons next year ie e vould become irrevocable, but
t
J°Kanberries.
golden opportunity. See “ Linn eitain grazing areas would ba I bast w eeks Lebanon Ex-
the World’* Strawberry Center,” esigoed in perpetuity to present I P.1 ess ®ai« : 1 en gallons of the
olders, thereby blocking the way Is trawberries
that were bar-
on this page.
o any reapportionment and bar-lf? ,, ^ere last year by Baker,
ing small newcomers. In effect ,e lley & MacLaughlin were
FAKE FIGURES PERSIST
be grazing rights of public prop- Riven out in samples at Reeves
would be deeded to the present Bros.’ grocery last Saturday to
The yarn that $10,000,000 rty
sers forever.
nearly five hundred people.
in investments or projected in
It is signifleani that the senate Believing th at it would be a
vestments in industries in Ore •ublic lands committee, which has good idea to acquaint the peo-
gon were withdrawn or can been holdia« hearings and inviting pie here with the deliciousness
celed in the year of the in lomplaints from stockmen, is of their own product. Ralph
come tax on account of that uided tn its activities by Senator Scroggin, buyer for the barrel-
Christmas time is a rare thing even
In the mild climate of Oregon, but at
Sweet Home, George Flanagan Jr.
showed a bouquet of these flowers
which he had picked In his yard.
delegation, members of which were In
vited to attend a meeting there of
farmers and bankers to discuss means
ot marketing the surplus corn crop.
THE MARKETS
Four-Dollars-a-Year Men
Portland
Wheat—Big Bend bluestem, »1.58;
hard white, soft white and western
white, »1.57; hard winter, northern
spring, and western red, »1.53.
Hay—Alfalfa, »19.50@20 ton; valley
timothy, »19@19.50; eastern Oregon
timothy, »21@22.
Butterfat—44c shippers' track.
Eggs—Ranch, 26@29Hc.
OreRon' Senator ing firm, was instrumental in
Cheese—Prices f. o. b. Tillamook;
n.nfleld is the west’s outstanding having the ten-gallon keg sent Triplets. 31c; loaf. 32c per lb.
beep baron The forest »erv.ee here for sampling, and it sure-
Cattle—Steers, good »7.85@8.25.
' as compelled undents regulations iv w as „ rpvt>i
f ,
Hogs—Medium to choice, »11 so®
ojfeut down the number of s h e e p T h Z f avne ( h l
un by Stanfield companies on the J?™ ’
JSWe?t‘ »12.25.
Sheep—Lambs, medium to choice,
ational forests
| "ess, the goodness and the
shape of the bernes were all »12.50® 14.25.
levy, the figures being “con
firmed by documentary evi
dence,” is revived in the inter
est of the tax shirkers’ cam
paign in the coming election.
That “documentary evi
dence” was promised during
the last income-tax campaign, . .
_ .there and there is no one who
but was cautiously withheld
w >n doubt
and the names of its signers U p H S r l t t a willd° "»»•»«* f h a t A i ? ° ° d Lm a r k e t wil1 b e
kept dark until too near the
claim for it - found throughout the years to
voting hour for an investiga rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness come for all that can be pro-
duced.
tion of its genuineness and rauaed by Catarrh.
their sincerity to be made.
F I
«U,
In
letter t0 p o w ers sent
One of the underwriters of F. J. CHENEY &. c o . . Toledo. Ohio I Out today by Beker, Kelley &
that "evidence” was an east
MacLaughlin, they say among
ern firm which had ordered Before or After Christmas
other things:
the closing of its egg-buying
Imagine, folks, our berries
branch at Seattle. A little Krydtoks are a delight to the e y e |’n eastem markets. Are you
scrutiny
showed that the M$5 days ir. the year.
urprised that they sell well?
branch was closed, not on ac
the invisible bifocals for netr P ou can understand perhaps
count of the income tax, for tnd far.
our enormous demand and our
it had no income, but because
capacity for tons and tons.
it could not get enough eggs
“Last season we barreled
to pay expenses. The Pacific
one hundred and ninety tons
Coast
Co-operative Poultry
here. Next year we will be
Producers were shipping sev
disappointed if we cannot have
eral carloads east for its one.
four hundred tons. You can
And Pacific coast noultrvmen
readily see how much cheapet
were getting the dollars which
berries can be taken to mar
it had hoped to salt down.
ket in big 500-pound barrels
Another bugaboo was the
than any other way. Your
statement th at eastern wool
cost of marketing is cut— re
men refused to send buyers to
flected to the consumer and
Oregon on account of the in
grower — and no wonder one
pu,,«„ grows
come tax. This was as bald E. C. Meade, O
more and the other eats
a falsehood as the other. The
more.
Does this not mean
Optician prosperity
Pacific Co-operative
Wool- H. Albro,
to our berry cen
ALBANY
OREGON. ters ?
growers, one of the most flour
ishing farmers’ commercial o r
“We invite you to come to
ganizations, was getting the
our warehouse next May. See
wool and paying five or six
our big electric washer scrub
D ELBER T STARR
cents more to its members than Funeral
and dry each berry, mix sugar
Director
and
Licensed
the speculators would offer.
nnd berries, our coopers head
Embalmer
It has just made final pay
up the barrels. It’s all simple,
B ro w n s v ille , Oregon
ments for last year’s wool and
only one has to know how.
Call C. P. STarroao, Halsey,
the growers are rejoicing over
Then the real marketing com
or U lL a a a T S ta x a Brownsville
its (and their) financial suc
mences. We have a worthy
cess.
product — it must be kept
A large part of the remain
that way, the consumer locat
der of this "documentary evi
W R IG H T & C O .
ed and finally the barrel de
dence” was quite as mislead
livered to him as you have
F u n e ra l D ire c to rs
ing.
[
found the product to be. We
W. I,, Wright, Harrisburg
It is doubtful if Portland in
are
equipped to do this and
Mrs. J. C. Bramwell, Halsey
terests can pull the wool over
you have the berries.
enough farmers’ eyes in the
atch your acreage and
coming campaign to save the
barreling plant grow!’’
tax shirkers and snddle prop
Modern
vmcago w m m Wrices n it nigh Mark.
erty owners with a double
Chicago. III.—Wheat prices Jumped
share of the taxes.
B
arber
Shop
more
than 5 centa a bushel Saturday
Oregon is enjoying contin
Laundrv sent Tuesdays
to the highest level yet this season
ued prosperity. The income
Xgeticy H ub Cleaning Works
May delivery sold at »17» * bushel
tax did not halt it and will not.
and December above »l.»o. Reports of
The time is coming when those
ABE S PLACE
fresh damage to crop* In Argentina
who profit by handling the
were at hand, and it was also cur
farm ers’ products will pay
TOSSING & TOSSING rent talk that mills in the United
their tax on that profit and
States have aa a rule no more than a
LAWYERS
wlu>n there , will be fewer of
«0-day supply of wheat In their eleva
H-iIs»y and Brownsville
th fm 'ta k in g toll between the
tor*.
farm and the city dining table, i
Oregon
H a ir s C a ta r r h sampled them wh°
H it
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8eattle.
Wheat—Soft white, western white,
Big Beqd bluestem, »1.59; hard winter,
western red, northern spring. »1.55.
Hay—Alfalfa, »25; D. C.. »28; tim
othy. »20; mixed hay, »24.
Butter—Creamery. 43 @ 47c.
Eggs—Ranch, 38 @ 40c.
Hogs—Prime. »12.15® 12.35.
Cattle—Prime steers. »7.75@8.00.
Cheese—Oregon fancy, 28c; Oregon
standards 25c; Washington triplets
28c.
Forty.nine year* ago the first
ncandescent lamp wae demonetra-
ed. The etatgy distributed as
lectricity in the United state* is
vailabie at an average cost of »4
er yea r par man.
The four-dollart-a-year meo are
the most efficient workers the
world has ever known. They don't
watch the clock and they uever
beard of an eight-hour day. They
are many-banded and every hand
is a right hand. They will per.
form any number of jobs simulta
neously, They will run the sewiag
machine upstairs, sweep the floors
downstairs, cook dinner in the
kitchen, wash the dishes in the
pantry, make ice in the back ball,
light the dining-room fire, iron
clothes in the basement, snmraon
you to the front door aud carry a
message to the other side of the
world, and do it all at oue and
the same time.
In the United States there are
808,880,000 of these fonr-dollars-
a-year men, hired out to 16,377,905
employer*. They are spreading
from city to hamlet, to farm. The
day will come when they will be
available everywhere.
They are “ the eons of light.”
A Spark Lighted in Linn
County Illum ines the
Great Northwest
Two of the outstanding successes
in the struggle for co-operative
marketing of farm producía aud
the elimination of the rake-off
taken by a line of rapacious mid
dlemen between the farmer and
the consumer are the poultrymen’e
and the wool and mohair grower**'
organizations. Both these eturdy
youngsters are entitled to the label:
“ made in Oregon.”
Below are a few quotations from
bulletins issued to members by the
Pacific Co-operative Wool Growers
Dec. 18 and 23»
The co-operative bad its incep-
lion through a call by agricultural
leaders at Albany in 1921. The
association has shown marvelous
growth and cover* the states of
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Cali
fornia and Nevada, with wool
stocks in Portland, San Francisco
and Boston, and salesmen visiting
the worsted and woolen mills in
New England and Pennsylvania.
It has over three thousand mem
bers and handles between six and
seven million pounds of wool por
annum.
Du* to the orderly system of
marketing the graded wool* during
the period in which manufacturer*
were supplying their requirements
the association baa been able to
secure full prices, showing an in
crease over last year on the fine
and medium wools of 3 8-4 cents
a pound and on the coarse wool*
of approximately 4 l-4c. While
the return* are a little later than
last year, the member» have been
well paid for the additional wait
in sharply increared prices aud
have received the benefit of direct
Belling te the mills.
The expanse ba* been reduoed
year by year and shows a further
reduction this year of about ten
per cent, 1 be baling, grading,
storage, insurance, reweighing and
cartage for farm fioek wool costs a
fraction over 2 1-Jc per pound
The storage ie a little higher than
last year owing to a longer period
in the warehou«e, but this has
been many fold overcome by the
sharply iucreased price* received.
Mohair
The mohair growers who pooled
their 1925 «lips received a Christ
mas distribution in cash covering
the veer’s sales.
The price* received are eatiefac-
ory, considering the difficult con
ditions which have existed. These
8pokane.
pertain more particularly to the
r-rceil Sneed spent his vaca choicer grade*. A large manufac
Hogs—Good to choice, »11.75® 12 00.
tion with home folks.
Cattle—Prime steers, »7.50®8.00.
turer ie quoted ai follows :
The mohair situation it qnite
different from anything w* have
experienced for a long time The
market on long mohair, most of
which comei from abroad, ba*
been so high and the competition
on our product* so keen that w*
Attractive prices are given on halFton
have changed our prvcees to as
to make it possible to uee all
lots or more of
fall Texas mohair. Having estak-
lished this process in our mill, and
having figured our cost* on this
KERR’S OR FISHER'S EGG PRODUCER
basis, we shall not be in a position
for some time to pay any premium
for long mohair.”
Molasses in barrel lots.
Private information is that a
< number of manufacturers are not
i using the kid and No. 1 mohair
they purchased, but are holding
uutil conditions restore them to
I demand.
O. W . F R U M
Th« New Contracts
The new marketing agreement
permits growers to withdraw after
iwo year*. It hae beeu signed by
owners of more than 600,000 sheep
tnd goats.
A m e ric a n E a g le
Fire Insurance Co.
Hay in worth ju st as much in storage as
you mirght get for it in case of fire. Th )
A m erican Eagle Fire Insurance com pan/
will pay you 8j% of the cash value in easel
of loss Iiy fire.
C. P. STAFFORD, A gent
L. A. Morris, potato inspec
tor for Columbia county, says
the inspection law is protec
tion to growers, retailers and
consumers and that when they
understand it better they will
all heartily observe it and
boasts that Columbia county
heads all others of the state
in observance, and th at not a
retail merchant in the whole
county will handle a sack of
potatoes th at is not branded
with the grower's name and
address and the grade. If the
counties generally would do as
Columbia county has done the
| law would be fully enforced.