RURAL ENTERPRISE
OUR PANAMA CANAL LEADING BRITISH
DITCH AT SUEZ IN TRAFHC TONNAGE
W A LTER W . HEAD
Published Every Wednesday,
B y H lbert L. A lmon
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Pianos Lor Sale
Some Good Used Pianos and
Organs of Good value
Wed ae,day, Nov. 3, 1926
il a year in advance
Arrearages. 12 ^c a month
A fine Standard Make Piano for $150.00
Another Marshal and Snaith for 9195.00
Advertising, 2<)c an in ch ; no discount
tor nine or space : no charge for com
oooition o rc jauges.
W e don’t use any tricks to sell Pianos.
Just come in and look over our goods,
we will please you if you will call on us.
Spoon River Sparks
(E n terp rise C orrespondence)
Cecil Bilyeu, wile and daughter
and Marion Carey were visitors at
W. A. Carey’s of Salem Sunday.
Mrs. R. E. Bierly is enjoying a
new range which they purchased
from Hill & Company Saturday,
The G. J. Rikes are enjoying a
new radio which they had installed
Friday.
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U.S.TftANSPORT'NOfiTHEIlN PACIFIC'PASSINÛ THR0U6H THE PANAMA
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DAVENPORT MUSIC HOUSE, «» w i.t Albany
LEE G. DAVIS, Proprietor
* For Your Pulletts—
lira. Claude Davidson and her
Í
uncle, Oscar Wilson visited at th e
W alter W. Head, b anker of Omaha,
who waa elected presid en t of th e Boy
W. R. Kirk home Wednesday.
3couts of America, a t a m eeting of
Chas Straley and family spent the council In W ashington.
Friday evening at G. J. Hike’s.
J r ia n g /e
& q q - ^ ia s k
| For Your Older Hens—
The Misses Roberta and Edna
Vannice ol Salem spent Saturday Teaches Largest Class ,
7 7 \.e r r s
P ro d u c e r
at the Merwyn Vaonice home.
in
the
United
States’
Mearle Straley, Irene Quimby,
T h e s e M a s h e s G iv e R s u lt s
Grace Kirk and Wayne Veatcli
In crease of F re ig h t
Rev.
P.
B.
Fitzwater.
D.
D
.
were home lor the Hallowe'en fes
via P a n a m a
R o u t e , L arg ely
conducts the largest Sunday school
tivities
D ue to Oil S h ip
class in the world through the c d-
Mrs. A. L. Falk and children,
umns of several thousand newsp: - ■ m ents, In d icates
Albert West and Webster F ait
R ise o f U nited
who is staying at the C. L. Falk pera throughout the land. Readers
S
ta tes to L ea d er
sr. borne spent Sunday night at G. of the Rural Enterprise who read
ship o f W o rld ’s
ihe “ Sunday School Lesson” each
J. Rikes listening to the radio.
C om m erce.
U-S-S- PENNSYLVANIA AT C ma 3N.ES
week are members of the class.
HIVER, ÇAO 3 SINO
Theodore George and wife and
Dr. Fitzwater is a member of
Mr. George’s mother, of Springfield
he faculty of the Moody Bible
By JUDSON C. WELLIVEH
the Suez route, while 24 n ations were
spent Sunday at the E. 8. Marst
One of the striking evidences of represented In the m aritim e caravan
institute of Chicago. He belongs
ers home. Mrs George is a »rand-
to the Church of the Brethren, but A m erica's rapid risp tow ard com m er at Panam a?
The W orld W ar w as not th e only
daughter of the Marsters.
lie is entirelv interdenominational, cial and Industrial leadership of the unexpected facto r In bringing P ana
Highest prices paid for poultry < nd eggs.
world.
Is
th
e
Panam
a
Canal,
wiU
al
C. B Philpott came home from ai is the case with all nine differ
m ost certainly handle more freight In ma so quickly to equality w ith Suez,
Hood River Thursday. His daugh ent denominations represented.
nor the m ost Im portant.
The enor
1926 th an will Suez. For several years
ter Mi** Laone is suffering from an His writings reflect his character the two canals have been In a neck mous Increase in P anam a traffic In
W e buy what the farmers hav* to sell
1923 was rep resen ted alm ost entirely
infection in her eve. They are istic affability combined with the and neck com petition whose Im plica by petroleum and Its products, mov
and sell what the farmers have to buy.
taking her to Corvallis for treat wisdom of the mature student. In tions are the more In terestin g be ing from C alifornia to the e a st coast
cause the P anam a ditch is owned by and Europe. In th e year ended June
ment.
the institute be teaches the English th e A m erican G overnm ent, and th a t 3«, 1924, tolls aggregating $24.296,006
W- R Kirk and family, R. E. Bible, psychology, Chr.s’ian ethics a t Suez by th e B ritish G overnm ent. w ere collected, of which $9,071,000
Bierly and family, Clifford Bab- and religious pedagogy.
Of course both Canals are open to was from tan k ers carrying petroleum .
the ships of all nation»; and the An even m ore strik in g statem en t of
C ick and family, J. P. Templeton
com petition betw een them Is not only the m atter fa th a t for the sam e year
and wife, and F. J. Keen aftd wife
A. J. Hill and wife and Ben betw een th e United S tates and B rit exactly 50 per cen t of all tonnage
attended the funeral of Joe Weber Holt and family left Wednesday to ain, but in a larger and even more through the Canal was betw een the
at Brownsville Sunday.
Mrs. enjoy a look at the stock show and significant view It Is com petition be two ocean fro n ts of th e United
S ta te s; th a t fa, 13,560,000 to n s; and
tw een old world and new world.
Keen is a sister of Mr. Weber.
maybe Queen Marie berselt.
W hen the P anam a Canal was open of this, considerably over 9,000,00C
Herman Raster, Miss Gertrude
ed In 1915, Suez was already transit- tons, or m ore th an tw o-thirds w as pe
It w as of eburae chiefly
| ing about 25,000,000 tons of freight troleum .
Halsey, O ’ egon
Gengenbach and Louise Gengen-
Corns
annually.
Almost nobody believed from California, en route to eastern
bach aud friend of Portland were
In th e succeeding year
I Panam a could ever a ttra c t anything refineries.
Saturday night guests at the C. L. Can be easily removed by this new im approaching such a volume. But dur- this petroleum m ovem ent fell off
C A P I T A L A N D S U F { P L U S $ 3 5 ,0 0 0
proved system of medication. I’ut on I Ing the w ar fear of German subma heavily; but for 1926 It fa again In
F a lk sr. home. They returned to
an application of it tonite and again rines In th e M edlteranucan caused creasing and the Increase fa likely to
Portland Sunday, taking Mr. and Sunday evening, and take the corn ont
Commercial and Savings 1 accounts Solicited
, many vessels to take the Panam a continue for m any years. B ut for the
Mrs. Falk sr mid Mrs. Carl Gen- Tuesday evening.
route betw een the far east and Eu petroleum traffic, the Canal would
Many people have used M orris's quick ropean or A m erican ports. This gave have shown a deficit in every y ear of
s e n h a c h who has been with the
its operation.
and
Easy corn G etter and are recom Panam a Its Introduction and It has
Fal a th e past week with them.
T he enorm ous petroleum business
not
only
held
but
greatly
Increased
Mrs Falk will remain at the Gen- m ending it to th eir friends. So you set its business since the war. In 1923 has been In o th er ways advantageous
why we can recommend it to you.
P anam a
tran sited
5037 vessels, to Panam a. A constantly increasing
genhach home for several weeks.
D< >aler
G uaranteed and only twenty-five cents
against 4621 for Suez; P anam a han proportion of m aritim e shipping now
M’S. M. B. Harding and son for a bottle. Can only be had at the dled 25,160.000 cargo tons against 22,- adays uses oil fuel. Oil-burning ships
in
tp aid ad v .) 770,000 for Suez. This was tho first seek routes on which they can m ost
Bruce were hostess and host to a Halsey Pbarmaey.
Cars
cheaply buy oil; and because Cali
y ear of P an am a's lend.
Hallowe’en party given at their
fornia oil can be put so cheaply into
A Close Race
home Saturday night. The eveD-
the
bunkers of vessels passing
The following year Suez barely ex through the P anam a ditch, there
ing was spent playing games and
¿ a n d B a tter y W o r k
Why suffer from headache?
ceeded P an am a's tonnage; and In fa a substantial Inducem ent to
contests. Refreshments were serv-
- M l work done reaso ,n able and guaranteed
1925
com
fortably
held
its
lead.
But
Have your eyes examined
prefer this route.
T his will in
rep o rts for 1936 to date Indicate that creasingly favor P anam a and m ili
ed consisting of chicken sandwiches
Suez
is
losing,
ow
ing
to
B
ritain's
in
1924 Ford Tudor Sed ui in splendid condition,
• p u b « cake, pumpkin pie and
tate ag ain st Suez, as the num ber
d ustrial depression, while Panam a Is
of
oil
burners
increases.
Moreover.
Ford Touring Car wi th Good Rubber for $35
un ' . I In -e who attended beside
doing b etter and fs p retty certain to
W 'tb
P anam a's advantage will still fu rth er
resum e the lead.
t e Harding family were: Miss
Increase as the enorm ous o l re
The presen t Suez Canal has been
Grace Kirk, Kenneth Vannice,
sources of Venezuela, CoJombta. and
In operation nearly sixty years, Pan
other
South
A m erican
countries
• F -lk, Henry Kirk, Pearl,
am a only eleven. Although few poo- are developed.
Jewelers
Optometrists
\W h o Wouldn’t Smile'
Mamie, Ava and Edna Falk,
pl* except antiquarians know it, the
Albany
Great
Service
of
Panam
a
tlrnt canal at Suez was built more
h ap p ily upon opening a box
Charley Bierly. Jamea Hike, Al-
than 3,000 y ears ago. It was In op
If cheap petrolonm has thus served
those
delicious candies?
T
fred and Clarence Gillette, Francis
eration as early as B. C. 13S0; how Panam a so well, P anam a In tu rn has
wonde rf'r'I
assortm ent, vario
long before. Is mere conjecture. Be- equally served the A m erican m otor
..i Raymond Kirk, Charlie, Grace
flavors an*? tempting appearan
fore the C hristian era began the ditch ist. who consum es m ost of tho world's
Della and Howard Fal* and Har- M. E. Church
of these ” lum
of delight” win
had been bu ilt, destroyed, rebuilt, petroleum products. For P anam a has
lie Hike. An enjoyable time was
us all lovers of "<ood sweets at
zilted un and built up' again, time brought the Pacific Coast petrolem n
Jos. S. M 'ller, Pastor.
had by all.
judges of confection'” * excellenc
a fte r time.
W hen A lexander the to the eastern m arket « costs which,
Sunday school, 10.
Try them once and se * if we, e
G reat conquered E gypt the Ca but for the Canal, woaM be vastly
Preaching, 11.
nal was one of the oldest of e n d greater.
»ggei-te the perfection
the
Thus the Canal has given
neerlng works.
goods.
the
sited S tates th e cheapest pe
M r. Miller Sleeps Like Junior I-eigue, 2:30,
Between 1901 and 1915 the present troleum products In the world, and
Epworth league, 6:30
Panam a ( anal was constructed
it helped build the autom obile Industry
Clark s Confectionei
Log, E a’s Anything Preaching, 7:80.
cost about f 190.000.000. Suez about and our m odern highw ay system.
Prayer-meeting, Thursday, ’:30. one-fourth th a t sum. But Suez Is a
This m utually helpful relationship
“ After taking Adlerika I can
a mple, sea level ditch across a sandy betw een the Canal and the pvAroloma
Bible
S
ttilv
Tuesday,
2.
A fric a ’» T rca m re T ree !
•a t anything and sleep like a log.
plain; while Panam a fa a lock canai users 1s the more im pressive w hea
The most Im portant tre.vof Afrl m l .
I had gat on the stomach and
the g reater p a rt of Its length lrtn^ ene realizes th a t It was not won re-
the oil palm, being first fn t,eau i
85 fe
worse than demh . Worse tflan death,
"bore sea level. so th a t most mutely an tlrfp atad a t th e th____
couldn t keep anything down nor
utility and In fertility,
,n
worse than beitur bh
tortDr’'
of the distance from ^-.mn t0 oceaa dent Roosevelt sta rte d bonding
If the traveler I. a'thlrst and w earv
•leep.” (signed) R. C. Miller.
! ,k e hTOUSh R° ,TUacU1 freshw ater Canal. So lata. Indeed, as 19M. whee
I worse than
*Utb:
Ha luxurlona foliag,. ,rtveg h,
and forty-nine ten t,?* S *eT’n r,eatlls
One spoonful Adlerika removes gas
Admiral E vans w rote his articles
»here fa ¿ e
r « «ample,
about the C anal and decided that it
and often brings surprising relief
Early Profits Unexpected
could
not
be
profitable
for
several
«»'«eon
d
l
a
w
™
^
“
;
0 " h°
35 hen Roosevelt started building
to the stomach. Stops that fnll
decades at least, he base 1 all hfa rat-
never bad a . ” « bridge, then
•
"
•
m
a
»
eith
er
he
nor
any
other
bloated feeling
Often brings out
1 ulatl->n, on the probable coat of coal its leave, are the sonrre of the
He was bid dowl.
P
h,nd-
1 ,
”r optimism would have for bunkering shrpe. He did net
oltinutel, b l d ^ . ^ " ^ ! “ o w *»«'
old waste-matter you never thought
dared zugges, that within Its first dream th at m erchant m arines w ere
■ Ti,, ; nk , x a.1,of
" x i h ? ,rtlD,jts-
'■«»t was all hfa
jB* and
was in your system.
Excellent
‘? 9 Ca" a* would earn • Profit. on the verge o f* th e revolutionary
•P<*e too
t0° k « Pe«P.
shape of an almond, give, a w \ u
> «hlef justification concerned the change from coal to <41 So he figured
for chronic constipation.
Halsey
none fo re v e r ’
opportnnlty wae
»T
atlon.ll defense, and the establleh- th at, as there fa practically no bunker which form , the basis of m«c"l
Pharm acy.
(paid adv.)
A r k e S '^ / i " ;
e a t of com petition with the tra n s oool in t h e
« P oint anp " f, ’ C? n ,ry d,d “o ' tak e
l u n t r t e e bordering ,>n tjfa,
• Point. It anent n . 7
D° t fak*
continental railroads.
Church cf Christ
Pacific, th a t oc«_a ooaW not cfaf> whUh ts tn f n ^ X b ed “w t ^ l ^ U’
». W . FRITH
We Can Give You Good Prices on
OIL MEAL "¡j£n
T. J. Skirvin Seed ©
HALSEY STATE BANK
HALSEY
GARAGE
HUDSON
& ESSEX
Tires, Tubes a nd Accessories
S’,Vner^
Dr. Seth T. French f
F M. French & Son
O. R. Gage leit Wednesday for
Oregon City, where he was called
by the critical illueaa of K. J. Gage,
his brother.
Sunday School 10.
Preaching 11.
Christian Endeavor 6:80,
Preaching 7 :80
____ Clifford L. Carey, Pastor.
1» th C ana’s a re open ta
vf jU Potions. B ritish vae-
«eta institute the m ajority of those
using >uej (h a s per re n t), while
Anieri an », .-1,
54 j p , r
gg
those using Panam a.
For 1934. ships e t 11 nations weed
’•* ( - i m
'
poto. by way of Panam a, for a gredh
ty lDcnuMed share of stifpjttng
rfaa
oil deretapenvat overturned th e —~gh
etdee of Admiral Evans. SDd of aB
«there who tred foreewaa th a t fast
would m a h a Paaama • »
' "y 4*»'»
« rer' ►
of oleaginoo, fiber, the whole t
® ”
In a strong red-and-black skin
this fiber are obtained lu b n c o H n ^ 0.?
raw m aterial for <oan m
atln< °U.
m togredient for expio„
“D<1
the tumult and »h. A
d ,od w!len
" 'orry r ne „5 'hi ' hkoatln« died we.
tbe pitF of i t * i»?®
Wck’ Ol1-
his children, hi*
of
ream a, t « t .
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