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. -T E R M S - U.S.TftANSPORT'NOfiTHEIlN PACIFIC'PASSINÛ THR0U6H THE PANAMA ----------------------------------> I -------------------------------- camal 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 "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