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About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1927)
From the Editor's Point of V ie w Satisfied Farm ers in This Valley advertisement of hfgh-bred registered stock snd trap-nested poultry, oa the last page of thia issue, and you w ill sc« that the trend of hit farming ts not towards bankruptcy. I here is much extravagance and watte at Salem and Washington, for which the farmer pays his share or more. There are inequalities in taxation which bear heavily upon him. But if he spends much time shouting (to deaf ears) fur help he w ill not make wages. A dog may have fleas, but when be is chasing a rabbit he la too busy to snap at fleas. Stockmen, Attention!! clothing before ratiriug, hoping to find a few half dollars. Mr. Lazwell, who teaches Center school, is making himself a wel. come member ef the community. He was received into the fold o; the grange at a special meeting Saturday night. Legislators Sent From Linn County Hints of W hat to Expect From Them Notwithstanding the large number of people that the Portland and state cham The Oregon Voter of Jau. 1 ber» of commerce hare brought to this contained sketches of the members state and located on farms, we ore told M u . Curtia Veatcb, lecturer of of rhe state legislators. Following hat there are 7000 fewer people on Charity grange, attended the course are excerpts from its portrayals ef Oregon farms now that »here were a especially prepared by the} college those from this county : »•at age for grange lecturers this week. Well, those 7*00 months most eat, and The wets howl because the govern the remaining farmers produce food for Clarence Waggener, who is quite •ale. ment putt poison in alcohol. They held W illard L. Marks was sleeted ill at his home, was the subject of The Haugen b ill {McNary’s name is that to be the exclusive privilege of senator without an iota of opposi- a consultation of doctors this week. left off it ia the dispatches) is allowed moonshiners and bootleggers. tioa. Senator Garland, who de Mrs. Byrd Waggener is the nurse. tht'best chance among farm relief meas clined to become a candidate after We will bavt peace id Central At »erica urea at Waahiagtm thia winter. I f it A. H. Quimby, who has been on and all the others sbonld pass they if we have to fight for it. the democrats had again nominated an extended auto trip with Hiram him, declared that if he oould would not benefit the average W illam Bierly, arrived home Monday ette valley farmer enough to balance choose hie sncceeeor it would be “ T h r ift” W ill t o D iM W M d hia share of the cost of all the congTes- evening. He reports a fine trip. Senator Marks. W ith such an aionaf boards and cemmiisions that The Parent-Teachers' association He declares that he wae colder the indorsement, the rest was easy for have been created to investigate his ills. IB to have its regular monthly last day than at any previous time Marks. And another commission has been pro meeting Friday, Jan. 14, at 7:45 on the trip. This statement is posed at' thia aeasion already. In his career there is much in. at the schoolhouse. unfair to our climate without a small minority are doing so much evidence that Senator Marks ie an The program ia to be on howling that they are often mistaken explaining that they traveled the exceptionally hard-working attor- for a majority. “ T h rift,” and several papers are A . A. Tuising is out sgain after i < 50,000 worth of celery, onions, last day without a windshield, Be7, worthy of every confidence The majority of valley farmers are being prepared on that subject. his illness. lettuce and peppermint last year. due to an accident in southern that his constituency has so prospering despite '• the farmers’ ills .” The students w ill also assist in Chancy nickels has done a lot of hard Oregmfs assessed valuation is Oregon. An interesting coincident willingly bestowed upon him. Blow the trumpet 1 Sound the interesting of their visit to the oalional work draining and improving a farm putting on a good, hugagl The Halsey boys have $1,084,557,618, $25,656,882 more Hector Macphorten ne*r Halsey. He has raised a family and program congress was the fact that in tbe than a year ago. reached an age when he has slackened a We have plenty of talent in our won a basketball game ! Friday few moments they were in the Hector Macpherson announced, Last week one ’ pool try in an tittle in physical activity, but he was community and at thia meeting we night at Koentx* hall they beat senate they heard McNary speak daring the Interim between tbe heard to say the other d ay: “ . I f . I Crabtree 14 to 10. bought a ton of S klrvin ’s Good — . . are going to make use of it. ing in favor of a free interstate primary and the general election, should sell my farm for what I think it Mrs, W . H - McMahan painfully Luck »gg mash, advertised in this There ia some business te come bridge betwoen Washington and that he had raeignad from the ia worth I don’t knowhow I could invest Friday .11 with paper. before association, so all scalded one aw the tiiu aneuiiBtivu, BU will Wits BIJ ---- » — foot — the price so that it would yield me the xzvaw Oregon. ♦acuity of the O. A. C- so as to the members please corns and help! w* * * rF r* in * n unruly teakettle, The third car of pyrotol to be return that the farm does." He is not be free to wage a reisntlsss fight transact it? I F- O. Salmon’s little boy fell pooled this winter was ordered thie •creaming mr geverameut »id. Spoon River Sparks ** to.banish inefficiency, waste and C. L. Falk sr. has put in many years Make this meeting of the ,roni * h t 7 mow last week and week by Q. R. Briggs, Benton (Entaivrlaa OorreacoaSanca) *’ the political spoils srstem from improving his farm. He was a pioneer Paient-Teaehers’ association one I *w®ke his arm. county agent. I t is expected that J. P. Templeton and wife apent in tile draining when neighbors said he Oregon,” with particular reference Prof. Thompson of O. A. C. is one more car w ill be poeled this Tuesday of last week at Albert was throwing his money away, but he of the best of the year. Good to the state's educational system. more than doubled the crops. He also meetings caa result only from the I * skillful archer. See sketch from winfer, to be delivered in Albany. Waggener'«, where Clarence Wag At the same time Professor Mae. has passed the age of greatest activity, co-operation of all the members I Corvallis in this week’s inserted A pair of barred rock fowls are gener is quite ill. pbersen let it be known that he bm be is not asking congress to help of the community, so come and P *ff*. the ornamental feature of a calen- Kd Hussey, who has been intenda to devote the next two him. One of his lines has been horsss, do your part. Cor. and bis registered animals, of a type Mrs. Almon has been helping dar received from M r. and Mrs. visiting in this neighborhood, left ycare to this effort, aiming, among that is still in demand, despite the auto Frank Cawrse, Crabtree, breeders Saturday for California. take the inventory at Koontz’ other things, to abolish the boards mobile and the tractor, are a feature at of euoh. The birds are beauties, Good Old m Q o m Ernest Dykstra baa recovered Kathleen Ann Munkera apent of regents of both the university the fall fairs. too. from tiphoid fever. P. A. Pehrsson of Pine Grove, told set weak with her grandparents, and the agricultural oollege and W. J. Carey, for many years a of a mechanic getting »45 a week, said 1 The state chamber of commerce H . L. Straley and wife, while her place their management in tbe Four influenza eases were all the , resident of Halsey but more '■ I get that for eggs from one pen of my last week received inquiries about mother, Mrs. Hazel Munkera, hands of a aingla board and under diseases reported from this county hens, marketed through the co-operative I recently in the Roseburg eoldiera' a single president. He strongly Oregon farms from prospective worked in Sturtevant's store. home, died at that institution last te the state board of health last Msociation. ** advocates the " ju n io r oollege’’ settlers in Hankow, New Zealand, W. L. Wells, a year or two ago, to a Suuday and was hnried at Pine watk. E. E. Carey and fam ily spent idea, which contemplates the Nova Scotia and oth er way statioa remark about high taxes replied . ‘ But Grove Tuesday, after aervices at Thursday evening at J. P. Temple. Mrs. M ary Hayes ia seriously ill establishment of community or this eide of Mars. w* getting some value for them ." the Halsey Church of Christ. ton's. John Standish is still at T aft, Edward Dyer has more than 200 acres state-supported institutions in sev Mr. Carey was an Oregonian, Oregon’s 1926 apple crop is that has bean owned by the family for C. S. Veatcb and wife went to eral diatriota of tbe state. Thia California. born at Silverton 79 years ago, estimated at 3,100,000 boxes, with Cottage Grove Friday, returning over half a century. We have not heard The southern Pacific station plan in his opinion is to be desired of any sheriffs or tax collectors threat and served in the Modoc war. Saturday. buildings have been raised eight 5021 cars shipped up to Jan. 11. beoause it keeps youag people at en iag to seize the property. Read Ins Have the following items in stock, so you can buy them at home at a large saving. S«Mtor Mark« Sulphur, 62c a pound; 4 lbs., 25c Epsom Salts, 1 lb. 1 Oc; 3 lbs. 25c Sheep D ip, 1 gallon $ 1 .7 0 ; 5 gallons $7 Halsey Pharmacy H A L S E Y , L IN N A N D O R E G O N M w. M. BURBANK Oafage. Shell gas station, restau rant, confectionery and grocery When in town and can’t find what you want, call, aDd if we have not got it we’ll be glad to get same for you. Read Aimso Semple McPher son’s own signed story in the Feb ruary Sunset, the only authorised personal article by tbe famous evangelist who has been tbe subject of so much notoriety during the past six months. Order from your newsdealer in advance (on sale Jan. 15) or send 25c to Sun set Magazine, Sen Francisco. Subscription price, $2.50 per year; 2 years, $4. H o w to Buy Good Q uality Foods at Popular Prices Ask Us for Preferred Stock That is the answer. This brand includes a large assortm ent of quality foods which are sold at popular prices. W e can sell vou these splendid goods at popular prices because they are produced and put on the m arket by modern meth« ods and at the lowest possible expense and cost. W hen you buy Preferred Stock you get the good quality you want at a price you can afford to pay. Oregon grew 750 tons of Eng. Mrs. Esther Rike has returned to L . R. Falk and wife and child Corvallis, after speodiog vacation lish walnuts last year, 50 per cent spent|Wtdnesday last week at R. more than in 1925, E. Bierly’s. with the Straleys. M B. Harding and wife and i nrhes to correspond with th One Santiam grower sold «604° three small children spent Sunday recently raised track. That surely worth of Kentucky wonder beans afternoon at Chancy Sickels’. is a solid roadbed now. from ten acres. Tbe O. J. Rikes visited Albany Frank Ganale went to Ss letn Cushman expects ber burned last week Monday. •a rly in the week, but he g t a n ay cannery to be rebuilt for use this Sunday visitors at L. E. Bierly's from there and came back hot u . year. There are so many nuts there tbt se were D. F. Burge and wife of days that they ho not pay muc h Charity Grange Community Chat Albany and F. W . Falk and wife nd daughter. attention to a normal man. (By an Enterprise Reporter) Miss M ary LaRne has been laid Tbe W . O. W -, who use Charity aj> w ith a sprained ankle, the grange hall as a meeting place, result of a fall. were quite successful In securing a crowd Thursday night to meet the Lamberts Orchards cempany of Salem has 215 acres of Lambert magician, O. B Waring. ehernes. , We bear that a number of small The lake Labish district sold boys thoroughly searched their How about W ir e G«t our prices before you buy. W e have the American Zinc insulated Field Fence No. 9 3 9 Fence, 39c a rod, cash No. 8 3 2 Fence, 36c a rod, cash M. V. KOONTZ Co.i, No. 7 2 6 Fence, |3 1 c a rod, cash ■ Hill & Co. G. J. Rike and wife were Sunday afternoon callers at Herman Steinke's. M. B. Harding and wife and children were Sunday afternoon visitors at L. R. F alk ’s. Miss Nellie Falk was a Tuesday night guest of her friend, Hope Hussey, or near their homes and relieves the institutions of higher education from a great influx of students too immature, in hie opinion, to benefit from such instruction, Macpherson for the past fifteen years has been bead ef the depart, meat of economics and aooiology at tbn agricnltural college. Professor McPherson has been at the forefront of tbe co-operative movement in Oragon.|having been a member of the American com mission that studdied tba credits and marketing systems of seventeen European countries several years ego. He has the iotsnse conviction of a reformer, plus tbe sincerity of of an evangelising prophet. L L S wm Byron Gage and wife were Thera is less of the cowering, visitors at A. L. Falk's Sunday. submissive attitude in Represents- (The following paragraphs were tfve Swan’s legislative work than left over last week.) Is found in the activity of any J. N. Elliott and O, J. A lb ert, other member of the bouse. H» son and families were dinner chope his own blazes as he goes guests at Robert Ramsay's new along. year’s day During the 1925 session Swan W . R- K irk and family were paid particular attention to legis visitors at Claud Davidson's Friday lation regulating and taxing the evening. operation of trucks and buseos on Cheater Bilyeu apent Tuesday Oregon highwaye. He showed a evening at A. L. Falk's. grasp of the intricaeiee of this May Rufli of Crswfordeville and form of regulation that was note Aooo Heinrich were guests of worthy Fostered a worthy meas Metrle Jean Straley several days ure extending power of regulation over suburban dance hails operat last week. Theo. George of Eugene and wife ing close ts cities, aod by doing so •pent Wedueaday with Mrs. E 8. showed s high concept of moral guardianship. A vsrsatila member, Marsters. whose general effectiveness is not Misses Ava and Edna Falk to be doubted. called on Miss Grace K irk Tuesday afternoon. P. F . Uhlig o f‘Boring, Or., An sojoyable fam ily reunion was picked a crate ef (Continued on last sage) raspberries D e«.^. ripe Cuthbert