RURAL ENTERPR1
A g rc u ltu re
H o rtic u ltu re
L iv e s to c k
A Weekly Chronicle ot ijocal Events ami Progress iu Linn County
Established 1912
Point of View
B ro u g h t
prosperous owner of a well-managed
farm, who has no land to sell. There
are farmers who would be better off if
they were sure of a day's wages for every
day's work.
H ere to C arry
The ducks got revenge Saturday wlien
Fred Downs of Chehalis, 41, was killed
and Chauncey Bishop, proprietor of the
The Portland and state chambers of Pendleton woolen mills, was badly
commerce spend much money inducing wounded, each with his own gun, while
farmers to come to Oregon, and bring duck hunting.
many here.
I f Mr. borah were as w illing to com*
The newcomer buy from farm owners
promise and arbitrate in the senate as
who have become dissatisfied with
he wants Uncle Sam to be 10 the world
conditions here.
what a difference that would make I
These unsatisfactory conditions are
not natural. Natural conditions here
are those of an agricultural paradise.
Yet we are told that there; are 7000
fewer people on Oregon farms today
than a year ago. Why I
Shirkers’ Burdens
HALSEY. O R E G O 7?X piU R SD \Y
(AN. 20. 1927 ,
H A L S E Y , LIN N A N D O R E G O N
Probably it would be some
encouragement to our schoolboys
to know that Ercell Sneed, who
graduated from 0 . A. C. last
smmmer and secured employment
with the Large potash firm at
Trona, Cal., has been advanced to
the foremanehip at a good salary.
He spent Christmas and the
holidays at home.
It rarely happene, as it did last
week, that a church notice is left
ont of this page for want of room
If the announcement of services
scheduled for next Sunday at your
ohurch is not here it is because no
member has taken enough interest
this week to send it to this office
We charge nothing for such notices
of 4 inohes or less.
1881, it was 5 bslow, in December,
1990, 3 below and in December,
1924, 3 below. — Junction City
Times. *
Il a year is advance
vellow giant set it back on lbs
pavemeut and it limped off toward»
Albany fot repairs.
Spoon River Sparks
(E n ta rp rla a C orreapondaaca)
H a ir y
Po ul try
W ool
Unspoken Sermons
Reach Their Mark
H o stetler P re ac h es W ith
His F in g ers.
The seventh aod eighth grade
girls of Kiik school met at J, N
(Harrisburg Bulletin)
Elliot's Friday afternoon and
Levi Hostetler of the Mennonita
organized a sewing clnb. Mrs, church east of town is a deaf mute
Elliot will be tbeir leader. Leone and has never talked nor heard a
Philpott is preeident, Della Falk sound. Yet for ten years he has
vice-president and Zelma Philpott preached to a little company of
Mrs. Shipman’s lease of the secretary. The club will be known mutes. Four years were epent"at
hotel haying expired, she left for as " The Busy Bees.” The next Hubbard and six here.
meeting will be Jan. 28.
Mr. Hostetler is not an ordained
Portland Saturday.
minister, bnt works under the
Frank
Isom
and
wife
and
two
A lady in another state requests
T he sta te ed ito ria l asso-
direction of the deacons of the
us to stop sending the Enterprise childrau were Saturday afternoon church. He has a little corner of
Brains and energy are requisites of
tio n ’s lo b b y its a t Salem
success cm a farm aa in a counting house
because she wants to stay where callers at W. R. Kirk’s.
the church building for himself
or in a factory. Successful farmers are say th a t th e c a n d id a te s’
she is and every time her husband
The G. J. Rikes and Herman and his flock. He preaches with
plentiful. As a rule they do not sell out.
reads this paper he talks about Steinke and wife were in Albany hisghauds, of course, which does
They pay an unjust proportion of the p a m p h lets in th e p rim a ry
selling out and moving to Oregon, Monday of last week.
taxes, overcome marketing handicaps,
oot interfere with the services io
electio n cost th e ta x p a y
live coinfortabty and pav their bills.
Henry Seefeld and wife motored the other part of the church. The
Next parent-teachers’ meeting
Oregon ia.the first state to have
Some of the newcomers w ill fail and e rs $9786'10 net, th e vot Fsb. 11.
the fire-fighting equipment of all to Eugene Wednesday.
ohurch does not believe in salaries
join the liegira. A round plug w ill not
e
r
s
’
p
a
m
p
h
le
ts
$3940.35
its
cities
standardized
and
inter
J. A. Falk of Harrisburg spent for preachers, and Mr, Hostetler
Ten «««eg of mump« from this
fit a square hole on the farm any better
changeable.
gets nothing for hie services.
Saturday
at H. J. Falk’s.
than anywhere else.
net, an d th e m a in te n a n c e county, 5 of influenza, 3 of scarlet
The congregation consists usually
When the new farmer sees an income
o f m ailin g lists for th em fever and 1 each of typhoid fever The two Silverton banks have Miss Grace Kirk came from of six married couples, who are
tax voted on again by the people, as it
Monmouth and epent the week
and pneumonia were reported to over $2,000,000 in deposits.
surely w ill be, and sees the Portland $7,399.09.
members, and one boy not a
the state board of health last week.
end with her parents.
One
Albaty
firm
shipped
10
cars
people who brought him here raise a
The E n te rp ris e rec k o n s Last winter we did not see a of clover and rye grass seed last J. N. Elliot still makes his two member.
slash fund to defeat it and keep the
Mr. Hosteller is a farmer as well
farmer’s unjust tax bnrden where it is th e ir value to th e v o ters snowflake. This winter a
boy year. One Halsey firm shipped 10 trips a week to Albauy, where he
as
a preacher.
he may suspect that he was brought here
says that by scraping up material cats on out contract and handled takes treatment for hie injured
at a b o u t $0,000.30.
as a geose to be plucked.
much
more.
feet.
from where it had drifted he got
Boys* “ Fun** Brings Death
Next Saturday will be old peo
Mike Banich and daughter
enough to make severe! snowballs
John Trouble, president of theiKansas
This
did not happen in Halsey,
the morning after our night “ snow ple's day at the Brownsville grange Anna called ar A. L. Falk’s
farmers' union, fears that "b ig busi
but
in
Ingersoll, Okla. C. E.
storin’’ in December, and this end all elderly people, whether Saturday.
ness " w ill get control of American
Marble,
60.
blind in one eye and
There
w
a
s'a
slump
of
91,149,
morning wn find from a quarter to members of the order or not, are
agriculture and turn the farmers into
G, J. Riko and wife, H. L.
wage workers. This prospective trouble 008,000 in farm products last year a half inch of the white in places invited.
There will be ene of the Straley, E. E. Gourley and Web nearly so in the ether, lived elona
troubles Trouble mote than it dohs the from the 1825 record.
grange’s big midday feeds, and in ster and Arlelgh F«lk attended in a shack. The town boys had
Arnold Handley of Portland has
the afternoon an interesting pro the tractor demonstration at Al their fun stealing his fruit, throw-
become a partner with Frank
iog stones at his home and using
bany Friday.
Wave of Crime in the United States Distinctly Workinger in the Halsey garage. gram.
provoking language to hear what
Noah Robnett died last week at
Henry Falk and wife visited be would say when angry. Find-
Mr. Handley and wife have taken
on the Wane
his hom e^t The Dalles, aged about Harrisburg Friday.
apartmente at H. W- Chance's.
ing that words would not stop
80. The funeral was Monday at
Merwyn Van Nice and the M. them, he took a revolver and
Asked if he thought the busi
By BANFORD BATES, President American Prison Association.
Crawlordsvile, where Mr. Rohnett B. Hardings were among thole
ness of the Halsey pharmacy had
hunted them. Gilbert Hutchinson,
formtrly resided,} and he was
HE general volume of crime js on the downward trend in the increased because of its removal buried there beside his wife, who who attended Charity grange 14, he shot deed, wounded his
Orother Roy, 16, so that he is in
United States, though the crime-dealing machinery of today from First street to Becond, M.. lias been dead twenty years. Mr. Saturday.
Mrs. E. E. Carey and children a hospital, near dearth, and put a
should be reorganized to meet the changed condition« of modem Morris’ emphatic reply was . “ Ab Miller, the Halsey paslor, preached
solutely,”
visited at Clarerce Gillette’s last shor in their father, who was with
life.
the funeral sermon, Mr. Robnett
Claims
against
Linn
county
for
Friday.
them when he found them, for
The so-called crime wave has not increased in the last ten years.
bad been crippled and contorted
There are certain spectacular crimes, such as bank holdup«, but the sheep killed by dogs in 1826 were with rheumatism for years, yet he
Clifford Carey and F. J. Keen allowing(the boys to be toughs.
$4,832.10,
of
which
65
per
cent
general volume is decreasing. There has been a diminution of vagrancy
was always oue of the most cheer and wife and son Willard were
was paid, exhausting the fund. A
and drunkenness.
Card of Thanks
ful of men. Mrs. Francis Kizer Sunday afternoon callera at R. E.
Bierly’s.
During the last fifteen year«, the number of automobile« has in bill is in the legislature to increase is his niece.
We wish to express to our friends
creased many times and the revolver has been circulated widely. This the dog tax; which furnishes the
our siucereat appreciation of their
H.
L.
Straley
and
wife
and
son
Mrs. Moody spends this week
is no reason for the American public to become terrorized, because there fund.
Leroy and Mrs. Gordon Munkers kindness and beautiful floral offer
end in Portland.
ings in our receut bereavement.
In 1926 the county added 6.2
are a great number of law-abiding citizens.
and daughter motored to Mon
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Davis.
Miss
LaRue’s
sprained
ankle
is
miles
of
market
roads
to
its
77.
The freedom granted the youth of today and the liberties allowed
mouth Sunday to see Mearle
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith.
On the Halsey-Rrownsville road better.
by new inventions are blamed for crime conditions.
Straley. Irene Quimby, who was
Fred E. Carey.
Mrs. S. J. Smith presided at the home for the week end, went with
New invention« are breeders of crime. Intelligence and discretion, 2 1 miles was graded and covered
Earl M Carey.
with
one
course
of
gravel,
another
Parent-Teachers’
meeting, as Mrs. them.
with the American public keeping its feet on the ground, will aid in com
course to be laid next year, The Freeland was at the Eugene con
bating lawlessness.
Uncle Eben
Hiram Bierly attended a dinner
“De spirit of mortal,’’ said Undo
Comparing the criminal of the past and present, there are bold finished roads were kept in condi vention.
party at D. F. Burger’s, Albany, EheO. “should not be proud, unless It
criminals in the United States today, but none conic up with Jesse James tion the year around at a cost of
"T h e Eelegates” will be at Monday.
kin show some good excuse fob bein'
The characters are different and methods today are dissimilar to those $7,498.25.
so."— Washington Star,
Roontz’ hall Satnrday evening.
Alford Arrows
employed by old notorious criminals.
The volume of the Albany Don’t know whether they are del
Church Notices
(Enterprise Correspondent)
Creamery association’s business egated to the legislature or the
Methodist—Next
Sunday :
increased 10 per cent in 1926. The penitentiary. Better go and find
Brian Perry and wife and baby
10
a.
ra.,
Sunday
school
aseocietiou is 32 years old, one of ont.
visited in Portland several davs
11,
Public
servicees
the oldest co-operatives in Oregon.
Our local bank has increased its last week. William and Edward
H ow to Buy Good Quality Foods
3, Junior League
The coldest day since 1874 was capital stock from $20,000 to Perry stayed with their uncle,
6:80,
Epworth League
December, 1919, when the ther. $25,000.
at Popular Prices
Frank Willivms.
7:30,
public services.
mometsr dropped to 15 below. VVe
A man from Heppner applied
Mrs. L. E. Bond of Albany
7:80
Thursday,
prayer meeting
cannot find that the thermometer the brakes on a carve north of
visited over the week end with her
Here
all
will
Had
a welcome,
has gone below zero but four i tow n Monday and bis car took the
daughter, Mri E. D. Isom, and regardless of social standing. Your
times since 1871. In December, J ditch. Frank Gansle with his
family.
presence will help, and we will try
T h at is th e answ er.
Chester Curtis and famfly were to do you good.
(Continued on last page)
How a b o u t
J. S. Miller, pastor.
Mr. Mitchell, shoe repair man
from Harrisburg, after a good
look-around here, concluded that
Hill <fc Co. s cobbling department
was enough for Halsey and left for
Onalaska. Wash.
T
Ask Us for Preferred Stock
T his b ran d in clu d es a large a s s o rtm e n t o f
q u a lity foods w hich a re sold a t p o p u la r
p rice s.
W e can sell vou th e s e sp le n d id goods a t
p o p u la r p rices b e ca u se th e y a re p ro d u ced
an d p u t on th e m a rk e t by m o d ern m e th
o ds an d a t th e low est p o ssib le e x p e n se and
cost.
W hen you buy P re fe rre d S tock you get th e
good q u a lity y o u w ant a t a p ric e y o u can
afford to pay.
M. V. KOONTZ Go..
W ir e F e n c e ?
Gel o u r p rices before yo u buy.
Stockmen,
Attention ! !
W e have th e
American Zinc Insulated Field Fence
No. 9 3 9 Fence, 39c a rod, cash
Have th e follow ing item « in stock, so y o u can
buy th em a t hom e a t a large sa v in g .
Sulphur, 6^c a pound; 4 lbs., 25c
No. 832 Fence, 36c a rod, cash
Epsom Salts, I lb. I Oc; 3 lbs. 25c
No. 7 26 Fence, f31 c a rod, cash
Sheep Dip, I gallon $ 1 .7 0 ; 5 gallons $7
H ill & Co.
A
Halsey Pharmacy