RURAL
A g r c u ltu re
H o rtic u ltu re
L iv e s to c k
A Weekly Chronicle 0| Local Kvc-nts
Established 1912
From the Editor’s
Point of View
p rog,.t,ss ¡„ L i||„ Cu,|[|tv
D ai r y
HALSEY, OREGON, THURSDAY F E ß / 17, i9;r
P o u ltry
W ool
t l a year in advance
Interesting Sessions
The two-day session of the Liau
County Christian Endeavor con
vention closed Sunday. It opened
W a s h in g to n N o t an O ily early Saturday with delegatee
P o litic ia n .
present from Mill City, Albany
Lebanon, Sweet Home, Browns,
Georg* Washington, whose birthday ville and Shedd. At 5:45 Satur
w ill be celebrated Tuesday, was a day evening a fine banquet waa
wealthy man and somewhat aristocratic served to the delegatee at the
in h it nature, but loved justice too well church.
te let either of those facts interfere with
The oratorical contest Saturday
his acute perception of right and wrong
night
was won by Jean Baker of
between individuals or peoples.
In another column Mr. Botsford gives Albany. She get* a free trip to
our readers and instance of George's Oregon City to represent
Linn
shrewdness io business, although the
county in the oratoricol contest
record also reveals that the hero, for
there io April, at the state conven.
$200,000, got out of the oil business,
though hit advice to hi* heirs in his tion of Christian Endeavor.
Many good speakers were pres-
w ill reveal that he bad not lost confi
dence in the oil prospects in this coun •nt, among the most important
try. The ram mentioned was then as being Paul Brown, who came up
good as half a million doflars would be
from L-a Angeles especially for
today, or better, so the father of our
the
convention.
country may not be classified among
The officers cboeeo to serve for
poor men by a good deal.
Abraham Lincoln, who was honored the coming year are Charlotte
through the land on bia birthday last Kudd,
Albany. president; Carl
week, was at poor as any of ns, and as
“
»perling,
Halsey, vies- presidedt;
homespun in bis iqanncrs, but he a t
Albany, secretary,
tained a station in the world’* estima Jean Baker,
tion quite as high as that which Wash and Gladys Wilbanks, treasurer.
W a sh in g to n ’s Early A d ven tu res
Washington and Rockefeller Held the Same
Now Assum ing New Significance
Faith in Oil
John D. Persevered and Made Miltione ot D ollars!
George Didn’t
______ By h e n r y botsfo ’ rd
I A
of
machinery
was
only
beginning}
l r T ER weI1 nlKh a century and with Its Insatiate demand for lubrl-
l / - \ J three quarters a new Interest cante. while kerosene, though the beet
ogLMfij laa rec®ntly been aroused In tlrumlnant ever known, was danger»
L ffviT J “ »e earliest military adven- ous because poor refining l i f t gasoline
u tUr,M of Georse Washington that was liable to explode. I t Is diffi
1751
‘ »enty on* year* old. In cult nowadays, when the world is be-
IT68. Washington was sent by Gov ing combed for more petroleum to
•rn or Dinwiddle of Virginia Into the make more gasoline, to realize that
• ar northwestern wilderness— that 1* gasoline waa once a nuisance and ■
northwestern Pennsylvania—to warn menace. The Internal combustion aa-
the French that they must cease their gine craated the demand for gasoline,
effort« to occnpy that region. Recent now the primary product of petro
rweearchee have given a new hlstorl leum. The demands of million* of mo-
cal significance to that expedition tor cars Increasing constantly, Inven
ur*“ K which Washington, always tion and chemistry were set at work
reckless of his personal safety, had by the captains of the Industry to
one of his narrow escape* from deatfi make the barrel of petroleum turn out
t the hands of a treacherous Indian • larger and larger proportion of gas
guide.
oline. This was done by the cracking
The French at that time occupied process, through which every year now
«
* nd claim"d ’ he Mississippi **es a larger proportion of crude ell
n? w ? ? aII’ yg' Though the fringe turned Into gasoline.
or English speaking colonies along
High and Growing Demands
the Atlantic contained the chief Euro
Today well-nigh 2,500,000 barrels e>t
pean population, France maintained
petroleum are required every day to
sovereignty over most of North Amer
satlcfy the demand for motor cars,
2a S , ar? ’ They were apparently de tractors, trucks, buses, artificial gas
ington holds. The two illustrate the
termlned
to occupy northwestern
An Astoria dairyman has orders
poet’s claim that ‘ honor and fame from
plant* and the Innumerable by prod
I Pennsylvania. partly because It was
from Japan for 25 to 50 Guernsey
no c o n d iti» rite .”
known even then to be rich In petro uct*. Invention Is constantly finding
new uses, as enterprise Just as con.
Washington appreciated the value of
leum.
stantly finds new supplies of petro
oil. even iu
in h
«■I.
n it
il day,
jay, but he was not an ------ ~
Region's Wealth Known
leum. The wonderful snd rather, mys
oily politician. The playing of politics, P j l 4 y i n t i n
Pioneers and missionaries, Eng terious fluid has revolutionised social
as we tee the game plaveJ today, would
1 U U t
1 *h, French. German and Dutch, had habits and IndustrtsJ methods; yet le
have been impossible to a man with bis C o i T ) 111 U T l l f V
a‘> r*P °rt*d to their governments Is only two-thlrds of a century sinew
dignified conception of honor.
IlU llU Illiy
that the petroleum was of great po the Industry had Its feeble beginning
tentlal value. There Is, howevor. no In the Pennsylvania oil country.
reason to believe that Washington • ia S il }ear the coun‘ry wm use about
Milwaukee and Delaware are pretty
anew of Its existence or value untlf , 99,000.000 barrels of petroleum. Th«
hla adventure of 1753. Then he lsarn
free from crime. ì he city say* it's due
—
country will use 700,090,000 gallons of
ed that the oil had long been used by gasoline «Dd will export 1,900.00»»
to official efficiency and the eliminaiion Good
~
the
Indians
and
ths
pioneering
whites
of graft, and the state gives the credit
gS
Two or more sets
more. The production, processing and
for fuel and light, for medicine and in marketing of petroleum Is probably
. w re , . , w
a
ô „ ,o „ L i t T
' he
making war paint. Washtogton was second only to agriculture among
of the two would make this country ar tures.
CoJlectlOD t n d other fea-
so ranch Impressed with Its possibili American Industries.
<
crime free a* England.
ties that he later became owner of a
Roundly, 70 per cent of ths world's
large area of oll-bearlng lands. A l
Lots
«»•ssiw i
tbjoKi of t(j good
#at
Clifford Carey ban been called j was raised for the purpose Sunday though the petroleum Industry in lte petroleum Industry Is American. Ten
Brnpe P en ajj hasn't changed his spots
billions of capital I* Invested in It—
modern form was then undreamed of,
for another year as pastor of the i morning.
for 6ma|l charge
He tried to ring in a tirade against an
half The valuation of th* national rail-
Washington was so sure that a for-
income tas when permitted to speak at
r«aa system. It employs Juet sbooe
Admittance, 10c Church of Christ,
resided in his oll-bearlng lands
1,000.000 people. The petroleum pip*
the Medford Lincoln day gathering, I
The revival meetings are stilt in tuae
that In hts w ill he listed them as nts
Fleet*
Llvic’s
house
was
en
hut the audieao* choked him off pj
progressât the Methodist church most valuable holding*. In the prop- line system, yridironing a good shars
of the country, aggregates about gs.-
tered the other uight by somebody with good attendance.
tinging A m e ric a ,"** the -voter* did;
ort.v schedule attached to the will he 000 miles. Petrolanm revolutionised
FOR ale cheap
with piece* of paper last election.
wrote:
who forced a blind aud broke open
naval warfare by bringing In the o il
“This tract was taken up by Gen
Thomas Palmer's flu turned out
a window. Fleets is at Florenc
burning ship; it I* fast rsvolutlonlslng
era! Lewis and myself on account of
I t has bean aster te J in Salem that the
and Marshal Rector and Night to be mumps, from which he is i the bituminous spring which It con merchant marines Its the seme fash-
ton.
Multiplication of motor cars,
iccoveri
ng
game and fish commissions are in poli
Watch Barber, who investigated,
| tains, of so Inflammable a nature as
along with the special taxation of
ties. if that ia news, to would be a
to
burn
as
freely
as
spirits
and
as
could not tell whether anything
their gasoline, has made possible lb»
Geoige Finley returned to Bort- nearly dlff.cult to extinguish."
Statement that there are whales io the
B. M. BOND
modem highway system.
m i taken or not.
«.e»a.
land Tueedav, after a visit to hi*
The W ill of Washington
A True Social Service
FOR SALE
Some historians declare that In tn
f rank Gibson's oar was consid- Crawfordsville property.
Perhaps the roost nearly revolution
earlier will Washington dedicated this
Ike Patteraou's school of naughty
ary result of Drake's modernization oe
erably damaged yesterday in a
A sure
boy* at Salem is pulling on its farewell
F. E. Roberts is selling the “burning spring" to the public. At the petroleum Industry I* to be found
breeder
collision
at
the
corner
of
First
aud
any
rate.
It
had
passed
from
his
own
Stunt of devilment this week. The at
McConnon products hereabouts. ership before hlg death. He sold this in the change It has brought In the
One and Pne-balf years old.
H streets with A. J. Hills, driven
life of rural America, it has carried
tendants from Linn county have made if taken soou.
Amoug them is a water softener tract for 1200,000. but. suspecting it the
city to the country, the country
os proud bv heir conduct.
by
George
Hayes,
who
promptly
Can furnish paper« extra.
which is said to beat them nil
A might revert to his estate under a to tBe city. It has. by making posel-
accepted the responsibility and
mortgage, he warned his heirs that ble th * cheap and quick transporta
water softener is surely needed iu should It do so It would be worth
^ ^ ^ ^ J n q n ire Enterprise office.
agreed to pay Gansle for the Halsey if Anywhere.
tion that everybody nowadays en
much more than the *200,009.
joys, enabled country and» city to
necessary repairs
FOR SALE
Although Washington's first knowl- know and understand each other as
Rosa Hughes’ bouse at Browns edge of petroleum was gained within
4 and 6 years old
they never did before. It haa brought
The Church of Christ has
ville
caught tire in the upper story a few miles of the place where the social and educational privileges to
The best. Reduced to 20c. wnd
bought the quarter b:ock west of
flrsto
llw
ell
In
the
world
was
drilled
two-year
old
Saturday afternoon and the fire
country dwellers that a few decades
lese in larger quantitieg. Supply
ita building for flOO, $90 of which
that first well was not opened until
department had a hard ffght. T ie one hundred and six years later, ago seemed absolutely denied to
AH Jeraevs and all with calf
your needs while it lasts.
them. On the one hand It has en
N. H. Hess, Brownsville
1859. In that year Edwin Laurentlne
abled the cities to spread out Into sub
N. T. Snead
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Drake bored the first well. Just south
urban areas and the zone of country
of Titusville, Pennsylvania, and really
estates; on the other, It h*e enabled
started the modern petroleum Indus the people of the open country to have
try.
neighbors. society, church and school
A Development Wonder
privileges, latlmate acquaintance.
Today the American Industry is the
It Is n historic fact that the tendon-
major part of the world's oil business
cy toward division of Interest and un-
Americans are directing oil develop tierstanding between city and country
msnts all over the world. It Is all Is the most serious Internal menace to
part of the huge problem: to make the security of nations, to the Integri
Call at our expense.
sure that the tomorrows shall see ty of society.
America's requirements m et
Evsry
More than anything else, country
Phone 37C4
decade the production of petroleum and city need to know and nnfierstand
Brownsville, Oregon
has doubled.
Science and techni each other and each other's prob
cal progress have met all demand*, lems
The easy transportation, ths
foreign Investment and development ready opportunity for association snd
are In the nature of Insurance for the acquaintance that have came with
future.
the Age of Petroleum have made pn.i-
In the days of Drake and the Indue eible, In this favored country at least,
try's beginnings petroleum’s value lay •zactly this new Intimacy and under
In lubricants and kerosene. The sge standing.
Feb.
22
Program
8 p. m.
I- O . O. F. Hall
H A L S E Y , LIN N A N D O R E G O N
Lunch Counter
•E veryb od y I n v ite d
S
Wheat and Oafs Mixed
Good Cow or Sheep Feed
Jersey Bull
Comb Honey
« C p O
O R
u
2 Cows
2
H eifer
E le c t r ic a l C o n tr a c tin g
H ow to Buy Good Quality Foods
al Popular Prices
W e do wiring of all kinds.
a specialty.
Ask Us f<jr Preferred Stock
Radio repairing
No job too small
F. H. W EBER
That is the answer.
This brand includes a large assortm ent of
quality foods which are sold at popular
prices.
Wo can sell you these splendid goods at
popular prices because they are produced
and put on the m arket by modern m eth
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.
4P
How about
W ire
Get our prices before you buy.
We have the
American Zinc Insulated Field Fence
No. 9 3 9 Fence, 39c a rod, cash
No. 83 2 Fence. 36c a rOd, cash
No. 726 Pence, (31c a rod, cash
Hill & Co,
roof was badly burned and bouse ¡included 17 cases of flu. 1 of
and contents damaged by water as mestels, l i of mumps and 1 of the
well as by fire.
dread tuberculosis.
H. E. Cosby, poultry specialist
at O. A. C , eay* Linn county may
become to the Oregon poultry
industry wbst Petaluma is to that
of California, aud I’. II. Freergien
of the Albany creamery bj Is ior
a similar dairy supremacy here.
The Shedd Priecilia club will
give au entertainment Wednesday
oiffht.HTb« posters begin with
chick«* tamales and end with hot
dog, with the M. K. church in
the middle,
Mr». Ida Hampton and Mra.
The immense Miller <fe Lux real Fred Harrison, from Brownsville,
estate holdings in Oregon, as took the train hero for Portland
eli-twhere, are *o be | n*. on the Monday. <
market in small lots toon.
Tbs Halsey community will have
a
abow
for tha public at Oddfellow
Mrs,
Glenn
McFtrUnd of
hall
the
evening of Washington's
Brownsville went ibis way to
birthday,
with pciture slides, eats
Albany Monday.
and a prepared pro^r.np
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Ruth Edwards ba* beeu divorced
Last week's report* from this
county to the atate board of health
tCoatinaeu on last psgej
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