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About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1927)
id O A g r c u l t u re H o rtic u ltu re L iv e s to c k A AV eekly Chronicle of Local Events and Progress in Linn County Established 1912 From the Editor’s Point of View General Motors corporation of Detroit is telling Enterprise readers the merits of several cars other than Fords. Seed Flax Is a Promising Crop This Year The people of the United States pay more for tobacco than for taxes and how they do growl about the taxes! Fall wheat (offered ltttle from frost this winter, though at one time there was much apprehension. Oregcn also has large cropi of gray oata coming on aid these two crops and potatoes do not promise good cash returns. O. A. C. ad t iaea the sowing of Hann chen and other spring barleys, for which a good demand it probable, here and in California, and then says; The Harrisburg Bulletin has our sympathy. Last Friday’s Portland Journal published the Enterprise" comment on the way Governor Pat- rorson walloped his would-be oppo nents in the legislature and laid th erius of the article on the Bulletin and Jeit the Enterprise scot free. Seed flax prospects are good and offer a real opportunity for Willamette valley spring crop farmers who want a cash crop. T h e Portland Telegram a week ago Saturday said: For forty years the oil and lead works in- Portland have been extracting oil from teed moat of which has been ini- porte L Last year they crushed 500,000 buahela of flax seed, but ony 7000 bnsh els came from Oregon. Not only has the factory beea forced to pay a duty of 40 ceots a buahel on this foreign grown flax, but that added cost has raised the pri^e of the flax seed meal which has been sold to Oregou dairymen. The company i t undertaking a cam paign of education in the hope of inducing Oregon farmer! to grow their own flax seed. I t may be grown upon the same soils and planted ami harvested by the same machinery as wheat. The fanner may grow and thrash hia seed, carry it to the m ill and take home, for every bnahel of seed, 37 pounds of meal, bought at a lower price than is possible when freight and duty must be included. The United States uses 40,000,000 bushels of flax seed a year, less than half of which is grown in this country T lia price of seed is fixed in the Duluth market and has been fur a year $2.25 a haahel. The growing of flax for seed is some thing apart from growing it for fiber. A different variety is used sad it is more thinly planted, costing only about fl.b5 an aero for seed. Here it a crop which w ill require no McNary-Haugen hocus pocus, taking mooey ont of one of the farmer's pock- ots and returning some ot it to another, to stabilize its price. W illamette valley farmers may. if they raise their share of the 20,000,000 bnsh ela of flax seed now imported, change that 40-cent tariff into something difier- ent from tha handicap on dairying that it now is. A crop of fiber flax is exhaustive on the soil. Flax seed, with the meal or cake from it returned to the farm, is like bnlter in that it removes no appre ciable fertility from the land. Moreover, the New York and Chicago grain gamblers, against whom the sec retary of agriculture once roared so gently, are not bedeviling the flax seed market. Henry Ford has fallen upon hard Times. Aaron Sapiro i t sneing liiiu (probably vainly) for libel, and now the Trespass N 0 tlC e ENTERPRISE * The sincerity of the reasons giv en by those senators for opposing the tithing bill -is open to question/' says the Oregonian. Of course it is. Just pure cussedness on the part of few senators for the purpose of punishing the governor because he threw a monkeywrench into their plans and prevented a raid on the funds of the highway commission.— Garibaldi News. HALSEY. O REG ON . THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1927 is a good spring Mrs. David Foote is quite ill. The school play at Shedd Friday sown c r o p for night filled the bouse. heavy soils, rich enough to grow good crops o f grain. Planted, har Henpecked Holler will holler to vested and thrashed with your regular grain imple morrow night at Koontz’ hall. ments. George Maxwell is a free man. He Rest your land by rotating flax seed. Seed costs was granted a divorce last week. $1.65 per acre f. o. b. Portland and should yield Anna F. Falk has been divorced larger cash returns than wheat, oats or barley. from A. W. Falk and awarded cus We guarantee a reliable cash market and have tody of the t w children, aged 3 an attractive co-operative plan for growing your own and 11. linseed meal, Write for details. F. Buford Morris had an anniver S e e d F la x PACIFIC OIL AND LEAD WORKS sary last week. His ownership of the Halsey pharmacy was a year old Portland. Oregon on the 16th. In the year he has taken a life partner, purchased prop erty on the highway, fitted eo cozy living quarters on the west end of it and made the front part look like the drugstores of the big cities. His high school has been doing electrical wiring place shines with prosperity. H A L S E Y , LIN N A N D O R E G O N The Brownsville baseball schedule for the season is out. Games with Hulsey are billed for April 5 here and April 19 at Brownsville. Charity graoge had an all-day session Saturday, with an inter esting and instructive literary Church Notices program in ihe afternoon. The Methodist—Next Sunday : home economics committee will 10 a. m., Sunday school put on the next literary program. 11, Public servicess For the rest of the summer the 3, Junior League regular meetings will be in the 6:80, Epworth League evening. 7:30, public services. Leila Gansle and her aunt and 7:30 Thursday, prayer meeting cousin, MrB. Charles Gansle and Here ail will find a welcome, little one, have recently learned regardless of social standing. Your by experience what flu is iike. presence will help, and wo will try H. L. Almon is publishing the to do you good. Montague (Cal.) Messenger. J. S. Miller, pastor. Irene Quimby and a friend from Moumouth and Bob Long of Albany college spent the week end at A. H. Quimby’s. for the Halsey pharmacy, where au electrical refrigerator has been installed, and for the Halsey ga rage and others here. Reported to the state board of health from this county last week were 19 cases of flu, 1 of mumps and 1 of tuberculosis. A suit of clothes, three silk shirts and a pair of corduroy trousers were stolen from Karl Stewart’s one day lust week when nobody was at home. What right has a farmer to own silk shirts, anyway? J. S. Nice wood had a few days’ visit from his cousin, J. E. Brand- roit of Santa’Rosa, Cal. Mrs. Lillie Nixon, who is seri ously ill and has been in town with her mother, ‘Mrs. Hannah Cummings, is now with her sister, Mrs. W alter Smith, and husband. Mrs. D. J. Hayes is home from George W. McIIargue, oue-time Portland and is slaying at J. C sheriff of Linn county, died at Standish’s, Marshfield and was buried aunduy in the Masonic cemetery at Browns Shippers of eggs are requested to securely wire each end of all second ville. hand egg cases, in order to comply Wayne Veatch is home for a few with the requirements of the express days’ vacation. { company. Each year a great many Church of Christ— Bessie Reynolds and Carl Wili claims are paid for loss and damage PreachiDg, 11 ams had excitemeut and shake to egg shipments which can in a great Christian Endeavor, 6:3l)| up in an auto collision Saturday measure be avoided by the use of Precaching, 7:30 .iO W wire at each end of the cases. night near Harrisburg and have Clifford L.JCarey, pastor. Ç April 17 a new time table is to take been nursing bruises. They and effect on the Southern Pacific lines others were in a touring car which which will change the time of nearly bumped into a coupe. Wayne every train passing through this city Percheron Stallion Brock, in their car. had a shoulder If you are contemplating a trip, fnr bone broken. Chester Rice and a or near, it would be well to secure girl were in the coupe from a new timetable, which will be avail able about the 15th of April. Mr. Brownsville. (a new horse, recently purchased) Moody will bo glad to give you full Theodore Anderson of Craw information in connection with these will'stnnd at fordsville is spending a week or changes, anil when train time can oe two at 8. C. Veatch's. given with accuracy the Enterprise OMEGO C. R. Weber’s Farm, H a l s e y our property will be left in full charge two miles *est of Brownsville, this of P. J. Forster. season Lena J. Been3. H ow to buy good quality foods at popular prices ? Ask us for The W eber firm of Brownsville expects to publish the table. A fter the holidays is the time to have your auto overhauled and every defect in car or motor remedied. Don’t wait until the spring rush. ARROW GARAGE REM EM BER This brand includes a large assortment of quality foods which are sold at popular prices. That with apriDg comes a hankering for trips in your auto—bu not for blowouts on those trips or other annoying troubles— therefore you should see what we cau 4o for you in our low-priced We can sell you these splendid goods at popular prices because they are produced and put on the market by modern meth ods and at the lowest possible expense and cost. G E N E R A L R E P A IR IN G , ETHYL W hen you buy Preferred Stock you get the good quality you want at a price you can afford to pay. V. KOONTZ Co. Jack Roberts is the name given by the fellow who is believed to have robbed the Halsey and Albany school- houses recently. He has confessed to robbery of the Harrisburg and Oregon City schoolhouses and a clock stolen from the Philomath school- house was found in his car. It is a pity that a fellow to whom temples of learning proved s0 attractive fail ed to learn the superiority of straight paths over crooked ones. Obituary Among diseases for which cura SH ADO W tive science, with all its marvelous advancement in recent years, has fonnd uo cure, two have taken lives in Halsey in tbs past week. Both Bright’s disease (album inu ria) and consumption (tuberculo sis) anoroach so stealthily that they are seldom recoguized until well intrenched in tbeir vietiuis. Undoubtedly consumption has been cured, but only when com bated in its first stages, which are eo seldom recognized. Some people are pecu liarly sueceptibl to it by nature and some peculiarly resistant. Often so autopsy dis covers tubercles that have been enoysted and rendered harmless by the opposing forces in a human body. We have no knowledge of an authenticated case of Blight’s disease having been cured. Mrs. a . J. Hill suffered for a long time with this ailment. She realized that the end was near and had said that she and Mias Corco ran would die at the same time. Sunday morning early the tele phone rang and Mr. Hill was informed that Wilmette Corcoran was dead. Within twenty min- iContinueu on last page) S O C IA L at Powell Schoolhouse Saturday, Mareh 26, at 8 p. m. W Ladies please bring lunch for two FREE PROGRAM SH A D O W SALE NOW You can be the owner of tfie Finest Washing Machine Made : O n ly : $ 5 .0 0 »D ow n I PREFERRED STOCK That is th© answer. $1 a year in aJvanei P a ir y P o u ltry W ool FISK A N D F E D E R A L TIRES B A T T E R Y C H A R G IN G G A S O L IN E The HALSEY GARAGE 3. S. WorAinfj'rr THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF SWEETS |he kind you can be sure contains the iir.est quality of ingredient! and the doubtful kind. Cast doubt aside and deal at Clark's. If anyone ever tried to use anything but pure, fresh fruits and flavors in our spotless candy- kitchen there'd be such a commotion you'd hear it all over town. 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