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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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S O C IA L
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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.
Clark’s Confectionery
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