A g r c u 11 u r e
H o r tic u ltu r e
L iv e s to c k
A Weekly Chronicle ol Local Events and Progress in Linn County
Ertabliehed I9U
From the Editor's
Point of View
H A L SE Y . O R E Í O N , T H U I^ D A Y , MAY 12, 1927
nun»y than ail others, and wbat music
is more satisfactory than hers as she
leaves the nest with a warm egg in it?
With the newspapers publishing the
divorce court news the federal admin­
“ Gods Help Those Who
Help Themselves?’
istration thinks American readers get
sufficient indecent spice and has stop­
A rotary plow was demonstrated In ped importation of “The Aragian
Willamette community last week on Nights.”
the (arm of Howard Wagner
The land was heavy and somewhat
In taxation, as in dentistry, the
too wet to be in the best condition most painless method of extraction has
(or working with the implement. How­
ever. a seed bed was prepared that the preference.
(Corvallis Independent)
needed no further work. The soil was
thoroughly broken up through the en­
tire depth at which the machine was
run and was left in the condition
that gardens are ordinarily.
The principal part of the implement
is a wheel about three feet in diameter
Knives are located at the edge of
this wheel at about six inch intervals.
This wheel is connected by a chain to
the belt shaft of a Fordson. Power
from the belt shaft turns the wheel
in the same direction that the wheels
of the tractor which pull it turn.
"This is the first time I ever saw a
rotary plow in action." said County
Agent Briggs in commenting on the
demonstration. The cost of operating
the machine as compared with plow­
ing. discing and harrowing and In some
cases rolling, seems to be an impor
Unt point.”
(Capper's Farmer)
In the Mormon state they have an
active poultry co-operative that will
do a 3 ’4 million dollar business this
year. Six years ago Utah was im­
porting eggs. The Utah Co-operative
has an office in New York city today
and the 1.600 producer-members ship
about 350 to 400 carloads of eggs, 10
to 15 carloads of turkeys, and from 15
to 20 carloads of dressed poultry in
a normal year.
(Eugene Register, May 7)
' Day before yesterday a “manless”
tractor, controlled by an automatic
electric device plowed a 20-acre field
near Lincoln, Nebraska, while a crowd
of farmers, professors of agriculture
and business men looked on and ad­
mired.
A guide furrow was plowed by hand
and the machine followed this furrow,
rounding the corners without the aid
of a human hand
The automatic
control stops the tractor if it leaves
the furrow and stops it when the
plowing Job is finished.
need to find some other hocus pocus
than farm relief through which to
solicit rural votes.
There are many little interests com­
bined against such a reform and eliml-
natlon of waste in’ government as Hec­
tor Macpherson outlined in the legis­
lature. If they are too powerful to be
ousted we are simply carrying an old
man of the sea against our will.
The Oeneral Motors corporation
continues to Increase its output. It
Sold 365.703 cars in the first thiee
months of 1927, which was 100,000
more than in the same months in
1926. Advertising extensively in the
country weeklies, the company expect;
Its sales for the second three months
this year to reach half a million
A state bird for Oregon is being voted
for in the schools Our choice it the
ben. She yields more food and wore
Romance in Last
Nevada Gold Rush
H A L S E Y , LIN N A N D O R E G O N
F or the excursion from Eugene
(o K la m a th Falls next Sunday
.
j . •
,
.
.
(round tr ip fare between those
points $.') the Southern Pacific
tra in going through here about
|:3() th a t m orning w ill stop fo r
passengers if M r Moody is notified
before 4 p. m Saturday.
Ex
cursion leaves Eugene at 7, reach
■ ng K la m a th Falls at 2 p. m. and
starting home at 5,
Mr Rolfe's house in east Browns­
ville. occupied by his mother. Mrs.
Ream, caught fire about midnight
Friday night
„ rn(1 much oi lte
contents were dett e, vj.
Dean Tycer and wile and child are
visiting here and at Brownsville. Mrs.
Tycer was well known snd popular
here as Janet Boggs, daughter of Mrs.
J. W. Morgan They have their daugh­
ter with them. Mrs. Keeeling Mr.
Morgan’s daughter, is expected from
C. E. Williamson, cnatrman of the
Portia ad.
Linn county Red Cross, has received
Editor Hughes of the Harrisburg
Sunday little 2 i-yea r-o ld Irw iu Bulletin was in town Monday and call­
a letter congratulating the county on
the speed with which its quota ol Seefeld got among the c a ttle and ed at the Enterprise office.
cash for Mississippi flood sufferers in some way received serious
was raised and forwarded.
Jean Sturtevant had a party last
ijnuries, one of which was a dent week to celebrate her 8th birthday.
Mrs. Hannah Cuintnitgs went to Bea­
ou th« sku ll. H« was found Nine of her little friends had a most
verton Saturday, by auto, expecting to
unconscious and was ruthed to au enjoyable afternoon.
visit her daughter, Mrs. Glenn Stev­
L. E. Blain, founder of the Blain
Albany hoepita'., where his coudi
enson, for a month or two.
Clothing company of Albany, died
tio n , as reported since, gives hope Sunday morning. He was 85 years
Piano Pnpils Wiil Recite
Mrs. Logan made a v is it home old and had been in the clothing busi­
ness since 1876.
Saturday eveuing a t the Church
of C hrist Mrs. Jess Cross' pitDO
school w ill give a recital. Sched­
uled to h it the keys for the enter-
inm ant o f those who attend are:
from C orvallis Monday and found
Mr. Handley has left the Halsey
th a t somebody bad broken a pane
garage and gone to Portland to reside.
of glass, enteied her house and
Spoon RiverSparkt
carried off the contents of a too
1 Enterprise Correspoodenre)
cheat.
Retta Armstrong, Beverly Isom, June
R. E. Bierly and family were Sunday
Mrs, J. C. B iam w ell made
Layton, Donald Neal, Leila Gansle, Fre­
afternoon visitors at William Pence's
derick Robins, Frances Leeper, Vivian b rie f v is it home from C orvallis at
Mrs. W. A. Carey of Salem visited
Fruin, Phyllis Holt, Donald Bramwell, the week end.
her children In this neighborhood sev­
E rroll Gardner, Ivan Smith, Dorothy
eral days last week.
Miss R uth Q uim by, se ro usly ill,
McLaren, Ernestine Coleman, Herman
H. J. Falk and family spent Sunday
Koontz, Nora Coldiron, Georgina Clark, hag been taken to a C o rv a llis
afternoon at Harrisburg.
Donna Cross, Mary
Smith,
Louise! hospital.
Merwin Van Nice and family and
Seefeld and Cleona Smith.
The D. 8. M c W illia m s fa m ily , Kenneth Van Nice and Miss Nellie
May 9.— Secretary Mellon has call from A lb a n y , visited at Sidney Falk motored to Salem Sunday. After
church services Merwin and family
ed for payment on November 15 all S m ith ’ s Sunday.
and J. H. Vannice and wife motored
outstanding second liberty loan bonds
Mrs. W . W . Bais aud Lena to Portland to see Mrs. Grace Van
Interest will cease on them November
Nice's mother, who is very ill.
15. Approximately »1,700,000,000 of visited A lbany Tuesday.
bonds are now outstanding. It is pro­
Ava and Edna Falk were Sunday
The H . W . Chauca residence
bable that during the next six months
dinner guests at R. E. Bierly's.
the treasury will extend to the holders wearing a new Coat.
Velma, daughter of Carl Seefeld. is
of the bonds an opportunity to ex­
J. J. Coreorau went down and staying with her grandma Seefeld
change them for other government
securities.
calaomined t h i A lnioti home at while her brother is at the hospital
at Albany.
Independence and Brad
moved (he fu rn itu re there
Halsey.
Moss
from
The Lane county Sunday schools
defy Ihe jin x . They begin th e ir
■ounty convention at Jonctiod C ity
tom orrow , which is F rid a y , the
13th.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 6—Com­
bines— squat, whirring machines that
creep slowly across the limitless acres
ot waving wheat— will this summer
do the work of 25.000 harvest hands,
hitherto Imported each year from the
east and north.
It takes the European workman ap­
proximately 10 times os long to make
an automobile as It takes the work­
man In our country, because of the
highly efficient machinery and vast
quantity of power which are the in­
visible slaves of our workmen.
The Pacific Poultry Producers’ as­
sociation Is constantly shipping eggs
east by the carload. In the spring,
when speculators try to knock the bot­
tom out of the egg market, and lay
up cheap eggs In cold storage, the
association holds prices up, and when
the speculators try to unload at top
prices It again finds the association on
the Job, and the average price of eggs
Is several cents a dozen higher be­
cause of Its policy.
When the average American fanner
takes as full advantage of machinery
and artificial power as Is taken by
American manufacturers there will be
no more farm problems than there are
factory problems, and politicians will
i l a year in advane«
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Templeton visit­
ed at A. L. Waggener's Sunday.
Mrs. Edna Rike and Misses Ava
and Edha Falk visited Kirk school
Wednesday afternoon and Mrs. J. N.
EllioiA and Misses Louise and Esther
Seefeld visited school Thursday of
last week.
G. J. Rikc and Herman Stienke and
D. F. Dean and wife, Mrs. families had a very pleasant trip up
S ta ffo rd ’s parents, are in Halsey the McKenzie Sunday. They enjoyed
this week end from th e ir home at
picnic dinner at Lost lake. The
trip was taken in honor of the birth­
Bandon.
The coeinm r, or lack of it, of
the g ir l in K o o n tz’ advertisem ent
drew c ritic is m .
This week it
shows another hut shows less of
her. J
J- J. Corcoran ha» teen doing
c e m e it work in the S m ith ceme-
te ry .
H oward
Moss
sprained foot.
Smart L ines that
i
Z h is frock with its long
Z collar and skirt that
fits closely at the hip
is suitable for the slender wo­
man as well as the woman
with the mature figure, *
It may be had in sizes 34
to 52. Suitable m ate-'
rials for making this*
*
Butterick frock are
\
on display at our
P ie c e - G o o d s
'.D epartm ent,/
V
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iCcntmueu on last page)
w ith theso sprys:
FLY FOIL, p ts ..............50c FLY REPELLER, for
FLIT, for m oths and
cows, (its ................. 1.05
flies, pts ........ ...... 75c;FLACK FLAG, 20 & 35c ea.
S P R IN G
N EC ESSITIES
Formaldehyde, j rtt......... 50c
B. K., half pints, pints,
qts. and gals.
Sheep Dip, gaL...... ....... 1.70
with
B U T T E R I C K » a’
)
he was uuuoiw to interest rurtner cap­
ital. The ground at the time of the
gold discovery was under the option
to another company for money due,
putting young Horton In the same
position as little Nell when the vil­
Boy» Find Pay Dirt at Wee- lain wet ready to take up the mort­
gage on the old homestead. Horton,
pah in Time to Save
Sr., had borrowed funds a few days
Family Fortune.
before to take care of his family for
a short time while he made one last
Tonopah, Ncv.—If the snn that desperate trip to Los Angeles, hoping
shone upon the waste lands of Nevada to raise moDey enough to keep the
last summer bad been less Intense, the wolf away from the door of his home
world would Dot hare had to wall uo
and of his company.
til March 2 of this year to learn about
it was then that Frank Horton. Jr.,
the gold strike al Weepah. For the and Leonard Traynor found rich gold-
discovery credited to Frank Horton, bearing rock. The name of Horton
Jr., and Leonard Travnor was actual, was saved.
The Weepah gold rush
ly made last summer. The story of wag started with oulomohlles, moving
the strike has the elements of ro
picture cameras and radio sets as
niance and today Weepah Is a camp modern trimmings.
,
of prospectors, fortune hunters and
What Weepah Looks Like.
sightseers who use automobiles in
The camp of Weepah Itself Is not
stead of park mules aud are building
large, it Is situated in the heart of a
a new gold town.
Horton's father Is owner of the barren country where water, gruss,
trees, birds and beasts ore unknown.
Electric Gold mines and the nineteen
year-old Iud was exploring Its prop- The landscape for hundreds of miles
erty when he picked up a piece of rich Is made up of nothing but mountains,
foothills and great flats or vulleys
■'float" flecked with small particles of
free gold. Frank Horton's pulse beat where stumpy sugebtush ts the prin­
rapid’/. With o hazy Idea of locating cipal verdure.
II Is In a country where roads can
a rich gold seam such as the one that
be better classified as trails off the
made Goldfield famous 25 years ago
highways.
he began covering Ihe ground careful
Traffic, roud und rail, goes to Tono­
ly. As he worked, however, the sun
pah firs t; that Is an established town
heat down upon him as only a deseri
sun can. The Intense heat squelched capable of taking rare of the Influx
his ambition for the time being and of fortune hunters and slghtsc-era.
young Horton went on Ills wuy re­ Then It pours Into Weepah. For that I
solving to return when the weather reason those who make money at tlielr j
business or trude und those who have I
was cooler.
ground near the strike ure the only '
The Horton family consists of Frank
Horton. Sr.; M rs. Horton, Frnnk, Jr., ones who nre living in Weepah. al­
a sister and I w I d baby brothers. The though a number pitch camps there i
nightly while on the road.
babies furnished Frank, Jr., the In
The town Is a squalid little camp
centlve to return once more to Wee
pah He wanted to make a stake for at the base of a low hill spreading
the babies. Leonard Traynor. another out onto the fla t No townsite has
nlneteen-year-old lad. Joined Horton, been staked out yet, and the Inhabi­
and the two boys set out for the hills tants have picked out tlie lr locations
from Tonopah.
fo r tlie lr homes by using the squat­
ter's rights Most of the Inhabitants
Two Boy Prospectors.
On the morning of March 2. after sleep lu tents ranging from the small
they had eaten their last rations, the one man dog tent to the large and
boys returned to the spot where the specious dwelling (20 by 10 feel) of
gold float had been picked up the the cook shack, store or club room.
summer before. A badger hole on the Scattered among these outfits are the
ground at that time showed that gold- brown homes of the regular tourist or
bearing rock was Just below the sur­ city cannier, whose tents are always
face. It panned w ill and the buys be newer and contain tuuny more con­
gan digging the little cut that has veniences than do those belonging to
the prospector.
caured so much excitement since that
l our frame dwellings were alreudy
time.
In a few hours a trench had been ou hand at the ramp, which belonged
dug Into the hillside and two sacks of to the Gold Electric. Mluea company.
ore had been taken out. The ore had Since Ihe camp started the majority
flecks of gold running through It and
(Continued os Iasi page)
when crushed yielded a long string of
yellow gold In the pan. Hut the boys
were too excited to tarry longer In u
short time they had staked some
TO A LL HO LDERS OF
claims In tlie lr mothers' names close
to the Electric Gold ground and left
In a cloud of dust for Tonopah.
In Tonopah they created a genuine
NOTICE OF REDEMPTION
sensHtlon hy handing out seve rnj thou
sand dollars’ worth of ore ns samples
A ll o u ts ta n d in g Rernnd L ib e r ty Loan 4
Mining men made offers running Into
p e r cen t bond« of 1 92 7-4 2 (Hsoond 4’s)
thousands of dollars for the rigid of
and a ll o u ts ta n d in g Soeond U b o r ty Ix»»n
C o n verted 4 % per cent bond« o f 1 92 7-4 2
being told the district In which the
(Second < U 'i| a re called fo r redem ption
gold was first found Prospectors who
on N o v e m b e r 15, 1927, p u rs u a n t to t h e
te rm « o f th e ir issno.
In te re s t on a ll
happened to he In the town of Tnno
Becond 4*« end Second 4 \4 's w ill eeeae on
pah that night hurriedly threw their
•a id red em p tio n date, N o v e m b e r IS , 1927.
packs together and waited for the
H o ld e rs o f Second 4’ « end Second
npws to break.
4 U * « w lU be e n title d to h ave the bonds
SECOND LIBERTY LOAN BONDS
Keeping the Secret
For two days the boys remained
silent. The strike was on the ground
belonging to Horton's father and they
wanted to keep the location secret un­
til he could return.
It so happened that In the days of
Goldfield Mr. Horton had made nearly
»1,000,000. which had been spent in
water projects In the vicinity of Oak-
land and In the Southern oil fields.
For years Frnnk Horton. Sr , had been
working the Gold Electric, developing
ore, but after reaching the stage where
It would make a paying proposition
redeem ed and poid at p ar on N o vem b er
15, 1927.
Such holders m ay, h ow ever,
in advenes o f N o v e m b e r 15, 1927, be
offered th e p riv ile g e o f exc hanging a ll o r
p a rt o f t h e ir bond» fo r o th e r in te re s t-
boaring o b lig atio n « of th e U n ite d States.
H o lder« w ho deaire to a v a il th em «el vea
of th e e x c h an g e p riv ile g e , if and when
announced, should request th e ir bsnV or
tru s t com pany to n o tify
th em
w hen
In fo rm a tio n re g a rd in g the exch an g e o ffe r­
in g is received
F u r t h e r In fo rm a tio n m ay be obtained
fro m any Fed eral Reserve Bank or branch,
o r fro m th e C o m m issioner o f th e Public
D e b t, T re a s u ry D e p a rtm e n t, W a s h in g to n .
A. W M E L L O N .
Secretary ol the Treaiury.
Washington, May 9, 1927.
Salts, 3 lbs.................... 25c
Sulphur, 0 lbs...............25C I ry O ur Candy Specials
Arsenate of Lead, lb.. 40c
Pine Tar, lb.................. 30c
1 lb. of Jelly Boans for............... 2Oc
1 lb. of Commercial Chocolates, 2 5 c
1 lb. of Farm ers’ Mixed............... 20
morri s pharmacy
W e are able to fill any prescription at any
time; day or night
Th«’ . with spring comet a hankering lo r tripe in your auto—bu not for
FJowouls on those trips or other annoying troubles—therefore you
! should see what we cau do for you in our low-priced
F IS K A N D
All of these candies can be obtained at
Clark’s Confectionery
ICE CREAM
remember
E a ty to m a h
an d t h D E L T O R f .
A family dinner was given at E. E.
Carey's Sunday. Those present beei les
the E. E. Carevs were W. A Carey
and wife of Salem and their daughter
Mary, C. E. Gillette, Cecil Bllyeu.
Marlon and Clifford Carey and their
families and Gilbert Carey of Port­
badly land.
FOUNTAIN
i
PA TTERN S
a
F. W. Falk called at A. L. Falk’s
Sunday evening.
K i l l T h a t Fly
BUTTÏRICK
1413
,
has
days of Lloyd and Charles Stienke.
D a i r y
P o u ltry
W oo 1
F E D E R A L T IR E S
G E N E R A L R E P A IR IN G
ETHYL
B A T T E R Y C H A R G IN G
O A S ’O L IN E
The HALSEY GARAGE
. / S. Warltinnir
E have the beat equipped shop in Halsey,
and fer that reason we give you a better
job and more for your money.
Wo also carry the largest stock of tires and
accessories.
Bring in this ad and 25c and get a 50c size of
tire patching.
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