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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1949)
MILL CITY ENTIRPR’SE MAI CH JL LI» order The on? at the front of the pictur“ a knot th a fills a fourth of the rafter’s width. The next takes more than a third of the width, the next and last rafter widths are well- nigh spanned by tfhe round knots. There stands Oregon’s oldest con tinuously occupied house. And there Bhe big, bad knots boldly stare back at the building inspectors. Saying, “We’ve been holding our part of this roof up for 87 years, and we’re good for another 87 if ti keep us dry. What’s the kick n us knot s,aayway?” O utofthe W oods fey J/'/ii Aferesis KNOTS ARE STRONG The man with the rifle turned like a wildcat toward the rotten bulk of the Douglas flr windfall. Joe Boone read murder in the maniacal eyes and in the grip of clawlike hands on rifle stock and barrel. Now he knew that he must reveal himself and take the one fighting chance that he had for his life. His right hand tightened on a knot, a solid remnant of a big bough that had grown from the windfall when AT YOUR FINGERTIPS it was a standing tree. The hard, tought knot was loose in the rotten debris of the once giant tree trunk. Joe tensed, then he drove all the speed and force of his body into an upward thrust of his left arm and in a swing and Ohrow of the knot with his right arm and hand. Theie was a little luck for Joe Boone. In that instant the man with the gun was looking a trifle to Joe’s right for the sound that had caught his attention. He had to look again and turn toward the new sound. He glimpsed the jagged whirl of the knot toward him. He dodged — too late. The knot struck him between the eyes a tick of time before he squeezed the trigger. The rifle was falling as is spat hot lead. And its owner fell as a stone falls. “Knots are tough,” said Joe Boone rising 1 n a cold sweat of relief. “Knots are strong.” And truer words weie never spoken by any man. Back in 1861 Ezra Hallock and Lu ther Tuthill sold a considerable num ber of knots. They had been running an “upright and ciicular” sawmill in Ellendale, Ore., for seven years and operating the first Oregon flr planer. Like most pioneer mills, the Ellen dale outfit could not handle the large old growth. It took the email t °es. Little of the cut was left over. The products of the sawmill and planer were sold on a run of the mill basis. Some of it was full of strong, dura ble knots. But all was good service lumber. The proof stands today in the O”fc- gon Brunk home, a home that has been lived in at Salem since 1861. I “First With What You Want Most” have a clear photograph of the attie. COMPLETE APPIANCE SERVICE Four of the 2x6 rafters were evi Radio, Washer Refrigerator and dently cut in succession from t n e Electrical Appliance same log and happened* to be put up Mill City 1884 Stayton 215 in the roof construction in the same Mountain View, Calif Perry Como Far Away Plaoes Sammy Kaye Lavender Blue Eve Young Cuanto la Gusta Down by the Station Tommy Dorsey Perry Como By the Way Andrews Sisters More Beer Tommy Dorsey Who (krttle Call Eddy Arnold Blue Yodel No. 4 Bill Monroe Glenn Miller Album Vol. I Down Memory Lane Vaughn Monroe PORTER & LAU FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Prelude; call to wor»hip;doxology; invocation; gloria; psalter selection; hymn of praise; scripture; prayer; notices; offering; music by choir; sermon; hymn; postlude. Feb. 20—“When All la Lost, Sing." Feb. 27—“Wanted: a Fighting Man.” FOR HIRE "I MAYFLOWER Extra Rich Premium UM fir YOM srofie Mill City Plumbing Oregon Mutual Fire Insurance See Ed L. Davis Lyons, R. F. D. PIANOS f BAND INSTRUMENTS Phone 751 Arthurs Cafe Mill City INSTRUMENT REPAIRING for Jacquis Music Cc FARMERS UNION adm. 25c - 10c Aprii 29th LESSONS ACCORDION Amateur Show SPONSORED BY the g rl3. Jcyce VYtk n aid Edna GIRL SCOUT HONOR COURT Golden a/ianged the centerpiece of IN upper CANYON I rvkiiii Niti The Giri Scout Troop No. 58 or rosebud1». Idaniia and Detroit held court of hon The Detro t Tave n is extending or Monday night in Idanha Hall be its b:ir 20 feet. So all you guys with fore an audience of about 125. big feet, step up. The program began with Mrs. Mil- | dred Ray playing a march while 24 Don’t Horro», Subscribe! Giri Scouts and their leaders, Mrs. White, Mis. Vickers and Mrs. Ped erson, marched in. Led by the Girl Scouts, all joined I in singing “America, the Beautiful.” HAULING CATS, Next came the flag salute. SHOVELS and Marla Vickers and Alice Fryei HEAVY EQUIPMENT presented Mis. White a corsage for her services as a leader. Salem Heavy Hauling & Phyllis Ketchum, Della Hansen and Equipment Co. Evelyn Wilson were presented their Brownie wings. They, with Sharon Phones: Plant 34644; Office 394“8 Foster, Mildred Burdeen, Lou Anne 1405 N. FRONT ST, Manning, Evelyn Bowers and Loret- SALEM I to Nygaard, were also awarded ten derfoot badges. Second class badges were awarded Edna Golden, Joyce Watkin, Ev dyn The Whole Town is Bower, Sally Fletcher, Karol Harper, Talking About Roberta Booker, Charlott McKeever and Jacquelene Edwards. Alice Fryer was awarded fiist class badge and Marlene White was pre sented a proficiency badge. Both have earned 15 badges in home mak ing. Marlene has been scouting five years and was given a five year badge. the Fifteen girls were given member ship badges and the Pansy Crest was given 13. The program closed with the sing ing of the Girl Scout hymn and “Am erica.” Maiking the 37th anniversary of Girl Scouting, the Legion Auxiliary, sponsoring organization, with Mrs. Chester Storey officiating, presented the girls an enormous birthday cake, 4 T YOU fi beautifully decorated. The cake and DOOfi — Ofi — other refreshments were served by Chui ch Activities HELD CHURCH OF CHRIST Services Every Lord’s Day 9:45 Bible School ’We Gotta Sell Knots.’ 11:00 Morning Worship What is raising "such”a”3Is?urE- 6:30 Young People’s Meeting ance in behalf of knots is the for Evening Worship 7:30 esters who have knots on the brain Tom Courtney, Pastor —knots on their mind«, that is. The specialists in farm forestry are Dur- CHURCH OF THE LATTER .. ticularly preoccupied with the mar DAY SAINTS keting of logs and lumber in which Sunday, 10 a.m. at Odd Fellows Hall knots are common. A log from sec- ond-giwth farm timber soon shows FREE METHODIST CHURCH knots in the heartwood when it is “The Church of the Light and Life sliced at the mill. These, of course, Hour” are from the earlier growth, the rem 10:00 Sunday school nants of branches that died and fell 11:00 Morning Worship away. Smaller log, more knots. 7:00 Young People’s Service The e mil have young, strong wood 7:30 Evening Worship in which the knots are small and 7:30 Wed. Prayer Meeting tight, On ‘he average, a 2x4 from Donald Hinkle, Pastor North Side riich a log will serve better or all purposes th: I call for all-rounl wool COMMUNITY CHURCH sMeigth, toughness and ling 1 fe Rev. Wayne W. Watkins, Pastor than many a clear 2x4 from an an Sunday School 10:00 oent big tre 11:00 Morning Worship The latter, like other “show” grades 7:45 of lumber, is invaluable for specific Evangelistic Service Wed. Bible Study 7:45 uses. Lumber for hard use, working lumber, “sei e” grades, is invalu GATES COMMUNITY able for such rses ns those illustrate CHURCH OF CHRIST in the rafters of Oregon’s Brunk Sunday School 10:00 home. 11:00 Knots are the work clothes of ev Morning Worship 6:30 eryday trees. They are all right. See Christian Endeavor 7:30 them in the car stakes that secure Evening Worship Walter Smith, Pastor. tons of lumber on epeeding freight trains. See them in old houses, giv Don’t Borrow, Subscribe! ing enduring service. Then think of the fact that knots have to be sold ■SZZZI aaaiiaain to make a go of it in farm forestry and to secure good utilization in the natinal forest« and on industrial tree farms. Knot Are Worth Money. WANTED: TALENT , I SALEM ’ 136 N. 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