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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1949)
(M TOBER 13. 1919 ÌIILL CITY ENTERPRISE Wade deal .. GARDEN’CLUB TO MEET ing. Tom V- —v made hi* ■— ----- , SI BMlll TE t l.ERK P. O. EXAM The Mill City Garden Club will I prize winners at the Santiam Grange through his farm forest co-op, which Federal civil service announces an ■> IIM 'arranged a sale by scale rather than examination for appointment to the meet Oct. 227 at the Albert Toman fair are Mrs. Charles Dolexal, with By JIM STEVENS jump sum For piling, 90 to home. The topic will be bulbs and one second place, and Mrs. James position of substitute clerk post office the discussion will be led by Mrs. W. Swan, with a first, secon and third TWO ’DIRT FORESTERS' . 135 feet, payment was 9 cents a Mn- service for Idanha Detroit. Mill City, award. Tom Wade is a dairy farmer. In ’ eal foot; for shorter sticks, 7 and 5 Lyons and Mehama. All applicants R. Olmstead. 1925 he bought 40 acres of upland cents a foot. The owner did not touch mu.< be between the ages of 18 and near his farm. He paid $1000 fo the a hand to the logging. 50 and reside within delivery of the No noe had known exactly ho» land; $500 for the timber on it. It I much piling was on the 17 acres. The office which exmined, or be bona fide | was second-growth Douglas fir but patrons of such office. the stand was good. The 40 was part harvest amounted to much more than The age limits may be waived for remember I of a quarter-section homestead claim $‘2000. Lt returned $7183 to Tom Wade veterans and under certain conditions I in cash. He still had. at last report, o- LAST JANUARY which Wade's father had sold for the for war service indefinite employees. 17 acres and its young trees, plus $•‘100 about 50 years earlier. No specific experience or e<iucation * AND FEBRUARY Between 1925 and 1942 Mr. Wade the timber on the other 23 acres. is required, but applicants must take Ba comfortable now and prepared sold $978 worth of fuel wood, poles A Family Training Project. a written examination, which includes : Our second dirt forester is a small a Sorting Test, General Test, and a ’ for the really cold weather to com* and posts from this 40, in small jags farmer named Joe Greer. Some time Spark Oil Heater* always give that didn't even dent the stand. His Following Instructions Test. 'ou jure the temperature you want total tax bill on the woodland for the back he bought a 40 in the bills north Further information on this ex | of town. This land had been logged when you want it See them today. 117 years was $119. amination and the necessary applies 1 Then Mr. Wade was offered $2000 in 1902. It carried a thick forest of tion forms must be obtained from the for the timber on 17 acres of this Douglas fir. Joe started to clear Stay ton Civic Bldg. Glen Williams Orchestra Postmaster. Post Office. * tract. This stand was 70-year-old fir, for farming. This examination will be held at I A Soil Conservation Service man tall and straight, ideal for long pil- the Stayton High School on October came along and told Joe that this hill 29, 1949, at 8:30 A. M. land, while good for growing trees, was not nearly as good as valley land for growing hay and grain. He told Joe it would be a small gold mine if he left it in timber but improved it JERRY'S CAFE by thinning. He advised Joe on how &TAVERN to go about the thinning and how to For your excavating LOTS, HOMES FOR SALE sell what he cut as piling, poles anil Serving Turkey Dinner and dump truck work tie timber. Friday, Saturday, Sunday If You’re a G. L, See Greer had no means to hire help 3-8 yd. 10-B Shovel. „ Spark , deluxe ,, ^..rroni COMPLETE DINNER OiJ but he had a family. Mrs. Greer Basements, Trench Heaters give both thought she could cut her weight and General Excavating 95c circulating and! down by 10 pound* in a summer of Silver Saddle Trailer Camp radiant heat For Gates, Oregon work in the timier. The children were Mill City, Ore. Ph.9O3 PO complete comfort, D*' 1 >' *' ry enthused. So they started. Mrs. Greer you need both. helpel Joe with the falling and limb ing. Jimmy, age 7, and Edward age 5, did some of the limbing and peeling. Etta Mae, age 9, took care of Baby I Ray, a year old, and kept the water heaters ^ | jug full. She ran errands too, such I as fetching the saw oil and wedges. I Joe Lost Weight. SPÄ.NIOL & CO. I Three months later, when the rains T-SHIRTS ANKLETS came, the Greers had sold $1200 Plumbing and ¿K,'* Me,al Work« worth of piling, trie timber and fire JEANS BELTS Ph. M5B FOR SCHOOL wood. Their longest piling was 69 feat, from a tree 34 years old. The At the Mill City Furniture Store f STAYTON, ORE. family had earned $400 a month and still had two summers of work like it to get the whole forty in shape. They left the best trees standing to , w into long piling and sawtimber. 5 \ tell that anv In fact, ywu tun haro-e LET US FIGURE YOUR ESTIMATES ON PI'LMBING cutting has been done, looking from some distance, the forest is that th!*k ' ANO HEATING. NO JOB TOO LARGE AND NONE still. The rentaining trees are fatten- ; TOO SMALL ing up fast, says the SOS. Shop and Residence 4260 Macleay Rd. SALEM Ph. 2-7390 The family had fun working in the wood lot, but there was one drawback. Mrs. Greer said that for her there had been no thinning. Instead, t Ee summer had added 10 pounds to her weight. “Joe wus thinned, along with the timber, though,” she said. “He lost 10 pounds while 1 gained. The forester calks this increment. Those boys sure do sling the words!” Qoauty job printing at the Enter prise. _ Out of the Woods K. of C. & C. D. A. Annual Columbus Day DANCE Friday. October 14 I SEE g A Thomas Housing Project John Adams G. E. Thomas, Mill City „ SPARK Hen cmciinTiHc 1 Hendricson s Store Dry Goods, Notions 1 GREENLY’S Plumbing & Healing FOR THE SAME COST MUIR Yoder-Martin Const. Co I 1 I - No. GENERAL CONTRACTORS Z0^3506 q Commercial and Residential Builders Expert BuHdoiing Road Building leering. Gradini: and Leveling Masonry and tonerete Work WE ALWAYS GUAR ANTEE OUR WORK MASTER Stayton Blu« 162-B Popula.---l*e<«• «i *ó'ood?.;: everybody drinks M ayflower In Americo, no single business or way of making at our house a living stand* alone. A* The neighborhood grocery and the 2 acre chicken farm, the transcontinental railroad American free enterprise system. When any one of them is cut off from the others to be operated by government Ro’es with Beth Hates without 8ofh >3.50 $2.00 direction, a similar fate for all is moraly a matter of time. jd In the Heart of the Theatre and Shopping District and “ Bert <H N h^2WER A MM SUFFOaTIN« WA S HINGTON A I < <■ i
