(M TOBER 13. 1919
ÌIILL CITY ENTERPRISE
Wade
deal
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GARDEN’CLUB TO MEET
ing. Tom V-
—v made hi*
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, 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
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'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.
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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.
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Out of the Woods
K. of C. & C. D. A.
Annual Columbus Day
DANCE
Friday. October 14
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Thomas Housing Project
John Adams
G. E. Thomas, Mill City
„ SPARK
Hen cmciinTiHc
1
Hendricson s
Store
Dry Goods, Notions
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GREENLY’S Plumbing & Healing
FOR THE
SAME COST
MUIR
Yoder-Martin Const. Co
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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.
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In the Heart of the
Theatre and Shopping District
and “
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