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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1950)
March 23, 1950 aDHfiH»nnnannnHKfiaHian]otBHBn>i •THE MILI. (JT Y ENTERPRISE Wants and Sales Call George Ghosts of the Past Still Occupy Old Logging Camp TRAILER COURTS Butler’s Trailer News, Gates LEGAL ADVERTISING NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The school board of District 29J, Linn and Marion counties, Lyons, Ore., do hereby solicit sealed bids on the following school properties: 1 Twin Cedar school house and grounds approximately 2 acres in Linn county; 2. Fox Valley school house and fix tures in Linn county; 3. Fox Valley school building only; 4. Furniture, (any item separate), water heater, kitchen cabinets, electric pump, furnace, kitchen range. Board reserves the right to reject all bids. Bids close at 8 o'clock p m., April 6th, 1950. VERNON JAMES. Chairman ALICE HUBER, Clerk. First publication March 16, 1950—3t Mr. and Mrs. Gene Davidson and By JEAN ROBERTS Nestled in a narrow draw high Edward Butler drove to Salem Sun- 3403 or 88, for BLEEPING ROOMS by week or mo. FOR SALE — Baby buggy, perfect j above Elkhorn valley and almost ob- day to attend a youth rally, condition, used 6 times, 315. Joe1 New beds, box springs and inner- Walter, first street west of Santiam spring mattresses, $1 day. Peter- »cured by rapidly growing alders Mr. Ralph Long has been confined garage 12-lp pon duplex, Kingwood st., Swift’s stands an old deserted logging camp at home with the flu. addition 12 built many years ago by the C & H Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Wilson and son FOR SALE ■— Kenmore automatic i Robert spent Sunday in Dayton. washing machine. Write Box 348 ROOMS AND BOARD New, clean, Logging company. 10-3tp quiet, with family - style meals. or calk Enterprise office. It resembles a ghost town with Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Johnson spent Reasonable. Don Marshall’s east its rows of bunk houses neatly out- the week-end in Portland visiting on Kingwood road to 4th St., to end FOR RENT—3-rm. furnished apart E. D. lined by board walks and a huge Lynn’s parents. His father is quite Of street. Phone 3751. 10-4tp ment, modern, garage. Cooke. 5tf cookhouse still standing as though ill at the present time with poor MILL CITY, OREGON ROOM & BOARD See Annie Hahn in readiness for the crew of loggers .circulation of his legs, causing com- - ’ OR SALE- New double constructed across from ? Cafe, Lyons. 12-3tp I plications, We hope he improves stucco duplex. For sale by owner, aaaoaaaaaaaaaaoaaa'aiaiaaiiBnQ to return for the evening meal. LIST YOUR homes and farms with call The Enterprise. 49tf They was vacated almost overnight quickly. me. Have cash buyers. Mill City, leaving stoves, sinks, kettles, ladles, Mr. and Mrs. Jim St. Clain and son Gates, Detroit, Lyons. David M. FOR SALE Baled oats straw. Etzel Bros., Stayton, Ore., R. 1, Box 234. and other cookhouse equipment Jimmie motored to Albany and Junc Reid, Real Estate. 3tf Ph. 14F71 or 16F84. 12-3p still in place. Bunk houses, though tion City over the week-end. PLEASE LIST all available rooms, run down and in need of repair, Charles Streeter was injured on the ' FOR SALE — Modern wood cook room and board, houses and apts. range with hot water coils, reason evinces an air of a once orderly camp. job this past week, requiring several Write, telephone or visit Personnel able. See A. M. Knox, 1 mile east Dept. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Consolidated Beds, mattresses and stoves are plen stitches on his chin and knocking a ; then •/« mile south of Lyons. Phone Builders, Inc., Detroit Dam 12tf tiful and a wood log still lies by tooth loose. C. E. ‘ Pink ’ Mason, Prop. 1184 Lyons. 9-3t the bath house depicting the bull FOR SALE — Verybest brand blue Harry Richcreek and A Nelson! SHELL PRODUCTS Marshall strawberry berry plants. Grown in west for FOR SALE cook's realm. GENERAL AUTO and spent the week-end in Portland with plants $12 per M. Cheaper if you AUTO STORAGE BATTERIES western planting. Write to Tony Logging camps, once an accepted their families. TRUCK REPAIR dig. S. E. Ogden, west end of Moravec Berry and Poultry Farm ZENITH TIRES -------- - ----------------------------------- part of the logging Industry, are Evergreen Street. ll-3tp for price list. Route 1, Box 242, Arc and Acetylene fast dissappearing with the diminish, brain, some of them being unable to I Stayton, Ore. 51-17t-15 FOR SALE — Weiner pigs. FISHING TACKLE See ing virgin forests. This camp like Welding Frances Clark, 1 ml. west of Mill read or write. One bucker had to I FOR RENT—Cabin. Write Ted Ja many others has its own never to learn to write the numbers on each; City, ph. 952 12-ltp coby, Route 1, Box 162, Stayton, Phone 3452 be forgotten history, an array of out log occasionally getting them upside 10-3tp FOR SALE — Telephone, Ellis Hill. Ore. standing figures that made it what down or backward, but though many Call ph. 1934. 12-3p EXPERT AUTO and home radio it was. Mrvice, 20 years experience, all FOUND — Package on hiway near lacking in formal education, their One of the first cooks, was Taunt minds and bodies were trained for makes. Guaranteed service. Gates, containing yam, Afghan /Stiffler's Radio and Appliance. 3tf SEE Myers, an early Elkhorn resident split second action. blocks, etc. Owner may have same | by identifying. Mrs. H. N. Wilson, who always staunchly maintained C & H Logging Co., is now a thing FOR SALÉ Grey oat«, «leaned or Gates, Linn county side river. 12-lp that coffee must be salted, same as of the past but it still lives on in the field run Also oats and wheat anything else, or it wasn’t fit to memories of the men who were a part mixed. Etzel Bros , Stayton, Ore , FOR SALE — Santizor vacuum with Blacksmithing For your excavating Route 1, Box 234. Ph. 14F71 or attachments, also portable ward drink. Frying hotcakes was his spe of its existance. One of the former Welding and dump truck work 16F84, 12-3p robe, fruit jars, «tc. Mrs. Joe cialty as he deftly tossed them with Logging and Saw owners, Earl Hitchman, who now 3-8 yd. 10-B Shovel Liberty, Broadway and 4th street, the pan sometimes catching one in lives in Salem, is still affectionately A GOOD SELECTION of linoleum MUI Repairing across from Red Thomas. Phone Basements, Trench and yardage. 6 and 9 ft. widths, 69c per his hands. As he cooked, he talked known as "pappy" by any of the men 2006 12-3t General Excavating BI j OCK WEST OF THEATRE •q. yard. Dave Epps Furniture Co. of his couger hunting days occas who ever worked for C & H. Silver Saddle Trailer Camp REGISTRATION TO VOTE CLOSES I ionally reaching down to pat the head FOR SALE -Boy's 26 inch bicycle, in APRIL 18 — IT IS YOUR PRIVILEGE of a faithful hound who slept by the good condition $20 Can be seen Quality job printing at the Enter Mill City, Ore. Phone 903 at Peterson residence in Swift's cook stove. prise. addition. 10tf An outstanding figure was Ed Ingram, an old time logger who could j FOR SALE — Pair of de-odorize<l chew tobacco all day and never spit. Skunks Phone 4503 12-lt Thin as a rope and twice as tough FOR SALE — 6-room house, bam, he was always happy for any excuse Chicken house, orchard, several to quit work and go cat hunting. acres of good garden soil goes with BYRON DAVIS, Prop. With his hounds, a gun, and a blanket this place, can all be irrigated, at tractive terms can be had. Phone he would disappear into the woods “At the Bottom of the Hill” 742. Royal Johnson, 2 ml. each of for a day or perhaps a week. He Gates in Linn county. 12-5p FAMILY STYIÆ MEALS MILL CITY OREGON always insisted that “you can't get lost,if you don’t care where you are,'1 FOR FULLER BRU8HES and clean Coder New Management ing equipment call your Fuller but he had been “a bit confused’’ Brush dealer. Theo. Muysken, Rt, several times. 1, Box 229, Aumsville, Ore. 3tf There was Phil Dooley, a high I climber who thought nothing of ; tossing his hat in the air from the j top of a spar tree and then descend- j LET US FIGURE YOUR ESTIMATES ON For Guaranteed Cleaning ing the tree in a flash, braking occas- ; PLUMBING AND HEATING tonally with belt and spurs, to beat it’s the No Job Too Large and None Too Small his hat to the ground. Shop and Residence 4260 Macleay Road, SALEM Ph. 2-7390 Smoky and Ole were falling part MILL CITY ners and every morning Smoky | ■•viiniitiiiiuuiiiiiiiiuiuiiiuHiiuiiuiiHiiiiNominiiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiiimriiiniiiiUihitiii carried O1 e to work. Everyone One MlU Kant of Detroit laughed when Smoky insisted that A Friendy Family 24-HOUR SERVICE Ole was the best partner he ever JEWEL MYERS, Mgr. Atmosphere Prevails had. Ole, you see, was a 'rubber Mill City man*. A piece of innertube was HHWItlllt fastened to a nearby tree to pull Smoky’s falling saw buck back and LOTS, and HOMES FOR SALE forth. In this way Smoky fell timber by himself, but always talked about IF the efficiency of his partner Ole. The caretaker at the camp was a ■noonaHBKHnnnnn n n n b n a t> a n u a a soft spoken man with white hair and MII.I. CTTY DISPOSAL whose manner indicated a better than J SERVICE average education. His downfall Expert Repairing Garbage, ashes, trimmings, etc. I however, was alcohol, and he shame- weekly pickups $1 per month. SHELL OIL PRODUCTS PHYSICIAN & SURGEON , facedly admitted having seen ‘snakes’ Also light hauling U. 8. ROYAL TIRES Mill City P. E. Fry, Manager several times. Leonard Herman Phone 2325 ♦ ♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦■♦♦♦♦•I Not all was fun and fancy, however, MBMHHnnBBBBnnBBBnnnnunnnnD as any camp can tell a tale of the ----------- X r logging industry which is a danger- ous one with death ever striding HOWARD CORSET SHOP HARLOW L. WEINRICK along with the men in the caulk Foundation Garments BARBER SHOP boots. Attorney at Law Bpecial Attention Given to Fittings 2nd X Broadwny Mill City Tragedy struck one summer week Hosiery' -1 Ungerle- Dre««e«-Smocks 318 Broadalbin j Albany Hours: 10 to 7 ar.d before the end of the next, three 131 High St. Salem Phone 4032 men were killed, The first was the ■MBaBteutl III' UH.... Uli MN MNiMMBHNl'INIilMun.ll driver of a loaded log truck out of LIPPOLD - BRENNER control that plunged over a steep BARGAINS Accountants bank and crashed several hundred In Furniture, Stoves. Dishes FLORIST and Nt RSF.RY Bookkeeping Service Auditing feet below. The huge old growth i , Clothing. Housewares It’« New! It’» Smart! Payroll Reports Income Tax logs rolled over the cab and driver I I'hone 6812 319 W. Washington Phones : Stay ton. Oregon MAC'S Mill City 207 Salem 3-7615 flattening the truck like a pancake. I J A few days later another truck 145 S, Church, next to Salem Parkin» I Where Friend» Meet driver perished when he jumped from I • his truck only to be run down by the On Highway 222, Linn County Side Cliff Amber»* trailer. Cause of the accidents was I JI’ST ARRIVED— MILL CITY not determined as air brakes were I ladle« and Children'« L'lubrell«« Tony Ziebert George ‘Sparky’ Ditter checked and watered at the top of Rath Towels — Aprons GOODE S ELOWER SHOP the hill before starting the steep t Handkerchief« Just East of Gate« Phone Blue 64B Stavton, Ore. Sheet« — Embroidered Case« mile descent. • Table. h>th« The camp foreman known as Scotty met a fiery death the next week when a gasoline drum exploded WEDDLE FUNERAL spraying him with the burning liquid. Balcony Epp's Store and Trailer Court HOME For years loggers were regarded FIRST IN DETROIT Modem Funeral Service STILI. FIRST IN DETROIT as men of brawn but with very little Towing Service MILL CITY Service Station SANTIAM GARAGE H. A. Schroeder JOHN ADAMS Mom & Pop’s CAFE Private Dining Room Mill City Hotel MILL CITY TAVERN Boarding House GREENLYS North Sant ¡am NU-METHOD Plumbing & Heatin Tex's Tavern TAVERN Thomas Housing Project Business Directory Professional G.E.THOMAS.Mill City Canyon Garage VERNE’S RALEIGH HAROLD MEANDER INN FLOWERS Hendricson’s Stori I l he MAPLES Detroit lavern STAYTON OREGON The Last Word In Modern Wrecker Service Red Ryaearson Otto Rusoell Glen Drvden See is DAVID M.REID for all your Real Estate Plumbing and MUI (M t WE HAVE JUST RECENTLY PUT INTO OPERATION A NEW HEAVY DUTY WRECKER WE ARE NOW EQUIPPED TO HANDLE ANY JOB WE HAVE AN EXPERIENCED WRECKER DRIVER STANDING BY 24 HOURS A DAY Heating Needs Real Estate West Side MUI CWy •7 IJWTINGA WANTED TWO WRECKERS DAY & NIGHT! Oregon Mutual Fire Insurant*« See Ed L. Davit Lyon», R.F.D. Stayton The Douglas McKay Chevrolet Co. Phone: 3-3175 Day and Night lelo«« you boy-IM th« SPARK GAS MAKING OfMONSTRATION