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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1950)
registration to vote closes APRIL 18—IT IS YOUR PRIVILEGE On \ acation Until April /th Open again Friday, April 7th McEWAN PHOTO SHOP MILL CITY llllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!lll!lllllllllllllll Room & Board NEW — CLEAN QUIET Family Style Meals MEHAMA MILL CITY 3—THE Mil l. CITI ENTERPRISI GATES April 6, 11*50 the end of a short handled shovel for BY JEAN ROBERTS By MRS. ALBERT MILLSAP Cpl. Bill McClintock of Fort Law eight hours or more, so the cost of A pink and blue shower was held Mrs. Tex Allen is in Spokane, their fodder was figured in with the in the Women’s club house Friday ton. Washington, will arrive Satur night honoring Mrs. Leila Mae Rock day to spend Easter with his brother, 1 Wash., at the home of her mother, hay and the oats. i Mrs. Allen was called there by the well. Hostesses for the evening were Lee McClinton and family. In those rugged and slow moving Mrs Wayne Smith and Mrs. Bernice “In the good old days” when Ore days when Oregon’s road map was Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Craig and death of her aunt, her mother's sister. I Boring assisted by Mrs. Carmen Mc- Doris were in Newberg Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Claude Rebhan of gon started to build highways, road | Donald. Forty eight ladies were afternoon. Their son Martin accom Dallas were Saturday guests at the building was done with strong backs, started crawling over the face of the state, manpower was cheap and ’ present. panied them home to spend his spring home of their son-in-law and daugh- short handled shovels and a combina abundant. A man and his team Clarence (Tiny) Goodell and Dar- I ter, Mr. and Mrs Norman Garrison. tion of men and horsepower directly would put in eight hours, sometimes I lene Downer were married Saturday vacation. A. D. Scott and daughter, Mrs. applied on the works. Bulldozers more, for around $6 a day. Pick and Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hollyman and night in Vancouver, Washington. They plan to make their home in Me- children were in Portland from Sat Larry Shelton spent Friday in Salem then were an inventor's dream. shovel men earned about as much in ' Cully Mt. in the Henry Croisant urday to Tuesday visiting relatives. on business and while there called Road scrapers were "drags" hauled eight hours as they now get in two. by horses and mules. Contractors That was before highway construc i house. Mr. Hollyman attended the teacher’s on relatives. Mrs. William Athey has been en j “blew” stumps out of the right of tion money started growing out of Mrs. Raymond Branch visited her conference Monday and Tuesday. gaged to assist Mrs. Walter Brisbin way with black powder or dug them gasoline but still was a product of the father last week who is convalesing Mrs. Goldie Regal is employed at i at a home in Albany. in the post office until such a time as out with mattocks and men. Cuts wayside soil, was scarcer than shovel A number of people have been the Porter an Lau Appliance store. the regular assistant, Mrs. Gilbert were cleared and frills were made muscle and harder to get on a high- Mrs. Syd. Baughman was in Detroit stricken with virus sore throat, colds, Brosig is able to resume her duties i with wheelbarrows, shovels, dump | way job. and pneumonia in this area. Latest Thursday afternoon to a shower in there. Mrs. Brosig is confined to her wagons, slips and fresnoe. I victim who was hospitalized for a honor of Mrs. Raymond Sophy. home with a broken ankle. Most of the tools they used in those REGISTRATION < I4>SES APRIL 18 few days was a small son of Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson spent Monday in Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Thomas and days are museum pieces compared Mrs. Larry Kimsey with virus pneu Portland on business. family who have occupied the former with the equipment contractors em monia. LaVetta Powelson spent Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crook made Monday and Tuesday with her grand Horner home here for almost a year ploy now; the bows and arrows of a trip to Portland Saturday, return parents, Mr. and Mrs Harry Keiser moved Saturday to their home east early time road building battles. of town. ing with a new automobile. Another at Gates. Today one of the primary factors a Mr. and Mrs. Willard Hudson, new highway contractor figures on a job proud owner of a new car is Fritz Miss Betty Class of Salem spent Amunsan. comers to Gates took possession of j in the cost of the gasoline and diesel The Ridling family plans to move the weekend at her home. their new home, recently purchased ! required to run the ponderous Mrs. Paul Cree and Mrs. George , to California at the close of the school from Harold Heath. Mr. and Mrs. machines he uses. Back in 1913 he term. Mr Ridling is already em l Cree were in Scio Sunday to visit Hudson will operate a self service [ figured how much hay and oats he Mrs. George Cree’s mother, Mrs. ployed there. laundry here, in a building now in the would need to keep his horses and An Easter egg hunt will De he’d Alice Burton who was celebrating her stages of completion. Ten new outo- mules pushing against their collars. at the Mehama community church 80th birthday. matic washers to be installed, were And men, lots of men, ate like Mill City Mrs. Mattie Murdock is announcing Sunday immediately following Sun received the last of the week. horses after they had been hitched to I i her forthcoming marriage to Mr. aHnn»nn»nn«nannnHKSin»nHHn>x day school. Those wishing to donate Mrs. Paul Davis and baby daughter, eggs may leave them with Phyllis George Nay of Ogden, Utah. Mrs. Lonna Paul, were brought home Murdock and her family plan to McCarley. from the Salem Memorial hospital Mr. and Mrs. Ercill Wilson moved leave about the first of June and will Tuesday evening of last week. The be married June 10. into their new house last Saturday. baby was bom Sunday, March 26th. Mrs. Anna N. Swift was a Sunday Both mother and baby are in the best j dinner guest of the Lester Hath of health. Baby Chick Buyers Warned away’s. An election will be held April 14th, With the seasonal peak for taking Mr. and Mrs. Earl Plymale were in i in the Gates Furniture store from delivery an baby chicks soon at hand, Eugene, Sunday, where they visited the state department of agriculture his brother, Walter, who is a patient J 8 o’clock in the morning to 6 p.m. to today called attention of chick buyers at a Eugene hospital following sur decide whether or not Gates will be come an incorporated town, with all to the importance of taking precau gery. the benefits and improvements that tions to protect their purchase A delegate attending the Shriners against any possible appearance of convention in Portland, Wednesday could be realized from such a move or remain as is. Newcastle disease. evening included Mill City’s mayor, Salem guests at the home of Mr. With the spring movement of Albert Toman. and Mrs. Elmer Klutke last weekend chicks just around the comer he sug Mrs. W. H. Fortune of Seattle is gests that each chick buyer make visiting her daughtr and son-in-law. were Mr. and Mrs. Bernard. Recent guests at the Paul Mitchell himself or herself a committee of one Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Herman. home were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dean to see that Oregon’s position with res Mrs. Bertha Shepherd returned to pect to Newcastle continues rela j Mill City recently after spending 10 from Springfield and Mrs. and Mrs. Robert Mitchell of Portland. tively good. days-with her son Richard, in Junc- Members of the Gates Womans club To this end he suggests that it ,tion City. are looking forward to a large crowd would be well for buyers (1) to get Mrs. Vivian Koenig of the county their chicks from an Oregon hatchery; J supt. office in Salem was a recent at the Easter dance, Saturday even- (2) to take delivery of the chicks in visited at the Daisy Hendricson home. i ing. April 8th in the local gymnasium, i The profit from the dance will be their own cars or trucks; (3) or have Cpl. Bill McClintock who is sta them delivered in the hatchery truck. tioned at Fort Lawton, Washington added to the building fund for the The Lyle Johnson These precautions will help avoid is spending his furlough at the home club house. orchestra from Salem will furnish the some of the hazards of the disease. of his brother Lee and family. music and refreshments will be sold [¿luring the evening. There will be ! good music, good eats, a good floor and a good time. Sunday guests from Salem at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Saun ders were Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Winkler. Miss Carmen Stafford has been en gaged to serve in the Gates cafe, where she has been working for the past two weeks. Weekend guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hughs and daughter Yvonne and Mr. Otto Wagner all from Portland. From Albany were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Anderson. 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