•—THE MIEI- CITY ENTERPRISE
FIREWORKS
For Sale by Boy Scouts
Stands located at Lyons and Mill City
On sale June 20th to July 4th
Out of the Woods
By JIM STEVENS
Pa Kettle’« Forest Fire . . .
FOR SALE—1946 Cadillac power en Betty MacDonald's famous story,
gine, complete with radiator, 12- THE EGG AND I. has a chapter that
FARMS
FREE-
160-acre
homestead
FOR SALE—Grand Plano, recondi
volt generator and starter and all is really a parable on the public prob-
tracts
now
available
for
farming,
tioned and recently refinished ma- !
dash board gauges. Ready to run ilem and the popular appeal that the
dairying, ranching, etc. Also other
hogany baby grand.
Guaranteed
$300.00 Inquire at Mill City Auto i "Keep Green” movement represents.
Government lands as low as $1.00
perfect.
$775.00 cash, terms, or
Supply, phone 1652.
23-3 j
The chapter js on Pa Kettle and his
rented with purchase option. Stone I per acre up. For information all
FOR
SALE
—
Spinet
Piano,
$35.00
de-1 forest fire, Here is a liberal quota
states sent post paid, send $3 00 to
Piano Co , 1540 Fairgrounds Road,
Northwest Land Service. 410 E. 8th
posit, and $15.00 per month places iion from it:
Salem.
16tf
Ave., Anaconda, Mont.
22-3t
a fine instrument In your home.
"Even with the continual rain, July,
FOR SALE - One dining room set, six
Can be seen locally. Write Stone August, September and even October
FOR
SALE
—
Three
choice
building
chairs, buffet, table, two extra
Piano Co., 1540 Fairgrounds Road, were bad fire months in the moun
lots in Swift’s addition, water, elec
leaves, walnut veneer. Very good
Salem.
10tf tains (the Olympics).
If you were
tricity
available,
level
ground.
W.
condition, price $75. Lester Warner.
unfortunate enough to live on a ranch
ROOM
&
BOARD
—
$15
week
across
L. Peterson.
20tf
Box 763. Mill City.
23-3p
road from 7 Cafe, Lyons, Mrs. B. I near the Kettles, ANY month was
WANTED-Setting hens. Mrs Geo. WE BUY—Wornout or broken bat F. Hahn.
22-3p l dangerous. It was said that the Ket
teries and radiators. Red's Hill Top
Cree, phone 924.
24-lp
tles set the original peat fires in the
Trading Post.
24 WE BUY —Fir pitch 75c per gallon
KODAK FILMS DEVELOPED —
See us for containers. Red’s Hill valleys and that one summer, Pa. to
Fastest service in Portland and sat PLEASE LIST all available rooms,
Top Trading Post.
24 save himself the effort of mowing the
room and board, houses and apts.
lawn, set fire to the grass and burned
isfaction guaranteed by Portland's
Write, telephone or visit Personnel FOR SALE — 20 acres near Gates, off the front porch.
oldest company.
Eight exposure
The Kettles
Dept. 10 a m. to 3 p.m. Consolidated Ore., 5-room house. 2-room cabin, burned brush any old time of year
roll developed and one print each
Builders, Inc., Detroit Dam.
12tf garage, outbuildings, beautiful park and if the brush fire got away from
25c Two prints each 35c. Rolls
with % mile river frontage, electric
with more than eight exposures one
FOR
SALE
—
20-foot
eastern
built
: spring water system, 10 acres sandy them and burned five or ten acres
print each 35c. Re-prints 3c each,
trailer
house,
furnished.
Behind
H.
loam.
Frank Saunders, Route 1, of somebody’s timber, that was too
•end coin. The Quality Picture Co.
E. Martin’s Body & Fender Shop,
Lyons, Ore., Ph. 757 Mill City 22-3p bad . . .
Box 4401Z, Portland 8, Ore.
18tf
Mehama, Ore.
23-3p
i Home in Danger . . .
FOR SALE—Boy’s 24-in. Roadmaster
FOR SALE Refrigerator, 7 cu. ft.
“It was late October of the second
FOR
SALE
—
Highway
frontage
in
bicycle, good condition, $30. Call year,” Betty MacDonald's story goes
Norge, reconditioned, clean and ex
Mill
City,
excellent
business
loca
Officer Hunt, police station.
22tf on to tell, "when Elwin Kettle drove
cellent condition $115 Red's Hill
tion. Phone 1957.
22-3p
Top Trading Post.
24-1
WHY PAY RENT 7 Buy income prop excitedly into our yard one morning
■XPERT AUTO and home radio FOR SALE--18 ft. trailer house, good
erty. New duplex for sale. W. L to tell us that their barn was on fire.
condition, reasonable
Fir Grove
Mrvlce, 20 years experience, all
Peterson, Swift’s addition.
20tf He said, 'Pa filled the hay mow with
Court, west of Mill City on hiway.
makes. Guaranteed service.
wet hay and the darned stuff’s com
Owner, Cecil Fritts.
22-3p FOR SALE—140 h.p. deisel, double busted spontaneous.
Stiffler s Radio and Appliance. 3tf
The Barn's
drum, with lines, $3,500. Jungwirth
FOR SALE—Rabbits, does and bucks. FOR SALE — Ford V-8 sedan '35.
Sand & Gravel, ph. 9242, Mill City. burnin' and it’s set the brush in the
$100 00 Durham’s Grocery, Gates.
24-3 ravine on fire, too. Ma said to warn
08 breeding does, six bucks, good
22-3p
you it's probably come up this way
price. All does due to kindle within
the next 30 days. Write to R. W
because the wind’s from the south . . .
FOR
SALE
or
TRADE
—
Will
take
In
Bohroll, M. R Box 706. Clarks Mills
“All afternoon cars chugged up our
late
model
sedan
on
10
rooms
and
Rd Sweet Home, Ore.
24-3p
[ road and then scooted down toward
2 acres In city limits of Mill City,
the Kettles’.
Bob had spread the
very reasonable. Ideal for rooming
jVE BUY—Cascara bark. Red’s Hill
alarm and the farmers were answer
house, 4 blocks from Hill Top Store.
Top Trading Post.
24
ing the call for help. I learned later
P. O. Box 96, Gates. Phone 3771.
F. Cook.
22-3p
that Bob had gone even further—he
AVON PRODUCTS
I had asked Maxwell Ford Jefferson,
C, E. 'Pink* Mason, Prop.
FOR
SALE
Range-Tec
glass
frying
Phone 3424
the moonshiner, to help and Jeff
pans 50c. Red’s Hill Top Trading
22-14t
SHELL PRODUCTS
passed the word on to all his good
Post.
24-1
AUTO STORAGE BATTERIES
customers. I made gallons- of coffee
FOR SALE — Complete restaurant,
ZENITH TIRES
and hundreds of sandwiches and at
kitchen equipment, dishes included, FOR SALE —Half-finished 4-r house, i
reasonable. The Cottonwoods Tav with 1% acres land, well, $1,200.00.
about four the fighters came filing
Will accept trailer on trade. 8ee
ern, Route 1, Albany. Ph. 2510R2
wearily in. blackfaced and dirty. They
B. J. Wriglesworth, Route 1. Lyons,
Albany
22-3p
ate sandwiches, drank coffee, and
one mile east of Gates.
22-5t i
cursed the Kettles.
SOAP FREE! -No work, 9 lb. wash
"The smoke rolled up the draw and
30c, Why do it the old way. Gates A GOOD SELECTION of linoleum
yardage, 6 and 9 ft. widths, 69c per
obscured the sun and stung my eyes
Automatic Laundry.
23-3p
eq. yard. Dave Epps Furniture Co.
while I put out the lanterns and fed
FOR SALE - Lavatory, wash bowls,
the chickens. Each batch of fighters
With brass faucets, $7 50 Red's Hill FOR SALE 4-bedmi. modern house,
brought more frightening news. 'The
approximately 1% acres Just out I
Top Trading Post.
24-1
fire was almost to the road in several
side city limits on Lyons-Mill City
places!’
’The wind was getting
MILL CITY
LIST YOUR homes and farms with highway. Warren Howe.
22-3p
stronger.
’
'Once the fire hit the tim
me. Have cash buyers. Mill City,
i
David M.
Oates. Detroit. Lyons.
ber on our place we would have to
A
FRIENDLY
3tf
Reid, Real Estate.
run for our lives'."
FAMILY
Save That Still . . . !
FOR SALE Kimball upright piano,
Such was the bad news. Then, at
ATMOSPHERE
excellent tone Inquire at Detroit
! around seven in the evening Max
Barber Shop.
23-3
PREVAILS
Jefferson, the moonshiner, dropped
by with a word of cheer.
FOR SALE — New home, 4 rooms,
GENERAL AUTO and
"Just thought I’d drop up and tell
modern, wired for electric range,
TRUCK REPAIR
you not to worry, honey. I’ve got the
large lot, fine shade trees, in city
Would take late modern trailei
; biggest bunch of drunkards in the
house See Bob Thompson, apt 7.
I United States out fightin’ that fire
Beebe Apts. Ph. 561.
24-3p
I ’cause they think my still’s up this
| way.” (the time was twenty years
FOR SALE Trailer size butane and
ago )
Phone 3452
white gas stoves $19 50. Red’s Hill
The fire grew worse in the night. |
Top Trading Post.
Betty tried to choose what she would
take with her in case she had to run
for it.
“It narrowed down finally to the
baby, the key of whisky and the ani
mals.” she says "I put my sorority
pin and my high school graduation
VETERINARIAN
ring in my purse, my silver in the
For your excavating
didy bag and we were ready.”
and
dump
truck
work
STAYTON
But the fire burned itself out as a
3-8 yd. 10-B Shovel
night rain set in. In the end it was
PIIONE 4148
Basement«, Trench and
only one of the annual thousands of
General Excavating
fires that never got a line in the
Opposite
newspapers twenty years ago, and
Silver Saddle Trailer Camp
Claude lewis’ Servit e Station
which the people of the woods and
Mill City, Ore.
Phone 903
faints endured much as they endured
colds, rheumatism and pneumonia in
the winter time.
Today, all but the worst of the Pa
1 Kettles in both Oregon and Washing
ton—the Pa Kettles of the cities, too
—are in the line of march with
others for forest fire prevention.
I we go forward!
Wants and Sales
MILL CITY
Service Station
FISHING TACKLE
Les’s Tavern
A family reunion was held at the
beautiful new home of Mr and Mrs.
Lenard Cruson in Fox Valley, Sunday.
June 11. Those attending were: Mrs.
Louise Cruson, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Smith of Vancouver, Washington;
Mr and Mrs. Dave Woffard. Mr. and
Mrs. Art Comstock and Julie; Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Kent, David and Jay; and
Mr and Mrs. Ed. Woffaard, all of
Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Cruson, Gail and Jerry, of Ashland;
Mr. and Mrs, Charles Cruson and
Bonnie; Mr. and Mrs Leo Cruson,
Buddy and Merry Jo; Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Holt; Mrs. Pearl Hudson; Mr.
Denne’s Gray, and Mr. and Mrs. Len
ard Cruson, Mike and Nikki; all of
Fox Valley.
Mrs. Donald Me Whirk and children
of Pierce, Idaho; spent two weeks
visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Cruson. They are visiting
jn Tacoma, with Mrs. McWhirk’s
mother for a week before entering |
Errol, the oldest boy, in the Shrine
hospital in Portland.
Mr. George White of Jennings
Lodge, and Mr. Earl White of St.
Regis Montana, spent the week-end
visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Leo Cruson
and family. Earl White is the father
of Mrs. Cruson, and George White an
uncle.
De â öood
Tourist Host-
Mom & Pop’s
CAFE
Private Dining
Room
Best authority on spelling: The beat
dictionary available to you.
MILL CITY TAVERN
BYRON DAVIS, Prop.
“At the Bottom of the Hill”
OREGON
MILL CITY,
GREENLY’S
Plumbing & Heatin
LET US FIGURE YOUR ESTIMATES ON
PLUMBING AND HEATING
No Job Too Large and None Too Small
Shop and Residence 4260 Macleay Road, SALEM
SANTIAM
GARAGE
Arc and Acetylene
Welding
J. W. GOIN
Attorney at latw
318 Broadalbin
Albany
Professional
('aiivon
Garage
J
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Expert Repairing
SHELL Oil. PRODUCTS
U. S. ROYAL TIRES
Détruit
P. E. Fry. Mgr.
LIPrOLD - BRENNER
Accountant«
Bookkeeping Service
Auditing
Payroll Report«
Income Tax
Phones:
MUI City 207
Salem 3-7615
Detroit Tavern
and Trailer Court
FIRST IN DETROIT
STILL FIRST IN DETROIT
Red Rjmearoon
Otto Russell
Glen Dryden
HOWARD CORSET SHOP
Foundation Garments
Special Attention Given to Fittings
Hosiery -1 Jn gerie-Dren»en-Smocks
131 High St
Salem
Phone 4032
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TRUCK GETS DUNKED
A gravel truck belonging of
Jungwirth Sand and Gravel
plunge«! off the Santiam highway
into the river near Tumble Creek
Monday morning
The driver of the truck. Basil Green,
of King's Trading Post, received only
minor scratches on his legs
The truck had apparently hit a
rock in the roadway before being
thrown in the river.
Tumble Creek is east of Detroit.
■MMM
I) WIDM. REID
Real Estate
Mill City
BARGAINS
In Furniture. Stoves. Dishes
Clothing. Housewares
MAC’S
140 8 Church next to Salem Parkin»
WOOD’S STORE
Gearnd Dry Good«
NOTIONS
IJNGERIE
-NEW STOCK
r«-»» Print«
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Silk and Wool Scarf«
New shad«-« in Nylon«
Curttaln Material — Ticking
Hendricsons Stori
In the Daw«*« Bldg.
READY-TO-WEAR
HOSIERY
l.l'ZIERS IXfAMETlOH
C. E. Coville
MIKE’S Septic Service
nrptlc Tank« and Sewers Cleaned
none SAI.E.M > Mtt. OOUACT
I»7» Elm SL, W. Salem
CALI,
Kimsey’s Ready Mix
Phone ll-F-24 Stayton
Plant near Mehama
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Business - Directory
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