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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1951)
4 7—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE January I. 1951 NEW I)YE HATH FOR "HAND-ME-DOWNS" y x c * ■ «P' ' I I ___ ___ __ _________ I Give “hand-me-downs-’ bright, new colors via the dve-bath •—■and you’ll have no trouble getting little sister or brother to wear them. A few dime boxes of all-fabric dye, available in 50 colors, will give a new lease on life to outgrown, faded clothing you’d ordinarily dis card— and be a real money-saver in these days of mounting clothing prices, If you want to still further accentuate the new look before tintexing, a little needlework that adds a hem, a collar or belt will do the trick. Wash and thoroughly rinse all articles before dyeing, advises the Tintex Home Economics Bureau, and also remove all buttons, buckles and trimmings. Use color remover first, the bureau recommends, if the article is unevenly faded or spotted, or if you re changing to a new color. us up." The big trees now ran around curiously, and medium trees scamp ered the hills rustling friends to come More facts are but wait! What's and see the goings-on. By JIM STEVENS this got in here? Ladies Day . . . Giants Looked Dow n . . . The last time that a woman was It Says Here . . . Soon it was Christmas. The little given a hand in this column, as I re “Today soft-spoken Jim Stevens trees simply loved being Christmas member. was in wartime, when a lady came up from his boom-pond shack adorned with silver rain, glit dietitian decreed that no increase was to see Northgate’s tallest Christmas .trees, snow, moon chips, tinkle bells, needed in the meat rations of loggers tree,” says Helene Farmer, “and it j tering and stars hooked from the Great as long as peanut butter was so plenti reminded him of how Paul Bunyan ful. That pronouncement recalled invented Christmas trees, and from ■Dipper. Every forest giant longed then, the Confederate ditty of the Siege ot that started the lumber industry.” Y’icksburg, year of 1863, which had From there Mrs. Farmer goes on to | looking down, some day to be allowed this chorus— ■ present one of my old Bunyan yarns I to be a Christmas tree. They prom “Eating goober peas, eating gtiober in a far better style than I've ever ised Paul Bunyan anything to be peas. managed to rig up on it for myself. ' allowed to be Christmas trees. They Golly, how delicious! Here it goes, with no quotation marks J promised to root down and stand firm for eternity—hoping. Eating goober peas . . ,” bothering it— Thus were Christmas trees and the In that early day of Paul Bunyan I failed to note that the song was sarcastic in intent. Or that “pea- there was no standing timber. Trees logging and lumber industry brought I nuts’’ was unknown in those days, as ran around like Buffalo, sinking their about by Paul Bunyan. And now, at “goober” was the word for the great roots for a while, only when they ; long last, a real giant tree of the forest, a Douglas fir 212 feet tall, American nut. Some of my custom were hungry. Y’ou hunted them. Paul Bunyan wanted to log. He has realized the old, old dream ot ers were as much confused as the lady needed to make trees stand still. He i forest giants— the dream of their be- Ph. D. of Uncle's Diet bureau. But no dangers of the kind lurk made friends with some very young j ing made into Christmas trees, just in the communication to "Dear Feller trees, borrowed them from their par as the little trees were made by Paul Loggers” by Helene Farmer, lyricist ents, and tamed and taught them cun Bunyan’s men and the powerful magic ■ of his early day in the woods. . . . of Seattle’s new shopping neighbor ningly. There you are, there’s a Ladies' Christmas was coming. hood, Northgate, where the tallest With great huffing Paul Bunyan Day Paul Bunyan. Thanky, Helene Christmas tree in the world now tow persuaded all the farmers to quit Farmer! ers and glitters. Here is an article by Mrs. Farmer work and snare stars, edge off cres The Ed Cookes today came back to that squares off with plain facts on cents from the moon, and catch the J Mill City following a holiday visit how this tree is a long Douglas fir log twinkle of rivers for bells. They strung snow flakes and caught with their son, Jim, in Los Angeles. with whiskers on it, standing 212 feet silver rain as it streaked down from Jim is a sophomore in the University aloft, its 25 tons guyed to dead men, of Southern California. While in Cal its branches inserted in bored holes, the sky. The little trees giggled and said, ifornia. the Cookes had short get-to- and its 3,500 lights draped on the I greenery by heliocopter. So long, the wind whistling at them, “Y’es, ! gethers with a host of relatives and we will stand still and let you pretty friends. reindeer. Pau! Bunyan's Christmas Tree Church Activities 1.1) 8 OF JESUS CHRIST CHURCH Detroit Sunday school each Sunday 10 a m. in high school building, Detroit Priesthood meeting 11 a m. Zealand Fryer, Presiding • • • FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Morning worship 11 a m. Music by choir. Dr. David J. Ferguson. Preaching Young People at 6:30 p.m., Mr». Arthur Kreiver. leader. • • • ST. CATHERINE CATHOLIC CHURCH. MIL! CITY’ Mass at 9 a.m. Confessions heard before Mass. Altar Society 3d Wednesday 8 p.m, Father Carl Mai, Pastor • • • DETROIT CHRISTIAN CHURCH Sunday School at 9:45 a m. Preaching at 11 a.m. Youth Meetings at 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Bible study for Youth at 7 p.m. _ Wednesday at the church. • • • FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Services every Lord’s day Sunday school 9:45 p.m. Morning worship 11 a.m. Young People’s meeting 6:30 p.m. Evening worship 7:30 p,m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. Jr. Teen Fellowship Wed., 7:30 p.m. Bible study hour. Thursday, 7 p.m. Young People. Mr. Hugh Jull, Pastor CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IOOF Hall Sunday H a.m. Wednesday meeting 4th Wed. 8 p.m. « • • FREE METHODIST CHURCH North MUI City Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Morning worship 11 a.m. Junior church 11:00 a.m. Evening service 7:30 pjn. Wednesday prayer meeting 7:30 p. Phone 1906 Rev. L. C. Gould, Pastor • • • COMMUNITY CHURCH FuU Gospel Preaching Sunday school 10 A.M. Morning worship 11 A.M. Evangelistic service 8 P.M. Preaching services Wednesday and Friday 8 P.M. Rev. Wayne W. Watkins, Pastor • • • GATES COMMUNITY CHURCH OF CHRIST Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning worship 11 a.m. Christian Endeavor 6:30 p.m. Evening worship 7:30 p.m. Walter Smith. Pastor * * * _____ IDANHA COMMUNITY CHURCH Sunday school 10 a.m. Morning service 11 a.m. Evening service 7:30 p.m. Thursday prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. Student Pastor, Rodney Toews • • • ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH Th« famous F-l Pickup . .. with new features for *51 ! 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