February 8, 1851
•—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
Out of the Woods
the so
sound of a tree whether it was
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r or rotten. To an inexperienced
• ear,
ear. the
t
hollow sound might seem
identical but to a worker who received
no pay for falling a rotten tree, the
sound was quickly learned and dif
By JEAN ROBERTS
ferentiated.
An item of merchantable value
Pitch seams were located and bored.
abounding in a timbered country but ! A spout affixed and pitch allowed to
seldom considered, is pitch. Pitch is ooze out; sometimes a.s much as 50
found in quantity in many old growth gallons per tree. A limb was then
trees and is used commercially for [ pushed into the hole and would grow
varnishes and medicine.
into the tree, sealing the opening and
In the last decade log and lumber ' preventing rot.
Elton Ingram and Ray Roberts
markets have skyrocketed but pre-
viaus to this, timber cruisers and log ¡timber fallers at the old C. and H.
gers in many areas tapped trees for I logging camp above Elkhorn, first
'Qteir pitch content. Present day heard of salvaging pitch from a
fallers occasionally encounter trees timber cruiser who quoted it as sale
that were tapped years ago with a able at $7.00 a gallon. Working in
scar plainly visible. Several trees old growth timber, they considered
bearing the tapping marks have been I it worth while to carry 5 gallon cans
felled recently above Mill City, a few to work and collect pitch. Confident
on Fern Ridge and some on McCully of rich returns they slowed down
busheling.
Mountain.
It was not until they reached Port
In the days of hand-falling an ex
pert woodsman could tell exactly by land with a car loaded with containers
of pitch that doubt assailed them.
No one there had even heard of pitch.
After an extensive search the Blue
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Mountain
Hide and Fur Co. was
WE ARE PLEASED
| located who offered not $7.00 a gallon
TO SERVE YOU!
but .75c. Of course this was lor
pitch that was clear. If stored in
We hope you are pleased
! metal containers for more than a day
with our service.
or so it will color and thus lesson the
value.
At present pitch is purchased by a
i Mill City business at the same rate
• 75c a gallon. Not comparable per-
haps to busheling wages but less
,
strenuous.
Mill < its
By JIM STEVENS
War Story. • .
Scrub Samson was an old head with
the Lemolo Logging company. In his
prime he could never quite inch up to
five feet, even in his calked boots.
Scrub lacked the cockiness that is
common with many good little log
gers. At fifty he seemed a gray,
wizened rabbit of a man. After a
long record of such jobs as flunkey,
whistlepunk, bullcock, woodbuck, snipe
he seemed settled as a camp night
watchman. Then came December 7,
1941.
Lemolo old-timers
A few other
i
knew that Scrub had dreamed for
some years i of a tractor-driver’s job.
He had spent many of his spare day
time hours tinkering and helping
around the machine shop. Ever so
often he was allowed to try his hand
at breaking in a reconditioned tractor.
At last, with the war taking so
many men out of the woods, Scrub got
his chance with a bulldozer, grading
a new logging truck road.
The Snake Ranch, , .
The new trail forked into the
Lemolo River road where stood “The
Snake Ranch,” a joint conducted by a
Bulgarian called “Herman the Hog.”
He and his gang were rotgut boot
leggers, gambling sharks, and, some
said, enemy aliens at heart as well as
by war rating.
On a certain week-end Scrub parked
his dozer in a clump of river-bank
alders alongside the Snake Ranch. It
was with grim purpose. This Sat
urday night, he vowed, he'd live up to
his family name of Samson or bust
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something a-trying.
Scrub had a particular bill of com-
plaint against Herman the Hog.
Back in the depression years the two
had been in camp together. During a
summer shutdown in forest fire
weather, Herman had somehow
SPRAY OR BRUSH
snagged a bottle of lemon extract
from the kitchen and gone to the
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woods to drink it. Drunk, he started
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a fire near the donkey where Scrub
was on watch. Scrub got water on
the blaze and licked it, but in the
fight a shower of coals hit him from
behind and set his shirt on fire. The
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EVENINGS 1952
looks of him when he came in to
camp was a big laugh to the whole
outfit, and most of all to Herman.
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Scrub Samson remembered all that
on this Saturday midnight, as he
packed the line from the dozer’s drum
in among the posts that supported the
rear of the Snake Ranch joint on the
river bank slope.
But Scrub remembered most of all
how many good men of the woods had
been duped and robbed by Herman the
Hog these past weeks; how many hail
been snared in the Snake Ranch by
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■ many loggers had been gypped with
dice and stacked cards.
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Back in the tractor seat Scrub
eased the power into the drum. Cold
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beads of sweat popped out on him
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and chills ran up and down his spine
las timbers groaned and cracked
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'through the midnight shadows ahead.
Scrub could imagine stone walls and
steel bars around him the rest of his
days for this, but he grimly poured
in the power. Then suddenly—
The line slackened and raced in,
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things crashed, the boozy uproar in
405 N. Comi St.
495 N. Com’l St.
435 N. Court St
side the joint lifted in whoops and
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yells of panic, anil the bulk of the
old Snake Ranch shack in the dark
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ness leaned and slid for the shadowy
water.
The crash of splintering
wood and the yells were muffled by
a giant splash. The lights of the
Snake Ranch were out, but Scrub
could see that the shack was in water
up to its windows.
He skipped off the tractor and
unhooked the line from foundation
posts, which had been pulled to the
alders. Three minutes later Scrub
was rolling back to the woods. He
felt safe now. No one could ever
dream that such a rabbit of a man
had pulled the pillars out from
under the Snake Ranch. He was
he'd lived up to the
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happy, At last
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ORtuON JUNIOR GROWERS CAPTURE
FOUR NATIONAL CONTEST AWARDS
Young Hackett's garden plot was
also three - fourths of an acre,
four state awards in the 1950 pro planted to mixed vegetables that
duction-marketing contest of the produced a $133 harvest. The only
National Junior Vegetable Growers vegetable that was sold for cash
Association as the NJVGA con was the cucumber crop. Everything
cluded its sixteenth annual four- else was used at
<lay convention at New Orleans, home, much of it
canned. Mrs.
La., today.
Hackett i n -
State - wide
strutted her son
honors went to
on the size, col
Merrill Kommer,
or, and ripeness
19, son of Mr.
of each vege
and Mrs. John
table desired for
Kommer, Eu
canning, and he
gene ; Lewis
picked them in
Hackett, 17, son
conformance
of Mr. Lewis E.
with her stand
Hackett, Eu
Richard Hull
gene; Richard
ards.
Hull, 17, son of
Richard Hull cultivated a quar
Mr. Walter E. Merrill Kommet ter-acre tract near his home, and
Hull, Eugene,
a $109 crop of 16 vegetables.
and Violet Kay Klobas, 15, daugh grew
Because he doesn't live on a farm,
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Klobas, his
costs were inordinately high,
Bend. Each received a cash prize but nevertheless,
after paying him
from the $6,000 scholarship fund self $25 for labor
from gross re
provided each year by A & P Food turns, he still realized
Stores to encourage better produc of $47, stating, "Even a if net 1 profit
broke
tion and marketing of vegetables even financially, in the best sense
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by farm youth.
a profit from the quality and
Also announced by L. J. Allen, got
(of the produce), and
State 4-H Club Leader and State freshness
the experience and being able
NJVGA chairman was the award from
ing of the national championship to exhibit at the fairs.
Violet Klobas
and the top $500 scholarship to
James L. McBee, 19-year-old grow lives on an 80-
acre farm with
er of Philippi, West Virginia.
her parents, and
The Kommer
took over 4060
boy’s plot was
square feet for
three-fourths of
her own project,
an acre in ex
i She grew nearly
tent, planted to
$80 worth of
the usual kinds
vegetables on
of table produce.
this small plot,
The crop was
of which more
valued at $145,
than half was Violet K. Klobas
with a net profit
clear profit. She
of $109 on an
spent only 30 hours on the project.
original invest
Enclosing glowing character testi
ment of $16.25.
Lewis Hackett
monials from her school officials
The entire
produce of lima, kidney, and string and others, Violet’s report is a doc
beans, beet«, cabbage, carrots, cel umentary proof of achievement.
ery, corn, cucumbers, lettuce, peas, She has held the posts of secretary
potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkin», for the garden and dairy branches
squash, onions, and rhubarb was of FFA, and has won numerous
used at home, if not immediately as FHA awards for canning, garden
they ripened, then later as canned ing, dairy work, sewing — and per
or frozen and stored in the deep haps most surprising of all—wood
working!
freeze.
junior vegetable grow
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ers were named winners of
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COCONUT DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE
2 cups sifted cake flour
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1 teaspoon soda
% teaspoon salt „
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Is cup shortening
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l'i cups Beet or Cane Sugar
1 egg and 2 egg yolks
3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
•Milk (see below for amount)
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1 teaspoon vanilla
•With butter, margarine, or lard, use 1 cup milk. With vegetabls
or any other shortening, use 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk.
Sift flour once, measure, add soda vanilla. Turn into two deep 9-inch
and salt, and sift together three layer pans which have been lined
times. Cream shortening, add on bottoms 1 with paper then
sugar gradually, and cream to greased. Bake in moderate oven
gether until light and fluffy. Add (350’ F.) 30 minutes, or until
egg and egg yolks, one at a time, done.
Spread frosting between
beating well after each; add
chocolate and blend. Add flour, layers and on top and sides of
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C \RD OF Tll \NKS
We wish to express our thanks to
our many friends for their kind deeds
and rememberances in the recent
passing of our husband and father.
Mrs. Evart L. Riddell
Mrs. Charles Harman and family
Church Activities
FREE METHODIST CHURCH
North Mill aty
Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.
Morning worship 11 a ta.
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
Full Gospel Preaching
Sunday school 10 a.m.
Morning worship 11 a.m.
Evangelistic service 8 p.m.
Prayer meeting Tues, at 1:30 p.m.
Preaching services Wednesday and
Friday 8 p.m.
Rev. Wayne W. Watkins, Pastor
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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 pjn.
Walter Smith. Pastor
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IDANHA COMMUNITY CHURCH
Sunday school 10 a.m.
Morning service 11 a.m.
Evening service 7:30 pan.
Thursday prayer meeting 7:30 pjn.
Student Pastor, Rodney Toews
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ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m.
Young people’s service at 6:30 p.m.
Evening Service 7:30 p.m.
Prayer meeting and Bible study,
Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Rev. W. D. Turnbull, Pastor.
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L.D.8. OF JESUS CHRIST CHURCH
Detroit
Sunday school each Sunday 10 a-tn.
in high school building, Detroit.
Priesthood meeting 11 a.m.
Zealand Fryer, Presiding
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Morning worship 11 a.m.
Music by choir.
Dr. David J. Ferguson, Preaching
Young People at 6:30 p.m., Mra.
Arthur Kreiver, leader.
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ST. CATHERINE CATHOLIC
CHURCH. MILL CITY
Mass at 9 a.m. every Sunday.
Confessions heard before Mass.
Services every Wednesday at 7:30
p.m. during Lent.
Altar Society 3d Wednesday 8 p.m.
Father Carl Mai, Pastor
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DETROIT CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.
Preaching at 11 a.m. by, Leland
Keithly, minister.
Youth meeting 6:30 each Sunday
evening.
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
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
IOOF Hall
Sunday 11 a.m.
Wednesday meeting 4th Wed. 8 p.m.
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