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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1953)
5—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE TELEPHONE 2651 WITH NEWS Gooch Logging Supply * b Everything for the Logger BASSETT’S WELDING SHOP Phone 1141 Sweet Home, Philomath Mrs. Fred Moody of Lebanon called on Mrs. Harry Wood, Tuesday. Phone 116 Mrs. Albert Toman spent Monday and Tuesday in Portland, on business. Branch Store Lyons Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kimmel were in Portland Sunday, where they attended a cosmetic show. We’re Back on the Job! We have recently repurchased the Union Station here in Mill City and invite you to come in and see us. Don’s Union Station Phone 1988 Mill City, Oregon FREE! Get Acquainted Offer THIS IS NO SKIN GAME—Read the rest of our advertisement. We are using this means to prove to you that our PRICES CAN’T BE BEAT We want you to visit our store and become acquainted with our line of merchandise. We know it’s really good. Others have found that you can save by buying in Mill City. We’re out to prove it to you too! Buy anv LIVING ROOM SUITE at our LOW PRICES for $|95 and up With this we will give you. absolutely FREE a MODERN SMOKING STAND, retail val. 8^.95 FREE FREE FREE With the purchase of any CHROME DINETTE SET take home a Cosco Utility Table or Kitchen Stool ABSOLUTELY FREE Retail value $9.00 F R E E FREE FREE With any BEDROOM SUITE sold we will in clude any of the above free gifts or a polished brass double flexible reading lamp which retails at $11.00 FREE FREE FREE BUY THAT BUNK BED SET NOW With this we will include a three-drawer night stand FREE. Retail value of stand $j3'^ With the purchase of any RANGE, REFRIGERATOR. CONSOLE RADIO or other major appliance, we will include a ZENITH Portable Radio and carrying case FREE FREE FREE PROTECT YOUR DINING TABLE We now have samples of table pads in stoek. Ix*t us measure your table now. We can order any size or shape of pad WE WANT YOU TO FEEL FREE TO BROWSE AROUND OUR STORE AND CHECK OUR GUARANTEED LOWEST PRICES Another feature we have in our OPEN STOCK BEDROOM SETS Buy a piece now and add to the set later We have a large selection of lamp shades and 9 and 12 foot Linoleum 9x12 Linoleum Rugs i Mary Lou Andrews returned home The Christian Woman's Fellowship will meet Wednesday, August 12th Sunday from Sweet Home, Oregon, where she had visited a weeks time at the home of Mrs. Emma Teeter. with her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. H. A. Dyhrman left Monday Creger. Her sister, Delores, who had for Corvallis, Oregon, where she was been a guest of Bernice Potter, return- de home Tuesday evening. called by the illness of her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Stiffler and Weekend guests at the Clifford Large home were Mr. and Mrs. Ty Mr. and Mrs. George Veteto attended Giddonse and daughter LaVonne of the horse show at Silverton Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Stiffler went Sweet Home. I on to Salem, where they spent the I Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Taylor of weekend visiting Mr. Stiffler’s mot San Francisco, Cal., were guests Wed her and two brothers. The Vetetos re nesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. turned home Saturday evening. Floyd Shepherd. New subscribers to The Enterprise — Eugene Slator of San Francsico, the past week are Nita Horner of Ly California, is visiting relatives in Mill ons, V. S. Todd, Mrs. Paul Jahnke, City at the present time, at the Floyd Alice Thacker, R. H. Hoffman, A. F. | Shepherd, Kepplinger and Dewey Roda, Sig Jepsen, Goldie Rambo, Ho mer Thacker, and R. D. Nance of Mill] i Flatman homes. City, and Mrs. M. R. Kelly of Barstow,’ Car) Watt, who for the past four Calif. Adolph Brunner of Mill City is years has been head carpenter at De a renewal. troit Dam, left Monday for Garrison, N. D., where he will be employed on Misjudging of Speed Cause the big dam there. Many Train-Motor Wrecks Train-motor vehicle and train-ped- I Mrs. E. C. Boardman and daughter estrían accidents have resulted in at Earlene of Salt Lake City, Utah, are least seven deaths since May, records I visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. of Oregon’s traffic safety division in I Howard Means. They are mother and dicate. sister of Mrs. Means. One death involved a pedestrian, and six lives were snuffed out in ' Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Hill, accompan three train-motor vehicle collisions. I ied by Mis. Don Sheythe, motored to The figure brought the toll in such Salem Monday. Mr. Hill attended the accidents so far this year to 10. Last I House of David ball game while the year, 15 deaths were reported in i ladies attended a concert. grade-crossing mishaps, Most accidents involving trains are ' Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mays are now caused by drivers or pedestrians who I residents of Mill City, and occupying misjudge speeds at which trains tra-1 the Shaw residence. They moved here vel. This is particularly true of accid from Rainier, Ore., last week. Mr. ents in rural areas with trains power Mays is employed at Lyons. ed by deisel engines. Drivers, the di vision said, make the often-fatal mis-, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Beeson of take of trying to beat a train moving Otis, Oregon, were weekend guests at 80 miles an hour. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. The safety division warns that try-1 Schroeder. Mr. Beeson and Mrs. ing to beat trains is little short of I Schroeder are brother and sister. suicidal and urges drivers to be es pecially alert when approaching ru Guests of Mr. and Mrs. I). B. Hill ral crossings. at their Roads End cottage on the “The best approach,” they contend, I coast, were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth “is to assume a train will be coming ' Krosier and children, Zeda and and be prepared to stop.” Brooks. Some accidents at crossings occur because drivers regularly cross and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Traylor of rarely see a train. As a result they Lebo, Kansas, visited Tuesday at the unknowingly assume a train will ne home of Mr. and Mrs. David Reid. The ver be on the tracks and stop being Traylors are on an extended trip cautious. This mistake has proven through the western states and left fatal many times. Tuesday for California. Robert Baltimore is scheduled to re port for his physical examination for induction into the army on August 11, and Thomas Kanoff has passed his physical, prior to induction. Both are graduates of the local high* school. The cooperative Sunday evening services of the Christian and Presby terian churches, will be held in the Christian church sanctuary during the month of August, with Minister H. E. Jull in charge. Mr. and Mrs. John Muir took in the Bean Festival in Stayton Friday night. While there Mayor Muir, along with other mayors of the Canyon area, helped judge the floats. He reported that it was a splendid parade. Mrs. Louise Dunn of Groton, South Dakota, was a recent visitor at the J. C. Podrabsky home. Mrs. Dunn is the mother of Mrs. Joseph E. Pod rabsky of Omaha, Nebraska, where Sgt. Joseph E. Podrabsky is station ed at Offutt Air Force base. UTTLE ILLS MAKE *\G * We are running short of USED FURNITURE Come in and let's make a deal. We always take trade-ins on furniture and appliances and give you the best possible price. ÀTIKV.1 aiOHH 3H1 OMHH Salem WE RE OPEN UNTIL 8 *•{$( IIPTIOIS Mr. and Mrs. Robert Saltalamachia and their children Susette and Robert I Gary, of San Jose, California, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chai les Stewart. Mrs. Saltalamachia and Mrs. Stewart are sisters. The children re mained at the Stewart home while Mr. and Mrs. Saltalamachia left Tuesday for Canada. They plan to return Sat urday and will spend another week with the Stewarts before returning home. Residents of Mill Ctiy and the sur rounding area are invited and urged to call The Enterprise when they have guests or hear of others having guests, or hear of any news items. The pres ent owners are doing their best to make The Enterprise a truly local newspaper. Cooperation so far has been exceptional, but we are confident there are many items we are not getting for the paper. Your coopera MILL CITY ENTERPRISE 1 ET’ tion is asked and will be appreciated. HAVE YOÜ SUBSCRIBED TO THE Remember telephone 2651. We are open from 8 until 12 and from 1 to five every day except Sunday. Mrs. Virginia Harris and daughter Colleen Morgan is assisting at the local IGA store, while Alice Farmer Vickie, who arrived Saturday from San Francisco, Calif., to visit relatives, is on vacation. received word that her mother was Mr. and Mrs. Verne Clark and fa seriously ill and left Monday vi plane, mily attended the Kansas picnic at seriously ill and left Monday via plane for their home. Jantzen Beach Sunday. $6.95 McCarthy Furniture THURSDAY, AUGUST 6. 1953 I Have Something to Sell? Enterprise Class Ads Pay KELLOM’S H A M BU R G E R STAND Serving Delicious Hamburgers Coffee Pie and Ice Cream