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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1959)
8—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE THURSDAY. JANUARY 8, A Century In Linn County Mr and Mrs. Ed Kershaw, who run the Gates General store feel they have gotten 1959 off to a really good start—their inventory has already been taken for another year! By Doria Gundersen There’s no need for a fisherman or Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ball and Linn county cradled a dozen or more hunter to die with his boots on when , daughter, Carol Sue, accompanied by Mrs. Fall's parents, Mr. and Mrs. ghost towns, nearly all of them with iie falls in the water. So says G. "Reg’’ Flood, associate , Arthur Blackburn, made a surprise a store as a nucleus. The oldest was professor of physical education and Orleans, once a rival of Corvallis. It visit < ver the holidays, at the home of her s ster, Mrs. Ray Salchenber- lasted 10 years, and was swept away wimnnng instructor at Oregon State ger ai.u family at Citrus Heights, in a Willamette River flood in 1851. I College. To substantiate his claim, Flood I Union Point, a rival of Albany. C, if They also visited relatives in Sacramento and went sight-seeing in started at the place where Presby- (demonstrate» boot swimming to his terian branches united, and had an ¡classes ea h term. Alter jumping off I San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Max Greenough and academy of higher learning, A hope- ¡the diving board with hip-length fish ihiee sons spent part of the holiday ful contender for the county seat, it ing boots, Flood immediately conies vacation at the home of his sister, folded whetv its chief booster. Rev. to the top of the water and assumes | la relaxed floating position with the J Mrs. Walter Colpitts at Cave Junc Wilson L. Blain, died. boots resting on top of the water. Other ghost towns: Peoria, one of tion. "There is no ‘rick to it,” Flood I Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Martig and the largest towns in the county 100 two boys were in Gates over the years ago; Boston, site of the first -aid. “Actually the boots are an aid holidays, looking after property in mill, outgrown by Shedd; Plainview, to floating.” For those who might scoff at the J terests here, and visited old friends once thriving train stop, with its own before returning to their home in high school; Burlington, above Al idea, Flood did the «ante thing in bany, left high and dry when the Mary’s River near Avery Park in I Shelton, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bostwick and Willamette changed its course; Row Corvallis this past summer. This would family of Lebanon, visited at the Ed land near Harrisburg; Jordon on be the same‘os most lakes. In some Kershaw home on New Years, and Thomas Creek; Thomas; Fox Valley; streams, such things as swiftness of I it difficult to I the r daughter, Carmen, remained as Liverpool; and Syracuse, first town the water make ‘‘scramble” but even there hip boots a houseguest of her second cousin, in Linn County. are not necessarily a handicap, Flood Arlenp Kershaw. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Brown or yellow spots and streaks said. Am ns of Albany, were guests, Fishermen fishing a stream while appearing on resin treated cottons also. Mrs. Velma Carey spent the long when washed with a chlorine-type wearing the boots yere advised, if ____ ___ „ _ by „ a _ _ ...... .. are ____ caused chemical re ^ey fail into the water, to keep their weekend in Portland, at the home hume of bleach her son, Eugene Carey and family, action between the resin and chlorine. *^et pointing downstream and to guide before taking up her duties as cook They are permanent, too, so avoid use them selves to shore. One of the big killers for persona of such bleaches or ___ make _____ certain _ by at the school cafeteria. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Barnhardt and reading the labels that the resin i’s wearinK hip boots when they fall in daughter, Marcia, and son, John, not chlorine-retentive.____________ to deeP water is hysteria and fatigue ______________ ___ | followed by heart failure, he asserted.! who is a student at OSC went to Commercially sour cream makes a He sh°wed that by throwing his hands Golds, Colo., by train, for a family reunion of brothers and sisters at wonderful low calorie salad dressing. Iinto the air a person would submerge. the home of Mrs. Barnhaidt’s lather, One tablespoon of sour cream con-1 “If persons, under these circurn- | John Goheen, during the holidays,1 tains about 30 calories as compared st*n<’es know how to tread water, the but returned by pjane. They report with mayonnaise that has about 90. |1,0013 can be removed in the water and five or six inches of snow there be , Use sour cream as a dressing on either U3ed as a floating device. Flood ad-! fruit or vegetable salad, plain or with vised. “The boots are heavy only1 fore they left. when out of the water,” he said. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pennick of Olym an added dash of herb. pia, Wash., arrived just before New Y’ears to spend a short vacation at the home of his nephew, William ’............ Dallas arrived also for Christmas. It I was the first time in four years that Report From Santiam Memorial Pennick and family. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Miles and all the sons had been home. Hospital H iliday Greetings were received in children of Florence, and Mr. and Born December 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Gale Carey and family of Stay the canyon from Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mrs. Donald W. Thurston, 726 W. .. . ....... ton spent Christmas at the home of Cammack and family, former resi- ¡Washington a son, Mark Anthony, the ladies parents, Mr. and Mrs. dents, who are now in La Paz. . Bo-¡weighing _ .....g 7 pounds 11V< ounces. Fieu Siutu. On New Years Day the livia to continue their missionary | 1 Born December 26 to Mr. and Mrs. Stones drove to Portland to have din work after a stay of several months ¡Louis D. Bales, 2025 W. Washington, ner at the home of Mrs. Everett at San Jose, Costa Rica where they Stayton a daughter, Sheryl Ylene. Stoaks, and family. Mrs. Stoaks is took up the study and practice of weighing 4 pounds tj ounce. a sister-in-law of Mrs. Stone, and I Spanish among other things. Their1 Born January 1 to Mr. and Mrs. daughter Mary Bell had almost recov- Bernard D. Bumgarner, Gates, a a former Gates resident. ¡daughter, Ginger Lucrecia, weighing Miss Kathy Kelle spent several ered from a bout with hepatites. The R. F. D mail route on Monday 10 pounds 3ti ounces. days visiting in Eugene at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. was a tough job, requiring chains, | Born January 2 to Mr. and Mr«, Carl Jensen and family, returning on from Lyons to Rock Creek, and Earl Lawrence H. Schmitt. Rt. 1. Stay- Friday with her parents the ‘ Bob Allen reported the use of a hammer ton a daughter, Laurie Jean, weigh- 1 was necessary to get some of the mail-1 ing 7 pounds 7ti ounces. Kelles. The Gates Firemen’s Auxiilary met mixes open. However, Gates’s repu-1 Born January 3 to Mr. and Mrs. Monday evening for a regular busi tation of being in ‘the banana belt’ Donald A. Lulay, Sublimity, twin , ness meeting and election of officers. heal up o. k. again, no rain, no snow, boys each weighing 5 pounds S I New president is Laura Riddle; vice no ice at noon! But we ain’t betting! ounces. | president, Louise Oliver, and secre tary-treasurer, Margaret McWhirk. Their Little Budget Shop will be 'open as usual Friday, January 9th and January 16th, from 1 to 4 p. m. ’ in the library of the Gates high school. Mrs. Laura Joaquin returned to her home here Saturday after spending the holidays at the home of her 'daughter, Mrs. Layton Gosnell in .Roseburg. Mrs. Joaquin has not been I j | in good health for some time, and all ' her friends wish her a speedy re- covery. With Copy of this Ad. | Dennis Wirtanen, son of Mr. and i Mrs. Eino Wirtanen was a patient in > a Salem hospital during the Christ-1 mas vacation, following an appen- dectomy. Dennis is a student at San- tiam Union high school. i The Chili Bowl is again tempor- arily closed due to illness in the i family of Mr. and Mrs. Raney How-1 ard. They plan to open later on. I The regular meeting of the Gates ' I Women’s Club will be held on January 115th. Cards will be mailed by the see- i retary. Mr and Mrs. Keith Henness and ¡three children from Arcata, California i i spent several days during the holidays . I at the home of his parents, Mr and Mrs. Glenn Henness. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Henness and Mr. and Mrs. Clare ' Henness and two children were also present for Christmas Eve, and grand- I parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Taylor of. 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