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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1959)
J^F-THE MILL CITY ENTERPRJBB THURSDAY. APRIL 2. 1959 Mildred spent the weekend at The mester were his brother and wife, Studenti Take Inventory Burmester Dalles, where they were gusts at the Mr. and Mrs. Richard ' * “ home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Carleton and daughter, Janet, of Scio. Eva Bressler Sunday dinner guests .t the home and family. Mr». Carleton is the of Mr.-. Ai>ce Huber were Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. B-irton Sledge from Downing, daughters. the Scio district have purchased the Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bodeker, Mr. Mr-. George Keeley. Mr and Mrs. Ed LYONS—The regular meeting of Winifred Sauve property, and moved and Mis. Clyde Bressler and Elmer Co hran of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. I Eaith Rebekah Lodge was held Wed in the last of the week. Mr. Sledge Hiatt were Sunday guests at the nesday evening with Hazel Lewis, __ Donald Huber, Dennis, Donna, Dar- 1s employed with John Jungworth home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hampton rell, and Debbie, and Mrs. Henry | noble grand presiding. The usual busi- for tne cduntv. and family in Salem, a daughter of | Stevens of Lyons. ie < was carried out and the sick re of Leb- The annual Easter party was held the Bodeker». Additional guests were Mr. and Mr». “ Sid !* Grugget " ported on. Helen Anderson was elect at the pre-school Thursday morning Mr. and Mrs. Norman Johnson and anon were weekend guests at the ed delegate to attend the Grand As* with approximately 50 children pres sons of Salem. Mrs. Johnson is also home of her daughter. Mr. and M rs. I sembly which will be held in Rose ent. The usual Easter egg hunt was a daughter of the Bodekers. I Paul Pennington and family. burg beginning May 19, with Alt* and enjoyed followed by serving of cookie» Mr. and Mrs. Keith Taylor and Mr- *nd Mr* I,cn“ld Bodeker alternate. Helen Anderson and punch by the committee. Mrs. children, Maurice, Jane and Keith s,on' from. Sweet Hon,le- Mr- »•»<> Mrs. was also elected District Deputy Frank Crowthers, Mrs. Eldon Gilson, Jr., from near Waldport, were week- Shirley ( onset from Lebanon and President. Plans were also made and Mrs. Leland Manning, Mrs. Wilfred end gue-ts at the home of her par- Mr. ^r- and Mrs. Howard Naue of Lyons discussed for the presenting of the Merry, and Mrs. Sid Etzel. Mr and and Mrs. Mrs. Pat Pat Lyons. Lvons. Addi Addi- Bible at the Grand Assembly. Several ents, Mr. ’ were Sunilay guests at the home of Mrs. Floyd Cox was hostess for a tional Sunday dinner guests were their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar of the sisters gave the unwritten work cosmetic party at her home Thurs Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gisler, Joe and Pam Naue. so to to receive their seals. Mr. and Mr(. Albert Stevens were day afternoon with Millie Horner of of Marion. At he social hour an Easter egg Corvallis giving the demonstration. hunt was enjoyed with several of the Mr. and Mr*. Leland Manning, weekend guests at Seattle, Wash., Attending were Mesdames Alvin Pal Richie, Larry and Cherri were Easter where they were guests of friends. members wearing an original Easter Mr. and Mrs. Dick Dekuyper and mer, Paul Geraths, Floyd Craiginyle, Sunday dinner guests at the home of Bonnet. At the close of the evening Robert Jobe, Leland Manning, Char her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sim Etzel daughters from Lebanon, Buck Mil refreshments were served with the Recently, the students enrolled in Mr. Paul ’ s Typ ler of Waldport and Mrs. Thelma les Collier, E. A. Well», and Walter m Stay ton. tables beautifully decorated carrying ing II Class at Santiam High took inventory of the en out the Easter motif with Celene Tay- Collier. A „„„„ house guest _____ at the _____ home _ of Mr. Hoover of Salem were Sunday guests tire contents of the school building. Photo shows Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Cruson, Mike an(j Marshall Powell last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lovell or, Bonnie Wagner and Maxine Miller. Paul instructing Judy Hoeye in the Kardex card file and Nikki and Mrs. Cruson » mother, waM j^dward Lindermayor from Berry in charge. Mis. John Prideaux has returned system. Wvery object in school is entered on a record Mrs. Pearl Hudson, and Mrs. Charles j,;ur,.^a Calif. Cruson and granddaughters Bonnie Defrosting time of the freezer can and filed for future reference. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Kramer and home from Seattle, after completing and Merry Jo Cruson were in Eugene I children, Tracy and Nicky from her schooling at the University of be shortened by using an ordinary Washington. Sunday, to attend Capping Ceremonies Longview, Wn., were weekend guests room fan to blow warm air down into at the Sacred Heart Hospital where at the home of his parents, Mr. and the freezer box. As soon as the ice i* Miss Gerry Cruson, daughter of Mr. Mrs. William Kramer. loosened front the walls, it should be Matches can be waterproofed by and Mrs. Edward Cruson former resi lifed out and the compartment clean Easter day dinner guests at the dipping them in lacquer and putting dents of Lyons and neice of the Cra home of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Bur- them head up to dry. ed with soap and water. tons received her cap. A number of families in Lyons are having a »well time with the mumps making the rounds, especially among the children. Although some of the parents have reported a »well time too. Mrs. Carl Anderson went to Aber deen, Washington Wednesday, where »he will visit at the home of their; daughter, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Han- naford, returning home Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Manning were i hostess to a small group of friends for . a pinochle party Friday evening at' their home. High score was held by Clinton Land, low by Mrs. Donald Huber. Attending were Mr. and Mrs.1 Clinton Land, Mr. and Mrs. Donald1 Huber and the Mannings. Due to ill- ness several of the group were un- able to attend. The Lvons and Mehama firemen are having their annual firemen s dance at the Santiam Valley Grange Hall on Saturday evening, April 4th which will be carried out in the Centennial style this year. Any one having Cen tennial costumes feel freeto wear them and a prize will be given fur the beat man and woman outfit. The Mari-Linn school PTC will hold their April meeting on Tuesday evening the 7th at 8 o'clock, with Mrs. Guy Hartle, president m charge. Glenn Eggers a ¡arm exchange stu dent will be the guest «peaker and will also show pictures, Egger», who has been to England is from Molalla and now attends OSC al Lorvallia. Following the meeting refreshments will be served by the 4th grade room mothers. A family reunion and dinner was held Easter Sunday al the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bassett when her The first water heater was brothers and sisters and families, and numerous buckets of water a galvanized tank standing be her daughters and families and his place—the k i t c h e n—was a j side the kitchen range. Pipes over her head. »on and wife were present. About 47 GRANDMA would have mark of distinction accorded When our water heater went ran from the tank to the fire laughed if she had seen how were there. Attending were Mr. and only to the most wealthy farm out, we emulated Grandma aft box of the range, in which our household was disrupted Mrs. John Smith and family of Bea ers in our stump farm com er a fashion. We filled our coils had been installed. As munity. Hers came by the by the failure of merely one verton, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith largest kettle with water and Jong as one had a fire in the of the dozen or so gadgets bucket, carried frequently by and daughter, Bosnia, Mr. and Mrs. stove, one had hot water. With placed it on the electric range. which rule life within the herself through a muddy yard, George Smith and daughter, Gloria, A smaller pan, which had a central heating came a similar home. For a couple of weeks from the well. It was a red of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Albert handle, we used as a dipper. arrangement with the furnace. we had noticed a dribble of letter day for Grandma when As on washday at Grandma's, And when there was no fire Smith a»d family of Beaverton, all rusty water under the electric a pump was installed and she there was hardly room on the there, a gas heater, which was brother» of Mrs. Bassett; Mr. and no longer had to wind the water heater. Then, one morn stove for the coffee pot and the lighted by hand, took up the Mrs. Morgan Richard and daughter, ing, no hot water flowed from wooden winch. task. One had to remember to teakettle. Priscilla, Mrs. Pete Van Loon and the bathtub tap The device, She had to heat all her water But you cannot heat enough shut these heaters off, or one which had labored faith daughter and two granddaughters on top of the stove. It was water on the stove to satisfy might heat water for an en fully and noiselessly for our from Portland, Mr, and Mrs. Ix>e natural, therefore, for her to the hot-water appetite of an tire neighborhood. The auto convenience for 20 years, had set aside certain days of the Lolli and family of Portland, sister» automatic washer or a dish matic heaters, both gas and week for her various tasks. of Mrs. Bassett; Mr. and Mrs. Albert gone kaput. washer. So. like Grandma, the electric, are fairly new Monday was one of the hard Schrieber and daughter of Portland, woman of the house had to For the next three days, un In this Centennial year. Or est, for that was washday. The til a new water heater could Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Meinert, Butch, wash the dishes in a dishpan. egonians naturally are think big copper boiler then shunted _ The clothes that simply had to be purchased and installed, the Mark and Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Dick ing back over the past. They the teakettle and coffee pot to ordinarily smooth routine of be washed were done in e ba Baseman, Chuckie and Sally of trace the beginnings of the the far perimeter of the old sin. They were not boiled, of living was hopelessly out of Waldport, and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil automobile and the airplane, wood burner. For it was large. gear Soiled clothing piled up course, for the modern house Basset and David of Salem. good roads and hydroelectri In it many buckets of water hold has no clothes boiler. And in the basement hamper. The city. They take justifiable Mrs. Effie Nydegger left Tuesday had to be heated for boiling I'ortable dishwasher sat for they were not rubbed, because pride in the progress that has for LaGrande where she will spend the clothes and filling the tub the washboard also is missing lorn and useless in its comer. been made in a hundred 10 days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. in which Grandma rubbed out from today's homemaking Baths were a mockery of the Charlie Powelson, former Mill City dirt on her washboard. fields. customary ritual. equipment. residents. Let us not forget, in this Saturday was another back- A water heater these days We couldn ’ t help but think year of remembrance, the A meeting will be held at the Mari- breaker. Then the washtub is a key appliance in the home. how times have changed since anonymous plumber who doubled as bathtub, and enough Linn school on the 8th day of April, Without it so many other con Grandma ran a household on screwed together the first set water had to be heated on the veniences are useless. Come at 7:00 o'clock p. m. for the purpose water winched by hand from to think of it, it was one of stove to give each member of of coils for a kitchen range. of discussing the budget for the fis a well and heated in kettles the first of the gadgets that the family a decent wetting. He started a chain of improve cal year beginning July 1, 1959, and on top of a wood stove. She ments of inestimable conveni have taken so much of the It must have seemed a never- ending June 30, 1960. A petition for would have felt that we were drudgery out of housework. It ence to the American home. ending fetching of Winer and a director for five years will have to in the lap of luxury, even Grandma undoubtedly would came in about the same time stoking of the stove on these be filed 30 day» before election which without a water heater. as the bathtub, for without it two worst days of the week. rate him above the discover is May 4. ers of nuclear fission. And so For cold water still flowed the tub was just another gap The kitchen, of course, was Dorothy M Grimes, HM3 from ing aperture calling for buck like a Turkish bath and Grand are we inclined to do also. freely from the various, con Chelsea, Mass., is spending her leave veniently located faucets in our ma was as wet with sweat as els and fetching. at the home of her parent», Mr. and if she had poured one of her house. In Grandma's day, to Mrs. Chester Grimes. Miss Grimes have running water in only one has been attending school at the Chelsea Naval hospital and will re turn April 21. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Palmer and son from Oceanside were weekend guests at the home of his brother, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Palmer and fam ily. Mr. and Mr» Al Nygaard from San Pedro, Calif., visited the last of the week at the home of her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hiatt. All teachers at the Mari-Linn school have been rehirvd for another year: James Wright, principal; Clint Land, band and choral music; Ralph Hurst, Sth grade, Hazel Wirth,, 7th, Glen Davidson, 6th a»d coaching; Al lan Ridder 5th, Martha Poole, 4th. Ina Bell Morrison, 3rd and 4th, Elva Kuiken 3rd, Watie Skillings, 2nd, Janice Powell, 1st and 2nd, and Viola Helsel 1st. Recent visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs Chet Robinson were her daughter, Mrs. Wanda Nichols and daughter from Bakersfield, Cal., and Mrs. Caroline Howard, a grand- daughter from Sheridan, also four grandchildren from Malin, Oregon Mr. and Mrs. Orville Downing and Mrs. Donna Asmussen and daughter, Lyons Three Links Plan Pie-Bread Sale LYONS (Irder Your Printing From The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE I Thanks, Mr. Johnson... for expressing it so well Writing in the Oregonian, March 7, Jalmar Johnson, Associate Editor, brings back memories of the 'good old days when wafer was healed in a kettle on the stove You’re so right, Mr. Johnson—things have really changed since Grandma's time. Today we have electricity right at our finger tips to help with almost every household job. Sometimes we take this hard-working sen ice for granted. But whenever we stop to think about it. there’s no doubt— nothing else does so much to bring us better living! Electricity is Today's Biggest Value!
