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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1959)
Mrs. James Gordon entertained Monday evening with a pinochle par ty at her home. Refreshments were served after the evening of cards. Winning high was Mrs- Ramon Rob- I arts and Mrs. Howard Farmen receiv ed the consolation prize, Mr- Gordon won the pinochle award Robert N- Smith haa been hobbling 5—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE O__ J pr_ D. . > around this week with a sprained thlrsday , N ovember 5. isst» '=,ood Program Planned I ankle the result of a fall which he re- 1 Mr. aud Mrs. Elmer Shaw were For PTA Ham Dinner ' eeived while fishing. Mr. Smith NOTICE i broke his ankle several years ago and hosts at their home Sunday for a Here Thursday Night family dinner. An unusual arrange ' as a result it is easily injured. Sun- A highly enjoyable stage program Until further notice the of ment of red roses centered the dining is planned for the entertainment of Arnes Jackson and Lowell Cree are ' day guests at the Smith home were table Present were Miss ?.. Audrey his son and daughter-in-law. Mr. and fice of Dr. Dan Marcy, dent elk hunting near Enterprise, Oregon- Shaw of Salem, Mr and Mrs. Bud all those attendiug the PTA ham din Mrs. Jack Smith of Salem. Bilyeu and Brent of Newport, Mr ner in the grade school gymnasium ist will be open Thursdays, Fri Allen Heywood and Donald Cree Thursday evening. Acts representing Shaw, . ------ Craig the district meeting of and Mrs. X erne ------ » and attended the Portland Roasdster | the Attending Ninety and Nine Men of the Chris-! ®kye and ‘he hosts. Mr. and M rs. the new states of Hawaii and Alaska days and Saturdays only, ef show Sunday. will be presented, with Mrs- Doris fective November 12. tian Churches Monday evening were i Elmer Shaw Sheythe, Robert Harris, and Mrs. Rev. and Mrs. Stanley Williams, Mr Pamela Fish of NNewport has been Mrs. Louis Verbeck returned home Robert Veness in charge. General to the sweet sound visiting her grandparents, Mr. and and Mrs. Irl Plymale and Dick Free- ■ chairman is Mrs. Lawrence last week after visiting 'several program man. The wives were special guests of savings with Brent. Mrs- E K. Fish. General's "All-In-One” at the banquet which was held at the weeks with her daughter and family. This program will be presented two Homeowners Insurance. Court Street Christian Church. Gov. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Wirick and family or three times during the evening Sunday dinner guests at the home You Find the Best in Ask tor the story and with her son and family the of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Umphress Mark Hatfield was guest speaker. Louis Verbecks Jr. Also visiting were Mr. and Mrs. Al Derrick- Mrs. Joe Halters received word in Roseburg during the week was Mr and Mrs. Richard Verbeck and fam Guests Sunday at the home of Mr. recently that her brother-in-law. Leo when you shop regularly ily of Albany. Verbeck was on va Wagner of Mehama was at the Ore and Mrs. Charles French were Mr. cation from his duties as state police gon Medical center in Portland for and Mrs. Jay Hoskins of Portland. at our meat and grocery observation. It was discovered that officer. store. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Gregory and he had an enlarged heart; also a hole The Den Mothers for the («.'•* Donnie, spent Sunday in Portland in his heart about the size of a See ue about a Locker Today. Scouts met at the Scout Cabin last where they spent the day visiting re nickel, To further complicate his con- Traffic accidents in Oregon through Order mm aad have It ready dition he has now developed pneu- week. The Workshop for the Den latives- far faB. Mothers which will be Nov. 7 was the end of August showed an increase monia. discussed and plans were made to of slightly more than 10 percent, the Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Cline have re Open 7 Days A Week. attend Plans were also made for the latest Department of Motor Vehicle turned home after vis ting with their figures state. November pack _ _____ _ meeting Present son. Charles Cline and family at Sun At the end of the first six months, were Mrs. Dellis Hince, Mrs. Mr- Dear Editor— nyside, Wash- INSURANCE accidents were up only about seven Last week 1 wrote you about the tin Hansen. Mrs. June Heuter. Mrs, percent over the same period last year, Al Ziebert. Mrs. Edsel Croan and , early survey for a road thru our farms Sunday visitors at the Mary Hart indicating that the accident increase Mrs. Richard Freeman. man home were Mr. and Mrs. Bill ; up the Gates Hill, 1 wasted my time in the state is continuing to worsen Ph- 1971 or 7471 Phono M42 McGhee of Salem and Mrs. Dorsey because there is no county right of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Scott and Mr. month-by-month. way thru our farms up the Gates Hill. Collins of Eugene. There is no county right-of-way at all, and Mrs. Andy Anderberg were hosts and the people who have been travel Saturday evening at a Hallowe'en Guests at the home ol' Mr. and Mrs. ing this road have simply been im buffet dinner at the Scott home- Jay Mason over the weekend were Those invited came to the party in Mr. and Mrs- Art Cole and Mr. and posing on the good nature of the own costume, and a pleasant evening was ers. | Mrs. Larry Balmer of Salem. BALDSPOT IS A SURE After a thorough search through spent in visiting. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stevens. Lyons. Mr. SIGN THAT Dr. Mark Hammericksen's Opt»* records we come up with these facts. and Mrs. Lee Bassett. Mr. and Mrs. MAN HAS In the year of 1896 when the viewers metric offices in the Ball building is Don Moffatt and the hosts. Mr. and COME OUT Stayton; Thursdays from 1:00 p. na. viewed the road and the petition was Mrs. Anderberg and Mr. and Mrs- presented section 23 and 27 belonged Friday and Saturday to 6:00 R M. No appointments ne Scott. TOP cessary. adv. to the Southern Pacific Company. On Dec. 14. 1903—deed number 3550 the ☆ ☆ * Miss Carol Veness of Seattle spent Mrs. L- J. Moody of Eugene is Southern Pacific Co-, wrote a deed for the weekend in Mill City visiting her » visiting at the home of her sister, W. S. Mott for the NVz SWV< NW1-4 family. Carol, who was a member of M rs. Burton Boroughs, while her and EVi of Sec- 23 T9 R3E.WM. in this the 1959 graduating class, completed husband is elk hunting in Eastern deed there is no provision or mention her training at the Seattle Dental of any rights-of-ways what ever. This Oegon. was six years after the petition. We Assistant’s school last week and is now employed in the office of Dr- Leo Poole accompanied a group of have not found any mention whatever Kenneth Roberts, orthodontist, in Se in any of our deeds for sections 23 or relatives from Stayton to the coastal ☆ & ☆ attle. The whole family drove to Port region near Astoria where they hunt 27. Not even in the one we received land Sunday and visited with friends, ed elk. However, none of the group from Marion County in 1948- No rec before taking Carol to the depot for Try a Loaf of MUIR'S BREAD ords show that we have been able to was successful. dig up any such dreamy road So there the early evening train back to Se attle. The Only FRESH BREAD Sold Locally Mr. and Mrs. Tom Scott returned never was a county-right-of-way thru these sections. home Monday after spending the Mrs. J. D. MacGregor entertain We bake every day except Sunday Tom’s Shell Service is a spot week-end in Seattle where they vis- The Little page Road which runs ed the Round Robin pinochle club at _. _ . ■ . x ited with friends. They are former from Gates, to Section 18. T9. R4E- is her home Monday evening. A des where your car is bound to come residents the topic of conversation these days— out on top—because our expert ___________ _____ it is said that the County intends to sert was served preceding the ev cards. High was won by Mrs. lubrication and polishing Ser- Mrs. Jack Duggan and Mrs. Fran- claim ownership of it because it ening of Muir, Pinochle by Mrs. Leo vices plus famous Shell gasoline is Bodeker returned Friday from a claims to have maintained it for a per John Poole and consolation went to Mrs. iod of ten years. The County has no ■nd motor oil are guaranteed to week’s trip to California They Don Carlson The next meeting of the brought Mrs. Bodeker’s mother back legal right to this road- give complete satisfaction. group will be at the home of Mrs. If maintaining a road gives one the AND FOUNTAIN ' to Mill City with them for a visit. right of ownership then I own this Kenneth Chance. Guests for the ev ening were Mrs. L. J. Moody, Mrs. Phone 1607 Mill City, Oregon Denny Sheythe of Roseburg spent one, as we widened it and rocked it ev Edsel Croan the week visiting at the home of his ery year, besides buying it. Our deed Stewart. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Sheythe- gives us All Rights. The loggers in this county must own He returned to Roseburg Sunday with George Rambo, who had spent All the roads in the forest as they are the ones who maintain them, be the weekend here- sides constructing them anl pay for the rock put on—Plus, a toll fee. Mrs. Burton Boroughs and Mrs- Al We Give 8 ft H Green Stampe It is the common practice of every Yankus were in Lebanon this week Mill City where they received training for one in this country to Repair the dam taking the farm area census. They age which they do on any given road- will have some districts here and I pay for my damage to other people’s roads when I use them, the same as some in other areas. every one else. Private owner’s expect Mrs. David Vmphress and small non and get this service, the same as does of Portland will spend some time the Forest Serivce and the B-L.M; in Mill City later in the month with these people even charge the loggers the Charles Umphress family- Her | for the rock they use in the repair husband, A2 c David Umphress will work, yet no one claims to own a road I be in Chicago for a month for special because of repairing of damage. I do not think running a grader izmi training. lightly over ruts made by the school FALL SPECIALS Sunday guests at the home of Mr. buss or the county gravel trucks or land Mrs. Clyde Rogers were Mrs- dumping a little—very little gravel James McMurphy and Mr. and Mrs. here and there is enough to give any 1 Morris Jones of Philomath. Mrs. one the right to possess and I MacMurphy is the former Minnie Ta away from private ownership a tum, who taught in the Mill City rock road. Th county did not make this road,I schools a number of years ago the ro k for it came from our own i Mr. and Mrs. Fred F.nreal of Skag rock pit but the county did run its, grave] trucks over this road while way. Alaska are in Mill City at pre making roads elsewhere and beyond j sent visiting at the home of Mr. and our land. They tore up the road and as Mrs Irl Plvmale Mr. Enreal has is the custom patched up their dam I been employed in Alaska for some An Ad like this under "FOR SALE" costs only 50c ‘ time but was forced to give up his age. a small bit. I have a deed given by the county work there because of a heart con- and signed by the court giving us full FOR SALE—Miscellaneous house I dition hold items at bargain prices. Also and complete ownership to this land » weaner pigs.—John Doe, Mill in 1948 Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Baltimore City, Oregon. 45 In 1954. the ownership of the Little visited Mill City friends Saturday ev- page road thru our lands was contest ening. They had been to Portland ed and a Federal Court hearing was where they were dinner guests at the the result. The Court decreed that the home of her sister, Mrs. Leonard road was our property and denied the Use the Following Form and Mail Your Ad to: Runkle Mrs. Mabie Baltimore spent of it. the day in Mill City visiting with old taking Toll has always been charged in one THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE friends. form or another for passage thru. Due to the terrain only downhill pay loads P. O. Box 348 Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lalack and two have been able to pass. In late years children were in Portland Sunday the B L M. has collected toll for the Mill City, Oregon where they visited at the home of an higher portion of this road aunt. Mrs Anna Forest Tn the af There have always been "No Tres ternoon they went out to the new zoo pass” and “Priavte Property” signs and Jeannine «aid they all had fun on this property. Also—we have al riding on the Zooliner, a« well as ways protested the unauthorized med looking at the animals. dling of the county grader's. The fork of the road running uphill Mrs Helen Fowler has moved into Come in ... I toward the North Fork, was made-as the Deer Hom Motel in Mill City. She the other-by loggers getting their logs See ... Try ... is g teacher in the elementary school out, and using rock from our rock pit. and has been driving back and forth This was done in the late 4b*s. Our own Compare • • • from her home in Aumsville for sev cat worked this grade as well as the eral year« Her daughter. Miss Su Cree’s and William Sheppard- Thi» new S’onley Quolity san Fowler left Sunday for Clover Sobre Sow designed with At one time in the late 40’s one of dale Calif Mr. Fowler is now em the Cree’s had a permanent landing, your sowing problems in mind! ployed in California. a place to load his logs, in the middle of this road for almost a year and a Beta Kappa Theta Rho, at the regu boy had to ride his horse to school ,ONir lar meeting Otc 22, received an of because there was no passable road ficial visit from Edna Oster, Vice thru here Every one knows this is the Chairman of the Youth Committee truth. land Jr Past President of the Rebekah Since when is private property con AT | Assembly of Oregon She was ac- fiscated without due process of law I companied by her husband. Al Oster. and ju«t compensation? Past Grand Officer of the Grand I believe there are still a lot of peo Lodge of Oregon The Club present ple in Oregon, with a little «park of ed her with a Th»t* Rho cup and pioneer spirit and the idea that the Open Saturdays aau-er and a corsage. Refreshments common citizen still has «ome individ Telephone 8204 Mill CHy, Oregon were served by a committee from the ual rights. Ph. 6803 Mill City, Ore Mr and Mrs. Warner Hampton. a J Santiam R-bekah Lodge TOWN TALK August Traffic Accidents Show tufc. 10% Increase Jerry Pittam Editor's Leiter Box MEAT and GROCERIES Mill City Meat Market MB Oty Featured at Muir's Chocolate Marshmallow Cakes Blueberry-Layered Lady Baltimores TOM Says: MUIR S BAKERY Tom's Shell Turn "Trash" Into Cash a Classified Ad Yes! Unwanted articles around the house that you may consider merely "trash" can be sold through a classified Ad in The Enter- • prise for As Little As 50* W faster k EASIER SMOOTHER F FOR EXAMPLE STANLEY TURN "TRASH" INTO CASH SABRE SAW $44.50 Kelly Lumber Sales The Mill City Enterprise
