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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1880)
- 1 VOL. 2. NO. 1. CANYON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1SS0. TERMS: $3. PER YEAR. r f , ' PROFESSIONAL CARDS. C. "W. Pabrisii, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Canyon City, Oregon. M. L. OLMSTEAD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Canyon City, Oregon, Geo. B. Currey, Attornoy at Law, Canyon City, Oregon. M. Dustin, Attorney at Law, Canyon City. Oregon. F. C. ITORSLEY, M D. Graduate of the university or penn lylvania, April 8, 1S4S. Canyon City, Oregon. Office in his Drug Store, Mam Street Orders for Drugs promtly filled. Iso professional patronage solicited unless directions aie s'rictlv followed J. W. HOWARD, M. D., Canyon City, Grant Co., Oregon. 0. M. D0DS0IJ, M. D., 2P3cixio City, - Ogn. N. II. BOLETT, ID E KT T I S T, JCSrDontal ro ms first dour south of Dr. Howard's Drug Store. Canyon City. Oregon. G. I. IIAZELTINE, CANYON CTTY, OREGON. "S757 ISP. LTJUDZIllST, ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN. residence--John Cay, Grant Cctin tv Oregon. Announce that they liave re ceived a full and well assorted Stock of GENERAL MERCHANDK which they offer Kuaaia O Having bought for Cash w ire prepared to sell our Goods ( Cheaper than they were ever l.efore sold in this Market. Canyon City, Jan. 1G. 1SS0. The cheapest place to "buy PA S E3TS, QSLS, TURPEMTBWE, GLASS, PUTTY, VARNISHES And WALL PAPER Is at Sam. Sired's, opposite the M. E. Clrarch, Canyon City, Oregon. nl2tt HOWARD & COBB, MEAT MARKET. JOHN DAY CITY, OREGOFi "We keep the best qualities of TEAL, CORNED BEEF, BEEF, MUTTON, PORK, HAM, BACON LARD, SAUSAGE, ETC., ETC. Constantly on band and for sale at the LOWEST MARKET RATES. John Dsy Oct. SOtb, 1879. ft llrli si v a h Hotels. N. Rulison, A. H. Groth. CITY HOTEL Canyon City, Oregon, RTTLISON & GROTH, - - Proprietors Beg leave to inform thoir friends And the Public Generally That they oan bo found at the OLD STAND, And are alwaws ready to famish good Board and Lodging AT .MODERATE PRICES. A fire and burglar proof safe has been plaa.d in the house for the aecom inodaiion of guests. Grange Hotel. PRAIRIE CITY, OREGON, J. IL Ilardnian, Proprietor. Tho 3ccotn:nbilatiin at tbo above Hotel aro enni!, and vcrv care will be taken to mke :??' fcal at hom. Oo mfortabV hnie, nnd as good a tahle as tha iuirl;t affords famished at reasonable HA5RfY HO TEL, Fort Harney., Oregon. W. W. JOIIXSOX, Proprietor. Having completed my Hotel I am prepared to entertain the traveling public with care and comfort. The table is supplied with the best the market nilords. The beds are neat and clean. D:LLES AND BAKER CUT STAGE LINE, Yaile & Co., Proprietors. Poparts from Canyon City for The D:.'l!c and Baker City, Daily. Ai rives from tbo same points, Daily. II O. Wiu,!.ymson, Sun't. CAN VOX CITY & McDERMIT STAGE LINE ESAKS EcEEAS. - - Proprietor Departs from Canyon City on Monday, Thursday, and Sat urday ol' ench week. Arrives At Canvm Citv on bund ;iy, Wednesday and Fri day of each w eek. i mini & co, Proprietors of the John Day Milk Ranch Will furnish the people of John Day and Canyon Cities with milk by the gallon or quart. Wo. sell the best of milk, and our charges arc reasonable. J iIl.M WCOLSEY. OHO. IlfSDSMAN. WOOLSEY & HOUSMAN, CANTOR CITY, OREGON. riHE BAR Is supplied with pure Winoa and Liquors, Beer. Ale, Bitters and Cigars. FINE BILLIARD TABLES In he Saloon. $33-Qvo u? a call. Put up expressly for Family Use, in three pound cans. Warranted, finer, better and cheaper than the Imported To matoes, By G. W. Houston, Canyon City, Oregon. For salelry Phil. Metschan & Co., Gundlach & Bro and the Proprietor. TOMATOES. AN ESSAY, READ BY &1AJOR JOSEPH MAGONE, Before the Canyon City Debating So ciety on Monday Evening, March 29th, J SSO. !. Many years ago in old England a couple of highly educated gentlemen were conversing upon the deplorable and lamentable ignorance of the labor hig masses and the best attainable means wiihin reach for their improve menf. The Lyceum or Debating So ciety naturally suggested themselves to these thinking minds. Hut bow can we arrest the attention of the laborers and get them to take m active p-m in such organizations? This method was hit upon and it worked like magic: A sncietj was formed then and there by one of the speakers nominating the other for Chairman, seconding his own motion and putting it, and declar idg the Chairman duly elected. The Chairman performed us dut:e3 in a similar manner and the organization was complete. A living question was selt-eted and discussed, a decision ren dered in accordance with the weight cf argument, another question in which the laborers were particularly interest ed was selected for the next evening O and the morning paper contained a well-writ' en article commenting favor ably upon the meeting that had passed and -advising mechanics und laborers t) be on hand early as a question nf vital importance to them was to be di-cuss-e.l at the next meeting by speakers of eminont ability on both :-idos. Suffice it to say the mechanics anJ lubmers were out in ferce, tho ouestion ablv discussed and t lie meeting pronounced a grand success and tho project ms had good i-easou to congratulate them selves ou the fact that the sons and daughters cf honest Ail were in a fair-way to be lifted to a higher plane through their well chosen methods, the Lyceum or Deb iting Society. Dan iel Web-ter had th" reputation of be ing a great observer as well a groat law yer. He taught school in hia early manho m and made a note of this im portant f jet from which we may'5 all draw profitable conclusions. "I have found," said he, "that the children whose parents took and read the news papers were much easier taught and made vastly greater progress than children whose parents did not take and read newspapers " Consequently the newspaper is not only according to thi greet man's idea an educator of the parents but the children also. I have been something of an observer mj'solf ofchildienof riper years than those Mr. Webster was speaking of and I as sert with equal confidence that I never knew a lady or gentleman who has made a practice of attending Lyceums or Debates that has not been benefited thereby and this is especially true of all those who have tiken an active part in them either orally or otherwise, in fact there is but one class of citizens that are net more or less improved by the Lyceum and even they are improved in an indirect way by coming in contact with those who do belong to such in stitutions, I speak of those who absent themselves from such places or attend ing do so for the purpose of annoying those who are intnt on improremeni. Some 25 years ago or over I had the pleasure of helping to organize a De- bating Society at Grassy Pond School House in Marion County, in this State. The neighborhood was in no sense -so far as I was able to detect superior to those by which it was surrounded. All of those communities or neighborhoods believed ii schools and nearly all of them took papers and read them. Yet bnt one of them kept up for a 5eries of years a regular system of debates and that was the Grassy Pond neighbor hood. The attriton of minds against mind in due time brought forth its le gitimate fruit and a good library bs- came an absolute necessity to that neighborhood. Jt was purchased and cheerfully paid for by the Distrit and that library brought to Home in that neighborhood -10 to others 50 and to Others still an hundred fold and to the community at large at least a thou sand. To prove this let facts be submitted for the encouragement of the young bojs and men of this city. Mr.Joslyn one of the best speakers to-day that De longs to the Methodist EpiscDpal con ference in this State, and now stationed at J3 ise got his titst start in that neigh borhood. Mr. Isuac W. Garret one of the very bet school teacherd raied in our State, got his st'irtin Profession in that very school house. was twice chosen to represent his county in the State Legislature and was last Tinter Chief Clerk of the Idaho Senate as I went to the State3 last year, and had been frequently elected as a member of that body. , Mr. Kennedy, recent pas tor of the Methodist Church, at Baker City, r-nd a distinguished graduate of an Eastern college, got his aiarfe in that neighborhood and under the influence if that Debating S iciety and library. The present P.epreeutativein Congress, from Washington Territory, Mr. Thos. Brentz is another yourig man from the same neighborhood vrho took his aturt in that same section and under the au- spiceas of that Debating Society. Mr. L 0. McCown, J Oregon Ci'y, its present Mayor, is another notable ex ample of what that library and Debut. ing Society bos done for ttie. common- wealth. Mr. Eu8thm.au, another prom ising lawyer of the s ime. Ci'y and one of the very bst posted men in the S ate, of his age, made the fir-t spee-'h of his life in thy t school house before he was tc-n years old and by the time he w.-.-n eighteen hail read the majority of the woiks in that library. lie attributes his taste for. books o that Debating Society. Mr. 13entu Killin, of Port land, who was for years a busii.ess part ner of: J intee Shittuck Lio teok his start in that same sell- ol house, and he, like all the oihi-r., locks back with pleasure and pride to that library and Debating Society as am'ing the chief inurnment dities in their upward' ten dencies I could name man others who have made their mark throughout the State who took their start in thai humble school houLe but the above are deemed sufficient, for our purpos;. Can I say as much for any other neighbor hood immediately adjoining where De bating Societies and libraries wete con ppicious by their absence. !No I cer tainly cannot, and apak tha truth, hence I infer there is a rich and inex austablc mine of wealth to any com munity who Trill fester and encourage from year to yerr a well legui itod De bcting Society in connection vrith their schools and other means of intellectual growth and improvement. But the question comes knocking ct tho door, how can you keep up the interest in such societies ? The answer is plain and easily comprehended. Ey per-ons of agr. and experience lending a helping hana for the oiccurogement of the young. It h dillicult for young persons to fully r6?il:ze that gre-it adrantage ia to result to thona personally by a con stant attendance upon those varied means devised by older heada for their especial benefit. But if the older mem bera of s-oeiety would constantly favor snch messurca by their presence and ma terinl an)0rt the younger members would rarely fail to attend and take an nterest in such mattery. To insure success a Chairman should always be a per-on of ability and age and fully i.i.bu d with the tine spirit and purp rt cf a aociefy that will ro. fket eredit upon ail connected with it. He 3hould at all times rule With firm ness, yet kindne3s, aud never, never, no, never allow for one raomeat the slightest attempt at peisonalities, such a course would result in evil-, and that continually, until such ? society wa disbandooed and tho quicker the better for all concerned. The ladies should always be in attendance, old and young, rich and poor alike, for if such societies are. iadeed good, as I claim they are, they ar? good for all. And the presence of ladies always enables the preciding officer to dis charge his responsible duties with ease and efficiency, vrith out their presence a great deal of orecioua tine is frittered away in useless ayl idle talk before the legit ini'ije busiuess of a literary society can ba ntered unon. In conclusion I will simply gay to the members of this society aud the friends of such enter prioes generally, if you have faith in tho ideas here set forih, prove your fa i ih by your works horeafter and I am content. General News. Vacation in the Oregon City school for one week. Mr. S. M. Kcenan, of Marshfield, has a contract for making 20,000 ties. This will give employment to a good many band. The Enterprise asserts that tho al leged frauds in the recent schotd elec tion at Oregon City will receive the at tention of the grand jury. The Deaf Mute school opened at Sa lea this wst'k under the most flatter ing prospects. Nine pupils woro pres ent at the opt uitig, and a number more have a-nt vord that they will join in a few days Euoek Long, of Ellior's praiue, Clack amas county, has tat a coutract for slashing 80 acrer. (.f fir brush to "Boss" Chinaman Tmg Pot, for $2 50 per acre, which is very cheap. John Hin klc iu also having a lot of slashing done on his farm. Saake river is slowly rising. The vault for the new Daytou bank has beeh completed. About 200 pupils are in attendance at Goldcndale Academy. The Odd Fellows will build a new brick hall at Walla Walla this Sum mer. M. II. Abliott, the veteran Demo., cr&iic journalist, has removed to Boise City. A. little son of Lawson Cyrus, near Burkville, lo.t his eye by being struck by an arrow recently. Ahout 100,000 head of cattle will bo driven East from the ranges of Eastern Oregou and Washington Territory this Spring. A largo building for agricultural im plements i being ereeted at Pomeroy. A general activity amoDg Lrrners ia re ported. The Yakima Record aays: Nearly all our farmers are now piowing, and judg ing from indications, aa large, it not larger, an area will be sown this season than was last year. The railroad is bringing 600 tons of soal daily from Newcastle. Tha beautifying and fencing of resi dence lots in Seattta never was so thor oughly being doDe ai at the praseot time. The growing of awamp willows for Basket purposes has been experimented on by an Olympia man and found to pay well. The manufacture of baskets baa been inaugerated and promises well. The California legislature is in sess ion. Two little bnys at Omaha died from e'.Uii.g wild parsley. The Kearney case is postponed be cause Dennis is sick. The public debt decrease iu March was $14,700,000. The obelisk his left Egypt and is on its way to New York. Polk county, Iowa, is for Blaine, if that is of ny importances. V. r .4 1 M A - ;