ALL GOODS MARKED IN
PLAIN FIGURES.
The Dalles Dally Chronicle.
n to red a the Postoffice at Tne Dalles, Oregon
. as second-class matter.
WEDNESDAY, - - JANUARY 22, 189G
BRIEF MENTION.
Ijearea From the Notebook of Chronicle
lcoporten.
The weather prophecy for tomorrow
Bays fair and cooler.
The new ice house the railroad com
pany has been building oyer at the
shops is completed and is being filled
with ice from North Powder.
A elide between Rowena and the high
bridge caused the passenger from Port
land to be delayed three hours last
night. The east and the west-bound
passenger trains met here.
The River is now six feet above low
- water mark, but this present cold spell
will soon check it. The water is en
tirely around the Regulator, though the
river will have to rise several feet before
it will touch the keel.
Mrs. Helen Southwick, state organizer
of the Woodmen Circle, will arrive on
the noon train tomorrow from Salem,
and she would like all Woodmen ladies
and any one who is interested in the
Woodmen circle to meet her at Frater
nity hall at 2 o'clock p. m. Thursday,
Jan. 23d.
The Dalles is becoming a hot bed for
fraternal secret societies. This week
will have seen two new ones formed the
United Artisans and the Rathbone
Sisters. Mrs. Houston is here assisting
in the latter organization, and the mem
bership promises to be large and en
thusiastic.
.Col. N. B. Sinnot and Mrs. Sinnot le:
on the afternoon traifi for Portland, from
where tomorrow th will start for San
Francisco and "lios Angeles, California.
When Mr. Sinnbit will have passed
Portland he will feearther away from
home than he hasbeen for thirty years,
the few times tbnt he has been absent
from The Dalles being when he was in
Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Smnott expect
to spend several weeks in Los Angeles
visiting relatives and having a good time
generally. As .the train pulled - out the
colonel was given various admonitions
aB to what kind of Btories he should tell
the Californians. Their friends wish
the travelers a very pleasant journey.
For the benefit of the taxpayers who
will attend the school meeting on the
31st and to enable them to vote more in
telligently we publish the amount of as
sessable property in this district for the
last three yers. The figures are kindly
furnished us by School Clerk Jacobsen.
1893, taxable property, $1,413,434; 1894,
$1,280,370; 1895, $1,186,151. It is be
lieved by some who have studied the
matter that the voting of a 6 mill tax
will be found a necessity. More school
room must be found to accommodate the
growing needs of the district and the
matter to be decided is what steps shall
be taken to provide the extra room
Uuite a number of citizens have ex
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pressed themselves in favor of the dis
trict building another brick school. The
subject is one which the taxpayers
should consider well between now and
the time of holding the meeting.'
At the SalTation Army Barracks.
The Salvation Army had "great
doings" at their Front street barracks
last evening. The occasion was a "Fate
well" given to Major and Mrs. Morton
by the local corps. These officers have
been in this district for three years, bat
now have received orders to go from
Seattle where their headquarters have
been to Chicago, and take up mission
work there. Major and Mrs. Morton
have been visiting the different corps in
the district, and came to The Dalles
from Baker City.
The barracks were crowded last even
ing with interested ' spectators. Major
Morton - spoke at some length, giving a
history of the work done in the past
three years. The figures presented
show that the scope and influence of the
Salvation Army is constantly increasing.
At the conclusion of the address a song
service .was held, after which the cere
mony of giving a baby to the army was
performed. The little child of Mr. and
Mrs. Morris, who live in Thompson's
Addition, was dedicated to Christianity.
The ceremony is to the Salvation Army
what the rite of baptism is to church or
ganizations, only that the actual bap
tism does not occur. .The evening
closed with a supper one of the regula
tion coffee and cake affairs, which always
prove enjoyable to the participants.
During the evening, eight new recruits
were sworn in. Captain Potarf, the
officer in charge of the army in The
Dalles, is well pleased with the results
that are obtained, and says the outlook
for increased usefulness is bright.
Barprlse to Mrs. Olinff.
Last Monday evening Mrs. Winnie
Oling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich,
was the recipient of a very pleasant
surprise party at the residence of Mr.
and-Mrs. L. Nichols, where at an early
hour the friends of Mrs. Oling began as
sembling, soon ' the commodious
rooms were crowded full with guests, all
wearing happy faces, who were greeted
with smiles and welcomed by the kind
host and hostess. When Mrs. Oling was
sent for and she was agreeably surprised
by meeting so many of her friends. A
musical program was rendered, to the
great -delight of all. Refreshments were
then served, after which a social hour
was enjoyed, and then all took leave,
with the feeling that a most delightful
evening had been spent. Mrs. Nichols
proved herself a most genial and accom
plished hostess.
Those present were: Mr and Mrs
Lou Nichols, Mr and Mrs D Lemerson,
Mrs Urquhart and daughter, Irene, Mrs
Ulrich and daughter, Emma, Mrs Oling
and Master Paul Oling, Mrs McDonald,
Misses Emma Fisher, Blanche Millard,
Pauline Drews, Helen Nichols, Beatrice
Soesbe, and Messrs. McAvoy, Nichols,
Stone, Staniels, McDonald, Ulrich and
Koontz. - , .
Mrs. W. H. Swain dressmaker. The
best work and lowest prices guaranteed.
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GROCERIES
& MAYS.
Judge 'Williams on " Reconstruction.
The announcement that Judge George
H.' Williams would lecture in the Con
gregational church last night served to
fill the house with a cultured audience.
In a few appropriate words Mr. B. S.
Huntington introduced the speaker of
the evening, who was greeted with
warm applause by the audience. Judge
Williams prefaced his address by saying
the words that were to follow had been
written to be delivered at a meeting of
the Portland Historical Society, and
were given in The Dalles by request.
The gentleman launched at once into
his subject., and gave the audience a suc
cinct statement of the condition of this
country at the close of the rebellion.
On March 4, 1865, George H. Williams
took his Beat in the United States senate
as senator from Oregon, and soon after
that date occurred -the assassination of
Lincoln, the ascendancy to the presi
dency of Andrew Johnson, and the be
ginning of the difficulties of reconstruc
tion that engendered animosities almost
like those produced by the civil war.
"Almost immediately," said Judge
Williams, "the president and congress
were in opposition. Johnson was dis
posed to override the policy of congress,
and while offering nothing better in its
place, was determined that the milder
course, proposed by Republican leaders,
should not prevail:"
Sitting one evening in bis room at the
National Hotel, while thinking over the
difficulties in the way of .congress, an
idea came to Senator Williams, which,
before retiring that night, he had form
ulated into a bill. His plan was to di
vide the states into military districts
and have detailed an officer of the army,
not below the rank of brigadier-general,
who, with a sufficient force, should pre
serve order and see that the processes of
the national government were executed.
To the audience last night Judge Wil
liams read the provisions of the bill and
gaije a history of its passage in both
houses. After being favorably reported
by the senate committee, it passed the
senate, then the house, and after an
amendment, suggested by the author,
was added in the senate, it went again
to the house, where, after a bitter oppo
sition, it passed as amended. President
Johnson vetoed the bill, but it was
passed over his veto. This measure was
one of the most important ever enact
ed by our congress.
Jndge Williams gave many interesting
chapters of those stirring times, and
paid a tribute to the part played by
Oregon's representatives. He spoke in
kind words of the late ex-Senator J. H.
Nesmith, ex-Senator Corbett, Congress
men J. H. Henderson and Rufus Mal
lory, The audience felt ' that they were
given a rare opportunity of getting a
glimpse into the days when statesman
ship was the rule, not the exception, in
the United States sanate, and the lec
ture was interesting from beginning to
end.
The years seem to rest lightly upon
Judge Williams' ahoulders, and as it
has been said before of men who were
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eminent in serving their state and gen
eration, "his eye is not dim, nor his
natural force abated."
The Officers of the" Rathbone Sisters.
Yesterday began the. formation ol a
lodge of Kithbone vsisers an organiza
tion auxiliary to th
nights of Pythias.
For some time this
ject has been in
view, and much in
has been taken
oy tnose ladies eigi
bleo membership.
There are now tBirty-eig
t members of
the new organization, ther
being thirty
six yesterday and two moreV;oday. An
election was held yesterdayafternoon,
resulting as follows: Past Chief, Mrs.
John Michell ; Most Excellent .Chief,
Mrs J B Cro3sen ; Excellent Senior, Mrs
C L Phillips ; Excellent Junior, Mrs E
E Lytle; Manager, Mrs Jos Berger;
Mistress of Records and Correspondence,
Miss Amie Newman; Mistress of Fi
nance, Mrs Frank Menefee ; Protector,
MrsF S Gunning; Outer Guard, Mrs
Hugh Chrisman. This afternoon the
newly elected officers will be installed
and instruction 'will be continued to
morrow afternoon. Tomorrow evening
the session will close with a banquet,
which promises to be a swell affair. The
Rathbone Sisters have proven a worthy
adjunct to the Knights of Pythias and
both orders are in a prosperous condi
tion throughout the. county. Although
none but relatives of the Knights of
Pythias can join the Rathbone Sisters,
yet the latter lodge is not under the
jurisdiction of the supreme lodge of the
Knights. .
Mrs. M. E. Briggs wishes to announce
to the ladies of The Dalles that she has
taken the agency for the "Ideal Balm,"
a toilet preparation already used by sev
eral ladies here, who are unanimous in
pronouncing it the best they have-ever
used. One application makes an agree
able change; For preventing chapped
or rough bands it is the peer of anything
on the market. It will positively re
move freckles, tan, sun-burn and pim
ples without the leasts injury to the most
delicate skin. We are willing to rest
.its popularity and its future .upon the
opinion of those who use it, and conse
quently know just what it will do.
BURN.
At 5-Mile January 21, to the wife of
George Reed, a son.
Awarded
Highest Honors World's Fair,
Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair.
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Most Perfect Made.
40 Years the Standard.
V-CREAM-
Sflow Shovels,
SKATES,
Removal Notice.
Nolan's Book Store now located at
No. 54 Second Street, near Union.
TO. GET READY
...... ,
LARGE SPRING
I am now selling Men's and Boys' Clothing,
Fancy and Dress Goods, Cloaks, Capes, Shoes,
and everything else found in a first-class dry
. .. goods store. . - '
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FOR
PRICES.
C.
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OFFICE and SCHOOL SUPPLIES,
Skates, 35e
Pianos
For Low Prices, go to the
Jacobsen Book &
162 Second Street,
Holiday Perfumes.
Buy a nice, clean, sweet Perfume or Toilet
Water, elegantly put up. It makes a hand
some and much appreciated present.
Prices to "tickle"
"Long" or "Short" Purses.
-DEALER IN-
Hay
, Grain, Feed,
Fruits, Seeds,
Do you want your horses fat and sleek? Buy Hay, Oats and Barley of Cross.
Do you want your cows to give good, rich milk and plenty of it? Buy Alfalfa Hay
and Bran and Shorts of Cross. Do you want your chickens to lay fresh eggs? Buy
Imperial Egg Food and Chicken Feed of Cross. Do you want to be happy and en
joy good health, live long and increrse your bank account? Save money by buy
Hot Cakes, Buckwheat Flour, Maple Syrup and Groceries of
J. H. CROSS.
Corner of Union and Second Streets. Free Delivery. Goods sold at Bedrock
Prices for CASH.
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for a
STOCK-
F. STEPHENS.
Organs.
Music Company,
THE DALLES, OR.
DOMEIiIi'S DtyUG STOiJE
Telephone No. 15.
Flour and Groceries,
BOOKS,
Eggs and Poultry.