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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1888)
a good move. A meeting of tho business men of La Grnnilo was held a fow days ago for the purposo of inaugurating a movement to bccui'o a reduction of freight rates from tho east. It Is to be hoped that the merchants of other towiiB along the line will join in and lend their aid to tho movement. Wc heartily agrco with tho following from tho Lu Urando Journal: j 'For a long time Eastern Oregon has endured complainlngly the biirdqu of unjust freight rates, rates which havo mado us constantly pay heavy tribute to Portland, as tho freight on merchandise from Eastern points to La Grande and other interior towns has always been greatly in ex cess of tho rates from tho same point to Portland. For instance tho cost of transportation from Now York to La Grande will equal tho cost of transportation from New York to Portland added to tho cost from Tort land to La Grundo. This condition of .tilings has boon endured only because It seamed iinpos&lblQ lo remedy it. Hut, under a recent dcoUlou of the iHtemtato Commerce CommUMon, It ppwr polbo (hut wo may khjuio ilk t Ut, ' K La Graudo find i other intciior point? can once obtain the same rate? from Eastern cities as Portland , they will be able to compete with that city and their merchants be able to carry on a wholesale trade at least on n f mall scale. These advan tages which would occur, arc so obvi ous, however, that it is scarcely nec essary to mention them. The proper move to make just now would be for the merchants of La Grande, Union, IJakcr City and Pen dleton to confer together regarding this matter and ask the state commis sion to enter a formal complaint before the interstate commission. If this bo done, it is probable that :i decision could be secured in our favor as a similar one baptist been rendered in favor of Chicago." A FUTURE POSSIBILITY. Prof. F remembered gave an entertainment in this city a few weeks aco, which con sisted in chemical experiments, exer cises, fatherly advice to the young folks, etc. , is quite a poet. Itccfinlly, , Department has informed Consul Gen- oral Waller, who is home from London S. Ilafford. who it will bo makinir nolitienl fnoprliM. ihat tho i i - i part merit does not expect diplomatic j officers to engage in politics to such an ! A A k lit. I READ AID inn u Llfll BOT.Kfif 1LJJ1 UUU i m h form ! extent. And this is apart from anr ClVll fPrVJCP lflW T. ? fill. Irwlilinn rf while in Wnllown. he wrote nn nnfi. "i-"""-" " icimmvhui- v ;i,.,.ti. i.:i. I abroad re, during offico, removed lishcd in the Chieftain. Uclow wo ! from act,vc Part5" Politics. reproduce a fev stanzas from it. not! In this year's practice of army rifle- ..... t l.f.. 1 ! . 1 m P11 flip Piivn 1 rv Kninpll nf flu. enrrinn on iiuuuuiiL 01 ineir muiuiv mem. ! " ..... 1 . . , r 1 r:irrifd nffu r nf Mm envnn tn,ni, A. Hruinff lUst, rOCClVCd a larEO ana III1C1V SCILXICU biuuh. J1 wuiiviut .,...u.,i,u - w j v w I'liliVt U I O 4 w the cavalry service contains much few- Latest Announcement to the Public: SCHOOL HEGISTJiliS. Superintendent McElroy has pre pared, arranged and completed the Qjcueral register for the use of the public schools of tho stale. This is done in accordance with the amend- incuts mudc to the public school laws by tho last legislature which makes it obligatory upon the superintendent to prepare a uniform series of suitable registers, etc., for conducting all needed business under the school laws of the state. This register is very complete and comprehensive, embrac ing within one book blanks and forms for registration of pupils, teacher's j daily register, pupils' roll of honor, visitors' register, and summary and blank forms for teacher's orders, with a general biimmary for the school term or year. The register is prepared with especial care to comply with the requirements of the Oregon school law, and to secure accurate, conven ient, uniform and pcimaucnt school records. The book is adapted to the needs of city, town, village or rural public schools, whether graded or un graded, and will do more to secure uniform advancement and develop ment of public school work than any thing heretofore attempted. These registry books will be forwarded to the several county school superintend ents as rapidly as possible, from whom school clerks mav obtain them for their districts. Sufficient numbers will bo sent out to the various coun ties to supply each and every school room in the state, and are supplied free of charge. Whilo tho book has been arranged in a most economical way, tho work of the state printer and bookbinder is excellent and elegant and highly creditable to all concerned. which they arc not deficient in, but 1 simply to show the condition an oth erwise gentle and noble mind can get J or Mian one-half so many men as the iufantry, this score is remarkable. The first, second and third prizes for mark manship were won by the Second Cav alry, Col. Nelson Wcitzer command ing, and leaves that regiment the crack organization of the entiro army. rThe Treasury has decided that "suits and pieces of armor and the like" can not be admitted free of duty, if made since 1700, This is a serious blow at nearly cvory St. Patrick's Day that lands at Castle Garden. AN KIPI.ANATION. Wliat is thb "ncrvoin trouble" with 1 which so many sceni now to be afflicted T If you will remember a few year ago Ue word Malaria was comparatively unknown, to-day it is as common a any word in tht English langua-e, yet thii wrd covers on ly the meaning of another word used by our forefathers in times past. Bolt is with nervous disease, a they and Malaria are intended to cover what our grandfathers called Biliousness, and all nro caused by troubles that arise from a diseased condi tion of the Liver which in performing its functions finding it cannot dispose of the bile through the ordinary channel is com pelled to pass it off through the system, causing nervous troubles, Malaria. Bilious Fever, etc. You who are suffering can well appreciate a cure. Wc recommend Green's August Flower. Its cures are murveloui. THE TIME TO ADVERTISE. There is nothing on earth so myste riously funny as a newspaper or peri odical advertisement. The prime, first, last and all-thu- time object of an ndvertiscment is to draw custom. It is not, was not, never will be, de signed for any other human purpose. So the merchant waits until the busy season comes and his storo is so full of customers that he cannot get his hat off, and then ho rushes to the business office and puts in his adver tisement. When tho dull season comes along, and there is no trade, and ho wauls to sell goods so badly ho can't pay his rent, he discontinues his advertisement. That is, somo of them do; but occasionally a level headed man puts lu a bigger one and scoops lu nil tho trade, while Ins I neighbors aro making mortgages to pay tho gas bill. There are times when you couldn't stop people from buying everything you have for sale if you planted a cannon behind tho door, unit right then is the time some business men send their advertisement out on its holy mission. It makes light and easy work for the advertise ment, for a chalk sign on the sidewalk could do all that was needed, 'and havo a half-holiday six days in tho week; but who wants to favor an ad vertisement? Thoy arc built to do hard work, and should be relentlessly sent out in thu dull das, when a cus tomer has to bo struck between tho eyes with hard facts, kicked inseusiblo with startling bankrupt reductions, and dragged in and laid on the coun ter with irresistible slaughter of prices before he will spond a cent or buy a saw. That is tho solo end an aim of an advertisement, and if you ever open a concorn to mauufaeturo mining supplies and wood-working, don't try to get customers to como when they aro already sticking out of tho windows, 'but give them your adver tisement as a square knock-down right in the dull season, and thereby you will wax rich and own Proctor Knott, or somo kindred fast horse, to enable you to throw dust from your wheels on your less sensible neigh bors, and win shekels thereby, and perhaps bo able to smoke a good cigar on Fourth of July and ChrlstmuR. Now just writo tliU down whoro you will fall over it ovory day: Thu time to look for and draw business is when you want business, ami not whnh you already havo more biulnuiH than you run attend to. Thu Ohio to otU i whon you're hungry, tfx. into when warped, tainted and de based by false theological teaching: "Oh, that He who has made thee, Beautiful as thou art. Would in the day of displeasure, When lie gives measure for measure, Give the a safer part. Mountains shall melt beforo Ilim, Islands shall 11 ee from sight, Rivers and founts of water Shall in the day of slaughter All become blood and blight. But in His creates t nicrcv Out on our sight shall burst Scenes on our startled vision, Fields of the bright Elysian , Plains that were never curst'" Is it not a pity that any man should be so constituted that he cannot look upon the sublime and beautiful handi works of Nature without his mind conjuring up such a hellish and bloody termination of the scene which tho creator iu his great mercyf?) will bring upon it? Such effusions appear to us but the expiring gasps of the nightmare of ignorance that has brooded over the minds of men for centuries past, but which, thanks to all good influences, in a few years more will be gone forever. Silver Lake is not only the pride of the residents of Wallowa, but also of all the people in this section of the State. Wc like to allude to it as "our lake," and. have artists and poets visit it, for, as. a general rule, thov nav titling tribute to it with brush and pen. Wc trust, however, that the next time Prof. Ilafford 01 any other person of 111s peculiar tem perament ilnd pious fervor visits this magnificent sccuo he, will keep his lurid fancies to himself and let others of a less bloodv turn of mind essav to speak of it and blend its praise with song. U'.mjmuutjii. jujmnmuiiMOTra WASHINGTON". from Eastern Markets, bought for cash, wo can ard will give our customers BETTER PRICES THAN EVER. O The Tublio i3 Kesicctfully Invited to Inspect our splendid Lino of CLOTHING Gent's Furnishing Goods, Hats and caps, Fine Boots and Shoes, etc. LADIES DRESS GOODS. A Magnificent line of all shades and qualities. Latest styles of CHALLI DELAINES, LUSTRE SUITING, EMHIlOlDElUliS. LINEN CHAMBKAY, PLUSHES & VELVETS, PARASOLS, WHITE GOODS, GLOVES & HOSIERY, BATISTE, LACE CURTAINS, GINGHAM PRINTS, MUSLINS,. -And an- A11 Intel DKtliiK l.etH-r From our Itcgu lar Correspondent. The smell of paint hangs about the White House, and busy artisans arc placing new furniture in many of tho rooms, Mrs. Cleveland, thoreforc, pre fers to remain at Oak View, only com ing in occa&ioualfy to view the work. The sorrel team, and tho rather dis tinguished looking woman dressed in boft tinted wools, with the low crowned brown velvet faced Derby, is a familiar flgiiro on tho Oak View road. She looks happy enough, in all truth. With the president tho talo is differ ent. Tho nearness of the Novenibcr battlo is in his face. His work during the last week of congiess was hercu lean, for whatever may bo said of him, it cannot bo said that ho delegates his work to subordinates. Perhaps ho is at tho other e.xtremo; he may not havo learned the true value of able lieuten ants. It is said he will not begin his annual message until after election, which is in all probability correct. 1 am likewiso informed that he has reg istered in Bullalo, and will vote there in November. The president will receive tho elec tion returns over the private wire that connects tho White House with New York. Dan. Lamont will tabulate the returns as thoy aro received. The last report of tho Commissioner of Labor is devoted largely to statistics as to tho condition of working-women in this country. In tho preparation of tho work nearly 20,000 women woro inter viewed by women. Thu statistics of marriage and divorce cover nearly the last twenty years. Tho ages, cauuo of divorce, number of all children, date and placo of murriago, aro shown by counties, from the records of 2,700 courts. TI10 marriage laws aro em braced iu the volume. It !h a huge and hideous monument to private misory and wrecked lives. Still, if it settled tho question "Is marriago a failuro?" which has filled tho New York papers, recently, it would meet my gratitude Gen. Grcoloy's recent ronort shows ' that about 2,000 miles of military tele 1 graph Hues aro still in oxistenco, being 1 all that is left of S,2o0 miles of lino erectod by the army iu tho last four j toon years. This is significant of tho j growth of tho country, uivil lines tak j ing tho plaooof military lines. To-day ! there is pmctioally littlo frontier, and that is limited to New Mexico ami j Arizona. But Mil linos ar devoted to 1 tho Ma coast, to thu dufonso of com moruo, and tho uod work of tint lift) j saving rvl. Il u an opoii totrvt tlml tho BUite Temperance Lecture. A Tombstone (Arizona) exchange, says: ine stomach of a whisky drinker was on exhibition at Fairbank recently, and it did more for the cause of temperance than a hundred lectures by a weeping orator. It resembled a boot-leg which had put in about tweutv years in an alley. Endless Variety of BEADED TRIMMINGS, Also a Complete Stock of GASPETS 1KB WAS PAPBHs- TRUNKS, VALISES, TRAVELING BAGS, BASKETS, etc., and a full line of Th MAISIUKD. BAIltD DOTdOX At the residence of the bride's parents, in this citv, Sunday, Nov. -1th, 18KS, Mr. Daniel Iiaird and Mi Mollie Dotson, Rev. L. J. Booth officia ting. The Scoit extends congratulations. ill! 11 IliFiWlfS Ilis Cove m Store, Groceries, Cutlery and Notions. 'WE WANT IT UNDERSTOOD that 110 other store in Union county can undersell us, and a visit to our establishment will convince any ono of tho fact. All are invited to come and see us and wo promise to do you good. NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS. JAYCOX & FOSTER, GROC JASPER G. STEVENS, Propr. DEALER IX , ure Drugs, atent Medicines, eriumery, a hits and Oils, Prescriptions carefully prepared j ALSO DKALKK IN SPORTING GOODS, Consisting of HUH Mi wis aim biuuiifiiis. Imported and Domestic Ci gars, etc. GIVE ME A CALL. DISSOLUTION NOTICK. Main St., Union, Or. cronsriES brothers. -Dealers In- ClflR, -VTOTICH IS HKKKHV GIVKN THAT JJ tho undersigned have this day inutu tnnllv disMolvnd the partnership heretofore existing between them. 11. F. Wilson of tho tirm will continue the buMiic.-s. collect all bills and settle the indebtedness of the Iirm. Dated this Nov. 7th. 1SSS. CARROLL A WILSON. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Li. mi OrncE at La Grande Orkcon,) Nov. 7. 1SS8. f Notice Is herebv given that the followinc- nnincd settlors have tiled notiee of their in tentions to make llnnl proof iu support nf their claims, and that said proof's will be made beforo the register and receiver nt La Urande, Oregon, on Dec. 18, ISSS, viz: S aha 11 A. Arxold. Hd. No. 2073. for the Ek'8W. SW' SW M and SEli SWK Sec. 5. To. 5 S. It. 30 E. and, JOHN K. ItKEVKS. Hd. No. 2117. for the NEVi NEW Sec. 2.Tp. 0 S, and SU SK and SK SW Sec. 35, Tp. 6 S, K. 40 E. They nnnio the lollowlng witnesses to prove their continuous rcMcience upon and ciiiiivHiion 01, said itinu. viz: J. II. Stevens William Stafford and Thom as Shaw, of North 1'owder; John K. Keevei, Oliver McKeavor. William Frafcler. Sarah A. Arnold and W II. Huffman, of Tclocnset, Oregon, Any porson who desires to protest against the allowance of such proof, or who knows of any substantial reason, under the law and the regulations of the Intorior Department, why such proof should not be allowed, will be given an opportunity at the above men tioned time and place to cross-examine the witnesses of said claimants, mid to offer evidence in rebuttal of that submitted by claimant. Hk.nkt Hikehart. 11 fw Register, FOlt SALE. T) KSIDEM'E I'UOI'EUTY FOR SALE IV 111 North Pnl. in. For particular en buiro of Mr. N. Rowland. 0-7-wl Dwelling- i.ouse for Sale. A dwelling hdiiia and lot, ut tu Cove, Oregon. iVntrnlly located, near and con-vonit-ut to all the naliooW. Good ctllar, wood.hl and wnll. Will be old aheap 8-31-tl , CuVf, OrvsfW variety and Faacy kk School Booh mi Msmf rders from all parts of tho country promptly attended to. FURNITU Wilson & Miller, Sash Doors Manufacturers of and Dealers 111 If Pari) r ai Be Mollis r 5 H X Keeps Constantly on hand a Large .Supply of ?0tC Mini Bedding, Desks, Office Furniture, etc. All kinds of Furniture Made, an 1 I'ph ,U: ring ilnm- to order. WILSON A. MILLER, . . Main Hi., Union. Or. mm mm mim I'NIUX, - ORF.tJON. All kinds of photographic work done in a su perior manner, and warranted to giro satisfaction. Jones Bro's. - Ajtists.