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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1890)
THE COVE. A Condensed Record of Recent Interesting Happenings. July 2, 1S9Q. II. II. Fronch lias commenced baling hay and will soon finish up last year's crop. Mr. Chas McDapicl, who passed the winter at Eugene, attending" the State University, has returned home. Mr. Bert Denton, who has been working for Mr. Shirley, started Mon day for the Sound, and will try his for tune at Fairhaven. The La Grande basoballists failed to put in an appearance last Sunday and thus saved themselves from dis astrous defeat. Soveral Cove fanners say that their grain fields never were in a more flourishing condition, and that they should have splendid crops this fall. Mr. P. A. Millard, father of Edward Millard of Cove, died a few days since at his homo in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Mr. Millard was in Covo on a visit to his son several years ago. M. 1$. Uees in connection with his butcher shop is running a peddling wagon through the Cove and on the ridge. This will be a great conven inco to the fanning community. Mr. Geo. E. Foster and family, of Wallowa county, arc visiting relatives in Cove. George had the good for tune to lose a valuable horse, of moun tain fever, just before leaving home. Jesse Jewell commenced carrying the mail between Cove and Union last Tuesday, lie leaves promptly at 7 "30 a. m. Mr. Robinson still drives a daily passenger and freight hack to and from the depot. The public school closed last Friday with a very interesting programme, in which the scholars acquitted them selves with much credit. Teachers for this fall have not yet been engaged and the exact time for opening school has not been decided upon. From present indications there wil bo a grand exodus from Cove to Rig creek on the Fourth. The boys do not know whether to go to Rig creek with the band or spend the day at Summerville, and compete for tho baseball prize. Mrs. Judd Gecr returned from a visit among relatives in New York, Monday. Had she not suffered a delay in Chica go, tho return trip tt'oltld have beeil made in four days, or with about the speed traveled by Geo. Francis Train in his recent tour around tho world. The census enumerators, Messrs. Eugene Conklin and Eugene Holmes, have completed their labors and straightened themselves out from an interrogation mark shape. Tho next time they receive a like appointment thoy will demand fifty dollars per diem, for their services as a just recompense for such toil. Additional particulars of the drown ing of Charles Kelley near Stone City, ""Iowa, have been received. It seems ho was attempting to ride across a jsmall creek, swollen by recent rains, when he got beyond his depth, and horse and rider disappeared. Help was at hand, but nothing moro was seen till an hour later. He was then dragged from tho water, still holding to tho horn of tho saddle. Every at tempt was made at resuscication, but to no avail. Tho deceased was a good swimmer, but either became frightened or mado a mistake by holding to tho horn. Only a few days beforo ho got into tho water at the same placo and had a narrow escape from drowning. REDUCED RATES Over the U. P. Railroad to Various Meet ings to be Held Soon. Rates on tho Certificate Plan have been mado for meetings specitled below: Passengers paying full fare going will bo returned at one fifth faro on Certificates signed by tho secretary of tho meeting as per Rate Circular No. 1$ 37, 1600. Meeting of Grand Lodge A, 0. U, AV. at Astoria, July 8th to 15th, inclusive, 1&90, (From stations In Oregon and Washington sell to Portland only.) Newton Clark, grand recorder, will sign certificates. For tho Mardi Gras to bo held at Ogdcn, Juno 30th to July 5th. 1690, round trip tickets, will bo sold, form L 101, from Union to Ogdcn, at tho rate of ono first class limited or unlimited faro, as tho caso may be. Agents westof Huntington will sell on Juno 123 to 30th, Inclusive. Agents east of Huntington Inclusive, will sell on June 20th to July 1st, Inclusive. 1600. Limit tickets returning up to and Including July 10th, 1690, A. E. ELLIS, Act. Cooper Shop. S. 11. Ayles proprietor, manufacturer of butter barrels and kecs. A good supply al ways on hand. Shop ut Union depot, Un ion county, Oregon. 6-22-tf. Wanted! To exchange goods for 30 cords of wood. If T 11 lfUulm. EAGLE VALLEY. A Record of Recent Inter esting: Happenings. FARMERS AND STOCKRAISERS. Recent Mining Discoveries-Narrow Escape From Drowning-Social Notes. New Bmdui:, June 25, INK). Now is tho time to buy hay and get first chance for feeding grounds. All the ranchers have stopped hay ing to-day on account of rainy weath er. Mrs. W. W. Kirby will start to-morrow to Iowa to sec a sister who is sick and not expected to live. Mr. Ron Longley has just returned from the east where he disposed of 8000 head of mutton sheep. lie started another band since he got back home and will rest for a few days. Ruyers are in tho valley most every day purchasing beef cattle for tho Portland and other markets. There will boa largo amount of cattle stall fed here next month. Our people will attend celebrations of the fourth at Rig creek, Pine valley and Cornucopia. Wo will have our Harvest Homo picnic in August and hope to have tho best time in the world. Union should feel well disposed to ward tho eastern part of the county for standing by it in the county seat contest. Wo proposed to let tho hon est taxpayers act in tho matter and not a lot of scalawags. I think tho troublo is over, let us all unite now in building up a prosperous county. Wo are very thankful to tho county court for the commencement of a bridge across Powder river at Swisher's ford. We never expect to have an other judge that will stand by the tax payers like O. P. Goodall has done. He has been a friend to the honest toilers. Wait till two years roll around and wc will see how the matter stands. We hope our new judge will be as efficient. Lew Jennings, O. S. Ruckland and others have struck tho richest quartz that ha? ever been found in this coun try. It is situated about 8 miles west of tho Valley on the south side of the river we arc in hopes that other good ledges will be found. K, Eaolk Vam.ky, Juno 28, 1890. The sick list is blank. The strawberry season has passed. Wc have an excellent school in this valley. Plenty of fruit is expected in Eagle valley. We expect to have a shoo shop soon, which wo need very badly. Mr. Frank Craig returned home on June 27th, from Missouri. Tomatoes are in blossom. Young potatoes are large enough to cat. Tho range in this section is better than it has been for years and stock is doing well. Our postollice has a new cabinet which improves the appearance of the room somewhat. Now and rich gold mines are re ported to have been discovered on Powder river above Eaglo valley. Tho hay crop will yield about three tons to tho acre, and some of our farm ers expect to get three crops this year. Some of tho energetic farmers of this valley havo put up water wheels to turn grindstones and do tho churn ing. Mr. Lester Holcomb returned from Missouri about two weeks ago where ho has been Belling horses. Ho roportB hard times in that section. Mr J. G. Thompson, an old pioneer of this valley, but who has been living at Prairie City for some time, returned and mado us a visit recently. Mr. A. T. Neill and a Scotchman, who camo up from Union, while at tempting to cross Powder river wcro so unfortunate as to tip tho buggy over in tho water. Mr. Neill managed to get out of tho water, in some way, and tho other gent baved tho team and buggy. It was a. narrow escape for both men and team. NEWTON BRADFORD. Lost A Pocket Boole, On June 22, lfcflO, somewhere between the 1'ru.bstel bridge and La Grande, a black pocket book, containing V0 one ten and two twenty-dollar bills. I will give f 10 to anyone who will return it to me or Icare the same at the Island City bank. K. A. WILLS. G-2C-U Summerville. Or. HOW WE WENT TO CHURCH. Churches and Church Matters as they Ex ist in the Sunny South. n.U.Kldlt, N C. Editou Oukoon gcour: Appropriately following our last let ter, perhaps an account of our going to ' church on a particular Sunday, and a description of the building not bo uninteresting to our itself may renders. About four miles from where wo were stopping, stauds an old Presbyte rian church, which was the only church in that half of the county. On a bright and beautiful Sunday morn ing in April, a gentleman of energy and kind intentions determined that our settlement should bo represented at that church. About nino o'clock, a mule team hitched to a lumber box wagon, and driven by a black man, camo to our door. Eight cliairs wcro placed in tho wagon and eight persons were placed on the chairs. The wagon was without springs, the chairs with out cushion, and tho road without stones, but yet very rough ; mado so by roots and rains. It was not a high way, simply a track through the woods. Hence, rough as it was, wo must uso it, and that too without tho luxury of grumbling nbout Commissioners or Path Masters. "Do you know how to go to tho old saw mill?" was a ques tion put to the negro driver. "Yes sah, I knows dat road." And so wo jolted along for a couple of miles, in a quiet contemplation of the beauties of Na ture. At the end of two miles we be came certain that our driver knew how to loso himself and his load much bet ter than he knew how to find the old saw mill. However, by tlio use of a little know and more gues6, wo found tho old saw mill, and pushed on to church without further adventure. We found the people assembled and services begun. The pastor was giving a record or report of tho work of tho church, .its ihcreaso, etc., during tho past year. The record of money con tributed to benevolent work, and the number of persons admitted to the church in tho year, were such as to honor a large and wealthy church, arid ono which enjoys tho services of a pas tor for tho whole time, And yet this church, without rich members, is com posed largely of scattered farmers just living from their farms, and enjoys a preaching service only twice each month. A half of a pastor is hotter than none; sometimes perhaps better tlmu a whole one. Tho church building itself is worthy of a special description. It stands in one of the lovlicst spots Naturo can make. Upon a knoll slightly elevated above tho surrounding plain, which in turn is tho bottom of a bowl liko am- j phitheatre, stands a two story, nearly I square, plain weather beaten building. Without steeple of any kind, and until quite recently without chimney. Near tho west side of the building, a bell is elevated upon a post about half tho height of the building. Man has erected a Bhelter within which to worship God. God has sur rounded it with beauties beyond tho conceptions of man. The little hills around ; the shady glen with its spring of pure water; tho llowers and tho treen, to-day white with the dogwood blossom; and the beautiful quiet of tho solemn resting pluco of tho deud, all combine to form a picture from tho ! hand of the Divine Artist which cannot soon bo forgotton. This church edifice was erected boforo the war. It has six entrance doors; four for tho white people and two to tho galleries for the slaves. Tho col ored pcoplo and tho whites now havo i tncirown scperato cnurcnesuut oeioro tho civil war, the slaves must some times go with their musters; and then they must go into the gallery by them selves. The floor will seat about thico hundred persons, and on this Sunday was well filled. Tho outsido has been painted, but nop lint brush over touched the interior. Floors, seats, walls, ceiling, gallery fronts, casings, doors and windows, aro of tho best Southorn Pine. Columns ten inches square, of handsome curled pine, and somo with out a crack, support the galleries. Tho walls and ceiling aro covered with heurt boards ten and twelvo inches wide, so thoroughly seasoned beforo being used that very few joints havo opened enough to admit a knife blade. This building was all done by hand labor ; evidently tho labor of an honest love for the cause. Tho people would not build poorly in their work; they could not build poorly in matcriul ; for this splendid old pine was all they had with which to build. It cost thoin but little; but if somo fairy could in a night transport to any of our readers tho lumber in tho Interior of that attractive old church, it would make you rich. Ago has spread a rich mantle of brown over tho whole. Good men have preached with in theso wulls to the passing genera-1 tions. Good men and women havo i sung and prayed there and havo been curried thence to their last homo. It I is unpretentious; but beautiful in its' surroundings and in its whole; and dear to the hearts of tho pcoplo who come from far and near, twice each month to worship the Creator of all beauty. J, T. PATRICK. ! 4bm tiPlrPtAw Fill IIWWV OH SALE I , VJD mff ft) A 7 POINTS - i HUwil ilii 1 UiU I D EAST, WEST, NORTI SOUTH i UNION, OKKCiON, A. II. Iil.l.lK, Ticket ArmiiL ;riMH.fsA"iiidi. Trains deitmt from lTiuVm dally as follows: No 2 Express 11:86 A. 31. No 1 Mail. ?j4S 1 M. wet iiorai). N'o 1 Express . No .'S Mail . 4:85 A. it. 4:05 i. M. Main I.iw;, Xos. 1 an. I 2. "Thn Ovorluinl Flyer,'' carry tlir. nu'h I'tiHnum Slaejiers, fnlonha t)pi'ior, Kreo rhiiir U;irH anil Concho-, Ix'twcni I'lirtliiml and Denver, Omaha, Kansas City. t. Louis, St. i'aul or Chicago. Main Line, Xn. and 4. "The Limited Fast Mail," oairv Pullman Dining anil Sleeping Cars between Portland and Chi cago. OCEAN DiVISrOlN. The I'nion 1'uciU" will illspmoh Steamer between San FrunoiM'o nad Port land, tis follow i: fr'UOM l'OUTI.A.NlJ. At 10 p. in. rnoM SAN KI.ANC1HCO. M ID n. m. Orepon . Coin mbiu. Statu Oregon. . . Columbia State Oregon. . uly ." Columbia ....Inly :'. .State " 7 " 12 Oregon . " 11 10 1 Columbia.... 10 '' instate " ) " 24 I Oregon. ... " ttl ' !2S I Columbia . " 21 I State " 31 The company reserves the right to change steamers or sailing dnv. RATES OF PASSAGE: Cabin. - - ?10.00 Steerage - - $ -.00 Round Trip Tickets, Unlimited - f?.'!0.00 Children, under 1:2 years - Half Fare 5 vears ... Free Including ilenl and Jkrths. C. S. M ELLEN, I T. W. LEE. Ocn'l Trallle Manager. I Gen'l, Ticket Agt, A. E. ELLIS, Agent. Union. o.&w. "The Hunt Line." In Connection with tl.o NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILR'D ForniH the Quickest and Best Route Uetwcen Eateru Oreg.m and Washington and 1'imci Sound point, as well as the Popular .1 ml Dlieet Line to all POINTS BAST and SOUTHEAST PULLMAN SLKEP1NO CARS, SUPERB DINING OARrt, and FREE SECOND ULAriS HLEEPEllS T!irmij;!i to Chleng'i virv IliU I.Ino. Passenger Trjins of tins Company are run ning regularly between" DAYTON, WAITrtRURtl, WALLA WALLA, WAS 11., and PEN DLETON, OR., Making ehr-ie connection at Hunt' Junc tion with Northern Pacific trains tor Taen iiin, Seattle, Victoria II. C, Ellcii'diurg, North Yakima. Pac, Hpnu'uc, Cheney, Davenport, hpok-iim Falls, Unite, llcltnu. St. Paul, Minneapolis. AND ALL POINTS EAST. Passenger Train, making above connec tions leave Peudlefon tluily, ut 7 :I0 p. m. Through Tickets Sold to all Points at tho Lowest Hates. liast V. Jr. WAMRLFV. Cicn'l Fr't and Piss'gr Agt. Walla Walla. Wish. W. HUNT. i rcsiueiii aim i i'I Manager, IIf Iy pivcoN Tii i;ot Agent, I'nion, Or. LUMBER for SALE at the High Valley Saw Mill. All kinds of lumber constantly on hand or furnithcil on uhurt notice. Price cheap tin tho cheapest. Patronage - Solicited. .: 0-30tf WM. WILKINSON & SON. r. chapman, Real Estate Agent, , AND CONVEYANCER. Parties d&iring to invest in Elgin town property or in farming lauds should call on or I'ldrf sg mo at Elgin, Oregon. M7tf. st no ron oun catalogue prices i.RJR ATLAS ENGINE WORKS, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. ! if hois! lew Prices!' Summers DKAi.r.::- in- Eain Ei u f? H SP.i M P. hi w - - W Jfl h t 5V KTH W IS M W fl mm ii i SOLE AGENTS FOR THE WELL KNOWN nil iK iik mm With Patent Gauze-wire Doors. OUR Is in Clmrgo of a First-cla.sa Workman, and all Work Warranted. Call and Examine our Goods and Prices. SUMMERS it LAYNE. Union, Oregon 4-17tf I if im in Tho Finest Lot of. Kens' Ii hiui liltaCloUiinj, Spring and Summer Hats, Also tho Q run tost tintl Host A&sortniont of DRESS -:- GOODS! In nil the Latest Styles nml Qualities, AT THE LOWEST PRICES. JV. LEVY. - - OB -DEALER IX- OOT Latest Styles. Just Received, Direct from the Kast, a Largo Invoico of LADIES' and MISSES' CALFSKIN SHOES, tho Best Ever brought to this Markot. Also a Fino Assortment of GENT'S -:- FURNISHING -:- GOODS. My Prices will suit the times. Drop in and see me?" 0. VINCENT, Main Street, Union, Or. ItMESCIAl UMT FEED SU (OPPOSITE CENTENNIAL HOTEL.) J. S- ELLIOTT, - Proprietor- Everythlnu First Class. Terms Very Keasonable. 'Bus to and Fiom the Depot Making Connection with all TraUs. Received at A. N. 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