NEWBERQ GRAPHIC
Indiana farmers looked good to
ns and we are not too old to for*
get it even at this distance. The
fact is one o f them is doing the
cooking at our ranch and she
continues to shine in a n j beauty
contest.
when there will be more big
pumpkins and pretty babies to
show. Sure thing.
Nelson & Hanson
Dealers in
DON'T BORE YOUR FRIENDS
Some people seem to eqjoy
"p oor health." Meet them on
the streets, a t church or where
With the exercise o f just a littk you will, and they begin w ith a
forethought on the part o f peo weak hand-shake t o tell yon o f
ple who 'live on the rural mail every ache and pain they have
routes, a supply ot stamps might had tor a week. I t may be a
be kept on hand for posting kt- "bad cold" they-have contracted
tersand cards, which would save and they w ill tell you all thè de
the carriers a lot o f troubk. tails o f how they came to "catch
When unstamped letters arc it ." I t avails you nothing', to
Dry moss on a ro o f forms a
placed in the boxes with money try to back o ff and avoid the fire
veritable tinder box that a spark
to pay for the stamps, the money o f the "feel bad" fellow, for he
from a chimney may set ‘ off at
must be taken care o f in all kinds is getting real enjoyment out ot
any moment. Property owners
ot weather and stamps bought the recital ot his ailments., I t is
w ho don't care to gamble on
and licked when the carrier chronic w ith him—both the dis
their chances lor a distinctive
reaches the office. Of coarse there ease and the desire to tell his
will be times when the supply o f ta k o f w oe to his friends.
o f stamps will run out at the
Do we believe
Christian
without delay
country borne and carriers ex Science? Well, yes, for we have
A Clackamas county paper is pect a reasonable number o f such seen it take the whine out ot
publishing a petition for a sa cases, but a lot of extra lkking some people, where neither medi
loon license and in the list o f pe could easily be saved them with cine nor “ sympathy" would do
titioners we notice the names of out w orking any hardship on the work, and anything that
Kenfrut, Noach, Blaske, Heins, the patrons o f the routes. The will make a fellow cheerful and
Yohan, Joast, Fenski, Goebel, golden ruk ought to work well hopeful, and quit boring his
friends with a recital o f hisphysi*
Koebel, Geipner, Manske, etc. both ways.
cal ailments wiH do him good.
Did we hear somebody assert
The big premium list for the
that the saloon is an American Greater Oregon State Fair (Sep Occasionally yon meet a man
who puts to shame the "feel
institution?
tember 16-21) has been issued.
bad” fellow, by the -nerve and
This volume is an attractive and
Mrs. Edith Torier-Wetherred
backbone he exhibits in overcom
convenient handbook, contain
has gone to Honolulu to chaper
ing the inconveniences o f real
ing all information about the
on a company o f young ladies
disabilities, and who. is getting
fair in a condensed form. The
•who are coming over to see the
more out o f life than the average
contents include the list o f premi
sights on this aide and attend
man w ho is not handicapped.
ums for every department o f ex
the Oregon state fair. The poi
Such a man is JB. F. Irvine, edi
hibits, rules governing awards,
to r and proprietor o f the Cor
may be a little short tor the
information about the fair, camp
Honolulu belles while they are
vallis Times, with whom the
ing grounds, transportation, etc.
w ith us, but tbe prune crop is
writer has a very pleasant ac
The reading matter is illustrated
spend id this season
quaintance. Last Sunday’s Ore
with half-tone cuts o f scenes at
gonian said o f him:
the
fair buildings, premium stock,
While attempting to saw a
__ "B . F- Irvine, who has served
piece
ece ot meat for the editor last and other features. Altogether most acceptably for several years
Monday the local batcher came the premium list is the best ever
very near sawing his finger off. put out in the forty-six years o f as a member ot the Board of Re
We were engaged in conversa the institution’s existence, and is gents o f the Oregon Agricultural
tion, and Mr. Fisher industrious
College, andjas treasurer o f the
ly sawed aw ay for some time, the first appeal to the artistic Board, is a man o f rather re
thinking he was sawing steak, sense ever attempted. All per markable powers, especially in
buLafterward discovered that it sons interested can secure this
view o f the fact that be is en
was his finger.’ ’—Canby Times.
book by applying to the secre
tirely
blind. Though he cannot
The newspaper man must have tary o f the board, F. A. Welch,
tell
darkness
from light, he has
been palling the butchers k g Salem, Oregon.
learned to work and to enjoy life
w ith unusual vigor.
J. P. Dunn, for many years edi without the sense o f sight.
"H e is a newspaper man by oc£
Under the tw o cent fare the to r of tbe Indianapolis Sentinel,
cupation;
ed itor and proprietor
earnings o f the Union Pacific has contributed to the various
The place to get your
show a decided increase, i t has responses elicited by the inquiry o f the Corvallis Times. He goes
long been maintained by those o f the New York World as to
w ho have made a study o f the what constitutes a democrat. local news items^ goes about
&
question that lower rates on His contribution is as follows: tow n alone on business as though
passenger fares would not im " A t present a democrat is an he could see and writes all his
poverish the railroads, but in American citizen w h o would news and editorials rapidly and
stead, that the encrease in travel rather fight democrats than re correctly on his typewriter. His
Books, Stationery, Faney and
would more than * make up for publicans. I f he is a Bryan dem knowledge o f the w orld’s events Toilet Articles. Camara and
the loss, but it has been hard to ocrat his dearest object is to is gathered by having his em- Rodaki r i d all kinds o f O an efe
Though Supplies.
g e t the railway managers to see swat a gold-bug democrat. If ployes read to him
he is a anti-Bryan democrat he'd such a thing seems almost im LESSON8 G IV E N IN K O D A K -
rather sw at a Bryan democrat possible, he thoroughly enjoys
T w o cases o f drowning already than eat. In this situation we and appreciates athletic con
this season a t Long Beach, are doomed tocontinucd republi tests, particularly football and
Washington, and the season for can success. If we could nomi baseball games. " I t was the
surf bathing only fairly begun. nate some southerner who has best game I ever saw ," he re
This shows the extreme folly of not been actively allied with marked to an acquaintance one
taking chances with the under- either faction and who has sense day at the close of a football
to w that » liable to take bathers enough to keep his mouth shut game, much to the astonishment
o ff their feet and to a watery on Bryanism until after the elec o f the listener. As the game pro
grave at any moment, and yet tion, we might do something. ceeded he stood beside a friend
bathers w ill persist in taking Otherwise it is merely a question who understood the game and
who told him the different plays
such chances without any pro o f selecting the form of defeat.”
that
were made.
When the
tection by life lines, such as
Tim
othy
Brownhill,
o
f
the
gafpe was over he could describe
might easily be provided.
Beaver State Herald, failed to its important features and tell
Subscription contests are being get a meeting o f the citizens of where his own team had done
LET US FIGURE WITH YOU.
worked to a frazzk by various Gresham to consider a proposi good or poor work.
It was chiefly Irvine’ s cam
newspapers, in which yonng tion to celebrate Independence
ladies are induced to enter the day, and in his desperation he paign that made Corvallis and
Clemenson &. Evans
contest with the hope of getting took the ball by the horns, so to Benton county “ d ry." He is not
a valuable prize or making a de speak, by ringing the town fire a prohibitionist on general prin
sirable trip. The editor o f the bell which brought out the popu ciples nor, perhaps, a teetotaler.
Graphic has never taken much lace instanter. T i m o t h y ac He waged a campaign for a dry
stock in these contests, for they knowledged to an irate member town upon the proposition that
always bring sore disappoint- o f the town council that he was a college town should have no
the party who laid himself liable saloons. Parents who are asked
to a fine by sounding the tocsin, to send their children to the in
but invited the city dads along stitution should be assured that
You couldn’t tell by looking at it
with others to meet in the hall they will be surrounded by ,the
whether a watch is cheap or not at
immediately, which they did, best possible influences, was his
912. V ery glittering promise* may
and the consequence was they argument. He contended that
have been made to you abdut that
watch in a mail order ad.
You were
had a rousing meeting, followed since Corvallis had been made
told it was this and that and the
by the largest and most enthusi the seat o f the Agricultural Col
other thing.
astic celebration ever held in that lege, that city owed it to the
part o f the country. A short rest o f the state to make the But really no one but an experienced
time ago Mr. Brownhiil con- town as clean as possible. It jeweler could tell whether it is good
value or not at the price.
ceived an idea that it would be a was this line o f argument, so it
their (laughters is accepted by
splendid thing to hold a fair at is said, that first carried Corval He could probably tell in a minute or
prospective harvest hands they
so, but you must use it and wait
Gresham
this fall, and since the lis "d ry ." Irvine is credited with
will probably have to forward
developments to And out.
photographs o f the girls.—Mar people have learned that he being one o f the most effective
tinsville ( Indiana) Democrat.
means business in anything he sentimentmakers a m o n g the I f you will come here you can purchase
Conditions may have changed undertakes, they are falling in country editors o f Oregon."
as good a watch at whatever price ymf
wish to pay aa was over turned out o f
in Indiana since tbe days when line and whooping’er up for tbe
w e cast shy glances at the farm fair without a call from the fire
I f the voice of conscience dis a factory.
ers daughters, but we are inclined bell. They will have a success turbs you, silence it by obeying
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t o take the above aa a base in ful fair too, and they w ill be so it .
I V I I L L . O JEWELS]
sinuation on the part o f the well pleased with it that they
Everything is possible to those
Next to Postoffice.
Democrat. Tbe daughters o f tbe will want to hold one next year. w hodonot fear tbe impossible.
Nelson & Hanson
P. H. Caldwe!
King A Bennett Hdw. Co
made and dia price is no h ig lir
than for poorer quality.
Just Received—A new lot of Mitch
ell Buggies, Hacks, and G eorgia
W agons.
*
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