The
O b s e rv e r.
iistoricait ' sketch :
(Contributed.)
Mrs. Harriet Jane Erskine, wife
■ • r « c i t y w t » •« » * • ■ * •* « * •
O F F IC IA L r » r i M OF B B K B K A » OO of Abiel Erskine, formerly of this
county, died at midnight, October
MORO, O R BOON.
24th, 1908, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. O. E- Williams, at
C. L. I bblawd ............. A • .M anaqkb
Seattle, Wash., after 24 weeks of
D. C. I bblahd ........................E ditor patient suffering from paralysis,
caused by a disease of Ion» stand
Nov. 13, 1908 ing. She was called Home to her
F R ID A Y ..
loved ones who have gone before.
Church and Society notice* F R E E , e x She was laid to rest io the beautiful
cept when for money m aking PurP°*«*
Lake View Cemetery, on a bed of
H uch notice« at regular rate« at the option
evergreens, covered wilb many floral
of the publlaher«.
offerings from her friends.
Before coming to the city to trade read
er« are requested io examine The Ob«ei ver
ad vert tai ng column«. It« U»e active, wide
awake huaineaa man who advertise«, con^
.euuently he 1« the moat accoinm.xlatlng,
•ell« the cheapest, and deal« the mo»t II
e rally In every way
We will not be responsible for the
neglect of so becriber. to no tify u . of
changes in th e ir addreaa. N or w ill th e
n o tificatio n of a Poetmaater th a t'‘ be aub-
ocnber baa “ Removed ’ aettle the b ill of
a d e lin q u e n t.
Send for advertising rates
Send The Observer to your absent
friends. It in better than a letter,
and gives all the home news. Four
months for 50c.
The smile that won’t come off has
now become a positive grin of pros
perity on the face of the American
people.
'
Oompers was wise when he an
nounoed that he did not care fora
position in President Bryan’s cab
inet.
The art of oratory may not be de
dining,,but it would never be called
' in, for example, to build a Panama
canal.
Missouri ought to hold a jubilee
now that it feels assured that its
elections can no louger be stolen by
"** ward Indians.
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The Erie Ry. has the largest and
most powerful locomotive in the
world. It draws a train of 250 cars
two miles in length.
Ool. Watterson will find it hard
to say anything new of Mr. Bryan
in the way of fervent approval, or
intense disapprobation.
There’s a good deal to that sug
gestion that after Roosevelt gets to
be associate editor of the Outlook
it may be changed to the Lookout.
A
New York theoeophist says
Kate Elkins was of royal blood ‘in
the former existence.* There is a
lot of oonsolatiou for downtrodden
people in„this life.
In Indiana an automobile has
been used successfully as the basket
o f a balloon. In New York, as a
rale, only the speed mad chauffeur
goes “ op in the air.*’
Mr. and Mrs. A. Erskloj came
overland from Nekou Station,Butte
county, California, leaving there
late in the summer of 1880, arriving
at the present location of Erskine-
ville, Oregon, October 19th, of the
same year, wheie they lived and
farmed for 26 years. In the spring
of 1881 Mr. Erskine plowed, with
bis 8 horse gangplow, brought from
California, a small pieoe of land
that yielded 800 bushels of 1st grade
club wheat when threshed. While
the crop was growing Mr. Erskine
was away hauling the large timbers
for the John Day river bridge,leav
ing Mrs. Erskine to protect the un-
fenoed field of growing grain. Many
a night she would get up and go
out waving a large pieoe of white
cloth in the wind to frighten large
bands of range horses away. She
never tired o f showing samples of
the wheat and extolling the resour
ces of the bunch grass laud. From
flour made from this wheat she
baked many a pan of biscuits and
gave to the weary travelers that
camped near with their families
hunting for homes in a new country.
She would go miles to help those
that needed assistance. One cold
night she was called away from
home in a blizzard. Her family
tried to persuade her not to leave
in the storm, but the answer was:
“The mother needs me, and I mast
go to her.” Mrs. Erskine was the
mother of six children, all Califor
nians by birth.. Two boys and four
girls. Three children are buried in
Northern California, aud two in the
state of Maine. In 1781 people in
the surrounding country as far south
as Grass Valley, the Colony as it
was then called; contributed 25
cents each per mouth, to a boy,
George Larison
the first mail
carrier,to carry the mail from Was-
oo to the home of M r.aud Mrs.
Erskine. In 1882 they petitioned
Washington city to establish a reg
ular postoffioe. Mrs. Erskine hav
ing kindly spent her time caring
(or the mails the neighbors had Mr.
Erskine appointed poetmastr and a
regular office was established, with
a mail route from Wasco to Erskine-
ville, under the administration of
President Chester A. Arthur.
H«*» Publie Bebeele
Third Grade.
12 copies each:
Bird-woman of Lewis and Clark.
Child Life: Reader;
Seven little sisters;
Art literature reader.
Fourth Grade.
«
12 copies each:
Stories of great Americans;
legends of King Arthur;
North America.
Fifth Grade.
12 copies each:
Song of Hiawatha;
Fifty famous stories retold;
King of the Golden River.
The rules of the library are lib
eral, and the community may have
access to It.
NEWS AND NOTES.
Senator Fulton will return to
Washington city next week.
The vote for Taft in the electoral
college will be ¡321; for Bryan 162.
\V H Ragsdale and family have
returned from Wallowa county.
Mrs Elizabeth Cushman started
on her California trip this week.
It is believed that work on the
Harriman Ry up DesChutes will
soon lie commenced.
Of Sherman oounty, for the year
1908, as finally equalized by the
county board of equalization:
No a n d C las sific atio n .
V a lu e
267,823 acres of tillable land
................... j .....................
94,016,760.00
135,602 acres non-till
able land.................
402,665.00
Improvements on deed
ed la n d s..? . . . . . . .
150,975.00
Town and city lota .
81,740.00
Inprovenentson sane
206,090.00
Icproveaenta on land
.
not deeded...............
23,320,00
75.48 miles RR b ed .
688,880.00
87.25 mites telegraph
14,295.00
RR rolling stock .
80,120.00
Steamboats, engines,
and trig rachinery.
17,655.00
Mdc a stock in trade
124,585 00
Farm implements, etc,
83,170.00
Money, notes, s e c ts ..
112,616.00
Household furniture,
watches,jewelry,etc,
53,320.00
6349 horses and mules,
258,690.00
1951 cattle ...............
31,960.00
8413 sheep and goats,
25,235 00
1561 swine . v . . . . . . . .
7,026.00
374 d o g i...................
1,975.00
Gross value of a ll. . . .96,381,076.00
Total value of taxable property,
as fipally, equalized by the County
board of equalization, 96,381,076.00
O tto P lbtz , Assessor
Sherman county, Or
¥&• leeeal Obttefcte
Dr J R Morgan, Dentist, has ar
ranged his appointments for \V**oo
for two weeks in each month begin
ning with the 15th day. The re
maining partof each month he will
D o a n 's K id n e y P ills ."
be at his office in
F o r sale by a ll dealers.
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The Dorcas Society enjoyed the cents. F o s te r-M ilb u rn C o., B u ffa lo ,
Social very much at Mrs Henrichs’ N e w Y o r k , sole agents for th e U n ite d
Wednesday. The meetifig for next States.
R em em ber th e n a m e— Doans— an d
Wednesday will be a busy one and take no other.
members are requested to come
early. Place of meeting at Mrs J . R . M o rg a n
Woods. ,
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M e l n d l * B ry a n t, te le p h o n in g .. . 1.00
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stam ps, etc. . 1 . 0 0
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I do hereby c e rtify th a t th e forego! op
la a tru e an d eo rrect s ta te m e n t o f tb e
co n trib u tio n s and <1t»lHjreem*nta o f th e
M oro T a f t olub, fo r tb e P re sid e n tial
ca m p aig n o f 19<*4. F re d J M e ln d l,
S ecretary Treasurer
Subscribed a n d sw o rn to before m a,
th is 4th d a y a f N o v e m b e r, ISOS
(L l)
W ttta a le y , N o ta r y P ubtta
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fo r O m g o w .
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ful.
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W e ’ve got to hold our prominence.
It would be pig headed to
I
grow big headed.
merchandise.
W e were never before so careful in buying our
That is w hy w e took hold of
Kenw ood
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Ready
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We are watching all the makers all the time and whenever we see a line
of goods that is better than the one we’ve handled, we immediately replace
the inferior merchandise and justify your confidence by constantly improv-
ing our values.
We thought we’d handled fine clothes and they were the
best uhtil these better garments appeared;
Nothing like them evefbefore
only merchant tailors used to create. They fit absolutely without blemigh.
They cost more, they’re worth all the difference, their extra wear justifies it.
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A. 1. Williams & Co., The Dalles, Oregon.
Horses lis t-R e m rl.
Vinton H o tel
G R A SS VALLEY, O RC.
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Left my plaoe on or about tbe
15th of October, 1908, three horeee,
N e w E n tire ly .
One a bay mare, white atrip in
face, weight about 1050 lbz, brand
ed V on left atifle;
One a bay gelding, weight about C o n v ie n tt o B u s in e s s
1200 lba, a white epot on his belly
and a white etrip in hiaface;
PR IC E S R E A SO N A B L E
. _ One a black or brown gelding, - --------- - --- '-LSJ» ------
weight about 1200 lba, s ta r in face
Conducted on Best Principles
and one white foot, no brand.
Any information that may be
furnished either to myeelf or Joe B
C e a t m e r c la l T r a « « B a lle li« «
Morrison, Grass Valiev, leading to
recovery, will be liberally rewarded
Apply to me 8 miles east of Monk-
land, on the Pape plaoe, or address
J. R. H untkr ,
tf-n6-316]
Monkland.Or
W hen
In
SCHOOL
SCRANTON, - PENNSYLVA
Architecture
Bookkeeping
Stenography
Banking and Bahking Law,
Commercial Law, , Advertising
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Show Card Writing
Chemistry
Mechanical Drawing
Electrical Engineering
Newspaper Illustrating, Civil Engineering, Steam Engineering
Civil Service,
Mechanical Engineering,
Gae Engineering, Mining Engineering, Locomotive Running,
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Plumbing, Heating and Ventilating,
French, German, Spanish, taught with Ediaon Phonograph.
Full information furnished free upon request by
H. V. REED, Representative,
PwrllniM l
Inforufan l u t d .
64 1-3 Sixth street. P ortlan d, Ore.
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Hotel Oregon
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Satisfaction Guaranteed
per day. .
D r . o . j .
Io Buy, Sell ir Eicbauge Wright-Dickinson
goffin ,
mabib m . goffin .
Disease: of lomei t Clillrei 1 Specialty
Office In Th e Goffin Building, 1st S t*
Moro, Oregon.
Any person or persons having
horses, cattle, bouses, lots or house
hold goods for sale, exchange, or
parties desiring to buy euoh prop
erty, will find T he O bserve * a
go<xi medium for advertising end
securing a customer. Try
T he O bserve *. Moro, Or
M . C . IH cklnaon, M anag er.
T
Esnoid Hotel
P roti a n d , O r e g o n .
Frank Menefee.
Fred Wilson
F U R N IT U R E
M e n e fe e & W ils o n
. . . AND ...
Attorneys - at - Law
UNDERTAKING
Office in the Vogt Block, upstairs
THE DALLES
' M y M u tto Is
q u ic k
Hals« and
* S m a ll P ro fit«.
OREGON
OSCAR ANDIRSON
R a g s d a le
Office Ground Floor Ginn Brick
Next Door W W.M.Co. Bank
OREGON
REED
Office at Furniture Store.
HULSE
Proprietor of
CITY DRAY NO. 2
Draying of all Kinds.
Trunks and Gripe Hauled to and
from all trains
fl. |. fQsssisgsr
M oro.
C ity
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Oregon.
O r o ffo n .
JOB PRINTING
B r in g
y o u rs
to
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he
O
ld
R eliable .
Fam ily
M O R O , OREGFOK.
Hotel
L IV E R Y , FE E D A N D S A L E S T A B L E S .
Phll&iont Livery Co.
J. M. DUNA.HOO, Proprietor and Manager.
Vuci, Oregon.
T« v
Every kind of rig to order,
and all orders prompt and satis
factory at reasonable prices.
Farmers teams fed as well as
they ere fed at home, if not better.
Telephone at our expense.
Express and Freight
Delivered to any Part of the City «
Piano and Furniture Moving.
i N U ’Z SAZETTEER
ta««« D tr«otorv o f ««eh C ity,
and V
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. illa«« la O r««o« and
Itna, «Ivln g • D aècrtptly«
W a«h la«toa.
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B
kMea , o f
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“ ‘. f ir ï o y i
plan«.
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L ocation,
at
WW from Th«
Hr m o o
D«11 m or any Mharmao ooonty
pointa a t oar «xpanro.
f nrnfahad So or from M oro to any potato
OUR M O T T Q
Sidney Johnson, Proprietor.
D ra y
Trunks and Grips Delivered
To and From all Trains.
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European Plan
Good Clean
O. w . AXTELL
Moro
F. R. A X T E L L , M O R O , O R
Free b u t to and from trains
R ates by the day
6 0 c, 7 6 c , B I . 0 0 , S I .6 0 , S 2 .
C a ll an d E x a m in e
M y Stoek of
F U R N IT U R E
an d
H ID E L IN E S ,
before b u y in g
Attorney at Law.
MANAGRR
Con# Frat ud M o™ Streets
L iv e an d L e t L lv a ,
MORO
Both in Workmanship and Prioe
Hotel Co.
Chas. W r ig h t , P real dent.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
D r .
M ad e
M e rc h a n t Tailoring
We have several parties who
S T O P AT
are looking for homestead locations
or relinquishments, also some good
timber claims. If you know of any
MORO
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OREGON good homestead or timber claims, it C o r n e r 7 th a n d Stark S t r e e t s .
will pay you to write to ue. Ad I t 1« new and II« room« are provided with
running water and long distance tele
All Work Warranted.
dress
A etna R ealty C o .,
phone». European plan. Rate«
225 Failing B u il d in g ,
per day and upward
Office In The Moro Hotel Brick. tfs4-.1091
Portland, Or
Highest priced room $S
D e n t is t ^
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known in the trade? ^"Actually haijd built and such style and shape as
Hon W F Jackson and wife left
W H Y SO W E A K V
for California Monday. Mr Jackson
expects to return about Christmas, Kidney Troubles May be Sapping
Your Life Away. Moro People
but Mrs J will remain until spring.
Have Learned this Fact.
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Fifteen pupils are enrolled in
The Dally Journal points to men
who have takan 95,000,000 gained
in Umatilla county and invested it
elsewhere, which does n’t help to
bitter things where the money came
from.
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S p s u lS In g C h a p e l.
At the last meeting of the coun
Services Sunday noon, and at
cil George Mowry was elected to fill
the office of Auditor, vice Ray Rags .Wesley Chapel at 7 p no.
G. F. P inkham , Pastor.
dale, resigned to go to Wallowa.
Dave McKalvery was bound over
on examination before Justice Dun-
ahoo yesterday on charge of killing
sheep belonging to County Commis
sioner Duncan Chisholm.
T he fact that w e have succeeded in becoming the
authoritative shop only makes us twice as ambitious and twice as care
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M e r e M . E . C h u re b
W h e n a h e a lth y m a n or w o m a n be
gins^ to r u n d o w n w ith o u t a p p a re n t
cause, becomes w e a k , la n g u id , depress
ed, suffers backache, headache, d iz z y
spells an d u r in a ry disorders, look to
th e k id n e y s for th e cause o f it a ll. K eep
tho k id n e y s w ell an d th ey w i l l keep
yo u w e ll. D o a n 's K id n e y P ills cure
sick k id n e y s an d keep th e m w e ll. H e re
la M o ro te stim o n y to prove It.
O P H u ls e , liv in g in M o ro , says,“ K id
n e y o o m p ls ln t an n o yed m e for years.
Jn m y occupation I a m requ ired to d Q
a g re a t deal o f d r iv in g , an d tb e const
a n t ja r r in g o f th e w ag o n , an d exposure
to a ll k in d s o f w e a th e r, g re a tly w ea k
ened m y back. T b e secretions w ere too
fre q u e n t In ao tlo n, b e in g scant a t t l i i
w h ile a t others too profuse an d ouoas-
io n a lly atten d ed w it h pain In passage.
1 fin a lly procured D o a n ’s K id n e y P ills
at M o ro P h a rm a c y , a n d th e use o f one
box gave m e e n tire freed om from back
ache, a u d I was b enefitted In ev e ry
w a y . I b o ld a v e ry b ig tf o p in io n o f
Soon stands back.
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Get in quick if you want one of
Regular services every Sunday,
those houses J 0 Elrod advertises at 11 a m. Rev. Perry Chandler,
today. They will sell quick.
Pastor.
Sunday School at 10 o’olock a m.
" Miss Margaret Pinkham has ac
P H Buxton, 8upt.
cepted a position in the ladiee\d&-
Ladies’ Aid Society, every Thurs
part merit of the Moro Commercial day, at 2 o’clock p m . Mrs J E
Blue, President.
Company’s elegant new store.
Oregon Agricultural College classes
from Sherman county. Moro furn
ishes 6; Grass Valley 6; Wasco 2;
Early 1.
The Store That Stands Still
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Mr and Mrs Roy Hulse spent a
M o r e P r e s b y te r ia n C h u r e b .
part of this week with relatives and
Services in Moro Pre»byterian
friends in the Rose city.
church next Sunday, Morning and
Robert Brash has purchased a 20 evening.
Sunday school at 10 a m.
acre fruit farm near Olympia, at
A. J. A dams , Pastor.
Abe head of Puget sound.
The playwright who has decided B O O U I I F O B T I I K L I B R A R I
to limit his output to a play a year
Besides 15 Standard Magazines,
for ten years, shows a consideration
arriving
every week or month, the
which is reoom mended for imitation
following list of books may be found
to authors of ‘best seller».’
in the Library at Moro High School,
Oregon gave Roosevelt 42,934 pin Stories of great Americana;
rality in 1904. This mouth Oregon Fifty fatbous stories retold;
gave Taft 25,000 plurality, a de Abraham Lincoln;
crease of 17,934. H >w do yon ac Carpenters’ North America;
T hk grandmothers of old Dutch
Black Beauty;
count for i t i Butti nsky.
Dunkard families of western Penn
Wonder Book, for girls and boys;
sylvania have made and used Hick
Four
great Americans;
ory Bark Cough Remedy and reared
Daring the last fev days that the
colonist rates were effective more Carpenter’s Asia;
their families on it for a 100 years.
than 1,200 people came to Oregon Carpenter’s South America;
Now you can buy it of your dealers
on one way tickets to make this Sunbonnet Babies* primer,
Ask for it and use it, because it is
Classic fab’es;
state their permanent home.
pure; because it will stop your
Foods: or, How the world is fed;
oough; because it is the best oough
King of the Golden River^
remedy made. Try it. For sale by
Teddy jr. has been promoted, has
Fables and folk stories;
Moro Pharmacy and dealers every
got his wages raised sod will change
where.
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his boarding place. This is going Good health;
Habits
of
California
plants;
some on a month of hard labor and
S e t o m e n t o f C o n tr ib u tio n « a n « E x
a week-end vacation for the Cap Cinderella;
p e n s e s e f M a r a T a f t C lu b .
race.
An American book of golden deeds;
I present h e re w ith th e nam es an d
Discoverers and explorers;
The published livts of campaign Water babies;
iim » u n t c o n trib u te d to M o ro T a f t olub:
W 11 lUpnlale............. ... ....... $ 60
contributions is supposed to include Pieces for every oooasion;
H be rraan C o u n ty O b s e rv e r,............ 2.26
all those who ‘blew’ themselves. Children of the cold;
F re d J M e l n d l ............................................60
Bat what about the trombone per Giant Sun and his family;
J M P a r r y ................ ' . ................ ................ 60
formers io the ‘cornet’ bands at the
T C L e e .....................................
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Electric toy making; «
spellbinder's picnics!
O W A x t e ll...................................................60
Plant baby;
G eo W B e r r i e n .......................................... 60
Games and seat work;*
__ _ »_ 1 J A B r ia b lo e .................................................60
Mr. Roosevelt writes about the Around the world, Vol I;
O E J a dim ..................................................... 60
•spineless cactus’ in one of his cam Central and South America;
D r O J G o d in .............................................. 60
paign letters, but that other master A little journey to Switserland and O tto P e e t z ..................................................... 60
of letters Thomas W. I jmwhoii , of
H 8 M c D e n e l .............................................60
F r a liv e .
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B fF P e e t z ..........................
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Boston, gets ahead of him with the
Ty|w
studies
from
the
geographies
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“ gelatin spined shrimp.’*
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of the United States.
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In addition to the above, funds
Although the American sailors
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have sailed a long way away Jipan accrued from the field meet have H Elcnok............................................. | 6
ese hospitality is still finding an beefy investeil in supplemental N P H au een . . . . . : .................................... 60
T o ta l .....................................
911.90
Mtsy mark in the visiting Americau reading, as follows:
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D la b u ra e m e n te :
merchants. Beverage and Hobson
First Grade.
H berraan C o u n ty O bserver p r in t « .96.26
will find new evidence iu this of 12 copies each:
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E xp e n se L D M a h o n s , speaker. . . 1 . 0 0
sinister and malevolent hostility.
Sloan First reader;
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J D Lee,
. . . 2 60
Art literature readers;
Two steps hsvstieen taken in the
Sunbonnet Babies* primer;
courts this week to absolutely guar
Child life: A First reader;
antes bank deposits. 1. Potting C.
In Mythland, Vol L
W. Morse, the King Swindler of
Second Grade.
K.Y.City on prison diet for fifteen
12 copies each:
years; and 2, preparing to land J.
W. Bcriber, the thief of tl e La September tQJune;
Sloan Second reader;
Grande Farmers' and Trader«* bank
Child
Life, in tale and fable;
in the same fix. That is the ouly
Art literature reader;
»tee people can have (bat is
Fishing and Hunting.
goods.
i
S u m m a r y e f A s s e s s m e n t R a il.
‘T U a w t l» public.”
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