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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1906)
,.'f mJ --' J.-..---' - S 4 LEXINGTON GROWS WITHOUT WATCHING n VOL. I LEXINGTON, OREGON, THURSDAY JULY o, 10 JO NO, 41 IHIMI CHAFF FBOSI THE STHAW STACK Broken friendship may be mended but can never be made sound. This warm weather makes a fellow feel like the last rose of summer, Smiles is the longest vord in the English language, because there Is a mile between the first and last letter. There are three ways to spread news: Telegraph, telephone and tell a woman. Some say that the last is the quickest, Love Is night mare with one foot, Two children with one bun, Two turnips with a single root, Two cabbage heads in one. fell! Nye.the humorist ,once had a gow to sell, the story goes.and ad vertised her as follows: "Owiag to may ill healthe, I will soil at my residence, in township 19, range 18, acording to Why will girls giggle? Surely if only they could see themselves as they appear to others, they would see how senseless and undignified they look as they give way on all occasions to gig gling. According to one Kansas paper someone broke into the house of a lady at Lyons recently and "rifled the prem ises of ten quarts of fruit and some etceteras." The rural editor, com menting, says. "The lady can get along without the fruit, but she will, no doubt, greatly miss the etceteras dur ing the cold weather." Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to ke,ep one's spirit alway sweet and avoid all manner of petty an ger and irritability that is an idea as noble as It is difficult. ' To illustrate: The breakfast was" ready but the hope of the family was not; the sister home from boarding school called from the foot of the stairs: Willie, the Orient Is ablaze and our morning reflections awaits your presence." No reply deing heard the mother takes her place and calls: "William, you lazy dogskin, get up this minute and come to breakfast." And still there was no answer where upon the man stepped to the stairs and merely said "Bill!" "Coming Sir!" was the instant response and in three minutes a united family sat at the table. . CONDENSED ' STOF .CO. Th Joy of Giving Not Always Greatar Than That of Receiving, "3!y father was a personal friend of Stuart KoLson, the veteran co median, how dead, and was fond of telling anecdotes of the man whom he considered the greatest solor on the American Etnpe," t?aid Louis 0. Hammcl to the Milwaukee Sentinel. "According to one of them, iiokon once sent a chock for 100 ass a wed ding present to a friend who was to enter the hymeneal state. His the atrical engagements precluded his I'.ICVIS TIIK MUSIC CUKE "To keep the body In tune," writes Mrs. Mary Brown, 20 Lafayette .Place Poughkeepsie, N.Y. "I take Dr. King's New Life Pills. They are the most reliable and pleasant laxative I have found." Best for the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Guaranteed by W. P, McMillan druggist. 25c. READ THE WHEATFIELD '1-VX. Ill ''mm ,gw- j 'A.'d'.ja? "HOW LONG DJD HE YEr.X?" AtiKP.U EOIGN. personal attendance at the ceremo ny, to which he sent lb daughter ac a representative of the family. "My father was convening with Pob.c:on when jjie'jjH,cxvr:u.n home "from "the . wedding, aoouJ which Robson asked many ques tions. ' "'When your friend saw' your check,' said the daughter, 'he was so overcome with emotion that ho cried.' "'So he cried, did he?' said Rob fion. 'How long did, lie weep?' " 'Oh, about a minute,' aid the girl. "'Only a minute!' shouted the comedian, with that curious squeak in his voice that jnnde'him famous in the character of Bertie the Lamb. 'V.'hy, I cried half an hour after I signed the thin?!'" Welcomed In Old Ireland. W. Y. Morgan, writing from Ire land, tells this good story: "I was telling an Irifih driver how nice ev erybody had been to us in Ireland and how pleasant the Irish were to Americans, Tis he said; 'whin you go down the strate ' everybody sez: "There's some Americans, God bless .'em 1 Mark up the prices on the lin en and lace !" ' "Kansas City Jour nal. Tha Ffankuirtsr. -' The little sauFage" known as "Frankfurter" and "Wiener" was, according to the Wiener Xcue Freie Presse, oiered for sale for the first time in 1S05, and the centennial was observed in Vienna by the butchers' guild. The inventor of the sausage was Johann Lahner, who named "it for hi3 birthplace, Frankfurt. The business founded a hundred years ago by a poor man has yielded a for tune to its various heads. It has al ways remained in the same family and is now conducted in Vienna by Frar.z Lahner, a grandijephew of the orisinal Frankfurter gausa;;e man. 'V4L"JfjjSi' OREGON aallMOKPACrac' ;: ' JO -' Salt Lake, Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, St- Louis, ; New York- 0Hiin Stviiiimin for N;ni I'miici-ico 1i-h vd 1'ui'tlHiK at 8 I'. M. every liriliday. TlcltU to nl from all iiointx of I lie lTi,lt el StnteA Hud Knt-o. Trains Leave Lexington, Daily, ; ex- cept Sunday, - 9:25 A. M. Trains Arrive at Lexington, Daily, ex cept Sunday - 5:10 P. M. Trains Connect at Heppner Junction with Main Line trains for all points East and West. A. L; CRAIG, G. P. A. PHELPS BRO'S DEALERS IN ICE LIGHT HAULING A SPECIALTY ' . ' . RATES REASONABLE :: IEX I VISION. - -. OUKGdS FARANGF Many nice Hats to offer, far below cost. Call before they are all gone. WE are offering odd suits of clothing in order to clean up our Stock far below cost of Manufacture. SHOES we have those to offer at SOcts. which cost at least $2.50 to $3.00 to make, they must go in order to make room for new goods. ' - DRESS GOODS $1.50 values at 95 cents, $1.00 values at 60 cents, 75 cent valuer at 40 cents, 65 cent '"'"- -v.ii.o, w ucui vaiucs at ou cents, we must let them go at some price. GREAT values in Laces of all kinds, Imbroideries, etc. LADIE'S Wash Skirts one half price. Ladie's Waists one half price, just one-half what these have for mally sold at. We are determined to clean up our stock. 0m. u" mm h h fa , mmm Mil W ' ffll KW,V CORI6HTI90J ffl. EllW m D ADLER SONS' Mi OKI keep every thing you use, eat and wear and buy as close as any store in Morrow county, we own our buildings and are in a position to handle our busi ness right and at a close margin. We take as much pains with a small order and give it the same at tention as we do any of our large customers. We aim to handle the best of everything, give us a chance to figure with you we can do you good. WE nave just received some new Spring Work Buggies, Hacks. Dou't buy a vehicle till you see ours arid get prices. t . ' JeacA Bnotfi ers GENTS Nice' Neat Filling Suits, Coat Vest and Pants for the Low Price' of $4.45 Just think of IT. THE Very Latest Children and Boys Suits for $2.45. CALL and let us show you Goods and Prices that will simply astonish you. BOYS Shirts from 35 cents up MEN'S Shirts from 50 cts. up HARNESS is advancing every day, we have bought ahead and can give you the advantage of 'the raise. This is no small item, harness that are high today will look cheap in three months from now, leather advancing every day. BUY NOW. HARDWARE is advancing in some lines, we are pre pared to take care of you in this line to. Come and ' See. 3$iq St ore tl ';"-,.' ,. , . .... ,. i
