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VOL. II
LEXINGTON, OREGON, THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 1606
NO. 3
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CHAFF KOfl THE STlAf STACK
Weapons that fly off the handle have
little effect on the walls of Jin,
Homes are often closest knit about
some grave of separation,
it's not the man vlth the putty back
bone who Is most truly resigned to the
will of God.
Put your hand on the window nd
see If you can feel thi pane.
Days are beginning to shorten and
will continue, until December 21st.
Adam ihould have been a very hap
py man. He never had to pay a
dressmaker's bill or build a fire.
There' nothing in this world thats
as ready to come when you Invite It
as trouble.
The time has passed for peek-a-boo
hosiery and waists but peek-a-boo
cranberry pies are much In favor.
The saddest people in this world are
those who are always fighting against
sorrow.
Don't be too hard on the girl who is
always putting on airs; maybe she
has't much else to put on.
What others think of you does not
matter. It is what you know of your
self that makes you happy or unhappy.
"Love is honey mixed with gall, '
says a magazine writer. The girls
furnish the honey and the boys the
rest.
Every time a nervous woman has a
pain she wonders if her children will
have a step mother who will be kind
to them.
The child that grovs up in a pro
gressive, happy home Is very apt to
raise children in a progressive, happy
home.
An old lady of Lynn, Mass , who has
just passed htr hundredth and third
birthday attributes her longevity to
total abstainance from gossip.
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A Cleveland woman is suing for
divorce because her 18-year old hus
band smokes cigarettes. She ought
to have made him show his fingers
before she married him.
A Southern preacher says he ex
pects to mr.et more editors and report
ers in hell than members of any other
profession, He doesn't explain what
he is going to do there.
An Irishman was sitting In a depot
smoking, the other day, vhen a woman
came and sitting down remarked:"Slr,
If you were a gentleman you wouldn't
smoke here." "Mum," he said, "if
A LUCKY FOSTKISTRHS
Is Mrs. Alexander, of Carey, Me., who
has found Dr. King's New Life Pills to
be the best remedy she ever tried for
keeping the Stomach, Liver and Bow
els in peifect order. You'll agree with
her if you try these painless purifiers
that infuse new life. Guaranteed by
W. P. McMillan, druggist. Price 25c,
yez was a leddy, ye'd sit father away"
Pretty soon the woman burst out: "If
you was my husband I'd give poison."
"Well mum," returned the Irishman
puffing away at his pipe, "if yez was
me woife I'd lakt it".
The woman who sent her little boy
to the drug store to exchange a second
hand porous plaster for .a toothbrush is
no worse than the one who pays back
a cup of borrowed sugar with a cup of
salt. I
In a neighboring town where excus
es were required from absentees, the
teacher received the following note:
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"Two years ago our little girl had a
touch of pneumonia, which left her
with an awful caugh. . She had spells'
of caughing. just like' one with the
whooping cough and some thought she
would not get well at all. We got a
bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
which acted like a charm. She stop
ped caughing and got stout and fat,"
writes Mrs. Ora Bussard, Brubaker,
111. This remedy Is for sale by W. P.
McMillan's Drug Store.
Get Your Name on
"Please ma'am, Johnnie was kept
home today. I have had twins. It
shant occur again. Yours truly, Mrs.
Smith.,,
The people who are praying to be
nothing are answered before they begin.
It's a wise old world that waits for
the indorsement of every day honesty
on the checks of extraordinary holi
ness.
It doesn't take long to choose be
tween a sinner who swears once in a
while and a saint who makes everyone
swear all the while.
It's no use spending Sunday pray
ing the Lord to enter your heart when
you are spending the week barricading
It with bad business.
OREGgH
SttOgrltlNE
The Wheatfield List
IS THE MOOS INHABITED
Science has proven that the moon
has an atmosphere, which makes life
In some form possible on that satellite;
but not for human being, who have a
hard enough time on this earth of ours;
especially those who don't know that
Electric Bitters cure Headache, Bil
iousness, Malaria, Chills and Fever,
Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Dizziness, Tor
pid Liver, Kidney complaints, General
Debility and Female weaknesses. Un-
equaled as a general tonic and appetiz
er for weak persons and especially the
aged. It induces sound sleep. Fully
guaranteed by W. P. McMillan, Drug
gist. Price only 50c.
-TO
Salt Lake, Denver, Kansas
City, Chicago, St- Louis,
New York.
Uunaii Steamers for HnuFrnitcifico litve
Portland at 8 V. M. every fifth day.
TickU to and from all point of the Unit
ed States and Europe,
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.
READ
THE WHEATFIELD
LEACH BROTHERS GREAT OCTOBER
BARGAIN SALES BETTER TAKE ADVANTAGE
Special sale on Cotton Blankets. We offer you a fine double
Cotton Blanket for 75 cents. A little wider and heavier Blanket
for 85 cents. 4 and 5 pound Blankets from $1.25 to $1.75.
Special fine lot of Ladies Rain Coats just arrived. Value from
$12.50 to $20.00. We are offering on account of short crops at
prices that will simply astonish you, from $5. to $12.50.
Special on Ladies 15 cent black cotton hose, per pair, 10 cents
Wall Paper stock is complete and prices are correct.
We can save you money on your fall order for groceries. Call
and see and take advantage.
Hardware? Ye?, we sell a little hardware too.
In Paints and Oils we can furnish you anything you want at
close figures.
Don't averlook us who you want Implements and Vehicles,
remembering that we sell everything you use, eat and wear.
CLOTHING PRICE TO MOVE THEM
$ 5.00 Suits for - - ' '
6.00 " " -
7.00
9.00
10.00
12.00
14.00
15.00
16.00
17.00
18.00
20.00
I 3.75
4.50
5.25
6.75
8.50
9.00
10.50
11.25
12.00
12.75
13.50
15.00
All Boys and Childrens clothing 1-4 off.
0 "For cash of course"
The Chinese Sacred Lillies
have, arrived. The ladies are
requsted to call,' register and
get one of the bulbs. Bulbs
to others will be aold at 15c
or 2 for 25c.
We have 50 dozen school
handkerchiefs at 1 cent each.
SPECIAL . SALE ON OUTINGS
C 1-4 cent grades at
8 1-3 " " " -10
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12 1-2 " -
16 2-3 ,
it
61-4
9c
11c
12
All wool dress goods at
1-4 off
Large Line Men's dress and work shirts $1.00 to $1.50
. Special at - " - - , 75c
All Lace Curtains at
1-4 less
Above Prices are for "Cash Only."
Jeaci ijBrotti
ers
J Ae 3$ia Store