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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1906)
LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD Published Every Thursday at LEXINGTON, OREGON S. A. THOMAS," Editor and Proprietor. OFFICIAL PAPER TOWN OF LEXINGTON Subscription, per year, - $1.0C Advertising rates on Application Entered as second-class matter Octobei i, 'i905, at the post office at Lexington, Or egon, under the Act cf Congress of March 3, 1879. . THURSDAY DECEMBER 27, 1906. NOTICE The best way to build up your own town Is to do your trading at home. Patronize your home merchants. If they succeed the chances are you will succeed. When you send a dollar to a mail order house you have the goods and they have the money. Trade at home and we keep both the goods and the money. LOCAL NEWS If you have land for sale list it with the Wheatfield Land Co. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Wilmot, of lone, spent Christmas with their daughter, Mrs. W. P. McMillan. Tom Collins, an old time resident Of Morrow county, Is renewing ac quaintances In and around Lexington. FOUND The best place In . Morrow ccunty to get commercial printing Is at The Wheatfield Printery. Christmas day was quite In Lexing ton, the business houses were closed and the people enjoyed a well earned holiday. Grandma Thompson returned last week from a pleasant visit with her son and daughter at Dayton and Walla Walla, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Barnett and daughter, 1 Miss Dona, entertained a number of relatives and friends at X'mas dinner. Bee's Laxative Cough Syrup con talnlng honey and tar Is especially ap propriate forchilren, no opistes orpois ons of any character, conforms to the ' conditions of the National Pure Food and Drug Law, June 30, 1906. For 'Croup, Whooping Cough, etc. It ex pels coughs and colds by gently mov ing the bowels. Gurranteed. Sold by 'W. P. McMillan. The Commercial Club of Heppner 'offers two prizes, one of $20 and one $5 for the best write-up of the re sources of Morrow County. Papers Ho be In before Feby 1 st, and to be not tass than 2500 words. For further particulars address, Heppner Commercial Club. SENTENCE SERMONS , By Henry F. Cope. At times of revival it Is easy to mis take racket for results. Bearing the cross does not exempt one from bearing a share of the world's cares. Better is it to drive the gloom from one than to dower it with gold. God's workers never have to wait for a raise In salary. be'ore they will do. The trouble with much preaching Is that it Is advertising truffles when the people need potatoes. He needs to wear wading boots who takes short cuts to success. It Is easy to waste enough strength dodging your duties to do them twice over. , Some people are buying their tickets to glory on the installment plan, at th? rate of a nickle a week. There are too many who think that they are giving the world a square deal becuase they are sticking their angles into its sore places. QUERIES The following questions were asked us a few days ago with a request that we answer them through The Wheat field: What makes a squirrel run up" a tree? Chestnuts. How may book-keeping be taught in a lesson of three words? Never lend them Why can we send no more dis patches to Washington? Because he is dead. Why cannot the man in the moon get married? Because he gets only a j quarter a week, and he needs that to get full on. If the Devil should lose his tail where would he go to get another? To a saloon, as that is where they re tail (bad) spirits. What is it a man never has, never had and never can have but can give to a lady? A husband; What makes a cat walk softly? Rats. Have you heard about the rabbit? Its only a short tail. Why Is a lawyer a good sleeper? Because he lies on one side, then turns over and lies on the other side. What Is it that Is worse than the devil, better than God, the dead eat It, and if we ate it we should surely die? Nothing. I went to India and stopped there; I came away because I could not go there? - A watch. Why do old maids go to church early? To be there when the (hlms) are given out. STRAWBERRY Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Hill: were the guests of J W. Sibley last week. R. K. Wiles disposed, of his fine stallion last week. He will be taken to Pendleton. Sunday School every Sunday morn ing at 10:30. Everybody invited. Preaching on the first Sunday in ev ery month at 1 1 a. m. 0. D. Bullis returned; home Satur day just in time to reach the box so cial at the opening, exercises. John No 0ituiu In Chamberlain'! Itemed y Cough There Is not least danger in giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to small children as it contains no opium 3r oth er harnfull drug. It has an established reputation of more than thirty years as the most successful medicine In use for cold, croup and whooping cough. It always cures and is pleasant to take Children like it. Sold by W. P McMillans Drugstore. F. H. ROBINSON ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW NOTARY PIBLIC Practice in all Courts. Legal business given prompt and careful attention. Land Contests, Probate Work and Conveyanc ing a specialty. 6r lot i n FOR CASH 2 LEXINGTON, OJ 30 Gray also came home at about same time. the Mrs. Caret Musgrar has gone to spend the hollidays at Walla Walla. This leaves her son, Mont, and her husband to batch, but Caret doesnt mind a little thing like batching. He says he used to batch before he ever saw his wife. Miss Mary Cray has returned home from lone where she has been staying for the past lew weeks. Miss Gray abides on her homestead now and fs living up to'the Haw according to the homestead" act.. She will soon start the plows to summer fallov the place. Her many friends wish her a bountiful crop. , The box social held at the school house last Saturday evening was an all around, success, clearing ewer $27j00' If all could: have come that intended to we should hav doubled the above amount. Well, we can have another next winter now,, by not getting so much this time.. "This will make it last longer" as the little boy said when he dropped his. sake in the dust. UKADLY 8KKPKNT BITKB are as common-in India as are stomach and liver disorders with us. Fot the latter however there is, a sure reaiedy:: Electric Bitters; the. great restorative' medicine,, of which S.A. Browv of BennettsvlllerS..C, says: They re stored my wife to perSect health, after years of suffering wit4 dyspepsia and a chronically torpid live..'" Electric Bit ters cure chills and fever,, malaria,, biliousness,, lame back, kidney, troubles and bladder disorders. Soli on guar antee byW. P. McMillans druggist.. Price 5Qc. Hotel Lexington Opposite Leach Brothers, More,. Mrs. A. E Beymer, Prop. Good meals served. Newly furnished, refitted with hot and cold water. Strict attention to guests. Rates one dollar per day and upwards. LEXINGTON OREGON, KILL the COUGH AND CURE THE LUI WITH Dr. Kin New Discovery ONSUMPTIOM Price OUGHSahd . B0c4$1.00 0LD8 Free Trial. Surest and Quickest rtan for ail THBOAT ftnd LUWG XBOUB. WW, or MONEY BACK. We can save you money on Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes Hardware and Stoves We have a line of new and up-to-date Goods. BON TON MARKET C. T. CONNER, Prop. FRESH AND SALT MEATS FISH IN SEASON SAUSAGES, LARD, ETC. Market price for Hides. LEXINGTON, !- - OREGON. C. W. CHRISTENSON J.B.GREEN ...THE PASTIME,.. CHRISTENSON & GREEN, Props. FRUITS, CONFECTIONERY, CANNED GOODS, g SUrT DRINKS, CIGARS AND TOBACCO ALWAYS IN STOCK POOL AND BILLIARD fy . Lexington, Oregon. 8 sxxx-xixxsaszxiaixa5xsxOTTfflaisixixxtixxii.i I X L SALOON J. H. CHAPMAN & CO., Props; WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. FRESH BEER ALWAYS ON DRAUGHT o GOOD OOL TABLE IN CONNECTION - LEXINGTON, OREGON JOHN B. WHITE GENERAL BLACKSM1THING HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY v Work Neatly Executed J A full supply of Hardwood, Blacksmith Coal and Blacksmith sup- plies always on hand. & LEXINGTON, OREGON Z Ql IQItf ROOM IN CONNECTION I Charges Reasonable d OREGON. 4 HONE;- - - OREGON their best.
