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,
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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.
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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.
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LEXINGTON, OREGON
JOHN B. WHITE
GENERAL BLACKSM1THING
HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY
v Work Neatly Executed
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A full supply of Hardwood, Blacksmith Coal and Blacksmith sup-
plies always on hand.
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