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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1907)
LEXINGTON GROWS WITHOUT WATCHING m 3X? VOL. II LEXINGTON, OREGON, THURSDAY MARCH 7, 1907 NO.-24- SCHGOL NEWS Mr. Mussleman visited school Mon day afternoon and addressed the pupils for a few minutes In each room. He Is An Interesting talker and his few words were much appreciated by the pupils. , The basket ball ground Is In const ant use at recess and noon. Two school teams have been organized which will play on Saturdays at half past 2 o'clock. The debate last Friday was quite successful. The Affirmative won. Several visitors were present to hear the speakers glvo their views of the question. One week from Friday twe eight grade teams will debate the question: Resolved that Franklin did more towards securing the independ ence of the U. S. than Robt. Morse and Gen. Green. CLARK'S CANYON Mrs. S. E. Moore, of lone, has been visiting her sister, Mary Padberg. John Hlatt finished his ninth grade work last week. He has stopped school to work. Eugene Basey and wife brought his mother home. She has been sick all winter, but Is able to be out again. Roy Ray pruned Wm. Padberg's orchard last week. A dance was given at Arthur Hunt's last Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Hlatt moved to Elghtmlle. Mrs. Pearson and son, Vernon went with them. "Pansy" A SLEEPER Here, Is a definition which Is as dif ficult to read rapidly as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper, and yet Is more sensible. In fact, It Is an actual statement of facts, as , you will find If you read it slowly. A sleeper is one who sleeps. A sleeper is that in which a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that on which the sleeper runs while the sleeper sleeps. .Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps In the sleeper' the sleeper carries the OREGON ahqUmon Pacific TO Salt Lake, Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, St- Louis, New York. . . Tlckti to and from 1I point of tlie Unit ed State miti JKiuope. Trains Leave Lexington, Dally, ex cept Sunday, - 11:35 A. M. Trains Arrive at Lexington, Dally, ex cept Sunday - 5:10 P. M. Trains Connect at Heppner Junction with Main Line trains for all points East and West. ' Wm McMurray, G. P. A sleeper over the sleeper, under the sleeper until the sbeper which carries the sleeper, jumps the sleeper and wakes the sleeper In the sleeper by striking the sleeper under the 'sleeper on the sleeper, and there is no longer any sleeper sleeping, in the sleeper on the sleeper, HOW TO UKMAIN i -i VOUNG To continue young jn health and strength, do as Mrs. N.'F. Rowan, Mc Donough, Ga., did. 'She says: "Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured me of chronic liver and stomach trouble, .com- j plicated wllh such an ".unhealthy con-! ditlon of the blood that my skin fumed! red as flannel. 1 am now practically 2Qj years younger than before I took Flee-; trie Bitters. I can now do ail my' work : with ease and assist 'in ' my husband's store." Guaranteed at W. P. McMil lan's Drug Store. Price 50c. THE STINGER STUNG It was at an Indiana hotel of some pretentiousness. . . . A traveling man had had his order filled. With the meat and vegetables Leaci Suroti and other material was one tea biscuit. Looking with what he considered great rcguishnes3 at the waitress, he said:' """' ' ' ' , , ; '. "Say, sister, do you know that that one biscuit looks to me as if it were awfully lonesome in here all by itself?', "Very well," replied the girl, with out the twitch of a facial .'jnuscle, "I'll take it back into the'kitchen with the others, then-." And to this day that traveling man does't know whether he fooled 'the dumbest girl on earth or was outwitted by the. keenest one. . KViAlYWtn WOUK.S ISUT I'-ATHKK Everybody labors except cur disting uished progenitor. lie reposes in a recumbent position' within our residence through the day. His pedal extremities id'ing upon the bronze of the steam- radiator. ' Serenely engaged in extracting ne bulous satisfaction from a tobacco re ceptacle of mundane matter. ' Our maternal mentor . receives soil- HAVE WHAT YOU WANT WAGONS BUGGIES SYRACUSE PLOWS DUTCHMAN PLOWS DISC HARROWS ANY KIND OF MACHINERY WE SELL EYERYTHING YOU USE, EAT and WEAR WE BUY All Kinds of Produce, Hides, Pelts, Old Copper Boiler Bottoms, Tallow, Old Rubber, Etc. ens ed linen for the purpose of cleansing it, And in this connection, I should in elude filial' Ann. j , Indeed, everybody is engaged in I some variety oi occupation in our domestic habitat Excluding, as primarily, suggested our distinguished progenitor. , C.'nvlft Kpj;i:nenls, At the' beginning, of -the eighteenth century thy ISidtbih army h;ul a bad reputation at home, and it was very I '(lifik'Uit to gat roeru't for It. For thin j reason it was o"k'i:iily proposed to Cud .the ujs'ii I :f an impressment fulling on "any wiiury bjr-,'ar, fortune teller or the lil:u idle, unknown, suspected fel l.ivv in the pari-hr or, If there be none such, then jiiiy one' tli.it has already been in a gaol or before a justice of the lrtC-e for his idle, disorderly life." The advice was a--ted i;po:i. Debtors were : re!e;tsw! from prison' on' promising to j join the winy or th( nary, criminals j were pardoned on the same terms, ami I persons' with no visible means of sub I Bi.HtenfO were marched off t death and glory.. Thy system .worked out better than luight.Lave been expected. In tha I peninsular war. for Instance, three new j regiments were, composed;, entirely of ; convicts, and, one' made for Itself an il lustrious name. ... o 'fie Mia St PuKiiaolty of Rat. A glove manufacturer took from a cabinet a handsome pair of brown gloves. "These gloves are made of ratskin," lie said. "They look well at first glance, but examine them care fully. Look into the skin. The skin, though soft und fine, revealed on close examination a great many cuts ami gears and scratches. Xono of these went quite through. Nevertheless their effect was to we:kn the gloves great ly, "Those cuts and scars,' said the manufacturer, "are what bar' ratskin out of glovemeh'iig. Yoa" never get ii Bku. without them: .hence yon can'f tarn .the damaged sliin into a pcx glove. Iiats ti;,ht so' much that they become nt au early age. a mass of gears. .Their torn. hides are of no use to commerce." Londnn'ri Flvxt Mr. 1 loon Aweeivt. When Lunnrdi made th? first balloon ascent from London in 1TS4 he had ": fellow passengers a cat, a do,? and a pigeon. Swell was the excitement caus ed by this ascent that n jury, deliber ating on the fate of a criminal, return ed a hasty verdict of acquitted in order not to miss the spectacle, .while Kihp; George III. broke up a. mooting of his council to watch the 'prey-ess of the balloon. It was in the .following year. 1785, that an adventurous. Dublin un dergraduate, Mr. Magaire, made a bal loon ascent and vra;i actually fcaiffhted by the lord lieutenant for his courage. ore