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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1907)
LEXINGTON GROWS WITHOUT WATCHING y rA5" NO. 26 VOL. II LEXINGTON, OREGON, THURSDAY MARCH 21, 1907 SCHOOL NEWS The debate last Friday was very closely contested. Each set of deba tors has one more debate before the contest closes then the rankings will be added up and prizes awarded. The last meeting of the social club was held at the home of Miss Ruth Brown. As usual a very pleasant evening was spent in playing games. The last legislature made some im portant legislation in regara to school attendence. It seems the legislature considered that if a large amount of money were to be spent for school purposes and if parents didn't have ambition enough to send their children to school, then the proper authorities must see to it that the pupils are at school and the money used as it was intended. Following is substance of the new law: All children between the ages of 9 and 14 years must go to the public school all the term. Children from 14 to 16 must either work or go to school. The exceptions to these re quirements are children in private schools, pupils physically unable to at tend, pupils, under 10 living more than one and one-half miles from school, pupils of any age living more than 3 miles' from school, and pupils under private tutors at home. The steps for the ! enforcement of the law was given as follows: 1. Appointment of truant officers in each district. 2. First class districts have power to call on police. 3. County Supt. furnishes officers with a list of teachers. 4. Teacher com pares record with census each month. 5. Teacher reports delinquents to Sec. of boundary board. 6.. Sec. reports to truant officer. 7. Officer notifies par ents and teachers. 8. Officer makes complaint . to Justice of Peace. 9. Justice issues warrant and conducts trial. The punishment for truancy is a fine of from $5 to $20 or imprison ment of from two to ten days, and all officers including the School Supt. and teachers, may be fined from $5 to $20 &)rrtc9v. OJIEG0N Alia . -JO Salt Lake, Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, ' Tlcktu to and from all points of tlie Unit ed Still tin mid Kui'oiie, Trains Leave Lexington, Daily, ex cept Sunday, 11:35 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. Wm McMurray, G. P. A for failure to perform the duties in cumbent on them under the act. This law goes into effect May 25. 1907. In using a cough syrup, why not get the best? one that comes highly recom ended is Bees Laxative Cough Syrup, contains Honey and Tar and is superi or to other cough syrups in many ways. Children always like it because It con tains no opiates, is a laxative and is guaranteed to give satisfaction or your money refunded. Try It. Sold by W. P. McMillan. CLARK'S CANYON Clark's Canyon school will close the 29th of this month. The Hughs district will have a bas ket social the 23rd of this month. Win. Padberg has planted six acres of potatoes and is not through yet. Joe Hughs killed a coyote this week. He believes it was a good luck shot. Miss Her will begin teaching next Monday in the new district 5 1-2 miles ueacfi SB rot A FOUND AT LAST J. A. Harmon, of LIzomore, West Va., says: "At last I have found the perfect pill that never disappoints me; and for the benefit of others afflicted with torpid liver and chronic constipa tion, will say: take Dr. King's New Life Pills." Guaranteed satisfactory. 25c at W. P. McMillan's Druggist. east of Lexington. Bert Myers says his brother had blood poison in his hand. H was taken to the hospital and the doctors say he is out of danger now. "Pansy" SOCIAL RIDGE Geo. Allyn spent last Sunday with his family. Em Hunt visited with his mother in Heppner last Sunday. L. E. Fridley and family visited at Mr. Basey's last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson, late from Missouri, are living on the Eph Eske son place. LEACH BROTHERS 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. ers Theo. Cork and daughters, Mable, Etta and Anna were Lexington visitors last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. T, Campbell and son, Arthur spent last Saturday and Sunday in Heppner. W. T. Campbell finished his seed ing last Saturday. A Utile late but better late than never. Etta Fay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. VanWinkle has been on the sick list but is better again, Here we come once more. You have not heard from us for a long time but we are all as happy as ever. UNIFORM STEPS. TVftk Tiwci K7 rlln Downatfttra .Would De ATrrtml. Falls on staircases are of rather com mon occurrence, especially In houses where the stairs are steep, dark or built with sharp turn. The frequent causes of fierws falls have suggested that fae likelihood of accident of this kind would he lessened considerably If all steps were built according to a standard of height and breadth. A child's fall on the stairs Is apt to he bad emi:j:li. and for an adult it U fie UJlo Otore f may nave serious conse;osnci's. mr. for an aged person the result Is sot unlikely to be fatal; hence It Is held that the construction of staircases de serves more attention than Is ordina rily paid to it. f xue irouuie is mm Biuir uummug is not a natural meuiou of progression for the human being. A child may learn to walk with ease, but It Is a long time before It can ascend a stair way in an upright position without losing its balance. Stairs have been brought about by necessity, however, and the ordinary person has become so accustomed to them that he dashes up and down them without paying any more lieed to his steps than If he were walking on a anrfaes level. Motion be comes purely Mechanical, without any effort f will, and the muscles of the leg automatically adjust themselves o as to lift the foot to the height of the rtepa cm the stairway most fre quently used. The stride unconscious ly become adapted to a certain height In taking step. Thia uneascius tlmat0 of height often Is ttiecauie of many falls. When a different stairway Is used the foot is nnneeuitotned to th pitch, and hence a trip Is likely to occur. On narrow and steep staircases there should he a hand rail on each side. The Instinctive clutch following a stumble would mean the saving of many limbs and heads. But the surest way to obviate accidents would be to standardize all stairways, at least In the matter of height. New York Press. j