Image provided by: Morrow County Museum; Heppner, OR
About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1907)
LEXINGTON IS THE BEST TOWN IN MORROW COUNTY ' mm li ' i ... VOL. II LEXINGTON, OREGON, THURSDAY AUGUST 22, 1907 NO. 48sT CHAFF FROM THE STRAW STACK By The Wind Slacker What has became of your sum mer's wages? ..Shut your eyes"when you look at , the faults of a friend. Many a m2n with a coat . of arms wears baggy trousers. The most careful hen can't always find things where she lays them. Lots of people don't believe In signs until they lean against one that reads "paint". '' There" may be batter things in this world than money, but It take3 money to buy them. s Some girls -marry because they want to be married, but most girls marry because they don't want to be single. A woman never sees a baby without wanting to run for it, and a man never ' sees one without running from it. Ex- 1 cept the baby is about eighteen. ' The time is coming when there will be but one job for the few who smoke cigarettes killing potato bug3 with i i their breath: no one wants him any i nearer the house than the potato patch. ' Some people who have read the ad-' vertisements in the magazines and I street cars are at a loss to: understand l how Shakespeare ever wrote his plays without eating the modern breakfast foods. ' ' ' , An exchange says a man in than town took the mumpsfrom his daugh ter , measles from the baby, and chlckenpox from the hired girl. Yet when he tried to catch a train the oth er morning he missed It by fifteen minutes. Trains are not contagious. P. T. Barnum once said: "If you have $ 1 9 to put In use, pay $10 for the article and $9 for advertising. I can out talk any man but a printer. The man who can stick type and next morning talk to a thousand of men, while I'm talking to one, is the man I'm afraid of and I want to be his friend." The efforts of a Chicago man, who ' lacked five pounds of the neccessary ! weight for a job in the fire department j to take on, additional flesh attracted tRe attention of nearly all the health food firms in the country. He lacked three pounds when he came up for the final test. Probably he ate some of the health-food3 Instead of gaining weight by pounding them up with a sledge, The Wheatfield his just completed arrangements with the Oregon Journal whereby we are able to furnish the Oregon Dally Journal, Including the Sunday Issue, and The Wheatfield, one year $7. The Daily Journal and Wheatfield one year $5. The Semi Weekly Journal and The Wheatfield one year $1.75. K THEGOLDEN RULEOFTHREE Three things , to be pure, just and honest. Three things to live courage, affec tion mid gentleness. Three things to govcrn-temper, tongue and conduct. Three things for which to- fight-hon or, home and country. - Three tilings to cherish the true, the beaiuuul and tlie good. Three things about which to think !!fo, death rrid eternity. Three tilings to commend thrift, In dustry and promptness. Three things to despise cruelty, ar roirsinre ami ingratitude. ' ."''77 V 1 J. l''"i' "KVIii:UOIV 8HUILU KNOW" it ' ' ' Si v - rf1 " - -t ! 1-1 it; h Mjft) LEXINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL says C. G. Hays, a prominent business man of Bluff, Mo., that Bucklen's Ar nica Salve is the quickest and surest healing salve ever applied to a sore. burn or wound, or to a case of piles. I've used it and know what I'm talking about." Guaranteed by W. P. McMil lan, Druggist. 25c- ' r Now is the time to get your Harvesting Machinery. "Don't Overlook Us' A GENERAL LAND AND REAL ESTATE Business done by W. B. McAlister Good Wheat Lands and'Choice Town Lots for Sale at Reasonable Prices LEXINGTON, OREGON Homer Ferguson in PROMPT SERVICE REASONABLE CHARGES LEXINGTON OREGON Congregational Church Preaching service at 1 1 ar m. and 7:30 p. m. every third. and fifth Sunday of . each month. " Sunday School 2.30 p. m. every Sunday. Rev. J. L.' Jones, Pastor. WE SELL Headers Wagons'" Buggies Cultivators Weeders Harrows Drills : Threshers Extras for Machines Engines Chain ' Belting Lace Leathei Harness Leather Harness Hardware Groceries Dry Goods Clothing Shoes Whips Paints and Oils WE SELL EVERYTHING YOU USE, EAT and WEAR I. O. O. F. Lexington lodge No. 168. Meets every Wednesday evening in Arti san hall. ' -C. W. Christenson P. M. Christenson "Sec. N.G. ORROW COUNTY'S MOST CENTRAL MARKET eacn Juroiners Uke Store Read The V.rhsatfie!d and be h';;y
