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GREAT COUNTY OF YAMHILL. Continued from First I’agt. the bread stuffs. Our exjiortation of grain is less than our importation of sugar. The soil of Oregon is per haps as well adapted to beet culture as to wheat raising. We need a rev olution, an industrial revolution that will place our farmer in a position to use their land in the cultivation of the profitable sugar beet, as well as wheat. CITY OF McMINNVILLE. UQf JJ W01ÎK& Notice of Executor’s Sale. N A Piace of Churches, Schools and When the Blood is Pure a Wound Heals Quickly The Fact Demonstrated in the Case of a General [Prosperity. Baptist Clergyman ol Ashley, Ohio. City of Wealth, Culture, Re [ handsome and costly court house 'OTICE is hrrtbv given that the under- >igned, Joint-executrix and joint-exr.- utorof ibtUat will and kstament of A. < . Davis, deceased, uudvr, by virtue of and pur>i.- hih toanorderof the county court ot Yuinhiil County. State of Oregon, made and dated Jun»* sth, 1**, licensing, authorizing and empowering them so to do. will, at Yamhill County. 8Uft • i Oregon, from and uftvr the 23d day of July, 1> ««-•, proceed to>eil at private sah- for < ash iu hand, as the law directs, the real property belonging u» said estate, or sufficient thereoi to puy the ciiarges, expenses and claims against said «*- tate still unpaid and unsatisfied, and that said real property u ill be offered for sale in separate narrel-. Said real e-tatc is dvwribed as toil<»u . to-wit: TRACT NO. 1. Ci.mmencing at the quarter section corner on the north boundary of section 26, in T. I S. R- J \V. \\ illamette meridian. Yambill county, On- gon ; thence south var. 2udeg. 3»» min. 1. i ’..» ; chains to board fence; thence north «'• deg. west along fence 1 ».20 cuains to angle; thence N. 116 deg. west 17.50 chuiiiH to angle; thence north 16.93 chains to north boundary of section ; t hence east on section line 20 chains to place of beginning, containing 63 68 acres, more or less. TRACT NO. 2. Beginning at S.W. corner of Section 23, T. 4 S. R.5\V. run north about i» (hams to branch; thence down branch t«» a point north of quarter post between sections 23 and 26; thence south to said quarter post; thence west to place oi be ginning, containing tioacres more or less. TRACT NO 3. Situate in the County oi Yamhill, State of Or egon, beginning 44.31 chains south from the north we>t corner oi the «lonntion land claim oi J. \V Kogers; thence south 15.21 chains; there.; north 4U deg E. 16.10 chains; thence north deg. W. 10.74chains to the place of beginning, being a portion of the donation land claim ot .i. \V . Rogers and Mary E. Kogers, his wife—8 acres. Alsoapartof the donation land claim of Sam uel Davis and Mary Davis, his wife, Notification No 1150, situated in Yamhill County, Oregon, and bounded and described as follows: I’oiu- niencing at tlie northeast corner of said donation land claim; thence north 72 deg. west with north boundary of said claim, var. 19 deg. <» min. E. 58.70 chains to stake; thence south 58.13 chains to south boundary of said land claim to stake; thence east with said south boundary 35.00 chains to stake in center of county’ road ; thence north 40 deg. E. with center of said road 32.25 chains to east boundary of said claim; thence north 15.98 chains to place of beginning, containing 24s 42 acres, more or less. Excepting therefrom the following, to-wil: Commenciiig at the southwest corner of said tract of land, thence north 6.13 chains; thence east 40.23 chains; thence south 10 deg. \V. «chains; thence west 35.09 chains to place of beginning, contain ing about 23 acres, being m T. 1 S. R. 5 W. —ba. ance left being 225.42 acres. TRACT NO. 4. Lot No. One in Block “N”’ of Cozine’s Third Addition to the City of McMinnville, Yamhill County, State of Oregon. All ot said above de scribed real estate being situated in Yamhill County, State of Oregon. TRACT NO. 5. An undivided one-half iuterest in the north west quarter of section Ten, in Township Fif teen South, of Range Ten East of Willamette meridian, in Crook county, State of Oregon, containing 160 acres. That said property will be sold after giving due notice of the sale. Dated at McMinnville, Oregon, this22d day of June, 1898. 27 ■ P. Q. DAVIS, Joint-Executrix of said Estate L. T. DAVIS, Joint-Executor of said Estate. RHODES A RHODES, Alt’ys for Estate. From the Zornes, Ashley, Ohio. at a cost of $62,000 followed in 1888, Elder A. 8. Shoemaker has been a life thought of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for finement and Progress. the records being moved into the long resident of Ashley, Ohio, and is favor Pali People and < included to try them, In The climate and boil of Yamhill the morning 1 went to the drug store and the structure on the first of January, ably known by a wide circle of friends iu purchased a box of the pills and commenced county otter superior ad vantages and according indirections. 1889. The removal of the county this part of the state. For many years he usingthem induct mints lor the idLingoi prunes, "It was the wisest thing 1 ever did. On was a prominent Baptist minister. He has -eat hither from Lafayette gave .Mc the third night commencing their use 1 been Mayor of Ashley for three successive went to bed anil alter a profitable industry that is being Center of a Large Trade and slept nil night without a Minnville the prestige which was terms, filling the position with dignity and particle of pain 1 continued taking the largely engaged in. It is an indis pills until 1 used five boxes ami have not tell a Veritable Paradise on necessary for her to become the lead honor, and has held other offices of trust. putable fact that prune orchards, any symptoms of my ing city of the county and this entire He u sixty-air years of age, hale and time, now two years ago. old trouble since tlial well matured ingrowth, realize from Earth. hearty, and attributes his present healthful ‘Just after 1 stopped the use of the pills J section of the country. $300 to $900 per acre, varying with condition entirely to the use of Dr. Williams' met with an accident. In chopping wood 1 Pink Pills for Pale People. cut my foot very badly, the ux, going clem Soon a beautiful school building th« age of the orchard and the care “For about twenty-five years,” he says "I through the instep of my foot. It was w.;s erected and then another, more thouplit the wounil would lie very hind t< was afflicted with rheumatism and was con and attention it lias received. It has stantly in pain. I could not remain in one heal for a man ofntyage, but to the surprist been est ¡mated bv a competent and Some Facts and Figures Given costly and commodious, absolutely position for but a few moments at a time and of everybody it healed quickly without any necessary from the crowded condition could sleep but little at night. I was drag difficulty. I attribute this also to the geon reliable authority that a prune or out a miserable existence. Especially condition of my blood through the use of I of the old one. McMinnville college ging chard at the age of only four years in damn, lowery weather I would be very the pills.” miserable. I frequently remarked that 1 | In rheiinititism the blood has mi acid im was chartered in 1858, and for more will produce 2,000 pounds of primes The first city of importance in was a traveling baromeier, as I could always purity which irritates the sensitive tissues than twenty years its work was car tell when a change in the weather was com that unite the joints ai d cover the muscles, to the acre; at five years, <1,000 Yamhill county, 182 feet above the 1 tried a great mauv remedies that were th us causing I hose indescribable tortures w hie It pounds, at six years. 10,000 pounds: level of the sea, on the site of a for ried on in a two storv wooden build ing. rheumatic sufferers endure, ltheumalisin is recommended, nut they did not help me. at seven years, 16.009 pounds; mer waving wheat field, is McMinn ing on land now in the heart of the "One day while at work and complaining always dangerous as it is liable to attack the of my pain in the presence of Mr. Elias heart. also, that prunes, dried, will net ville. The founder of the place was city. Then the present site of thirty Bishop, a neighbor, he asked me if I had Years ago those afflicted, were bled : as if ever tried Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale faking away some of the impure blood eotilti ■ acres was secured just outside the , one-third of their gross weight when W. T Newby, a native of a town by People; I told him no. 1 had never heard of remedy the balanet. This folly has been city limits, and a fine, four-story green; also, that a single individual the same name in Warren county, them. He advised me to try them, saying abandoned, and to-day physicians prescribe had benefited him and might help and <lrtr.';ista recommend the use of Iir. can take care of live acres of primes, Tennessee, where lie first saw the brick editice was erected at a cost of they me.’ I replied, that I had no faith in any Williams' 1’ink Pills tor I'ale People, a- except in gathering time, when, of light of day on March 25th, 1820. about 830,000. The establishment of medicine us I had tried so many different these marvelous vegetable pills go directly to without receiving any benefit that the seat of the trouble exerting a powerful course, additional help is necessary. His first location was at Oregon City, this Baptist institution of learning in remedies I did not think it worth while to throw away influence in put kying ami enriching the blood by eliminating poisonous e'ements and renew more money. McMinnville marks an epoch in the The average price of dried primes is then the trading station of the Will “Time passed on for nearly a year until ing health-giving forces, thus making a potent history of the place. seven or eight, cents a pound, and amette valley. When Mr. Newby one night I was suffering intense pain and 1 remedy for curing this disease. good prune land can be had in Yam came into Yamhill county, in 1811. Very few cities of the size and pre hill county at from $20 to $200 per it contained but six settlers, and In tentions of McMinnville can boast of acre. Prunes are dried and put into dians made frequent raids upon the owning and operating a complete a non-perishable condition before cattle grazing upon the hills and in water system and an electric light they leave the producer’s hands, the valley. In 1853 Mr. Newby erected plant. The water power consists of and then they can be shipped or a grist mill on Raker creek, the old two 30-horse power boilers in a suita stored, the same as wheat, at the mill being destroyed by fire in ,1890, ble building, which is situated 150 will of the owner. The prune prod and on its site the Jones & Adams feet from the Yamhill river, a clear, uct in this county is of such a vastly planing mill was erected—the pres running, mountain stream, on a knoll superior quality that they find a ent site of the handsome, prosperous of high ground. Two Hall compound market ready enough and produce a and pretentious city of McMinnville! duplex pumps are in operation, with demand where the inferior article is Newby’s store was started here in »capacity of 1,500,OOOgallons per day. unknown. 1854 and in the following year the The electric light plant was supplied UNDERTAKER’S SUPPLIES. WALL PAPER In conclusion it may be said that town of McMinnville was founded. by the Westinghouse company and is J the finest country in the state of Or The original town plat consisted of fuliy complete in every detail. egon may be found immediately sur eighteen blocks of 8 lots each, 60x100 McMinnville may be truthfully rounding the city of McMinnville, ______________U___ _ __ - » . JUUL JUUL JUUL. I the soil being very rich and prolific, - kinds of Watches, Clocks the crops taken off each year exceed All kinds of Fine, D. A. SMITH'S AU and Jewelry for sale at ing per acre the yield of any county Difficult and — NEW— hard times prices. old Watches re in the commonwealth. There are paired and made over 1,000 square miles of this rich ELY’S CREAM BALM ia a positive cure^X to run as good land tributary to McMinnville. Yarn Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 50 as new at cents at Druggists or by mail ; samples 10c. by mail. hill county lias been designated as NEXT DOOR TO POSTOFFICE. ELY BROTHERS, 50 Warren St., New York CRj . the garden spot of Oregon. Her wheat is unrivaled in size and Hour producing capabilities. Her oats are without a peer and her barley beyond comparison. The variety and luxur iance of her native grasses are sim ply unexcelled, while her timothy and clover are unequaled. It is the greatest natural stock-raising and dairying country on earth. Stock graze the year round and it is never found necessary to feed longer than two.months. There is no finer fruit country to be found on the terrestial globe. Her prunes are the best known, and she produces the finest pears, cherries, plums, strawberries and all other small fruits and berries and the best and finest apples of any section of the United States, while her hops are equal to any grown any COOK SCHOOL BUILDING. where in the world. And there is room here for thousands of homes. feet, new additions being added as ; I said to be a city of churches and The small farmer is the coming man, the town grew from tin unpreten I schools, and is magnificently located for it is he who will most keenly ap tious village to the proportions of a i in a broad and fertile valley, envi precíate the inexhaustible fertility ot town and a city. Educational inter roned with circling hills and mesas Did it ever occur to you that perhaps you might be paying too much our soil and with a favorable climate ests have been an important factor in and its location is at once healthful money tor your shoes? We without doubt are making the lowest turn every point to his advantage. the upbuilding and advancement of ami attractive. Indeed, McMinn prices on Shoe Leather ever named in Yamhill County. We have lead But a little money is necessary for a the city, they having been fostered ville is a city fair to look 'upon—an in the past with our 50 cases of Ladies’, Children’s and Men’s Shoes, start and this is what people slioiQd and zealously guarded from the very ideal Oregon city, one that must be made for us by the best factories in the East. We don’t carry a thing always bear in niiml when they come inception of the place. seen to be appreciated. The busi in this line that we cannot give you out west. The farmers here ask a fair An act of the legislature incorpo ness thoroughfares are broad, graded price for their land, and they are en rating the town of McMinnville and are lined with handsome and titled to it, for there is none better oil the face of the globe. Home seek passed both the upper and the lower commodious trade emporiums and ers are warned not to come here with house and was signed by Governor public edifices of stately and impos false notions in their minds. Good Grofer in 1876, and on the 12th day ing proportions ami architectural land is worth seeking ami paving a of November of that year the first beauty, while in residence portions reasonable price lor. while the day board of trustees was chosen by bal of the city the streets are ornament of donation land claims is past ami lot. the election taking place at the ed with magnificent shade trees, dis gone never to return. with. We know we can give you wear in good, stylish, up-to-date Manufacturing establishments are store of William Boyd. In 1 1882. closing glimpses of cosy cottages, a PI pressing need ot the hour in Vain McMinnville became a city, donned , uniqtt'i villas and pretentious man- * goods at very moderate prices now. When you want a pair of Shoes for lull county, . hill ami that they will soon Stotts. ’ lurrounded bv e\ idenee of ar- yourself or the little ones, just gjve us a trial. We believe we can come, considering the capabilities of metropolitan airs, and has progressed save you some money and give you goods that will do you good service. the country and the willingness of steadily ever since, taking high rank tistic landscape gardening, sweeping the people to help them, admits of among the smaller cities of the great driveways anti every evidence of no doubt. and growing state of Oregon. wealth, culture and refinement In ) The growth of the city, both as a this connection it may be said that a The years 1897 and 1898 will mark- trading center and a residence city, mistaken idea prevails that society in an epoch the history of McMinn has been almost phenomenal during the west is different front what it is ville in the matter of church build ing. The Cumberland Presbyteri the past few years. Today it has iu the older sections of the coun ans led off by the erection of an edi a population of nearly or quite o.tKMt try. This was partly true in times fice that was at once accepted as a souls, and newcomers are constantly gone by, but happily it is no longer model of architectural beauty and finding homes and means of suste the case, only in the partieiil.tr that utility. The Methodists very soon nance within her limits. The build it is only those of an adventurous discovered that their roof leuked and a new building was at once liegun. ing of the railroad through the city and enterprising turn of mind who The result was a building costing a in the fall of 1879 gave McMinnville seek homes anti fortunes in a new little more money and calculated to a bound upward and onward which country, comparatively speaking. outshine and accoinimxiate more she has ever since maintained. Consequently, the general spiritof the p -ople than any other. At the present west is more active and liberal than Lafayette, distaot five miles, is time the Baptist and Christian de nominations have new churches un the oldest town in the county, and are the stai.l. old commonwealths of der way. each of which will, when was the county seat prior to Novem the etlete east. Moat of the people complete, exceed $5,000 in cost. Mc ber, 1887. A special election was who have settled in McMinnville ami Minnville has always been noted for her excellent moral anti religious held in that month and the people de vicinity came here after they had at tone, and the marked advance in her clarrd b.v » decisive majority that tained mature growth and the habits ' churches’ architecture is in keeping they desired McMinnville to have j of life and thought had been fixed. | with the demands of the times. the county seat. The erection of a1 Cvnbnuvd on Fourth l'«,e PRUNE RAISING. irnryimmrr FURNITURE, Jewelry Store * * * A Word About Shoes A WRITTEN GUARANTEE It Won’t Do Any Harm Yours Truly, P. FISHER Proprietor