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Entered at ttie Postonica in McMinnville, as Seconde lass matter. TENSION CURVE .. M’MINNVILLE SHALL WE WAKE UP? A Big Drop ] FRIDAY f A Great Future Opening for the Willamette Valley To Old Time Prices if tier Citizens Are Alive to Their Opportunities. One Dollar if paid in advance, Singlenumbersflvecents. NO. 27 ||CYALÄ A bsolutely P ure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome «evo BOXINO KOWOea CO., NEW «OBK. McMinnville Fence Works, M c M innville , O r . <$><$>■ $70 z Represents tlie Freight Bills paid by us iu one week. X Evidence That We Sell Groceries GOOD TREATMENT TO CUSTOMERS, HARD WORK AND RUSTLING Keep us busy and growing. Come and see us. L. E. Walker. o<xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>g F 8 8 8 TO COMPOUND PRESCRIPTIONS properly it takes time. It requires experience and a complete knowledge of drugs. It requires the druggist to have a large variety of drugs—fresh drugs. He must give the best possible work, and for compensation lie must be reasonable. With the above facts remember we are careful and strive to please one and all alike. These are reasons why our prescription file thribbles all in this county. We are recognized by doctor and customer alike for be ing accurate and dispensing only the purest drugs. ROGERS BROS.’ Pioneer Pharmacists J acob W ortm an , Pres. J ohn W ortman , Cashier. E d H endricks , Vice I’res. A rthur M c P hil LIPS, Asst. Cashier The First National Bank Of McMinnville, Oregon. The Oldest Bank in Yamhill County. Established in 1885. Capital and Surplus. f9<>.<xxi. Buys and sells exchange on all the principal cities of the United States, and draws direct on all the principal points in Europe. The accounts of Firms and Individuals solicited. GRANGE STORE SPECIAL SALE ! O’ x/x/v- May 24 to June 15. 15 pieces of Japanese Matting AT COST. Want to close them out. Prices ranging from 11c to 23c. Regular prices 15 to 40c. 100 doz towels—15, 20, 25, 35 and 40c kind. Prices now 11c to 29c. Y a 100 Men’s Hats, large sizes. Regular prices Si.25 to S3; now 87c to S2.10. 120 pairs Men’s Pants. Regular prices Si.75 to $4; N ow Si.30 to S3.10. 180 prs Men's Shoes, sizes 9, 9% and 10, broken lines. Regular prices $1,50 to S3.50; Now S1.05 to S2.60. McMinnville Grange & Farmers Co., CHAS. P. NELSON, Manager. Take The Reporter and Get the News One Dollar Per Year. What They Arc, and Our Duty Concerning Them * GOPHEH. AMITY. We often hear our oldest citizens, who ty from Brownsville, after nearly a year's have amassed wealth, criticized because residence with his eyes open, says it is a The sick folks are all on the mend. Arthur Cane lias moved into the Tay they do not use their money for specula common thing for farmers to receive a The pleasant countenance of Will lor property. tive purposes rather than keeping it sole monthly check of $60 in return for the Guild of IJupee was observed in our Uncle John Briedwell took Prof. Snuf fer to Woods. ly for the interest it will earn on gilt milk sold to the local creamery, This is midst Sunday. Miss Mollie Thompson, who has been edged loans. The criticism is misplaced, south of us. Up at Baker City, Sump- Amity now has a full fledged exclusive staying at D. Kirby's, returned to her grocery, carrying a large stock. to a gTeat extent. The pioneers have ter, Canyon City and Lagrande a great home Sunday. Dr. Wood has had his office renovated performed their greatest service to this boom is on, with its attendant progress Miss Olive Lambright returned home country in settling it from 55 to 40 years and flow of the yellow metal, through from Monmouth Friday, to spend a much and a new carpet placed on the floor. J. W. Roth is shipping wood. Wood ago, and taking those advance steps in the resource of mining, as well as beet- needed vacation. was never more plentiful or cheaper than civilization, which always entitle the sugar making. This is east of us. Look Mrs. Scott and son Joe, of Rock creek, now. pioneer to a large meed of praise. The about you. Yamhillers, and you of Wash spent Sunday at the sawmill with Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart are here visiting time has come when the young and ington, Clackamas and Marion counties! and Mrs. W. Scott. at the home of Jas. Mahood and other D. M. Evans and family are kept very relatives. middle-aged men of this country must Are we to remain a little basin in north busy picking and delivering their large take up the mantle of progress and en west Oregon, all seeded down to wheat Mr. Walling, an old time resident is crop of strawberries. here visiting and looking over landmarks ergy, and seize the golden opjiortunities at 40c a bushel ? Or will we take hold Fall sown grain is locking very well, of early days. which are surely coming to the Pacific of the first and last proposition to get but spring grain and gardens have lately The Turner meeting commences Fri coast iu greater measure than to any into the swim with our neighbors, and been in need of rain. day of this week, and Amity will senp other section of the United States. while they dig gold and make butter, we Mrs. Brock came out from McMinn quite a delegation. Have you heard of the disintegration will furnish them sugar, wheat, hops and ville Monday and is visiting with her At the picnic Saturday quite a nice sister Mrs. 1, Lambright. of the vast empire of China? This an fruit. Every fanner between the ages of sum of money was raised to aid the fam Miss Mamie Casey has returned to ine sufferers of India. tique vase is breaking. England, Ger 18 and 60 years should interest himself Bellevue after an absence of a month, many, France, Italy, Japan, Austria and in this beet-sugar enterprise. Wliat is The annual complaint that crops will caused l>y the illness of her little brother. be poor is heard from farmers, yet when Russia all have jealous eyes turned in there to risk? Pledge the acreage, and Mr. and Mrs. I. Lambright, accompa harvest comes Oregon will do the fair her direction. Moralizing 011 their right you put the capitalists on the defensive. nied by Mrs. Brock and Elmer Taylor, thing and the warehouses be full. to disrupt China, counts for little. The If the factory isn't built, the farmer has visited at Mrs. Conrad’s near Sheridan, John Shultz has bought a number of law of the survival of the fittest seems to lost nothing; if it is built, he has every Sunday. lots in the northern part of town and Mrs. Thompson and children visited erected thereon a shed for the accommo be God’s law, and it is working out iu thing to gain. At the meeting in this city June 30th, in McMinnville Saturday and Sunday. dation of those who wish to feed teams. the usual way in regard to the far east. Mrs. Stow came home with them to visit The annual meeting of the Christian These disturbances involve America, to consider the proposition, (See call with friends and relatives. church will be held at Ballston the sec commercially, if in no other way. What elsewhere) we hope to see every farmer Will Casey, our popular road supervis ond Sunday in July. These yearly meet is our position? The Pacific coast is the within a radius of 15 miles, and interest or, is doing good work on the roads. In ings are looked forward to asa treat by ed to the extent of contributing his ut a few years Gopher will have the best all church goers, and the beautiful grove embarking point, the gateway to the orient for all the country east of us. Our most to foster the enterprise. Come pre winter roads in the county. at Ballston makes it a very pleasant The Gopher and Dupee valley schools place to be. beet-sugar, our wheat, our fruits and pared to investigate thoroughly, and ask are anticipating an enjoyable time at the Young Patterson was accidently killed cereals are going to soon meet w ith a any questions you choose, and you will picnic which they will give June 23d in while at work in a logging camp in make no mistake. demand greater than we can supply. We the L11Ç JJIUYC grove I1C< near the Gopher school house. Washington. The remains were brought have too long been wedded to one in Attention, Itinners! S Miss Ella White, who is teaching at here last Friday and buried by the Odd ------ ....a dustry in these valley counties. In other The promoters of the beet-sugar fac- Beaverdam, visited at her home in Sher fellows. He had many friends here and words, we have been wheated to death. tory at Newberg respectfully invite the idan Saturday and Sunday, On her re- his untimely taking off was a sad sur- ’• Because wheat would bring $10 a bushel farmers of McMinnville and vicinity to turn she was accompanied by Frank pristrto all. attend a meeting to be held at McMinn Chapman and family. The eagle that is being tamed for the 40 years ago, every generation since has ville on Saturday, June 30th, at 2 p. m., celebration here the 4th is a large bird LAFAYETTE been living on in the hope that it would for the purpose of securing acreage for whose like has never been seen in old again reach the same figure. We have the cultivation of sugar beets. This is M. R. Kelty of Portland spent last Yatnlfill. The other features of the cel ltarned little else, in a general way, but not a mere local industry, but one that Sunday nuiong his friends here, return ebration will be in keeping with the bird, which taken all together, will make the raising wheat. We all know the result. will benefit every community within 30 ing to Portland Monday morning. miles of the factory. It means the an An opportunity opens now for branch nual distribution of a half-million dollars Rev. A. A. Winters preached last grandest celebration ever attempted by any town in the county. ing out in another direction. At a point for beets and labor alone. Come out Sunday at the Hendrick school house, 'The program at the A. O. U. W. pic about four miles in the country. in this county the proposition is made by and learn all about it. Place of meeting nic held here last Saturday was up to Rev. Scott gave a stereopticon exhibi- ........... - J-'«- “ W1« v-inii'l capitalists to establish an immense beet- to be mentioned next week. expectations and was very interesting, tfon of the Johnstown flood on last Sun- i>ugar factory at great outlay of money^ but the attendance, owing to the inclem- A Jolly Pnrly. <lay night. It was fine. and labor, on the sole condition that the Friday evening S. I. Hibbs rigged up The locks have 20 men to work mak eucy of the weather, was smull. This Ormers of the adjacent territory will the big hayrack and gave a ‘•tally-ho” ing a cofferdam to force the water was a great disappointment to the Work men as well as our citizens, who have agree to cooperate in pledging to raise party to as many as could find room on through the locks, so as to build the nothing but good wishes for that very the wagon. Those attending were Mr. main dam. for a few years a certain acreage of beets and Mrs. Hibbs, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Prof. I). M. Metzger returned from Sa excellent order. —a prolific and easily grown crop to Wright, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Ferguson, lent Monday. The closing exercises of the public / which the soil is well adapted. A few Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Scott, Mr. anil Mrs. Wm Chapman of Sheridan visited in leading business men of Newberg have D. I. Asbury, Mrs. Dr. Cook, Mrs. F. W. our town this week on his way home been working “tooth and toe nail” for Huneaker, the Misses Reid and Hend from the pioneer meeting in Portland. rick, and Eva Cable and Elvie Hibbs. Fine rain this week, Pretty hard on weeks to secure the proper encourage The trek was out to Mr Hibbs' farm on clover hay that w'as cut. ment for this enterprise. They see the Baker creek, where, at the foot of the P. A. Bates had a sick day this week, advantages not only to their town, but kopje beneath the spreading boughs of but was soon out again and is on the to the whole country. Has the response the maple*trees, a bonfire was built anil streets as usual. Must keep busy. Thos. Ott intends moving by team to been hearty? We are sorry to say, No. a feast prepared, the novelty of which consisted in potatoes baked in the ashes, Lake county this week. Bail weather for It is not because the farmers don’t want and beefsteak suspended on long poles camping out. We are sorry to lose him a good thing. It is because they have and toasted over the fire. Mr. Hibbs had from Yamhill. Safe trip to them. Mr. raised wheat so long they fear that to planned a little fun for those who had Hyde and Mr. Emery will accompany even promise to tackle anything else is hunted "coons" way back in the eastern them. Bad weather for camp meeting—too going to involve them in something akin states when they were boys, But this part of the'program had to he omitted much rain. to a lightning-rod scheme. because his coon dog refused to leave D. B. Ogden of Portland was at the The writer took a trip back east in town with the crowd. locks this week. C. C. Bryan came up from Portland re 1897, and the course of his journey lay Wisdom Millsap received word on cently. through the town of Grand Island, Neb. Wednesday of the death of one of his The brightness and vivacity oi the place sons at Moscow, Idaho, who died of con was evident before the city was reached. sumption Instructions were receiv Attractive lot of I.Ion t'nlfec It typified more progress, enterprise and ed at the Newberg poetoffu'e the first ot I'rrinlllin. In P. P. Writhe. Confectionery Store. life than any city for a distance of 2,000 the week from the department at Wash We frequently hear the claim "soma- miles. All mystery was explained when ington directing the starting of the rural mail delivery on the route from this office thing given for nothing,” but do not of- we learned that the place was the proud July II. D. T. Snodgrass who lives on ten see an actual demonstration of the possessor of a beet-sugar factory. The the Wapato lake road was the first man principle, like the display of I.ion coffee same is true to a degree in any commu- to order a rural mail b>x to be put up at premiums now on exhibition in P. P. j uity which has some new industry not his farmhouse ........ J. L. Hoskins lias Wright's store window. Here are many lieen finishing up the assessment roil for valuable articles all given free for the I allied with the old effete lines, such as this part of the county this week and get lion-heads, cot from Lion coffee wrap | wheat raising in Oregon. Take, for ex ting ready to take charge of the county pers. These are not cheap articles, but ample, the county of Tillamook, where recorder's offi-e July 1. The family will comprise clocks, umbrellas, watches, dairying has risen to a position of digni- probably remain on the farm until the gold rings and jewelry, besides many I ty. Everybody has money every day in crop is harvested before the final move things useful and ornamental in the is made to McMinnville. In the invoice household, or will be enjoyed by the ' the year. Some member of every indus of ¡«rsoual eff-.-cts to be moved there will children, I.ion coffee fully deserves the trious family has to make it his special be included a half dozen choice Minorca popularity which it has gained, because 1 duty to look after the bank deposits. chickens and one of the pick of their ex of ite anterior strength and flavor. cellent herd oi Jersey cows. Mr». Hos This is on the west of us. The same kins ha* the reputation ot being one of CASTORIA dairying and creamery interest has taken the best butter maker, in the country, Bear, the signature of Cuat. H Fi.sTcna. and they would hardly care to try to, hold of southern Oregon. Prof. Alder keep hou»e without a Jersey cow.—New- j la use for more than thirty years, and | TK» k'ind Fvn Htvt Infkl, man, who has just returned to this coun- berg Graphic. school took place last Thursday evening at the hall. B, F. Mulkey delivered the address and County Superintendent Lit tlefield presented the diplomas to the graduates. After the exercises the pupils of Prof. Snuffer's room were given an ice cream supper. A pleasing feature of the evening's pleasantries was the presenta tion, by the pupils and citizens, to Prof. Snuffer of a beautiful gold-headed cane. A Good f auzli Medleiite. It sjrf-aks well for Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy when druggistH use it in their own familien in preference to any other. “I have sold Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy for the past five years with complete satisfaction to myself and cnatomera,” says Pruggist J. Goldsmith, Van Etten, N. Y. “I have always used it in my own family both for ordinary coughs and colds and for the cough following la- grippe, and find it very efficacious.” For sale by 8. Howorth & Co., druggists. W. E. Howe, the Klamath couoty de faulting treasurer, has received a commu tation of his sentence by the governor. His defalcation was made good by the bondsmen, one of whom, the present State Treasurer Hon. Chas. 8. Moore, be ing compelled to pay $1600 as his share of the loss. The commutation was grant ed upon recommendation of the sentenc ing judge, accompanied by a large list of petitioners, many of whom were arnoug the most prominent men in southern Ore gon. State Treasurer Moore also urged clemency, saying that the embezzlement of the county funds by the former treas urer was the first wrongful act ever known to have been committed by him. Mrs. Howe, the prisoner's wife, is now a resident of Oakland, Cal , and is anxious ly awaiting the release of her busband.