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The ©atty Reporter. D. C. fRKI.AND A CO. PUBTJ8HER8. McMinnville, Or. - Sept. 7, 1886 Mrs. (J. D. Johnson has returned ftfoih her trip to California. C. A. Wallace expects to send Solon Prince away soon after the fair. Baker & Sylvester threshed 19,229 bushels this season in nineteen days, with their new machine. Jack Powers has been pardoned and has gone • Idaho to seek again his fortune. Rev. Mr. Sellwood of east Portland, passed homeward last week from his Nestucca vacation. Wayne Carlin expects to be home on a visit about Christmas time. He is in Granite, Grant county. Supervisor Hubbard of Lafayette, has returned from sixteen days recrea tion on Nehalem. He took in two elk. H. B.Sommerville of Sheridan,sends a dozen Reporters east occasionally. That is the way to invite immigration to Yamhiir county. If we have no ordinace there should be one, punishing people who throw glass in the streets. The council will meet to-morrow evening. T. P. Worsham and wife, of Oregon city, are visiting at White’s station. They were the guests of Miss Fannie Musgrove of this office. Mr. W. may locate here. That grouse at Rogers & Todd’s is a drum major. It was captured in Roseburg by T. S. Patty, at the store of a taxidermist, and goes east as a representative of Oregon’s native game birds. C. A. (’ole, formerly of tne Corvallis Gazette, and Wallace R. Struble, a well known journalist of Portland,will issue on* October 1st the initial num ber of the Corvallis Chronicle. T. E. Frestoe has taken a contract to plant the stars and stripes on the north pole in the next eighteen months hence cannot tell just where he will be, but if anybody finds his spectacles (ad vertised; leave them at this office. The OPR are at present negotiating for seventy-five acres of land adjoin ing the city of Albany upon which to erect their round houses and car shops for the western division of the road. Albany has pluck, but this will be her good luck. Works of Art—Mrs. Dr. Galbreath, Ijafay- ette; Mrs. pr. Young, Miss Clara Martin, Mo- Minn ville. Heaven is smiling upon Yamhill Penmanship aud Map Drawing—.Prof. Houghton, MoMinpville; Saui. Hobaon,New county. berg; Geo. Higgins, North Yamhill. If you want to make the fair a suc Superintendent of Draft, Carriage, and Roadsters and horses of all work L. H. Ba cess take stock in it. If you want to ker, Dayton. Jacks,MuleHand Jennys—Richard Phillips, “ bust it”—growl. Amity. The pavilion began to fill up yester Cattle—Morris H. Perkins, North Yamhill. day, and as the ladies seem to act in Swine—Geo. Dorsey, Dayton. Sheep N. K. Sitton, Carlton. harmony with our glorious weather, Poultry—E. L Peckham, Carlton. Agricultural T. Goodrich, North Yamhill. and to be actuated by that indomita Horticultural John Bean, Carlton. ble spirit of enterprise so lacking Mechanical—S. R. Baxter, Dayton. The County Fair. among men for the cultivation of the beautiful, we feel (hat what promised to be a slim exhibition yesterday fore noon, because of a lack of exhibitors ; will by noon to-day be one of extent sufficient to excite the admiration of all. When we left this department last evening the outlook was indeed cheering and hopeful. To-days races will be at 2 p. m.; half mile running and repeat, best two in three; free for all three minute class. The first running race yesterday was won by Mollie Flippen 1st; Buck skin 2d : and Minnie 0, 3d. Lancer Dudley and Bay Billey were in the contest. It is a very difficult thing to start five horses in a race. In the trotting match seven horses were entered. Perfection and Holly wood drew out. The first heat three were distanced, which left the contest with Milton and Billy Button. Both arc owned in this city ; the first by John Hulery, and the last by C. A. Wallace. Billy took the 2d heat, and Milton the third. Time 1st heat, 3.9J ; 2d heat, 3.14; 3d heat, 3.12|. The last two were pretty- contests. Geo. Willis had a three minute horse on the track yesterday good for every- inch of it; but he was all broke up by excitement. In a 300 yards dash yesterday after noon between Conway, Arthur’s horse, and Jack Nance, John Flett, the latter won. Following is a list of the officers and com mittees chosen by the managers of the Yam hill County Agricultural society for the year 1886: Chief Marshal—G. Springer, Amity; assist ant, J. W. Baker, McMinnville. Floral Exhibits—Mrs. A. M. Loughlin, North Yamhill: Mary Gilkey, Dayton; Mrs. Chas. Palmer, MoMinnville. Works of Antiquity—Mrs A. J. Apperson, Mrs. Frank Fuller, McMinnville; Miss Au gusta Riohster, Sheridan Fancy Needle Work—Mrs. Fellows, Mrs. John Gault, MoMinnville: Mrs. Nora Spring er, Amity. Culinary Department Mrs. L Laughlin, Mrs. Goodrich, North Yamhill; Mrs. Sylves ter Potter, Sheridan. Don’t forget the Newberg fair. Pools were slow sale y esterday. Mens suits from $8 at 0. Symons. Boys suits from $5.50 at C. Symons. For Blue Vitriol go to Geo. W. Burt’s. Oscar Kilbourn sells pools on the fair grounds. Boys chinchilla coat and vest from $9 at C. Symons. Children’s ready made suits from $2.50 at C. Symons. Mens chinchilla coat and vest from $12.00 at C. Symons. A large stock of School books at Geo. W. Burt’s at bottom prices. Mr. Weber has his shooting gallery in operation on the grounds. The tickets sold at the gate before noon yesterday netted $150 cash. St. James (Episcopal) Sunday school begins at 9 :30 a. in. Sunday next. Miss F. E. Russ has an elegant dis play in the pavilion. See ad also. If you want to smoke a good cigar, go to Geo. W. Burt’s prescription drug store. Dr. Wortman, of Junction, was in attendance at the bed side of his moth er on Sunday. Billy Ayres, one of the most success ful horsemen of Oregon, is in attend ance at the fair. The ladies Guild will not meet at Dr. Johnson’s to-morrow p. in. Post poned until the 15th. Mr. Gammie came in yesterday with a liberal display of all the finest im ported stock in Yamhill county. Judge Loughary, County Clerk Briedwell, Prosecuting Attorney Brad shaw, .Sheriff Harris and many others from Lafayette were in sight yesterday. We were pleased to see J. L. Hallett on the grounds yesterday. He is one of the strongest pullers the west side tier of counties have in the field. C. Nairn, of Ballston, has a kennel of his Scotch Collie dogs on exhibition. He has one that he values at $500. He sold the sire of this one for $1,200. A V- iiildir McMinn*