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Daily Reporter,
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McMinnville, Or.
Sept. 14, 1886
<'all for Unity Tea, at Appersons.
A new walk has been laid down in
[court house park, Lafayette.
Vancouver guarantees $ 1,000 for the
tournament. Plucky Vancouver.
Senator Bird and P. P. Gates keep a
large stock of fresh goods at Lafayette.
A little son of Mrs. Vanatta crushed
|iis foot very badly at Yaquina yester­
day.
Squire Harding's barn, in this city,
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is a model of neatness. It will pay
you to call and see it.
After this week Squire Harding
will be in his office at all hours of busi­
ness to attend legal calls.
Senator Watts is tine physical con­
dition at his quiet home in Lafayette,
considering the warm weather.
Our business college is one of the
best institutions we have in Yamhill
bounty. See the announcement.
The county court finished its aes-
lion last Friday. The court resolved
to make an effort to collect back taxes.
Boyer A LaMoureau,practical bakers,
are preparing to erect a bake-oven in
this city, corner of 4th and I) streets.
Spiles were driven to the depth of
seventy-five feet, crossing the Oswego
bogs, known as elk-fiat, on the narrow
gauge.
If any of our townspeople wish to
attend the lawn party at Lafayette
this evening we can assure them a
food time.
n Hon. J. C. Braly now has the finest
Collection of grasses and seeds in the
west side tier of country, at the Yam­
hill county bank.
Some people are giving themselves
much ado as to whether or not the
(.'NW have a hand in the OPR. Whose
business is it; anyhow?
C. L. Worthington, of Sheridan, one
>f the leading merchants of that enter-
tnising place,called yesterday en route
Io Portland on business.
I Circuit court for this county will
convene al Lafayette on the 27th. At­
torneys are busy preparing causes for
trial, but it will be a short term.
That is a beautiful piece of work«
|iianship Mr. ('lark is turning out at
IE. B. Fellows’. A ladies work table
of laurel ami walnut woods blended.
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T. S. Patty will postpone his visit to
Tennessee on account of sickness there.
Telegraph reports five or six burials
daily at Parrotsville ; 27 died in three
days.
J. C. Cummins, after visiting a year
in Yamhill county at his fathers, with
his bride, has returned to his farm
near Milton in Umatilla county. The
Reporter will hereafter be a weekly
visitor to their new home.
The Future, published at Richland,
Kansas, comes to our table as usual
filled with weather predictions, that
will probably prove, as they have done
in the past, perfectly reliable. Pacific
coast predictions in October. Send
for sample copy.
Last Saturday Messrs. Bradshaw,
Conner and Nelson, with their wives,
paid the Fairchilds mineral springs
a visit from Lafayette, going into camp
near by. They speak highly of the
springs as a place for future resort
and health.
As much space in these columns as
can be given consistently to such spec­
ial purpose, will, in future, be devoted
to the interests of religious and secu­
lar societies and association?, accord­
ing as they in substantial ways recip­
rocate the interest taken in them by
the Reporter.
Mias Nellie Woodhead reached Chi­
cago on the 31st, after a most delight­
ful trip. She says the time was so
brief that she scarcely realizes the great
distance which separated her from her
home while in Oregon. At Minneap­
olis and St. Paul a halt was made to
take in the Minnesota state fair, just
on the line dividing those famous cities.
Latest news from Europe indicate
that Bismarck has “ put his foot into
it,” and getH u set back by an alliance
between Russia and France, in conse­
quence of Austrian apathy. England
snarls and growls, but will do nothing
serious. She has no land forces, and
no military system calculated to enable
her to wage waron land with a mili­
tary power like Russia.
Charity, full handed, is coming to
the relief of the Charleston sufferers.
The primal sin of selfishness shrinks
before such appalling disaster, and for
a brief space wholesale destitution
makes room for the entrance of benev­
olence in the human heart. It is
thought that the subscriptions will ag­
gregate in solid cash one-half of the
estimated loss to the people of the
desolated city.
The daily Reporter will bo the means
of improving the weekly Reporter fully
half. Make a note of this
Advertisers can take their choice,
either daily or weekly, at the same old
rate. No advance in the price. We’ve
come to stay, if you say so.
Miss Russ wishes us to >. y that the
stock of hats she is selling otT are sold
at just half the prie<- marked upon
them. Call and see for yourselves. la­
dies.
The finder of a boy 's open-faced
nickel watch, with l(oll’s guarantee in
the back, lost on the fairgrounds, will
be suitably rewarded on leaving the
same at this office.
Several spiritualists are calculating
upon at attendance at New Fra from
this vicinity. The meeting begins on
Friday, holding over til! the 27th.
Col. C. A. Reed and Guo. P. Colby ar*»
engaged as permanent speakers for
the meeting.
Subscribe for the Reporter, and pay
for it when you subscribe, and we will
pledge ourselves to give you more
news, for less money, than any other
paper in the Willamette valley. The
Daily will help the weekly l(M) por
cent. See if it don’t.
If this paper suits you for a bit a
week we shall appreciate th«' favor of
your subscription ; we have no money
to lose in the venture ; if it pays its
way another column will be added,
and another ; if not perhaps not. The
quality is surely svs fair as the rate.
One of th«' principal speculative
outgrowths of the anti-Cndie con­
gresses in Oregon was the steam laun­
dry all white labor washeo boom. Two
or three young men went at it in As­
toria, and after they had blowed in
$5,000; busted of course. Another in-
stitooshun of like import is just start­
ing up in Portland, which compels the
thought that the fools ar«' nut all «lead
After three years surveying, and run­
ning eleven through linos an«l «»ver
a thousand cross lines, the OPR select­
ed its pass through the Cascades, and
went to work ; then Prof. W S. Walker
steps out with “ another and a better
pass;” near his rapche! ’Twas ever
thus. We presume when our narrow
guage goes a whooping down the Do­
herty to Astoria, somebody will come
to the front with another and a bettor
pass through the (’oast range; but if
he does he will not get a nickel for it.