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About The daily reporter. (McMinnville, Or.) 1886-1887 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1886)
The Daily Reporter .VEHS AX1> .VOTE- Virginia elected a Knight of Labor candidate for congress who will prob- McMinnville, Or. - Nov. 25, 1886 | ably vote with the republicans. Moscow, is experiencing a business boom. Three brick stores are now Eggs 30 cents. Can you stand it? If in course of construction, and Hon. not, go to laying. W. J. McConnell is erecting a private Safe prediction. Don’t look for big residence, to cost 110,000 rain till the weather changes. The first democratic administration The new fire bell tapped three strokes with which the nation has been affiict- at 9 :30 a. m. yesterday. Make a note ed since democratic statesmen plotted of this for Bancroft’s history. against the old Hag in the cabinet of Hoes are no good on our city side James Buchanan has been tried for walks. The mud is too obstinate. It twenty months, and the country says, needs hose with water works to fit it. •‘enough.” There is a little stronger feeling in A social student declares that the the wheat market this week, probably- men spend more for hats than the owing to the extreme cold weather in women do for bonnets. Surprising the east. as this may seem, there is little doubt They are selling thirteen postage that the statistics for the week im- stamps at the postoffice for a cent and mediately succeeding election will a quarter. Don’t rush after a stock demonstrate the men to be in the until you have read this item twice. lead by a large majority. Mrs. M. H. James of Tacoma, is in Last week Bradstreets agency re the city, a guest of Mrs. and Rev. J. ported business all over the country C. Fair. Miss Hepburn, a sister of as slack and dull, the reasons being Mrs. Fair is also on a visit to them the elections and the warm weather. here from New York city. Since the blizzard of the 17th snowed The baby doll pitch has struck such in a large slice of the northwestern * slant in Portland that one man has states and territories, reasoning from imported one which produces music, the analysis, business ought to be bow-s politely and carries a basket in brisk. which is a lamb. On opening the As we stated some time since, the basket lid the lamb bleats as naturally press knew more about intended lease as if alive. of the ORN to the VPR than did Presi It is quite refreshing to read of dent Smith. The telegraph informs blooming strawberries in the open air us that the lease has been perfected last week in Lane county. The Regis through the OSL, according to the ter says: A party of four from this plans of 1881, when the UPR began city vis’ted the Mohawk hills last Sun work of construction in this direction. day, killed one deer, and reported the This will not hasten work upon the mountains covered w-ith wild straw Boise city to Albany line. berry blossoms. Some 600 tons of Indian wheat from The Multnomah grand jury is ip- Calcutta has been landed in Australia vestigating charges of libel against J. at a loss to the shippers. The sample B. Fithian and Sidney Dell, of the was weevily and dirty, containing Democrat, growing out of articles gram, linseed, a kind of vetch, and a published relative to the Merlotin proportion of peices of small hard clay, murder case, in connection with which the price realized was equal to about some prominent city officials are 3 | 6 per bushel duty paid, and the handled without gloves. bulk of it has been retained for fowl Among our visitors yesterday was and pig feed. an old pioneer of 1848, Levi Bennett, The Skidmore fountain to be erect- of Dayton. Mr. B- met with an acci- ed in Portland,will be the finest in the dent about two weeks since, when his United StateB. As the Oregonian team ran away, dislocating his ghoul- suggests: It is a little remarkable der, but is rapidly recovering. He was that Portland, with the fir woods a succesaful miner in Coeur d’Alene, almost within the city limits, is to and still has Borne fine specimens from possess a fountain pronounced by the Widows claim,one of which he per the New York critics as the “finest in the United States.” The fountain mits us to control in the future. was designed for an unlimited supply Prof. George P. Newell, of Philo math, died suddenly in Salem of heart of water, and the greater the head the disease, on Saturday. He came to better it will look. If Bull Run is Oregon city in 1851, and has lived in placed at the disposal of the city, Portland may rival Rome in having Portland, Salem and McMinnville. the mountain streams brought to her Many of Oregon’s best musicians took streets and eternally beautiful art to their first lessons of him. He was an decorate them. honest, Christian gentleman, a mem The employes of one Charles Baum ber of the Baptist church, and had gave their fifth annual ball in Mason many warm friends. ic temple at Washington on the 9th. The vexed question has at length The hall was extravagantly decorated been solved. A women, who however and the Marine band played but the long since married and quit the busi most prominent feature of the photo ness, assures us that in her life as a graphed interior of Uns grand display shop-girl in a millinery store for two of refined and studied elegance is a years she did not find more disagree- banner with double-E-S in large let abl customers to wait upon than she ters heralding information of the oc found in her experience as clerk in a casion on a background of gauze, in Isrge book and stationary store for a mid air. The pretentionsneaa of the like period. 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