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About The daily reporter. (McMinnville, Or.) 1886-1887 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1886)
The Daily Reporter A Good Suggestion. Ed. Reporter: D. C. IRELAND A CO. PUBLISHERS, Learning that you are about to publish a large holiday edition of the Reporter, and writing up the county, 1 would like to suggest to the people that now would be a good opportunity to have these articles put in pamphlet form and sent to the board of immi gration. This county has made no effort towards securing the monied men who come from eastern and western states to settle with us. 1 think if a move was made in the right direction. that for a small sum the publishers of the Re porter would be willing to make up these articles in book form and send them where they would do the most good. Say each town in the county order 200 copies at a cost of $5.00 per 100 and I feel sure that the gentlemen of the Reporter would make a good job for the county. Let us hear from the live men of the different towns of old Yamhill. A B usiness M an . Barkis is Willin’ D. C. I reland A Co. I McMinnville, Or. I t Dec. 11, 1886 Observation«. First National Bank A fine stock of holiday crockery, fine hanging lamps etc., etc., at Baxter —OFFICERS S------- A Martins. WoRTM (N ...... President Ladies gold and silver watches at a J 1). Al'OB I*. T hompson , Vice president big bargain at the McMinnville jew J ohn W ortman ............ Cashier elry store. a General Ranking busiueaa. The ( horal union will meet again Transact:« Inlereat allowed on tona deposita. next week on \\ ednesday evening at Collection. made on iu\ or>.ble (orina. Sight Exchange and Telegraphic Transfers 7 o’clock sharp, at Grange hall. on New York. San Francisco and Boritami. A ( hristmas tree for the benefit of Office hour«—troni i* a. m. to I p. in. the public school children, will be given at Garrison opera bouse. At Baxter A Martins you will find JOHN WOKTH.VN Represents the following sterling ooliti«*, a fresh stock of holiday candies just iea: ixMidoii A Liverpool A (Holx>, North the thing for Banta Claus children. British A Mermintile, <\>ni;neroial Untoti Eire Aaaooiation, (forni hii Ainerioiui, Fire The McMinnville Business College man ’* Fmui, Hartford, ('oumiaroial. Ansio is open every evening at 7 o’clock for Nevada. state 1 mostinent. students in writing, drawing and book Wheat iiianrtinoe a sjiecialty. keeping. James A. Taggard of Portland is credited with having beaten the bulls and bears of ’Frisco out of $10,000 on the late deal in stocks. Baxter A Martin have a novelty in their cup and saucer coffee. You get a five pound can of nice coffee with a cup and saucer worth at least 50cts., all for one dollar. Miss Belle Johnson, teacher of music in McMinnville and at McMinnville college. Residence corner of Second and C Streets. McMinnville jeWelery store is now —AT— the biggest and largest west of Port land and the cheapest in Oregon. Win. Holl, proprietor. Santa Claus To-day and to-morrow A. J. Apper- son’s store interior will lie topsy turvey HEADQUARTERS. in consequence of changes in shelving. Call now, and then after these im Candy, Nute, Toy« nn<i Pres provements are made. Why do you pay for inferior silver ents for every body. Persona plated table ware big priced, if buying 5 lbs or over will be you got at the McMinnville jewelry given wholesale rides. store, Wm. Holl, tin? best and finest •v $1 purchase purchHHe wiu With every will can be had for the same price. be given a chance nance on eNo new developments are made in the case of Mr. Mickel who is sup 3 posed to have been murdered in east (Groceries Excepted.) Portland. Mr. Etdcrkin has gon« to 1 extend a cordial invitation Seattle to look after the matter. The to I the people of this county to detectives hold to the theory that come and examine my good« Michel has absconded, but, the facta and compare prices. do not warrant this belief. C. CRI88EN The Reporter, daily and weekly offers the best inducements to adver Oirriconi Block. McMinnville, Oregon. tisers, who advertise aa a matter of business ; of any publication in Yam Watch This Art Gallery hill oounty. It is read by everyone who reads anything, and has lieen steadily growing in circulation and standing for over sixteen years, and it is the fondest hope of its proprie tors, and their life work, that it shall lie second to no paper in the state. Less could be said, more neod not be Lirn said. There ia a big oil war going on. 1 The Standard oil company is losing b. A $500,000 in an effort to freeze out competition. It ia one of the most gigantic monopolies in the oountry and considers it well worth while spending that amount of money or losing twice as much to keep its grip. A pleasant result is the fact that oil f6r which but recently was paid tfl.40 To Bishop Kay s we go a cane can now be had for 9! JO a with a wish to get first choice case It does not seem possible that oil will grow lower, but it may. Ones of Holiday Furnishing Goode. The mud is just as deep on Third street this morning as it was Satur day night. The young peoples dancing club of this city starts out with the certainty of success assured. A pair of white ow’ls, shot by S. A. Manning and P. M. Wisecarver were on exhibition at Rogers A Todds drug store Saturday. The ladies who so nicely arranged the furniture sales room at Binghams deserve much credit. The goods and windows are very handsomely decora ted. The music loving public, without distinction are all cordially invited to join the Choral Union. It is not by any means to be an exclusive affair. Initiation only $2.00. W. V. Price, assisted by C. W. Tal mage and Geo. Kauffman, will return to-morrow from Willis’ ranche, loaded Io the guards with all kinds of game. Speaking of fussy weddings the At least this is our suppositions they Telegram says: Marriages are get left on Saturday with that intention. ting to be every year more of a showy A case containing credit books to pageant, less of a single republican the amount of $15,000 arrived at Ap- joining of hands. When royalty person’s counting room last week. marries or is given in marriage at St. By this new system that Mr. Apper- George’s chapel. Windsor or else son is introducing here after the 1st where, there is a splendor of display, of January, every man can be his own a show of uniforms, a blaze of jewels, book-keeper, accountant, and banker. and an amount of trumpeting and Mashal McMillan of East Portland blowing which, in view of present thinks there is a little game in the mutterings and murky political fore mysterious disappearance of Mr. Mick- bodings, seems a sorry mockery. We il. His life was insured for $5,000. in , republican America are gradually The cate ia indeed mysterious, and the getting ( to the same point of admira mystery is not likely to be unravelled tion ( for fuss and feathers. Tío mar until Mr. Mickel is found, dead or riage , ceremony amounts to much dive. nowadays which is not ennobled with Thos. Rogers and Bert Heath leave half a dozen uniforms, at least a pla to-day for a trapping and hunting ex toon of ushers, a bevy of female at pedition up the Wallamet. They taches and a maid to honor. What expect to go far up to the sources of an American girl wants with a maid the river, having their own boat and of honor puzzles us. Queen Victoria provisions, and may remain away un has maids of honor who stand and do til next spring. They are well and nothing prettily while she is receiving, comfortably prepared for the voyage. but we as a people washed our hands About fourteen young men from of this kind of tom-foolery when we Yamhill county, took in the competi fought King George. A little less tive drill at Mechanics’ pavilion Sat display and a good deal more of old urday evening. They were August fashioned love is what we require in »nd Geo. Mackenzie, Frank and Will | this year of grace 1886. Kerby, Link Porter, Ezra Graves, the Saturday Will Hendersou borrowed McCain boys, George Wright, John W. W. Nickells’ rip-saw. Nickells Glandon, John Jones, and three or asked if he knew how to use it. Will four others. Wm. T. Raleigh expected s replied : “You. bet I do.” Nickells let to take it in but "‘wiser than some of the saw go with some misgivings as to the rest,” as our informant puts it, its safety, remarking at the time that "came home before he was financially if Henderson broke it he must fix it. busted.” The Salvation Army and the Thistle With an “oh, that’s all right,” he took down saloon both are prospering from the saw and in ten minutes had broken pretty much the same crowd in Port the blade in twaiu. Then to “fix it" land. By the way the s. a. is going to he went to the blacksmith shop and touch up Salem, which leads the strapped the pieces together, using a Statesman to inquire, with tears in bar of iron half an inch by eight inch its phists and its eves doubled up: es riveting the pieces on each side. What in the world has Salem done It’s a lovely saw, worthy of * place alongside the trophies brought from that it should have this horriable in- Cuba by Jap Ann ; but Will declares fliotien brought upon it ? The skulls of fifteen skeletons have that he “fixed it,” and that is all he bsso found near the Potrero, in the agreed to do. Nickells does not see it ex actly in that light, and the controversy •wthem part of San Francisco. The is likely to end in hostilities, unless as the opposition is truss« otrt, however, Ne/Mcware' and Suspender», l«calhy where the- bones were found M a I* COoic effect# a astir with tales of fowl deeds and compromise. But 0, my; what a saw! up goes the market and consumers and Silk Hafidkwrehiwt^ at will, be sfiuOtuH tA make EIRE INSURANCE. C. GRISSEN’S, Handsome Prizes. J7 ir Sv <0 J *^*l«aale murders. The feat that two eknUadmvo holes in them ia be- ‘‘»»ed to confirm ouch supposition. up the preeeM dafiott ia the opoly s caeh aeconnt Mi- bottom pftaM. BISHOP A KAT. . I I j i I UR