TALENT NEWS. T alent , O h . ScptimLer Int, 1S93. LOCAL ITEMS. Social dance in the hall to-morrow night. Harry Gender returned from San I* ran- cieco last Tuesday evening. Miss. Clara Lynch ¡8 up from Duns muir on a visit. ‘Kobt. Purves returned home last Sun day from Willows, C iliiurnia. The Conwill brothers have moved into Chas. Harvey’s house north of Talent. H. II. Goddard will administer upon the estate of the late B. C Goddard. Edith Coleman, daughter of M. II. Coleman, has been very ill with Malaria for several days, but is now recovering. Mrs. Crit. Tolman arrived from her home in Alaska last Sunday on a visit to relatives and friends. Jack Lovelady started for Crescent City last week with a load of fruit and vegetables. Jeff. Davison’s thresher has quit for this season, hiving broke a valve on the engine. Big Jim Briner and Rush Glanden are camped at the cinabar on Applegate prospecting. Notwithstanding the scarcity of silver there was quite a sprinkling of Wagner creekers at the circus last Saturday. S- bool will commence in the Talent •chool house the second Monday of this month. Rejiort has it that there is a deadly conflict going on between the people of Talent and the {»Lining mill fleas. The fleas still hold the fort. A. W. Clemens, who has lately had a cancer removed from Ins lip, thinks the operation successful so far as the cancer is concerned. His general health, how ever, docs not improve as he was led to think it would. Rev. Rol>ert Sherill preached at the Beeson groie last Sunday at 11 A. w. and I p. m . Basket dinner l»etween servi ces. The speaker takes a mournful view of the present hard times; thinks they are growing worse and will continue to grow worse and that all efforts of man are ¡»owerlees to alleviate the present distress. We consider such gloomy utterances decidely harmful. True, the times area little out of joint, but we will Let all the available cash assets of the N ewsv $1.34) that affairs in general will be all O. K. in less than six months. Oscar Holt, son of John Holt, of Tal ent, has been engaged as principal of the Talent school for the winter term. Miss. Zella Cheney, of Lake county, Cal., will have charge of the primary department. Mr. Holt is well known in this com munity as a young man of high moral character and, from the guccess he hat had elsewhere in teaching, is believed'to l»e thoroughly qualified for the position. Several years ago Mr. Holt and ye as sociate editor l»ore the relation of pupil and teacher, but we strongly suspect that that relation might properly l>e reversed alsnit this time. Miss. Cheney has had several years ex perience in conducting primary depart ments and possesses the rare merit of se curing the highest respect and obedience on the {»art of her pupils, which is abso lutely essential to success in imparting instruction. The general opinion is that the directors have exercised excellent judgement in the matter of securing teachers and there is little doubt that we shall have a firstclass school for the win ter. BORN. Near Medford on the 25th inst, to the wife of Henry Hansen a son. MARRIED. / At the Colver residence in Phoenix, on the 30, inst, Prof. Gus. Newlxiry of Jack sonville, to Miss. Nellie Rose of Phoenix. Prof. Newbery is well known as one of the leading educators of this part of th» state, at present bolding a prominent p<. sition in the Ashland schools. The bride There was quite a sensation in Talent is also an excellent teacher and will teach last Sunday over a report of a deadly in the Bish district the coming winter conflict I »r tween cat tie and sheep men The N ews joins their many friends in <»ver on Applegate and that three men wishing them a long and happy life. were killed: but as one of the “killed” rode past our oilier since then, we con Weeks Bros, for furniture clude it whs a big scare just to help out the hard times.