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I a LENI news . T alent , O k . December 1st, 1893. MISS. KATIE REPLIES. -------------- , Oregon, Nov. 2(5/93 Ei>. N ews : LOCAL ITEMS. Mr. Wm. Stearns and Mrs. Pengra.. Eugene, Oregon, blither and sister <• “Uncle Daw • ” Stearns, deceased, were« ■ • • the creek last week on a visit to relative- and friends. By a cirelesB oversight we emitted mention in last issue that Win. Bunce,., brother of Mrs. Geo. Robison of Ander son creek*, died of fever in Phoenix, Ari zona, a few weeks ago . The deceased w; > an estimable young man ami his dead; was sad news to his many friends here. I hasten to reply in this indirect manner to “E, P.” and “J, 1. C.,” whose answers to my ad. appeared in the N ews of the 15, inst. Now* the first ini tial, “E,” may stand for Earnest for all 1 know, hut he certainly can't be in earnest when he ‘‘drops into poetry ’in answering Last week this community was shocked a genuine, practical, matrimonial adver tisement like mine. I want to tell him to learn that the two-year- old child ot that rhyming and ranching don’t go to Mr. and Mrs. Jay Bonnet, who moved gether worth a cent. Just as likely as not from Wagner creek to Stanislaus, Cal., such a fellow as he would spend half his some three years ago, was scalded¿odeath time sitting around in the shade writing by falling into a tub of hot w*ater. Mrs. poetry on “Gentle Spring/’ “The Moon,” I). P. Brittian and Mrs. F. M. Jordan, * I Thiol. of Thee” and all that sort of mother and sister of thechilds father, set thing when he ought to he putting in his out for the latter’s home as soon as pos best licks on the ranch. No white-handed sible after hearing of the sad accident. rhyme-writing dude for me, thank you. Three car loads of fat hogs were ship “J. J. C.’ b ’’ answer is in very fair ped from Talent to San Francisco last prose I'm glad to say, hut it is’nt hard week. Tw*o more carloads will probably to re xd lietween the lines and find out that he shipped this week. / it’s the cash lie’s after. He’s awful handy with the ax when the “wood is already•* R, II. Moore with his crew* has been chopped!” Dear me, what a brave fellow! very busy packing apples on Wagner lie can ‘‘drive the ducks to the pond,’ creek for the past two weeks. He ship too just as if ducks haint got sense e- ped a car load last Wednesday to Mon nough to go to the pond without driving. tana and another yesterday. Then right away he says he don’t know Geo. Low*, while at work in the woods whether he was horn in “1GS5, or 1835!” Well Did you ever! Just think of it! the other day, had a narrow escape from don’t ' iow whether he is 2S or 208 years a falling tree that didn’t come down ac old! if he don’t know* that much, Ed cording to his calculations, but aside from just het all the feathers in my new hat a big jaw* and some other slight bruises, that he wouldn’t know* enough even to he is ready for another experiment in the drive the ducks to water. Then he’s been same line. Converted to the Alliance cause since my• John Mast who has been employed for advertisement appeared but hasn’t nearly two years by Joseph Rapp, left on joined yet. Just a waiting to see how I the 20th, ult, mi his home near Chillicothe reoly. That’s too thin. A nice Alliance i Missouri. John is an industrious young A • worker he'd make! Then to think how man and h aves a host of friends in Ore old he might lx?! W hy I’d rather run gon. my • farm all alone for the balance of my «F Arthur Abbott and Chas. Sherman days than to marry a man that might be 208 years old. Next. Katie. came over from Pokegama last Sunday for a visit to friendsand relatives here. - S. Smith of l’aljnt is very sick with H. L. W hited , the jeweler in Ashland la grippe. will repair watches, mount gold nuggets, At the Peoples Party meeting in the do engraving, in fact any similar work hall last Wednesday evening J. U. Allen, in good shape and (prickly too. W . J. Dean and J. W . Abbott were r- lected to the county convention. The last two meetings of theTalent lit- ' Mrs. John Holton of Ashland has been clary sorieiy were Up to the usual merit. This evening the <pr» >tion: <Rcsolwd very low for save ral wicks with put union in. that tli'* public School is not Up to the de Mr. ami Mrs. -I. W. Beatty left yester- m.imL of the age,’ is up for debate. inoiiiing for Oakland, (’al., w here the I; t t< i will Ictrcatcd for cancer. V • V r
