The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-06-27
HOME NEWS.

Wool in small lots is bought at Cor
wallis at % cents.
Krumbeln & Gilbert will draft the
plan Of your new house.
The wheat crop in Douglas county
this year will be over average.
Quite a number OF new buildings are
in course of erection in Baker City.
A snag-puller is st work in the Will
lamette river few miles below Corral
lis.
Oliver Dennie will take your photo
graph for - 30 per dozen. Give him n
call.
A Spiritual meeting will be held at
Candy Station on the 18th and 18th of
July.
Trinity Church M. f. South at sa-
lem, will be dedicated the first Sunday
in July.
III. Fisk will test your minerals or
make your gold into bricks. Go and
see him.
The distribution of interest on the ir-
reducible fund gives Benton county ST.
$50 coin.
Farmers in all parts of the State are
elated over their splendid wheat crop
prospects.
A. Vail advertises the New Wilson
Sewing Machine, warranted for five
years. Call upon him.
The contract for building the bridge
across the Yamhill, at Dayton, has been
let to Gen. Coffin for 50, 500.
The Excelsior Lime Company of
Douglas county is manufacturing six
hundred barrels Of lime per month.
Umatilla county has sown more than
double the acres of wheat this year than
any former year since the settlement of
the county.
A Touring mill will soon he erected at
Pendleton, Umatilla county. The citi-
zens have given a bonus of from ten to
fifteen hundred dollars.
Alisky q Hegle will treat you TO ice
cream and strawberries for a reasonable
consideration. Patronize them. They
advertise in the NEW NORTHWEST
Schmeer Bros. manufacture and i'm
port American, German and French
confectionery. They have re-Opened on
First street, opposite Wells, Fargo & Co.
A gentleman writing from Alsea val
ley says he has field Of wheat in which
the grain lies as fiat upon the ground
IS It would if it had been rolled with
heavy roller.
The Albany Democrat says: ave
have information that a very large num-
Der of immigrants from Iowa may be
expected 10 arrive in Oregon during the
coming summer"
The editor of the Roseburg Ploindealer-
has been shown a sample of oats grown
on q farm across the river from that
place that measured eight feet six inches
in height, which was said to be a fair
average Of q field of five acres.
Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Bodley, corner
Fourth and A streets, will make you
anything you want to wear in the latest
styles and most approved workmanship.
An excellent place to go to get your
children fitted as well as yourselves.
G. w. Traver is out with an ad. that
means business. He wants agents in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho TO sell
the New Home, and Improved Home
Shuttle Machines. See our premium
list and its offers for Home Shuttle
Machines.
A Clatsop county dairymau wants tC
know what is to constitute the ''bes
gallon of butter milk" for which the
Washington county Agricultural SOei'
ETY. propose to offer a premium of s.
He thinks the "poorest" buttermilk j:
the "best," because it shows that the
churning has been we'll done.
The company formed in London tC
purchase the Newport coal mine at Coos
Bay will put OH a line of steam colliers
between the Bay and San Francisco. II
is believed that this coal can be Offered
by the cargo in San Francisco for sever
or eight dollars ton. During the past
winter it sold from sl4 to SIS, retail.
A well-preserved tooth, measuring II
inches in length, Is inches in circum
ference, and weighing l3A pounds, and {
piece Of jawbone 20 inches long, anC
weighing l64 pounds, were recently foun'
on the Marion county side of the viii
lamette river a short distance abov,
the mouth Of the Yamhill. The relic
were twenty-five feet below the top O
the bank and two feet above the water
Two companies are getting out linn
in Douglas county. Several hundre
barrels Of the new article have been fol
warded to Eugene City and Salem.
is pronounced q first-rate article, slack
well, and is free from foreign matter
1t is being used in the erection of tn
Capitol at Salem and the State Univel
sity at Eugene. In the course of tim
the preparation Of this lime for marke
will develop into a great industry. Th
stone is inexhaustible.