The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-04
NEWS ITEMS.
srArL ANp rEEn1roRIAt.

There are 269 school-children in Boise.
Judge B. F. Bonham assumed the
robes of the Chief Justice OF Oregon on
the lst inst.
Washington County Fair will be held
at Hillsboro, September 2S, 20 and 80.
$4,000 IN premiums are offered.
Reeds Panorama, with 'AIart Tay-
lor'' attachment, will show on the
grounds during the State Fair week.
Linn County Fair will be held at Al
bany from the 9th to the 10th Of Octo-
ber inclusive. Premium list amounts to
$1,000.
The Walla Walia Statesman says that
Sl,500 has been raised i'm Lewiston to
start a new paper, and that Judge Whit
son has been offered editorial control.
Madame Fanny Morgan Phelps has
engaged Reeds Opera House for a
lengthy theatrical season, commencing
about the time Legislature cOnvenes.
The Dayton Nc,rs is the title of
small weekly paper soon to be started at
Dayton, Walla Walla county, under the
editorial management Of Mr.. \. J. Cain.
The Fourth Annual Exposition of the
w. w. Industrial Association will take
place at Olympia on the 9Th Of October,
and continue thereafter three or four
days.
The proprietorship OF the salem Mer-
curry has been transferred from Messrs.
Thompson * Cornell 10 Mr.. +. l.. Bris-
tow, Of Eugene, one OF the present Cap
itOl Commissioners.
Levi Leland, state Lecturer of the /.
o. G. T., on the 81 inst, organized
Ochoco Lodge No. 2l2, situated at Prime
Vile, WascO county. They begin with
81 charter members.
The annual report Of the Secretary,
Mrs. {. :. Woodwork, of the Oregon
Children's Aid Society, shows that 3e
children have at different periods been
received and provided for.
The State Grange of Oregon com.
mences its first annual session on Tues
day, the 18th of September, at Salem
and il is to be one Of the most import
ant meetings ever held by that Order.
The business men Of McAUnnville ar,
taking steps toward obtaining n tele
graph line from that place to st. Joe
4 subscription is now going the rounds
and has secured liberal amounts al
ready.
ment upon the paper from which j
sprung. Ii furnishes Polk with tha
which every county needs, and SHOULD
literally sustain, good local news
paper.
Mrs. Augusta Werner, widow Of Con
rad Werner, received through the hands
of her attorney the sum of Sl,0l7, tn,
amount of the policy on the life Of he
husband, who was murdered near Salen
= short time since.
The SwantOwn Seminary j. rapidly
approaching completion, and will sooI
be ready for occupancy. II will cos
$4,000, and will be a great advantage {,
the people on the Sound, as il is in
tended TO be the high-class school il
that section.
The public school of Albany contain
about POO pupils and is Of very higl
grade There is also a select schoo
with forty or fifty scholars, while abou
40 attend the College, so that the mum
Der Of school children and students
not far from 800.
There is a young lady in Lane count
who last winter plowed between 20 an
50 acres of ground for her father an
narrowed the most of il. Then turne
out her team and went and got certif
cate as teacher, took up school an
taught until haying and harvest CON
menced, when she dropped the "birch
and cut her fathers and uncle's graiI
and is now cutting for the neighbors.