The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-10-15
BLUE RIBBON.
BRowNsvILLE-oN THE CA1IPoolA.
October 13. 1890.


ED REGISTER AS constant reader
of your valuable journal. I have locked in
vain for those interesting comninn' cations
| from this place over the signature of Mar
row Gauge and while writing is rather
out of my line. think perhaps a poor let
ter is bstrer than none. so here goes.
c. Ellswirk Is getting about again. but
looks as Though he had been taking very
large doses of anti. tat remedies.
W. s. Powell has moved into town. and
has just been presented with a son-fecls
as t.rn,ni lS Iucifer. Has also built fiue
| barn.
Frank French las started INTO business
on the south <ite in Abrams store building
sells .roc, reS. furnishing goods etc.
An addition has just been built on the
Sonth end uf the railroad warehouse. and
ti,. crai,itg machinery is being pu' in. A
small huiiG;ug has also been erected near
by for the engine. aud everything is being
got reaeiv tor cleaning grain II. B. Moy-
or is the engineer, aud by the way is gett-
ing to bt. good Oae. too.
A building is now in the course OF COLI
-truct;on in the yeeitrr of town. 30x76 feet, /
tw.. stories high. The upper part will be |
used h. the Masonic and y O.U.W. socie- |
ties. Willie the lower part will be for city |
hail aud it is going to lie one of the finest
ftlittlings IN our Gown. Next to it the
north another building is going up now,
, rrin,nr says tor dry goods store.
NJ. j. f Vcnnrr has huilt quite an ex-
tension Ia his gallery. and is also going to
lart in stock of tliugs. 90 with the drug
store we now have. perhaps druggists
goud- may become drug the market.
: The ~ix-horSe power wood sawing ma
h chine is very busy in our midst. cutting
stove wood. and when we hear the the bell
of the wooden factory. and the shrill hasf
of the steam whistle of the mill, and
h the busy carpenters at work all round tls,
and the many teams on our streets, it cer-
J.. tainly looks more like business than any
: thing seen here before for the past ten
years.
The last meeting of the Blue Ribbon
:. Club here came near being failure, as the
% Executive Committee did not prepare any
programme. and the young tAmerieas,
y was going to say. hnodlums tried TO run
r. the meeting. Several of the yonng people
m here who call themselves ladies aud gentle
- men. took the lead in carrying on the
n '.furI." as they called it, hnt for one fail
Or ed TO see where the noisy. disortlerly, hood
t. loom-aetiug part left off and the funny part
9. began. Being parent myself felt very
much painrd as looked over the audience
= last Tuesday night and witnessed s,ich
IN shameful proceedings on the part of the
y YONG people of our place !; how did wi>l;
| I ~,
hall and witnessed the whole proceedings.
N. instead of remaining at home rs uost oil
h,. them did OH that occasion, ard when. dur
70 Ing the week, mentioned the matter to
or some of them. they said ''why did not the
- Club have them arrested ~ Now. hr
Editor / will ask if we must nave the Mar
N. >hal attend a respectable meeting of the
temperance people of this place. or have il
s.. broken u7 in this manncr? WIN the par
m, entS and friends of temperance mostly stay
at home to such an extent that their child
mr. rem can run meeting that must have moth.
T ing hut the strong arm of the law to pre-
tect it. or give up to This rough element?
90 If the giving of license To saloon il
our town makes it necessary tn have thu
nc Marshal present ut Temperance meeting
sir as many people seem to think will soon b,
40 the case {? But. rs Narrow Gauge woul,
call him. ..our friend J. B. does not agre,
II, with Us on this subject, FIe said in TIN
~. opening of his great speech not long ago
that he had heard it reported that lie wen
oI, to that meeting To break it up. bat such II
;ro said was nrt the case. ami sincerely c
ris the opinion iliat that long -winded orator.
,l,e cal effort nf I. B. had more to do wit
tie the breaking NJ of this Club than all thing
and | else put together. He also alluded +
some resolutions reported on that evenin
ler- to the Club as refer ring To himself. Til
her resolutions We're simply drawn mp to IL
,c,- clare ar say what were the duties of pc
he sons as members of the Clnh-was it 20
ca- sible with him that guilty conseien,
needs no accuSer2 He also said that "
for need not try to ru, him. etc. AS publ
b. servant say we have IL right to discuss h
il acts. and simply because we do not eudor
them it certainly does not become him
the sag that we are running him trying
.ige run him. .''Narrow Gauge truly sa
factions speak lortler than wo:tls.''
,per In speaking of the. amount of liqnor so
nes. by ]. b.. find that there hls been mo
obtained at his drug store than he told
for thai night. Abont a bottle being taken o
anne Of his store ard the money being left on t
ork counter he said these "ertls near rs
west can remember ''Some people may c.
that argument rather thin. hut it is IA,
anti and you can make the most of IT, Coz
has ment Is unnecessary. I had intended
sess- say more about that speech. but ffn;' 4
lace paper TOO small. You may perhaps he
GIVE again from BLUE RIBBON.
reas-
Gen. Grant ta 1854.
um- There is no doubt that those who
strongly advocate the nomination of Gt
Grant in 1880 have only postponed th