The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-24

| II meh Nouiu htop huu tnlnk tHuy WOut
kaow that soap sellers and such bilks, .
well as psddlers generally. do not go aroun
the country sxcdpt ID make money, an
that II they deal with them they will 81
sold.
The Fourth Quarterly Meeting OF the A
4 Church. South, for Albany Staten vii
viii be held nsxt Saturday and Sunday q
St Panl's NJ L Church la this city. Preach
ing Saturday evening, and Sunday mornin
aud evening. d. @. Mcfarland. 2. +.
''Are you q iuryman 'Asked the .Justio
Of the Peace Of an intrusive Irishman
mo. sir. am = dhrayman." replied th
latter ''but bedad me wiis's ianeyus, anC
she says that the place TO get the very bes
groceries Is at the popular store Of Hoffman
4 Joseph.
Recently Mrs Burkhart. widow OF Johu
Burkhart, received over $500 ~ ths pension
due her on account of nor husband havin.
served In the war of 1912. Ia addition uh,
viii roceivs IS month during the remain
der of her life.'
Here Is the way troupe has TO take IL il
il attempts 10 20 through Oregon without
advertising. and IL serves them right "a
hard looking set OF dArkies paraded the
streets last Tuesday, beating drums and
footing horns, aud wound up with some
sort of performance ~ Lano's hall in the
evening" This has reference 10 the Georgia
calandar Aia.tr.is
Last Friday Oscar Cosper, . sou of VIM
COsper. living about three and half miles
from Jefferson, Was found dead beaide the
road batween his fathers farm and that
place. He had been deas about an hour.
Oscar was about seventeen aud had been in
very poor health. Il Is said that the ap-
pearauees indicated suicide.
A few weeks ago we spoke Of a peculiar
variety OF wheat. = sample Of which was left
as this Office, The item. by passing from
the DEMocRAr through other papers finally
reached Pennsylvania, from which state the
owner Of tho wheat has just received letter
asking for quantity by mail.
The Portland Standard recently stole an
item from the DEMocRAr about silk worms,
and made il read as Il they were raised near
Portland. Near the bottom Of the article
there being the statement that there was q
good place 70 raise them in the snbaibs Of
Albany. 20 that in this mixed up form the
article went the rounds Of the papers in
Oregon.
While in tRe city Dan CAstello met an
old friend Of hia whom he used 10 spend
many happy hour with in keadvills, aad
they both gos lordly tight and that wa
the reason Why castsllo walked . rail fence
in the ring, tripped the girl on the horse.
and failed 10 appear with Senator.
One day this week Gilmour 4 Watkins
threshed 1911 bushels Of grain on the farm
Of A s NAnnys Fourteen hundred and
ssyenty.hvs bushels was wheat and thres
hundred and thirty.six bashsls was oats.
Fifty.two acres of wheat yielded 2l36 bush,
els. being = little over II bushels TO the acre.
Probably no man in Oregon goes 80 far ID
get free advertising ~ the dude manager si
New Market Thester. Portland, by name
+ W Stechaa. The newspapers Of the Val
ley never get . cent from him, although he ID
very fresh In sending his circulars 10 them
for notice. The press of che state can count
this dude a. one Of their worst enemies. and
sometime when he may want their services
be may fnd himself out 10 the cold.
The first of the week Mr.. Frank Wood Ia
. contest with = pitchfork came very
near losing one OF his eyes HS had been
throwing some hay from the loft In his barn
to his horse, and jumping down, the handle
Of the pitchfork caught iust above the eye
and clipped upwards. Examination Of il
showed that he had only made IL black and
blue and the ball boodshot A quarter o.
an inch lover would no doubt have put il
out.
Railroads may be heartleas institutions
but We notice that before they rsash fplaC'
they are the grAndest institutions on the fac
OF the earth. and such thing as rnonoply j
never thought Of then. While il y tsu
that many OF them are excessive in their de
mands it is also true that country with
out them does not amount 70 much. Nor
fortunes have been made through the srriva
Of the railroad than from any other cause
Last week in publishing list OF tn
Knights Templar Of Oregon We only CAV
these who are on record here a. such De
sides those mentioned We have learned Q
two others who have never affiliated wit
the commandery here. They are Mr. sR ]
Goodman, Lying near this city, who wa
made K. T. at Atlanta, Georgia, and u
RobertIW Moses, of CfawfOrdsvills, = X. 7
in DeAfoley Encampmsnt No. s, Virginia
Quite atransfer of real estate was mad
in this city last week. Mr Cyrus Westlak
making contract tor the exchange Of hi
property in the city, consisting Of three @
four houses and lets, valued st 10000, wit
Ar John Smeer, for the latters stock ranc
aud stock in Eastern Oregon, the transfer
be completed upon examination OF the stool
and ranch by Mr. Westlaks.
We are requested TO announce that .
| parties who are unable TO attend the Stat
Fair but who have samples OF grains. grasses
vegetables, and other Oregon product
which they desire 10 exhibit at that plac
can do so by sending such samples 10 Georl
A PEBBLES. clerk OF special committee
receive such samples. Samples will be r
turned TO the owners IT the close OF the fai
at the expense Of the society il the commi
tee il requested TO do 30.
In another column will be found the ~
of the Portland business college, A.
Armstrong, Principal. 1t is one Of the be
institutions Of the kind on the Coast, al
young men or women desiring > irst-clai
business education shanld correspond Wi
Mr. Armstrong and attend this College.
young man to do business properly mu
first learn how.
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