The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1885-04-10

April 9Th. 1885.

April 9Th, 1880.
Still no rain. Ualess there Is some
shortly The spring sown grain 10 bound
TO suffer.
MIR. l.. Edwards and family, OF Ben
ton county, were in town Saturday and
Sunday visiting Prof. Walkers family.
At the school meeting held ON Mon
day, the matter Of building an addition
TO The present school house was post
poned till the FIRST Monday 10 May ,snd
In the meantime the directors OF the
school district are directed TO confer
with the directors of the district In
which South Brownsville Is located, re-
lativo 10 consolidation Of the two dis
tricts. II this could be consummated, IL
would create one very strong district,
and be the means Of building up one Of
the finest graded schools in Oregon.
The question Is, will they do III
On Monday evening Mr.. Maxley was
assisting In loading q heavy pieco of
timber on TO q wagon, one end Of the
timber was resting on u stump, and as
they were lifting the other end over the
hind wheels Of the wagon, the end on
the stump fell TO the ground, and the
jar Of tho fall knocked Mr.. Maxley
down and caught him under the tim
Der and very seriously injured him.
The accident happened some distance
from town, and q wagon was ut once
procured and sent for him, and he was
brought home aud examined by Drs.
Starr and McCaulsy and his injuries
- before stated found quite serious.
His SPINAL column seems 70 be affected
and he Is perfectly helpless. M. Max
ley Ia recent acquisition 10 onr town,
but thus far has demeaned himself in
such manner as to gain the esteem OF
the community and has the sympathy
Of all in bis misfortune.
There seems 10 be kind Of "tem-
pest in teapot" in one of our Sunday
Schools, over the question Of q choris-
ter. This il too bad, and does more 10
bring Tho Christian religion into disre-
pute than q man like Bob. IngersolI
could do in . lifetime.
Tho foundation Of Hugh Fields fne
residence 10 now completed, and the
carpenters have commenced putting In
the superstructure.
Jas. II. Templeton, who has been
East since last fall, returned home last
week. He was detained several weeks
IN Ohio by the ice and snow, and when
he reached the Willamette Valley he
said he thought IL was tho pretties,
country In the world. And guess his
head is about level on that subject.
r. n. Thompson, of the firm Of Tbomp-
son 4 Walters, returned home few day.
since from an extended trip to Cali
fornia.
The latest news from VIM. Cochran
is that he has purchased property ia
San Jose, Cal, aud expects to make
that his future home. We hope this
IL not true as we should hate very much
10 lose "Unclc Billy" from our citizen
ship. He has bean here 80 long that IL
seems like removing one Of the old land
marks for him TO 90 away. IL however
IL should prove true, we can only say
that our loss viii be San Jose's gain.
The Wild goose seems to linger in our
valley for some cause and some Of oui
marksmcn here are trying their skill ia
marksmanship on them. Even Jobr
Waters claims that be killed one .he
other day hundred yards bnt some
are 20 charitable as To say that they be-
lieve he found crippled one and tied II
10 . stump and shot it.
J. NJ. Waters and w. r. Kirk wenI
70 Albany last Friday, and, ,of course, all
Albany knew John was there IL they
only went TO the door and listened.
Joseph II. Crook passed through towr
yesterday on his way 10 Albany on bust
ness. PHAp.