The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-11-16
BRowxsvILLE.

on Tuesday.
@. c. Stanard visited Albany on
Tuesday last.
Mrs. G. &. Stanard departed for Har-
risburg on Tuesday last to visit friends.
Rev. Burchett held services to good
attendance at the Baptist church last
Sabbath.
Died, at Portland, Nov. s, 1888, Clyde,
son of Rebecca and A. X. Thompson,
of Brownsville, aged p years.
The auction held on the farm of II.
Bruce on Saturday last was well at
tended, stock and farm implements
bringing good prices.
E. Belts, for the past summer en-
gagged in the logging business on the
Columbia river, ON Sunday last re
turned to Brownsville.
Mrs. L. S. Pillsbury and son, who
for the past two weeks have been via
iting friends and relatives in Portland
and w. l., on Thursday last returned
home.
1t is evident that our former towns
man, Z. j. Forsythe, is prospering Ia
his present location, Joseph, Or, rs
late advices report an addition TO his
family. The addition is nice little
daughter.
Rev. Carpus Sperry and wife, who
for some time past have been visiting
relatives and friends in the Atlantic
States, on Friday returned home to
Brownsville.
Jay a. Bishop, formerly of Browns
vile, at present carrying on business
in East Portland, has entirely recov-
cred from injuries sustained from
kicking horse.
On the evening OF Saturday last the
Republicans held ratification jubilee
on the hill north Of town, celebrating
their victory by continuous discharge
of anvils, the firing being kept up until
near midnight.
Messrs. Dyson and Standish, lately
returned from the Blue and Calapooia
mining districts, bring most eneourag-
ing news from that section. The Eu-
gene company have received returns
from ton of quartz shipped to the re-
duction works, the ''pay" being far i'm
advance of their expectations, and
proving beyond doubt of the most
skeptical that there is wealth in Ii, y
and only the needed application and
energy is required TO develop an inn
mense era Of mineral-bearing quartz.
At the city hall, on the evening of
Thanksgiving, Nov. %, there will be
| held basket auction, to which all the
ladies of Brownsville and vicinity are
| invited to be in attendance, with bas-
kets. The object of the sociable is for
the purpose of raising funds TO be Rp-
propriated to the Improvement and
also needed repairs of the burial ground
situated east OF town on the property
/ Of W. r. Kirk As this is q most
worthy object and matter that should
interest all, il is to be hoped that =
/ large attendance will be secured.
/ On the evening of Tuesday, at the
/ time when evening mefges into mid
night, the residents of the eastern por-
ton OF town were made aware of q
peculiar and decidedly ''git-thar-Eii'i
noise, causing the weary granger tC
turn in bed and wonder If the saliva
tion army or the "Hal-le-lu-jah' band,
with accompanying tambourine. drum
and eymbals had invaded the quiet
precincts OF Brownsville. One man
evidently "up'' in operatic strains, de
clared that the Emma Abbott troupe
had arrived, but those better posted on
the indescribable din, with n sly wink
remarked, "Some one has been mar
ried"
Election day passed off in very
quiet and orderly manner, and with
out boisterous demonstrations. TT I
business man dropped in his vote ant
turned away; the betting man wa
present willing, but unfortunately un
able, TO back his opinion with "thous
auds;' the man who had a sure thini
gave points in a confidential maj
ner and never declined "a SIN, ke;
ttlC tlAdll " AiO AOlGtoAb tAAdANHS Malt
destitution, lavish expenditure of put
lie monies, annihilation Of all manU
, featuring interests, starvation of tn
f mechanic, and an overwhelming ava
e lanche Of disasters, should $50 and s
e be elected" gained an occasional Ii.
: tener, but few sympathizers. At moo
: the ladies of the missionary societ
: served a bountiful dinner at the Mort
J., Brownsville city hall, which was we
Y patronized, as was also the oyster SUI
Y per given on the evening of the SAN
o day, realizing a handsome sum
e money for the mission fund.
!, II. S. p.
THE West Shore"
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