The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-06
PERSONAL ND0THERWlSE

Rev ]. II, Kirkpatrick has COM
menccd work on the Jones property.
Cheap machine oil and pure Drugs
at the City Drug Store, DIR. Courtney.
We are glad to learn that Mr.. J. r.
Beard Is convalesent after a serious III
ness.
Mr.. Joe Harbin has the thanks Of
this office for some fine cherries. You
bet that is what the devil likes.
There are several pieces Of grain
near town that are becoming quite
yellow. Harvest is drawing near,
Mr.. c. Gordon was down this week
from his mountain fastness, enjoying
himself and attending 10 business.
Harrisons first word, after he heard
of his nomination, were, you had bet
ter buy your groceries of L. {, Peebler.
If sullivan starts paper in Boston
as he contemplates doing, he ought to
employ Mitchell as lighting editor.
j. A. Roberts is up in the mountains
this week spending his time fishing
and hunting. We wish him a pleasant
time.
+. IL. Moreland is constructing
telegraph line from his poultry yard,
via Santlam Academy, 10 NJ. +.
Hearn's.
In order to increase and build up
home industries encourage what you
have This will strengthen the OH
list new ones.
Mr. Run. Hiatt has gone up TO his
mountain ranch to put up hay and will
he gone several weeks. We wish him
pleasant time.
Secrets are but poor property; If you
circulate them, you loose them: and If
you keep them, YOU lose the interest
of your Investment.
Subscribe for the EMPRESS and send
il TO some friend in the eastern states
1t will ten them all about this Won
dcr-land of Oregon.
Quite number OF strangers in town
last Wednesday night % attend the
dance given at Union hall. The boys
report boss good time.
Mr. Hardy informs us that the pros
pcct Of the telegraph from here TO Al
bany is good. Friends take hold. We
must boom this thought.
<<Dr. J. II. p. Hope has Just received
official notification of his appointment
as postmaster at Lebanon. We are
satisfied the DIR. will make a good T. NJ
We printed some wedding cards the
other day, but we are not going to
give the secret away, not much, the
EXPRESS is not that kind of "a hair-pin
Rev. Walton Skipworth is absent on
account of the severe illness Of his only
child in Salem. He has the uufeighn-
ed sympathy OF the entire community.
The members and friends of the
Cumberland Presbyterian curch have
put up new fence around their curch
yard, which helps the looks Of things
very much.
Now is the time to beautify your
homes. Add little paint, fix up that
broken fence, cut down the weeds and
sunflowers, and above all curry the
cat and calf.
Mrs Crusan, who went to see her af-
fiieted brother, who lost his leg by ac-
cidental shooting, returned yesterday,
and we are sorry that she brings an uu-
favorable report of her brother.
Prof. Mitchell, who has been teach
ing school some four or five miles north
of here, closed a successful term last
Tuesday. He has been teaching there
for the past ten months. We were not
informed whether he will teach the
next term or not.
Today July 9Th is the day set for
Landreth to meet his awful doom. He
has been keep in Salem with night and
day guards over him and one of the
wachers been constantly in the sell
with the prisoner. He is to be taken
to Dallas this morning where he is to
be executed.
Oregan has no cyclones, no grass
hoppers, no billiards., no drouhts, no
floods, no lightning, no chinch bugs,
no failure of grin field or orchard, no
sunstrokes, no mad dogs, no epidem-
les. 1t is land Of genial, heaIthful
climate, plenty and prosperity.
Mr.. Gross, proprietor of the Waterloo
Hotel, informs us that he will meet
the train at any time to take those
wishing to 60 to Waterloo to stay any
length OF time, free of charge, if they
will write to him two or three days in
advance, at the mail only goes up there
Every other day.
z Donaca & Hearing, Of Sweet Home,
are to resume work on their coal mine.
There is an abundance of bituminous
nature in their mines, says one the
owners. Dick Watkins and Sam
Hearing, blacksmiths in Sweet Home,
claim that the coal in these mines
burns better than the Cumberland
coal.
An old lady said to her son: Tom
my fetch me a stick Of wood" Tom
my replied: Granny, the grammati-
cal portion Of your education has been
sadly slighted. You should have said
Thomas, my boy, transport from that
recnmbent collection Of combustible
material upon the threshold Of this
.oar- of the curtailed excrescenee Of a
d1funct log The old lady tainted