The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-01-11
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Visiting home friends.
II G. .Averlll Is sufierlng from IN
attack of Illness 1T great severity.
O = Ccshow, Jr., on Thursday last
returned from Butte City, Montana.
Married. Dec. 30, 1Sss, by Rev. Car
4 pus sperrv, Charles Howe aud Hiss
1fary D. Martin.
On The evenings of the past week
/ Clark Braden has delivered 4 series az
lectures an Christianity, which were
well attended.
w. @. Stanard on Sunday left fer
/ Portland, having been summoned v
telegraph TO attend his son Mace, who
is suffering from an attack Of lung fe-
yer at East Portland.
Died, Friday, Jan. 4, 1889, Mrs. All
die Hall, eldest daughter of ELLA and
+. G. Rice. The funeral services took
place on Sunday at the residence If
/ the parents of the deceased, Rev. Car
| pus Sperry officiating.
On Thursday night, Jan. 8, 1889,
Dowdall lodge No. le, X of p, In
stalled the following officers for the
ensuing year: Il c Hancock, G; ] II
+ Wilson, V G, Owen Osburn, Z; Henry
Archibald, NJ A; j j sawyer, X Of II
and s; II b Meyer, NJ of f; S b Bar
ger ID ID G c.
/ Brownsville lodge, No. a6, A. L. &
4. NJ, on Thursday night, Dee. 27th,
installed the following officers for the
lensuine year: ]. p. Galbraith, w. NJ;
/ w. r. Cochran, $. W.; ]. Z. Cooley,
Is. w; Peter Hume, Treas; c. +.
stanard, Sec; r. II. Curl. 5. D.; J.
NJ. Howe, ]. ID. Linn chapter, No, 10,
Il. A. NJ, also installed the following
officers: w B. Blanchard, III. p; j.
NJ. Waters. X; o. i. Goshow, s.; j. p.
Galbraith, c. H.; J. NJ. Howe, p. s;
r. II. curl, r. A u; Thos. Kay, Sr.,
G. NJ. Sd V; w. b Smith, G.. NJ. 2d
Y; G. Sporty, q. NJ. lst v; f. +.
Croft, Treas; p, Hume, Sec.
Jan. /. 1880, the Bank Of Brownsville
reorganized with the former members,
J u Noyer, W n Kirk, z Hume and
! ] Galbraith, who also acts as cashier.
! The capital stock has been Increased
to SIS, 900, and as in the past year, ex-
change viii be sold on New York, San
Francisco and Portland; also advance
money ON approved paper, or eollat-
eral, receive deposits, and transact a
general banking business. Owing to
the slecess attending their business
during the past year, the stockholders
have been obliged to increase the cap
ital, and have now placed upon firm
footing an institution the want OF
which has long been felt in our general
and business community.
New Years day was generally OBJ
served by the Brownsville public. hol-
iday festivities srperseding business,
: quite number of ladies entertaining
friends. Di ana Mrs l w Starr re-
eeived company, the following guests
, partaking of most hountifsi and APP
! pefizing dinner: Nr and Mys VIM
Sperrv, Mr and AIRS G T. Stanard, IRr
and llirs 7 : Pillsbnry, 4Rr and Mrs 6
: { StaHard, 4ifr and hrs { Thompson,
and W o Stanard.
: At the residence of George Cooley,
South Brownsville, a family reunion
| took place, there being present lHr and
: l3fI's D Irvine, Of Sprague, lfr and Mrs
: Geo Wright Of Heppner, and the resi-
e dent nienabers OF the family.
: The Misses Archibald also received
: company, entertaining to dinner a
/, large number Of relatives and personal
: friends.
AT P. NJ, at the North Brownsville
City hall, The Stayton Cornet Band
gave dramatic and musical entertain.
ment to crowded house, the even
ing's entertainment ending with ball,
at which numbers Of our young folks
tripped the .'lignt fantastic"
The year OF 1855, which has passed
!. away, giving place to 80, has left upon
our town the imprint of many joys
and also SORROWS. During the ever
changing passage CT time familiar faces
, and weil-known landmarks have
gone, giving place to a young and
growing generation, improvements
more in keeping with the advance
iaent of the times, ard business based
upon more settled and firmer foun.
dation Of financial security. Aside
from those cares and sorrows which gc
! hand in hand with the passage of life
: time has dealt kindly with our public
4 the past year having been oyer-bounti
f ful in its product OF grain and cereals
= our farmers reaping average crops, oul
e merchants meeting with no financia
5 failures, and the general health O
a Brownsville and suberbs being, FOL
y this, in some sections of the world
!, siclxly year, free from epidemic disease
t. The storms that have devastated por
o tions of many of our sister States o
o the East have been but productiv,
o rains in Oregon; the cyclones and tor
il na3oes that have laid waste tracts o
;, rich farming sections in the eastern
l. States, have only been felt by us al
i gentle zephyrs, and it can be truth
: fully said that privation and hunge
it are unknown to the people of this sec
,, tion. a glance around town will show
e many new and substantial buildings
:. and win also convince the most skep
e teal that our manufacturing and mer
r. camille interests are not on the wane
: Fresh capital and energy have beel
added to the already firmly established
business enterprises for which Browns