The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-06-21
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way to permanent success.
| The hotel problem ID settled, so we
understand, and will be built right
away.
The traveller who for the first time
wcnds his way towards our little town
and finds himself in the hands Of its
hospitable people, looks out over the
broad expanse of our prairie, valley
scenery and wonders and admlres.
II seems to be the query In the minds
Of the pIearure seekers ms well as men
of business "Why doesen't the Rail
road make Its extension to this point?'
And 1t will still be the query until the
enterprise Is accomplished. The people
of this place have done every thing
they are able to do to secure it and now
1t only remains for the managers of the
road to move In @Shis direction. With
mn abundance Of S0dawater and good
camp grounds this Is destined to become
the leading watering place OF the val
ley.
We notice, despite nil the false report
concerning this place, 1t has large
number Of visitors every Sunday.
Your Waterloo correspondent seems
to be little touched by what we said
several weeks ago. Well, IL seems the
shoe fit pretty well or he would not
have let it pinch. Now for the benefit
of the reader, and we hope the Water
loo correspondent will take a part to
himself. ] will try to explain why !
wrote as I did. Several years ago
corresI ondcnt from Waterloo publish
ed in the Democrat of Albany, that
there were Il lot Of pups found in the
spring here. And with that falsehood
in his throat, to haunt him day and
night, hc kept up his assailing thrusts
toward'Sodaville and even at the pres
ent season. The report comes from
Waterloo that there are no acconlmo-
datiOns here for man or benst. That
the hotel charges are beyond reason,
that the livery stable doesn't attend TO
the wants of the people, and that it
costs from 81 to s. TO get from the de-
pot Mt Lebanon out here. Now | can
speak knowingly that Sodaville has
never tried to debase Waterloo nor to
keep sojourncrs from there. But on
the either hand has been perfectly will
ing that people from here should give
il II trial, feeling assured that this place
would gain more than she would lose.
Again your policy Of waging Il warfare
on every one who comes into your
tow.i and undertakes to carry on any
business Is met with IL suspicious gaze
and cool reception and in fact you
would much rather he would stay away
and leave all the profits of business to
Waterloo. Now 1t was not our inten-
ton to create any newspaper quarrel in
fact we are opposed to any sort of quar-
relng, but when it becomes necessary
to define our position We can, and will
do 1t to the best of our ability Our
fellow tOwnsman Dennis Klum moved
to your town TO run business for awhile
and you hurled your spleen at him,
and If you will let him alone he will
prove an honor to your place and do
the fair thing with you. / don't un-
derstand that any one has entire con,
troll Of the local affairs of a community
In fact the world is wide and one should
remember that his neighbor has just
us much right to live as he has.
The family OF Mr.. l., Roper will
leave In a few days for Spokane, where
he IL at work, firing for the railroad.
School ispretty well run down on
warm weather, but it will
20 along until the term expires which
Is about two weeks yet.
Some haying was done In this
vicinity
The average citizen would like to SEQ
some rain an account Of late gardens
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