The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1890-01-03
LOCAL RECORD

LOCAL RECORD
A PHEASANT SosrAI.. -One Of the mos
interesting and pleasant soclals Of The sea-
son was held last week by the Y r.
NJ. A OF the NJ, +. Church, al the resi-
dence Of Mr.. w. II. St. John. The rooms
were decorated very sastily with ever
greens and was acrcdlt to the occasion.
During the evening musical and literary
program was carried out. consisting Of d
reading by Rcy S l. Memlnger Vocal
solo, Nslss Birdie Osburn reading bs Miss
Frances Gilbert Mr. ] p Mead then relat.
ed Christmas story In an off hand man.
ner, and was we'll received Miss Mamie
Vaughn then plqyed"Home Sweet Home
on the Otto Harp, which was highly encor.
ed and responded 20 reading by Miss
Lizzie Starbuck Quartet by a Nj Ham.
mer, e w Elklns, Misses Frances Gilbert
and Mamie Vaughn; Instrumental solo,
plano aud cornet, Mr. l.. Gilbert and Miss
Frances Gilbert; prayer by Rev Memln-
Iger. This closed the musical and literary
part,and the rest Of the evening was de-
voted TO soeialability, games and other
Iamusements. The following were pres
ent Gentlenen--Rev l. Meminger,
T. Mead, A NJ Hammer, o w Elklns T.
rhurston, Allen chamberlln, Charlie An
derson, Charlie Sears, 5 Denham, Ed and
To- w Mitchell, l. Elklns. A umphrey, w
II Straiuey, l. Irwin, l. Underwood
Ladies--Mrs DR. Chamberlin, Misses llela
and Frances Gilbert, Mamie Vaughn. Min.
IRl.. ntt.slt Daks 4 IL at.I Afass
Rideout, Candis Conn, Lizzie Starbuck,
Ella Mead, Mary Johnson, Bertha Me-
Carthy, Laura aud Maggie Chambers, An.
ME Enger, Belle Morley Cora ioitln.
| a GREAT MURDER TRiAL.-The follow.
ing Is an account Of murder Of such re-.
interest everywhere, most anybody being
liable to be caught In like scrape; George
Farmer, an old restaurant keeper at Shel.
burn, a small town on the Evansville AMI
Terre Haute railroad. In Indiana, was
found lead on Sunday n.orning on the
sidewalk In front OF his residence. His
death was mystery, but suspicious ol .oui
play resulted in the arrest Of four men.
John Bullock was tried for murder. and
the testimony showed that he had thrown
a turnip at the old man aud hit him on the
head which killed him Instantly. Bal.
lock could throw with great force, being a
baseball player. The trial lasted several
days and the jury brought n verdict Of
granddaughter. but thought Il was with no
murderous intent. Bullock was accord.
ingly given a sentenee OF eight months IN
the sullivan county jail.
TAKEN IS.-A few days ago three
young men attending Portland school
were returning up the valley TO their homes
somewhere, not necessary 10 state, when
they were taken In by the news agent, who
by the way should be kicked from the
road. In the following manner. Taking
four cheap books. he put five dollar bill
In one OF them and offered the choice OF
the books for 81, an old trick and fraud.
One OF them Bit very quickly and OF course
got nothing. The trick was done like this.
The news agent placed the bill In the
second book from the top, leaving the
edge stick out just enough TO be seen. aud
Ia the next book or the one next the bot
tom and IN the opposite end,he had piece
of government stamp While talking
he managed 10 turn or reverse the books
and the job was done. This Is egidently
common practice of tho agent and he
should be shipped. though students should
have more sense than 10 gamble.
Six KNIGHTS ATTENTION. Genera
Order No Castle Hall Columbia Division
No Uniform Rank knights Of Pythlas
Albany, Or. Dec. 24th. 1880 Jusfus II
Rashborne, Past Supreme Chancellor and
founder of the Order Of knights Of Pylh-
las Of the world, died at Lima Ohio, on The
9th day Of December 1850 The officers
and Sir Knights OF the uniform rank will
wear the badge of mourning forihe period
OF sixty days, and The Charter Of Column
bia Division No will be draped In
mourning for like period.
| JF HAN, Sir Kt Captain.
Commanding Columbia Div No U. X
X OF r.
PROBABLY An y QuAD. Several days
ago among several arrested by Marshal
Hoffman, was a man named Quad. lie
was discharged Tuesday morning; but
In the evening again becoming hilarious
was arrested and placed In the caliboose,
a couple DEMOCRAT men assisting In the
difficult operation, for he was very pugil-
tic. On Christmas day Fritz Bender
o0k some bread and water TO him.
Quad complained OF the fare, pushed Ben
| der aseide and rushed from the calibooec
lie was finally recapturea in the eastern
limits OF the city by Otto Cieian, Sheriff
SmallmAn and Deputy Smith. He IS a
bad Quad.
| oS455.-Recently six railroad men
working for Orman, Crook X Co, being a
tlmekeeper, cook and four laborers, in
vested $50 in Louisiana lottery tickets.
Their number was oS4sy, which proved to
be the grand winner Of the $6so,ooo prize,
their share Of which will be STs,ooe. Th-
timekeeper sold his interest for S.. It's
value proved to be $z5oo. Mr. Griffin, Of
the firm of Orman, Crook & Co.. was in
the city last week and sent the ticket Of
by express for collection. Because these
men have drawn others should not think
ltHey Can. luls - lHc Htst DlB pf1lc 10 tns
history Of Oregon, and probably will b,
the last, and hundreds Of thousands o
dollars have been spent In the Northwcs
without any result to this one lonely cas-
of draw.
AT SPOKANE FALLs.-Hon r A Watt
In writing from Spokane Falls, says
"Spokane is enjoying sleigh ride. Fo
the past two weeks we have had no mud
We had freeze up and on top OF that
good snow and now The sleighing Is jus
finc. AS yet we have had no weather tina
interfered materially with outside work
Carpenters and masons have worked righ
along SO far With but little interruption an
they have made good showing too. Sew
eral fine story bricks are just being com
pleted. Spokane Is like Albany, II Is sti
expanding out,and guess will not be sal
: isfed until It takes In all the country az
Joining it,"
ANKLE BRoKEN.--Last Thursday Ere
1rumpey, an employee of Mr Peter Rile,
was riding horse and leading anoths
when both horses got to 'scutting up," re
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