The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-10-03
mMowNsvrEnE BnNExRs.

Thos Kay and wife OF Salem are vIs-
lting In Brownsville.
Ed Meyer spent Sunday with his
parents and brother.
Hugh Fields left for Salem and Port
land on Mondays train.
Dock Garroutte Il complaining of
rheumatism this week.
Fred Gross sold portion OF his lots
last week 10 q newcomer.
Daisy Lee, OF Hubbard, ls Visiting
her cousins, Mrs Rohy and Mrs Adams.
Within three weeks C Warner will
be living In his new house near the
depot,
Two ear loads OF cement were shipped
over the o. Ry. Friday for the Nc
Kenzie bridge.
Some OF Amelia's citizens manifest
considerable rivalry IN the matter OF
barn-huiIdlng.
The pastor of the Christian church
baptized three converts by moonshine
Saturday night.
RM II Bradley and another man
will do some effective work en- the
Trinity mines soon.
The construction train Is busily en-
gagged scattering tiinbers along the line
Of the narrow gauge.
James Swenk showed us some good
quartz groupings that are likely to lead
to some valuable discoveries.
Fred webber Is building residence
In town. He sold his stock and farm
implements and VIII reside In town.
Jake Bllyeu will move into the house
now occupied by Mr.. Warner as soon
as the latter completes his dwelling.
Rev. C. Sperry, assisted by Rev.
Lindsey, Is holding meetings at provi-
dence church, in the forks Of the San
tiam.
Alvis Gentry, who has been working
with the bridge carpenters ON the o.
Ry.. has concluded to stop at home
awhile.
Mrs n II MorelocR moved TO Seat
VIC tliS NcNA W JUN iitt hbSpNhO.
Brownsvills Is losing many OF her best
families.
Brownsville seems to be the great
market for ground cherries. This fruit
makes delicious pies and the best OF
preserves.
The Calapooia trail has been COM
pleted at a cost OF several hundred dol
lars, but we expect to be reimbursed
many-fold.
Brownsville has vacant store build
ing since Waters Bros. left, but Il will
doubtless be occupied soon as hard
ware store.
J. p. Galbraith has sold bis farm
near town, but he visits us OCCASION
ally nevertheless. He was In town
last Sunday.
The sale Of Weber Bros. stock aud
farm implements on last Saturday was
well attended and the sales In general
were satisfactory.
Jim Galloway has sold his stock and
other interests in Benton county and
will reside with his mother-in-law,
Mrs A Warren, this winter.
Samuel Case, from near Lebanon,
was in town with a load of melons
Saturday. Uncle Samuel's melons
eclipse anything we have seen In this
market.
Hon Geo Wright and wife returned
to their home in Albany the first Of
the week. Mrs Wright had been visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs Geo
Cooley.
Carpentert began work on the fiume
at the wooden mill Monday. A small
wheel will be put In, and ere long both
the wooden mill and -four mill will he
lighted by electricity.
Eley Roby is building barn on his
premises. Eley has one of the beet
cows in town, aud he says that the ex-
posure Of his Jersey to the raw winter
nights does not increase the flow OF
milk.
w B Blanchard, one OF the directors
in the G. and b. r. NJ. and NJ. Co., in
tends to visit the mines shortly. Mi
b is thoroughly alive to the interests
of the company, and his trip will be OF
business nature.
Superintendent Jaeger OF the wooden
mill is providing a shelter for his Hol
stein. III Maurice adds cupola TO his
barn, as at first contemplated, Jimmy
Shea will fiume the race, put I'm a
wheel and run his dairy by water
power.
J A Waters returned from Seattle
Friday. 1t was generally known that
John left some unfinished business
and hence his friends were not sur.
prised to see him take to the Sound
city one of Brownsville's fairest
daughters.
There is a species OF wild fowl i'm and
around Brownsville that affords good
deal of amusement to hunters. The
botanical name Of the bird is Mongo
liam pheasant. He is just about rs in
teresting study as the Chinese Ian
guage and equally as hard to get hole
of.
Mr. Hines recently cut several cord.
of wood in the Calapooia drifts for Dl
Curl, and experimenting a rise in the
river he took the very sensible prccau
ton Of shingIing the wood ricks and
is no longer impatient for the Dr's re
turn. SMILE LAX.
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