The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-12
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The Calapooia Is rising.
City election next week.
phe roads are very muddy.
Farewell 10 the narrow gauge.
Mrs. Won Hagen Is quite sick.
The town Is full of failroaders.
New sidewalk In Kirk addition.
Brownsville needs town clock.
Ladies', cover up your house plants.
The city hastile has been moved fifty
feet west Of its former site.
Question:: Does our city council get
anything for pasturing stock?
Daniel Richards, of Gold Hill, Jack-
son county, is visiting DR. Reese.
The hall given at the City hall Fri
day night was not well attended.
Ell Starr of Halaey was in town sun
day visiting friends and relatives.
Miss Addie Gibler was In town Sun
day visiting friends and relatives.
A. +. Vulgamore, of Springfield,
Lame county, was In town Friday on
visit.
South Brownsville has pretty hard
citizen. He sleeps Ia the calaboose
every night.
Ephriam Belts has come back TO
Brownsville 20 stay. He Is working
on the railroad.
Thomas Thompson's children, who
have been sick with scarlet fever, are
rapidly recovering.
A team belonging to Solon Taylor
ran away In South Brownsville Satur-
day and did considerable damage.
Mrs. Finley McRea, Of Washington,
arrived In Brownsville last week with
I bsat. at,iils.,aa Sha xuill ftsffaofn hRffa
during the winter.
Chicago has gone mad over her big
fair; Albany is making more fuss over
her property than mniden aunt
would make over a new baby; Lebn-
non, with arms akimbo, smiles conn
plaeently ut her big paper mill; but
when 1t comes tn pretty girls, Browns
Vile can scoop the whole gang.
The Brownsville wooden mills are
| filling a special order for blankets,
which we have been informed are in
tended for Christmas presents. In the
body of the blankets the pattern will
appear in water-narkcd lines, while
the beautiful blending of delicate
colors in the borders must be seen Ia
be appreciated. The design was pre-
pared by Mr.. Jaeger, the superintend-
ent. and is very artistic.
One of Brownsville's most staid and
stead " going citizens, wno is gifted
with scientific turn of mind, retired
to his bed last Friday night but could
not sleep. The thoughts of how this
world must appear In n state of vol
canic eruption, and still later In the
| glacial period, came rushing through
his brain with maddening force. Leap
ing from his bed, he rushed out into
the open air To gaze upon the fair face
| IT nature and read the mysterious past,
aud while standing on small bridge.
acrossthe factory race, the treacherous
boards gave way and precipitated him
into troubled waters below. The bright
stars twinkled In a merry way, while
the man in the moan dropped the left
corner of his mouth.
The main question before the people
of Brownsville at the coming election
IS, shall we have the liquor traffic
under control of the city laws or not.
There will be liquor drank i'm Browns
vile in the future as there has been in
the past, whether we have saloon OF
not. Surrounded aS we are by towns
that have licensed saloons, the idea OF
keeping il ont is sinlply ridiculous, and
what is worse, we are liable to have a
doegery established on the outskirts 4
town beyond The reach of the city
laws; i'm fact we know of parties who
have such a scheme in contemplation.
Ii would be worse than folly for the
people of this town to give up the we'll
ordered saloon that we have here now
for a low dive outside of town where
: young boys could go and drink whis-
KEY. They could drink, with no law
to reach the offender. The penpie oi
Brownsville must remember that there
is money in the business, aud this is
sufficient inducenent for the establish
ment of doggery OH the outskirts oi
town. Our friends who are howling
against the saloon should remembe.
: that matters could be IA great deal
: worse, and have been a great dea
! worse twice at least within our knowl
r edge. We do not agree with eur col
ored friend who said that man oughi
! to go 10 the devil in good cause.
MEMO.