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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-09-22

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now" The quieting influence
OF this idle tale was short-lived
and soon an undertone, of dis.
contented murmuring, was
heard. Again the music
changed, and it was now-"Mr
Proctor is in Europe and we
cannot communicate with him
until he returns But even
such valid excuse as this fail
ed to keep down the BUcKING and
finally the owners Of buildings
I'on John Procters land began
talking of moving off. Ofcourse
this would never do, and as a
last resort the Hon. l.. p, him
self, had to come forth and ex.
plain to the justly indignant
people, why their long talked of
deeds had failed to show UP.
Promises seem to be cheap, with
this man, Llt somehow they are
rather tedious in their fulfill
ment.
We have examined the records,
and find mortgage Of $4,000
against Browns land. This is
in favor of the Pacific Mutual
Life Insurance Co., of San Fran
cisco. We also find that on the
9th of March, 1898, L. P. Brown,
for a consideration of $4,000,
gave a warranty deed to John
Proctor, of the sa1ffe place, for
100 acres of land. The Brown
addition is situated on this same
quarter section. This deed was
recorded March 7th, in Deed
Book No. 8, page 447. Further
more we find plat of the Brown
addition on record.
When our proprietor" who
lives in Mt, Idaho, visited his
town week ago last Monday,
he had the modesty to ask the
people to wait FOURTEEN MONTHS
MORE for him to give deeds to
town lots on John Proctor's land.
This is quite a different song
from the one he sang, with such
an oily voice, on the 8th of
last March. He then said eur
nish me with list of all lots
bonded or otherwise disposed of
THAT | MAY BE ABLE TO MAKE
DEEDS FOR THEM"
1t is significant that on
March 9Th, he sold a piece Of
land; had it recorded March 7th
and on the next wants to MAKE
deeds for it. Verify these were
three momentous days in Cot
tonwood's history; for on the
9Th its proprietor" was in Mt.
Idaho, the next day he was in
San Francisco and ON the follow-
ing, one would think, he EN-
barked for Europe.
We understand Mr.. Brown
| proposes to bond himself to give
| deeds before Nov. 11th, 1894.
Now shall we, as intelligent and
progressive citizens, sit down in
blissful credence, with our fin
gers in our mouths and imbecile
mein, and get sucked in with
such promise? Shall we al
low this mobile pioneer" to set
the brakes on our towns pro-
gress while we kneea in selvile
alteration at his despotic
shrine for the next fourteen
months? Neverl L. P. Brown
should come like man
and gsVe these people a bona
fide title. They have perform
ed their part of the contract,
now let him perform his. Sure-
ly they have been long suffer
ing and are entitled to a little
consideration of tangible ma
ture. We would respectfully re-
mind our proprietor that we
are not anxious to share the
doom of Mt. Idaho.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

had been promoted to the cnptaincy of
his company, and in less than n month
he earned colonels commission; but
1t cost him his life, and his body was
carried home for burial. Tho poor
young briue hau been having Il stormy
time with relatives, but now from an
object of Indignation she became one of
intense compassion. Her quiet but pa
thctic agony drew both families to her
feet and held them there. So young, so
beautiful, so brave, and so constant,
she has had legion of admirers, and
it is true that one man at least has re-
NAMED single for her sake.
"She lives quietly, and occupies hey
self in many benevolent enterprises.
The relatives of deceased soldiers are
her especial charge. The parents she
has comforted, the widows she has
cared for, the maiden sisters who have
shared her bounty, and the children she
has educated are legion.
1" 1T is only what my husband would
do were he alive she says 1 wish to
deserve his commendation, as well as
my Divine Masters well done!"'
"She still wears her widows weeds,
and has always deported herself with
the most beautiful dignity.
"There, the procession has left the
yard. She is preparing to go. l must
cross over and speak to her; could not
lntrude before.'
The young people watched almost
with awe as their uncle limped across
the drive with his crutch as support,
and bent over the widows hand.
Her beautiful face lighted at his
greeting.
"Can it be that he meant himself?"
whispered Bertha. as that why he has
never married?"
He was walking beside the lady, with
bowed head. AS they passed the car
riage the young people caught her low
spoken words.
"All days are Memorial days to me-"
she was saying.-Mrs. Annie A. Preston,
in Northwestern Christian Advocate.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
Russian Home Life.

A wealthy landowner in one of the
suburbs of Odessa, says paper of that
city, married woman of thirty years,
while he was fifty.
They lived peacefully together for a
short time, but soon they began quar-
reling and often exchanged blows. A
few weeks later they INDUCED them
selves in fight, by which the good la
dy was worsted. She had an arm dis
located and was sent to the hospital
where she remained about three weeks.
When she got well again she went
home. Her husband, meeting her at
the entrance, asked with smile: Are
you quite well again, my dear?"
"Oh, dear yes" answered the woman;
81 am so far recovered that / feel
strong enough to send you to the place
from which am coming"
And before the husband had time to
appreciate the full meaning of this an
swer he was lying bleeding on the floor,
with his jaw broken.-Drake's Maga-
zine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
a Pretty Romance.

Although many flowers owe their
names to famous people, there is only
one instance known when man and a
flower received title at the same
moment. When Mel, brave French
general, was returning from the scene
of his victories in the war between
France and Austria, he received from a
peasant, who wished to honor the hero,
a basket of beautiful, pale yellow
roses. One of the stems, which
happened to have roots clinging to it,
the general took to florist in Paris, in
whose care it remained until it became
thriving bush covered with blossoms.
Mel then took the plant as a gift to
Empress Eugene. She expressed a
great admiration for the exquisite
flowers, and, on learning the rose was
nameless, said significantly: Then l
will name it. 1t shall be the
Mareschal Mel" and at the same
moment she bestowed upon the
astonished general the jeweled baton
that betokened his promotion to the
high office of marshal OF Frsuce.-
brakes Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
PAPA" BY TELEPHONE.
And the Children Know That Nurse Car
Reach Him.

And the Children Know That Nurse Can
Reach Him.
There is a household in this city
where the father IS sole administrator
at present, the mother having gone
away on visit to some relatives for
short stay.
The neighbors have commented upon
the order which reigns among the ju-
veniles, who are in charge of a nurse,
while the father is down at his office
during business hours.
Discipline is maintained, however, by
an intermediary-the telephone.
"Mr. Blank" the nurse says when
the fatherly ear is turned on, "Willie
says he is going out skating, and you
know he has q cold. ;"
''Send him to the telephone" COM
mands Mr. Blank. rs that you, Willie?"
Eyes, papa"
''Do you want spanking when
come home to-night?"
mo, papa"
"Then you stay in the house, sir, or
you'll get one sure"
Then Mr.. Blank goes back to his desk
and takes up "a customer at the precise
point where he dropped him.
The other children are disposed of in
the same way, and unless the tele-
phone wires are cut there will be nc
danger of any refractory child having
its own way while papa rules the roosl
not much. Free Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
TOLD IN A DREAM.
Queer Story In Connection with the SAFE
of Don't Know.

of Don't Know.
The sale of the race horse Don't
Know at the Gutenberg race track by
Sheriff Stanton uncovered a peculiar
story. Some time ago n man named
Hyams, of Baltimore, entered into a
partnership with Henry Alberts, a
sport" whom he knew, to purchase a
race horse and divide the winnings on
the tracks. He gave Alberts two thou
sand dollars with which to purchase
the animal and start in business. Al
berts went of to find the horse and
never returned to Hyams to make re-
port. Hyams came to New York on
business. In the evening he fell to
wondering what had become of Alberts
and the two thousand dollars, and he
made inquiries in the hope of securing
some tidings about him.
AT night he went to bed and dreamed,
80 he says, and in his dream he was
told that if he should go to the Forty
second street ferry the next day he
would see his man. This dream was all
the more interesting because, a stran-
ger in New York, he had no idea that
there was Forty-second street ferry.
When in the morning he decided to
follow the promptings of his vision he
was confused to learn that there was a
ferry at each end of the street.
Tossing 4 penny to make a choice, it
fell to the West Forty-second street
side, and there he hurried. The first
man he met at the gate was Alberts.
The long-missing man told him that he
had lost all the two thousand dollars
on the races, but, following up his con-
nections, Hyams learned that Alberts
had bought the horse Don't Know
with the money and had won many a
dollar on his speed. Hyams attached
the horse, secured judgment, and the
animal was sold to satisfy his claim
The Horseman,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

| as uncle, seemed solicitous regarding
his comfort, and hung on his every
word. Soon, from the distant town,
came a vibration in the air followed
| by confused sounds that the soft breeze
disentangled until they defined them
selves into familiar military air.
| The gentleman's pale face flushed, and
he beat time with his crutch on the
floor of the carriage.
Excuse me, and bear wish me for n
little" he said, drcamily. 81 can never
control the pulsation of my heart at the
first roll of the drum tap or at the
shrek of fife. The sounds carry me
back to the warm darkness of those
nights camping beneath southern
sky, when the air was faint with the
perfume of many flowers and heavy
with sad, brooding expectancy. We
lay down to listen to the creeping foot
| steps of an enemy until overcome with
sleep, and. then our very dreams were
filed with an undefinable, uncontroll-
| able power of justice and destiny that
was shaping our future, and that of the
country for whose honor we were dwell
ing in this strange trance or nightmare
that was more like fevcrish dream
than the bright, strong, healthy passage
of youth"
"And yet those who fell at that time
are the happy dead" said Walter, the
young student, leaning forward and
speaking with suppressed enthusiasm.
at is a grand thing to die for ones
country"
at is equally grand to live for ones
country bravely, Loyalty and worthily,"
replied the veteran. II sometimes feel
that the strongest purpose of my life,
now, is to impress that sentiment upon
the rising generation"
Mrs. Col. Copley is always talking
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

"'You are then regularly ordained
minister of the gospel?'
4 am, and have been a pastor for
several years
"'Have you ever married. she be-
gan, in hesitating manner, and in
terrupted her hurriedly.
"'Oh, no, no, l am single
"'I didn't mean that. Have you ever
performed the marriage ceremony
"'Some score or more of times
"Wcll, then, / am going to take you
into confidence. l must trust some one
l am engaged to young lieutenant
who will meet me at the next station.
Our parents disapprove the match. l
have run away to-day in order to meet
him at - junction, and travel with
him for n short distance. You could
marry us as we were flying along
in the train. We shall be in another
state after we leave the junction, and
no license will be requisite
/ "Everything was on loose pulley in
war time, and things in general went
very fast. l gave hurried glance at
the situation and assented. The juno
ton was soon reached.
The fragrance of the violets drew
me to you the moment l entered the
car said deep voice, as fine-looking
young officer bent over my companion
"Wc both arose to our feet. She di-
vided the large bunch of white violets
she carried into three parts, handed me
one portion, fastened another to her
lovers coat and secured the remainder
to her own corsage.
1--WE will have a violet wedding
she said, gently. This man is y minis
ter, just commissioned as chaplain
with the rank of captain. l have told
him our story and he will marry us here
and now.'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

I II stood before them; everyone was
occupied about his own affairs, and the
| ceremony was performed in low tones,
and without attracting attention. /
gave up my place to them, and, as the
| car was crowded, | sat on the arm of
their scat with my back to them and
| screened them from observation.
AT the next station we met the train
that was to take the sweet young wife
back to her home. There was no scene
at parting. The fretting, moaning and
bewailing had all been gone through
with weeks before. They felt now that
| they had conquered fate and all adverse
circumstances During those blissful
| moments true love had triumphed in
spite of claims of country and tyranny
of friends. He kissed her in dignified,
manly fashion and looked at me. She
gave convulsive sob, drew down her
veil and took my arm.
" 1 will send your certificate whis-
pered, as l handed her over to the con-
/ ductor of the up-going train, and could
have wept at the sad little smile that
| accompanied her fervent thank you.
| That included all the service ] had been
| able to render her.
~ took the place by the young lieu
tenant and buried myself in my morn
ing paper. Presently he threw back his
heal and looked in my face.
" Better is a neighbor that is near
than brother far off, he said. Il want
to recognize you should we meet again.
l can never thank YOU
Don't try l said. Tell me about
| yourself-prove to me that have not
been indiscreet.'
You have acquitted yourself like a
friend and a comrade,' he replied.
There was no reason that we should
not marry only that our parents and
guardians set their faces like a flint
against it because we were second cous-
ins. We had been companions from
childhood, and our growing intimacy
was encouraged. "rhey will always
remain like brother and sister," had
been said scores of times.
"'How strangely some people outlive
their youth 1t was SO with these. They
could not understand how the boy and
the girl who had romped together and
studied from the same book should
after separation of half-dozen years
fall desperately in love at first sight.
"'They laughed at us. They said we
were too young to marry; that it was
only a bit of sentiment enhanced by the
romance of the tune and my changed
appearance in my regimentals. Al
length they said if would give up my
commission and remain at home We
might be married. OF course we botf
secuted the idea. was called away
from home on some business arrange
ment, and while absent was unex
pectedly recalled to the field. have nc
doubt my wife's mother arranged il
with my colonel, who is her lSinsman
sent message to my love that
should pass through - junction OF
this train and she slipped away to bic
me good by-and returns home as my
wife
"'She will keep the marriage private
of course
"'Not at all. We arranged that. Sh'
will announce herself as my wife ant
go at once tonight to my house. Thanl
heaven it will now be home; it has no
been so since my mother died.
"Poor fellow, he went at once int
the thiclsest of the fray. In week h
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

in that way" said Walters sister
Helen. "She is standing in the lot
| just across the driveway-just look,
uncle. Is She not lovely?"
''She is still handsome, but at eight
cen she was exceedingly beautiful" " re-
| piled the gentleman, glancing across
the drive to a substantial granite mon
ument, where, against the background
of huge, thicllly massed evergreen
tree, stood a woman of fifty in widows
weeds placing a pillow of English vio-
lets under the inscription:
| "Col. Silas Copley."
"And you knew her at eighteen?"
| 81 had the honor of performing the
ceremony that made her the brave colo
nels wife. He was only lieutenant
then, poor fellow! The marriage was
| one Of the romances of the war"
"Oh, uncle, tell us about it," cried
May, and the request was repeated
with acclamation by all the party.
So, in the intervals of music and
speech-malling and greeting passing
acquaintances, this story was told with
the beautiful heroine in full view, sit
| ting in an iron armchair within the
shadow of the monument, and with a
look on her face as if she were holding
communion with the silent sleeper be-
| low.
81 love to look at her." said little
| May. II have often seen her here She
lives in a handsome residence over on
the avenue. have been told that she
comes every day, and l know there are
always bright flags and fresh white
flowers about the monument, almost
always white violets."
"They We're his favorite flower" said
the veteran. 1.-The casket was lined
with them when he was buried. Their
fragrance always had power to calm
the violence of her grief She said they
seemed to bring him near, and she could
believe that he was beside her, though
| invisible"
"Whcn did you meet her first, uncle?''
reminded Bertha, as the band rested at
the farthest gate, and the children fit
ted hither and thither with their flow
| erS.
st was in '61. I had just received
my commission as chaplain of the
Twenty-third. l was full of Christian
enthusiasm and patriotic zeal, as | left
home to join my regiment at the front.
''The railway train was crowded. 1t
seems to me now, as / look back, that
trains were always crowded in wal
time, and that there were always
bright faced young fellows in blue uni.
forms, of which they seemed very
proud. Often these boys in blue wore
or carried flowers, and, if there CHANGED
to be one not thus adorned, there was
always at hand a sweet young girl
with a nosegay with which she was
only too happy to favor him. That
day remember / had my seat to my.
self for some distance, and then at a
bustling station the most beautiful
young girl had ever seen entered the
car, and as there was no vacant seat
offered her the place by my side, which
she graciously accepted.
although she did not, as expected
she would, proffer me the bouquet o.
white violets she carried, we were no.
long about falling into conversation
and soon shs was duly informed re
garding my rank, name, nativity ano
destination.
"She listened with hattering atten
tion, and said, as paused:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

are mossy stones with their inscrip-
tions entirely obliterated by time, side
by side with tablets of somewhat more
recent date, but still ancient, and all
along the family line the fight of years
can be traced by the amore and more
modern style of art. Ever and anon a
grave was distinguished by Grand
Army staff and by flags that seemed
like perennial flowers to spring from
the tomb. These We're the graves of
the nations brave defenders, over
which bright blossoms were to be scat
tered by the school children who form
no unattractive or inconspicuous part
of the procession now forming in the
public square of the town at the foot of
the hill.
Although very ancient cemetery, it
was well kept. There were graded
drives, pleasant walks and places under
the primeval trees where carriages
might wait until the public ceremonies
We're over. The winds seemed to be re-
calling sad memories as they sighed
through the tender foliage, and yet one
could not be depressed by the thought
of death, the myriad birds so filed all
the place with CHEEKY life. They were
everywhere, fearless as the spirits OF
the departed. AS they lifted their
wings toward the upper air, they saAs
of purity and holiness; and, as they
were followed with the eye, the mind
was led upward by the branches of the
huge old trees that seemed to be bath
ding their far-reaching fingers in the
dieecy clouds that feclsed the fair May
sky
IN one of the waiting carriages sat a
stately man in the regulation army
blue, surrounded by group of bright
faced young people who addressed him
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

Wc have covered each grave with the pure bios
SONS bright,
The emblems of memory and love;
We have brought the white rose and the pale
lily rare,
The bluebell and violet deep,
And twined them with smilax and pink haw-
thorn fair,
For the graves where our brave comrades
sleep
Their memory is ours, and we cannot forget
All the ties that are bound with life's chain,
So we garland once more the sweet mignonette
With the pansy and pink in its train
The ivy deep green and the daisy star.eyed
We will blend in circlet Of hope,
And tenderly place them DER those who abide
In the tents on each green sunny slope.
Each year when the summer, with fair wooing
smile
And sweet dimpled feet, bids us come,
we touch elbow once more, with each comrade
the while,
At the magic tap of the drum.
We fall into line with the old swinging gait
And follow the flower-aden van,
With reverent step at each green grave We
wait,
While the volley re-echoes again
Every year we will muster our bravest and
best,
Bearing blossoms that sweet fragrance shed,
And we'll scatter them over the mounds where
they rest
In the deep dreamless sleep OF the dead
The tri-colored flag we will plant on each
grave,
Unstained every white star and line,
In the soft summer breeze it will lutter and
wave
Meath the maple and whispering pine
They may not take heed in their slumber so
blest,
Fast asleep in the bosom of God,
They never may hear in their long peaceful
rest
Our footballs upon the green sod
But we Will remember with basket ard wreath,
And the flag with its red, white and blue,
And we'll murrnur q prayer for the boys
beneath,
Asleep with the flowers and the dew
Though our footsteps may falter, our eyes may
grow dim,
And the silver crown every head,
Though tho frame may be weary and halting
the limb,
Yet we'll march with the old soldier tread.
hs long us ones left to hold up the flag
We'll remember the graves of our dead,
Wen come every May, nor falter nor lag,
AS we cover each low vcrdant bed.
--Helcn N. Packard, in Springfield (Mass.) Re.
public
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
MEMORIAL DAY.

Let the flowers fall
Over them ALI
No more their trampling feet
Keep time with the quick drum beat;
No longer rushing in
To the bloody battles din;
They sleep to-day,
The blue and gray,
Beneath the same protecting earth
That gave them birth,
That nourished them as boys and men,
And when
There camo
The dreadful game
'Of war, they played It as each one should
'Of the same motherhood:
And dying in it, hopes and fears
Receive to-day that mothers tears
The past is past, newer life
-Ens risen from that awful strife,
And these, to whom we cannot tell
What union grew because they fell,
iiShall ever be the tie that binds
The fellowship OF nobler minds,
The nation, and the whole world great
Let the flowers fall
Over them all
Detroit Free Press
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

First Livery Horse-"Say, taking
spooney couples out is the great snap"
Second Ditto = "How is that?" First
Livery Horse-"I took couple out the
other evening, and stopped three tipes
and they didn't notice it for about half
An hour
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-09-23

Best cigars in the cid at Lillie 5
drug store.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-09-23

Mrs A. =. Saunders wishes 70 an
npunce To her friends and patrons her
arrival in the city after prolonged
visit in tho east where she has secured
the latest styles in millinery and is
prepared to suit the taste of the ladies
of this city. Opening announced later
on. III Harrison avenue 23stf