The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1894-08-17
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MISSED CYcLoNE.-A woman writing
from Renville, Mimi, to a Salem friend
tells how she just missed cyclone. cit
missed us only ten rods. II was an awful
moment. My husband was in the yard
with the children picking up hailstones,
when he saw it coming He grabbed up
the babies and rushed into the house
saying: 90 to the cellar with the
children quick l knew what that
meant for he never said cellar before.
took one loo< as passed the kitchen
window and saw il in all it's magnificence
Just as 1t struck the first house. 1t was
con ing in a bee line for us when we
rushed down stairs. huddled the child
rem under my wing ia the southeast
corner of the cellar. Myhusband lay on
the cellar steps and had perfect view OF
all through the cellar window. About
ten rods from our house il raised and
moved out OF its course TO the cast, and
then came to the ground again, taking
everything in its wav, dwellings, church
aad school house, barns and outbuildiEgs
too numerous to mention. One old lady
and her son we've in their house and did
not see the cyclone coming, an1 the two
were found afterwards some rods from
the place badlybrr,sed and broken up"
CURIOUS ANSWERS. The county board
OF examiners to pass upon the papers of
the applicants for teach srs certificates
finished their lAbors yesterday and have
the general averages yet 10 figure out I
They had big lot of answers to peruss |
this time and qrite number of them |
were most ridiculous displaying ignor- |
ance on the part of the applicant. For |
ha hsark -
tory such responses were given to ques- |
tions as follows: Q Name three forms |
OF government that existed among the |
colonies prior to the revolution. A. |
French, English and Spanish. Q. Whist
caused the civil war. A. Annexation
without rep. .esentation. Q. Name two
American poets; A. Shakespeare and
Bryon. The Peqnot and Sioux wars
were given as among the battle OF the
French and Indian war. Tenny son and
Burns were named as prominent Amer
ican statesmen. The art of printing Was
named as an important American inven- !
tion. One OF the answers to the question
"whas and where is Lima" (referring to
the capital Of Peru was tast ''it was
large bird found in the Andes noun
tains." Out of possible 100 Que paper
IN modern history received nine per
Cents-StaleSmfn n.
MARRIED KN ACTRESS. .-Friday's Ex-
aminer contains an article that will be
OF general interest to 0regonians. Lieu
tenant Milton 4 Davis Is an army officer
who formerly resided in Polk county.
where his parents now reside He went
from there to West Point, graduating at
the head OF his class. For some time he |
has been stationed near San Francisco. |
He fell desperately in love with Blanche
Bates, an actress, and they were married
in March. Blanche, whose picture is
given in the Examiner, soon tired OF
living in barracks and decided to return |
TO the stage; so she left young Davis, |
refusing to come to Po'k county and Wis |
1t with bis parents while he took trip for |
his health to Alaska. She has been act |
ing in Kansas City and will 20 farther |
east soon. Lieutenant Davis says he !
will receive her hack whenever she |
wishes to return, but her friends declare |,
that she viii never return to army life. |
As their life together had been a happy
one, the affair has created considerable
OF a social breeze.
A LABOR SAvER.-Baxter Howard has
constructed a neE labor saving device as
an attachment for a threshing machine.
1t is a self-feeding arrangement and does
the work of four men. The grain is
placed on an endless draper or carrier
and knives are SO arranged that the hand
is cut and the grain spread and fed TO
the machine without the he!p of any one.
With q few improvements in manufac-
ture it will be great success. The at
tachment has bs en- in operation on r V
Howard's machine near town end pro-
nonnced a success by all the machine
men.-Junction City Times.
A few more inventions like this will
result in all the men being out of work.
The truth is there have been so many
100 man machines invented already that
It takes rnstling to get something to do.