Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-09-17
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of Newberg Milling Co., Newberg, Or.
Horse and buggy for sale at sacrifice.
Apply to Rev. H, Oberg, NJ. +. parson-
age.
/ For baths, shaves and hair.cuts, go to
the o. A. c. shop. Case and Bowers,
proprietors.
! IF. M. Mathena, agent for the Con-
necticut Life Insurance Co, is in town
doing business for his company.
Students, Attention!-Just the house
for you. Near college, six rooms. Rent
very reasonable. Inquire at Union Office.
Home capital to loan on improved
farms. Low interest. No bonus requir-
ed. J. NUNAN, at Allen & Woodward's.
w. E. Yates left for Coos Bay last Sat
urday to attend session of the court
down there. He took the steamer from
Yaquina.
Will Crawford. of the firm of Crawford,
Marshall & Co., of Vancouver, Wash, is
in town with his family visiting w. E.
Yates. He is relative of Mrs. Yates.
P. M. Abbey, Of Newport, is in the
city and is said to be negotiating for
lease of the Occidental hotel. Mr.. ABB
bey has kept hotel at Newport for a
number of years.
There are scarcely any vacant houses
/ in Corvallis now. People are moving In
from all quarters who want to send pupils
to the o. A. c. and everything haoitable
is being utilized.
The public schools will open on next
Monday morning and Professor Pratt has
told some one that you had better not
buy any books until you have been fur
nished with list.
When your health fails it will be impos-
sible to insure your life. You ought to
do it while you are young, and in: good
health, and the Connecticut Mutual is the
best company to insure with.
Barney Morrison, pioneer resident Of
Lincoln county, was in town this week.
The town and postofdce of Morrison are
where the pioneer quarry is located, and
they are called after Barney. :
A case containing 20 enlarged photo
graphs arrived Wednesday from Chicago
for Nolan & Callahan. They present
one to every cash purchaser of ten dollars
or over. They are frst-class.
J. A. Stevens, of Big Elk, in Lincoln
county, brought in 65o pounds of first,
class wool from lis farm this week which
he sold for good price. MIR. Stevens has
a good farm in that country and is doing
WELL
A crowd assembled on Main street one
day last week, and, hearing loud talking,
we drew near in anticipation of an item
Judge of our disgust to find three or four
men discussing the old worn n-out sfree-silyer
gag. The men appeared otherwise sensi.
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The best fruit drier and the largest in
the state is said to be the one just finished
at the Bellfountain prune orchard. We
did not learn its capacity, but it is in the
midst of a prune-growlng country and
was built to supply the demands upon 1t.
1t commenced operations yesterday.
All the threshing machines have been
putting in every. minute of the time since
the rain ceased. On Monday last it rained
for couple OF hours but since then the
weather has been good. Very little OF
the grain has been injured by the rains
and few days more of fine weather will
put it all out of danger.
F Every road leading to town is lined
with teams, most of them loaded with
wheat, and around the mills it looks like
an agricultural fair with the patch quilts
left out. l. will not be long until every
warehouse in this place is filled, and then
the question will be what to do with the
grain. But the, river will soon open, and
it will get an outlet that way.
/ The streets on Saturday were filled With
Indian hop-pickers making purchases with
the proceeds Of their labor. Whole fam.
lilies of Indians were here ranging from
three years old to the ,uncertain age which
an Indian attsins, and is possibly j 90
years. At least he will tell you; SO if you
ask him. The child is now living to
whom an Indian will be- a curiosity before
1t is old.
] All the returns from fruit shipped East
leaves little doubt that our fruit growers
will not realize anything from their ship.
ments. Prunes are beng hawked through
the streets in some of the large cities and
sold for anything they will bring. The
fact seems to be that the market was
glutted and that more fruit was sent East
than was necessary to supply the demand
for it. But whateverithe cause the result
remains that fruit raisersi will get nothing
for their fruit and this is most unfortunate
AT Lafayette, Oregon, there will be
held on September Il, za and %, a Bi-
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