Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-07-30

the table expenses Of that famous throat
cutter, the sultan Of Turkey, amounts to
$1,000 day, making him the greatest
spendthrift IN the world In this respect.
It's wonder he hasn't the gout.
As II TO increase the distress incident
TO the bot weather, Tom Watson now
threatens to organize new political
party. 1t Is too bad that this man can't
be induced TO 60 into the airship busi-
ness and run an airship line TO Clondyke.
Rev. A. F. Bade left Monday for sew
eral days visit with his relatives and
friends at Milton. 1t will be discourag-
Ing news TO some OF our young damsels
10 learn that one Of Milton's iairest young
ladies 10 seriously thinking Of changing
her name TO Babe, one Of these days.
Mathews Bros. are now prepared to
do threshing by the wholesale. They
have just purchased new separator to
run with their engine. They have also
put up cook wagon, which will be Of
great convenience and labor saving to
the farmers wives Eugene Guard.
The Gazette distinguished itself by
getting into Justice Richardson's clutch
es again the other day, and was let Off
with the usual. ."--lleppner Gazette.
III strikes US that one OF the Gazette's
chief revenues is paying fnes-but 1t
goes the wrong way 10 do any good.l
Miss Pearl Fitzwater has been engaged
10 teach the fall term OF school In Dist.
36. at the Brown place on Rock Creek.
commencing Aug. 9th. Her sister Grace
will finish her term Of school on Thirty
mile on Ang. 9th. Miss Maggie Wilson
will teach the fall term on TraiIfork.
''As we 60 TO press" remarks an ex-
change, I'VE hear that the price Of har-
vest hands is ~ day; so. II you don't
get your paper next week you will know
that we have gone TO the harvest field to
get money with which 10 buy our better
" calico dress and sack OF -four"
The farmers feel very jubilant over
the good prices paid for new wheat.
They thought the market would open at
about SO cts. bushel, but at Pendleton
and other Eastern Oregon points the
market has opened at 90 cts. bushel.
which will likely increase 70 Is cts. before
long.
People who are not invited TO social
gatherings very naturally conclude they
are not wanted; and people who trade
feel the same way toward the merchant
who does not advertise. II he doesn't ask
for trade he evidently doesn't want il
and it's poor dog that isn't worth
whistling for, remarks an exchange.
The world grows frantic because ton
Of gold was brought down on steamer
from Alaska. Yet no interest IL occa,
stoned abroad because Gillian county
promises TO produce wheat crop equa
In value 10 two tons Of gold. We take
selfish satisfaction In prophesying tina,
many more people will starve in Alasks
than In Gillian county.
The farmers OF Gillian county are just
now "heels over head" In work harvest
Ing the largest crop ever known in the
history Of the country They will all
have 80 much money this fall that II
each farmer carries his cash all in one
pocket II will pull him sideways wher
he walks, and 10 almost sure TO make
him bow-legged packing II around.
| We take this cheerful paragraph frou
the Chicago Inter Ocean: "The wheat
crop this year gives promise Of 100000,
0CO bushels in excess Of last year. Bet
ter still, wheat July is, 1897, was worth
"a cents cash. On July l6, 1896, il
brought just 5434 cents, making 1914
cents increase for the pockets Of The
producer. Any farmers boy can figure
ont the gain TO American farmers b,
multiplying 575, ,0OO, 900 bushels by 1914 ,
The report current In both Europe anC
America that this paper is about TO be
gin the construction Of double-tracs
railroad TO the Clondyke gold mines il
Alaska Is without foundation. We hav,
as yet made no move in that direction
although we believe such road woulC
be paying investment, On the strength
OF these reports, an army of editors have
already applied to us for free pass owe
the route, in order to help along the en-
terprise.
On last Saturday occurred the regula
quarterly business meeting Of the Con
gregational church Of this place, and II
addition TO the regular business, cal
was given to Rev. A. +. .Bade to assum,
charge Of the church here as pastor fo
the coming year. The call as yet is no
answered but it is thought will be in tn
affirmative. 1t is hoped so, for Mr.
Bade is very popular here. For a younl
man he does remarkably we'll, and will
become an imminent divine some day
j. A. Richmond Of Ferry Canyon, VIII