The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-09-24
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
From Saturdays Dally.)

Bakeoven.
"A. Murchie and wife, OF Biggs
are visiting in the city.
Frank Newcome left for California
today to spend the winter.
Mayor NJ. T. Nolan is again confined
to his room with an attack of lumbago
This morning Wood Bros. received
lot of fine beef cattle from Eight.
Mile.
Miss Esther Howe, of Hood River,
will open a school at Viento next
Monday.
Judge Bennett returned on the 1l:30
train from a brief business trip to
Astoria.
E. K Russell is back from San Fran
cisco looking after his farm. He may
move back to this place to live.
Rev. c. F. Clapp will occupy the pull
pit in the Congregational church to
morrow morning and evening.
Miss Harriet Stevens is in the city
arranging her music classes and pre-
pairing for giving lessons during the
winter.
Masters Earl, Carl and Sayre
Rinehart, sons of DR.. Rinehart, left on
the train this morning for Newberg,
to attend school.
Considerable wheat was sold today
at So cents. 1t was principally small
lots, none of the farmers having sold
their ehtire crops.
! Any young person desiring to attend
a business college will do well to call
at this Office, as they may learn some
thing to their advantage.
Rev. T. Clay Neice, of Grants, is in
the city. Mr.. Neict is here getting
apparatus for a fruit dryer which he
has jsst established at Grants.
This was pay day on the O. r. & N.
and as a consequence railroad men
have been made happy, by drawing
their salaries for the month of August.
Don t fail to see the show in the big
tent next Monday. Two shows COM
bined in one. Besides the show the
balloon ascension will be treat to
everybody.
Miss Crawford, who has been visit
ing Mrs. Wilson and Miss Smith for
several days, left last night for her
home in Pendleton. accompanied by
Miss Smith.
Furnished rooms suitable for
students for rent on reasonable terms.
Mrs. E. Shearer, in ]. E. Barnett's
residence near Academy Park on
Eleventh street. Sd
This morning A. S. Cathcart was
compelled to kill one of his dray horses.
Just after the fire it got nail in its
foot, that caused the hoof to come off,
and the animal was killed to relieve
it of its suffering.
B. w. Hollister, recently from Iowa,
has taken position in G. F. Stephens
dry goods and clothing store. Mr..
Ho]lister is a pleasing gentlemen and
,thorous hly conversant with the mer-
camille business.
r. W. Hendley, of the Western
Warehouse Company, Pendleton, Fri
day bought pool of wheat aggrega-
ting 10000 bushels of bluestem and !
club, paying so cents for the club and |
SO cents for bluestem.
w. C. McCown. of Tygh Valley. was
business caller at this Office today, |
enrolling his name among our circle |
of readers. Mr.. McCown disposed of |
several head of cattle, while in the |
city, at cents per pound for steers and
21 cents for cows.
Any one desiring good homestead !
can be located on government land of !
the very best quality. Only a few
such quarter sections to be had. The
very best fruit or agricultural land.
Enquire of P. D. Fouts, at the Gambri
nus saloon, The Dallesx
Next Monday evening Mrs. Mary
French, Miss Georgia Sampson, Miss
Eta Lord and Miss Bacon leave for
the East. Mrs. French ano Miss Lord
go to Chicago, while Miss Sampson
and Miss Bacon will go to ST. Louis to
pursue course in music. Mrs. French
expects to he gone a year and will
visit in Michigan and New York.
The fifth annual convention of the
Wasco County Christian Endeavor
will be held in The Dalles on Friday
evening. Sept. 80, and Saturday and
Sunday, Oct. l and 2. The meeting
evening will be in the
Christian church, while all other ses-
lions will be held in the Congregat-
onsl church. All Endeavorers invited
20 attend.
The Pendleton city council has ap- !
,ointed G. S. Jackson financial agent
% negotiate the sale of bonds to refund {
nc, GOO worth of water and levee bonds |
md s65, 900 worth of outstanding city
at rate not exceeding per t
ent. The resolution of the council .
making the appointment stipulates I
hat citizens of Umatilla county be :
,iven the preference in investment in
hese bonds. i,
Prof. Landers, principal of our T
Iigh school, has given his opinion of C
,haplain McCabe's noted and popular T
ecture Bright Side of Life in Libby /
'rison." We desire to call particular 5
ttention to his statement that his i
scture gives us view of the bright n
ide," that side which every other q
scturer or author has wholly ignored. O
'hese tell US of the starvation, the
ickness, the unmeasured suffering of
the boys in blue in this prison pen, u
D the Chaplain's lecture will be to all u
ntirely new. Il
The bowling contest between the :,
larried and single men of the ID. G. & |,
!. C. terminated last night disas- :,
rously for the latter and they at once .
cry graciously paid for an oyster T
upper at the Palace of Sweets. The :
,tal score made by the married men :
, the four games was $40 and that by :
ne single men was S44. The individual -
cores: were: married men Bradshaw,