The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-07-23
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
Frou Saturdays Daily.

evening for Antelope.
Mrs. N. w. Wallace returned to he
home in Antelope yesterday.
J. S. McMeen and wife, of Croo
county, are visiting in the city.
Use Clarke & Falk's Floral Lotto
flor sunburn and wind chafng*
For the best ice cream, soda an
confectionaries 60 to Cary Billiards..
E. F. Heath and wife and L. A
Heath of Grass Valley are in the city
Clarke & Falk have the purest ant
strongest Paris green in the market
Owing to the absence OF the rector
there will be no services at St. Paul..
church tomorrow.
Miss Eva Beppner. who has beer
visiting in Portland for some time, re
turned home last evening.
Thos. McKaver, of Los Angeles, i:
in the city, Visiting at the residence
of his aunt, Mrs. N. B. Sinnott.
Several head of cattle and bunch
of hogs were received at the stockyart
today for the Columbia Packing Co.
Mrs. H. Glenn and daughters, Grace
and Hattie, returned last night on the
boat from few days visit to Portland
Messrs. W. Ii. Quinn and S. L. Sci
fert returned last aight from Portland
where they have been on business fol
the past few days.
Miss Annie Wentz, who has beer
visiting in the city for the past few
weeks, returned to her home in Port
land this morning.
The grain throughout the county is
ripening very rapidly, and headers
will be running everywhere by the
middle of next week.
This is the o. r. & N. Co. pay day
and most OF the employees are feeling
in good humor, and are being greeted
with the "glad hand"
Farmers In the vicinity of Dufur and
Tygh Ridge have begun heading early
grain and volunteer. The grain is
pretty we'll filled, and will yield we'll.
At a special meeting of the school
board held yesterdad Chas. L. Schmidt
was elected scool clerk to fill the va
cancy caused by the cath of Geo. P.
Morgan.
Geo. Brown has received new sup
ply of pictorial ''dispatches" and has
them conspicuously posted at the en-
gine house, where they attract great
deal of attention.
DIR. Eshelman is in from Dufur to-
day, and says he will visit The Dalles
on Saturday of each week. Calls left
for him at Clarke & Falk's store will
be promptly answered.
Mr.. and Mrs. Truman Butler left on
the boat this morning for White Sal
mon, where they will spend the day at
the Jewett farm. They will visit Trout
lake before returning.
The bodies of the Indian woman
and little girl who were drowned We'd
nesday while crossing the Colum bia
near Seufert's were found yesterday
afternoon near the mouth of Eve Mile.
The recent hot weather has done
but little damage to growing crops, |
though it is thought some of the late |
grain has been injured SO that the
berry will not be plump and heavy.
Last evening J. P. O'Brien, general
of the o. R. & N. Co.,
and D. W. Campbell, chief train dis
arrived in the city in car No.
!. They returned to Portland at $50
his morning.
John Hanna, who was in from Boyd
oday, says crops are all looking well
n that section, but the hot weather
he first of the week caused some of
he grain to shrivel, and when it is
hreshed it will not rate as No. /.
E. B. Dufur, accompanied by his son
Bernie, will leave in the morning for
southern Oregon, where Mr.. Dufur
'oes for an outing and on prospect
ng tour. He will be gone about a
lonth.
w. Bolton, who has been in the city
,r the past few daw days left this
fternoon for his home at Antelope.
lie has secured plans and made all
for the erection of new
uilding and will begin work immed-
ately.
Large quantities of harvesting mach |
merry have been sold in Eastern Greg ,
n this season, and the farmers will {
g better prepared than ever before to
andle their harvest work. Dalles +,
callers report having sold more har- s
esting implements this year than '
uring any season for many years s
asst. |
Mr.. and Mrs. M. r. Elliott, Mrs. DR..
elknap and Miss Maggie Newman
rived last evening from Prineville
nd left on the boat this morning for i
'ortland. Mrs. Belknap goes to Port q
md as a delegate of the Degree of {
-onor grand lodge, while Mr.. and t
RS. Elliott are en- route to Corvallis Z
visit relatives. t
An immense crop of wheat will be :
arvested this season, and it behooves
rmers to prepare to take care of it
ter it is threshed. There is no assur-
ice that there will not be early fall
ins, and farmers should take steps to
otect their grain after thrsshing and
fore it can be hauled to market. A a
W grain sheds on every farm would P
ord the necessary pl otection.
James Carnaby, who has been a
,ight clerk at the o. r. & N. Co.'S f,
pot for number of years, resigned
} position and las bought out Rob-
SON & Co., who carried on a fruit
d poultry business at the old stand Ct
Seufert Bros, on Second street
ed Clark has been promoted to the =;
,ition recently held by Mr.. Carnaby.
rhe steamer Regulator was not very CT
iously damaged in the accident that