Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-02-09
LOCAL NEWS.

week with Ia grippe.
Chas. Fix has force OF men at work
this week putting up Ice.
Mr. Cobb, Of Pine creek, was In town
Tuesday and Wednesday.
81. valcntine's Grand bali at Armory
hal ncxt Tuesday evening.
Rsg. Father servis left this week for
ieppneF aud other missions.
Mrs. +. morrill, il laid up this week
with An attack o. the grippe.
Mrs. q W. Rinchart is sick this week
with IN attack oi pneumonia.
An unuauai amount Of sickness has
prevailed 10 this vicinity lately.
Billy Barr, who has been entertaining
the grippe At his home for the past few
days, ID again on deck.
The thermometer registered ID below
zero last Friday morning, and u below
Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Tho buslest men In town at present
ARE our doctors. II IL 70 be hoped there
will soon be a lull 10 their business.
q. H. Cromwell, OF pendleton, the Dis.
trlct Grand Master Of United Artisans,
IL in town in tho interest Of that order.
II your best girl or your wife enjoys
dancing. don't fail 10 take them TO
Armory hall next Tuesday evening,
~, yalentinsS Day.
Mr.. B. II. Bower and wife and Miss
Manic Smith lei, yesterday for The
Dallcs. Miss Mamie will attend Sisters
school Al that place.
w. L. Wilcox and =. A. pa.tIson left
Sunday afternoon Tor Salem 10 add their
voice TO the remembrance against the
division Of Gillian county.
O. G. Wilson, accompanied by his
wife, returned last Friday from Port
land. Mrs. Wilson IL now down with
Ia grippe at tbs Mad dock hotel.
Dir. Hudson was called out 10 the
country Tuesday TO sec Jim Dunn, who
is very sick with pleutisy and pneu-
monia. lis brother Ed Damn is With
him.
Almost every family In town is out Of
potatoes. II somc one woud bring in
y load or two for sale they would br
sure Of selling them. The Condor hotel
would take 100 bushels.
Airs. Carr, who has been living in
w, i. WIlcox's family this winter. was
taken seriously III Saturday, and sun
day morning was removed TO Mrs. Par
razo'c. where she is being cared for.
Query--Es Weather Man Is. $ pauge.
OF Portland, OF Rev. Ira Hicks, Of 81.
Louis, responsible for the last spell oi
weather? II looks as though the guilty
party should be run down aud punished I.
Teachers examination Is being con-
Quoted here this week. Prof.. McCully
aud Miss Mabel Halstead are assisting
supt. Kennedy, hence the pupils oi Con-
don public school arc enjoying u short
vacation.
johnson Bros, who have been teach
ing class In elocution here, left this
week for Fossil. They gave six lessons
here, hence the class hAs good start
and II they follow tue instructions they
have been taught they will succeed.
Tim Connolly returned Monday from
ayisit to Chicago. tie reports having
had most enjoyable time, and that he
would not nave returned 70 soon had IL
not been for the severe weather, as his
services will DO needed at tbs sheep
camp.
DlED-At Lebanon, Or, Feb. let, Mrs.
Marcy sinons, aged lO4 years, 8 uionths
and IL days. Mrs. Simous with her hus-
band aud family crossed the plains in
1853 and located 1t the place where che
died. She was probably The oldest per.
son in the state.
A. ]. Shelton, OF Mayville, has sold
his sheep and bought the bowling alley
aud restaurant " Arlington, which he
will take charge Of the l6,h OF this
month. MIR. shelton is an enterprlsing
man aud there " no doubt but what he
will succeed in his new venture.
OF those who were so unfortunate a,
TO be compelled 10 face the weather lasl
week come were frozen, but how serious
ly we have not learned. One OF th,
drivers on the Arlington.Fossi stag,
line had his face frozen. and another
ones fingers suffered that fate, and on,
passenger IL reported TO have frozen hi'
feet In going from here to Fossil.
One Of the heaviest snow storms eve
experienced In Harney county is said Il
have occurred on MONDAY and ruesda,
Of last week IL was about 81 inches oI
the level hnt there was snrh gale blow
ing that IL driited badly, maSlng III,
roads almost inlpassahle. The Burns
Ontario stage was all night in going i
miles.
Grass Valley Journal; On the las
day Of January the thermometer was u
45 deg. above zero, and on Wednesda
morning, February let, there was
...n,,.. ....at t.tnI l.ln,elrn dro drift ~