Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-07-20
LOCAL NEWS.

W.T. " Wa DhHthP NhettOA HiNuNh "
Lust Valley last week.
Miss Lulu FiMwater has completed
her school and is now at home for vaca
tion.
Antoine Nelson, Of Antelope, iorme
resident Of the MayyIlle country was Ia
town Sunday and Monday.
A marriaye license was Issued Monda,
60 Antoine Nelson, Of Antelope, ant
Maggie Is. Wilson, Of Mayville.
sieo. Smith, representing Balfour
Guthrie 4 Co.. Of Arlington was Ia
town sunday looking up the grain sack
trade among our merchants.
H. T. IIollenbeck has moved his
family 10 VIM. Smiths ranch ut the
mouth Of Hay Greek, on the John Day,
where they Will take charge OF the
orchard.
p>si. Searcy passed through Monday
on his way to Arlington TO get new
header. lie says the hot winds have
greatly damaged the crops 10 his neigh
borhood.
A basket ball CLUB has been organized
by some ol the ladies of Condor and
that pleasant and healthiul form OF out
door athletics is rapidly becoming a
iavorIte pastime among the fair sex.
IL. N, Frazer, visited Mayville and
Fossil l. .. o. y. lodges on Friday and
Saturday evenings Of last week In his
official capacity as District Deputy
Grand Master and installed new officers
at both places. Mrs. Frazer accom-.
panied him on the trip.
Judge Mariner. Of Blalock, and Mr..
Donaldson, Of Portland, we're In town
this week Oh business connecte with the
proposed development Of this section Of
Gillian county in the way Of transpor,a-
tion facilities, OF which We hope TO have
more 10 say In the future.
Condor IL situated Ia the center OF
the best part Of the northwest. In less
favored sections the hot winds Of last
week almost ruined the wheat crop, but
In this section comparatively little
.4a1eaage has resulted. Condor and
Gillian county are oil right.
Children are apt 70 DO uninteationally
irreverent. A case In point 10 that Of a
little Chicago girl who wound up
prayer In this way; "And please, o
Lord. take good care OF yourself, TO. II
anything should happen TO you, we
wouldn't have any one but Mckinley to
depend on, and he lent doing a. well as
pa expected"
F.M. Pliter returned from Portland
last Saturday where he shipped car
load Of horses soma time ago. Having
only good class Of horses be found
ready market at satisfactory prices aud
had no trouble in disposing OF the stock.
Mr. Pllter also visited Southern Ore
gon and brought bis two children home
with him lie expects TO keep house In
the property recently purchased Of J.
w. Blake.
One great big source Of qualification
70 every citizen Of Condor lie the unsur-
passed supply OF pure cold water which
is supplied by the city well which is
the source OF supply TO the water works.
Since the advent Of hot weather and the
consequent need Of much irrigation the
pump has been kept going day and
night much OF the time aud without
making any appreciable difference on
the supply OF water. The flow seems TO
be inexaustible and sufficient for town
twice or three times as large as Condor
now IL.
Jay Bowerman, Sam Il. Van vactor
and Dave Drager. Of this place, and At
torney Robbins. Of Fossil, went TO Ferry
Canyon Monday to look after the har-
vesting Of van's crop Of pumpkins. Mr..
Robbins Ia looking for farm In grand
old Gillian county and IL Is likely that
another lawer will soon be added to the
populetion OF Ferry Canyon precinct.
Should Ferry Canyon ever miss crop
OF wheat--which isn't probable--there
should be no trouble about five or six
layyess raising considerable h. we
mean hay--out there.
A party consisting Of Mrs. P. II. Steph-
enson, Misses Bell Darling Gussie Darl-
ing aud Rhoda Gesner, and Messrs II.
IL. Turner, 10 Roy Gesner and
Master Welden Darling, made hshing
excursion TO Thirty-mile last Sunday
and succeeded In inducing over fifty OF
the Hnny tribe to leave their native
element and take up their abode In the
frying pan. The party report having
had good time, the only thrilling Incl
dent Of the day being when one lady
stepped on big snake thereby nearly
soaring another lady who didn't step on
one, out Of her wits. II is generally be-
lieved that Welden caught most Of the
fish nut OF course the surmise 10 not for
publication.
A grapevine telephone message from
MayviIle informs us that our friend Ira
Carter, the lonely but bewitching old
bachelor. OF that place Is again In troub-
le. Last Christmas, II Ia alleged, Ira
became 40 lonesome and disconsolate