The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1900-02-16
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81 Valentines day tomorrow, a day
appreciated, by the kids, who have an
opportunity TO get oven with their
friends. Nst@ s'e-,
1.-THE Albany creamery has done more
to keep up the Oregon DAhymen's
Association than any other creamery In
the state, says the Oregon Agricultural
Let. That 10 easy TO appreciate. The
directors are live, Fustllng men, who
don't wait for the butter 70 make Iteeli.
A pleasant feature Of the dairymen's
convention to the newspaper men has
been : couple Of square meala At tho
Revere House, with the dairymen from
other places among others ar Markham,
who has cow at the Hill House, Port,
Agricnlturalist, Prot. Kent Of the o. A.
9. and others.
Vieitors to the court house during the
dairymen' 8 convention have had an op.
portunity to zee the interior Of the new
court house for themselves and are al
most universal In their praise 0i the
pr6tty appearance OF the rooms and the
general arrangement Of things. Linn
county people may well be proud OF hav.
inR one OF the tineet court houses in tho
state. Mr.. Burggrah planned well.
Proi.Withycombe was somewhat hum.
orous in his address this morning. He
said the object OF trusts was 10 secure
economy in production and not TO rob
the people. II one is to judge by the
fruits the real object In most cases is to
rob the people. as is evidenced by the
enormous increase in the prices asl soon
as trusts are formed. Not satisfied with
the economy part they clinch the people
by raising prices also,
After quoting Linn county's low tax
levy the Eugene Guard says: Lane
county has solid republican board and
10 over 100000 in debt andi has a tax
levy OF 23.5 mills.
Statistics say that the Klondike out.
put for one year 10 sll 100000. statis-
tics prove that the value OF the Ameri-
can poultry product is over $500, ,000, 900
q year-nearly thirty times greater than
the Klondike wealth. Surprises you,
doesn't il?
The Junction City Times says: "The
Eugene barber. who is afflicted with |
smallpox, is a subject worthy of congrat-
ulation compared with the Albany bar |
ber. The Albany barber skipped out |
with $500 and has the sheriff, two wives |
and an irate mother-in-law hot on his
trail" Only there is no one alter him.
W. w. Crawford, oil. ..Tallman, ,haslbeen
attending the dairymen's convention.
Recently while watching his nerd OF cat
tie great thought struck him and he
attached telephones to the end OF a barb
ed wire over half = mile long and it
worked to q charm. Now he and his
wife settle all differences through the
barbed wire route at long range.
The Corvallis street car line has been
TORN up and the material wih beA ship.
ped away. The Times says: Corvallis
will not deplore the loss OF her street car
line. The one car has for two or three
years been operated only as hotel bre,
and has been regarded as joke rather
han as an evidence of enterprise. It
mas served as q constant reminder oil q
bad business our citizens would like TO
orget,
According TO newspaper reports, SPok-
Inc is in bad way. During 1899 the
;ourt books received the records Of IA
livorces. causing the Chronicle to re-
mark: "The people Of this country
nave good reason to be heartily ashamed
II the divorce record Of the past year.
Think oft 144 divorce cases in twelve
For every four weddings there
vas one divorce Is not that record TO
Ilarm thinking people and make patriots
blush with sham.?'
One OF the professors at the college
las a tendency toward absent minded
less. The other day he called up CEN
raj on the telephone and was provoked
t getting no response. Central, GEN.
IN the world does not the
ompany keep this line in repair. /
amt hear a thing. Central, central,
mt this too proyoking?" Perhaps"
another professor, "if you
old the right end OF the receiver to your
ar, it would work better. Corvallis
lines. ID
9. G Parker, the merchant, has de-
ided TO leave Lebanon and go into busi- I
ess at some other point.-Lebaron Z. /