The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-12-04
Brooks items.

The Misses Helen Brown and Bertha
Newsome are in Portland.
After an absence Of a few months
Miss Bessie Lyons has returned tc
Egans.
Mr.. Dorcas and son, Charlie, were
home for Thanksgiving dinner
Miss Mabel Byrne attended the con
cert, and visited friends in Brooks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Savage went to
Champoeg Monday to visit VIM, Nc.
Gays.
Mrs. W. II. Egah has returned to
Portland for a two weeks visit with
her mother.
The Misses Meiring attended the
Thanksgiving ball in Gervais.
w. r. Hannigan is home from Ho-
quiam, Washington, and will soon re-
turn
Mrs. Charles Whitcomb spent few
days in Salem, visiting friends.
Oliver Arel came up from Portland
Saturday evening.
Miss Fac Savage, of Salem Prairie,
visited Mrs. Fred Nesome.
Charles OBren, of Salem, was
down here transacting business with
the farmers.
W. b. Lawler went south on Mon.
day evenings train.
James Finney went to the Albany
iron works to order more o. X. grub
bers.
Krebs Bros. were down from Salem,
to deliver their hops to NJ. H. burst.
Messrs. Whitcomb, Hamilton and
Egan are holding for higher prices for
onions.
A letter from Sacramento says farm
fers in that valley got rich raising
beans.
The Journal might invite a farmers
discussion on raising beans in Ore
gon.
We are held in the hop hold.up
They had better pay our price and LET
us go.
Pigs allowed to run in the road dis
figure Il. and are troublesome to neigh
bors who don't keep gates shut.
Broken bridges are dangerous on
dark nights. Only plank or two might
save serious trouble.
A building is being erected in
Brooks for Mrs Elizabeth DeGobin. as
long as she wishes to occupy It. Later
for the needy, or a fund for their use.
Miss Gertrude Nickel, Of Gervais, is
home again. after a successful opera.
tlon at St. Vlncent's hospital for ap.
pendicitis.
Mrs w, c. Evans was taken Sunday
to the Salem Hospital Great anxiety
was felt until telephone message pro
nounced her danger passed. There is
no lady in this community more wide.
ly known or better liked than Mrs.
Evans.
Two highly esteemed young ladies'
of Brooks were married last week to
two popular Salem gentlemen. The
couples are Mr.. Walter Layman and
Miss Sweaney and Mr.. Ennis Waite and
Miss Alice Blanton. Wedding bells
may soon ring again.
The unpleasant weather Portland
guests. colds and business detained the
speaker from attending Saturdays M.
erary at the Eldridge school. The sec.
retary announced the same subject for
December 9th. Resolved. That the
bar has a greater field for eloquence
than the pulpit" A home literary is
intelligent and inexpensive II speaks
well for a community, even though at
times inconvenient. It is a debt we
owe to society.
A telephone will soon be a conve-
nience in country homes. Mrs. w II.
Egan thinks 1t win cause our people
to become more In touch with the
cities. r. B. Jones thinks that It would
be a great benefit whom Willamette's
foods come down. as news OF the
waters progress would pass It's rapid
flow.
Now II the motor line comes our
way, in case Of a greater food than
hist ry has recorded. we could rush
10 the Cascade mountains, and bless
our country's progress.
Our father aud mother and our
farm hand. Bob. (who has been with
us for nine years., we four. and no
more. sat down 10 our Thanksgiving
dinner. We had chicken and pork.
potatoes. turnips, carrots. etc, milk.
butter, cream cake aud raspberry pie,
ounce preserves and apple sauce.
Outside were the horses and sheep
and pretty green fields. a hop house
full Of hops. with prices soaring, good
renters In town. The Journal and
grubbing en- acre a day with our o. X.
grubber. a father and mother who ac-
cumulated all Surely wehad much to
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