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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-12-28

The Christians Great Holy Day
Duly Observed in Worth
ton sgs
Christmas Trees q Special Ser
vices at Most of tie NJ
3 Churches. #

The glad Christmas season VS.
duly observed By all tho people ofs
Worthington. The several Sunday
schools held special exercises and
service we're held on Christm as dayS
ut most Of the chur ches.
Atthe Presbyt terian church tho
Sunday school had ) Christmas tree
and short pros gram, participated II
by the younger scholars The
graduation exercises Of the primary
and intermediate departments
formed part Of the exercises. Santa
Claus appeared on the scene and
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-12-28
SCHO \ OF B OARDs MEET
Hundreds Of School Officers i
the Meeting 4 the Court
House Saturday.

The first annual meeting of the
school boards of Mobiles County Was
held Ut the Court House last Satur-
day On call issued by County
Superintendent Abbott under.
section 1880, Ut the school laws.i
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-12-28

made q shortfspeech to the children
altar which he delegated the dis-
ltribution of gifb to the teachers of
the Sunday school.
I The Dixie Jubilee Singers, who.
had been secured TO give part q tho.
program at this churnh, gave their
concert at tho taDernacle g . paok-I
led house. Their performance wvas5
very good, and many expressed y
desire to her them give their full y,
program M ss 33S
AT the Methodist Episcopal
church tho Sunday school had = fine
Christmas tree accompanied by =
brief program. The young people
were made glad BY the distribution
'of gifts. n
The sunda schools cf the con-
gregational and Christian churche
had christmas tree and exercises
IS their respective meeting places
on Christmas Eve. A
Az the Sweiish lutheran church
the German lutheran congregation \;
had 4 beautifully decorated Ghrstt-ssH
mas tree On / Monday evening, 90
companied by appropriate exercises.
The Swedish Lutheran congrega- 81
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-12-28
THEI SUN
l.M|EET.NGS
Growing Interest Manifested III
L ahe Work of the Great
d :v,,'anssalIist ~
poxerfnl Sermon Preached 10
|s !. \ n Men \ i.a,t sunday
S Afternoon 4. 4 IA ]. 4.
\ he Present, t,tion of' the Terri
ribls vs!ss !, of Sin 1s. I

q Th8 tabernacle has come to be re-
gniS,l " q gsalar bee hive Is
elctiyiey Noonday prayer meetings
fors sey6ry bod 7, boys prayer meet
ings at quarter before two . clock
Ireaching services a hall past two
dslock, asbible stud class .a i half
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-12-28

M Harsh physics react, weaken tise
bowels, cause chronic constip tipation.
Doan's Regule operate easily tone
the stomach crre II e,onstip |, 81. ssc.
Ask your druggist tor them ,s|s q
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.
OAK GROVE.

Il.
There are FIVE new farm houses to be
built the coming summer in our neigh
borhood, beside TWO barns and a school
house, which speaks well for this part of
the country.
The basket social held at the school
hou Sc Saturday evening VAS well attend
ed; more than hundred persons were
present. The program was well rendered
and very much appreciated by the audi
ence. The young ladies had 20 neat,
well filled baskets and when placed on
the market seemed to be no drag, for
they went quickly at good prices, The
receipts were $40, making an average of
50 piece.
Benton county is known all over the
state as being made up of the very best
citizens that the country affords. Bad
men don't come here-if they happen to
step over the border line they don't stay
long. Even the notorious Crefiield had
tt 60 to Seattle to meet his fate.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pearl Carter, of Pales-
tine, spent Sunday with Linn county
friends.
Clyde Williamson came down Satur-
day and made visit with Oak Grove
relatives.
Many of our citizens attended the re-
publican rally at the opera house in
Albonv nx,o-;nc
Miss Annie Pagenkof left for home
Thursday morning, after ten days
sojourn with friends at Oak Grove.
This is the time of year that wild
pigeons are found in abundance along the
oak hills and there are many of the
Albany nimrods who are taking advan-
tage of the situation and bagging lots of
birds.
Mr.. Missall is at work on his prune
dryer, getting it in shape for the fall run.
He has one of the best dryers in the
county and if the fruit crop is good he
will do big business in the way of
evaporating fruit.
There has been organized new COM
pany known as the Oak Grove Thresh-
ing Company and will be under the di-
rect management of w. G. Williamson.
The outfit is the largest ever brought to
the Pacific coast, consisting of 25-horse
power compound Russell engine and
42x64 Goth century Altman Taylor
separator The new outfit will be oper-
ated in North Benton, and as the mana
ger is we'll known among farmers of that
section there will be no doubt but what
the new company will get all that they
can do in the way of threshing.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Williamson spent
Sunday with relatives in Albany.
Rev. Douglas, of Albany, filled the
North Palestine pulpit Sunday.
Fred Breackman. who passed away at
his home in Albany, Saturday, was
former resident of Oak Grove, owning a
farm here consisting of 265 acres
which he sold sometime ago to Peter
Karstens. He was known as one of
our best citizens and held in high esteem
by all who knew him. He will be laid
to rest by his aged wife who preceded
him four years to day to the spirit
world.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18

humane temper of his friend, who was
always found on the side of the weak
and the unfortunate. On the whole,
between: them was wonderful Wher-
ever Lincoln worked Jack did his
loafing,D and when Lincoln was out of
work he spent days and weeks together
at Jacks cabin, where Jacks jolly
wife, ''old Hannah" stuffed him with
bread and honey, laughed at his ugli-
ness and loved him for IS goodness.
Abe rapidly grew q favor with the
people in and around New Salem, until
nearly everybody thought quite as
much of him as Mr.. Offutt did. He
was decidedly the most popular man
that ever lived there. He could do more
to quell riot, compromise feud and
keep peace among the neighbors gener-
ally than any one else, and these were
of the class of duties which it appears
to have been the most agreeable for
him to perform.
The Peacemaker.
One day a strange man came into the
settlement and was straightway beset
by the same fellows who had meditated
a drubbing for Abe himself. Jack Arm
strong, of course, had difficulty with
him, called him a liar, coward and
various other names not proper for
print, but the man, finding himself TAX
en- at disadvantage, backed up to
wood pile, got a stick and struck Jack
a blow that brought him to the
ground. Jack wanted to whip the man
badly, but Abe interfered and, manag-
ing to have himself made arbitrator.
compromised the difficulty by practi-
cal application OF the Golden Rule.
"Well, Jack" said he, 'what did you
say to the man?" Whereupon Jack re-
peated his words.
"Well, Jack" replied Abe, eff you
were stranger in a strange place, as
this man is, and you were called
id liar, ETC., what would you do?"
'sWhip him!''
'Then this man has done no more to
you than you would have done to him.
"Well, Abe" said the honest bruiser,
'its all right" and, taking his oppo-
nent by the hand, forgave him heartily
and treated.
Abes duties in Offutt's store were not
of a character to monopolize the whole
Of his time, and he soon began to think
that here was fine opportunity to
remedy some of the defects in his edu.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
WARD
HILL
LAMON,

now full to overfowing, Nelson needed
a pilot at least as far as Beardstown.
His choice fell upon Abe, who took
him to the mouth of the doubtful river
in safety, although Abe often declared
that he occasionally ran out into the
prairie at least three miles from the
son pushed on down the Illinois and
Abe walked back to New Salem.
The second storekeeper at New Sa'
lem was Mr.. George Warburton; but,
''the country not having improved his
morals in the estimation of his friends, "
George thought it advisa Bile to transfer
his storeroom and the remnant of his
stock to Offutt. In the meantime Of
futt's long expected goods were receiv-
ed from Beardstown. Abe unpacked
them, ranged them on the shelves, roll.
ed the barrels and kegs into their
places and, being provided with a
brand new book, pen and ink, found
himself duly installed as first clerk
Of the principal mercantile house in
New Salem.
Lincoln Becomes a Clerk.
A country store is an indescribable
collection of miscellanies - groceries.
dry goods, hardware, earthenware and
stoneware. cups and sGucers, plates
and dishes, coffee and tea, sugar and
molasses, boots and shoes, whisky and
lead, butter and eggs, tobacco and gun.
powder, with an endless list of things
unimaginable except by a housewife
to the charge of which Abe was now
promoted-promoted from the rank Of
q common laborer to be a sort Of bre-
vet clerk.
But Offutts ideas of commerce were
very comprehensive, and, as 'his busi-
ness was already considerably scatter
ed about the country" he thought he
would scatter little more. He there
fore rented the mill at the foot Of the
set Abe to overlooking that as well as
the store. This increase of business,
however, required another clerk, and
in a few days Abe was given a com
panion in the person of W. G. Green.
They slept together ON the same cot in
the store, and, as Mr.. Green observes
by way Of indicating the great init
macy that subsisted between them,
when one turned over the other had
to do so likewise"
Since the trip on the fatboat Offutt's
admiration for Abe had grown to be
boundless. He now declared that "Abe
knew more than any man in the United
States;" that ''he would some day be
president of the United States and
that he could at that present moment
outrun, whip or throw down any man
in Sangamon county. These loud boasts
were not wasted on the desert air.
They were bad seed sown In a rank
soil and speedily raised up a crop of
sharp thorns for both Abe and O6utt.
At New Salem honors such as Offutt
accorded to Abe were to be won before
they were worn.
Bun Ciary made light Of O6utfs
opinion respecting Ah<s ppwesa and
one day, when tie tipGts hs6U.sa
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
CHAPTER ".
A Famous Piece of Floating Drift
IJ - kT Cl

A Famous Piece of Floating Drift
wood" Lodges at New Salem.
KN 1886 New Salem contained about
twenty houses, inhabited by near
ly hundred people, but in 1881
there could not have been more
than two-thirds or three-fourths that
number. Many of the houses cost not
more than $40 and none of them more
than $1OO. In those days, which in the
progressive west would be called an
cient days, New Salem was in Sanga-
mon county, with Springfield as the
county seat. Springfield itself was still
a mere village, having Il population OF
1000 or perhaps 1,100. The capital Of
the state was yet at Vandalia and
waited for the parliamentary tact Of
Abraham Lincoln and the ''long nine'
to change it to Springfield.
In July or August, 1881, Mr.. Lincoln
made his second appearance at New
Salem, the first having been in April
of the same year, when his f1atboat
stuck there. He was again in COM
pany with Denton Offutt, who had col
lected some goods at Beardstown and
now proposed to bring them to this
place. Mr.. Lincoln undoubtedly came
there in the service of CTutt, but while
the goods We're being transported from
Beardstown he seemed to be idling
about without any special object in
view. Many persons who saw him then
for the first time speak of him as do
ing nothing" He has given some en-
couragement to this idea himself by
the manner in which he habitually
spoke of his advent there-describing
himself as coming down the river after
the winter of the deep snow, like a
piece of floating driftwood" borne
along by the freshet and accidentally
lodged at New Salem.
On the day of the election, in the
month of August, as Minter Graham,
the schoolteacher, tells us, Abe was
seen lettering about the polling place.
1t must have been but a few days aft
er his arrival in the town, for nobody =
knew that he could write. They were
short of n clerk" at the polls, and,
after casting about in vain for some
one competent to fill the Office, it oc-
Cured to one of the judges that per-
haps the tall stranger possessed the
needful qualifications. He thereupon
accosted him and asked if he could
write. He replied, Yes, little
''Will you act as clerk of the election
today?" said the judge.
.'I will try" returned Abe, "and do
the best can, if you SO request"
He did try, accordingly. and, in the
language of the schoolmaster, per
formed the duties with great facility,
much fairness and honesty and impair
tiality. This was the first public Off
cial act of his life.
While Abe was "doing nothing" or,
in other words, waiting for Ofutt's
goods, one DR.. Nelson, resident OF
New Salem, built fiatboat and, plac-
ing his family and effects upon 1t.
started for Texas. But as the Sanga-
mon was turbulent and reacherous
atIeam at best. and ;ts banks were
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
ABRAHAM AS A STUDENT.

cation. He could read, write and cipher
as well as most men, but as his popu-
larity was growing daily and his am
bition keeping pace, he feared that he
might shortly be called to act in some
public capacity which would require
him to speak his own language with
some regard to the rules of grammar,
of which, according to his own confes-
sion, he knew nothing at all. He car
ried his troubles to the schoolmaster,
saying, 'I have notion to study Eng
lish grammar"
''If you expect to go before the public
in any capacity" replied Mr.. Graham,
II think it the best thing you can do"
eff I had a grammar" replied Abe,
II would commence now"
Ito be Continued.)
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
HELP WANTED.

A MIDDLE AGED LADY TO DO
house work on farm near Corvallis,
Ore, and asaist in caring for three
children. She can arrange if she de.
sires to assist in caring for chickens
and other duties in farm work COM
monty done by ladies. If the lady
has a husband, son, or other male
relative, who is good worker in farm
work, he can have work at least part
of the time. In answering send refer
ences. Address: P. o. Box 344,
37tf Corvallis. Oregon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
CLASSIFIED ADvKRr1snMEsrs.

Fifteen words or less. 25 cts for three
successive insertions, or so cts per
month; for all up to and including ten
additional woris. y cent a word for each
insertion.
For all advertisements over 25 words,
| ct per word for the first insertion, and
4 ct per word for each additional inser-
tion. Nothing inserted for less than %
cents.
Lodge. society and church notices,
other than strictly news matter, will be
charged for.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
Do You Love

Your baby? You wonder why he
cries. Buy bottle of Whites Cream
Vermifuge and he will never cry. Most
babies have worms, and the mother
don't know it. Whites Cream Vermi-
fuge rids the child of worms and cleans
out its system in pleasant way.
Every mother should keep a bottle of
this medicine in the house. With it
fear need never enter her mind. Price
25c. Sold by Graham & Wortham.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
House Decorating.
FOR PAINTING AND PAPERING SEE
W. E. Paul, Ind. 488. 14tfs
The Lie Insurance

Middle has started the public to
thinking. The wonderful success that
has met Billiards. Ho'ehound Syrup in
its crusade on Coughs, Influenza, Bron-
chitis and ell Pulmonary troubles-has
started the public to thinking of this
wonderful preparation. They are all
using il. Join the procession and down
with sickness. Price 25c, soc and
800. Sold by Graham & Workman.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18

WILL FURNISH LOTS AND BUILD
houses to order in Newport, Lincoln
Co., Oregon, and sell same for cash or
installments Address M. S. Wood
cock, Corvallis, Or. 34tf
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
FOR SALE

BURBANK SEED POTATOES. PAS.
tnre for stock inquire Clyde Beach,
phone Ind. 8, Dixie 4l.4ax
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18

MISCELLANEOUS LOT OF WIRE
cable new and second hand, any length,
pi ,e of anv description and size, ma.
chinery to suit anybody, write for
prices on anything; metal, scrap iron
and all kinds of junk and machinery
bought and sold, Address:
37-44 M. Barde & Son, Portland. Ore.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
HOMES FOR SALE.

HOMES NOW COMPLETED, OR
will build them to order in Corvallis.
o.. and sell same for cash or INSTALL
ments. Address First National Bank.
Corvallis, Or. 34tf
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18

How about "a Belated Introduction ?''
Are you going?
All of the republican candidates have
filed their acceptance of nomination
tor various Offices to which they aspire
and now are fully launched into the free
for all dash for the goal.
Early Dent field corn at Zie-
rolf's. 35tf
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
BANKING.
PHYSICIANS

B. A. OATHEY, M. D., PHYSICIAN
and Surgeon. Rooms IA, Bank Build
ing. Office Hours: 10 to II a. M, 2 to
tp.m. Residence: cor. Eth and Ad-
ans 5ts. Telephone at othce and res
tdence. Corvallis. Oregon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18

BALED HAY FOR SALE INQUIRE
r .. box 344 or Ind. 'phone 429.
Corva'ils, oregon. % If.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18
MARBLE SHOP.

MARBLE AND GRANITE MONU--
ing and repairing done neatly: save
agents commission. Shop North
Main St. Frank Vanhoosen, Prop. e2tt
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18

Wednesday, five women, the last
Inhabitants of the Holy Roller camp near
Waldpor', arrived in this city. 1t is
sincerely hoped that with the death of
Creffield they will henceforth walk in the
paths approved by all good citizens.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18

Subject of sermon at M. e. church
Sunday morning. ''The Man Who Did
Not Stagger." Evening, subject, "An
Easy Victim" with prelude ''The Saloon
less City,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-05-18

Pacific NOrthw
from our owl
practical ex-
perience in
dairying that
the U. S.
Cream
Separator Is
the best and
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-10-04

| A few plain rules, formulated by a
! Chicago bank official, have been crcu-
lated in the business section of New
| York, and are attracting attention as a
re-statement Of first principles for the
regulation of the conduct of business
men who desire to achieve solid and
soul-satisfying success.
The foundation maxim of the Chica.
go banker is that money must be
made honestly or not at all. There are
nobler pursuits than the mere getting
of money; but one may say that after
sufficient education the first worldly
duty of the man who has not inherited
a fortune is to gain competence. The
short. From twenty to twenty-five years
are spent in preparation, gaining
knowledge and experience. Possibly
forty years will remain for money
making, and if even modest
competence can be acquired il
this time, one has done well
The making of money is a mighty prob.
lem, and in the vast majority of in.
stances it must be made by ploddinq
industry, hard work ana shiCt obSprv.
ance of the prudential m3Xims. The
mass of men are not sufficiently gifted
TO acquire money by short cuts and bold
strikes of enterprise. II requires a
very exceptional order of ability to or.
ganize and conduct successfully vast
schemes of profit; but. whatever the
of financial skill. it is
mistake to suppose thlt dishonest prac.
tees and questionable fineS,ing in bu>i.
ness yield greater success than old. |
fashioned Observation-Disclosures Led |
ger.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-10-04

But yet there is connection Her
friends regard her as the most expert
woman whip in the country. And
therefore it becomes her 20 conduct her
self as such. Accordingly, when she
takes the air in one of her $4,000 turn
outs behind her three-abreast team-a
matter Of some 1000 to $20, 600 worth
of carriage horse-she must naturally
be appropriately dressed, with a due
consideration to the matching or proper
contrast between the colors in horse,
harness, whip, hat, hair, cloak, gown,
etc. She designs her own harnesses to
match the cOlOring of the horses. When
driving she is clad in colOrs which har-
moniZe with the harness and elaborate
equipage One set of harness and a
cart cost $1,000. Even the whips are
made to match the turnoutS. oe which
there are seven. One Of them has
ninei inch handle of solid gold and cost
$500.
Miss Morosini is a girl of striking
beauty and superb figure. Her father,
Giovanni Morosini. first came to ms
country as a refugee with the great
Italian patriot GarlDaldl. He met with
great success in the financial world and
was once partner of Jay Gould.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-10-04

The use Of Latin by physicians Ia
prescription writing is commonly re.
garded as q harmless survival of me
dlevaliSm. says the Literary Digest
Occasionally Il lay wri ter suggests its
abandonment. In commenting on Il re.
cent note to this effect IN Il daily pa.
per, which advocates the compulsory
use of English in prescriptions. the
Druggists Circular and Chemical Ga.
zette takes occasion 10 make Il .trope
defense of the time -honored practice
Says this paper:
suppose the Sapicnt writer quoted
whose uttelancCS may sound all right
10 those who know no more of his sub.
his physician should decide that the
one thing needful 10 save his life was
geranium robcrtianium. If there were
law preventing the doctor from pre-
scrbing in Latin he would have TO
choose one of the upward of dozen
English names for this drug. suppose
he chose 'redShanks' AMI 80 wrote the
word in his prescription. When the
druggist went TO prepare the medicine
he would find that 'redshankS was the
English name of at least four entirely
different plants, namely, the one nj.
ready mentioned. polygonium amphib-
ium. polygonium persicaria and rumex
acctOSa.
AS with redshanks 50 with hun
drcdS of other drugs: Aaron'> beard
may be cotinuS continuS. cymbaldria
cymbalaria or saXifragI sarmentCSa
Of snakeroots there are numberless
kinds. Suppose the English-writinc
doctor wanted TO he sure of getting the |
right kind. SO specified snakeroot. then
Is the druggist 20 dispense cimicifuca
racemoSa. asarum cauadeuse or saui- |
,ula Marylandica:'
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-10-04
\ Late Edition.

julius Kahn, representative from San
Francisco, was IN Washington when the
earthquake came and was nearly fran
tic, because his wife and children, in
Guiding a baby few days Old were di-
rectly in the path of the fire.
kahn spent two days trying to telo-
grapn and then took train and went
out. and finding his family safe, stayed
week or SO in the ruined city.
On his return he found n letter from
constituent. written eight days after
the shock. which began:
Dear Julius: NO doubt you will be
surprised to learn from me that we
have Lad terrible earthquake out
here. Saturday Evening Post