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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-05

Laura McMillin of Jackson, Tenn. The
comfortable old southern home was
beautiful in its decorations of fragrant
spring flowers. The hall was in
green and white. The parlor was
beautif1ed with hundreds of dainty,
vari-colored sweet peas. Gorgeous
peoples in their royal colorings were
used in the sitting room. In the din
! ing room modest daisies were massed
in graceful array, large basket of
/ these pretty flowers formed the center
niece of the handsome table. The
basket was tied with bows of white
tulle.
Mrs Meade Frierson, Mrs. R. C.
Ewing and Miss Mary Carpenter re-
ceived the scores of guests as they
entered the hail. Mrs. A. D. Frierson,
Mrs. T. W. Steele of Scott. Ark, Miss
es Mary Frierson, Laura McMillin,
Edna Frierson, Lucia Frierson, Jesse
Wharton, Mittie Elan and Lena B.
Smith received in the parlor In the
sitting room Mrs. Shelton Robinson,
Mrs. ALI Thomas and Mrs. w. M. Chat
fin received, while Misses Halle Fly
and Eloise Steele served frappe In
this room.
Mrs. John w. Frierson and Mrs.
Alex Titcomb presided in the dining
room and were assisted by Misses
Julia Biddle, Rachel Ashton, Elenor
Frierson and Emma Brown. The
white and yellow coloring of the din.
ing room decorations were carried out
in the dainty ices and cakes.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Thomas Walker i
Of Hampshire have issued invitations Y
10 the marriage of their daughter
Lnez Amelia, to Mr. Franklin Cald'
we'll of Cleveland, Tenn, the wedding
o take place June 10th at the home Of
he bride
~
Miss Gladys Dedman will give
'retty dance Monday night, compl
nentary to her guest, Miss Virginia
IeSeder. of Nashville This dance
vas to have been on Friday night, but
'as postponed on account Of Miss
Varheld's dance having been set Tor
hat time
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-06-05
SOCIETY.


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Miss Mary Louise McMeen. Of Car
ter's Greek. will give a linen shower
Saturday afternoon in honor OF Miss
ScOviHe MeAIeen, a bride of next week.
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The Tuesday Morning Bridge Club
was pleasantly entertained Tuesday
morning by Mrs Meade Frierson. At
ter an interesting game refreshments
were served.
Mrs. Eugene Long entertained the
IGirls' Card and CotilliOn Club We'd
nesday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
w. ]. Webster Bridge was played at
FIVE tables. An ice course was served
after the game.
B.
Mrs. Martha H. Hackney, of Mt.
Pleasant, announces the engagement
and approaching marriage of her
daughter, Eva Reams, to Mr.. Marvin
Hendley Gray, the wedding to be quiet
ly solemnized at eight o'clock, June
gath, 1908. No cards.
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The A. T. o. Society of the Public
School had a picnic at Dark's Mill
Thursday. The crowd went out on
the train. A nice dinner was spread
and enjoyed by ALL After dinner all
engaged in wading and other amuse-
ments.
B.
The C. L. S. Society of the High
School had picnic Friday at Cedar
Grove After dinner all went to the
cave on Mr.. Hughes farm, but very
few were brave enough to go in.
stayed in the cave about two hours,
but would not have stayed so long, If
they could have gotten out sooner.
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Miss Laura McMillin, of Jackson,
the guest of Miss Edna Frierson, was
the honoree of bridge party given
Tuesday afternoon by Miss Mary Dale
Craig. Bridge was played at three
tables. After the game an ice course
was served The parlors were artis-
tically decorated in cut flowers and
potted plants.
r.
ba 1p i'm |
Club gave the largest and most de-
Iightful dance in the history of the
Monday evening, compli-
mentary to the cadets of the Columbia !
Military Academy There were a
number of visitors from a distance
and the dancing continued till late
hour. Frappe was served during the
evening.
Mrs. Noble Blair and Miss Willie
Blair entertained about two dozen of
heir young lady and gentlemen 4
riends Monday evening at the home y
4 Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Blair in South y
columbia. Progressive "Zum" and 4
Inch were played and a guessing d
ontest INDUCED in, in which Miss y
Wallace excelled, winning N
he prize a handsome box of candy. RI
he entertainment was in the way of W
surprise to Mrs Blair's husband, ~
'oble G. Blair, as Monday was his \!
irthday. A large cake had been
aked on which were set "a dainty
tile candles. After the game an ice ii
purse was served OF
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Mrs. Eugene Long entertained the
Girls Card and Cotillion Club We'd
nesday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
w. ]. Webster. Bridge was played at
five tables. An ice course was served
after the game.
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Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15

each state have, as now, representation
by its master and his wife. who are to
be the only representatives from states
having 10000 members or less, and in
addition one representative and his
wife for each additional 10000 mem.
bers. This will not unduly increase the
size of the national grange, adding only
thirty-four members to that body, and
will not increase the expenses to a
point that will be at all burdensome,
the approximate additional cost being
about 1000.
This is not plan, say the promoters
of it, to discourage the weak states, but
rather to give additional incentive to
building up the Order, each state wing
with the others and striving to in
crease its membership and influence III
the national body. This will encourage
effort and put a premium on grange
zeal and enthusiasm. 1t will open a
new era in the history of the national
grange. sending, as it will, new mem
bers to each session and infusing new
life, new energy and new thought into
the governing body, making it more
representative of the Order and more
responsive to the progressive thought
Of its membership More than this, it
gives simple justice to those states
which have carried the grange banner
forward against discoura cement and
opposition and won for the Order rec
oO,1fffo,a ord In A,,aus.a
In accordance with the above res0lu.
ton the executive committee of the
Michigan state grange is asking ev-
cry subordinate grange in the United
States to take action in this matter of
increasing the representation. There
are five states now that have as many
members combined as all the other or
ganized grange states In the Union. yet
the five have only ten delegates, while
the other twenty-five, with only about
one-third the total membership, have
forty-four. Is it right. the committee
asks, that New York state, with about
10000 members and contributing about
$500 to the national grange treasury
every year, should have no larger rep
resentation than state paying only
about $40 annually into the national
treasury?
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15
THE NATIONAL caANGE
"A Movement to Increase Number
of Delegates.

The Michigan State Grange Is Procur
ing the Sentiment of Every Suhor.
dinate Grange In the United States on
Representation In the National Body
The Michigan state grange at its an
nual meeting voted to memorialize the
Order throughout the United States in
behalf of such revision Of the eonsti
tuition as will provide for and estab
iish more just and equitable repre-
sentation in the national grange than
now prevails. The following resolution
was adopted:
Resolved by the Michigan state grange
in annual session assembled, That we fa-
vor amending the constitution of the ma
tional grange by increasing the number
of delegates in the national body in pro-
portion to membership in tire various
states by adding to the master and his
wife from each state organized. as is now
provided an additional delegate and his
wife fer each 10000 members over and
above the first 10,000.
Resolved, That we hereby instruct the
executive committee of the Michigan
state grange to place before each subordi-
nate and Pomona grange in the United
States the sentiment in the above prean-
BILE and resolutions and, Il favored, re-
quest that the delegates t. the next na-
tional grange be instructed as above
The founders of the Order doubtless
had in mind the federal system of our
national government when drafting the
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15

IF you are seetng that man AqYaitage-n
her blood leaped with the sense of ad-
venture and her pulse sang with the
joy of fight. Her thoughts were free.
wild things, and she exulted In the
great starry vault and the cool heights
over which she rode. Who was John
Armita ge? She did not know or care
now that she had performed for him
Ter last service. Quite likely he would
fade away on the morrow like noun
tain shadow before the sun, and the
song in her heart tonight was not love
or anything akin to 1t, but only the JOY
of living.
Where the road grew difficult as ii
dipped sharply down into the valley
she suffered him perforce to ride be-
side her. She drew rein at the cross
roads.
1--WE part here. How shall | return
Bucephalus2
Let me go to your ewn gate
please3s
Not at alll'' she said, with decision
sThen Oscar will pick him up. #
you don't see him. turn the horse loose
But my tilanks--for oh, SO many
thingsr' he pleaded.
Tomorrow or the day after or
nevers'
She laughed and put out her hand
and when be tried to detain her she
spoke to the horse and flashed away
toward home, He listened. marking
her tight until the ghadoWs Of the vals
ICY stoie sound ana sight from him
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15
..You should not go out alone,

Don't trouble about me. | shan't go
far. think we are safe until two gen
tlemen have met in Washington, dis
cussed their affairs and come down
into the mountains again. The large
brute we caught the other night is uIi-
doubtedly on watch near by, but he is
harmless. Only few days more and
we shall perform a real service in the
world, sergeant feel it in my bones. =
He took his hat from bench by the
door and went out upon the yeranda
The moon had already slipped down
behind the mountains, but the stars
trooped brightly across the heavens.
He drank deep breaths Of the cool air
of the mountain night and felt the
dark wooing him with its calm and
peace He returned for his cloak and
walked into the wood. He followed
the road to the gate and then turned
toward the Port of Missing Men. He
had formed quite definite plans of
what he should do in certain emer-
gencies. and he felt a new strength in
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15

q lldfToaU cat IN +bo vollou
and he smiled with the thought of her,
for soon perhaps in a few hours-he
would be free to go to her, his work
done, and no mystery or dangerous
task would henceforth lie between
them. He walked quite to the brink
Of the chasm and laid his hand upon
the iron cable from which swung the
bridge.
q shall soon be free" he said, with
d deep sigh. and looked across the star
lighted hills.
Then the cable under his hand vi
brated slightly. At first he thought it
the night wind stealing through the
vale and swaying the bridge above the
sheer depth. But still he felt the
tingle of the iron rope in his clasp, and
his hold tightened and he bent forward
to listen. The whole bridge now audi
bly, shook with the pulsation of step
"a soft, furtive step, as of one cautious
" cropping a way over the unsubstan-
tial flooring Then through the star
light he distinguished a womans fig
gre and drew back. a loose plank in the
bridge floor ratified, and as she passed
it freed itself, and he heard it strike
the rocks family far below, but the
figure stole swiftly on, and he bent
forward, with a cry of warning on his
lips. and snatched away the light bar
ricade that had been nailed across the
opening.
When he looked up his words of re-
buke, that had waited only for the
woman's security, died on his lips.
"Shirleyr' he cried and put forth
both hands and lifted her to firm
ground
A little sigh of relief broke from her
The bridge still swayed from her
weight, and the cables hummed like
the wires of harp. Near at hand
the waterfall tumbled down through
the mystical starlight.
.I did not know that dreams really
came true,s he said, with an awe in
bis voice that the passing fear had left
behind.
She began abruptly. not needing his
words.
sYou must go away at once. came
to tell you that you cannot stay here
"But it is unfair to accept any warn
Ing from youl You are too generous
TOO kind" he began.
1T is not generosity or kindness, but
this danger that follows you. It is ar
evil thing, and it must not find you
here. It is impossible that such q
thing can be in America. But yot
must go. You must seek the laws
aid"
How do you know | dareY'
Il don't know that you dareI''
Il know that you have a great hear
and that love you" he said.
She turned quickly toward the bridge
as though to retrace her steps,
Il can't be paid for a slight. very
slight, service by fair words. Mr. Armi
tage II you knew why ! came
@If l dare think or believe or hope
eYou will dare nothing of the kind
ssr. Arnitagel'' she replied .fBut
viii tell you that ! came out Of or
binary Christian humanity. The ides
Of friends. of even slight acquaint
ances. being assassinated in these Vir
gInia hills does not please me"
.How do you classify me. please
With friends or acquaintances9 r
He laughed; then the gravity Of whai
she was doing changed his tone.
II am John Armitage That Is all
xou know, and yet yon hazard youl
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15

don't hesitate to tel you that value
your life much higher than you do"
"That is quite unnecessary. 1t may
amuse you to know that, as am a
person of little curiosity. am not the
least concerned in the solution of of
what might be called the Armitage
...1.Jt. >,
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15
oet Busy.

Now's the time TO boom the grange.
Get busy.
Sing her praises up and down.
Get busy.
Best farm order there is on earth
The first enc now, as first at birth
Tell your neighbors what It's worth
Get busy.
What's the use to sit and niope2
Get busy.
Hustle, rustic. That's the dope
Get busy.
Are there drones within the hive2
Chsxck en- out They rs not alive.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15
cranue Scholarships Winners.

The following are the winners of the
New York state grange scholarships at
Cornell Agricultural college; Miss NJ.
Elizabeth Long Of Waterloo. G. Owen
Carman Of Trumansburg, Warren
Giles of Skaneateles. Jesse Walker Of
North Chatham. Henry Blessing Of
voorheesville and Alton Rogers Of
Canandaigua.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15

grange constiti1-
ton. They pro
yided for the
representation Of
each state as in
the United States
senate. but for
the reason al
ready referred to
failed to provide
for a separate
representation of
the membership
as provided by
the house of rep
reSentativeS in
the national con
gress. The plan
proposed by the
Michigan state
grange is to COM
Al L
Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-15

b is confidence
that he should
succeed in the
business t b a t
had brought him
into the hills.
At the aban-
doned bridge he
threw himself
down and gazed
off through a
narrow cut that
fforde e d a
glimpse of the
Springs, where
the electric
lights cleaned
as one IA ~ p.
S hir1ey Clai-
borne was there
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-07-16
NO. 1lD

The Brownsville Wooden mild is
fully in operation again.
A Eugene man picked ssD
pounda of cherries in one day.
Forest Grove is to have a g}oyn
factory and cigar factory.
A bear ate up a calf on a fs7zx
only three miles from Junction
City.
Yamhi'l county claims to have
the largest fruit evaporator Oh tbe
Pacific coast, and the largest cnn
in the world is aaid to be in Ben
ton county.
One thousand gallons O. near
beer" were sold by an enterprisiDg
Albany individual during the re-
cent celebration in that city, and
nobody got drunk.
Washington county is the richest
county In Oregon, except MUlsDu-
NAB, says Dairy Commissioner
Bailey and has been made so by
8 he growth Of the dairy industry
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-07-16

A cottage Grove man retired for
the night, leaving his trousers al
the head of bed close to the window
and while in peaceful slumber,
someone raised the screen of the
window and reached in and secured
his pocketbook, abstracted the
money and replaced the pocket
book and garment.
The loganberry industry has
come to stay, and will always be a
profitable one. Farmers claim they
can realize SO cents per pound net,
by drying the berries, says the
Salem Statesman.
A Wallows man sold about 500
gallons of Strawberries last year,
and nearly as much this year, off
of one-fitth of an acre of land.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-07-16
BIG RAIN
STORM
WATER RAN DOWN
DONALDSON CANYON
Greatest Damage was
Washing out of Small
Bridges.

The first storm of the season
and the biggest one for some TIM
occurred in Morrow county Mon
day afternoon.
The storm was general over
big territory, the rain starting IL
at Arlington and extending bach
to the Blue mountains.
Coming fro M the northwest, the
heavy ram was accompanied by a
stiff breeze aud struck Heppner at
a little after 3 o'clock in the after
noon.
For several days prior to the
storm there was Ideal preparatory
weather for an electrical storm.
The weather was hot and sultry
and storm clouds appeared tre-
quently. A peculirr feature of
this storm was the fact that 1t
rained for about four hours so
hard and covered such large ter
ritory.
Willow creek was never out of
it's banks. The water doing slight
damage came down Donaldson
canyon, filling the channel of the
small stream with good sized
overflow which came down Chase
street to a depth of about two feet.
The electric light plant and city
we'll owned by the Heppner Light
& Water company, which is To-
Gated at the mouth of Donaldson
canyon, was not injured. The floor
of the building in which the plant
is located was covered to a depth
of about one foot but the water
was not high enough to injure the
machinery. The pumping plant
was kept at work as usual but ow-
ing to wet belts the light plant
was not started Monday evening
and the city WIS in darkness.
Water covered the lawns of Mrs.
Mitchell, Mrs. Bartholomew, Her.
bert FAINT and Mrs Kelly. The
fence surrounding Mrs. Bartholo-
news residence was considerably
damaged.
The greatest loss was the carry
ing away of several small bridges.
The train was unable to go out
on Tuesday morning owing to drift
on the track at Valentine, small
station near Lexington. The drift
was soon cleared away and the
train came in on time Tuesday
evening.
No damage is reported from the
wheat districts.
Out in Sand Hollow Hynd Bros.
suffered some loss by water flood
ing and covering with mud the |
second crop of alfalfa.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-07-16
Nothing but Bark to Eat.

In northern China people were eating
bark off the trees wheu Osborne Middle
ton was there on tour from Shanghai.
That WAS about month ago accordin G
to letter received by his son O. Mic
dleton, Jr., who is manager of the Ore
gon Pine Export Lumber company, SAYS
the Portland Journal.
The country had been swept by fear
ful dust storms, so that nearly every
where the growing crops lay buried un-
der four or five inches of dust. Sup
plies had run low and the people were
without money. Thousands managed
to keep body and sonl together by peel
ing bark eff the trees and subsisting
thereon. Some were so badly starved
that they looked more like skeletons
than living beings,
The writer says thonsndS Will un-
doubtedlv perish pefore anything can be
done to relieve toem. Many were on
the verge of death when Mr.. Middleton
left Ten Tsin apout four weeks ago.
They did not seem to know where to
look for help.
Mr.. Middleton Las been in China
acquainted with conditions there and
the peoble. He has visited Portlan j
several times during his stay in the
Orient and expects to spend few weeks
here this fall.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-07-16
TWO NEW BOATS
ON UPPER RIVER
Open River Transportation
Co. Gets Money.

BY long distance telephon
from headquarters of the com
pany at Portland, A. L. Wylit
agent of the Open River Trans
portation company, at this place
today received the information
that all money necessary to tn
building of two new steamers t(
ply on the upper river had beer
subscribed and that Chief Engin
eer Kellogg of the O. r. & n
company, had been sent to Pitts
burg, Pa, for the purpose of over
seeing the construction of ma
chinery to be used in the boats
says The Dalles Chronicle.
about $l15,000 cash has al.
ready been secured" SAID Mr.
Wylie "and the remainder of the
$150,000 has been subscribed
which means that it will be paid
AS soon as it is needed. Mr. kel-
logg will spend some time in Pitts
burg attending to the outlining of
the plans for making the ma
chinery. Material and men will
be transported Immediately from
Portland to the Big Eddy and the
woodwork on the steamers will be
begun right away. The boats will
be ready for service within eight
weeks, SO that the company will
be able to attend to transporting
of the grain of the inland empire
this fall
Continuing, Mr.. Wylie said that
the new boats will be somewhat
after the model of the Teal, now
in use by the company between
The Dalles and Portland, save that
the engines would be much more
powerful the better to combat the
swift waters of the upper river.
The new boats will ply between
Cello and Pasco and later will
probably be extended to Priest
Rapids, Wash. Mr.. Wylie expects
that with the placing in commits
sion of the new facilities for trans
portation on the upper river, the
portage road will of necessity be
enlarged as to equipment and that
probably an extra engine and many
lew cars will be used to carry the
produce from the great country Of
he interior around the rapids at
Cello.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-07-16

A Kansas man who with one or
two relatives has been out to Lane
county several times on visits has
concluded to come to stay, says
The Register. Last week terrific
hailstorm came and cut every ves-
tige of crop he had close to the
ground and now he is packing up
and will come at once.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-07-16
To the Teachers of Morrow County
lone. Oregon, July 18th, 1908.

lone. Oregon, July 18th, 1908.
Owing to the last edition OF the State
course of study being exhausted; hence
it is impossible for many applicants for
the forthcoming August examination to
secure courses of study from which to
make preparation for such examination.
Therefore, no questions in any subject
are to be taken from the State course OF
study for the August 1905 examination.
Respectfully yours,
S. |. STRATToN,
School Superintendent.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-07-16

The first time in history accord
ing to Coos bay paper, two tor
pedO boats and two destroyers
went up Coos bay last week, and
took aboard supply of coal for a
trial on their trip down the coast.
This coal can be had at 81 a ton,
while such as they have been using
cost $40.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-07-16
HORSES KILLED
BY LIGHTNING
Struck a Barn in Which
Animals Were Sheltered.

Two horses belonging to B. F.
Clark, who resides about - miles
north of Heppner, were killed
Monday afternoon by lightning.
Mr.. Clark had Just driven the
horses into the barn to shelter
them from heavy rainstorm when
lightning struck the barn AMI the
horses Were killed.