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GLOBOSITIES. Note the change of dates in county treasurer's notice. Mont Ward made proof on his timber culture today before the clerk. Mise Daisy Downing visited friends on Trailfork the first of this week. L. W. Darling and Edgar Moore were the latest to join our braes band. Mrs. M. J. Johnson and son Charley havereturned from their Pendleton visit. Dr. Hogan is expected home from Foswill today. Dr. Ho ward arrived home last/Tuesday. Mr. G. W. Rinehart left yesterday for a month's visit with relatives and friends in Lane county. Ed Nelson has returned from a twoweeks' tour of the inland towns with a Portland drummer. Miss Julia Thompson of Matney Flat arrived home M onday from a visit with friends in Portland. The wheat gamblers any there will be just 470,000,000 bushels of wheat grown in this country this season. E. P. Weir delivered 50 head of fine beef cattle at Arlington the first of the week, for the Portland market. Mrs, Maddock received the sad news Tuesday from Michigan that her aged mother, Mrs. Murphy, is seriously ill. It is a sad sight to see the cutworms climbing a telegraph pole hunting for leaves, pathetically remarks a California exchange. Jim Silvertooth has left The Dalles and engaged in the hotel and saloon business at the lively mining town of Rossland, B. C. A number of our young people attended a pleasant leap year party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Parman Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Blake have purchased John Miller's residence property Condon, and will sell the their other town property. Father Briordy will conduct services at Condon next Sunday, at Arlington on Friday, Aug. 7th, and at Heppner on Sunday, Aug. 9th. There is another case of measles in town, that of little Ruth Halstead, who is stopping with ber grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart. Born, on July 20th, to Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Portwood, at Monmouth, a 9-lb daughter. H. is a brother of the Portwood boys of this place. Anyone desiring to purchase a firstclass new organ at less than ½ the price charged by agents, can learn of the snap by applying at this office. Ed Dunn and family and his sister Susan left last week for a month's visit with relatives in Michigan. Jim is "batching it" while they are away. Miss Petrenella Connolly and Miss Edith Wright are among the most popular young ladies summering: Holman's at the sea coast.-Portland Telegram. A. J. Titus, a brother of the Titus boys who formerly resided at Arlington, committed suicide last Monday at his home near Dayton, Wash., by hanging himself. Mr. Ed Coats, a Douglas county farmer, is up in this section looking at the country with a view to locating. He is a guest of H. B. Hendricks, an old acquaintance of his. Remember the public installation and grand intertainment in the W.O. W. hall at Condon Thursday night of next week. All are cordially invited to attend. It will be a rare treat. Two large doors, each 6x12. have been placed in the partition between the two rooms of our school honse, for the purpose of throwing both rooms into one when occasion demands it. R. T. Cox, receiver of the Arlington bank, has returned from his rusticating trip to the Wallowa valley and spent Wednesday in Pendleton, returning to Arlington next day.-E. O. William J. Bryan is the first presidential nominee to come from further west than Illinois. Since 1860 the democratic nominee, with but one exception, has been a resident of New York state. The Barney sheep are now being pastured at Soda Springs, Idaho. John Meek writes us that Dr. Palmer, formerly of Fossil, is in the drug business in that town and is doing fairly well. The Palace hotel building at Heppner was sold Saturday at sheriff's sale for $11,983.11, and was bought by County Clerk J. W. Morrow. The property cost over $80,000 when it was built five years ago. Those who attended the state fair at Salem last fall will remember W. J. Bryan, democratic presidential nominee, as the person who delivered the $200 speech during the close of the fair.Union Republican. Dave Mason of Arlington, ex-assessor of Gilliam county, was in this section last week, collecting and renewing loans for the Arlington National Bank. He says he finds money very scarce and collections hard to make, Mrs. E. Curran, of Oakland, Cal., arrived here today on a visit to her old home and will remain several weeks. Mrs. Curran has been visiting her sister. Mrs.