The Dalles Daily Chronicle, Saturday, December 20, 1890, page three LOCAL BREVITIES H.M. Baxter of Athens, is in the city. School Superintendant Shelley came up from Hood River (Oregon) to-day. Filloon Bros. report their plow trade excellent, which indicates that plowing is being carried on extensively. Mr. T.M.A.J. Parrish of Waldron (Oregon), accompanied by William Waters, and Robert A. Gilliam are in the city. Mr. W.R. Kirk of the Brownsville (Oregon) woolen mills is in the city, looking after wool. He has come to the right spot. Mr. Harry Blanchard, the gentlemanly purser of the steamer D.S. Baker, took his departure for Portland to-day, where he will remain for the winter. Mr. A.M. Harris shipped a carload of cattle to-day to Portland. They came from Mountain home [sp], Idaho. amd were taken off here to feed and rest. Mrs. McNaill and daughter, who have been visiting Mrs. J.M. Filloon, returned to their home in Portland this morning. Deputy U.S. Marshall Sinnosett passed down on the train to-day with four U.S. prisoners gathered in from the Umatilla Indian Reservation and vicinity. Colonel Sinnott of the Umatilla House excelled himself yesterday, and served as fine a dinner to the Portland visitors as one would care to sample. Mr. D.T. Stanley, editor of the NORTH CHRISTIAN of Portland, accompanied by his wife, were among the visitors to this city and North Dalles (Dallesport, Washington) yesterday. We acknowledge a pleasant call. Mr. C.G. Abbott, the fine stock man, of Kingsley (Oregon) arrived here from Portland, yesterday with some fine blood mares which he has had below during the summer. Some days ago the OREGONIAN contained an article on Ghost dances and the Messiah craze, in which the old dreamer and medicine man, "Smoholla," was called a Sioux Indian. Smoholla was a Columbia river Indian, who inhabited the country around White Bluffs, and was a man of great influence as a dreamer. The school exhibition at Hood River is said to have been one of the finest things of the kind ever given. Professor P.A. Snyder and Miss Cora Butler, in charge of the school have done exceedingly good work, and the way they trained the children for the exhibition showed deep interest and much patience and hard work. Their services are thoroughly appreciated and Hood River will hardly let them go. In our search for items this morning, we came across a new enterprise just started in the city, in the shape of Rustic Chair works, the men conducting it are Messrs. Liverman & Andrews, of Oregon City (Oregon). The chairs are a novelty, as they are made of hazel sprouts and are very neat and strong as well as ornamental. Their works are on Court strett between (page cut off here). F.P. Taylor has a couple of Christmas porkers at his shop that will weigh respectively 480 and 505 pounds. License to wed was issued this morning to Herman H. Theodore Stoneman, aged thirty-seven and Mrs. Dora E. Smith, aged twenty-eight. Mr. Peter Ruffner was somewhat astonished this morning while passing Maier & Bentons with a load of wood, by the "nigh" hihed wheel coming off his wagon and anchoring him in the street. [The American Heritage Dictionary Aug. 1994 - "nigh": Near in time, place or relationship; close, near. Does not refer to "hihed" - a possible typo error?.] George W. and Isaac P. Joles have made three trips to Sherman county, goose hunting and have killed 204 geese on these trips, which we think entitles them to the championship belt. A deed from the state of Oregon to Hampton Kelley for forty acres of school land, the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section sixteen, township five, south of range ten, east, was filed this morning. A pleasant surprise party was given Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Wiley one evening this week, the occasion being the second anniversary of their wedding. A large number of their young friends called on them taking them entirely by surprise, but they had a splendid time just the same. Cardinal Gibbons has sent a letter of sympathy on the persecution of the Russian Jews for Publication, and says: "Friends of hamanity must deplore these persecutions. For my part I cannot conceive how Christians can entertain other than kind sentiments toward the Hebrew race when it is considered how much we are indebted to them." Hotel Arrivals for the Past Twenty-four Hours Umatilla House C.P. Balch, Dufur. Mrs. O.M. Scott, Grant. F.E. Holm, Omaha (Nebraska?) J. Condon, La Grande. Thomas Cartin, Albina. C.E. McIntosh, city. C. Bailey, city. W.B. Curtis, San Francisco (California). Honorable O.M. Scott, Grant. A. Rand, La Crosse, Wisconsin. A.W. Mahan, La Crosse, Wisconsin. C.E. Lenx, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Thomas Jenkins, Grants Ferry. L.N. Rice, Seattle (Washington). W.R. Kirk, Brownsville. J.C. Baker, Hartland. Mrs. J.H. Cradlebaugh, Hood River. Neil McLeod, Grant. William Cummings, Goldendale (Washington). H.W. Baxter, Athens. C.G. Abbott, Tygh Valley. S. Tucker, Albina. G. Letford, Albina. E.W. Olds, Kansas City. Mrs. Eddy, Newark, O (Ohio?) R. McCann, Fossil A.E. Lawyer, Fossil. MASONIC ELECTION At the regular communication of Dalles Chapter of Royal Arch Mason No. 6 held at Masonic hall December 17th, the following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing Masonic year. R.F. Gibons, H.P.; C.C. Hobert, K.; E. Shannon, S.; Thomas Olsen, Cap. of H.; W.S. Myers, P.S.; John Marden, R.A. Cap; I.I. Burget, G.M. of 3rd V.; G.V. Bolton, G.M. of 2nd V.; D.L. Gates, G.M. of 1st V.;G.A. Liebe, Treasurer; George Knaggs, Secretary; F.G. Closter, Sentinel. Installation January 12, 1891. 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