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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1904)
LOCAL AND PERSONAL ,-E. W, Strong, the sawmill man was in Portland last week. Mr, and Mrp. Gene Simpson are spending tbe week in Portland. ' "Mrs; John Allen , has been visit ing in Portland for several days. . Lawrence Albright" is teported dargerouely ill at his ho.e in this city. Assessor Howell, of Lincoln coun ty, was in Corvallie last week ou business The Democraiic National Con vention will iiieet at St Louis, July -6th, 1904. The Prohibition National Con vention will meet at Indianapolis, June 29. 1904. Miss Ruth Vebis was a passen 3er for Corvallis Thursday . Leb anon Advertiser, Oscar Healy and family expect to leave about March let. for Port land where they will reside. Mrs. Ruth Cauthoro, of this city, is visiting at the heme of Evan Evans, in Parker, in Polk county. The Republican National Con vention ha8beeu called to meet in Chicago, on Tuesday. Juut 21, 1904. F. A Taylor, of Portland, agent for the Wiley B. Allen piano busi ness made ou city a brief call last week. The Corvallis & Eastern Com pany are rebuilding a large portion of the , Yaquina dock Newport News. ' Rev. H. N. Smith, of Portlanl was in the city on Sunday, and preached at the Congregational church. . Mrs. P. T. Hill returned to Port land last Thursday, after visiting several days with her sister, Mrs. J. C. Hammel, in this city. About six inches of snow fell in this vicinity on Sunday night. The foothills west of Corvallis were well covered wiih snow on Sunday. W. W. Billings, of near Foster, was a passenger for Corvallis Thurs day, where he goes to be examined for an increase of pension. Leban on Advertiser. Ferguson Chapter, R. -A. M. meets in regular convention at Ma sonic Hall, on Wednesday evening of this week, Feb. 10 Work in the M. M. degree expected. SenUrJohu D Daly, IT. S Surveyor-general of Oregon, was in the city ou Saturday, on business and returned to Portland on Sun day. He expresses' himself pleased with the aspect of tbe political situ ation this year. Dr. Lowe will not be hre again lor 6 months. When you happen to pass a light ed residence in the evening, and you hear noises that sound like a politi cal convention trying to drown out -a boiler shop working overtime, don't get frightened they are enly playing "pit". Dr. Lowe the optician does not go from house to house. No first class optician does. A meeting of the ladies of the Episcopal church has been called at the residence of Mrs. C. E. Hout, tomorrow afternoon. The object of the meeting is to reorganize the Guild, and to discuss several busi ness matters connected with the church. Dr. Lowe's superior glasses cost no more than others and you have the benefit of his 18 years experi ence. The Sorosis Literary Society of theO. A. C. entertained the Fero man Society at their hall . on Friday afternoon. The exercises consisted of music and recitation, followed by a dainty lunch. The tables were elegantly decorated with violets, and the souverfirs were ex quisite hand-painted cards, of vio lets, with the society name. Don't wait till the last moment to see Dr. Lowe about your eyesas he is always rushed the last day. Look in the window of the Zieroff building opposite the Post Office, and see the fine show of prizes for the shooting matches on the 22nd of this month. Tne Gun Club "is making every effort to bring about a successful shoot. Also remember tnis is a strictly local shoot, and that professionals from other towns can not compete. Dr. Lowe the wall known oculo optician is now in Corvallis at the Occidental Hotel. He goe3 to Al bany Thursday morning. TheO. A. C. basket ball team defeated the U. of O squad at Eu gene last Friday night by a score of -5 to 22. Ths game was very close and interesting and was witnessed by 400 spectators. The O. A. C. boys were given a reception in the vening. The next game for the lo cal college is next Thursday night, when they will meet the University of Washington team. The regular examinations of teachers txgins in Corvallis at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning and cont nues untii'Saturday. " r : . Dr. Lowe the oculo optician, ar rived in town yesteaday, and is idomioih-d for two more davs at the j Occidental. He will remaiu Wed 'day. - ' Meetings still continue at the M. jE. church Rev. Fwse. a man re jcently -from the East spoke iasi night and wilt remain over next Sunday. Come ana hear him. The Benton County Lumber Co's mill and planer at Philomath re euuifd operations laet werk, after a two month's lay off during which time numerous repairs lu the plant were made. II V. Gates, the first -Constructing Chief Engineer of the C. & E Railroad, of .which he was after wards Superintendent, was in the ci;y on Saturday and Sunday. He stopped at the Occidental. The ladies of the Congregational church will give a pocial tea at ihe reeidt-nce cf Mrs E. Pernot, on 4th Sireet, between Madison and Mon roe, on Wednediy evening, Feb. 10 A general invitation- is extended to gentlemen as well as ladies. The meeting nights of the East ern Star lor the balance of the year are s follows: February 23, March 29, April 26, May 24, June 21, July 26, August 23, Octoher 18, Novem ber 22, December 20. The meet ings arp to be held in Masonic Hall, on Second St. , north "of Madison street. Sojourning members . in good standing are invited to be present. Aboul fifteen young people gath ered at the home of Mrs. S E. Moore oo last Saturday evening to celebrate the 18th birthday of Miss Gladys Moore. Orchestra music, songs, impromptu speeches, and games made up a most delightful evening. Dainty refreshments were served. Miss Moore was the recipi ent of many pretty presents. The party dispersed at midnight after extending their well wishes to the fair hostess. Local politicians are watching the trend of events in national politic, and looking rather down j in the mouth as the almost certainty of Hearst's nomination becomes more apparent. Certainly nothing could he more farcial than such a cosu rel ation, but the unternfied must walk uo and take their medicine like lit tre men."" Don't worry too" much, friends. There is no possibility of his election if he does get the nom ination. A telephone message on Sunday to County Recorder T. T. Vincent, announced the severe illness of his wife, at Centralia, Washington; where she went a few days ago to visit her daugbter who resides in that city. Mr. Vincent left yester day for the above named place to be at the bed side of bis wife. Dar ing the absence of County Recorder Vincent-, J. W. Crawford will have charge of the Recorder's office. Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Wilkins enter tained a select party at their resi dence on Saturday evening last. The visitors consisted of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Taylor, Mr. and Mis P. A. Kline. Mrs. Beach, Mrs. Rennie, and Zach Taylor. Whist and Pit were the games of the evening, inter spersed with some fine musical selec tions. A - dainty, but substantial lunch was served at 11 o'clock, and the party broke up reluctantly at midnight. If you have head and eye ache Dr. Low's "Repression" glasses will cure you. The Oregon Historical Society is compiling a Directory of Pioneers, and wants the name and a large number of particulars concerning every person who came to the Ore gon country previous to February 14. 1859 the date when Oregon be came a state. Secretary Himes is sending out cards and circulars re garding the matter to all .those he can hear of, whose records have not already been secured, but if there are any here who think they have not been recorded, they can get par ticulars by addressing him at Port land. The taxpayers should not forget that to get the rebate that the law allows, and to avoid the 10 percent, penalty and the 12 percent interest, the taxes must be paid before April 4th. A rebate of three percent.' is allowed on all taxes paid before April 4th, and if only half is paid at that time the tax payer has un til October 30 to pay the balance, without incurring the penalty. Re member that the oounty has this year the lowest tax levy of any county in the state. This is the proud boast of the present admin istration of county affairs. So, nat urally, every taxpayer has the right to expect his taxes will be lower than ever before. If it isn't$ ask whv? . SHIPPED TO ST. LOUIS. School .Exhibit Now Enroute Big Fair. to The work of the schools of the " r .V ol T,;;cfwnen "will beretnrned to Port county prepared for t he St Lou w Northwest , - .u show windows of S. L Kline, F. L. Miller and Nolan & Calla-J han stores .last Saturday. The work on exhibition was indeed a surprise to our most enthusiastic admirers of our public schools. Many were .surprised to find out what ourschools were and could do. While everyone knew that our school svs tern was in a high state of efficiency, this impression was provenHo ihe satisfaction of all by this excellent: work. When our public school friends consider that it was impossible lor the county superintendent to secure the .necessary ' paper for those in authority '-until the first of January, it shows how fast the work had to be -di ne. Tnis left only, three or four, weeks . for actual woik. v The Corvallis 'Public : School more than did herself proud. Prof. Holmes and bis excellent corps of teachers, who helped, won some excellent laurels. This work was on display at Mil ler The . medle work and number work of the first and sec ond grades, the maps illustrating the products, commerce, ocean currents, growth of population, and maps of Mrs, Campbell's grade,"" the drawings and paint ings of Winona Woodward and Clair Holgate, the illustrated 'Bare Foot Boy" by Miss Fow ell's grade, the nature study work of Lena McCormick's room, the diagram work of the 8th grade, language of . 5th grade, were of special merit. In fact, all of this work was of the high est rank. . The work ot Philomath Col lege stamps that institution as one of the best in Oregon. The work in Greek, latin, astronomy, geology, Cicero an d . Virg'l, the commercial department's work in shorthaiad, letter .writing and bookkeeping could not be beaten anywhere in; Oregon., Besidesi,- this the cartoon work illustrat ing members of the faculty was especially pleasing. The cartoon of Prof. Caldwell ham mering mathematics into the heads of the young with maul and wedge, , the one illustrating State Supt. Ackerman, leaning with ; his hands resting on the shoulders of County Supt. Den - man, saying, .My little . man-. you have just aone splendidly the past year, ' 1 provoked , many a hearty laugh. The photographs of 111 the college buildings were interesting. We are proud we have such an institution in our county. ' -' The work outside of Corvallis on display at Mr. Kline's con tained much work of interest. The drawings of Archie Alter Altermatt, Otto Karstens and El mer Williamson showed much natural ability lor such work. The cabinet of woods displayed in excellent manner what woods were nati ve to our country. . The little boxes : made by children seven and eight years old from Beaver Creek school showed ori ginality and industrial work. The maps from Blodgett, Inde pendent and Alexander districts were well executed. Taking all in all the exhibit as a whole will fittingly represent our educational work, and as Pres. Gatch expressed it, "the exhibit will be a credit to Benton county." This is the first time that an. effort has ever been made to have a county exhibit in which both city, college and country work was prepared. By the showing made it is an honor to the county that -this last effort was made. It shows what a little -organizing will do. Supt. Den- man has organized his work well, and deserves much credit for the work done. It is . hard enough to have our city schools organiz ed but when it comes to organiz ing the work out in the country it is a far more difficult task. If such an excellent exhibit can be prepared in so short a time, we can expect to see old Benton at the top of the ladder in this work at the Lewis and Clark Fair. The photos of Corvallis were prepared with much haste by our city photographers Emery and Gardner. We-' understand they did the work tree of charge and deserve : the thanks of all our citizens. The work is - to Le shipped to Portland the first of i tEe coining week. . It will then be sent to St Louis where it will remain until the exposition closes "lr in 190 c "WHO STRUCK BOB." Did the Spirits do it or was it a ( Josh on Bob? "". Genial Bob, the high-sachem of Tammany, is out on the war path trying to settle the old ques tion that has agitated the human mind for years, Who struck Bob?" He attended a seance on Saturday uight. . Whether it was a genuine affair or a fake put up by the boys no one knows but the latter seems to be the im pression. They got Bob sand wiched in between; two hard citi zens, and the . fun : commenced. The spirits seemed to .have it in for Boo. He soon got a resound ing whack in the back. He held his breath. His breath came in short pants, and as this , was not eh regle'he had to hold it. Then Bob got it again. He tried to catch the hand that hit him, but it was dark and' he couldn't see. Then the blows came thick and fast. : Willie says he got hit sev eral times that's the story be told Bob but when he says it winks a long, slow wink. And still the unsolved problem re mains, "who struck Bob?" . O. A. C. Locals, BY BERT YATES Friday night the Utopian Liter ary Society, at Miss Etta Fuller's, held a party in honor of Miss Lena Tartar. Members of the Feromians sere naded Miss Mary Sutherland Sat urday evening and then all repaired to the home of Miss Ethel Linville for a taffy-pull and general good time. Bert Geer, a nephew of T. T. Geer and a well remembered O. A. O. student of two years Ago, now holds a position on ths foice of the "American," a New York paper. Berts cousin, Homer Davennort. refuse4 s'Presideniiri-sar ary Irom toe same paper, and is rlDw on the lecture platform. ? Professor Coote returned Tuesday from Portland wh r ? h with Pr -fessors Withycomle and Lake, cop -ferred with a committee of th Lewis & Clark Board, with regard to the College's taking a plot of land at the Fair Grounds. The college has selected 5 acres and has located a site for the building and green- I house. Director General Goode ac cepted Professor Coote's plans for the Greenhouse etc. It is planned to set out 4000 rose trees on the O. A. 0. at the air. At right ' an gles to all the roads in the grounds are to be rows of rose trees, making the entire Fair Grounds a veritable "Garden of Roses." , Friday evening, in their society rooms, the Sorosis Literary Society gave an entertainment in honor of the Feronians. Anung the num bers on -the program were; Solo, Lulu Spangler; reading, Lucile Roberts; selection, Sorosischorus; reading, Edna Osbbrh;" piano solo, Jaunite Rosendorf; recitation, Belle Bonnie. The final number was a vocal trio by Misses Bonnie, Gar field, and Kennison. Miss Bonnie took i thy part of a very operatic soprano, Miss . Garfield sang , bass, and Miss Kennison accompanied, when she could be persuaded to fol low the music before her and not wander off on Hiawatha or some other popular , air. The young ladies were a wared boqueis . of cab bage leaves etc. Following the pro gram refreshments, . consisting of fruit salad, wafers, and candy were served . The remainder of the "even ing was spent in music and danc ing. The young ladies declare that they enjoyed themselves much more than if they had "had a crowd of noisy boys along." A large crowd attended the Degree of Honor entertainment on last Friday evening. Among the numbers on the program were two taken from a program rendered some time ago at one of the society parties at the College. One was Young Lochinvar'" with Miss Florence Wicks as Lochinvar, Mvr tie HarringtDn, th bride, Louise Gilbert, the father, Essie Adams, the mother, Ethel Linville the bride groom, Florence Adams, the priest, and Marie Elgin and Margaret McCormick bridesmaid?. The ot her number was "A Little Gir 's View of Life,": by Miss Golda Lamar There were many other interesting features of the program by mem bers of the order, all of which went to make up a fine entertainment. February Sale ; This is cleaning-up month, stock-adjusting, cleaning the deck 4or Spring business. ; Therefore, you will fincl here that goods are lower in price not because they have decreased in value, but because our policy will not permit carrying them over another season. ' .. ' v VALUES AND WORTH OF MATERIALS NOT 1 ... CONSIDERED . . . ' - ' Ladies Jackets. $ 3 00 Ladies Jackete.at....... ..$1 50 4 00 Ladies Jackets at ........... 2 00 5 00 Ladies Jackets at 2 50 ' 7 50 Ladivs Jackets ati... 3 75 10 OoYadios Jackets at... . 5 00 5 00 and $6 00 Children's Jackets 2 50 1-3 off on Ladles Furs. ' - f-off oo Ladies Wrappers. t-3 off on Ladiea Skirts. Corsets in broken lines, 50 cents on ; the dollar. . A few pieces of 50c. Dress Goods at 25c. per yard. It's only how quickly we can . . . . new Spring fabrics .... r;"'.':.&;.:-k-:klJNft'-.- Regulator - of - tow Prices ES-k HOTEL CORVALLIS. A J. C. HAMK1EL, Prop. HEADQUARTERS FOR 0. J. BLACKLEDG-E, ftirnittireaPffiwsic Store The public is invited to Bed Room Suits Woven Wire Mattresses, Extension Tables, Children's Rockers, Dining Chairs, . Kitchen Treasures, Side Boards, Musical Instruments, SECOND HAND PIANOS AND ORGANS FOR SALE OR FOR1RENT. South Main St. 0. J. BLACKLEDGE Now is the Time : . . To have your ' Watch Repaired, Clock Cleaned, Spectales Fixed. All work is done Neatly and Promptly ... ... And Satisfaction is Guaranteed. E. W. S. PRATT, The Jeweler and Optician. 5SStore closes at 6 p. m. except Saturday. Home-Seekers: If you are looking for some real good bargains in Stock. Grain Fruit and Poultry Ranches, write for my special list or come and see me. I shall take pleasure in giving you all tbe reliable ipforrcation you wish also Eho wing ycu over the country. . HENRY AMBLER, Sd'iSuan.;. Philomath, Benton County, Oregon mvenkory Ladies Waists. $t 25 Ladies' Waists at... , $ 85 1 50 Ladies Waists at.................. 1 05 2 00 Ladies Waists at...: .'. 1 35 2 50 Ladies Waists at 1 70 3 00 Ladies Waists at.................. 2 00- v 1-3 off oa Wool Waists. ' ' Brussels Carpet 50c. yd. S5c. Cottage Carpet at 25c. 40c. Window Shades at 25c. eacb. 1-3 off on all small pieces of mat tin. 1-3 off on broken lines of lace cur tains. clean up and make room for tbe Leading hotel in Corvallis. Newly furnished with modern conveni ences. Rates $1, $1.25, $2 per day. . . . . ... . COMMERCIAL MEN, come aDd'seemysteck of Bpd Lounges and Couches. A good line of Mattresses, Center Tables, Children's High Chairs, Chiffonniers. Rockers, Kitchen Safes, -Window Shades, Bamboo Furniture, just in