The City
and Vicinity
Complete outfits for camping parties
at Blackledge's furniture store. 8-3-tf
' Acme Quality Paints and Floor Var
nish that wears at A. L. Miner's.
5-17-tf.
Ice cream delivered on thirty minutes
notice by Winkley's Palace of Sweets.
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Sale Kitchen range in good
Call at once, 429 Sixth street.
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Master Raymond Turner is still quite
ill with the measles.
Lee Henkle and wife left this morn
ing for the big fair at Seattle.
C. A. Dobell has bought a house and
bt of Mr. Armstrong at the corner of
3rd and Van Buren.
William Jardine,, of the government
service, with headquarters at Washing
ton, D. C, was in Corvallis yesterday
in attendance at O. A. C. board meet
ing. He made a report in regard to the
location of the Eastern Oregon experi1
ment station.
For
order.
Miss Essie Bell came home Saturday
evening from a six weeks' stay at the
Seattle fair. She went to stay as long
as her money held out and got back
with pyapt.lv 3ft cents in her noeketbook.
Miss Margaret Fowells arrived home , ghe had a delightful staVj but win have
to work steadily for four years to
yesterday morning from a month's visit
in California. Her brother, Harry
Fowells, came with her to visit here in
definitely. Eat Golden Rod Flakes,
They are better for breakfast,
Than old-fashionedcorn cakes,
And five minuets time,
Is all that it takes
At Kline's. 6-litf
Mrs. W. J. Kerr left today for Se
attle, accompanied by her daughters
Vesta and Geneva. Pres. Kerr's
mother and sister Bertha, who have '
been visiting here, were also members
of the party.
Mrs. Briggs, mother of Mrs. A. L.
Knisely, with daughters, Ima and Clare, !
arrived last night - from Battle Creek, '
catchup.
A big force of workman is now en
gaged in rearranging the tracks in the
railroad yards at Albany, changing the
location of old tracks and laying new
ones. The rearranging pi. the yards is
for the puprose of handling traffic and
also to place tracks so the trains
frpm the Springfield and Lebanon
branches of the Southern Pacific and
from the Corvallis & Eastern line can
run into the new Union Depot conven
iently. The Southern Pacific freight
depot is to be moved southward 300
yards and enlarged materially as soon
as the readjustment 01 the yard is
complete, and a big park will then be
established adjoining the passenger
Mr. and Mrs. Tr Callahan, Mrs. C.
H. Lee and Mrs. R. H. Houston and
daughter have erone to Newport for a
couple of weeks.
Dr. W. A. G. Handford left today to
join Mrs. Handford at Elk City and ex
pects to be absent several days on his
annual summer outing.
J. H. Harris has gone down to the
Crater Lake country for a couple of
weeks' outing. 1 He met his brother,
Britt Harris, at Medford, and the two
went up into the mountains together.
W. 0. Cochrane, of New York City,
came west with W. F. Gaskins and
will visit with him until about August
20. when nater Cochrane will come here ard Is
nrrmt n Kpnf.t.lA YTinait.irn W. 1 rule?"
0. is a young man who had not been
west before and he is charmed at' the
prospect of seeing some mountain life.
PUGILIST'S VERBAL BOUT.
Hovfl tames J. Jeffries Won a Word
Fight With a Pastor.
JaA k J. Jeffries, once champion
beavM-eight pugilist of the world, had
a vertal bout with a minister in public
the other day and won.
When the Rey. G. L. Morrill was in
troduced to "Jeff" at Wonderland park
n Minneapolis the pugilist sailed into
the minister as follows:
Why don't you ministers tell the
people to take, care of their bodies?
How is a man going to save his soul
if his liver is .out of order?
"You are too fat. Don't you know
that you would Be a better man and a
better Christian if you took exercise?
Don't you know- that a physical cow-
a moral coward as well, a,s a
. Two Bargains in City, Homes
Two corner lots, with one house of 7 rooms under construction.
Bath, pantry, large closets to each bed room, linen closets, halls up
and down stairs, fire place, basement full size of house, which is
24x36 feet, plumbing and electric light complete, septic tank, con
crete sidewalk and small barn. .
Also one. inside lot and 7-room house, bath, pantry, sewing
room, closets to bed rooms, halls up and down stairs, basement
24x36 feet, full size of house, electric light complete, some plumb
ing, concrete walks.
This property is in good location, two blocks from College, four
blocks from public school. No agents. Call on or address,
OWNER, 320 North Tenth Street,
Corvallis, Oregon.
Mich., to spend the month here, Mrs. j r -Knisely
and children came several days i Patrick Stewart and
ago from Portland and all are now at Thatcher, V. Bogard
the Bradley home, the latter having
gone on a month's vacation.
Wanted 100 prune pickers to pick
150 acres of prunes at Benton County
orchard at Granger. 9c a box 11c to
those staying to finish the picking. Pick
ing to begin about Aug. 20th. Ladders
and buckets supplied;' good camping
place; good water and wood. Applicants
send names and addresses to W. N,
Sayre, P. O. Box 521, Corvallis. 8-7-7t
family, T. J.
and Geo. Ry
a trip to the
The Stewarts
the Irish had
craft are at home from
Five1 Rivers country,
were gone a month and
a great time. Pat caught forty-five
speckled beauties in about an hour and
at other times had excellent luck fish
ing. Once he agreed to load hay for an
Alsea farmer if the fellow would show
him a fishing place. He was kept
shoveling hay for four days, and the
fishing place, when found, failed to
deliver. Pat wanted to put in a bill
Pat Stewart is authority for the state-'for services, but the case was com
ment that a finer cardenthan that of ! pomised by the farmer agreeing to'
Frank Seits, at Five Rivers, is not to j show Pat a bear. The dogs scared up
be found on the western hemisphere. ! old Bruin ailright but when Pat saw
He has every sort of vegetable, and the , him he didn't have a gun. That was
yield is phenomenal. Potatoes weighing the only ill luck on the trip. When
eieht nounds are common, and the size ! Stewart came to Corvallis Saturday he
of squash now on the vines indicate that
they will surpass the 75-pounders raised
last year. The Alsea country soil is
not to be discounted.
The "Weinerwurst," launch owned
by E. E. Wilson and C. M. McKellips, i
and the "Edith," property of. E. F. Per-,'
not, were taken to the bay this morn- j
ing. Both are built to stand the sea
and will frequently go out over the
bar. The "Weinerwurst" was launch
ed in the Willamette several weeks ago
and at that time a description of the
vessel was given. The "Edith" was but
recently finished by A. E. Kemp, and
as it stood on a car at the Union Station
Sunday showed very graceful lines. It
is built with great width of beam but
is as tiim and neat as a Harrison Fish
. er "Thoroughbred." Prof. Pernot has
the little craft equipped with electri
city, a power whistle and a fog bell.
As a whole the craft is an ideal worked
out after years of sea experience.
These Corvallis "sea fiends" are antici
pating much pleasure in their new
launches.
had a four inch growth of beard on his
face and looked like a cross between the
Missing Link and the Wild Man from
Borneo. He is again on duty at Schick's
barber shop and comes as near resem
bl ng a human as he ever did. '
Farmers,
Country Merchants
Ship Your Produce to SMITH.
He Will Pay You
.11c for Dressed Pork.
10c for Dressed, Small Fat Veal.
15c for Live Spring Chickens.
14c for Live Hens. '
Immediate payments. No com
mission charged.
ADDRESS
FRANK L. SMITH MEAT CO., '.
"Fighting the Beef Trustf '
' Portland, Or.
We Use Scien
tific Instruments
To determine the needs of your eyes
There is no guess work about . our
examinations. They are just as ac
curate as trained skill and experi
ence can make them. They cost you
nothing so you. certainly ought to
have the benefit of them, ifyou have
any eye trouble at all. They mean
the proper glasses, the only kind
you can afford .to wear.
Walter Kline has just bought himself
a handsome four-cylinder, 30-horse-
power Cadillac touring car. -N He
brought the machine up from Portland
yesterday, Mark ; Rickard doing 'the
driving. The car is one of the finest
in this section and was selected by Mr.
Kline after a thorough test of all the
popular makes.
Councilman G." A. Robinson and his
wife had some words this morning and
the spunky little woman picked up and
left him. She went to Pe Ell and Elma,
Wash., to visit sometime with her son
and daughter. If G. A. keeps straight
and writes the proper kind of letters
Mrs. Robinson may come back to him
in about three weeks.
The little children in the M. E. Sun
day school infant class all brought
pretty bouquets with them to the
school yesterday morning and one of
the scholars carried the flowers over to
the little Patterson boy as a token of
rememberance. The act was a grace
ful one and was highly appreciated by
the little fellow whose recent accident
has kept him from joining his playmates.
Baker City Herald. -Dr. Withy
combe, of Corvallis. who ran for Gov
ernor .once upon a time and who ex
pects to run again some time, made a
sheech in Vale this week telling the
people that they had the finest alfalfa
he had ever seen. ' How is the Guberna
torial candidate going to square him
self with other parts of Oregon where
alfalfa is raised? Perhaps he will do
like the spiritualist lecturer who closed
his meeting by saving: "This is the
finest and most attentive audience I
have ever addressed in my life, and I
want to teH you that I say the same
thing to every audience that I appear
before." Is there that much diplo
macy in the Corvallis doctor?"
W. F. Gaskins, head of O. A. C.
School of Music, came home Saturday
night from his trip to Denver, Chicago
and New York. While it is extremely
hot in the East he found the railroad
trip less disagreeable , than he expected.
That little stretch of sand dunes from
Umatilla to The Dalles is about the
worst feature of such a trip. At New
lorK city, frot. uaskins met a num
ber of old friends, sang there a couple
or three weeks with the best vocal -in
structors in the city, and spent some
time trying to see the tops of some of
the city's new buildings. It really
takes two men and a boy to see the
sky-line above the Singer building,
this structure towering into the air al
most as far as Mt. Hood. The Vaca
tion thus far has given Mr. Gaskins
ten pounds of flesh, a panama hat that
turns down on the side, and a jolly good
time which he is going to keep up un
til school opens. The Gaskins family
and visiting friends go on a trip to
Mary's-Peak tomorrow.
"Perhaps you're right."
"If you want to stop men from drink
ing make them take exercise, and then
they won't crave stimulants. I never
drink or smoke when I am ia training;
don't want to. It is only when I am
loafing that I eat and drink too much.
That is one reason why I am going to
get In the ring again."
'You and I agree, Mr. Jeffries."
'Then why don't you say so? Why
do you preachers always condemn box
ing? It is the greatest athletic exer
cise there is. Not only that, but it
teaches a man how to take care of
himself. It makes him confident.
These glove contests are not" fights.
You are not as apt to get hurt boxing
as you are playing football or wres
tling. Yet ministers look upon a box
er as a criminal.
"Once in awhile there is a minis
ter who is enough of a man among
men to get up and tell the people to
play ball on Sunday, if they can't play
it any other day, or go fishing or do
something-else that is going to take
them out in the air and build up their
overtaxed bodies and brains, but it
isn't very often. They are generally
scrapping with their mouths about
their own pet theories of salvation."
"I believe you are right, Mr. Jef
fries. I really feel ashamed of myself
standing here and looking at your fine
big body and realizing that you are
strong because you have made your
self strong, very largely."
"That is just it," continued the pu
gilist. "I am at the head of my class
because I have worked to keep my
self there.'. I was strong naturally, but
I have not let myself go to pieces just
like thousands of well built fellows are
doing today by neglecting their bodies.
I hope, if you think as I do, that you
will preach a sermon on this some
day."
BLERIOT A DARING AERONAUT
Occidental Lumber Co.
' Successors toj
Corvallis Lumber Co.
We are here, to supply your needs in the Lumber line. Please
callonJ. B 'IRVING for information and prices. And take
notice that if we have not got exactly what you want we will
get it for you. .
G. O. BASSET T, Local Mgr.
The Best Paint
There is no better paint made for appearance and
durability than
Acme Quality Paint
Specially prepared for exterior and interior use.
"FLOOR VARNISH THAT WEARS"
A.. JSLx- iner
WALL PAPER AND PAINT STORE
Second Street, Near Palace Theater
E W& PRYTT, Jeweler and Optician
STRICTLY STYLISH
Ready-to-Wear
SUITS, SKIRTS and WAISTS
These Garments (or Ladies and Misses
are of excellent quality. The styles speak
for themselves and the prices are. really
less than the cost of material and making.
YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY BUYING HERE NOW
Henkle &
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Buchanan and
son Robert, of Des Moines, Iowa,
stopped off here yesterday to see their
old friend, Robert Johnson, deputy
county clerk. Mr. Buchanan and "Bob""
used to wade in the same Iowa streams
and steal apple's from the same old or
chard. Bob came west and learned how
to live, while Mr. Buchanan stuck with
old Iowa and is now grinding away as
head of theDaily Capital, a great east
ern newspaper with a circulation of
45,000 to 50,000 each day. The Buchan
ans have been away from their beloved
city a month, stopping at Denver, the
various Colorado' resorts, Salt Lake
City, and went to California over the
Clark road to Los Angeles. ' They are
now en route to Portland, Seattle and
home. Mr. Buchanan was particularly
impressed with the Klamath Falls coun
try. He spent four days there and is
confident that section is going to be
developed wonderfully. He was through
Oregon' years ago and sees that great
things : have been done here. He ex
pects to find the greatest change in
Portland and he will, of course, for
the Rose City has made wonderful
strides in a few years. Mr. Buchanan
is a very pleasant gentleman, and his
son a most delightfully free and easy
young fellow with a frank, open face
and a hand grasp that ought to mean
much if. it doesn't. Needless to sayr
Mr. Johnson was pleased to see his old
friend, and of course he showed them
our ferry with considerable pride. It's
nice to have some really novel, and in
teresting things to show visitors who
come here after seeing most of the re
mainder of the world.
Wilbur " Wright's Tribute to French
man Who Crossed English Channel.
"I am glad to hear that Bleriot has
made the Calais-Dover crossing suc
cessfully," said Wilbur Wright when
interviewed on M. Louis Bleriot's suc
cessful flight across the English chan
nel. "Bleriot is one of the most dar
ing aeronauts in the world.- If there
is any feat to be performed that re
quires grit and nerve Bleriot is the
man for the place. He Is absolutely
lacking in fear.
"I do not know what provision he
made for his protection during the
crossing. From the earlier cable ac
counts I see that there was a torpedo
boat destroyer that followed his course,
but he seems to have lost that en
route. A little thing like that would
make no difference to Bleriot. If he
had made up his mind to cross the
channel the only thing that would
bother him would be the guiding of
his machine. I believe that he would
have attempted the flight for the pure
satisfaction of being the first to nego
tiate!t, even if he had never flown his
machine a half dozen times and never
a distance equal to that crossing.
"The actual crossing of the English
channel is not a feat that is particular
ly difficult from the point of view of
scientific aeronautics. It is the fact
that it has never been done before,
combined with its probable political
effect and its intense interest to the
general public as a spectacular per
formance, that is so effective.
"In flying over a broad' stretch of
water like that the danger of serious
disaster is not so great as one would
suppose, providing there is ample pro
tection in the way of boats and men to
assist in the rescue of the aeronaut in
the event of a fall. An aeroplane
would float only a few minutes. Our
machine weighs almost six times its
cubic contents of water, so it will be
seen that it would not float long after
the" planes became' soaked through.
The Bleriot machine with only one
plane would float an even shorter
while than ours." .
Orville Wright also expressed great
pleasure when he learned the success
of the Frenchman. - -
Benton County Lumber Go.
Manufacturers of all kinds of
Fir Lumber, Mouldings, Cedar Posts,
Sawed and Split. Gedar Shakes
- Dealers in
Doors, Windows, Lime, Brtcx Cement, A
Shingles, etc
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Polyglot Newspaper.
A polyglot newspaper printed in a
dozen languages is to be established
by the United Societies JFor Local Self
Government For the Advancement of
the Home Bule and Personal Liberty
Principles, says a Chicago dispatch.
The publication is to be issued weekly
ana ai tne start is to be printed in
English, German, Polish, Bohemian
and Italian, the intention being to ex
tend the editions until every national
ity represented in the society has an
issue printed In its own language.
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Fisherman's Luck.
Thinking to have some fun with Anthony-
Tomanno, a cook in an-Allen-hurst
(N. J.) hotel, his friends recent
ly rigged up a fishing outfit consisting
of a bent' wire at the end of a piece
of string and sent him to the . beach.
They came trailing along Just in time
to see him Jand a channel bass weigh
ing twenty-three pounds.
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THATCHER & JOHNSON'S GROCERY
Where They Will be Promptly Filled.
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