VOL. I. NO. 92
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, WEDNESDAY,. AUGUST 18, 1909
PRICE FIVE CENTS
GOBVALLIS IVIAN RETURNS FROM EAST
TELLS CITIZENS TO GET BUSY
THINKS CITY HAS LITTLE TO HOLD THE EASTERN MAN WHO IS USED
TO CONSIDERABLE CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS.
there as good as our own sells
rom $100 to 250 per acre. One
seldom hears of - it selling " for
.ess." ? . '. ' . -
A Final Word. , ,
"I have no desire to give advice
unasked, but my summer's . trip
convince me that in a civic way
Corvallis has nothing of which
it can boast, except mountain
PROFESSOR M'KELLIPS SAYS PAVE AND LIGHT UP STREETS
Easterners Coming to Oregon but We Will Have to do Something to Hold Them
When They Get Here Countless Numbers Attracted by Oregon Climate
, and Fruit Lands Make Inquiry About this Section McKellips Believes the
State Will Have a Great Growth Says Corvallis Should Liven up a Little.
water, and while this is invalu-K
able, it is not enough. Corvallis
can not efford to do less than
put down cement walks .over
the entire city, fix up the park
ings at the side, pave the princi
pal streets, macadanize the re
mainder and then put an elec
tric light at every corner in the
city." i ' -
"It's time Corvallis got a real
hustle on" says Prof. C. M. Mc
Kellips, who, with Mrs. McKel
lips, has just returned from a
summer's stay in Indiana. "We
people here are inclined to feel
that the easterners are a little
slow, lacking the spirit of onr in
comparable west, but the fact is
they can give us a whole lot
of pointers. Things generally
are not 'doing' as they are in
the west, but nevertheless the
eastern towns are up to snuff in
a civic way and are enjoying all
the comfort and pleasure there is
in good sidewalks, well-kept park
ing,, weedless. streets and. suffi
cient electric lights."
CorvalljsSuffers By Comparison,
. "We returned to Corvallis at
night," said Mr. McKellips,-"and
xeally we felt afraid to walk rap
idly. The wooden walks are in
such condition and. the absence
of light so inconvenient . that I
was inclined to make comparison
and, truly, my little old home, of
which I had boasted, assumed
much smaller proportions than it
had in my memory. The follow
ing morning,- as I walked over
town I came to the conclusion
that I had never seen such disrep
utable looking streets. I certain
ly did not see them in the east in
towns of this size. The "tall un
cut" growing up over the walks
and standing at the sides of the
streets covered with dust, made
things look terribly forlorn. ; In
the vicinity of Connersville, In
diana, I saw no towns even the
size of Philomath that were not
.giving proper care to the side-
Falace
Theater
Wednesday
and Thursday
CARVER AND OLIVER
Present the comedy sketch
"Roses vs. Overalls"
A Case of Mistaken Identity
walks, and the streets so far as
keeping them free from weeds.
Corvallis must get a hustle on.
Necessary to Improve.
It is partidularly necessary
that this city and all others of the
Willamette valley shaJ take on
a pleasing, appearance for the
reason that countless thousands
of easterners are now looking to
ward this, section. Wherever I
went I met with specific and di
rect inquiry about Oregon. The
people back there have been
reading Oregon literature and are
! convinced that this - is paradise.
When they come, the Willamette
valley towns must show them
something in a civic. way at least
as good as they already have. If
we can keep them until they have
had a couple of years of our ' cli-
mate-thyJwili-"ever-gov track
east, but the difficulty is to keep
them from getting discouraged
with the . first " appearance ; of
things." ,
Great Growth and Why.
'I cannot but feel that Oregon
is going to nave a wonderful
growth. Heretofore the eastern
ers have been going to California,
Washington and Colorado they
knew of Oregon only as a state
'out west" some place near the
section mentioned. The wonder
ful advertising Oregon has been
doing has put the state on the
map and easterners know exactly
where it is located. They are at
tracted by our claims for the cli
mate and the state's fruit lands.
The fact the we have mild winters
(with roses the year around) and
summers that are cool catches
every reader of Oregon literature.
a 1 1 . i
Ana it is not strange when we
consider the fact that easterners
freeze to death in the winter are
killed in electrical storms and cy
clones in the spring, suffocate in
the summer time and get a mix
ture of all af this in the fall The
eastern climate is nothing less
than terrible and those people
are beginning to fine it out. Mrs.
McKellips and I suffered terribly
while away and returned to Cor
vallis witn greater joy tnan we
ever left it"
In Motion Pictures we present the pow
erful story . '
The Necklace"
Vanity, Ahe foundation of the most
ridiculous and contemptible vices, is of
ten the cause of woe and disaster, and
this subject" proves the conclusiveness
of the assertion. A young married
woman, yearning for ostentation, is in
vited with her husband to a reception,
and he borrows a necklace to adorn her
"shoulders; which is stolen during the
balL $20,000 was the price of the du
plicate and to raise this they mortgage
their very lives."' .' Twenty - years later
. and the necklace is paid for, but at the
expense of their lives, only to find out
that the one they lost was paste and
L
E WILL DIS-
E JUSTICE
PENS
COUNTY COURT NAMES HIM TO
FILL HOLGATE VACANCY.
NEW MILL HAS
LUMBER HERE
Lumber for the erection of
offices for the Gerlinger & Mc-
Cready saw mill is now on the
Mary's river flat and the report
rom Black Rock is that timbers
for the new mill are almost ready
for shipment. ; It is the. inten
tion to have this mill ready to
set in place when it arrives here,
and it is said that it will "require
twenty-four cars to bring . the
entire material nere. mere - is
no occasion for a rush
mattery jmd there,, is
but the
DOINGS AT THE COURT HOUSE
Hayter Gets Attorney's Fee, Suit for
$2500 is Filed, Marriage License
Issued, Etc. Court Adjourns to
Meet Next Month at Regular Time.
no
mill is : coming
certainty and will be here before
a great while.
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' At this morning's session of the
county court, W. G. Lane was
made a Justice of the Peace, to
fill the vacancy caused by the
xjeath of the late Judge Holgate.
Mr. Lane has been janitor at the
e6urt house some time, and at
forneys who thought his time
Was not fully occupied recom-
ended mm tor Justice. Captain
rawford is said to have been at
east a. receptive candidate for
this position. In order that Mr.
ane may not be put to unneces-
?ary inconvenience in preserving
the dignity of his court, some of
the court house officials suggest
in tulS 1 j &ci muiocu a lung umrw.
lr be
not
came up in Polk county, was re
ferred, and will probably come
up again this fall.
In the matter of the new road
in Soap Creek district, the whole
thing has finally been turned over
to Attorney Bryson for his ap
proval. .
Court adjourned to the time of
next regular meeting.
, . Other Court Notes
Letters of administration were
issued today in the matter of the
estate of Tina Douglas. . Her es
tate is valued at $1,000, which is
in life insurance.
The Benton County National
Bank has filed suit to recover
$2,500 from the Sunset Lumber
Company.
A marriage license was grant
ed yesterday to C. H. Gammell, of
Portland, and Daitsy K. Mcln
tyre, of Corvallis.
COYOTE FENCE
SAVES THE SHEEP
EXPERIMENT TRIED UNDER EIGHT
MILES OF FENCE.
INTERESTING DETAIL OFFERED
Old Friend of the Editor In Govern
ment Service at Wallowa Doe
Work that Attracts Attention ' of
Collier's, the National Weekly.
OF
LOGS AT BRIDGE
Tush,
for a
CLERK'S OFFICE
HERE IS O.K.
The Best Advertising
"AH the literature going east
is doing good, there is no doubt
about that, but the best adver-
tisingweare getting is in the
letters written back by easter
ners already here, and in the re
ports carried back by easternes
returning to their old homes on a
visit. The people back there
are unable to with stand such
evinenc e as these give and for
this . reason I would urge a
systematic campaign to- get east
erners here to write back to old
friends and the old" home paper.
It will do lots of good.
""The easterners are prosper
ous this year, the crops being
good and that will start more of
them west, for they have the
F. S. Becker, U. S. Naturaliza
tion Examiner, was in Corvallis
yesterday looking over the appli
cations of foreigners who would
become citizens. He found all of
them regular and the whole num
ber will be granted papers. r-
Mr." Becker paid the " clerk's
office what is undoubtedly a well
deserved compliment He said
that in few places in this state or
any other had he found the tech
nicalities so carefully observed
and the papers generally so care
fully made out. At various places
he has found difficulty, of one
sort or another and it has been
necessary to refuse -applications.
Many times the Washington of
fices have had to return the pa
pers for correction, but not so
here since Mr. Moses has been in
office. The government appre
ciates service of ; this kind, and
Mr. Becker expressed himself as
highly pleased with the work
here.' ' .'
BUILT ROOMS FOR
SPIRIT
FRIENDS
Andrew Hale, Sodaville Suicide, Pre'
: pares to Entertain Dead People.
: It developes -that Andrew Hale,
the Sodaville hermit who hanged
himself last week, was a believer
the return of souls. . That
in
' y- the use of Jhisjie would
find it necessary to change
his overalls if called upon to hold
court at a time when he was pre
pared to mow the lawn or sweep
the stairway.
County Court Notes
The county courfc allowed J. C.
Hayter, of Dallas, $100 attorney's
fee for representing Benton in
the suit M. Bailey has filed
against the county. The case
The log jam at the C. & A.
trestle across Mary's river is
assuming huge proportions.
The Carver road has been throw
ing logs : off the bridge at a
great rate and they are- now
there in a . tangled mass that
causes tne situation to loom up
in great shape. - An attempt to
skid the big logs down into the
river met with failure, the slide
breaking down under the ' train.
those in the Forestry building at
Portland are up-ended there and
it's going to take some work to
move them, : This mass of tim
ber gives some little idea of the
work the Carver road is doing
and it points in a small way to
what the road means to Corval
lis. The C. & A. has a contract
to deliver a certain number of
logs to the Occidental mill each
month, and is just now getting
down to good work.
James T. Jardine was a grad
uate -of the Utah Agricultural
College under Pres. W. J.
Kerr's regime. He is one of a
dozen young fellows turned out
from that school in recent years
that have been making good in
high position. This particular
young man spent some time in
the offices at Washington and :
was finally transferred to
Wallowa, Oregon, forest reserve
to do some experimenting. Jim
has been up there two , or more
years now and before this date
some of his work in connection
with the increase of plant life on
the; reserve has been made pub
lic. " Finally he has broken into
Comer' s,' rthe 'lxTfX"
publication having noted some of
his work in connection with
coyotes and sheep,. While noth
ieg peculiarly wonderful is set
forth, the Collier's article will
be interesting to all sheep men,
and we believe to practically all
others, even . those who don't
know a sheep from a rocking-
( Continued on page three)
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