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About The daily gazette-times. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1909-1921 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1909)
The City and Vicinity Prof A. B. Cordley returned Sunday from his trip to British Columbia. Complete outfits for camping parties at Blackledge's furniture store. 8-3-tf J. B. Horner went to Alsea today to join J. D. Stemler, of Portland, in a camping and hunting trip. Going hunting? Get your guns and ammunition at Heater & Harrington's. 9-3-tf . The following Benton county people will have horses at the Salem fair: Taylor and Hartsock, roadsters; Cor vallis Belgian Co. and John Murphy, percherons. Acme Quality Paints and Floor Var nish that wears at A. L. Miner's. 5-17-tf. Alex Schick went over to Browns ville the latter part of the week to be with his father. Though reported ill, he found the old gentlemen in good health, so returned. Mrs. Clinton Winters and little son, of Montesano, Wash., who have been visiting relatives in Eugene, passed through here Saturday on their way home. They were accompanied by Mrs. Winters' sister, Mrs. Shreyer. Ice cream delivered on thirty minutes notice by Winkley's Palace of Sweets. Third street. tf The Henkles are at home from a long stay at the bay. Mrs. Lucy Francisco is at home from an' extended visit at the Rose City. Sporting goods, bicycles and fishing tackle at Heater & Harrington's. 9-3-tf. S. L. Kline, who has been quite ill the past few days, is reported much better. Phonographs and all the newest re cords at Heater & Harrington's. 9-3-tf. P. Avery spent Sunday at the bay. It was delightful there, a light breeze blowing. I To Let Housekeeping and furnished rooms. 520-S-Fourth street. 9-2-t5 W. W. Chapman, bookkeeper at the Benton County National, left Sunday for Ouray, Colorado. Prof. F. Berchtold is the author of a page story about the big packing plant at Portland, which appeared in Sun day's Oregonian. Razors, safety and the other kind. Largest line at Heater & Harrington's. 9-3-tf- The Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian church drove to a special service at Oak Ridge Sunday evening. The entertainers provided an excellent time for the visitors. j For Sale Sewing machine in first-class condition; also one dining table and chairs. See J. G. Morris, 123-N. 9-4-2t. R. F. Simpson was over from Leb anon today. Through a mix-up the Portland press has heralded the Leb anon man as one shipping a carload of ring-neck pheasants but it's our own Gene M. who is going to send out this car, and then another car if anyone wants them. The Lebanon Simpson has about 200 birds. For Rent On .College Crest, five rooms, with electric lights and mount ain water. Apply to W. C. Shriver. 9-6-9 & w D. R. Hodges, of Benton county, was in Albany Saturday, feeling pretty well, in act rather frisky. He declared that he was willing to run any man in the world of eighty years of age or more, any distance desired, for a sack of candy or a can of oysters, the race to be run at Wells. His 84th birthday will be on Sept. 8th and that day would suit him. Mr. Hodges has been a resident of Oregon since 1847, a Mis sourian by birth, now a thorough Ore gonian. For Sale A bird dog and gun. Tele phone 204, 9-2-5t If the Portland reckoning may be ac cepted as, a basis for computation here, Saturday was the warmest day Corval lis has experienced in thirty years. Sunday, however, was warmer than Saturday by several degrees, thermom eters here registering from 93 to 97 de grees. Butfor the breeze that came up in the afternoon, the day would haye been all but unbearable. It cooled toward evening and It 12 o'clock there was a very sudden and decided drop in temperature. The real hot day is such a rarity here that the popu lace hardly know how to take it. j Miss Madia Beals, auburn-haired compositor at this office the past six months, has forsaken the case and gone to Alsea for a two weeks' vacation. She will take up a course in pharmacy when O. A. C. opens. ' A peddler of spectacles, without a license, was arrested this morning and given his choice of leaving town with out his spectacles, a $10 cash fine, or five days in jail. He decided to leave town and Judge Denman now has the glasses. When he returns from his hunting trip, Mr. Denman will open an office in Jake Bloomberg's place and advertise him self as a graduate optician. These glasses are $1.80 a dozen, are sold for $5 each, and with another mouth to feed, the Police Judge can hardly afford ' to let this opportunity slip. . Eat Golden Rod Flakes, They are better for breakfast, Than old-fashioned corn cakes, . And five minuets time,, Is all that it takes At Kline's. . 6-12-tf Independence Enterprise A. Kemp, of Corvallis,will run his gasoline launch j India, between Krebs Bros, hop yard ! and Salem during the hop picki hg sea son. He will make two round trips ' daily, leaving Krebs at 8 a. m., arriv ing at Salem at 10 a. m. Returning I will leave Salem at 10:30 a. m., arriv 1 ing at Krebs at 1 p. m. Leaves Krebs at 2 p. m. arriving at Salem at 3:30. '. Leave Salem at 4, arriving at Krebs at ! 6:30. The boat will stop at .Indepen dence and all way points for the con venience of passengerg. The India is 34 feet long with 7-foot beam, equipped with a 19-horse-power four cylinder en ' gine and is one of the fastest boats on the river and occommodates forty pas ' sengers. 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, if you have any eye trouble at all. They mean the proper glasses, the only kind you can afford to wear. E W, S, PRATT, Jeweler and Optician THE WOMAN'S SHOP New Tailor-made Suits just in and are now on display in all sizes for Ladies and Misses HOMESPUN Is a favorite material for the serviceable suit and is especially - adapted for school wear, $22.00 FURS Beautiful line of scarfs, ties and muffs, the new zaza and rug muffs with ties to match. WAISTS To match in color the suits. Made of finest qual ity messaline, $7.50 BLACK Silk Taffeta Waist, plain tailored style, tucked front, back and sleeve. An extra value, $5.00 F. L. MILLER 142 Second Street STRICTLY STYLISH Ready-to-Wear SUITS, SKIRTS and WAISTS These Garments for 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 Henhle tk Davis f Mrs. C. E. Hout and children are at home -from- a summer's vacation at Newport. Furniture, stoves, ranges, etc., at Kempin's store. 103 N. 2nd St. . 6-11 For Sale An Oliver typewriter. New, used less than' two months. Perfect condition. Cheap for cash. Labor Day has been observed in Corvallis today only by the banks and postoffice. Only these people could af ford to quit work. Miss Alice Jones left today for Los Angeles to take up her work in the city schools. She has been a successful teacher in the Los Angeles schools some time, and came to Corvallis to spend the summer with her parents. Wanted Competent girl for clerk in a grocery store. Call up phone 1107. 9-6-2t Score another for Police Judge Den man. A little lady arrived at his house last night and he now has as many kinds of children as anyone two red headed boys (auburn haired) and this last a feminine cherub with hirsute adornment as black as night. The lit tle girl is said to be very good looking, ample proof that it resembles its mother. Mr. Denman and Chief Wells will now leave on their much-heralded hunting trip, and there isn't anyone in town who will care how long they stay. Both have been carrying things with a pretty high hand recently and it may do them good to get out into the wilds and starve a little. It is a well known fact that Denman couldn't hit a flock of barns with a blunderbuss, so it is reasonably certain that Harley Hall's rescue campaign will have to be organ- ized again at an earty date. Night on Bald Mountain. IVIANY COLONISTS SOON ON THE WAY This week will inaugurate the westward sweep of what is clear ly expected to be the most tre mendous invasion of colonists that has ever poured into the rich and waiting empire of the Pacific Northwest The Fall colonist season, with its extreme ly low rates, is the loadstone which will draw the myriads of prospective settlers hither from every section of the middle west and east. The season will be shorter but it has been a pros perous year in all parts of the country and with the unprece dented volume of high-class pub- icity work which all commercial organizations and the transconti nental railroad systems have been doing in the past few months all records should fall be fore the tide of Autumnal immigration. Any railroad traffic official who is at all advised of the situation and in touch with the conditions in the east, will prophesy any where from 25 to 50 per cent greater volume of colonist travel this fall than in any similar period in history. As further evidence, if any were needed, nine out of every ten passenger traffic offi cials in the east who have been here in the past three months, declare that the number of in quiries fronr homeseekers are nearly twice as numerous as they ever have been and this has been the reason the traffic men have come to the Northwest. They have been compelled by the mere trend of circumstances to get first-hand information about the widely exploited wealth and pos sibilities of the magnificent em pire to which the eyes of the East are now turned with eager gaze. The railroad companies have for the past week "or two been gradually rounding up their equipment and preparing to as semble it at the numerous gate ways to the Far West, at which the hosts of homeseekers will be mobilized and routed to their fu ture destinations. This work will continue with increased ani mation from now until the close of the low rate colonist season, October 15, and the cry has al ready gone up that the transcon tinental lines will suffer a serious shortage of passenger equipment and motive power, with a result ant heavy congestion of traffic. Up to the present time every state in the union east of the Rocky Mountain divide has pour ed its quota of inquiries into pub licity bureaus. The letters now run into the thousands where there were hundreds a year or two ago. The colonist rate will be the same this season as last, $25 for Missouri River common points, $32 from St Louis, $33 from Chi cago and proportionately from more remote centers. 5 ' : irinjTJirurruuiruijijTjijinn LiUTJTjrruiJTJTiiJTru'iJTJUTr. Corvallis Business College A SCHOOL OF NEWEST METHODS IN BUSINESS CORVALLIS, OREGON L- !g MORGAN, PRINCIPAL Individual and class instruction. Bookkeeping, Office Methods, Type writer Bookkeeping, Chartier and Universal Shorthand. POSITION CERTAIN. OPENS SEPTEMBER 27, 1909 Write for Terms On a lonely night Alex. Benton, of Fort Edward, N. Y., climbed Bald Mountain to the home of a neighbor tor tured by Asthma, bent on curing him with Dr. King's New Discovery, that had cured himself of asthma. This wonderful medicine soon relieved and quickly cured his neighbor. Later it cured his son's wife of a severe lung trouble. " Millions believe it's the great est Throat and Lung cure on Earth. Coughs, Colds, Croup, Hemorrhages and Sore Lungs are surely cured by it. Best for Hay Fever, Grip and Whoop ing Cough. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. Th e Daily Gazette-Times By carrier or mail, 50c per mo, Occidental Lumber Co. Successors toj Corvallis Lumber Co. We are here to supply your needs in the Lumber line. Please call on J. 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. TRANSFERS G. O. BASSET r, Local Mer. 1 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" WALL PAPER AND PAINT STORE Second Street, Near Palace Theater Benton County Lumber Co. Manufacturers of all kinds of Fir Lumber, Mouldings, Cedar Posts, Sawed and Split. Qedar Shakes Dealers in Doors, Windows, Lime, Bricic, Cement, Shingles, etc J A Glass Jars, All Kinds, at HODES GROCERY COPPER 8 NEWTON HARDWARE CD. We do the Best Plumbing and Carry a full line of Plumbers' Supplies Dealers In Hardware, Implements, Buggies, Wagons, Cream Sepa rators, Graniteware, Tinware and Builders' Hardware. Congo Roofing and Quick Mea Ranges Second Street, Corvallis, Oregon Transfers for the week ending Sept, 4th, 1909, are as follows: Hiram Flickinger to Samuel C. Hed- ger, Lot 9 Brown's Add., Philomath, $2000. Robert Denton to James H. Nee Ion, 25 acres near Monroe, $1. A. E. Bell to Inez Smith, Lot 13 Emery and Kent's Add., Corvallis, $10. Inez Smith to Anna Hodes Lot 13 Emery and Kent's Add., Corvallis, $10. Geo. M. Smith to Anna Hodes, Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 in Bl. "D" Wilkin's Add. Corvallis, $10. W. J. Harper to Evangelical Luth eran Zion's Congregation, 1 acre near Corvallis, $125. Clarissa Howard to John Carpenter, 10 acres near Monroe, $500. W. J. Edwards to Jennie M. Cobb, Lot 9 BL 7 Job's Add., Corvallis, $265. WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT Phone Your Orders To No. 7, THATCHER & JOHNSON'S GROCERY v Where They Will be Promptly Filled. Fine Line of Crockery, Glassware, Cut Glass, Haviland and Chinaware, LAMPS ETC. Let us send it to you The Gazette-Times 50c per month.