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About Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1909)
TALK OF THE TOWN Dally Gazette 50 cents per month. Call up the Palace of Sweets for your 'ice cream and sherbets. Free delivery. 5-6-tf Cash paid for wool by Wm. Crees. 220 Third street. Independent phone 234. 5-7-3tw Miss Tot Taggart come up from Port land Thursday and will visit at the Dr. Cathey home for a few days. F. Williams, of Monroe, and G. Vos berg, of Philomath, were business vis itors at the county seat today. Stanley Hammel, an officer of the O. N. G. is over from Albany today assist ing in the inspection of the OAC cadets. General repair shop. All work first class, promptly done. Back of Beal Bros., blacksmith shop, Wood Bros. 5-7-tf Mrs. W. L. Scrugg came up from Portland Thursday and will visit her mother, Mrs. G. Barenger, for several days. Ernest Avery, a graduate of the Corvallis Business College,, leaves today for Helena, Montana, to take an excel lent position. Mr. J. W. Preston, of Brainard, Min nesota, is touring the valley and looking for a home. He will arrive in Corvallis to-day and view the situation. New and second-hand furniture, Sam uel Goodman, Proprietor. Everything needed for the household. Call and give us a trial. 424 South Second St. 5-5-4t. Arthur Buchanan, from Southern Benton, was a business visitor in Cor vallis today. Mr. Buchanan says rain is badly needed in his section, the crops looking pretty sick just now. The arrangements for the observance of Mother's Day at the churches in Cor vallis are now about complete and it is hoped that the day can be properly re membered by all. Charley Heckert returned from Dalles Thursday after a few days visit with friends. Slowly and surely he is recov ering from his recent severe illness and he will soon be ready for active opera tions cnce more. The new and handsome residence be ing built for Prof. Gaskins at Jefferson and Ninth streets is rapidly being com pleted. The trees are being removed from the street front and a cement sidewalk and park curbing put in. Mrs. L. A. Gordon, who has been making a prolonged visit with her sis ter, Mrs. C. A. Russell, started for her home in Chicago Tuesday. She will stop at Portland, Seattle and other points of interest on the homeward trip. County assessor- Rickard has been up in the northern part of the county this week and has met with a most favorable reception, all the property owners being willing that increased valuations should be made in order to provide funds for necessary county improvements. George Cathey came up from Portland Thursday to visit home. He seemed particularly happy, due perhaps to a j Rickard 's garage have organized a base sheepskin he carried under his arm from i ball club which they call the ' 'Big Six. " Harry Beck is laid up for repairs at the family home. Rob Bovee is again convalescent after a pretty good dose of measles. Judge Cady, of Philomath, was a guest at the Ammy Cameron home Friday. Palmer McVicker has accepted a po sition with the Graham & Wells' Drug Company. Deputy Sheriff McGinnis spent the day in the Wren neighborhood looking after legal business. Mrs. W. M. Jones returned Thursday, after a very pleasant visit with friends at Dalles and Monmouth. Rush McBee, of southern Benton, bought a neat new buggy of the Cooper Newton Hardware Company Friday. Mrs.. John Frey returned to her home at Newport yesterday, after a visit to her mother, Mrs. A. Austin, and other relatives in this city. Sale was made yesterday by Sheriff Gellatly, of the personalieffects of Roy Price under an execution in fa,vor of the Central Planing Mills. Clarence Davis and Robert Black are out from Lincoln county en a trading expedition. They report the crop pros pect good and stock looking well. Why not arrange something on the street to receive old papers and other waste material instead of scattering them to the four winds of heaven. J. F. Webber, General Agent Spring field Fire & Marine Insurance Company was looking after business here Thurs day. For many years he lived here and many warm friends gave him a friendly greeting. I. D. BoDine and family expect to leave Corvallis on Saturday going from here to Portland where they expect to make their future home. Mr. Bodine expects to engage in the truck and trans fer business. The searchlight thrown out by the Prof. Horner class of boys at the Pres byterian church in friendly contest will close with next Sunday and on Friday the social features promise to be ex ceedingly interesting. On an important occasion like this, with the college campus lined with vis itors it would have added enchantment to the scene had the college colors, in termingled with banners and bunting been suspended in great profusion from all business houses on Second street, On Wednesday evening an important business meeting will be held at the Presbyterian parsonage by the young people. Arrangements are to be made for a hard time social and with every thing so plentiful this will be a hard thing to do. Emery Newton and Tom Cooper are laying cement walks in front of their premises on Seventh and Washington streets. This addition of 300 feet will add materially to the looks of the street and from present indications the entire street will have cement walks before fall. The employers and employes at M. M. Long's sporting goods store and Mark SULTAN - WILL' GET "23 J the Portland medical school and other I pleasant surroundings. He is now fully i prepared to administer quinine in. bro- ken doses or carve a customer to the queen's taste. Sandford M. Wright and daughter, of Kankakee, Illinois, arrived in Corvallis Thursday, and will make an extended visit at the George P. Keady home. Mr. Wright is a brother of Mrs. Keady but they have not seen each other for over thirty years hence the meeting'was most - enjoyable. Both father and daughter seem delighted with the country and if first impressions are lasting a couple of new and useful citizens will surely.be the result. Miss Josephine Deffry and a clever People Long to Hear Salute Marking Turk's Death, Says Missionary. Miss Mary L. Graffam of Andover, Mass., a teaoher in the'Sivas Normal school, in Sivas, Turkey, who is in New York for a year's vacation, said the other day when seen at the rooms of the American board of commission ers for foreign missions that when she left Turkey about March 1 there were rumors of massacres in the southern p:rt of Turkey, and some uneasiness was being felt by the missionaries throughout the whole country. Of all the foreign missionaries iu Turkey, Miss Graffam said, the Americans wore treated the best and had the mo?t respect shown them by Turks, Armenians and Greeks. Miss Graffam said she was certain the killing of Dr. D M. Rogers at Aduna had been ac cidental. When asked about the feel inrr toward the sultan Miss Graffam sr. id: . ' "Xot a Christian in Turkey trusts tho sultan, and very few of his own people do either. His death would be '.vc-'vomed by all missionaries. You !:iow when the sultan dies twenty three guns will be fired." And Miss Grallam smiled. "That Is so. When ever a cannon is fired in Constantino ple the people all stop work and besin to count. Sometimes when fifteen or twenty shots are fired the tension is very great, for with just so many more there'll be no sultan. Yes, I un derstand it is a joking number here In New York, but it is true nevertheless, and we want the twenty-three to come as soon as possible." CHAFF FOR THE PRESIDENT. In Song Sung at Amateur Perform ance In a Washington Theater. When President Taft and Mrs. Taft went to the Belaseo theater at Wash ington the other night to witness the producion of an amateur society show given for charity they saw a play which was a musical comedy entitled "About Thebes." The book was writ ten by Sirs. A. C. Barney, who man aged the affair. Many society people were present. Mr. Taft was the sub ject of a good deal of funmaking on the part of a dozen pretty girls, par ticipants in the comedy, who stretched out their arms in supplication to the president and sang a song, part of which went as follows: Can't we call you Bill now that you're president? Can't we call you Bill now any more? As we see you riding by with your head held up so high Can't we greet you as In days of yore? , Can't we stroke your hand and say, "Hel lo, Bill?" Will you turn us down and pass us o'er? Are you really quite Intent on the "Mis ter President?" Tell us, can't we call you Bill now any more? The verses of the song were sung by Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard of Washing ton, who wrote it, and the pretty girls BOY INVENTORS. Humphrey Potter's Crude Addition to the Steam Engine. Some of the most important in ventions have been the work of boys. The invention of the valve motion to the steam engine was made by a mere boy. Newcome's engine was in very incomplete con dition from the fact that there was no way to open or close the valve except by means of levers operated by the hand. , . Newcome set up a large engine at one of the mines, and a boy, Humphrey Potter, was hired to work these valve levers. Although his work was not hard work, yet it required his constant attention. As he was working the levers he saw that parts of the engine moved in the right direction and at the same time that he had to open or close the valves. s : He procured a strong cord and made one end fast to. the proper part of the engine and the other end to the valve lever, and then he had the satisfaction of seeing the engine move with perfect regularity of motion. A short time after the foreman came around and saw the boy play ing marbles at the door. Looking at the engine, he saw the ingenuity of the boy and also the advantage of so great an invention. The idea suggested by the boy's inventive genius was put in a prac tical form and made the steam en gine an automatic working ma chine. ' The power loom is the invention of a farmer's boy who had never seen or heard of such a thing. He whittled one out with his jackknife, and after he had got it all done he, with great enthusiasm, showed it to his father, who at once kicked it to pieces, saying that he would have no boy about him who would spend his time on such foolish things. The boy was sent, to a black smith to learn a trade, and his mas ter took a lively interest in him. He made a loom of what was left of the one his father had broken up and showed it to his master. - The blacksmith saw he had no "common lad as an apprentice and that the invention was a valuable one. He had a loom constructed under the supervision of the boy. It worked to their perfect satis faction, and the blacksmith fur nished the means to manufacture the looms, and the boy received half the profits. In abdut a year the blacksmith wrote to the boy's who asked Mr. Taft to let ! them earrjfter ' tha . he shuM brm? Wlth nim a weaitny gentleman, wno was the .inventor of the celebrated power loom. You may be able to judge of the astonishment at the old home when his son was presented to him as the inventor, who told him that the loom was the same , as the model that he had kicked to pieces but a year before. GARDEN SEEDS All Kinds, In PACKAGE OR BULK HODES GROCERY i3 V. E. WATTE RS The Benton County Real Estate Age Corvallis, Oregon f If you have anything to buy, sell or exchange, see us. No padded prices, ft As to our responsibility, and methods of doing business, we refer you to the business men of Corvallis. f Some splendid bargains send for list. him "Bill" were helped . out in; -the chorus by the entire company, which was assembled on the stage at f the time. church Spooning parlors. The club has issued an open challenge to play any high school nine in this sec tion and made" good their claim to su periority last evening by defeating the Corvallis high school team. There was a merry party of young people assembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heckart on College Hill last night, the C. E. Society of the Evangelical Church giving an enjoyable Library entertainment. Each of the 40 guests present were costumed to represent some book and the effect was rather startling. Dainty refreshments were served after the evening's fun was over. A. F. Cullver, a member of the New port Life Saving Station .was looking company of players will open an engage- after business interests in the city on ment of three nights at the opera house on Monday night, May 10, presenting highclass plays. This company comes very highly recomended and all signs point toward the fact that we are to have an unusually talented company at at popular prices. Although new to this section, Miss Deffry has played through Washington, Northern Oregon and Idaho, for the past six years. Three years ago her company appeared at the Marquam Grand in Portland. Miss Deffry hails from St. Louis where she was a leading woman in stock produc tions. The supporting is the best, ob- Thursday. On Friday forenoon he stood on the college campus and viewed with great surprise, the annual drill. As the boys stepped down the line he said he had never before realized the magnitude or importance of the institution, and what it was doing for the young people of the state. John Wyatt went down to Portland Thursday and bought a thoroughbred registered short horn bull. With the advent of the new- packing plant at Portland the farmers are beginning to realize that the little gimlet Jersey with a single steak to each hindquarter, will St. Paul Pastor Offers Hospitality to All Young Couples. Rev. Harold Pattison, pastor of the First Baptist church in St. Paul, re cently announced that the church par lors would be thrown open to all young people who live in boarding houses. Cards were distributed in all the big stores inviting young couples to take advantage of the church parlors. Mr. Pattison said: . "There are books and up to date lit erature and games, and those who come will enjoy themselves. It is a great opportunity for the church. We have no ulterior motive, however. The opening of our parlors is not a move to increase our membership. It is simply offering to the working young women of St. Paul a cozy and com fortable place to which to bring their young men friends. We will provide chaperons for them, and they will be taken care of." . . BALLOON WELCOME FOR TAFT tamable. The productions at popular ! not supply the demand. The demand is prices should be greeted by packed now at hand for choice beef stock and houses. Prices 10, 20 & 30 cents. Re- j to such live, enterprising men as Mr. served seats on sale at Graham and ' Wyatt must all turn to accomplish the Wotham's. desired results. Daics matches Heed Constant Repairing , Their method of carrying them is responsible for the fact. Pinned to the waist or hanging on a chain tht . delicate mechanism is easily disar ranged. We pay special attention 'to ladies'v watches, and when re paired by us you will find that they . keep iu order longer. E W, S, PRATT, Jeweler and Optician Cincinnati Turners to Have Band Over Station When President Arrives. When President Taft visits Cincin nati, his home city, on June 24 to at tend the thirteenth annual turnfest of the North American Gymnastic union he will be received by a band sitting in the basket of a balloon hovering over the city. This was decided on at a meeting of the committee of arrangements the other day, and contracts with a bal loon owner were made. Above the station when the chief executive ar rives forty aerial musicians will pro ceed to blow forth "The Star Spangled Banner." - Novel Fishing Craft. Captain Charles N. Solheim at Great Kills, N. Y., has built a novel motor boat which is to be used for fishing: The cabin trunk Is flush with the for ward deck and extends- Just far enough on each side so that those who want to fis"h' can sit on It and hold their poles over the side of the hull. Captain Solheim says that twenty will be able to fish at the same time. This craft, which is -named Aurora, Is thirty-seven feet over all, thirty-five feet on the water line, nine feet beam and three -feet draft. -There are five feet ten Inches of head room in the cabln, and the boat is to be driven by : an eighteen horsepower motor. ... The frames are of .oak two ,and a 'half inches square, the planking of yellow pine one and one-eighth Inches. ;By the arrangement of the cabin trunk camp chairs and other deck fittings are dispensed with. . She Was Not a Whitmanite. Back when Lord Alfred Tenny son was poet laureate of England there was a prominent American girl, the daughter of our ambassa dor, in fact, who was very anxious to meet the greatest literary light of his time. One evening the long coveted chance came at a soiree. The conversation that ensued is chronicled in the Conservator as follows : Tennyson You are American ? . Girl Yes. , , Tennyson You know Walt Whit man? ..Girl No. Tennyson Then you don't know the only man worth knowing in America. ..' Whereupon N the laureate turned away and the interview was over. Outside His Lifie. : "I presume; my good fellow, yon are a laborer ?" said a lawyer to a plainly dressed witness. "You are right; I am a-workman, sir' replied the witness, who was a civil engineer. " "Familiar with the use of the pick, shovel and spade, I presume ?" "To some extent. Those are not the principal implements of my trade, though. - "Perhaps you will' condescend to enlighten me as to your principal implements." "It is hardly worth while. You don't understand their nature or use." 'Trobably not," loftily, "but I insist on knowing what they are." "Brains, sir." ' The Olympic Games. The famous Olympic games are "said to have been instituted in honor of Jupiter, about 1,300 years B. C, and to have been revived by Iphitus, 884 B. C. They were held at inter vals of f oir years on the banks of the Alpheus, near Olympia, in Elis,. to exercise the youth in the five kinds of combat. The prize contended for was a crown made of wild olive or laurel. The games were' abol ished by order of Theodosius, about A. D. 394. SIC NEW WALL PAPER STOCK JUST ARRIVED This includes all the beautiful patterns in crown effects, cut-outs, ingrains, etc. If you contemplate using paper in your house this Spring, come to our store, see our goods and we will show you how many dollars we can save YOU A.- Xju Miner WALL PAPER AND PAINT STORE Second Street, Near Palace Theater Occidental Lumber Co. Successors to; 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. G. O. BASSET r, Local Mgr. WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT Phone Your Orders To No. 7, THATCHER & JOHNSON'S GROCERY Wnere They Will be Promptly Filled. Fine Line of Crockery, Glassware, Cut Glass, Haviland and Chinaware, LAMPS ETC. Benton Qounfy Lumber Co. Manufacturers of all kinds of Fir Lumber, Mouldings, Cedar Posts, Sawed and Split. Gedar Shakes Dealers in Doers, Windows, Lima, Stick. Oemsnt Shingles, etc COOPER S NEWTON HARDWARE CO. Successors to MELLON & PINKERTON Second Street, - - Corvallis, Oregon . . Dealers In Hardware, Implements, Buggies, Wagons, Cream Sepa rators, Graniteware, Tinware and Builders' . - Hardware. Sole Agents for . . Congo Roofing and Quick flleal Ranges