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About Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1909)
TALK OF THE TOWN Trunks and suit cases at Blackledge's Furniture store. 5-17-tf Acme Quality Paints and Floor ' Var nish that wears at A. L. Miner's. 5-17-tf. Call up the Palace of Sweets for your ice cream and sherbets. Free delivery. 5-6-tf W. H. Kerr is at Newport this week recuperating from his recent serious ill ness. . Lost- a bunch of Keys. Finder will please return to E.D. Horning and re ceive reward. ' For Sale. Canary birds ; fine sing ers, good colors. Mrs. Margaret Joy, Granger, Ore., phone 3152. 6 1 7 t Mrs. C. L. McCausland, of Seattle, is -visiting numerous friends in this city, where she formerly resided. General repair shop. All work first class, promptly done. Back of Beal Bros., blacksmith shop, Wood Bros. 5-7-tf $5.- Reward for the return of black silk watch fob, with agate attached. Lost June 3. Address 402 N. Third and Harrison streets, 6-4-2t Mrs. Anna Eberhart, of Fredericks burg, Ohio, was one of the many visit ors in this city in attendance at the G. A. R. encampment. Wanted. By young lady to engage place to work for next fall. Will want to attend college. Address 446 18th And Tyler streets, city. 5 24 tf It's Luck to Smoke Puck. The Better than 5c Cigar The Cigar in the Green Box 5 28 lOt O.C. Senger has decided to retire from the plumbing business of Senger & Freeman, owing to ill health. He will remain in Corvallis for a few weeks and then go to the hot springs for a .good rest. ' The OAC cadets left at 4 o'clock this afternoon on a special train for their outing at Seattle. About 450 of the boys and the full Military Band filled the coaches and they anticipate a good time while away. W.H. Jenkins, traveling passenger agent of the Southern Pacific Ry., was in the city to lay arranging for the special train which took the OAC cadets to Seattle. He went along with the regiment to see that the boys were well taken care of on the trip. By a practically unanimous vote, First Lieutenant Carle Abrams was last night elected a captain of Company M., O. N. G., at Salem, to succeed Charles A. Murphy, resigned. Captain Abrams obtained his early military training at OAC, graduating in 1900 as first lieu tenant. R. F. Baker has located another set tler from the east, Samuel Ransom, of Rock Island, 111., who came out here with F. J. Taylor, the purchaser of the big Foster farm, having bought, throuh Mr. Baker, 291 acres three and one half miles south of Junction City, in Lan e County. i John Dennison, of Junction City, an employe at the Occidental mill while working on the , re-saw this morning, had his clothing caught in the gearing and was badly injured, his arm being seriously lacerated. Dr. Farra attend ed to the wound which will lay Mr. Dennison up for a few weeks. Mr. aud Mrs. Peter Wethers were in from Bellfountain yesterday. . JgCaptain Carey and M. O. Kendall, ofJ Oakville, ' were Corvallis visitors this week. , Among the sick folks this week are Miss Juanita Davis and Mr. and Mrs. 0.,F. Foster. C. A. Dobell, cashier of the Benton Countv Nalional Bank, hrs gone east for a few weeks to visit at his former home in Iowa, and will stop off in Idaho while away. The newly elected officers of the G. A. R., Relief Corps and Ladies Auxil iary were duly installed this afternoon, the ceremony being most impressive. Roy E. Heater, well known through out the Northwest as an athlete of ability, has resigned his position as in structor in physical education at OAC to enter into business in this city. At the annual meeting of the Caus thorn Hall Club last Monday the follow i lg officers were elected: S. C. Zim merman, Mgr; J. J. Thompson, Pres; Mr. Lunn, vice Paes; F. R. NcCall: Rec. ; and L. Briebhaup, Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Morse and Mes dames H. C. York and M. M. Crow, who were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Sharp, while here for the encamp ment, say that they were never more hospitably received and royally enter tained anywhere. Formal Protest Will Be Made Asserting' they have won two out of three games from the University of Oregon, the students of the Oregon Agricultural College claim the stat base ball championship. It is agreed that the first game between these schools was invalidated because the varsity played Curtis Coleman jn violation of the conference rules; of the remaining three games, the College team won two. It appears that Coleman, who played professional ball at Salem last summer, played four innings for the University before he was taken out of the game. It is ' insisted that this is sufficient to throw the first game out of considera tion. A formal protest' will probably be entered by OAC. Trouble Makers Ousted. CANNON !SK0T SHOT. Speaker of the House Ridicules Uplift Movement. "PURE ROT," SAYS UNCLE JOE MEREDITH'S LOVE CF AMERICA When a sufferer from stomach troub le takes Dr. King's New Life Pills he's mighty glad to see his Dyspepsia and Indigestion fly, but more he's tickled over his new, fine appetite,' strong nerves, healthy vigor, all because stom ach, liver and kidneys now work right. 25c at all druggists. - ' Notice. A. Hodes, the merchant, would like to have his customers call him up and inform him who have a supply of egg carriers left at their, homes by the de liverymen. He will take them out of the wavl 6-4-2t Could Not Be Better. No one has ever made a salve, oint ment, lotion or balm to compare with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It's the one perfect healer of Cuts, Corns, Burns, Bruises, Sores," Scalds, Boils, Ulcers, Eczema, Salt Rheum. For Sore Eyes, Cold Sores, Chapped Hands it's supreme. Infallible for Piles. Only 25c at all druggists. ' Eddies' Watches need Constant Repairing Their method of carrying them is responsible for the fact. Pinned to the waist or hanging on a chain the delicate mechanism is easily disarranged.- We pay special attention to ladies' watches, and when re paired by us you will find that they keep iu order longer. E, W, S, PR ATT Jeweler and Optician Declares Former President Roose velt's Country Life Commission Is a "Flat Failure" Has No Patience With Attempt to Relieve Conditions That Are Not Understood. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon In a re cent after dinner speech before the national city planning conference in Washington dealt some hot shot to one of former President Eoosevelt's pet commissions and other curiosities of the uplift movement. The speaker took the following falls out of the uplift: ' "Don't try to relieve conditions that you don't understand." "This country life commission that has been trying to uplift the poor farmer with theories! I'll take oath that they don't know what they are talking about." "What they have compiled is pure rot. The commission is a flat failure." "The idle rich bear about the same relation to the great tnass of the American people that the fly on the elephant's trunk bears to the ele phant." - ' , "The people who do the most harm are those who give to what they call charity either for notoriety or to bribe God." "It is well enough to plan for the future of this country," said Mr. Can non "this country which is to have 500,000,000 inhabitants m the years to come. There are a great many things which can be done in planning for those years, but no plans that we in this generation can map out will be big enough or broad enough to meet the coming needs. "I bid godspeed to this planning that you are working for, but for heaven's sake don't follow the exam pie of some and try to relieve condi tions that you don't understand. .1 have no patience with those theorists who are trying to relieve what they are pleased to call the agricultural section or this country.. There are several excellent gentlemen on the country life commission, but what they have compiled is pure rot. if what I have read of it is a fair sample. The country life commission is a flat fail ure because it has dealt with condi tions that didn't require dealing with by theorists and because its members don't know what they are talking about. "Open the sensational newspapers and the magazines and you will read all about the activities of the idle rich. their foolishnesses . and their fads, , They are of no real consequence. They: bear ' about the same relation to the great mass of the American people that the fly on the elephant's trunk bears to the elephant, but they give the excuse for demagogues, who live not by the 'sweat of their faces, but by the sweat of their tongues, to inveigh against economic conditions existing in this country. That is why they con stitute a real evil. Once in awhile when other methods of seeking noto riety, have failed they declare them selves to be friends of the people and proclaim themselves to be Socialists. "I don't regret immigration. I would not be here if it wasn't for that. I'd be-scattered over the continent of Eu rope. There'd be a little, of me in the Low Counties, a mite In France, a por tion in Ireland, some more in England and Scotland. ' The great bulk of our Immigrants live by the sweat of their faces, and, any one who does that is worthy to be given recognition in this country of ours." ' Mr. Cannon paid a high tribute of respect and admiration to Mrs. V. G. Simkhoviteh of New York, a settle ment worker, whose work centers in a block In a New York city street In which more than 1,000 persons live. Mrs. Simkhoviteh spoke in a quiet but effective manner of her labors in this congested district, where the work of the settlement worker Is so often beset with trials that, demand forbearance and endless patience. The speaker found every reason to believe that the world is growing bet ter each day and deprecated the exist ence of pessimists whose chief mission is to flaunt discouragement before, the eyes of the public. They Always Liked Me Better There," Said Eminent English Novelist.' George Meredith, the eminent Eng lish novelist, who died the other day in England. Dassed the later years- of his life in his very quiet home, Flint cottage, Boxhill, Surrey. A visitor who found him there a few days pre vious to his eightieth birthday, in Feb ruary, 1908, described him as a big, full bearded giant of a man with a splendid head and a heavy crop of marvelous white thick hair. The nov elist, his visitor being an American, re gretted that he had never visited America. "They have always liked me better in America," said he. "They don't care about me in England. People seem to feel it right to congratulate men who live to be eighty, though they really should not. What it means when a man lives to be so old is either that he is greedily tenacious of life or else that he is so insignificant that the fates have passed him by. It is a misfor tune to live to be eighty. A man's life ought to finish when he is five and sixty. He must stop working then or else do work that is inferior." People will praise it then and write articles about it, but posterity will know bet ter and see its weakness. You can't fool posterity. When a man stops working nature is finished with him, and when nature is finished with him he ought to go." The novelist said that he feared it was now too late to visit America. "I have had many invitations," he said, "and I do not suppose there has ever been a nation so hospitable as Amer ica. They say that one good introduc tion will carry you right across the continent. So I suppose I should have: been asked to a great many dinners, and the moss of refection would have served to carry out the idea I advocate and remove me before I was sixty five." In the last year of his life Meredith used to rise daily at 7:30. At il he went for a drive in a cart to which was attached a led donkey and about which gamboled' his favorite pet, an Irish terrier. The rest of the day he passed in reading and seeing his friends. He was for many years an enormous reader-of newspapers and books. ' He was able to dispense with glasses, although he occasionally used them. Of American writers he particularly liked Edith Wharton and. Gertrude Atherton. Of Henry James he said: "I like to read one of his novels a year. James writes about America revisited, but what it really comes to is a tour of Henry James' inside. He tells you how he felt when he beheld this or that and how such things impressed him, and at rsre intervals he may take you to a little window and show you a tit of landscape that might be Amer ica and might be anything a tour of his own inside; that's what it really comes to." - " ; " OUR COFFEES are fresh Roasted every Week by Wad- ham, and Co. of Portland Oregon, Ensuring Freshness and Cleanliness. DIAMOND W. COFFEE MAGNOLIA COFFEE - 40c per pound . 25c per pound Please give these Brands your attention when ordering coffee. HODES GROCERY to 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 t Davis -., Bronze Badges For Cuban Service. All the officers and men of the Unit ed States army who served in Cuba during the period of pacification from Oct 6, 1906, to April 1, 1909 will re ceive from the government a service badge with ribbon in recognition of that service. The badge and ribbon will be issued ds a part of the army uniform, gratuitously to enlisted men and at cost price to officers. This ac tion is taken by direction of President Taft, The badge will be of bronze and will be similar in general design to the badges previously authorized for services during the Spanish war. and the Philippine insurrection. American Shoes For Dutch Princess. The tiny -feet of Holland's baby prin cess, daughter of Queen Wilhelmina, are to be incased in American soft soled shoes, the most costly infant's shoes that were ever made in the Unit ed States. They bear the stamp of a Brockton (Mass.) firm. There are seventeen pairs in the order recently finished, v In one of the seventeen" pairs the lining is a piece pf satin from Queen 'Wllhelmina's wedding; gofrn. Another pair is made of cloth of gold, ohe pair is of cloth of silver, and still another Is of the finest white Parisian kid. MISS FARRAR IN ODD PACT, Was Not to Marry, It Is Said, Without ' Three Other Women's Consent. Behind the brief announcement of Miss Geraldine Farrar's engagement to Antonio Scotti is the story of an anttmarriage agreement, known hith erto to only four girls, of whom the prima donna is one, says a Boston dis patch. The other three are said to be mak ing their names famous in Milan, Ber lin and Paris. They are Maud Abram son, Elena Kirmes and Elvira Leve roni, who made the agreement with Miss Farrar nearly ten .years ago. when- they solemnly pledged them selves on no condition to marry until each had become famous; also they were not to marry until they had the consent of the others. This agreement was put in writing and secreted in Melrose, Mass. - Only after Miss Farrar had received the permission of the other three did she announce her engagement. .. - COPPER 5 NEWTON HARDWARE CD. Successors to MELLON & PINKERTON Second Street, - Corvallis, Oregon Dealers In Hardware, Implements, Buggies, Wagons, Cream Sepa rators, Granite ware, Tinware and Builders' Hardware. Sole Agents for Congo Roofing and Quick Mea Ranges WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT Phone Your Orders To No. 7, THATCHER & JOHNSON'S GROCERY Where They Will be Promptly Filled. Fine Line of Crockery, Glassware, Cat Glass, Haviland and Chinaware, LAMPS ETC. BIG TOBACCO KIT FOR KERMIT Young Roosevelt Took It . Along to Give to Natives of Africa. . Kermit Roosevelt, as official photog rapher of his father's African expedi tion, foreseeing that he could win the friendship of natives with tobacco rather than with money, laid in a gen erous smoking kit just before sailing. This is what he took: One hundred and twenty-five brierwood pipes. 200 short stemmed clay pipes, two dozen long stemmed churchwardens, 500 small packages of granulated smoking tobac co, CO pounds of cut plug smoking, 10G tins of high grade birdseye, 80 pounds of plug chewing. 80 pounds of fine cut and 0,000 cigarettes. When the package was ready for shipment it took up a space of sixteen cubic feet,- the largest consignment of smoking material ever placea on board a transatlantic liner as the property of an individual. ' Will Build a Magic House. A contractor in Wilmington, Del., re cently began the work of constructing the most unique apartment house ever built', in Wilmington. It' will be an electric automatic building, so that one room can be quickly converted into another. The structure has been de scribed as a theatrical house. By pressing a button the occupant has a bedroom, and when ".' he touches an other button he - finds himself In the sitting room, another button and he finds himself with the family at dinner.. t Fashion Hint In Footgear. White buckskin pumps and oxfords are correct for morning and afternoon wear at seashore,' summer resorts or country home. Slimmer Kates East During the Season 1909 i via the Southern Pacific Co. from CORVALLIS, OREGON To OMAHA and Return - - $62.60 To KANSAS CITY and Return $62.60 To ST. LOUIS and Return - $70.10 To CHICAGO and Return - - $75.10 and to other principal cities in the East, Middle West and South. Correspondingly low fares. On Sale June 2, 3; July 2, 3; August II, 12 To DENVER and Return - - $57.60 On Sale M-a'y 17, July I, August 11 Going transit limit 10 days from date of sale, final return limit October 3ist. These tickets present some very attractive features in the way of stop over privileges, and choice of routes; thereby enabling passengers to make side trips to many interesting points enroute. Routing on the return trip through California may t e had at a slight advance over the rates quoted. Full particulars, sleeping car reservations and tickets will be furnished by R. C. LINNVILLH, Southern Pacific local agent at Corvallis or WM. M'MURR AY, General Passenger Agent Portland, Oregon V. E. WATTE RS The Benton County Heal Estate Agent Corvallis, Oregon' 1T If you have anything to buy, sell or exchange, see us. No padded prices. As to our responsibility, and methods of doing business, we refer ; you to the business men of Corvallis. ' 1 Some splendid bargains send for list. MONEY LOANED T' ON REAL ESTATE LONG TIME EASY PAYMENTS RELIAALE REPRESENTATIVES WANTED The Jackson Loan & Trust Co. Fort Worth, Texas Jackson, Mississippi Jj