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About Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1909)
TALK OF THE TOWN .Daily Gazette 50 cents per month. Kline's got it. Got What? Golden Eod Oats. 6-21-6t O. G. Simpson and family left yes terday for Tillamook. Acme Quality Paints and Floor Var nish that wears at A. L. Miner's. 5-17-tf. Cabbage and Kale plants. Potatoes, $1.60 a bushel at L. L. Brooks. 6-21-6t Call up the Palace of Sweets for your ice cream and sherbets. Free delivery. 5-6-tf F. E. Erickson, of Salem, was look ing after the new armory proposition at OAC yesterday. Howard Bush and wife, of Albany, were looking after business matters in Corvallis yesterday. R. O. Watkins, of Pleasant Valley, was tickling the merchants of Corvallis yesterday with a little surplus change. Mike Bauer received a telegram yes terday that his brother's wife died very suddenly at Lincoln Nebraska last Tuesday. Henry Cummings has been doing work ! along the independent telephone line between here and the coast and will return today. A joint meeting of the Knights and Ladies of the Macabees was held last night at their hall. A splendid program was rendered, delightful banquet served and all had an enjoyable evening. The steamboat traffic on tbe Willam- Good underwear at small price.' The Bazaar. 6-22-4t. Bargains in belts at the Bazaar this week. 6-22-4t. Grover Cate went to Brownsville to day to attend the reunion. J, H. Feagles was a business visitor from Independence yesterday. T. Ranney came down from the Sum mit yesterday to attend to business matters here. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Vidito and Mrs. L. S Aurand are attending the Browns ville pioneer's reunion. 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 Mr. and Mrs. E. E. McVicker at tended the Benton county Sunday school convention at Simpson Chapel and the Bellfountain picnic grounds Thursday and Friday. Charles Brumfield, Mr. McCarmack and Marion Hayden were over from Alsea yesterday. Mr. Hayden is greatly in favor of the consolidation of the the school districts in the valley and the making of one strong central school. Work is now progressing rapidly in preparing for the removal of the school building to Job's addition. As soon as ! the building is off the ground the new High school will be commenced and rushed to completion. I The latest piece of cussedness is re ' ported from telephone headquarters. At about 7- o'clock a certain line fails to CRAFT- OF SCIENCE Nonmagnetic Yacht Built to Correct Ocean Surveys. REMARKABLE TRIP PLANNED. rnr,4-n-An-r 4-Vn -foil i . . , f. , J i. i i j ' connect and it is presumed that some rams begin and the boozer who looked ; . , , . n a . b . , , , - person places an obstruction across the to this source of supply will have to fall t . ... v. i.r, i 1 c J yti -vr crtif a Vita waifphhrti' norhQns tfir- getting that the whole neighborhood is back on near beer and pepper sauce to quench his thirst for a season. The special communication of Corval lis Lodge No. 14 A. F, and A. M. held at the hall last night was a very inter esting meeting. A member of the Smith family was raised to the sublime followed by a banquet and reports from j ur a t grand lodge delegates. suffering great inconvenience on account of his action. The meanest man living is the fellow who pretends friendship and stabs you in the back. Miss Edythe Mays was given a de lightful surprise party at her home Sat- a number of her I young friends, Minnie Florence Walker ! and Maude Hamlin having the direction Henry Windam and family, who spent of the pleasant event. Games were the winter here and sent the children to ! played, refreshments Served and all had OAC left today for the home in Cook : a most enjoyable time. Those present county. Mr. Windam is a very pros- were : Misses .Florence and perous farmer and has a beautiful ranch : Grace Walker, Clarence Barber, Jane of 1,500 acres nicely stocked. He be- j and Bessie Caldwell, Savanna Jones, lieves in education and the children will Cleo Wilbanks, Bertie McGilvery, Mrs. answer to roll call at OAC next fall. j Maude Hamlin, Messrs. Winford and The town was well filled with trav- Dee Walker, Lester Campbell, George elintr men vesterdavrenresentinp-nAarlv Milhollen, Roger Hamlin, John Barker, every conceivable line known to the Joe Weitman, Harlan and Ralph Har- commercial trade. The sentiment in ns' tinier Beach and William Avenn regard to this class of men is changing j Miss Ethel Adland, of eastern Oregon rapidly as wholesale houses have long who has been visiting the past week at since realized that their salesmen on the home of her uncle, John Willbanks, the road is a true representative of the left Tuesday for a visit with Jim Wil honor and integrity of his house, hence banks, of Shedds.t the scalawag has been superseded by a class of jolly whole-souled fellows. Rev. and Mrs. Hubbell and Mrs. J, Trouble Makers Ousted. " When a sufferer from stomach troub- A Cramer and daughter went to the le takes Dr- KinS's New Life Pills he'8 State Convention of the Christian church now being held at Turner. It will com mence this morning and continue two weeks. This is the most important yearly event of these good people and is attended by the ablest men of that denomination in the state. The grounds are nicely located and fitted up for this particular purpose and the audience room will seat 8,000 people. Special arrangements are made for camping and the place represents a great white city. 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. All the News All the Time in the Corvallis Gazette ST32 253 taffies' matcftes nel 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 disar ranged. 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. PRATT, Jeweler and Optician 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 aije really less than the cost of material and making. YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY BUYING HERE NOW Vessel With Practically No Metal on Her to Deflect Compasses to Go on Fifteen Year Cruise to Correct Fun damental Compass Errors May Hunt For South Magnetic Pole. The nonmagnetic yacht Carnegie, in the construction of which practically no iron, steel or other magnetic metal was used, was launched the other afternoon at Brooklyn. Not a single iron bolt, spike or nail has been used in building the Carnegie, the hull be ing held together by locust tree nails and copper bolts and spikes. The en gine equipment is likewise made of nonmagnetic materials, the cooking ranges are of bronze, the tableware of Mexican silver, while the cooking utensils are all made of copper or aluminium. The Carnegie when she goes to sea a few weeks hence to begin her first voyage for the purpose of obtaining correct records of magnetic variations and other scientific data will be man ned by a picked crew of men selected by the scientific heads of the Car negie institution of Washington, for- which the vessel was built Andrew Carnegie, whose name in big blue let ters is painted forward of the yacht, is the oue who made this vessel, the first of the kind the world has ever seen, possible. The honor of breaking the christen ing bottle of wine on the bow of the Carnegie when she took her initial plunge was given to Miss Dorothea Louise Bauer, the young daughter of Dr. L. A. Bauer, director of the de partment of terrestrial magnetism In the Carnegie institution. As the yacht started down the ways one-of -the men in the launching party remarked that the launching was an epoch in tbe marine history of the world. He referred to the fact that the Carnegie is the first ocean going vessel ever built in which the system of gas propulsion has been adopted. The Carnegie is painted white and when completed will be rigged in full brigantine style, her sail area totaling nearly 13,000 square feet. She is 155.6 feet over all, her water line length be ing 128.4 feet. Her molded beam is 33 feet, depth of hold 12.9 feet and her mean draft 12.7 feet When she is fully loaded and ready for sea she will displace 568 tons. It is the materials of which the ves sel and her equipment have been built. however, that most interest the ma- rine world.' In addition to her great sail capacity she will also be equipped with a 150 horsepower auxiliary com' bustion engine, which is to be operated by producer gas made from anthracite coal. ". '.. ' . The windlasses, the anchors, the boat davits, the chain plates and all of the spar and deck fittings are made of non magnetic materials, the only metal in the entire ship tha,t Is not absolutely nonmagnetic being the pistons, the producer and the range grates, and they are" so nearly nonmagnetic that only the finest of Instruments are af fected by contact with them. Anthra cite coal will be the fuel used on the Carnegie, the - bunkers being large enough to provide enough coal to give the vessel a cruising radius of about 2,000 miles at a speed of. 6 knots. Of particular interest is the observa- tion cabin, which is situated amidships on the main deck. Forward and aft of this cabin are two glass domes of the revolving type, which in appearance are not unlike the domes of astronom ical observatories. These domes cover observation stations that will be nec essary in the scientific work for whjch the Carnegie has been built. The urn bers of the hull are the best and stanchest that could be bought. By the end of next month the Car negie will be ready to start, on a se ries of long voyages that are expected to consume about fifteen years. Her first trip will be to Hulson bay, where scientific researches will be conducted Certain errors are known to exist in the variations of the compass, and when her work is finished these errors. among others due to magnetic influ ences, it is believed, will have been corrected. It was also said that in her voyages in far southern seas an at tempt will probably be made to defi nitely locate the south magnetic pole. The ocean survey will be made un der the supervision of Dr. Bauer, whose . Immediate representative on board the yacht will be Mr. Peters, who in 1900-8 commanded the mag netic survey yacht Galilee in the Pa cific. Mr. Peters will have four mag netic observers to assist him. Captain C. E. Littlefield of New London, Conn., will be the , Carnegie's commander. Henry J. Gielow. a marine architect, designed the Carnegie. avis New Device For United States Navy, The pneumatic ammunition : hoist, after trials at Newport and New York, has been installed on the Massachu setts, says a Boston dispatch. The navy department reserves the right to reject the hoist if It offers no advan tage over the present hoistXThe irin ciple is practically that of the pneu matic rube. The advantage is avoid ance of automatic shutters and the possible dropping of grains of powder into the handling room. Safety Device For Submarine Crews, One of the new emergency devices for use in submarines is n helmet and coat containing enough air to lift the wearer to the surface of the water. iu OW.TABOR'S HOG, r By M. QUAD. ICopyrlght. ISO!), oy T. C. McClure.) When Silas Strong, old bacUeior. bought a farm in the outskirts ot tiie village of Fowlervilie' and set' up his bachelor's hall he was ai peace tvim all mankind. Two weeks later he was rushing to and fro with a uiu-hfork in bis bands seeking the life - ot a Btraugp hog that bad invaded his prem ises, tor four years the Widow Ta bor, dowu iu the village, had owued a hog. For three years the annual had been kuowu as "the- widow's hog.' to distinguish him from the half hundred other hogs peruiitted to meander around. The villagers told tales about that hog. tie was tall aud loug and rangy. He was ever hungry. He was tighter. He was a destroyer ot gar dens and the happiness of tbe owners thereof. He deserved death by the bands of gun, ax or club, but he had been spared because he was owned by a widow. The widow's hog bad waited a rea sonable length of time and then oaid visit to the, newcomer and rooted up half an acre of potatoes. Silas Strong was slow to anger, but he couldn't stand that. After , vainly trying to catch the hog he set himself to locate the owner. When this had been done be put on his Sunday suit and made a call. He had the damages figured up and knew just what he was going to say. The Widow Tabor wasn't expect ing him. but she was not a bit flnstrat- ed. Air. Strong had hardly begun his story of infamy on the part of the hog when he was interrupted with: "Dear, dear me. but 1 am so sorry, wish he wouldn't act this way. Mr. Strong, 1 have just been making some elderberry wine, and I wish you would give me your opinion on it" . When he bad done so she asked an other opinion about blackberry jam, and from that she insisted that he sam ple a custard pie, and when he finally started home he had forgiven the hog and had a good opinion of the widow. These sentiments were not lasting. Only a week had passed when the same hog tore his way through a stout fence and did some more rooting. Silas Strong was 6tirred to the utter most by the outrage. The widow and the hog shared his invectives alike. As soon as he could get his breath aud breakfast he set out for the village. He may have been expected, for the door was opened to him with a sweet smile, and before he could utter a word the widow said: I am very glad to see you. One of the legs of the cook stove has fallen out and I do wish you'd fix it for me." The leg was no sooner in place than the widow mentioned that she was afraid tbe "mother" in the vinegar barrel on the sunny side of tbe house was dead, and she took Silas out to see. He gave his opinion, and then she- asked his advice about keeping Leghorn chickens instead of Brahmas, and the upshot was that he went-away - without bringing the thunders of heav en upon her head. He got as far as to say that the bog had paid him another visit, but she changed the conversation to the coming circus, and he found himself on his way home in a puzzled frame of mind. He wanted to forgive the widow without forgiving the hog, but as they seemed to be one and in separable how was It to be brought about?" Silas bothered over this mat ter for ten days and then got up one morning to find another battlefield be fore his eyes. The widow's hog had made the third unannounced visit He had rooted 'up the soil, and he bad chewed up things. He had spared neither age nor sex. It was simply a gigantic case of malicious- trespass and deserved death at once. As Silas could not catch ' him and administer tbe death stroke, he took a bite to eat and then started for "Liverpool, a village five miles away. As soon as he got there he laid the widow and the hog and the trespass before the lawyer, and when the latter bad got the de tails he said: It's the plainest case I ever had. The hog has got to die.' Silas Strong felt an elation as he started for home. The law was be hind him, and the law was to vindi cate him. He. had given the widow and her hog a chance, but they had not taken advantage of it At the eod of a mile or so. however, this elation began to lose its edge, and ten minutes later he was wishing that he hadn't been so prompt Durn the hog. but Mrs. Tabor was a widow. - She had given him pleasant greeting. She had asked his advice. She had fed him custard pie. She may have beeD left that hog as a heritage, and she couldn't be expected to either kill him or follow him around uights. , Silas was feeling rather ashamed of his movements when he came upon a fet male sitting on the bank of the high way and weeping. Standing In the middle of the road was an old 'horse and buggy belonging to a party in Fowlervilie. The harness had broken, and the outfit had come to a stand still. The woman was recognized at Diice as the Widow Tabor. As Silas descended from his rig she rose up and tearfully welcomed him. it was the duty of Silas Strong to comfort her. He did his duty, some of it with an arm around her waist He had forgotten bogs and lawyers and cases of trespass when he saw a man driving up whom he recognized as a constable. He was on his way to Fowlervilie to serve the summons. "Mignt as well turn around, an nounced Silas. ... "But why T ."A feller can't sue his own wife can her i - -. -. .. . ' And the constable sighed and drove on. . M. QUAD. Glass Jars, All Kinds, at HODES GROCERY COPPER -ft NEWTON MRME 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 Qulek ilea! 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, Cut Glass, Haviland and Chinaware, LAMPS ETC. 2r Summer Rates East During the Season 1909 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. Corr:spondingly low fares. On Sale June 2, 3; July 2, 3; August 11, 12 To DENVER and Return - - $57.60 On Sale May 17, July 1, August II 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 te. had at a slight advance oyer the rates quoted. Full particulars, sleeping car reservations and tickets will be furnished by R.,C. LINNVIIXE, Southern Pacific local agent at. Corvallis or WM. M'MURRAY, General Passenger Agent Portland, "Oregon V; E. WATTE RS The Benton County Heal Estate Agent - Corvallis, Oregon f If you have anything to buy, sell or exchange, see us. No padded prices.- If As to our responsibility, and methods ot doing business, we refer you to the business men Of Corvallis. If Some splendid bargains send for list. .- ' REDUCTION IN -.MILLINERY:--' ' To close out Summer Hats and make room for Fall stock. HSSs&obss, flowers and orisaznisxf ahsnp I have a nice line of Hair Goods, Switches, Coronet Braids, Puffs and Hair Nets. Sharppooing, Hair Dressing and Manicuring MRS.H. E. WETHERLA, 151 Madison Street -