LOCAL LORE.
(Advertisements In this column charged, for
ni. uHjitiwuiio ueum per ime.
Mrs. Cdthey
friends.
Is visiting galem j
TIME TO ORGANIZE.
O. V. Hurt wa a- passenger for
Poitfend ' on - Thursday's Westside
train, :, . ,
Born, to the wife of Supt. Geo
W. Denmao, Tuesday, an .eight
pouna doj
BenT. Smith, OAO, !95 will
preach at Mt. Visw at 2:30 p. rn. to
morrow. H. A. Deck, pastor.
There was a cine-inch scow fall
at Summit. Tuesday eight. Ia the
. lower lands thereabout the . ground
was merely covered. .
' The fltst Spiritual Union of Cor
vallls. will hold services at -Barrett
Lvceum on Sunday at 3 p m. All
friends cordially lnvitad.
iUCIO Will WO oni,uo ' V vuw
" Catholic church tomorrow. Mass at
10 :30 a. or and Vespers at 7;30 p. m
Everybody is invited.
J. O. Kaaplsch resumed his work
azalh Thursday, in the Oorvallla
Creamery, after an illness of nearly
three weeks. "
United Evangelical ' church
Theme for tomorrow morning, "Da.
velopment" for the evening, "A Mes
sage for Young Men." H. A. Deck,
pastor.
. Alvan Loyd and family are vis
iting friends and rt latlves in Corval
lis. Mr. Loyd moved to Lebanon
last July., and has employment in the
paper miil3. -
James L Skipton first deputy in
the office of Sheriff Colbath of Marion
county has tendered his resignation
Mr Skipton will remain in the office
until his successor is named.
Monday was the birthday of Mr
Thorp and it was commermorated by
- members of the Woman's Belief Corps
- They assembled at the home of Mrs.
Thorp during the afternoon and spent
several hours most pleasantly.
" Mrs. P. M. Abbey, of Newport,
passed through Gorvallls Thursday,
on her way to the hot springs near
Union. She was accompanied by her
eon Morton. Mrs. Abbey is afflicted
with rheumatism, ' '..
As stated in our last issue,. El
'mer Betbers'had, thought of going to
Alaska with the Borland Brothers,
but at the last moment, decided not
to go, He finally reconsidered this
determination, and Thursday bade
adieu, to hla wife, child and friends
and, departed with the expectation of
jolniog the Bowlands and George
Smith at Seattle, from . which point
all sail on Sunday. :
Word has reached this city from
Newport that the tug Richardson was
wrecked ia the Bay early Wednesday
morning. The boat came across the
bay from Newpoif before daylight.
The light on the wharf had been re
moved, and Captain B. A. Bnsall
mistook the high wharf for the land
ing place. The Richardson was sent
crashing through the pUIng under the
wharf, which tore off all the trap
pings aud pilot house from the upper
house, disabling the little craft. Cap
tain "BensaU narrowly escaped death.
Miss Maud Marsh, a college
student; bas the sympathy or -: ner
frlendin Gorvallls on account of the
bereavements occurring in her home.
A year ago she was called, to the
family fireside on account of the death
of a little brother. She did not re
- turn -to . school again until the be
ginning of the wictar term, when she
. was almost Immediately summoned
borne to be present at the burial of a
sister. 'Saturday Ia?t she received a
telephone message to the effect that
another member of the family was
critically ill, and she at once smarted
homeward on the Westside train. '
Wednesday night' the wind pros
trated the electric light pole In " front
of the court house, and the wire was
severed. An accident of this kind
to the light system ". ia easily and
premptly repaired, but occasionally
It Is different. At - times the wire
parts at an obecure point and It is
' difficult to find the . break. Under
such circumstances there may be de
lay in repairs, The light company
maintains two currents la the city
and a break in the wire extinguishes
all the lights on that circuit. So if
happens that frequently a large num
ber of street lights are out at one
time, -
Something of an innovation in the
promotion of education Is Introduced .
by Superintendent Denman by hold-'
inga parent's meeting with the public
school, in Corvallis, during Saturday,
January 31st, The programme be-
. gins at 10:30 a. m. at the public sohocl
building. It embraces music and dis
cussion of various topics related to
the public school, toy praotlcal men
and women of experience. Ad address
is to be given by state Superintendent
Ackerman. At the noon hour a bask-
. et dinner is tn be given, Aside from
the benefits to be derived -from a dis
cussion of school methods and other
pertinent subjects, a meeting and ac
quaintance of teachers and parents
Siust result in a better understanding
f one another and a better knowledge
6l the pupil, and as a consequence the
burden of each will become lighter.
Teacher and parent ought not to be
strUngere. Each should placeXhe ful
lest canfidence In the : other. Kaeh
ba4 the same object in view, namely:
the education of tbcoid, and consul
tation should not be Infrequent. Too
often there is a feeling of mistrust ex
isting between teacher and parent
which an acquaintance would dispel.
TTonna fha laalrahlllf v nf nt&anrti nflp
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the meeting Saturday,
Mrs. J. O. Wilson and Miss Leona
Smltn have been In Portland since
Monday. - -
Mrs. Leah and Gertrude" Barclay
returned yesterday from an extended
visit at Everett, Washington.
Lee H- nkle's team ran away with
hia job wagon Thursday. The repair
hill is expected to be about 825.
Luke Thornton, a former resident
of Corvallis, now of Oregon City, has ar
rived in town to remain a few days.
Misses Helen Holgate, Clara Fish
er and Grace Gatch gave a dancing
party at Fisher's hall last evening.
Levi Ankeoy, ot Walla Walla,
Washingtau, was ejected Thursday to
represent Washington in the United
States Senate.
Charley Olson came over afoot
frcm Lobster Thursday. He states
that snow on the Alsea mou-taln was
knee deep.
Announcement is made in the Al
bany paper of the death of Jacob
Love. He was quite well known about
Corvallis. ' . .
Rev. Allan Wilson,m'of Indianap
olis, an eminent divine or the Christian
church, will deliver the baccalaureate
sermon before (be Agricultural Col
lege next June.
Superintendent J. H. Ackerman
arrived yesterday to be in attendance
at the parents' meeting which opens
at the public school building this
morning at 10 :30. '
The loggers who have been get
ting out ash lumber on the Tyra Smith
place for the Dornbecker furniture Co,
have moved below to procure a quan
tity of maple timber. Later they will
return to Smith s,
Tbe Blodgett logging camp has
partially suspended operations. The
contractor has 1,500 piles to remove
from the woods and this work will
continue. Other operations will be
resumed the 1st of April,
Perhaps few are cognizant of tbe
fact that at the Benton Flouring Mill
Co.'s water front there is a govern
ment water guage which measures 32
feet. - Upon this the last rise in the
river measured 27.1 feet.
Minor Swlek, who retains an ex
cellent momory of the events of the
high water of '61 -'62 states that a
large part of the lower portion of town
was flooded. The water, according to
Mr, Saick's statement, extended from
about where the electric light plant fs
now, westward to a junction with the
back water on Sixth strett. ' The con
necting body of water was about two
blocks ia width; leaving a small tract
c f dry land in the vicinity of the saw
mill and Samuel King's present home:
The fears indulged here that some
of the Chinamen who left Corvallis for
China a few weeks ago, were lost on
the voyage, have been allayed, or may
be, by the information contained ia a
htter received this week, that all ar
rived safely. There is general satis
faction' among local Chinese at the
good news. "Whiskey Jim," the more
feeble of those departing, is said to
have stood tbe trip well. Sorbin it
was thought, might have been thrown
overboard Tor an cutburst ot his ac
customed insr lence.
-Albany Democrat: Henry Bro
ders and C. O. Crandall last evening
paid tbe highest price ever paid for a
horse in Linn county, purchasing of J
Crouch & Son, Lafayette, Ind., Exo
dus, a German coacb horse. This new
acquisition to Linn county horse flesh
is government bred, a genuine Ger
man coacb horse, tracing his ancestry
back 350 years 'without a cross. He
was shipped with 71 other horses from
Oldenberg, Germany, last July. . Ex
odus is nearly four years old, Is 16
hands 1 Inch high and weighs 1130
pounds, perhaps the finest looking
horse, bay, ever seen in tbe county.
The cost is $3,000. : Certainly a fine
animal and said to be very hardy.
- Everybody jokes . with Tony
Fountana. He Is well along In years
and his ambition is to have a merry
time while he Is spared the opportun
ity. If he doubles the prescribed dose
of rejuvenator he doesn't care who
knows It. Otherwise we might not
say that he was a little overloaded
Thursday evening when a stranger
walked into Wbitehorn's and seated
himself. Tony's vision was a little im
paired and he mistook the man for his
friend S. L. Henderson. .Tony delights
to converse.with Mr. Henderson main
ly because the latter allows him to do
all the talking. - So Tony at once at
tacked the stranger with volleys from
his stores of ancient and modern his
tory, flanking him right and left. The
fellow was silent as an Egyptian
sphinx. Tonv thought his friend was
spell-bound and he continued the at
tack for fifteen minutes. He was com
pelled finally to cease from exhaustion,
and. discovered the house in an uproar
of laughter. "What's the matter?"
Inquired Tony; and Bismarck explain
ed. "Why, you blamed goose, y.ou are
talking to a deaf and .dumb stranger."
Finest line of valentines that
ever reached Corvallis. Comic or
sentimental to suit. Prices from
one cent to $2.50 each. At Ger
hards. t- For Sale. -
Choice clove? seed, in any quan
tity at 12 cents per pound.
Corvallis Flouring Mills.
Expenditures for Packing Plant May
, be Deferred Until Fruit Crop is .
Assured.
There has been, some discussion
among local prune growers touch
ing the advisability of" organizing
a processing and packing company
in Corvallis, but no definite action
has as yet been taken, and whether
or not anything will be done this
season can only be surmised. That
the idea is a good one is , generally
conceded and a little action could
easily put. it intopractice. Or
ganizations of this kind are becom
ing quite common in Western Ore
gon, as growers are beginning to
realize that the prune -, should be
put on the market in a; more at
tractive shape than is the custom
now, it they expect it to compete in
the market with other fruit, There
was a time when nearly : all the
dried prunes grown in Oregon were
shipped in sacks like so many po-
tatoes, but in later years, where
packing houses have been estab
lished the prune business has grown
both in popularity and profit, and
if Benton county expects to con-.
tinue m the business, her r growers
must get into .the procession for
improvement in marketing her
products. '. Now is the time to or
ganize if anything is to be done
this, season. The processing plant
need not be built until the prune
crop is assured next summer, but it
would not cost much to form a
company and be, prepared to do
business when the proper time
comes. With a . eood crop of
prunes next fall, which is more than
likely to come, Corvallis should
ship twenty or thirty carloads of
processed fruit, attractively boxed,
and at better profit than is obtained
'rom the old style of handling them
Not only this, but it . would give
employment .to 30 or 40 people
during the winter months and per
haps prove as beneficial to the lab
orer and the merchant as it . would
to the prune grower: fc
This is a matter of some im
portance and it would seem that
we were not alive to our own ln-i
terests if the subject is not thor
oughly canvas&ed and discussed at
this time. . ' -..;.
Douglas1 county produces about
as many prunes as any other coun
ty in the state and although . they
have never had "a processing plant
there, two large companies have
been organized in Roseburg within
the past few weeks by men of ex
perience in the business, and we
predict that every prune grown in
Douglas county this year will be
properly packed before being
placed on the market. , Thers is na
reason why Benton county cannot
do likewise. v- -
ORDER OF LIONS.
For Sale
Millinery goods, and fixtures for sale
on First street, Albany, Good location,
For particulars write to Albany; Oregon.
Box 184. ,
Corvallis Lodge Takes a Boom-At-tractive
Featuresttf the Order.
The Independent Order of Lfons
has experienced quite a boom with
in the past two or three weeks
in Corvallis under the stimulus of
Special Deputy C". Burroughs and
local members.' A wholesale in
itiation occurred at their lodge hall
Wednesday night at which 45 new
members were taken into the or
ganization. This order had its in
ception in Portland, Oregon and in
a short time its work has extended,
throughout Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Montana and California.
In addition to the usual fraternal
insurance conditions, a number of at
tractive features are set out by the
Lions among which are sick, acci
dent, old age and funeral benefits. A
joint certificate, claimed to be the
most desirable feature ever offered
by any fraternal order, is issued by
the Lions. Any two members of a
family may unite in a jotnt cer
tificate at a cost of a rate and a
half on two persons.
The order is not content with
the increase already secured in its
membership here, and as an ad
ditional means of attracting atten
tion it has secured an exhibition of
Edison's 1903 stereopticon and dis
solving . apparatus, which alto
gether produces a most charming
entertainment. A recent similar
production under the auspices of
the Woodmen of the World, gave
excellent satisfaction. The enter
tainment is to be given at . the Op
era House, this, Saturday evening.
Prices of admission are , 10 and 15
cents. . . -" .- ... .. .!.
Wanted to Buy
A second-hand type writer,
at Timbs office.
Enpuire
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
From the E. E. Wilson place
three
15th
bull
miles west of Corvallis, about Dec
fine red two vear old Short Horn
dehorned. A reward will be ; paid for
his return or informatin leading to his
recovery by the owner -
J. B. Kirk, Corvallis, .
Only. 10 days more of Special Prices. -Bargain opportu
nities that come only once a year, so take advantage of
them now. Here are some of the Extra Special offerings
Extra Special on Ladies'
Waists
$ 5oc Waists
, 75c Waists.....
. .1 00 Waists ....
1 25 "Waists.....
2 00 Waists
2 25 Waists
2 50 Waists.....
3 00 Waists....
3 50 Waiets
4 00 Waists
$ 25
37
50
... 63
. 1 00
. 1 13
. 1 25
. 150
. 175
. 2 00
v Extra Sp e cial
On Ladies' Capes and
v Jackets. V
$ 5 00 Capes and Jackets...
7 50 Capes and Jackets...
8 00 Capes andfjackets...
10 00 Capes and Jackets...,
12 50 Capes and Jackets ..
15 00 Capes and Jackets. ...
Ribbon Sale
We place on sale today a quan
tity of Fancy Bibbons bought
at a special bargain. No. 40,
width syi inch, ' - -x
At ro cents per yard. -
Extra Special
On Boys' Two-Piece Suits
Age 4i 5, 6, 7.
$2 00 Suits, at .-. $1 25
2 50 baits at 1 65
3 00 Suits at v...'. 2 00
3 so Suita at.... ". 1 is
3 75 Suits at , 2 501
5 00 suits at.... 3 40
Ladies', Men's, Boys' and Girls' Mackintoshes
y rf ? This line will be closed out regardless of cost during our 10 days' ..Extra Special,
........$z5o I
........ 3 75 I
........ 400 1
S 00 . B
6 25 i
7 5o I
Ext. Special on Children's
ii and Misses' Dresses
$ 50c Dresses at...... 25
7Se-Dresses at...... ....... 38
1 00 Dresses, at... 50
1 50 Dresses at.............. 75
2 00 Dresses at 100
2 50 Dresses at r 25
Laces and
Trimmings
During our Extra Special we
have placed on sale a large
quantity of Laces, Ptncy Braids
and Appliques at just half price,
or - ' -
50 Cents on the Dollar.
Valises, While they,
Last -
$1 00 Valises at $ 65 :
2 00 Valises at 125
3 00 Valises at.................... 1 85
3 50 Valises at...... '. 2 75
4 50 Valises at 3 00
Men's Long-Top Rubber Boots'
. ... -
" l ; Size 10 and 11 only, "at $2 50. .
Extra Special on Ladies' Shoes
Bka lines of ladies' sljoeswottV serSo $3.00 and $3 50
".. . Wool Dress Goods.
Remnants
During our big ea!e we haye accumulated a latge quau
titv of remnants that we offer .
At Extra Special Frices-
Eillis;
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POINTERS
Intended to direct you to Miller's
ed Tag
Our Great Red Tdg Sale has been phenominally
successful, but it is still on , and there' are still left
great bargains in all lines. : Secure some of them.
Ladies' Egyptian Ribbed
Fleeced Underwear, worth 35
cents, red tagged 25ci" Same
as above, worth 50c, red lag
price 40c. ,
' R. & G. Corsets in black
& drab. $1 50,' red tagged $1.
Fifty bolts of . 10c Outing
Flannel, red tagged 8&c per
yard. " Wehave all colors,
i Men's ' Flannelette Night
Shirts, $1 25, red tagged 90c.
Men's hand made sweaters,
orange and black, $4 00, red
tagged $3 20- '
All our men's pants are red
tagged ao percent discount.
Youths' suits made by Halg
mann Bros., New York:
lo oosuits red tagged 8 oo
8 5o suits red tagged 6 8o
7 50 suits red tagged 6 oo
6 5o suits red tagged 5 2o
5 oo suitsred tagged 4 oo
4 oo suits red tagged 3 20
Children's clothing, the Jane .
Hopkins kind etter
in vestee, sailor and two-piece
suits. '
$5 00 suits red tagged $4 00
4 00 suits red tagged 3 2o
3 00 suits red tagged 2 40
2 5o suits red tagged 2 00
2 00 suits red tagged 1 60
1 5o suitsrred tagged 1 2o
New Dress Goods, New Percales, New A. F. C. Ginghams,
New Chambrays, New Sheetings, this week, which are not
included in our Red Tag Sale, but they are marked down to
Bed-Rock Prices. . . "
F E. IHiller, Corvallis, dr.
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SIMS