Corvallis Times.'
NOT WITHOUT. HOPE.
Official Paper of Benton County.
eOBTAIXIS, OREGON, APE. 8, 1903.
WHY IT HAS MERIT:
if
There is probably merit in Sen
ator Miller's contention that cours'
es in the : public schools are over
loaded.' The tendency of the time
is to compress - much into little
The iourney across the continent
must be made under forced draught
and multiplied dangers in four days
-when safety and good judgment
dictate six. The man who plans
to succeed, forces his physical and
mental powers into service sixteen
out of the 24 hours, when six or
eierht ought to be the limit. : The
child is hurried into school at six,
and would go at an earlier age
the law would permit. . The free
dom and exercise - so essential to
vigor and growth begin to be res
tricted almost before , baby clothes
have been laid aside. The restraint,
bad air and inaction of the school
room are hurried m on the young
life before free air and child play
have given the small frame a fair
start in development. : Like a plant
with half its sunshine 'gone, the
growing child yields up more and
more of its strength to keep a-pace
with the overloaded courses, and
when college graduation through
equally crowded courses is attained,
vigor, mental ' and ' physical', is
dwarfed and blighted. This ,may
not be the universal rule, . but it is
pronouncedly the tendency. It is,
however, the product of the stren
nous conditions of this - over-stren
nous age.; -.-
It -were better for the child, especial
ly if delicate, to stay out of school
' till ten than to enter at six. None
should begin earlier 1 than eight.
Most will enter at tne 1 latter age
and pass graduation sooner than if
entered at six. because the addit
ional store of bodily and mental
vigor will make progress faster,
The best strength of the life
should not be sapped in the school
room-: ; A reserved force is needed
at maturity when the- real battle
for existence begins. A graduate
over crammed with smatterings is
as helpless for action as is a snake
oven-stuffed with a newly swallow
ed rabbit. There is mote danger
of overloading than ' underloading
public school courses, and that' is
why. there is probably merit in ; the
-Linn county senator's contention.
.HOWARD WON.
.Miss Wicklund Second Friday Night's
Oratorical Contest at 0A& ,'" ''. "y.
Before a well filled chapel? five
orators contended for prizes at the
. college -Friday night., r Roy How
ard of last year's graduating Class,
won first place and a . gold medal.
He is, to appear for the .local College
Prohibition Association in the state
contest to occur at Dallas - Mayist.
Second place and silver1 medal
was taken by Miss Alice Wicklund;
and a cash .prize ; contributed - by
J. H. Harris,- was taken by Mark
-McAllister. Three others besides
the five were contestants,1 but they
did not. appear on 'Friday evening's
programme, v having been : elimin
ated by, the judges on composition.
The orators, their subjects and the
order of their standing are as fol
lows: - ' ' ''-.i :;i ' -
Roy Howard, "Come, ' let us rea
son Together;" Alice - Wicklund,
,A Curse and a. Remedy;" Mark
McAllister, "It can Never be Le
galized Without Sin;". H. C. Bro
die, 'The , Army Canteen; " Mary
Sutherland, t'High Ideals and Pa
triotism.". The judges on composition were,
Mrs Humbert. Rev. Reeves and Dr.
Cathey; on delivery, Prof. Cordley,
Prof. Skelton and Rev. Moore,
Still : Want Corvallis to Move- A
r v Morning-and Evening Tram. '
Independence people still want
Corvallisites to ask - the Southern
Pacific for a morning and evening
train-service. When the former
met R; Koehler and his associates
in Portland,' the "latter ' told" them
that Corvallis was not petitioning
for the train. ? The railroad men
seemed to have the idea that Cor
vallis did not want it. Their nat
ural conclusion was, if . Corvallis.
ites want it, why don't they ask.
. The matter is still in the balance.
The railroad offered Independence
a morning and evening . train via
the, motor arrangement, - connect
ing at McMinnville, but the latter
rejected it, insisting on a through
train to Corvallis. , The company
has treated all their , requests with
the greatest consideration, and lias
seemed most anxious to accommo
date. The Independence people
are confident that if Corvallis would
throw a united request for the train
into the lap of the railroad com
pany, the service would : ; be estab
lished. -
i ' Corvallis has done nothing yet,;
No petitions have been circulated.
It is still true as it was when Noah's
ark floated on the : flood, , that an
Isolated town is a dead town. It
will continue to be true until Gab
riel blows his trumpet at the crack
of doom. In these days of quick
transit md lightning changes, live
men won t wait forever for a chance
to go somewhere,.; They settle in
towns where there is a chance to
get out and get in, and that's' the
biggest of all drawbacks to Cor
vallis. t s
TO SELL SEASON TICKETS.
For Track Meets They all Occur This
Season on OAC Field.
Here are the dates for the -meets
OAC will hold with other' track
teams in the near future. '., All the
contests this year are to take place
on OAC field. The local tryout for
places on the team occurs Monday
April 27th, meet with McMinnville
team, Saturday May 2nd; Dallas
College, Saturday, May 9th; Paci
fic University Friday, May 15th;
University of Oregon, Saturday,
May 23rd; Albany College, Friday,
May 29th. , .?i
Season tickets, similar ; to those
sold for the football games are soon
to be placed on sale. The cost of
admission by single tickets for all
games will be $i.6g. The season
tickets, admitting holders 1 to all
meets, will be sold at $1.00. ,.',
As the games promise his year
to be far more interesting than
ever before) it is probable that citi
zens generally will take advantage
ot the reduced price, and buy sea
son tickets, Theadmission of the
University of Oregon game alone
will be fifty cents. , . The tickets
will be placed in the hands of school
boys, who will be given a commis
sion on, the sales made, - . K r; j:
:Tbe candidates for places on
the track team are now.; at t work.
Director Trine is with thenrevery
afternoon, except on .- Wednesdays.
He ismuch encouraged, .but, like
many others, prays all the time for
better weather. The work taken
by the. men up to the present has
been very light. Scientific trainers
like the experienced director, do not
break down the. physical , forces of
his men by over-violent, effort; in
the beginning. , - . ,
WILL PRINT PAMPHLETS. -
Describing" Benton Co'im'ty Citizens'
League Orders Committee to go:.. ..
V -j ' ' Ahead ; i:.
; The Citizens League,: ; after, sev
eral months of inocuous desuetude
voted Monday night, to order, the
publication of a - large t number J of
pamphlets " descriptive of ? Benton
county,: to be distributed f by the
Harrimau. immigration f bureau.
The committee that collected the
funds was empowered to edit and
print the pamphlets. v ; , i ; ;
One hundred and ninety three
dollars is available for the purpose
An additional $100 . was available at
one time, but it is not now. It was
the appropriation of - the commis
sioners' court, but the warrant re
mained uncalled for tor a month or
two, and then the court ordered it
cancelled. Whether or not it can
again "be secured remains to be
seen. Assistance is also hoped for
from the city council, and a com
mittee was appointed to attend the
next meeting of that body and ask
for an appropriation by the city
The estimated cost of the 50,000
copies of the publication is $400,
At the meeting, the League el-,
ected officers. The men who .. are
to serve the organization in offi
cial capacity for the next year T are,
M. S- Woodcock, president: E- Al
len, vice president; Dr. Harper, nd
vice president; E. E. Wilson, sec
retary and W. H.Currin, treasurer,
: B:' W. Johnson, E. R, Bryson
and E. R. Lake were appointed a
committee to devise plans for the
betterment of the League organ
ization, and to report recommend
ations at the May meeting.
HAS RESIGNED.
X
. Have You Seen .. -
The new purees, wrist bags and
chatelaines at Gehard's. None like
them have been seen, before in Cor
vallis, -The one you want is there,
and if you don't come soon, the
other lady will have it...
. . lady 's belt
dentify.
Found. .:
- Call at this office and
For Sale,
J5 each. ;.;.',--. '
v Spencer BickneH,
, ', 1 Corvallis.
And Retnrned to Corvallis 6. A
Waggoner Goodman's Ailment.
G. A. Waggoner returned yes
terday from Alaska where ' he has
held a government position at
White Pass for several years ' past.
He states that he may return to the
North temporarily on private busi
ness, but he has severed his connec
tion with the government service.
Meantime Mr. Waggoner's family
have resided in Corvallis. ' . v
An aged man was noticed
Thursday wandering about town
in rather an aimless . manner. :He
was accosted by Marshal Miller,
and the latter learned that the old
gentleman wished to see J. B.
Goodman of , this -r city. When
taken to J., B. Goodman's home it
was found 'that the wanderer was
James Goodman of 'J Eugene -and
the gentleman for whom he was in
search is his brother. He had been
on a visit to his son Allen, a hard
ware merchant at :: Independence.
The old gentleman left : Indepen
dence Thursday on the cars in ap
parent good health, but on the way
up he suffered a stroke of paralysis
which affected his mind. Relatives
here telephoned the facts of his con
dition to Allen, and the latter came
up from ? Independence i on the
freight train that evening, and took
his father to Eugene Friday, where
he resides ; with his wife. The j
stricken man is 80 yearsof age. .-1
For Chief ot Police, -
- I hereby announce myself as a candi
date for tbe office of chief of police of
Corvallis at tbe election to be held May
18th, 1903.' '
Sam King.
Corvallis, April 1, 1903.
v For Chief of Police.
I hereby announce myself as a candi
date for the' office of chief of .: police of .
Corvallis at the election to be held
18th, 1903. : i - a
. a . M. Gleason, .
Corvallis, April 6, 19O3.
The Most Popular Min - In . Norw ay
In Norway it is jornson's pictttrep,
one sees in the places where in . other
1 mds one finds tboee of tbe king or the
rnler of the country. In the shop wind-,
ows of the towns and cities it is Bjourn
son's photographs that iook ont at one,
while even at the stations in the country
colored prints of him. hang pn the walla
Nearly every house in the land, .has, If is ,
biography and at least one of his .books
on the family table. April , Cosmopoll
tan.
, ' A- QUEER ADDRESS. ' '
It .'Flustered : the, Postofflce,' Clerks
7 Who was the Letter for Anyway?
" A letter with much mixed ad
dress1, invaded the Corvallis v post
office, 'to the vexation ot the clerks
Monday. The superscription ran
thus: Miss ' Philomath College.
Corvallis, .court iiouse, Oregon."
United States . of America , Central
Asia, might with equal intelligence
have been added, but it wasnt there.
To heighten the dilemma, the missive
bore a special deliverystamp, sug-'.
gesting great haste. . ;
It is supposed; that 'volunteers
among the clerks' were asked for,"
who could deliver the missive
to Miss at Philomath" -college
and at the countycourt house at the
same time, but all faltered when
confronted with the job. The only
known person which could have
done it successfully is Postmaster
Johnson, withhis great speed, which
excels a railroad train, but he was
too busy to go. -
Whether Miss is a student at
the Agricultural College, Corvallis
in which also is the court house, or
whether she is at Philomath . col
lege, Philomath, seven miles from
the court house was not learned
from the postoffice clerk who sailed
through the corridors of the court
house Monday with the missive,
hopelessly perplexed and evidently
headed for the bug-house. The
superscription showed the writer to
be a man, which explains all. He
was in such haste to communicate
with Miss that his heaving heart
didn't let him get the address
straight . ' r. - '
THE ARVON
MEN'S SPRING SUITS. :. -
. , .' -y 1 . . . , ' , .
Nitnble fingerSj were busy during the -win ter month s getting;
icauv our oprmg omis ior ivien. veil nanas nave put to
gether in as perfect a way as possible the suits in our vast
assortment. ' Our lines include garments exceedingly elegant
in fit and appearance, thoroughly .tailored in every detail,
and possessing that sturdy quality which has made our store
famous for good clothes. We name . I ; -, v n
$7.50, $10.50. $12.50, $15.00,-up to $27.50.
for suits, which includes almost every fashionable design and
fabric known to the best New York merchant tailors;
V Our Boys' and Children's Suits. are unquestionably supe
rior in point of merit to any we have shown. . " -'
Complete line of Men's and Boys' Furnishings. : Shoes,
Hats, Sweaters, Negligee and Golf Shirts, Suit Cases, etc.
;r Clothing made to order by High Art Tailors. "
CANDIDATES A-FIELD.
City Election Day is Approaching
Some of the Names.
They talk a little now about the
coming city election- Two candi
dates for chief of police are already
in the field. They are Sam ; King
and M. Gleason. The name of
W. G. Lane, is also prominently
mentioned for the place, and his
friends are urging him to become a
candidate. The friends of Police
Judge GrefFor propose that he shall
again enter the lists to succeed
May ) himself. "He has made a most ex
cellent official and has such success
in mustering votes that on election
day candidates for rthe , judgeship
are generally scarce.- -. ' 1 . ;
A mayor is to be- elected this
year, but as far as heard, .j. no name
has been suggested for the "place.
Five councilmen will retire from the
present councils follows! , P. Av
ery, term of three years, expired
E- Allen, appointed because Z. II.
Davis did not qualify, W.. O, Heck- j
art, term expired, JXT H. , Under
wood,' appointed to a , vacancy
caused by the" resignation of J, R.
Smith, and J. W, Wilbanks, term
expired, Thes.O election- occurs
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