LOCAL LORE.
Advertisements In this column charged for
at the rate of Li cents per line.
Wheat 73.
Local News on fourth page.
Captaio C. E. DeDtler has arrived
from San Francisco, arid is at the Gel
jatly home west of Town. -
J5. H. DavU his been eoDfioed at
home with illaes-i for three days.
Mies Mabel Stoval returned Sat
urday from a two mouth's visit with
her brother e t Grants Pass.
Miss Mabel Wkhycombe . left
Monday for an extended visit with
Portland and Salerd friend?.
. Saturday's Eugene Guard: Fred
D. Heibolrt arrived list evening from
the upper M-'K-irzie reaoris.
The receipts in. Astoria durinsr
August were over $1,000 from fines,
practically gambling licenses.
' Mrs. W. H. Mabony of San Fran
Cisco is a guewt for a' few day at the
, home of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Miloer.
Mr. and Mr Eo6coe Bryeon are
visiting relatives in this city. Arrer
a week, they expect to leave for Eu
gene to -reside.
E l Eosendorf left ' Saturday for
the East to take a c urae in ; medi
cine. He expects to bn absent four
years. '
Harry Wlthycombe has accepted
a position as pnarmactst In a , Van-,
couver drug store, and left Friday to
begin bi3 duties. . '
Raymond Henkle is visiting his
father in this city. He' bas resigned
bis position la San .Francisco and con
templates going into business for him
self in Walla Walla. .
Eugene - Guard : Nathan Htr
ouo, son of Prof. Hiroun, arrived this
afternoon from Cor. allis, and will
take a position with the Booth-Kelly
Lumber Company at one of their
stations in this county.
Bv accident. Wall tee Colbert got
his. hand in contact with a band saw
in the furniture factory th other day
and sustained a painful iojury. The
eaw struck between the thumb and
forefinger and a' deep wound, half
severing the member was inflicted. "
. N, Young returned to his Lome at
Scio, Saturday after a visit of a fw
days in Corvallis. Mr. Young is the
father of Mrs. A. J. Johnson, aud he
is considering the propositljn of com
ing to Corvallis to reside. H-v will
purchase- residence property it he
concludes to make the change. ;
George Coote, 'chairman of the
college cocntntttee for the purpose has
several appllcatioos tcom- bo!h mile
and female students, who want places
in Corvallis families " to work for
board. Any one desiring , a young
person on such conditions are rpquctt
ed to drop, a card in the postofliae or
apply to Prof Coote at the college.
An operation for anpehdicitls was
performed on Miss Dllle BroD at
the family borne near Dusty,- Monday,
by Dr. Bennett, assisted by Drs. :Per
not and Farra. The appendix was
found affected, and was ' removed.
News from the bedside' yesterday was
to the effect that the patient was im
proving, . ; ,
This newspaper business is not
all poetry. A solicitor tor a Seattle
paper tbls week ; was getting the
daughter of a Bremerton teamster to
subscribe for his . paper when , the
. father came in and found bis daugh
ter on the .newspaper man's lap.
He grabbed a revolver and ehot the
man in the arm as he fled.
The threatening condition of the
weather duting the last of the week
and Monday created a very uneasy
feeling on account of possible damage
to hops, grain and fruit In the event
of continued rains. But on Monday
evening the clouds cleared away and
Tuesday morning's sunshine warmed
up the flagging spirits of the commun
ity to a very satisfactory degree.
Samuel Lane and Eev. .Taylor
and their families left Friday for
Colorado, to remain. They came to
Corvallis about five months ago from
Kansas, and have since resided In
Job's addition. Mr. Lane was em
ployed in the Benton County lumber
yard. The new change ot location
was for the benefit; of Mrs. Taylor's
health, who hopes to be benefitted bv
going to Colorado. "
Picking operations are in pro
gress in the Lilly hop yard. They
began Thursday with 150 pickers.
The price paid for picking 1 is forty
cents and even at that figure there
are more pickers than are required.
Up to Monday evening 1,500 boxes
had been "picked. About fourteen. days
from the time of beginning will be
required to complete the job, . The
crop Is good, and up to the present
the damage from the showers is pract
ically imperceptible.
G. M. Beam leaves today for Ha
german, New Mexico, for a visit with
his sister. - It was twelve weeks ago
last Monday that Mr. Beam was ex
ercising on a , horizontal bar in
his room in. the early morn
ing and sustained a fall which injured
bis shoulder. He has since been in
capacitated from work, and the In
dications are that an equal period
may yet elapse before he will be able
to resume his business. On this ac
count be takes advantage of the op
portunity for a visit with bis ' sister
in New Mexico.
Chittlm YL.
Mrs. Joseph Teal of Portland, Is
a guest of Mrs; F. A. Helm.
Henry Stone's fruit drier, which
was put up this season at the south
end of first street, is ready for the re
ception of prunes. .,. -
Mack Hemphill bas bad placed in
the front or bis business bouse a Urge
show window for the accommodation
ot bis new tenants, the Misses John
son, milliners. - , '
Walter Sheasgreen returned home
Monday. During the summer he act
ed as railroad agent and operator at
Newport. He is arranging to enter
school for the winter. ,
C. A. DaDneman arrived Sunday
from his Eastern Oregon home to be
with his family a few days. He was
accompanied by his daughters, Misses
Bessie and Carrie, who have been with
their father for some time.
Mordi Keeney, who was formerly
interested, in the brick stable here,
paid Corvallis a brief visit this week,
accompanied by his wife. . Since leav
ing here Mr. Keeney has been a street
car conductor in Portland."
The Scottish, Union and NationT
al Iosurance Ci. has made prompt
settlement with E. J. Dunn onaccouDt
of Ltstes sustHined io the late fire. Sat
urday tee insurance was adjusted and
Mr. Duna received $675.
Beports from the King's Valley
hop ards are to tbe. effect that the
crop there this season is much better
than it was last year. Lincoln Allen
began picking Fridav; Hugh Smith,
Thursday; O. L. Bump and Townsend
Bros, began Monday... Both Whites
and Indians are picking in tbe yards.
Fifty cents per box Is the price there.
Saturday forenoon, the last logs
of the Hills' drive went into a boom at
the mouth of MaryV river,' and the
1 )ggere, who live in. or about Eugene,
took tbe Albany train on their return
home. J. S. Hills remains here to com
plete tbe work of scaling and to turn
the logs over to tbe Coivallis Sawmill
Company.
Billy Gellatly, who is operatine in
the north part ot the county, kept his
thresher running through the late
showers and threatening weather'. He
bas much woik yet ahead of bim.
When he finishes blow he will st'll
have a number of large crop to thresh
about Blodgett and Wren. He will
probably be the last to put bis ma
chinery int winter quarters.
Captain Hardin, professor of mil
itary tactics at the college, received
orders a short time ago to report at
Vancouver for examination for pro
motion. ' la complin ce therewith he
left for the poet yesterday, the exam
ination having bt en arranged to takp
place to day The pxamination is for
promotion to the raok of m !j'3r.
Billy McGee came to 'town Mon
day morniug to secure the attention of
a physician. ; One of Billy's eyes was
bandaged, and bis fjce was b ack, and
otherwise appeared to have been made
up to represent an unfortunate run.
He had placed a cartridge id bis gu'i,
and before the breech was locked, the
charge wis accidentally exploded, the
powdVf flisti stiikiug his face, a is
injuries are not serious, but his - face
may be pel mstnenily marked. ;
Mrs. May Motley and Miss Hattie
Spencer arrived from Eastern Oregon
last Friday. . Miss . Hattie had been
away from home almost a year and a
half, and during her . absence her
health greatly Improved. , Mis. Mot
ley is a daughter of William McLagan
of this city, but she- has been a .resi
dent of Eastarn Oregon many years,
where, not long since, she lost .her
husband, O. V. Motley. Mrs! Motley
will be here probably only a short
time. -
Picking in the big prune orchard
is expected to begin next Monday.
Preparations for taking care of the
great crop are now complete . There
bas been an overhauling of the mam
mouth drier, and it Is expected that
its work will be far' more efficient
than ever before. The crop in. the
orchard is of excellent - quality, arid
the vielrl fttimit t.wn.fchlrrin nt a. rrnnii
uiup. a. miga per ceuL oi trie ,;e8
are heavily loaded, but in other por
tions the yield is very light reducing
the average to about ; . two-thirds pf
what' it might have been. ;
Miss Hattie Spencer brought from
Uuioa county a young magpie. It bas
its tongue split to enable it to talk,
and its friends are usirg every effort
to teach it the English language.
Ftiends of Jes"se Spencer are insisting
on having the magpie brought down
to his place of business for tbe amuse
ment of patrons, but Jesse is . determ
ined not to do so. He says be don't
want the bird to acquire a barber
shop education. It would learn to
swear and tell yarns. The bird is
learning the college yells, and the pre
sumption is that it will act as O. A.
C.'s mascot dniring the toot ball season.
' J. L. Lewis is having better suc
cess than he anticipated in securing
Bartlett pears for shipment from this
point. Saturday, Monday and Tues
day, with an assistant, he was busy
taking In, boxing and loading the
fruit, and he may be busy for some
days yet. He expected to secure
probably one car lead, but it seems
now that two or more will be offered.
Mr. Lewis furnishes boxes and pays 75
cts a hundred for pears which are 2 1-2
inches in diameter. . Seveu hundred
boxes of the fruit fill a car, giving am
ple space for free circulation ot air.
Shipments of pears from this point, as
well as from many other localities in
Oregon, go to San Frnclsco and are u
tllizsd in canneries there.
WILL BENTON'S ORCHARDS DIE?
Experts say They Will Unless Sprayed
.U. San Jose Scale is After Them "
Infected Fruit in Market-
Experts are certain that if spray
ing is not resorted to, orchards in
this vicinity will soon be in the
throes of a violent disease, and that
in the course of a few years all the
trees will die. It is now known
that San Jose scale has secured a
foothold in Willamette. Unlike tbe
Codling moth, which only affect
fruit. San Jose scale, if allowed to
go untreated, kills the trees; It is
said that under conditions favor
able to the scale, but three or . four
years is required by the disease to
finish the life of a tree. The in
sect preys on the sap, and multi
plies in such numbers that once a
tree passes L under the infection,'
nothing but an insecticidal spray,
applied in time will save the tree.
: The Willamette-valley has hith
erto been comparatively free from
the pest, but the latter is now pres
ent to such an 'extent that the fruit
infected with it is daily on sale in
the ' Corvallis market. Dealers
have not learned yet to know the
disease, and they bur and sell the
fruit without knowing it. The
public buys the truit and eats the
nasty little insects, probably smackr
ing its lips over the diet.
Monday, bartlett pears, fully in
fected with the scale were found in
several grocery stores about town,
In each instance the dealer was un
aware of the presence of the pest in
the fruit. The little red spot, here
and there over the surface of the
pear showed where the little oyster
like bug was located in the fruit
and likewise told that when the
dealer offered it for sale, he was
violating a law of the state. But
the market man did not know what
the little red spot meant, and so
the buyers kept getting the fruit
and eating it down like a sweet
morsel, bugs and all. It is both
possible and probable that on var
ious farms in the country where
there are orchards, infected fruit is
being daily eaten without know
ledge of the fact, the insects being
so small that the naked eye fails to
perceive them.
. San Jose scale is much dreaded,
because when it does come, it must
be fought with a spray, or the trees
will ultimately die. : It is, however
tp be found on trees in various
dooryards in Corvallis At Henry
Gerber's place, various trees of fine
fruit are affected. A pear tree in the
yard of John. Bier is reeking withthe
pest. Trees on the Callahan place
on Fifth street and on the Groves
lots' in' the same block v- are
similarly, affected. Some of them are
, . r j ' j - i:r-
in me last stages oi aiseasea nie.
In the college orchard there is a I
similarly affected, tree, but . it is
kept in that condition for purposes
of experiment. ; -i In the big prune
orchard there are a dozen trees
more or less affected with the dis
ease. Last spring Manager John
son detected thr-e or four, and at
once cut them down and burned all
the debris. That failed to eradi
cate the disease from the orchard,
as is now understood by the discov
ery of several more trees, most , of
them but slightly affected.. . In the
case of all the latter, Mr. John-son
intends to cut off all the branches
and burn them up, applying such
remedies as are necessary to save
the trunk. The treatment will be
heroic, in order to keep the pest
under control . It is known that
in several orchards in tbe vicinity pf
Philomath ' there are affec ed trees,
and that the disease in that district
is spreading. "It is probable that in
scores and scores of unsuspected
orchards the pest is no t . only pres
ent but : widely prevalent. The
condition is due to the . unfamiliar
ity of orchardists with the signs
that mark the present ' presence of
the insect.
In color the insect is an orange
yellow. Its home is inside an ashy
scale which in color and otherwise
resembles ashes. They live in and
on the bark in great numbers, and
in passing the hand over the sur
face where scale is abundant, a soa
py feeling is apparent, -In spring
time the males take wings and fly
about, mating " with the females.
The latter give birth to six or sev
en generations in a single season,
and the increase is immense. The
one and only way to arrest the rav
age is by spraying, and that is
what every orchardist must make
up his mind to do, or he mtist pre
pare resignedly to that other al
ternativethe complete loss of his
orchard. Various sprays are in use
in southern Oregon and California,
where the pest is kept tinder con
trol. There, trees are, sprayed ev
ery year, whether scaie is present
or not. ;
San Jose scale is so named by rea
son of the fact that it was first dis
covered at San Jose, California.
That happened thirty , years ago.
From San Jose the pest spread all
over the Coast, and about ten years
ago, it first appeared in the East.
It is now. prevalent in all the states
in the Union. The origin " of the
disease is supposed to have' been in
Northern China, near the line of
the Great Wall. There it is kept
under control by Lady Bird beetles
which are its natural enemies. '
BEGINS TUESDAY.
Rural Free Delivery Service on Routes
Two and Three The Carriers. V
Next Tuesday Rural Free Deliv
ery routes two and . three go into
operation. Inspector Clement went
over both last week and found the
number of families along each a lit
tle short of the requirements. On
this account, 1 in order to secure
continuation . of the routes after
their" establishment, it w jll . neces
sary for all the people - to become
patrons. Each patron anxious to
have the service made permanent
should see-that bis neighbors put
up boxes and receive their mail via
that means. ' Otherwise, after a few
months, the routes may . be discon
tinued for lack of sufficient patron
age, as has been the case at many
other points in the country. H; A.
Cummings is to be carrier on Route
Three, and Ben Elgin will probably
act in a similar capacity for Route
Two. v
Through W. A. Wel!6' aereuey,. Jesse
Foster ba enll to A. E. Norwood 36
acres adjoining the Click farm, being
a piece wbich was separated from Mr.
Foster's other lnd by the state road.
The price was 25 per acre. ,
Piano Pupils.
Miss Mamie Cauthorn wishes to an
nounce that she will resume piano teach
ing October 1st, and that she will be
found at her studio on Third street.
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LADIES'
MISSES'
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GHILDREN'S
WRAPS:;:
We announce pur annual
Fall Display of Ladies',
Misses' and Children's
Wraps.
F stil Stylos i
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LADIES' JACKETS.
These garments were selected with unusual care and
judgment and embrace the correct styles. New weaves
and popular shades for fall and winter.
PRICES, $5 oo, 6.50, 7.50, 8.50, 9,oo, 10.oo, to $!5.oo.
Auction Sale.
September 26th, I will sell : at public
auction to the highest bidder at my farm
one and one half miles north of Hoskins
the following: 40 head of cattle, 60
head of hogs, some sheep, one . binder
and other implements. Terms of sale,'
cash in hand.' ; ; :
- : George Neathamer,
-' Kings Valley.
Misses & Ghildren's.
The new Misses' and Chil
dren's Wraps will please tbe
parents looking for something
different from the ordinary.
$3 00, $4.00, $4.50,
$5 00, $6.50.
rrt .1 1 c - .:.
promise a pleasant surprise, for never C
before have we had such a complete and
up-to-date line. Don't forget the premi- M
urn department, and get a coupon with
every 25-cent purchase or more at
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Regulator of Low Prices.
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We carry a large stock of gents' wearables of
correspondingly superior quality. Top-Round
Shoes, for example. Prices always right.
ttle are Clearing out forilei Goods
For the Ladies we have some extraordinary bargains in all
season goods. We are making great sacrifices all along the
line in view of our new incoming stocks. You may do the rest.
DIIItlER SETS
With cash sales we are now issuing
oupons, a sufficient number of which
; edtitles the holder to an eiegant din
ner set free. Patrons, however, may
if they wish, secure the set piece by
piece as they obtain coupons.
These dishes are of the Celebrated Semi-Vitreous Porcelain, hand-painted decoration, with gold trimmings,
and-would adorn any table. Trade with us and secure a set. Tell your friends about this opportunity.