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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1903)
LOCAL LORE. ( Advertisements in this column charged for at the rate ofl oeuts vet line. The Oorvallla public school opens Monday. Mrs. Hash 8mith returned to The Dalles Wednesday after a visit. ; with Corvallis relatives and frietods. Getirge Paul entered the Oald " wtll School of oratory and acting la San FranclEco .last Monday. , B. W, Johnson leaves -today Tor . Poitland, to attend a meeting of the fiDance corjoroittee of tho grand lodge of. Knights of Pbythitis. Mws Jennie Nobl has accepted a position as bookkeeper in a Portland establishment, and has resigned .. her plce as teacher i the Oorvalil pub l(o schools; Miis Edna Fioley has - been elect Jd to ttie vacaccy. - Mi?sN )ra Ingle, daughter of J. W. Irjgls returned Wednesday from ' CMc-nso, ii?ber fche 'finished a Pn9t ' praduate course as a trained ; nurse. She will retn&ia here some time. Henry ArabW. fae wide-awake real estate man ra returned' trom a two weess' sojourn nt the Coat...He La? a number of deals on haad, con cerning which announcements will 'likely to be made soon. Invitations are out for a Measur ing party, to ba given by the Senior Epworth Iieagners a', the Mtbo.sist church next Wednesday eveniuu. Two cents is charged for each fo t la th 8'a'ure ol eacn guest, wdicii reuuuio for the Dame of the function. The transfer of the Welker res idence property was made Wednes day. The purchaser is Mr?. Mebala Stewart. The price paid Is $l,50Q cash. -Th.3 sale ws made by O. J, Blaeklertse. The' propeitv la. occu pied by Mr. and Mrs. Chailes Small. Regular services wil! be held at the M. E. church South', tomorrow, morn ing and evening, by he paetor. This will be the last service before con ference whlob convenes at Roseburg Sept. 17 A full attendance of mem bers h requested. The public te cor dially invited. The Y. M. C. A. at the C(.llee will make their canvass of the city Tuesday. Snpt. 15th to secure a list of all boarding and rooming houses. All who expect o keep etudects will ' materia'ly assist the Assocla'i n by having ready their data as to the number of rooms, prief, etc. i Thee was a h' liday for pickers in the Beh hop yard yesterday. The hops pli-ked the day before was enonryh t.a snnnlv the di iri for two days; aod a full dayVltf- ft fr pick ers resulted. MiU and lice to a great or less degree have appeared in the yard as a result of the late rains. Th" crop is enornoous aid the qaalitv very floe. About half the yard, pos ibly - more, has been picked. i. Work on the toilets ia the base ment of the public Hchool building is nearly completed. Dlay ii occasion- j ed by the uoo-arrlwAl from the Eis't of soms of t,he rt-qitired ni-vt.erUls. The i tiprovemenc Includes complete -connection of the building with the sewer system, and an arrangement of details for perfect eaM'ation. : . The cost is about 81.000. J. R. Smith & Company have the contract. - In Eugene aa Elmira man i3 be ing sued in the circuit court by Eu gene dealers for $210 damages on ac count of the failure' of the former; to deliver chittim bark bought of him at five cents per pound, but which he re fuses to deliver. - The $210 is the amount that the Eugene dealers al lege in court they would have made on the bark had It been delivered. - Rev. Reeves and others from Corvallis are to attend the annual conference of the M. E. church, South at Roseburg on the 17th; Rev. Reeves expects to be abla ' to report the charge in this city as entirely out of ' debt, the congregation having raised about $900 this year In order to Into, sound financial condition. report Rav. Reeves will take to the conference will be the best made from Corvallis In many years. Bishop Mor rison is to preside at the . conference and is expected to visit Corvallis dur ing his stay in the state. Frank Hershner and family left Thursday for Gresham, where they will reside during the school year. Mr Hershner is principal of the school theie. which is of important character. A new high school with a four year course has been newly . established, and be is at the head of it as well as the lower grades. All the family go to Greeham except - Miss Blanche Hershner, who remains ia Corvallis. The family home on College Hill has been leased to Dr. Bowen Lester, who has embarked in the chicken business as a diversion, and will occupy the premises with his feathered favorites . Of last year's football" team, the State University will have the follow ing this season: , McKinney, Kerron, Earl. Frizzell, Thayer, Chandler, La tourette, Payne, Templeton and Good rich. The men they lose are Murphy Watts and Jordan. The ? following schedule of games has been provis ionally made': October 10. alumni team, Eugene; October 17. Chemawa, Eugene; October 24, Albany, Eugene ; November 7, Washington Agricultur al College. Eugene: November 11. University of Washington,- Saattle; November 21, O AG,. Eugene; Thanks giving day. Multnomah Club, . Fort-laud. William Groves is re-shingling the south half of the opera house roof. Fred Overlauder was able, to be down town this week. He is just re covering from a protracted illness. . The Misses Tucker entertained a few friends at their home Mondav ev ening in honor of their aunt, Mrs. Mot ley, who is vi-iclrg in Corvallis. " United Evangelical church servi ces next Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p.m. Preaehiog ht , Dixon echoi.1 house at 3 p. m. v -v. :' Louis Burnough, the wtl'-Known center of the O. A. O. footba I team has a position in a drugstore a Eater prise, and Is not to rttutu to college this ear. -, Prune picking has already begun in a few orchards. The big diier was warmed up yesfei day to begin work oxi small 1. its of -prunes . from neigh boring orchards Pickiug in the big orchird begins .Monday Burning. - , . Mrs, Sherman Wad and chil 1 re turned to their E isterti Ofpgon tiotae Tinusc'av. Th-y were accompanied as far as PortUod by Mrs. Wad's mother, Mrs. John' llickard. ' -Two eisters and a brother named Adauis have arrived from Portland to aitenfi oil ee. They bave purchased the W". E. Yates property at the cor ner of Niuh & Monroe-, which they are to occupy, .-'The piice paid for the property is 3675. The Lebanon company of O.-Ni O. cavalry spent two nights in Corvillis in their annual practice march. They h-id beeu-on a tour of the upper ' val ley and were nearlng the end of their march when heie.-' v William Creea. who recently weDt to Portland for medical treatment, is very much encouraged by his physi cian, alrbough he will be rtqulred.to remain in Port'and some time. Both Mr. and Mrs. Oree are at the home of their daughter," Mis. (Jroosbeck. Invitations are out for the . wed ding of Mies Mabel Johnson and Al bert Burrows, to take plnce,in JPort lind Wedne&dy, September 23rd, at eight o'clock, ' Miss Johnson former ly resided io Corvallis,' where she Was a popular vocalic t a ua had many friends. She is a tistbr of Pottmaster Johnson. ; Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Riley and son returned to thtir home in Portland Thursday after, a . ten-days stay in Oorvfcllis with Mr. and Mrs. Andiews. Mrs. Riley istbe 'arly who w inj'ired a yeir ego by the collapse of a. bildge in Linn county, and she has not ytt recovered the use of her arm. It is believed that the atm ia permanently disabled from, paralytic. - uommissioner William 6t Iiy re ports that in hU orchard near Pbiio math, San Jose ical4 is : prcvaieur. The ravages of the 1 pent, : Mr. Jolly says, . Is very damaging .;to the trees. . .Tbdi upper poitlon dies, and sprouts in abundance fprintr up from the roots. - Unless remedies are resorted to, M.r. J.lly is' ceittiu, trom bis meagre expeiience, that the scale will finally ba fatal to orchards In which : it appears. The remedy of course is spraying. The penalty f r selllngf or off-rins for eal-?, fiuit that Is infected with -scaie or other pst or disease, is a floe ot not less than 25, nor more than Si00. ... ' The last day for payiog taxes on this year's rt. 11 ia fast apprOaehiDg. On; the morning of 'October 6ib, pen alty and interest wM bechtged. That means that iu order to avoid the pen alty, all taxes must be pall by the ev ening of October 5 h A considerable number of people have paid half their taxes and are taking all iha grace al lowed under the lw for liquilation of the balance. It their last heir' Is not paid by the evening of October 5 :h, they will be compelled on the follow ing morning to pav 10 percent penal ty on the last half, and 12 per cent io terest qn the same amount from April 7th to date of payment. There ia a prospect that "the delinquent roll will be somewhat larger than Ust year. :' Parties making the largest sales of years to J. L. Lewis were H. F. Btis tow and D. C. "Rose. The former eet brought from his orchard in th Bell- Toe i fountain neighborhood 7119 pounds tor which he received $53.40. Mr. Rose, whose orchard is near town, sold 4180 pounds which netted him $31.35. These pears go to can net las in San Francis co, and very likely Corvallis eople will soon be buying them back in a preserved state with the profits of numerous concerns added to -the orig inal price. The time ia coming when we shall not pay the railroad compa nies to haul our fruit to San Francis co, pay ior having It ; canned there, and pay again for having it hauled back to us, but that time is long de terred. It seems that we are too "conservative" at present to can our own fruit. -v. NEARLY DOUBLED. Valuation on Taxable Property in Benton What the Figures are. The city of Corvallis will pay taxes this year on : about a - million dollars worth of taxable property. Last year its property valuation for assessment, purposes was $488,350. The exact figures of the total on the new roll are not available, but it is known that when completed three or four weeks hence, they will show that the valuations of the city are nearly if -not quite . doubled. On a five - mill levy. for city purposes, if that levy is made s by the city council, it will yield a rev enue for general purposes of about $5,000. . On the same levy last year the revenues so derived only aggre gated little ov&rf ..""--$2,500.. For street purposes n a, two mill levy, the sum available- will about $1,000 as against only $500 the . past year. It is estimated that -the new as sessment roll, whose ' footings in most particulars were ' completed Wednesday;..will show a total tax able property for the ; Corvallis school' district of about $1,200,000, The figures last year were $607. 180, or about one half of the pres ent valuation. - ! , The total valuation of all proper ty in the county according to the new roll is $4,336,430 The figures on last year's roll were, $2,507,105. The valuations made by the assessor lack less than $700,000 of doubling those of last year; The higher val uations will make a lower- tax levy possible, and insomuch" will have a favorable effect, both at home and abroad, in many ways Some re gret is expressed that the aggre gate might not have doubled com pletely this year, as has been the case in Clackamas county, in which which, as will as in other counties a movement for higher valuations and lower levies is in progress. In Clackamas the valuations were in: creased from about four millions to more than eight millions. In Ben ton, the various classes of property and their aggregate value is as fol lows;" y - . V Tillable land, 63,986 acres, $1, 574,596. ' - Non-tillable land. 292,705, $1,- 203.365 -' V Improvements on deeded lands. $275,270, .". - x Town lots. 330.450 on HAS: NO CREDENTIALS. town lots, on undeeded land, 48 - miles. $11,- 86 William Bogue and family who have been absent all summer on ac count of Floyd's health, arrived Tuesday. They spent several weeks at Cascadia, and after that went across the mountains and . journeyed up the Deschutes river, to a point 30 miles above Bend. The spot is 30 miles southeast of the Three. Sis ters and sixty miles southwest of Prlnev Hie. There Mr. Bogue has leased a dwelling house, to -which he and his family will return for the winter, remaining perhaps until next autumn. The place is in the heart of the water supply for the' big irrigation ditches which It is pruposed to build into the adjacent country. JMr. Bogue has interests to dispose of before leaving Corvallis again, but he ex pects to get away ia about three weeks. His advertisement Is to be seen elsewhere, Improvements $117.010. . ! Improvement $2,675- -"Railroad becL-86s- , Rolling -stock, $17,860. -Telegraph - and . telephone miles, 8-6,740. . . -r . . Merchandise, $1 10,015. Farming implements - etc, $58, 560 - Steamboats etc, $1 1,740. v. Money. $51,520. . Notes and accounts, $111,225. Shares of stock, $24,165. Household furniture etc. 415 J' - - Horses and joules, 2,014, 470. . - Cattle. 7.903, $118,760. ' Sheep and goats,. 33,958, ; 255. Swine. 2,696,-$9,705. ; Gross value of' all property," $4,550,485.: . . ;;.. ; ?. -. Exemptions, $220,055. . Total taxable property $4,336 430. The figures in the valuations are subject of course, to the action of the county board of equalization which meets to consider the roll on the 28th inst. . .$63.' $88,- $67-, And has no Official History A School w District in a Queer Fix. School district number 14, known as the Woods Creek district, is in that peculiar condition in which it is without antecedents or official record of bow it came to be organ ized. It is the -district in . .which a school house was burned last year. It is a district that has levied tax es, owned property, and drawn school money. . It has employed teachers, elected district officers, instructed ttie youth; and perform ed all functions usual to a duly organized school district. But ,,it has been discovered that it has no place on the county map, and that there i no record of its organiza tion in the; archives- of the super intendent's office. The condition was the occasion of an. .adjourned meeting of the county court Thurs day. Directors of the district ; in volved, and of all contiguous : dis tricts were in at endance, and all were in deliberation a large part of the day. Adjournment was, how ever taken without action to estab lish and reorganize the di-trict with proper credentials. ; ' - It appears that in such , cases, the method of getting the affairs of the district again into proper and legal status is to begin all over again, and create the district anew, as though that preliminary had never.been done. . Petitions pro perly made and signed by patrons of the original districts out of which the new district was created must be presented and acted upon by the court. It is the purpose to bring all this about at some future meet ing of the county court. The dis trict is supposed to have been or ganized a dozen or more years ago. id " 0 " ' " 5 LADIES', SSSES' AND - CHILDREN'S . WRAPS. We announce our annual Fall Display of Ladies', Mrsses' and Ghiidren's Wraps.- - . l Jo :r - LADIES' JACKETS.-: I . These garments were selected with unusual care and judgment and embrace the correct styles. New weaves i and popular shades for fall and winter. . ' h I PRIGES. $55.00, 6.50, 7.50, 8.50, 9,oo, 10 bo, to $I5.oo. 4 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. r - George Neathamer, lyings Valley. . i . A $ Misses & Ghiidren's. ' J The new Misses' and Chil dren's" Wraps will please the parents looking for something different from the ordinary. $3 00, $4.00; $4.50, $5 00, $6 50. To those who favor us with a visit we promise a pleasant surprise, for never before have we had such a complete and up-to-date line. Don't forget the premi um department, and get a coupon with every 25-cent purchase or more, at : Regulator of Low Prices, g . .fie i 1 9 c0mK - SELLS 1 Tuesday evenlDg after the business meetlne, the Degree of honor bel l a eo qlal eeesion la honor or Mies Hattle Soencer, who had .jass returned from a prolocpied stay la Eastern OregoD. An intereftting programme wa3 rend ered. Ioetrumeotil solo, Mrs. Sheas ?reen; reclta'ioD, Mrs. 8pncer; eolo, Taylor Porter.; readina, -. Mrs. Sarah Moore ; eol j, Qlady3 Mosre. School Books. - ..X 11 nPfs n PI in Pr ww . Made & Guaranteed by - id&E B. Kuppenheimcr Se America1. Leading Clot net Maker - -Chicago v Coovrieht. T902. by B Kupphnhhimek & CO. We carry a large stock of gents' wearables of correspondingly superior quality. -Top-Round. Shoes for example. Prices always right. At Graham & Wella,. drug store School supplies of all .kinds. Second hand public school books taken in exchange; 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: - , Best grade of gasoline 30 cents a on at Berry's. gal- Dr. Ai T. Roberts has Return- ed to Salem, Dr. A. T. Roberts, the eye-specialist, who -was here two years ago and through the perfection t of his work gained a reputation second to one in Oregon, ( has : returned to Salem, and has a fine suite of of fices over Dalrymples store, where he will be pleased to meet all his old friends and patients, and others who need his services. Consulta tion free. Hie are Clearing out for new 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. . " 7k 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 trimming JS v and would adorn any table. Trade with us and secure a set. . Tell your friends about this opportunity .... 5
