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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1903)
LOCAL LORE. ( Advertisements in this column charged for uieriuo ou oen per line. ... , Hats from 50c up at Miss Johnson Mrs. H. M. Brunk is visiting Port land friends. , j Extensive repairs to the Farmers' hotel are In progress. Genuine wind proof umbrellas at the Bicycle Hospital. Miss Helen Stelwer visited Cor vallia friends during the week. Miss Dorothea Nash of Mod mouth is to artive io Corvallis this ev ening. . Mies libretto Sheasgreen left yesterday for Eugene for a visit with friends. 7 Rev. H. A. Deck will ; hold serv ices at Dixon's school house tomorrow at 2:30. : Mrs. Selling left Thursday on a business trip to Roseburg. Bhe is ex pected ti return today. - - - at Berry & Carl have introduced the famous antl-rufct and wind proof umbrellas. Examine them, v " ;Ml8 Helen Steiwer arrived Wed nesday for a visit with Gorvallis friends.' She leaves today for Eu gene. - '" , Rev. O. 0, Poling, president of Dallas College will preach Sunday at Buelah, at 11 a. m.: Peoria 3 p. m. and Pine Grove at 7. Regular servicss at the M. E. church, South, tomorrow - morning and evening. ' Suuday School at 10 a. m.. League at 6 45, ; " Nolan & Callahan have just In stalled in their store two additional new glass Counters. Tbey are eight feet long and of the usual beighth and ., width. iVrTv-'V'-f. The First' .. Spiritual Union of Corvallls will hold services Sunday in Barrett Lyceum. - Dooie open at 2-30. Seryloes at 3 p. m. A cordial Invitation extended to all. J : At the Episcopal . church: Rec tor's class at 10 a. m.; morning prayer , and seimon at 11 a. m.; Tbanksgivlog service at 10 a. m. on- Thanksgiving day. ; All cordially Invited to these services. . ' . - The will of the late William Groves has been : filed for probate. The executrix is Mrs. Groves .'and she is to serve without bood. The document was executed last May. and the witnesses, E. B, Horning and E. Holgate. - r r t ;; i;; -'-'-"j Since entering a hospital In Fort land, C. B. Wells' condition has not improved. He ' is suffering from an affl ctiorj. of the brain, the exact nature of which is not certainly known. It was hoped, however, that it was of a character that would be relievedby rest and quiet.1 News from him Is by no : means reassuring.. . .- -.: t . Articles of incorporation of . the Gold Zme Mining Company have been filed with the county clerk. The cap ital stock Is $15,000 and 'he ptlnclpal business office is at Corvallis. The object of the company Is to purchase, own and. operate mines, deal , in min ing stock, to conduct stores and en gage In other business pertaining to mines and mining. The Incorporators are E. J, Dunn. B. F. Thatcher, Guy Seeley, 8. L. Hays, John W. Holland and Mr. Hopkins.- " 5 f ? Judge H. ,L. BensoD,' of Klamath Falls, is to preside at the coming term of circuit court for Benton, an adjourn-, ed eesalon of wnton is scheduled for this morning at nine o'clock. It is un derstood tbat Judge Hamilton has been compelled to go East for the ben efit of his wife's health. The indica tions are that the coming term of court will not continue more than two days. .. The number of. cases ' on the docket la 31. The only state case is that of W. H. Wagner, bound over for assault from, Juetlce'Holgate's ' court'. W Albert Oren ' nwt with 'a 'severe accident Wednesday afternoon while at work jn the Fischer orchard. Geo. Cale was doing some pruning and At-. bert had a rope attached to a heavy limb with the view of pulling ft over into a wagon underneath.. From some cause the team started and io an at tempt to secure the lines, Albert step ped in before the wagon. He was knocked - down and pushed along a considerable distance by a front wheel before it finally ran over his ' body. The injured young man was carried to his home a quarter of a mile distant. I He has not since been able to work and the extent of his injuries is not definitely known. : ; V , It appears that Albany is consid ering a proposition to give a bonus for the removal of the Cramer, Organ and Carriage factory to that city;" The Democrat saysi Mrl? Weatherferd in his remarks announced ..that the com. merce committee was considering a proposition from R. M. Cramer, of the 1Gorvallls organ and carriage factory to bring the factory here and in addi tion to build a sawmill with, a capaci ty of twenty, or. thirty thousand feet a day, for a bonus ol $2500, to cover the purchase of a lot and the expense of moving and setting up the plant, if the entire amount should not he heed ed the balance to be. returned to the citizens. ' Arter " preliminary", arrange ments are completed the raising of the bous will be begun by the club. Mr. Cramer desires to come here on ac count of our superior shipping facili ties and the ability to secure the de sired hemlock lumber for the manufac ture of organs up the Santiam. Mrs. Green, of Ml 1 City, is visit ing In CorVttliid, the .guest or her sis ter, Mrs. Grier. ' X- ' Henry Allen took his departure Thursday for Iowa to which state be was ordered on official business by the TJ. S. statistical bureau. Four Keys on a spring ring were picked up near the C. & E. depot this week. They have been left at this of fice. Owner will call for them. Smith & Boulden have for several days . . been shipping large, num bers of dressed turkeys and ducks for the Portland Thanksgiving market Ed. Patterson, ah aged man from Toledo, passed through. Corvallis on bis way to Portland to answer to a charge of selling liquor to Iadlans Miss Edna Gill, who ba3 been visiting the family of A. J. Johnson the past week, goes to Salem today for a biiet stay before her return to Scio.. . -; .' W. A. Wells and Manuel Kolghr, two pioneer citizens, are quite ill Their condition has been such as to cause some apprehension among their friends. . , Frank Groves, who came to Cor vallls recently to attend toe funeral of bis father, Is to leave today or to morrow for his p st at the Bremerton Navy Yard on Puget Sound, : J. D. Irvine has disposed of his one-third interest in the Benton Coun ty sawmill, M. J. Flinn and Samuel Ewlog, original proprietors of the en terprise being the purchasers. v The game , of. football between Albany college and the Willamette university teams, occurred' at Salem yesterday afternoon. The change in date la understood to have been made In order to give the players in both teams opportunity to attend the Eu gene game today. . Charley Llyesly, of Portland, has purchased the Beach-Osburn hops of 195 bals and i the - Alex Camp belt crop of 26 bales. Mr. Campbell's hops brought 15 cents per pound, but it is not publicly known what was re ceived lor the other crop.. The hops are to be shipped as soon as cars are available. : y." i ;W ; ;' r ; Governor Chamberlain still de mands a pledge from, members for a short session confined to consideration of tax matters before he will call an extra session of the legislature. There ought to be an extra session for cor rection of the tor bungle, but if none be called it will be the fault of the legislators. - If they refuse to give a pledge, tbey assume the entire re sponsibility of no tax collections next year, artd whatever embarrassment in public finances that may entail. ; A Prirtlan Journal dispatch from Eugene says, Eirl, on account of the death of his sister will not be with the university eleven again this year, and tbat Eerron may take bis position at j guard, Templeton going to rullback, with Long at half. Another plants to put Penlaod at guard and leave the backs unchanged. Rfld. the regular center will sot be able to enter the game, and bis place will be filled by McLain. Wednesday evening was the meet ing night of the Corvallls Ladles of the Maccabees, and at tbat time, the Bir Knights took occasion to surprise them. While the ladles were busily engaged ' with their work, the Knights spread an elegant 'repast in the ban quet ball, and at an appropriate time, )the ladies were . invited in. There were maay expressions of apprecia tion on the-part of the recipients of the surprise. After luncheon mem bers ,'of the combined orders made merry until a late hour." -. . r - . "Hop" Sing, a year asro, purchas ed from George Henkle 120 acres of land on the Kfger island. He planted 40 acres to hops and will have a crop next season. He expects to enlarge his business and with that ' idea In view has rented, or. is about to rent, Heniy Gerhard's farm.' which adjoins the land purchased from! Mr. Henkle. Sing In tends to plant to hops this winter 40 acres of the Gerhard land. Among others who intend to enlarge their hop'yardB this winter Is Dick Duno, of King's vaHey. , He will set out ten or twenty acres, in addition to what he already has. .. .-; - - ,' The excursion train tomorrow is advertised to leave the O. & E. station at nine o'clock sharp. That means that all who expect to go should be on hand at least 8;45 or earlier. At the station an exchange of the . tickets sold by the committee for the regu lar rallrobd ticket will be necossary. This will "require censiderable time, and will be the-occasionof , a grand rush. It will therefore be seen that it is of the utmost; Importance that ev ervbody be on hand early. - The train will certainly pull out of the station at nine sharp. In order for. the : team to get to Eugenn 1n time to look after matters of importance t there. t: .' : CITIZENS AND STUDENTS. They Met Together Things They did Many Persons Were There. Students of the college and citi zens of Corvallts mingled together in a big' meeting at the . Opera House Thursday evening The oc casion was a football rally, with a programme consisting of short speeches by citizens, vocal numbers by the College Glee Club, and the Corvallis male quartet'e arid other features. The bond of union be tween the people of Corvallis and the college students, and the sympathy, support and cordiality the down town peo ple extend to the students in their various athletic enterprises is the subject of wonder and comment all over Oregon. ' Mention Of the mat ter appears in newspaper clippings published in another column. It is said by persons abroad that one , of the several reasons for the greater attendance at OAC than any other educational institution in the state is in part the unbounded cordial ity which townspeople extend the students, and the open-handed sup port that the former are always ready to accord the institution. The matter is as it should be, and . is, as attendance shows, much appre ciated by the students themselves. It is all this that is the occasion for the remark abroad that Corvallis has great sympathy, support and enthusiasm for the great education al institution the s'ate has found ed atits doors. The programme Thursday even' ing opened with a number by the well known and ever popular quar tette, consisting of John Fulton. Otto F, L, Herse, J. F. Yates and B. W. Johnson. A stormy encore greeted the effort and a cordial re sponse was made with another song An excellent address by Major Hardin was followed by a number by the College' Glee Club. The latter is a new organization, and the occasion in question was its first public appearance. Appre ciation of its fine work was shown by avociferous demand by the au dience for another -v number, to which the Club gracefully respond ed. After an interesting address by Professor - Berchtold, the male quartette rendered another number and encore, and W, E, Yates de livered a brief . address. An origin al poem, read with fine elocution ary effect ty Mrs. B. W. Johnson, and dealing with the subject of the evening "was followed by a good night song by the - male . quartette, and; the dismissal of the audience. The college band was' also - in at tendance, and rendered - several fine selections. " " At tne nieetm2 alt tne -seats- in the Opera House ; were occupied, and many people remained stand ing throughout the evening in v the back "part of the room - 1 . KILLED TW0 DECOYS. S.L. Henderson Did it After Weari some Work to get a Shot. When Samp : Henderson reads this item he will know that some body has betrayed his confidence. It may or it may not be against a man's reputation as a sportsman to have it known that he took a pot shot at some hun er's decoys. However tnat may be, no person who has done such a thing cares to have it publicly known, but he i.s apt to confess to a bosom friend, and that is what Henderson did. Ir seems from what "can be learned about the incident that a party of Sunday hunters found two dead ducks at' the lake in ''the big briar patch." All the hunters know where that is. By using sticks to prop up the dead duck's heads they answered very well'for decoys, evi dently. When the party went away the decovs were left in position The next day Mr. Henderson and Bob Huston went out hunting in the same vicinity They approach ed the lake with careful tread and nervous anticipation. Suddenly, Samp stopped and waved Huston to a standstill. ."I see a couple of ducks." said he. After a hushed consultation as to the plan of at tack it was" decided that Bob should hold the dogs while Samp made a wide circuit to obtain the advan tage of a clump of bushes behind which he could creep up on the un suspecting game. To secure the coveted position he was compelled to sneak along with the stillness of a cat approaching its prey. At times Samp thought the ducks had detected him, and would lie flat un til the suspicion of the . game had, as he supposed, vanished.' After a great deal of arduous creeping'arid Crawling the hunter gained a cap ital position. The two ducks were some distance apart . and, when Samp's gun roared, one of the birds seemingly fell over dead, The other he expected to get on the wing, but to hi9 surprise it remain ed perfectly still and gave him an excellent - pot shot. The second one also succumbed, Neither: one of the ducks made a kick alter re ceiving the contents of Henderson's gun, and then the idea flashed through bis excited brain that the ducks were decovs. - ' 'What did Bob think of the business?' asked the gentleman to whom the story was told. "Oh, he didn't ' have much to say," said Henderson, "be cause the joke was just as much on him as it was on me." It is a nice thing to bear oneanother's burdens, or at least a share of them, but Bob seems indisposed to take that view of this particular situation. x ; ' Leave orders for Thanksgiving oysters at the Commercial Restaurant. -Fresh Yaqtrina oysters and fresh Gulf of ' Mex ico oysters every day in the woek. .. Get your ribs fixed Hospital. .- at the . Bicycle , Leave your orders for oysters at olf's on Tuesday. '. If your umbrella needs covering it to the Bicycle Hospital. v Zier- take ' Dr. Wells,' the Albany V S will be at Fruits livery stables every Friday oi eac'a week. Bring your horses and have them examined free of charge. Wanted.' A girl, at Occidental Hotel. . For Sale, Good gentle driving horse and buggy. J, K. Berry. We have added several new our Premium dishes. Nolan han. pieces to & Calla- For fine suits and overcoats see Nolan & Callahan. Berry & Carl have introduced the fa mous anti rust and wind proof umbrellas examine them. v .-County JudgeWattera has" just placed in bis office an elegant mount ed deer head.: The deer was a three pointer, killed by Mr. Walters on Blue Mountain, ...and,' the - horna are in . a heavy covering of velvet. : Tbe iead was sent to W. S. Mummery, of North Dakota, to be mounted and It was re turned only; a few days ago. -'W.;: 8. Mummery Is brother of ' Charley Mummery who died In Corvallis softie years ago. - The former had become anxious to do something to show his appreciation of Mr. Watters' attention to Charley in his last illness, and In slsted upon mounting .a deer's bead for Mr. Watters. The work Is of a superior character. 1 !. Eslray. . Cne small black hog. No marks Came to my place Cct 29th, Owner may prove property and pay charges, ! . ' W. Leadbetter, Nov 3oth till noon the next day Dr Lowe, the well known eye spec ialist will be io Corvallis. For Sale. ! Several hundred bushels of vetch seed. Order early before it - is gone.' Also Tim othy, Spelts, and English rye grass seed. Shropshire bucks. .- One extra good re gistered buck from one of the best stocks in Iowa Cows and heifers of the beef breed to see or trade for Jersey cows - I,. L. Brooks i f lanos agd organs lor sale or rent at Blackledge's - Furniture and Music store. -', ' , Crouse & Brandegee on the label of a coat stands for all tbat is good in. clothes njakipg., ;Nolan & Callaban. See them Young man, you night school in the College! . should attend the Corvallis Business For best grade of gasoline, 35 cents a gallon go to Berry and Carl's. . Big stock of cloaks, wraps, jackets and -rain garments at Nolan & Callahan's, Fresh Yaquina Bay oysters received at Zierolfs evei v Saturday Go to Zierolfs for fresh oysters , : Yaquina Bay Eggs 30 cents at Turner store. FOR SALE. Vetch seed at Corvallis Floor mils - Strayed. ,; On or about Friday, October 16,. from W Taylor's pasture, a Jersey heifer calf, about 7 months old. A liberal reward will be given for its return to my resid ence or for information leading to its re covery,; . ' ' G. V. Skelton. - - - Corvallis. - ' Trespass Notice. ! ? . AH persons are hereby notified not to trespass on the premises of the under signed for the purpose of bunting - Dont ask permission. :,. r, . -' - Dick Kiger, - . V i i . Elmer Raber, - .. G. Harding, P. A. KLINE LIVESTOCK AUCTIONEER CORVALLIS, OR. Office at Huston's Hardware Store. . P. O. Address, Box 11. " , Pays highest prices for all kinds of Live Stock. Satisfaction guaranteed. Twenty years experience. . I Special Sale skiving Table Linen :v;;:;AT''S.vL.;K An annual event looked forward to by the prudent housewives of Corvallis. i- g . ' , . - ' ' ; r ' V- 5 ' -We have placed on sale this season a larger, better 3 and more beautiful line of Table Linens and -Napkins I than ever before. ;' " ' r A Tew Hints of Prices: I I 1 9' 3 Buy your Linens here, now, during., this sale and save money for your purse, at ;:--;;;:;s:'L.;keine:- " Regulator of Low Prices. TABLE LINEN. 58-in 50c Table Linens at 41c.' 66-in 60c ' 47c 70 in 752 " " 65c 72-in i ' 87c 74-in 1.50 "$1.37 60 in 30c Cotton Datmsk 24c. NAPKINS. I7xl7-in r.oo Napkins at - 85c i8xi8-in 1.25 "i.oo 2ox2o-in 1.50 ' 1.30 22x22 in 2 50 ' " 22x22-in 3.00 '' ' ' 24x24in 3.50 ' " 2.99 2.00 2.65 What You Want - . Is , to try the New Goods - . ; : Which have i just arrived at v HGDES' GROCERY. Crystallized Pineapple Crystallized Cherries Crystallized Ginger Fresh Nabiscos Fresh Cookies New Walnuts . " New Almonds Fresh Cranberries Fesh Huckleberries New Honey . New Figs and Dates Olivep in Bulk German Pickles Swiss Cheese. 2 .ENERGY, The Great Health Pood. Hodes' .Grocery, Phone 483. ' - 1 - ' '' . - - ' .- Smart Clothing ATOfutoowr S .. . . lb KUmHHEIMEII ca .J The Fall and Winter suits and Overcoats of the fa mous KUPEN HEIMER Guaanteed Make are'of the character which most -i of the men, who are particular about their clothes, imagine are to be had from only the high-price tailors. . r,., .t . ; Cry en a Hupenbeimer Suit . Then ask your tailor any ; where to give you as nob- by a pattern, trim it as well,ask his price, and then .come back. FWe will do the rest.- -. ' . F. L. fliller, Corvallis O - 8--.ft ft ft 17 ft ft ft ft ft ft