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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1905)
LOCAL' LOBE. For advertisements in this column the rate of 15 cenfiper line will be charged Otto Woldt left yesterday for Portland, to reside. ; .. J.J. Cady and family were Albany visitors "Wednesday. Misses Emma Sox and Mary Stewart of Albany were guests of friends in this city Thursday. Miss Minnie Buxton of Port land is visiting her parents in this city. Dolph Kerr came up from Silverton Thursday for a visit at the home of his parents. Chauncey R. Bishop of Salem was an interested spectator at the Washington-O. A". C. meet Thurs day. A very pleasant dancing party was given by the Carmencita club ' last evening at Fischer's hall. : J. W. Walters returned a few days ago from a several months' visit in Nebraska. The family re sides in the western part of towrr Dr. R. D. Burgess and family arrived in Corvallis Tuesday and are domiciled in the cottage one door south of the Christian church. Recorder T. T. Vincent and family now occupy their commo dious new residence in Job's addi tion. The; removal occurred Wed nesday. . Robert , Graham and Mrs. Anna Clifton aire to arrive todiy from Portland for a visit at the A. Kyle home. The visitors are to leave shortly for Alaska. - The ladies Guild of the Epis copal church were delightfully en tertained at the home of Mrs. Charles Hout Wednesday after noon. . Ice cream was served, and a pleasant time enjoyed by all. Walter Kline and Frank : Thrasher, both of whom have been . confined to their homes several weeks with illness, were able to be on the streets Thursday. Many friends welcomed their re-appearance. ';. . . Congegationa! church. E. F. Green, pastor. Mcrnfng sermon, "Martha and Mary or Two Types of Christian Character.", Evening sermon, ' "Nehemiah and John xr 'TM. - 4.: 3 A 1 1- iuua, incii iiuics auu men vvuiii. A comparison between the ancient and the modern reformer." . Presbyterian church, M. S. Bush, pastor. Morning subject, "God Owns Us." The evening service will be devoted to a study of the life and work ot John Knox. This being the four hundredth an niversary of his birth, it will be ob served by the Presbyterian church es throughout the world. w " The vote cast in Monday's election was officially canvassed Wednesday , morning by Justice Holgate and County Clerk Moses. The official figures on mayor -are, Johnson, 201; Davis, 200. Chief of police, Iiane, 218; Howard, 155; Plaster, 22. ' Police Judge Greffoz, 384. t Treasurer, McLagan, 398. 1 Councilman, first ward, Itlly, 113; second? ward, Covell, 144, -.Hout, 1 36;. third ward, Francisco 70, Miller, 51. -. ' . s '- Mrs. Belle Cochran of Walla Walla, Mrs. Maggie Browning : of Lane county and Mrs. William Deweese of Dixie,. Wash., have ar- nvea ana are at tne Deasiae 01 their father, William Starns, who - has been ailing for -the past few weeks. A son, O. B. Starns, from Thorp, Wash., is expected ' to ar rive Tuesday. r A social affair that will be a little out of the ordinary is to occur at the First Methodist church next Wednesday evening from eight to ten o'clock. It is a semi-annual ' 'At home" , given by the pastor and officiary of the church, and all friends and members of the church are invited to be present. Ice cream and cake will be served in the church parlors for ten cents. An elaborate, musical and literary pro gramme, dealing with church and kindred topics will be features of the evening. The' Japanese entertainment and Srtrial arrtn Y.tt tU Vi. - ..WU. u J bUW lUUUg People's Society of Christian En deavor, of the Congregational church on Wednesday evening was profitable . in every way. The auditorium had - been beautifully decorated in Japanese bunting, lan terns and sunshades. The young ladies with their kimonas made such a good appearance that they out Japanned the ladies of the "sun rise kingdom." They were greet ed by a large and appreciative house, v After a very , instructive and entertaining program, refresh ments were served by the Japanese maidens and a genuine social good time ensued. Mr; and Mrs. 0. J. Blackledge were Peoria visitors Thursday. Judge McFadden returned yes terday from a trip to Junction City. Mrs. C. A. Bushnell of Seattle arrived Friday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Herron. . ' " -" Mrs. E. H. Taylor 'arrived home yesterday" from Portland, where she has been at the bedside of her sister who was seriously ill. Albany Herald Prof. H. M. Crooks of Lisbon, Ohio, has ac cepted the office of president of Alb-. anyCollegeand is expected to reach Albany in time for Commencement. " D. S. Adams this week sold his residence property in Job's ad dition, to Samuel Jackson. The price paid was $700, and posses sion is to be given July 1st. A. special meeting of the Coffee Club is called for three o'clock Monday evening. A full attend ance i9 requested. By order of Mrs. F. L. Miller, president. A. L. Clark of Alsea has de signed a gravel loader and is at work a model. If it works as planned two men and a team can .make it load as much gravel as would be possible by ten men. - ... The quarantine of the S. L. Kline home on account of the ill ness of Walter, wa3 raised a day or. two ago. For three weeks Walt er was abed with a violent attack of measles. ' . ' At, the M. Et church tomor- row morning the topic of the ser-' mon will be "The Breaking of the Alabaster Box." ' Jo the evening a brief prelude will be given on the lessons that are taught in the late election held in Corvallis. ' The evening sermon will be entitled, "Nan Patterson's Return Home." The annual excursion of the seniors to Newport occurs) next Saturday; "The train leaves Cor vallis at six a. m. and on the re turn trip leaves Yaquina at six p. m. The fare for the roun: $1.50. The excvrsion is one of tae notable events of the year at the college, and is always liberally -patronized. Tickets are on sale at Graham & Wortham's drug store. The quarantine on account of a case of diphtheria at the Hartley homehasbeen raised. The patient wasthe nine yearold son of a newly arrived Eastern family, abiding lor the present at Hartley' s. .The at tack was severe" but the recovery was swift. The house -was tho roughly fumigated by Chief'Lane Wednesday evening, and the prom ise is that the town is well rid of the disease. - "Pat" McArthur, - graduate manager of athletics at the , Univer sity of Oregon, and William Hay ward,"; trainer of the U. ot O. track team, were among those from abroad who watched the track meet on O. A. C. field Thursday afternoon. ..Trainer-;. Hay ward in particular, was getting pointers for his hard contest a week from to day with O. A. C- at Corvallis. - Albany Herald: Cottage Grove will bond itself for $20,000 water bonds to run for 25 years at 5 per cent, the election Monday having been a decided victory for the im provement element of the city. The vote stood 106 for and only 10 against bonding. The vote was small but it represents the general sentiment of the people. There is a good water system there, but the reservoir and mains are too small and a 12 inch main will replace the present 4 inch one. - A ring that was worn by her grandmother, and that is over 200 years old, was received recently by Miss Mary Sutherland, from Scotland. The heirloom was last worn 24 years ago,' at a Igfand ball given by the. then Prints of Wales, now Kingt England. It is set with four emeralds and a diamond, and is quaint in work manship and design. The initials of some of the . former owners are engraved on the inside of the circ let. Miss Sutherland is justly proud of the gift, as it is probably the only one of the kindT in this part of the country, The cattle shooting incident related in a recent Times has re sulted in the arrest of James Wil kinson' of Five Rivers. The cattle belonged to : Bennet Olsen of the Five Rivers country and ran on the range. "Three of them were shot, one fatally, and the other two in such a way as to maim them." Wilkinson had a prelimi nary examination before Justice Prindle of Five Rivers last Tues day, and was , bound over to await the action of , the circuit court of Lane county, . the killing having taken place south of the Benton county line. Wilkinson's bail was fixed at $200, and -bonds were given. " m THE FAMILY WELL. Passing of Mrs. Irwin Tragic Death at a Farm Home in Eentoa. "Under circumstances of the njost melancholy character, Mrs. Louisa Irwin, mother of ex-Commissioner Richard Irwin,, passed away at the f amily home near the Buttes, - .yes terday morning. At about eight o'clock in the morning, her body, cold m death, was taken from a well into which, it is supposed the venerable mother, in a fit of tem porary aberration of mind na4 de liberately thrown herself. ' She- was found in the well as a result of a hasty search of the premises,', after she had been missed from her sick chamber, by her- only son, who had called to see her. The well is nearly, if not quite a 100 yards distant from the house, ' and how she got there in her - weakness of body, after, six months of illness, is one of the problems'that puzzle, those familiar with all the facts. On the curb of the "well, which is three feet high except at the front where the bucket was used in draw ing water, was found her shawh -left there, some suppose by design,, so that those who searched might see in it an indication of where 'her body might be found. It was, at any rate,, this silent object on the old well curb that caught the at tention of her son in his anxious search for the missing motherl and supplied the key to her last - hiding place. Below the shawl, when the curbing was reached by the search ers was the open lid of the well which was held in place by hinges, and which was always closed when the well was not in use. A glance at this uplifted lid, and then one swift look into the well where a white form floated oh the dark water ten feet below, told the dreadful tale of the disappearance, and of how one of the best known of all the pioneer mothers of Ben ton came to her death; ' Mrs. Irwin has been a sick wom an for six months, . Most of that time-she has been confined to her room. . Aside from her illness . for '.Irch she was loth to ; summon a p.; iician, she was at 73,, a . fairly strong person for her years But the illness had worn on her. mind, until she had become convinced that there was little or no hope or cure. ,. bne was mucn m tnis con-, dition of mind when her son James Irwin o suddenly died a few weeks -ago .Recently,: however, lier.. son Richard, induced her to allow him to call a physician, and a day or two ago, Dr. Lee called at the farm home and prescribed. That was on Thursday, the day before her death. - ; -; v . V- Richard Irwin had visited his mother the evening before the melancholy occurrence. He had left word that he would call again next morning. Miss Hattie Mont gomery was hbusekeeper and nurse for Mrs. Irwin; and young Dick Erwin was man of all work on the farm. Not long before Mrs. Irwin Was missed, Miss Montgomery had j given her breakfast, leaving the room when the meal was finished, to dress a chicken. ; During the latter process, Richard Irwin ... ar rived and going straight to Ms mother's room, discovered at once that she was missing. Inquiry re sulted, and then came the search, and the find. The well is locat ed perhaps a hundred yards north of the farm house, very near the old log cabin famed as a resting, place for miners in the old gold days and the original . home of the Irwin family on the farm. The well is closely boxed at the top, and fitted witlra hinged lid scarcely twenty inches in diameter. Behind the up lifted lid was found the comb that Mrs. Irwin had worn in her; hair. Nobody saw the wasted form pass from the house to the well, and all that will ever be known of the de tails will be but conjecture A cor oner's jury, empanneled.by Coron er Wilkins, was holding a in quest at the late home ; when the Times went to press yesterday af ternoon. ' The funeral will probably occur Sunday. ;. ' j . : '- The deceased was 73 years of age. She was the widow of the late Richard Irwin, one of the earli est Benton pioneers. The family resided in Corvallis for some years in the early days. The house that sheltered them then is the same old house that for years stood west across the street from the E piscopal church on the well known Irwin block.. - This week, they moved the old house to another spot, and the same week its owner likewise," passed to other scenes. Mrs. Irwin was a Kompp, whose only brother resides near Irving, Lane county. Richard Irwin is the only survivor of . the family, Mrs. McBee, and James Irwin hav ing followed their father over, now to be joined by, mother. - , OASTOHIA. gears tho .' 'to Kim ion Have Always Boiigff Signature Of 0. A. C, - WON. Big Inter-State Track Meet Score, Oregosians, 7 J; Washington-, tans, 51. .The Oregon Agricultural College athletes demonstrated th;ir super iority over the crack team of the University of Washington in a meet on O AC field Thursday afternoon. The score was 71 for the Oregonians and 51 for Washington., ; 1 Several surprises figured in the meet. Dow Walker of OAC took first place in" the hammerv-throw over Tom McDonald who holds the Northwest record in that event, and at the same time lifted the OAC record from 112 to 125 feet 9 inches. Stout of OAC, broke the Oregon record in the discus, by throwing the metal 114 feet 4 inch es, the former record, made by Mc Kinney of U. of O. standing at 1 10 feet 5 inches. Davolt of OAC. pushed McCrary of Washington, so vigorously in the mile run that the latter tied the Oregon record in that event, making the distance in 4 minutes and 43 seconds, while Davolt himself ran through 4:47, breaking the OAC 'record, made years ago by Brady Burnett. In a desperate effort to beat Wil liams in the quarter with Green of Washington, the visitors worked two men against him, but the in vincible" Oregonian, made laughing stock 6f the attempt. In the effort to wind hit, the first man' began to sprint with Williams on the kickoff, after which Green was to take up the work and sprint: out ahead on the" finish. - Two or three pretty spurts that for a time made spectacular running and brought the grandstand to its feet with yells of delight at the performance of the fleet Oregonian was all that result ed from the effort, Williams winning the event with ease. The - Wash ington men were far too slow to make Smithson and .Williams even work hard in Jhe 100 and 220, and in the latter event the two cham pions trotted home - through the stretch leisurely, each in the effort to give the event to the other, which display of good fellowship and gen erosity the crowd recognized and applauded vociferously. In the half, Greenhaw, who has never yet been seen to -do his best made a a dashing run, defeating his Wash ington competitor with ease. One of the pretty events of theJ day was the 220 hurdle . ; with Smithson, Cathey"and" a Washington: ' man running most of the way, .almost side by side. The finish gave the two best places to the OAC men. At one time during the meet the score stood 46 for OAC , and 44 for Washington, with three events and the relay to be pulled off, at which time interest reached a high ten sion. It was not until the last moment that the decisive character of the victory of Trine's men be came apparent. The summary of events is: ' ; . 100 yard dash Smithson, OAC, 1 st; Williams, OAC, 2nd; Smith, U. of W., 3rd; time, .10 1-5. . - Pole vault Winsor, U. ot V., 1st; Dohm. U. of W., 2nd; Swann, OAC. 3rd; io ft. 4 inches. One-half mile Greenhaw, OAC, 1st; Tibbals, U. of W., 2nd; Twitch el, U. of W., 3rd; time, 2-4 1-5. 220 yard dash Williams and Smithson. OAC, 1st and 2nd; Green, U. of W., 3rd; time, 23 1-5. Discus throw Stout and Bower, OAC, 1st and 2nd; McDonald, U. of W., 3rd; distance, 114-4. 120 yard hurdle Winsor. U. of W.', 1st; Beldon, OAC, 2nd; Brack ett. U. of W., 3rd; 17 sec. High jump Smith, U. of W.; 1st; Moores and Smithson, OAC, tied for 2nd; Swann, OAC, -3rd: 5 feet 6 inches, ' 440 yard dash Williams, OAC. 1st. Green, U. of W. 2nd; Schrod er, of OAC. 3rd; time, 52 2-5. , Broad jttmp Winsor and Smith; U. of W. 1st and 2nd; Moores, OA C, 3rd; distance, 21 8 3-4. - Shot put McDonald, U. of W.. 1st; Walker and Bower, OAC, 2nd and 3rd; distance, 39 10 1-2. V 220 hurdle Cathey and Smith son," OAC, "1st and 2nd; Winsor, U. of W. 3rd; time 27 sec. Mile run McCrary, U. of W., 1 st; Davolt and Leonard, OAC, 2nd and 3rd: time", 4-43 3-5. . ' ' i; Hammer throw Walker, OAC, 1st; McDonald, U. " of W., and; Shepard, OAC, 3rd. distance, 125 feet 9 inches. Don't miss the Rose Fair next Satur day. . : Benton county's choicest .roses at the Rose Fair next Saturday. - -j . :. Again Open. '. . The repair department of "my . bicyeje and sporting godds business is again open for business second door south of postoffice. Quick repairing or first class work a specialty. James K. Berry, Ladies skirts all kinds and prices at Moses' Bros. Call and see them. New Summer Suitings FLAKED AND CHECKED SUITING-Cia Brown etc 50c, 60c, 75c-and 85c. ( WHITE MOHAIR Very dainty at 50c to 75c. SILK FLAKED Cream Eolienne at $1.25. , SHEPERDS PLAIDS Brown, Blue and Black. El AMINES 1 an, Brown, Navy, Red, Blue, Green '. and Black at 50c. ' . LINEN HOMESPUN SUITING-BIu-, Brown and Grey at 35c per yard. - Summer ParasolsPlain. Black, Green and Blue at SJ to $3,59. Fancy Silk Parasols New Shades Tan, Brown, Blue, White and Black from . ' $2.50 to $6.50. Childrens Colored Parasols. 25c to $J. : ' : ' S. L. KLINE The White House - - Corvallis, Oregon We pay special attention to Mail Orders. Spring Display of Mens FineToggery! f exclusive designs, i n Neckwear, Underwear, Plain and Fancy Hosiery, Shirts, Gloves, Etc. :.A Kuppenheimer Clothes Patterns are ex- elusive. Spring Suits $10 to $16.50 The Best $3 Hat on earth is the Kingsbury F. I MILLER Chickens am iggs Moses Watches, Clocks, Jewelry . and Silverware. v : Eyes tested free of charge - , ' and glasses fitted correctly ; at prices within reach of all ' Fine watch repairing a spe cialty Pratt The Jeweler 6c Optician. T COPYSIGHT 190SSY THE HOUSE OF KUPPENHQMB Brothes I mm bosses j n Wanted