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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1905)
LOCAL LORE,, ' For advertisements in this column . the rate - of J5 cents'per line will be charged. Orant Elgin returned Wednes day evening from a visit in Port land. . T. W. Scott of Boise, 'Idaho, is a guest at the W. B. . Keady home. Mr. and Mrs. Con Gerhard left Wednesday .for a week's visit at the Fair. . Mr. and Mrs. V: S. McFad den returned Wednesday evening from a brief visit in Portland. Mr. -and Mrs. T. Callahan ex pect to leave Monday for a three weeks sojourn at Newport. They are to occupy the Cpvell cottage on Nye Creek. Miss Agnes Webber has enter ed the Good Samaritan hospital at Portland for a three years' course which will fit her for a trained nurse. Mrs. Emily Hartford, who has spent seveial months at the home of her sister, Mrs. B. A. Cathey, left Wednesday . for her home in Los Angeles. Mrs. W. I. Jones and Mrs. Meyers of Jefferson, two of the best known people of that city, were suffocated by gas in their room at Portland, where they were stopping while attending the Fair. They were found dead Wednesday morning. A party of Albany Maccabees assisted Wednesday evening in the initiation of ten members in the lo cal lodge. Those in the party were, J. S. VanWinkle, Casper Kropp, A. Senders, G. W. GofE, C. N. McKee and Fred Hockspier. Miss Maud Hayes, a well known Corvallis girl and popular OAC student, is to leave about Tulv 1 5th for Nevada, where she has accepted a position as cook for the white employees that are con nected with ah Indian agency. The position was offered her by A. V. Moses, who is here from Nevada for a visit. Many friends unite in good wishes for the young lady's future. Dr. B. A. Cathey is to return tonight from a two days' business trip to Portland. .. Mrs.. Sol Richardson, son and daughter arrived Thursday from Hoquiam, Wash., for a visit with Corvallis and Benton relatives. Mr. and Mrs. T. A-- Jones ex pect to leave tomorrow,; for a two months visit with the parents of of .Mrs. Jones a. Seaside. ' Mrs. Charles ' Adams and children of Yaquina are at the M. L. Adams home in western Corvallis. Mrs. Frank Isbell leaves to day for Portland for a two weeks visit at the Fair. She goes from there to Dayton, Wash.,' and will be absent until the first of Septem ber. Miss Mary Jones left this week for Canada where she expects to spend a year. She accompanied home her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Thurston, who have been vis iting in Corvallis and Benton for some time. -The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Henkle swallowed a buckle Thursday afternoon, while playing about the restaurant. There was considerable choking, and the thoat was lacerated, but no further trouble is anticipated. . Clay Gilbert has accepted the position on the college tarm mare vacant by the resignation ot Gene Robinson, who goes East to re side. Mr. Gilbert will have charge Lof the stock on the big college farm. Elder W. L. Skeela of Scholls, Oregon, will preach at the new church in Jobs addition Saturday evening July ist and Sunday July 2nd at the usual hours. All invited. As the Times goes to press, it is announced that some ot the Good Roads speakers will be at Philomath during the afternoon next Tuesday, to speak with refer ence to improvement of highways. Mrs. J. I,. Jones, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Alice, who was salutatorian of this year's class at OAC left ' Thursday for Wash ington to join Mr. Jones and the two boys. The family are to hold down a big chittim claim until au tumn. CORVALLIS TO CELEBRATE. Ed Strange of this city is a be liever in woodp'pe. At Ogden, Utah, he saw wood pipe taken up that had been in use in the distn bution system of the city tor 30 years, and which was subsequently sold to farmers in the vicinity for use in irrigating their farms. This pipe was spirallv wound, with a flat hoop iron and in an occasion al section this had partly rusted a way. In the main, . however, the pipe seemed sound. ,The change was made in the system at Ogden because the city had outgrown the works and required larger distrib uting mains. The new pipe line, seven miles in length is built of ied wood pipe. Married, at Albany Wednes day, Miss Dora P. Porter and S. D. White of Lewiston, Idaho. The groom is secretary of the Volliner Clear Water Co: , vice president of the Lewiston Foundry & Machine Works, and is actively engaged as one of their managers of the Mer chants Credit Rating House of Lewiston. He is a native of Chi cago, and resided at Peoria, 111, be fore going to Lewiston five years ago. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mrs. P, J . Porter, was born at Shedds, is a , graduate of O I AO and the Drexel University of Philadelphia, and for three years has been instructor of domestic science in the U. of I. at Moscow. Ashland is a town not much larger than is Corvallis. A dis patch in the Oregonian " January 3rd was as follows: "The reve nues of the water system of Ash land for the year just closed have amounted to $11,671. 85r according to the report of the water works commissioner, just filed. During the past year the system has been extended considerably. The city is bonded in the sum of $50,000 on account of the water system, but it pays a handsome revenue in addi tion to interest and operating ex penses." Ashland's experience with publicly owned system has been so satisfactory that a dispatch in the Oregonian, June 26th is of interest. It says: "At a meeting of the City Council an ordinance was passed to install a municipal e lectric light and power plant, to- be operated by water power. A city election will be held July n, 1905, ! .to vote on issuing city bonds for $5o,ooo to pay for installing the yiaui. june 10, 1900.1t was aeciaea dv a city election to issue . 3o,ooo bonds for the purpose of purcnasing all the water rights of Ashland Creek not now owned by the city.. The city has for years ofcned its own gravity water .' - works." Sam King was arrested Tues dav for violating a city ordinance which prohibits any bat licensed teamsters from hauling goods of any "sort inside the : city limits. Mr. King was engaged in hauling lumber to Marys river bridge, and there is some question as to wheth er mere was a violation 01 law m the case. The trial takes place to day. Thursday afternoon, while in toxicated, Charles Wiley drove a bout town with a road . cart and spirited horse, until near the T. H wellsner nome tne animal ran a way. The rig was stopped at the Vidito stable, and Wiley was lock ed up by Chief Lane. A huge bot tie of whiskey was captured by the chief , and retained as evidence Friday forenoon Wiley pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkennesi and was fined $5. Dissolution Notice. Notice is hereby given that the partnership of Dunn & Thatcher is dissolved, E, J. Dunn retiring from the firm. . The business will contin ue at the old stand, under the name of Thatcher & Johnson, Mr. John son having succeeded to the inter est of Mr. Dunrj. Thanking al patrons for past favors. : we be speak a continuance ot the same for the new firm. E. J. Dunn. B. J. Thatcher. ANOTHER Sunday Excursion Tomorrow to Newport Fare $1.50 Leaves Corvallis at 8. Cows for Sale. Three good young cows in full milk, '., Alfred Bicknell. Five miles north of Corvallis. Bids to purchase to Shipley farm of 210 acres are asked. The-farm is near Monroe, Ore. Information may be had from A. T. Shipley. Monmouth. Yates & Yates, Corvallis. 80 acres farming land, t;ood water and pasture. Sprained Ankle, Stiff Neck, Shoulder. . Lame There are three common ailments for which Chamberlain's Pain Balm is espe cially valuable. If promptly applied it win save you time, money ana Buttering when troubled with any one of these ail ments. For sale by Graham & Wortham. National Good Roads People to Join Novel Features The Pro- . gramme. " .A convention of the National Good Roads Association of the United States, is to be held in Cor vallis. Tuesdav. Tulv 4th. The road experts who have been at tending the. great roads meeting at the Portland Exposition, will have charge of the sessions of the con vention, and the results of study of roads, their history and how to build them, will be given with con ciseness and strength that will be worth the while of every man in Benton county to hear. There are a number of the experts, and, with a special train and the' co-operation of all the railroads of . the country, they travel everywhere, telling the story of the benefits of good roads and of what methods to follow . to get best results. They tell a ter rible tale of the ' difference between the roads of Europe and those , of the United States. They say the roads are so much better across the Atlantic that it costs a farmer there but six cents to haul a ton of prod ucts a mile, while in the United States it costs 25 cents. They say the average haul in Oregon is 12 miles, and that cheref ore, on 1 ac count of the poor road it ''costs a farmer $3 per ton to haul 'off his wheat or other farm products, when it only ought, with roads like they have in Europe, to cost him but 72 cents. They talk about a smooth, hard turnpike, as dry and hard in the dead of winter as it is in summer, and say enough money is spent in every county of Oregon during ev ery period of 15 or 20 years to have such a system ot turnpikes radiat ing from the county seat to the limits of each county in every di rection. They are going to come to Corvallis later on and with their machinery build a mile of model road to show the people how road building should be done. They claim a perfect turnpike or macad am only costs $1,700 to $2,000 a mile, and that every year each county should devote a part of the road fund to the construction of a few miles of permanent road. A road so constructed should last hundreds of years, perhaps thous ands of years, with an .. expense for repair only $30 or $40 per mile per year. With such a system once built the road. - tasL.woula ... be a. mighty simple thing, because the roads would not be wearing out continually and replacement be so often necessary. The experts condemn the use of gravel, They say it is only a tem porary method, and there is no question but that they are right about it. One-tenth the effort ex pended in the past on Benton roads would doubtless have been suffi cient to have completed a system of turnpikes. , They say that the gravel being smooth, creeks in the road bed and never becomes compact. Only crushed rock, with its straight lines and angular surfaces, is avail able for perfect roads. Even grav el after being crushed is not the best, because one side or other por tion will invariably be left round j and smooth. Tne proposed convention will take on the character of a 4th of July celebration. All the details are not yet complete,' The even ing entertainment will include a stereoptican exhibition showing roads of all kinds, among them be ing one 148 miles in length, in Egypt that has been in use in per fect condition for 5,009 years. There will be a morning session at 10 o'clock, an afternoon session at two, and an evening , session at 8. If the farmers of Benton ever had opportunity to hear ' speeches that will be of striking interest to them, now is the time. They will hear statistics Jabout roads, history of roads, how roads affect them and their "products and property, and everything imaginable . in connect ion with the subject, all boiled down for hasty use. All the know ledge, that is, real, complete expert knowledge on the subject will be brought to the front at the conven tion, the first time Benton farmers ever had a chance to hear such things. : .. Following is the program: Tuesday, July 4th, 10 a. m. Invocation, Rev. Reeves. Address of , welcome, Mayor A; J. Johnson. ' ' Address of welcome, Judge V. E. Watters. : Address of welcome, B. W. 'John---' son, Pres.- Benton County Citi zens League. - . Response, Col. W. H. Moore, pres--', ident.Nat. Good Roads Ass'n. Address, "Legislation" Col; T. .P. Rixey, Missouri. : ' - Tuesday, July 4TH, 2 p. m. '.- Movement; ' Senator A., S. -r; Mann, Jacksonville, Florida, vice" president Nat. Good Roads Ass'n."- . -Address. Practical Road Construc tion,' Hon. Wm. Bradburn, - Consulting Engineer'' Good ' Roads Ass'n, - V - . Music. ; Five minute talks by delegates Address, Hon. John Craft, Mobile, . Ala., president .Alabama Good Roads Assn. -Report of Committees. Tuesday, July 4TH 8 p.m.. Address, "0-gan?zation," Hon. Wellington E. Louchs, Organ izer National Good1 Roads Ass'n., . ' ' .- -- Music. . "... " ; Stereopticon Lecture, "The Roads - of the World." Col. W. H. Moore. Adjournment. AS TO ROCK CREEK WATER. Editor Times: J. found on my doorstep Wed nesday an unsigned circular styling itself the "Investigator," in which Mrs. Purdy is quoted as saying that Rock Creek used to be, when- she lived out in that country, contam inated with dead cattle. Mrs: Purdy lived six or seven miles be low, where it is proposed ; to .... tap Rock Creek, and she will not state that any cattle of hers, neither will others state, that cattle ever got in Rock Creek above the proposed intake for the pipe ii. line, r, The statement in the same article that Wyatt's cattle pasture in the vicin ity is not true. They range on the western slope and the summit where all the streams run in the opposite direction from Rock Creek. Engineer -Miller , proposes to tap the stream within two miles of its source for the very purpose in part of avoiding contamination by stock. The. cany on at that point is devoid of feed, and heavily timbered and with sides of the canyon so steep that cattle would not,, as . the en gineer says, seek the" place unless the timber should be cut away.' While on the; subject I will add that it is not surprising that the editorial, staff of the socalled 'In vestigator" should insist that the man who prints their stuff shall not tell who they are. Few men would care to be caught at such business. P. Avery. - THAT ASTORIA PIPE. The cabal displays about town samples of rotten wood pipe, taken so they say, from the Astoria sys tem, after being in use ten years. Why, indeed, do they not display samples of steel pipe taken up, .be cause rotted . alter only 3 years of which there '. are some cases on record. May be the sample of rotten wood pipe came from Astoria. Maybe not. Nobody knows. .But for the sake of argument, admit that it did. What then? The sample in ques tion is sap, while all the wood pipe made now adays is from the heatt of the tree. That was . one reason why it only lasted cen years at Astoria. ; . But there was another . mistake in the Astoria line that everybody knows about. The outside of the piping was not coated witn tar. This tar coating " has been discov ered to be an essential to make wooded pipe durable. . That is an other reason why it only lasted 10 years. But for these errors, the piping, which in spite of them last ed 10 years, might have been in service for forty years to come, There are still other reasons but these are enough for any man not interested so much in fastening Willamette water for a long time on his neighbors as in getting at the real facts m the case. Now if the cabal want to give tne people ot Corvallis a square deal, if they have about them a man to man and heart to heart honesty, why don't they get sam ples of rotten steel pipe and lay be side this rotten wood pipe ? They can get it with as much ease as they got the socalled Astoria pipe. Watch and see if they do it. Sift GRAND m-Anniversary Sale As this week marks the Thirty-fifth year that I have been in business in Corvallif, I wish first to thank my patrons and friends for the liberal patronage they have extended me. and to; announce that, as has been my custom, I am going to hold an Anniversary Sale for : just one week. . But this year I am going to offer you" prices that will eclipse any previously made on ther same line of goods. Heee aee Some of .the Prices I am Making: , 1900 Yards Torshon Lace and insertions, all widths and select patterns, whi'e it lasts 5c per yd. Thompson's Glove Fitting and W. B. Corsets to fit all forms, $1 50, $1.25, and $1.00 grades going at 75c 50c ualues reduced to .......t.......36c Ladies Sailor Hats, this line we are going to discontin-- ue. All 50c values ;. . ; 24c - All 25c values . . J9c yyvviai uiuisis.ag vjiuyiiams, uii coiurs ;.oc ya. Ladies Purses and Hand Bags, black, white, brown and tan, leather and velvet, : Regular $1 50 values reduced to $1.15 $1.25 " " .;... 95 " $1.00 ' " 75' . 7K a . AO Ladies Auto Yacht Golf and Saucy Caps all colors ' Reguiar $1.50 caps now .....$1.05- do $1.25 do do ,95- do $1.00 do do .78 do ,75 do do .56 do .50 do do . 38, I want to close out my entire line of Hummer suit ings and wash goods comprising: voiles, Scotch Ox fords, Mercerized Taffetas, Spot Mohairs and Crepes Luster LiDens and Homespun suitings in the season's latest shades, at the following prices: . 40c goods reduced to 31c. 35c Goods reduced to 27c ' 30- ,25c 161 do do do do do do 22c 19c 12 k25c 20c m do do do to do' 22c 15c 10c 10c goods reduced to .08c. . Fifty pairs men's trousers and outing pants reduced from $4.50 to $3.60; $4 values to $3.20, $3.50 val- ues to $2.65; $3 values to $2.35, $2.50 values $1.95 T 9 T J T" --f f 11 l . r -i -i r- . . n . .ouyss cusier crown XNonoiK ana miaav ouits size 6 to v 8 years .-regular $3.50 vainer special $2 95; regul ar $3 values now $2.55; regular $2.50 value $2.15 all $2 values now $1.65; regular $1.50 value $1.29 Ball Mason Fruit Jars, pints 60c, quarts 73. half-gallon $1 21 pounds choice rice $1 6 cans Sardine s 25c Extta Standard Tomatoes 10c per can Extra Standard Corn 10c per can Arm & Hammer or Schillings Soda 4 pkgs 25c ,. , - Western Dry Granulated Sugar $5.70 per sack Fruit Sugar $5. 70 per sack S. L. The White House KLINE - - Corvallis, Oregon Address Our lation to Ladies Their Re the Good Roads Every imperfection removed from the latest models of talking ma chines. If you will come in we will be happy to render a select en tertainment. .. Graham & Wells. The S. P. is selling round trip tickets between Corvallis and Port land for $3 good going Saturdays or Sundays and returning Sunday or Monday following, either on East or West side, but good-only on afternoon train from Albany to Portland on Satutdays if East . side is taken. Passengers to pay local fare between Corvallis and Albany. Blackledge sells refrigerators. Bears the :-'JA Kind You Have Always BougH- "ignatara tf. . F. I. MILLERS Great June Sale! A bargain oppurtunity that happens only once a year. On Wednesday June 7th we place on sale our entire stock of Summer Wash Fabrics and ladies 'Waists ' Wash Fabrics. 10c values reduced to....:.. 8c - 12J V " ..10c . 15c " : lie 20c " . " .15c ' - 25c " " 19c 35c " '. ......27 50c " ' 37 ' New Waists. W ) have just received from the East a sample lino of waists which we are instructed to sell at cost rang ing in price from 40c to $6.00 : This sale includes all our new Spring Goods, and when We say it is a bargain opportunity, we mean it. bo come in and see you are welcome everybody is. F. i MILLER