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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1905)
LOCAL LORE. For advertisements in this column the rate oi J5 cents per line will be charged. O. V. Hurt and daughters arrived Sunday from an outing at Yachats. Now is the time to buy a buggy cheap at Simpson' s. ' Wanted, Hay and oats. I. D Bodine. PhoDe 290. J. H. Simpson announces a cut of 10 per cent on all buggies and carriages in his stock for 30 days. The estate of William Wyatt has been finally settled and the ex ecutor discharged. The annual convention of the W. C. T. U. of the state of Oregon will meet at The Dalles, Uctooer 3rd to 6th. -' Ed Peterson and Clay Gilbert spent Sunday at Newport. Mr. Peterson is to leave in a few days for Oklahoma. The W. C. T. U. will meet in their Reading Room on Thursday Sept. 23rd at 3 o'clock. The pub lic is cordially invited. In order to reduce stocs 1 win offer for 30 days any buggy or car riage in stock at 10 per cent off reg ular price, at J. H. Simpson S. Chester and Kirkwood Brodie of Portland, brothers of Horace Brodie, class ot '04, arrived Fri day and are registered as sopho mores at O. A. C. Rev. Hiram Gould, formerly nastor of the Methodist church in Corvallis. was, with Mrs. Gould, in town Monday, enroute to attend the annual conference of his church now in session in Albany. Mrs. Marion Higdon arrived Monday evening from Newcastle, Colorado, and is to remain. She has taken a house in Job's addit'on. Her husband is to arrive in a short time. She is the sister of Charles Heckart and the two have not met for many years'. The will of Mary A. Garling house has been filed for probate. , The document was executed Aug. 30. 1904 with F. W. Osburn and E. O. Potter as witnesses. E. U. Lee has been appointed referee to take testimony of witnesses and to report the same to the county clerk. . The Blakeslee prune drier be gan operations Monday morning. It will dry the prunes from a large number of adjacent orchards, the picking of which is already in pro gress. The big drier of Lassalle Brothers in Albany, valued at $5,000, burned Sunday morning. It was insured for $3,400. Prof. McKellips arrived , Fri day evening from a three weeks' trip in the East, He visited the great drug concerns in Detroit and other cities as well as Purdue and other universities for the purpose of getting in touch with all that U new in pharmacy for use in his de partment at OAC, He also spent three or four days at his old home in Indiana. A farewell surprise was given Saturday evening at the home of Mr. arid Mrs. Hartley in honor of Miss Eva Myers, who left Monday for hr home in Illinois. The eve ning was spent in social conversa tion. Those present were, Rev. Feese, Mr. and Mrs. Blackledge, Mr. and Mrs. Underwood, Mr. and Mrs. Bane, Mr. and Mrs. Swan, Mr. and Mrs. Wellsher, Misses Libbie and Lulu Rice. Maud and Belle Mattley, Mr. White. ..Mrs. Hartley and Miss Sophie Hartley. At Minot, North Dakota, a few days ag6, August Young, a former Corvallis painter, committed suicide by hanging. A few weeks ago, he left Corvallis after beating his wife for her antics with annoth er man. He went to Oregon City, where later, the wife followed him. There he beat her again, and was heavily fined and required to pay her $100 for use in securing a di vorce from him. ,He was also re quired to leave Oregon City. This he did, and the news of his suicide is the sequel. A note on the body directed that his watch be sent to his little daughter, now with the mother in Oregon City, Mr. Sheldon, representing one of the wood pipe companies : on Puget Sound was in town Monday for a few hours; securing informa tion for making a bid on the pipe to be used in the proposed gravity water system. His firm is supply ing pipe for use in a gravity water system now being installed at Cot tage Grove, a part of which goes into the pipe line and a part in ,the city distribution system. Only a portion of the latter is being renew : ed. The same company recently sold wood pipe for replacing a steel system that went to pieces in eight or ten years in the city of Anacor tes, Washington. In the bids to be opened next : Monday for the Cor vallis system, the specifications call for both wood and steel pipe for the distribution system. IS MAN ROW. S. N. Wilkins is in attendance at the Funeral Directors convention in session in Portland, Mrs. George B. KesfdV and her daughter Miss. Mabel returned Monday from a visit at the Fair. Miss Louise Meeker, stenog rapher with E R. Bryson returned Monday after a two weeks vacation. After a visit with friends in this city, Mrs. G. O. S. Humbert j left Monday for her home in Eu gene. A. F. Hershner, well known in this city has been elected to the principalship of the jenerson schools. Misses Mabel and Pauline Dav is entertained a few friends Mon day evening in honor of their guest Miss Loia Senders of Harrisburg. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Davis, Harry Davis, Messrs Mason and Johnson of Cal. left Monday for a few days salmon fishing at Newport. Joseph McFadden, formerly in the telephone business, has purchas ed the interest of Dell Alexander in the Pioneer Bakery, and the latter has accented a position in Nolan's store, Mrs. Butolph, residing with her husband and children m the Woodcock dairy, died Saturday of consumption. The interment was in Odd Fellows cemetery. W. J. Dunlap and sister Miss Maggie, arrived Saturday from Shedd. the former to resume work and the latter to enter college. Russell McCully and Wilmer McCully of Wallowa county are new students at O. A. C. The for mer is a son of Mrs. J. D. McCully nee Miss Lillie Patton. . Eugene Guard: Ross C. Fin ley, assayer at the Lucky Boy mine, spent last night in Eugene on his way back to the mine after having been on his vacation. The recent forest fires in Southern Oregon buroed the larg est tree in the state. It was a red fir measuring over fifty five feet in circumference, located on Gray Back. Six Months ago was a boy of Twelve " Years No Similar Case Known in Medical Annals. Madam Corsini, the expert needleworker, is very comfortably located in the tastefully appointed annex to S. L- Kline's store. She will give free lessons in the art to the ladies of Corvallis for the next week or ten days. A prominent Portland physician had a difficult case, the patient was suffering greatly and rebelliously. "O," said the doctor, ' 'bear it like a man. It is not half so bad as it would be if you were suffering from a guilty ccnscience instead of a broken leg." "My conscience, I'd have you know," was the tart reply, "is just as good as new I've never used it." Salem Statesman. The first game to be played by the Willam ette football team will be on next Friday, when the alumni football team of the universtty will go up against the regular team. The alumni team will include such well knowu and old champions of the gridiron as Chester Murphy, who has not worn a university uniform since 1895; Chauncey Bishop, the coach of the regulars; Dr. Harry Olinger, Rt. Guiss. Prof. W. C. Ha why, Rube Sanders, Pugh, Prof. Boyer and Mark H. Savage. Prineville Review: The dogs of Prineville are in general a dissi pated lot. They drink beer. Of course, all of them do not indulge, but some have acquired the beer habit, and these like their booze as regularly as the old-time case-hardened toper. Wm. Draper has a dog that has been a soak for years; the Review dog, Teddy, tries to get drunk every night, and generally succeeds. Al Hill's dog is now taking the first downward steps and in a few months will be a steady drinker. Many others have shown their partiality for beer. Gene Simpson received an or der Saturday for $360 worth of Chi na pheasants, and the birds are to be shipped next week. The birds go at $2.50 each, or $30 perj dozen, and accordingly '12 dozen pheas ants will be required. The ship ment is to go to Stevens county. Washington, where the birds are to be liberated with the hope of stock ing the county with them. The order is from the counto court of Stevens county. Mr. Simpson has raised 25 dozen Chinas this season of which three dozen has been sold in addition to the big order. His net profits . from the business will reach $500. Across the river in Linn county from Corvallis resides a boy of 12 vears that is double the size and twice as heavy as he was six months. ago. In that bnet penoa or time he has undergone the transition from boyhood to manhood. His growth has been so abnormal that the physicians of Oregon have been unable to account tor it. -iney have studied the case from every standpoint, but are unable to ac count for the remarkable phenomen on connected with it. They find nowhere in the textbooks a record of a similar case. The boy was brought home the other day from Portland where some of the most eminent physicians of the state had him for some time under examin ation, and Tie'i now at the farm home across the Willamette. The boy is Walter Miller, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Miller. It was about six months ago that he began a sudden growth, to which little or no attention was paid in the beginning. The devel- ooment. however, went 98 apace. and at length attracted both in terest and concern. To grow so much that in six months a boy, is twice as large, involved changes that finally became alarming. Signs of beard began to appear on the face of the swift growing lad. His limbs and bodv took on a size that was astonishing. The boy that had been a child of ordinary stature and proportions, at 12 was a full grown man weiehinsr 160 pounds, and standing five feet six or seven inch es at 12 years and six months. An unfortunate feature ot the case is that with the growth came a trouble that makes it impossible for the lad to stand on his feet. At first it became difficult for him to walk around, and by and by, even this could not be done. Then it became impossible for him to walk with out assistance. Now when he tries to stand alone, he quickly falls backward. The medical men at tribute this phenomenon to a. pro bable affection of the brain. They have as yet, no explanation for the extraordinary growth. Lime and Cement. Best and highest grades of lime and cement can be had at the Ben ton County Flouring Mills, at the lowest prices. Agents for T. S. McRath &Co. I'J; I DL Si Tall and Winter Styles THREE FINED. For Violating Game Laws Game Wardens Palled Them Had Three Birds. Three Corvallis men pleaded guilty and paid fines of $1 5 each in Justice Holgate's court Saturday morning, for violating the game law. I hey were George Brown, John Kiger and Fred Hencye. As they entered town from a hunt late Friday evening, they were stopped by a couple of game wardens, and a search revealed three China pheasants in their possession. They were allowed to go under the prom ise that they would appear for trial the following morning at mm o'clock. All three men are members of the Corvallis Social and Athletic club. The club in its articles of incorporation makes pretense that one of its purposes is the protection of game. In fact, a reward of $10 has been offered by the club for the arrest and conviction of persons found guilty of violating the game laws. i The incident illustrates fully the sham pretensions set up by Mike Kline when he instituted his so called club. His proposed pro tection ot game is on a par with his interest in the "moral welfare" of the members. His purpose was to run a saloon for the sale of liquor, and that is what his club is, noth ing more, nothing less a saloon, sailing under the guise of "moral welfare," "protection of game" and other fake claims. New lot of freshly loaded shotgun shells. All kinds of footbal supplies. At Hodes Pioneer Gun store. Write Him. T. W. McGowan, Jr.. established I857 commission merchant, in hops, 36 & 38 Whitehall etreet. New York. Lib eral advances made on all consignments. Highest market prices obtained and quick returns. References: Bradstreets Mercantile Agency, New York; Bank of America, New York. Wanted 2.0 ton Vetch seed to fill car at OorvaL lis this week. L. L. Brooks We have just received a new lot of Columbia disc and cylinder reo ords. Also a lot of the American Blue records, the best record that is made. Graham & Wells. The authoritative productions of the leading manufacturers of clothing for boys are ready for jour inspection. We are showing many exclusiue styles , patterns and color effects in all the wool fabrics. . Norfolk styles. $2 50 to 7 00 . Double Breasted styles 1 50 to 10 Sailor, Eton, Cadet, Russian Blse 1 5O to 7 00 f Steel Shod Shoes ' For boys $2 00 to $3 00 Quilted Bottoms, the kind that dont wear out. Red School House Shoes For boys and girls $1 25 to 2 50 Blagk Qat School Stockings No 15 for boys. No 10 for girls. Sold exclusively L. KLINE S. ESTABLISHED 1864 THE PEOPLES STORE CORVALLIS, OREGON. among our Oar goods are moving every day, moving in from Portland and out hundreds of customers. We want you to keep them moving. - If you are fitting up one or more rooms, it will be to your advantage to talk with us before placing your ord:r for housefurnishings. Ask to see our new patterns; Columbia Brussels Carpet. 700 yards jist received We handle the White Enameled Steel Ware, imported goods, nothing like it on the market. Bargains all aloug the line. . ' HOLLENBERG & CADY. The House Furnishers. No More Sunday Excursions. The Sunday excursions on the C. & E. have been discontinued and no more will be run this season, but the three day.rates, good go ing Saturday and retnrning Mon day will be continued on the S. P. until Sept. 30tb, and on the C. & E uutil Ort. 14th. Season tickets from all S P. and C. & E. poiots will be sold daily uutil Sjpt 3 th. Esci-llpfct frport is now to be had in Yaquina Bay trolling for salmon which are running freely. Septem b9r is the best mouth to enjoy the ocehn, calm, warm and beautifuK All thould take advantage of the excursion rates whibh will eoon be withdrawn. 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. Reward Offered. For harvesting specs go to Hodes Pioneer gun store. Also, a fine assortment of King's triple beaded rifle sights and Sheard s hunting or target sights. The reward is in the good bargain to be secured. C. H. Newth, Physician and Surgeon Philomath, Oregon. ALSEA HONEY AT Hodes' Grocery j 1905 Tall Goods Ready 1906 Just received a large assortment of fall and , winter dress goods. This shipment includes broad cloths, henriettas, eloenes, cravenettes, waisting and fancy mixtures; wool plaids for ladies waists and childrens dreases Palmer Garments 1 Our first shipment of ladies and misses rain coats and childrens jackets has arrived. Ladies and Misses Empire coats in transit. Style,, fit and quality are the essentials in womens gar ' ments. The Palmer Garment excels in these three points and more than that, it gives you the money value. Style, fit and quality that are right. You are invited to inspect this line, F. L MILLER First-Class Job Work done on short notice at the most reason able prices at this office. See us before going elsewhere.