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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1906)
3) LOCAL LOBE. For advertisements in this column the rate of 15 cents per Iin will be charged. E. F. Strouts of Summit was a Corvallis visitor yesterday. "Why did Brother Dick shoot that poor crow?" "I think, my dear girl, it was because the crow gave him caws." Si Medders Trolley cars are a great blessin', Josh. Josh Korn krib They be thet. They be the only thing around here thet an au tomobile is afraid of. Darwin Thayer, a student of O. A. C. arrived Tuesday from his home at Rainier. He expects to stay in Corvallis the remainder of the summer. The firemen had a run Wed nesday afternoon. The blaze was in a chimney at the house occupied by Mr. Grugett and family. It was extinguished before the department reached the scene, although the run was made in remarkably quick time. The children of the Episcopal Sunday school, in company with their parents and friends, enjoyed a picnic at Hyatt's Grove Wednes day. , Despite the unfavorable weather a very pleasant day was spent by all. At the home of William Gra ham on Water street, Burt Winkle and Miss Nellie Jones were married Wednesday evening, Justice Hol gate tying the knot, in the presence of a few friends and relatives. The groom is of the well known Win kle family of the county, and the bride has been for two or three years a resident of Corvallis, being a sister of Mrs. McDowell. An elderly woman who had, during the course of a somewhat eventful life, buried four husbands, encountered at the gates of the cem etery where they reposed, ' an old but timid lover whom she had not , seen for years. She took him in side and showed him not without a feeling of pride well kept tomb stones of her former lords and mas ters. "Ah, James," she remarked feelingly, ' 'you might have been lying there today it you had only j had a little more courage." j The officers-elect of Benton county will take their positions next Monday, as by law provided. An adjourned term of the county court will be held tomorrow, at which the members of the old court will close up their business, pre paratory to turning affairs over to the new administration. The first session of the new commissioners court will occur next Thursday. Emery Newton, recorder elect has been in the recorder's office for sev eral days familiarizing himself with the duties of the position. Engineer Miller who has been in charge of the construction of the Mountain Water plant, has gone to Iewiston, Idaho, where he is to be engineer in the construction of a $110,000 addition to the sewer and water systems of that town. His All kinds of Fireworks at Campbell's bakery. Miss Meeker of Roseburg who has been visiting her p-rents in this city left Wednesday for a two days' visit in Monmouth. Mis9 Lilly Read of Prineville, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Norton. Miss Read is a member of theOAC class of '96. Misses Carrie and Bess Danne man left yesterday for their Eastern Oregon home. Tuesday evening they were tendered a farewell party by a dozen of their friends. Hop contracts have been filed at Eugene with the following prices 20,000 pounds at 10 1-2; 35,000 pounds at 10 1-4; 50,000 pounds at 10 1-4; 15,000 at 10 1-4; 18,000 at 10 cents. The school board is calling for bids for painting the old school building. The plan proposes one coat on the roof and two on the body of the building. Painters are to bid both on labor and material. No bids are to be received after nine o'clock on the morning of July 10. ! Mrs, Burns and her son, Arch ie. and W. H. Burns, a brother of the late H. E. Burns, request the Times to express their deep grati tude for the love and smpathy shown them in their late sorrow. Though just starting to Eng land for a visit to his old home, Henry Ambler will go as an Amer ican citizen. Preliminary to his departure, so that the American flag would float at his masthead on the trip, he took out his final pa pers, and became a sovereign citi zen of the republic this afternoon, County Judge Watters and Clerk Moses performing the ceremony Mr. Ambler's first papers were ta ken out several years ago. He left England 20 years ago. Bert Pilkington, graduate man ager of athletics at the State college has pleughed up the athletic grounds, preparatory to widening the quarter mile track and leveling the whole field. The changes are made necessary on account cf the big high school meet scheduled to take place on the grounds next May, when a wider track and bet ter accommodations will be re quired. A summer school for the bene fit of teachers is to open at the col lege Monday. It is a private affair and is conducted by Prof. Tartar, one of the best equipped men for the purpose in the country. The course will cover a period of five weeks, and will embrace general re view work, notably drill in school law. White's art of teaching:, the whole course being designed to fit teachers for the work and pre pare them for the information re quired in getting certificates. There is a prospect for a veiy good atten dance Mr. Talbot, the new manager of the C. & E., and J. K. Weath erford, president of the company, have been for several days on a tour of the route of the incomplet ed C. & E-, extending from the present terminus of the road to Read Miller's big ad. Local news on every page of this issue. A gold pin, advertised In Tuesday's Times, has been restored to the owner. There will be services at the Catholic church Sunday. Mass at 10 a. m., and evening service at 730- Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Watters arrived Wednesday from a visit with relatives at Grants Pass and Ashland. The date of the departure of Henry Ambler Jfor England, has been finally set for next Tuesday. He will be accompanied by his wife. They will be absent three months. Prof, and Mrs. S. I. Pratt are making preparations to leave Tues day for a two months' tcur of the East. Born, Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hollenberg, a daughter. Miss Mabel Becker of Albany is the guest of her cousin, Mabel Wood. Cooper' left today visit with Salem work as an engineer in connection j Prineville. It is known that the with the Corvallis water system has been of the first order. He added materially to the efficiency and cost of the plant during the process of construction, and at the san.e time brought its final cost not only with in his original estimates, but a considerable sum below those fig ures. He is an exceedingly cap able man in his line. They tell it that the residents of an Eastern Oregon town through which Profs. Cordley and Shaw passed, made sport of the borses driven by the expedition. They referred to the animals as "two old skates," and asked a former O. A. C. student living there, if that "is the kind of horses they raise on the college farm." The student retort ed that automobiles are used alto gether down at Corvallis but thac the professors were afraid to go in an auto through the town east of the Cascades because of the fatal effect the sight of one might have on the people there. It is Friday the 6th of July now. That is a date that is to be a red letter day in this town. It doesn't have a reference to local option, or to earthquakes, or any old thing but solely and exclusive ly to cleaning up. On two former occasions efforts along that line have been interfered with. It is pro posed now to set apart this salu brious day in July when there will be neither rains, elections, or. other disturbance of Nature to interfere. A date two days after the 4th is se lected because it is figured that the rains will all stop after the 4th, and that favorable weather will be avail able. A lively committee is at work on the matter and it is reason ably certain that the next Clean-up day will be one of which everybody will, in the new vernacular, sit up nd take notice. trip is made on a basis of a possible extention of the line, and that the journey will probably result in a report to the owners of the proper ty, recommending such an exten sion. Whether the report will be acted on and the line be built, is only a probability. Those things are never quite certain until con tracts are let. Postmaster Johnson has not yet received official confirmation of the published dispatch, announcing that his official salary has been raised by the department to $2,000 a year, but such notification is daily expected. The advance is made by reason of an increase in the business of the office, and on this basis the local postmaster has been aware for some time that the ad vance was due. The salary of the office was advanced $100 last year. When Mr. Johnson went in the of fice the salary was $1,600 per year. The steady and healthy growth of Corvallis is illustrated in this cer tain barometer of business conditions. Deeds have been filed in the office of the county recorder as fol lows: M. B. Pratt and wf. to Nel lie E. Bennettj 120 acres near Sum mit, $1. T. D. Hinton and wf. to George B. Camp, 20 acres near Bruce, $225. D. H. McCullough and wf . to Mary E. Perfect 20 acres near Albany, $ 1 . W. Seck lerandwf. to Minerva Kiger, two lots in blocks 8 $1600. . Bently Kealty JCo to J . D. Wilcox two sections north of Summit, $3500. John D. Wilcox to E. W. Strong two sections near Summit, $10. W. T. Wyatt et al to Mary E. Wyatt, et al lot in Philomath, $400. Mag gie Bryan and husband to C. F. Butler, et al 190 acres near Sum mit, $500. w.j. smith and wf. to ; C. R. Ahop, 33 acits $1700. G. A. Covell and family ex pect to spend the summer on the farm of S. I. Pratt, eleven miles south of thin city. They leave ear ly next week. Subject of sermon at the M. E. church, South, Sunday at 11 a. m. The Glory of the Cross." At 8 p. m., " l ne ADunaant f rovision 01 the Gospel." Mr. Veal and family arrived from Kansas Wednesday. They are to occupy the Ambler home dur ing the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Ambler on their trip to England. Of the three OAC boys at Cor nell, Harry Fryer has returned to Oregon, but Merrill Moores and Theodore Garrow are to remaia at Ithaca another year. Garrow has purchased a gasoline launch and he and Moores are navigating Cayuga lake with it. . . Neal Murray, the live pas senger man of the C. & E. was in town yesterday, lcokine after the big excursion to the Cascades on the 4th. The sale of tickets at Albany has been so popular that the supply is exhausted. In order to have accommodations for the crowd, coaches have to be pro cured from the Astoria & Columbia river road. Several sportsmen are going to Salem to celebrate. Handsome prizes far target shooting are among the features of the celebration, and a number of Corvallis and Benton boys will go down to see what luck they may have. Among those who expect to go are Dick Kiger, Alex Rennie, Grant Elgin, Sheriff Bur nett, Gus Logsdon, Dr. Bennet of Monroe, George Kerr, Albert Zierolf, and several others. The local passenger train be tween Corvallis and Albany has be come a paying investment, and will undoubtedly be a permanent ar rangement. As the service becomes more and more of a fixture the passenger traffic inci eases, and has already passed the point where it pays the expenses of the train. In cidentally, the service is all the people of Corvallis could ask. Two new teachers are to be in the staff of the Corvallis public schools the coming year. They are Miss Lena Tartar and Miss Edna Thompson. They take the places vacated by the resignations of Miss Fuller and Miss Young. The full list of teachers is as follows: Prof. Holmes, Prof. Cummings, Miss Belknap, Miss Mallow, Miss Fin ley, Miss Fullerton. Miss Mattley, Miss Huff, Miss Maxfield, Miss Lindgren, Miss ' Fowell, Miss Tartar and Miss Thompson. The grades will be assigned by the prin cipal at the opening of school. W. H. Downing, president of. the State Fair Association, was in ! town yesterday in the interest of j the coming Fair. He is particul arly anxious for Benton to have a county exhibit, and with that end in view interviewed the members elect of the county court. It is understood that both members are favorable to a county exhibit. With the present county exhibit at the court house for a starter, a fair exhibit could now be produced with far less that the usual trouble. Mr. Downing is an able officer, and is enthusiastic over the prospects of the coming Fair. Miss Juliet for a two weeks' friends. Miss Frances Gellatly is to as sume the duties ot bookkeeper at the store of F. L. Miller Monday. J. K. Fulton and family expect to leave Saturday for the Grover Avery farm twelve miles south of this city, for a visit of. several weeks. Mrs. C. M. McKellips enter tained a number of ladies Thursday afternoon in honor of the Misses Armstrong, Miss Van Dusen ard Miss Emmons. Presbyterian church, subject at 11 a. m., "Blessings from Our God." Evening srvke at 8. Good music, beautiful decorations. A Shoe Lesson! That each you how to mnke your feet feel at boie em bodied in every pair of For the evening services of Ju ly Rev. M. S. Bush, will preach a course of sermons on "The Striking personal interviews with Christ." First number next Sunday evening on "Nicodemus and the Beginning of Spiritual Life." A mas meeting of citizens call ed by the water committee for to night is unavoidably postponed by the continued absence of Clerk Kline by whom a report was to have been made. Fine medium wools continue to be quoted at 23 in the local mar ket, with lower bids tor coarser grades. Small lots are selling free ly, but some ot the larger growers are holding for higher prices. The bulk of the clip has been sold. Congregational church. Rev J. C. Leiper D. D., of Portland will preach in the morning. Preaching by the pastor in the evening. Sub ject, "Was San Francisco Smitten because of its Wickedaess? What does the Bible say about such mat ters?" Stevens is the next sheriff of Multnomah county. A telegram this afternoon to Sheriff Burnett says that by the recountv Stevens goes in by 26 votes. Stevens had a lead of ten at the beginning of the of the- count this morning, and gained 16 during the day. Wednesday evening there was a wedding at Springfield Junction, Lane county, in which Miss Mabel Meats, daughter of G. H. Meats, formerly of Philomath, and Moody Neet were the parties to the con tract. They were married at the bride's home in the presence of a number of friends and relatives. S. M. Wood of Corvallis officiated. Apropos of a Benton county exhibit for the state fair, Judge Watters court has space already en gaged for such an exhibit, but has refrained from proceeding any fur ther out of deference to the incom ing administration. It is said that with the appliances and samples now on hand at the court house a splendid showing can be made by Benton at a very small expense. The roo', cornice and rustic is all on the residence of Mrs. Pernot undergoing construction on Jots south f the E- R. Bryson home. The building is 24 x 28, and eigh teen feet high, with a very sightly appearance. Charles Pernot and A. Kyle are the workmen. Work on the building has been temporar ily laid aside on account ot hay har vest. Fifty persons participated in the farewell reception at Hotel Cor vallis last night for Mr. and Mrs. Simpson who are to leave in Au gust for Honolulu to reside. Mrs. E. F Pernot presided at the ban quet table, and there were responses to toasts by Rev. Simpson, Mrs. Simpson, Prof. Pernot and John Allen. The occasion was very pleasant. Ralston Health Shoes "When you put on Ralstona yon ean feel sure you've dona the test for your feet in poin of both comfort and style. Q Balston shoes are built on a structural principle worked out from a close study cf the foot as? nature made it. D.d you ?ver notice how the firm, close-packed sand of a emooth sea beach supports and fits every park of the foM ?- , Raleton Health Shoes fit that way. Come in and try on a pair. S. L. KLINE The People's Store. Established 1864 Corvallis, Oeegon Newport Will Celebrate The Glorious Fourth AND TV Corvallis & Eastern Railroad Will make special excursion three-day ra'es from Albany, Co; alii?, Phil omath and all points west. Fare for round trip: Albany, 'Corvallis and Philomath $2.50 Wren, Harris, Blodgett and Summit... ..$2.00 Tickets will be good going Tuesday July 3rd, and returning Thursday JuTy 5th, giving tlirca days at the coast. Special attractions have been arranged by the people of Newpoit, including boat racing, foot racing, fire works, speeches, band concerts, ball, etc. Valuable prizes given for all contests. Come and Help them Celebrate. Lady erackerd I Fire I g Cannon " I Torpedos I and 5 Bombs. Rizaracker Freeraeker Zip Bum Bah Gun Hodes, Gun Hodes Huh Rah, Rah Rockets Roman candie Mines Pin wheels Catharme Triangle Etc, Etc. Clay Shepard, Y. M. C. A. secretary at O. A. C. has been awarded a scholarship at Harvard, but has been obliged by illness to' decline it. He was seized with ty phoid fever in February and is still in bad health. The Salem Journal says of his case; "Clay Shepard, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Shepard, who has been quite sick with a re lapse of typhoid fever for some weeks, is improving rapidly. It is a matter of regret that he was tak en sick, for he was awarded recently a scholarship at Harvard Univer sity, which he will not be able to attend on account of needed rest, which he will necessarily have to take after he has again become convaleFcent. . Misses Cheney and Krumm and Mr. Cofey of the -McMinnville Studio have purchased the photo graph business of Mr. Emery in this city and will henceforth be known under the firm name of "The Corvallis Studio." Our work has given universal satisfaction in McMinnville and Oregon City and we trust it will da so here. We so licit the patronage of the citizens of Corvallis and vicinity. Our work speaks for itself. Call and see us at Emery's old stand. Our Motto: If you have beauty we'll take it. If you haven't we'll make it. Yours for Photos, ' Corvallis Studio. Mr. T. Mon Foo, an exoerienced con pounder of Chinese m dickies, successor to the-late Hong Wo Ton?, of Albany, uregon, is now prepared to lurnish Chi nese medicine to all. The undersigned recommends him and guarantees satis faction. Call or write him at No. 117 West Sec ond Street, Albany, Oregon. Jim West-fall. Moses Brothers You will always find us up and coming and our prices easonable. For Boots and Shoes for Men, Women and children, hats, caps underwear, every day and a stuff, ladies skirts, mans and boys suits Also a Fine Line of Groceries crockery and everything that is needed in a grocery de partment. Look Out for Moses Bros quick delivery wagon. Listen for the bell and you will find there is something donig Ices and Creams! We are now prepared to provide the public with I?? Water Ices, creams, Sherberts, and everything in this line. Special Fancy Orders For soeial functions solicited. We-cater to the whole public and guarantee the best at reasonable prices. When' you want anything in our line remember us. Our own special free delivery to any parfeof the city-r-large or small. ; ' ' ' Corvallis 'Creame