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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1906)
Sale Saturday 3iily.'28tb For advertisements to this column the rate of 15 cents per tine will be charged. Shirt Waist Suits each 50c Linen, Covert and Duck Skirts each 25c, 50c, 75c. Linen Dusters Latest Automo bile Styles, $3, $3.50, $4--Choice at $2.50. S. L. KLINE The People's Store. Established 1864. Corvallis, Oregon Annual Sale Our -11 Mid-Summer is Now on LOCAL LORE. And for 30 days we will offer the entire stock of dry goods, boots and shoes, clothing etc at extra special pri ces. Space will""not permit us to quote prices on every article. But following are a few to give you an idea of some of the special bargains. MENS CLOTHING Extra Special l2 5o Suits at $10 oo 14 oo do , il so 15 oo do 12 oo 16 5o do 13 20 18 oo do 14 40 BOYS SUITS Extra Special f 2 50 Boys imit at f i 95 3 00 do 2 25 3 50 do 2 85 4 00 do 3 10 45o do 345 LADIES DRESS SKIRTS Extra Special $5 00 Ladies Skirts at $1 75 3 so do 2 00 4 50 do 2 75 5 5o do 3 5o 6 50 do 4 50 LADIES SHIRTWAISTS Extra Special $ 75 Ladies waists at ,. $ 40 1 25 do 80 1 50 do 1 00 2 00 do 1 25 Odd lot of waists worth $1, 1.50 and 1.75 at 25c Summer Dress Goods worth 15c, 20c, and 25c, reduced to 10c T7 T H7TTT T ITO'Q Corvallis, Or. P. S. When you see it in our Ad, its so. Moses Brothers coming You will always find us up and and our prices leasonable. For Boots and Shoes for Men, Women and children, hats, caps underwear, every day and a fbiilF, ladies skirts, mens 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 II II- nil' nit' nn- I Tor a Tine Line J Guns, Fishing Tackle and 7 - - Base Ball Goods go to I j GUN HODES' j We carry the Famous Bristol Fishing Rods. n nn nn nn -nn uu uu nu un wt i i After a few days outing at Elk City, Mr. and Mrs. Pratt arrived home today. Mr. and, Mts. Callahan left Elk City yesterday for a few days at Newport. Collie Cathey returned home Wednesday after several weeks stay in St. Johns. German preaching Sunday at the Presbyterian church. All are welcome. Miss Frances Belknap return ed Wednesday evening from a visit with Mrs. F. M. McElfresh at Salem. Little Willie Wake up, pa! Here comes the collection man. Pa Shut up, you fool! That's why I'm asleep! ' The Bodine hay baler began operations today on the Rice place. It goes next to Richard Kiger's. For motive power it uses gasoline, and its capacity is 40 tons per day. Rev. F. E. Billington of Cot tage Grove, secretary of the Oregon Christian Missionary Convention, will preach at the Christian church next Sunday morning and evening Congregational church. Wor ship and sermon at n, "A Study in Faces. The Face of Christ." Vespers and sermon at 8, "The Great Need of the World." Wednesday's Eugene Guard: C. E. Ireland and wife, T. K. Fawcett and Fred Ireland, of Cor vallis arrived down from Belknap Springs last evening and left this morning for home. "Well, my boy," said the good maa, "I see you have your arm in a sling. Did you get hurt celebrat ing the Fourth?" "Naw," replied the sweet child; "I broke me wrist tryin' not to let me right hand know me left hand was doinV Base ball at Newport Sunday. Kline' s team versus a crack nine made up of players from Astoria, Portland, Eugene, Salem and other places. This will be one of the best games of the season. Albany Democrat: A Califor nia man, with his eyes on Albany, writes to ask if our ocean breezes are chilly, if the rain drizzles in the winter, and It there are many fogs in summer. ' Our ocean breezes are fine, it rains about right for health and crops, 35 inches a year, and there are hardly any fogs in the summer. Albany Democrat: The Cor vallis Times says last Sunday's ex cursion from the Bay out was the scene of many sickening love epi sodes. Several girls and boys spent the time sitting on each other's laps , and stealing kisses. One case was likened to two dying calves j i Young people with so little sense should be kept at home. Albany Herald: C. K. Fronk, station agent for the Southern Pa cific in this city for the past 15 years, has been succeeded by E. A. Neal, who was yesterday morning placed in charge as acting agent, and Mr. Fronk went to Portland in response to a message calling him to the general offices of the com pany. A travelling auditor was here and yesterday checked Mr. Neal in as acting agent. Albany Herald: A divorce suit was filed yesterday in the coun ty clerk's office in which Elsie Weitman is plaintiff and Frank Weitman defendant. The com plaint alleges that the couple was married in Kearney, Nebraska, on September 28, 1885, and that de fendant deserted plaintiff on Octo ber 3, 1904. There are six child ren as the result of the union El la, aged 20; Hugh F. 17; Joseph, 16; Christina, 12; Leona, 9; and Lela, 4. Mrs. Weitman asks for a divorce 'and the custody of the chil dren. E. E. Wilson is attorney for the plaintiff. Corvallis is to be investigated with reference to a possible reduc tion of insurance rates. The re duction if it comes will be conse quent upon the installation of the jnew Mountain water system. Some time ago the insurance agents in town held a meetiner and dis- i cussed the matter. A letter was I ' formulated urging the importance 5 of a reduction upon the board of I i fire underwriters. A letter receiv- C'( Itl TPn'y . annntma0 ' f V n f ronro. sentatives of the underwriters will be sent to Corvallis to investigate the new fire arrangements and to further consider the question. A considerable reduction in rates re sulted when a new water system was installed in Dallas and a simi lar result should follow both at .Curvdllis and Pikjlomath. Pat Stewart and Mr. Millholm returned Thursday from a week.s fishing trip on Big Elk. Pat says their catch was 300. R. M. Colbert and wife left Friday for a few days' outiDg at the Coast Excavating has begun on the A. J. Johnson building. Tbe dirt is delivered about town at : 30 cents per load and upward, according to distance. COMPANION SAVED HIM Frrm Drowning Nearly Tragedy in the Willamette at Corvallis. AFTER FIFTY YEARS No More Exemptions of Tax es to Householders New Decision. Rev. and Mrs. E- T. Simpson and children left on Friday's West side irain for a visit with relatives in and around Portland and Van couver, W'ash. They expect to sail for Honolulu the latter part of August. Between three and four hund red people attended the annual ice ' cream social at McFarland chapel ' Thursday evening. The eighty -foot shed was beautifully decorated with bunting, firs and fern, and Japanese lanterns lighted the inter ior. The sum of $85 was realized. Corvallis is to have another church building and another church congregation. It is to be a Ger man Lutheran church and is to be located on a lot and a half of ground purchased recently of Mr. Gordmacher northwest of the col lege. The German-Lutheran Con gregation, incorporated, has been organized for the purpose of pro moting the new church. An addition is to be made to the Christian church. It is to be a lecture and Sunday school room and is o be 2 x 36 feet. It is to be located on th south side of the present structure and the work of building it is to begin in about 10 days. It will surmount a basement as is the case with the present edi fice, but the understructure will not be put in a finished condition until later on. Fifty years of continuous teaching in many and varied edu cational institutions, is the record of President T. M. Gatch who, af ter this year, will retire from the presidency of the agricultural col lege at Corvallis. The amount of good that he has done in this half century of labor is beyond compu tation or estimation. His works when years hence, we hope he passes away, will live after him. Portland Journal. A case of drowning with all its melancholy details was averted Wednesday evening by the heroism of Kratz Cronise. It happened in the Willamette near the old O. P. incline at Corvallis, ana it was Nash Taylor, aged 18, whose life nearly paid the forfeit of his in clination for swimming. He re sides with bis widowed mother at the Presbj terian manse, and is tm o'.oved as a clerk at Nolan's. , He wa at arm's lenS under the water while his rescuer swam fifty or sixty leet witn mm, ana it re quired six or eight minutes of roll ing and other vigorous restoratives usual in drowning cases to restore him to consciousness and life. With Kratz Cronise and three other boys, Taylor went to the swimming headquarters to bathe in thetwilignt ot iuesday evening. The boom of the Corvallis sawmill swings slantwise across the river at the point, and it is the custom of the bathers to swim out to the boom, and after a rest or other di version, swim back again to the Corvallis shore. Taylor, Cronise and a companion started together for the boom. Taylor is not as vigorous a swimmer as the others, and he soon fell behind. He had on former occasions, however made the trip and had no fear of his ability to repeat the performance, until about half way across, he suddenly began to call for help. It had been observed by onlookers, that even before this Taylor had begun to show signs of distress His first call for help was not heard by his companions, who had al ready reached the boom. A second call however, uttered as Taylor threw up his hands and seemed Dairy meetings are being held in Willamette by G. L. McKay, dairy expert from the Agricultural college of Iowa, known as the Iowa State College, located at Ames. Such a meeting was held in Albany Tuesday and at- Eugene Wednes day. Mr. McKay is accompanied by Dr. Withycombe and others. Wednesday forenoon, the psrty vis ited the State college. The meetings-are being held at the instance of the Harriman railroad lines, and Harvey Lounsberry, district freight agent is one of the promoters. Peter Wilson, formerly of Cor vallis, was buried recently at Ash land. Several years ,ago he was employed for some time in the Cor vallis Flouring Mills, going from heie to Gold Hill where until his death he was employed in the Jesse Houck flouring mill. Mr. Houck recently sold the mill to a company. Peter Wilson was a brother of Al bert Wilson, a former owner in the Benton Mills, and was aged 48 or 50 years. His malady was ca ncer of the stomach. While Walter Kline and his mother were out driving last even ing they had occasion to cross the bridge in front of Bob Lamberson's house on the Fischer mill road. it had been badly bruised and skinned, and is now under the treat ment of a veterinarian. Repairs are said to be needed for the bridge in question as well as other bridges in the vicinity.- No more household exemptions are to be allowed taxpayers. A $300 exemption has been allowed every taxpayer since the year 1859. with the exception of 1904, but a decis ion of the supreme court says the practice is unconstitutional, and will have to be abandoned. Asses sor Davis has already beeu'n the work of cutting it out of this year's . roll, and Robert Johnson has been employed to assist in the work. The roll, with the exception of the four Corvallis precincts, was piactically t completed, and tbechanges entailed by the decision will involve much trouble and labor. The usual ex emption has been allowed on every assessment made, and has been en tered in the proper column on the assessment roll. The suln action has been made from the gross val uation in the assessment, and the proper result put in the total tax able property column. With the exemption banished, there is no need for an exemption "column on the roll, and no need for the same reason of a "total taxable proper ty" column as now used, which is the column after the deducti on oi exemption has been made from the gross valuation column. These two columns have now to be cut from the roll, and the changes wilt not only involve much labor but will spoil the appearance of the book. It has to be done however, as a result of the mandate from the supreme court. The exemption provision of the law was a statute enacted when Oregon was yet a territory. It was passed in 1855, and its design was to aid the homeowners of those early times when the maintainance of a family was supposed to deserve especial privileges as contrasted with those living in single blessed ness. The law was in lorce wnen the constitution was adopted in 1859, and remained in effect until tbe legislature of 1903 repealed it. The legislature of 1905 re-enacted it and, on appeal of a case from Josephine county, the supreme court now annihilates it. about to sink, brought Cronise in to the water. He is a powerful swimmer and his vigorous strokes soon brought him within reach cf Taylor who was by this time in the actual process of drowning. He had practically given up the strug gle when his rescuer f reached him Like all drowning persons, he at tempted to seize Cronise, but Cron ise prevented that and seizing him by the hair, lifted Taylor well out of the water and began the swim for the boom about 200 feet away For a few strokes all went well, Taylor having sufficiently recovered ais equanimity to assist a little in the swimming. This was however but for a few seconds and Taylor suddenly gave up all effort; be . coming a complete burden on Cron ise. The latter was swimming on one side with one hand, and bold ing his burden w;th head out of the water with the other band. It was a trying position, and with the most powerful swimmer could not last long. As Cronise's strength ebbed, Taylor sank lower and lower into the watc r.Then he sank deeper and deeper as the strength of the swimmer wts more and mom spent. At last hs. was the arm's length of the swimmer beneath the surface and every stroke with the disen gaged arm of Cronise, was labored. Two other boys were on the boom but they were transfixed with fright and lent no effort to the her oic rescuer. "If there had been six or eight feet more to go, Cronise could nev er have made it " said I. D. Bodine who was an eye witness to the in-, cident. "It was the most trying There is an eight inch hole in the j thin8 1 ever saw, and but for the decking of the bridge aud a hind leg 'courage of Cronise and the grit r( .ho linn. m f, ! with which he stuck tr tli hnr.lpn v .ms. ""i -TV- nv.ui iubs 11 C iai . . , , . - the hock joint. The limb was ex even when all his strength seemed , contracted, has not been made pub tricated with some difficulty, after Sone iaylor would never have got ten our aiive. During tus last nan or moreot the heroic swim, Taylor was under water entirely, and at the very last Cronise's strength was so spent that he made very s!ow progress. It was in every respect a most serious situation, and it was only by reason of the fact that Cronise is a brave boy and a splendid swimmer that a tragedy was averted." Cronise finally reached the boom Apropos of the supreme court decision annihilating exemptions for householders, there is on file at the sheriff.s office in Benton an opinion exactly in line with the de- CONTRACTING PRUNES Crops From Many Benton. Orchards Already Sold Big Orchard Among Them.- Most prune growers in Eentotf have contracted their crops. In many instances the buyer is Tilson the Salem packer. O hers have sold to LaSalle Brothers of Albany. The latter are increasing their packing plant, having purchased! the Corvallis processing machinery. The latter was sold by reason of the fact that the increased ! opera-' tions of the Kaupisch creamery'' untilized the house in which the; processing plant was quartered and its removal thus made neces sary, suggested and consummated; its sale. The present quotation on prunes is 3 1-2 for 30-40's. Some have been contractedjon a basis of 41-4 for 30-40 ,s. Among other crops that have been sold is that on the big pruneorchard. The yield there is estimated at 10,000 bushels or 200,000 pounds of dried fruit. The largest yield ever made j by the or chard was 600,000 pounds of dried product The figure at which the coming crop in the big orchard was lie, but it is believed to have been a favorable one. The crop generally is one of t he biggest in the history of the prune, if reports are to be credited. Kor Sale. ; Three piece Mahogany Marble top sed room suit; good box Heater; 2 burner oil stove. Bargain if taken soon. S. L. Kline's Residence. cision, and which was rendered in ! anc his helpless burden was dragged 1904. In the process of tax-collecting a case came up in. which Sheriff Burnett sought legal advice on the point in question and Depu ty District Attorney Bryson then wrote an opinion in which the ex emption was held to be unconstitu tional and on the same lines as those now laid down by the su preme court. Barber School. I will open the school about Sept. 1st and will teach everything in the barber trade in eight weeks. Easy terms. Writfl for further information. George W. Plaster, . . Corvallis, Ore. .. fiean the Th8 Kind Yon Have Always BougH or &7tJc4i4 upon tne logs. lay lor was com pletely unconscious, was in fact, drowned, and his body as limp as though the life was gone forever. By this time, Victor Fruit, the 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Fruit arrived in a boat, and into the craft Taylor was dragged. Here he was rolled and put through the usual restorative evolutions incid ent to cases of drowning, and after several minutes he was revived. He was able later in the evening to be about the streets. Notice to Credit rs. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigD.-rt has been duly appointed by the county Cf.urt r the state of Oregon for the county of Benton, it minletrator of the estate of William Seckler.- i cea&ed. AU persons having claims against s i-. estate are hereby required to present thesaii. to meproperly verified, abv law required, c the omce of J. F. Yates, Corvallis, Oregon, wivL ln six months from the date hereof. Dated this 19th day of June, 1906. ANNIE SECKLEE, Administrator of the estate of William Seek'er, Deceased. j Fine Platinums and Aristo Plati no Photos at the Corvallis Studio. ice ana ice cream delivered on Sunday any part of the city by tjorvauis Creamery Co. Notice to Creditore. Kotlce is hereby given to all persons concf 1 1 d that the undersigned has been duly appoiiiied administrator of the estate of Harvey Eugene Burns, deceased, by the county court of Benton county, state of Oregon. AU persons having claims against the estate of the said Harvey Eu gene Burns, deceased, are hereby required to fresent the same, with the proper vouchers, du y verified as by law required within six months from the date- thereof to the undersigned at her residence at Coivalli?, Benton county, Ore gon, or at the office of E. E. Bryson, In Corvallis, Orgon. t Dated this Sd day of July, 1906. f IDA A.BTTRNS, AdmlnlstraTix of the estate of Unrvey tuuene Barns, deceased.