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About The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 11, 1906)
tOCAL LORE. W. J. Kent, foreman of the college farm, left for Salem Sunday. M. M. Long made a flying 'business trip to Portland, Saturday. The Corvallis public schools open 3iext Monday for the fall term. Peter Whitaker, who has been confined to hisbedforthe past week, &s able to be up and around. J. M. Nolan arrived last night from a briel business trip to Port Sand. H. "W. Kaupisch left Monday for a couple of days business trip to Falls City. Harold Strong was a Portland 'business visitor Saturday and Sun day. , Roy Bell left Yesterday morn ing for a few days' recreation in Portland. Mrs. E. J. Taylor left the last -of the week for a ten days' visit in JPortland. O. J. Blackledge returned last ight from a business trip to Port Hand. Mrs. Dr. Holt of Mill City, iformaly of Corvallis, was the guest of friends in this city Monday. Miss Gertrude Barclay is the yguest of Miss Gretta Loney at the Reform school. Mrs. Andrews returned last flight from an extended visit with relatives at Eugene. '"Tis to the Pen and Press we mortals owe, All we believe and almost all we know." R. V. Hollenburg returned Sunday from Portland where he purchased another car of furniture rfoc the firm of Hollenburg & Cady. Ciay Gilbert and family arriv ed in Corvallis Saturday. Mr. Gil fbert has accepted a position in Gra ham & Wells drug store. Among those who left for the 2? air this morning were Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Huston, Dr. Withy cmbe, Woods Jackson and a score of otehs. Entrance examinations for the sail term at the college begin Fri--day. A lew early arrivals ot the ar say ot students that will soon put jsn annearjnrp. nrr nlrpanw hpro -"By a sudden start of the loco -motive, the cars in a train were thrown violently against each other. -A. small boy who looked on. solilo quized thus: "Them cars is but tin' in." Twen'y-two sarks averaging n.02 pounrN each, of oats yielding at the rate of 150 bushels per acre -are the returns T. A. Logsden re seiyed from a half acre of ground. This field was previously in clover, "which was plowed under as a ferti lizer and accounts for the unusual , yield. In a short time Manager Frank ' Groves will begin renovating the CorvaUis Opera house. An up-to- datertieating plant will be installed and-newcarpets, scenery, etc., are -among the improvements contem plated. Manager Groves has re "eently become -a member of the "North-West (theatrical Association and has already -booked 1 5 first class shows for the raming season. Saturday, September 29th, is the date for the opening performance. !J2 -John A. Gellatly, county audi " tor at Wenatchee, Washington, left ysterday after a week's visit in IsBenton. Ths state election in r' Washington transpires this fall but 'i Mr. Gellatlv will not he a candidate i'for re-election. He is in the ab stract business, and says he loses Tnoney by being auditor. Mr. Gel- Jally says all the Benton county ""boyS'inhisjvicinity are doing well. -Tlra Hunter and Johnnie Iiwin among them, the latter is buying v wheat for a Seattle firm and has a position. Clyde Trapp has ti ferry there, and since he went to ihe place several years ago has amassed a competence of several thousand dollars. Harry and Don Holgate ' left yesterday after a visit since Saturday with Corvallis relatives and friends. Don has been for some time secre tary to the traffic manager of the -Great Northern at Seattle, but is enroute now for Klamath Falls where he enters the law office of 3iis brother Harry.. The latter is homeward bound from Boise City -where he wa a member of the r'Jtlamath Falls delegation to the Irrigation congress. According to Tarrv Holeate it is definitely un derstood that the Klamath Falls route is to become the main line of the Southern Pacific between Port land and San Francisco. The line is only about 106 miles longer than the present route and the grades and curves are much easier so that better time can be made and the traffic be more economically ..handled. W. A. Welle left yesterday to spend tbe winter at Redlanda, Cal ifornia. Sam Hartsock left yesterday to -spend his vacation in Portland and Salem. Miss Carrie, Danneman was a Newport visitor Saturday and Sun day. Mrs. Randall, Austin Lafferty and wife left Saturday for Salem to attend the Stale Fair. Julian McFadden completed yesterday the storing of 200 tons of baled hay in tbe long shed north of the S. P. depot. City Man Are you still keeping summer boarder?? Si Nope, but I'm keepin' a few of their trunks! ' Twenty-one Chinamen passed through Corvallis Saturday enroute to Alsea to work in tbe cannery at that place. Douglas McLagan, formerly of Corvallip, is now at O iDghouse, N vada, where he is engaged in min ing. ' . . V Arthur Bouquet, of the class of '06, O. A. C, arrived Saturday from the Bohemia mining district where he has been employed all summer. Mrs. Helen E. Borstand daugh ter, Mies Gladys, of Centralis, Washington, are expected to arrive tonight. . They will remain in Cor vallis durii g the college year. R. W. Henton, of Monroe pre cinct, bas moved with his family into Corvallis, and occupies tbe house rtcerjtly vacated by the Dan- nemans near the courthouse. A block of lot in Job's addi tion was sold last Friday by W. A. ! Wells to Mrs. Raleigh McLagan, of Lino county. It is leased and will not be occupied for ihe present by tbe purchaser. Tne management of the eta'e fair has announced the following ejiecial daye: Monday, opening day; Tuesday. Development Leagaeday: Wednesday, Salem day; Thursday, Portland day; Friday, Fraternal da; Siturday, children's diy. The E ks excursion to Newport Sunday carried about 2OO people. The Brownsville Boys band furn ished the mu3ic. Evidently the th'e crabs had heard of the affair and took a fcueak for deep atei$ lor up on the arrival of the excur-ionists ther? wa3 not a crab t be found. The excursion was a success minus the feast. He was a foreigner ia an American restaurant for the firet time Bing unaccustomed to our ways, he found difficulty io order ing, "Ab, um, wbst hnvp tou," be eiid to tbe pretty waitress. "I have brains, calve3, pigs fttt. frogs lege ," but bis face was turned away in his embarrassment nod be interrupted to explain that he did not want to know about her physic al defects, bnt wanted something to at. James and Will Horning went to Portland to purchase machinery for the axe and hardwood fac tory they are establishing near Philomath. Tbey have acquired a considerable body of oak timber, and it is the plan to manufacture axe handles, pick bandies and va rious other forma of hardwood ap pliances. A boiler has already been installed but it is largely for kiln drying purposes. A similar indue try established at Newberg bad to increase its capacity several times in order to meet the demand for its product. A horee and buggy owne-d by Millard Long had a spin on Sbeir own account baturday evening. The horse took fright in town, and heading for the west traveled some dii-tance into tbe country, got into a field and circled some time there befoie he was finally captured. The buggy stayed with him, and strange o say, went through the perform ance without injury. Whip, bggy robe and other movable nstures were, however, scattered over a large scope of territory and half a dozen email boys were kept busy lor a couple of hours in gathering them together. Andrew Palmer, a former Ben ton county man, died at Ajax, Eastern Oregon, Thursday evening, after a four weeks' illneBS. He was ihe father of Mrs. Cal Thrasher. and three years ago visited in this city. He came to Benton county io I85O, and settled on a larm, now owned by R. C. Kiger, on Kiger Island. He was a former partner in the mineswith Robert L. Buchan an. He sold out and left Benton in 1880, settling in the vicinity of Ajax, where he lived until his pass ing.' In October he would have reached the age of 80 years. He is well remembered by all old time citizens of Benton. ; Survivors are, two daughters, Mrs. Thrasher, Cor vallis, and Mrs. Cameron, Wash ington; and four sons, Clarence Palmer, Independence; Drank Pal mer, Portland; Ed and Sylvan Pal mer, Ajax. , The XtragooD label on our clothes is the mark of the best boys clothing made. - This superiority is due partly to the better quality of the woolens and linings used by the ma kers; partly to the style and good taste they know how to pnt into garments, and in large part to their honest, consciencious work in tailoring. In XtragooD you get clothes of sterling worth. The most perfect combination of fabrics and expert workman ship. The most pleasing and harmonious designs, absolute ly reliable, honest and durable merchandise. ' Boys watches free With each $10 purchase in our Boys department we give free a boys watch, guaranteed for one year. Notice that load after load of goods were going out of our store every day. Our trade is simply immense. We will have no time to write long ads this month, but will be fouud ready and, anxious to show you a comple te'Iide of House Furnishings. More new goods" will arrive shortly. Come in and get Prices. Hollentierg 1 Cady. Complete House Furnishers. J Continued from page 1. torney-General Webb and District Attorney RobinEooof Placer coun ty, has granted a reprieve of 15 days to Adolph Weber, sentenced to be baoged next Wednesday at Folsom for the murder of his father, mother, sister ad brother at Aa-buia. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 7. Tbe first f tbe five largest locomotives! in tbs world , wbib the G rat Nortb-j em ordered ironotbe Bld wir Workw i arrived in St. Pawl today aDd waaj immediately tent We-t, where it j will b put to work on the aaoun-i tain?. The engines are of tbe Ma'- j let Compound type with four cyl inders, two sets of drivers and two pairs of cylinders. Tbty are pac tically two engines in one and are capable of hauling over mountain grades twice a? raoeb as tbe best the Great Kotheu now has." Tbe best engine the co-mpHny. has now in service cu put) 525 tons p a 2.2 pei cent, grade, while the new engines will be capable of drawing lloo tons on tbe 6a run grade. I. be only engine which approaches tbe Great Northern monsters is owued by tbe Baltimore and Ohio, which weighs 334,000 pounds, as compar ed with 355,000 pounds of the Great Northern monster type. According to iC. C. Claggett, of New York, tbe people of Portias d are victimized to tbe extent of ma ny thousands of dollars annually by ' merchants who use dishonest scales. He declares that a very large percentage of tbe computing ecaies in use in Portland are so ad justed that the customers pay from 20 to as Der pent, more than they think they pay. Mr. Claggett will appear before the health and police committee to the council this week to Bee it an ordinance csnnot be passed forbidding the use cf the scales he termB dishonest. "The people' of Portland have been systematically swindled Dy achemine merchants for years be- u r .1 (,.nJ.l.nl Ool, ice stated yesterday. "Undoubted j ly tome merchants purchased them nnocently and are unconscious that hey are swindling ibeir customers. Then merchants who ufe these scales have tbe ad vantage over com petitors who are. thus sometimes driven to dish meet methods. By using fraudulent ecaies the former can afford ti mark their goods down arid customers think they are ob tainirg bargains." Mr. Claggett is a dcnlnr in -rales. Sates for ihz Oregoa SUe aiu The Corvallis & Eastern railroad will make a round trip rate from all points oa its line to Albany of one and one-third fare for all parties desiring to attend tbe Oregon State Fair at Salem. Tickets will be sold on the 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, i and 15th September and will be good for return on or before tbe 17th September. For further particulars apply to nearest agent or conductor. J. C. Mayo, General Passenger Agent. All kinds of fresh clover and grass seed just received at ZierolPs. Notke to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that on tbe 28th day ot July, 1906, tlie uu-erMsrued was duly confirmed and appointed executor of the last will arid tes tament and patttLe 01 Zelle Dodele. deceased, by by the county court the state ot Oregon ior Ben ton county. , All pel sons haying claims against said estate are required to present the same du ly verified to me at my home near Wells, In Benton eouutv Oregon, or at the law office ot . Holgate in Corvallis, Oregon, within six months from this date. Dated at Corvallis, Or., this 3d day Of August, raw. , . PATJIi E. DODELE, . ' - Executor. In Self Defense. - Major Hamm, editor and manager of the Constitutionalist, Eminence, Ky., when he ws fiercely attacked, four vears ogo, by Piles, bought a box of Bocklen's Crnica Salve, of which he says. "It asred me in fen days and so trouble Ance." Quickest healer of burns, Sores, iuts & Wounds. 25c aAlle & Wood ward's drug store. If you want clover and grass seeds go to Zierolf's. : " , There is one guaranteed Specialty that occupies a position of particular merit among goods of its class because of the care and specialization which enter into the manufacture of the entire product. The name is Packard Shoes A. K. RUSS Dealer in all Mens Furnishings. Corvallis, Oregon, V Y FASH I O N FAU LTLE CLOAKS SUITS SKIR FOR. WELL DRESSED WOMEN. The Gem Cioar Store I AB Leading Brands of Key West and Domestic Cigars. Whist and Pool room, j Jack. IMjlne, prop. The Grocer. We are not inclined to spend much time in $5 writing advertisements we prefer to let our joods gg and customers speak for themselves. I - 1 M OUR TRADE IS GROWING FAST. WE WANT YOUR TRADE. WILL ASSURE SATISFACTION B Horning WANTED Hop PiGkers! TO BUY Hop Baskets, Japanese Cuffs, Groceries, Meats, Provisions,' Flour, Etc. Etc. In fact we carry the pssortment in groceries lor the Hop Pickers. Hodes' Grocery Phone 203 Comfort is a Necessity to Enjoyment. When your eyes ache and your head pains you some thing is wrong with your eyps. Perfect fitting glasses are the correct remedy for all refractive deficiencies. Call on E W. S. Pratt and have youi eyes examined and a pair of glasses which will be scientifically correct. N. B. Don't send away for duplicate lenses, bring in your broken ones and have them replaced by one which is guaranteed to be right. .