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About Oregon union. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1899)
OREGON UNION. FRIDAY, JAN. 20, 1893. 1,00AL NEWS. County Clerk Wattera is suffering from an attack of la grippe. Miss Mary Thompson is visiting her sister, Miss Ollie, in Portland. Frank, the little Bon of Mr. Elmer Dinges, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia, is now convalescent. Our old friend Barney Martin rejoices over the advent iuto his family of a brand new boy, some few days ago. The Rev. A. W. Rider delivered a fine lecture at the Baptist church, last Mon day, to a crowded and appreciative audience. Services as usual at Baptist church ou Lord's day. Morning subject "The Mystery of the Wind." You are cordially invited. On account of Mrs. Kelly's continued sickness. Rev. B. J. Kelly will r.ot preach' at Benlah and Philomath next Sunday. , Mr. Seth Hurlburt was in Corvallis Saturday, on his way home from a' visit near Portland. Seth is a fine fellow and it is good to kuo him. ' The Baptist young people and friends' grratly enjoyed their social at Mr. W. A. Sanders, Friday last, and hope soon to have another of the same kind. M. Buckstein has disposed of his clean ing and dyeing business to Mr. G. M. t : . u , l ; . nr.. XVCUIU, HU VT&tCIl 111 bills UUC iUli Buckstein leaves shortly for San Fran cisco. Mr. F. M. Johnson has vieen confined to his room for the past two weeks with la grippe. I'-ennis Stovall has warmed the editorial chair of the Gazette during Mr. W. A. Jolly, administrator of the estate of Geo. M. Porter, was in Cor vallis Saturday, making final arrange ments for completing the settlement of the estate. , )Mr. S. H. Horton, proprietor of the Horton eas mills located near Monroe, is in the city attending the farmers' short course lectures now being delivered at the college. Miss IletLie Lilly is visiting in Salem this week with her sister, Mrs. William Hall. Mr. Hall, who was formerly a student of the O. A. C, is now county clerk of Marion . Eugene has organized a camp of Native Sons of Oregon. -A. C. Woodcock is the past president, Dr. Kuykeudall, presi dent. Among other members is Ira Campbell, editor of the Guard. Captain and Mrs. C .k. Dentler are with the former's regiment in garrison at San Juan, they having recently left Santiago, Cuba, for this place. Captain Geary is stationed at Ponce, Porto Rico. A most enjoyable party was given by the Young , America's to their friends last . Saturday evening at their hall. Dancing was the principal amusement and about 40 couples took advantage of the sport. Joe Wright, formerly a popular Cor vallis boy, for the past several years a Calistoga, California, business man, has donned the ermine of justice of the peace, having recently been elected to that office. Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Clark, who have been visiting in this city for several days, leave this noon. Mr. Clark, is now rep resenting the Bankers Life Association, of Des Moines, Iowa, and is on the road he greater part of the time. A contract to remove the wheat from Peoria to Corvallis mills was recently the transferring of 1800 tons of grain. A crew will be put on the Albany and that vessel will do the greater part of the work. Servi-es as usual at the Christian church next Sunday. Preaching by the pastor, L. F. Stephens. Morning theme, "Characteristics of the A postal is church." Evening, "The Jew ish tabernacle service a type of ti e church of Christ and its service. In the contest for the banner of at tendance, district No. 83 again wins. This is the second lime that this district has won the banner.. Miss Winnie Hull is teaching at the present time in this district The percentage of attendance , was 999. Mrs Alex Montgomery and three children are this week visiting Mr. and Mis. A. D. Elder, near Shedd station, Mrs. Elder being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery. They will also go to Corvallis and pay Mrs. T. W. DHley a visit Santiani News. Mr. Horace Lilly closed a very success- J fnl three-mouth term of school in Kings! Valley last trirta'. The exercises con sisted of declamations and ciphering matches. Our correspondent from that section says: "We are highly pleased with Mr. Lilly. The closing exercises were a credit to teacher and pupils." Services at the United Evangelical church next Sunday, both morning and evening. In the evening the pastor will give the fir&t of two or more discourses GOOD E0ADS- Mr. I. A. Macrum Makes this the Subject of His Lec ture in Short Course. The first lecture in the Farmer's Short Course was delivered last Saturday evening by Mr. I. A. Macrum, of Port land before the student body and a large number of citizens at the college chapel. on Psychology tending to show the im- jIr Macrum took for Subject at Methodist Episcopal church Lord's day. morning "A double witmsa of our acceptance with God." Evening The pastor has been requested many times by different persons to discuss the subject of baptism. Hence, baptism will he his theme Sabbath evening. Monday's Oregonian re-prints the fol- mortality of the soul. Students are es pecially invited to hear the discussion of this subject. Bring your note books. The new stamped envelopes issued by the government have reached Corvallis. The envelope is of better quality than the old ones, and the stamp is red instead of green as formerly. Postmaster Johnson savs none of these new envelopes have passed through the mails here yet, so Corvallis i? right up to-date in the use of them. .The Roseburg Plaindealer appeared last week with column rules inverted. Its manager, C. Y. Benjamin, died Jan. 11th, from the effects of a severe stroke of paralysis sustained the 6th inst. Sir. Benjamin had been a resident of Rose burg since 1887, and during the past twelve years has been manager of the Plaindealer. The day of prayer for schools and col leges occurs next Sabbath. At the Presbyterian church Dr. Thompson will preaoh in the morning at 11 o'clock on the text, "Go Forward." In the evening the subject will be "Youth." All are invited and students are especially wel come. Good music is anticipated at these service?. Saturday evening last was the silver anniversary ot tne weaaing ot mr. ana Mis. John Lenger, and the occasion was appropriately celebrated by a merry gathering at their home. Members of Rebekah lodge and the married daughters of the couple had planned and executed a little surprise party and a delightful evening was passed. Tommy Nolan and Bert ates, two ambitious little fellows who desire to improve rather than waste their spare timt have placed a telegraph instrument in "the store of Nolan & Callahan and another in the office of Mr. W. E. Yates and connected the same by wire. . They will devote their time after school hours to the study of telegraphy. A New YorK dispatch of January 16th says: "Mrs. Fayne Strahan Moore .was today arraigned before Justice Fursman in the criminal branch of the supreme court. The purpose of. the arraignment was to place the casa on the February calendar. . Mrs. Moore was remanded. Wm. A. F. Moore was taken to Sing Sing to serve his 19 years sentence." Roy, the ten-year-old son of James Dunn, suffered .the loss of a portion of his big toe. last Friday, it having come in contact with a charge of bird shot. He was hunting with two other boys in Kings Valley and rested the end of the muzzle of his gun on his toe. The weapon was accidentally discharged and Roy was brought to Corvallis for surgical treatment. President P. Avery and Vice President John Rickard. of the Benton Mills, re turned from their trip through California last Saturday. The visit was principally one ot pleasure, Due opportunities to place orders for the output of their mill were not overlooked. It. is this spirit of enterprise in the managers of this company that mads the Benton Mills one of the greatest concerns in the state. Remember the fruit growers' conven tion to be held at the State Agricultural College next Wednesday and Thursday, including the evening of each day. These meetings will be open to every body free of charge. Speakers and specialists from various parts of Oregon atul Washington will participate in the discussions ; and the result of the congress will be more fruit of a better quality and better prices for it. Frank -Turney, a former Corvallis boy, is making bis presence felt in California. The Heuneine Herald says of him: "Frank Turney of the Herald's compos ing room has purchased a slide trombone with a 0-foot reach He took the horn home in two trips yesterday evening without frightening many horses. He proposes to play with the band shortly if he don't get killed while learning. Some most horrible noises may be ex pected from the north end of town for thb next month " For the first time since the burning of the Median cal Hall, Corvallisites were called out by the fire bell last Tuesday morning. A lively blaae v as underway in the bakery of Hodes & Hall's restau rant, and after Nightwatch Beach and the baker, Mr. McElwain, had fought it for a quarter of an hour they thought it best to call out the department. This being done, the flames were soon ex tinguished. Twenty dollars will cover the damage aud the greater part of this resulted from a too liberal use of water. "Alabama," as presented by Mr, lowing item from its issue of Jau. 16, i uoiupauy at ine opera nouse 1802, just 32 years ago: The steamer j Wednesday evening, was one of the pret Onward, Captain Pease, on the upper ' ,le8t and best acted PiaJ's seen here in Willamette, will not leave for Corvallis j yea,s- There was not one stick in the ! :hhi, huu me won oi some oi tne mem- nntil Monday next, connecting with the steamer Express from this place. School ele:tion for district No. 9 was held at the court house Monday after noon. By a vote of 49 to 32 the voters ilerlared against the proposed alterations in the school building to increase the room. Other questions submitted at this bcrs was really excellent. The scenic ' part of the production was given careful attention and was undoubtedly the best ( ever seen here. Mr. Richard Scott, who appeared as '"Raymond Page," is not a stranger in Corvallis. He was here with the Smith-Lieb Co. several years ago when a little tragedy, not ou the bills, ime, which -ppearea in our last issue, calne neal being enacted. On this mem- carried. ' ! oraole occasion the nyhtwaichman was Kid Moore is being treated at the knocked down by the manager of the Keeley Cure in Portland for the morphine and cocaine habit, in order, to show u hat they can do. When taken hold of he was usin 63 grains of morphine and of cocaine a day. It will le a big advertisement if they succeed with such .a fiend. Democrat. troop, ai.d later the chief of police was drawn into the melee. Out of this alter cation grew one of the most interesting and exciting tria's ever heard in the city court, which resulted in the chief and nightwaich both losing their official I heads. his subject "Roads," and haudled it in a most able and interesting manner. At no time has this matter of loads attracted so widespread and earnest attention as at present. Governor Geer made it one of the strongest features of his inaugural address, and farmers and citizens gener ally are most - enthusiastic in their efforts for progress along this line. Numerous Good Road clubs throughout the state are leading the movement for improvement of our highways and several bills looking to this end will be presented to the legislature this session . Mr. Macrum said in part : "The only known method for obtain ing good roads is to procure suitable material for their construction and have said material properly placed. That re quires money and skill. " All attempts to make good roads with interior material, or with good material unskillfully used, have proved failures. It is only . by using . proper material and skillfully placing the same on properly prepared roadbeds that good, permanent roads can be' made. These are fundamental principles in good roaS-building, and any deviation therefrom will result in failure' just in proportion to the deviation., The matter of building good roads is comparatively recent in the United States. In Europe there have been good public highways lor centuries, and in most of the European countries ' they have had good roads for a long time, but the conditions have been so different there, from those in our country, that until very recently we have not had faith that we could successfully under take the expense of building -permanent roads, even in our older states. But largely, during the last decade, the mat ter of building good, permanent' roads has been undertaken in some of the states with such : wonderful success that it is now becoming quite popular, and its contagion has already reached the Pacific coast. Our Bister state, c&htornui, is fast becoming prominent among the states leading in this movement. Promi nent among the Eastern states leading in the good-roads movement are Massa chusetts and New Jersey. The former grants to counties and - towns building roads under the direction and in con formity with the plans of the state, state aid equal to one-half the cost of building such road. The latter stete grants, und9r similar conditions, state aid equal to one lhird of the cost of building such road. ''There was great opposition manifested at first to the permanent improvement of the highways, ha both of the states, by the farmers, owing to the heavy taxation required, but as soon as so many good roads had been constructed as to serve as object lessons, the opposition began to disappear, until now, in less than eight years, there is little or no opposi tion to be found, out, instead, great enthusiasm prevails, .and the state ap propnations are not sumcient to meet the requirements of the counties asking to be allowed to make such improve ments. ..New Jersey has adopted a very gooa plan or method in making perma nent: road improvements, viz., each county permanently improves so much road each year. The amount improved varies in different counties; from two to ten miles in each county each year is the rate. The first state appropriation, made in 1891, available in 1892, was $20,000; after that for three years $75,000 was an nually appropriated. Since then $100, 000 has been annually appropriated. At the end ot 1897 New Jersey had about 240 miles of permanently improved roads 'At first it was necessary to compel some of the counties to avail themselves of the state aid offered ; now the same counties have applications on file for per mission to avil themselves of the state aid, that will require appropriations for the next three years to fill. The state aid pays only one-third of the cost of the improvement, as before stated. But per haps you are ready to say that we have no state aid, and cannot get it at present, and that we cannot do what a thickly populated and wealthy state can do. In a measure that is true, but if we cannot do so much, we can at least make a beginning in the right direction, and do something. The older slates thought they could do nothing in roadbuilding for more than a century, and those that are moving have done more in the last five years towards good roads than during the century before. "Oregon needs nothing so much as good roads. Nothig will so favorably advertise her as good roads; nothing is so great a detriment to her as bad roads. No tax is as great as the one of bad roads . A bad road is a heavy tax on all who use it, the worse the road the heavier the tax. Lands cannot be sold to advantage along bad roads. Bad roads cause a decline in agriculture. They impose the greatest of all burdens upon the farmer. Bad roads cause people to gather into cities and leave the country. Bad roads wear out the horses rapidly, thus detracting largely from the profit of the farmer. Good roads, in the end, will not cost as much as poor ones. Good roads increase the price of farms and farm products ; double the size of loads, and cheapen transportation. The farmer can market over good roads when com modities are scarce; can always ship, despite the weather. Rural homes are sought after along good roads. Good roads shorten the distance to be traveled ; shorten the distance to market; gain great advantage. .Wagon highways are the greatest arteries of commerce. Civ ilization is judged by the roads. The object of all legislation should be the greatest good to the greatest number;' therefore legislation should toward good roads, as tliev are more generally, useful than any other form of; public improvement. I "Two kinds of road improvement should be carried on by each county temporary improvement1 and permanent improvement. The former should be done chiefly with rcraferial to be found on or near the road to be improved, ex cept in special places where this materia) would be inadequate. The latter should be done on a well-prepared substructure or roadbed, with some desirable material In the counties and states where good roads have been built, rock of good quality, properly btoken, has been found to be the best ; next, gravel is the best, and, in places where rock is wanting and timber is abundant, thick planks may be used to advantage. "When good roads are secured, they should lie taken care of and properly nsed. Narrow-tired vehicles, carrying heavy loads, "are great destroyers of roads, and should be within a reasonable time prohibited by law. . Broad-tired vehicles act as rollers on roads, and serve to render them more compact. When the attention of those employing vehicles on the roads is called to the detriment of narrow tires and the advantage' of wide tires, little trouble is looked for from this source. " be Hber.,. j HANDY MTJEDEKED. Blood Found in the Snow Near Where He Was Last Seen Alive. Broad Tires. Mr. M. W.t Ruble, of Alsea, was in Corvallis Saturday on . business. Mr. Ruble is an enthusiast in the matter of good roads and has some excellent ideas along this lire. He believes the very first step toward the accomplishment of this much desired end, would be a law compelling the use of broad-tired wagons. From personal experience he has proved that a broad tire is a benefit to a road bed. A neighbor, Oscar Tom, has been hauling Iocs across a . field with three yoke of cattle. He has six-inch tires upon his wagon. Instead of sinking to the hubs as would have been the case with the average narrow tire, a few trips across the field has beaten down two paths, over which Mr. Ruble finds ex cellent riding on his bicycle. And so it is on the county roads. Where the nar row, tires cut the road bed to pieces, making from six inches to a foot of dust in the suumer, and mud hub deep in the winter, a broad tire cuts scarcely any in the' dry ground, and packs it when it becomes wet.7 Should the legislature simply pass a law requiring the discard ing of narrow tires, Mr. Ruble thinks the effect would be more beneficial than all other laws on this subject, now on the statute books. It would mean small expense to 'farmers; -&i it would only necessitate the buying of a set of wheels, and the greater ease of getting over a road with broad tires would immediately repay this outlay. Broad tires might be a shock to their sense of beauty at first, but wheal they grow accustomed to see ing them there will be no trouble on this .-. " ' : ' A telephone message to Mr. J. H. Wil son last Tuesday, summoning him to Sugar Loaf, together with a rumor that that the body of A. K. Handy, who has been missing since December 30, had been found with a bullet hole in the head, has revived interest in this mysterious case. Messrs. J. H. and J. O. Wilson left Tuesday for Falls City in response to this message, which came from George Handy, nephew of the missing man. La ter reports failed to substantiate the one stating that the body had been found. The following telegram, bearing date of Dallas, Or., January 18th, throws light on the subject and startling developments are anticipated : "The sheriff today went to Rock Creek with warrants for the arrest of some parties who are suspected of having mur dered A. K. Handy, the Corvrllis hunter who has been missing since December 30. ' Blood has been found in the snow near where Handy was last seen alive, and tracks leading to the Siletz river have also been discovered. The body has not been found, and the belief is that Handy was killed and the body was thrown into lhe river by the murderers. "It is not known who are named in the warrants of arrest, but it is authenti cally stated that the sheriff has obtained a great deal of evidence against the sus pected parties." Will Visit Corvallis. score. Still Harping. We are in receipt of two issues of The Index, quite a bright little paper issued fortnightly by the students of Pacific University. The fact that even with the referee "fixed," P. TJ's eleven was unable to defeat the O. A. C. team here last Thanksgiving seems to rankle in the bosom of the former's manager and he uses the columns fit The Index to vent his feelings. In the issue of December he characterizes the natural resentment of the students of the college at the arbitrary rulings of the referee as "barbarism" and says: "Until free from such barbarism we decline all further association with the O. A. C." This of course is simply the excited utterance of the chagrined manager of the football team and does not voice the sentiments of the student body which knows that to sever its relations with the O. A. C. would only lie cutting off its nose to spite its face. The Index of Jau. 15th still naggles over the question and contains this item : "An O. A. C. professor was heard to say that P. U. had a stronger team than O. A. C. and if they bad had fair treat ment they would have won the game." Supposing a professor of O. A. C. did make such a statement. The ignorance of the game displayed by Prof. Thomas, who acted as referee of the contest here Thanksgiving, convinces us that a man may do a proiessor ana still be incompe tent to. judge the merits of a football team. And then that "if." It is rather suggestive and has been used so often to explain the failure of a certain member of the animal kingdom to accomplish a desired object on a memorable occasion , that it has lost its force as an argument. In all probability Corvallis will be vis ited shortly by the entire legislative as sembly. A public meeting was called by Mayor Burnett, at the request of many citizens, last Tuesday evening, for the purpose of idviting the members of the legislature to visit Corvallis and the Agricultural College; and to make neces sary arrangements for receiving them Judge Burnett was elected chairman and E. It. Bryson, secretary, of the meeting, Speeches Were made by J. B. Irvine, W, S. McFadden, W. E. Yates, Dr. Thomp son and others. On motion of Judge McFadden, it was unanimously resolued "That the citizens of Corvallis do here' bv invite the legislative assembly of the state of Oregon, now in session, through the president of the senate and the speak. erof the house; also the state officials and the board Jof regents of the Oregon Agricultural College and their families to visit Corvallis and the State Agricultural College at some time convenient to them after the present week." John Burnett, J. B. Horner, J. B. Ir vine, W. S. McFadden, W. E. Yates and Miss M. C. Snell, were appointed a com mittee on invitation and in accordance with the-aboveresolution, they sent in vitations yesterday-morning An answer has not yetheen received, but iitsieasabht reply is anticipated, and preparations are already being made to receive these diS' tinguished guests. A Retraction. The attention of readers of the Union is called to an article which appeared in our columns last week under the caption "He Jests at Scars," , wherein it was stated that a certain young bachelor merchant had become enamored of a pretty little lady representative ot a baking powder house. Mr. Con Gerhard requests us to announce that he wss not the party alluded to ; that he never wrote any such letter as quoted in the article, and furthermore he had no rivals in the young lady's affections. Presented by Co. K. Weddings Galore. County Judge Woodward has piloted two more happy couples from the peace ful harbor of courtship out on to the sea of matrimony. At the eourt house last Saturday afternoon he united in marriage Mr. John Bottgar and Miss Sarah Plunkett, both of Kings Valley. Mr. Bottgar is a prominent young farmer of that section, who also owns interests in .Columbia river seining grounds, while the bride is the second daughter of Mr. James Plunkett and a popular young lady. In the sacred precincts of the Judge's office in the court house Tuesday after noon, Mr. Woodward was again called upon to tie the nuptial knot. Mr. John H. Stewart and Miss AlmaL. Hodges, both of Wells, were the parties to the contract which the Judge sealed in the latest approved style. Mr, Frank Bennett, of Philomath, and Miss Retta M. Lemasters, secured a license Tuesday, and the wedding oc cured at the home of the bride's parents, in the Rickard settlement, Wednesday. lro You Need Help? Anyone wishing a competent man to do light work in the nature of cleaning yard, trimming vines and hedges, etc., 1 can secure such, service by enquiring of T. W. Dilley, the "fixer." The Ladies Emergency Corps has re ceived a very unique and beautiful pres ent from some members of Co. K., Ore gon volunteers, now at Manila. It con sists of two Spanish flags sewed end to end, making a piece of bunting three by six feet. In a scroll at the end of this double flag where it is attached to the staff, are the words "Presented to the Ladies Emergency Corps of Coryallis." Near the center, elegantly drawn in India ink, is the coat of arms of Oregon, and imediately over it the photographs of pri vates Keady, Thornton . and El wood Clark, and just below it the familiar faces of Geo. Reed and John Berry ; lower down is the picture of Boyd Kenedy. Upon the coat of arms is inscribed : "We remembered the Maine." The roster of the company appears in India ink, as do a number of elegant sketches. These sketches and the coat of aims are the work of Corporal Romeo Gilbert, of Salem They show Mr, Gilbert to be an artist of extraordinary ability. The following letter, dated Manila, -December 9, 1898, accompanied the flag. It describes the sketches and gives the names of those who so handsomely re membered the many kindnesses of the ladies of the corps: "The flag is pre sented to you by Messrs. Keady, Clark, Reed, Thornton, Berry and Kenedy. The sketches are as follows : No. 1, be ginning at the upper right hand corner, The Sunken Fleet:' No. 2 'Church at Cavit Erected in 1646:' No. 3 'Harbor at Guam Island' showing the Charleston, Australia. Sidney and Pekin; No. 4 'Langley Point,' showing one of the modern guns silenced by the Baltimore: No. 5 .'Dewey's Fleet ;' No. 6 'Fort Ma late' attacked by sea and land August 13, 1898; No. 7 'Wall and Sentry Box at Manila' where prisoners were confined and drowned by the rising tide ; No. 8 'Promintory at the Entrance of Guam Harbor, Ladrone Islands.' " The flag is now on exhibition in Nolan & Callahan's show window. r ..REMOVAL SALE.. I will continue my great GREAT SALE ON CLOTHING UNTIL FEB. 1st, When I shall MOTE to the Masonis Temple and open up a complete line of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, Ladies' and Gent's Furnishings, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises and GROCERIES. SOME BARGAINS WE ARE NOW OFFERING SUITS, formerly $20 00 now $15 35 " . " 15 00 12 15 ' 13 50 " 11 00 " '. " 10 00 " 7 85 OVERCOATS, " 17 50 " 14 65 " " 15 00 " 12 85 " " 12 50 " II 00 " " 10 00 7 75 " " 7 50 " 6 10 MACKINTOSHES ' 15 00 " 12 50 " " 12 50 " 10 00 " " 12 00 " 9 SO " 11 50 " . 9 65 " " 7 50 ' 6 50 " 6 00 5 00 F. L MILLER, Corvallis, Or. UEiflnofic Bakery JksMi- ... rant ... The most popular eating house in the city. Office of the long-distance and local telephones. Fesh bead daily. We keep a complete stock of andie3 Fruits and Nuts. Eve ythirifif In the line of Smok er's upplies. Main Street, HODES & HALL, Proprietors, Corvallis, Oregon. Our Great Annual Eeduction Sale is now in full blast, Every article in stock reduced except W. L. Douglas Shoes, Monarch White Shirts, Bull Breeches, and Our Own Over alls, The largest stock of Men's and Boys' Merchandise in Benton County. Bir cut in Suits, Overcoats and Mackintoshes. Wanted. To employ a young person, skilled in shorthand and typewriting, good pen- man, accurate in figures,, with careful habits, able to glean information from county records. Apply in writing to I "The Oregon Unigs." TRY s FOR FINE TEAS AND COFFEES Fresh Groceries PROVISIONS, NOTIONS, CIGARS CORVALLIS
