LOCAL AND PERSONAL
A. P. Peterson went to Ashland
Friday on business.
Rev. T. S. Handsaker returned
from Albany on Friday.
Miss Frances Murphy, of Albany,
vaa in town on Friday last. '
W. A. Gellatly was in town Sat
urday. He stopped at the Occi
dental. Pres. Gatch spent Saturday and
Sunday in Portland, returning yes
terday. E. F. Wann was registered at the
Hotel Corvalhs Saturday, from
Waldport.
Miss Lillith McKenney left Sat
urday for Wren, where she goes to
teach a term of ecuool.
Mrs. A. D- Monison has return
ed to Carlton, after visiting for
several days with relatives in this
city.
The closed season for ducks com
menced Tuepday March 1 and runs
"Until September 1. The hunting
the past winter has not been good.
Dave Gellatly started Saturday
for Wenatchee, Wash, where he
bas accepted au offer of & position
in his brother John Gellatly's office.
L. E. Bender and wife, of Ash
land, have been at the Occidental
for several days. They are seeking
31 business location aud may move
to Corvallis.
The Coffee Club gave a dance in
the City Hall Friday night and
was attended by the largest crowd
of any party given by the ladies
this season. Music was furnished
hy the Young People's orchestra.
Misses Gladys Moore and Ethel
Pierce and Mesdames James Tay
lor, Jennie Chipman and W. G
22mery were elected as members of
the Ladies' Coffee Club at its regu
lar meeting last week.
Beginning tonight Rev. G. K. Ber
ry of Portland will deliver a series
o( lectures on Church History at
the Church of Christ. Services
"will continue throughout the week
beginning each evening at 7.30.
Ijfcture at eight o'clock.
Wm. Bogue who is spending the
winter at Lava, Oregon, writes.
""We had a very pleasant winter up
to the first of February, although it
bap snowed 52 days eince the first
xi November, and the snow is three
feet deep on a level here now. We
ere all well and still getting fat."
E. E. Wilson, ot Corvallis, spent
Sunday at the beach. He' was over
to Toledo on business, and took the
opportunity to run over here and
get his lungs filled with salt air.
Ed. might have been blown into the
ocean only the wind couldn't get a
"grip on him." Newport News.
FreJ Wann, a former student,
and who is now locating parties on
timber claims in the Yahats coun
'try, passed through town Saturday,
nroute to Portland. Fred now
wears a full beard, but says he is
not afraid of the bunco-men who
are liable to take him for a "Rube."
Mies Cecil, daughter of Joe Bry
aiit, was married at 2 o'clock Sun
day afternoon to L. B. Turner,
Judge Holgate officiating. Mr.
Turner has been in Portland for
several weeks, where he has a good
position. He left for that plaoe
yesterday and Mrs. Turner will join
him in a few days. They will
make Portland their home.
The Rebekah lodge of this city
gave a farewell reception, in their
hall last Thursday evening in
honor of two of their members,
Miss Pearl Simpson and Mrs. W.
H. Currin. Several instrumental
and vocal selections were rendered
and with games and light refresh
ments a very enjoyable evening
was spent. Miss Simpson leaves
soon for Washington, and Mrs.
Currin for McMinnville.
Herbert "White, of Philomath
College, at Philomath was chosen
on Thursday evening, at the con
test of the Intercollegiate Pro
hibition Association, to represen
his college in the coming State
Intercollegiate contest, to be held at
Philomath. April 8. Mr. White's
subject was, "Weighed in the Bal
ance." Geo. W. Denman, T. T.
Vincent and Rev. Green all of Cor
vallis were the judges who decided
the contest.
If any of our readers are interest
ed in the poultry business we call
their attention to the ad. on the
first page, headad "Valuable pre
mium." We offer a three months
trial subscription to the best poultry
journal on the coast, free, to every
new subscriber, or old subscriber
who renews and pays a year in ad
vance. Cut out and sign the
blank order in the ad. If the
poultry aurnal suits you, you can
get it a full year more for fifty cents.
If it is not to your liking, you can
order it stoppad at the expiration
of three months. It is worth trying.
Thomas . Whitehorn and ton
; CUude left for San Francisco last
Wednesday to join Mrs. Whitthorn,
who has I een spndirg the winter
with relatives in that city . "
Mrs. Jessie S. Pettit Flint has re
cently received her ordination cer
tificate ' from the Spiritual Associa
tion of Oregon. This, gives her,
under the laws of Oregon, all the
privileges given to the clergy of
otner denominations.
Here is what a correspondent in
one of our exchanges has to say
about one of their citizens:"Dr Scott
is our excellent dentist, our popular
city marshal and a very amiable
and worthy young man." The
writer is evidently trying to retain
the good opinion of that , popular
office holdei.
The weather during the latter
part of last week would make one
believe that Father Time had play
ed a joke on us and slipped the
calendar up a few months. Upon
awaking in the morning, instead of
usual patter of the ram, you hear
the pongs of the robina and larks
as they greet the new day. The
days are warm and pleasant, and
in the evening you can listen to the
frogs as they announce the coming
of Spring. Give us Oregon, if it
has the reputation of raining thir
teen months in the year.
Take a look at the proposition in
ad. on first page headed "Valuable
premium," and call the attention of
your neighbor to it. If he is a
chicken fancier, or thinking of
going into the chicken raising, this
will be just the proposition that
will suit him. We wish to place
the Gazette in every home in
Benton county, and to do this we
offer these inducements, a three
months trial subscription' to the
Poultry Journal mentioned there,
absolutely free to every new
subfccriber to the Gazette, or to
any old subscriber renewing, on the
conditions there proposed. Look
over the ad. and see what you
think of it.
A Crazy Social will be given by
the Presbyterian Ladies' Aid So
ciety at the home of Mrs. John
H. Simpson on. Wednesday evening,
March 9, 1905. A number of guests
are expected from Salem . A doctor
will be in attendance and all foun d
perfectly clothed and in their right
mind will be fined not more than
five cents nor less than one cent.
The following digestible articles
will ba served to those attending:
"The staff of life," "a la goat," 'a
tireless worker among women,"
"a dead beat with sticks of wood."
"something to get rid of and "An
agent for a wedding. Admission,
15 cents for one or two for a quar
ter. Everybody come.
While thawing dynamite prepara
tory to blastiug stumps at Burton's
hop yard, two miles north of In
dependence Saturday morning at
8 o'clock, over a 100 pounds of
dynamite exploded, killing Curtis
Baker and Gilbert McCabe, young
men of 22 and 18 years respectively,
of Independence. The bodies were
were torn to pieces, almost beyond
recognition, and members of the
bodies were hurled 120 feet. The
legs of both were torn off at the
knees. The shed at the place of
thawing was shattered to splinters
and hurled 220 yards. The earth
was torn up for several feet around
to the depth of four feet. In a
house 50 yards away the windows
and doors were, shattered. A
woman and child in the house
were not hurt.
it1TT 1 1 .
vve certainly nave an easy timet
getting eggs in Corvallis," said a
local landlord recently. "Eyery
other person in the town brings
them in for sale. Farmers, busi
ness and professional men all seem
to keep a score or more of chickens.
And they keep the kind that lay
eggs, too. No little, puny ones that
belong to a bantam, but large, clean
white eggs that we are always glad
to get." We cannot doubt the
landlord's statement, for we have
noticed the same thing time after
time. Coming to town in the morn
ing you notice numerous town people
taking eggs to the stores and hotels.
While on our way to the city ' one
morning recently, we passed a gen
tleman with a large bucketful of
eggs. He was talking to a lady
who remarked. "You must have
lots of chickens to be able to take
so many eggs to market." "I
have only about 60, and I wish I
had that many more." He was
evidently a person who raised
chickens for profit. And he is only
one of the many in this vicinity
who are" doing likewise. We'll
wager there are more fancy breeds
of chickens in Corvallis than in any
other town of its size in Oregon.
Chief of Police.
1 hereby announce myeelt a can
didate for the office of Chief of Po
lice, at the coming election to be held
May 16, 1904, and if elected will endea
vor to see that the laws are et forced to
the beat ot my ability.
Lee Hexkle.
COMING BY HUNDREDS.
Rail roads Already Bringing Large
Number of Settlers.
: Though the season has scarce
ly opened, the tide of lnimigra-
tion. has already , swept hundreds
of settlers into the Northwest,
says Sunday's Oregonian. Manyimoned to Chicago in the earl v
hundreds more are on their way,
and before the season of special
rates shall have closed, thousands
will have come ito this district
for the purpose of building their
homes. At least this is what
the railroads confidently expec.
They believe that the influx of
settlers in Washington and Ore
gon during the present year will
far exceed that of any year in the
past. Some of the roads have
already booked more of the im
migrants for the present season
than they handled last year, and
that is looked upon as a fair sign
that traffic will be extraordinary.
The advance guard of. this'
army of settlers was the party of
about 300 that reached Portland
Friday afternoon over the North
ern Pacific. Yesterday all North
ern Pacific trains were running
in two sections, to handle the
settlers that are traveling in this
direction. Owing to the bad
weather the trains from the north
were all delayed several hours
and reached here last night.
From now on until the close of
the special rate season it is ex
pected that all trains from the
North and Hast will be run in
two sections to accommodate the
increased traffic.
Practically all of those who ar
rived in Portland Friday were
families whose heads had been
here on .other excursions and
selected places to settle. The re-
suit was tnat au 01 tnem went
out again as soon after arriving
as they could catch trains to their
respective destinations. It is
estimated that since the, special
rate went into effect in the neigh
borhood of 1000 settlers and their
families have been brought into
the Northwest over the Northern
Pacific, Great Northern and O.
R. & N. roads. The majority
of these, it is said, are coming
through" to Oregon to build
homes in the rich productive val
leys of this state. A large num
ber are stopping off in Washing
ton and some are headed towards
Alberta, Canada.
On March 15 the round-trip
rates from Eastern points will be
put into effect by the northern
railroads. These rates are for
the benefit of those who are look
ing for homes and desire to visit
the Coast in search of suitable
locations. They,' of course, do
not come prepared to remain,
and they are given the advantage
of the round-trip rate to enable
them to return to their homes
and prepare to move here during
the following season the fall
season. It is expected that by
the middle of the month the one
way traffic will be largely dis
posed of and the roads will be
better able to handle the traffic of
of round-trip excursionists.
Local railroad men say that
Oregon may expect to profit
greatly by the travel of home-
seekers this season. The state
and its resources have been ad
vertised this year as they have
never been advertised beiore.
and the eyes of those seeking
homes are turned in this direc
tion. Miss Pauline Kline returned yes
terday from Portland.
We are glad to announce that
Edwin Rose is improving, after a
severe siege of typhoid fever.
George Linderman, of Mountain
View, was in town yesterday and
says the farmers of his section of
country are putting in a rural tele
phone system. They will at once
put in a phone from Mr, Linder
man's to Jud Calloway's farm, and
tehy expect E. F. Wiles and John
Smith to connect with them.
King3 Valley people will then build
to meet the John Smith line so that
Mr. Linderman can communicate
by phone with Dallas by way of
Kings Valley and Falls City.
We Will Pay
for this week's delivery ;
' Hogs dreBaed, 6 to 6c per pound.
Veal dressed, 6 to 7c.
Live chickens, bene, 11c.
. f Live roosters, young, 10c.
Live roosters, old, 8c.
Live geese, 7c.
Live turkeys, lZc.
. Live ducks, 9c.
Smith fi Boulden
BACK TO OREGON
Corvallis Citizens Return .Home
- From the Windy City. .
Mr. Jas; E. Cronk, an old and
well-known citizen of Corvallis,
and his wife, returned home on
'Saturday hut. They, were sum-
IFall, on account of the serious .ill
ness of a daughter, and left here
Ion September 30th. Fortunate-
My the daughter. Mrs. Gale, has
fully regained her health, and
they are glad to be able to return
to the land ot genial ,: winters.
Mr. Cronk reports an unbroken
sheet of snow and ice all the wav
I from Lake Michigan to Pugtt
Sound; the first time that the
ground showed through snow was
after crossing the Cascade Range.
The winter has been very -severe
in Chicago, and the gentle breez
es of the "windy city" have kept
up their reputation as the only ri
vals of the famous "Washoe
zephyrs" of the Comstock.
On the train on which they
returned came the first install
ment of the spring immigration
under the reduced rates. The
two sections of the train brought
nearly a thousand peome who ex
pect to settle on this coast. These
were mostly for Washington
points, and parties left the train
at Spokane, at different points in
the Yakima Valley; and at Seat
tle and Tacoma.
The Lewis & Clark Fair has
evidently advertised Oregon, and
when the tide of settlers start for
Oregon, as they will on the 15th
of March, there is ho doubt but
the number will be very large.
Mr. Cronk is a veteran of the
Civil War, having been a mem
ber of the famous 2d Wisconsin
Cavalry that made a record in the
Vicksburg campaign. Mrs. Cronk
was last year the president' of
Ellsworth corps, the auxiliary of
the Grand Army of the Republic,
Woman's Relief Corps. We give
them a hearty welcome.
See Nolan &. Callahan's spec
ial bargains for March.
A number of U. of O. boys at
tended a baekf t ball game between
two girls teams last wetk. Only
youDg ladies were admitted, but the
boys wanted to "see the' game, so
donned girls' dresses and made their
way in all right. But as tbe game
porgressed and excitement ran high
the fake girls gave out a masculine
whoop, and were discovered in their
feminine attire. Now the boys are
wondering what's going to happen
to them;
News reached Corvallis Sunday
afternoon that Eddie Rosendorf
who was attending a medical
school in Philadelphia died in the
hospital at that place Sunday room
ing of pneumonia. Mrs. Rosendorf,
in answer to a telegram .that her
son was dying, left this place Fri
day for the East, bbt will not reach
there until tomorrow, two days
after his death. We are unable to
publish more definite news regard
ing the burial.
In conversation with Managi r
Stokes, of the O. A. C. basket ball
team, he says no definite arrange
ments have yet been made for the
games with Dallas and Salem. The
game with Dallas was thought to
have been definitely arranged for
next Friday night but the manager
of the local team informs us that
he wishes to make a different date.
Salem wants to p'ay on Saturday
night, and in all probabilitv one of
the games will be pulled off during
the week. '
BLACK MIN0RCAS
BROWN LEGHORNS.
My hens laid more eggs during the se
vere winter months than any other equal
number ot hens in Oregon.- If you de
sire to fill the egg basket, I've got the
chickens that were bred for that purpose
They are layers and that's what you
want Get rid of your "scrubs" and ob-
rain thoroughbreds it costs no more for
feed. Order your eggs for hatching now.
Eggs, $1.00 per 15, at residence on north
9th St. vTTO r. I ntnSt,
Corvallis, Oregon
Copjrrtfh, lima bj lurt Bduttaw Mux
Being between seasons it's hard to tell you
what to - buy, but we have It. . . . . . :
Also! Don't forget
S. & M. Clothing is at.
. MOTEL CORVALLIS . .
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Store closes at 6 p. m. except Saturday.
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A fresh and complete line of
candies, nuts and fruits kept
constantly on hand. Ou rbr ead
is always fresh. We carry a
complete line of smokers' ne
cessities Main Street
If you are looking for some real good
Bargains in Stock, Grain, Fruit aud 0
Poultry Ranches, write for our special
list, or come and see us. We will take
pleasure in giving you reliaDle informa
tion; also snowing you over the county
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